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I’ve studied Larsen C and its giant iceberg for years – it’s not a simple story of climate change
by Adrian Luckman, Ph.D.
Professor of Glaciology and Remote Sensing, Swansea University


...The development of rifts and the calving of icebergs is part of the natural cycle of an ice shelf....This event has also been widely but over-simplistically linked to climate change...However, in satellite images from the 1980s, the rift was already clearly a long-established feature, and there is no direct evidence to link its recent growth to either atmospheric warming, which is not felt deep enough within the ice shelf, or ocean warming, which is an unlikely source of change given that most of Larsen C has recently been thickening...​




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Here's the complete, undoctored quote, asshole.

Is this a climate change signal?

This event has also been widely but over-simplistically linked to climate change. This is not surprising because notable changes in the earth’s glaciers and ice sheets are normally associated with rising environmental temperatures. The collapses of Larsen A and B have previously been linked to regional warming, and the iceberg calving will leave Larsen C at its most retreated position in records going back over a hundred years.

However, in satellite images from the 1980s, the rift was already clearly a long-established feature, and there is no direct evidence to link its recent growth to either atmospheric warming, which is not felt deep enough within the ice shelf, or ocean warming, which is an unlikely source of change given that most of Larsen C has recently been thickening. It is probably too early to blame this event directly on human-generated climate change.
 


More "settled science."

The more you read, the more you dig into the detail and the more you examine the putative "evidence" advanced in support of the "dangerous" climate change conjecture, the more you realize just how rotten and corrupt climate $cience is.

It really is a perfect example of pseudoscience.




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How Dumb Are The Europeans?


A: Very, very dumb.





...The two obvious questions to ask are (1) How much will this cost consumers and taxpayers? and (2) Given that most electricity comes from the same fossil fuels that power combustion-engine cars, how much if any emissions will actually be saved?

Since this is Europe, you can be sure that no one is addressing question number one...​


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How Dumb Are The Europeans?


A: Very, very dumb.





...The two obvious questions to ask are (1) How much will this cost consumers and taxpayers? and (2) Given that most electricity comes from the same fossil fuels that power combustion-engine cars, how much if any emissions will actually be saved?

Since this is Europe, you can be sure that no one is addressing question number one...​


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You could have quoted another 10 paragraphs... are you ok?

Oh, and wierdly enough, the people who need to buy oil for these petroleum ingesting products, are the ones getting around to legislating them out, and its only new cars, then.
 
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...The two obvious questions to ask are (1) How much will this cost consumers and taxpayers? and (2) Given that most electricity comes from the same fossil fuels that power combustion-engine cars, how much if any emissions will actually be saved?

Since this is Europe, you can be sure that no one is addressing question number one...​
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But Europe is investing significantly to change (2) with solar, wind and tide power together with storage facilities from pumped hydro to used car batteries. The aim is to generate electricity locally, store it locally at off peak times and use it to charge electric cars overnight.

The change to electric cars fits with the Paris accord but is only one of a range of measures to reduce reliance on fossil fuels.
 
An uncanny resemblance to an iPhone being held in this mans hand in a painting done in 1937.

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/a3db9b/iphone-man-1937-painting

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My favorite author, Hawthorne, said much the same thing;

“It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom. Each, in its utmost development, supposes a high degree of intimacy and heart-knowledge; each renders one individual dependent for the food of his affections and spiritual life upon another; each leaves the passionate lover, or the no less passionate hater, forlorn and desolate by the withdrawal of his object.”
 
"The phone rang. It was my college rapist."

Jen Sorensen

3/10/15 7:00amFiled to: VOICES

As told to Jen Sorensen by Anonymous

In November 2014, not long after the Bill Cosby rape allegations blew up in the news, a friend of mine reached out to tell me her own story of sexual assault and asked if I would draw a comic about her experience.

The friend, whom I’ll call Alison, was assaulted after unknowingly ingesting some sort of tranquilizing agent during her senior year at college in the early 1970s; she was 21 years old. Alison says that her goal in telling her story is not to incriminate her assailant but to raise awareness about what she calls "an insidious problem of powerful men who think they can get away with abuse." Although some details have been changed to protect identities, I have tried to tell Alison’s story in her own words as much as possible.—JS

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http://splinternews.com/the-phone-rang-it-was-my-college-rapist-1793846217
 
5 Ways Powerful People Trick You Into Hating Protestors

Let's say that tomorrow you are elected Secret Ruler of the USA, a position that gives you total power over the government, economy, and the culture at large -- everything that hippies refer to as "the system." Now, your first job is to not get beheaded by rioting peasants, which means your first job is really to maintain "stability" (i.e., "keeping things mostly the way they are").

