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Veteran climate scientist says 'lock up the oil men'
Veteran climate scientist James Hansen is marking the twentieth anniversary of his seminal speech to the US Congress on global warming by calling for oil company execs to be locked up for denying global warming. Hansen, who heads up Nasa's Goodard Instritute for Space Studies, is credited with putting climate change squarely on …
Oh no, not Dr. Hansen
This is the guy who claimed Bush was silencing him. In fact, the Bush administration just told him to do his job after one of his hundreds of opinion speeches on company time. And he never told you that he was a huge John Kerry supporter so he a political motivation to make Bush look bad. If my life depended on Dr. Hansen telling the truth, I'd be dead by lunch.
That is it - Kill the debate by removing the opposition.
This is exactly what I expect from the harbingers of doom.
I am still yet to be convinced one way or the other about the issue, but I am never impressed with the all to common approach that seems to, "If you don't agree with me you are an idiot and should be locked up."
Am I to loose my right to not believe that carbon dioxide, that stuff I breath out minute by minute, is making the earth warmer.
A warning to the Denialist Apes.
Hanson is quite correct - and a growing body of scientists hold the same opinion as he does. Those who fund Public Relations and other Propaganda firms for the purpose of deceiving the public - particularly on a matter so grave and pressing as Global Warming - Or smoking - are guilty of crmes against humanity, and I would add, crimes against nature.
I place no limit on the punishment for such crimes, and hold that those who engage in them wilfully and knowingly - particularly for profit - should be arrested, tried, and executed where warranted.
When it becomes obvious to even the lower forms of human intelligence that a crime has been committed. I will be there... Holding the rope, and pointing to the nearest tree limb.
First they came for the Tobacco Industry
Whatever happened to the prosecutions against the Tobacco Industry? They had a similar set up of fake lobby groups and paid off consultants who delayed action against smoking for decades?
I think the Oil Industry needs to invest in some heavy duty paper shredders!
1999 Summary - http://www.tobacco.org/Misc/980531Douglas.html
The "Green vs..." case http://www.americantobacco.net/
Right thing to do
of course, but for quite the wrong reason.
I look forward to NASA announcing they have opened an office for the Church of $cientology and are searching for Xenu.
BTW, please don't talk up the oil price - it only encourages the speculators.
I'm Sparticus
I'm Sparticus!
Deliberate mistakes?
James Hansen may well be right in some of what he says. But isn't locking people up for their beliefs just another form of totalitarianism?
He's right too, to point out that that, joking aside, it's a sin deliberately to mislead children and youngsters. But to bemoan the "natural skepticism and debates embedded in the scientific process" is to miss the point. It's precisely through this scepticism that we will be able to spot mistakes that we haven't previously noticed.
Rather like some religions, science without doubt tends to be rather imprecise.
Resignation letter
"He also bemoaned the "natural skepticism and debates embedded in the scientific process""
I trust this quote is the beginning of his letter of resignation from The Enlightenment and rational thought in general. He certainly has put himself up with Mad Bob Mugabe in league of open minded thinkers...
Let me guess ...
He made these comments while at a conference in Bali, Maldives, Barbados (or some other tropical paradise). I'll stop being sceptical about these people when they start practising what the preach.
Environmentalism is a big industry (admittedly not as big as the fuel industry). A lot of money can be made from advising philanthropists where they should invest their money to save the planet.
That said, I'm all for reducing wasteful power consumption, walking when possible, using public transport when possible, not flying halfway around the world just to sit on a beach. It just makes sense.
Mines the one with the map of Lake District in the pocket.
Hear, hear!
Well, guess what, Hansen was right in 1988. And your greatest criticism of him is that not enough people have paid attention? I completely agree, and I think his modest proposal has a great deal of merit. If nothing else, in another twenty years' time I'll still be sighing smugly and saying "Yes, I know, weren't you paying attention back in 2008?" just like I am now as the Arctic sea-ice looks set for another record-breakingly dreadful season. ( http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/index.html )
Glad to see the Reg have broken the habit of not having comments on these climate-change flamebait/troll posts, though.
Getting my coat as I know this rationalist evidence-based PoV on AGW is unpopular over here.
I remember the saying...
"There's no fool like an old fool"
Nice extreme views there
So, let's sum this up. You want to lock up people for opposing undecided science. And before I see a mass of people opining that the "consensus" is for climate change you need to understand the basics of science. Science is about putting forward theories which we try and prove or disprove. Very very rarely do we successfully prove a theory, usually we get a balance of evidence which shows it to be reasonable, until it becomes unreasonable. Science history is littered with occasions when the consensus was just plain wrong. When Copernicus and Galileo argued about a sun-centric view of the solar system, they were persecuted, but right. Newton's laws of motion were considered right by the consensus until Einstein came along. Quantum mechanics was laughed at for a long time. The consensus in medicine for a long time was that leeches could cure diseases. Anthropogenic climate change has plenty of supposed evidence both supporting and denying it, but its current position in popular culture is more about politics than science.
Funnily enough, in screaming for people to be locked up for their views he is contributing only to the political part of the debate, not the scientific part, despite his credentials. If people start believing that people should be locked up for their scientific views, then we are heading straight back to the middle ages. Or to modern day Britain - whichever authoritarian society you think is closest.
Good Insurance
Let's say for the sake of argument that Dr. Hansen is absolutely correct about the remaining time left. If so, the solution will be to terminate the irresolvable give and take between the do nothings (substitute energy CEOs) and the concerned as quickly as possible with a new approach.
The new American president should be persuaded to initiate a global NASA style rapid response to the Climate Change and Energy dependence problem. The challenge of course will be to encourage the US president to include his global counterparts and the supporting research community as equal partners. The underlying principles are covered in the article, "Ten Components" at http://sandrewsjr.net/gosi/proposal/ .
