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global warming
The science is not settled
Dr. Steven Koonin is the director of the Center for Urban Science and Progress at New York University. Formerly, he was undersecretary for science in the Energy Department during President Barack Obama's first term. So, not a guy you'd think would be a Koch-funded climate denier. Yet, he writes in the Wall Street Journal that the current state of climate science is not settled, despite what others may say.
After spending several paragraphs highlighting both our lack of scientific understanding of basic climate processes, and the unreliability of the different computer models and their predictions, he concludes:
These and many other open questions are in fact described in the IPCC research reports, although a detailed and knowledgeable reading is sometimes required to discern them. They are not "minor" issues to be "cleaned up" by further research. Rather, they are deficiencies that erode confidence in the computer projections. Work to resolve these shortcomings in climate models should be among the top priorities for climate research.
Yet a public official reading only the IPCC's "Summary for Policy Makers" would gain little sense of the extent or implications of these deficiencies. These are fundamental challenges to our understanding of human impacts on the climate, and they should not be dismissed with the mantra that "climate science is settled."
While the past two decades have seen progress in climate science, the field is not yet mature enough to usefully answer the difficult and important questions being asked of it. This decidedly unsettled state highlights what should be obvious: Understanding climate, at the level of detail relevant to human influences, is a very, very difficult problem.
This is not coming from some right-wing whack job. It is the sober assessment of the science from a former Obama Administration official. Claims that the "science is settled" are just that: claims. They are claims made to further a specific political agenda, not a realistic summation of what we actually know.
Yet we are told that massive government action is required—usually leavened with a generous dollop of socialism—to prevent disaster. A disaster, by the way, than cannot be confidently predicted. If that is so, the predictions of success for ameliorative actions cannot be confidently predicted either. Indeed, we cannot truly say that massive ameliorative actions are even needed.
"The science is settled," therefore, is not a factual, scientific statement. It is a political one. It deserves no more respect than any other political assertion.
US government data shows no warming in US for last decade
So, when you hear Obama and the alarmist bleating incessantly about the crisis of "global warming" or "climate change" or whatever phrase they choose to characterize the hoax they're trying to perpetrate on the people of the country, ensure you point out that not even their own data supports their claim:
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's most accurate, up-to-date temperature data confirm the United States has been cooling for at least the past decade. The NOAA temperature data are driving a stake through the heart of alarmists claiming accelerating global warming.
Responding to widespread criticism that its temperature station readings were corrupted by poor siting issues and suspect adjustments, NOAA established a network of 114 pristinely sited temperature stations spread out fairly uniformly throughout the United States. Because the network, known as the U.S. Climate Reference Network (USCRN), is so uniformly and pristinely situated, the temperature data require no adjustments to provide an accurate nationwide temperature record. USCRN began compiling temperature data in January 2005. Now, nearly a decade later, NOAA has finally made the USCRN temperature readings available.
According to the USCRN temperature readings, U.S. temperatures are not rising at all – at least not since the network became operational 10 years ago. Instead, the United States has cooled by approximately 0.4 degrees Celsius, which is more than half of the claimed global warming of the twentieth century.
But, but, that's only the US … yup, and that supports the observation that globally there has been no warming for the past 17 years. The models are wrong. Just flat wrong and it's time we started saying that. There is no credence to be found in their predictions and certainly nothing to support the alarmist's claims.
Carly Fiorino, former CEO of Hewlett Packard and a senate candidate remarked this weekend on the cobbled up "war on women". On CNN, she pulled out a fortune she'd gotten from a fortune cookie and said:
"'Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause,'" Fiorina read. "And that's exactly right. The War On Women is shameless, baseless propaganda. There's no fact to it. But it's worked because it's scared women to death. Enough."
Substitute the alarmist's "climate change" for "war on women" and it describes precisely what is going on with them. They have no case, only propaganda, and their only "argument" is to call the other side names and call for violent action against them.
Meanwhile, the case against the alarmist cause just keeps on getting stronger and stronger, not that it will slow them down or cause them to decrease the volume of screaming. It's not about science, it's abotu power and money … and they want both. More power over the way you live and more money to use against you to enforce their edicts.
Antarctic ice shelf "collapse" may have an effect on sea levels … in a 1,000 years
The cult of global warming, aka "alarmists", have found a new drum on which to bang. Scientists recently announced that the western ice shelf in Antarctica is "collapsing". Immediately the "Chicken Little" pronouncements of imminent doom were sounded by the usual suspects all implicitly tied to AGW. The UK's Guardian sounded the alarm in various headlines which read:
"Two separate studies confirm loss of ice sheet is inevitable, and will cause up to 4m of additional sea-level rise
'Collapse will change the coastline of the whole world'
Reading on into the actual findings of the studies, however, one finds that the drama that is implicit in these headlines could have been tempered a bit with a very slight modification:
But the researchers said that even though such a rise could not be stopped, it is still several centuries off, and potentially up to 1,000 years away.
Oh. So it isn't a crisis that will impact the world today or anytime in the near future, correct?
This is not new stuff either. This story has been popping up since 2008. I wrote about it here and here. As noted in 2008, a fairly simple discovery, not mentioned in any of these articles, proffered an explanation of why the ocean water was warming and the ice shelf was melting.
"Scientists have just now discovered an active volcano under the Antarctic ice that "creates melt-water that lubricates the base of the ice sheet and increases the flow towards the sea". That could include the Wilkins Ice Sheet as well (the article cited talks about the Larson A and B sheets.
But, say the alarmists, we're not talking about Wilkins or the Larson sheets. We're talking about the Thwaites glacier.
The study honed in on the Thwaites glacier – a broad glacier that is part of the Amundsen Sea. Scientists have known for years that the Thwaites glacier is the soft underbelly of the Antarctic ice sheet, and first found that it was unstable decades ago.
The University of Washington researchers said that the fast-moving Thwaites glacier could be lost in a matter of centuries. The loss of that glacier alone would raise global sea level by nearly 2ft.
Thwaites also acts as a dam that holds back the rest of the ice sheet. Once Thwaites goes, researchers said, the remaining ice in the sheet could cause another 10 to 13ft (3-4m) of global sea-level rise.
Ok. Well, let's look at a couple of pictures then. The first is from the 2008 post I did on the volcano:
The second picture, from the Guardian article, shows the area of the study. The red dot is the glacier in question:
Does anyone notice anything interesting? Yes, that's right, the glacier in question is in the vicinity of the volcano in question. And I don't think anyone would argue that a undersea volcano can't heat up the sea in the vicinity to a little higher temperature than it would be normally (it was certainly successful with Wilkins). Has it had an effect? Who knows … it doesn't seem to have been mentioned at all in the study. But, if you go to the Guardian article you'll see an embedded 17 second video that attempts to explain the effect of the warmer water on the glacier. It shows less dense (and therefore lighter) warm water somehow flowing under much denser and therefore heavier cold water to destabilize the glacier. The only reasonable explanation for such a flow would be if the heat source were somewhere near the bottom of the ocean, no? Otherwise its hard to explain how that warm water got below the cold water and stayed there.
But if you question things like this, you're an ignorant nincompoop. A "denier", which, by the way is akin to being a member of the KKK and a Holocaust denier all in one. However, I'm certainly not denying that something is happening in Antarctica. I am questioning the purported cause though. It isn't at all unimaginable that the side of Antarctica most exposed to warmer South Pacific sea currents and experiencing volcanic activity might see some melting due to causes unrelated to CO2 put in the atmosphere by man.
