Hillary Clinton Endorses 55 MPH Speed Limit
US Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY) on Tuesday endorsed a return to the 55 MPH maximum speed limit for “most” of the country during a speech at the National Press Club in Washington, DC. Senator Clinton, who is leading in the polls for the Democratic nomination for president in 2008, responded to a question about whether she supported the Carter administration’s national maximum speed limit.
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Labour MP Colin Challen has launched the parliamentary motion, which points to a “climate emergency”. He said: “The catastrophic destabilisation of global climate represents the greatest threat that humanity faces.”
The immediate action he says is needed includes redirecting money aimed at boosting the economy to “green measures”, and assigning at least two hours of prime-time television per week to “explain the gravity of the crisis to the public”.
He also said “domestic flights should be phased out by the end of 2010″ while a “speed limit of 55 miles per hour should be introduced”.
The Great Hurricanes of North Carolina – John Hairr – Google Books
Climate experts tell us that the hurricanes which we are not having now, would be much worse if they actually were happening.
Hansen tells us that heatwaves are much worse now because of evil humans, so we know that the 1923-1924 record heatwave in Australia was impossible.
Marble Bar heatwave, 1923-24
The world record for the longest sequence of days above 100°Fahrenheit (or 37.8° on the Celsius scale) is held by Marble Bar in the inland Pilbara district of Western Australia. The temperature, measured under standard exposure conditions, reached or exceeded the century mark every day from 31 October 1923 to 7 April 1924, a total of 160 days.
The highest temperature recorded during the record spell was 47.5°C on 18 January 1924. There have been higher temperatures at Marble Bar, with the highest recorded being 49.2°C, on 11 January 1905 and again on 3 January 1922. But temperatures in other Western Australian towns have been higher: in a remarkable late-season heat-wave in February 1998, Mardie recorded a maximum of 50.5°C (on the 19th) – the highest temperature in Western Australia, and the second highest ever recorded in Australia using standard instrumentation (Oodnadatta, in South Australia, recorded 50.7°C on 2 January 1960). Several other recordings above 49°C were reported in the northwest on the days preceding Mardie’s record, and at Nyang, the average maximum over the entire summer exceeded 43°C. As in 1923-24, very dry conditions accompanied the extreme heat.
BOM – Australian Climate Extremes
The British implemented tea taxes to prevent this climate disaster, but evil Americans refused to comply.
The was only ten years after a 200 MPH hurricane killed 22,000 people
Great Hurricane of 1780 – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The great hope of Michael Mann is to reduce CO2 levels so that we can prevent the weather from being like it has always been.
Empire 13 October 1868
13 Oct 1868 – THE CLIMATE OF AUSTRALIA.
White men had already destroyed the climate by 1850
The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser Wednesday 11 March 1846
Three years ago, David Barber told us that all of the multi-year ice had melted.
November 27, 2009
One of Canada’s top northern researchers says the permanent Arctic sea ice that is home to the world’s polar bears and usually survives the summer has all but disappeared.
Experts around the world believed the ice was recovering because satellite images showed it expanding. But David Barber says the thick, multiyear frozen sheets crucial to the northern ecosystem have been replaced by thin “rotten” ice which can’t support the weight of the bears.
“It caught us all by surprise because we were expecting there to be multiyear sea ice – the whole world thought it was multiyear sea ice,” said Dr. Barber, who just returned from an expedition to the Beaufort Sea.
“Unfortunately what we found was that the multiyear [ice]has all but disappeared. What’s left is this remnant, rotten ice.”
Arctic sea ice has nearly vanished, expert fears – The Globe and Mail
He is repeating the same story again this year. Like Peter Wadhams who tells us every five years that all of the ice will be melted in five years.
SEPTEMBER 22, 2012
“The multi-year ice, what’s left of it, is so heavily decayed that it’s really no longer a barrier to transportation,” he says, explaining how melt ponds have left much of the ice looking like Swiss cheese.
“You could have taken a ship right across the North Pole this year,” says Barber, whose research team was involved in a 36-day research cruise in the Beaufort on a Canadian Coast Guard ship.
There can be little doubt that soft ice near the North Pole is unprecedented – and threatens all of our day to day activities.
April 1923
Is the North Pole going to melt entirely?
Are the Arctic regions warming up, with prospect of a great climatic change in that part of the world?
Science (says “Popular Science”) is asking these questions. Reports from fishermen, seal hunters, and explorers who sail the seas around Spitzbergen and the eastern Arctic all point to a radical change in climatic conditions, with hitherto unheard of high temperatures on that part of the earth’s surface.
The referees did what they needed to do to change the outcome of the match.
There was a time when climate scientists actually engaged in science, and were able to draw meaningful conclusions.
