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Waiting for the 'pilots' condition. See F 4 Phantoms Drone targets for details. [quote]They Shoot Airplanes, Don’t They? Under United States law (Title 10, Section 2366 of the U.S. Code) a missile system must undergo lethality testing before it can enter full-scale production. This means it must be fired at a combat-configured target, which for air-to-air or surface-to-air missiles is a full-size, fully capable aircraft. The cost and hazards of using a manned aircraft from the active-duty inventory for this purpose are obvious. Instead, the target is an unmanned FSAT drone. As one 82 ATRS pilot summarizes it, "the F-4 is dying, to give birth to new weapons systems." In support of U.S. test and evaluation activities, Phantom drones also act as targets for non-lethal tests of missiles, radar and other sensors, and defensive systems. They also support Air Force and Navy training, such as "Combat Archer" missile shoots. Both services also employ sub-scale target drones, which are less costly to operate than FSATs. But only a full-scale target offers the flight characteristics, performance envelope – including subsonic and supersonic flight at altitudes up to and above 50,000 feet – endurance, radar and infrared (IR) signatures, and damage resistance of a real aircraft.[/quote] [quote]QF-4s are almost always flown with a pilot aboard, unless a weapons launch will occur. Usually he does not touch the controls but stands ready to take over if ground control is lost or the aircraft departs. The pilots fly the aircraft themselves on chase missions and to maintain proficiency. The aircraft are controlled remotely by the Gulf Range Drone Control System (GRDCS) at Tyndall or the Drone Formation Control System (DFCS) at WSMR. Drone controllers have a flight instrument display on a monitor, but no direct visual contact with the aircraft. A controller may fly, using a joystick and keyboard instead of stick, throttles, and rudder pedals; however, most test and evaluation flights are steered by computer. This allows a test to be flown within exact parameters and repeated exactly if necessary. Up to six QF-4 aircraft can be controlled in formation, using GPS to maintain each in position relative to the flight track.[/quote]
Interesting, you could be correct. However, what is more dangerous is knowing and rejection. So we know rejection leads to destruction.
As iron sharpens iron, So a man sharpens the countenance of his friend. -Proverbs 27:17 (NKJV)
You're in my house dissin' me? Yes, congrats you have your own thread. It is all to yourself and you set the agenda and tone. Quite masterful of Stone to give you this padded room all to yourself. Now be nice or your visitations will decline. We can go elsewhere.
As iron sharpens iron, So a man sharpens the countenance of his friend. -Proverbs 27:17 (NKJV)
LOL! You mean jimma the insane whiny piece of shit "hate America FIRST!" libTURD commie useful fool boy SCUM. Right jimma boy?
Spoiled, stupid and ignorant, brain dead phuckwads, libTURD fools, tools, and idiots, are the real sickness; the messiah "king" obammy and his regime are only the symptoms.
LOL! That's all that you have, and all that you know how to do, isn't jimma boy? LOL! What a WEAK assed little cunt you are jimma boy. Every breath you take fucks with America and all decent AMERICAS, you foul little cunt. All you are is the poster child for libTURD "Hate America FIRST!" SCUM. You DESPISE the US CONSTITUTION and the AMERICAN PEOPLE. You even despise your own brother who died a hero's death at ANZIO, you even HATE your mother and her love of your own brother. Yep. YOU ARE SCUM jimma boy. YOU ARE SCUM jimma BOY. (with my sincere apologies to SCUM which suffers in the comparison).
Spoiled, stupid and ignorant, brain dead phuckwads, libTURD fools, tools, and idiots, are the real sickness; the messiah "king" obammy and his regime are only the symptoms.
Update: pilot has assumed room temperature. So you now think the Turks used drones to cause a NATO outlash? You are almost as bad as LP's infowarrior.
