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By Earl Ofari Hutchinson
House Speaker John Boehner didn't bother to go through the pretense of recommending more women and minorities to chair House committees. All nineteen of his chair picks were white men. The committee chairs determine what legislation gets heard or stonewalled in the House. So Boehner's naked move to assure that white guys still rule in the House seemingly makes mockery of all the GOP's big post election talk about making women and minorities bigger players in the party.
A charitable defense of Boehner would be to say that he just doesn't have the numbers to plop more women and minorities in House leadership positions. One of their two African-American and one of their seven Hispanic members were defeated. At the same time, they have six fewer women in the coming House session than in the last one. But that's too charitable. Boehner's House leadership exclusive white male recommendations serve two purposes. It gives him a cozy, familiar and reliable House team that will fight hard to hold a firm line against President Obama and the Democrats swarm of legislative initiatives on health care, tax and regulatory reform, defense budget cuts, and the array of spending hikes for domestic programs that the Democrats will propose.
Boehner also has a firm eye on what he and many in the GOP despite their talk still see as who the party needs to appeal to too win elections. It's not Hispanics, blacks, youth, gays, labor rank and filers, or white middle-class professional women. The Democrats have a firm lock on them and that's not likely to change when the 2014 mid-term elections roll around. The GOP's base supporters are and will remain the ones that gave failed GOP presidential contender Mitt Romney nearly half the popular vote and that insured that Boehner and the GOP kept control of the House.
They are conservative blue collar, rural, lower income, non-college degree white males, blended with upper income and wealthy, conservative corporate and small white male business owners in the Midwest, the South and Border states. Their numbers may be shrinking but they are the voters that proved the engine of victory for Nixon, Reagan, George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush. They also provided the vote muscle for GOP governors and legions of state legislators who run the majority of states.
In a CNN 2004 presidential election voter profile, males made up slightly more than 40 percent of the American electorate, and of that percent white males comprised 36 percent, or one in three American voters. The percentages didn't change much in 2008 and 2010 national elections as well as the 2012 presidential election. They consistently give on average sixty percent of their vote to whoever the GOP presidential candidate is. In the South and the heartland states, their lop-sided popular votes translate directly into all-important Electoral votes, the percentage jumped to 70 percent for Reagan and W. Bush.
GOP's leaders aren't just counting numbers. They also hear what millions of their conservative male backers say even in the wake of Romney's flop. That is that the GOP's defeat was Romney's defeat and did not in any way negate the message that vast numbers of Americans still think government is too big, intrusive and costly and that the traditional family, conservative religious beliefs, patriotism, a strong military, and a sliced down government are still time tested and noble values that must be fought for and preserved. They are and will continue to push and prod the GOP not to cave in to liberals, Hispanics and blacks and become a Democratic lite party.
This entrenched resistance to change doesn't totally reflect the GOP's pronounced class, gender and racial bigotry. It's a hard headed assessment that the GOP's pirouette to suddenly become immigration reform boosters or abortion rights advocates will be dismissed as a cheap, cynical, pander to get Hispanic and women's votes and would fall flat on its face. This to them is a prescription for political disaster and many of them would assure that by staying home on future Election Days.
Boehner's all white male picks for House leadership posts were a clear response to that message. It has even greater resonance in that it stands in stark contrast to the crushing numbers of women and minority Democratic House members and leaders. The next Congress will be the first one in the history of the House that white men will be a minority in the Democratic caucus. But that contrast between the GOP and the Democrats simply adds more reassurance that the GOP's white male rule is firmly in place and will likely stay that way.
Earl Ofari Hutchinson is an author and political analyst. He is a frequent political commentator on MSNBC and a weekly co-host of the Al Sharpton Show on American Urban Radio Network. He is the author of How Obama Governed: The Year of Crisis and Challenge. He is an associate editor of New America Media. He is the host of the weekly Hutchinson Report on KPFK-Radio and the Pacifica Network.
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VillainousHanacha said:
Goddamn! You had me scared when I read this post!
I highly doubt she is going to die, it would be out of character for this series. Toki is however completely incapasitated for the finals more or less and functionally out of the picture because of that. Truly, Toki pushed herself to her absolute limits for the sake of her team (and more specifically Ryuuka and Sera), and she has only made me love her and the girls of Senriyama even more.
Hey, I was scared myself when the ambulace took her away. Poor Toki.
>Toki is however completely incapasitated for the finals
Like there's any chance Senriyama is going to the finals.
Only two teams can advance, there's no way Shiraitodai's going to lose and Achiga are the MCs after all so...
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Concerning Kuro, she finally did what I thought she would have to do in order to win a hand, she had to ditch her gimicky playstyle and discard a Dora. Unfortunately, it was too little too late. Achiga is still in 3rd place and they haven't even managed to crack 90K yet, whilst Shiraitodai is nearly 100K above even the second place, Senriyama. Her last win was dramatic and did take Teru by surprise (which is no small feat) but the only real purpose it served was to raise Kuro's spirits. Also Shizuno, Ako and Kuro got to see Nodoka after the battle which they do deserve after that thrashing.
Concerning Kuro, she's still useless as always.
She won one hand during the entire match, against Teru no less so congratulations but only because Toki sacrificed herself to set her up for the win. The only thing Kuro did was discard that dora which Teru wasn't expecting at all.
And she still lost more points than she gained anyway.
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But beyond that, my sympathies have now completely shifted from Achiga to Senriyama. Sure Kuro got bent over the table and took it from behind thanks to Teru, but at least she is still able-bodied and in good health. Toki maintained 2nd place (a distant 2nd, but still) at the cost of her health and while I doubt she will die, her fate is admitedly uncertain. And now her team's morale has been shot in the foot due to her being rushed to the hospital. Because of all that, I'm now completely rooting for Senriyama, hoping that their downed morale doesn't cause them to fail miserably. Hell I even have some good will for Shindouji, as even though Hanada knew it was a hopeless fight against Teru, she never gave up.
