Diplomats decry Canada’s Kyoto wavering
Brazil, India, and Germany all favour Kyoto over withdrawal. http://www.embassymag.ca/page/view/kyoto-12-07-2011
Another opportunity to encourage Canada to “own the podium”?
This link reminds me of the difference between precision and accuracy.
An excerpt: Because you don’t know about fractional amounts, most people in the world would record this as 14 C. The error would not average out, it would be consistently on the low side of the actual value. Due to noise, some people would record values other that 14C, but that noise would tend to cancel out due to averaging and the law of large numbers. The systemic error that results from incomplete knowledge would remain. This is the situation with climate models. The assumption in the models is that error does not occur as a result of lack of knowledge, rather that it occurs in a random fashion, and thus can be cancelled out by averaging. Thus, the underlying assumption in climate model ensembles is that the science is settled, that there is no error, only noise.
Some people seem to be precisely wrong, all the time. Shouldn’t they be indicators of exactly what NOT to do?
Nothing to worry about.
From Mark Steyns Blog
Several Asian nations have competing claims over parts of the South China Sea, believed to encompass huge oil and gas reserves, while China claims it all. One-third of global seaborne trade passes through the region.
Vietnam and the Philippines have accused Chinese forces of increasing aggression there.
In a translation of Hu’s comments, the official Xinhua news agency quoted the president as saying China’s navy should “make extended preparations for warfare.”
China’s Hu urges navy to prepare for combat http://news.yahoo.com/chinas-hu-urges-navy-prepare-combat-160509787.html
Next Sunday, Pakistan will get their own version of “Sesame Street”: Sim Sim Hamara – funded by US Agency for International Development (USAID).
Led by an unveiled, bejeweled and curious six-year-old girl Muppet, the show promised to include Christian, Hindu and Sikh religious holidays in its curriculum.
Oscar the Grouch is represented by an water well-dwelling Indus river crocodile named Haseen O’Jameel.
Kate,
Fer an almost ‘Flatland Deer Hunter’…you have a GOOD taste in music!! Dire Straits is an ALL time favourite of mine.
Ur thoughts?… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9_VOy7VipQ&feature=related
Again my thanks for your efforts with SDA.
As always my best regards,
I was looking for a good live version of this song, the other day, to post on my facebook page.
I was sickened when Rolling Stone magazine didn’t put Mark Knopfler on the top 100 guitar players list a few years back. They also left out Chet Atkins and Randy Bachman.
I think the first time I ever heard Brothers in Arms, was on a scene from Miami Vice. In case anyone doesn’t remember, that’s the show that made scruffy whiskers popular.
From the how stupid can muzzies get file (from an email I got from the EFF): On November 14th, the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) sent a notice to Pakistani cell phone carriers, demanding that they block 1,600 terms and phrases it deemed “obscene” from being transmitted via text message. The extensive list runs the gamut from mundane words like “hole,” “joint,” and “period,” to head-scratchers like “Budweiser” and “Got Jesus.” The letter, published in both English and Urdu, instructed the providers to implement the ban within seven days or face legal action. As of Sunday, people were still able to send text messages containing words named in the list.
Incidentally the word “stupid” is also on the list of banned words. To find out what you’re no longer allowed to say in an SMS message in Pakistan check out the following link: https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true&srcid=0Bw6nfJopnFT5ZjQwODIyYzUtOWI5My00NDNlLTkyNzEtZDQyYTgyNDBhNjZk&hl=en_GB&pli=1
I am not a big concert goer, but a few years ago Mark Knopfler Played at Massey Hall in Toronto, and I went to see him with my wife. It was an amazing experience. He is my favourite guitar player off all time. Kate, it would be good if you could post a video of “Telegraph Road”, so the uninitiated will get to experience it.
Neo-AGW Progress Report.
“educated women and girls would help reduce populations”.
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“Durban summit drawing a blank!”
“Finland is also pushing strongly for gender equality in climate negotiations as it believes that empowering women in developing economies would also play a role in reducing carbon emissions.
The reasoning being that educated women and girls would help reduce populations and directly reduce strain on resources.” http://bdnews24.com/details.php?id=213218&cid=36
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“School closures in Scotland as 100mph gales batter Britain”
“Met Office issues red alert and police warn drivers off roads, while rail services are scaled back as wind adds to snow disruption” http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/dec/08/school-closures-scotland-100mph-gales
Where is that damn elusive Pimpernel*?
