Real Climate Science

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h/t to R. de Haan

The Arizona wildfire that killed 19 firefighters last month was the result of “one of the most extreme heat waves on record,” Cullen said.

Sen. Boxer sets committee hearing on climate change | RenewablesBiz

It is very hot in Arizona every summer. The fire was the result of a lightning strike.

The Yarnell Hill Fire was a wildfire near Yarnell, Arizona, ignited by lightning on June 28, 2013.

Yarnell Hill Fire – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This year has had the fewest US fires to date of any season on record, and remarkably there are no fires in Arizona now.

National Interagency Fire Center

On Sunday, the Republican senator John McCain added his name to those calling for the law to be changed. Speaking on CNN’s State of the Union, he said that he did not question the jury’s decision in the Zimmerman case. But he added: “I can also see that the ‘stand your ground’ law may be something that needs to be reviewed by the Florida legislature or any other legislature that has passed such legislation.”

Calls for ‘stand your ground’ review grow after day of Trayvon rallies | World news | guardian.co.uk

If the Navy forecasts are correct, in about six days the rowers will have gigantic three metre thick chunks of ice barreling at them driven by 55 MPH winds.

Jesse Jackson says that he should be able to buy jury decisions

Members of the Congressional Black Caucus appear undecided so far on whether to support a call for a boycott of Florida over the Trayvon Martin case, with Maryland Rep. Donna Edwards saying Sunday such a move could be “devastating” to some communities in the state.

Jackson said after a Florida jury found neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman not guilty July 13 of all charges in the fatal 2012 shooting of Martin, a black teenager, that his Rainbow PUSH Coalition would consider a boycotting on Florida, which he characterized as a “kind of apartheid state.”

Jackson’s son is being sentenced this week for theft and embezzling $750,000 from the people of Illinois, so Jesse is in Florida pretending he is Nelson Mandela.

“That’s probably the best strategy because people understand dollars and cents,” Clay, D-Mo., said Friday, according to The Hill newspaper. “And they understand if there’s a significant drop off in revenues — at conventions, at Disney World and Universal Studios — that  will get the attention of the powerful.”

The black caucus thinks that they should be able to purchase jury decisions.

Their remarks were just part of  the ongoing and wide-ranging discussions about race and equal justice since the fatal shooting, particularly after President Obama talked Friday about the verdict, his own experiences growing up black and what Americans could do about changing state gun laws on self-defense.

Obama wants to make sure that people can’t defend themselves any more. It makes martial law much easier to implement. All that States Rights nonsense and the US Constitution just get in the way of his bigger plans.

Ohio Democratic Rep. Marcia Fudge, the Black Caucus chairwoman, suggested the Martin case should be a call for “a broader discussion” on “how we are treating poor and minority people in this country.”

Yes, we need a discussion about why the black community is trying to lynch an Hispanic.

“We are being attacked from so many sides that you have to at some point decide where you can have the most impact,” she said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”

People who make statements like that are normally being treated for paranoid schizophrenia.

Black caucus appears undecided on call for Florida boycott, asks for border discussion on race | Fox News

As the advancing glaciers end Chicago’s crime wave, NOAA will announce that this is the 6,321 consecutive month with temperatures above normal.

USHCN will be adjusting temperatures upwards by 17.6 degrees at that time.

21 July 2013

‘Our study underlines that these conditions have led to a large loss of ice and significant rises in global sea level in the past.   ‘Scientists predict that global temperatures of a similar level may be reached by the end of this century, so it is very important for us to understand what the possible consequences might be.’

Global warming five million years ago could have led to Antarctic ice sheets melting and sea levels rising by 60ft | Mail Online

19 Feb 1952

Melting Ice May Swamp Seaports

CLEVELAND. February 18.— Dr. William S. Carlson, an Arctic expert, said last night that polar ice caps were melting at an astonishing and unexplained rate, and threatening to swamp seaports by raising ocean levels.

19 Feb 1952 – Melting Ice May Swamp Seaports

Everyone knows that plastic water bottles are wrecking the climate, so I decided to do something about this serious problem.

Twitter / BigJoeBastardi: 45 day CFS paints a cool …

During Obama’s first year in office, an unarmed white 16 year old was shot multiple times by a black man who said he was acting in self defense while protecting the neighborhood. Obama said nothing about the incident, and did not send the angry mob out after him or make any speeches.

Not guilty: The verdict in the manslaughter trial of Roderick Scott. After more than 19 hours of deliberations over two days, a jury acquitted the Greece man in the shooting death of Christopher Cervini, 17, last April.

“I just want to say thank you to the people who believed in me, who stood by me,” Scott said following the verdict. “I still have my regrets for the Cervini family; it’s still an unfortunate situation for them. I am happy that at least this chapter is over.”

As deliberations dragged on over two days and the jury asked for testimony to be read back, Scott admits he didn’t know how it would all turn out.

“I was nervous of course,” he said. “You never know what direction this whole thing is going to turn, so I have no idea. But it worked out and I feel that justice (was) served today.”

Cervini’s family members say justice wasn’t served. They say Christopher was murdered in cold blood, that he’d never been in trouble and Scott acted as judge, jury and executioner.

“The message is that we can all go out and get guns and feel anybody that we feel is threatening us and lie about the fact,” said Jim Cervini, Christopher’s father. “My son never threatened anybody. He was a gentle child, his nature was gentle, he was a good person and he was never, ever arrested for anything, and has never been in trouble. He was 16 years and four months old, and he was slaughtered.”

Scott says he acted in self defense when he confronted Cervini and two others saying they were stealing from neighbors cars. He told them he had a gun and ordered them to freeze and wait for police.

Scott says he shot Cervini twice when the victim charged toward him yelling he was going to get Scott.

“How can this happen to a beautiful, sweet child like that?” asked Cervini’s aunt Carol Cervini. “All he wanted to do was go home. And then for them to say, he was saying, ‘Please don’t kill me. I’m just a kid,’ and he just kept on shooting him.”

Jury Finds Roderick Scott Not Guilty – Rochester

It appears that Obama is only interested in dead children whose story can further Obama’s personal ambitions.

h/t to Ted Sunday