As iron sharpens iron, So a man sharpens the countenance of his friend. -Proverbs 27:17 (NKJV)
Hey it took some work, but putting national "assets" to work, I have located "Jimmy Town" USA:
As iron sharpens iron, So a man sharpens the countenance of his friend. -Proverbs 27:17 (NKJV)
Must be a Record Hot where you are today....;} It only gets hotter from here..... But even the mainstream media know a 4 C increase spells the end of the line for our species. Giving the response I’ve come to expect from politicians, the Obama administration calls any attempt to reduce emissions “not grounded in political reality.” Have you noticed a set of patterns? Each assessment is quickly eclipsed by another, fundamentally more dire set of scenarios. Every scenario is far too optimistic because each is based on conservative approaches to scenario development. And every bit of dire news is met by the same political response. Is there any doubt we will try to kill every species on the planet, including our own, by the middle of this century? At this point, it is absolutely necessary, but probably not sufficient, to bring down the industrial economy. It’s no longer merely the lives of your grandchildren we’re talking about. Depending on your age, it’s the lives of your children or you. If you’re 60 or younger, it’s you.
Hey! Thanx for stopping by Red, But I think it's time for your Bible Study. Better hurry along. You don't won't to be late for your jesus loves you (and Israel;) stories.....;}
No. The USSA used the drone. Want to tell me what the Turks are doing with a VietNam war era jet on the front lines?
exactly. Signed, Mister Jimmie....;}
Debby is definitely compressing the air in the Middle USSA. 110 degrees in the Arkansas River Valley is NOT normal..... :? 8-) The First D storm in June in History. We know Earth’s temperature is nearly one degree Centigrade higher than it was at the beginning of the industrial revolution. And 1 C is catastrophic, as indicated by a decades-old cover-up. Already, we’ve triggered several positive feedbacks, none of which were expected to occur by mainstream scientists until we reached 2 C above baseline global average temperature. guymcpherson.com/2012/06/were-done/ We're done.
We also know that the situation is far worse than indicated by recent data and models (which are reviewed in the following paragraphs). We’ve known for more than a decade what happens when the planes stop flying: Because particulates were removed when airplanes were grounded, Earth warmed by more than 1 C in the three days following 11 September 2001. In other words, Earth’s temperature is already about 2 C higher than the industrial-revolution baseline. And because of positive feedbacks, 2 C leads directly and rapidly to 6 C, acidification-induced death of the world’s oceans, and the near-term demise of Homo sapiens.
Hosea 4 King James Version (KJV) 4 Hear the word of the Lord, ye children of Israel: for the Lord hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land. 2 By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood. 3 Therefore shall the land mourn, and every one that dwelleth therein shall languish, with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven; yea, the fishes of the sea also shall be taken away. 4 Yet let no man strive, nor reprove another: for thy people are as they that strive with the priest. 5 Therefore shalt thou fall in the day, and the prophet also shall fall with thee in the night, and I will destroy thy mother. 6 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children. 7 As they were increased, so they sinned against me: therefore will I change their glory into shame. 8 They eat up the sin of my people, and they set their heart on their iniquity. 9 And there shall be, like people, like priest: and I will punish them for their ways, and reward them their doings. 10 For they shall eat, and not have enough: they shall commit whoredom, and shall not increase: because they have left off to take heed to the Lord. 11 Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the heart. 12 My people ask counsel at their stocks, and their staff declareth unto them: for the spirit of whoredoms hath caused them to err, and they have gone a whoring from under their God. 13 They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and burn incense upon the hills, under oaks and poplars and elms, because the shadow thereof is good: therefore your daughters shall commit whoredom, and your spouses shall commit adultery. 14 I will not punish your daughters when they commit whoredom, nor your spouses when they commit adultery: for themselves are separated with whores, and they sacrifice with harlots: therefore the people that doth not understand shall fall. 15 Though thou, Israel, play the harlot, yet let not Judah offend; and come not ye unto Gilgal, neither go ye up to Bethaven, nor swear, The Lord liveth. 16 For Israel slideth back as a backsliding heifer: now the Lord will feed them as a lamb in a large place. 17 Ephraim is joined to idols: let him alone. 18 Their drink is sour: they have committed whoredom continually: her rulers with shame do love, Give ye. 19 The wind hath bound her up in her wings, and they shall be ashamed because of their sacrifices.
