March was a very cold month in the US, the coldest March since 1995. But NCDC did their best hide the decline by adjusting March temperatures upwards by a record 1.25F relative to the raw HCN data which it is based on.
Note that they adjusted March 2013 upwards 4.2 degrees relative to 1945. Also note that the published temperature trend is almost identical to the adjustments.
White House spokesman Jay Carney today said President Barack Obama has no comment on the murder trial involving late-term abortion practitioner Kermit Gosnell.
White House: No Comment on Gosnell “Beheading” Babies in Abortions | LifeNews.com
President Obama refuses to discuss security guards in schools or genocide in Pennsylvania, but he can’t stop talking about dismantling the Bill of Rights.
h/t to Dave G
Kerry called climate change a global threat as he addressed an energy cooperation seminar on Saturday also attended by Chinese State Councilor Yang Jiechi.
“We are seeing the science of climate change come back to us now at a rate that is far faster and with far greater levels of damage than anything that scientists predicted 10, 15, 20 years ago,” he stated. “Every prediction that has been made is coming true, but coming true bigger and more dangerously.”
‘Anthropogenic’ Climate Change is a Priority for Kerry in Asia | CNS News
What a complete crock of shit. There has been no warming for almost 17 years. Kerry may be an even bigger liar than Hillary was.
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h/t to Tom Nelson and Marc Morano
CSU closes at 3 p.m. due to snowstorm
April 15, 2013
Snow day or no snow day? With Fort Collins’ forecast projecting two feet of snow, that’s the question on CSU’s mind.
APRIL 12, 2013
Boston EMS is deploying a new, off-the-shelf, lightweight mobile device for the first time at the Boston Marathon on April 15.
The platform, from SafetyPAD, is intended for use in mass-casualty situations gives EMS personnel the ability to carry into crowds and assess a patient upon arrival, document in realtime, transmit data to transport units before they arrive, and other features.
Boston EMS will utilize the new Android-based program for bike and gator teams along race route.
Boston to Deploy Mass-Casualty Tablet Device During Marathon
While there is no confirmation yet on whether the blasts were the result of a terrorist attack, Stevenson said something he saw before the race was unusual.
“At the starting line this morning, they had bomb sniffing dogs and the bomb squad out there,” he said. “They kept announcing to runners not to be alarmed, that they were running a training exercise.”
He added, “I’ve run a lot of races like this one, but I never saw bomb dogs at the starting line of any running event. It led me to believe that something like (a bomb detonation) might have happened.”
Boston Marathon explosion: University of Mobile coach offers first-hand reports from scene | al.com
If you want to train dogs to sniff bombs, you would normally do it at a place where there were bombs.
University of Mobile’s Cross Country Coach, who was near the finish line of the Boston Marathon when a series of explosions went off, said he thought it was odd there were bomb sniffing dogs at the start and finish lines.
“They kept making announcements to the participants do not worry, it’s just a training exercise,” Coach Ali Stevenson told Local 15.
This is sounding more and more like a spontaneous YouTube protest, or workplace violence. Bomb sniffing dogs that can’t detect bombs.
President Obama vowed on Monday night to get to the bottom of who is behind a pair of deadly explosions near the finish line of the Boston Marathon, but warned Americans not jump to any conclusions.
Don’t jump to conclusions, like when Obama called the Boston Police Department racists in 2009, without knowing any of the facts of the arrest. Or when he did the same with George Zimmerman in 2012.
It might actually have been a spontaneous YouTube protest or workplace violence.
“The American people will say a prayer for Boston tonight,” Obama said
What Obama meant to say was that “Boston will be in our prayers” but it accidentally slipped out as a command. I’m pretty sure that the 1st Amendment prohibits the government from telling people to pray (as opposed to asking them.)