A rapid response alternative is just good insurance. By undertaking such an effort, the world effectively spreads its risk across the board from top down comprehensive legislative answers to a crash program which has the potential of directly involving the world in a major paradigm shift equivalent to stepping onto alien soil. At the end of David Sington's film, "In The Shadow of the Moon", astronauts on a world tour recounted that they heard from many non technical peoples the quote, "We did it". They didn't say, "You (the United States) did it." Isn't it time we start inspiring people as we clean up our problems?
Sumner R. Andrews Jr.
I say
I say we lock up the green fags and government for not providing (fighting against) continual investment and research into Nuclear making us ever more dependent on oil and gas instead of having our own efficent nuclear program.
But hey, you gotta love French power stations >.>
Re: Deliberate mistakes?
Please ask why Abu Hamsa is being deported. Why he was arrested in the first place.
Please ask why the people in Gitmo are there. Or why extraordinary rendition is taken out.
All because of their beliefs.
You need better than that to say this is wrong.
I do suspect there ARE arguments why, but nobody has them to hand.
Just an ape here
"...executed where warranted."
Hey, Vendicar, Let's round up all the extremists and herd them off cliffs.
Nothing illustrates the dangerously conflicted mindset of this group better than this soundbite. He manages to mention locking people up for their beliefs and democracy in the same breath. All those guilty of thoughtcrime are out of step with the rational concensous and should be prosecuted.
As for Hansen being right, did he successfully predict the global cooling of the last decade?
Nobody can deny anymore that climate change is being contributed to by man's activities, but it doesn't mean that we need to subscribe to the doomsday scenarios painted by this neo-apocalyptic doomsday cult.
Mine's the black, electric powered surveillance chopper that will be monitoring our compliance to the commandments of the death Goddess Gaia.
Missing the point
Surely the issue here is not that he is calling for oil execs to be locked up for believing that there is no link between burning fossil fuels and global warming, but rather for knowing that there is a link and spreading disinformation to prevent action against global warming which might impact the oil company bottom line.
The former stance may be stupid but it is not criminal. The latter is definitely a crime against humanity (and is akin to the tobacco industry case).
1) I think you will find that he was bemoaning the way that the natural scepktism and debate was exploited by the nay-sayers.
2) This is not a religious debate - what you believe does not matter. The scientific evidence suggests strong probability of global warming caused, or at least significantly influenced, by human action. That is not belief, opinion or interpretation. It is simple statistics.
3) To say that there is no change in the environment is ignoring the facts.
To say that man has had no effect on the environment is being hopelessly optimistic. To refuse to take steps to protect the environment, when its failure will directly put our childrens lives at risk, just so we can make a profit today is plain stupid.
I find it amusing that several of those commenting seem to accept the article authors adjective out of hand in regards to the quote, "natural skepticism and debates embedded in the scientific process". As the quote itself seems to demonstrate at least some insight and appreciation of the nature of science. Perhaps more to the point he was bemoaning the exploitation of good faith inherent in the functioning of proper science by propagandists on doll to the lobbyists. Such exploitation is well known to occur in the Evolution vs ID and the issue of Tobacco. Both being rather close politically with the oil industry. Perhaps some natural skepticism should be applied to examining the context of such quotes.
Oh, did I say I find it amusing? I meant I find it depression and indicative of the intellectual shortcomings of this whole farce of taking on the mantle of rationality when it is anything but.
Noddy's guide to science
You have the right to believe in Farther Christmas. You could connect an infra-red camera to your VCR on Christmas Eve and find out who is really responsible for presents appearing in your stocking. Once you have done your experiment, faking photographs of Farther Christmas and trying to pass them off as real in childrens' text books is naughty and you really should halt in the name of Plod.
Skepticism alone is not constructive. You could follow it up with an experiment that tests the predictions of the theory you are skeptical about, or you could run around shouting "I'm a skeptic! !'m a skeptic! Aren't I cool? Believe in me because I'm a skeptic!"
I'm with the deniers
... but for a different reason.
Burn the fossil fuels! Dredge up every last drop that we can from the tar pits and oil wells. Burn it all! The faster the better.
Then perhaps, when the sea levels have risen and the majority of the population has been wiped off the planet (with the pols and the CEOs as the first against the walls when the riots start), there'll be a bit of peace and quiet.
Rest assured, by the time that there's any political will to do anything about climate change, it will be far, far too late to avert the global catastrophe that we've brought on ourselves.
We've poisoned our own well, let's give another species a go. In the meantime, I can fish and sail my yacht. I'm all right, Jack (just like all those interested parties with their conflicts of interest).
James Hansen Actually Said...
Arnold Lieberman wrote:

"He also bemoaned the "natural skepticism and debates embedded in the scientific process""
I trust this quote is the beginning of his letter of resignation from The Enlightenment and rational thought in general. He certainly has put himself up with Mad Bob Mugabe in league of open minded thinkers...

Jim Hansen stated:

My testimony two decades ago was greeted with skepticism. But while skepticism is the lifeblood of science, it can confuse the public. As scientists examine a topic from all perspectives, it may appear that nothing is known with confidence. But from such broad open-minded study of all data, valid conclusions can be drawn.
My conclusions in 1988 were built on a wide range of inputs from basic physics, planetary studies, observations of ongoing changes, and climate models. The evidence was strong enough that I could say it was time to "stop waffling." I was sure that time would bring the scientific community to a similar consensus, as it has.
Guest Opinion: Global Warming Twenty Years Later
by James Hansen on June 23, 2008
Tipping Points Near
He was not bemoaning the natural skepticism inherent in the scientific process. He considers it critical to that process. However, such scientific skepticism should not be confused with Cartesian doubt -- as the climate "skeptics" would seem to have it.
Please, Please listen to Hansen.....
"one the primary players who have been putting out misinformation ... that affect what gets into school textbooks, then I think that's a crime,... such (people) should be put on trial for high crimes against humanity.."
Please enact this! Oh, please do!
Then look at ClimateAudit.org. They are currently looking at some of Hansen's GISS 'corrections'. Misinformation isn't the word for it, straight lying is more accurate.
