A report released at the end of January by British climate scientists at the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit showed that the Earth’s average temperatures have dropped to the same levels seen back in 1997 before the so-called “big warmup.”
The British scientists agree with many Russian and Japanese climate scientists that the world could be headed toward a mini ice age sometime in the near future.
The Czech Republic town of Kvilda on Feb. 4 logged an all-time record low temperature of minus 40 degrees. On the same morning, Graubuenden, Switzerland, plunged to minus 35 degrees, likewise a record low.
The record coldwave pushed all the way south into North Africa. One Saharan outpost reported 16 degrees. This trading station had never seen a minimum temperature below 25 degrees.
Clearly, the Brits at one of the focal points of the "climategate" email scandal have joined ranks with the Deniers of the Religion of Anthropogenic Global Warming. It's time to call Peter Gleick, so he can set them straight. He's good at faking documents.
Of course, forty years ago, we were all gonna die because of Anthropogenic Global Cooling. Today, the media dismiss it as mythology, but the fact of the matter is that in the 1970's, many of the people who today are profiting from the AGW scare were pushing AGC.
Having apparently resolved all other pressing issues, legislators in Wyoming have established a "task force" charged with assessing the feasibility of issuing their own currency, implementing a draft, mounting a standing army, and securing fighter aircraft and an aircraft carrier, just in case the USA undergoes a complete economic or political meltdown.
An aircraft carrier? Have those folks looked at a map, lately?
It isn't popular, like the constant apologies Bams issues, but popularity isn't the name of the game.
ISLAMABAD: Hundreds of activists took to the streets on Friday as the protests over desecration of Holy Quran at the Nato military base in Afghanistan spread to Malaysia, Indonesia and India.
Holding banners inscribed with several anti-US slogans including ‘Damn You US Army’, and ‘Quran Our Soul, You Burnt Our Soul’, protesters gathered at public places to express their anger at the desecration of Holy Quran at the Bagram military base.
Up to 300 people blocked the GT Road in Peshawar, stomped on and set fire to the US flag, and kicked the dummy representing America and beat it with sticks while it was burning.
A lot of folks would like to kick the dummy representing America, so there's a point of agreement. Unfortunately, the area of disagreement is wide, and the Islamos resort to violence at every turn. They will not stop until they are dead, and it is now time to make them so.
The USA should deploy neutron bombs to eliminate the continued threat. We have the capability, and the time has come to use it.
A neutron strike simply eliminates the problem, while preserving infrastructure for peaceful purposes. Of course, some would object to the approach; Russia and China would find it expedient to express their outrage, though both have had their own issues with Islamos, and so both would privately support the eradication of an infection.
In the previous world wars, civilian centers were routinely bombed by both sides. In this world war, nothing has changed in that regard: neutron bombs will kill Muslim civilians along with the nutjobs that send out suicide bombers to kill us. That's unfortunate, but it is a situation that they have selected.
It's a war that they have imposed, and one that could be quickly ended.
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In a speech at Portland City Club yesterday, Tri-Moot general manager Neil McFarlane blamed the transit union for "strangling" the former transit agency, which has re-invented itself and is now a development agency that is not constrained by taxpayer oversight. Neil (there's always a slimy guy named "Neil" shotgunning things in Portland, it seems) blames the transit union for Tri-Moot's $17 million current budgetary shortfall. Certainly, it isn't related to the fact that Tri-Moot insists on building expensive rail lines to suit condo developers, despite the fact that (a) most people don't want them and (b) of those who ride their "trains", many don't pay.
No, it's all the fault of the union. Certainly, it can't be related to anything that agency managers have done.
However, as one astute commenter noted:
If you spend three decades pandering to the condo developers, contractors, trade unions, light rail lobbyists, and other friends of Neil Goldschmidt, NOBODY TAKES YOU SERIOUSLY WHEN YOU PUT ALL THE BLAME ON THE TRANSIT WORKERS' UNION. The union didn't build WES, or pick a bankrupt vendor. The union didn't choose to kill busy bus lines to subsidize MAX. The union isn't the reason why Milwauikie Light Rail will likely push Tri-Met into insolvency. That's all on Tri-Met's Board of Directors and executive team.
Somebody knows what they're talking about - and it ain't Neil.
Ingrid Newkirk by David Shankbone (Photo credit: david_shankbone)
Animal "rights" group, PeTA, killed over 95% of the animals in its care in 2011, finding homes for just 24; killing 1,911. The group has an annual operating budget of $37 million. The group's headquarters in Norfolk, Virginia, were inspected by an Agriculture department vet, who noted that PeTA kills 84% of animals within 24 hours of receipt.
You may recall that seven years ago, the organization got into hot water due to the fact that they sent out vans to pick up pets for adoption; the pets were immediately killed in the vans, and their bodies were bagged and discarded into nearby retail dumpsters.
Still, they campaign endlessly against wearing fur or leather, and against eating meat. And the donations from the clueless contine to fill their coffers.
Forget that - it won't be happening any time soon. The hot item for tourists this summer's going to be gas mask rentals. For this, entepeneurs can thank Portland's smarmy little mayor for thinking things through as he usually does - which is to say, not at all.
Desperate to burnish his "green" credentials, he struck a deal with "Recology", a "recycling" company with a dodgy track record, and they got Washington County to sign off on a deal to slap together a benign recycling center outside of North Plains. The deals being done, mayor Smarmy decreed that henceforth, garbage service would be cut in half - but they'd pick up recycling weeekly! They even passed out food slop buckets with instructions for "recycling your kitchen scraps".
This was all trucked out to the North Plains Recology center, and it didn't take long for the stench to become overpowering. The complaints got Washington County's attention, and now the state's getting into the act:
In addition, the state Department of Environmental Quality earlier this month issued Nature's Needs a "Warning Letter with Opportunity to Correct." The conditions outlined in the letter, if not addressed, potentially violate the business's franchise agreement with Washington County.
If this can't be worked out to everyone's satisfaction (which appears doubtful, given Recology's track record), Portland's smarmy mayor is going to have to find someplace else for his incredible "green-ness" - and for the 60% of Portland "compost" he insists must be collected and recycled. That's not going to be easy. Perhaps he's hoping to be out of office before it comes to that.
Scam "the Tram" Adams, along with sidekicks Earl "the Pearl" Bluemanure and Kurt "the Clone" Schrader all joined hands and danced around a bridge-piling while singing "Everything Is Beautiful"; calling the hated Portland-Milwaukie loot rail project a "job-creating engine". Tri-Met, after all, claims that it'll create 15,000 jobs, and they're utterly believable.
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