Goodman Law Group reports that Erik Scott was shot by police outside a busy Summerlin, Nevada Costco store July 10. Many questions surround the shooting of Scott, who was carrying a licensed concealed weapon in a holster when he was surprised by officers as he exited the building with his girlfriend and other customers. Five of the seven shots that felled him were fired into his back.
Ross Goodman, attorney for the family of Erik Scott is questioning the official sequence of events. Erik was a graduate of the US Military Academy at West Point and had an MBA from Duke University. The case claims that if an educated, responsible, militarily-trained individual with a concealed weapons permit did not understand the instructions of the police, then any average citizen is at great risk of getting killed by police in a similar situation.
Much information regarding the incident has been withheld pending a coroner's inquest that was originally scheduled for September 3. The Clark County Coroner said the inquest was indefinitely postponed at the request of the District Attorney's office, which said additional witness statements are being gathered and surveillance videos are being reviewed by an out-of-state forensic laboratory. Testimony to be presented is expected to last two days, then a jury will determine whether the officers' actions were excusable, justifiable or criminal.
The district attorney won't release the recordings of 911 calls or surveillance videos until the inquest, and has not set a new date for the hearing. Until then, the family must rely on the statements of eyewitnesses, while continuing to request the release of the video data. Dozens of citizens have inundated the Costco Facebook page, and billboards in Las Vegas demand the video be released. An unauthorized transcript raises questions about what police were told by 911 callers.
Police claim Erik Scott pointed his gun at them outside the store's entrance after 911 callers reported him acting erratically and damaging merchandise. There are reports from witnesses that dispute each of those statements. Several witnesses said Scott appeared to be surprised and possibly confused by conflicting instructions from officers.
"We know there were four cameras outside of Costco that would've captured the shooting. We know that there was a camera within Costco, on the aisle, which would've covered allegations that Mr. Scott was acting erratically," said Goodman. "All they have to do is provide video and the tapes."
Erik Scott’s father, Bill Scott, 63, of Colorado Springs, is a journalist, author and former Air Force captain. He is calling for greater police accountability and for reform of Clark County's coroner inquest process. He said officer-involved shootings should be reviewed by third parties. “It’s been three weeks. They should release the video and 911 calls.”
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I like to look at both sides when I hear about police "overacting" and here is my two cents. I doubt that the cops would know he had a concealed weapon unless it was produced. Why were the police called in the first place and it seems that they showed up in force? He was with his girlfriend, what was here story?
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Read widely on this issue, there are many different versions. The only thing worse than having an eyewitness is having several dozen. I expect the video (or any other recordings) will turn out to be missing or defective & that there is/will be a coverup.
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In that case, I'd look for a civil wrongful death action from the family. Not all 4 tapes can go bad or missing without arousing suspicion. I'm initially with Cyber Sarge, but Clark County needs to come clean, even if they get some mud splattered on themselves.
Ewwww...
WASHINGTON - Ahead of her 90th birthday, veteran White House correspondent Helen Thomas, who resigned following her offensive remarks against Israel, may be getting a statue in her honor at the Arab American National Museum in Michigan.
Supporters of the initiative in Dearborn, a suburb of Detroit and the town with the second largest Arab community in the United States, are trying to raise money to have the copper statue constructed and put in the local museum.
But Thomas' remarks that Jews should "get the hell out of Palestine" and "go home" to Poland and Germany, which abruptly ended her 67-year-career, are not helping the cause. "There are people who don't want to donate because of it," said Anan Ameri, the Arab American National Museum's director. According to museum sources, some $30,000 is needed to have the statue erected.
Ameri said he does not think Thomas herself believes in what she said.
Then why did she say it? And why, immediately afterward, did so many in her circle say -- on the record -- that she said things like that all the time, in private? The question then becomes, if she was merely being a nasty liar when she said that, what does that say about the Arab-American community that they hold her up as a heroine and exemplar?
"She did good things during her career and contributed a lot and opened doors for women in this country," he said.
