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Israel shocked by Obama’s “betrayal” of Mubarak

Jan 31, 2011

(Reuters) – If Egypt’s President Hosni Mubarak is toppled, Israel will lose one of its very few friends in a hostile neighborhood and President Barack Obama will bear a large share of the blame, Israeli pundits said on Monday.

Political commentators expressed shock at how the United States as well as its major European allies appeared to be ready to dump a staunch strategic ally of three decades, simply to conform to the current ideology of political correctness.

Israel shocked by Obama’s betrayal of Mubarak | Reuters

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Piers Morgan was booted from the UK for publishing fake prison abuse photographs in an attempt to frame the British military.

He has now brought his criminal road show to the US, working in conjunction with the White House to destroy the Bill of Rights.

Morgan pressed Hawkins on which state had the highest murder rate in the country. When Hawkins said he didn’t know, Morgan shot back, “Allow me to help you. Allow me to help you. It’s Virginia.”

Morgan continued, “It’s Virginia, the very state you just quoted to me, actually has the highest murder rate in the country, according to 2009 statistics by the FBI.”

But a closer look shows Morgan’s statements were not true.

According to the FBI’s 2009 Crime In The United States report, Virginia came in behind 23 others states, including Louisiana, Maryland and Tennessee, for the number of murder and non-negligent manslaughter. Virginia didn’t top the firearm murder rate category either.

Where Morgan came up with his information is not yet known. Morgan’s blog mentions the interview but doesn’t address the faulty facts. Calls made to CNN for comment were not immediately returned.

CNN’s Piers Morgan claims Virginia had highest murder rate — stats say otherwise | Fox News

h/t to John B., M.D.

In 1999, NASA published this graph, showing that the 1930s was by far the warmest decade in the US

The graph was accompanied by this text :

Empirical evidence does not lend much support to the notion that climate is headed precipitately toward more extreme heat and drought. The drought of 1999 covered a smaller area than the 1988 drought, when the Mississippi almost dried up. And 1988 was a temporary inconvenience as compared with repeated droughts during the 1930s “Dust Bowl” that caused an exodus from the prairies, as chronicled in Steinbeck’s Grapes of Wrath.

in the U.S. there has been little temperature change in the past 50 years, the time of rapidly increasing greenhouse gases — in fact, there was a slight cooling throughout much of the country

NASA GISS: Science Briefs: Whither U.S. Climate?

They have since eliminated the hot 1930s from the temperature record. Their current graph looks like this :

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The animation below shows how they altered the temperature data to wipe out the inconvenient 1930s, and massively warm the 1990s.

The next animation uses NASA’s published data from 1999 and 2013, and shows how they turned a strong US cooling trend into a strong warming trend.

1999 version  2013 version

Albert Einstein sarcastically said :

“If the facts don’t fit the theory, change the facts”

Rare summer snowfall in Xinjiang – China.org.cn

h/t to Ice Age Now and Marc Morano

Global sea ice area has been above normal most of the year, and is averaging 1,600 Manhattans above normal in 2013.

arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/timeseries.global.anom.1979-2008

Experts tell us that the poles are melting down.

Science is the belief in the ignorance of the experts

– Richard Feynman

Over the last three weeks, Arctic ice area has declined by 662,000 km², which is 60% of normal and the slowest on record.

arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/timeseries.anom.1979-2008

This has been caused by the coldest Arctic summer on record.

COI | Centre for Ocean and Ice | Danmarks Meteorologiske Institut

Pine forests depend on fire for their survival.

Most of Colorado’s lodgepole pine forests developed following hot, stand-replacing crown fires (CSFS 2008)1. Lodgepole pine is intolerant to shade and thrives in the aftermath of fire; many lodgepole produce serotinous cones, which open in response to extreme heat and release an abundance of seeds. These long-lived cones may remain viable for decades, waiting for a fire to release their seeds. The prolific regeneration that naturally occurs in the open, sunny areas left in the fire’s wake often results in dense stands of 20,000 or more trees per acre.

Lodgepole Pine Forests – Colorado State Forest Service – Colorado State University

Large scale mountain pine beetle outbreaks have occurred often in the past. However, widespread burning in the late 19th century and fire suppression in the 20th century may have created larger stands of similar age, which are now of an age when susceptibility to bark beetle is high

forestguild.org – Lodgepole Pine

There have been no Atlantic hurricanes so far this year, but by this date in 1886 the US was about to be hit by its fifth hurricane of the year. It was a category four storm with a fifteen foot storm surge which permanently wiped the city of Indianola, Texas off the map.

Obama says that hurricanes are much worse now due to global warming, because he has no idea what he is talking about.

1886 Atlantic hurricane season – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia