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ManageEngine, the real-time IT management company, today announced immediate support for storage monitoring in IT360, its integrated IT management solution. The move continues the IT360 push into the DCIM arena with a unified dashboard and pre-integrated, out-of-the-box support for multi-vendor storage solutions. A live demo of IT360 with storage monitoring can be viewed at http://ow.ly/fIrNN. The latest version of IT360 is available for download at http://ow.ly/frR57.
ManageEngine will be highlighting the new IT360 features in booth #122 at the Gartner Data Center Conference in Las Vegas, December 3–6, 2012.
Data center infrastructure management (DCIM) is a hot topic thanks to the rise in private cloud computing fueling data center growth. The private cloud and data center activity, however, has yet to spark corresponding advances in DCIM software. Simply put, discrete DCIM point solutions can't provide the unified, real-time views needed to optimize the management of data center infrastructures. Companies that do want a single management console must integrate point solutions after the fact, on their own or via professional services engagement. IT360 creates a single console — out-of-the-box with no additional efforts — to give DCIM teams a unified, real-time view of their entire IT infrastructure assets.
"The DCIM market is ripe for a holistic solution that provides real-time IT visibility," said Sridhar Iyengar, vice president of product management, ManageEngine. "We saw a lot of demand from our customers for in-depth monitoring of storage solutions, which are important components in data centers. With IT360, teams inside and outside the data center can monitor and manage their heterogeneous storage environments — and the rest of their IT infrastructure — from a single console."
Storage Monitoring with IT360
The latest version of IT360 supports multi-vendor storage area network (SAN) and network-attached storage (NAS) solutions for storage devices such as storage arrays, fabric switches, tape libraries, host servers and host bus adapter cards. The complete list of supported vendors and devices can be found at http://ow.ly/fFxnm.
IT360 can now perform auto-discovery of storage devices from multiple vendors based on SNMP, CLI, SNIA SMI-S and vendor-specific algorithms. IT360 can discover storage devices such as RAIDs, tape libraries, tape drives, FC switches, host bus adapters and host servers. The latest release of IT360 also allows customers to perform fault management activities by capturing sensor faults such as power supply, temperature, fan, battery and status change notifications from IT360's unified console.
ManageEngine has previously made DCIM inroads with IT360's integrated, ITIL-ready service management module for asset management. That module's CMDB maintains a centralized database of all IT assets inside and outside the data center, so organizations can have a central, single-console repository of their assets to make accurate decisions.
In addition, IT360 monitors all other network and application-based data center infrastructure including virtualized environment and cloud-based applications. The end-user monitoring module in IT360 has helped customers around the globe to monitor and enhance their user's application experience.
"Today, we are managing many customers' infrastructure using IT360," says Larry Dutton, product manager at Redstone, the UK IT and network services company and an IT360 customer since 2010. "We are experts in IT, and customers expect us to bring innovation and best practices proactively to them. With ManageEngine, we have brought them a system that is relevant to their business requirements now and in the future."
Pricing and Availability
IT360 with storage monitoring is available immediately to download at http://www.manageengine.com/it360/download.html. For pricing, please visit http://www.manageengine.com/it360/get-quote.html.
For more information on IT360, visit http://www.manageengine.com/it360/. For more information on ManageEngine, please visit http://www.manageengine.com; follow the company blog at http://blogs.manageengine.com, on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/ManageEngine and on Twitter at @ManageEngine.
Related ManageEngine Resources
- ManageEngine Brings VMware vCenter, Desktop Management Features to IT360; http://ow.ly/d1PJd
- ManageEngine IT360 Integrated IT Management Now Available for the iPad; http://ow.ly/cor1u
About IT360
The IT360 dashboard provides a 360-degree view across IT to proactively monitor performance. It is designed to monitor and manage IT infrastructures for medium and large enterprises, and adds a business context to monitoring IT resources to help the various stakeholders understand the impact of downtimes on the business. IT360 comprises network performance, server and application performance, database performance, and end-user experience management for IT operations and an ITIL help desk for IT service management, all in one product. In addition to direct use by enterprises, IT360 is also available for MSPs who offer IT management. The latest version of IT360 will feature support for the management console on an iPad in addition to other features. IT360, with the latest iPad support, will ensure that business and IT users can keep track of key IT metrics and make informed and meaningful decisions in real time, anytime and anywhere, to ensure business continuity. For more information, please visit http://www.manageengine.com/it360.
About ManageEngine
ManageEngine delivers the real-time IT management tools that empower an IT team to meet an organization's need for real-time services and support. Worldwide, more than 65,000 established and emerging enterprises - including more than 60 percent of the Fortune 500 — rely on ManageEngine products to ensure the optimal performance of their critical IT infrastructure, including networks, servers, applications, desktops and more. ManageEngine is a division of Zoho Corp. with offices worldwide, including the United States, United Kingdom, India, Japan and China. For more information, please visit http://www.manageengine.com/; follow the company blog at http://blogs.manageengine.com/, on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/ManageEngine and on Twitter at @ManageEngine.
ManageEngine is a trademark of Zoho Corp. All other brand names and product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies.
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A border collie named Kelso bested about 255 other dogs to win the agility event.
Established decades ago, agility is an increasingly popular canine pursuit. The number of dogs competing in agility trials sanctioned by the American Kennel Club, the governing body for many canine events, has grown by nearly 50 percent over the last five years.
