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Two weeks ago, I asked this question in the Resistance forum and have not received a reply. People at conferences or on vacation?
My partner just back from the doctor with bad news. CD4 down from over a 1000 to 800. Viral load from undectectable to 1202. With the exception of a couple of minor virals blips (< 1000), he has been undetectable since shortly after starting his first and only cocktail - Epivir, Zerit, Sustiva - in Dec. 1998. Now I know that having had a cold, lack of sleep, poor diet, recreational drugs (pot), stress, lack of sleep, etc. could all affect his T cell count and viral load, but I would not have expected such a drop in the 3 months since his last blood work with only those issues. Nadir was CD4 252 and VL 48,000. His doctor just completed a new blood draw and will run a genotype in addition to another CD4 and viral load. It will be 2 weeks before the results are back. In the meantime, he is stay on the 3TC, D4T, and efavirenz. He has tolerated this regimen very well with just a few minor annoying type side effects which resolved, for the most part, within a couple of weeks.
Questions: 1) He's not been 100 compliant - missing about 1 or 2 doses a month, as well as several hours late fairly frequently. Given the compliance record, nadir, and current numbers, would you suspect resistence? 2) If resistence is suspected, which drug(s) would be the most likely candidate(s)? 3) If resistence is confirmed, what are the cross-resistence patterns to other NRTIs and NNRTIs? 4) Which test(s) for resistence would you recommend in this instance?
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There are a few reasons why sometimes there's a delay in getting a response to a question... but here's mine.
It is a bit surprising, based on what you have mentioned, to have rebound on this regimen. It is among the more potent and durable regimens. It may be worth trying to understand what led to the rebound (you've mentioned most of the factors), so that if there are issues that can be addressed and improved, then rebound could be less likely next time. It is unclear if a measurement on one occasion to even a thousand copies is a rebound - there are these annoying blips. But when there is a viral load of this amount, it often does mean something went wrong - there may be some underlying resistance to these meds. So I would suspect resistance.
As to your Cd4 changing comment - the CD4 counts can bounce around - especially when they are this high - seeing a 200 cell change is common even when the viral load is still <50 copies. Our bodies have fluctuations of how many cells are circulating and sometimes we see this degree of variation. So that amount of change may not mean much. But it is also true that we do see CD4 declines when there are viral load rebounds - and it is hard to sometimes tell the difference except by repeating the counts. Bounces tend to bounce back up, while viral load rebounds may show a more consistent fall. Nonetheless, both of the Cd4 counts you mention are in the normal range - neither puts your partner at any risk for illness. Plenty of time to consider what your options are for a next move.
So, if there is resistance - it is first to the drugs that have what is called a "low genetic barrier" to resistance - meaning that it takes one or perhaps two mutations to create high degrees of resistance. And this is true for the nonnucleosides (Sustiva/efavirenz), and 3TC (epivir/lamivudine). So, you might expect to see changes and mutations to one or both of these meds. Now, if there is resistance to the Sustiva, you'd have resistance to all three of the current nonnukes - they share the same mutation pattern. With the 3TC mutation (m184v) only - there is only a minimal impact on the potency of other meds. It is among the more unique mutations - in that it interacts with other meds and patterns. Some meds do show a minor potential loss in potency, while other meds may actually have some suggestion of increased potency, especially the ability of this 3TC mutation to reverse some of the impact of the mutations that cause resistance to AZT and d4T.
As for next steps - there are many since there is still a fair bit of potency to most of the other nucleosides -- tenofovir and abacavir being the most potent options left in this class, and the others in the class also still being active including ddI/videx as well as the ability to use either AZT or d4T. So - a triple nucleoside combo could be considered here. Or, you could use one or two protease inhibitors in some combination. Since that class sounds completely untouched. Plenty of options left. And with this off-treatment viral load - most options would be potent enough to expect suppression.
One more point - some might also consider some time off all meds for a time - given this CD4 count. In fact there are trials that are testing to see if some time off meds, for those having such a high CD4 count, may be better in the long run. You can read more about it on this link to the Smart Trial, for example: www.smart-trial.org
While the expected loss of potency from resistance to the nonnukes is expected - sometimes it doesn't happen right away - and if there is no resistance noted on the test, it would be reasonable to either intensify/change this regimen right away to avoid that outcome, or stop the combo to avoid creating it.
Hope that helps. Let us know if you need more input after the resistance test results are in.
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Only three of 10 employees are engaged by their work, according to industry research. While prospects of a future downsizing can certainly act as one type of motivation, workers need more than the threat of a pink slip to feel emotionally committed to company objectives. This is especially true when they're asked to take on added duties without additional compensation and/or career advancement. In the book " Engaged Leadership: Building a Culture to Overcome Employee Disengagement" (Wiley/available now) author Clint Swindall examines the significant level of disengagement within organizations these days, and provides action steps for CIOs and other top managers to boost their work teams' sense of ownership in what they do. Failing to achieve this can result in damaging consequences that will reflect negatively upon your own ability to lead. After all, overworked layoff survivors "may be more productive, but you can't call them engaged," Swindall writes. "As the economy turns around, your industrious workers will have options they haven't had in years - and if they're unhappy, they'll jump ship." Here are 10 best practices from the book.
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An eating disorders research team led by Stephen Wonderlich, a Director of Clinical Research at the Neuropsychiatric Research Institute (NRI), has developed a successful bulimia nervosa therapy that can provide patients an alternative for treating this debilitating disorder.
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The therapy was developed over a period of more than 10 years with 80 patients treated in a randomized, controlled trial based at NRI in Fargo and at the University of Minnesota, Department of Psychiatry, with co-PI Carol B. Peterson.
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The University of Minnesota-based PI on this trial, Carol B. Peterson, is a Research Associate and Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology. Her research focuses on the assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of eating and weight disorders.
Bulimia nervosa is an eating disorder characterized by binge eating. Individuals with bulimia nervosa also engage in behaviors such as inducing vomiting and consuming laxatives. These behaviors may be followed by prolonged bouts of fasting, even though the person afflicted may be of normal weight. The term bulimia comes from a Greek word meaning "ravenous hunger, although the extent to which hunger actually motivates binge eating is unclear. Bulimia nervosa was first described by the British psychiatrist Gerald Russell in 1979.
Eating disorders, which are more prevalent in women than men, are very serious and sometimes fatal conditions. They include anorexia nervosa, characterized by self-starvation, intense fear of fat and gaining weight, and body image disturbances; and bulimia nervosa, marked by binge eating behaviors accompanied by self-induced vomiting, laxative and diuretic abuse, fasting, or excessive exercise. Patients who suffer from these disorders have high rates of other psychiatric problems including major depression, anxiety disorders, substance use disorders and personality disorders, Wonderlich said.