That, of course, won't stop the cultist from declaring themselves to be the ones with science on their side and deniers to be the fact-challenged among us. Here's a perfect example from today's NYT:
But the unfortunate fact about uncertainty is that the error bars always go in both directions. While it is possible that the problem could turn out to be less serious than the consensus forecast, it is equally likely to turn out to be more serious. In fact, it increasingly appears that, if there is any systemic bias in the climate models, it's that they understate the gravity of the situation. In an interesting paper that appeared in the journal Global Environmental Change, a group of scholars, including Naomi Oreskes, a historian of science at Harvard, and Michael Oppenheimer, a geoscientist at Princeton, note that so-called climate skeptics frequently accuse climate scientists of "alarmism" and "overreacting to evidence of human impacts on the climate system." But, when you actually measure the predictions that climate scientists have made against observations of how the climate has already changed, you find the exact opposite: a pattern "of under- rather than over-prediction" emerges.
Really? If that's the case, that should be pretty easy to demonstrate, shouldn't it? Since pictures are worth 1,000 words, here's a little picture I picked up over at The Federalist that does exactly that – it demonstrates that the pattern of the climate models is exactly as the "deniers" have claimed they are:
Somehow, the claimant from the NYT couldn't be bothered to actually fact check. Instead she swallowed whole the alarmist line and regurgitated it with the usual ignorant literary smirk found in most of their fact free writing. Sean Davis sums up the argument for most "deniers" very well:
I have a simple rule when it comes to people who want me to invest obscene sums of money in their forecasts of discrete future events: just be accurate. If you come to me and tell me you can predict future stock market performance based on these five factors, then you had better predict future stock market performance based on those five factors. All you have to do is be correct, over and over again. But if your predictive model is wrong, I'm not going to give you any money, and I'm certainly not going to pretend that what you just did is science. Any idiot can make incorrect guesses about the future.
Science, properly practiced, is the search for truth. Science, properly practiced, rejects forecasting models that consistently produce inaccurate forecasts. There's nothing scientific about shouting down anyone who has the audacity to point out that the only thing your model can accurately predict is what the temperature won't be.
New White House priority? Climate change!
Apparently tomorrow, President Obama will "showcase" his climate change agenda. According to the Washington Post:
After years of putting other policy priorities first — and dismaying many liberal allies in the process — Obama is now getting into the weeds on climate change and considers it one of the key components of his legacy, according to aides and advisers. He is regularly briefed on scientific reports on the issue, including a national climate assessment that he will help showcase Tuesday. He is using his executive authority to cut greenhouse gas emissions from power plants and other sources, and is moving ahead with stricter fuel-efficiency standards for the heaviest trucks. And while he routinely brings up climate change in closed-door meetings with world leaders, according to his aides, he also discusses it in his private life, talking about global warming's implications with his teenage daughters.
As usual, he intends to proceed by using executive power, whether or not the people or their representatives agree. And also without any consideration of the cost to the consumer. All in the face of mounting evidence that the supposed crisis of CO2 is a non-crisis. According to the WaPo, this intention to address "climate change" was spurred by Obama viewing satellite pictures of the California mountain snow pack:
The satellite images viewed by President Obama before a meeting with eight Western governors were stark, showing how snowpack in California's mountains had shrunk by 86 percent in a single year.
Of course, most of us know that's likely a local weather phenomenon, not a result of "global warming" or we'd be unlikely to be seeing things like this:
Antarctic sea ice continues to set new records, with extent in April at the highest since measurements began in 1979.
Remember, Antarctic and Arctic sea ice melts were to be the harbingers of doom. In fact, the Arctic was supposed to be ice free last year according to the perpetually wrong alarmists. Instead we saw record sea ice there as well. Factor in the fact that there has been no global warming for over 17 years and one has to ask why this, in the face of a badly performing economy and over 92 million Americans being out of work, is suddenly to become a priority for the White House? As one editorialist puts it:
The problem is, it's just so hard to be an alarmist these days. Temperatures aren't rising, U.S. CO2 emissions are down, and now it turns out that peak oil won't peak. What's a scare-monger to do?
The answer is keep on trying to gin up the alarm to satisfy the true-believers who are an important political constituency of the Democrats. And it is becoming clearer every day that the Democrats are going to need all of their constituencies to even have a ghost of a chance in the November mid-terms. To this point, the left environmental movement hasn't been to happy with the Obama administration and it certainly wants more drastic action to be taken to curb the use of fossil fuel. So its time to shore up their support:
Environmentalists such as Democratic donor and billionaire Tom Steyer want him to veto the Keystone pipeline and wean the nation from natural gas. Natural Resources Defense Council President Frances Beinecke said of the administration: "We have to increasingly get them to acknowledge that there has to be a major transformation away from fossil fuels."
That desire the Natural Resources Defense Council voices has resulted in such things as the "war on coal" and the reduction in production of oil on federal lands and off our coasts. It has also meant slow walking the permit process as well as holding the Keystone Pipeline hostage to presidential politics. So why now? Why is this the time to do this? Because he can:
A White House official, speaking on the condition of anonymity because the plans are not final, said Obama has made it clear that he considers climate change a priority and is less politically constrained now that he no longer faces reelection.
Meanwhile the public views the issue as a low priority if a priority at all, given jobs and economic problems. Yet Obama persists. Elections are in the offing. And if there is one thing he has at least a semblance of competence in, it's getting elected (or helping others do so). So all the high flying rhetoric aside, this is about votes, this is about elections and this is about trying to preserve at least one Democratic house in Congress for the last two years of his presidency. It is one of many such moves he'll be attempting in the coming months. But make no mistake – this isn't about the environment or his legacy, it's about politics. ~McQ
Defining the alarmist problem
While doing a review of Rupert Darwall's book "The Age of Global Warming", Charles Moore does an excellent job of succinctly identifying the alarmist movement's core origins and core identity:
The origins of warmism lie in a cocktail of ideas which includes anti-industrial nature worship, post-colonial guilt, a post-Enlightenment belief in scientists as a new priesthood of the truth, a hatred of population growth, a revulsion against the widespread increase in wealth and a belief in world government. It involves a fondness for predicting that energy supplies won't last much longer (as early as 1909, the US National Conservation Commission reported to Congress that America's natural gas would be gone in 25 years and its oil by the middle of the century), protest movements which involve dressing up and disappearing into woods (the Kindred of the Kibbo Kift, the Mosleyite Blackshirts who believed in reafforestation) and a dislike of the human race (The Club of Rome's work Mankind at the Turning-Point said: "The world has cancer and the cancer is man.").
These beliefs began to take organised, international, political form in the 1970s. One of the greatest problems, however, was that the ecologists' attacks on economic growth were unwelcome to the nations they most idolised – the poor ones. The eternal Green paradox is that the concept of the simple, natural life appeals only to countries with tons of money. By a brilliant stroke, the founding fathers developed the concept of "sustainable development". This meant that poor countries would not have to restrain their own growth, but could force restraint upon the rich ones. This formula was propagated at the first global environmental conference in Stockholm in 1972.
Indeed, the resulting grouping was a natural one. Eco radicals out to 'save the world' from evil capitalism (and man) and poor countries looking for a way to extort billions from rich countries without having to do anything of note to help themselves.
The G7 Summit in Toronto in 1988 endorsed the theory of global warming. In the same year, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was set up. The capture of the world's elites was under way. Its high point was the Kyoto Summit in 1998, which enabled the entire world to yell at the United States for not signing up, while also exempting developing nations, such as China and India, from its rigours.
The final push, brilliantly described here by Darwall, was the Copenhagen Summit of 2009. Before it, a desperate Gordon Brown warned of "50 days to avoid catastrophe", but the "catastrophe" came all the same. The warmists' idea was that the global fight against carbon emissions would work only if the whole world signed up to it. Despite being ordered to by President Obama, who had just collected his Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, the developing countries refused. The Left-wing dream that what used to be called the Third World would finally be emancipated from Western power had come true. The developing countries were perfectly happy for the West to have "the green crap", but not to have it themselves. The Western goody-goodies were hoist by their own petard.