I don't think it's any secret that I kept on watching the show because of the side characters. I just didn't think I'd grow to love them this much, especially Toki.
I was rooting for Senriyama from the very beginning.
Achiga are the losers that don't even deserve to be there but unfortunately we're stuck with them as the main characters so, oh well.
And side characters are easily the best thing in this series.
Toki was awesome, definitely my favorite character from Episode of Side-A.
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Back to the special audience edition of Hannity and doctor Ben Carson is with us and we're taking questions our good friend Sandra -- of the Fox Business Network like England doctor and I guess this'll be the -- -- has been -- a lot of -- sure and I think that one of the biggest questions after listening to -- been an absolute pleasure is.
Have we gone too far do you think that America can come back.
-- -- we are today.
Well I do think that that's that's why I wrote the book because I think we have what it takes to do it we just gonna have to speak -- that's the -- -- January 2017.
Just been inaugurated president United States what would be your top legislative priorities.
Well assuming that -- that things are continuing the way they are now.
We've got to get the economy working again because that we'll take care of the jobs productivity.
Rather than just mindless jobs.
Doctor when you say things people don't want to hear usually there's an immediate.
Effort to delegitimize the speaker.
Were you concerned about that before you made that speech in that form -- that audience.
I wasn't concerned because there's nothing that they can do to be legitimized me there's no skill than that they can find they're gonna try good luck.
And it actually said when he is speeches live a clean life you -- -- court and don't live that you don't have to worry about what you said three mice that President Clinton -- doctor.
In -- Ronald Reagan speaking out against socialized medicine for the AMA AMA -- complete 180 was speaking out for Obama care.
What happened.
Well first of only 23% of doctors belong to -- -- And they go and may grab those ones and they say the -- and they -- enough said.
That's it I'd like to know how you would solve this problem as a doctor and also is president of the United States.
Section thirteen eleven of this law.
Empowers the president under a -- -- the Obama health law empowers the federal government for the first time in history to dictate how doctors.
Treat privately insured patients even if you bought a plan like -- -- plan or Cigna plan and paid for yourself.
How will you protect that doctor patient relationship.
Probably by rewriting.
I've got to thank you so much for speaking your mind I certainly hope you keep it up in the future on the -- the current debate.
Reflects your values and views the most effectively -- anybody in politics -- a publicly.
I certainly and enjoyed what senator rubio had to say last night.
And I'm sure there are many -- thing coming I young people -- -- and and we'll just have to keep looking and hoping that people are courageous and and forward thinking at a.
Does a message of personal responsibility self politically -- where we've seen President Obama.
Suggesting universal.
Pre kindergarten care basically telling parents that it's not their responsibility.
Repair their children for school but rather the government's I don't think your mother would've -- that message she understood that it was.
For you to do that that we seem to be expanding.
Things that the government can do instead of individuals.
Can a politician stand up and say.
Sorry we're not gonna give you and more programs are suck for you not to I take care of your -- Can sell but we have to start talking about it.
It -- say that that Politico that politically correct police have silence.
-- debate.
We have to create the debate and -- and -- the people who are in the middle we'll have an aha moment to -- Does and yet the speech with the part about your -- -- -- so deeply as a mother of young boys and I'm wondering how can we best limit the government -- away.
That creates a million mrs.
Parsons raising up her sons and herself out of poverty into prosperity how do we do -- We've become Smart voters.
And you know I'm not a lot of people they come to the voting Booth they -- -- there's -- name I recognized.
-- -- voting for that that's about -- -- now.
If I mean if you don't know more than that you probably should just not vote or you need to go teach yourself because you could be voting against yourself and -- it -- a single.
-- -- With everything that it happened that -- come -- to afterwards and say.
I heard you do you think -- heard you -- praying that he did.
If he did you should see some changes in his actions.
-- -- You would tell you you're based in Baltimore he -- you touched on Medicaid earlier and as you know the health outcomes of patients on Medicaid are a lot poorer than they are for private insurance because it underpaid stocks and under his hospitals.
But this is the big debate in states around the country is whether they should expand their Medicaid programs as obamacare.
Requires him to do if you were advising the governor of Maryland what would you tell me do.
With the -- Medicaid expansion.
I would say we need to start talking about something that makes sense you know that doesn't doesn't take.
It doesn't make a lot of sense to invest a lot of our eggs in something that doesn't work get a -- real quick.
Yeah I'm a former teacher and dean and I just want to know how do we get young people to care about the debt and deficit.
I think we have to give them examples like the one that I gave 507000.
Years that they begin to understand what -- anything.
I'm sorry we missed three people ordinary quick.
-- -- gonna say it's easier to be ignorance and reliance than it is to be responsible and informed how do you change that.
Well one of the things we're gonna have to do and I don't have a lot of time to get into it but we have to use technology there's some wonderful ways that we can -- that.
Virtual classrooms.
That can help us enormously I'm working on that project with something.
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- Bus 16 departs from the Five Points Station. This is a great route that leaves from downtown and commutes up North Highland all the way to Loehmann's Plaza at N. Druid Hills. It includes stops in Poncey Highlands as well as restaurants north of Virginia Avenue and into Morningside.
- Bus 36 is a more common choice, and this route departs from Midtown and Avondale stations and travels to Piedmont Park as well as the center of the Virginia Highland neighborhood with stops near Murphy's, Noche, La Tavola, Yeah Burger, Highland Tap, George's and more.