Mitchell serves as president of the NRI and chair of the Department of Clinical Neuroscience at the UND School of Medicine and Health Sciences. Wonderlich is director of clinical research at NRI and associate chair of the Department of Clinical Neuroscience at the UND Medical School. Together they also work at the Sanford Eating Disorders and Weight Management Center. Both NRI and the Center are located in Fargo.
Both Mitchell and Wonderlich are internationally recognized as authorities in eating disorders research and treatment.


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WASHINGTON — The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) today announced significant changes intended to strengthen both the supervisory process and the examining force supervising the nation's largest and most complex financial institutions.
To strengthen its supervisory process, the OCC will expand the organization, functions, and responsibilities of its large bank lead expert program to improve horizontal perspective and analysis, systemic risk identification, quality control and assurance, and resource prioritization. To strengthen the examining force, the OCC will establish a formal rotation program for all examiners to provide them with broader, fresh perspectives on a regular basis.
The OCC will also formalize an enterprise risk management framework, that will involve developing a risk appetite statement, creating a decision-tree process, and enhancing the OCC's existing National Risk Committee framework and processes.
The changes announced today stem from an international peer review of the OCC's supervision of large banks and thrifts, initiated at the direction of Comptroller of the Currency Thomas J. Curry. Two separate teams representing a cross section of OCC employees reviewed the peer review recommendations and are developing plans for adopting them.
"The changes announced today will enhance the agency's expert supervision of the nation's largest and most complex financial institutions," said Comptroller Curry. "Facilitating the sharing of information and knowledge among examiners across institutions and rotating examiner assignments will allow us to provide a fresh and broader perspective to the examination of each large institution."
"I join the senior management of the agency in pledging our 100 percent commitment to these actions," Mr. Curry added. "We will invest the time and resources necessary to fully implement even those initiatives that will require longer-term execution. Our ongoing process for self-assessment and review will be important in ensuring the success of these new initiatives."
Mr. Curry said the internal working groups will now begin work on detailed plans to implement each of the recommendations. Implementation will begin in the next several months and the implementation periods will vary depending upon the nature of the change.
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The OCC Bank Supervision Peer Review Initiative began last year when the Comptroller commissioned a review by senior financial supervisors from Australia, Canada, and Singapore. The international peer review team assessed OCC's policies and procedures related to the agency's large- and midsize-bank supervision programs. The group submitted recommendations in December 2013. Following those submissions, the Comptroller identified OCC teams to evaluate each recommendation and provide input on which recommendations would have the greatest benefit to the OCC mission and operations. The OCC then gave all employees the opportunity to provide comment and feedback on the suggested actions. The OCC teams used that input to refine the recommended actions and submit them to the OCC Executive Committee and the Comptroller for approval.
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The Oscar nominee played a school mascot in an episode of crime drama Monk and had to spend the show dressed up in a cougar costume, running up and down a basketball court.
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The Bloomberg administration, in an effort to cut police and sanitation costs, has insisted on a shortened New York City St. Patrick's Day parade for 2011, the Irish Voice has learned.
The parade normally ends at 86th Street and Fifth Avenue, but city authorities say it must end this year at 79th Street and Fifth. The parade traditionally kicks off in the morning on West 44th Street and Fifth Avenue.
However, parade officials were determined to have the parade the same length as always this year, given that it is the 250th anniversary of the march, a major milestone.
A compromise that would take the parade past the American Irish Historical Society, the last major viewing area, at 81st Street and Fifth Avenue, and then turn right is in the works, the Irish Voice has learned.
The city announced last year that it was shortening all city parades to save money from April 1 of 2010. The St. Patrick's Day parade which was led up Fifth Avenue by New York Police Commissioner Ray Kelly in 2010 was the last major parade under the old rules.
In February of last year the city announced that the many parades conducted each year needed to cut the distances they cover by 25% -- and they could not be more than five hours long.
The city said such moves would save $3.1 million and would avoid "cuts in essential police services."
However, the parade leadership is said to have argued strongly for the existing length of the parade to stay in place, pointing out the huge economic benefit to the city of the parade and its history as among the largest marches in the world.
Organizers are also mindful of recent efforts to switch the parade to a weekend day, and fear a "slippery slope" as one parade official said.
Turning off at an earlier side street may present logistical problems, however, as 86th Street is a much wider avenue for the tens of thousands of participants to navigate.
A spokesperson for the NYPD contacted by the Irish Voice would neither confirm nor deny the new shortened parade route.
Author Mary Higgins Clark is set to lead the parade as grand marshal. It is expected that she will lead the parade on its two mile-plus march up Fifth Avenue by using a horse and carriage.


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Active investors are constantly faced with tough decisions when managing their own stock portfolios. Deciding when to sell a certain stock may be just as vital as choosing which stocks to buy in the first place. There are bound to be extremes on both sides when analyzing buy and sell decisions. Maybe a well researched stock hasn't seen the gains that were expected at the outset. When emotions take over, the investor may not be able to part with the stock. They may hold on to the equity with the hopes that someday it will bounce back. Of course this may happen eventually, but the situation could also worsen and the stock may keep losing. The same decisions sometimes have to be made when dealing with a winning stock. After a big run, the investor may have to decide whether to take the profits or hold off to see if the stock will continue to push upwards. These are no easy decisions for the individual investor. Being able to make the proper portfolio moves may take some time to master, but it may end up being highly important for continued, long-term success.
Following the Chaikin Money Flow indicator, we note that the current 20 day value is -0.008885804 on shares of Amyris, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMRS). Traders will watch to see if the indicator can help confirm an ongoing trend. In the midst of a bullish trend, the CMF value staying above zero may point to continuous buying pressure and the possibility of a sustained rise in price. In the midst of a bearish trend, the CMF value staying below zero may show continuous selling pressure and the possibility of continued price decline.
Trading on volume of 1036024, Amyris, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMRS) has seen a change from the open of -0.215 since the stock opened at 4.545. Monitoring today's activity, the stock has hit a high point of 4.545 and slipped to a low of 4.27. The current consensus stock rating is Sell. Everyone will be focused on the next company earnings release which is scheduled to be reported next around 3/18/2019.
Checking in on the Awesome Oscillator, we see that the reading is -0.0744. Traders may follow this oscillator to measure market momentum. Created by Bill Williams, the Awesome Oscillator calculates the difference of the 5 period and 34 period SMA.
The 20 day Keltner Channels upper envelope is 4.801424. The 20 day Keltner Channels lower envelope is 4.1720886. The Keltner Channels indicator was introduced by Chester Keltner in his book How to Make Money in Commodities. Keltner's ideas have since been expanded upon and are widely used by technical traders.
Donchian Channels may be useful for technical traders. The primary function of the indicator is to measure volatility. The bands will widen when volatility is high, and they will become narrow with low volatility. The 20 day upper band level is 5.2142. For the same period, the lower band level is 3.72.
