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Obama had filmmaker D’Souza charged with campaign finance fraud, because D’Souza made a film critical of him. Obama’s excuse was a “zero tolerance policy” for campaign bundlers.

Meanwhile, Obama was selling ambassadorships to campaign bundlers.

President Obama has taken the art of naming donors and other politically connected chums as ambassadors to a new level, despite pledging in 2008 to shake up Washington’s back-scratching ways.

A string of gaffes by some of his recent nominees has thrust the Washington practice of appointing donors to foreign posts back into the spotlight. The administration faced difficult questions from the press last week, for instance, after Obama’s nominee to Argentina admitted he’d never been there.

But a look back at how Obama’s appointments stack up to those of his predecessors shows it’s not just business as usual — if anything, the current president is using diplomatic gigs to reward bundlers and contributors seemingly more than ever

Obama far outpaces predecessors in appointing donors to foreign posts | Fox News

Obama’s main man in the House, John Boehner, says nothing.

In 1981, Hansen (red below) closely matched 1975 National Academy of Sciences (blue.) They both showed 0.5 C Northern Hemisphere land surface cooling after 1940.

Both GISS and CRU now show about half that much cooling. What happened to the data that NAS and Hansen used?

By Richard Muller on December 17, 2003

Let me be clear. My own reading of the literature and study of paleoclimate suggests strongly that carbon dioxide from burning of fossil fuels will prove to be the greatest pollutant of human history. It is likely to have severe and detrimental effects on global climate. I would love to believe that the results of Mann et al. are correct, and that the last few years have been the warmest in a millennium.

Medieval Global Warming – Page 2 | MIT Technology Review

Muller has a new hockey stick. (He was just angry that Mikey beat him too it.)

www.scitechnol.com/2327-4581/2327-4581-1-101.pdf

I overlaid the 1975 National Academy of Sciences graph on Muller’s graph, and saw the usual junk – i.e. the post 1040’s global cooling is almost gone.

Same story with Hansen 1981 in black below. Something has happened to the post 1950 temperature record, since the 1970’s-1980’s.

A new CSU sanctioned study shows how desperate the climate criminals are becoming. In the middle of our second coldest February on record, the local rag runs this :

Fort Collins summers heating up Amid a February cold snap, study predicts the number of days over 90 degrees will more than double by next century.

Last week the Rocky Mountain Climate Organization released a report on heat waves in Fort Collins, which predicts that the number of the city’s hot days, with temperatures more than 90 degrees, will double or even quadruple by 2100. The city of Fort Collins commissioned the report for $2,000 and plans to use it to update its community climate action plan, said Lucinda Smith, the director of the city’s environmental services department.

While the city plans to discuss this week how the study will impact future regulations on greenhouse gas emissions, Fort Collins residents likely will feel the heat increase in other ways.

The study Smith hired the Rocky Mountain Climate Organization to run the study, the results of which were reviewed by the Colorado Climate Center and Scott Denning, a professor of atmospheric science at Colorado State University.

The study looks at the number of hot days — days of 90, 95 or 100 degrees — Fort Collins has had since 1961. But the study is unique because it looks forward to 2100 and uses climate models to predict the number of hot days the city will experience over the next several decades.

Fort Collins summers heating up | The Coloradoan | coloradoan.com

Let’s look what these felons did. They started the study at a low point in 1961, right after the hot 1950’s. But it gets worse. In 2002, CSU built a parking lot around the Fort Collins weather station – and 90 degree days shot up immediately.

The weather station used to be in the middle of a farm, and since 2002 it is in the middle of an asphalt parking lot/bus transit station.

In 2002, a fourth major move was threatened as the CSU Transit Center was built onto the north end of the Lory Student Center. After surveying several potential alternate sites for station, university administration agreed to leave the station in place

While the station has been managed and operated consistently over time, the environment around the station has changed dramatically as the campus expanded and the city of Fort Collins mushroomed in population since the early 1960s. The result is a profound and detectable warming trend observed in Fort Collins temperature data. A large part of this trend is likely the result of the gradual formation of an “urban heat island”.

Station Information – Fort Collins • Colorado Climate Trends

Here are before and after pics for the station.

 

 

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Nearby Boulder shows a decline in 90 degree days since the 1950’s.  This study is fraudulent at so many levels, it is mind boggling.

This took me 10 minutes and I did it for free.

h/t to RoxShox

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