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2008-01-12 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by Bobby 2008-01-12 09:53|| || Front Page|| [11140 views ] Top

#1 but did not include December in their preliminary assessment

hmmmmmm

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2008-01-12 11:08|| 2008-01-12 11:08|| Front Page Top

#2 The second warmest, the fifth warmest, the ninth warmest. 2007 the coldest year of the century.

Posted by KBK 2008-01-12 11:18|| 2008-01-12 11:18|| Front Page Top

#3 These gerbil wormening assholes will continue to fiddle while ~~Rome~~ the earth freezes.

Changes in the Suns Surface to Bring Next Climate Change (Space and Science Research Center)

substantial changes occurring in the suns surface will bring about the next climate change to one of a long lasting cold era

We today confirm the recent announcement by NASA that there are historic and important changes taking place on the suns surface. This will have only one outcome - a new climate change is coming that will bring an extended period of deep cold to the planet. This is not however a unique event for the planet although it is critically important news to this and the next generations. It is but the normal sequence of alternating climate changes that has been going on for thousands of years. Further according to our research, this series of solar cycles are so predictable that they can be used to roughly forecast the next series of climate changes many decades in advance. I have verified the accuracy of these cycles behavior over the last 1,100 years relative to temperatures on Earth, to well over 90%. (emphasis added)

It won't take much for land that is marginally arable now (due to slightly warmer temperatures than in the past 50 or so years) to become useless for food-growing again. And said gore-ball warmenisting idiots will continue to demand that fuel be made of FOOD (corn) even as people begin to starve.

Don't get me started.... >:-(

Plus:

The Theory of Relational Cycles of Solar Activity

The Sunspot Cycle (NASA)

Plus, totally cool photo montage of complete solar cycle!

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2008-01-12 12:02|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/] 2008-01-12 12:02|| Front Page Top

#4 Many years ago in the Navy, there was a vacuum gage on the engines condenser stuck at a reading of 31 inches of vacuum (Impossible), I was required to take hourly readings and log them on a record sheet (Measuring overall efficiency)when I reported it I was told to simply log it as 31 inches, they didn't care if it was broken. some six months later someone noticed and tried to nail me for "False reporting", I showed them the gage, told them I had reported it as broken, and showed where I'd logged it as "Broken" (Against the chief's orders, saved my butt)

This whole "Temperature of the Earth" thing looks the same, get the figures you want, not what is "Accurate".

Posted by Redneck Jim 2008-01-12 14:26|| 2008-01-12 14:26|| Front Page Top

#5 Redneck Jim, in 1996 I was working in a civilian power plant as a maintenance supervisor. We had a PM that required us to change cartridges in a duplex oil filter. The Operations Supervisor refused to let my mechnic change the filter because the differential was still too low. He was a stickler. After we received a refusal over a walkie talkie, my mechanic showed me that the gages were showing a higher pressure downstream of the filter. I wonder sometimes if they ever changed that cartridge.

Posted by Super Hose 2008-01-12 15:11|| 2008-01-12 15:11|| Front Page Top

#6 Not in the Chicago burbs it wasn't.

Posted by 3dc 2008-01-12 16:39|| 2008-01-12 16:39|| Front Page Top

#7 The surface temperature record has many problems and at the resolution we are talking about - 1 or 2 tenths of a degree is essentially useless as a measure of a global effect.

The satellite record is better although not without problems as shown by the fact the 2 main satellite records differ significantly.

Btw, Barb S your link is generally agreed to be fraudulent. They are running some kind of hoax or scam.

Having said that we have seen rapid cooling over recent months. Whether it is short term variability due to the la nina or the start of a long(er) tern trend remains to be seen. Watch the sea ice extent (available at Cryosphere Today), which is a more reliable metric than the surface temperature.

Posted by phil_b 2008-01-12 17:07|| 2008-01-12 17:07|| Front Page Top

#8 Weather != Climate.

Nuff said.

Posted by Iblis 2008-01-12 17:18|| 2008-01-12 17:18|| Front Page Top

#9 Were these results released by the same "NASA Climate Specialist" who was caught fudging the data not too long ago? I've given up trusting NASA for anything. It's an organization needing a MAJOR overhaul, from top to bottom and back up again.

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2008-01-12 17:52|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2008-01-12 17:52|| Front Page Top

#10 Goerbals Warning.
Not out this direction. Had my fun in December on call watching branches fall and rescuing spun-off vehicles.

Had an interesting conversation with someone close. She brought up the parallels between communist USSR rhetoric and the gw push. It had to do with the 'common people' giving up luxuries and working harder, meanwhile the 'elite' travel about in luxury selling the dream.

Posted by swksvolFF 2008-01-12 17:52|| 2008-01-12 17:52|| Front Page Top

#11 BTW, here is a good link to some of the scientists who are skeptical of "human-induced climate change".

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2008-01-12 17:54|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2008-01-12 17:54|| Front Page Top

#12 "Weather != Climate"

While that is true, this is also true:

Climate = weather + weather + weather + weather

And since 1998 we have been in a cooling trend, not a warming trend.

Posted by crosspatch 2008-01-12 18:47|| 2008-01-12 18:47|| Front Page Top

#13 yasssssssssssss....oh and it snowed in Baghdad. hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

Posted by Rex Mundi 2008-01-12 22:14|| 2008-01-12 22:14|| Front Page Top

#14 This by the same group that faked the temps so 1998 looked to be the hottest on record until it was debunked.

Their findings and $1.50 will buy you a small coke.

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2008-01-12 23:33|| 2008-01-12 23:33|| Front Page Top

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