Shares of Amyris, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMRS) ended last session at 4.33. Following today's trade, we note that the stock has moved -4.6255507% since the opening bell. The company has a current market cap of 312091700. The stock's high price over the last month is presently 7.57.
Watching volatility readings, we can see the current value for the stock is 11.709601. Volatility for the week stands at 10.613609, and the monthly reading is 11.393665. Volatility involves the amount of risk in relation to the amount of change in a stock's value. Tracking the Bull Bear Power, we note that the stock is presently -0.03413824.
Scanning the equity market, we note that the stock's current Oscillator Rating is showing "Buy". Traders will take note of many different factors when examining a stock's health. Flipping over to the Moving Average Rating, we see that the current sentiment is pointing to a "Strong Sell".
Investing in the stock market can be highly challenging. Most investors have the same intentions of trying to maximize profits from investment capital. Realizing that there are many unknowns in the market, investors will need to make sure that they are constantly staying on top of the current economic scene. As most investors know, the market can see big shifts on a daily basis. Being able to deal with the constant ups and downs can be a huge asset to the individual investor's psyche. Because stock market investing can get highly emotional at times, investors often have to find a way to keep a clear head and make the best possible decisions even when the market terrain gets rocky. Many successful investors have created a plan that they have been able to adhere to through the thick and thin.
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Amityville PBA to hold annual Ragamuffin parade October 27th
The Amityville P.B.A. will to hold the annual Thomas H. Smith Parade, Saturday, October 27, 10 a.m. The rain date is Sunday. The parade formation will be on Broadway beneath the railroad trestle. The parade route will be as follows: South on Broadway, Park Avenue, West on Ireland Place and into the North parking field of the Park Avenue School.
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February 2012 Meeting
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- State of the Treasury
- Confirm new members
- Upcoming Events (tetsu)
- Maker Faire
- FamiLAB Google Docs Repository (Aaron)
- Retro Game Night Funds
Votes & Proposals
- Nominate new board members
- Logo vote
- Breadboard Table in lounge room as a permanent fixture, about the size of a coffee table
- Authorize lab funds for Laser Etcher Maintenance
- Create of a committee to monitor the laser cutter and its upkeep
- dsh80 proposes that any discussion at the meeting that goes past 5-10 minutes should become an instant vote on a committee to meet elsewhere and discuss the matter and come back with a yes or no proposal, in an effort to keep meeting durations down.
- Vote to have an open wiki page for monthly meeting agendas in a standard format, made in advance (dsh80 volunteers for this if it goes well)
Donations (vote)
- Centrifuge (tetsu)
- CNC Mill (bob danforth)
This meeting, February's meeting, is the meeting where YOU, THE MEMBERSHIP get to nominate the new board members!
We will be collecting nominations this meeting, and holding a vote for board members during March's meeting.
The new board members don't really have defined positions yet, we just know we need more board members to deal with the growing number of members. You should nominate people who you feel would represent the direction you want the lab to go.


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Between 1950 and 2011, acquired by Leonard A. Lauder, New York, from various postcard dealers in the United States, Canada and Europe; 2012, gift of Leonard A. Lauder to the MFA. (Accession Date: February 27, 2012)
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Austrian (Vienna), 1901
- Artist Marcus Munk
- Publisher Raphael Kirchner, 1876–1917
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G.5 - Girls faces in a circle on violet background, a series of 10
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CEDAR CITY — It started as a normal second day of school for three students at Southern Utah University.
Jake Probert was studying, Jared Wenn was eating lunch at home with his wife, and Ryan Fowles was on his way to class.
SUU managerial economics professor Joe Baker, 63, had just finished his noon run on Aug. 27 when he had a heart attack.
"They saved my life," Baker said of Probert, Wenn and Fowles. "There's no doubt about it that they saved my life."
Probert was sitting on the second floor of the J.L. Sorenson Physical Education Building when he heard what he thought was a body fall to the ground and a university employee yell for someone to call 911.
He said he looked over the balcony and saw Baker lying motionless on the ground.
"I knew that I needed to get to him as soon as possible," Probert said.
After checking for vital signs Baker didn't have, Probert began CPR.
"You never expect to give CPR," he said. "I knew I didn't have time to be fearful, and I knew I didn't have time to worry about myself. So I just ran, and in my mind was thinking, 'OK, hopefully somebody else can be there to help me.'"
That help came when Fowles walked around the corner and saw Probert checking Baker's pulse.
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"I just assumed it was a CPR drill that he was getting in class," Fowles said. "I got a little closer and realized Joe's coloring wasn't normal, and then Jacob said (Baker) didn't have a pulse. That's kind of when I was like, 'Oh, this is the real thing here.'"
The students worked together to continue CPR.
Fowles said the last time he had a CPR class was when he was 11. However, his brother-in-law had recently taken a class and updated him on the procedure just a few days prior to the incident — something Fowles said was more than a coincidence.
"I just kind of put things together and went with it," Fowles said. "It was something (that) had to be done."
Wenn said he was eating lunch with his wife when he suddenly got the feeling he might be needed.
"I work on the ambulance, and so I just randomly got a feeling to turn on my pager for the ambulance and happened to hear what had happened over the radio," he said. "I knew I was living really close, so I just ran over as fast as I could with my personal EMT kit."
Wenn said he doesn't remember much of what happened other than people running around and hearing Baker's chest pop as he did compressions.
There's a lot of things that fell into place, but I was just extremely fortunate that these three young men were there and that they had the knowledge to keep me alive until the EMT came. I literally owe them my life.
–Joe Baker, SUU managerial economics professor
"After training and lots of experience with it, I just knew what to do and stayed with that," he said.
Baker, who has taught economics at the university for 17 years, said he doesn't remember anything about the incident or the first two days of classes.
"I woke up in the hospital with my family around me, so it's a complete blank slate," he said.
Baker said he underwent a quintuple bypass surgery and was in the hospital for a week.
"It was quite a surprise for me and everybody that this happened to me," said Baker, who runs about 800 miles a year.
"There's a lot of things that fell into place, but I was just extremely fortunate that these three young men were there and that they had the knowledge to keep me alive until the EMT came," he said. "I literally owe them my life."
The students said it was obviously a right-place, right-time moment.
"I was just a level above him in the building," Probert said. "I was able to respond within a matter of a minute, or 30 seconds."
He said Fowles showed up before he finished the first cycle of CPR, and Wenn showed up with the defibrillator within about three minutes. Within about eight minutes, the EMT arrived.
"It just seemed like everyone was in it to win it, I guess you could say," Probert said.
Baker, who hopes to be back teaching in four weeks, said the experience was a humbling one. He said his family has adopted the students as part of their own, and he plans to have lifelong relationships with them.
