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Hansen says that the Arctic is the fastest warming place on Earth.  Dozens of other places are also the fastest warming place on Earth, but the Arctic is particularly important because Hansen has almost no thermometers there.

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In the official photograph, he looked every inch the commander in chief.

Strain etched on his face, Barack Obama watched as the raid to kill Osama bin Laden played out on a television in front of him.

According to a new book, however, the President was not nearly that engaged – and was actually playing golf until 20 minutes before the operation began in earnest.

Only then did he down his clubs and return to the White House to watch what he later trumpeted as a great success of his presidency.

A new book claims the official account was riddled with errors

The claims are from Chuck Pfarrer, a former SEAL team commander, in a book called SEAL Target Geronimo.

He has spoken to several of the men who carried out the operation at Bin Laden’s mansion hideout in Abbottabad, Pakistan, on May 2.

Mr Pfarrer paints a very different picture to the official photo released at the time which shows Mr Obama and advisers huddled round a table in the White House situation room as footage was beamed from a drone 15,000ft above the al-Qaeda leader’s mansion.

Mr Pfarrer says the President’s role was largely inflated and suggests he stayed out on the golf course for so long so he could distance himself in case it went wrong. Mr Pfarrer writes: ‘If this had completely gone south, he was in a position to disavow.’

He says the White House photographs did not show the moment that Bin Laden was killed, but the moment a helicopter went down, which happened after the shooting.

Obama was playing golf until 20 minutes before Navy SEAL Osama Bin Laden mission | Mail Online

 

Obama pretending he was watching the raid which Panetta ordered.

11:02AM BST 04 May 2011

Yet another backtrack and change of tune from the White House has emerged over the fact that Obama did NOT watch the raid live and did not see the moment Osama bin Laden was shot dead. In fact the video feed stopped before US special forces stormed bin Laden’s hideaway.

The White House originally said that President Obama and Hillary Clinton watched the raid as it happened and in effect encouraged the world’s media to report that they had watched “the drama unfold”.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/

03 May 2011

Claims that the al-Qaeda leader had died while firing an automatic weapon at commandos were withdrawn, with President Barack Obama’s spokesman admitting “he was unarmed”. A dramatic description of bin Laden using his wife as a “human shield” and forcing her to sacrifice her life also proved to be false. The woman was still alive and was taken into custody with several of the terrorist’s children.

In an embarrassing climb-down, Barack Obama’s press secretary, Jay Carney, admitted that the previous version of events — which came mostly from the chief US counter-terrorism adviser, John Brennan — had been put out “with great haste”.

Osama Bin Laden dead: White House backtracks on how bin Laden died – Telegraph

TIME GROWS SHORT TO HEAL OUR EARTH
May 23, 1989

Not all dinner party conversation is fluff and nonsense. The other night, a friend leaned over and asked, “Do you think people understand yet about global warming and are ready to do something about it?”

I was tempted to heave a huge shrug. It’s very hard to gauge what percentage of America’s millions understand such phenomonena as the “greenhouse effect” and will support action to reverse it.

Palm Beach Post – News from The Associated Press

In 2009, Hansen granted Earth a reprieve and said that 2012 is the last chance we have to save the planet.

17 January 2009

‘We have only four years left to act on climate change – America has to lead’

Jim Hansen is the ‘grandfather of climate change’ and one of the world’s leading climatologists. In this rare interview in New York, he explains why President Obama’s administration is the last chance to avoid flooded cities, species extinction and climate catastrophe

Jim Hansen warns of threat of climate catastrophe | Environment | The Observer

There never seems to be any shortage of morons and their devoted followers.

In case you were wondering how utterly clueless climate science has become…….

Data and Station Information for VANCOUVER

The tide gauge at Vancouver, Canada shows no change in sea level over the last 100 years. Experts there are terrified.

Sea level rise underestimated, say B.C. scientists
CBC News Posted: Feb 20, 2012 8:51 AM PT Last Updated: Feb 20, 2012 7:13 PM PT

Some scientists at an international symposium in Vancouver warn most estimates for a rise in the sea level are too conservative and several B.C. communities will be vulnerable to flooding unless drastic action is taken.

The gathering of the American Association for the Advancement of Science heard Sunday the sea level could rise by as little as 30 centimetres or as much as one metre in the next century.

But SFU geology professor John Clague, who studies the effect of the rising sea on the B.C. coast, says a rise of about one metre is more likely.

Sea level rise underestimated, say B.C. scientists – British Columbia – CBC News

Not only did La Liga bomb out of the Champions League this week, but the Spanish green economy hit 24.4% unemployment

Spanish unemployment hits record 5.64 million

Unemployed people in Spain describe their hunt for work
Spanish unemployment has hit a new record high, official figures have shown.

The number of unemployed people reached 5,639,500 at the end of March, with the unemployment rate hitting 24.4%, the national statistics agency said.

The figures came hours after rating agency Standard & Poor’s downgraded Spanish sovereign debt.

Official figures due out on Monday are expected to confirm that Spain has fallen back into recession.

BBC News – Spanish unemployment hits record 5.64 million

Obama sees the Spanish economy as a model for the US to follow.

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Tasiilaq gets yet another heavy dump of snow. Leading experts tell us that Greenland is rapidly melting down and will drown us all.

Hendriks webcam i Tasiilaq

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John Holdren is Paul Ehrlich’s lifetime scientific partner, and Obama’s top science adviser.

…if you lose the summer sea ice, there are phenomena that could lead you not so very long thereafter to lose the winter sea ice as well. And if you lose that sea ice year round, it’s going to mean drastic climatic change all over the hemisphere.

– John Holdren

http://podcast.cbc.ca/mp3/ideas_20090119_10989.mp3

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