- Bus 2 departs from North Avenue, Candler Park and Decatur Station and travels down Ponce de Leon Avenue. Exit at Ponce and North Highland. This route is frequent, but puts riders much further away from Virginia Avenue. It does provide access to many of the bars such as Neighbor's, Hand and Hand and Atkins Park.
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Medlin is Jackson's former girlfriend, according to Lt. Marc Godwin of the Laurinburg Police Department.
Jackson also attacked McRae, 30, an acquaintance of Medlin's.
Both victims were beaten with the handle of a shovel, suffering multiple head injuries, according to police. Jackson was prevented from killing the victims by McRae's mother.
"The male victim's mother was home and called the police," Godwin said. "She actually tried to intervene to keep the situation from getting worse and called the police department."
Jackson fled the scene after police were called. McRae's mother did not suffer any serious injuries in the process of the assault. Medlin and McRae were taken to a medical facility where their condition was described as stable but serious.
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'A possible means of escape from the horrors of carbon dioxide emission constrai
On Tuesday at York University, England, I gave a presentation titled 'A possible means of escape from the horrors of carbon dioxide emission constraints'. I provide its text below in case anybody is interested. It mentions geo-engineering that we have discussed on another thread, and several other matters. There is a limit on the number of charcters so I am posting it in parts Regards Richard |
(This post was last modified: 11-29-2009 01:32 PM by Derek.)
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Slide 1: Title
A possible means of escape from the horrors of carbon dioxide emission constraints by Richard S Courtney Slide 2: Pharaoh Friends: Climate change is a serious problem and all governments national and local need to address it. Climate has always changed everywhere and always will: this has been known since the Bronze Age when it was pointed out to Pharaoh by Joseph (the one with the Technicolour Dreamcoat). Joseph told Pharaoh to prepare for the bad times when in the good times, and all sensible governments have adopted that policy throughout the thousands of years since then. That tried and tested policy is sensible because people merely complain at taxes in the good times, but they will revolt if they are short of food in the bad times. Slide 3: Kyoto Protocol But in 1990 several governments decided to abandon that policy and, instead, to try to stabilize the climate of the entire Earth by controlling it. The UK started that policy and intends to continue it. Many governments of many countries are doing the same. This attempt at global climate control arises from the hypothesis of anthropogenic (that is, man-made) global warming (AGW). AGW does not pose a global crisis but the policy of attempted global climate control does. AGW is a political issue. It is not a scientific issue. AGW induced the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in 1992 and the Kyoto Summit in Japan in 1997. Both these events were attended by several Heads of State. And now we are confronted with CoP15; the fifteenth Conference of the nations that have signed the UNs Framework Convention on Climate Change. CoP15 is to be held in Copenhagen in December and it, too, will be inundated by Heads of State. Scientists attend scientific meetings. Politicians attend political meetings. I will deal with what is likely to happen at Cop15 (which I call the No-Hope-In-Hagen Conference), but first I want to discuss AGW so we know what the real problem is. AGW has become the State Religion in many paces, notably the European Union. Slide 4: TV advert There may be some here who doubt AGW has become the State Religion. They need look no further than their television screens. The UK government is spending £6 million of our money on an advertisement that proclaims AGW is a horror story with which to frighten little children. According to that government advertisement, children are to be taught the future is not an opportunity for them to grow up into: it is a place of horrors where their pets are drowned and their homes are to be destroyed. Teaching that to children is child abuse. Slide 5: Fossil fuel statement I repeat that AGW does not pose a global crisis but the policy of attempted global climate control does. And not merely because it is a tool to give children nightmares. The policy threatens constraint of the use of fossil fuels and that constraint would kill millions probably billions of people. The use of fossil fuels has done more to benefit human kind than anything else since the invention of agriculture. Most of us would not be here if it were not for the use of fossil fuels because all human activity is enabled by energy supply and limited by material science. Energy supply enables the growing of crops, the making of tools and their use to mine for minerals, and to build, and to provide goods, and to provide services. Material Science limits what can be done with the energy. A steel plough share is better than a wooden one. Ability to etch silica permits the making of acceptably reliable computers. And so on. People die without energy and the ability to use it. They die because they lack food, or housing, or clothing to protect from the elements, or heating to survive cold, or cooling to survive heat, or medical provisions, or transport to move goods and services from where they are produced to where they are needed. And people who lack energy are poor so they die from pollution, too. For example, traffic pollution has been dramatically reduced by adoption of fossil fuels. On average each day in 1855 more than 50 tons of horse excrement was removed from only one street, Oxford Street in London. The mess, smell, insects and disease were awful everywhere. By 1900 every ceiling of every room in Britain had sticky paper hanging from it to catch the flies. Old buildings still have scrapers by their doors to remove some of the pollution from shoes before entering Affluence reduces pollution. Rich people can afford sewers, toilets, clean drinking water and clean air. Poor people have more important things they must spend all they have to get. So, people with wealth can afford to reduce pollution but others cannot. Pollution in North America and Europe was greater in 1900 than in 2000 despite much larger populations in 2000. And the pollution now experienced every day by