"I don't know how you can ever repay a debt like that or how you can thank them enough," he said.
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12 February 2009
The European Melges 32 sailing season is ramping up for an exciting 2009 racing circuit. It all begins with the Credit Suisse Primo Cup hosted by the prestigious Yacht Club de Monaco on February 12-15. Back in 2007, this event presented the birth of the great Melges 32 phenomena that has since swept Europe by storm.
In 2009, we have seven very compelling, strong teams on the line — Lanfranco Cirillo/Nicola Celon (Tactician), Fausto Rubbini/Lorenzo Bressani (Tactician), Ernesto Faraco (all-Corinthians), and Mauro Mocchegiani/Andrea Casale (Tactician). Three brand new owners have joined the class — Edoardo Lupi/Roberto Benamati (Tactician), Edoardo Pavesio, and three-time Farr 40 World Champion Vincenzo Onorato/Adrian Stead (Tactician). Welcome to the International Melges 32 Class!
After a number of Winter Tune-Up Meetings sponsored by Audi, the Melges 32s have done anything but rest, in fact they have been warming up for the 2009 Audi Sailing Series — five events, five venues and one coveted championship prize!
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Distance from Mill Neck, NY to Dalton, NY
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By Graham Readfearn • Friday, November 18, 2011 - 12:25
CLIMATE science denial think-tank the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow is flying a four-strong delegation to next week's UN climate conference in South Africa, with a promise to engage in a "balanced, civil and genuine" dialogue.
Alarmist, anyone?
Given their funding, CFACT can obviously afford to stick Lord Monckton on a plane to Durban to attend a UN conference. Let's hope he doesn't run into any more of those "Hitler Youth".
Monckton's mental illness is
Monckton's mental illness is clearly running rampant now.
"and throws around claims of fascism and communism"
Monckton ignores his own oxymoron & just concentrates on throwing enough "isms" in to make it sound scary to people who have no idea what he is talking about. I was recently told by a guy at work "The new carbon tax is just marxist!". I said, "why is it Marxist & what is Marxism?" . He responded with " I don't know, but it's bad."…………..Lol. Another right wing echo chamber success.
"Elsewhere in Lord Monckton's tirade, he says that raising CO2 levels "would hugely increase yields of crops - the extra carbon dioxide is tree food". He adds that "if you want to green the planet, then what you want is more carbon dioxide and not less"."
Ironic that Monckton complains that the current scientific paradigm on AGW cannot possibly get metrics on climate sensitivity anywhere near correct because of all the variables & it is in the future. The future being unknown. Yet, he can somehow predict the future & knows higher CO2 will benefit mankind, despite science saying otherwise.
"that Google had been paid "something like a quarter of a million dollars" to publish bogus pages on the internet in order to push a video of him down the search engine's page ranking. Without this intervention, Monckton claim modestly the video would have "gone to 20 million" and been "unstoppable".
Google optimization & de-optimization is done in the web design process. As far as i know, you can't pay someone to deoptimize a competitor. That would be a monopolists dream. It depends on what words you use or don't use, the links & metadata. If his pages are failing it's because a) no one cares &/or b) web site design or keywords used. Monckton is just a failure & just doesn't understand that.
In 10 years time, people will look back on him as a side show alley freak.
Not Lord Monckton
Maybe we should officially call him 'Not Lord Monckton'. It's true, and it emphasizes that he's a lying lier.
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the title "Lord" appears on
the title "Lord" appears on his passport so I think we have to let him use it verbally
"the title "Lord" appears on
"the title "Lord" appears on his passport so I think we have to let him use it verbally"
Well, passports don't have to be changed for 10 years & there is no police or Interpol as such that travels around policing such things. It's meant to be a matter of honor that one goes by those titles or not.
Besides, the House of Lords only issued their statement in July 2011, advising Monckton he is not a Lord & to please stop calling himself one.
Hmmmm, what it says on his passport vs the authority that recognizes lordship….I wonder who is right?
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The "house of lords"doesn't
The "house of lords"doesn't actually own the word lord. It's used in a variety of ways in the UK to make people feel like they are important.
related: Colonel Sanders of chicken fame wasn't a military guy and Dr. Pepper is a non medicinal drink. Burger King is largely a ceremonial title in the fast food industry and Prince the musician is just a non royal who dresses funny.
Just where do the parliamentarians in the UK get off calling themselves "lords"anyway?
bunch of self important stuffed suits bought and paid for by Exxon probably.
"The "house of lords"doesn't
"The "house of lords"doesn't actually own the word lord. It's used in a variety of ways in the UK to make people feel like they are important."
"Monckton is a Viscount, a title which he inherited, so he is a lord."
Apologies, I was focused on the house of lords membership. I got that wrong as VJ pointed out below. But hey….at least I can be swayed by evidence & say I was wrong. Not sure how that changes anything in regards to AGW though. Monckton is still a denier & liar for hire, with extremely bad attire.
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Not fishing AnOilMan. Fishing
Not fishing AnOilMan. Fishing would imply that a person was trying to catch someone. I would call it more like backed in a corner. Sorry about the trap as a book I read somewhere stated that he that digs a pit will surly fall in it. But any answer would serve my purpose. Purpose being just to make a statement that lying does more harm than good. For instance is you answered the questions factually then I would say that maybe you have been on the drill floor turning to the right that would be calling some of you dear writers a liar wouldn't it? If you agreed with their facts then I would know that you had never been on the drill floor. Or as you did you could shrink to the size of a mouse and crawl through the hole in the back of the wall by dodging the question all together. And now you are quick to call someone a liar.
Scientists have a hard time agreeing on if we have past the point of no return. So what! Even if we have past this point maybe we can delay it 20,30 maybe 50 years. Maybe if delayed just a few years we could find new technology to reverse it. Regardless we must start ASAP. To do this we must present our case with facts, figures, and solutions that viable and achievable. Take for example that "fugitive gas" is a major problem for global warming. Ok if you approached a committee hearing with this statement and FACTS to support it and request that a team be allowed to work with the industry to find a solution then this could actually be accomplished. Go in there and state the problem and say you want to shut down the whole industry and you won't be invited back! Maybe even in a few weeks you can have a solution! Once you have a solution THEN you could ask the committee to mandate it and establish fines if not in place. Fact is they probably already have a lot of solutions to a lot of these problems but until to make an effort to work with them then they don't and won't want to share information. Get the ball rolling on this, prove that you are here to solve problems rather than shut them down and then each problem may be fixed at a furious pace. These people in this industry can solve problems better than any class of people on earth. They have proven that time after time. Approach this committee with figures that are inflated, exaggerated, or outright lies and you get run out on the rail!
Can anyone start a blog where we can talk about actual fixes and not just tabloid material?