I would love to see Hansen strung up for what he has done to scientific independence and integrity, and it looks like he can be persuaded to lobby for the very law that will sink him!
Gates, as Hansen performs the same function for the climate world....
Thanks, Tim
My initial thought on reading that "He also bemoaned the "natural skepticism and debates embedded in the scientific process"" was "I bet that's a journalistic misrepresentation that's going to cause chaos in the comment thread". Right on both counts.
Other commenters - let this be a lesson: *please* always go and read the entire original quotation, in context, before you pile on based on a sketchy misrepresentation in a press report.
Oh, and also note that Dr. Hansen is not advocating imprisoning people based on their beliefs. He is advocating imprisoning people for deliberately and maliciously spreading misinformation (or to put it more bluntly, 'lies') to support the product they happen to be selling. Often in a misleading way - i.e. through front organisations designed to give the impression that there is no connection between themselves and the industry lobby they represent. This is exactly on the model, as other commenters have noted, of the successful prosecutions of tobacco companies for suppressing what they knew to be true - that tobacco is extremely damaging to human health. The vital point is that they did not genuinely believe that tobacco was safe; they knew it wasn't, yet - in order to protect their profits - tried to tell the public that it was. Dr. Hansen believes that the oil lobby knows that they are contributing to pollution and global warming on a massive scale, but are attempting to tell the public that they aren't: this is not about their private beliefs.
World was warmer 20 years ago when he made his last speech
According to NASA satellites, the world was warmer 20 years ago. How about jailing NASA scientists for spreading misinformation about global warming?
There isn't a shred of evidence for man-made global warming. What we have are a lot of very dodgy models predicting doom and gloom (which, I might add, all failed to predict the current static/cooling period) and a lot of very dodgy surface station temperatures, which have been "adjusted" by people like Hansen, almost always in ways that magically show a huge amount of warming. Scientists can't even agree on the validity of the various Proxies they use to reconstruct past temperatures (see the Wegman Report, climateaudit.com and wattsupwiththat.wordpress.com for further references).
Meanwhile, the media continues to pump out the most ridiculous hyperbole ("if it bleeds, it leads") about the coming catastophe. People like Al Gore feed this giant propaganda machine with ridiculous films and presentations that not only misrepresent the actual science but make claims that are basically untrue (yes, lies).
All the while the politicians, blinded by the non-science, are busy playing with the law of unintended consequences (bio-fuels) that will have no effect whatsoever on the temperature of the planet, but that may result in mass starvation in many countries of the world.
"Global Warming" wouldn't even be in the top ten items on any agenda for solving mankinds problems. Why does it get so much airspace, so much money and so much political traction? This whole debate is completely idiotic.
And if Hansen is wrong, let's please lock him up along with Al Gore and the rest of the Doomsday whiners.
All the people crying about the artic ice seem to forget or not know, that while it is true, the artic ice sheets are receding, the Antartic ice sheets are actually growing. . In the last 10 years the temperatures have actually cooled. In the 70's they were crying Ice Age. SUnspot activity is at an all time low. Could there be a correlation between sunspot activity and temperatures?
The doomsayers are not usually right.....the earth if flat, you will fall over the edge if you sail too far.
RE:Missing the point - Len Goddard
Spot on - science works through scepticism - to knowingly exploit that for personal gain against global damage - that is exactly the crime that has been commited
Either way...
over here in the US, global warming doesn't matter. The urban/suburban layout of our country resembles a poorly-made city in the video game "SimCity", where all the commercial and industrial zones are in one central location, and all the housing is elsewhere. That is, most of us live out in the sticks and suburban areas because we can't afford to live in the cities where the jobs are. So, we commute. And commute. And commute.
I don't *want* to drive over an hour for a job. I have a life to live, you know. But where I live, jobs are extraordinarily scarce. I've had a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science since 1997, and for the past 6 years, I've not been able to get an IT job within an hour's drive from home - they're just not enough jobs here. And by the way, I live out where *buses don't run*. There is no mass transit here, and it's 10 miles to the nearest civilization.
My point is that you'll have to change a lot more than vehicles if you truly want to change the climate. You *will* have to change the entire civil infrastructure layout of the entire country. You *will* have to make adequate jobs within close distance of all residential areas to cut down on commuting times. You *will* have to create mass transit everywhere. This is *very* expensive, and will take a long time. It will also involve a lot of eminent domain usage, and this will be seen as forced relocation in a lot of cases. In short, this will be *hard*, and our government doesn't want to do anything hard - after all, that would require our congresspeople to actually WORK for a change (instead of having 3-day workweeks).
And that's just America. Just try this kind of thinking on the Chinese.
Food for (rational) thought.
I have just a few points to make here.
Those who were around 30 or so years ago, may remember the "inevitable climate catastrophe" that awaited us then. It was the impending ICE AGE. Why did they think an ice age was coming? Mainly, because from 1940-1970, global temperatures dropped steadily, and the fear was runaway global cooling. Who was one big backer of the "coming ice age" theory? None other than James Hansen. Last time I checked, Ontario had not been erased by a glacier.
I personally find it odd that the global temperature dropped during this period. This was WW2 and a post-industrial West. CO2 levels were skyrocketing during this time, yet the temperature continued to fall. This would seem to fly in the face of the (high CO2) => (global warming) equation.
Anyone ever wonder what happened to the "hockey stick" graph that Al Gore, Hansen, and others flapped around so wildly claiming it was "definitive proof"? Well, it got thoroughly smacked about, and was proven to show the exact opposite of what it had been claimed to show. Yes, the chart did indeed show a link between high CO2 levels and global temps. But, the relationship showed that the temperature change came FIRST, then the CO2 levels would rise. Hansen and Co. would have us believe that the effect preceded the cause. This is the caliber of scientist you have in James Hansen.