Thomas, who will be turning 90 on Wednesday, is a member of the museum's advisory board, and the museum has launched a 45-day online campaign to gather the remaining $10,000 that is needed to erect the statue, which is being constructed by former news photographer and sculptor Susan McElhinney. Well, that'll be the first erection that face ever inspired...
[Straits Times] A RABIES epidemic has gripped Bali, an island of three million people and one of Asia's top tourist destinations. Well...it was...
Seventy-eight deaths have officially been logged in the past two years, including that of a 40-year-old woman a week ago, and many other deaths have likely gone unreported. The Indonesian government says it is overwhelmed, with more than 30,000 dog bites reported in just the first half of this year across Bali. In a highly criticised move, officials killed about 200,000 dogs, instead of initially conducting mass vaccinations as recommended by the World Health Organisation. FILTHY INFIDEL BEASTS!!!
'We have a serious problem with the anti-rabies vaccine for humans ... we are very short of treatment across the island,' said Nyoman Sutedja, chief of Bali's provincial health ministry, who expects all stocks to run out by next month. 'We need help.' Hospitals across Bali have faced periodic shortages of free post-exposure vaccines since the outbreak began, leaving poor residents with few options. The shots remain available at pharmacies, but many Balinese cannot afford them.
'The sad part is they get to the hospital and they get turned away because they don't have any vaccines,' said Janice Girardi, an American who runs the nonprofit Bali Animal Welfare Association, which has vaccinated 45,000 dogs and recently received funding to conduct an islandwide campaign. 'Then they go home and die.'
There's an adverb missing here. They go home and die, horribly. Killing all the stray dogs is a sensible response, under the circumstances; poverty is so much more life-affecting, when one lives in a poor country.
Several countries, including the United States and Australia, have issued travel warnings advising vacationers to consider getting pre-exposure rabies vaccinations before arriving and to avoid contact with dogs while in Bali. A handful of foreign tourists have reported dog bites, but none have been fatal. Say, Bill, what's that foamy crap on your mouth?
Shots given immediately after contact with saliva from a rabid animal can easily prevent death. But once symptoms appear, treatment is useless.
Rabies kills some 55,000 people annually - mostly children - with nearly 60 per cent of those deaths from dog bites in Asia, according to the WHO. The disease still exists in the US, but human deaths are extremely rare. Nearly all bites occur from wild animals, such as raccoons or bats.
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There goes my Yoga vacation to Bali. Between the booms and wild rabid dawgs, Bali ain't fun no mo'.
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"Here, Cujo, nice boy. Come here"
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The traditional solution to the stray and feral dog problem in South America was itinerant "dog poisoners", who would go from town to town. Each town would provide them with a 55 gallon drum, a specified poison, hunks of rotting meat to marinate in the poison in the drum, and a wheelbarrow.
Then, in the early a.m., after due notice to the public to keep their dogs inside, they would put out the meat around town for the stray dogs. An hour or two later, the poisoner would collect the dead dogs, and any uneaten meat, for disposal.
Though this was not terribly demanding work, such people were paid handsomely, and often developed severe psychological problems, which is no surprise.
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An even more traditional solution to stray and feral dogs is to open Korean restaurants. Kagoi! About the only dogs or cats I saw in country were on the side of the fence housing the US Forces.
The earth could be hit by a wave of violent space weather as early as Tuesday after a massive explosion of the sun, scientists have warned. The sun exploded? Why wasn't I told? The sun exploded! GODDAMN!!!
Experts said the wave of supercharged gas will likely reach the Earth on Tuesday, when it will buffet the natural magnetic shield protecting Earth. We're all gonna die! ...or have great tans.
It is likely to spark spectacular displays of the aurora or northern and southern lights. Y'mean it's just twinkly lights? That's it? The sun explodes, and that's it?
Scientists have warned that a really big solar eruption could destroy satellites and wreck power and communications grids around the globe if it happened today. But it hasn't happened yet...