What trap? What are you talking about? Who's them?
Solving problems? What industry are you talking about?
Bite the bullet and pay more for your energy. I do. My house is run on Wind.
Use transit. I do. My house is located at an transit hub and light rail station.
Use less water. I do. My yard is xeriscaped.
Recycle… Yup. Do all that.
I haven't gone Solar with Geothermal… (Sad fact… Geothermal uses more electricity, and in Alberta, that means Coal power… so its not such a green solution.)
Again.. I have no clue where you're going with all this. Umm… From what I understand adding a hefty tax or fine will get the ball rolling to cut carbon. Removing subsidies would also help. Market forces will do the rest.
So to use your example of fugitive gases, companies will inventory their fugitive gas issues and decide where to make their savings. No one including me would demand that a business be shut down while we spend their money merrily (and inefficiently) trying to cut their carbon emmissions.
For example in Alberta there is a water shortage looming… fugitive emmissions of water are a big concern (leaky toilets). So.. the city puts out information and tries to get people to fix up their toilets. No one is walking around shutting down all the toilets.
There is no need to catastrophize solutions to environmental concerns.
Agricultural industries are all looking into doing their parts as well. New Zealand is studying sheep farts. Alberta is studying cow burps.
"What trap? What are you
"What trap? What are you talking about? Who's them?"
Lol, thought that was some oil insider knowledge or something you discussed with him earlier, but obviously you are none the wiser either.
"Bite the bullet and pay more for your energy. I do. My house is run on Wind."
Mine is solar. I had to outlay a bit to get it installed, but once paid off, i will be creating free energy. Which is something fossil fuels can never offer.
"Use less water. I do. My yard is xeriscaped."
Same, although I admit it wasn't a conscious decision. A sever drought & a 20% water supply led to a ban on watering gardens. Succulents & other plants requiring little water became very popular. Although, I have a low lying area on my property where 3 properties meet that was naturally boggy due to sub soil water movements. I put a whole heap of citrus there & some vegies. Serves two purposes now. Stops the ground getting boggy after rain & the citrus get a good drink naturally.
"Recycle… Yup. Do all that."
I compost garden waste, but we have recycle bins provided by the council. Does Canada & the U.S do the same thing?
troydonscott replied on Permalink
Phil just ask yourself just
Phil just ask yourself just one question. Can the majority of people in your country afford get of the grid and do as you? Do they have the money in their pocket to plunk out the cash get off the grid? If they have this money and just choose not to go green then I say you need to talk to the people. But here in the US we have reached record foreclosure on homes. Can't blame anybody but ourselves but it is here and it is real. More people are losing their homes and every thing they have worked for right now than any time in US history. To simply say "had to outlay a bit" just don't fly here. People here have lost all that they have worked for and have not a bit left! This is a sensitive area for politicians as well because they know the votes come from the majorities. Now you get a politician to get up and say we all got to give a little to save the planet in front of people that have nothing to give and you have lost the race. So what I am saying is don't look at yourself as I am doing right. Look at what it will take for the majority to do right. We can do more without costing the populous by working at common goals rather than just come out and tax everyone. As for the trap I will explain in a few.
"Phil just ask yourself just
"Phil just ask yourself just one question. Can the majority of people in your country afford get of the grid and do as you? Do they have the money in their pocket to plunk out the cash get off the grid?"
No. You are quite correct. But like many consumer items, it starts with only the wealthy being able to afford them, then the middle class, then the poor. Look at the first, car, T.V, Plasma etc. With fossil fuels, we will never achieve a state where it becomes cheaper for the poor to purchase energy.
Energy consumption of the past few decades has exploded, requiring ever increasing upgrades to the energy generation side, transmission networks & distribution networks. Many people now have an air con, plasma, light their house up all night ( even in unoccupied rooms), standby power etc etc. Power companies have to upgrade to meet demand, then pass the cost on. Resulting in power costs in most countries spiraling out of control. At least with renewables, there is a chance that they (the poor) can offset some of that impact & it will only get cheaper. Fossil fuels on the other hand, will only get more expensive, provide less jobs & cost governments more in climate change mitigation costs. Money that could have been spent elsewhere. Those mitigation costs will only get higher the longer we wait & deliberate.
"But here in the US we have reached record foreclosure on homes. Can't blame anybody but ourselves but it is here and it is real."
While the GFC created a very real problem with serious flow on effects. It doesn't diminish the need to act on climate change. It just means we have more problems to deal with.
"More people are losing their homes and every thing they have worked for right now than any time in US history."
Yet, ironically, it has given rise to political movements like the TEA Party & other right wing politicians who advocate even less regulation than the lack of regulation that caused the GFC in the first place. Instead of being outraged at the corporations who have caused this, they have been conned by the corporations into advocating even less regulation….in the guise of liberty & freedom. Wonders never cease.
"To simply say "had to outlay a bit""
You are right. That was a poor choice of words. Even being in the middle class, that was a considerable outlay for me. But the costs over the long term will be far less than energy derived entirely from fossil fuels.
"So what I am saying is don't look at yourself as I am doing right. Look at what it will take for the majority to do right. We can do more without costing the populous by working at common goals rather than just come out and tax everyone."
I'm all ears. In fact, most scientists & economists worldwide are all ears. I've seen you criticize mitigation efforts, yet say we should make an effort to mitigate the effects of AGW. But I've never seen your actual solutions. It's easy to just keep on saying no to everything, but you have to have a solution. Otherwise, it's just opposition for opposition sake.
energy generationTransmission & distribution
I'm beginning to think he doesn't think I work in the oil industry. "AnOilMan" wasn't my first name choice (I was thinking of something more along the lines of Fraud Singer). But "AnOilMan" seemed to put Brendan at ease given where I work… in the oil industry.
My house is located in Zone 2… subarctic, its at the high point on a hill, so all the water drains away.
Canada and the US recycle but it really is location dependant. Where I am, they only recently started a city wide recycling system. We only have one bin, and they sort it all after the fact. (I heard in the UK they got like a separate bin for each recycling item.)
David B. Benson replied on Permalink
but aren't we virtuous.
Is it really making any difference?
"but aren't we virtuous. Is
"but aren't we virtuous. Is it really making any difference?"
Allowing him to ply his trade uncontested lends weight to the illusion there really is vigorous debate within climate science……when there is next to none amongst actual climate scientists.
Allowing him to perpetuate his myths gives credence to the possibility that we should delay action………because it's just all so uncertain. He can submit a peer reviewed paper & bring down the science if he thinks it is all wrong. Until then, all he is doing is spreading verified & well documented lies & he needs to be held accountable every time he does it.
Not paraded around the media circuit as a counter balance, or……the other side of the story. Out of "fairness" & giving the viewers/listeners/readers "both sides of the story".
