The President allowed the ambassador to get killed, and then the White House, State Department and the CIA tried to cover it up.
None of this is interesting to the press corpse, but the fact that Petraeus was having sex and had a gmail account has become huge news. Obviously he wasn’t sending classified information by gmail.
In other words, Obama and Hillary needed someone to take a fall.
The US is becoming just another third world banana republic.
Until a few years ago, nobody believed that the US had warmed since 1920.
In 1999 Hansen showed a strong cooling trend since 1930, and wrote the text below.
Empirical evidence does not lend much support to the notion that climate is headed precipitately toward more extreme heat and drought. The drought of 1999 covered a smaller area than the 1988 drought, when the Mississippi almost dried up. And 1988 was a temporary inconvenience as compared with repeated droughts during the 1930s “Dust Bowl” that caused an exodus from the prairies, as chronicled in Steinbeck’s Grapes of Wrath…..
in the U.S. there has been little temperature change in the past 50 years, the time of rapidly increasing greenhouse gases — in fact, there was a slight cooling throughout much of the country
Phil Jones of CRU and NOAA said the same thing. No warming in the US.
February 04, 1989 Last week, scientists from the United States Commerce Department’s National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said that a study of temperature readings for the contiguous 48 states over the last century showed there had been no significant change in average temperature over that period. Dr. (Phil) Jones said in a telephone interview today that his own results for the 48 states agreed with those findings.
Global Warmth In ’88 Is Found To Set a Record – New York Times
NOAA and NASA have since disappeared the 1930 to 1999 cooling trend, and turned it into a warming trend.
NOAA and NASA have not only corrupted the temperature record, and they now describe every weather event as being extreme and unprecedented. Did Hansen lose his memory since 1999? He seems to have forgotten that the weather was just as bad or worse during the 1930s.
Hansen and NOAA have rewritten the past, in order to obtain money for the future.
Experts tell us that Sandy was unprecedented in that it combined a tropical storm and a snow storm.
Ivan dug up a slew of similar unprecedented events from the 19th century, when CO2 was so low that even sensitive Pikas felt safe.
Hurricane with snow storm – 1864.
http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/66346638
1873: “During Monday night a very violent storm of wind, accompanied by falls of snow and sleet, visited the higher parts of Lancashire, east and west, and many of the districts further north.”
http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/8914959
1873: “UNPARALLELED STORM IN DAKOTA AND NEBRASKA.”
http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/39301431
1880: “Another terrific hurricane has visited the coast of Denmark, accompanied by a blinding snow storm.”
http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/70951031
1881: “The most disastrous hurricane and snowstorm ever recorded in Great Britain prevailed last night and this morning, causing widespread destruction of property and, it is feared, loss of life.”
http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/814716
Obama has gotten away with lying about everything for his entire life, and is pushing the envelope with the Benghazi cover up.
A senior U.S. official said Petraeus’ departure wasn’t connected to the Benghazi hearing.
“Director Petraeus’ frank and forthright letter of resignation stands on its own,” said the official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the topic. “Any suggestion that his departure has anything to do with criticism about Benghazi is completely baseless.”
Spokesman: House majority leader knew of Petraeus matter in October – CNN.com
If there is no link between his departure and Benghazi, there is no reason for him to have been pulled from the Benghazi hearing. Had Nixon attempted anything this brazen, the press would have crucified him.
Global warming over the next century could significantly reduce the amount of winter snowpack in mountainous areas in the northern hemisphere, according to a new study published in Nature Climate Change.
Seasonal snowpack melt is an essential source of fresh water, and its loss could threaten drinking water supplies, agricultural irrigation and wildlife ecosystems.
Stanford University climate expert Noah Diffenbaugh led the study, which compares snowpack conditions across the northern hemisphere in the late 20th century with climate model projections for the next one hundred years.
Winter snowpack has been increasing in the northern hemisphere, with three of the four snowiest winters occurring during the last five years. Two years ago, there was snow simultaneously in 49 out of 50 states.
Rutgers University Climate Lab :: Global Snow Lab
It must be great being a climate expert. You just make up whatever bullshit sounds good for getting funding and attention.
Four years ago Obama was riding on top of the world, and blew it.
Four years later he is mired in a scandal which dwarfs Watergate, and a bored press corpse is likely to turn on him for lack of anything else to talk about.
The press killed the evil Romney, and are left with a void of no hope, no change and worst of all – no story to tell their clientele.
US poll gives Labor audacity of hope
On Friday, it was reported in The Australian Financial Review that Labor planned to borrow techniques from the Obama campaign to persuade ”key groups, including women” to reject the Opposition Leader, Tony Abbott. To which Abbott quickly said he didn’t want that nasty personal stuff from the US here.
The Gillard camp is chuffed on all sorts of fronts about Obama’s win. Beyond the obvious of not having to deal with Mitt Romney.
That Obama could prevail in adverse circumstances is an encouragement to a PM struggling to get Labor’s primary vote up. Here is an endorsement of an activist administration with a progressive agenda – a rejection of smaller government.
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Obama keeps talking about “energy independence” as being the motivation for “green energy”
This is utter nonsense. North America has vast reserves of fossil fuels, and we already have the ability to achieve energy independence. Green energy advocates are the ones keeping us from becoming energy independent.
It is all about creating an excuse to tax fossil fuels. I doubt that even Obama is stupid enough to believe that Air Force One can run off windmills or solar cells.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska – A half mile below the ground at Prudhoe Bay, above the vast oil field that helped trigger construction of the trans-Alaska pipeline, a drill rig has tapped what might one day be the next big energy source.
The U.S. Department of Energy and industry partners over two winters drilled into a reservoir of methane hydrate, which looks like ice but burns like a candle if a match warms its molecules. There is little need now for methane, the main ingredient of natural gas. With the boom in production from hydraulic fracturing, the United States is awash in natural gas for the near future and is considering exporting it, but the DOE wants to be ready with methane if there’s a need.
“If you wait until you need it, and then you have 20 years of research to do, that’s not a good plan,” said Ray Boswell, technology manager for methane hydrates within the DOE’s National Energy Technology Laboratory.
The nearly $29 million science experiment on the North Slope produced 1 million cubic feet of methane
Top government experts tell us that Alaska is the canary in the coal mine for global warming.
Alaska experienced record cold, snow and ice last winter, and are faced with frozen turkey again for Thanksgiving.
Weather Forecast Fort Yukon, AK | Fort Yukon Weather | Wunderground
Temperatures here in balmy Colorado are forecast to be -20C tonight.
Weather Forecast Tabernash, CO | Tabernash Weather | Wunderground
I propose eliminating the EPA and all income tax, in exchange for a $20/gallon gasoline tax levied on people who believe that global warming is a serious problem.
That would kill multiple birds with one stone.
Hurricane with snow storm – 1839.
http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/32164388