NASA recently warned that Britain could face widespread power blackouts and be left without critical communication signals for long periods of time, after the earth is hit by a once-in-a-generation "space storm". But we wouldn't notice because we'll be wiped out... "Once in a generation" really means every other year, just like floods, right? Well, as long as it's just Britain, what the hell do I care? The Daily Telegraph disclosed in June that senior space agency scientists believed the Earth will be hit with unprecedented levels of magnetic energy from solar flares after the Sun wakes "from a deep slumber" sometime around 2013. It remains unclear, however, how much damage this latest eruption will cause the world's communication tools. What's your data telling you Chuck?
Time to put in for another grant.
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Its the late 1960's SIRIUS Event for me + VIETNAM WAR-era Guam.
On a separate note, AFAIK there was only one visually-observable ball of light oer GUAM's Hagatna Bay after Midnite this AM. May or may not had missed others becuz I went to sleep. NO KNOWN OR REPORTED EARTHQUAKES IN WESTPAC OR EAST ASIA REGIONS ASOF THIS POST.
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It is a fairly small flare from a fairly small sunspot, just the first one we have had for a while. It also looks more dramatic that what people are used to seeing because of new spacecraft that are observing the Sun.
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Ok, this is a class C3 flare. Classes go A, B, C, M, and X. A C class is in the middle. The classes also have a broad range. A C2 is twice as strong as a C1. A C3 is twice as strong as a C2. So this flare is in the lower end of the C class. Flares of that size do not generally cause any damage. They do give some pretty northern lights. It is NOT a "solar tsunami". It is more like a medium sized solar breaker.
The sun is powered by fusion; it is exploding all the time. Flares and coronal mass ejections are the result of the sun's magnetic fields reconnecting ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_reconnection )
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The issue is whether comms and other satellites will be affected.
It's true that there are solar flares regularly, although this one is fairly large for our sun. (The scale is used for all stars, including many that are much more massive than Sol.) What has people watching this one is that the flare line is lined up with Earth right now.
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Between this and imminent global warming were doomed as a species! Unless, of course, the US Congress enacts legislation that will save the world from impending doom. Maybe they could tax the sun, and if that doesn't work they could ask the UN to impose sanctions on the sun.
[Al Arabiya Latest] The Islamic satellite channel al-Daleel announced the groundbreaking launch of a new express service that delivers fatwas round the clock to Muslims during the holy month of Ramadan. "Fatwas R' Us". How can I help you?
Yeah, my old lady's being a pain in the ass.
Mullah Mahmoud, you wanna take this one....
Al-Daleel TV, supervised by prominent Saudi cleric Sheikh Salman al-Oouda, issued a statement declaring that the final touches of its new show Fatwa of the Hour are in place and that it is ready to launch on the first day of Ramadan, which falls on August 11 this year. This hour's fatwa: 3 in 1 Oil. Lubricant of Satan...
The new show is 10 minutes long and will be aired every hour. Each episode, which will be aired live, will feature inquiries via mobile text messages and phone calls and a guest who will answer them on the spot. We'll be back in an hour, right after "Sweating to the Oldies"...
The new fatwa express show, the statement added, aims at offering a fast service for Muslims whose request for religious edicts generally increases in the holy month. Fast service fast about fasts and fasting...
"In Ramadan, Muslims have several inquiries about issues like what invalidates fasting, when is it allowed to exceptionally break the fast, and so on," said Abdel Rahman Qaed, head of the channel's Scientific Affairs Department, in a press statement. Did ya eat already?
Ummmmmm...yes.
Oooooh, boy...looks like you're going to hell.
Qaed added that the purpose of airing the show every hour is to make sure all inquires are answered without delay. Hi! We're back! This hours fatwa: Ramadan stampede do's and don't's...
"We feel it is our duty to offer clear answers to matters that are sometimes ambiguous for many Muslims and to do so promptly," he added. Hey. Ambiguous. Like an explosion in Gaza...
