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Hope and Change Obama forgot to organize a lynching over these racially motivated hate crimes.

On March 14 in Tulsa, Okla., a white couple suffered a home invasion by Tyrone Woodfork, a 20-year-old black man. Ninety-year-old Bob Strait suffered a broken jaw and broken ribs in the attack. His 85-year-old wife, Nancy, was sexually assaulted and battered to death, ending their 65-year marriage.

On March 4, two black Kansas City, Mo., youths doused a 13-year-old boy in gasoline and set him on fire, telling him, “You get what you deserve, white boy.” Last summer, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel ordered an emergency shutdown of the beaches in Chicago because mobs of blacks were terrorizing white families.

Black-on-white crime rarely makes headlines | Daily World | dailyworld.com

Sounds like Pauchuri, but it wasn’t him.

The Industrial Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race. They have greatly increased the life-expectancy of those of us who live in “advanced” countries, but they have destabilized society, have made life unfulfilling, have subjected human beings to indignities, have led to widespread psychological suffering (in the Third World to physical suffering as well) and have inflicted severe damage on the natural world. The continued development of technology will worsen the situation. It will certainly subject human beings to greater indignities and inflict greater damage on the natural world, it will probably lead to greater social disruption and psychological suffering, and it may lead to increased physical suffering even in “advanced” countries.

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More megastorms coming as warming climate accelerates water cycle
Doug O’Harra | May 04, 2012

Has the home planet’s pot begun to boil? Is there turbulence awaiting us in the decades ahead?

The energy so far pumped into the Earth’s atmosphere by climate warming has begun to turbo-charge the global water cycle, raising the specter of a future with more devastating storms, accompanied by longer and more implacable droughts.

Climate warming turbocharges water cycle and spawns bigger storms | Alaska Dispatch

Doug has also been telling us for years that Alaska sea ice (which set an all time high this year) is doomed.

About all that was left of the Dessler permanent Texas drought was a bullseye over Katherine Hayhoe.

10-Day Precipitation Outlook for the Conterminous U.S.

Looks like someone was messing with their temperature database, and made some major boo-boos. People need to be more careful when tampering with climatic data.

Illinois, Temperature, March 1895-2012

It also turns out that March, 1951 averaged almost 100 degrees in California!

California, Temperature, March 1895-2012

I ride my bike everywhere, and normally in shorts and a T-shirt – so I notice changes in temperature. One thing that has become abundantly obvious is that temperatures near asphalt are much higher than in open space.

I just did an experiment in Fort Collins, Colorado at 1:30am.  It is a full moon and the air is dead calm. I took a bike ride with a thermometer, which I have permanently affixed to the bike. It turns out that temperatures are 7F cooler in the open space region below, less than 0.2 miles away from the parking lot of a shopping center.

As soon as I rode away from the intersection, temperatures felt much cooler. This was not an isolated incident – I feel it consistently on clear, calm nights.

Hansen’s assumptions about heat islands are based on population, but I believe that the bulk of the effect occurs when a single asphalt road is put in place. Much of the claimed warming during the 20th century was likely due to the appearance of asphalt roads in rural regions.

Muller’s claims about UHI are similarly flawed, as they are based on population. Comparing large cities vs. small towns is largely meaningless, because all it takes is one asphalt road to produce significant warming.

Over on the CSU campus 2.3 miles away, temperatures were much warmer – 57.8 degrees at the official Fort Collins weather station. This station has not moved for 140 years, and shows a lot of warming during that time. It is now located in the middle of a bus parking lot.

I don’t usually do this, but here goes.

1. Chelsea squeaks past Liverpool 2-1
2. City beats Newcastle 4-1
3. Bayern Munich humiliates Chelsea.

“Discussing climate change is not an intellectual luxury, but a reality,” “All of the industrialised countries, especially the big ones, bear responsibility for the global warming crisis.”

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A warming Arctic climate may be contributing to the declining population of guillemots.

On average Alaska has warmed by about 4 degrees Fahrenheit over the last 150 years. There are widespread consequences such as melting glaciers and insect-devastated forest in response to this temerature change. Scientists say Alaska is like a canary in a coal mine, foreshadowing the types of changes we can expect for the rest of the world.

Disappearing sea ice is one reason the Arctic is warming more than lower latitudes, because white Arctic ice normally reflects the sun’s heat into space, whereas dark, open water absorbs heat.

Scientific American Frontiers . Hot Times in Alaska. Canary in a Coal Mine | PBS

Actually, Alaska broke their all time record for sea ice this year, and all of the warming which occurred in Alaska happened at the PDO shift in 1976. Temperatures have dropped 2.5 degrees since 2005.

Considering just a linear trend can mask some important variability characteristics in the time series. The figure (above) shows clearly that this trend is non-linear: a linear trend might have been expected from the fairly steady observed increase of CO2

Temperature Change in Alaska

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One of these two authors is considered a terrorist. The other is considered a respectable journalist.

1. “programs encouraging human sterilization and infertility must be pushed. All former pro?birth programs must now push in the direction of stopping human birth, not encouraging it.”

2. “Every time someone dies as a result of floods in Bangladesh, an airline executive should be dragged out of his office and drowned.”

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