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Former NASA scientists and administrators denounce current NASA and GISS climate change stance
In a letter to NASA's Administrator, 50 former NASA scientists and astronauts voice their displeasure over the climate change stance NASA has taken finding it to be unsubstantiated by science. They request that NASA "refrain from including unproven and unsupported remarks in its future releases and websites on this subject." Among those signing the letter is Dr. Chris Kraft, the former Apollo Flight Director and Director of Johnson Space Center for 24 years.
We, the undersigned, respectfully request that NASA and the Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) refrain from including unproven remarks in public releases and websites. We believe the claims by NASA and GISS, that man-made carbon dioxide is having a catastrophic impact on global climate change are not substantiated, especially when considering thousands of years of empirical data. With hundreds of well-known climate scientists and tens of thousands of other scientists publicly declaring their disbelief in the catastrophic forecasts, coming particularly from the GISS leadership, it is clear that the science is NOT settled.
The unbridled advocacy of CO2 being the major cause of climate change is unbecoming of NASA's history of making an objective assessment of all available scientific data prior to making decisions or public statements.
As former NASA employees, we feel that NASA's advocacy of an extreme position, prior to a thorough study of the possible overwhelming impact of natural climate drivers is inappropriate. We request that NASA refrain from including unproven and unsupported remarks in its future releases and websites on this subject. At risk is damage to the exemplary reputation of NASA, NASA's current or former scientists and employees, and even the reputation of science itself.
Apparently Dr. James Hansen's most recent charge that global warming is the moral equivalent of slavery was the last straw, and the men and women who signed the letter refuse to suffer the embarrassment he continues to bring to NASA in silence.
Note the last sentence in the first paragraph where the letter writers make the most obvious point – the science, despite claims by alarmists to the contrary, is NOT settled. Additionally, much to the displeasure of the alarmists, as more and more scientific information comes available on the subject, the majority does NOT support their theory.
Thus the desperation exhibited by alarmist advocates like Hansen and his "slavery" nonsense.
The scam is coming apart at the seams and those like Hansen who've staked their professional reputations on the bad science that undergirded it are now suffering the appropriate consequences.
That is, being dismissed as a serious scientist.
And deservedly so.
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"Scientific consensus?" That's intellectual baby-talk
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As they filed in, Lord Monckton was chatting contentedly to a quaveringly bossy woman with messy blonde hair who was head of the college environmental faction. Her group had set up a table at the door of the auditorium, covered in slogans scribbled on messy bits of recycled burger boxes held together with duct tape (Re-Use Cardboard Now And Save The Planet). "There's a CONSENSUS!" she shrieked.
"That, Madame, is intellectual baby-talk," replied Lord Monckton. Had she not heard of Aristotle's codification of the commonest logical fallacies in human discourse, including that which the medieval schoolmen would later describe as the argumentum ad populum, the headcount fallacy? From her reddening face and baffled expression, it was possible to deduce that she had not. Nor had she heard of the argumentum ad verecundiam, the fallacy of appealing to the reputation of those in authority.
And it goes down hill for the militant warmists from there.
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Two more scientist change sides in the AGW debate
In fact, it seems as if it isn't really much of a debate anymore.
First, let me be clear, the debate among scientists isn't whether CO2 is a greenhouse gas or whether, even, it can cause warming, but instead on what real (if any) total effect it has overall on the climate. In other words, is there a saturation point where additional CO2 has little marginal effect, or does it build to a tipping point where the change is radical? Robust climate or delicate climate?
Evidence is building toward the robust climate theory, which would mean that while there may be more CO2 being emitted, it has little to no effect on the overall climate. That, of course, is contrary to the AGW crowd's theory.
So, on to the latest high profile defections:
One of the fathers of Germany's modern green movement, Professor Dr. Fritz Vahrenholt, a social democrat and green activist, decided to author a climate science skeptical book together with geologist/paleontologist Dr. Sebastian Lüning. Vahrenholt's skepticism started when he was asked to review an IPCC report on renewable energy. He found hundreds of errors. When he pointed them out, IPCC officials simply brushed them aside. Stunned, he asked himself, "Is this the way they approached the climate assessment reports?"
Vahrenholt decided to do some digging. His colleague Dr. Lüning also gave him a copy of Andrew Montford's The Hockey Stick Illusion. He was horrified by the sloppiness and deception he found. Persuaded by Hoffmann & Campe, he and Lüning decided to write the book. Die kalte Sonne cites 800 sources and has over 80 charts and figures. It examines and summarizes the latest science.
Vahrenholt concluded, through his research, that the science of the IPCC (if you can call it that) was mostly political and had been "hyped."
Germany's flagship weekly news magazine Der Spiegel today also featured a 4-page exclusive interview with Vahrenholt, where he repeated that the IPCC has ignored a large part of climate science and that IPCC scientists exaggerated the impact of CO2 on climate. Vahrenholt said that by extending the known natural cycles of the past into the future, and taking CO2′s real impact into effect, we should expect a few tenths of a degree of cooling.
That, as I said, points to the "robust" climate model.
Once more to make the point before I leave the subject:
Skeptic readers should not think that the book will fortify their existing skepticism of CO2 causing warming. The authors agree it does. but have major qualms about the assumed positive CO2-related feed-backs and believe the sun plays a far greater role in the whole scheme of things.
