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Maken-ki 08 - The Body is Willing, But the Ears Went Deaf a While Ago
The Maken-ki group should be wary. Venus is stealing their own show right from under their noses. That said, Venus' almost military-like approach to everything from volleyball to dating provides a nice contrast with the ordinary school life our main characters have been experiencing. Syria has an... interesting naming sense for her plan. Though I say, why not combine them? Serenading you with a song while dressed like a dom and I'm getting into fanfic territory here. Really weird fanfic territory. Venus is pretty thorough in their investigating. They even have cameras set up in the bathrooms.
Speaking of territory, pool episode next week.
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Well no wonder Takeru keeps getting his ass kicked....he keeps to make visits to that sexy ass nurse on each occasion, hell I'd let myself get beat up all the time just to be around her 24/7. Not only that, but he gets a cheap feel too? +1 Takeru.
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Maken-ki 09 - I Read Your Book!
The rare double swimsuit. I never considered that to be a fetish before, but it's certainly worth looking into. The same goes for the end of the episode - a lot of anime fandom is based on aural pleasure anyway, and an invisible girl... would be awkward at first, and the implications are a bit wonky, but it's an idea worth pursuing. Entertaining episode from start to finish. Mind games, strategy and fanservice all in one package. Syria's really dominating the stage lately, isn't she?
|2011-12-02, 20:51
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I like competetive episodes like this, this is certainly my favourite episode so far of the anime. The characters that were used for the pool battle were easily watchable since they were all unique
Haven't enjoyed this series that much until now, all thats left for me to be satisfied is for the main character to use his power more often.
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Just watched ep10. I get the feeling some clues to some big secrets are coming out. Especially with the snakes that appeared behind Himegami when she was talking to Minerva. If I understand right and the Maken are supposed to be from the Orochi, then this may suggest that Himegami is connected to its lingering spirit somehow. Could even be that she is the Orochi, or part of it.
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In Japan ,Yamata no Orochi(the snake) is a kind of mythological animal(monster?). It appeared in many tales~~~The mark on Ohyama's chest and the image behind Himegami indicate that there is some relationship (it was mentioned in ep 3 or 4?I can't remember) with that kind of power. It is obvious that there is huge potential for Ohyama(hackneyed setting and plot.....)
Actually I appreciate Himegami and Minerva so much~~I expected a fight between them.
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Maken-ki! 10 - Magic Hand, On!
That was a bit of a busy episode, with Minerva's presence being the strongest running thread. The Maken powers are nicely varied. I wish the effects animation for them could be a little more dynamic, but the powers themselves have a variety of combat and non-combat uses. (Mostly combat. The Doll House in particular was interesting.) Minerva getting so close to the main characters sounds like a reason for trouble - and it's not like Himegami's free of blame either. She's always seemed the most aloof of the three, and this episode gives a pretty good reason why that may be so. Though I don't think we'll be returning to these plot lines just yet. Next week looks like a goofy, relaxing episode.
Then everything explodes.
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Flexner on Finishing: Battling Blotching
Forget wood conditioner and go for gel stain.
By Bob Flexner
Pages: 94-95
From the April 2004 issue #140
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You've heard me say this before, and I'm sure you'll hear me say it again: The worst single thing that can happen in wood finishing is blotching – that is, uneven stain coloration caused by uneven densities in the wood. Blotching is the only problem that can't be fixed even by stripping and starting over; you have to sand or plane off as much as 1⁄32″ of wood to get below the dark areas.
In woods such as pine, spruce, fir, aspen, poplar and alder, blotching is almost always quite ugly. In woods such as cherry, birch and soft maple, blotching is usually ugly but can be attractive. In woods such as walnut, curly maple, bird's eye maple and most burls, blotching is usually very attractive. Woods such as oak, ash and mahogany don't tend to blotch.
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Climate Change And Why Nuclear Power Can't Fix It
Hurricane Florence DIRECT HIT on Brunswick Nuclear Power plant in NC, Coal Ponds
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The Senate Committee has now released its Report . It is a wishy washy support for the process– quotes extensively from the submissions, but has little idea of its own. Greens Dissenting Submission packs a punch, as does Senator Rex Patrick's Additional Comments.
Read summaries of submissions to the Senate, re the Selection process for a national radioactive waste management facility in South Australia. Each summary has a link to the full submission. Obviously the Department of Industry Innovation and Science (DIIS) was not happy with the majority of submissions opposing the process, so now are trying to get a better (for them) result
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Man charged in crash that killed 1, injured 4 in Charlotte
Authorities have charged an 18-year-old Charlotte man in connection with a hit-and-run accident that killed a 19-year-old woman and left four others seriously hurt.
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police said Uriel Eduardo Flores was arrested Thursday and charged with involuntary manslaughter and felony hit and run.
A statement from police said a car struck a utility pole on the city's south side Wednesday evening. Emergency personnel pronounced the driver, Shaquise Bush, dead at the scene. One passenger was taken to Carolinas Medical Center with serious injuries.
Three young children in the back seat were also hospitalized, one of them with what was described by police as critical injuries.


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German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble left the door open to banning some financial products as the coalition parties vied to show their determination to clamp down on investments deemed to be risky for consumers.
Schaeuble said in an e-mailed response to questions that he has directed the Bafin financial regulator to formulate rules to step up supervision of products traded on unregulated markets.
Any new rules "won't remove the burden on investors to exercise caution themselves," Schaeuble said in the e-mail sent by his ministry in Berlin yesterday. "But transparency and traceability must be increased. Whether the measures under discussion should include bans on certain products in the gray market remains to be seen," he said.
Schaeuble's comments reflect a drive by Chancellor Angela Merkel's government to toughen its stance on the accountability of financial products in Europe's biggest economy. The remarks by Schaeuble, a Christian Democrat like Merkel, don't go as far as his Social Democratic Party cabinet colleague, Justice Minister Heiko Maas, who has openly backed a ban if necessary.
Germany is showing greater resolve to protect small investors in the wake of last month's insolvency of Prokon Regenerative Energien GmbH, a clean-energy developer that raised 1.4 billion euros ($1.9 billion) by selling profit- participation rights to about 75,000 small investors. Schaeuble cited Prokon as one of the reasons behind him asking Bafin to draw up new rules on supervision.
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Prokon, which owns 314 wind turbines and has employed about 1,300 people, promised investors returns of 6 percent by generating sales from its power plants.
The Federation of German Consumer Organizations demanded action last month after Prokon filed for bankruptcy protection. The insolvency also prompted calls for regulation of the so- called gray capital markets, where loan agreements and trading practices are less strictly controlled than the official stock market.
Maas, the justice minister, has asked Bafin to determine whether "specific financial products" constitute an excessive risk for consumers. Certain products should be on offer in a limited way or subject to limits on advertising, his ministry cited Maas as saying on Jan. 24. It didn't say to which products he was referring.
The actions should stretch "up to and including a ban," Maas said. "That hasn't existed up to now."
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BALTIMORE – Thousands of women whose genitals might have been photographed during gynecological exams can share a $190 million settlement from Johns Hopkins Health System. But they'll have to describe their trauma before seeing any money.
That might be painful for some women who feel profoundly violated by Dr. Nikita Levy, who committed suicide in February 2013 after being caught with hundreds of pelvis pictures. Others who have gotten over their shock in the year and a half since then might wonder if it's worth their trouble.
And still other patients who didn't recall any exam-room trauma might try to collect anyway.
One woman who contacted The Associated Press seeking to join the class action couldn't remember Levy, but said she would try for the money.
"I could have been a victim, and if I was, he should have to pay for what he did and the hospital should have been more aware of what was going on at the facility," the woman said. The AP does not usually identify possible victims of sex crimes.
As many as 8,000 women and girls already joined the class action. News of the huge settlement filed Monday may encourage more of the 12,600 patients Levy saw during his 25 years at Hopkins to sign up as well.
Investigators found 1,200 videos and 140 images on Levy's home computers, which they believe he secretly took with tiny cameras during exams. But none were linked to any particular patient, and none were shared. Levy committed suicide without explaining himself or pointing to any victims.
What comes next depends on each woman's perception of her suffering.
The eight law firms involved told plaintiffs they could ask for as much as 35 percent to cover costs, leaving $123.5 million in an interest-bearing account until each woman's claim is resolved.