People seem to often confuse two separate issues. There is climate change, and then there is human-induced climate change. There isn't much we can do about the first. So, there are no careers or fortunes to be made pursuing it. Few would argue that climate change is not happening. It is happening, and has always happened. The climate is not a steady state machine. The climate has always swung back and forth between extremes, ice ages to global jungles. The human race has just been damned lucky that we popped up when we did, in the middle of a relatively temperate period. One which has lasted long enough for us to develop technologies that would allow us to survive much of what the planet could throw at us.
Computer models are often cited as good evidence for human-induced climate change. One way (really, the only way) to test if a model is accurate, is to have it predict the weather for a period of time that we already have reliable records for. Say, 1970-1980. If the model's predictions match up with the recorded data, the model can be claimed to be sound. However, no one has yet produced a model that can reliably pass this test. As any programmer could tell you, garbage in = garbage out.
The doomsayers often make a point of the fact that 1998 was the hottest year on record. Which it was. But, if we are in a warming period, should that record not have been consecutively broken in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, etc? Well, it wasn't. Indeed, global temps have done nothing but go down since then. So, where's the warming?
Back in the 70's, similarly drastic, economy killing "solutions" were proposed. Careers and fortunes were made, and then the whole furor died down. I see the cycle of history repeating itself here (at much greater expense). The Greens tell us the opposition can't be trusted because they have a vested financial interest in the status quo. Well, the Greens have just as much of a vested financial interest in this game. No one is going to pay Hansen to give a speech on global warming if there's no apocalypse around the corner.
Is climate change happening? Yes. Are humans responsible for it, even in part? To me at least, and to quite a few meteorologists (a title Hansen can not claim btw), the evidence to date would seem to say no. One last thing, some might say "Of course it's us, what else could it possibly be?". These people seem to forget about this big bright thing that occupies the daytime sky. This thing which is a runaway nuclear fusion reactor 800,000 miles across, and is anything but stable and unchanging. The Sun drives ALL of our weather. If the Sun changes, the weather changes.
The dead vulture, because its bloated, rotting corpse will release methane and CO2, bringing us all that much closer to the end.
@Timothy Chase
> scientific skepticism should not be confused with Cartesian doubt -- as the climate "skeptics" would seem to have it.
A false dichotomy, a straw man, and an invitation to feed the troll all rolled up in one.
The irony in your throwaway line is precisely that in 1975 a clique comprising Margaret Mead and her followers in the AAAS specifically instigated a program to abandon scientific skepticism. Not, as in Descartes case, as a methodological convenience in pursuit of the philosophical justification of truth, but to promote and diffuse a preconceived prejudice as both a "reality" and a political agenda.
Everyone can decide for themselves whether an organized effort to promote one particular theory makes it more or less likely to be true:
Perhaps you can't bring yourself to say "eugenics", but eugenics does not seem so far away from some of the views expressed above about how "climate "skeptics"" should be treated in practice.
Your Medals Are Showing
No danger of a "fair and balanced" article on climate change issues on the Reg. You deliberately distort Hansens statement about scientific skepticism (as ably explained by Timothy Chase above) and equate his position on the culpability of Oil Executives with modern day witch burning, when in fact Hansen is the target of your own witch burning exercise.
It's ironic that you'd post this on the same day that you publicly charge Network Solutions with hypocrisy!
Two words: PEAK OIL
Go google it. You can debate global warming all you like, but running out of oil is a much bigger threat to society and a solid reason for cutting consumption NOW.
But what about Neptune?
If you want to convince me about global warming, you'll have to explain away similar amounts of warming that have been recorded in observations of Neptune.
Unless you can find a couple hundred million SUVs toodling about the surface Neptune, I'll continue to believe that the planets are currently a bit warmer because of a cyclic increase in output from the Sun.
Occam's Razor, and all that jazz, don'chya know.
So let me see - 20 years ago GISS (the global "thermometer" fiddled, sorry run, by Hansen) shows the temperature to be 0.50 degrees C above his baseline (chosen, conveniently, to be during the coldest period of this century).
20 years after "runaway man-made global warming" his "thermometer" (which, have I mentioned, is constantly fiddled to ensure that it shows up warming and, as such, is consistently far hotter than the satellite measurements) shows the temperature to be 0.35 degrees C above his baseline.
So in 20 years it has got 0.15 degrees cooler.
How's that for manmade global warming!
Flames as obviously the world is currently burning!
Hanson should be first...
Or has he relased his actual mentodalgy behinf his revisions?
Oh But he is wanting it for thoses that hold the other view point...so would he halpply go to jail if this turnsout to be the same as his global coolong idea?
What I find interesting about all this is that although the IPCC reports that we are 'most likely' causing climate change, the numbers they give in the report show the opposite.
They say that they have concluded that the net effect of human activities since 1750 is an increase of radiative forcing of 1.6 (-0.6 +2.4) W/sq m. However what they don't mention anywhere is that the normal radiation is between 200 and 400 W/sq m - ie the total effect of man since 1750 is less than 1% of the solar radiation - and this small amount is somehow supposed to be significant!
Funny, I was just venting on this subject earlier in the evening
Although I'm not sure that climate change denial on its own is worthy of capital punishment, it is only the latest in a long list of crimes perpetrated by Big Oil. While it may be unfashionable to say so, carrying out business in an unethical manner should be considered a Crime Against Humanity, for the simple reason that rampant capitalism (not capitalism, just rampant capitalism) is a major cause of death and suffering in parts of the world too poor to fight back.
So, how do you go about encouraging the others? Imprisonment or execution, making their families destitute and using their personal fortunes to repair the damage. We should demand nothing less.
Wade, Bush doesnt need anyone to make him look bad, he does a great job of appearing to be a corrupt moron without help.
