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Colorado Democratic Gov. John Hickenlooper last week called for background checks for all gun purchases.

Gun-law push faces slow start in most states

That is an ingenious idea, and one which was implemented decades ago.

The Hayhoe argument goes – we are all stupid and/or corrupt, so you must trust us.

Wood for Trees: Interactive Graphs

The reality is that there is virtually no debate among climate scientists on the following points: 1. The earth is warming. 2. The main cause for this warming is the increasing production of carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases from human activities. 3. The impacts of climate change are already occurring, and will become more severe and even potentially dangerous the longer we allow this problem to continue unchecked. Yes, scientists love to argue. We could argue for years over the impact of soot particles on cloud formation, or the pathway that Atlantic hurricanes might follow in a warmer world. But those who actually study the earth, and study climate, are not arguing over the reality of this issue. That debate was settled many decades ago. The evidence is overwhelming. Climate change is real.

Q&A: Katharine Hayhoe on the trials of being a Christian climatologist | San Marcos Mercury | Local News from San Marcos and Hays County, Texas

On August 27th, a friend broke his neck mountain biking northwest of Boulder. He has been in the hospital for five months, and finally came home yesterday. His mobility is extremely limited, but he can move his hands a little bit now. Here is a note from his wife.

the first thing I did when we got him in the unit was to simply hug him and cry-I have been waiting for him to come home since around 8:10pm on August 27th…it has been a really long and eventful wait.

Untampered NOAA thermometer data shows that the past decade tied for the second hottest with the 1950s, and was much cooler than the 1930s. The pattern of warming is nearly identical to the first half of the last century.

“Winter doesn’t seem to exist anymore,” Bruck said.

Global warming no longer a myth – Technician: News

Much of the world has been freezing in record cold and snow in recent years, including the western US, so a North Carolina professor has determined that winter doesn’t exist anymore. He can see the Russian climate from his house.

h/t to Marc Morano

Global warming is worse than it seems. When the IPCC predicted the demise of winter, they underestimated the amount of heavy snow which global warming would bring to Mississippi and Alabama.

Weather Street:Clouds and Precipitation Forecast Movie

2001 15.2.4.1.2.4. Ice Storms

Milder winter temperatures will decrease heavy snowstorms

http://observatory.ph/resources/IPCC/TAR/wg2/569.htm#1524123

IPCC Draft 1995

shrinking snow cover in winter

http://www.nytimes.com/

I don’t remember seeing any discussion of hunting in the Declaration of Independence.

On 9/11/2001 we allowed ten unarmed men to wreck New York and start two wars, because liberals (like Mayor Bloomberg) were afraid to trust pilots with guns.

In December, 2012 we allowed one psychotic kid to wreck the US constitution, because liberals were afraid to have armed security in schools.

Our founding fathers must be rolling in their graves at how spectacularly pathetic America has become. Our only hope is that Congressional Republicans will stop taking estrogen in their morning coffee.

97% of scientists agree that human emissions of CO2 have overheated the atmosphere, leading to -34C temperatures west of Los Alamos. Peer review shows that without human interference, the temperature would be -34.7.

President Obama plans to spend trillions of dollars to fix this critical problem.

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