Week started warm and finished chilly... global warming blamed for Arctic Ice increasing.
Onions, bell peppers, cabbages and tomatoes set out. Still too cold for planting cucumbers and okra. Patience. Patience I tell myself.
In the meantime the rabbits ate my cabbage plants. All of them. They also tried one bell pepper but it must have not been to their taste. Revenge is best served as Rabbit Stew.
Dean C sent me this. The rumor that it is Dean piloting is just that. A rumor.
Speaking of a different kind of piloting.
You know it is spring baseball time when the weather turns cold and wet. The Grandson hit a batter, by accident he says, then discovered the theory of Mutually Assured Destruction when it was his turn to bat.
Baseball mimics life in so many ways.
Popped a V-belt on the big tiller. Called my usual repair shop and was told they had one. Went there. They didn't. Called four other places. Found one. Everyone told me the same. They had reduced their inventory because of the economy and so many people were buying over the Internet.
Internet shopping works great except when you need a part to complete a job NOW.
Been arguing with a Leftie about poverty and its relationship with crime. He claimed that crime and poverty increase together. That's intuitive, right?
Well, this link doesn't show that. In hard times the results are flat or slightly less.
In 1960 the crime rate as a percent of population was around 2%. As of 2007 it was around 3.7% or almost double versus the population increase of around 70%. As we have grown we have become more violent, more prone to commit crimes. And the increase has outstripped population growth.
That tells me that we are doing something wrong.
Of course the poverty level keeps climbing. The government said the poverty level in 2008 was $21,834 for a family with two children. Where does it stop and how do we fix it? LBJ's "War On Poverty" is a demonstrated total abject failure.
I was raised poor but very few around me had more. I was also raised to understand that the way to get things was to work. Study and education was just part of the solution. I don't think we are raising people to work anymore. And study and education has become the solution, not part of it.
Now it is study and educate and then somehow a job will appear that matches all of your expectations for fulfilment, travel and adventure.
Ain't gonna happen children. You're gonna have to work to find a job and work to keep that job and the boss may be an ass and no one will give you a prize for just showing up and being part of the team. Childhood has ended.
No prizes for just doing what you are supposed to. Prizes are for doing more than you're supposed to.
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Is global cooling also responsible for glaciers melting and retreating from their former extend?
ReplyDeleteBILLINGS, Montana — Glacier National Park has lost two more of its glaciers to climate change and many of the rest may be gone by the end of the decade, a government researcher said Wednesday.
Warmer temperatures have reduced the number of named glaciers in the northwestern Montana park to 25, said Dan Fagre said, an ecologist with the U.S. Geological Survey.
"When we're measuring glacier margins, by the time we go home the glacier is already smaller than what we've measured," Fagre said.
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/environment/2010-04-07-glacier-national-park_N.htm
As for the Arctic ice itself:
Arctic sea ice extent has begun its seasonal decline towards the September minimum. Ice extent through the winter was similar to that of recent years, but lower than the 1979 to 2000 average. More importantly, the melt season has begun with a substantial amount of thin first-year ice, which is vulnerable to summer melt.
Overview of conditions
Sea ice extent averaged over the month of March 2009 was 15.16 million square kilometers (5.85 million square miles). This was 730,000 square kilometers (282,000 square miles) above the record low of 2006, but 590,000 square kilometers (228,000 square miles) below the 1979 to 2000 average.
Figure 5. These images show declining sea ice age, which indicates a thinning Arctic sea ice cover more vulnerable to melting in summer. Ice older than two years now accounts for less than 10% of the ice cover.
http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/2009/040609.html
But what do they know? They only study the Arctic sea ice on a scientific basis.
The Institute of Physics, which represents 36,000 physicists across Britain and the world, has told a Commons inquiry into Climategate that the controversial emails at the centre of the storm represent "prima facie evidence of determined and co-ordinated refusals to comply with honourable scientific traditions".
ReplyDeleteYou need to wait until we have some acceptable evidence before becoming willing to help Obamie destroy our econonmy.
In short, the IoP has called into question the integrity of the entire field of climate change.
Sound like you haven't heard the latest from the House of Commons investigation of "Climategate":
ReplyDeleteThe focus on Professor Jones and CRU has been largely misplaced. On the accusations relating to Professor Jones's refusal to share raw data and computer codes, we consider that his actions were in line with common practice in the climate science community. We have suggested that the community consider becoming more transparent by publishing raw data and detailed methodologies. On accusations relating to Freedom of Information, we consider that much of the responsibility should lie with UEA, not CRU.