billions who do not have the wealth of Americans and Europeans includes cooking in a mud hut using wood and dung as fuel when they cannot afford a chimney. The use of fossil fuels has provided that affluence for the developed world. The developing world needs the affluence provided by the development which is only possible at present by using fossil fuels. We gained our wealth and our population by means of that use. Slide 6: population growth graph The energy supply increased immensely when the greater energy intensity in fossil fuels became available by use of the steam engine. Animal power, wind power and solar power were abandoned because the laws of physics do not allow them to provide as much energy as can be easily obtained from using fossil fuels. The greater energy supply enabled more people to live and the human population exploded. Our population has now reached about 6.6 billion and it is still rising. All estimates are that the human population will peak at about 9 billion people near the middle of this century. That additional more than 2 billion people in the next few decades needs additional energy supply to survive. The only methods to provide that additional energy supply at present are nuclear power and fossil fuels. And the use of nuclear power is limited because some activities are difficult to achieve by getting energy from the end of a wire. If anybody here doubts this then I tell them to ask a farmer what his production would be if he had to replace his tractor with a horse or a Sinclair C5. So, holding the use of fossil fuels at its present level would kill at least 2 billion people, mostly children. And reducing the use of fossil fuels would kill more millions, possibly billions. That is not an opinion. It is not a prediction. It is not a projection. It is a certain and undeniable fact. Holding the use of fossil fuels at their present levels would kill billions of people, mostly children. Reducing the use of fossil fuels would kill more millions or billions. Improving energy efficiency will not solve that because it has been known since the nineteenth century that improved energy efficiency increases energy use: as many subsequent studies have confirmed. So, in a period of a few decades we have moved from the tried and tested climate policy that has stood the test of time since the Bronze Age, and we have replaced it with quasi-religious political madness which if not stopped will pale into insignificance the combined activities of Ghengis Khan, Adolf Hitler and Pol Pot. Slide 7: The AGW hypothesis How did we get into this mess? It came about because governments have adopted the AGW hypothesis. But that hypothesis always was implausible and it is now known to be wrong. The AGW-hypothesis says increased greenhouse gases notably carbon dioxide (CO2) in the air raise global temperature, and anthropogenic emissions of carbon dioxide are increasing the carbon dioxide in the air to overwhelm the natural climate system. The hypothesis is founded on three assumptions: viz (1) It is assumed that the anthropogenic CO2 emission is the major cause of the increasing atmospheric CO2 concentration and (2) It is assumed that the increasing atmospheric CO2 concentration is significantly increasing radiative forcing and (3) It is assumed that the increasing radiative forcing will significantly increase mean global temperature. There are reasons to doubt each of these assumptions. But if any one of them were known to be false then the entire AGW hypothesis would be known to be false. Think about it. The hypothesis is that a trace atmospheric gas which is the very stuff of life itself may if it increases its atmospheric concentration become Shiva, the Destroyer of Worlds. In fact, its worse than that. Nature emits 34 molecules of CO2 for every molecule of CO2 emitted by human activities so AGW suggests that a minute increase to the annual emission of this essential trace gas could cause Armageddon. Furthermore, in the geological past and during ice ages the atmospheric CO2 concentration has been more than ten times greater than it is now. If you had never heard of AGW and somebody came in off the street and tried to sell it to you would you say, Oh dear! Of course, we must change the economic activity of the entire world? Slide 8: Empirical evidence refuting AGW But, implausible things do exist so we need to check the AGW hypothesis against reality. Empirical evidence says the hypothesis is wrong. 1. The anthropogenic emissions and global temperature do not correlate. 2. Change to atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration follows change to global temperature at all time scales. 3. Recent rise in global temperature has not been induced by rise in atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations. Global temperature fell from 1940 to 1970, rose to 1998, and has fallen since. Thats 40 years of cooling and 28 years of warming. Global temperature is now similar to that of 1990. But atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration has increased at a near constant rate and by more than 30% since 1940. It has increased by 8% since 1990. 4. Rise in global temperature has not been induced by anthropogenic emissions of carbon dioxide. Over 80% of the emissions have been since 1940 and the emissions have been increasing at a compound rate. But since 1940 there have been 40 years of cooling with only 28 years of warming. Theres been no significant warming since 1995, and global temperature has fallen since the high it had 10 years ago. 5. The pattern of atmospheric warming predicted by the AGW hypothesis is absent. The hypothesis predicts most warming of the air at altitude in the tropics. Measurements from weather balloons and from satellites both show cooling at altitude in the tropics. So, the normal rules of science say the AGW-hypothesis is completely refuted. Nothing the hypothesis predicts is observed, and the opposite of some of its predictions are observed. But some people promote the hypothesis. Theyve several reasons (personal financial gain, protection of their career histories and futures, political opportunism, and ). But support of science cannot be one such motive because science denies the hypothesis. So, additional scientific information cannot displace the AGW-hypothesis and cannot silence its advocates. And those advocates are not scientists despite some of them claiming they are. |
(This post was last modified: 11-29-2009 01:39 PM by Derek.)
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Advocates promote AGW using three kinds of pseudo-science.