Qaed declined to reveal the names of guests to be hosted in the show, but stressed that they are all very well-established and trust-worthy scholars whose names are linked to rational interpretation, extensive knowledge, and power of speech. Hey! It's Jerry Lewis!!!
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should combine with Miss Cleo - fatwas by a seer, saves the emails and calls. I'm feeling Jinnish
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China is undoubtedly a key military player in all fields; SOF are no exception. They've even put units in international SF competitions (think the Army's Best Ranger competition on a grand scale).
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Training Pics at PAKISTANI DEFENCE FORUM > PLAN SPECIAL FORCES UNIT.
* ION WMF > CHINA MUST BUILD EFFEC MILPOL INFLUENCE IN NUCLEAR MYANMAR IN CASE IT IS DENIED TRADE ACCESS TO THE SOUTH CHINA SEAS.
* WMF > WAR INEVITABLE?: US-ROK MILITARY DRILL IN THE YELLOW SEA PROVES THE YELLOW SEA IS NOW A US "SPHERE OF INFLUENCE", + NO LONGER CHINA'S SOLE DOMAIN. CHINA CANNOT GIVE UP TAIWAN + SOUTH CHINIA SEAS.
* SAME > CHINA CAN STRIKE + DESTROY THE KEY US-UK BASE ON DIEGO GARCIA AS LONG AS IT CONTROLS THE NANSHA ISLANDS NEAR THE PHILIPPINES. NUCLEAR "FIRST ISLAND CHAIN", I.E. NUCLEAR JAPAN + NUCLEAR SOUTH KOREA + NUCLEAR VIETNAM, + NUCLEAR INDONESIA, ETC. TO MAKE PLA CONQUEST OF THE PHILIPPINES IMPORTANT. CONVERSION OF THE PHILIPPINES INTO ANOTHER STRATEGIC "TAIWAN" OR "HAINAN" FOR PROJECTION OF CHINESE POWER INTO THE WESTERN PACIFIC.
SEOUL, Aug. 3 (Yonhap) -- North Korea has begun its two-month-long mass gymnastics extravaganza Arirang Festival with slogans praising its leader Kim Jong-il, official media reported Tuesday.
Named after the famous Korean folk song, the festival has been held almost annually since 2002. The 80-minute show features synchronized acrobatics, gymnastics, dances and flip-card mosaic animation. Performed by about 100,000 people, it is believed to be the largest gymnastics show in the world.
The North's Korean Central Television Station said the festival kicked off Monday at the May Day Stadium in Pyongyang "with cheerful tones and slogans paying homage" to Kim, the 68-year-old leader who runs a massive cult of personality around his family.
Last year, the festival drew about 1.4 million people from home and abroad, according to the communist state's official media.
How many were eaten?
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It's official: Sidney Harman, the businessman who made his fortune selling stereo equipment, has secured a deal to buy Newsweek from the Washington Post Co. and will announce the deal later Monday afternoon.
The New York Times and others have previously reported that Mr. Harman was the front-runner to come away with the news weekly, but have cautioned that no deal was certain. Politico's Playbook email newsletter said this morning that a deal with Mr. Harman was imminent, but also cautioned that "no deal like this is done until it's done." "It ain't over 'til it's over, y'know?"
The deal is now done, according to people familiar with the process. "Hokay. It's over."
Mr. Harman and the Washington Post Co. declined to comment. "We can say no more!" The Times quoted one person briefed on Mr. Harman's bid saying his plan would retain 250 of Newsweek's employees. Newsweek counted 379 full time staffers at the end of March, according to the sale book posted by PaidContent, but a significant number have left in the time since. Losses at the magazine could approach $70 million this year, this person told the Times. Mr. Harman reportedly bid $1 for the magazine but agreed to assume the magazine's liabilities; those details could not be confirmed on Monday. That's why I didn't get it. I bid $20 but wouldn't assume the debt. I've got enough of my own.
Post Co. chairman Donald Graham put the long-running and iconic newsweekly on the block in May, saying it would lose money again this year and "might be a better fit elsewhere." ... like maybe the trashcan...