As Dr. Roy Spencer says, CO2 is a greenhouse gas. Adding CO2 should cause warming. The argument is "how much" and that's based on competing theories about the climate's sensitivity. Skeptics think the sensitivity is very low while alarmists think it is very high. The building evidence is that rising CO2 has little warming effect in real terms regardless of the amount of the gas emitted. That there is a "saturation level". If that's true, and indications are it is, then there's a) no justification for limiting emissions and b) certainly no justification to tax them.
That, of course, is where politics enter the picture. Governments like the idea of literally creating a tax out of thin air, especially given the current financial condition of most states. Consequently, governments are more likely to fund science that supports their desired conclusion – and it seems that in this case there were plenty who were willing to comply (especially, as Patrick J. Michael has noted, when that gravy train amounts to $103 billion in grants).
What Vahrenholt is objecting too is the IPCC's key definition in which it clearly states that "climate change" is a result of and because of "human contributions". As noted above, he thinks that the sun is a much greater factor (something mostly ignored in the models) and he finds past CO2 trends to forecast nothing like the IPCC's forecast.
What we're finding as this argument goes forward is that Patrick Michaels was right – "AGW theory functions best in a data free environment".
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Global cooling?
But, but, polar bears, rising oceans, melting ice, oh my:
The supposed 'consensus' on man-made global warming is facing an inconvenient challenge after the release of new temperature data showing the planet has not warmed for the past 15 years. The figures suggest that we could even be heading for a mini ice age to rival the 70-year temperature drop that saw frost fairs held on the Thames in the 17th Century. Based on readings from more than 30,000 measuring stations, the data was issued last week without fanfare by the Met Office and the University of East Anglia Climatic Research Unit. It confirms that the rising trend in world temperatures ended in 1997.
For those alarmists still stuck in the alarmist convenient "science" of the 20th century, this is the inconvenient scientific truth of this century … no warming despite the fact that man-made CO2 levels have gone up. As David Rose remarks, "the 'supposed' consensus" is apparently wrong.
I'm sure you understand why this temperature data was released last week with little "fanfare". Had it been the opposite finding, we'd have been treated to a parade of alarmists again claiming that we need to tax ourselves back to the stone age in order to save the planet.
Oh, and remember that big, hot, yellow thing that hangs in the sky that I have mentioned repeatedly should be factored in to the "science" of global warming vs. being ignored? Henrik Svensmark, Denmark's National Space Institute seems to feel the same way:
World temperatures may end up a lot cooler than now for 50 years or more. It will take a long battle to convince some climate scientists that the sun is important. It may well be that the sun is going to demonstrate this on its own, without the need for their help.
So alarmists can't ignore this anymore. They can't fall back on consensus, because consensus isn't science. In fact, right now, given the new data, it is their reputations on the line, not that of the skeptics:
If temperatures continue to stay flat or start to cool again, the divergence between the models and recorded data will eventually become so great that the whole scientific community will question the current theories. The real issue is whether the model itself is accurate.
And, of course, indications are (many indications are) that they're not. For instance:
The responsible thing to do would be to accept the fact that the models may have severe shortcomings when it comes to the influence of the sun,' said Professor Curry. As for the warming pause, she said that many scientists 'are not surprised'.
he argued it is becoming evident that factors other than CO2 play an important role in rising or falling warmth, such as the 60-year water temperature cycles in the Pacific and Atlantic oceans.
'They have insufficiently been appreciated in terms of global climate,' said Prof Curry. When both oceans were cold in the past, such as from 1940 to 1970, the climate cooled. The Pacific cycle 'flipped' back from warm to cold mode in 2008 and the Atlantic is also thought likely to flip in the next few years .
Pal Brekke, senior adviser at the Norwegian Space Centre, said some scientists found the importance of water cycles difficult to accept, because doing so means admitting that the oceans – not CO2 – caused much of the global warming between 1970 and 1997.
One of the other indicators was to be found in the Lysenkoish conformity that was imposed on this branch of science by alarmists.
Although the number of publicly dissenting scientists is growing, many young scientists furtively say that while they also have serious doubts about the global-warming message, they are afraid to speak up for fear of not being promoted—or worse. They have good reason to worry. In 2003, Dr. Chris de Freitas, the editor of the journal Climate Research, dared to publish a peer-reviewed article with the politically incorrect (but factually correct) conclusion that the recent warming is not unusual in the context of climate changes over the past thousand years. The international warming establishment quickly mounted a determined campaign to have Dr. de Freitas removed from his editorial job and fired from his university position. Fortunately, Dr. de Freitas was able to keep his university job.
This is not the way science is supposed to work, but we have seen it before—for example, in the frightening period when Trofim Lysenko hijacked biology in the Soviet Union. Soviet biologists who revealed that they believed in genes, which Lysenko maintained were a bourgeois fiction, were fired from their jobs. Many were sent to the gulag and some were condemned to death.
Certainly dissenting scientists weren't sent to actual gulags but attempts were to made banish them to academic gulags with their credentials in tatters.
16 scientists wrote the above two paragraphs and then reveal what drove this breech of the scientific method was, as we've mentioned before, pretty mundane and fairly obvious if you just took the time to look:
Why is there so much passion about global warming, and why has the issue become so vexing that the American Physical Society, from which Dr. Giaever resigned a few months ago, refused the seemingly reasonable request by many of its members to remove the word "incontrovertible" from its description of a scientific issue? There are several reasons, but a good place to start is the old question "cui bono?" Or the modern update, "Follow the money."
