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  1. Tree-rings prove climate was WARMER in Roman and Medieval times than it is now – and world has been cooling for 2,000 years. Study of semi-fossilised trees gives accurate climate reading back to 138BC
    How did the Romans grow grapes in northern England? Perhaps because it was warmer than we thought. A study suggests the Britain of 2,000 years ago experienced a lengthy period of hotter summers than today.
    German researchers used data from tree rings – a key indicator of past climate – to claim the world has been on a ‘long-term cooling trend’ for two millennia until the global warming of the twentieth century.
    This cooling was punctuated by a couple of warm spells.
    These are the Medieval Warm Period, which is well known, but also a period during the toga-wearing Roman times when temperatures were apparently 1 deg C warmer than now.
    They say the very warm period during the years 21 to 50AD has been underestimated by climate scientists. Lead author Professor Dr Jan Esper of Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz said: ‘We found that previous estimates of historical temperatures during the Roman era and the Middle Ages were too low.
    ‘This figure we calculated may not seem particularly significant, however it is not negligible when compared to global warming, which up to now has been less than 1 deg C.’
    In general the scientists found a slow cooling of 0.6C over 2,000 years, which they attributed to changes in the Earth’s orbit which took it further away from the Sun.
    It is based on measurements stretching back to 138BC. The finding may force scientists to rethink current theories of the impact of global warming
    The study is published in Nature Climate Change.
    more at:
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2171973/Tree-ring-study-proves-climate-WARMER-Roman-Medieval-times-modern-industrial-age.html

  3. You notice that they didn’t say the results will make us question our theory of man made global warming, just that it will make us rethink the impact.

  4. Will Justin be attending Castro’s funeral? If so, in what capacity, personal or on behalf of Canada?

  5. Just more evidence that the IPCC, CRU, Gore, Mann, Suzuki, et al’s agenda is nothing more than wealth redistribution and the ultimate aim of de-industrialization of the western democracies and destroying the middle class; and they have a champion in our current useless Castro loving PM.
    Meanwhile, related to the above. As Vivian Krause has been giving us evidence of, now even some of our legislators have noticed that foreign money is buying our federal and provincial elections.
    http://www.torontosun.com/2016/11/26/senators-want-action-on-foreign-interference-in-canadian-elections?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=recommend-button&utm_campaign=Senators%20want%20action%20on%20foreign%20interference%20in%20Canadian%20elections

  6. John, I always get a chuckle when I read “how did the Romans grow grapes in Northern England”. How do the Norwegians grow grapes in Norway? How do the Canadians grow grapes in Ontario? I presume they planted grape vines. How did grapes survive in Northern England? Because for a northern climate it is still rather temperate.
    Northern England is not a very cold climate. It’s average minimum temperature does not fall below zero for much of the area. Where I live (surrounded by wineries) winter temperatures are well below zero for 3 months of the year and we can see -30 deg C days.
    The study used ancient trees from Finnish Lapland that fell into small lakes and remained preserved for over two millennia. I doubt the trees were 2,000 years old when they died so they would be age dating by carbon methods and then measuring tree ring density. From just one small area in Finland the researchers were able to prove “world climate” had dropped by 0.6 deg C over 2,000 years. This is why so many don’t believe in climate science. Finnish Lapland is not a proxy for planet Earth.
    The researchers also found a specific period in the Roman Era (21 to 50 AD)was as much as a degree warmer than previously thought. Are they kidding? A 29 year warming period of 1 degree during the Roman Empire led to the growing of grapes in Northern England?

  8. AGW RIP.
    …-
    “Leading Skeptic Voice Exposes Man-Made Climate Change As Propaganda, Modern-Day Witchcraft”
    “There are a few dozen very high profile climate science skeptics/dissidents who are constantly in the cross hairs of the alarmist climate activists, and Marc Morano is certainly near the top of the list among them.”
    http://notrickszone.com/#sthash.dFZBEHXF.dpbs

  10. Proposal:
    Trudeau — Trump Exchange Program.
    We need a clearing house for every anti-Trump American who wants to leave the US an anti-Trudeau Canadian could exchange places.

