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House and Senate negotiators were putting the finishing touches Sunday on what would be the first successful budget accord since 2011, when the battle over a soaring national debt first paralyzed Washington.

The deal expected to be sealed this week on Capitol Hill would not significantly reduce the debt, now $17.3 trillion and rising. It would not close corporate tax loopholes or reform expensive health and retirement programs. It would not even fully replace sharp spending cuts known as the sequester, the negotiators’ primary target.

Budget deal expected this week amounts to a cease-fire as sides move to avert a standoff – The Washington Post

Intellicast – Snow Cover in United States

As of this morning, almost all the states had snow cover – which is amazing for early December. The snow cover is a lot more extensive this evening.

Climate geniuses tell us that snow in the deep south is the result of an increase in humid air, caused by Mann-made global warming.

h/t to Andy DC

Akumal Beach Webcam: LocoGringo Webcam: Riviera Maya Mexico

Once the missing heat returns, this place is going to be living hell, without a Margarita in each hand.

Catastrophic global warming is complete bullshit, based on corrupted data sets, failed theory, massive Big Government money, confirmation bias, and driven by a small handful of morons posing as scientists.

October/November were tenth coldest on record in the US (before NOAA/GISS tampering.) Also note that October/November temperatures have been declining since the year 1900 in the US.

Index of /pub/data/ghcn/daily/hcn/

Almost the entire US was below normal temperature during the last 60 days.

60dTDeptUS.png (688×531)

And we have near record cold forecast until at least Christmas.

10-Day Temperature Outlook for the Conterminous U.S.

Based on December temperatures, it looks to me like the only two years which have a chance of beating Q4 2013 for the cold championship, are 1976 and 2000.

Obama to Declare Carbon Dioxide Dangerous Pollutant (Update1) – Bloomberg

http://sciencewithme.com/learn-about-photosynthesis/ …

Mars has 95% CO2 and is very cold.

Venus has 95% CO2 and is very hot.

The partial pressure of CO2 on Mars is 14X higher than on Earth.

The surface of Mars receives more solar insolation than the surface of Venus.

It must be the CO2 making Venus hot.

© Carl Sagan and James Hansen

Climate experts tell us that the temperature has to get down to -40 for Beatles albums to stop reproducing. Since that never happens in California, we can safely assume that all the trees are dead.

27 Jun 1924 – THE GIANT KILLER. AMERICAN PINE BEETLE.

But in recent interviews with intelligence and military officers and consultants past and present, I found intense concern, and on occasion anger, over what was repeatedly seen as the deliberate manipulation of intelligence. One high-level intelligence officer, in an email to a colleague, called the administration’s assurances of Assad’s responsibility a ‘ruse’. The attack ‘was not the result of the current regime’, he wrote. A former senior intelligence official told me that the Obama administration had altered the available information – in terms of its timing and sequence – to enable the president and his advisers to make intelligence retrieved days after the attack look as if it had been picked up and analysed in real time, as the attack was happening. The distortion, he said, reminded him of the 1964 Gulf of Tonkin incident, when the Johnson administration reversed the sequence of National Security Agency intercepts to justify one of the early bombings of North Vietnam. The same official said there was immense frustration inside the military and intelligence bureaucracy: ‘The guys are throwing their hands in the air and saying, “How can we help this guy” – Obama – “when he and his cronies in the White House make up the intelligence as they go along?”’

Seymour M. Hersh · Whose sarin? · LRB 8 December 2013

h/t to R. de Haan