Alarmism over climate is of great benefit to many, providing government funding for academic research and a reason for government bureaucracies to grow. Alarmism also offers an excuse for governments to raise taxes, taxpayer-funded subsidies for businesses that understand how to work the political system, and a lure for big donations to charitable foundations promising to save the planet. Lysenko and his team lived very well, and they fiercely defended their dogma and the privileges it brought them.
These 16 scientists also give a little political advice that should be heeded:
Speaking for many scientists and engineers who have looked carefully and independently at the science of climate, we have a message to any candidate for public office: There is no compelling scientific argument for drastic action to "decarbonize" the world's economy. Even if one accepts the inflated climate forecasts of the IPCC, aggressive greenhouse-gas control policies are not justified economically.
No compelling scientific argument?
See above.
For 15 years the earth has not been warming even while man-made CO2 levels have risen.
That's scientific fact and it is time the alarmist crowd began dealing straight with the public using facts.
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Obama's Climate Change Plan: Barter away your Grandchildren's money, legislate away yours
Todd Stern, the Obama administration's "Special Envoy for Climate Change", held a quick press conference in Durban, South Africa where a UN conference on climate change is being held. He first made it a point to deny that the US was taking a "time out" until 2020. He then said a couple of things which should make clear the administration's agenda.
First, without a viable alternative for fossil fuel to this point, the intent of the administration is to increase prices on those fuels that will ensure they're "priced the way they ought to be". Stern:
You need to use less energy through efficiency and to develop renewable energy sources more and more to the point that they get to what's called grid parity, so that standing on their own they actually become sources of energy that can compete with sources like coal and so forth, fossil fuels.
And it is a very good thing to have those fossil fuel sources priced the way they ought to be, to have a price on carbon. That's what we were trying to do with our legislation, it didn't pass, but that kind of legislation obviously is in place in Europe, and hopefully it will come into place more and more.'
Now remember, this is from the administration that has claimed the mantle of champion of the middle class. Yet its plan is to price much of the middle class into energy poverty if it can ever get its legislation passed. And for those that will try to argue that it's a plan for the future when there are, arguendo, viable alternatives, that's nonsense. "It didn't pass" tells you all you need to know about that claim.
Secondly, this administration has bought into the 100 billion (a year) dollar fund that the "rich countries" are supposed to fund to help the "poor countries" (like China and India). Stern:
We will also be working hard to ramp up the funding that is supposed to reach a 100 billion dollars a year by 2020. There's a ton of work to be done in the years. We have been doing a lot of work on this, this year, and we will be continuing to do that as are many other countries. And all at the same time, if we get the kind of roadmap that countries have called for — the EU has called for, that the U.S. supports — for preparing for and negotiating a future regime, whether it ends up being legally binding or not, we don't know yet, but we are strongly committed to a promptly starting process to move forward on that.
Tell your grandkids to start saving up, because the Obama administration is getting ready to shackle them and their future earnings to a global redistribution scheme based in fraudulent science (regardless of what Sen. Barbara "Ma'am" Boxer claims).
As with health care reform, there is no popular support in the US for this sort of nonsense, yet your enlightened rulers certainly believe they know better – just ask them. And they intend to push their ideological agenda instead of doing the will of the people. As for you little people, just suck it up and learn to appreciate (and pay for) their enlightened rule, OK?
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It is "global warming week" and the press will be full of it
Why? Because there's a UN meeting beginning in Durbin, South Africa on "climate change" and the propaganda will be freely flowing.
A new round of United Nations climate talks is getting under way in Durban, South Africa, Monday. And domestic struggles here in the United States are hampering the global talks.
The United States is second only to China in emitting gases that cause global warming. Despite a presidential pledge to reduce emissions two years ago, we're spewing more carbon dioxide than ever into the atmosphere.
That's putting a crimp on the 20-year-long struggle to develop a meaningful climate treaty.
Really? That's what's putting a crimp on it? Or is the unquestioned acceptance of the premise "emitting gases" causes "global warming" perhaps the problem when it appears the "science" is falling apart?
What is interesting to me is to watch those who unquestionably accept this premise ignore the profound problems the "science" that supports this nonsense has shown.
Christopher Booker does a good job of distilling the problem, here speaking of the UK government:
To grasp the almost suicidal state of unreality our Government has been driven into by the obsession with global warming, it is necessary to put together the two sides to an overall picture – each vividly highlighted by events of recent days.
On one hand there is the utterly lamentable state of the science which underpins it all, illuminated yet again by "Climategate 2.0", the latest release of emails between the leading scientists who for years have been at the heart of the warming scare (which I return to below). On the other hand, we see the damage done by the political consequences of this scare, which will directly impinge, in various ways, on all our lives.
Like driving up energy costs to a point that energy poverty will be a common problem. Booker has another nice body slam to the "premise" later on in his article:
While our Government remains trapped in its green dreamworld, similar horror stories pile up on every side, from that UBS report on the astronomically costly fiasco of the EU's carbon-trading scheme, to our own Government's "carbon floor price", in effect a tax on CO2 emissions rising yearly from 2013. This alone will eventually be enough to double the cost of our electricity, and drive a further swathe of what remains of UK industry abroad, because we are the only country in the world to have devised something so idiotic.
All this madness ultimately rests on a blind faith in the threat of man-made global warming, which no one has done more to promote than the scientists whose private emails were again last week leaked onto the internet.