As iron sharpens iron, So a man sharpens the countenance of his friend. -Proverbs 27:17 (NKJV)
Want to tell me what the Turks are doing with a VietNam war era jet on the front lines? I figured you would know given you are a self proclaimed 'man of international intrigue.' However, if you must know, the Turks still use the very good airframe for recon missions and electronic warfare purposes.
As iron sharpens iron, So a man sharpens the countenance of his friend. -Proverbs 27:17 (NKJV)
S.F. gay rights advocate arrested over child porn San Francisco police have arrested veteran gay rights advocate Larry Brinkin in connection with felony possession of child pornography. Brinkin, 66, who worked for the San Francisco Human Rights Commission before his retirement in 2010, was taken into custody Friday night. He spent the night in jail before he was released on bail, according to a spokeswoman for the sheriff's department. The district attorney's office will decide Tuesday whether to file charges. "We're still reviewing the case," district attorney's spokeswoman Stephanie Ong Stillman said Monday. Police say that Brinkin had pornographic images, some that appear to show children as young as 1 and 2 or 3 years old being sodomized and performing oral sex on adult men, in e-mail attachments linked to his account, according to a search warrant served by San Francisco police. Representatives of America Online contacted authorities after coming across e- mail attachments from one of its subscriber's accounts containing what they believed to be child pornography. The Los Angeles Police Department, which was assigned to the case, traced the IP address associated with the account, Zack3737@aol.com, to Brinkin, a San Francisco resident, according to court records. Los Angeles police forwarded the case to San Francisco police. San Francisco investigators say the account was registered to Brinkin, and that he paid for the e-mail service with his credit card. Police provided two examples of e-mail messages from last year in which Zack3737 provides disturbing descriptions of the exploitive sexual acts. The e-mail account also is linked to Yahoo discussion groups on sexual exploitation of young boys and girls, according to the search warrant. Executing a search warrant Friday, police seized two laptops, a desk top computer, videos, a floppy disk and thumb drives from Brinkin's Waller Street home. During his 22-year tenure at the Human Rights Commission, Brinkin was best known for championing equal rights for gays and lesbians. He helped craft San Francisco's groundbreaking Equal Benefits Ordinance, which became a national model for workplace equality. Upon Brinkin's retirement, the Board of Supervisors approved a resolution declaring the week of Feb. 1, 2010, "Larry Brinkin Week" in San Francisco, saying his "dedication to advance the civil rights of all people has never stopped." Former Supervisor Bevan Dufty who authored the board resolution, said Monday that he was shocked to learn of Brinkin's arrest. "I have admired and respected his work for the LGBT community," Dufty said. "I respect and am confident that there will be due process." Brinkin did not respond to requests for comment Monday.
As iron sharpens iron, So a man sharpens the countenance of his friend. -Proverbs 27:17 (NKJV)
That's all that you have, and all that you know how to do, isn't jimma boy? LOL! What a WEAK assed little cunt you are jimma boy. Every breath you take fucks with America and all decent AMERICAS, you foul little cunt. All you are is the poster child for libTURD "Hate America FIRST!" SCUM. You DESPISE the US CONSTITUTION and the AMERICAN PEOPLE. You even despise your own brother who died a hero's death at ANZIO, you even HATE your mother and her love of your own brother. Yep. YOU ARE SCUM jimma boy. YOU ARE SCUM jimma BOY. (with my sincere apologies to SCUM which suffers in the comparison). jimma boy Hate America FIRST! SCUM; "exactly. Signed, Mister Jimmie....;}" LMAOAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Spoiled, stupid and ignorant, brain dead phuckwads, libTURD fools, tools, and idiots, are the real sickness; the messiah "king" obammy and his regime are only the symptoms.
