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Syria: Rebels Give US Targets To Defeat Regime

Rebels hand the US specific targets which would weaken the regime and say they will join jihadi groups in a push to Damascus.

“We have targets and we have passed them onto our American contacts and we hope they will follow our advice,” the number two commander for the FSA’s Ahrar Souria Brigade, Abu Nabhan, told me.

“I won’t tell you the targets, but they are specific and they will help us,” he said.

Syria: Rebels Give US Targets To Defeat Regime

Just in case you had forgotten whose side Barack Hussein Obama is on.

Arctic ice experts say that recent data offer powerful evidence that summer sea ice has passed a point of no return.

Arctic Tipping Point: A North Pole Without Ice by Fen Montaigne: Yale Environment 360

That explains why ice extent is close to what it was in 1971.

Arctic Ice Almost As Extensive As It Was 42 Years Ago

CO2 was below 300 PPM in 1900, and 86% of Swiss glaciers were retreating. Hansen says that we can stop glacial retreat by returning to 350 PPM, which is a number he pulled out from where the sun never shines.

29 Dec 1900 – The Swiss Glaciers Decreasing.

The only rules Obama’s teleprompter is subject to, is that it has to use the word “I” at least 50 times per speech.

The original Tuesday night teleprompter programming was to tell the American people that Obama was going to bomb Syria for the sake of security and morality, and that Americans were too stupid to understand.

The teleprompter’s programming has been changed, and now it says that due to Obama’s tough stance on bombing, we have peace for our time.

Greenpeace forecast an ice-free Arctic this year, and anyone who thinks Greenpeace is smoking crack obviously worked for the tobacco lobby in 1969.

Dealing in Doubt | Greenpeace

The super-duper Arctic minimum of 2012 left nothing but thin, rotten, decayed, vulnerable ice. Enter the super-duper global warming Arctic amplification year of 2013, and you have super hot temperatures melting the super-thin ice.

The obvious result of all this is a 60% increase in Arctic ice.

“[An ice-free Arctic is] definitely coming, and coming sooner than we previously expected,“ Walt Meier, a glaciologist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md, told LiveScience last month. “We’re looking at when as opposed to if.”

Arctic sea ice up 60 percent in 2013 | Fox News

I’m pretty sure that Walt is still peddling this nonsense out of Boulder, Colorado.

Not only has ice extent nearly returned to 1971 levels, but the bulk of the ice is perfectly situated to survive the winter.

Contrary to the blatant misinformation spread by alarmists, most of the ice volume loss from 1979-2007 was due to winter transport of older ice out the Arctic, rather than summer melt. That pattern has reversed in recent years, and the older thicker ice is making a significant comeback since 2009.

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Twitter / Pvincell: Is sea ice “recovering”? An …

The very quiet fire year of 2013 continues, with near historic lows in number of fires and burn acreage – and no fires currently burning in most western states.

National Interagency Fire Center

The southwest has received record amounts of rain in recent months. Parts of Utah have received more than 100% of their normal annual rainfall in just the past seven days.

Intellicast – Weekly Precipitation in United States

If you listen to CNN or Barack Obama, you would believe that this has been a record fire year, and that the southwest is wracked by drought. They are not in the business of telling the truth.