The Post Co. sold its other magazine, Arthur Frommer's Budget Travel, last December. Despite the legacy of the flagship Washington Post newspaper, The Post Co. now finds the majority of its Kaplan business in the educational test-prep services, prompting Mr. Graham to reposition it as an "education and media company" in 2007. The Washington Post Co. decided to sell Newsweek one year after the title introduced a major redesign to its print edition's look, editorial mission and business model. Perhaps publishing's most spectacular crash and burn ever... Newsweek has been cutting spending, but revenue has been falling as well. That's because nobody reads it... Newsweek's ad pages fell 9.6% in the first half, compared with a narrow 0.4% gain at Time, according to the Publishers Information Bureau. They don't read it because it stinks, which doesn't mean it smells funny...
Other once-mighty magazines have sold for astonishingly low prices, such as the $1 deal for TV Guide, but those prices don't look quite so minimal once you factor in the losses and liabilities -- such as the obligation to keep serving millions of subscriptions that may or may not be profitable -- attached to such acquisitions. The TV Guide crash came when cable replaced broadcast teevee. The Newsweak crash came when Howard Fineman and Eleanor Clift replaced news.
Bidders that were rejected or dropped out include Fred Drasner, Avenue Capital, OpenGate Capital, Newsmax and the hedge fund manager Thane Ritchie.
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Change the name. Dentists Illustrated. All dentist-all the time.
Crude oil surged above $81 a barrel for the first time since May as a rally in global equity markets increased speculation the economy is strengthening.
Oil jumped as much as 3.6 percent after equities climbed on better-than-expected earnings and the Institute for Supply Management's U.S. manufacturing gauge fell less than forecast. The dollar dropped against the euro, boosting the investment appeal of commodities.
Crude for September delivery rose $2.44, or 3.1 percent, to $81.39 a barrel at the 2:30 p.m. close of floor trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Earlier, it touched $81.77, the highest price since May 5. Futures climbed 4.4 percent in July, the biggest monthly gain since March. Prices are up 17 percent from a year ago.
The Standard & Poor's 500 Index increased 2 percent to 1,123.86 following positive earnings reports from companies such as Humana Inc. and Oshkosh Corp. It jumped 6.9 percent in July, the biggest monthly advance since July 2009. The Dow Jones Industrial Average strengthened 191.94, or 1.8 percent, to 10,657.88.
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Cap & Trade is the cure for this ailment, and also will certainly reverse the trend of equity warming.
A 32-year-old took the needle into his hands when he tired of the wait at Sundsvall hospital in northern Sweden and sewed up the cut in his leg himself. The man was later reported to the police for his impromptu handiwork.
"It took such a long time," the man told the local Sundsvall Tidning daily.
The man incurred the deep cut when he sliced his leg on the sharp edge of a kitchen stove while he was renovating at home.
"I first went to the health clinic, but it was closed. So I rang the medical help line and they told me that it shouldn't be closed, so I went to emergency and sat there," the man named only as Jonas told the newspaper.
After an hour-long wait in a treatment room, he lost patience and proceeded to sew up his own wound.
"They had set out a needle and thread and so I decided to take the matter into my hands," he said.
But hospital staff were not as impressed by his initiative and have reported the man on suspicion of arbitrary conduct for having used hospital equipment without authorization.
Arbitrary conduct? Wow.
While Jonas admitted to the newspaper that he has no prior experience of sewing up himself he sought to play down the fuss that his handiwork has caused, arguing that "through the ages people have always sewn themselves up".
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It seems to me they are mad at him because he worked outside the system. So, even though he got the job done and just paid for the supplies used, they are attacking him. Basically socialist/liberal actions par for the course. Not only this, he probably saved them money by not getting shots. Obama care (social welfare), here we come.