I meant to ping y'all to this one! jimma boy admits that I'm 100% correct in my assessment of him! Isn't that NICE? LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Spoiled, stupid and ignorant, brain dead phuckwads, libTURD fools, tools, and idiots, are the real sickness; the messiah "king" obammy and his regime are only the symptoms.
Hobby of mine is wondering how the Anthropocene is affecting readers here. With AGW now affecting the Entire USSA, there's no more need....;} #Parts of Air Force Academy evacuated as Colorado fire ragesLos Angeles Times - 4 hours ago WOODLAND PARK, Colo. — More than 2100 residents on the Air Force Academy grounds were among about 32000 people being evacuated ... Wonder if those drones can carry sometyhing useful.... like water..... Fuck you Air Force...Do something useful why dontcha......;}
Mister Jimmie to you ass hole. Hoping you work for the Air Force.....;} Do something useful. Go fight a fire......8D
WACO RECORD HEAT Start worrying about something close.....;} http://waco.ynn.com/images/weather/header_localforecast.gif A sizzler of a Tuesday turned out to be a record-tying event in Waco! Our fifth triple digit day of the month, a high of 107 at 458pm tied the 32 year old (1980) daily record. Peak heat index or "feels like" temps ranged from 107 to 111. Temps cooled off through the night to a range of morning 70s to near 80: IT won't get any cooler. Maybe you can help refit those drones to drop water instead of hellfires.... The AF could sure use some.....LMFAO....;} #Parts of Air Force Academy evacuated as Colorado fire ragesLos Angeles Times - 4 hours agoWOODLAND PARK, Colo. — More than 2100 residents on the Air Force Academy grounds were among about 32000 people being evacuated ...
The Somalis are escaping ConocoPhillips War for the Oil. CLimate change is secondary here..... Copenhagen climate summit: Five possible scenarios for our future climate With talks in Copenhagen descending into chaos, the prospects for stabilising temperatures below 'dangerous' levels look increasingly slim. Here are five possible scenarios for our future climate Alok Jha * guardian.co.uk, Friday 18 December 2009 12.38 EST http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2 ... -scenarios Just swap out Rio for Copenhagen and change the date to now..... :? 8-) O and 2C degree rise already here. So that one's baked in. 3C on the way within less than 10 years now.
#368. To: All (#367) We've passed this point....;} 1C – Vital for low-lying island states but virtually impossible The Arctic sea ice is already disappearing and, after a 1C global average temperature rise, it would disappear for good in the summer months. Heatwaves and forest fires will become more common in the sub-tropics – worst-hit will be the Mediterranean region, southern Africa, Australia and south-west United States. Most of the world's corals will die, including the Great Barrier Reef. 062112
And as of 062112.... we've now passed this one..... 2C – The temperature limit the scientists want The heatwaves seen in Europe during 2003, which killed tens of thousands of people, will come back every year with a 2C global average temperature rise. Southern England will regularly see temperatures around 40C in summer. The Amazon turns into desert and grasslands, while increasing CO2 levels in the atmosphere make the world's oceans too acidic for remaining coral reefs and thousands of other marine lifeforms. More than 60 million people, mainly in Africa, would be exposed to higher rates of malaria. You are here. Greece: Strike leader George Sifonios with fellow workers at the gates of the Elliniki Halyvourgia steelworks, which was shut down after they refused to accept a 40% pay cut. Photograph: Andy Hall for the Guardian It's hot, pushing 40C, so the men are mostly hugging the deep pools of shade that are now all that's offered them by the factory where they used to work. They're sitting on cheap plastic garden chairs, drinking iced water and coffee and playing backgammon. Britain braced for hottest day of the year Temperatures in London and south-east expected to reach high of 29C and sunshine to continue into the weekend * guardian.co.uk, Thursday 24 May 2012 06.03 EDT And then, after the Drought..... # Flooding hits northern England after torrential rain BBC News - 4 days ago Large parts of northern England are flooded, with up to 500 properties affected, after a month's worth of rain fell in a day, the Environment ...