The UN was the natural forum for this push and the IPCC, headed by an railway engineer, the natural "scientific" instrument. We know how that story has turned out to this point. No global warming registered for 17 years and 6 months despite all the dire, but apparently scientifically groundless, predictions. The irony, of course, is it is those who have been skeptical of all of this are the one's called "deniers". And the alarmists have become so bankrupt and shrill that some of them are calling for the arrest of "deniers." One supposes since the alarmist cause most closely resembles a religious cult, the call for arrest is on the grounds of heresy … or something.
Meanwhile, "green energy" – the eco radical solution to all – continues to not be ready for prime time, while fossil fuel becomes cheaper and more plentiful.
Yet somehow, the so-called "elites" have decided – based on what, one isn't sure – that the threat to the globe is real. More irony. On the one hand, the eco radicals don't care at all if it costs lives since they've been convinced for decades that it is man that's the problem. Less of us is a "good thing" in their world. On the other hand you have the elites, aka, politicians, who see an opportunity to both expand government power and create revenue literally out of thin air. The fight is over who will get the money.
Meanwhile the reputation of science – real science – will suffer because of this very political cause and the actions of some scientists to serve it.
Scientists, Rupert Darwall complains, have been too ready to embrace the "subjectivity" of the future, and too often have a "cultural aversion to learning from the past".
And that is a complete disservice to science. Given all of that, who are the real deniers here?
More Climate Science
A new study from National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado revealed that a 'small' nuclear exchange would solve the global warming problem.
That wasn't what they intended it to show, but it sure would be a quick fix to this impending global climate change heating up disaster the President and John Kerry keep flogging wouldn't it? But seriously, it shows a drastic global cooling effect brought on by nuclear exchange. The term nuclear winter is bandied about, but in this theoretical exercise things don't go quite far enough to trigger Fimbulwinter.
In the study, only the US is still a superpower but we're not the problem. That term superpower may need to go to the shop for repair all things considered, but for once the study didn't presume Evil Bush pushed the buttons to send us to perdition. Instead India and Pakistan square off and slug it out with low yield bombs in the Hiroshima class range. To the tune of 100 15kt weapons.
What they collectively have 100 of that would need nuking isn't clear, but assume bases, cities and so forth, and maybe re-nuking some targets. It's a study in long term effect after all, not military use of the weapons. 100 of them in the territory given certainly implies some tactical activity for their deployment as well as strategic hits on infrastructures and civilian centers. Therefore we can assume air bursts and ground bursts, as each one will have different effects for the purposes of the study. As an aside, they must have really dedicated fighters and leaders in their model to continue fighting long enough to exchange 100 nukes. Be that as it may, once the blasting is over the study simulates the effect on climate on land, sea and air. The conclusion as you would expect is catastrophe not just for India and Pakistan, but globally.
We're talking, according to the study, global cooling effect and the loss of the ozone layer for as long as a decade. The cooling to be caused by 5 million metric tons of dust spewing into the atmosphere.
The conclusion is that 100 weapons of Hiroshima scale would throw up 5 million metric tons of sunlight blocking dust and drop average surface temperatures world wide 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit ( or for fuzzy foreigners 1.5 degrees Celsius). That would be the lowest averages in over 1000 years. Here in the US we'd experience winters that were significantly colder by from 4.5 to 10.8 degrees F and cooler summers. All of which would lead to lethal frosts and reduced growing seasons. No doubt causing world wide famine and destruction of biblical plague proportions. if it didn't say that last part, it can be pretty much concluded though. It was originally thought by previous studies that the temperatures would go back to something like normal after a decade or so, but this new study shows the cool temperatures could persist for 25 years or more. Global precipitation would fall off and this would lead to forest fires world wide which of course would raise the amount of particulate in the atmosphere. Somewhere in there dogs and cats probably start living together and there's mass hysteria.
Now this is the third study of this nature that's been done, and "their conclusions support each other". As the models get more sophisticated they show the effects of a limited regional nuke war to be more and more pronounced.
If you have access, you can see the detail of their findings here, but your bumbled journalist here gets a big 403 Forbidden from the link.
All of this stuff is cool, no pun intended, and interesting. Well, other than perhaps the models might look to real climate history for some reference about effects of nuclear above ground detonations on the earth's climate. It's not like the world hasn't had any experience or history to go by.
First there's the bombs. 100 bombs at 15kt each is 15000 kt, or 1.5 megatons. That's gonna be a bad start to anyone's weekend. After all 1 exploding dumb 250 lb iron bomb ruins your day if you're nearby.
But the "BRAVO" hydrogen test shot on Bikini Atoll was 15 megatons all by itself, so, multiply this little ground war's explosions by 10 and we're in the same range as this one explosion on Bikini. India and Pakistan are going to have to fight a little harder. The United States alone, in atmospheric nuclear testing, accounted for 137 megatons worth of explosions above ground over a 17 year period. That works out to a little over 8 megatons worth of nuclear explosions per year for 17 years. That's just the US contribution. France, Britain, The Soviets, 'Red' China, all tested atmospheric bombs, all in the megaton range. The Soviet Tzar Bomba was rated, by itself, as at, or over, 50 megatons. Before the distinction is made about tests over the ocean, versus tests over the land, the US detonated 27 nuclear devices here in the US, above ground, in 1957 alone.
The various nuclear armed parties continued with these above ground tests up until 1980.
1.5 megatons causes drastic global cooling?
Then there's the dust estimates – 5 million metric tons of dust high into the atmosphere. By way of comparison, Mount St. Helens in 1980 is estimated to have blown 1.5 million metric tons 20 miles into the atmosphere with 500 million falling tons falling in Washington, Idaho and Montana. Krakatoa in 1883 is estimated to have produced 12 BILLION metric tons of dust – I based this number on a study here – which estimates a 10,000 megaton nuke war would put 25 billion metric tons of dust into the atmosphere and that study estimates that amount to be about double the dust produced by Krakatoa. Krakatoa is credited with screwing up the weather in 1884, with results like crazy prolific rain in Southern California and average Northern Hemisphere summer temperatures falling by 2.2 degrees F.
There's no disputing the effect of dust in the atmosphere, there should be a serious dispute about the effect the amount of dust used in their sophisticated model will produce. The warmers will probably claim that was why it didn't get warmer until after 1980 when atmospheric nuclear testing stopped.
Finally there's the business of stripping off the ozone layer in the atmosphere. We can only speculate that our modern ozone must be different than the ozone available in the 40's, 50's and 60's since that old timer ozone didn't all vanish when we nuked Enewetak in 1952 to the tune of 10.5 megatons worth of boom, dust and excited atomic particles.
It is safe to believe that some fair percentage of the people involved in these studies probably don't remember atmospheric nuclear testing, or possibly even Mount St Helens, but they, or their elders who do, might consider cracking open a world history book from the WWII onwards and then a climate history review between 1945 and 1981.
And then try tuning their keeno sophisticated nuclear war climate models and running them again.
Krauthammer takes the hammer to the myth of "settled science"
In a great column by Charles Krauthammer, he those who spout the "settled science" mantra their just due:
"The debate is settled," asserted propagandist in chief Barack Obama in his latest State of the Union address. "Climate change is a fact." Really? There is nothing more anti-scientific than the very idea that science is settled, static, impervious to challenge. Take a non-climate example. It was long assumed that mammograms help reduce breast cancer deaths. This fact was so settled that Obamacare requires every insurance plan to offer mammograms (for free, no less) or be subject to termination.