I see the usual suspects with their usual denial of climate change cropping up again, I for one am tired of the pathetic whining of the Climate change sceptics, and as usual they are self appointed experts, with no training in the climate field at all, all they can do is to try and selectively quote a small number of stats out of context
I for one believe the experts, not the profit driven deniers and their pathetic attempts at discrediting the worlds climate scientists. Get a brain and dont 'try to deny the bleedin obvious children. Why is it that otherwise smart people(In thier own field)feel qualified to make judgenents totally outside their field? Surely they arent thick enough to believe the "Great global warming swindle rubbish?
re GISS and others
It's easy to find two years where the earlier one is warmer, but that has no significance. Just about anything can be 'proven' when you start cherry-picking evidence. Colorful graphs are also easy to abuse, especially when you have an agenda.
@ moffatt
A change of less than 1% can be quite significant. By your figures, the average solar radiation is 39 petawatts (3.9e+16). An increase of 1.6% gives an additional 625 terawatts - over 40 times the entire human energy usage of the world (~15 TW - wikipedia).
You need to use statistical analysis to properly interpret the raw data. For example, the graphs of x^2, x^10, and e^x look fairly similar, especially if you have a bunch of data points with some random error in them. Trying to determine which equation it is by 'eyeballing' it can give you dramatically wrong results.
If you want to criticize the scientists' findings, first examine what they did and how they arrived at their conclusions. Then you can say where you think they made a mistake. And remember to cite your sources, as 97% of all statistics are made up on the spot.
its not just the Oil Barons, its the whole economic model
When we drill for Oil (a finite-resource)... as fast as we can....to make plastic bottles, then using more oil-energy fill it full of 3rd world spring water ( and transport the same bottle to E.U./US just (so that we can avoid pollution or taste a few chemicals that could easily have been added/removed to our tap-water). While those people still have unsafe water to drink!
This is considered "good for business", "economic growth" etc..as long as the great profit-margin is worshipped with his pennies per bottle.
Irrespective of the global warming (I agree with Dave...many clever people than I believe in)
IS a penny profit today REALLY worth all the irreplaceable energy that is used (look at recent oil price rises), as well as the damage to the environments (local and national)?
Dave ...
I am a trained scientist and the facts as I see them is that the world is cooler slightly than it was even ten years ago. I am also trained in statistics and how to interpret them and the stats are looking increasingly dodgy by the day. They have been since day one of this debacle.
We know nothing about how climate changes (and can't even predict weather 2 days in advance with any accuracy) but we do know there is plenty of historical precedent for great, long climate cycles and that it has always been going on.
Hansen is a quack. He's destined to go down as the Lysenko of the 21st century. I am sick of being told I'm not qualified to criticise bad science and weak statistical models.
This ruthless adherence to a model of global warming that merely shouts every other view down while not being able to produce a shred of proof is merely totalitarian garbage.
It has nothing to do with empirical science.
Keep the tune, boys
Good to see the same old nicknames that never comment on anything but global warming stories, but - we have one guy saying that global warming is baloney because Earth's only warmed up as much as Neptune (fine argument, that - they make really comparable experimental subjects!) and some others saying it's baloney because Earth's actually cooling down.
So, er, which is it, guys? Come on, can't you at least all buy the same edition of Dr. Pangloss' Hymns For The Eternal Optimist?
Earth warms up...
earth cools down...earth warms up...earth cools down...earth warms up...earth cools down.
Earth's climate CHANGES! It's been happening cyclically for BILLIONS of years people. Just try to get your tiny minds around the concept, then find yourself another nouveau religion to latch on to!
"mprisoning people for deliberately and maliciously spreading misinformation"
Good, then lets start with Hansen himself and then we can follow up with the people who write the IPCC summary for policy makers.
Freedom of speech & evidence
Since when has expression of an opinion been a criminal offence?
Similarly there is not enough evidence to support global warming and although climate change is manifesting itself, the root cause cannot be scientifically proven. I suspect Dr Hansen might well be trying to revive his reputation by being outspoken and contrversial, rather than being scientific. Just pat him on the head and send him along to see that other marvellous alarmist, the Nobel prize winning Al Gore. They can sit around and scare each other with doomsday scenarios which man has no control (nor influence) over.
Believe what you like...
"Am I to loose my right to not believe that carbon dioxide, that stuff I breath out minute by minute, is making the earth warmer"
Just because you have the right to believe what you want doesn't make it true. And if your understanding of the subject is accurately reflected by that comment, then you're not qualified to express an opinion: go read some science and think about what you're saying.
The problem with the oil men is not that they argue against the science. Science relishes argument. The problem is that they spend fucking obscene amounts of money, *paying* congresscritters to flat out lie to the folk who thought that Congress was there to serve the American people. Hopelessly naieve, I know, but while the House and Senate are stuffed with venal, self-serving plutocrats, money will be able to speak with a volume far out of proportion to its actual worth.
Climate change deniers go to the same parties as Creationidiots
Hilarious - they Denial idiots claim to be mystefied by the post-war global cooling this planet experienced...and in the same breath pretend this cooling somehow disproves the global warming we are now being warned about.
Guys, go and look up *why* we had cooling post-war......
.......see? Man-made climate change, just like what is happening now.
Wasn't *that* hard, looking up some facts, was it?
These crazies are just like creationidiots.
Global Warming
I've just realised how much like believing in God, Global Warming is.
Climate changes, something had to do it, you locate a culprit that with a bit of statistical tomfoolery fits the model you've dreamt up, create a belief structure around it and then embark on a crusade to convince that that is how it all works denying all claims to the contrary. Anything that occurs that kind of fits your belief becomes proof of your model, any thing that does not fit is ignored.
Alot like God.
Man exists and is just too complicated to have come about by chance, there must be a divine being that created us! Create a belief structure around your new God and go on a crusade to convince the world you're right deny all claims to the contrary. Anything that happens to support your belief is an act of God, anything that does not support your belief is promptly destroyed.
Try and have a contrary view on either subject to those devout to their faiths is a bit like talking to a parrot.
Just thought it was funny.