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“God Or Moral Nihilism: The Ending Of The Meno”
“In Fall 2011, I taught Plato’s dialog, the Meno, to my upper-level Ethics class. What is relevant for our purposes is that the dialog addresses the question of the nature of justice and virtue. The character of Socrates suggests that if virtue can be taught, there must be teachers and students of this important topic. Since there are none, Socrates argues that virtue must be more like right opinion than knowledge, but that right opinion can be just as useful a guide to action as actual knowledge, though more unstable. But if this right opinion can’t be taught, how is it acquired? Socrates proposes that excellent rulers, prophets and soothsayers often speak the truth under divine inspiration. This means that though what they say is correct, they don’t really know what they are saying, or at least how they are managing to say it. Similarly, the virtuous are not able to articulate from where their right opinion stems because it too is divinely inspired and a gift from the gods.
The Meno addresses the origins and nature of moral knowledge.” http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/4871
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“‘Significant progress’ made in search for God particle: CERN announcement ignites storm of excitement among physicists”
“It’s the Holy Grail for physicists – and now there’s growing excitement that the first signs of the ultra-elusive Higgs boson particle have been detected by teams working at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC).
Existence of the particle – believed to have given shape to the universe after the Big Bang 13.7 billion years ago – was proposed some four decades ago.
Two separate LHC teams – using the ATLAS and CMS detectors – have smashed protons in 350 trillion collisions this year, hoping to see the Higgs in the debris.” http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2071507/Higgs-boson-particle-close-says-CERN.html
*H/T Baroness Orczy
Another view compliments maz2’s Tip.
This would be a perfect time for idiot enviro religious school teachers to turn the heat off in southern UK schools.
“Icy winds are battering the northern parts of Britain, with plummeting temperatures and snowfall predicted as far south as Birmingham.” http://news.sky.com/home/uk-news/article/16125967
Thanks Kate for the Brothers In Arms piece.
Money for nothing ch ch chicks for free –
My favorite.
Kyoto withdrawal consequences likely minimal
“Assuming that Canada would not move to purchase billions of dollars worth of international credits, Canada would potentially face penalties for non-compliance, but these are likely to be irrelevant. There are no financial penalties for non-compliance under the Kyoto Protocol. The penalty for non-compliance implies that Canada would be responsible to make up the shortfall of 805 Mt, plus 30 per cent, in a second commitment period after 2012. Our emissions allocations over the second commitment period, which have yet to be negotiated, would be decreased by 1050 Mt to make up for our non-compliance between 2008 and 2012. Since Canada has made it clear they will not be signing on to a second commitment period of Kyoto, this non-compliance penalty is largely moot.” http://m.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/economy/economy-lab/the-economists/the-nuts-and-bolts-of-kyoto-withdrawal/article2263236/?service=mobile
NPR attacking Gingrich. Liberals are afraid because he knows where the bodies are buried?
A: PET Cemetery.
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O’I’m My Own Grandpa*.
“Which President?: The National Review says President Obama is now Teddy Roosevelt. Prior to that he has likened himself to the new Reagan, new Lincoln, new FDR, the new Wilson and last, but not least, the new “go get ‘em Harry” Truman. The Review unhappily says:
This is all pretty pathetic. What we have here is an adolescent president in desperate search of an adult identity of his own, without which he borrows liberally from others, often oddly from Republicans or conservatives.
The National Review fails to consider that he may sincerely believe that he is all of them. His supporters have long described him as an ‘eclectic’ individual and at other times a ‘transcendent’ figure. Why can’t he be all of them?” http://pjmedia.com/richardfernandez/2011/12/08/todays-news/#more-19204
*1947 Lonzo and Oscar
Speaking of MIAMI VICE, they featured a luxury sportscar race in one episode.
Background music was David Lindley’s Mercury Blues; KICKASS driving tune for sure!
Charity: Zap! You’re frozen*.
“They are asking the Senate agriculture committee to freeze the legislation, which the government wants to become law before Christmas.
Director Stewart Wells says a freeze would allow a court case to play out.”
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“Wheat board pleads with senators to stop bill to end its grain monopoly” http://www.thestar.com/news/article/1099047
*Fuddle-duddle
Mao Stlong* Lepolt.
Bob*: Send US$ to Uncle Mo’s Chality, c/o Red China. In brown envelopes.
“‘Guo Meimei Baby’ leaning on the hood of a white Maserati and sipping drinks on a business-class flight”
“A police special forces unit appears suddenly.”