It is still not generally appreciated that the significance of these Climategate emails is that their authors, such as Michael Mann, are no ordinary scientists: they are a little group of fanatical insiders who have, for years, done more than anyone else to drive the warming scare, through their influence at the heart of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. And what is most striking about the picture that emerges from these emails is just how questionable the work of these men appears.
That's entirely true if you actually read through the released emails. What you read isn't science, it is "scientists" tailoring their "science" to fit a political agenda in order to keep the grant gravy train rolling. The deniers, in this particular horror show, are the true believers who have, on faith, accepted the "premise" and refuse to question it or examine the evidence which argues strongly against it.
To be clear, the whole debate revolves around "climate sensitivity" to CO2. Those on the side of man-made global warming claim the environment is highly sensitive to CO2. The so-called "deniers" claim it isn't at all. And for those who've followed the debate, the real science seems to support the so-called "deniers".
The climate may be less sensitive to carbon dioxide than we thought – and temperature rises this century could be smaller than expected. That's the surprise result of a new analysis of the last ice age. However, the finding comes from considering just one climate model, and unless it can be replicated using other models, researchers are dubious that it is genuine.
As more greenhouse gases enter the atmosphere, more heat is trapped and temperatures go up – but by how much? The best estimates say that if the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere doubles, temperatures will rise by 3 °C. This is the "climate sensitivity".
But the 3 °C figure is only an estimate. In 2007, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) said the climate sensitivity could be anywhere between 2 and 4.5 °C. That means the temperature rise from a given release of carbon dioxide is still uncertain.
But you wouldn't know that by listening to the alarmists (and much of the press) who continue to claim the science is settled. And that's in the face of this:
The global output of heat-trapping carbon dioxide jumped by the biggest amount on record, the U.S.Department of Energy calculated, a sign of how feeble the world's efforts are at slowing man-made global warming.
The new figures for 2010 mean that levels of greenhouse gases are higher than the worst case scenario outlined by climate experts just four years ago.
… Prof Curry said, the project's research data show there has been no increase in world temperatures since the end of the Nineties – a fact confirmed by a new analysis that The Mail on Sunday has obtained.
'There is no scientific basis for saying that warming hasn't stopped,' she said. 'To say that there is detracts from the credibility of the data, which is very unfortunate.'
… [S]he added, in the wake of the unexpected global warming standstill, many climate scientists who had previously rejected sceptics' arguments were now taking them much more seriously.
They were finally addressing questions such as the influence of clouds, natural temperature cycles and solar radiation – as they should have done, she said, a long time ago.
But the true believers gathering in Durbin SA? Still reject the fact that the so-called "science" of global warming is under fierce and sustained attack and is being found to be increasingly wanting in both substance and fact.
And I don't know about you but it seems incredible to me that, as Prof. Curry notes, scientists are "finally addressing" the influence of "clouds, natural temperature cycles and solar radiation".
Finally!? How in the world could "science" not have included those originally? How could they have somehow been factored out?
That's actually an easy question to answer.
Because including them wouldn't have given the "scientists" in question the results necessary to support the "premise" cooked up by those pushing the man-made global warming agenda. And that, of course, meant an end to the grant money of multi billions of dollars.
Meanwhile in Durbin this week, the real deniers are going to be busily trying to trade away your ability to purchase cheap and plentiful energy through various schemes which will advance their agenda and put the rest of humanity in an unrecoverable energy deficit.
Delegates at the conference will also be hammering out the details of a plan to administer the Green Climate Fund, money that is to help poor countries deal with climate change.
The fund is expected to grow over the next eight years to eventually distribute about $100 billion a year. However, it is still unclear where all of that money will come from and how it will be distributed.
In addition to the usual international development funds from the West, proposals include a carbon surcharge on international shipping and on air tickets, as well as a levy on international financial transactions.
This is what junk science tied to a political agenda brings. And, as usual, you'll be levied to pay the bill they agree on with your money and your way of life.
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Climategate 2.0
As of today, FOIA.org released another 7zip file—which can be obtained here—containing 5000 unencypted, and an additional 250,000 encrypted, climate change emails from all the usual suspects we remember from Climategate. FOIA.org says they don't plan on releasing the encryption keys for the remaining emails yet, but the 5,000 unencrypted emails are…interesting.
More background is available from Pajamas Media and the links they provide. But the good stuff is in the emails themselves.
One quick take-away: Michael Mann's temperature results may be…questionable.
<4241> Wilson:
I thought I'd play around with some randomly generated time-series and see if I could 'reconstruct' northern hemisphere temperatures.
[...] The reconstructions clearly show a 'hockey-stick' trend. I guess this is precisely the phenomenon that Macintyre has been going on about.
That would seem to be a pretty big vulnerability in the "hockey stick".
And the IPCC process seems…really questionable.
<1939> Thorne/MetO:
Observations do not show rising temperatures throughout the tropical troposphere unless you accept one single study and approach and discount a wealth of others. This is just downright dangerous. We need to communicate the uncertainty and be honest. Phil, hopefully we can find time to discuss these further if necessary [...]
<3066> Thorne:
I also think the science is being manipulated to put a political spin on it which for all our sakes might not be too clever in the long run.
<4755> Overpeck:
The trick may be to decide on the main message and use that to guid[e] what's included and what is left out.