#371. To: All (#0) The West Antarctic ice sheet collapses, the Greenland ice sheet melts and the world's sea level begins to rise by seven metres over the next few hundred years. We won't see but the next maybe 10 years of this: 3C – Looking increasingly likely After a 3C global temperature rise, global warming may run out of control and efforts to mitigate it may be in vain. Millions of square kilometres of Amazon rainforest could burn down, releasing carbon from the wood, leaves and soil and thus making the warming even worse, perhaps by another 1.5C.
mcgowanjm * Profile * Private message User avatar VIP VIP Posts: 4556 Joined: Tue Nov 09, 2010 11:23 am Post Wed Jun 27, 2012 8:51 am by mcgowanjm Re: World Markets - URL Post Wed Jun 27, 2012 8:51 am by mcgowanjm At 3C, coming within 10 years now: In southern Africa, Australia and the western US, deserts take over. Billions of people are forced to move from their traditional agricultural lands, in search of scarcer food and water. Around 30-50% less water is available in Africa and around the Mediterranean. In the UK, summers of droughts are followed by winter floods. Sea levels rise to engulf small islands and low-lying areas such as Florida, New York and London. The Gulf Stream, which warms the UK all year round, will decline and changes in weather patterns will lead to higher sea levels at the Atlantic coasts.
When you guys get tired of fighting the USAF Academy Fires.....;} #373. To: All (#372) (Edited) There's a very good reason scientists don't model a 4C rise....;} 4C - Possible with an extremely weak deal (And LMFu ckingAO, I just figured what 'extemely weak deal' meant.... Copenhagen was WORSE than an extremely weak deal. OBAMA was hustling from one room to another to force his gruel onto the peasants. The Latest RIO doc doesn't even have numbers/targets.....;}" At this stage, the Arctic permafrost enters the danger zone. The methane and carbon dioxide currently locked in the soils will be released into the atmosphere. At the Arctic itself, the ice cover would disappear permanently, meaning extinction for polar bears and other native species that rely on the presence of ice. Further melting of Antarctic ice sheets would mean a further 5m rise in the sea level, submerging many island nations. Italy, Spain, Greece and Turkey become deserts and mid-Europe reaches desert temperatures of almost 50C in summer. Southern England's summer climate could resemble that of modern southern Morocco. Within 15 years. mcgowanjm
#375. To: Robin (#374) The ONLY thing that 'saves' us. You can see Day After Tomorrow for the accurate portrayal....;} Anything North of Missouri.....ice. ----------------------------------- At 15 years from 062112.... :roll: :shock: :twisted: 5C and above – Highly unlikely nightmare scenario NEW NEWS UKGuardian from 2009....;} With a 5C rise, global average temperatures would be hotter than for 50m years. The Arctic region sees temperatures rise much higher than average – up to 20C – meaning the entire Arctic is now ice-free all year round. Most of the tropics, sub-tropics and even lower mid-latitudes are too hot to be inhabitable. The sea level rise is now sufficiently rapid that coastal cities across the world are largely abandoned. Above 6C, there would be a danger of "runaway warming", perhaps spurred by release of oceanic methane hydrates. We'll be gone by then. Ticks, chiggers, cockroaches and skeeters will be looking for any mammal they can find....most likely no bigger than a raccoon.
NEW NEWS UKGuardian from 2009....;} And this was BS even then. Anyone postulating climatechange KNEW that after 400 PPM of CO2 (now in the Arctic;) and a 2C+ rise, runaway kicks in. The Durban post-mortem begins | News | Business www.ben-global.com/.../The_Durban_postmortem_begins_9380.asp Dec 12, 2011 – The world was on track for a 6 degree C increase by 2035 and at current infrastructure rates was using about 80% of emissions needed to stay ... We're done – Guy McPherson's blog guymcpherson.com/2012/06/were-done/ And because of positive feedbacks, 2 C leads directly and rapidly to 6 C, ...... just to point out another dubious claim, the 6 degree celsius rise by 2035 figure ...
