#4
“new analysis exhibits more than twice as much warming as the old analysis at the global scale,” at 0.086 degrees Celsius per decade
0.086. That's a serious-looking number, what with all those digits after the decimal point. 86/1000ths of a degree per decade. I submit to you that it is damn close to zero. Hey Charlie, you got error bars with that number?
Since we're all friends, let's round it up to 0.1, a tenth of a degree per decade. Or 1 degree per century, if you prefer. You can call it 10 degrees per millennium which makes it scarier. But then you are extrapolating non-linear data. It is great fun, but essentially meaningless. Personally, as someone who has just lived thru two hellishly cold Northern winters, I say bring it on!
#5
More cement these days around weather stations that were once rural. Kind of negates the values of any readings at such sites for comparison with rural year readings.
[NewsMix] Investigative reporter Sharyl Attkisson charges the Freedom of Information Act — once a formidable press tool to maintain government transparency — has now been twisted by federal officials to "obfuscate, obstruct and delay."
Attkisson fired the blast at a hearing before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, where she related how she watched her daughter literally grow up before the Defense Department handed over FOIA documents she'd requested 10 years beforehand, the Daily Signal reports.
"FOIA should be one of the most powerful tools of the public and the press in a free and open society," the former investigative reporter for CBS News testified.
"Instead, it’s largely a pointless, useless shadow of its intended self."
Attkisson was among big-name reporters invited to speak at the hearing called by Utah Republican Rep. Jason Chaffetz, the committee’s chairman, about roadblocks that have caused FOI delays, obstructions and violations, the Daily Signal reports.
#1
Gee, no penalty, no consequences. What part of impotent don't you understand?
Long time past removing the Civil Service Act. Make your representative and senator directly accountable for the government workforce, not some beyond accountability bureaucrat.
The federal government is notifying millions of employees as it works to assess the impact of a massive data breach involving the agency that handles security clearances and employee records.
Federal officials suspect that Chinese hackers are behind the data breach, Dow Jones reported, citing sources.
"The FBI is working with our interagency partners to investigate this matter. We take all potential threats to public and private sector systems seriously, and will continue to investigate and hold accountable those who pose a threat in cyberspace," an FBI spokesman told CNBC.
A congressional aide familiar with the situation, who declined to be named because he was not authorized to discuss it, says the Office of Personnel Management and the Interior Department were hacked. A second U.S. official who also declined to be identified said the data breach could potentially affect every federal agency.
But they keep telling us they need all this data on us and it is safe.
#1
It's real nifty having all this data accessible on the Internet. People sitting at home can see how much they're getting paid, how much vacation time they have, how much they've squirreled away for retirement. Then they find out the Chinese can see it too. Maybe it was better in the old days with paper in file cabinets...or at least with isolated networks that used proprietary telecommunications protocols. You'd think someone with a position of responsibility and power could figure it out before the Chinese end up listening in on all of the Oval Office conversations. Hey, Baraq, then the Chinese, Russians and Iranians would know for sure what a moron you are.
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.
[NewsMix] Investigative reporter Sharyl Attkisson charges the Freedom of Information Act — once a formidable press tool to maintain government transparency — has now been twisted by federal officials to "obfuscate, obstruct and delay."
The federal government is notifying millions of employees as it works to assess the impact of a massive data breach involving the agency that handles security clearances and employee records.
