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97% of experts agreed that the Emperor was wearing fine new clothing, until a small child cried out that the Emperor was naked.

The child’s claims achieved wide acceptance (among the clothing denier community) for several centuries. However, it is recently come to our attention that the child’s observations  were not peer reviewed, and that the denier child had in fact never published in any respected journal.

It is clear that the child’s claims were incorrect, and that the consensus of experts believed that the Emperor was indeed wearing fine clothing.

It is our opinion that only well established experts should be allowed to speak, and that we need to silence clothing deniers to prevent this type of error from occurring again in the future.

4/1/2009

Mexico has some of the toughest gun-control laws in the world, yet the country’s drug cartels are armed to the teeth with illegal weapons that are smuggled over the border from the United States.

 On Thursday, Attorney General Eric Holder and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano visit Mexico to discuss ways to stop the smuggling of American weapons, which Mexico says account for 90% of confiscated arms here. The meeting is part of an urgent American effort to aid Mexico as it fights a bloody war against drug cartels.

More than 6,300 people have died in drug-related violence since 2006, and some crime has spilled into the USA.

Mexico: Gun controls undermined by U.S. – USATODAY.com

In 2009, Attorney General Holder said Obama plans to ban semi-automatic guns, based on the fact that Mexican Drug cartels possessed weapons – like the ones the White House was giving them.

February 26, 2009

Holder Revives Talk Of An Assault Weapons Ban

Attorney General Eric Holder was busy announcing the capture of more than 50 alleged members of the notorious Sinaloa Cartel yesterday when he unwittingly stepped into a larger debate about gun control.

Responding to a reporter’s question on weapons’ regulations, Holder said, “Well, as President Obama indicated during the campaign, there are just a few gun-related changes that we would like to make, and among them would be to reinstitute the ban on the sale of assault weapons. I think that will have a positive impact in Mexico, at a minimum.”

Holder refused to speculate when legislation would move forward. “There are obviously a number of things that are — that have been taking up a substantial amount of [Obama’s] time, and so, I’m not sure exactly what the sequencing will be,” he said.

Holder Revives Talk Of An Assault Weapons Ban – Political Hotsheet – CBS News

The Obama administration was busy giving weapons to Mexican drug gangs, to make a ban possible in the US. Meanwhile, Obama and Holder’s mafia buddies in Mexico were killing American government agents with the weapons which the White House gave them.

** Anyone who remembers what Holder said is a “conspiracy theorist.”

Rapid sea level rise blamed on global warming threatens to put East Coast underwater

WASHINGTON (AP) — From Cape Hatteras, N.C., to just north of Boston, sea levels are rising much faster than they are around the globe, putting one of the world’s most expensive coasts in danger of flooding, government researchers report.

U.S. Geological Survey scientists call the 600-mile swath a “hot spot” for climbing sea levels caused by global warming. Along the region, the Atlantic Ocean is rising at an annual rate three to four times faster than the global average since 1990, according to the study published Sunday in the journal Nature Climate Change.

It’s not just a faster rate, but at a faster pace, like a car on a highway “jamming on the accelerator,” said the study’s lead author, Asbury Sallenger Jr., an oceanographer at the agency. He looked at sea levels starting in 1950, and noticed a change beginning in 1990

Rapid sea level rise blamed on global warming threatens to put East Coast underwater | cleveland.com

Only a complete imbecile would believe that a 4X difference in a local sea level rise rate could be caused by “global warming”  If the rise was due to glaciers melting, it would be approximately the same everywhere. If it was due to local heating, then it is not a global effect.

But the stupidity is worse than it seems. Satellites show sea level rise in that region far below the global average.

The reason that these geniuses see a relatively steep slope in the tide gauges, is because the land is sinking and has been since the end of the last ice age. The graph below plots tide gauge measurements in lower Manhattan since before the Civil War. The rate hasn’t changed and it has nothing to do with global warming and very little to do with sea level.

http://www.psmsl.org/data/obtaining/stations/12.php

August 1913 was likely the hottest month in Oklahoma history, but NCDC has made the inconvenient month disappear – through massive abuse of the temperature record.

OKLAHOMA Climate Summary

They did this by warming the present, and massively cooling the past. The graph below shows the difference between their reported maximum temperatures and the actual temperatures measured by the thermometers. All years before  1998 are progressively cooled, and they knocked an impressive 3.6 degrees off of 1913. They also added 0.2 degrees on to 2011.

U.S. Historical Climatology Network

Oklahoma City had 22 days over 110F in August, 1913.

Had they not tampered with the data, quite a few years prior to 1960 would have been hotter than 2011, and that just wouldn’t have suited the management at the Ministry Of Truth.

The summer of 1913 saw heat in the US unlike any other summer. Hansen and his team of climate deniers have claimed that July 2011 was the hottest month in Oklahoma history, but it wasn’t even close in Oklahoma City.

Meeker Oklahoma USHCN Temperatures
Month    Year   Average Max   Mean   Average Min
August   1913         106.4   89.5          72.2
August   1936         105.8   90.1          73.7
July     2011         101.9   89.0          75.6

Meeker is the closest USHCN station to Oklahoma City. Daytime temperatures were much higher in both 1913 and 1936, and mean temperatures were higher in both 1913 and 1936.

August 1913 had five consecutive days over 110 and a total of 22 days over 110. August 1936 had six consecutive days over 110.  By comparison, July, 2011 had zero days over 110 degrees.  1913 and 1936 were both much hotter than 2011.