Now we learn from a massive randomized study — 90,000 women followed for 25 years — that mammograms may have no effect on breast cancer deaths. Indeed, one out of five of those diagnosed by mammogram receives unnecessary radiation, chemo or surgery.
So much for settledness. And climate is less well understood than breast cancer. If climate science is settled, why do its predictions keep changing? And how is it that the great physicist Freeman Dyson, who did some climate research in the late 1970s, thinks today's climate-change Cassandras are hopelessly mistaken?
A fair and unanswered question to this point. Instead alarmists offer excuses or twist science in such a way it is unrecognizable in order to justify their claims. Krauthammer continues:
They deal with the fluid dynamics of the atmosphere and oceans, argues Dyson, ignoring the effect of biology, i.e., vegetation and topsoil. Further, their predictions rest on models they fall in love with: "You sit in front of a computer screen for 10 years and you start to think of your model as being real." Not surprisingly, these models have been "consistently and spectacularly wrong" in their predictions, write atmospheric scientists Richard McNider and John Christy — and always, amazingly, in the same direction.
Settled? Even Britain's national weather service concedes there's been no change — delicately called a "pause" — in global temperature in 15 years. If even the raw data is recalcitrant, let alone the assumptions and underlying models, how settled is the science?
Precisely. Climate change is happening because climate change always happens. Climate isn't a static thing. But suddenly, using these wildly innaccurate and downright wrong models, "scientists" are trying to lay off the responsibility for that change on man. Nothing new there. The extreme left of environmentalism sees man as an intruder to be gotten rid of rather than a natural part of the world. And they, for one, see this as an opportunity to work toward that goal. The politicians, of course, see revenue. It is a dangerous combination.
Krauthammer then covers the alarmists attempts to use weather events as harbingers of climate change. But just like the temperatures these past 15 years, the data just doesn't support their claims:
But even worse than the pretense of settledness is the cynical attribution of any politically convenient natural disaster to climate change, a clever term that allows you to attribute anything — warming and cooling, drought and flood — to man's sinful carbon burning.
Accordingly, Obama ostentatiously visited drought-stricken California last Friday. Surprise! He blamed climate change. Here even the New York Times gagged, pointing out that far from being supported by the evidence, "the most recent computer projections suggest that as the world warms, California should get wetter, not drier, in the winter."
How inconvenient. But we've been here before. Hurricane Sandy was made the poster child for the alleged increased frequency and strength of "extreme weather events" like hurricanes.
Nonsense. Sandy wasn't even a hurricanewhen it hit the United States. Indeed, in all of 2012, only a single hurricane made U.S. landfall . And 2013 saw the fewest Atlantic hurricanes in 30 years. In fact, in the last half-century, one-third fewer major hurricanes have hit the United States than in the previous half-century.
Similarly tornadoes. Every time one hits, the climate-change commentary begins. Yet last year saw the fewest in a quarter-century. And the last 30 years — of presumed global warming — has seen a 30 percent decrease in extreme tornado activity (F3 and above) versus the previous 30 years.
Facts. My goodness how to explain pure and simple facts that contradict the "settled science." They can't.
He concludes beautifully with a stake through the heart of "settled science" myth and calls it what it really is – whoring. Science whoring and political whoring:
None of this is dispositive. It doesn't settle the issue. But that's the point. It mocks the very notion of settled science, which is nothing but a crude attempt to silence critics and delegitimize debate. As does the term "denier" — an echo of Holocaust denial, contemptibly suggesting the malevolent rejection of an established historical truth.
Climate-change proponents have made their cause a matter of fealty and faith. For folks who pretend to be brave carriers of the scientific ethic, there's more than a tinge of religion in their jeremiads. If you whore after other gods, the Bible tells us, "the Lord's wrath be kindled against you, and he shut up the heaven, that there be no rain, and that the land yield not her fruit" (Deuteronomy 11).
Sounds like California. Except that today there's a new god, the Earth Mother. And a new set of sins — burning coal and driving a fully equipped F-150.
But whoring is whoring, and the gods must be appeased. So if California burns, you send your high priest (in carbon -belching Air Force One, but never mind) to the bone-dry land to offer up, on behalf of the repentant congregation, a $1 billion burnt offering called a "climate resilience fund."
Ah, settled science in action.
UPDATE: Speaking of "settled science", one of the biggest proponents of that mantra can't even get short range forecasts right:
The Met Office's 'pitiful' forecasts were under fire last night after it was revealed it told councils in November to expect 'drier than usual' conditions this winter. In the worst weather prediction since Michael Fish reassured the nation in October 1987 that there was no hurricane on the way, forecasters said the Somerset Levels – still under water after more than two months of flooding – and the rest of the West Country would be especially dry. Last night, it was confirmed the UK had instead suffered the wettest winter since records began.
There is every reason to be skeptical of the science of "climate change" alarmists
Let's make something clear here before we start. The argument in science, about climate change, isn't whether or not man is contributing to climate change – it's whether what man is contributing makes a big difference in the climate (and should therefore be addressed) or an insignificant contribution to climate change (and therefore "remedies" which are likely economy wreckers should be foregone). The former is the "alamrist" side. The latter is the skeptical side.
The science of the situation, i.e. the data, seems to support the skeptical side. So what you don't want to fall into is the trap of agreeing that man is contributing nothing. Just by living we contribute to the mix. What skeptics are arguming is the contribution of man, in reality, is insignificant and doesn't warrant huge costly taxes, significant change or monsterous government programs. Skeptics offer that the atmosphere doesn't react signficiantly to rising CO2 produced by man (and that seems to be the case).
Therefore when you hear all this nonsense about skeptics denying man's contribution to climate change, it is just that – nonsense. Every living creature contributes to the gasses which make up the atmosphere of our planet and some of those gasses do indeed have a role in climate. To deny that is silly. What we skeptics are saying is those contributions simply aren't significant because their effect on climate is minimal and certainly nowhere near on par with natural events. When the alarmist thow out numbers like "97% of scientistst agree man is contributing to climate change" it is a partial truth. However, there's a huge split among scientists as to how significant man's contribution is to any climate change. But alarmists never go there.
In fact, we're just in the middle of the latest round of "catastrophe hype" that the media has been complicit in for years. Whatever it takes to sell papers. Remember:
"U.S. Scientist Sees New Ice Age Coming," said a Washington Post headline in 1971. "The world could be as little as 50 or 60 years away from a disastrous new ice age, a leading atmospheric scientist predicts." The New York Times went one further, saying: "Climate Changes Called Ominous." But it wasn't just theory. "There is a finite probability that a serious worldwide cooling could befall the Earth within the next hundred years."
Oh, yeah. I forgot about that. Not to mention forgetting about how we'd all be starved to death by now because the population wasn't sustainable and … well, you know them all.
Which brings us to the latest attempt by the alarmists to redefine both the "problem" and the skeptics. Our buddy John Kerry in Indonesia over the weekend had this to say:
Kerry, who delivered the speech on Sunday in the capital, Jakarta, spoke critically about climate change sceptics adding that everyone and every country must take responsibility and act immediately.
"We simply don't have time to let a few loud interest groups hijack the climate conversation," he said, referring to what he called "big companies" that "don't want to change and spend a lot of money" to act to reduce the risks.
He later singled out big oil and coal concerns as the primary offenders.
"The science is unequivocal, and those who refuse to believe it are simply burying their heads in the sand," Kerry said.
Right. Interestingly, Indonesia is huge coal producer. Our boy Kerry knows how to pick 'em.
Of course the science isn't "unequivocal" where it counts. I.e. what is driving climate change (you know, beside the big yellow thing that appears in the sky each day like magic but is, for the most part, roundly ignored by alarmists – no pun intended) is, well, many natural forces. Our Earth has seen climate change for its entire existence. We have two warm periods in our past which were warmer that the warmest period of modern history. And we're not warming now, despite increased CO2. So, if one wants to really do science, i.e. demand "unequivocal" proof, one has every right to be skeptical of the current science being pushed by the alarmists. Skepticism is the root of science.