That could add up to thousands of dollars to women whose private parts might have ended up on the doctor's hard drives.
But it won't be divided equally. Some women who also reported being sexually abused by the doctor presumably would be entitled to much more. Others who shook off their trauma might get nothing at all.
"Every woman qualifies for the suit, but they have to have been damaged," said the class-action's lead attorney, Jonathan Schochor. "If they suffered no damages, it's the same as driving through a stop sign and not hitting anybody."
Levy worked at the Johns Hopkins-affiliated East Baltimore Medical Center clinic until he was fired in February 2013, after a female co-worker alerted hospital security to the tiny pen camera he wore around his neck. His suicide days later, and the revelation by police that he kept a trove of images, made news. Lawyers soon competed for patients, and their claims eventually were combined into the class action.
With Monday's settlement filing, a notice was sent to his patients explaining the next steps. The women can speak publicly at a "fairness hearing" on Sept. 19, where the judge, Sylvester B. Cox, also could finalize the settlement and approve legal fees.
Thirty-five percent would be roughly $66.5 million. Some experts say that's high, but not unheard of. Cox recently awarded lawyers 40 percent of a $37 million settlement with 273 patients of a cardiologist accused of performing unnecessary heart surgeries.


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Gerard Butler: 'Dynamo' Star!
Gerard Butler has just signed on to star in the upcoming film Dynamo, based on the novel "Dynamo: Defending The Honour Of Kiev."
The 42-year-old actor will take on the role of Nikolai Trusevich, the all-star goalie who leads his team and inspires the entire battered city of Kiev, Ukraine.
The film is based on "the landmark soccer game that took place between an occupied Ukrainian soccer team and their Nazi captors during World War II. To stem a rising tide of resistance and establish Aryan superiority, the Nazi's set up a match pitting the starving Ukrainians against a 'super team' of German players that to this day is still known as 'The Death Match'."
Dynamo is scheduled to shoot in Europe next year.
ARE YOU EXCITED to see Gerard Butler as a soccer player in Dynamo??


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But there's a caveat. While Friday's rally appeared to have eclipsed most of the price weakness incurred earlier, market volume shrank on strength by nearly 22%. Short-term Momentum was last negative in the Dow 30 and NASDAQ Composite while maintaining a positive toehold in the S&P 500 and Value Line index by inches. And Daily MAAD, our gauge of Smart Money on the near-term, took solid hits Wednesday and Thursday, but did not respond to the same extent as did prices on the upside on Friday while it remains below a defined short-term uptrend line stretching back to the December low. CPFL popped to a new short to intermediate-term high last week, but that peak was reached on Tuesday with only marginal recovery over the next three sessions.
Daily S & P 500 with Cumulative Volume (CV)
Weekly S & P 500 with Cumulative Volume (CV)
What should also be a concern to the bullish camp is the fact that last week's selling put a crack in the dike. While buyers were waiting just below the market after Wednesday's and Thursday's selling, the fissure is still visible. Nothing but a reversal of the currently and probably newly negative short-term trend and then new short to intermediate-term highs (above 1530.94—S&P 500) will put this market back onto its upside track. There is also another reality. The larger Intermediate Cycle that has been underway since market lows were made November 16 (1343.35—S&P 500) is historically "Overbought" and last week's selling did nothing to erase that condition. There is also the fact that the Major Cycle trend also remains historically "Overbought." The last time the long-term trend was deeply "Oversold" was into the lows of March 2009 with a brief pullback in our Trading Oscillators toward "Neutral" in October 2011. That condition was preceded by the "Oversold" lows made in late 2002 and July 1982.


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Evaluation of Antero-Posterior and Rotatory Instability after ACL Reconstruction: a Comparison of Modified Over-the-top Method and Bone Tunnel Method
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The purpose of this study is to evaluate antero-posterior (AP) and rotatory instability after ACL reconstruction using the patella tendon and to compare the modified over-the-top method (OT) with the bone tunnel method (BT).
The OT method or the BT method by inside-out was performed for unilateral ACL injury in 39 patients (OT: 20, BT: 19). Orthopeadic System's knee motion analyzer (CA4000) was used to measure the following items. The total displacement (TD) was measured during the shift from anterior drawing under a weight of 30lbs to posterior drawing under a weight of 20lbs at 20 degrees of flexion. Rotatory instability was sized dynamically by the pivot shift test. This curve was then qualitatively analyzed, and the anterior displacement of the tibia (PS) was measured.
In the OT group, 5 cases showed below -3mm of side-to-side difference in TD. Thirteen cases of the OT group and 9 cases of the BT group showed no instability. In the cases with knee instability, we classified the patients into 3 types: Type A- Cases with both AP and rotatory instability; Type B-Cases with only rotatory instability; and Type C-Cases with only AP instability.
The results of TD suggest that cases in the OT group showed a tendency towards excessive AP stiffness of the knee. Cases with rotatory instability in spite of good AP stability were more common in the BT group. This finding suggests that the difference of the graft position of the femoral side had an influence on rotatory instability.


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The status of the Presidents Cup can be measured by one of the top goals for the International team.
It just wants it to be close.
About the only excitement the Presidents Cup has delivered in recent years was Woody Austin falling into the water, Robert Allenby accusing Anthony Kim of a big night out on the town in San Francisco (which looked even worse after Kim clobbered him in singles) and Tiger Woods having to face his old caddie in an opening match just weeks after caddie Steve Williams made a racially insensitive comment about him.
As for the golf?
The Americans have lost only once since the Presidents Cup began in 1994. They have never lost at home. They have three players — Woods, Steve Stricker and Matt Kuchar — who have won the Memorial at Muirfield Village. And they have only one player who has never competed in a professional cup. That would be 20-year-old Jordan Spieth, who is playing as well as anyone.
That explains why the International team, which wants to win, is at least interested in making a game out of it.
The Presidents Cup gets underway Thursday with six fourballs matches, and here are five things to look for at Muirfield Village:
THE SPIETH FACTOR: Everything is going Spieth's way this year. He started the season with no status. He had a PGA Tour card locked up in May, he won in July, he nearly won in August, he shot 62 in September to warrant a captain's pick for the Presidents Cup, and then he contended in the Tour Championship.
What's next?
How about a hole-in-one on the final day of practice?
Spieth will be paired with Stricker against Ernie Els and Brendon de Jonge, and he could cap off an amazing year with an even better week.
PHIL AND KEEGAN: Phil Mickelson and Keegan Bradley produced the best American team in a losing cause at the Ryder Cup last year at Medinah. Mickelson brought Bradley into the fold during Bradley's rookie season by playing money games with him in the practice round, and he loved that Bradley was willing to take on any challenge. They went 3-0 in team play at Medinah.
But while they are a good team, that doesn't always carry over into the next year based on form. Mickelson has won three times this year, including the British Open. Bradley hasn't won a tournament in more than a year and his form has been unpredictable. They face Louis Oosthuizen and Charl Schwartzel.
OOSTHUIZEN'S HEALTH: Oosthuizen's swing is the envy of golf. Trouble is, no one has seen it lately. He has recurring back issues from a tubing incident in South Africa in 2005, and he had neck and leg issues that forced him to withdraw from two majors and not play in the PGA Championship. He returned last week at the Dunhill Links Championship, encouraged not so much by his score but that he could walk 18 holes a day with no pain.
The former British Open champion is rusty, and how quickly he gets his game sharp could be critical for the International side.
TIGER'S NEW PARTNER: Woods is playing with his 10th partner in the Presidents Cup when he and Matt Kuchar take on Angel Cabrera and Marc Leishman. Woods recently was voted PGA Tour player of the year for the 10th time, and for good reason. He won five times this year, including The Players Championship and two World Golf Championships. This year also is marked for not winning a major, and Woods has only one win over the last five months.
But the Presidents Cup has been good to him. Even though he had a losing record in Australia two years ago — 2-3-0 — most of that was being saddled with an injured Stricker and a wild Dustin Johnson.
Woods and Kuchar have combined for six wins at Muirfield Village (five of them by Woods). The question is whether Woods gets yet another partner for foursomes on Friday, with Jason Dufner a possibility.
THE PRICE IS RIGHT: Fred Couples returns as U.S. captain for a third straight time, and no captain has ever won three in a row. So he has that going for — or against — him. The International side answers with Nick Price, who has kept his team as loose as possible, even though his players are desperate to turn their fortunes around.