Anarchaeologist replied on Permalink
The Banality of Evil
One might doubt the efficacy of virtue, and yet hold no illusions regarding the worth of deadweight cynicism.
I feel that its important to practice what you preach. (Perhaps you live by different ideals.)
In the grand scheme of things it doesn't make a difference. But it makes me feel better and I would certainly strive to lead by example.
Sometimes people listen to what I have to say, and reflect on it. I think that is a good thing.
Lord Monckton......
You can trash the guy all you want, but he is getting his message out. I watched him debate at the National Press Club event back in July of this year and he clearly knows how to speak, came very well prepared, and beat the pants of the guy he was debating.
Despite what Desmog is saying here, many of his points were based on current 'consesus' science but played out in a way that didn't hide the economic reality of what they willl cost the people of Australia. For instance, current programs that will cost approx $127 billion dollars over the next 10 years will (maybe) result in a .00007 degree reduction in world temperatures. It's the truth that he spews, not the few bits of anti-green sentiment, that people don't like.
Watch the video, he's mostly in the 2nd half.
"He is well researched
"He is well researched articulate and his points are always well thought out. Instead of pointing to a few hand picked experts he examines the evidence and bases his arguments on that."
Great! Well he can submit that "evidence" by peer review then can't he & set it in stone. We both know he wont do that. That would expose him.
"Some may argue that the climate is a long term game, but in the near term the last 15 years we have not seen any statisticaly signifigant warming nor have we seen any climate disasters and the evidence certainly bears this point out."
Please provide evidence from one of the institutes that everyone derives their data from. No interpretations of interpretations.
RalphNader replied on Permalink
You can not deny that there has been no statistically signifigant warming for over 15 years now. Even Phill JOnes of the CRU has come on record to state that.
I think we should all give Professor Phil Jones some much deserved credit for coming forward with some straightforward to answers to many questions on the climate file. In fact he has restored some credibility to his field with many of his frank answers where he examines the mideval warm period and talks about the debate within the climate community about global warming.
You can examine the data from any institution you want but it is all the same. No statistically signifigant warming for 15 years during a period with record setting amounts of c02 emissions. Clearly this is the big chink in the warmist armor. Clearly the climate sensitivity to c02 is very small and any alarmist claims have been thoroughly debunked by the evidence.
RalphNader replied on Permalink
Thank goodness
For brave souls like Lord Monkton who have been coming forward with the straight goods. You should not be deriding Monkton but thanking him for the free education in climate science he is providing at no cost.
"You can not deny that there
"You can not deny that there has been no statistically signifigant warming for over 15 years now."
Yes I can. For starters, Jones made that statement in Feb 2010. Its nearly 2 years later & we now know that:
"Global surface temperatures in 2010 tied 2005 as the warmest on record, according to an analysis released Wednesday by researchers at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York.
The two years differed by less than 0.018°F. The difference is smaller than the uncertainty in comparing the temperatures of recent years, putting them into a statistical tie. In the new analysis, the next warmest years are 1998, 2002, 2003, 2006 and 2007, which are statistically tied for third warmest year. The GISS records begin in 1880."
2nd. Jones said "This trend (0.12C per decade) is positive, but not significant at the 95% significance level." . If someone told you, that it was 94% likely you would be shot if you went into a suspect house, but not 95%, would you say it's ok to proceed?
3rd. As i asked. Please provide evidence from an actual institute, not an interpretation of an interpretation.
Otherwise you end up turning this:
"Do you agree that from 1995 to the present there has been no statistically-significant global warming
Yes, but only just."
Into this:
"Climategate U-turn as scientist at centre of row admits: There has been no global warming since 1995"
Please highlight the bit in Jones original interview where he said "there had been no global warming since 1995".
"nor have we seen any climate disasters and the evidence certainly bears this point out."
Nope…..nothing to see here, move along.
"You can trash the guy all
"You can trash the guy all you want, but he is getting his message out. I watched him debate at the National Press Club event back in July of this year and he clearly knows how to speak,"
When combining the gish gallop & a lack of morals & ethics, snake oil salesman can stare bold faced at an audience & lie quite comfortably.
"For instance, current programs that will cost approx $127 billion dollars over the next 10 years will (maybe) result in a .00007 degree reduction in world temperatures."
Yes, if Australia was the only country implimenting that policy & no one else planned on making those changes or endevoured to make mitigation plans. What if Australia was the only country that banned CFC's back in the 80's & 90's? It's a red herring. The point is, when everyone acts, the little bits add up. It takes time. There is no world government, so policy moves at different speeds depending on which country you are in.
David B. Benson replied on Permalink
May Monckton took lessons from Gish?
I heard Gish speak once.
Indeed he galloped away from questions.
Peter Moss replied on Permalink
C'mon Guys, there is no Monckton
You guys realize that it's all an act and that Lord Monckton is really Sacha Baron Cohen, right? ;-)
"You guys realize that it's
"You guys realize that it's all an act and that Lord Monckton is really Sacha Baron Cohen, right? ;-)"
Yes. But personally, I think his act is getting a little stale now. He needs to incorporate the lime green mankini into his act from Borat & lighten it up a little.
Monckton is a Viscount, a
Monckton is a Viscount, a title which he inherited, so he is a lord. He is not, however, a member of the House of Lords and has dishonestly tried to imply that he was.
Ian Forrester replied on Permalink
Prepare for Round Two
Wattsuphisbutt has a post up claiming that everyone but Monckton was wrong and that Monckton is a "Member of the House of Lords". What is his evidence for this? Well it seems that Monckton went trawling for lawyers' opinions and finally landed one, a "Hugh O'Donoghue, a leading constitutional lawyer at Carmelite Chambers". I would be very surprised if this legal opinion is worth anymore than one he could have obtained from John O'Sullivan. Afterall, lawyers' opinions are 10 a penny, till you get your bill and find that the lawyers think they are worth a lot more :-)
Get out the pop corn and let's watch this piece of tripe ripen in the next few days.
He didn't imply.
He stated that he was "a member of the Upper House of the United
Kingdom legislature".
There is no imply in that statement. Its unequivocal.
RalphNader replied on Permalink
Kool aid Anyone
Since the temperature has been remarkably stable from one year to the next you can actually claim that every year is the hottest on record as is routinely done before each big climate get together. Even James hansen admits the Hottest year on record is a political statement.
Hansen explained that 2010 differed from 2005 by less than 2 hundredths of a degree F (that's 0.018F). "It's not particularly important whether 2010, 2005, or 1998 was the hottest year on record," Hansen admitted on January 13.
Since the temperature is not rising despite the dramatic increase in co2 and the temperature is always within the margin of error you can claim that every year is the hottest on record.
Over the past 15 years we have seen record increases in C02 emissions and no corresponding temperature increase. Clearly the effect of c02 on the climate is extremely minor and not worth worrying about.