OurCBC to report tonight at 10/10:30 in Nfld/Lab.
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“The Global Crisis Reaches China”
“Unrest Spreads as Growth Stalls”
“China’s leaders are currently contending with declining demand, rising debt and a real estate bubble. Some factories are laying off workers, suffering financial losses or even closing as orders from crisis-plagued Europe dry up. The economic strains are frustrating workers and consumers in the country, threatening the political establishment and Beijing’s economic miracle.” http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,802308,00.html
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“Chinese charity donations fall 80 per cent”
“Donations to Chinese charities fell by more than 80 per cent this summer as the public recoiled after a series of outrageous scandals.”
“Donations fell to 840 million yuan (£84 million) between June and August from 6.26 billion in the previous three months, according to a media report citing the Ministry of Civil Affairs.
This year has seen major, government-linked, Chinese charities repeatedly accused of corruption and misuse of funds, prompting widespread cynicism.
Perhaps the most high-profile case came in June, when photographs began circulating on the internet of a young woman named Guo Meimei, who claimed to be the “commercial general manager” of the Chinese Red Cross, the country’s largest charity.
The pictures showed Ms Guo leaning on the hood of a white Maserati sports car, which she nicknamed her “little horse”, and toting a selection of Hermès handbags.”
urlm.in/kged
“The Global Crisis Reaches China”
“Unrest Spreads as Growth Stalls”
“China’s leaders are currently contending with declining demand, rising debt and a real estate bubble. Some factories are laying off workers, suffering financial losses or even closing as orders from crisis-plagued Europe dry up. The economic strains are frustrating workers and consumers in the country, threatening the political establishment and Beijing’s economic miracle.” http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,802308,00.html
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“Chinese charity donations fall 80 per cent”
“Donations to Chinese charities fell by more than 80 per cent this summer as the public recoiled after a series of outrageous scandals.”
“Donations fell to 840 million yuan (£84 million) between June and August from 6.26 billion in the previous three months, according to a media report citing the Ministry of Civil Affairs.
This year has seen major, government-linked, Chinese charities repeatedly accused of corruption and misuse of funds, prompting widespread cynicism.
Perhaps the most high-profile case came in June, when photographs began circulating on the internet of a young woman named Guo Meimei, who claimed to be the “commercial general manager” of the Chinese Red Cross, the country’s largest charity.
The pictures showed Ms Guo leaning on the hood of a white Maserati sports car, which she nicknamed her “little horse”, and toting a selection of Hermès handbags.”
urlm.in/kged
“The Global Crisis Reaches China”
“Unrest Spreads as Growth Stalls”
“China’s leaders are currently contending with declining demand, rising debt and a real estate bubble. Some factories are laying off workers, suffering financial losses or even closing as orders from crisis-plagued Europe dry up. The economic strains are frustrating workers and consumers in the country, threatening the political establishment and Beijing’s economic miracle.” http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,802308,00.html
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Red-Green being a Red-Green left-liberal.
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“Windsplode in Scotland – plus some turbines can’t handle 50mph”
“I wonder what the incident frequency is for wind turbine fires versus say coal, hydro, or nuclear plants?
From STV Scotland:
Mr McMahon, who captured the spectacular fire in photos, added: “I didn’t hear any explosion or anything, but my wife shouted for me to come down and see the fire.
“There are around 13 or 15 wind turbines in the farm above Ardrossan. They were all off today because of the high winds, so something has obviously shorted out and gone on fire.
h/t to WUWT reader Gordon Daily
UPDATE: BBC reports in the south of Scotland the 50mph winds are knocking down turbines:” http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/12/08/windsplode-in-scotland/
Ho hum … ‘nother ‘plosion in socialist Yurp lands.
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“Euro summit rocked by row over veto plan”
“A rebellion by Finland, the Netherlands and Ireland is threatening to torpedo the Brussels summit plans – despite repeated warnings that today is the last chance to save the euro.”
“Hours before leaders arrived in Brussels , the Finnish parliament ruled that treaty changes proposed for the European Stability Mechanism (ESM) were “unconstitutional”.
The summit was further put at risk with news that after failing stress tests, European banks need to raise €115bn (£98bn) in fresh capital to satisfy regulators.” http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financialcrisis/8944323/Euro-summit-rocked-by-row-over-veto-plan.html
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“(Ah, how I look back to those halcyon days when it was just we happy few, we band of brothers, a tiny handful of Little Englanders, Danes, Swedes, cheese-eating Souverainistes, and Czech patriots, against the crushing force of orthodoxy.)” http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/finance/ambroseevans-pritchard/100013721/better-a-horrible-end-for-euroland-or-endless-horror/
Another shooting at Virginia Tech. I wonder how the MSM will pin this one on Sarah Palin.