In addition, insofar as we have been able to consider accusations of dishonesty--for example, Professor Jones's alleged attempt to "hide the decline"--we consider that there is no case to answer. Within our limited inquiry and the evidence we took, the scientific reputation of Professor Jones and CRU remains intact. We have found no reason in this unfortunate episode to challenge the scientific consensus as expressed by Professor Beddington, that "global warming is happening [and] that it is induced by human activity"
http://scienceblogs.com/deltoid/2010/04/phil_jones_vindicated.php
In short, the IoP has called into question the integrity of the entire field of climate change.
Really?
Are you going by what you quoted, or were you aware of their walkback on this subject?
The Institute’s statement, which has been published both on the Institute’s website and the Committee’s, has been interpreted by some individuals to imply that it does not support the scientific evidence that the rising concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is contributing to global warming.
That is not the case. The Institute’s position on climate change is clear: the basic science is well enough understood to be sure that our climate is changing – and that we need to take action now to mitigate that change. More information about IOP’s views can be found on its website here.
Institute of Physics regrets
You need to wait until we have some acceptable evidence before becoming willing to help Obamie destroy our econonmy.
You meant economy, did you not?
You really shouldn't type until you get your emotions under control.
Apparently, you don't think the loss of glaciers in a park named Glacier National Park is acceptable evidence.
Interesting, who are we to believe, those lying governmental researchers or you?
Yes, I was quite aware.
ReplyDeleteBut they said what they said. Which is the data and use of it is unacceptable. That is a death blow to global warming even if dummies like you can't understand that.
After all, even Phil Jones admitted:
Now, Professor Phil Jones of the University of East Anglia has admitted publicly, and — as far as I know — for the first time, that there has been no statistically significant “global warming” for 15 years. He has also admitted that his Climatic Research Unit has lost much of the data behind the “hockey-stick” graph, via which Michael Mann and other Climategate conspirators had falsely attempted to demonstrate that the Medieval Warm Period was not warmer than the present.
Jones also said this:
Another Jones' e-mail read, "I would like to see the climate change happen so the science could be proved right."
That is an admission that it has not happened and that the science has not been proven.
Hope that doesn't spoil your day. But at least that is one less thing you can be terrified of...
Now you can concentrate on second hand smoke and fat people.....
But they said what they said. Which is the data and use of it is unacceptable.
ReplyDeleteIn addition, insofar as we have been able to consider accusations of dishonesty—for example, Professor Jones’s alleged attempt to “hide the decline”—we consider that there is no case to answer. Within our limited inquiry and the evidence we took, the scientific reputation of Professor Jones and CRU remains intact.We have found no reason in this unfortunate episode to challenge the scientific consensus as expressed by Professor Beddington, that “global warming is happening [and] that it is induced by human activity”.184 It was not our purpose to examine, nor did we seek evidence on, the science produced by CRU. It will be for the Scientific Appraisal Panel to look in detail into all the evidence to determine whether or not the consensus view remains valid.
Page 53 of the report, @ point 137, which can be found in this document here.
I'm sorry that the reality is that they said Jones had "no case to answer", which of course is the opposite from your conclusion, perhaps because you never read the report itself.
Relying only on the first IOP reaction and not their March 5 revision of their March 2 statement was certainly foolish, but then that's your story and you're sticking to it.
This is currently on the IOP website, read it and weep:
We regret that our submission has been seized upon by some individuals to imply that IOP does not support the scientific evidence that the rising concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is contributing to global warming.
IOP’s position on global warming is clear: the basic science is well established and there is no doubt that climate change is happening and that we should be taking action to address it now.
http://www.iop.org/News/news_40679.html
Do you have the courage to see if the link I provided does demonstrate what the IOP says about Climategate isn't what you originally quoted?
I'm very doubtful myself.
That is a death blow to global warming even if dummies like you can't understand that.
Yes, it certainly seems that you're totally wrong about that, so who is the dummy around here?
You should quit channeling Don Rickles, he's still alive and you won't get your act into the local
nightclubs as a Southern insult comic these days.
But at least that is one less thing you can be terrified of...
So I can switch to being terrified of Obamie the Socialist/Fascist/Secret Kenyan instead?
Thanks for the permission.
Had no case to answer?
ReplyDeleteWell, the public record has what he said. First that GW had not happened and that he wished it would so the science could be proven....
What a comment, eh? I mean he wants GW, a disaster according to him and his homies, so he can be proven right?
And then that there had been no significant increase in GW in 15 years....
Wow.
BTW - THIS THREAD IS CLOSED.