Re: World Markets - URL Post Wed Jun 27, 2012 9:25 am by mcgowanjm Start watching for news of: Fram and Davis Straits Greenland and Ocean Heat Flux: * Arctic sea ice shrinks to lowest June extent ever observed - Alaska Dispatch * Atlantic Heat Constrains Arctic Sea Ice Extent - Science Daily (press release) * Arctic sea ice enters its final decline (2) - Record-Searchlight (blog)
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ARCUS June Sea Ice Outlook – The ‘New Normal’ Posted on June 21, 2012 by Anthony Watts From ARCUS: I’m late getting this posted, apologies. WUWT comes in third highest, same position we were last year. My thanks to Helen Wiggins for allowing us to enter again this year. – Anthony With 19 responses for the Pan-Arctic Outlook (plus 6 regional Outlook contributions), the June Sea Ice Outlook projects a September 2012 arctic sea extent median value of 4.4 million square kilometers, with quartiles of 4.3 and 4.7 million square kilometers (Figure 1). This compares to observed September values of 4.6 in 2011, 4.9 in 2010, and 5.4 in 2009. Both the 2012 quartile values and the range (4.1 to 4.9) are quite narrow. The 2012 June Outlook differs from all previous Outlooks in that there are no projections of extent greater than 5.0. It is always important to note for context that all 2012 estimates are well below the 1979–2007 September mean of 6.7 million square kilometers. Figure 1. Distribution of individual Pan-Arctic Outlook values (June Report) for September 2012 sea ice extent. Download High Resolution Version of Figure 1. Individual responses are based on a range of methods: statistical, numerical models, comparison with previous rates of sea ice loss, composites of several approaches, estimates based on various non-sea ice datasets and trends, and subjective information. The consensus is for a continued downward trend of September sea ice. It seems that the time may have come to declare that the arctic sea ice has in fact reached a “New Normal.” The physical justification for this statement is based primarily on the loss of old, thick sea ice and the increased mobility of sea ice. An expanded discussion of sea ice age and thickness is included in this month’s full report, which includes new sea ice thickness data from NASA “IceBridge” aircraft flights in March–April 2012. Credit for Sea Ice Outlook Report: Arctic Research Consortium of the US (ARCUS) The Sea Ice Outlook is organized by the Study of Environmental Arctic Change (SEARCH) and the Arctic Research Consortium of the U.S. (ARCUS), with volunteer efforts of Outlook contributors. Funding is provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
wattsupwiththat.com/2012/...e-outlook-the-new-normal/
Exucse me, SJN, while I post this: "Post Wed Jun 27, 2012 10:43 am by mcgowanjm Now let's see...2005...May...2005.... O YEAH..... PO..... :twisted: the CFTC notes, as it produly announces an epic wristslap of $200 million for Barclays Bank: "The Order finds that Barclays attempted to manipulate and made false reports concerning two global benchmark interest rates, LIBOR and Euribor, on numerous occasions and sometimes on a daily basis over a four-year period, commencing as early as 2005." Surely this massive fine will teach them to never do it again, until tomorrow at least, when the British Banker Association once again finds 3 month USD liEbor to be... unchanged. In other news, who would have thought that the fringe "conspiracy" brigade was right all along once again. 062112
HAd to take care of some stuff... Now where was I... O YEAH....Notice how you Never see Israeli's Anywhere near Climate Change? You can't turn on the telly w/o seeing one talking Finance/Military/Gov't Policy... but not. one. Israeli. No person, site, paper. 'O no, my little putz, that's for the goyim', eh? I thought 'Wattsup' had folded their tent. You know, after Heartland had been found out. That the Koch Bros/Exxon had been funding them. And wasn't one of the above funding 'Watts'? So Watts is funded by Heartland. Heartland is funded by ther Koch Bros/XOM. Koch Bros/XOm get Fed subsidies. While ALL of the Above describe Dirty Fu ckin' Hippies as terr'rists. How convenient. 6C degree rise baked in. By 2035. Arctic permanently changed. Not since 15 million years ago. Or 6000, whichever religion your are. And speaking of Fundies, shouldn't you guys be helpin' the USAF (that HotBed of zioFundyism;) fight those fires?
