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California plans to confiscate guns from 20,000 people who bought them legally but have since been disqualified because of criminal or psychiatric problems, boosting the state’s relatively tough approach to gun control.

Peter Gleick is a confessed fraudster, thief and probable forger. He also owns a shotgun.

Governor Jerry Brown signed legislation on Wednesday allocating $24m – generated by fees taken from gun buyers at the time of purchase – to the crackdown, the first in a series of gun control bills following the Sandy Hook massacre.

“This bipartisan bill makes our communities safer by giving law enforcement the resources they need to get guns out of the hands of potentially dangerous individuals,” said Evan Westrup, a spokesman for the governor.

California to confiscate guns from 20,000 people who own them illegally | The Raw Story

The most dangerous individuals in California are the police, who terrorized Los Angeles for a week last winter. They should be immediately disarmed.

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The Guardian says that the vast right wing conspiracy made climate scientists, cheat, lie, steal, defraud, forge and tamper with data.

How climate scientists are being framed | Graham Readfearn | Environment | guardian.co.uk

Climate alarmists believe that their “earth is doomed” message is being drowned out by more traditional “earth is doomed” messages.

Belief in biblical end-times stifling climate change action in U.S.: study | The Raw Story

h/t to Marc Morano

Today was a unique day along the Front Range of Colorado. We have a foot of fresh snow on the ground, and cold deep blue skies like January – but what was unique is that the sun is up within 25 degrees of the zenith.

This blog has now had more than eight million page views, and I expect another 200,000 in the next 24 hours.

Eight million is almost as many as Rebecca Black got in one day. LOL

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John Cook asked me to post this survey.

Hi Steve

As one of the more highly trafficked climate blogs on the web, I’m seeking your assistance in conducting a crowd-sourced online survey of peer-reviewed climate research. I have compiled a database of around 12,000 papers listed in the ‘Web Of Science’ between 1991 to 2011 matching the topic ‘global warming’ or ‘global climate change’. I am now inviting readers from a diverse range of climate blogs to peruse the abstracts of these climate papers with the purpose of estimating the level of consensus in the literature regarding the proposition that humans are causing global warming. If you’re interested in having your readers participate in this survey, please post the following link to the survey:

http://survey.gci.uq.edu.au/survey.php?c=1OBJM2FVTG68

The survey involves rating 10 randomly selected abstracts and is expected to take 15 minutes. Participants may sign up to receive the final results of the survey (de-individuated so no individual’s data will be published). No other personal information is required (and email is optional). Participants may elect to discontinue the survey at any point and results are only recorded if the survey is completed. Participant ratings are confidential and all data will be de-individuated in the final results so no individual ratings will be published.

The analysis is being conducted by the University of Queensland in collaboration with contributing authors of the website Skeptical Science. The research project is headed by John Cook, research fellow in climate communication for the Global Change Institute at the University of Queensland.

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Regards,
John Cook
University of Queensland/Skeptical Science

Bombing out of the Champions League in the knockout round, was the smartest thing they did all season. ROFLMAO

Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said Thursday that the Obama administration is re-thinking its opposition to arming the Syrian rebels, as officials weigh a range of options in the wake of findings that chemical weapons were likely used in the country’s civil war.

“Arming the rebels — that’s an option,” Hagel said at a Pentagon news conference.

Hagel: US rethinking resistance to arming Syrian opposition | Fox News

Obama thinks that guns are needed to defend against tyranny – but not when he is the tyrant.