Wind turbines: one blown down, one explodes & more.
Liberal Citoyen Kyoto Dionky: not heard from.
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“Too windy for wind turbines! 165mph gales raise MORE questions about wind farms as gusts leave trail of destruction across country”
“300ft high turbine explodes and another collapses”
“Collapse: A wind turbine lies on its side after crashing to the ground on Wednesday afternoon at Coldingham in Lothian and Borders”
“Burning: The flaming debris from the wind turbines flew off into nearby fields due to the wind”
“Scottish and Southern Energy refused to disclose how many of its turbines were affected.
A spokesman for National Grid said: ‘At lunchtime today, 1,500MW of electricity that was expected to be generated by wind farms in Scotland wasn’t being produced, although we can’t tell if that’s all down to the high winds or wind farms just deciding not to generate.
‘That 1,500MW is enough to supply about one million homes.’
But the spokesman said operators were not paid compensation – ‘constraint payments’ – to shut down yesterday. This happens when operators have to deactivate turbines because the Grid cannot accommodate the energy they produce.”
“Aerial image: Britain is covered in cloud as a storm sweeps across Scotland. This satellite image comes from Dundee University” http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2071633/UK-weather-Wind-turbine-EXPLODES-hurricane-force-gusts-batter-Northern-Britain.html
US drone down over Iran.
Seems it landed intact. Look for a spy in the White House who got handsomely paid for this ‘missing plane’.
Wait. Don’t these things have tracking beacons?
How do you loose a 16 Million dollar plane? No radar, no ET call home if something goes wacky with the guidance system?
Doesn’t this thing know NOT to fly into hostile territory?
Doesn’t this thing have a self destruct?
Naww, it can’t be the fact now Iran has a drone to fly a nuke over to Israel.
Heck, the US isn’t doing anything big to get it back? You know, like send a cruise missile to blow it up? Or some Jimmy Carter rescue mission Marines on foot to close enough to whisper in it’s little electronic brain to fly home?
You know, like James Bond, remote drive, er, fly it outta there?
This ranks as high treason if it turns out someone got paid off. http://www.cnn.com/2011/12/08/world/meast/iran-drone/index.html?hpt=hp_t1
An interesting bit of testimony that should never,ever be repeated.
From the Kingston trial;
” Mojab told the courtroom that in some cultures, honour is valued above human life.
This belief is seen predominantly in the Middle East, Mojab said.
When family honour is threatened, it is acceptable and expected that a male family member could kill a relative.
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Isn’t Israel in the middle east? Darn those evil jooooos.
maz2 — That is actually correct about education for women reducing the birth rate — in fact there is an astonishing correlation. I am not sure how having more female reps involved in negotiations would help, but the general principle is a good one.
Brigette Depape reappears. Also another poll.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/yourcommunity/2011/12/are-climate-change-protesters-helping-the-debate.html
Thanks, Kate….Love that song!
Brigette de Pape and Kai Nagata are just attention junkies.
As they say the devil’s in the definition…define “brothers” and “arms”…
Newt Gingrich’s claim to fame: a candidate worse than Romney.
Newt actually thinks people that oppose ethanol subsidies are big-city folk who hate farmers.
http://thenewamerican.com/usnews/politics/6175-ethanol-subsidies-newt-gingrich-and-the-2012-election
Romney meanwhile actually thinks farm subsidies are needed for national security, in case Iran corners the grains marker or whatever.
http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=12771
Someone, please end the GOP. Just put it out of its misery so something worthwhile may take its place.
http://news.nationalpost.com/2011/12/07/occupy-toronto-st-james-parks-turf-makeover-could-finish-by-the-end-of-the-week/
Restoring St. James Park, Toronto.
Diplomats decry Canada’s Kyoto wavering
Brazil, India, and Germany all favour Kyoto over withdrawal.
http://www.embassymag.ca/page/view/kyoto-12-07-2011
Another opportunity to encourage Canada to “own the podium”?
This link reminds me of the difference between precision and accuracy.
An excerpt:
Because you don’t know about fractional amounts, most people in the world would record this as 14 C. The error would not average out, it would be consistently on the low side of the actual value. Due to noise, some people would record values other that 14C, but that noise would tend to cancel out due to averaging and the law of large numbers. The systemic error that results from incomplete knowledge would remain.