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Samsung rolls out Android four.1.2 Jelly Bean update to the Galaxy S II
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Samsung rolls out Android four.1.2 Jelly Bean update for the Galaxy S II GT-I9100
Samsung has simply started to drive Android four.1.2 Jelly Bean update to the International Samsung Galaxy S II GT-I9100. The Galaxy S II is the best-selling Android device of 2011 plus has a fairly big consumer base that's why Samsung keeps about updating this device with the brand-new Android versions because they like to supply the Galaxy S II consumers with their right help experience.
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text: How many of us have donated a Royal luncheon or an entire course and never been thanked? How many have donated hundreds of dollars of foods for the Royal rooms over the course of a reign or entire meals for special meetings? Catered and paid for buffets at Pennsic and other wars? Created and published special booklets to be given out? Special food baskets for auctions? Or have we traveled hundreds or thousands of miles to either work on a feast or teach a special class? Those subtleties and special items just make themselves seems to be the Royal opinion. The classes happen because we are masochists or just plain nuts. The thanks are far and few apart it seems all over the Known World.. Johnnae


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Through a set of NASA-sponsored partnerships, and the efforts of numerous
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coral reefs is being greatly expanded. The new accessibility of low cloud
remote sensing data selected for reef mapping will also provide significant new
opportunities for research and management applications. Perhaps most
importantly, the integration of efforts of NASA scientists and university
researchers with international non-government organizations facilitates the
immediate incorporation of data and map products into analyses that will change
the management of coral reefs. The availability of datasets for interactive
mapping via the ReefBase interface, and for downloading of raw data provides an
unprecedented opportunity for the global coral reef community to benefit from
NASA data and technologies and to improve the management of reefs worldwide.
At the upcoming meeting of the 2004 International Coral Reef Symposium
a special Mini-symposium
on "Producing, Distributing, and Analyzing Global Coral Reef Maps - the State
of the Art" will examine all these major efforts for global coral reef mapping,
the technologies and methods that will make these maps and underlying data
available to the coral reef research and management communities, and the
potential for global syntheses.
Introduction >>
Global Shallow Bathymetry from SeaWiFS >>
Assembly of Landsat 7 Data for Coral Reef Mapping >>
The "Millennium Coral Reef Mapping Project" Reef Map >>
Science Applications & Data Distribution with Int'l Partners >>
Other Data Sources and Related Scientific Projects >>
Conclusion >>
Sponsorship >>
Partners >>
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Vagina Monologues by
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Protect Our Earth
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Support the Quota
System for Women
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Add Your Name--
Stop Domestic Violence
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Movers and Shakers
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Ethical Leadership in New York
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Go Vote. Go Run.
Go Lead. Go Girl!
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Show Your Solidarity
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Justice for Anna Politkovskaya
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Do you CARE?
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Promote Political Liberty
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Speak Out Because
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Support Las Madres
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Say NO to AFSPA!
Help repeal the law that gives military the authority to arrest, shoot and kill on suspicion alone. Sign the petition and stop human rights violations in Manipur. -- English
Baring Witness
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Design Your Own
Political Cartoon
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What is Pink and
Wants Peace?
Join outrageous, provocative, and creative women who are adamant to create change. From Guantanamo and Iraq to Pakistan and Darfur, take action with CODEPINK. -- English
Help Create the Srebrenica
Memorial Quilt
More than 8,000 Bosniak boys and men were murdered in July 1995, in Srebrenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Women of BOSFAM, a multicultural Bosnian women's group, invite you to commemorate these victims of genocide by adding a panel to the quilt they're creating. Help keep the memory of the massacre alive! -- English
Respect Everyone Everywhere
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Indigenous Women Lead
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Right to Water
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Plant for the Planet
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Actions that Change the World
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Send an SOS!
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Save the Earth
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Mercury in Fish
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Iraqi Widows Organization
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Pathways to Freedom
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Empower a Girl Program
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Map LGBT Rights
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Support a Woman's Human Rights Activist
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Stop Femicide in Mexico
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Take Action for Transgender Equality
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Shop With a Conscience
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Support I.M.O.W.
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Contribute today by becoming a member, donating to I.M.O.W or registering for our online community. Become part of the rising global community of women and men impacting the lives of women around the world!


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Santa Fe House Rental Photos and Description
House - 3 Bedrooms + Bunk Room - 2 Baths - (Sleeps 6- 8)
Casa del Monte Sol is an historic 3100 square foot authentic adobe home located in the prestigious east side on Camino Del Monte Sol. This home has 3 bedrooms, bunk room, two baths and family room, plus a spacious outdoor living portal.
A short walk down Camino Del Monte Sol leads you to the world famous Canyon Road galleries. Continue on a scenic stroll to the Central Plaza or a walk up Camino Del Monte Sol to Museum Hill. In the nearby foothills there are excellent, well maintained hiking, biking and horse trails with breathtaking panoramic sunset views that overlook Santa Fe. After returning from a great day of activities, if you're hungry and feel like eating in, the kitchen is fully equipped to cook for a crowd, or better yet, there are endless restaurant choices throughout Santa Fe with some of the best within walking distance on Canyon Road. Wireless High Speed Internet.
CIty of Santa Fe Short Term Permit #: 11-00103128
Business Registration #: 0054820
This recently renovated historically contributing 1925 vintage home features a private courtyard entrance, large gourmet kitchen with travertine floors and counter tops, large living room, five wood burning Kiva fireplaces, indoor and outdoor dining areas, flagstone portals and pathways, courtyard gardens, backyard flagstone patio with BBQ.
- Suitability:
- children welcome
- non smoking only
- pets considered
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Scott purchased this house in 1999
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It was a reference to their slot test with the state.
The casino set a goal of passing state inspection on its first try -- so it could "soft open" Jan. 22 and have a week before today's ribbon-cutting. When they cleared inspection last Jan. 21, out came the buttons. (Calder says it's the only casino to pass inspection on its first try, but I think Flagler/Magic City Casino did, too. Help me, anyone?)