"Nick's idea is if you're not in shorts and a T-shirt, then you're overdressed, and I think that's worked well for everyone," Adam Scott said.
Price already has lobbied for the Presidents Cup to have fourballs for the opening session instead of foursomes, the alternate-shot format that is awkward for everyone, and particularly for the International team.
If the captain performs like he did as a player, this could help the International team. Price was the best player in the world in the early 1990s when he won three majors, hit the ball on the button with just about every shot and was far more fiery than his dignified personality let on. The last time Price played in the Presidents Cup, he was so angry about losing that he snapped a putter over his knee. That should be a highlight video for the team room.


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BEIJING (AP) — This is how delegates in China's highest legislature voted for president: Each was handed a ballot with one name on it: Xi Jinping. Each dropped it in a box.
No mark was required to vote for Xi, so calling it rubberstamping suggests more work than there actually was.
Any suspense about the choice of the Communist Party leadership was lifted in November, when Xi became the ruling party's general secretary. Thursday's vote by nearly 3,000 delegates for Xi's more ceremonial title of president was a mere ritual.
"Our job is to raise our hands," said Han Deyun, a lawyer from the megacity of Chongqing and one of the few National People's Congress delegates who are not from the ruling party. Delegates like him are supposed to add a veneer of democracy to the proceedings.
"We raise our hands to give them legitimacy," he said in an interview with The Associated Press.
This week, in a legislative session that ends on Sunday, the Communist Party is wrapping up the country's once-a-decade power transition through what it calls election for key government posts. In reality, there's usually one candidate per slot, all candidates are trusted insiders and the results are pre-determined.
The highly choreographed congress serves a practical purpose, installing a president, a premier and other ministers who will oversee the world's second-largest economy. But some Chinese are tired of what they see as a hollow affair.
"The voting by the national delegates is completely meaningless," Chinese writer Murong Xuecun said in an interview. "If they were replaced with 3,000 machines, the result would be the same. On this matter, the free will of those deputies has been taken away."
The comments by Han and Murong Xuecun reflect a growing tendency among a minority of Chinese — especially intellectuals and often in online forums — to openly call out the contradictions in the country's political system.
"It could be a vocal minority," said David Bandurski, a researcher with Hong Kong-based China Media Project. "But still, that's important."
To be sure, many Chinese and most NPC delegates still toe the party line, as spread by a propaganda machine that touts China's election system as a true, advanced democracy, and presses the message home in textbooks and state-controlled media.
The day before Thursday's presidential election, delegate Mai Qingquan dismissed any suggestion that China's next president had already been determined.
"Nothing has been decided," said Mai, a businessman from the southern province of Guangdong. "It's like the election of (U.S. President Barack) Obama. It can only be decided after the votes are taken. No one is guaranteed."
China's Communist Party controls elections large and small, though rural Chinese have been allowed to pick their village chiefs for the past three decades. Urban Chinese vote for district legislators, all carefully vetted. Beyond that, elections are indirect.
Municipal-level legislatures select mayors and other local officials, who in turn select representatives to higher legislatures through control of their congress. At the highest level, national delegates vote on key central government positions such as president, vice president, supreme judge, premier, ministers and top military commander.
Most Chinese citizens have never seen a ballot, and no matter at which level, these legislatures rubberstamp the slate of candidates presented by the ruling Communist Party. It orchestrates the outcomes by vetting all candidates and in most cases ensuring that there is only one candidate for each position to fill.
"The simple answer is that there is always just one candidate (for every position)," said Jean-Pierre Cabestan, a political scientist at Hong Kong Baptist University. About 70 percent of the national deputies are party members who abide by the party's instruction when voting, and the others "just copy them," Cabestan said.
In secret balloting Thursday and Friday, delegates were spared even the effort of voting "yes" because the default choice of leaving the ballot blank counted as a "yes." They did, however, have the option of opposing a candidate by blackening a rectangular box next to the name. To abstain, they needed to fill in an oval box next to the name.
In Xi's vote tally, only one of the 2,956 delegates present voted "no," and three abstained.
In some cases, delegates needed to wield their voting pens to whittle large lists of candidates into somewhat smaller lists. For example, there were 174 candidates for the congress executive committee, but only 161 slots to fill, which went to the candidates with the fewest "no" votes.
"I felt it was very democratic," delegate Qin Chunhui said of her voting experience. "They were solemn votes that were not easily cast."
Beijing delegate Chao Ke said the lawmakers "thoroughly" debated the strengths of the candidates before taking their votes.
"The voting has fully represented the will of the people," said Chao, an anthropologist at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.
Murong Xuecun, whose real name is Hao Qun, wrote on his microblog — in a post dripping with sarcasm — that the politicians in one-candidate elections "can only get elected with impressive political credentials and amazing political wisdom."
He said that while most Chinese are able to chuckle about shady deals in the world of business, they are oblivious to, in denial of or otherwise mum about their country's political "scams."
"Appointment is called election, dictatorship is called democracy, exploitation is called benefiting, and enslaving is called serving," Murong Xuecun wrote. "What's sad is that people are not as smart as they think."
He Weifang, a law professor at China's Peking University, said it is naive to believe China holds true elections. "No one believes there's true election. Even the party itself does not believe it," He said.
Yet, the selecting of China's new leaders has once again been staged with fanfare this season in the Great Hall of the People. Delegates and the state-controlled media have all praised it.
"They have billed the system as the most advanced democracy," activist Xu Zhiyong wrote last week. "And they have turned the lie into an unparalleled, grand ceremony."


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ST. LOUIS (AP) — The top official with a national miners' union on Monday called bankrupt Patriot Coal Corp.'s bid to cut retiree health care immoral, as it seeks millions of dollars for executive bonuses and faces mounting payouts of $16 million in legal fees and expenses.
"Patriot has thousand-dollar-an-hour lawyers and two-dollar-an-hour morals," United Mine Workers of America President Cecil Roberts told reporters, four days after St. Louis-based Patriot filed a request in bankruptcy court to modify its collective bargaining agreements with the union.
"We think we're standing on righteous ground here, and we're going to fight this fight," Roberts said.
In pursuing Chapter 11 bankruptcy last July, Patriot cited exceptionally soft coal markets, rising costs and "unsustainable legacy liabilities" tied to its 2007 spinoff from St. Louis-based Peabody Energy Corp. Patriot said coal markets have only worsened since then, contributing to what the company now says are crushing labor and retirement benefit expenses requiring "critical financial relief in a timeframe that avoids severe business disruption."
Patriot, claiming its retiree health liability has ballooned to $1.6 billion, last week proposed creating a trust with a maximum of $300 million from future profit-sharing to fund some level of those benefits, with Patriot making an initial contribution of $15 million.
Patriot CEO Bennett Hatfield said the moves are "necessary for the survival of Patriot and the preservation of more than 4,000 jobs." Without such relief, he argued, Patriot no longer could provide health care to 10,000 retired miners and 13,000 dependents.
A hearing is scheduled for April 10.
While decrying $7 million in executive bonuses that Patriot wants a bankruptcy court to approve, Roberts warned Thursday that potentially sweeping health care cuts could be ruinous to tens of thousands of retirees and their survivors that he said could be forced to sell their homes or drain their savings to pay for medical care.
"How in the world can you pass on to someone else the promise you made?" Roberts said.
A message left Monday with Patriot for comment wasn't immediately returned.
When it spun off Patriot, Peabody agreed to pay health care costs for more than 3,000 UMWA retirees who were employed by Peabody entities that were transferred to Patriot.
Patriot last week sued Peabody, saying it wants to ensure that Peabody doesn't try to use Patriot's bankruptcy "to escape Peabody's own health care obligations to certain retirees."
Peabody fired back, saying in a statement that its contract with Patriot states Peabody will fund a portion of Patriot's retiree health care expenses for specified retirees — and that "we have been providing funds under this contract since the spin-off."
"Patriot is taking the untenable position that our payments should continue in full in the future even if Patriot's expenses are reduced," Peabody's statement read. "Such a claim is not only unreasonable but counter to the fundamental basis of the language in the contract. These are Patriot's obligations and, to the extent they are reduced, we will meet our agreement with Patriot to fund the new lower levels."
