"Their analysis [old study by Zhao & Running] of satellite data is flawed because they included poor quality data and do not bother to test trends for statistically significance.Poor quality data and poor scientific and statistical methods seem to be the backbone of the main-stream AGW (Anthropogenic (man-made) global warming) proponents it seems.
Our analyses [NASA study] of four different higher-quality MODIS satellite vegetation products that have been carefully filtered for data corruption show no statistically significant trends over 85% of the global vegetated lands."
Well worth the read at PajamasMedia:
Obama’s Israel Ambush Backfires
President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s attack on Israel is failing spectacularly.
Most Israelis — especially those in the center and left — have rallied around Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu. Judging by the media — especially television talk shows — Netanyahu’s popularity has soared following the rebuke from Hillary Clinton. Even those who usually berate him have come to his defense. American Jewish leaders and Congress are also pushing back against Clinton’s hysteria and Obama’s stern reprimands.
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With a few Jewish advisors to protect him from charges of anti-Semitism, he may try for a brass ring in the Middle East merry-go-round.That would assume that voters are stupid. Many may be, but not enough.A well-known columnist recently accused Israel of drunk-driving behavior. The drunk-with-power driver, however, is sitting in the White House.
Do read the whole article.
To me the admin showed it's true colors with Biden's Israel trip.
It is that new anti-Semitism of the progs.
ErikTheRed voiced something a couple of days ago at a chat answering the question who and where I was from, he said:
Callahan23 is an American trapped in the body of a German.
That was exactly how I felt this noon when I was at a café and on our table a liberal/socialist discussion about social injustice, income distribution and the mean grip of the power hungry for ever more power without the normal population to be able to do anything about it, broke out. Yada, yada, yada ...
I was sooo sick and tired of this shit I was sitting there and virtually hung up on that talk. I didn't participate nor did I object to anything.
I am sick of those liberal/socialist loons and there is way too many of those around here for me to convince any otherwise.
Needless to say they will not be convinced of logic or reason.
The citizens of a state like Washington should well heed the advice of a financially bankrupt country like Greece.
Greece has grown through decades of social and socialist ideas without the mere thought that something like the free market could do any good. The sense of entitlement has grown accordingly.
Those protesting students are nothing more than the spoiled brats of middle-class families who insist on their 'rights'. The society has been indoctrinated for so long now that virtually no one challenges their entitlement thinking or their destructive behavior. Of course they are frustrated that they don't have the same chances their fathers had when they entered the job market. But no one in that country puts into account that roughly one tenth of the population works for the state or for state run enterprises. No one sees the imbalance that someone has to pay up their salaries.
Greece is a failed state IMHO, don't let individual states of the union slide down that same slippery road.
The population of Washington state has to really wake up and vote for an entirely new set of political faces.
Kosh'sShadow replied: Yes, the way he won't say anything about what the "two states living side by side" would be. He just can't bring himself to say one is a Jewish state, can he?The majorities in the UN won't let him. Pretty much a scum bag surrounded by a barf-bag, surrounded by a sack of manure.
That being said Ban isn't at all exonerated, he is part and parcel of this anti-Semitic shit-hole of the Useless Nations.
Free and democratic nations have the most to be afraid of by that organization. All the totalitarian, theocratic and nepotistic nations rule the house.
No small wonder the UN makes resolution after resolution condemning Israel while not mentioning such hell-holes as the Sudan or North Korea. To name only a few.
Shame on the lot of them and all those diplomats and the nations they represent who don't speak out against this evil discrepancy.
Repost from CorrComm comments #5 and #7Has anyone ever wondered about the stark similarities between Martin Luther and his confronting the indulgence sales being done by the Catholic church at the time which all started the reformation
with the AGW and Kyoto and now Copenhagen conferences bend on having whole states now pay for sins we all allegedly have committed?
Climategate might well be what at the time Martin Luther and his reformation was to the individual, Climategate could really turn out to be the reformation on a societal level.
I really do hope that this starts a mass movement of people who aren't bullied into surrendering more and more individual liberties to the state and/or super-national bodies.
Here again I see the only society able and already starting to revolt as the people of the US of America.
Tea-Parties anyone?
Let us all wait and see, but I wouldn't at all be surprised.
A repost from CorrComm comment #48
All BIG utopias had a big attraction to the young and vice versa. Fascists, Nazis, Communists, islamo-fascists and YES also the green movement early on established their youth organizations. WHY? Well there you can harvest easily manipulable folk who are gullible, inexperienced in life and who still are convinced they can change the world and turn it upside down. In their parlance it would of course be: To make a better world for the future.
I always get the creeps when I hear Utopians.
WHY? Because all big CHANGES and revolutions ultimately managed to kill people.
THAT is why I DETEST all grand plans and ideas (Utopias), as they are ultimately enslaving the individual for the GREATER GOOD.
Only with compromise, negotiations and good will has mankind always found a way to better our lot. A natural way - evolving out of the sum of our INDIVIDUAL interactions. There is a better way - But it is NEVER a QUICK-FIX.