This is the situation with climate models. The assumption in the models is that error does not occur as a result of lack of knowledge, rather that it occurs in a random fashion, and thus can be cancelled out by averaging. Thus, the underlying assumption in climate model ensembles is that the science is settled, that there is no error, only noise.
Some people seem to be precisely wrong, all the time. Shouldn’t they be indicators of exactly what NOT to do?
Nothing to worry about.
From Mark Steyns Blog
Several Asian nations have competing claims over parts of the South China Sea, believed to encompass huge oil and gas reserves, while China claims it all. One-third of global seaborne trade passes through the region.
Vietnam and the Philippines have accused Chinese forces of increasing aggression there.
In a translation of Hu’s comments, the official Xinhua news agency quoted the president as saying China’s navy should “make extended preparations for warfare.”
China’s Hu urges navy to prepare for combat
http://news.yahoo.com/chinas-hu-urges-navy-prepare-combat-160509787.html
Next Sunday, Pakistan will get their own version of “Sesame Street”: Sim Sim Hamara – funded by US Agency for International Development (USAID).
Led by an unveiled, bejeweled and curious six-year-old girl Muppet, the show promised to include Christian, Hindu and Sikh religious holidays in its curriculum.
Oscar the Grouch is represented by an water well-dwelling Indus river crocodile named Haseen O’Jameel.
Kate,
Fer an almost ‘Flatland Deer Hunter’…you have a GOOD taste in music!! Dire Straits is an ALL time favourite of mine.
Ur thoughts?… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9_VOy7VipQ&feature=related
Again my thanks for your efforts with SDA.
As always my best regards,
I was looking for a good live version of this song, the other day, to post on my facebook page.
I was sickened when Rolling Stone magazine didn’t put Mark Knopfler on the top 100 guitar players list a few years back. They also left out Chet Atkins and Randy Bachman.
I think the first time I ever heard Brothers in Arms, was on a scene from Miami Vice. In case anyone doesn’t remember, that’s the show that made scruffy whiskers popular.
From the how stupid can muzzies get file (from an email I got from the EFF):
On November 14th, the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) sent a notice to Pakistani cell phone carriers, demanding that they block 1,600 terms and phrases it deemed “obscene” from being transmitted via text message. The extensive list runs the gamut from mundane words like “hole,” “joint,” and “period,” to head-scratchers like “Budweiser” and “Got Jesus.” The letter, published in both English and Urdu, instructed the providers to implement the ban within seven days or face legal action. As of Sunday, people were still able to send text messages containing words named in the list.
Incidentally the word “stupid” is also on the list of banned words. To find out what you’re no longer allowed to say in an SMS message in Pakistan check out the following link:
https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true&srcid=0Bw6nfJopnFT5ZjQwODIyYzUtOWI5My00NDNlLTkyNzEtZDQyYTgyNDBhNjZk&hl=en_GB&pli=1
As far as I’m concerned Mark Knopfler is a historical Rock God for his guitar tone.
Anyways, this post from WUWT says it all as to the tail that wags the dog in Durban.
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/12/07/ngos-its-worse-than-we-thought/#more-52631
Your tax dollars at work. (but thankfully OUR gov. is pulling back.)
I am not a big concert goer, but a few years ago Mark Knopfler Played at Massey Hall in Toronto, and I went to see him with my wife. It was an amazing experience. He is my favourite guitar player off all time. Kate, it would be good if you could post a video of “Telegraph Road”, so the uninitiated will get to experience it.
Neo-AGW Progress Report.
“educated women and girls would help reduce populations”.
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“Durban summit drawing a blank!”
“Finland is also pushing strongly for gender equality in climate negotiations as it believes that empowering women in developing economies would also play a role in reducing carbon emissions.
The reasoning being that educated women and girls would help reduce populations and directly reduce strain on resources.”
http://bdnews24.com/details.php?id=213218&cid=36
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“School closures in Scotland as 100mph gales batter Britain”
“Met Office issues red alert and police warn drivers off roads, while rail services are scaled back as wind adds to snow disruption”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/dec/08/school-closures-scotland-100mph-gales
Where is that damn elusive Pimpernel*?