Did you bother with the source links in the article? It's too easy to brush aside with all of the cp crap to use as cover, isn't it?
#1. To: Robin (#0) (Edited) Remember global warming is a myth...... When a segment of the population has adopted a world view that denies science and tells them that global warming is a myth or a whacky scientist conspiracy to destroy capitalism and then the real world not the talk radio world catches up to them there is shock and denial still. These are conditions we have not seen before and to deny that the climate is changing is to deny reality as it burns around you. Seriously, what happened to the GOP? It used to be the party of people who liked reading Latin and going to the Opera. Now the GOP has become the party where the members would rather watch a rerun of "Hee Haw" than Masterpiece Theater. Destro posted on 2012-06-27 10:29:24 ET Reply Trace Private Reply #2. To: Destro (#1) And although Greenland’s ice sheets used to get new blankets of snow year-round, Box reports “there’s been little summertime snowfall over the ice sheets since about 2006.” With the Arctic a potent driver of climate across the globe, change at the top of the world will have repercussions elsewhere. Altered wind patterns appear to be one of the earliest symptoms, Richter-Menge says. Over the past several winters, she notes, “we’ve seen where the cold Arctic air isn’t staying in the Arctic any more, but breaking out to head south” into temperate regions. Meanwhile, the more southerly air it’s displacing has been drawn northward, leading to unusually warm Arctic winters. The report’s big take-home message, she says: “These changes represent a persistent condition” — with consequences far beyond the Arctic. " Significant Sea Level Rise in a 2-Degree Warming World * Jun 25, 2012 The study is the first to give a comprehensive projection for this long perspective, based on observed sea-level rise over the past millennium, as well as on scenarios for future greenhouse-gas emissions. "Sea-level rise is a hard to quantify, yet critical risk of climate change," says Michiel Schaeffer of Climate Analytics and Wageningen University, lead author of the study. "Due to the long time it takes for the world's ice and water masses to react to global warming, our emissions today determine sea levels for centuries to come." eponline.com/articles/201...degree-warming-world.aspx We're at a 2C Degree rise now....;} mcgowanjm posted on 2012-06-27 12:29:14 ET Reply Trace Private Reply Edit #3. To: All (#2) (Edited) Copenhagen climate summit: Five possible scenarios for our future ... www.guardian.co.uk/.../2009/dec/.../copenhagen-five-climate-scenari... Dec 18, 2009 – ... region, southern Africa, Australia and south-west United States. ... A third of the world's species will become extinct as the 2C rise changes their habitats too ... Millions of square kilometres of Amazon rainforest could burn down, ... 1.5C. In southern Africa, Australia and the western US, deserts take over. The Amazon has now become an Emitter of CO2. Formerly one of the last great Sinks.....;} mcgowanjm
wattsupwiththat.com/2012/...es-on-the-heartland-leak/ UPDATE: 11:45AM -The press release has been added below. One of the key documents is a fabrication UPDATE2: 2:30PM The BBC’s Richard Black slimes me, without so much as asking me a single question (he has my email, I’ve corresponded with him previously) or even understanding what the project is about Hint: Richard, it’s about HIGHS and LOWS, not trends. No journalistic integrity with this one. – Anthony I’m surprised at the number of articles out there on this where journalists have not bothered to ask me for a statement, but rather rely on their own opinion. To date, only Suzanne Goldenberg of the Guardian has asked for a statement, and she used very little of it in her article. Her colleague, Leo Hickman asked me no questions at all for his article, but instead relied on a comment I sent to Bishop Hill. So much for journalism. (Update: In response to Hickman, Lucia asks What’s horrible about this?) (Update: 10:45AM Seth Borenstein of the AP has contacted me and I note that has waited until he can get some kind of confirmation that these documents are real. The Heartland press release is something he’s waiting for. Contacting involved parties is the right way to investigate this story.) Here’s the query from Goldenberg: Name: Suzanne Goldenberg Email: suzanne.goldenberg@xxx.xxx Website: www.guardian.co.uk Message: Hello, I am seeking comment on the leak of the Heartland documents by Desmogblog which appear to suggest you are funded by them. Is this accurate? Thanks MY REPLY: =============================================================== Heartland simply helped me find a donor for funding a special project having to do with