They use argument from ignorance. This isnt new. In the Middle Ages experts said, We dont know what causes crops to fail: it must be witches: we must eliminate them. Now, experts say, We dont know what causes global climate change: it must be emissions from human activity: we must eliminate them. Of course, they phrase it differently saying they cant match historical climate change with known climate mechanisms unless an anthropogenic effect is included. But evidence for this anthropogenic effect is no more than the evidence for witches. Advocates rely on not-validated computer models. No models predictions should be trusted unless the model has demonstrated forecasting skill. But climate models have not existed for 20, 50 or 100 years, so they cannot have demonstrated forecasting skill. Simply, the climate models predictions of the future have the same demonstrated reliability as the casting of chicken bones to predict the future. Advocates use the Precutionary Principle saying we should stop greenhouse gas emissions in case the AGW hypothesis is right. But that turns the Principle on its head. Stopping the emissions would reduce fossil fuel usage with resulting economic damage. This would be worse than the oil crisis of the 1970s because the reduction would be greater, would be permanent, and energy use has increased since then. The economic disruption would be world-wide. Major effects would be in the developed world because it has the largest economies. Worst effects would be on the worlds poorest peoples: people near starvation are starved by it. Slide 10: Precautionary Principle statement The precautionary principle says we should not accept the risks of certain economic disruption in attempt to control the worlds climate on the basis of assumptions that have no supporting evidence and merely because theyve been described using computer games. So, AGW is not a global crisis but the unfounded fear of AGW is. It threatens a constraint of fossil fuel use that would kill millions probably billions of people. This begs the questions as to why governments care about AGW and what is likely to happen at the No-Hope-in-Hagen Conference? Slide 11: Governments motives Governments have a variety of motives for interest AGW. Each has its own special interests in AGW but, in all cases, the motives relate to economic policies. In general, the USA fears loss of economic power to other nations while this is desired by those other nations. Universal adoption of carbon taxes, or other universal proportionate reductions in industrial activity, would provide relative benefit to the other nations. Developing nations cannot afford technological and economic advances that would benefit them and also reduce their increases to CO2 emissions as they develop, so they are seeking gifted technology transfers and economic aid from developed countries. Slide 12: The Kyoto Protocol intentions The Kyoto Protocol was an attempt to meet these desires. It is an international Treaty that will run-out in 2012 and the No-Hope-In-Hagen Conference is an attempt to agree a successor to it. The Kyoto Protocol set limits to emissions of 6 greenhouse gases (notably CO2) from developed countries, and it promotes transfer of technology and economic activity to developing countries. This may seem innocuous, but it is a real Treaty in the real world that is intended to address a hypothetical threat. Nothing costs nothing in the real world. The Kyoto Protocol is a very expensive. It has been estimated that every man, woman and child on Earth could be supplied with clean drinking water and mains sewers for less than a tenth of the cost of the Kyoto Protocol if it were implemented. Fortunately, nobody has really tried to abide by it. But, unfortunately, several countries and notably the EU have pretended to be working towards its objectives by introducing Carbon Trading schemes of various kinds. Please note that this really is money for hot air. Carbon Trading markets are the only markets where both the buyers and the sellers are paid to lie. Corruption is a built-in, and we are already getting people prosecuted for fraud in the EU scheme. The Mafia would have been hard-pressed to suggest a system like this. The Kyoto Protocol only applied to developed countries and the developed countries want developing countries to be bound by the successor Treaty. Slide 13: Copenhagen intentions The developing countries say they are entitled to make the same per capita emissions as developed countries. China and India are classed as developing countries under the Kyoto Protocol. China emits more CO2 emissions than any other country and says it will stop increasing its emissions when it achieves the same per capita emissions as the West. India says the same. Indeed, the developing countries want payments from developed countries as reparations for the damage done to climate by the developing countries. Simply, developing countries are using AGW as an excuse for aid from developed countries and are pushing this as their line for the proposed No-Hope-in-Hagen Treaty. But developed countries are using Carbon Trading schemes as their proposals for what is to be required of them while demanding constraints on emissions from developing countries. And they are using AGW as excuses for taxation at home. Importantly, they are using AGW as an excuse for protectionism by trying to get the No-Hope-in-Hagen Treaty to constrain economic development in developing countries. The desires of developing and developed countries for the Treaty are directly opposed and the negotiations are deadlocked. But something will come out of No-Hope-in-Hagen because it has to. That is the nature of politics. The problem is that whatever results from No-Hope-in-Hagen will be harmful to the people of the world. So, what alternative could be championed? Slide 14: The geo-engineering option At present there is no empirical evidence of any kind that the AGW hypothesis is correct. But supporters of the AGW-scare assert that action must be taken now to avoid the possibility of dangerous AGW in the future. Politicians are responding to the AGW-scare by trying to constrain anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs), notably carbon dioxide (CO2). Such constraints would do much harm and, therefore, they should not be accepted unless absolutely necessary. But politicians of several countries are committed to their having accepted the AGW-scare as being a potential threat which warrants the constraints. Slide 15: Political benefit The politicians need a viable reason if they are to back-off from this commitment to the constraints without losing face. They cannot say they were wrong to have supported AGW because that would lose them votes. And they cannot be seen to be doing nothing in response to the AGW scare because that would lose them votes. They need to be seen to be doing something while really doing nothing unless and until something needs to be done. And a rapid response to an observed problem of AGW is needed. The geo-engineering option provides the needed viable reason to do nothing about AGW now. Slide 16: Geo-engineering method and risks The AGW-scare is founded on an unproven assumption that global temperature is determined by net radiative forcing, and increase to greenhouse gases in the air provides additional positive radiative forcing. Increase to aerosols in the air increases cloud cover to provide additional negative radiative forcing. So, increasing atmospheric aerosols would drop global temperature. And this could be done at relatively little cost, for example, by emitting sulphates from commercial aircraft. Hence, if AGW does prove to be a problem then the geo-engineering is a method to immediately stop its effects when it is detected. Actions to constrain the GHG emissions could then be implemented. The cost of the geo-engineering would be much less than the costs of the constraints to GHG emissions in the period until effects of AGW are detected. Indeed, the costs of the geo-engineering would be trivial compared to the costs of 20% reduction to world-wide GHG emissions for a single year. Slide 17: Geo-engineering method and benefits Importantly, very importantly, if AGW does not prove to be a problem then no constraints to greenhouse gas emissions and no geo-engineering would be needed. In the extremely improbable event that the geo-engineering were needed then it would have very little risk because aerosols wash out of the air in a few days so the geo-engineering and its effects could be stopped instantly in the event that it were to cause a problem. And no such problem is foreseeable. Whether or not AGW does become a real problem in the real world, the geo-engineering option is preferable to adopting constraints on GHG emissions in the near future. And politicians could be seen to be doing something by implementing geo-engineering trials with press publicity and with photo-shoots while continuing to talk about how to constrain CO2 emissions should such constraints ever become needed. This suggested political ploy is not fanciful and it has precedent. Opponents of the nuclear industry have objected that there is no safe method to dispose of nuclear waste. And the nuclear industry has responded by asserting that the waste could be vitrified. A practical method for the vitrification still remains to be developed, but assertion of the possibility of the vitrification has been sufficient to overcome objections to nuclear power in several countries for nearly 40 years. (Incidentally, I am in favour of nuclear power). So, I call for a return to sanity. And I call for health, wealth and prosperity for all humankind. Thankyou. Slide 18: Extract from the draft Copenhagen Treaty |
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RSC: (Richard)
Thank you for sharing that presentation. Maybe those that want to attend the COP15 summit might be better served if they do an internet conference rather than an old style in your face personal meet. Just think of the money and resources that would be saved by not flying and not camping out in an expensive hotel room. Another alternative would be to hold the meeting in the Alaska National Wildlife Reserve. I under stand the average climate there at that time of year would provide supporting evidence of the accuracy of the global warming theory. If not the ANWR then the Denali National Park or Glacier Bay! 8) It seems you overlooked the issue that AGW can be proved and the solution is evident. The warming stopped and reversed in response to the threat of releasing iron dust into the oceans. The theory was that if iron dust were to be released it would provide more food for the microscopic ocean critters that would use the CO2/ calcium carbonate for shells and remove the Carbon to the ocean floor. It seems that just the threat of that put nature into a position where it had to respond by lowering the global temperatures :laugh: |
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Well done, Richard, and I was right with you until you said:
"So, I call for a return to sanity." That kind of extremist wishful thinking will be our downfall, I'm sure of it! ;D I know you think you understand what you thought I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant! |
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Thank you Richard for a splendid presentation. I must admit I had never thought about the ramifications of reducing fossil fuel consumption.