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“God Or Moral Nihilism: The Ending Of The Meno”
“In Fall 2011, I taught Plato’s dialog, the Meno, to my upper-level Ethics class. What is relevant for our purposes is that the dialog addresses the question of the nature of justice and virtue. The character of Socrates suggests that if virtue can be taught, there must be teachers and students of this important topic. Since there are none, Socrates argues that virtue must be more like right opinion than knowledge, but that right opinion can be just as useful a guide to action as actual knowledge, though more unstable. But if this right opinion can’t be taught, how is it acquired? Socrates proposes that excellent rulers, prophets and soothsayers often speak the truth under divine inspiration. This means that though what they say is correct, they don’t really know what they are saying, or at least how they are managing to say it. Similarly, the virtuous are not able to articulate from where their right opinion stems because it too is divinely inspired and a gift from the gods.
The Meno addresses the origins and nature of moral knowledge.”
http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/4871
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“‘Significant progress’ made in search for God particle: CERN announcement ignites storm of excitement among physicists”
“It’s the Holy Grail for physicists – and now there’s growing excitement that the first signs of the ultra-elusive Higgs boson particle have been detected by teams working at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC).
Existence of the particle – believed to have given shape to the universe after the Big Bang 13.7 billion years ago – was proposed some four decades ago.
Two separate LHC teams – using the ATLAS and CMS detectors – have smashed protons in 350 trillion collisions this year, hoping to see the Higgs in the debris.”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2071507/Higgs-boson-particle-close-says-CERN.html
*H/T Baroness Orczy
Another view compliments maz2’s Tip.
This would be a perfect time for idiot enviro religious school teachers to turn the heat off in southern UK schools.
“Icy winds are battering the northern parts of Britain, with plummeting temperatures and snowfall predicted as far south as Birmingham.”
http://news.sky.com/home/uk-news/article/16125967
Thanks Kate for the Brothers In Arms piece.
London Spring? Mutiny by Conservatives in Britain against the EU grows.
http://blogs.news.sky.com/boultonandco/Post:beec2848-5dc4-4021-be8b-abe72c0bd1e0
“Dear Vlad,the Arab Spring is coming to a neighbourhood near you.”
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/opinion/article/this-could-be-putins-last-election/449385.html
Money for nothing ch ch chicks for free –
My favorite.
Kyoto withdrawal consequences likely minimal
“Assuming that Canada would not move to purchase billions of dollars worth of international credits, Canada would potentially face penalties for non-compliance, but these are likely to be irrelevant. There are no financial penalties for non-compliance under the Kyoto Protocol. The penalty for non-compliance implies that Canada would be responsible to make up the shortfall of 805 Mt, plus 30 per cent, in a second commitment period after 2012. Our emissions allocations over the second commitment period, which have yet to be negotiated, would be decreased by 1050 Mt to make up for our non-compliance between 2008 and 2012. Since Canada has made it clear they will not be signing on to a second commitment period of Kyoto, this non-compliance penalty is largely moot.”
http://m.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/economy/economy-lab/the-economists/the-nuts-and-bolts-of-kyoto-withdrawal/article2263236/?service=mobile
Bout time, Japan.
http://www.sunnewsnetwork.ca/sunnews/world/archives/2011/12/20111208-073600.html
CTV has now hit rock-bottom status! Have Ms.Mallice from Torstar on this am as a ‘pundit’ on news stories.Unreal.
CTV has now hit rock-bottom status! Have Ms.Mallice from Torstar on this am as a ‘pundit’ on news stories.Unreal.
Neo-AGW PR Q&A Survey Results.
RSVP: OurCBCSuzuki. Free tax receipt.
Q: “What will it take for Durban climate change conference to end positively?”
A: “Powerful ‘weather bomb’ slams Maritimes”
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A: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/powerful-weather-bomb-slams-maritimes/article2264417/
Q: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/dec/08/durban-climate-change-conference
NPR attacking Gingrich. Liberals are afraid because he knows where the bodies are buried?
A: PET Cemetery.
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O’I’m My Own Grandpa*.
“Which President?: The National Review says President Obama is now Teddy Roosevelt. Prior to that he has likened himself to the new Reagan, new Lincoln, new FDR, the new Wilson and last, but not least, the new “go get ‘em Harry” Truman. The Review unhappily says:
This is all pretty pathetic. What we have here is an adolescent president in desperate search of an adult identity of his own, without which he borrows liberally from others, often oddly from Republicans or conservatives.
The National Review fails to consider that he may sincerely believe that he is all of them. His supporters have long described him as an ‘eclectic’ individual and at other times a ‘transcendent’ figure. Why can’t he be all of them?”
http://pjmedia.com/richardfernandez/2011/12/08/todays-news/#more-19204
*1947 Lonzo and Oscar
Speaking of MIAMI VICE, they featured a luxury sportscar race in one episode.
