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Chilling images from inside the mass indoctrination ceremonies where communist ‘cult’ leaders brainwash North Korea’s children

North Korea: Haunting images of the indoctrination ceremony show how communist ‘cult’ leaders are poisoning next generation | Mail Online

Pretty much the same thing we are doing in the US.

“Human activities, such as the release of greenhouse gases from burning fossil fuels, are major factors in the current rise in Earth’s mean surface temperature (global warming),” according to the elementary school standards

New science standards have America’s educational publishers turning the page | Fox News

h/t to Mike

Bill McKibben has a new article in Rolling Stone showing that the fight to keep us below two degrees C is not so one-sided anymore. Here’s the beginning but it’s worth a full read. It got so hot in Australia in January that the weather service had to add two new colors to its charts.

Australia’s hottest temperature occurred in 1889.

A few weeks later, at the other end of the planet, new data from the CryoSat-2 satellite showed 80 percent of Arctic sea ice has disappeared. We’re not breaking records anymore; we’re breaking the planet. In 50 years, no one will care about the fiscal cliff or the Euro crisis. They’ll just ask, “So the Arctic melted, and then what did you do?”

Arctic ice extent is normal.

When will the anti-stupidity antibodies kick in?

20 MARCH 2000

According to Dr David Viner, a senior research scientist at the climatic research unit (CRU) of the University of East Anglia,within a few years winter snowfall will become “a very rare and exciting event”.

“Children just aren’t going to know what snow is,” he said.

David Parker, at the Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research in Berkshire, says ultimately, British children could have only virtual experience of snow. Via the internet, they might wonder at polar scenes – or eventually “feel” virtual cold.

Snowfalls are now just a thing of the past – Environment – The Independent

Like Obamacare, Democrat Bill Of Rights destroyers are pushing a vote on a secret bill which the senators have not read.

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h/t to BobW in NC

(This is the 15,000th post on the blog.)

Climate experts tell us that the poles are melting down, which is why global sea ice area is eighth highest on record for the date.

arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/timeseries.global.anom.1979-2008

The famous glaciers of the Rhone have shrunk several thousand feet in the last 20 years ; considerably more than 100 ft a year.

http://trove.nla.gov.au/

The release of proposed new national science standards, including the emphasis of manmade climate change, will alter the classroom landscape for millions of students in the United States, as well as for at least one education publisher readying for the “major” undertaking.

The Next Generation Science Standards, which were released Tuesday after development by 26 states and several national scientific organizations, recommend that educators for the first time identify climate change as a core concept and stress the relationship between that change and human activity.

“Human activities, such as the release of greenhouse gases from burning fossil fuels, are major factors in the current rise in Earth’s mean surface temperature (global warming),” according to the elementary school standards

New science standards have America’s educational publishers turning the page | Fox News

This is happening just as the consensus finally admits that the atmosphere is not warming.

Wood for Trees: Interactive Graphs

The world is getting warmer – and US scientists now know precisely how much warmer. They calculated the radiation from the sun, the heat reflected back into space, and the rising temperature of the seas and say the extra warmth is equivalent to a 1 watt lightbulb shining constantly over an area of 1 sq metre everywhere on the planet.

That would raise average temperatures by 0.6C before the end of the century, they report in Science today. Warming at that level, maintained over 10,000 years, would melt enough ice to raise sea levels by a kilometre.

“This energy imbalance is the smoking gun that we have been looking for,” said James Hansen, director of Nasa’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies. “It shows that our estimates of the human-made and natural climate forcing agents are about right, and they are driving the Earth to a warmer climate.”

Global warming rate discovered | Environment | The Guardian

If you talk about Noah’s flood you are an idiot, but talking about Hansen’s flood means you are very enlightened.

Obama had to get rid of Hansen, because Obama says that he is lowering sea level.

Three out of the last four years have had above normal March snow cover in the Northern Hemisphere.

Rutgers University Climate Lab :: Global Snow Lab

April snow cover is near or at record levels.

Rutgers University Climate Lab :: Global Snow Lab

Tamino has been banging the declining spring snow cover drum for years. I expect to see a full retraction and apology on his part.

SENATOR JOHN BARRASSO: Since you’ve taken office, 10 percent of coal-fired generated power in the United States has been taken offline. Do you see the EPA having any responsibility for the thousands of folks who are out of work for these plant closures?

GINA MCCARTHY: Senator, I take my job seriously when I’m developing standards for protecting public health to take a look at the economic consequences of those and do my best to provide flexibility in the rules.

SHOGREN: Senator Barrasso continues his barrage, naming coal miners he’s met who are out of work for the first time in their lives.

BARRASSO: How many more times, if confirmed, will this EPA director pull the regulatory lever and allow another mining family to fall through the EPA’s trapdoor to joblessness, to poverty and to poor health?

SHOGREN: Hold on, says Democratic Senator Barbara Boxer, she argues EPA’s rules help workers.

SENATOR BARBARA BOXER: Because if you care about this economy, there’s one basic fact. If you can’t breathe, you can’t work.

Nominee To Lead EPA Grilled Over Past Work At Agency : NPR

During the election, Obama needed Pennsylvania and Ohio – so he pretended that he was a big fan of coal for a couple of weeks. It turned out that lying wasn’t necessary, because he got 110% of the registered vote in Philadelphia.