The union previously filed suit against Peabody and Arch Coal in West Virginia, claiming they set up Patriot to fail so pension and health care benefits could be shed. After the 2007 spinoff, Patriot acquired mines that Arch Coal — another St. Louis-based coal producer — had spun off into Magnum Coal.
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LONDON – E-mails stolen from climate scientists show they stonewalled skeptics and discussed hiding data — but the messages don't support claims that the science of global warming was faked, according to an exhaustive review by The Associated Press.
The 1,073 e-mails examined by the AP show that scientists harbored private doubts, however slight and fleeting, even as they told the world they were certain about climate change. However, the exchanges don't undercut the vast body of evidence showing the world is warming because of man-made greenhouse gas emissions.
The scientists were keenly aware of how their work would be viewed and used, and, just like politicians, went to great pains to shape their message. Sometimes, they sounded more like schoolyard taunts than scientific tenets.
The scientists were so convinced by their own science and so driven by a cause "that unless you're with them, you're against them," said Mark Frankel, director of scientific freedom, responsibility and law at the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He also reviewed the communications.
Frankel saw "no evidence of falsification or fabrication of data, although concerns could be raised about some instances of very 'generous interpretations.'"
Some e-mails expressed doubts about the quality of individual temperature records or why models and data didn't quite match. Part of this is the normal give-and-take of research, but skeptics challenged how reliable certain data was.
The e-mails were stolen from the computer network server of the climate research unit at the University of East Anglia in southeast England, an influential source of climate science, and were posted online last month. The university shut down the server and contacted the police.
The AP studied all the e-mails for context, with five reporters reading and rereading them — about 1 million words in total.
One of the most disturbing elements suggests an effort to avoid sharing scientific data with critics skeptical of global warming. It is not clear if any data was destroyed; two U.S. researchers denied it.
The e-mails show that several mainstream scientists repeatedly suggested keeping their research materials away from opponents who sought it under American and British public records law. It raises a science ethics question because free access to data is important so others can repeat experiments as part of the scientific method. The University of East Anglia is investigating the blocking of information requests.
"I believe none of us should submit to these 'requests,'" declared the university's Keith Briffa. The center's chief, Phil Jones, wrote: "Data is covered by all the agreements we sign with people, so I will be hiding behind them."
When one skeptic kept filing FOI requests, Jones, who didn't return AP requests for comment, told another scientist, Michael Mann: "You can delete this attachment if you want. Keep this quiet also, but this is the person who is putting FOI requests for all e-mails Keith (Briffa) and Tim (Osborn) have written."
Mann, a researcher at Penn State University, told The Associated Press: "I didn't delete any e-mails as Phil asked me to. I don't believe anybody else did."
The e-mails also show how professional attacks turned very personal. When former London financial trader Douglas J. Keenan combed through the data used in a 1990 research paper Jones had co-authored, Keenan claimed to have found evidence of fakery by Jones' co-author. Keenan threatened to have the FBI arrest University at Albany scientist Wei-Chyung Wang for fraud. (A university investigation later cleared him of any wrongdoing.)
"I do now wish I'd never sent them the data after their FOIA request!" Jones wrote in June 2007.
In another case after initially balking on releasing data to a skeptic because it was already public, Lawrence Livermore National Lab scientist Ben Santer wrote that he then opted to release everything the skeptic wanted — and more. Santer said in a telephone interview that he and others are inundated by frivolous requests from skeptics that are designed to "tie-up government-funded scientists."
The e-mails also showed a stunning disdain for global warming skeptics.
One scientist practically celebrates the news of the death of one critic, saying, "In an odd way this is cheering news!" Another bemoans that the only way to deal with skeptics is "continuing to publish quality work in quality journals (or calling in a Mafia hit.)" And a third scientist said the next time he sees a certain skeptic at a scientific meeting, "I'll be tempted to beat the crap out of him. Very tempted."
And they compared contrarians to communist-baiting Sen. Joseph McCarthy and Somali pirates. They also called them out-and-out frauds.
Santer, who received death threats after his work on climate change in 1996, said Thursday: "I'm not surprised that things are said in the heat of the moment between professional colleagues. These things are taken out of context."
When the journal, Climate Research, published a skeptical study, Penn State scientist Mann discussed retribution this way: "Perhaps we should encourage our colleagues in the climate research community to no longer submit to, or cite papers in, this journal."
That skeptical study turned out to be partly funded by the American Petroleum Institute.
The most provocative e-mails are usually about one aspect of climate science: research from a decade ago that studied how warm or cold it was centuries ago through analysis of tree rings, ice cores and glacial melt. And most of those e-mails, which stretch from 1996 to last month, are from about a handful of scientists in dozens of e-mails.
Still, such research has been a key element in measuring climate change over long periods.
As part of the AP review, summaries of the e-mails that raised issues from the potential manipulation of data to intensely personal attacks were sent to seven experts in research ethics, climate science and science policy.
"This is normal science politics, but on the extreme end, though still within bounds," said Dan Sarewitz, a science policy professor at Arizona State University. "We talk about science as this pure ideal and the scientific method as if it is something out of a cookbook, but research is a social and human activity full of all the failings of society and humans, and this reality gets totally magnified by the high political stakes here."
In the past three weeks since the e-mails were posted, longtime opponents of mainstream climate science have repeatedly quoted excerpts of about a dozen e-mails. Republican congressmen and former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin have called for either independent investigations, a delay in U.S. Environmental Protection Agency regulation of greenhouse gases or outright boycotts of the Copenhagen international climate talks. They cited a "culture of corruption" that the e-mails appeared to show.
That is not what the AP found. There were signs of trying to present the data as convincingly as possible.
One e-mail that skeptics have been citing often since the messages were posted online is from Jones. He says: "I've just completed Mike's (Mann) trick of adding in the real temps to each series for the last 20 years (from 1981 onward) and from 1961 for Keith's to hide the decline."
Jones was referring to tree ring data that indicated temperatures after the 1950s weren't as warm as scientists had determined.
The "trick" that Jones said he was borrowing from Mann was to add the real temperatures, not what the tree rings showed. And the decline he talked of hiding was not in real temperatures, but in the tree ring data which was misleading, Mann explained.
Sometimes the data didn't line up as perfectly as scientists wanted.
David Rind told colleagues about inconsistent figures in the work for a giant international report: "As this continuing exchange has clarified, what's in Chapter 6 is inconsistent with what is in Chapter 2 (and Chapter 9 is caught in the middle!). Worse yet, we've managed to make global warming go away! (Maybe it really is that easy...."
But in the end, global warming didn't go away, according to the vast body of research over the years.
None of the e-mails flagged by the AP and sent to three climate scientists viewed as moderates in the field changed their view that global warming is man-made and a threat. Nor did it alter their support of the conclusions of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which some of the scientists helped write.
"My overall interpretation of the scientific basis for (man-made) global warming is unaltered by the contents of these e-mails," said Gabriel Vecchi, a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration scientist.
Gerald North, a climate scientist at Texas A&M University, headed a National Academy of Sciences study that looked at — and upheld as valid — Mann's earlier studies that found the 1990s were the hottest years in centuries.
"In my opinion the meaning is much more innocent than might be perceived by others taken out of context. Much of this is overblown," North said.
Mann contends he always has been upfront about uncertainties, pointing to the title of his 1999 study: "Northern Hemisphere Temperatures During the Past Millennium: Inferences, Uncertainties and Limitations."
Several scientists found themselves tailoring their figures or retooling their arguments to answer online arguments — even as they claimed not to care what was being posted to the Internet
"I don't read the blogs that regularly," Jonathan Overpeck of the University of Arizona wrote in 2005. "But I guess the skeptics are making hay of their (sic) being a global warm (sic) event around 1450AD."
One person singled out for criticism in the e-mails is Steve McIntyre, who maintains Climate Audit. The blog focuses on statistical issues with scientists' attempts to recreate the climate in ancient times.
"We find that the authors are overreaching in the conclusions that they're trying to draw from the data that they have," McIntyre said in a telephone interview.
McIntyre, 62, of Toronto, was trained in math and economics and says he is "substantially retired" from the mineral exploration industry, which produces greenhouse gases.
Some e-mails said McIntyre's attempts to get original data from scientists are frivolous and meant more for harassment than doing good science. There are allegations that he would distort and misuse data given to him.
