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Gotham will be a Southern-fried hot mess by 2020, climate pros warn – NY Daily News

One hundred degree days are much less common than they used to be in New York. During the 1930s they occurred about once every 400 days, and now they occur about once every 900 days.

U.S. Historical Climatology Network

New York’s hottest day (106F) occurred in 1936, and 18 of the 20 hottest days occurred with CO2 below 350 ppm CO2

The rate of sea level rise in Manhattan has been steady for 150 years, and is due primarily to subsidence. One foot of apparent sea level rise should occur in about the year 2085.

Data and Station Information for NEW YORK ( THE BATTERY)

h/t to JunkScience

The Beaufort Sea is blocked by floes of thick multi-year ice

arctic.io – Arctic Terra – (2013/161)

Diseases Spread as Arctic Ice Melts – Truthdig

Arctic ice area is normal, and Arctic temperatures are below normal.

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COI | Centre for Ocean and Ice | Danmarks Meteorologiske Institut

Plan B has been a political lightning rod. In 2011, after the FDA decided to approve over-the-counter sales with no age limits, US health and human services secretary Kathleen Sebelius had ordered it to reverse course, barring girls under 17 from buying the pills without a prescription.

Barack Obama supported that restriction, invoking his daughters. But the timing, 11 months ahead of the presidential election, sparked criticism that he was trying to placate social conservatives.

Plan B: Obama allows morning-after pill for under-17s | World news | guardian.co.uk

Obama will now need to prosecute himself :

 February 12, 2008 10:57 AM PST

A U.S. Senate vote that took place two hours ago reveals how much three of our leading presidential candidates are committed to electronic privacy and the rule of law.

Barack Obama passes the test. John McCain failed. Hillary Clinton gets an incomplete.

The vote was on an amendment to deny AT&T and other telecommunications companies legal immunity if they are proven in court to have violated federal privacy law by opening their networks to the National Security Agency.

Obama voted for the amendment. That’s a vote for electronic privacy and for the rule of law. It means that AT&T and any other companies that may have violated the law would be held accountable for any illegal actions they committed. Conversely, if AT&T, et al, violated no laws, its lawyers have nothing to worry about.

Obama, not McCain or Clinton, votes for electronic privacy | Politics and Law – CNET News

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated

Are all Verizon customers terrorists?

FBI — Violent Crime

Master Sgt. Nathan Sommers, a decorated soloist with the Army Band, is being charged under a federal law that permits commanding officers to conduct non-judicial proceedings for minor offenses.

Sommers is accused of giving a superior officer the wrong date for a doctor’s appointment. He’s also accused of failing to carry out an order. In order to comply with that order, Sommers would have had to disclose private information about his autistic son’s medical records.

The charges were handed down one day after Sommers told Fox News that he was facing discrimination and persecution because of his conservative political and religious beliefs.

“The timing does seem strange,” retired Navy Commander John Bennett Wells told Fox News. “It’s suspicious. No matter what’s happening it looks like a graduated attempt to build a case against him on some really ridiculous charges.

Wells is representing the 25-year veteran who, until last summer, had a spotless record.

Soldier Who Read Conservative Books Now Faces Charges | FOX News & Commentary: Todd Starnes