<1104> Wanner/NCCR:
In my [IPCC-TAR] review [...] I crit[i]cized [...] the Mann hockey[s]tick [...] My review was classified "unsignificant" even I inquired several times. Now the internationally well known newspaper SPIEGEL got the information about these early statements because I expressed my opinion in several talks, mainly in Germany, in 2002 and 2003. I just refused to give an exclusive interview to SPIEGEL because I will not cause damage for climate science.
<0414> Coe:
Hence the AR4 Section 22.214.171.124.2 dismissal of the ACRIM composite to be instrumental rather than solar in origin is a bit controversial. Similarly IPCC in their discussion on solar RF since the Maunder Minimum are very dependent on the paper by Wang et al (which I have been unable to access) in the decision to reduce the solar RF significantly despite the many papers to the contrary in the ISSI workshop. All this leaves the IPCC almost entirely dependent on CO2 for the explanation of current global temperatures as in Fig 2.23. since methane CFCs and aerosols are not increasing.
<2009> Briffa:
I find myself in the strange position of being very skeptical of the quality of all present reconstructions, yet sounding like a pro greenhouse zealot here!
But, remember, the science is settled!
<0310> Warren:
The results for 400 ppm stabilization look odd in many cases [...] As it stands we'll have to delete the results from the paper if it is to be published.
<1682> Wils:
[2007] What if climate change appears to be just mainly a multidecadal natural fluctuation? They'll kill us probably [...]
<2267> Wilson:
Although I agree that GHGs are important in the 19th/20th century (especially since the 1970s), if the weighting of solar forcing was stronger in the models, surely this would diminish the significance of GHGs.
[...] it seems to me that by weighting the solar irradiance more strongly in the models, then much of the 19th to mid 20th century warming can be explained from the sun alone.
<5315> Jenkins/MetO:
would you agree that there is no convincing evidence for kilimanjaro glacier melt being due to recent warming (let alone man-made warming)?
<2292> Jones:
[tropical glaciers] There is a small problem though with their retreat. They have retreated a lot in the last 20 years yet the MSU2LT data would suggest that temperatures haven't increased at these levels.
<1788> Jones:
There shouldn't be someone else at UEA with different views [from "recent extreme weather is due to global warming"] – at least not a climatologist.
<4693> Crowley:
I am not convinced that the "truth" is always worth reaching if it is at the cost of damaged personal relationships
<2733> Crowley:
Phil, thanks for your thoughts – guarantee there will be no dirty laundry in the open.
<2095> Steig:
He's skeptical that the warming is as great as we show in East Antarctica — he thinks the "right" answer is more like our detrended results in the supplementary text. I cannot argue he is wrong.
<4470> Norwegian Meteorological Institute:
In Norway and Spitsbergen, it is possible to explain most of the warming after the 1960s by changes in the atmospheric circulation. The warming prior to 1940 cannot be explained in this way.
<4944> Haimberger:
It is interesting to see the lower tropospheric warming minimum in the tropics in all three plots, which I cannot explain. I believe it is spurious but it is remarkably robust against my adjustment efforts.
You know what else is remarkably robust against adjustment efforts? Reality.
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The left's new "global warming?" Income inequality
Apparently income inequality is the new cult of the left. And they intend upon exploiting it to their advantage. Never mind the fact that It makes the same sort of erroneous assumptions as does global warming: A) that there's a perfect temperature for the earth and B) man is screwing it up.
Income inequality makes two such assumptions: A) economics is a zero sum game so when the rich get more the poor get less, B) income classes are static.
Finally, in the case of both, the solution is government intervention. In the case of global warming the solution is to tax us back into the stone age to prevent the production of CO2 and maintain whatever temperature target they're gunning for. In the case of income inequality, the solution is government taxing the "rich" and redistributing their income to ensure the rich don't get more than their "fair share". That's sort of like that perfect temperature I was talking about .. who gets to decide what is a "fair share?"
Of course it plays into the left's love of class warfare. Such warfare allows the left, which seems to have an ingrained guilt about succeeding and being richer or better off than others, to use these issues to a) assuage that guilt and b) use government as an instrument of utopian change (social engineering).
One of the most attractive aspects of this nation's founding was the fact that government was formed to fulfill and entirely different role than it had traditionally to that point. It was chartered to be an institution that protected the rights of the people who were the sovereigns and in charge. Government was to be a sort of "night watchman" who protected us from force and fraud both internally and externally. And to discharge those duties the government was given certainly powers to do so.
But never envisioned or entertained was the idea that government would intrude to such an extent as it has today. That's because those who wrote the founding document understood what freedom and liberty meant. And they also realized that any intrusion by government in areas other than that of protecting rights actually meant violating rights. Certainly not the rights of all, but it must violate rights, such as that to property, to take from one and give to another under such flimsy pretexts such as those presented by income inequality and global warming.
Government intrusion and cronyism (both economic and political) are rampant now (and not just on the left). The system is horribly corrupted, the government far too intrusive and the left continues to try to change government's focus from night watchman to Candyman.
Unfortunately, they seem to have had far more success than they should have or we wouldn't be discussing this right now or noting the seriousness which one has to take these issues.
The level of intrusion and cronyism (both economic and political) will end up destroying this country. It is well on its way now. And all of it being done in the name of fairness, equality and compassion.
There is no fairness involved in taking something someone earned and giving it to someone who hasn't earned it. There's no equality involved in shackling one person to the needs of another. And it certainly isn't compassionate to make someone dependent on another.
