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Dr. Hansen is also the man who has probably done more to put global warming on the global agenda than any other living human being.

And while he is occasionally given to rhetorically jumping the shark, his concerns are based on a lifetime of rigorous atmospheric research that has helped to define modern climatology.

In short, his views should be afforded, at the very least, a decent respect by critics and admirers alike.

The Hansen letter

 

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06 December 2013 4:16pm

Seventy-two killed resisting gun confiscation in Boston!

Boston – National Guard units seeking to confiscate a cache of recently banned assault weapons were ambushed by elements of a Para-military extremist faction. Military and law enforcement sources estimate that 72 were killed and more than 200 injured before government forces were compelled to withdraw.

Speaking after the clash, Massachusetts Governor Thomas Gage declared that the extremist faction, which was made up of local citizens, has links to the radical right-wing tax protest movement.

Gage blamed the extremists for recent incidents of vandalism directed against internal revenue offices. The governor, who described the group’s organizers as “criminals,” issued an executive order authorizing the summary arrest of any individual who has interfered with the government’s efforts to secure law and order.

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Governor Gage has called upon citizens to support the state/national joint task force in its effort to restore law and order. The governor also demanded the surrender of those responsible for planning and leading the attack against the government troops.

Samuel Adams, Paul Revere, and John Hancock, who have been identified as “ringleaders” of the extremist faction, remain at large.

And this fellow Americans, is how the American Revolution began, April 20, 1775.

Seventy-two killed resisting gun confiscation in Boston! | Fauquier Free Citizen

Sarasota Herald-Tribune – Aug 16, 1981

Sarasota Herald-Tribune – Google News Archive Search

Ford said that in Canada, the country “can’t afford” their universal health coverage.

“What you guys are doing down there, I just, I can’t get my head around it because it’s costing a fortune, and I don’t know where you guys are going to find the money, except the taxpayers pockets,” he continued.

“And I think people are taxed to death, and I don’t mind two-tier healthcare; if you want healthcare, you pay for it. I understand that. And we have general healthcare up here, or OHIP we call it, but, you know, it’s gonna cost a fortune for you guys to put in this ObamaCare, and I just don’t see how the people are going to be able to afford it, to tell you the truth.”

Ford added that he personally liked Obama but that he did not “like his politics.”

Controversial Toronto mayor slams O-Care | TheHill

US unemployment falls to lowest level for five years as 203,000 jobs added | Business | theguardian.com

What great news! Except that it is complete bullshit. They counted the return of furloughed government workers as “new jobs”

The figures from the Bureau of Labor Statistics may have been bolstered by the return of hundreds of thousands of federal employees following October’s government shutdown

Obama told us that the government shutdown would wreck the economy. Now he is taking credit for it.

There is a thin sliver of missing sea ice in the Arctic.

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Scientists have been unable to find this, but fortunately my dogs have located it here in Colorado.

Hansen says that 2ºC warming would be disastrous, but I really need about 40 degrees warming in my neighborhood today.

James Hansen: 2C temperature rise would be “disastrous”

One million Californians who lose their individual plans in 2014 know that’s not true; when many saw their new premiums, they experienced “sticker shock.” Next comes “doc shock” — the revelation that many folks also won’t be able to keep their doctors.

Meet Chico, Calif., attorney Kenneth Turner. His wife found out that she has breast cancer two days before they received their cancellation notice. She’s scheduled for surgery Dec. 20 and will hear the prognosis Dec. 30. Two days later, she loses the doctor who will have operated on her, as well as other doctors she has seen for decades.

Obamacare’s Next Problem: Doc Shock – Debra J. Saunders – Page 1

h/t to Dave G