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Messi and Ronaldo both missed game winning penalty kicks, while Torres redeemed himself.

So why is Abramovich still looking for a new manager? Di Matteo has proved himself as  pure genius.

Lakers’ World Peace suspended seven games without pay

NEW YORK — Los Angeles Lakers forward Metta World Peace was suspended seven games by the NBA on Tuesday for elbowing James Harden, meaning he could miss at least six playoff games.

World Peace was ejected from Sunday’s game against Oklahoma City for throwing an elbow that struck Harden in the back of the head, giving him a concussion.

Lakers’ World Peace suspended seven games without pay | NBA.com

The map above overlays semitransparent current NSIDC ice (green) on end of April 1974 Nimbus satellite ice (red and yellow.) There is more ice on the Pacific side this year, and there was more ice on the Atlantic side in 1974.

After clinging to his every word for years, they are now pretending that they never believed him.

Lovelock on Global Warming

James Lovelock is a ‘big idea’ type, most successful with his Gaia extrapolation (1976), although it certainly is not universally accepted by all top scientists. He is not a hard scientist. His specialty is medicine, and chemistry, where he has contributed significantly. He understands very little about geophysicalfluiddynamics.

I read his book in the ‘70s and found it entertaining but very vague. That’s the way one wants to be with prognostic hypotheses, to allow room to incorporate the certain-to-occur deviations in observations. His forte is as a “science popularizer” alltho he lacks the scientific credentials to be as successful as Carl Sagan for instance (both worked on exploration of Mars, mainly to find evidence of life.)

Most knowledgable climate scientists cringed at his prognoses for ‘severe & soon’ Global Warming in his 2nd book . He forgot to be vague. He took a far-out gamble on a model possibility, and the past decade hasn’t met his predictions. His recent confession that he was wrong in predicting severe Global Warming soon is naturally taken (in a classic “hasty generalization”) as “proof” that GW scientists are all wrong. At least one was (so far). As he has said; “I would be a little more cautious — but then that would have spoilt the book.”

Lovelock on Global Warming | Robert A. Brown – seattlepi.com

The usual attempt to rewrite history. Three years ago the same author was worshiping at the alter of Gaia.

Listening to Lovelock on NPR:

He did an imaginative theory (the Gaia hypothesis) some 30-years ago. It was basically an extension of the theory of evolution, beyond biology to geology and geophysics. It has stood the test of time. But I have some reservations about his quotes, with my comments in italics:

“I didn’t worry about Global Warming until about 2004.”

I didn’t worry so much until then either. Then effects that were predicted for 2050 were happening now. I agree with him that we waited too long for it not to have a big influence on our lives.

Lovelock on NPR | Robert A. Brown – seattlepi.com

 

Cryosphere Today has so far managed to show Arctic ice just barely below “normal” this month. But there appears to be something wrong with their graphs. The blink comparator above flashes between their 2007 version of the sea ice area graph and the 2012 version. Note how they have increased the area of all dates to the left of the 2007 minimum, but not the 2007 minimum itself.

Depending on how they are handling the dates after 2007, this could potentially be causing older dates to be shifted upwards relative to recent dates.

If it was simply a baseline shift, the 2007 minimum should have moved upwards too – but it didn’t. Something isn’t right about this.

Hansen says that we must lower CO2 in order to prevent the climatic conditions which we had when CO2 was lower.

If this isn’t clear, report for your lobotomy at Hansen’s drowned Manhattan office.

14 Feb 1945 – Britain Worried Over Australia’s Record Drought

For most of the 20th century, Chesapeake Beach, Maryland, was known for its boardwalk, amusement park, and wide, sandy beaches, popular with daytrippers from Washington, D.C. “The bathing beach has a frontage of three miles,” boasted a tourist brochure from about 1900, “and is equal, if not superior, to any beach on the Atlantic Coast.”

Today, on a cloudless spring afternoon, the resort town’s sweeping view of Chesapeake Bay is no less stunning. But there’s no longer any beach in Chesapeake Beach. Where there once was sand, water now laps against a seven-foot-high wall of boulders protecting a strip of pricey homes marked with “No Trespassing” signs.

Surveying the armored shoreline, Jim Titus explains how the natural sinking of the shoreline and slow but steady sea-level rise, mostly due to climate change, have driven the bay’s water more than a foot higher over the past century. Reinforcing the eroding shore with a sea wall held the water back, but it also choked off the natural supply of sand that had replenished the beach. What sand remained gradually sank beneath the rising water.

EPA scientist warns Atlantic seaboard will be swallowed by rising seas | Grist

Complete BS. There was never any beach by the boardwalk, and the other beaches are still there. See old and recent pictures below.

mywildrace – ChesaPeake Beach, MD

h/t to Robertvdl

Chesapeake Beach MD – Chesapeake Beach Maryland

EPA scientist warns Atlantic seaboard will be swallowed by rising seas

By Josh Harkinson

For most of the 20th century, Chesapeake Beach, Maryland, was known for its boardwalk, amusement park, and wide, sandy beaches, popular with daytrippers from Washington, D.C. “The bathing beach has a frontage of three miles,” boasted a tourist brochure from about 1900, “and is equal, if not superior, to any beach on the Atlantic Coast.”

Today, on a cloudless spring afternoon, the resort town’s sweeping view of Chesapeake Bay is no less stunning. But there’s no longer any beach in Chesapeake Beach. Where there once was sand, water now laps against a seven-foot-high wall of boulders protecting a strip of pricey homes marked with “No Trespassing” signs.

Surveying the armored shoreline, Jim Titus explains how the natural sinking of the shoreline and slow but steady sea-level rise, mostly due to climate change, have driven the bay’s water more than a foot higher over the past century. Reinforcing the eroding shore with a sea wall held the water back, but it also choked off the natural supply of sand that had replenished the beach. What sand remained gradually sank beneath the rising water.

EPA scientist warns Atlantic seaboard will be swallowed by rising seas | Grist

In summary – the land is rapidly sinking, the sea wall choked off the supply of sand, and there has been a slow, steady rise in sea level over the last 5,000 years – which has absolutely nothing to do with CO2.

In order to be a hero of the left, you need to repeatedly demonstrate that you are completely incompetent.

By Alister Doyle, Environment Correspondent
OSLO | Fri Sep 28, 2007 1:41pm BST
(Reuters) – A record melt of Arctic summer sea ice this month may be a sign that global warming is reaching a critical trigger point that could accelerate the northern thaw, some scientists say.

“The reason so much (of the Arctic ice) went suddenly is that it is hitting a tipping point that we have been warning about for the past few years,” James Hansen, director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, told Reuters.

Arctic thaw may be at tipping point | Reuters

BANGLADESH: When your country could drown

Sea level rise could sound the death knell for low-lying Bangladesh, most of which is only two to 13 metres above sea level, according to various estimates. The response to Hansen’s paper is therefore understandable.

The paper, Target Atmospheric CO2: Where Should Humanity Aim?, which Hansen co-authored with nine other scientists, called for greater reductions in CO2 emissions to prevent sea-level rise caused by the world’s inexorably melting ice.

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