Background music was David Lindley’s Mercury Blues; KICKASS driving tune for sure!
Charity: Zap! You’re frozen*.
“They are asking the Senate agriculture committee to freeze the legislation, which the government wants to become law before Christmas.
Director Stewart Wells says a freeze would allow a court case to play out.”
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“Wheat board pleads with senators to stop bill to end its grain monopoly”
http://www.thestar.com/news/article/1099047
*Fuddle-duddle
Mao Stlong* Lepolt.
Bob*: Send US$ to Uncle Mo’s Chality, c/o Red China. In brown envelopes.
“‘Guo Meimei Baby’ leaning on the hood of a white Maserati and sipping drinks on a business-class flight”
“A police special forces unit appears suddenly.”
OurCBC to report tonight at 10/10:30 in Nfld/Lab.
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“The Global Crisis Reaches China”
“Unrest Spreads as Growth Stalls”
“China’s leaders are currently contending with declining demand, rising debt and a real estate bubble. Some factories are laying off workers, suffering financial losses or even closing as orders from crisis-plagued Europe dry up. The economic strains are frustrating workers and consumers in the country, threatening the political establishment and Beijing’s economic miracle.”
http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,802308,00.html
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“Chinese charity donations fall 80 per cent”
“Donations to Chinese charities fell by more than 80 per cent this summer as the public recoiled after a series of outrageous scandals.”
“Donations fell to 840 million yuan (£84 million) between June and August from 6.26 billion in the previous three months, according to a media report citing the Ministry of Civil Affairs.
This year has seen major, government-linked, Chinese charities repeatedly accused of corruption and misuse of funds, prompting widespread cynicism.
Perhaps the most high-profile case came in June, when photographs began circulating on the internet of a young woman named Guo Meimei, who claimed to be the “commercial general manager” of the Chinese Red Cross, the country’s largest charity.
The pictures showed Ms Guo leaning on the hood of a white Maserati sports car, which she nicknamed her “little horse”, and toting a selection of Hermès handbags.”
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“The Global Crisis Reaches China”
“Unrest Spreads as Growth Stalls”
“China’s leaders are currently contending with declining demand, rising debt and a real estate bubble. Some factories are laying off workers, suffering financial losses or even closing as orders from crisis-plagued Europe dry up. The economic strains are frustrating workers and consumers in the country, threatening the political establishment and Beijing’s economic miracle.”
http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,802308,00.html
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“Chinese charity donations fall 80 per cent”
“Donations to Chinese charities fell by more than 80 per cent this summer as the public recoiled after a series of outrageous scandals.”
“Donations fell to 840 million yuan (£84 million) between June and August from 6.26 billion in the previous three months, according to a media report citing the Ministry of Civil Affairs.
This year has seen major, government-linked, Chinese charities repeatedly accused of corruption and misuse of funds, prompting widespread cynicism.
Perhaps the most high-profile case came in June, when photographs began circulating on the internet of a young woman named Guo Meimei, who claimed to be the “commercial general manager” of the Chinese Red Cross, the country’s largest charity.
The pictures showed Ms Guo leaning on the hood of a white Maserati sports car, which she nicknamed her “little horse”, and toting a selection of Hermès handbags.”
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“The Global Crisis Reaches China”
“Unrest Spreads as Growth Stalls”
“China’s leaders are currently contending with declining demand, rising debt and a real estate bubble. Some factories are laying off workers, suffering financial losses or even closing as orders from crisis-plagued Europe dry up. The economic strains are frustrating workers and consumers in the country, threatening the political establishment and Beijing’s economic miracle.”
http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,802308,00.html
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a conservative being, well, a conservative !!!
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/blogs/canada-politics/conservative-mp-forced-apologize-making-gun-gestures-during-160911086.html
Red-Green being a Red-Green left-liberal.
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“Windsplode in Scotland – plus some turbines can’t handle 50mph”
“I wonder what the incident frequency is for wind turbine fires versus say coal, hydro, or nuclear plants?
From STV Scotland:
Mr McMahon, who captured the spectacular fire in photos, added: “I didn’t hear any explosion or anything, but my wife shouted for me to come down and see the fire.