  11. Hashtag#Not My PrimeMinister
    Your Prime Minister’s hero.
    As with any government, totalitarian regimes especially, much sensitive information is not readily available for public scrutiny. Even after their downfall, exactly how many deaths often remains unknown. Cuba’s dictatorial regime, under Fidel Castro, is no exception in this regard. Cuba has no Freedom of Information Act and its renowned Constitution of 1940 has remained suspended throughout Fidel Castro’s totalitarian reign.
    Like with many of the other dictator-attributed death figures, scholarly estimates will often remain the only sources currently accessible. Scholars too may often differ somewhat on the specifics and thus figures may vary. With some forthright effort, one can, nevertheless, arrive at an estimate consensus.
    Accredited author, Mario Lazo in his book Dagger in the Heart : American Policy Failures in Cuba, placed his, now dated, 1968 estimate at 50,000 deaths. For some to cavalierly disregard such death toll estimates as “lunatic estimates from the exile community” is beyond callousness.
    Miguel A. Faria’s book, Cuba in Revolution (2002), op. cit., pp. 415-416, states the following: “Since Fidel Castro took over the island in 1959, the best figures that we can glean is that between 30,000 to 40,000 people either have been executed en los paredones de fusilamiento (in the firing squad wall) or have died in the hands of their communist jailers. Mr. Faria also estimates: “The best conservative estimate is that between 30,000 to 40,000 Cubans have perished attempting to flee Castro’s regime, mostly succumbing in the treacherous waters of the Florida Straits. My figures for death at sea are consistent with Juan Clark’s” Cuba: Mito y Realidad, “who estimated that more than 16,000 Cubans had made it to freedom since 1959 up to the time of the publication of the book in 1992. Clark estimated that figure represented only one out of three Cubans who attempted to make it to freedom. Countless thousands of others have died indirectly as a result of Fidel Castro’s collectivist policies, unspeakable privations, malnutrition, and the general desolation of a once more prosperous island.”
    These deaths-at-sea figures could be debated in total. I would argue that the Fidel Castro regime came to power as a result of a revolution that unequivocally promised prompt, free, and fair elections with a speedy return to its democratic principles and its preexisting Constitution of 1940. This point is uncontested and well documented by Fidel Castro in his own words, both in print and on film. Unlike many politicians who fail to keep their political promises, an egregious lie such as this one by Castro must, in this specific regard, be held accountable. For 56 years Castro also has not allowed Cubans the freedom to travel abroad for fear of defection and mass exodus. On this point, the Castro regime must therefore also be held responsible for the deaths of those who succumbed risking life and limb in near-suicidal attempts to escape Castro’s subsequent 57-year prelapsarian vespiary.
    In January of 2003, Mr. Castro also had the ‘distinction’, along with: Yasser Arafat, Saddam Hussein and Ivory Coast’s Laurent Gbagbo, of being tried for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Belgium. Trials proceedings were suspended, in June of that year, only after the Brussels appeals court ruling of ‘functional immunity’ for all world leaders. Belgium’s then Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt said he supported a change to the country’s indemnification-law for senior state-officials in order to then allow the prosecution of such world leaders to proceed. It is my perfervid hope these cases will be reopened. In excess of half million Cubans have been processed into Fidel’s political prisons since 1959 (as substantiated by Freedom House), and Cuba’s overall, shameful human-rights record is legion and has been well-reported by ‘Human Rights Watch International.’
    Please see: http://www.hrw.org/worldr eport99….
    The Harvard-trained scholar Armando Lago, in his book The Black Book of Communism, first published in French, (1997) then in English 1999, made an attempt to list Castro’s deaths since 1959. So far the deaths of 97,000 persons have been named, each confirmed by at least two sources. Some 30,000 executed by firing squad, 2,000 extra-judicial assassinations, 5,000 deaths in prison due to beating by guards and denial of medical care and 60,000 deaths while trying to escape Cuba by sea. According to Dr. Lago’s and his ongoing-research partner, Cuba Archive President Maria Werlau, 78,000 innocents may have died trying to flee the dictatorship. Another 5,300 are known to have lost their lives fighting communism in the Escambray Mountains (mostly peasant farmers and their children) and at the Bay of Pigs. Another estimated 14,000 Cubans were killed in Fidel’s revolutionary adventures abroad, most notably his dispatch of 50,000 soldiers to Angola in the 1980s to help the Soviet-backed regime fight off the Unita insurgency. Their 2005 total ranges between 90,827 and 102,722 deaths. The estimates of Cubans killed range from 35,000 to 141,000 (1959-1987) according to and available on the site of R. J. Rummel-University of Hawaii, “Power Kills.”
    Other estimates may differ on the breakdown but they result in similar death-toll figures: The “Truth Recovery Archive on Cuba” published its updated Jan. 1, 1959 to March 25, 2005 data on Non-combat Victims of the Castro Regime: a total of 87,073 deaths. The ‘Truth Recovery’ notes their total exclusion of “documented deaths of civilians – both Cuban and otherwise – resulting from international military incursions, sabotage, or support for international subversion sponsored by Cuba [on several continents]”
    See: http://www.cubaarchive.or g/downl….
    “The Revolution’s Toll” is a project to list each person killed for and against the Cuban revolution by name and date is underway, but it struggles to garner the funding it needs to complete its mission. At 31,173, the tally of ‘documented cases’ keeps growing, and includes: 5,728 killed by Castro firing squads, 1,207 extrajudicial killings after Castro took power 1,216 deaths in prison.
    I suggest a 100,000 deaths figure (as of 2005) in an effort to avoid the accusation of exaggeration in this lamentable area of human atrocity. While some less ‘modest’ death-toll figures far exceed those of the Castor’s regime, given Cuba’s relatively small population, it is a very ‘respectable’ per-capita number, comparable to, or even exceeding Stalin’s per-capita statistics.
    Finally, as I stated at the onset, the currently ‘non-documentable’ death-toll may never fully be revealed, but the unfortunate death of those additional thousands is nonetheless real and will someday also be subject to an even more-verifiable accounting. I do remain convinced, however, that the figure of attributable deaths to Fidel Castro’s regime is, tragically, far greater.