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Emmis Communications
|This article needs additional citations for verification. (January 2013)
Emmis Communications (NASDAQ: EMMS) is an American media conglomerate based in Indianapolis, Indiana. The company owns radio stations and magazines in the United States and Slovakia.
- 1 History
- 2 Controversies
- 3 Company portfolio
- 3.1 Emmis Interactive, Inc.
- 3.2 Radio
- 3.3 WorldBand Media HD Radio Deal
- 3.4 Television
- 3.5 Magazines
- 3.6 Article Source
- 4 Board of Directors
- 5 References
- 6 External links
In 1980, Emmis Broadcasting founder Jeffrey Smulyan purchased his first radio station, WSVL-FM Shelbyville, IN. In July 1981, Smulyan changed the format from country music to adult contemporary and renamed the station WENS. The station's quick success led him to purchase other radio stations throughout the country.[citation needed]
Around 1984, the company bought Magic 106 in Los Angeles, California; at the time, L.A. Lakers player "Magic" Johnson was an early spokesperson for the station. In early 1986, Emmis changed Magic 106 to Power 106 KPWR. Also in 1986, the company expanded as they purchased WAPP-FM (renamed WQHT) and WHN (now WEPN) in New York as well as WAVA-FM in Washington, D.C. from the Doubleday Broadcasting Company. Both KPWR and WQHT would pioneer the rhythmic format and go on to be Emmis' two flagship radio properties.[citation needed]
Emmis acquired five NBC radio stations in 1988 but sold two to avoid a duopoly.[citation needed]
Emmis purchased the Seattle Mariners in 1989 but sold them in 1992.[citation needed]
In 1994, the company purchased WIBC and WKLR in Indianapolis from the Horizon Broadcast Corporation and WRKS in New York City from the Summit Communications Group. WKLR was changed from an oldies format to a classic hits format with the call letters of WNAP in September 1994.[citation needed]
Also in 1994, Emmis became a public company. The expansion continued as the company purchased numerous television and radio stations in the late 1990s.[citation needed]
In 1998, Emmis Broadcasting changed its name to Emmis Communications and moved into its current headquarters on Monument Circle in Indianapolis.[citation needed]
In 2003 Emmis appointed its first black VP/General Manager, Barry Mayo. He oversaw 98.7 Kiss FM, Hot 97, and WQCD (CD 101.9), all in New York City.[citation needed]
In 2005, Emmis changed the format of their first radio station from its long-term adult contemporary format to country. The call letters were changed from WENS to WLHK. Emmis was also named one of Fortune's 100 Best Companies to Work For.[citation needed]
In January 2006, after 3 years in which Barry Mayo's New York station moved behind Power 105.1 as the second-tier rap station in New York, Mayo announced his departure from his post.[citation needed]
In 2006, Emmis flipped KZLA/Los Angeles to Adult Rhythmic Contemporary as "KMVN, Movin' 93.9". The move gives Emmis a companion station to complement KPWR. However, on April 15, 2009, KMVN switched to Spanish-language programming, KXOS, under a seven-year Local Marketing Agreement with Grupo Radio Centro of Mexico City.[1]
On June 9, 2009, Emmis announced it has formed a strategic alliance with StreamTheWorld, the radio industry's streaming technology and services company, to put all Emmis radio stations on a new streaming platform.[2]
On January 12, 2011, the share price of Emmis stock surged 42% as insiders speculated that the company could be close to selling off several of its radio stations. In their January, 2011 filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, the company reported that it had the necessary cash to survive through February, 2011. "Absent asset sales, which the company is actively pursuing," Emmis attorneys stated in the regulatory filing, "the company believes it is unlikely it will be able to maintain compliance with the financial covenants after Sept. 1, 2011."[3]
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Most of the controversies involving Emmis Communications have involved its stations in the New York City market.[citation needed] Among them:
- WQHT-FM provoked a controversy in January 2005, a month after the Asian tsunami caused by the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake, by playing the Tsunami song entitled "USA for Indonesia", a parody sung to the 1985 tune "We Are the World." Listeners, politicians and civil rights groups protested in front of the station. Three persons associated with the production were suspended for two weeks, and two were terminated.[citation needed]
- Also involving WQHT, there have been controversies involving slapping, indecency, and violence around the station's broadcast location. In 2004, as a result of continued indecency complaints, Emmis signed a consent decree with the FCC and paid a $300,000 fine.[citation needed]
- In 2009, Don Pryor, the host of the Austin, Texas affiliate KLBJ's Todd and Don Show, used the term "wetbacks" to describe Mexican-Americans..[citation needed]
- KLBJ's AM Morning Show has also been the focus of bigoted, and religious overtoned commentary by non-Austin resident Samuel Cox who is a retired Austin Police Department officer who in the past has said unkind words about African-Americans.[citation needed]
Company portfolio[edit]
Emmis Interactive, Inc.[edit]
Current clients include: Astral Media, Renda Broadcasting, Greater Media, Corus Entertainment, Emmis Radio, and Lincoln Financial Media
The company owns Rádio Expres in Slovakia and Sláger Rádió in Hungary, however Emmis Communications' Hungarian national radio station, Sláger, was taken off the air on November 18, 2009 because of the expiration of their broadcasting license. The license were given to another radio station, but Emmis went to court and won the trial on July 14, 2010.
