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Here’s something to watch in 2014: China’s debt. Although the odds of a full-blown financial crisis are slim, they’re not non-existent. The flash point is the burgeoning debt of Chinese localities to finance major infrastructure — roads, bridges, water and sewer systems, subways, telecommunications networks — as well as housing and commercial real estate developments. The fear is that revenues from these projects won’t be adequate to repay the loans, resulting in defaults that undermine confidence and trigger bank runs. This would surely rattle the broader global economy.

A China debt crisis in 2014?

Obama eyes political comeback in ’14

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Global Warming Is Rapidly Accelerating

The many scientific links in this comprehensive article about global warming, by Dahr Jamail, on December 22nd, make clear that climate change is accelerating, and that our planet will probably be unlivable by 2100, if not by 2050.

The best explanation of the process that’s occurring is in this link within one of those scientific links: “The collapse of Arctic sea ice will change the reflective properties of the Arctic from 90% reflection of the sun’s rays to a 90% absorber of the sun’s energy. A vicious cycle of Arctic warming started between twenty and thirty years ago, when currents from the Atlantic and Pacific, warmed by greenhouse gases, carried their extra heat into the Arctic to initiate an accelerating decline in sea ice and increase in Arctic temperatures.”

The global warming that was previously predicted to occur within 2,000 years, is now predicted to occur within the lifetimes of some people who are alive even today.

Global Warming Is Rapidly Accelerating | Eric Zuesse

I predict that douche bag progressives will continue to fearmonger for as long as they can get away with it.

Justice Sotomayor grants temporary Obamacare exemption to nuns – latimes.com

Winnipeg posts second-coldest December since 1893 – Winnipeg | Globalnews.ca

Suzuki announced during the Vancouver Olympics that global warming had ruined Canada’s climate.

In 1940, scientists reported that Arctic sea ice had lost 40% of its thickness, down to 218 cm.

Papers Past — Auckland Star — 14 December 1940 — WARMER ARCTIC

That is about the same thickness as the Arctic currently averages.

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05 May 1910 – CANALS IN MARS.

CRUTEM4 shows no warming from 1866-1910, but in 1997 GISS land temps showed a strong warming trend during that period.

www.cru.uea.ac.uk/cru/data/temperature/CRUTEM4-gl.dat

web.archive.org/web/19970301012952/http://www.giss.nasa.gov/Data/GISTEMP/GLB.Ts.txt

A decline in ocean cloud cover projected in climate models points to more than 5.6°F (3°C) of global warming coming in this century, on the high end of past global warming estimates, warn climate scientists in a new study.

“This degree of warming would make large swaths of the tropics uninhabitable by humans and cause most forests at low and middle latitudes to change to something else,” says Steven Sherwood of Australia’s University of New South Wales, who led the study.

That would be the same tropics which has barely warmed over the last 34 years.

The changes, Sherwood says, would take Earth “back to the climate of the dinosaurs or worse, and in a geologically minuscule period of time—less than the lifetime of a single tree.”

Invest in fossilized mosquitoes trapped in amber!

Atmospheric scientists have long asked how high atmospheric temperatures will rise if greenhouse gases double. This “climate sensitivity” estimate has emerged as a key climate question, with estimates ranging from a low of about 2.7°F (1.5°C) to highs of more than 8°F (4.5°C) of warming in this century.

Climate: Cloud Mixing Means Extra Global Warming

My model predicts 1,000 degrees warming.    Here is the code.

dT = (year – 2000) * 10