You have to start looking at the data analyticaly instead of being led around by PR firms with an adgenda to push the warming scare.
I'm obviously not smoking the right stuff.
You are applying standard, text book, predictable denier tactics. "Oh look! A short trend! Lets make a big deal about it." You are doing this as you invent new science, to attempt to debunk. You believe you are successful because your fake invented science isn't true.
You are looking at a short timeline and trying to claim there is no difference. Behold 5 degrees. (And please don't tell me there is a heat island effect in the arctic…)
Let me be really clear with you. No one in the climate science field has stated that every single year will be warmer. No one. At all. There are plenty of cycles in the climate system. And the overall increases are there.
And here's what deniers say; (Good thing they don't have any experts.)
Here's what Muller at BEST has to say on this specific issue;
"decadal fluctuations are too large to allow us to make decisive conclusions about long term trends based on close examination of periods as short as 13 to 15 years."
And the skeptical science review. Notice the discussion on uncertainty, and oh… the 20 year trend line.
It's funny.......
Oilman, it's funny how you completely ignored Ralph's question about the truly massive increases in CO2 having almost no bearing on temperatures.
And please don't accuse skeptics of cherry picking short time spans for data when it's the warmist's side that is well known for always pointing to every single strong weahter event as 'proof' of CAGW.
Did I?
If you are a scientist you'd start asking yourself questions about where all that heat went instead of just throwing up your arms, giving up and say its not right. (I can infer something about Ralph's deductive reasoning skills.)
Most heat isn't visible to us. Its in the oceans, and most of it is destined for our crysphere.
So… we have 5 degrees of surface temperature increase in the arctic; (This is a healthy ten times the world average… as predicted.)
And look at that ice melt.
Icegraph 1.03
Canadian Arctic
Plot Trendline
Generate Graphs
Historical Total Accumulated Ice Coverage 1971 - 2011, 0514 - 1015
Pick "Stage of Development"
Now… just look at that graph… Imagine how much heat that took. There is a reason water is our favorite coolant. It stores sooo much heat. The most ice reduction takes place right in the middle of your 'cooling cycle' for the world.
Here's Greenland through GRACE's eyes;
Check that out… 200 billion tons of ice converted to water each year… what a change. I wonder how much heat THAT took.
Is the ocean Cooling? No its heat has in fact jumped way up. AND its where most of our world's heat is stored.
Any further questions?
It's funny how deniers take
It's funny how deniers take out of context pieces of information & create a whole new story about them.
Ralph, I know why you don't include links/urls/citations with your statements. Because everytime i check, they turn out to be bogus. Your Hansens comments above are case in point. When I looked for that text, it started at climate depot, who referenced WUWT, who referenced Marc Morano, who referenced another denier blog. Eventually I found the real statement.
Please show where Hansen "admits the Hottest year on record is a political statement."
What denier blogs are doing , is creating dog whistle commentary designed to attract the attention of partisans & have them believe like Rick James has previously stated, that it was all designed as a hoax to attack conservatives.
If you check my statement above regarding Phil Jones, he says "this trend is positive". Hansen also mentions the same thing, except denier blogs have mixed & matched & created whole new stories from his statement, which is here:
Let's examine your out of context & highly edited comment above with the rest of what Hansen said:
"Invariably, a great deal of attention centers on each year's ranking, but it is critical to focus on the decade-long trends that matter more, the GISS scientists emphasize. On that time scale, the three records are unequivocal: the last decade has been the warmest on record. "It's not particularly important whether 2010, 2005, or 1998 was the hottest year on record," said Hansen. "It is the underlying trend that is important."
Ouch Ralphy.
I notice all those denier sites were very keen to leave this bit out though.
"One of the problems with focusing on annual rankings, rather than the longer trend, is that the rankings of individual years often differ in the most closely watched temperature analyses — from GISS, NCDC, and the Met Office — a situation that can generate confusion.
For example, while GISS previously ranked 2005 warmest, the Met Office listed 1998 warmest. The discrepancy helped fuel the misperception that findings from the three groups vary sharply or contain large amounts of uncertainty. It also fueled the misperception that global warming stopped in 1998.
"In reality, nothing could be further from the truth," said Hansen. Global temperatures have continued to rise steadily."
Ouch X 2 Ralph.
If you like we can look at another small trend, using 4 of the majors for the last 15 years from now.
You will notice it's all up.
"Since the temperature is not rising"
You can only derive that conclusion if you cherry pick & take things out of context.
"You have to start looking at the data analyticaly instead of being led around by PR firms with an adgenda to push the warming scare."
NASA, Hadley, NOAA, Met, CSIRO etc are all PR firms? Well why does WUWT & Roy Spencer refer to them for their data then?
Graph showing the reality of
Graph showing the reality of rising temperatures:
RalphNader replied on Permalink
Debunked Blogs
Thats why you shouldn't get your information from warmist blogs. See the graph below from the Hadcrut. The fact that there has been no statistically signifigant warming is not in debate even the hardcore climate scientists recognize that the lack of warming is a fact.
In regards to the timelines you may have a point but 10 years was all James hansen needed to make his debunked predictions of massive warming. In a period of record c02 emissions we have many predictions that the temperature would be much higher, yet we see no warming at all. The only logical conclusion you can draw is that C02 is a minor factor that is drowned out within all the other variables that make up climate.
Time to put on the big boy pants and face reality, climate change is not a big issue. We should be concentrating resources on real environmental issues like promoting Fracking and reducing species loss due to habitat destruction.
"Thats why you shouldn't get
"Thats why you shouldn't get your information from warmist blogs. See the graph below from the Hadcrut."
Wow Ralph. Are you playing a game of credibility limbo, where you progressively produce lower & lower references of repute?
This new one is a beauty. Again, not by any of the actual institutes, but by some obscure blog, where the author doesn't add his name, but adds a lot of photo shop.
As i pointed out above , two of the authors you have mentioned have said the trend is positve. You can use the same data & time series using a linear trend & see it quite clearly.
"yet we see no warming at all"
You might be entitled to your opinions, but not your own facts.
RalphNader replied on Permalink
AGW Groupthink
It's humorous to watch the two of you, contradict each other and run around in circles to keep your ideological beliefs untouched with reality. One says "Yeah it hasn't warmed in 15 years but that statement was made nearly 2 years ago", the other says the heat is trapped in the deep oceans.
Which is exactly what the AGW game is about , bob and weave around the multitude of false positives and inacurate predictions.
I don't remember anything being said about deep ocean heat sinks when the science was settled, but Hansens asertions that the climate would be a over a degree warmer than it is today is proudly displayed within the congressional record and is really symbolic of the whole AGW movement. Much ado about nothing.
