Real Climate Science

We are under yet another flash flood warning here in Fort Collins. The US Drought Monitor says we are having a severe drought.

Methane makes up less than two parts per million in the atmosphere. If everyone at the Rose Bowl represented one molecule, odds are there would be no methane molecules represented.

RRTM, the radiative transfer model used by NCAR, shows that a 10X increase in methane would increase downwelling longwave radiation in the tropics by just over 1 w/m², or about 0.25%.

Methane also quickly oxidizes in the atmosphere.

In other words, fearmongering about methane is bullshit.

At the time his head was being bashed against the concrete by Trayvon Martin, Zimmerman had never seen this picture of his attacker at age 12.

His attacker actually looked more like this :

The only minority on the all-female jury that voted to acquit George Zimmerman said today that Zimmerman “got away with murder” for killing Trayvon Martin and feels she owes an apology Martin’s parents.

WTF? Zimmerman was acquitted of murder by a jury she was on.

“That’s where I felt confused, where if a person kills someone, then you get charged for it,” Maddy said. “But as the law was read to me, if you have no proof that he killed him intentionally, you can’t say he’s guilty.”

Zimmerman pulled the trigger – he obviously intended to kill the person who was attacking him. That wasn’t the question she needed to base her decision on. Was she paying attention to anything which went on during the trial?

George Zimmerman Juror Says He ‘Got Away With Murder’ – ABC News

Other than the fact that Zimmerman is not racist, and that it is beyond comprehension that a president could so massively abuse his power, personally condemn an acquitted man,  and say things so incredibly stupid – I don’t see any problem with Obama speaking out against Zimmerman.

Progressives have been fawning all over Obama for his disgusting racist performance last Saturday.

Peter Wadhams says that the Arctic will be ice-free in two years.

Ice-free Arctic in two years heralds methane catastrophe – scientist | Environment | guardian.co.uk

This is a wonderful reprieve for the Arctic, which was originally slated for death before the year 2013.

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Arctic summers ice-free ‘by 2013’

There seems to be plenty of ice in the Arctic, but I lack the government credentials required to determine if the emperor is clothed.

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The family which George Zimmerman rescued last week is afraid to speak out – for fear of harassment by the Obama/Holder/Jackson/Sharpton lynch mob.

A couple George Zimmerman helped rescue after their SUV flipped over on a Florida highway canceled a news conference Wednesday, citing the possibility of ‘blowback’ against them.

Mark and Dana Gerstle had planned to talk about the assistance they received from Zimmerman, who was recently acquitted of charges in the shooting death of teenager Trayvon Martin.

Zimmerman’s attorney Mark O’Mara told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer that they changed their minds, deciding they didn’t want to be in the spotlight. After discussing the situation with family and friends, O’Mara said they realized that being connected to Zimmerman right now could be toxic.

“They wanted to thank him publicly,” O’Mara said. “They thought that they could not, for the possibility of blowback against them.”

O’Mara brushed aside suggestions Wednesday that his client’s actions in helping save a family from a car wreck were somehow staged, noting that multiple government agencies and witnesses have backed up the family’s account.

“The same people who refuse to accept the jury’s verdict, just want to be angry, just want to hate George Zimmerman, are still going to,” O’Mara said. “Even if we had a videotape of the accident, they would still say it was made up. So you can’t really respond to people who just don’t want to listen to the truth.”

Family rescued by Zimmerman cancels news conference, fears ‘blowback’ | Fox News

Obama promised to fundamentally transform America

I created a new page below Toto called Hide The Decline . The intent is to gather a repository of information about the quality of work by Michael “Robust Debate” Mann. Please post anything you have gathered there for his upcoming court case.

The result is we’ll have 12,000 papers with category ratings and endorsement level.

I anticipate there will be around 6000 “neutral” papers.

Popular Technology.net: Cook’s 97% Consensus Study Game Plan Revealed

President Obama proudly boasted Cook’s fake 97% number, right after it came out.

“Skeptical Science” is an acronym for well funded government propaganda

— May 22, 1915: Passenger train collides with a troop train in Gretna, Scotland. 227 people killed.

— Dec. 12, 1917: Troop train derails near the entrance of Mt. Cenis tunnel in Modane, France. 543 killed.

— Jul. 9, 1918: An inbound local train collides with an outbound express killing 101 in Nashville, Tenn. 171 injured.

— Jan. 16, 1944: Train wrecks in the Torro Tunnel in Leon Province, Spain. More than 500 killed.

— Mar. 2, 1944: Train stalls in a tunnel in Salerno, Italy, suffocating passengers. 521 killed.

— Oct. 22, 1949: Danzig-Warsaw express derails in Nr. Dwor, Poland. More than 200 killed.

— Apr. 3, 1955: Train plunges into a canyon in Guadalajara, Mexico. 300 killed.

— Sept. 29, 1957: Express train collides with stationary oil train in Montgomery, West Pakistan. 250 killed.

— Feb. 1, 1970: Express train rams stationary commuter train in Buenos Aires, Argentina. 236 killed.

— Oct. 6, 1972: Train carrying religious pilgrims derails and catches fire in Saltillo, Mexico. 208 killed.

— June 6, 1981: Train crashes after bridge collapses in flash floods during monsoon in Bihar, India. More than 400 killed.

— Jan. 4, 1990: Overcrowded 16-car passenger train collides with standing freight train in Sindh Province, Pakistan. More than 210 killed.

— Sept. 22, 1994: Faulty brakes cause a train to plunge into a ravine in Tolunda, Angola. 300 killed.

— Aug. 20, 1995: A speeding passenger train crashes into a train that had stalled after hitting a cow in Firozabad, India. 358 killed.

— Aug. 2, 1999: Two express trains collide head-on in Gauhati, India. More than 285 killed.

— Feb. 20, 2002: An overcrowded train en route from Cairo to the southern Egyptian city of Luxor burst into flames, then travels 2½ miles before the driver stops. More than 360 people die.

— Feb. 18, 2004: Runaway train cars carrying fuel and industrial chemicals derail, setting off explosions destroy five villages in Neyshabur, Iran. At least 200 people killed.

— Apr. 22, 2004: Two trains carrying explosives collide as they are being shifted to different tracks at a single station in Ryongchon, North Korea. 154 killed; 1,300 injured.

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