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Sunday, February 5, 2012

News Good Morning, News!

Posted by Nathan Gilles on Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 11:03 AM

Mitt Romney won last night’s Nevada caucuses. It looks like Mittens is now the Republican front-runner. Watch his victory speech below.


Egyptian authorities could soon try 19 Americans—including Sam LaHood, son of US secretary of transportation Ray LaHood—on criminal charges. The Obama administration has warned that prosecuting Americans might make the US stingy with the $1.5 billion it was going to dole out to the country and its military leaders.


In other Egypt news: The four-day Cairo protests demanding early elections rage on. In total seven people have died in clashes with police.


As things heat up in Egypt, Europe's cold snap has now claimed the lives of 200 people.


Meanwhile, Greece is still negotiating with the rest of the European Union for a bailout.


Who will rescue the EU from its debt woes? Why China of course.


After Facebook filed to go public last week, some Facebook users are seeing all those posts and “likes” as unpaid labor contributing to company’s $4 billion annual revenues.

In Portland last night, the Trail Blazers walloped the Denver Nuggets.


It’s Super Bowl Sunday and that means being green right? Well that’s what the National Football League wants you to think this year. The group has attempted to green the 2012 Super Bowl through a variety of environmental initiatives.But is it green or green-washing?


In other environmental news: natural gas has become the fuel of choice for US utilities. Flammable tap water anyone?

 

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God that guy is fuckin scary. And I thought Obama was creepy.
Posted by Never Alone on February 5, 2012 at 1:08 PM · Report
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"As things heat up in Egypt, Europe's cold snap has now claimed the lives of 200 people."
Thank God for global warming! Could you imagine how many people would have died without it?
Posted by Andy from Beaverton on February 5, 2012 at 6:03 PM · Report
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(I don't think Andy knows how climate change works. But hey! Keep spreading that ignorance.)

I also thought this was funny: remember this Blogtown post last week, about Trimet finally getting tough on fare-dodgers, and issuing thousands of citations this year to help close their budget gap?
http://blogtown.portlandmercury.com/Blogto…

Whoopsie! There's a new State law that says they're not allowed to keep any of that money. It was signed three weeks BEFORE Trimet announced they were going to spend almost $600,000 a year on hiring new fare inspectors.
http://blog.oregonlive.com/commuting/2012/…
Posted by Reymont on February 6, 2012 at 9:34 AM · Report
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"(I don't think Andy knows how climate change works. But hey! Keep spreading that ignorance.)"
Bring it on Reymont! Any day, any time. Put some money on it. I can prove that either NOAA or James Hansen's climate modeling program at Columbia has altered historical data. If I prove that data files differ between the two entities that contain historical weather data, you pay. BRING IT ON!
Posted by Andy from Beaverton on February 6, 2012 at 1:55 PM · Report
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@Andy - Wow, you're so excited! I'm not sure why you think "altered historical data" would justify your ignorant assertion that climate change is synonymous with "there will never be a cold snap again." Seems like the chip on your shoulder just got a little heavier, there?

I'm also pleased as punch that to hear that your amateur Googling qualifies you to overturn the findings of the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee, the Independent Climate Change Review, the International Science Assessment Panel, both of the Pennsylvania State University panels, the US Environmental Protection Agency, the US Department of Commerce AND the National Science Foundation. I guess those guys all have egg on their faces, huh? You showed them! With your sleuthing!

The US Office of Inspector General stated that "...the e-mails really do nothing to undermine the very strong scientific consensus and the independent scientific analyses of thousands of scientists around the world that tell us that the Earth is warming and that the warming is largely a result of human activities."

But I guess he just didn't have your scientifical acumen. He should have asked you first, before speaking the above sentence under oath before Congress!

http://www.deccanherald.com/content/61233/…
http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/…
http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/…
http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/…
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex…
http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/20…
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-08-22/c…

And for the record....I don't want your fuckin' beer. Go crawl back into your cave.
More...
Posted by Reymont on February 6, 2012 at 4:37 PM · Report
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Don't be such a coward Reymont. All predictions are based upon previous results, statistics 101. The data being used in James Hansen's climate modeling software at Columbia has a small percentage of data files that differs with the creators data files at NASA. This is research I found on my own, with code that I wrote to compare data files that should be exactly the same. But they aren't and they should be. You can't manipulate the data to get the results you want.
If you think I'm some hayseed idiot, put some serious money down and I'll match it.
Compare the data for yourself:
http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/station_…
http://edgcm.columbia.edu/~mankoff/Station…
Posted by Andy from Beaverton on February 6, 2012 at 6:24 PM · Report

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