The question you have to ask yourself is at what point does the lack of confimatory evidence require me to rethink my beliefs? When we see no warming in 20, 25, 30 years. How many predictions must be debunked before I give my head a shake.
When 2013 comes and goes and the arctic still has sea ice? When the Himalayan glaciers are still standing, when the oceans do not rise any faster than they have for centuries etc…
My opinion changes with the facts does yours or is it a question of faith? Do you follow the cult of personality of Al gore and Jim Hansen or do you follow the evidence? Right now the evidence is not what is required to validate the AGW theory. What the evidence does tell us is that AGW is a non issue.
Who's playing games?
You've picked a single graph line for extreme temperature drift, when there were 3.
You debunked one, blindly and erroneously.
I've also noticed that a box of oranges is different from a box of apples.
"One says "Yeah it hasn't
"One says "Yeah it hasn't warmed in 15 years but that statement was made nearly 2 years ago""
In true denier & liar fashion, you quoted me, but the quote doesn't exist.
"I don't remember anything being said about deep ocean heat sinks"
I can't conceive it, so therfore, it doesn't exist.
"When we see no warming in 20, 25, 30 years."
You are just trolling now Ralph. Not even Watts, Monckton, Singer, Ball, Carter or Plimer would say something so verifiably wrong. You are also seeking as usual to derail threads.
"My opinion changes with the facts"
Great! So start looking at some, as you havn't brought any of your own to the table as yet.
"Do you follow the cult of personality of Al gore and Jim Hansen"
That doesn't even make sense.
I blabbed about oceans...
… but not deep ones. Ralph must have pulled that out of the wrong compartment in his memory.
I do find it funny the amount of hate directed at Al Gore. (I wonder what George Orwell would make of someone like Ralph.)
Yeah I watched to movie. Yeah I though it was good. But that didn't really get me concerned about Climate Change. (I didn't know anything but it seemed like we should do something about it.)
It was about 2 years later when I was talking to an Environmental Engineer (card carrying Conservative, with a picture of him shaking hands with Stephen Harper) in the oil patch, and I mentioned 'Climate Change'.
He almost went off the rails. Al Gore has it all wrong. Al Gore doesn't know anything. There is no Climate Change… Then I mentioned that Al Gore isn't a scientist, and I wouldn't trust Al either…. Then he told me he knew all about green house gases, and Carbon wasn't the worst of them, NOX was. Therefore Kyoto was a stupid waste of time because it was all about Carbon. Oh, and the last 5 years were the coldest on record.
So I decided to look up what he said. (You can read the Kyoto Protocol don't you know.) And every single thing he said was wrong. Carbon is the unit of measure, they apply a unit measured in Carbon's impact for the other gases. I have no idea where he got his temperature information from.
Did you actually read James Hanson's Paper?
I did… but here's a summary for you;
Looks spot on to me. Scenario C looks like a match to Hadcrut.
Looking at your graph… "c3headlines.typepad.com" must be an authority on this stuff…
Hmm… Very Very Very short time lines again. I thought I told you not to do that.
You are again debunking your own self created science which is wrong. And concluding that it is indeed wrong. Congrats, but I don't think you should share.
Can you find a graph that isn't in monthly increments? Try at least 20 years, although I'd be a bit leary about that… I'm sure you guys could invent something.
Next Ralph will be using 2
Next Ralph will be using 2 year trends & of course picking a hot year, with a cool year the next & declaring "look, I've found another downward trend! It's down!".
And when the temperature spikes...
… it will be graphs from 2 years ago…
RickJames, you must be paid
RickJames, you must be paid to comment here, or why would you waste time exposing your ignorance?
RickJames replied on Permalink
just call him lord
Wikipedia has an article on:
lord (plural lords)
- (obsolete) The master of a household.
- A person having formal authority over others, a ruler.
- A person enjoying great respect in a community. [quotations ▼]
- An aristocrat, a man of high rank in a feudal society or in one that retains feudal forms and institutions.
- An owner, a master.
- A titled nobleman or aristocrat
- (familiar, dated) An affectionate term for one's boyfriend or husband.
RickJames replied on Permalink
Funny stuff - it turns out
Funny stuff - it turns out that the lord has obtained a legal opinion that he is indeed a member of the "house of lords"
Turns out reality doesn't always conform to lefty logic and membership in the "house of lords" is not limited to voting members. Too funny. Read it on Watts.
It really is funny Rick.
"Funny stuff - it turns out that the lord has obtained a legal opinion that he is indeed a member of the "house of lords"
Ahaha, yes, it is funny Rick, because you have fallen for it again & missed the most important key word. Didn't see it? Here it is again bolded & underlined.
"Funny stuff - it turns out that the lord has obtained a legal opinion that he is indeed a member of the "house of lords""
Has it been ratified Rick?
"Turns out reality doesn't always conform to lefty logic"
Many look on incredulously at how easily right wingers are duped.
David B. Benson replied on Permalink
WIll this thread
come to an end?
RickJames replied on Permalink
Yes it will and we can both
Yes it will and we can both be part of that
David B. Benson replied on Permalink
Coorection to title.
The title of this thread needs correcting from Heights to Depths.
Last word.


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You can always tell a good person by their word — it's their bond, and Mayor Fran Lenahan and his team have kept their promises to our community over the past two years. With an unprecedented two consecutive tax cuts for working families and seniors, Lenahan, Deputy Mayor Bruno Romano and their team are reinventing the village government.
They promised to cut taxes — they've done that twice in as many years. They promised to save our tax dollar by getting rid of highly paid government bureaucrats earning six-figure salaries. They were good to their word, and those individuals were replaced with more competent personnel earning sensible salaries. Then-candidate Lenahan assured us that roadways would be improved, potholes filled and sanitation refocused as an efficient machine. He delivered. Newsday called it a "community comeback." I call it good governing.
The village board has now put the recovery from Hurricane Sandy at its forefront. Millions of tons of garbage, debris and tree materials were collected from homes in the area. New businesses are being attracted to downtown as the regional economy improves. Beautification in East Rockaway continues.
This is tremendous progress from where we were two short years ago, and Lenahan and his administration are the people to thank. They have done extremely well in office, and each and every day they make sure that East Rockaway continues to grow, rebuild and remain a wonderful place to live, work, and raise a family.
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I spent some time during the last weeks playing with the Open Data published by the City of Milan. I did not have a clear goal in mind, except for building some interesting visualization of the Public Transport coverage of the city grounds.
A quick exploration of the dataset seemed to be encouraging: while most of the data was relatively useless, some datasets were indeed promising and worth spending some time. While at the end of the week I was able to get the result I had in mind (the heatmap you can find in this post), I was left with that lingering feeling of dissatisfaction that accompanies me when I see good initiatives that can be dramatically improved by changing a few specific features.