But that's where the left wants to take us.
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Climate Alarmists claim victory with an old and discredited data set on temperature
Kevin Drum is all excited. Writing at Mother Jones he tells us:
But Muller's congressional testimony last March didn't go according to plan. He told them a preliminary analysis suggested that the three main climate models in use today—each of which uses a different estimating technique, and each of which has potential flaws—are all pretty accurate: Global temperatures have gone up considerably over the past century, and the increase has accelerated over the past few decades. Yesterday, BEST confirmed these results and others in its first set of published papers about land temperatures.
Oh boy … confirmation. "I told you so" time. Finally got those deniers pinned to the wall.
Yeah, not really. Anthony Watts cites a paragraph from the Economist and then explains why this isn't anything new:
Economist: "There are three compilations of mean global temperatures, each one based on readings from thousands of thermometers, kept in weather stations and aboard ships, going back over 150 years. Two are American, provided by NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), one is a collaboration between Britain's Met Office and the University of East Anglia's Climate Research Unit (known as Hadley CRU). And all suggest a similar pattern of warming: amounting to about 0.9°C over land in the past half century."
The nearly identical trends is no surprise as they draw from mostly the same raw data!
Same old data (that's been questioned quite often given the location of many of the temperature stations in parking lots, fudging of numbers, cherry picking, etc), "new" trend analysis, same results.
Watts concludes:
The new Muller et al study, therefore, has a very major unanswered question. I have asked it on Judy's [Curry] weblog since she is a co-author of these studies [and Muller never replied to my request to answer this question].
"Hi Judy – I encourage you to document how much overlap there is in Muller's analysis with the locations used by GISS, NCDC and CRU. In our paper
Pielke Sr., R.A., C. Davey, D. Niyogi, S. Fall, J. Steinweg-Woods, K. Hubbard, X. Lin, M. Cai, Y.-K. Lim, H. Li, J. Nielsen-Gammon, K. Gallo, R. Hale, R. Mahmood, S. Foster, R.T. McNider, and P. Blanken, 2007: Unresolved issues with the assessment of multi-decadal global land surface temperature trends. J. Geophys. Res., 112, D24S08, doi:10.1029/2006JD008229.http://pielkeclimatesci.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/r-321.pdf
we reported that
"The raw surface temperature data from which all of the different global surface temperature trend analyses are derived are essentially the same. The best estimate that has been reported is that 90–95% of the raw data in each of the analyses is the same (P. Jones, personal communication, 2003)."
Unless, Muller pulls from a significantly different set of raw data, it is no surprise that his trends are the same.
More deception cloaked as "new" science from the alarmist crowd.
What a surprise indeed.
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Top NASA scientist arrested
James Hansen is paid $180,000 per year by the taxpayers as the Director of the Goddard Institute for Space Studies. Happily, we apparently weren't paying him today, when he was arrested—again—for taking part in a protest at the White House over the proposed K7 pipeline.
Prior to the protest, Hansen told environmental blog SolveClimate News of his plans to join the protest and risk arrest, because the threat the pipeline poses to the climate is too great to ignore.
"If [Obama] chooses the dirty needle, it's game over because it will confirm that Obama was just greenwashing, like the other well-oiled, coal-fired politicians with no real intention of solving the addiction."
Canada is going to sell its dope, if it can find a buyer," Hansen said.
This is the "dope" that prevents us from freezing to death in the dark, by the way.
By the way, guess what Dr. Hansen does. He's NASA's top climate scientist, and he's firmly in the AGW camp. He's called for the equivalent of war crimes trials for oil executives for "high crimes against humanity and nature". He is one of the leading figures in the world in pushing AGW.
But I'm sure that he's completely objective in reviewing any science that conflicts with his activism. After all, that's what we're paying him 180 grand per year to do.
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Warren Ellis's prose novel Gun Machine is a terrific cop storyA comic review article by: Jason Sacks
Warren Ellis's novel Gun Machine begins with a scene that immediately captures a reader's attention: two New York detectives are called out to answer the threat of a manic naked man waving a gun at a fellow resident of a run-down tenement. The cops run up the stairs to the place where the confrontation is occurring, but one policeman stumbles as he ascends the walk-up. The crazy guy fires his gun and shoots the officer who stumbled. In a flash, the slain officer's partner fires back, and –in unforgettable slow motion --the naked guy is taken down.
If you're a reader like me, that scene quickly captured your attention and made you curious to read what happened next in this tumultuous story. But, as often happens in a Warren Ellis joint, the fight with the naked man is a bit of misdirection. The really important stuff isn't happening in the hallway between the poor officer and his equally unfortunate killer.
No, the real driver for the plot is in an adjacent apartment, which has been meticulously sealed off from the rest of the building via a series of virtually unbreakable locks. Concerned that someone in the apartment may have been killed by a stray bullet, the cops break down the wall and find something they could never have expected: an apartment completely full of guns, wall to ceiling, covering nearly every space on the walls. What's worse is that, as the ballistics team soon discovers, all of the weapons are different from each other and had all been used in unsolved murders in the city.
That's a hell of a double-barreled hook, a mystery that Ellis uses to propel the reader through 300 action- and mystery-packed pages. But as is frequently the case with the best police novels, the focus is as much on the men tracking down the crimes as it is on the crime and criminals itself. And it's in the area of characterization that Ellis especially shines.