Immediately you'll find that you're facing a never-ending stream of protests from disgruntled groups who say they're being treated unfairly or otherwise getting left out -- this group over here is upset that somebody got abused by the police; this other bunch is demanding better wages or something. How do you handle it? Sure, you could crush their movements with an iron fist, using violence to kill, intimidate or arrest their most vocal members. But that can backfire, often turning them into martyrs and proving them right in the process -- you've seen Star Wars; somebody always finds the exhaust port.

No, what you need is to get the majority on your side, against those vocal complainers. Fortunately for you, the "system" comes with a number of refined and subtle processes designed to make sure the complaints of the few get ignored by the many.
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Last weekend, Bengals tight end Tyler Eifert chose to write Tillman’s name on his cleats and wrote a Medium post about Tillman’s bravery and his decision to “[fight] for Americans.” Eifert is right about Tillman’s character. But to cast Tillman as a zealous patriot who sacrificed a football career and later his life because he believed in the mission and ethos of the American war machine is to grossly misunderstand his beliefs and his legacy.

http://deadspin.com/stop-using-pat-tillman-1818689197
 


The Oreskes question: Is Blood Thicker Than Objective Reporting ?


...But the stories that still fell through the cracks at NPR back then and on up to the present were…

*how the sister of NPR Chief Editor Michael Oreskes apparently was the catalyst for the “Exxon Knew” prosecution efforts of New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman
*how Naomi openly admitted to meeting with Schneiderman before he began his prosecution efforts
*how Naomi was the topic of a Wikileaks Hillary/Podesta email​

… along with myriad other problems surrounding Naomi’s efforts to portray skeptic climate scientists as ‘paid shills working for the fossil fuel industry.’ At minimum, they could have questioned the readily obvious political problem of a US congressman utilizing her services to rebut hearing testimony from a side of the issue which she is openly hostile toward.

Given what seems to be the overall appearance of political bias at NPR from failing to tell the complete story of the global warming issue – a problem I first mentioned in 2011 here – there might not have been any need for Michael Oreskes to quash negative stories about his sister...


lots more...

https://wattsupwiththat.files.wordpress.com/2017/11/npr-michael-naomi-oreskes.jpg?w=720&h=271


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https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2017/11/reckoning-with-bill-clintons-sex-crimes/545729/

This appeared online if the Atlantic today. It mirrors exactly my thoughts the other day about the contrast between post Thomas hearing corporate training and the treatment of workplace sexual coersion post Clinton. I had forgotten entirely about the Gloria Steinem piece that was the defining sea change that reversed the momentum that had been gained

Que said:
Thirty years ago we had a bright line about this.

~snipped the politically volitile portion~

Louis CK, for all his faults absolutely 100% nailed the concept. Not only did he unequivocally take responsibility accept blame and with no reservations apologize, he actually understands that asking for consent does not make it not coercive.
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This was what I said in the other thread before this article published.

In another post I was explaining that it was never about the blow job it was about power differential and coersion.
 
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In 2013, the Post-Polio Health International (PHI) organizations estimated that there were six to eight iron lung users in the United States. Now, PHI executive director Brian Tiburzi says he doesn’t know anyone alive still using the negative-pressure ventilators. This fall, I met three polio survivors who depend on iron lungs. They are among the last few, possibly the last three.

https://gizmodo.com/the-last-of-the-iron-lungs-1819079169
 
I'm back to my John Grisham novels. Back and forth between "The Broker" (the main character is a very intelligent, shrewd asshole everyone wants to kill) and "The Partner". There's a Tom Clancy novel waiting when I'm done with those. Wish I could get my hands on a copy of "The Painted House".
 
13 Pieces Of Indispensable Wisdom From Ursula K. Le Guin

https://www.buzzfeed.com/ariannareb...la-k-le-guin?utm_term=.sdL5aqZ8Zk#.upvP04VQVJ

123. Constructing the Golem
The legend of the golem varies according to the teller, but I will follow the version that tells how in a time of persecution a rabbi made a mighty giant out of mud, a golem, and wrote a sacred word on its forehead — “Truth” — that gave it life. With its frightening size and enormous strength, the golem was to defend and safeguard the Jews. But the golem was not rational, not controllable. It was a danger in itself. So the rabbi removed a single letter from the word on its forehead, which then read “Death,” and the life went out of the giant, leaving only mud.

It’s no use wishing the media would stop hanging on him and the press would stop reporting every tweet, but it may be worth saying that they’d do less of it if we stopped watching and listening to him — if we weren’t so literally fascinated by him.
He’s the snake and we’re the chickens.


Look away from him, and at the people who are working desperately to save what they can save of our Republic and our hope of avoiding nuclear catastrophe. Look away from him, and at reality, and things begin to get back into proportion.