1913 was also the year that California set the hottest temperature ever measured this side of the Atlantic – 134F. High temperatures averaged 129F during the second week in July, 1913.

docs.lib.noaa.gov/rescue/mwr/050/mwr-050-01-0010.pdf

According to Hansen, every year since 2000 has been hotter in the US than 1913, and he claims that 2011 style heatwaves were impossible below 350 PPM. Clearly he has no clue  what he is talking about.

Twitter / billmckibben: Heat records raise possibi

People making comparisons to the heatwave of 1936 have absolutely no idea what they are talking about. From June 14 to September 13 1936, high temperatures in Oklahoma City averaged  104 degrees.

Seventy-two out of ninety-two days were over 100F. Eleven days were over 110F.  Four days were over 115F

By contrast, since June 13 2012, temperatures have averaged 94F – eight degrees cooler than the same period in 1936. Holocaust deniers attempt to rewrite the history of the 1930s, and thus have much in common with Hansen et. al.

http://news.google.com/newspapers

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

h/t to Marc Morano

2002 was the year of the actual largest fire in recent Colorado history. By May 18th of that year, the fire season was in full swing and testimony at a Senate Committee warned that lots of people were building new homes in places that were doomed to burn. Ten years later they burned.

People do stupid things like build houses in the middle of a pile of kindling wood, and later blame their stupidity on global warming.

IMPLEMENTATION OF NATIONAL FIRE PLAN IN COLORADO

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SATURDAY, MAY 18, 2002

U.S. Senate,
Committee on Energy and Natural Resource,
Golden, CO.

……..

Now, Brandi, if you take that map, maybe, and hold it up next to the next one, the next one is the year 2000, just 4 years later, the year that Los Alamos burned. By the way, we had a very bad start. By the end of May, we had burned over one million acres with a total of 8.4 million acres for the year, and look how green that vegetation is. Look at the difference between those two areas of Colorado just in that amount of 2
years.

And we have a third one, too. And this one is 2002. And if you’ll look at the lack of moisture we are facing this year, look at how brown we are, and it’s only May. How little snowpack there is, too, between even 2000 and 2002. It’s clearly, you know, when you read the papers and you see the news about the great floods, they’re sure not here. You can see how green it is in just around the Mississippi Valley area, Mississippi Delta area, but clearly, here in the Rocky Mountain range from Canada to Mexico, it is a dry, dry year. That doesn’t come as a surprise to anybody, but in the relative difference between what we had just a couple years ago and now, that should give us a big indication of what we might be facing this summer.

One thing I don’t show, of course, on any of these maps is all the new homes that are being built in high-fire areas asColorado grows in population. We’re the fourth fastest growingState, as you know. And many of the people in our inwardmigration, they came to this beautiful State because they want to be near the mountains, and they want to be on some nice
secluded dirt road right out there where they land butts upright up to the national forest.

– IMPLEMENTATION OF NATIONAL FIRE PLAN IN COLORADO

The Guardian gets stupid (as always) while CSM actually tries to make a comeback.

Scorching heat, high winds and bone-dry conditions are fueling catastrophic wildfires in the US west that offer a preview of the kind of disasters that human-caused climate change could bring, a trio of scientists said on Thursday.

“What we’re seeing is a window into what global warming really looks like,” said Princeton University’s Michael Oppenheimer, a lead author for the UN’s climate science panel. “It looks like heat, it looks like fires, it looks like this kind of environmental disaster … This provides vivid images of what we can expect to see more of in the future.”

In Colorado, wildfires that have raged for weeks have killed four people, displaced thousands and destroyed hundreds of homes. Because winter snowpack was lighter than usual and melted sooner, fire season started earlier in the US west, with wildfires out of control in Colorado, Montana and Utah.

The high temperatures that are helping drive these fires are consistent with projections by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which said this kind of extreme heat, with little cooling overnight, is one kind of damaging impact of global warming.

US wildfires are what global warming really looks like, scientists warn | Environment | guardian.co.uk

Complete BS – from propagandists. The 1871 Michigan/Wisconsin/Chicago fires which killed thousands of people and burned millions of acres were catastrophic. The 1910 fires which burned millions of acres were catastrophic. The 2012 fire season is below normal so far, with acreage much smaller than many previous years.

Amazingly, CSM actually has an intelligent story.

“You can’t say it’s climate change just because it’s an extreme condition,” said Colorado state climatologist Nolan Doesken. So far, Doesken told LiveScience, the spring of 2012 looks much like the spring of 1910, when warm temperatures hit early. That year, he said, was a bad one for fires.

This year has been extreme in terms of heat and dryness, he said, as was 2002 (a record-breaking year for fires in Colorado). So far, 2012’s weather looks very similar to the weather of 1910. That year, spring was warm and dry, which fed into a hellish fire season. Among the blazes was the Great Fire of 1910, also known as “the Big Burn,” which destroyed 3 million acres of forest in Washington, Idaho and Montana.

Are Colorado’s wildfires caused by global warming? – CSMonitor.com

Who gave the go ahead to people like Hansen, Oppenheimer, Mann, etc. to lie about climate?

TOM BEARDEN: Rideout says the High Park fire is something of a perfect storm, a very dry winter, high winds fanning the flames, and a great deal of fuel to burn. Add the very difficult terrain, and experts say this fire is likely to keep on burning until the fall.

In Colo., Drought and Wind Fuel Summer of Fire | PBS NewsHour | June 15, 2012 | PBS

The burn area has had flash flood warnings for the last two days. I haven’t seen any smoke  since Sunday. There probably still are a few smoldering logs somewhere up there, but for all intents and purposes the fire is done. The picture below was taken in the burn area on Wednesday.

h/t to Russell C