McIntyre disagreed with how he is portrayed. "Everything that I've done in this, I've done in good faith," he said.
He also said he has avoided editorializing on the leaked e-mails. "Anything I say," he said, "is liable to be piling on."
The skeptics started the name-calling said Mann, who called McIntyre a "bozo," a "fraud" and a "moron" in various e-mails.
"We're human," Mann said. "We've been under attack unfairly by these people who have been attempting to dismiss us as frauds as liars."
The AP is mentioned several times in the e-mails, usually in reference to a published story. One scientist says his remarks were reported with "a bit of journalistic license" and "I would have rephrased or re-expressed some of what was written if I had seen it before it was released." The archive also includes a request from an AP reporter, one of the writers of this story, for reaction to a study, a standard step for journalists seeking quotes for their stories.
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The claim was both simple and terrifying: that temperatures on planet Earth are now 'likely the highest in at least the past 1,300 years'.
As its authors from the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) must have expected, it made headlines around the world.
Yet some of the scientists who helped to draft it, The Mail on Sunday can reveal, harboured uncomfortable doubts.
In the words of one, David Rind from the US space agency Nasa, it 'looks like there were years around 1000AD that could have been just as warm'.
Keith Briffa from the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit (CRU), which plays a key role in forming IPCC assessments, urged caution, warning that when it came to historical climate records, there was no new data, only the 'same old evidence' that had been around for years.
'Let us not try to over-egg the pudding,' he wrote in an email to an IPCC colleague in September 2006.
'True, there have been many different techniques used to aggregate and scale data - but the efficacy of these is still far from established.'
But when the 'warmest for 1,300 years' claim was published in 2007 in the IPCC's fourth report, the doubters kept silent.
It is only now that their concerns have started to emerge from the thousands of pages of 'Warmergate' emails leaked last month from the CRU's computers, along with references to performing a 'trick' to 'hide' temperature decline and instructions to resist all efforts by the CRU's critics to use the Freedom of Information Act to check the unit's data and conclusions.
Last week, as an official inquiry by the former civil servant Sir Muir Russell began, I tried to assess Warmergate's wider significance.
The CRU's supporters insisted it was limited. 'In the long term, it will make very little difference to the scientific consensus, and to the way politicians respond to it,' Professor Trevor Davies, the university's Pro-Vice Chancellor and a former CRU director, told me. 'I am certain that the science is rock solid.'
He admitted that his CRU colleagues had sometimes used 'injudicious phrases', but that was because they kept on being 'diverted' from their work by those who wished to scrutinise it. 'It's understandable that sometimes people get frustrated,' he said.
The only lesson the affair had for him was that 'we have got to get better in terms of explanation. Some scientists still find it quite it difficult to communicate with the public.'
Others, however, were less optimistic. Roger Pielke, Professor of Environmental Studies at the University of Colorado, could in no sense be described as a climate change sceptic, let alone a 'denier'.
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'Human-caused climate change is real, and I'm a strong advocate for action,' he said. 'But I'm also a strong advocate for integrity in science.'
Pielke's verdict on the scandal is damning.
'These emails open up the possibility that big scientific questions we've regarded as settled may need another look.
'They reveal that some of these scientists saw themselves not as neutral investigators but as warriors engaged in battle with the so-called sceptics.
'They have lost a lot of credibility and as far as their being leading spokespeople on this issue of huge public importance, there is no going back.'
Climate science is complicated, and often the only way to make sense of raw data is through sophisticated statistical computer programs.
The consequence is that most lay individuals - politicians and members of the public alike - have little choice but to take the assurances of scientists such as Davies on trust.
He and other 'global warmists' often insist that when it comes to the IPCC's main conclusions - that the Earth is in a period of potentially catastrophic warming and that the main culprit is man-made greenhouse gas emission - no serious scientist dissents from the conventional view.
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Hence, perhaps, Gordon Brown's recent comment that those who disagree are 'behind-the-times, antiscience, flat-Earth climate sceptics'.
In fact, there is a large body of highly-respected academic experts who fiercely contest this thesis: people such as Richard Lindzen, Professor of Meteorology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a disillusioned former IPCC member, and Dr Tom Segalstad, head of geology at Oslo University, who has stated that 'most leading geologists throughout the world know that the IPCC's view of Earth processes are implausible if not impossible'.
These dissenters focus their criticisms on the IPCC's analysis of the way the atmosphere works and the models it uses to predict the future.
However, Warmergate strikes at something more fundamental - the science that justifies the basic assumption that the present warming really is unprecedented, at least in the past few thousand years.
Take the now-notorious email that the CRU's currently suspended director, Dr Phil Jones, sent to his IPCC colleagues on November 16, 1999, when he wrote he had 'just completed Mike's Nature trick' and had so managed to 'hide the decline'.
For example, some suggest that the 'medieval warm period' was considerably warmer than even 1998. Of course, this is inconvenient to climate change believers because there were no cars or factories pumping out greenhouse gases in 1000AD - yet the Earth still warmed.
The CRU's supporters have protested bitterly about the attention paid to this message. In the course of an extraordinary BBC interview in which he called an American critic an '****hole' live on air, Jones's colleague Professor Andrew Watson insisted that the fuss was completely unjustified, because all Jones had been talking about was 'tweaking a diagram'.
Davies told me that the email had been 'taken out of context' adding: 'One definition of the word "trick" is "the best way of doing something". What Phil did was standard practice and the facts are out there in the peer-reviewed literature.'
However, the full context of that 'trick' email, as shown by a new and until now unreported analysis by the Canadian climate statistician Steve McIntyre, is extremely troubling.
Derived from close examination of some of the thousands of other leaked emails, he says it suggests the 'trick' undermines not only the CRU but the IPCC.
There is a widespread misconception that the 'decline' Jones was referring to is the fall in global temperatures from their peak in 1998, which probably was the hottest year for a long time. In fact, its subject was more technical - and much more significant.
It is true that, in Watson's phrase, in the autumn of 1999 Jones and his colleagues were trying to 'tweak' a diagram. But it wasn't just any old diagram.
It was the chart displayed on the first page of the 'Summary for Policymakers' of the 2001 IPCC report - the famous 'hockey stick' graph that has been endlessly reproduced in everything from newspapers to primary-school textbooks ever since, showing centuries of level or declining temperatures until a dizzying, almost vertical rise in the late 20th Century.
There could be no simpler or more dramatic representation of global warming, and if the origin of worldwide concern over climate change could be traced to a single image, it would be the hockey stick.
Drawing a diagram such as this is far from straightforward.
Gabriel Fahrenheit did not invent the mercury thermometer until 1724, so scientists who want to reconstruct earlier climate history have to use 'proxy data' - measurements derived from records such as ice cores, tree-rings and growing season dates.
However, different proxies give very different results.
For example, some suggest that the 'medieval warm period', the 350-year era that started around 1000, when red wine grapes flourished in southern England and the Vikings tilled now-frozen farms in Greenland, was considerably warmer than even 1998.
Of course, this is inconvenient to climate change believers because there were no cars or factories pumping out greenhouse gases in 1000AD - yet the Earth still warmed.
Some tree-ring data eliminates the medieval warmth altogether, while others reflect it. In September 1999, Jones's IPCC colleague Michael Mann of Penn State University in America - who is now also the subject of an official investigation --was working with Jones on the hockey stick. As they debated which data to use, they discussed a long tree-ring analysis carried out by Keith Briffa.
Briffa knew exactly why they wanted it, writing in an email on September 22: 'I know there is pressure to present a nice tidy story as regards "apparent unprecedented warming in a thousand years or more".' But his conscience was troubled. 'In reality the situation is not quite so simple - I believe that the recent warmth was probably matched about 1,000 years ago.'
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Agenda: An Iceberg projection highlighting the Copenhagen UN summit shows the high level of political interest in climate change - and why scientists may be desperate to prove it is a man-made problem we can solve
Another British scientist - Chris Folland of the Met Office's Hadley Centre - wrote the same day that using Briffa's data might be awkward, because it suggested the past was too warm. This, he lamented, 'dilutes the message rather significantly'.