“There are around 13 or 15 wind turbines in the farm above Ardrossan. They were all off today because of the high winds, so something has obviously shorted out and gone on fire.
h/t to WUWT reader Gordon Daily
UPDATE: BBC reports in the south of Scotland the 50mph winds are knocking down turbines:”
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/12/08/windsplode-in-scotland/
Coach at 12:43
Knopfler is #44 on Rolling Stone’s 100 Greatest Guitarists of all Time
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/100-greatest-guitarists-20111123/mark-knopfler-19691231
Can’t argue with a lot of their selections, but not having David Gilmour in top 10 invalidates the whole process for me!
Israel Accuses Iran of Introducing Terrorism in Latin America With Chávez’s Support:
http://faustasblog.com/?p=28137
Ho hum … ‘nother ‘plosion in socialist Yurp lands.
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“Euro summit rocked by row over veto plan”
“A rebellion by Finland, the Netherlands and Ireland is threatening to torpedo the Brussels summit plans – despite repeated warnings that today is the last chance to save the euro.”
“Hours before leaders arrived in Brussels , the Finnish parliament ruled that treaty changes proposed for the European Stability Mechanism (ESM) were “unconstitutional”.
The summit was further put at risk with news that after failing stress tests, European banks need to raise €115bn (£98bn) in fresh capital to satisfy regulators.”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financialcrisis/8944323/Euro-summit-rocked-by-row-over-veto-plan.html
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“(Ah, how I look back to those halcyon days when it was just we happy few, we band of brothers, a tiny handful of Little Englanders, Danes, Swedes, cheese-eating Souverainistes, and Czech patriots, against the crushing force of orthodoxy.)”
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/finance/ambroseevans-pritchard/100013721/better-a-horrible-end-for-euroland-or-endless-horror/
Another shooting at Virginia Tech. I wonder how the MSM will pin this one on Sarah Palin.
Wind turbines: one blown down, one explodes & more.
Liberal Citoyen Kyoto Dionky: not heard from.
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“Too windy for wind turbines! 165mph gales raise MORE questions about wind farms as gusts leave trail of destruction across country”
“300ft high turbine explodes and another collapses”
“Collapse: A wind turbine lies on its side after crashing to the ground on Wednesday afternoon at Coldingham in Lothian and Borders”
“Burning: The flaming debris from the wind turbines flew off into nearby fields due to the wind”
“Scottish and Southern Energy refused to disclose how many of its turbines were affected.
A spokesman for National Grid said: ‘At lunchtime today, 1,500MW of electricity that was expected to be generated by wind farms in Scotland wasn’t being produced, although we can’t tell if that’s all down to the high winds or wind farms just deciding not to generate.
‘That 1,500MW is enough to supply about one million homes.’
But the spokesman said operators were not paid compensation – ‘constraint payments’ – to shut down yesterday. This happens when operators have to deactivate turbines because the Grid cannot accommodate the energy they produce.”
“Aerial image: Britain is covered in cloud as a storm sweeps across Scotland. This satellite image comes from Dundee University”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2071633/UK-weather-Wind-turbine-EXPLODES-hurricane-force-gusts-batter-Northern-Britain.html
US drone down over Iran.
Seems it landed intact. Look for a spy in the White House who got handsomely paid for this ‘missing plane’.
Wait. Don’t these things have tracking beacons?
How do you loose a 16 Million dollar plane? No radar, no ET call home if something goes wacky with the guidance system?
Doesn’t this thing know NOT to fly into hostile territory?
Doesn’t this thing have a self destruct?
Naww, it can’t be the fact now Iran has a drone to fly a nuke over to Israel.
Heck, the US isn’t doing anything big to get it back? You know, like send a cruise missile to blow it up? Or some Jimmy Carter rescue mission Marines on foot to close enough to whisper in it’s little electronic brain to fly home?
You know, like James Bond, remote drive, er, fly it outta there?
This ranks as high treason if it turns out someone got paid off.
http://www.cnn.com/2011/12/08/world/meast/iran-drone/index.html?hpt=hp_t1
An interesting bit of testimony that should never,ever be repeated.
From the Kingston trial;
” Mojab told the courtroom that in some cultures, honour is valued above human life.
This belief is seen predominantly in the Middle East, Mojab said.
When family honour is threatened, it is acceptable and expected that a male family member could kill a relative.
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Isn’t Israel in the middle east? Darn those evil jooooos.
maz2 — That is actually correct about education for women reducing the birth rate — in fact there is an astonishing correlation. I am not sure how having more female reps involved in negotiations would help, but the general principle is a good one.