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.”
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 US industrial intelligence complex laid waste by one rogue contract employee — and it’s the “employee’s fault“.
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.
“Interesting” happenings in North Korea. Clearly a proud moment for North American defenders of socialism & communism!
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
It’s tough to set up tonight’s video without giving too much of the story away, so without any ado here’s A Letter From Fred.
h/t
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Former top officers are baffled by Washington’s telegraphing of its strike on Assad.
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 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.
Joe Biden vs. Joe Biden:
Dec. 4, 2007: The Case for Impeaching George Bush over Iraq’s WMD
Aug. 27, 2013: There’s “No Doubt” that Syria’s Assad has used WMD
Update: Michelle Malkin and Sean Hannity discuss Biden’s hypocrisy. h/t Indiana Homez
Well, who has the most to gain? Citing multiple sources, AP and NY Times say there’s no hard evidence tying Assad to WMD attack
(link fixed, sorry!)
If you don’t like folks who say “how-de-do” Stay Out of the South..♫
That’s Van & Schenck.
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“I have a dream, that one day black Republicans won’t be turned into nonpersons by the establishment.”
h/t marc in Calgary
Brampton, ON Sheikh Faisal Hamid Abdur-Razak outlines how adulterers and homosexuals can benefit from being stoned to death, saying their souls would be purified by this type of capital punishment.
Shiekh Faisal Hamid Abdur-Razak also serves as President of the Islamic Forum of Canada and Vice-President of the Islamic Council of Imams of Canada.
Video at the link.