Over the next few days, Briffa, Jones, Folland and Mann emailed each other furiously. Mann was fearful that if Briffa's trees made the IPCC diagram, 'the sceptics [would] have a field day casting doubt on our ability to understand the factors that influence these estimates and, thus, can undermine faith [in them] - I don't think that doubt is scientifically justified, and I'd hate to be the one to have to give it fodder!'
Finally, Briffa changed the way he computed his data and submitted a revised version. This brought his work into line for earlier centuries, and 'cooled' them significantly. But alas, it created another, potentially even more serious, problem.
According to his tree rings, the period since 1960 had not seen a steep rise in temperature, as actual temperature readings showed - but a large and steady decline, so calling into question the accuracy of the earlier data derived from tree rings.
This is the context in which, seven
weeks later, Jones presented his 'trick' - as simple as it was deceptive.
All he had to do was cut off Briffa's inconvenient data at the point where the decline started, in 1961, and replace it with actual temperature readings, which showed an increase.
On the hockey stick graph, his line is abruptly terminated - but the end of the line is obscured by the other lines.
'Any scientist ought to know that you just can't mix and match proxy and actual data,' said Philip Stott, emeritus professor of biogeography at London's School of Oriental and African Studies.
'They're apples and oranges. Yet that's exactly what he did.'
Since Warmergate-broke, some of the CRU's supporters have claimed that Jones and his colleagues made a 'full disclosure' of what they did to Briffa's data in order to produce the hockey stick.
But as McIntyre points out, 'contrary to claims by various climate scientists, the IPCC Third Assessment Report did not disclose the deletion of the post-1960 values'.
On the final diagram, the cut off was simply concealed by the other lines.
By 2007, when the IPCC produced its fourth report, McIntyre had become aware of the manipulation of the Briffa data and Briffa himself, as shown at the start of this article, continued to have serious qualms.
McIntyre by now was an IPCC 'reviewer' and he urged the IPCC not to delete the post-1961 data in its 2007 graph. 'They refused,' he said, 'stating this would be "inappropriate".'
'Any scientist ought to know that you just can't mix and match proxy and actual data'
Yet even this, Pielke told me, may not ultimately be the biggest consequence of Warmergate.
Some of the most controversial leaked emails concern attempts by Jones and his colleagues to avoid disclosure of the CRU's temperature database - its vast library of readings from more than 1,000 weather stations around the world, the ultimate resource that records how temperatures have changed.
In one email from 2005, Jones warned Mann not to leave such data lying around on searchable websites, because 'you never know who is trawling them'.
Critics such as McIntyre had been 'after the CRU station data for years. If they ever hear there is a Freedom of Information Act now in the UK, I think I'll delete the file rather than send to anyone'.
Yesterday Davies said that, contrary to some reports, none of this data has in fact been deleted. But in the wake of the scandal, its reliability too is up for grabs.
The problem is that, just like tree rings or ice cores, readings from thermometers or electronic 'thermistors' are open to interpretation.
The sites of weather stations that were once open countryside become built up areas, so trapping heat, and the type of equipment used changes over time.
The result is what climate scientists call 'inhomogeneities' - anomalies between readings that need to be 'adjusted'.
But can we trust the way such 'adjustments' are made?
Last week, an article posted on a popular climate sceptic website analysed the data from the past 130 years in Darwin, Australia.
This suggested that average temperatures had risen there by about two degrees Celsius. However, the raw data had been 'adjusted' in a series of abrupt upward steps by exactly the same amount: without the adjustment, the Darwin temperature record would have stayed level.
In 2007, McIntyre examined records across America. He found that between 1999 and 2007, the US equivalent of the Met Office had changed the way it adjusted old data.
The result was to make the Thirties seem cooler, and the years since 1990 much warmer. Previously, the warmest year since records began in America had been 1934.
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Norman Lamb
The MP whose father founded the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia says it is important that trust in the unit's work is restored.
Liberal Democrat frontbencher Norman Lamb is the son of Professor Hubert Lamb, who was the first director of the CRU in 1971.
Under his leadership, it gained an international reputation for authoritative and ground-breaking research.
Last night, Norman Lamb, MP for North Norfolk, said: 'My father was always very concerned that the highest possible standards were met.
'The university has done the right thing in calling for an independent investigation.
'It is of critical importance that trust is re-established. We want truth and accuracy, both in small detail and the bigger picture.'
Prof Lamb died in 1997, aged 84.
Now, in line with CRU and IPCC orthodoxy, it was 1998.
At the CRU, said Davies, some stations' readings were adjusted by unit and in such cases, raw and adjusted data could be compared.
But in about 90 per cent of cases, the adjustment was carried out in the countries that collected the data, and the CRU would not know exactly how this had been done.
Davies said: 'All I can say is that the process is careful and considered. To get the details, the best way would be to go the various national meteorological services.'
The consequences of that, Stott said, may be explosive. 'If you take Darwin, the gap between the two just looks too big.
'If that applies elsewhere, it's going to get really interesting. It's no longer going to be good enough for the Met Office and CRU to put the data out there.
'To know we can trust it, we've got to know what adjustments have been made, and why.'
Last week, at the Copenhagen climate summit, the Met Office said that the Noughties have been the warmest decade in history. Depending on how the data has been adjusted, Stott said, that statement may not be true.
Pielke agreed. 'After Climategate, the surface temperature record is being called into question.' To experts such as McIntyre and Pielke, perhaps the most baffling thing has been the near-unanimity over global warming in the world's mainstream media - a unanimity much greater than that found among scientists.
In part, this is the result of strongarm tactics.
For example, last year the BBC environment reporter Roger Harrabin made substantial changes to an article on the corporation website that asked why global warming seemed to have stalled since 1998 - caving in to direct pressure from a climate change activist, Jo Abbess.
'Personally, I think it is highly irresponsible to play into the hands of the sceptics who continually promote the idea that "global warming finished in 1998" when that is so patently not true,' she told him in an email.
After a brief exchange, he complied and sent a final note: 'Have a look in ten minutes and tell me you are happier. We have changed headline and more.'
Afterwards, Abbess boasted on her website: 'Climate Changers, Remember to challenge any piece of media that seems like it's been subject to spin or scepticism. Here's my go for today. The BBC actually changed an article I requested a correction for.'
Last week, Michael Schlesinger, Professor of Atmospheric Studies at the University of Illinois, sent a still cruder threat to Andrew Revkin of the New York Times, accusing him of 'gutter reportage', and warning: 'The vibe that I am getting from here, there and everywhere is that your reportage is very worrisome to most climate scientists ... I sense that you are about to experience the "Big Cutoff" from those of us who believe we can no longer trust you, me included.'
But in the wake of Warmergate, such threats - and the readiness to bow to them - may become rarer.
'A year ago, if a reporter called me, all I got was questions about why I'm trying to deny climate change and am threatening the future of the planet,' said Professor Ross McKitrick of Guelph University near Toronto, a long-time collaborator with McIntyre.
'Now, I'm getting questions about how they did the hockey stick and the problems with the data.
'Maybe the emails have started to open people's eyes.'
Yes, emails came from here - but we didn't do it, say Russians
Tomsk: Emails were sent from this Siberian town
Russian secret service agents admitted yesterday that the hacked 'Warmergate' emails were uploaded on a Siberian internet server, but strenuously denied a clandestine state-sponsored operation to wreck the Copenhagen summit.
The FSB - formerly the KGB - confirmed that thousands of messages to and from scientists at the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit were distributed to the world from the city of Tomsk, as revealed by The Mail on Sunday last week.
Now, it has emerged that IT experts specialising in hacking techniques were brought in by the Russian authorities following this newspaper's exposure of the Tomsk link.
They have gathered evidence about how and where the operation was carried out, although they are not prepared to say at this stage who they think was responsible.
A Russian intelligence source claimed the FSB had new information which could cast light on who was behind the elaborate operation.
'We are not prepared to release details, but we might if the false claims about the FSB's involvement do not stop,' he said. 'The emails were uploaded to the Tomsk server but we are sure this was done from outside Russia.'
The Kremlin's top climate change official, Alexander Bedritsky, denied the Russian government was involved in breaking into the CRU's computer system.
'You can post information on a computer from any other country. It is nonsense to blame Russia,' he said.
Read more: SPECIAL INVESTIGATION: Climate change emails row deepens - and Russians admit they DID send them | Mail Online
This is a good article, why is it that those of us "skeptics" are viewed as insane?