Potato chip enthusiast. |
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awesome read, thanks ! ;D
(This post was last modified: 11-27-2009 04:16 AM by HarpoSpoke.)
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(10-30-2009 10:15 AM)Richard S Courtney Wrote: Slide 5: Fossil fuel statementI've had thoughts along those lines but never in that exact way before. This is an important point that should be stressed more. My one point of contention would be the same discounting of human ingenuity that AGW supporters are known for. I suppose any "doom" prediction depends on assuming that we would not respond to a challenge in a positive way. I do understand the need to put a real dramatic scenario out there....but it bothers me on some level since I've been critical of AGW supporters for doing just this. (In other words, politics makes me ill) I've always assumed that we will leave fossil fuels behind just like we've done everything else. But not in a "forced to change" way. We didn't stop using wood to heat our homes because we ran out of wood for instance. I would not be at all surprised if we were not using oil to run our cars by mid-century....with or without the AGW scare. (the internal combustion engine is 150+ years old...that's a long time for us to stick with a type of technology at this point in our history) Having said all that, the point you made is valid. We should be looking to increase our energy production...not decrease it. That's almost suicidal. The potential of solar energy is exciting and may just be our future...but it's still "potential" at this point. Quote:The Kyoto Protocol is a very expensive. It has been estimated that every man, woman and child on Earth could be supplied with clean drinking water and mains sewers for less than a tenth of the cost of the Kyoto Protocol if it were implemented. This is a point I've tried to make before. I would be curious to know how and by whom that estimate is made. (Bjorn Lomborg perhaps?) |
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Energy and population.
Take control of energy and you have control of the population. I suspect this is the driving force of the AGW travesty. Climate is the excuse. CO2 comes from coal, coal comes from fossilised trees, fossilised trees come from living trees, living trees growth comes from CO2 therefore coal is carbon neutral. ...from here |
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You ask: Quote:This is a point I've tried to make before. I would be curious to know how and by whom that estimate is made. (Bjorn Lomborg perhaps?) Yes, Lomborg. Richard HarpoSpoke: You say: Quote:I've always assumed that we will leave fossil fuels behind just like we've done everything else. But not in a "forced to change" way. We didn't stop using wood to heat our homes because we ran out of wood for instance. I would not be at all surprised if we were not using oil to run our cars by mid-century....with or without the AGW scare. (the internal combustion engine is 150+ years old...that's a long time for us to stick with a type of technology at this point in our history) I agree. But that is 'factor x': the unknown future effect. For example, 300 years ago it would have been possible to say that today's transport system would be impossible because there is not sufficient land to grow all the hay needed for the horses. But, of course, modern transport systems do not need to use hay. What cannot be known is (a) what the future will provide and (b) when the future will provide it. So, we need to act responsibly on the basis of what we have. The problem with 'greens' is that they do not want to act responsibly with what we have because they fear we will not be able to do act that way for ever. Using their logic the people of 300 years ago should have abandoned using horses, and the resulting poverty would have prevented the eventual invention of the steam engine, then the electric motor, then the diesel engine, then ... Richard |
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Richard S Courtney,
Please feel free to send me the slides / images, I can upload them and then put them into your text above as appropriate. Brilliant presentation BTW. I think the "chickens are immanently coming home to roost", and your deserved time approaches. The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. H. L. Mencken. The hobgoblins have to be imaginary so that "they" can offer their solutions, not THE solutions. |
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(11-27-2009 04:37 PM)Derek Wrote: Richard S Courtney, I am sending it to you by email. Importantly, Derek, I am sure you personally want to read this (perhaps start another thread). http://www.globalwarminghoax.com/e107_pl...?1290.last Richard |
(This post was last modified: 11-28-2009 06:59 AM by JohnWho.)
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Very interesting read, Richard.