It also owns the following:
Austin, Texas[edit]
- KLZT - 107.1 - Regional Mexican/HD2: Spanish CHR
- KLBJ-AM - 590 - News/Talk (simulcasting on K259AJ-FM 99.7)
- KLBJ-FM - 93.7 - Classic rock/HD2: Blues
- KROX-FM - 101.5 - Alternative rock
Indianapolis, Indiana[edit]
- WFNI-AM - 1070 - Sports
- WIBC - 93.1 - News/Talk (HD2: simulcasting WFNI Sports)
- WLHK-FM - 97.1 - Hank FM/Country
- WYXB-FM - 105.7 - Adult Contemporary/AC
Los Angeles, California[edit]
- KPWR-FM - 105.9 - Rhythmic Contemporary
New York, New York[edit]
- WBLS-FM - 107.5 - Urban Adult Contemporary
- WEPN-FM - 98.7 - Sports Radio (operated by ESPN Radio/LMA by the Walt Disney Company under a local marketing agreement)
- WLIB - 1190 - Urban Contemporary Gospel
- WQHT-FM - 97.1 - Rhythmic Top 40
St. Louis, Missouri[edit]
- KFTK-FM - 97.1 - News/Talk
- KIHT-FM - 96.3 - Classic Hits/HD2: Classical/HD3: Smooth jazz
- KPNT-FM - 105.7 - Modern Rock
- KSHE-FM - 94.7 - Mainstream rock
Terre Haute, Indiana[edit]
WorldBand Media HD Radio Deal[edit]
Emmis has announced on September 9, 2008 that it has teamed up with digital radio network WorldBand Media and will be using the "HD-3" subchannels to produce programming for the South Asian communities in Chicago (on WLUP), Los Angeles (on KPWR), and New York (on WQHT). It will include a combination of both local and international content and should be available by mid-October 2008.[4]
Emmis announced in May 2005 announced its intent to sell some or all of the sixteen television stations they owned at the time. In August 2005 sale of nine television stations were announced, as well as four more in October, an additional station in May 2006, another station in February 2007, and its final station in May 2008. Emmis no longer owns any television stations.
Former Emmis Owned and Operated Stations[edit]
- Now owned by Gray Television:
- Charleston/Huntington - WSAZ
- Now owned by Hearst Television:
- Now owned by Raycom Media:
- Now owned by Journal Broadcast Group:
- Now owned by LIN Television:
- Now owned by Louisiana Media Company:
- New Orleans - WVUE
- Now owned by Radio One Inc
- Indianapolis - WNOU
- Now owned by Tribune Broadcasting (both stations sold pre-2005):
- Grand Rapids - WXMI (swapped in 1997 for Tribune's WQCD New York City)
- Seattle - KZJO (also swapped for WQCD; was known as KTZZ-TV when Emmis owned it)
Article Source[edit]
April 18, 2006: http://www.tvweek.com/news.cms?newsId=9791
Board of Directors[edit]
- Jeff Smulyan - Chairman of the Board, President and CEO; former owner of Major League Baseball's Seattle Mariners
- Susan Bayh - Visiting Professor, Butler University
- Gary Kaseff - Executive Vice President and General Counsel
- Richard Leventhal - President & Majority Owner of LMCS, LLC.
- Peter Lund - Media Consultant and former President & CEO of CBS Television.
- Greg Nathanson - former Television Division President
- Lawrence Sorrel - Tailwind Capital Partners
- Patrick Walsh - Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer
|This article includes a list of references, but its sources remain unclear because it has insufficient inline citations. (March 2008)
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June 11, 2013
The family of the man who was killed by Albemarle County Police in Afton on Saturday morning is opening up about his troubles with the law. They say Greg Rosson did not need to be shot.
"It's a nightmare that we wish we could wake up from," said Rosson's older sister, Lauren Moore.
Moore and Rosson's mother, Denise, spent Tuesday morning making funeral arrangements.
"It's not easy walking down an aisle looking at caskets and deciding which one you're going to put him in," said Denise Rosson.
Greg Rosson was shot by police Saturday morning at his girlfriend's home on Rockfish Gap Turnpike. Police and witnesses say Greg came to the house and started beating up his girlfriend, because they had just broken up.
Then the girlfriend called Greg's mother.
"The last thing she said to me on the phone was 'Greg, stop!' The next thing, the phone went dead," said Denise Rosson.
So Denise decided to call police, hoping they could calm the situation. She says she called them, "for help. Not for them to kill my child!"
Family members say Greg wasn't armed, because his only gun was back at home.
"I'm disgusted with Albemarle County Police Department," said Lauren Moore. "It's like they're shooting to kill, not shooting to help resolve the situation."
Rosson's girlfriend's mother, who spoke to the Newsplex with the agreement that her name and her daughter's name would not be released, says the police told her that they shot Greg because her daughter's life was in danger.
The woman's mother says, in general, she liked Greg and thinks he should not have been shot. She says she was inside the home sleeping when the police arrived, although she did hear gun shots.
Greg's family members are trying to remember happier times with him.
"We were very close," said Moore. "He's a great person. He loved to hunt and fish and hang out with his friends."
They say he suffered from multiple personality disorder, and that his girlfriend provoked it.
"She was the only one that brought out his other personality," said Moore.
"It should have ended a long time ago," said Denise Rosson, speaking of her son's relationship with his girlfriend. "Then nobody's family would be going through anything."
Rosson's family claims that he never hit his girlfriend before Saturday morning, and he was never violent with any family members.
"If I thought my brother was dangerous I would not leave my daughter in his care," said Moore.
"I know there's people out there that think he deserved what he got," said Denise Rosson. "But until you walk in my shoes, don't criticize."
Greg Rosson was arrested in December for allegedly fighting with police.
His family says he crashed his car into the Crozet Library in 2009, and the trauma from that accident worsened his mental illness.


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7bn were inbound and 11bn were outbound.
Mobile messaging platform WhatsApp is – ironically – a firm of few words, posting just a handful of tweets each month, while it's press office is also rather barren.
However, the company took to Twitter to reveal it processed a record 18 billion messages on New Year's Eve, with seven billion of those inbound and 11 billion outbound.
When questioned on the difference between inbound and outbound messages by a follower, WhatsApp said: "difference in inbound vs. outbound is due to group chat. sending one msg into group chat of 10 people is 1:10 inbound:outbound."
The milestone comes following the previous record of ten billion messages in one day back in August (4bn inbound, 6bn outbound), while it was processing 1bn a day back in November 2011.
This time last month it was rumoured that Facebook was eyeing a WhatsApp buyout, though both firms quickly played down the whispers.
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