It's frustrating to know that, if you are conservative in political views, then you are stupid, and do not have a clue. And if you do not believe Climate Change is going to kill us all next year, then you must be conservative, and of course, stupid.
It's been the media's way. ESPECIALLY since the election. If you vote for McCain, you are stupid. And now with these leaked emails.
This should be getting more attention than it's getting.
I think half of the problem is that the science in question is so far beyond your average American's grasp that people tend to divide themselves along the lines of their political allegiances or sense of trust, not facts.
While I do believe in developing alternative energy sources for strategic purposes, I'm happy to admit that I don't have an intellectual leg to stand on when it comes to debating for or against man-made climate change.
What the Russian papers say | Top Russian news and analysis online | 'RIA Novosti' newswire
(As a summary, group is Russia is claiming data is slanted because it too heavily accounts for populated areas and not remote ones.)
Russia affected by Climategate
A discussion of the November 2009 Climatic Research Unit e-mail hacking incident, referred to by some sources as "Climategate," continues against the backdrop of the abortive UN Climate Conference in Copenhagen (COP15) discussing alternative agreements to replace the 1997 Kyoto Protocol that aimed to combat global warming.
The incident involved an e-mail server used by the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia (UEA) in Norwich, East England. Unknown persons stole and anonymously disseminated thousands of e-mails and other documents dealing with the global-warming issue made over the course of 13 years.
Controversy arose after various allegations were made including that climate scientists colluded to withhold scientific evidence and manipulated data to make the case for global warming appear stronger than it is.
Climategate has already affected Russia. On Tuesday, the Moscow-based Institute of Economic Analysis (IEA) issued a report claiming that the Hadley Center for Climate Change based at the headquarters of the British Meteorological Office in Exeter (Devon, England) had probably tampered with Russian-climate data.
The IEA believes that Russian meteorological-station data did not substantiate the anthropogenic global-warming theory.
Analysts say Russian meteorological stations cover most of the country's territory, and that the Hadley Center had used data submitted by only 25% of such stations in its reports.
Over 40% of Russian territory was not included in global-temperature calculations for some other reasons, rather than the lack of meteorological stations and observations.
The data of stations located in areas not listed in the Hadley Climate Research Unit Temperature UK (HadCRUT) survey often does not show any substantial warming in the late 20th century and the early 21st century.
The HadCRUT database includes specific stations providing incomplete data and highlighting the global-warming process, rather than stations facilitating uninterrupted observations.
On the whole, climatologists use the incomplete findings of meteorological stations far more often than those providing complete observations.
IEA analysts say climatologists use the data of stations located in large populated centers that are influenced by the urban-warming effect more frequently than the correct data of remote stations.
The scale of global warming was exaggerated due to temperature distortions for Russia accounting for 12.5% of the world's land mass. The IEA said it was necessary to recalculate all global-temperature data in order to assess the scale of such exaggeration.
Global-temperature data will have to be modified if similar climate-date procedures have been used from other national data because the calculations used by COP15 analysts, including financial calculations, are based on HadCRUT research.
Then you have those who deny it without even wanting to understand the opposite position:
Palin continues to blast climate change believers
Posted: December 19th, 2009 04:02 PM ET
From CNN Associate Political Producer Emily Sherman
Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin continued to blast believers in climate change Friday.
Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin continued to blast believers in climate change Friday.
(CNN)– In a late night posting on her Twitter feed, Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin continued to blast climate change believers Friday, calling the talks in Copenhagen, Denmark a representation of man's "arrogance," for believing people have an impact on nature.
"Arrogant&Naive2say man overpwers nature," Palin tweeted.
"Earth saw clmate chnge4 ions;will cont 2 c chnges.R duty2responsbly devlop resorces4humankind/not pollute&destroy;but cant alter naturl chng," the former Republican vice presidential nominee wrote.
Palin's latest comments come after weeks of tangling over climate change with California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, former vice president Al Gore, and President Obama.
In an op-ed in the Washington Post, Palin urged the president to boycott the climate talks, calling his presence at the conference a "political move."
"The last thing America needs is misguided legislation that will raise taxes and cost jobs – particularly when the push for such legislation rests on agenda-driven science," Palin wrote. "Without trustworthy science and with so much at stake, Americans should be wary about what comes out of this politicized conference. The president should boycott Copenhagen."
When Schwarzenegger questioned Palin's stance on climate change, Palin quickly hit back saying the actor-turned-governor was acting "greener than thou."
And when former vice president Al Gore dubbed her a climate change "denier," Palin hit back at him too, accusing him of promoting "doomsday scenarios."
"Climate change is like gravity – a naturally occurring phenomenon that existed long before, and will exist long after, any governmental attempts to affect it," Palin wrote on her Facebook page.
During the vice presidential debate last year, Palin said she was for capping carbon emissions but did not elaborate on how she would do that.
Oh, just to dig up the debates
Records fall as snow batters East Coast again - CNN.com
Ya, just so you know, this is what God thinks of our opinion of climate change (ie global warming)...Record snow.
Weather =/= Climate.
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Then there's the source(s) of the Himalayan glaciers melting by 2035
MUST-READ: UN IPCC claim of Himalayan glaciers melting revealed to be a hoax
MUST-READ: UN IPCC claim of Himalayan glaciers melting revealed to be a hoaxStory from the UK Times. (H/T ECM)
A WARNING that climate change will melt most of the Himalayan glaciers by 2035 is likely to be retracted after a series of scientific blunders by the United Nations body that issued it.There was no research backing a pronouncement of melting glaciers in the Himalayas. No research. And yet this was pronounced as dogma by the Holy Church of the United Nations. Because they believe what they want to believe, and their whole agenda is to hide the decline in order to get more research grants and greater control over businesses and individuals. This is the politicization of science. Science guided by big government research grants and academic peer pressure.
In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress.
We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.
---Winston Churchill (1903)
That some of the science was politicized BS is the true shame, because what it boils down to is this:
Sure, perhaps some of the models about global warming might not be utterly accurate or at least there is a healthy debate about them. That's fine.
Even the most hard-headed Republican....okay, ALL SAVE the most hard-headed Republican ought to acknowledge that the amount of emissions we are outputting now is unique in human history and as a result will likely have some deleterious effect on the planet. Period. We are expelling sh|t-tons (that's a technical term of art) of CO2, methane vapor, nitrous oxide, and ozone into the air...Arguing about whether one specific consequence or another is likely to occur is speculative at best and only serves to sidetrack the conversation that we really should be having. We don't have a separate planet to eff up for political gain, so I'd say we probably need to come together on this one, y'all.
It is time now to actually fix our past mistakes, and clean up the way we do business.
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19 Global Warming/Climate Change Scandals
What To Say To A Global Warming Advocate
& over the weekend
BBC News - Q&A: Professor Phil Jones
In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress.
We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.
---Winston Churchill (1903)
While I support the idea that global warming could lead to unwanted climate change, I know its true that many scientists are over-zealous in their attempts to "proove" it, because of the high political stakes involved.
While I will tend to believe the general consensus of the peer-reviewed scientific community, I remain skeptical of overly specific claims that are based on scientific approximations or generalizations.
A perfect example is the prediction about Himalayan glaciers melting. Climate models are still so primitive, that its impossible to be sure about specific predictions based upon the general "global warming" hypothesis.
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I believe this is a scam. Not for political allegiances, but because I believe in God.
I think it is pure arrogance to think we can destroy the Earth.
All that being said...
I agree we are doing more harm than good, and am ALL for research and ways to make things cleaner and better.
And it IS a shame this was politicized.
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No offense, but I think it's equally arrogant to believe that we can do whatever we want to the Earth without the possibility of a destructive impact.
As a believer in God myself, I believe that humanity is mandated to take care of the Earth, not deplete and abuse it.
A belief in God does not logically correspond to a rejection of global warming. Remember "God does not play dice with the Universe"? Now remember how that turned out.
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You obviously saw my "God" comment and chose not to read the rest...let me quote myself again from my last post:
Get over yourselves.
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Uninhabitable. That's what the big fuss is.
I say responsible in that, for example, I don't wanna live near smog. I can move away from it, but I don't. So why not try to make less smog?
BUT, smog is not killing the earth. Smog is not making the Earth "Uninhabitable." It never will.