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I admire the guy for his willingness to take responsibility for himself. I had a patient like that decades ago. He had tripped on a Manhattan street, and cut his arm on broken glass. Went to a NYC ER, had his wound washed out & lightly covered, then waited for hours to get stitched. Cardiac arrests, drug OD's, etc, kept coming through the door, and he kept being put to the back of the line. Finally he had the bright idea of calling a taxi, going to Grand Central Station, hopping on commuter rail, going a few stations up into SW CT, taking a taxi to an ER there & getting stitched within minutes of arrival. Then he reversed the process to get back home to NYC. The only thing that irritated him was that it took so long for him to figure out what to do.
Now, why would the editors of National Geographic have an agenda? Is that a trick question?
"Global warming is undeniable," and it's happening fast, a new U.S. government report says.
An in-depth analysis of ten climate indicators all point to a marked warming over the past three decades, with the most recent decade being the hottest on record, according to the latest of the U.S. National Atmospheric and Oceanic Administration's annual "State of the Climate" Hanson reports, which was released Wednesday. Reliable global climate record-keeping began in the 1880s. So we're looking at 120 years of data? Not much adjustment required for that. How'd you hide the decline?
The report focused on climate changes measured in 2009 in the context of newly available data on long-term developments. "Long-term" meaning over the last few decades.
For instance, surface air temperatures recorded from more than 7,000 weather stations around the world over the past few decades confirm an "unmistakable upward trend," the study says. Ahhhh! A new definition of "Global Warming"! Lots of stations, short time period! I noticed a weather station near my home the other day. It was on an overpass above the intersection of two major highways in the middle of a big city.
And for the first time, scientists put data from climate indicators--such as ocean temperature and sea-ice cover--together in one place. Their consistency "jumps off the page at you," report co-author Derek Arndt said.
Three hundred scientists analyzed data on 37 climate indicators, but homed in on 10 that the study says are especially revealing.
Those indicators include: humidity, sea-surface temperature, sea ice cover, snow cover, ocean heat content, glacier cover, air temperature in the lower atmosphere, sea level, temperature over land, and temperature over oceans. And the accuracy of the data is consistent over the period?
The influx of greenhouses gases into the atmosphere has also hit oceans particularly hard, the NOAA report says.
New evidence suggests that more than 90 percent of that heat trapped by greenhouses gases over the past 50 years has been absorbed into the oceans. Oh, I'm sorry; not 30-40 years, the period examined must be as much as 50 years. That's a great base for extrapolation!
Because water expands as it warms, the added ocean heat is contributing to sea level rise as well as to the rapid melting of Arctic summer sea ice. That melting in 2010 is on track to be worse than 2007, when Arctic ice cover reached its lowest point on record. Like my gin-and-tonic overflows when the ice melts.
Such climatic shifts are already ushering in extreme weather, which plagued much of the globe in 2009, according to the report.
The NOAA report--published in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society--is different from other climate publications, because it's based on observed data, not computer models, making it the "climate system's annual scorecard," the authors wrote. "It's telling us what's going on in the real world, rather than the imaginary world," said Kevin Trenberth, a senior scientist at the Boulder, Colorado-based National Center for Atmospheric Research. Another revelation: Computer models are no good!
Even so, the report "does not carry the authority of the IPCC [Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change] by any means," Trenberth noted. That's partially because IPCC reports--the latest of which came out in 2007 with a similar claim that warming is "unequivocal"--are produced on longer time scales, with more time for review.
And even with real-world data, "the theory with regard to global warming is still incomplete"--especially since the atmosphere is so complex, Trenberth cautioned. This "can be seen at a glance," for example, "by looking out of the window at the wondrous, great variety in clouds." I'm sure the sixth-graders lap this up like warm milk.
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I have said it before and I'll say it again. Yes, there is global warming going on. The ice sheets have been retreating for thousands of years (Long Island was a glacial end moraine.) I would be very surprised if a PART of it was not caused by fossil fuel combustion. The question is, how much? 1%? 10%? Not 100%.