  13. It’s fun to watch TrudeauVision® (CBC) twist themselves into pretzels that Of course Zoolander Knew Castro was a Dictator but he made the trains run on time or something..

  14. Timely reminder of Alexandre Trudeau’s letter, The last days of the patriarch.
    I wonder what the US media would make of that?

  15. And yes some on CTV are just as bad . What would we do if we didn’t have them to tell us what he said really means. If he drowned a baby they would tell us he is teaching them to swim.

  16. PET Cemetery Report.
    …-
    “Trudeau defends comments after death of former Cuban leader Fidel Castro”
    “687 Comments”
    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/trudeau-defends-comments-after-death-of-former-cuban-leader-fidel-castro/article33058248/
    …-
    “Human rights group names 40,000 secret police that killed 700,000 people in Stalin’s secret purges”
    “The archive, culled from the records of Stalin’s security forces (the NKVD) and posted on the website of Memorial, the human rights group, for the first time names those who carried out some 700,000 executions from 1935 to 1939 during “The Great Terror.” ”
    http://news.nationalpost.com/news/world/human-rights-group-names-40000-secret-police-that-killed-700000-people-in-stalins-secret-purges

  17. AGW RIP.
    H/T PET Cemetery Report.
    “Trudeau also said he talks to his three children about climate change “all the time.””
    …-
    “Toronto kids grill Justin Trudeau on climate change” (metronews)
    …-
    “Snowfall warning issued for Halifax with 15 centimetres of snow forecast
    The region’s first snowfall of the season will be wet and heavy, says Environment Canada.”
    http://www.metronews.ca/news/halifax/2016/11/26/snowfall-warning-issued-for-parts-of-halifax.html

  18. Can we do an investigation of international money via Soros/ LeadNow going into the last Federal Elections? Maybe we can have a redo. Smart people should be ready for that by now.

  19. Double damn, can we not even enjoy the Grey Cup without listening to a comment from Trudeau? Can’t stand the sig of him at this point let alone listening to his feminine voice.

  20. “The archive, culled from the records of Stalin’s security forces (the NKVD) and posted on the website of Memorial, the human rights group, for the first time names those who carried out some 700,000 executions from 1935 to 1939 during “The Great Terror.” ”
    Some of those were my relatives. RIP

  22. “Trudeau also said he talks to his three children about climate change “all the time.””
    Why doesn’t that qualify as parental cruelty?

  23. Called my daughter in Ottawa {Queens master degree} just before the game. Apparently the fans booed when they heard his prepared address about the game, which I muted so my wife did not gag.. My daughter said she was wondering why. Educated snowflake came to mind.

  25. Me too. My grandfather on my mother’s side.
    Ironically, however, I wouldn’t be alive today if it wasn’t for Hitler.

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