I wonder if we can either get permission to re-post Bernhard's post here, or even have Bernhard join GWS? While he asks an interesting question regarding why not simple Infrared Spectrophotometry to analyze for CO2 content, I believe he also answers it when he points out that the current state of the art of such equipment is not able to discern the small levels of CO2 in the atmosphere, does he not? The questions: How are we acceptably measuring "global" CO2 levels? and How are we acceptably measuring "global" atmospheric temperatures? Have been asked a number of times. I'm feeling more and more the answer to both is "we are not acceptably measuring either very well", but, then, who am I? I know you think you understand what you thought I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant! |
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Hi All,
Email recieved. - Thank you. THANK YOU Richard for the link above, I will get time later this week to read and digest (I have merely "skimmed" it so far) that post. I did get left (after the MLO threads) with the feeling that no one really understood the method used, and then I sort of "lost interest", you have rekindled it. I may try and contact the man who wrote that article, as I think he could help explain what is actually done, in a far more understandable manner. Then it is time for me to rewrite and post again another version of the MLO posts..... I have been travelling most of this weekend for various reasons, and there are many miles for me to do yet in the near future, so my apologies for not replying to this earlier, I simply have not been able to. I will get on with the slides this evening, and hopefully insert them in the next few hours. Thank you again, Derek. Later edit - Slides now added. I had to repeat Slide 3 as Slide 12 as well, is that correct. ? The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. H. L. Mencken. The hobgoblins have to be imaginary so that "they" can offer their solutions, not THE solutions. |
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Dear Derek:
Thankyou for posting th slides. You ask: (11-29-2009 12:23 PM)Derek Wrote: Later edit - Slides now added. I had to repeat Slide 3 as Slide 12 as well, is that correct. ? No, but what you have done is OK. The confusion arrises because I did not provide the title slide (thinking it was superfluous) so the problem was mine. As an aside, computer problems caused me to lose an item of yours that you wanted me to add some bibleography. I would be grateful if you were to email it to me again so I can do as required. Sorry about this. Richard |
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Dear Richard,
Although what I have done is OK, I am happy to alter / add slides as you want, if required. I will send you a copy of the piece you mention straight away. I am chasing up the other link you very kindly provided, it is potentially very illuminating. ("This" is almost becoming a seasonal "tradition" for me now...LOL) The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. H. L. Mencken. The hobgoblins have to be imaginary so that "they" can offer their solutions, not THE solutions. |
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(11-28-2009 06:58 AM)JohnWho Wrote: Very interesting read, Richard. Quote:It is noteworthy to mention that the detectors for CO2 are either DTC or ECD and not infrared. ...which is not astonishing, since CO2 does not absorb an appreciable amount of infrared radiation. I have always had an issue with the term "green house gas". Let us be clear, only gasses that absorb infrared qualify as such in the context of "global warming". Fact is, that CO2 only absorbs in 3 very weak and very narrow bands infrared light near the wave number 1700 cm ^-1 These are the C=O bond scissoring, C=O bond stretching and C=O torsional bond vibrations. Even the best infrared spectrophotometer like say a Perkin Elmer IR would not be able to detect the difference in IR absorption between .03 and 3 % CO2 !!! Seems that not a whole lot of kinetic energy are being detected,by such equipment that should be able to detect them.Meaning that CO2 is a very minor absorber of thin IR bands,that amounts to several pennies on the dollar. But then again there is not much of a CO2 absorption range in the IR spectrum to brag about anyway. The AGW hypothesis after 20 some years is apparently a stillborn hypothesis,since it could never take off due to the feeble "greenhouse" effect CO2 has when it comes to absorbing a slight amount of OUTGOING IR,and then send part of it back to the surface.Since the emissions is now LOWER than what it had absorbed,it is less energetic than ever. For some reason AGW believers think that after CO2 absorbs some IR will magically convince part of the emissions to travel all the way back to the planets surface,despite the nature of "heat" always wanting to go UPWARD. Their explanations never has made sense to me,and I think that is because what they propose is pure baloney! It is our attitude toward free thought and free expression that will determine our fate. There must be no limit on the range of temperate discussion, no limits on thought. No subject must be taboo. No censor must preside at our assemblies. –William O. Douglas, U.S. Supreme Court Justice, 1952 |
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Modifying or deleting card properties
Modify a card property
Navigate to the Card properties page
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Click the Project admin tab.
Mingle displays the Project settings page.
if you are logged in as a project team member, Mingle displays the Team page.
Click the Card properties link.
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What you can change in the Card properties page...
Show / Hide - properties can be hidden if they are not required for data entry - for example calculated values used in reporting. Hidden card properties are conditional displayed in the card view (to show them check the Show hidden properties checkbox). Most users can only set the value by declaring a default value, or via a transition, or calculated if it's a formula property. Mingle and project admins can update hidden properties via the card view page.
You can also hide a property instead of deleting it, which will retain historical data about changes to that property.
- Lock / Unlock - any Managed List property can be locked, this restricts the set of allowed values to only those predefined by the Project Administrator, team members will not be able to dynamically add new values.
- Transition only? - indicates that the property can only have its value set via a transition, it will not be directly editable.
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You can't change the property type here. If you've accidentally created the property with the incorrect type - you will need to delete it and recreate a new property with the same name.
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For Managed list properties - you can change the list of allowed values by clicking on the Edit values
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Aggregate properties and relationship properties are separately defined as part of a card tree, see Modifying or deleting aggregate properties and Modifying card trees for details.
Delete a card property
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Click the Project admin tab.
Mingle displays the Project settings page.
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Click the Card properties link.
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Mingle will display the Delete property confirmation page
Click on the Continue to delete to permanently delete the property
Deletion of a card property is an unrecoverable action (short of restoring from a database backup). You should consider the consequences of deleting a property, and if you are in any doubt it may be safer to use the hide property feature instead of deleting.
The effects of deleting a property...
Cards using the property
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History view
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- Any card versions which contained only changes to this property will no longer appear in history
Card transitions
- Any card transitions which reference the property as a 'has' value or which assign a value to the property will be deleted
Favorites and tabs
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- Any tabs based on those favorites will also be deleted
- Mingle pages and tables/charts that reference the deleted property will no longer work. The MQL syntax will not be changed, so you will need to manually alter any affected pages to remove references to the deleted property.