Next point: Crap and trade will do nothing to reduce global warming. It is merely camoflage for the hidden real purpose of the legislation - global income redistribution. In fact, by transferring combustion from the more efficient and modern world to the less developed world the CO2 production per unit of economic activity will go UP.
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For instance, surface air temperatures recorded from more than 7,000 weather stations around the world over the past few decades confirm an "unmistakable upward trend," the study says.
Well Doh.... when you start placing the 'asphalt and AC weather stations' in the middle of asphalt parking lots and next to AC exhaust... the measurements tend to go up. They also tend to become completely irrelevant.
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The question is, how much? 1%? 10%? Not 100%.
Another key question is, what can we do that will stop global warming by the end of the lifetime of our grandchildren? There is ZERO evidence concerning this. If the human race and its current economic activity were to vanish overnight, climate trends would continue for decades or centuries regardless.
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Two critical things to remember about the whole MMGW thing.
1) Carbon Dioxide in Earth's atmosphere amounts to 390 ppmv (parts per million by volume) (or 0.0390% of the total). Of that, the human contribution is 12 ppmv (~3%). Three percent of a trace gas. Even the serious MMGW scientists say that the human contribution alone cannot do squat, *unless* is somehow makes the *natural* CO2 producers crank out vastly more CO2, in a self-reinforcing cycle.
And no such cycle, out of a dozen or so proposed cycles, has been proven, and several have been disproven.
2) The Earth's thermosphere, which is the "greenhouse blanket" around the Earth, mitigating temperatures, has radically contracted in the last two years, almost certainly caused by the lack of solar activity. With this contraction, *vastly* more powerful than *anything* humans could do, we are getting just the *opposite* of a greenhouse effect.
A greenhouse effect results in stable temperatures that are a little warmer than the air outside the greenhouse. The opposite of this is lower than normal lows *and* higher than normal highs, at the same time. Remember last winter?
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Article: "Three hundred scientists analyzed data on 37 climate indicators, but homed in on 10 that the study says are especially revealing."
Translation: We kept only the indicator's that support our position. The 300 scientists made this conclusion while attending a junket conference in Tahiti.
Article: "Such climatic shifts are already ushering in extreme weather, which plagued much of the globe in 2009, according to the report."
Translation: Extreme weather is a new phenomenon that did not exist prior to 2009.
Article: "An in-depth analysis of ten climate indicators all point to a marked warming over the past three decades,..."
Translation: Just ignore the two decades of cooling prior to the 3 decades of warming. Our thermometer thingies weren't properly calibrated then.
Article: "Reliable global climate record-keeping began in the 1880s."*
*Fine Print: "Reliable global climate record-keeping began in the 1880s, except for long periods of war, civil, social and economic disruption. Global in the sense that it covered much of North America. May not include large parts Europe, Central and South America, Central and East Asia, all of Africa, much of the Pacific, Indian, Arctic, and Atlantic Oceans and Antarctica. Reliable in the sense that the measurements have all been properly fudged adjusted to take into account the Urban Heat Island Effect, proximity to asphalt parking lots and the hot air discharge of nearby air conditioners.
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Global warming IS undeniable. Ten thousand years ago the place where I live was covered by two miles of ice. Then those damn SUV driving saber tooth tigers caused the environment to heat up.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
The earth could be hit by a wave of violent space weather as early as Tuesday after a massive explosion of the sun, scientists have warned. 
[Al Arabiya Latest] The Islamic satellite channel al-Daleel announced the groundbreaking launch of a new express service that delivers fatwas round the clock to Muslims during the holy month of Ramadan.
It's official: Sidney Harman, the businessman who made his fortune selling stereo equipment, has secured a deal to buy Newsweek from the Washington Post Co. and will announce the deal later Monday afternoon.
Crude oil surged above $81 a barrel for the first time since May as a rally in global equity markets increased speculation the economy is strengthening.
A 32-year-old took the needle into his hands when he tired of the wait at Sundsvall hospital in northern Sweden and sewed up the cut in his leg himself. The man was later reported to the police for his impromptu handiwork.