And, of course, Kerry had to over dramatize the supposed problem in order to alarm the gullible even more:
John Kerry, the US Secretary of State, has stressed the importance of tackling climate change in a speech in Indonesia, saying that it may be the world's "most fearsome" weapon of mass destruction.
Wow. That's just a …. silly comparison.
But alarmists seem to pay no attention to reality as they push their mantra. For instance, Al Gore, Alarmist-in-Chief had this to say just a few days ago:
Earth's ice-covered regions are melting. The vanishing of the Arctic ice cap is changing the heat absorption at the top of the world, and may be affecting the location of the Northern Hemisphere jet stream and storm tracks and slowing down the movement of storm systems. Meanwhile, the growing loss of ice in Antarctica and Greenland is accelerating sea level rise and threatening low-lying coastal cities and regions.
Not a word of that is true. None. The jet stream's move south?
One of the Met Office's most senior experts yesterday made a dramatic intervention in the climate change debate by insisting there is no link between the storms that have battered Britain and global warming. Mat Collins, a Professor in climate systems at Exeter University, said the storms have been driven by the jet stream – the high-speed current of air that girdles the globe – which has been 'stuck' further south than usual. Professor Collins told The Mail on Sunday: 'There is no evidence that global warming can cause the jet stream to get stuck in the way it has this winter. If this is due to climate change, it is outside our knowledge.'
Who are you going to believe? Al Gore or Professor Collins? Who has the real chops. And note to that the Professor makes it clear that we don't have the knowledge to make such a claim anyway. Not that such an impediment of factual knowledge ever stopped Al Gore.
Antarctic sea ice has grown to a record large extent for a second straight year, baffling scientists seeking to understand why this ice is expanding rather than shrinking in a warming world.
On Saturday, the ice extent reached 19.51 million square kilometers, according to data posted on the National Snow and Ice Data Center Web site. That number bested record high levels set earlier this month and in 2012 (of 19.48 million square kilometers). Records date back to October 1978.
So what do real scientists note?
"This modeled Antarctic sea ice decrease in the last three decades is at odds with observations, which show a small yet statistically significant increase in sea ice extent," says the study, led by Colorado State University atmospheric scientist Elizabeth Barnes.
You might also remember that 2013 was the year the sophisticated models the alarmists base their claims upon said that the Arctic would be ice free. The gullible and true believers ate it up, and some even acted upon it.
Only six years ago, the BBC reported that the Arctic would be ice-free in summer by 2013, citing a scientist in the US who claimed this was a 'conservative' forecast. Perhaps it was their confidence that led more than 20 yachts to try to sail the Northwest Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific this summer. As of last week, all these vessels were stuck in the ice, some at the eastern end of the passage in Prince Regent Inlet, others further west at Cape Bathurst.
Shipping experts said the only way these vessels were likely to be freed was by the icebreakers of the Canadian coastguard. According to the official Canadian government website, the Northwest Passage has remained ice-bound and impassable all summer.
D'oh! I think they ought to bill the forecasters for the cost of rescuing the yachts, don't you?
So, I don't know, given all of that, maybe we ought to be skeptical of the fidelity of the models and the science? You think?
I certainly do.
And Billy Nye? You're an engineer and an actor – not a climate scientist. If you want to be among the alarmists, then be one. But do us all a favor and do it quietly.
Observations: The QandO Podcast for 05 Dec 14
This week, Bruce, Michael and Dale talk about Global Warming, NSA Spying, and Obamacare.
The direct link to the podcast can be found here.
As a reminder, if you are an iTunes user, don't forget to subscribe to the QandO podcast, Observations, through iTunes. For those of you who don't have iTunes, you can subscribe at Podcast Alley. And, of course, for you newsreader subscriber types, our podcast RSS Feed is here.
Coming in 2014 whether you like it or not
Just for an intro:
A Russian expedition ship carrying global warming scientists got stuck in ice earlier this week. Now a Chinese ice breaker sent to rescue the scientists is frozen too just miles away.
Yes friends, "global warming", "climate change" or whatever the alarmists choose to call it next year, will be with us and with a vengeance.
You see, "if you like your insurance you can keep it" Obama has said it will be one of his highest priorities. There's gold in that thar air. It is an as yet untapped revenue source that, well, he's bound and determined to tap – science, or lack thereof, be damned.
Nevermind that 13 new Obama taxes go into effect this next year and will likely stunt economic growth … again. Global warming produces an entire new opportunity to gouge taxpayers "for their own good" — you know, just like ObamaCare. And, of course, the grab will be couched in language much like ObamaCare. They'll promise the moon. They'll deliver misery. The only institution which will benefit? Government.
What will be chipped away?
A little more of your freedom. Your liberty.
It is obviously okay now for government to just engage in bald faced lies and get away with it. Obama's "if you like your insurance …" lie led the parade of Pinocchio awards by that renowned right-wing rag the Washington Post. Result? Nada? Penalty? Nada?
Lesson learned by the perpetrators of the lie?
Hey, it's okay, there are no penalties and it works.
Next up?
Global warming (and your wallet).
You've been warned.


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Amy Butler just wrote to me about her new line of bedding and I dropped everything to share these images with you. Yay Amy! It's her first bedding collection with Welspun and is produced with 100% organic cotton and printed with low impact dyes proving that eco-friendly bedding can be bold and gorgeous. The bedding is 400 thread count and Amy tells me that it feels gorgeous to the touch.
The complete bedding line will be available in Amy's online shop in July and at select Bed, Bath & Beyond stores. You can view a slideshow of the entire collection here. Which ones do you like? I really love the turquoise bedding with the lime green accents – so fresh! Congratulations Amy and thanks for letting decor8 readers know the big news!
(images: amy butler designs)
Ready to fall in love with a newly designed bedroom in San Francisco? Of course you are! This week's How Much For This Room? shines the spotlight once again on Christiana Coop who co-owns Hygge & West and ferm LIVING. She also co-authors a blog called Clever Spaces. If you recall, her kitchen was featured here on March 6th. She also helped produced this informative and adorable DIY video with 10 tips on how to wallpaper.
What inspired the design of this room? The design was actually inspired by the paint color (Benjamin Moore, Iron Mountain). I'd seen this color is several places and completely fell in love with it – it is so warm, rich and sophisticated, I think. I also wanted to wallpaper an accent wall in my bedroom so we could make a little how to video; we just uploaded it yesterday! The one white accent wall allowed for the other three walls to be dark (I think doing all four walls in a dark color would have created a bit of a cave feel which I wanted to avoid). I went with a white pattern so it would really pop against the darker walls. I also thought the more masculine wall color would be a nice contrast to the more feminine gold floral design. So… The design idea definitely started with the walls! I'd also recently found a fantastic pair of vintage wall lamps that I knew would be perfect for above my bed. I'd already had the furniture and ended up switching around some floor rugs between rooms and brought the red/shaggier rug into the room to add more coziness. – Christiana Coop
At what point in the design did you know when to quit? You seem to have a knack at editing well… "As far as editing, for this room, I knew that I wanted the focus to be on the walls and the vintage lamps so I kept the bedding simple. I also have a few necklaces that I really love, so thought I'd display them them a bit more like art and be able to see them everyday. I'd considered adding a piece of art between the lamps and a mirror above the desk, but it started to feel too cluttered and distracting so I let those ideas go. I think my key to editing is to make sure each piece is either functional or something that makes me really happy to see. If not, what is the point of keeping it around? I also have a natural tendency towards the more is more philosophy, so sometimes when I think the room is done, I look around and force myself to take one or two things away – kind of like Coco Chanel's, "Before you walk out the door, take on thing off," applied to interior design." – Christiana Coop
Bedroom breakdown: Plant: $65, Basket (Area): $45, Bed and side tables (Room and Board): $2,600, Bedding (Anthropologie): $200, Throw blanket (Banana Republic): $150, Rug (Propeller): $1,200, Clock radio (Unica): $400, Jewelry knobs (Hygge & West): $45, Jewelry dishes and boxes: $300, Vintage wall sconces (The Perish Trust): $75, Stool (Area): $300, Console table (CB2): $350, 4 felt doilies (Eden & Eden): $150, Vintage mice candle stick (The Perish Trust): $50, Candle votive set (Hygge & West): $36, Daisy pillow (Hygge & West): $65, Devotion print (Rare Device): $15, A Little Birdy Told Me print (Samantha Hahn): Gift, Bamboo blinds: $200, Collage art (Egg & The Urban Mercantile): $150, Hello There chair (The Magazine): $300, 2 rolls Fairy Flower wallpaper (ferm LIVING): $115 per roll/$230 and 1 can of paint (Benjamin Moore, Iron Mountain): $60.
