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“It is transparent,” Obama told PBS’s Charlie Rose in an interview to be broadcast Monday. “That’s why we set up the FISA court,” he added, referring to the secret court set up by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act that authorizes two recently disclosed programs: one that gathers U.S. phone records and another that is designed to track the use of U.S.-based Internet servers by foreigners with possible links to terrorism.

A secret court which no one knew about until last week – thanks to a whistleblower – is “transparent”

The location of FISA courts is secret. The sessions are closed. The orders that result from hearings in which only government lawyers are present are classified.

“We’re going to have to find ways where the public has an assurance that there are checks and balances in place … that their phone calls aren’t being listened into; their text messages aren’t being monitored, their emails are not being read by some big brother somewhere,” Obama said.

A good way to start would be to deport the entire federal government to North Korea, where they would feel more at home.

Obama calls NSA secret data gathering ‘transparent’ in PBS interview | Fox News

Dr. Roy Spencer found this book from 1938, proving catastrophic Arctic warming

Along with the fluctuations in ice abundance in each individual sea from year to year, in late years a most interesting phenomenon has been observed – a warming of the Arctic, as evidence by a gradual and universal decrease in ice abundance. The main evidence of this general warming of the Arctic are:

1. Receding of glaciers and “melting away” of islands….all the Greenland glaciers which descend into Northeast Bay and Disko Bay have been receding since approximately the beginning of the century. On Franz Joseph Land during recent years several islands have appeared as if broken in two. It turned out they had been connected up to that time by ice bridges. …I noted a great decrease in the size of (Jan Mayan and Spitzbergen) glaciers. Ahlman terms the rapid receding of the Spitzbergen glaciers “catastrophic”.

2. Rise of air temperature. (Over the last 20 years) the average temperature of the winter months has steadily increased…(in the last 10 years) in the whole Arctic sector from Greenland to Cape Chelyuskin there has not been a single (negative) anomaly of average annual and monthly winter temperatures, while the positive anomalies have been very high….

3. Rise in temperature of Atlantic water which enters the Arctic Basin…the temperature of surface water and of Gulf Stream water has steadily risen…

4. Decrease in ice abundance….15% to 20% (over 20 years)….In earlier times, polar ice often approached the shores of Iceland and interfered with fishing and navigation. For the past 25 years ice has not appeared in significant quantities.

5. Increase in speed of drift ice.

6. Change in cyclone routes. There is no doubt that the increase in air temperatures, increase in Atlantic water temperatures, intensification of ice drift, etc., are closely connected with an intensification of atmospheric circulation, and in particular with a change in cyclonic activity at high latitudes. Vize shows that Atlantic cyclones are now shifting considerably north, by several hundred km, from their courses in the period before the warming of the Arctic.

7. Biological signs of warming of the Arctic. …fish have ranged further and further to the north…cod in large quantities have appeared along the shores of Spitzbergen and Novaya Zemlya…also mackerel, dolphin where formerly were not found…during recent years fishing has gradually shifted into the Arctic waters, and this unquestionably must be ascribed in considerable degree to the warming of these waters….many heat-loving bottom organisms are now found in regions these organisms were not found (30 years ago). Knipovich says: “ In a matter of fifteen years…there occurred a change…such as is usually associated with long geological intervals”.

8. Ship navigation. …a number of ship voyages (were made) which could hardly have been accomplished in the preceding cold period.

Still more remarkable is the fact that the warming of the Arctic is not confined to any particular region.

Arctic ice

June 1913 was blistering hot in the US

03 Jul 1913 – HEAT WAVE. AMERICAN DEATH ROLL. HOTTEST JUNE FOR..

NCDC reports that June, 1913 was below normal in the US – and the 45th coldest on record. They subtract a couple of degrees from measured 1913 temperatures before they report them.

Climate at a Glance | Time Series

The world’s hottest temperature (134F) also occurred in 1913 – at Greenland Ranch, CA.

NCDC understands that with Obama in the White House, they can do anything they want to push the global warming scam. No lie is too big any more.

01 Jul 1952 – NEARLY 200 DEAD IN HEAT WAVE

Prior to Hansen et al tampering with the temperature record, 1970 was about the same temperature as 1900. The graph below was generated by the National Academy of Sciences in 1975.

The next graph is NCAR’s 1975 version.

Before the team could make the fake hockey stick, they had to make fake recent temperature data.

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Looking through the DMI records going back to 1958, it appears that summer north of 80N is getting off to the coldest start on record.

COI | Centre for Ocean and Ice | Danmarks Meteorologiske Institut

The bottom line is that the rate of warming over the past century is very rapid and probably unprecedented for the past 11,000 years.

Real Skepticism About the New Marcott ‘Hockey Stick’

The bottom line is that Cook’s BS is probably unprecedented in the last 11,000 years.

Our study did not directly address this question because the paleotemperature records used in our study have a temporal resolution of ~120 years on average, which precludes us from examining variations in rates of change occurring within a century.

RealClimate: Response by Marcott et al.

James Blalog has placed videos all over airports showing a perfectly ordinary picture of a glacier covered with grit, and saying that “the military has determined that global warming will cost dollars, and lives.”

Is he suggesting that driving a hybrid will stop glaciers from getting covered with dust and rock fragments?