I honestly believe the best thing to do is turn whatever it is OFF whenever he’s on it, in any way.


He is entirely a creature of the media. He is a media golem. If you take the camera and mike off him, if you take your attention off him, nothing is left — mud.


whole article at link

http://www.ursulakleguin.com/Blog2017.html
 


I Have It Made In Alaska

An Essay by Willis Eschenbach


In the fall of 1964 I started college at the University of California at Berkeley, but I hated it. I lasted one year, and as soon as school let out in June of 1965 I went to Alaska to seek my fortune. My cousin and I had heard that fishermen in a place called Kodiak Island were making big money up north. I had a few dollars I’d made working as a cowboy. So I grabbed my guitar and pack and bedroll and I went north to be an Alaska fisherman and strike it rich.

I’d never been on a jet before...​


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JC's (un)motivated reasoning
by Judith Curry, Ph.D.
https://judithcurry.com/2017/12/28/jcs-unmotivated-reasoning/


...At issue is my politics, my ideology, my advocacy, my activism, my civility.

So here goes.

My politics

Politically, I’m an independent. In Presidential elections since 1972, I have voted for Democrats, Republicans and occasionally third party candidates. Unfortunately, I typically find myself voting against the most ‘objectionable’ candidate. One exception was Obama #1; I was a strong supporter and am on public record as having made campaign contributions (I was much less enthusiastic about Obama #2)...​

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I have for many years been a student of the corrosive effects of ideology on science. This was prompted originally by works of Jacob Bronowski, Primo Levi, Charles Mackay, and an abiding interest in the history of I G Farben. As a guide, primarily for myself, I developed a set of characteristics of ideologues, to better recognize and interpret their behavior. (These are based in part on some ideas of John Ralston Saul in his “Unconscious Civilization”).

There are five attributes of ideologues:
1. Absence of doubt
2. Intolerance of debate
3. Appeal to authority
4. A desire to convince others of the ideological “truth”
5. A willingness to punish those that don’t concur
-Nick Darby
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In the climate communication world, it has become very trendy to wear your political ideology on your sleeve. How many ‘climate science communicators’ can you name that have at least 4 of the above attributes of ideologues with regards to climate change?...​



(much) more...
https://judithcurry.com/2017/12/28/jcs-unmotivated-reasoning/

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Editorial Narratives in Science Journalism
by Kip Hansen

...When a story — a bit of news, a new journal paper — doesn’t fit the narrative required or desired by the Editors — then there is a problem. If the news is truly Big News and Important — then the journalist has to do his/her best to report it and somehow slip in enough of his/her editor’s narrative to get it accepted and published. We see this a lot in climate stories where the article goes along well enough, reporting some new findings, and then, out of nowhere, comes a line like “Of course, this new study does nothing to cast any doubt about the overwhelming evidence for human-induced climate change which is currently threatening the very existence of our planet.”

We saw this in the recently issued EPA finding on glyphosate (Monsanto’s Round-Up) which declared it not to be a human carcinogen. The news was so far from most MSM’s Editorial Narratives on Monsanto, Round-Up and glyphosate that most MSM journalist simply passed and reported nothing at all! They just couldn’t modify the reality to fit their Editor’s Narrative — some things can’t be spun that far.

My recent ongoing series on Modern Scientific Controversies exposed a good deal of this behavior in the US press — different news outlets ‘taking sides’ in the controversies — evidence of Editorial Narratives driving the reports.

I do not maintain that all newspapers, news agencies, magazines, journals — all MSM outlets — have expressed, written, Editorial Narratives on the topics of our time. Michael Cieply reported that the New York Times does and that the LA Times doesn’t. However, I know from my own work experience that superiors can have strong opinions and expect their workers to reflect those opinions in their work. I have not been a newspaper journalist, but I have been a radio news journalist — and Editors and News Directors have the responsibility to help plan coverage and to read and edit stories before publication or going on-air — and in this process, impose their viewpoint on what the story is and how it is to be told.

We see in the example of the NY Times’ Planet Fat series that the “story” was determined before the journalists were even sent out to find a story — they were sent out to specifically find a story matching the Editorial Narrative. Facts contrary or counter to the narrative are played down or explained away in the series. The series is a fascinating example of how Editorial Narratives play out in the real world, when the ink hits the paper [digital ink hits the display screen?]. If you have the time and inclination, or are interested in the Obesity Epidemic controversy, read the entire series, with the Editorial Narrative as laid by Celia Dugger in the premier article (quoted early in this essay) firmly in mind...


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I already knew it was awful; now I discover that it's even worse than I thought.

A horrifying revelation from an extremely bright man, an excellent writer with a keen analytical mind— AND— a former journalist.





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