Grand Total: $6,986. USD
Lovely! Thank you Christiana for taking us into your cozy and elegant bedroom — that gray looks gorgeous with the crisp white trim and eye catching gold and white wallpaper. Very nice touch, I'm sure this room will inspire lots of Iron Mountain gray bedrooms out there in blogland! :) Thanks again!
(images from christiana coop)
I just love bedding, especially when the pillowcases aren't the same pattern as the top or bottom sheets and the duvet is a completely different, yet coordinating, fabric altogether. Like mismatched china patterns, my favorite look in the bedroom is definitely not traditional and matchy-matchy – it's eclectic all the way and fun-loving! For some, selecting a variety of patterns and colors scares them because they don't think they can "put it off" so they tend to shy away from creating a fun look for fear of falling flat. If that's you never fear because there are lots of companies out there like Plover Organic, who I first wrote about when they launched last year, who make this whole process a breeze with patterns that all work together so well. It's pretty close to impossible to create a clashing ensemble.
Plover has grown so much since launch by expanding their collection to include a more ethnic-inspired collection with an array of colors and patterns to fall in love with in addition to their 100% high quality organic cotton. They even have bedding for the nursery and table linens. Enjoy!
(images from plover organic)
Have you ever looked at something someone else did or had and felt like a total loser? I have the fingers on my right hand shaped like an L on my forehead right now all because of Nicole. I still love ya Nicole but my God are you showing us all up. Talk about raising the bar! Look at this closet. OMG.
Seriously, this girl is amazing, she is the younger pregnant Martha Stewart of Chicago. Not only did she wallpaper her dining room 5 months pregnant, but she has the most organized closet in the entire world. I'm not about to re-post all of her photos here, so you'll have to check out her blog Making It Lovely for the full scoop (and more images) but here's a glimpse of her seriously awesome closet. I love how she even sketched out how everything is organized. Bravo, mama!
I'm inspired now… I need to whip my closet into shape. How many of you need to work on your closet too? A good post-holiday project, don't you think?
(images from nicole at making it lovely)

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they stopped offering the DSL in my area.
how can they be in the Bellsouth's domain and yet in former states? i have no idea what you mean and/or talking about.
quote:BellSouth acquisitionOn Friday December 29, 2006, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) approved the new AT&T's acquisition of a regional Bell Operating Company, BellSouth, valued at approximately $86 billion (or 1.325 shares of AT&T for each share of BellSouth at the close of trading December 29, 2006).[10] The new combined company retained the name AT&T.[
quote:The term "BellSouth States'' means Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee.


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Jack squeaked really loudly when under weight (small SUV). It was so loud my neighbors could hear it. Tried greasing and bleeding, but it made no difference. The second attempt at bleeding caused the fill screw to fail. At that point I took it back to the store to exchange. Was extremely disappointed with the quality and wanted my money back, but I lost my receipt. Also, I had purchased the jack just days earlier but it was now on sale for much less than I paid, but of course nothing they could do. I was able to exchange for a new jack. The new one works perfectly. No squeaking, lifts up my SUV like it's nothing. It was the exact same model, but I noticed some very subtle difference between the two (different warning labels, slightly different wheels and handle). Not sure what the reason for the difference, but anyhow it worked better than the first.
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Great jack for not a lot of money
By Misfit
from Gleason,WI
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Comments about Pittsburgh Automotive 3 ton Steel Heavy Duty Floor Jack with Rapid Pump®:
I have had for a few years and never had an issue. I have even left a vehicle up in the air for a few hours without jackstands(I had an emergency) and it never creeped down.
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By Twin
from Clearmont, Missouri
Out of the box, install the two handle screws, and then I jacked up my small bulldozer so I could set dollies under it and move it around in my shop while I restore it. The dozers must weigh near the jack's capacity as I had to put my weight on the handle to get the dozer up and I am a big boy. Next I'll be doing maintenance on my pickup and car. Whoever designed this jack gave some thought to both function and appearance as it works very well right out of the box and the machining, fit, and paint finish are first class. Harbor Freight's buyers should receive a bonus for selecting this jack to bring to us.
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What you see is what i got. GREAT!!!
By Lawrence Toyota 4 Runner
from Cleveland, Ohio
About Me Mechanic, Truck Enthusiast
this unit doesn't hesitate. I am lifting a Toyota 4 Runner. changing tires, putting on stands changing oil. Many more jobs.
(7 of 7 customers found this review helpful)
Great quality!
By crazyjake8493
from Johnstown, NY
I originally wanted the 4 ton floor jack, but they were sold out, so I picked up this 3 ton. Did a great job lifting my 7400 lb dually so I could rotate the tires. A great jack at a great price.
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Yes I would buy a 3rd one!
By Quick Wrench
from Sarasota, FL
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I use these jacks everyday! I have 2 of them and will get more as I need them. Awesome Jacks!!
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Awesome jack. Very Reliable. But Heavy.
By Lost in Transmission
from West Coast
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Best part about this jack is it will raise the car very fast. In addition, using the handle, it is possible to carefully control the lowering of the car.The bad part about this jack it is very heavy and difficult to move - say putting in a car trunk.I also have the 1.5 ton HFT aluminum "racing jack". It is far easier to move, but inferior in every other way to this jack.
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Works great
By Bob
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About Me Auto Enthusiast, Truck Enthusiast
It does everything that a jack can do that cost 5 times more.
Best value on the market
By Tony
from PA
About Me Casual Driver
This thing is heavy, but that's what I like about it. I've owned mine for about a year now and have no complaints.
Make sure turn handle before lifting!!!
By Wolven
from Florida
After removing packing clip, and placing screw in handle it is ready to go. A clockwise turn (like most jacks)of the handle puts in lift mode and away it goes. If you go to the floor will lift in a few strokes, half strokes require a few extra.
Great floor jack for the price!
By BigD
from Guyton, GA
About Me Auto Enthusiast, Casual Driver
I used this jack when I added a lift kit and changed the ball joints out on my Wrangler. It worked without any problems.