As much as it is a cop story, Gun Machine is also a tale of redemption. It tells the tale of John Tallow, a complex and thoughtful figure who has been burned out by his job; bored, frustrated and just playing out the string, but a singular man with a surprising amount of internal fire and grit who finds himself changed and renewed by his pursuit of the strange killer who filled his apartment with guns.
Tallow is one of those creations who is very specifically his own person: he's very well read, passionate, and surprisingly charming for someone who seems at time to have lost his connection with the rest of the human race. As he teams up with two other lovable weirdos from a select police unit to track down the killer, a wonderful sense of family and belonging evolves inside him. Surprisingly, by losing his former lifeline to the world – a man whose wife he had never even met - Tallow gains newer and deeper connections to the world around him.
Truth be told, the core plotline of this book was the most flat element of Gun Machine to me. Every time the mysterious killer stepped on stage with all his talk of recapturing New York for the Native Americans and his strange gun obsession, I became less interested in the book. The macguffin in this case was far less interesting than the human story that the killer facilitates, but then again I've always been more fascinated in normal people than their psychotic counterparts.
You obviously know Warren Ellis mainly from his work on Transmetropolitan, Planetary and recent Avengers comics but this is his second prose novel. His 2008 Crooked Little Vein was an outrageously silly look into New York's underground, one of those books that fairly screamed "look at me be absurd!" But Gun Machine shows a side of Ellis that we all knew existed but sometimes need to be reminded about: he's a talented wordsmith who is especially adept with creating compelling characters.
Gun Machine is the best kind of head-fake novel; in the service of a fairly exciting plot, Warren Ellis creates a compelling set of characters that I hope we get to meet again.


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Sep 12, 2012 7:44 AM
I could have told you when I first heard about this movie that the makers were going to be called racists. Almost everybody who opposes Mr. Obama will be accused of being a racist. As ludicrous as that seems, it is still effective because of the indoctrination and ignorance of the masses.


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An aquarium wall has spontaneously shattered in Shanghai in China. CCTV images show the 15-centimetre thick glass exploding outwards, shooting thousands of gallons of water onto the pavement. 16 people were hurt but there were no fatalities.
The accident also caused the collapse of a cosmetics counter inside the shopping mall which housed the aquarium, but the sales assistant was pulled to safety.
Three lemon sharks and dozens of fish and turtles were however killed in the accident. Initial investigations suggest that the glass shattered due to low winter temperatures. The Chinese authorities say that so far there are no plans to replace the aquarium, which had become a popular attraction in the city.
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A great reanimation of the original Jonny Quest opening credits done with action figures.
I always liked that theme music, very cool.
Were they supposed to do a feature Live action Movie of this show??
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(WLNS) - A recent survey shows there were 50,000 deer-car crashes in Michigan and now a state senator is pushing a new law that would make it easier for motorists who hit those deer to take them home to eat.
It's called the Road Kill bill and 6 News Capitol Correspondent Tim Skubick has the details.
They are everywhere and eventually some of them run into cars or vice versa.
In Ingham County there were just over 1,000 dead deer, Jackson had 1200, and 1000 each in Clinton and Eaton counties. And in Oakland county it cost $20,000 to remove 1500 dead deer there.
In Ingham County volunteers from the Dead Animal Response Team collect the animals which are sent to a landfill.
But an outstate senator has a better idea: let the motorist who hits the deer, take it home for dinner.
Under current law you have to contact the DNR to get a permit to take the animals home.
The senator's bill eliminates the red tape.
"If you hit a deer or animal you can posses that animal. you don't have to get a tag from the DNR. You want the deer you take the deer," says Sen. Darwin Booher.
The House and Senate recently sent the plan to the governor and there is no indication he will veto the bill.
Senator Booher reports his constituents back home gave him the idea and he's had lots of experience with this as well.
He says, "I personally have hit 11 deer since I've been a lawmaker. This is really from my constituents back home and my personal experience."
He says he eats all sorts of road kill including opossum, raccoons and, of course, deer.
So lawmakers may not have solved the road problem, but they're taking a bite out of the road kill problem.
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The Hoosiers had no answer for Carter-Williams, who scored a game-high 24 points on 9 of 19 shooting. Carter-Williams, who is usually a poor perimeter shooter, also knocked down three shots from beyond the arc. One of the main questions about the Hoosiers entering the season was whether small guards Ferrell and Hulls could play together in the same backcourt.
For most of the season, the answer was 'yes.'
But versus the Orange, both guards struggled against Syracuse's length. Ferrell committed four first-half turnovers and himself on the bench to start the second half. Neither he nor Hulls scored a single point.
Hulls was 0 of 3 from the field and had a hard time staying in front of Brandon Triche on the defensive end. Hulls was just 7 of 31 from the field in Indiana's five postseason games, including 4 of 24 from beyond the arc.
"It's a terrible way to go out," Hulls said. "It will haunt me the rest of my life."
Oladipo led Indiana with 15 points on 5 of 6 shooting, and Cody Zeller added 11 points and nine rebounds.
With the loss, the Hoosiers say goodbye to seniors Christian Watford, Derek Elston and Hulls. There has also been a great deal of speculation that Oladipo and Zeller may leave school early for the NBA Draft.
Both Oladipo and Zeller said they hadn't yet thought about their futures.
"I have no clue," Zeller said. "I don't know how it goes, I don't know what happens from here. I was putting everything into this team, this tournament. I haven't thought about it at all."