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I hear you, I certainly did not mean to turn this into a "spiritual" discussion. I ,for one, don't like to have it shoved down my throat either. I apologize.
The thing that is curious to me, is that with the data and conclusions (some, if not most, if not all) about climate change being "altered" to skew in the favor of those for massive overhaul, the "probative merits of the underlying science, data, or other evidence," seems suspect now. It's hard for me to just agree that we are killing ourselves, and the planet.
Again, let's do something to make this a more pleasant place to live, but lets not get carried away and throw UBER $$$ like we wasted on the war in Iraq. Or FORCE us (Americans) to go along with something that might not be accurate (before I get comments, yes, I know we were all FORCED to believe Hussein had WMDs, but hopefully, we learn from our mistakes).
American's won't be forced into anything.
If Americans elect representatives that want to implements heavy-handed climate change legislation, then we will get what we voted for.
If we elect representatives that have a less impactful climate change ideology, then the same conclusion holds.
E.g. Americans have the healthcare plan they Voted For (via their elected representatives), regardless of whether they actually want it now.
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Indoor Tanning Is Not Safe
Using a tanning bed, booth, or sunlamp to get tan is called indoor tanning.
Using a tanning bed, booth, or sunlamp to get tan is called indoor tanning. Exposure to ultraviolet (UV) rays while indoor tanning can cause skin cancers including melanoma (the deadliest type of skin cancer), basal cell carcinoma, and squamous cell carcinoma. UV exposure also can cause cataracts and cancers of the eye (ocular melanoma). UV exposure from the sun and from indoor tanning is classified as a human carcinogen (causes cancer in humans) by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (part of the World Health Organization) and by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. [PDF-242KB]
Dangers of Indoor Tanning
Indoor tanning exposes users to two types of UV rays, UVA and UVB, which damage the skin and can lead to cancer. Indoor tanning is particularly dangerous for younger users; people who begin indoor tanning during adolescence or early adulthood have a higher risk of getting melanoma. This may be due to greater use of indoor tanning among those who begin tanning at earlier ages.
Every time you tan you increase your risk of getting skin cancer, including melanoma. Indoor tanning also—
- Causes visible signs of skin damage, wrinkles and age spots.
- Changes your skin texture.
- Increases the risk of potentially blinding eye diseases, if eye protection is not used.
Facts About Indoor Tanning
Tanning indoors is not safer than tanning in the sun.
Indoor tanning and tanning outside are both dangerous. Although indoor tanning devices operate on a timer, the exposure to UV rays can vary based on the age and type of light bulbs. Indoor tanning is designed to give you high levels of UV radiation in a short time. You can get a burn from tanning indoors, and even a tan indicates damage to your skin.
A base tan is not a safe tan.
A tan is the body's response to injury from UV rays. A base tan does little to protect you from future damage to your skin caused by UV exposure. In fact, people who indoor tan are more likely to report getting sunburned.
The best way to protect your skin from the sun is by using these tips for skin cancer prevention.
Indoor tanning is not a safe way to get vitamin D.
Although it is important to get enough vitamin D, the safest way to do so is through what you eat. Tanning harms your skin, and the amount of UV exposure you need to get enough vitamin D is hard to measure because it is different for every person and also varies with the weather, latitude, altitude, and more.
International Meta-Analyses (Combined Studies)
Several different types of studies have shown consistently that indoor tanning increases a person's risk of getting skin cancer, including melanoma.
- A meta-analysis (a research study that combines data from multiple other studies) by Boniol and colleagues in 2012 combined findings from studies conducted in Europe, Australia, and the United States. The meta-analysis shows a link between indoor tanning and melanoma.
- Another meta-analysis published in 2014 by Colantonio and colleagues reconfirmed the association between indoor tanning and melanoma, and also found that newer tanning beds were not safer than older models.
- A 2014 study by Wehner and colleagues estimated that, if about one-third of Americans indoor tan during their lifetimes, more than 400,000 cases of skin cancer could be related to indoor tanning in the United States each year.
Case-Control Studies Conducted in the United States
- A 2010 study by Lazovich and colleagues in the United States found that the risk of getting melanoma increased the more years, hours, or sessions spent indoor tanning.
- A 2014 study by Ferrucci and colleagues in the United States found that the risk of getting melanoma and basal cell carcinoma was increased among people who tanned only in businesses, and that risks were similar to previous findings on the association between indoor tanning and skin cancer. Only a small number of people reported indoor tanning exclusively at home, and that group also had an increased risk of melanoma.
- A 2016 study by Lazovich and colleagues found that among women under the age of 30, those who indoor tanned were six times more likely to have a melanoma diagnosis than non-tanners. Among women between the ages of 30 and 39, indoor tanners were about four times more likely to have a melanoma diagnosis, compared to non-tanners.
National Statistics on Indoor Tanning
According to the 2015 Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System, some teens are indoor tanning, including—
- 7% of all high school students.
- 11% of high school girls.
- 16% of girls in the 12th grade.
- 15% of white high school girls.
According to the 2010 National Health Interview Survey, indoor tanners tended to be young, non-Hispanic white (NHW) women. A closer look at the data showed the following rates of indoor tanning among NHW women—
- 32% of those aged 18 to 21 years.
- 30% of those aged 22 to 25 years.
- 22% of those aged 26 to 29 years.
- 17% of those aged 30 to 34 years.
Healthy People 2020 Objectives for Indoor Tanning
Healthy People provides science-based, 10-year national objectives for improving the health of all Americans. Healthy People 2020 has 20 cancer objectives, including—
- Reduce the proportion of adolescents in grades 9 through 12 who report indoor tanning to 14.0%.
- Reduce the proportion of adults aged 18 years and older who report indoor tanning to 3.6%.
Indoor Tanning Policies
Indoor tanning is restricted in some areas, especially for minors.*
United States
California, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Kansas, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Oregon,† Texas, Vermont, Washington,† West Virginia, and some cities and counties have banned indoor tanning by minors younger than 18 years. For the latest information, see the National Conference of State Legislatures' Tanning Restrictions for Minors: A State-by-State Comparison and AIM at Melanoma's Melanoma Legislation.
CDC research shows that states with indoor tanning laws that include age restrictions had lower rates of indoor tanning among minors.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has proposed a rule to protect youth from the risks of indoor tanning devices by restricting use by minors younger than 18 years. This proposed rule also would require indoor tanning facilities to inform adult users about the health risks of indoor tanning and to obtain a signed risk acknowledgement from these users. The agency also is proposing a second rule that would require manufacturers and indoor tanning facilities to take more actions to help improve the overall safety of indoor tanning devices to protect adult consumers.
*State and federal regulations generally apply to those using indoor tanning devices in commercial facilities such as tanning salons, and typically do not address use of tanning devices in private homes.
†The state laws in Oregon and Washington contain an exemption which allows people younger than age 18 to tan with a doctor's prescription.
- Brazil and Australia have banned indoor tanning.
- Austria, Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, Italy, Norway, Portugal, Spain, and the United Kingdom have banned indoor tanning for people younger than age 18.
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Enhance security for outgoing email (DKIM)
About DKIM
You can help prevent spoofing by adding a digital signature to outgoing message headers using the DKIM standard. This involves using a private domain key to encrypt your domain's outgoing mail headers, and adding a public version of the key to the domain's DNS records. Recipient servers can then retrieve the public key to decrypt incoming headers and verify that the message really comes from your domain and hasn't been changed along the way.
G Suite's digital signature conforms to the DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) standard.How DKIM works
To add a digital signature to outgoing mail, you generate a domain key that G Suite uses to create signed mail headers that are unique to your domain. You add the public key to the Domain Name System (DNS) records for your domain. Recipients can then verify the source of a mail message by retrieving your public key and using it to confirm your signature.
For enhanced security, you can now generate a 2048-bit domain key instead of a 1024-bit domain key. We recommend that you generate the stronger 2048-bit key if your registrars support the longer key length.
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NORFOLK, Va. - Monarch Media catches-up with Old Dominion's head women's golf coach, Carol Robertson and senior golfer, Samantha Morrell.
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The Batman nostalgia continues. A week after the classic 1966-68 TV series starring Adam West made its (very) long-awaited debut on DVD and Blu-ray, another gem from the Batcave has surfaced. On Wednesday, DC Comics will publish the so-called "Lost E… Read more