The climate moron community is all aflutter over NOAA’s report that global warming had nothing to do with last year’s drought.
If these imbeciles bothered to spend five minutes checking the data, they would know that the worst droughts occurred during the 1930s and 1950s, and that droughts have been becoming less severe over time.
Contiguous U.S., Palmer Modified Drought Index (PMDI), 36-Month Period Ending in February, 1898-2013
Titley said that after the Navy asked him to look at climate change, he changed his mind about it, based on the preponderance of evidence from long-term models based on physics, which is very different from weather forecasting.
“I’ve told the Navy and Congress that we should expect a global sea rise between now and the year 2100 of about 1 meter,” Titley told a hall full of students and others Friday who attended the conference, called “Risk and Uncertainty and the Communication of Sea Level Rise.”
“If I’m wrong, I’m probably wrong on the low end,” he said.
Santa Barbara conference tackles skepticism about global warming » Ventura County Star Mobile
There has been no sea level rise in Santa Barbara since the start of records in the 1970s.
This is exactly what General Eisenhower warned us about.
h/t to Marc Morano
Military-Industrial Complex Speech, Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1961
Today, the solitary inventor, tinkering in his shop, has been overshadowed by task forces of scientists in laboratories and testing fields. In the same fashion, the free university, historically the fountainhead of free ideas and scientific discovery, has experienced a revolution in the conduct of research. Partly because of the huge costs involved, a government contract becomes virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity. For every old blackboard there are now hundreds of new electronic computers.
He predicted that computer models would replace thought.
The prospect of domination of the nation’s scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present and is gravely to be regarded.
He predicted that Federal money would corrupt science
Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific technological elite.
He predicted that the same corrupt scientists would control public policy.
In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.
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There was a time when Presidents were working for the good of the American people.
The New York Supreme Court has ruled that at least one case of New York gun confiscation is illegal.
Lawmaker to investigate gun seizure
AMHERST, N.Y. (WIVB) – A state lawmaker is calling for an investigation into how an Amherst man’s guns were taken away by mistake.
State Assemblyman Ray Walter says when he saw the news coverage of David Lewis’ case, he knew immediately something was “seriously wrong.” Walter wants some answers, when he meets face-to-face with the State Police Superintendent in Albany next Tuesday.
Lewis’ attorney, Jim Tresmond, suspects investigators are using the SAFE Act, to pry into confidential medical records.
“We hear that there’s a special unit that’s been created to peruse the HIPAA reports,” Tresmond said.
Walter added, “Or else this was just a test case on the part of the Governor’s office, to see how far we could push this law. And I hope that’s not the case.”
State Supreme Court Judge William Boller has ordered Lewis’ pistol permit reinstated; once Lewis has it back, he can pick up his guns from Amherst Police.
All of the top gun grabbers have been lying about their plans to confiscate guns, which they are already doing.
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h/t to Dave G
“Unfortunately, it’s just getting too hot for the Scottish ski industry,” said David Viner, of the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia. “It is very vulnerable to climate change; the resorts have always been marginal in terms of snow and, as the rate of climate change increases, it is hard to see a long-term future.”
Global warming forces sale of Scottish winter sports resorts | UK news | The Guardian
h/t to Jimbo
Patient privacy is only protected if you choose to kill your baby. Barack Obama is now demanding that patient privacy be violated as part of his gun confiscation plan.
During that same year, one of Kenya’s leading newspapers proudly boasted that Barack Obama was born in Kenya.
10 Feb 2009
Alex Hill, chief government advisor with the Met Office, said the amount of snow in the Scottish mountains had been decreasing for the last 40 years and there was no reason for the decline to stop.
He added: “Put it this way, I will not be investing in the ski-ing industry. Will there be a ski industry in Scotland in 50 years’ time? Very unlikely.”
Scottish ski industry could disappear due to global warming, warns Met Office – Telegraph
Fast forward to 2013
Scottish ski resorts eye summer season
7 April 2013 00:00
FORGET the beach barbecues. Scots could be heading to the slopes this June, with two of the country’s ski resorts predicting there will still be snow on the ground at the height of summer.
It’s grim news for those worn down by freezing temperatures, but for the operators of Scotland’s five ski centres, remaining open for a full six months would be the pinnacle of a successful season.
The second coldest March on record and a busy Easter weekend have seen snow sports enthusiasts flocking to the slopes. More than 250,000 wintersports enthusiasts have visited Scotland’s ski centres since the beginning of December.
Colin Kirkwood, marketing manager at CairngormMountain, said: “To get to June would be amazing.”
Summer ski-ing in Scotland is almost unprecedented. Cairngorm has managed it just once, in 2010.
Scottish ski resorts eye summer season – Environment – Scotsman.com
h/t to Jimbo
Average daily temperatures in the center of the Greenland ice sheet have had zero days above freezing in the past year, and a mean temperature of -29C.
At least a metre of additional snow has accumulated during the past year.
Global warming may push sea levels as much as a foot higher in California in the next two decades, threatening airports, freeways, ports and houses, according to a report examining risks along the U.S. West Coast. Increases are forecast to be greatest south of Cape Mendocino, with levels rising 12 inches (30 centimeters) by 2030 and as much as two feet by 2050, according to a report today by the National Research Council.
Global Warming Seen Lifting California Sea Level a Foot by 2030 – Bloomberg
Sea level has not risen anywhere in California over the last 30 years. In many places it has fallen. In the San Francisco Bay, sea level has been falling 0.8 mm/year since 1980.
Data and Station Information for ALAMEDA (NAVAL AIR STATION)
Hansen says that multi-metre sea level rise this century is almost dead certain, but NSIDC says that it is impossible.
Ted Scambos, the lead scientist at the National Snow and Ice Data Center at the University of Colorado, said that even under the worst case scenario he thinks it would take at least 500 years for West Antarctica’s ice to melt.
