Daily Mail: UN Ambassador Samantha Power missed crucial meeting on Syria because she was on holiday in Ireland where her husband was guest speaker at comedy film festival
(h/t peterj)
The Tolerant Left
Obama supporter and prominent anti-fracking loon, Vera Scroggins is also a public advocate for parental pedophilia. Scroggins made comments on a Yahoo group called “Peacelist”, a group that is “dedicated to the advancement of the human species by restoring its natural peacefulness, through the means of affectionate parenting and sexual freedom”.
The Sound Of Settled Science
John Diefenbaker’s Vision of Canada
As Leader of the Opposition from 1963 to 1967, and as a backbencher until his death on Aug. 16 1979, the MP from Prince Albert vigorously opposed just about every aspect of the new national identity that was being forged.
When Diefenbaker saw the Red Ensign replaced by the Maple Leaf flag, he saw a century of Canada’s history being erased. When he saw Canada being re-defined, first as two nations and later as a collection of many groups defined by their ethnicity, he saw Confederation being dismantled.
A five part series at the Prince Albert Herald.
Oh, Shiny Pony!
Is he on crack? Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau isn’t ruling out compensation for Omar Khadr for the time the convicted terrorist served in Guantanamo Bay.
Honey, I Finished The Internet
How’s That Hopey Changey Thing Working Out For Ya?
‘Cause the Muslim Brotherhood are a shy lot;
… in a decision that is drawing intense criticism from across the ideological spectrum, the circuit court said the president has a “constitutional perogative” not to tell the American people who he or his staff meets with in the White House.
But Glenn Beck Is The Crazy One
Shoulda Claimed He Was Napoleon
Coulda had his own island.
“Chelsea was very happy to hear of these developments. She requested that I relay how grateful that she is for everyone’s understanding and continued support,” Coombs wrote.
Coombs also said Manning has already made some new friends at the prison “who accept her for who she is.”
YNoKyoto
Things you’ll never see on the CBC;
U.S. and European Union envoys are seeking more clarity from the United Nations on a slowdown in global warming that climate skeptics have cited as a reason not to “panic” about environmental changes, leaked documents show.
They’re requesting that more details on the so-called “hiatus” be included in a key document set to be debated at a UN conference next month that will summarize the latest scientific conclusions on climate change.
Related: Peru Declares State of Emergency in Puno as Temperatures Drop
The Decline And Fall Of The American Empire
The US industrial intelligence complex laid waste by one rogue contract employee — and it’s the “employee’s fault“.
DON’T EAT THE CANNED FOOD!!!!!!
The Northwest Passage after decades of so-called global warming has a dramatic 60% more Arctic ice this year than at the same time last year. The future dreams of dozens of adventurous sailors are now threatened. A scattering of yachts attempting the legendary Passage are caught by the ice, which has now become blocked at both ends and the transit season may be ending early.
Operation Empty Chair
There was great information and strategy that was laid out in the meeting today at the White House with Pres. Obama!
— Earvin Magic Johnson (@MagicJohnson) August 30, 2013
Honey, I Finished The Internet
Operation Empty Chair
O, Sweet Saint Of San Andreas
Operation Empty Chair
Former top officers are baffled by Washington’s telegraphing of its strike on Assad.
This Is Your Brain On Political Correctness
As the writer Barry Rubin pointed out, Major Hasan was the first mass murderer in US history to give a PowerPoint presentation outlining the rationale for the crime he was about to commit. And he gave it to a roomful of fellow army psychiatrists and doctors – some of whom glanced queasily at their colleagues, but none of whom actually spoke up. And, when the question of whether then Captain Hasan was, in fact, “psychotic”, the policy committee at Walter Reed Army Medical Center worried “how would it look if we kick out one of the few Muslim residents”.
So instead he got promoted to major and shipped to Fort Hood.
The Sound Of Settled Science
The results in terms of global-average surface temperature are shown in Fig 1 below:
In Fig 1 a, you can see how well the POGA H global average surface temperature matches the observations particularly since about 1965 (note central Pacific Ocean temperatures have increasing and significant uncertainty prior to 1980).
What is mind blowing is Figure 1b, which gives the POGA C simulations (natural internal variability only). The main ‘fingerprint’ of AGW has been the detection of a separation between climate model runs with natural plus anthropogenic forcing, versus natural variability only. The detection of AGW has emerged sometime in the late 1970′s , early 1980′s.
Compare the temperature increase between 1975-1998 (main warming period in the latter part of the 20th century) for both POGA H and POGA C:
POGA H: 0.68C (natural plus anthropogenic)
POGA C: 0.4C (natural internal variability only)
I’m not sure how good my eyeball estimates are, and you can pick other start/end dates. But no matter what, I am coming up with natural internal variability associated accounting for significantly MORE than half of the observed warming.
Like I said, my mind is blown. I have long argued that the pause was associated with the climate shift in the Pacific Ocean circulation, characterized by the change to the cool phase of the PDO. I have further argued that if this is the case, then the warming since 1976 was heavily juiced by the warm phase of the PDO. I didn’t know how to quantify this, but I thought that it might account for at least half of the observed warming, and hence my questioning of the IPCC’s highly confident attribution of ‘most’ to AGW.
Although this was not a specific conclusion of the paper (the focused on the period 2002-2012), the conclusion jumps out from their Fig 1 (and my eyeball analysis).
More at WUWT.
Y2Kyoto: I’ll Miss The Corn Belt