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text: COREP: Data Point Model Common Reporting Operational Network DIRECTORATE GENERAL BANKING REGULATION INTRODUCTION "Data point model (DPM)" - It is a systematic representation of the data of a reporting framework. - It represents every single data (cell) of the reporting tables using the values of the "Base" and "Dimensions" that characterize them. [See next slide] - It does not add or delete any of the cells of the tables. These are simple presentations of several data points. - It facilitates the development of any IT Taxonomy. Initial purpose of a DPM for COREP - To have a "Base" and "Dimensions" that are consistent from a conceptual (prudential) point of view and easily understandable from the business side. - To use the same approach already used for CEBS: • The number of dimensions should be the strictly necessary. • To use the same domains/dimensions as in FINREP DPM when they refer to the same concepts. DG BANKING REGULATION 2 IDENTIFICATION OF A DATA POINT (CELL) A data point (cell) is represented using the values of the "Base" and "Domains/Dimensions" that characterize it. The same data point is defined only once, regardless whether it is included or not in more than one table. Basic [financial/supervisory/statistical] meaning (nature) of the data from a BASE conceptual point of view (e.g. Capital requirements: OPR) DOMAIN: Family of different "dimensions" that have similar nature (e.g. Main category) DIMENSION Each of the different "characteristics" that identify the information included in a data point (e.g. Types of exposure). Every "dimension" must have two or more values (members). It is possible to use more than one "dimension" of a "domain" to identify a data point (cell) (e.g. Business lines, Event types – losses). It is not possible to use more than one "member" of a "dimension" to identify a data point (cell). MEMBER Each "value" that can have a dimension (e.g. Corporate finance). A "member" can be used in more than a dimension when it has the same meaning (e.g. the member 0% is used in several dimensions of the domain "Percentage interval"). DG BANKING REGULATION 3 COREP: BASE BASE Basic meaning (nature) of every data point from a supervisory point of view - Own funds for solvency purposes [CA] - Capital requirements - Credit risk and settlement/delivery risk [GS] Credit risk (Credit, counterparty credit and dilution risks and free delivery) [CA, CR] Settlement/delivery risk [CA, CR TB SETT] - Market risk (Position, foreign exchange and commodities risks ) [CA, MKR] - Operational risk [CA, OPR] - Fixed overheads [CA] - Other and transitional capital requirements [CA] - Memorandum items [CA] DG BANKING REGULATION 4 COREP: DOMAINS Key Domains Rest of Domains - Main category - Credit risk mitigation/(Collateral/guarantees) - Amount type - Currency - Geographical area For capital requirements also: - Impaired / Unimpaired - Portfolio - Percentage interval - Approach to capital requirements - Securitization - Exposure classes (for credit risk) - Time interval - Risk type (for market risk) DG BANKING REGULATION 5 COREP: MAIN CATEGORY MAIN CATEGORY indicates the specific meaning of the data. CLASSIFICATION CRITERIA By- (detailed) nature of the data DIMENSIONS: - Own funds for solvency purposes [CA, GS]: Total own funds, Original own funds, Eligible Capital,… - Contribution to own funds [GS]: Total, of which. … - Capital requirements [CA]: Total, of which: Investment firms under article … - Type of exposure [CR and MKR]: Total exposures, On balance sheet items, Off balance sheet items,… - Operational risk [Business lines] [OPR and OPR Details]: Corporate finance, Trading and sales,... - Operational risk [Event types - losses] [OPR Details]: Internal fraud, External fraud, … - Operational risk [Threshold applied in data collection] [OPR]: Lowest, Highest - Other and transitional capital requirements [CA]: Complements to overall floor for capital requirements,… - Assets [OPR]: Loans and advances - Comprehensive income [OPR]: Gross income - Contribution to own funds [GS]: Total, of which: … - Memorandum items [CA]: IRB provision excess (+) / shortfall (-), Solvency ratio (%), … DG BANKING REGULATION 6 COREP: AMOUNT TYPE AMOUNT TYPE identifies the class of amount reported for the main category of the data. Examples of amount types for: - Own funds for solvency purposes [CA]: Outstanding - Capital requirements [CA]: Capital requirements - Memorandum items [CA]: Outstanding, Percentage (%) - Credit risk [CR] : Original exposure pre conversion factors, Value adjustments and provisions, Capital requirements, PD (%), ... - Settlement / Delivery risk [CR TB SETT] : Capital requirements, Settlement price, … - Market risk [MKR]: Capital requirements, All position (long, short), Net positions, Previous day VaR, … - Operational risk [OPR Details]: Capital requirements, Number of events, Total (gross) loss, … - Contribution to own funds [GS]: Contribution DG BANKING REGULATION 7 COREP: PORFOLIO AND APPROACH DOM: PORTFOLIO - Prudential portfolios: All books, Banking book, Trading book DOM: APPROACH TO CAPITAL REQUIREMENTS - Credit risk [CR] : SA, SEC SA (Rated, Unrated), IRB (non own estimates, own estimates), SEC IRB - Market risk [MKR]: SA (General risk, Specific risk, …), IM (GR, SR) - Operational risk [OPR]: BIA, TSA, ASA, AMA - IRB approaches for credit risk [CR IRB]: Exposures assigned to obligor grades or pools, … DG BANKING REGULATION 8 COREP: EXPOSURE CLASSES AND RISK TYPE DOM: EXPOSURE CLASSES - Standardised approach (CR SA Total): Central Governments or central banks, … - Standardised approach (CR SA Details): General Government, Institutions, Corporates, Retail [This dimension could be necessary if the definitions of the members are wider than in CR Total] - IRB approach [CR IRB]: Central Governments and central banks, … - Assessment by a nominated ECAI [CR SA]: Without credit assessment DOM: RISK TYPE - Market risk types (MKR): Traded Debt Instruments, Equities, Foreign Exchange, Commodities DG BANKING REGULATION 9 COREP: REST OF DOMAINS (DOM) (1/2) DOM: COLLATERAL/GUARANTEES (CREDIT RISK MITIGATION) - Credit Risk Mitigation (Type of credit protection) [CR]: Unfunded credit protection (guarantees/credit derivatives), Funded credit protection (financial collateral, …) - Credit Risk Mitigation [Method applied] [CR]: Substitution effect, Comprehensive method, … DOM: CURRENCY - Currency of the instrument [MKR TDI/FX]: ISO code (4217) - Currency positions [MKR SA FX]: Currency 1, 2, …,10 DOM: GEOGRAPHICAL AREA - Country code [CR IRB and MKR SA EQU]: ISO code (3166-2) - Country of origin of exposures assigned to obligor grades or pools [CR IRB]: Country with most exposures, … - National market of equity instruments [CR EQU IRB]: ISO code (3166-2) DOM: IMPAIRED/UNIMPAIRED. - Default for prudential purposes [CR IRB]: Non - defaulted exposures - Transactions unsettled [CR TB SETT]: Up to 4 days (Factor 0%), … DG BANKING REGULATION 10 COREP: REST OF DOMAINS (DOM) (2/2) DOM: PERCENTAGE INTERVAL Risk weights [CR SA]: 0%, 10%, … Risk weights [CR IRB: Specialized lending slotting criteria]: 0%, 50%, … Risk weight (CR EQU IRB: Simple risk weight): 190%, … Conversion factors of off-balance sheet items [CR SA]: 0%, 20%, … Conversion factors of off-balance sheet items [CR SEC SA/IRB]: 0%, > 0% and ≤ 20%, … DOM: SECURITIZATION [CR SEC] Securitization type: Traditional, Synthetic Securitisation: Securitised exposures, Securitisation exposures originated, Securitization position,… Tranche: Senior, Mezzanine, First loss Roll of the reporting institution: Originator, Sponsor, Investor Originators and sponsors involvement: Entities not complying with the retention requirement Early amortization provisions: Early amortization Rated (credit quality steps)[at inception] [CR SA]: CQS 1, … Rated (amount quality steps)[at reporting date] [CR SA]: CQS 1, … Rating based approach [at inception] [CR IRB]: CQS 1 & S/T CQS 1, … Rating based approach [at reporting date] [CR IRB]: CQS 1 & S/T CQS 1, ... DOM: TIME INTERVAL Remaining maturity [MKR SA TDI]: 0 ≤ 1 months, > 1 ≤ 3 months, ... Modified duration [MKR SA TDI: Duration based approach]: Zone 1 [≤ 1 year], … Financial year [OPR]: Year – 3, Year – 2, Last year DG BANKING REGULATION 11 EXAMPLE 1. 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Saturday, November 21
Ryan Field
Attendance: 32,150
Evanston, IL (Sports Network) - Mike Kafka threw a pair of touchdown passes to Andrew Brewer, as Northwestern held on to upend 17th-ranked Wisconsin, 33-31, at Ryan Field.