A fast way to find all of the pages which use the card property in MQL is to use the Mingle search.
Simply type in the name of the card property e.g. "some property" and hit the Search
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Aggregate properties
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- Consequently - any pages, Favorites, Tabs or Feeds which reference the aggregate property will also be affected.
Formula properties
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Externally stored bookmarks
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Glenerin is quietly situated in an attractive residential area with
direct access to the spectacular Glencloy, where there are peaceful
riverside paths suitable for walking and cycling and the beach is also
close-by and is 2 minutes walk from the acclaimed Auchrannie Spa Resort.
Moinadh is an oasis of peace and tranquility with panoramic sea views and spectacular sunsets over the Mull of Kintyre.
This luxury 4 bedroom (3 en suite) villa adjacent to the 5* Auchrannie Hotel and Spa is a fantastic newly built (2008) property which is situated in the beautiful, peaceful and much sought after 'Paddocks' area of Brodick.
10% discount now available on all available weeks during 2013 when booked before 1st June '13. Book on-line using promo code pr10 or call our sales team 01738 451 641
Beautifully situated opposite the pier in Lamlash, this big spacious
house is perfectly located for an Arran holiday. A moment's stroll to
the beach, an amble to the inn or stroll to the golf course, Lamlash is
delightful spot and Stonewater House makes the most of it.
Scottish Tourist Board Rating:
Situated on the edge of an ancient Scots Pine Forest, Rowan Cottage is truly an oasis of tranquillity and beauty.
Lower Burnside - Cragganmore, Ballindalloch | N831
Aviemore Speyside And The Cairngorms, Central Highlands
Whatever the expectations for your trip to this glorious part of North
Eastern Scotland we can promise you a few good things; honest quality
and simple, understated luxury.
Ardmair Bay House - near Ullapool | N800
Gairloch Ullapool And Wester Ross, Ross And Cromarty, Highlands And Islands
Scottish Tourist Board Rating:
Save £100 1st - 8th June. Book on-line using promo code am100 or call our sales team 01738 451 610
This very spacious and modern house, named after the bay it overlooks,
is set into the rocky hillside and has spectacular views over the sea
and Coigach mountains beyond.
The Olde Smiddy is one of the highest properties on the Isle of Arran, this self catering property has a wow factor as soon as you enter through the front door with many exceptional features.
The Old Coachhouse - Coldingham | A545
Eyemouth And The Berwickshire Coast, Scottish Borders, South Scotland
The former
coach house to Press Castle has been newly converted into a stunning,
contemporary home that retains character quirks such as exposed brick
walls and stable doors.
This high quality house is delightful, with great space including a double height ceiling and minstrel gallery in the living room and excellent fittings and finish.
Ardlarach Lodge - Blackmill Bay, Isle of Luing | A962
Oban And Loch Awe, Argyll, Argyll And The Isles
Scottish Tourist Board Rating:
Book before 1st June and receive 15% discount. Book online using promo code pr15 or call our sales team on 01738 451610.
Or, parties up to 3 guests can enjoy 10% discount - call to book.
Or, parties up to 3 guests can enjoy 10% discount - call to book.
Ardlarach Lodge, set on a traditional working farm, enjoys a truly
spectacular position overlooking the Sound of Luing and commands
fabulous views to the romantic Isles of Scarba and Lunga.
This attractive four bedroom Villa is in an ideally situated next to the five star Auchrannie Hotel.
Whitehouse has enjoyed its wonderful location and views since the 18th century and the house offers spacious and bright accommodation in this rural setting.
The Steadings - Kingairloch Estate, Morvern Peninsula | N789
Ardnamurchan And Ardgour, Fort William And Lochaber, Central Highlands
The Steadings has been imaginatively renovated to create a stylish and
beautifully presented house with stunning views across lush grassland to
the sea and the island of Lismore beyond.
Tigh na Mara - Rosemarkie | N809
Easter Ross And The Black Isle, Ross And Cromarty, Highlands And Islands
Save £100 on all full week and short break bookings on available dates during April, May and June 2013. Book on-line using promo code am100 or call our sales team 01738 451 610
The very best of seaside holiday homes that is simply idyllically placed for a great old fashioned beach holiday!
Tollie Cottage - Ardross, nr Alness | N830
Easter Ross And The Black Isle, Ross And Cromarty, Highlands And Islands
Tollie Cottage offers the best of both worlds for those seeking a self-catering holiday in the Highlands
Shinness Lodge, a traditional stone lodge dating from the 1880's with its veranda overlooking the loch, is ideally situated for a real Highland holiday.


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Choir sings to conserve ancient woodland in Leatherhead
11:00am Wednesday 13th March 2013 in Leisure By Alice Foster, Reporter
A community choir set up in the belief anyone who wants to sing can is performing a charity concert next week.
Soundbytes is singing at Christ Church URC, in Epsom Road, Leatherhead, on Friday, March 22, to support efforts to conserve ancient woodland in Leatherhead.
The choir, which rehearses at Ashtead Baptist Church, in Barnett Wood Lane, is performing to raise money for the Friends of Teazle Wood.
Hazel Hannam was inspired to set up the choir while watching an episode of TV show The Choir in which choirmaster Gareth Malone teaches schoolboys to sing.
Ms Hannam said: "I just thought gosh that's amazing what a great sound you can get.
"I thought I might give that a go myself and see if anyone is interested in singing."
That was back in 2009 and since then the choir raised about £4,000 for charity.
At the charity concert Soundbytes, accompanied by Meredith White on the piano, will sing popular songs and old favourites by Joni Mitchell, Take That, the Beach Boys, Coldplay and the Beatles.
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