Kafka finished with 326 yards on 26-of-40 efficiency for the Wildcats (8-4, 5-3 Big Ten), who ended the regular season on a three-game winning streak. Brewer made six grabs for 102 yards, while Sidney Stewart had 94 yards and a touchdown on four receptions.
"I think all the praise should really go to the offensive line," Kafka said. "All season long those guys have battled through injures and a lot of ups and downs. Those guys have stepped up and are a main reason why we have been successful as an offense. They set the tone this entire game, we ran the ball well and we threw it when we needed."
Scott Tolzien completed 19-of-30 passes for 235 yards with two touchdowns to Garrett Graham and an interception that sealed Wisconsin's fate. John Clay had 100 yards and a touchdown on 23 carries for the Badgers (8-3, 5-3), but his fumble in late in the fourth quarter proved to be very costly.
"I've got to learn from these mistakes, watch film and keep going and raising the bar for myself," Clay said. "Try not to beat myself down too much. I've got to soak it in right now, and then we've got Hawaii coming up and then this bowl game."
Trailing 27-14, the Badgers took the opening kickoff of the third quarter and drove to the Northwestern 18-yard line before Philip Welch booted a 35-yard field goal.
The Wildcats were forced to punt and David Gilreath returned the ensuing kick 68 yards for a touchdown, pulling Wisconsin to within 27-24 with 8:16 to play in the stanza.
Northwestern's Stefan Demos kicked a 45-yard field goal four minutes later and nailed a 34-yarder 10 seconds into the fourth quarter to make it 33-24.
Tolzien then led Wisconsin on an eight-play, 54-yard drive that culminated in a 13-yard TD toss to Graham.
After a series of punts, the Badgers got the ball back at their own 34 with 3:43 to play. Facing 3rd-and-4, Wisconsin received a fresh set of downs via a pass interference call. Later on the drive, on 3rd-and-1 from the Wildcats' 46, Clay lost the handle and Brian Peters recovered for the home team with just under two minutes remaining.
Wisconsin had one last opportunity, but Tolzien was picked off by Jordan Mabin inside the final minute.
Northwestern raced out to a 10-0 lead in the first quarter on a 26-yard touchdown grab by Brewer and a 45-yard Demos field goal.
A two-yard plunge by Clay early in the second quarter put Wisconsin on the board.
Scott Concannon fumbled on the Wildcats' first play of the next drive, allowing Wisconsin to take over at the Northwestern 37. Tolzien eventually hooked up with Graham for a 27-yard touchdown and 14-10 advantage.
Northwestern, though, responded with 17 unanswered points to carry a 27-14 lead into halftime.
Brewer made a sensational diving grab for a 12-yard score, then the Wildcats employed a little trickery. Kafka threw the ball to Zeke Markshausen behind the line of scrimmage and he proceeded to heave the ball to a wide open Stewart for a 38-yard TD. Demos drilled a 38-yarder with 34 seconds to go in the second frame.
Todd Geerlings
Brad OHara
Head Linesman:
John Quinn
Line Judge:
Dave Chesney
Side Judge:
Darrel Leftwich
Back Judge:
Rob Luklan
Field Judge:
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I've been thinking about this for a while now. What exactly do I want to do with comics? What are some of my goals? What's the future hold for my stuff? Here are just a couple of stream of conscious thoughts:
I don't want to be big on YouTube, that's for sure. I've never liked getting in-front of the camera, I don't have the time or ambition to work on animations anymore, and I certainly can't crank out videos as fast as some of the big guys over there. It's a huge competition and I just don't want to have anything to do with that. I think my youtube page is marked private and you have to have specific links to view anything. I might make an odd video here or there, but they're most likely just goofy things I do for fun, not for any sort of attention or recognition.
I'm curious about how I should move forward with DA. I think a majority of my haters are outraged that I'm popular on DA and that I'm content with drawing simple cartoons when I'm obviously talented enough to do more complex works. I've wondered what would happen if I moved most of my major series off of DA and just kept producing them on my own websites. Would my"haters" back off because I'm not using an art critiquing website as my primary source of promoting? Would my fans be willing to follow me to various websites to get their content? Despite the fact I don't make money off of DA pageviews, any comic I post here with a link to my site generates me a lot more money than if I don't post at all. Could I afford the potential drop in viewers from not advertising on DA anymore? There's a lot to consider.
I'm also thinking of slowing down. I've been cranking out SYAC one comic every 2 days. And while SYAC is generally simpler and easier to complete, the rigorous schedule does eat into my time working on other projects. I'd like to ease off a bit on SYAC so I can focus on maintaining the other series I have and hopefully bump the quality up a notch. But again, the pageviews and money generated from SYAC's set schedule is a big source of my revenue right now, and I don't know if I can afford a drop. I will be launching Soapbox Derpy soon (a new website dedicated to political and pop-culture comics), and I'm also working on a new comic project while maintaining Alex Ze Pirate. That's like 4 different websites I gotta keep running regularly, and all of them take time to produce content. I'm still trying to figure out the balancing act of which comic gets what priority.
Honestly, I just wanna make comics. I just want people to enjoy the stuff I have. I have no real goals of being outrageously famous, or having big comic deals with major studios. As long as I can get paid for producing my own content with my own characters, I'm happy. I'm not a great artist or writer, but I am working on it. And despite the perception, I do listen to the negative feedback and strive to improve when I feel it necessary. I know a lot of people misunderstood my post "Sins of an artist" where I mentioned that improving wasn't an ultimate goal, and it still isn't. But that doesn't mean I won't improve or that I've "given up" improving entirely. Some of my recent SYAC should be evidence of that. I'll try to make more of an effort to experiment on certain things, but I don't wanna feel pressured to do it either.
That's primarily why I also want a writer for one of my stories, and why I've been looking for editors for my comics. I need someone to bounce my ideas off of before I begin working. I've really discovered how wonderful it is to have a teammate who can look over your work from a different viewpoint and offer ideas and suggestions I might not have thought of.... or correct me if I do something wrong. If at all possible, I would like to hire a writer/editor to look over nearly all my stuff before I post. However, this is probably not possible at the moment.
I'm not entirely sure how to go about doing this either... I could easily just ask here on DA "i'm looking for a writer, apply through notes" and what not, but I feel like I might get overwhelmed with responses. I'm also not sure how to judge the writing either. Like, does someone submit a script? Do I tell them what to write about? How much freedom do they have? How do we arrange things? So many questions, I'm not sure what to do. At least with the editor part I can ask friends and family to look over my stuff. With an actual writer... I dunno. They have to be special for the part and know how to write for comics and be able to write emotionally for the characters and scenarios...
Blah.. this was really all over the place. Sorry about that. But I think it helped me get my ideas out. I've been thinking about a lot of things recently and sometimes it's just helpful to write, you know? Also, it's my journal so I can post whatever I want. HA! lol.
Anyway, those are my thoughts this morning.


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During a hunt in 1902, President Theodore Roosevelt refused to kill a Black Bear. After political cartoons depicting the incident were published, toy-makers started creating "Teddy Bears."
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