presenting some new NOAA surface data in a public friendly graphical form, something NOAA themselves is not doing, but should be. I approached them in the fall of 2011 asking for help, on this project not the other way around. They do not regularly fund me nor my WUWT website, I take no salary from them of any kind. It is simply for this special project requiring specialized servers, ingest systems, and plotting systems. They also don’t tell me what the project should look like, I came up with the idea and the design. The NOAA data will be displayed without any adjustments to allow easy side-by-side comparisons of stations, plus other graphical representations output 24/7/365. Doing this requires programming, system design, and bandwidth, which isn’t free and I could not do on my own. Compare the funding I asked for initially to get it started to the millions some other outfits (such as CRU) get in the UK for studies that then end up as a science paper behind a publishers paywall, making the public pay again. My project will be a free public service when finished. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Description from the same (Heartland) documents: Weather Stations Project Every few months, weathermen report that a temperature record – either high or low – has been broken somewhere in the U.S. This is not surprising, since weather is highly variable and reliable instrument records date back less than 100 years old. Regrettably, news of these broken records is often used by environmental extremists as evidence that human emissions are causing either global warming or the more ambiguous “climate change.” Anthony Watts, a meteorologist who hosts WattsUpwithThat.com, one of the most popular and influential science blogs in the world, has documented that many of the temperature stations relied on by weathermen are compromised by heat radiating from nearby buildings, machines, or paved surfaces. It is not uncommon for these stations to over-state temperatures by 3 or 4 degrees or more, enough to set spurious records. Because of Watts’ past work exposing flaws in the current network of temperature stations (work that The Heartland Institute supported and promoted), the National Aeronautics and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the government agency responsible for maintaining temperature stations in the U.S., has designated a new network of higher-quality temperature stations that meet its citing specifications. Unfortunately, NOAA doesn’t widely publicize data from this new network, and puts raw data in spreadsheets buried on one of its Web sites. Anthony Watts proposes to create a new Web site devoted to accessing the new temperature data from NOAA’s web site and converting them into easy-to-understand graphs that can be easily found and understood by weathermen and the general interested public. Watts has deep expertise in Web site design generally and is well-known and highly regarded by weathermen and meteorologists everywhere. The new site will be promoted heavily at WattsUpwithThat.com. Heartland has agreed to help Anthony raise $88,000 for the project in 2011. The Anonymous Donor has already pledged $44,000. We’ll seek to raise the balance. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ DeSmog, as part of their public relations for hire methodology to demonize skeptics, will of course try to find nefarious motives for this project. But there simply are none here. It’s something that needs doing because NOAA hasn’t made this new data available in a user friendly visual format. For example, here’s a private company website that tracks highs and low records using NOAA data: mapcenter.hamweather.com/records/yesterday/us.html NOAA doesn’t make any kind of presentation like that either, which is why such things are often done by private ventures. ================================================================ That above is what I sent to the Guardian, and also in a comment to Bishop Hill. The reaction has been interesting, particularly since the David-Goliath nature of funding is laid bare here. For example, Al Gore says he started a 300 million dollar advertising campaign. The Daily Bayonet sums it up pretty well: Hippies hate Heartland « The Daily Bayonet What the Heartland document show is how badly warmists have been beaten by those with a fraction of the resources they’ve enjoyed. Al Gore spent $300 million advertising the global warming hoax. Greenpeace, the WWF, the Sierra Club, The Natural Resources Defense Council, NASA, NOAA, the UN and nation states have collectively poured billions into climate research, alternative energies and propaganda, supported along the way by most of the broadcast and print media. Yet they’ve been thwarted by a few honest scientists, a number of blogs and a small pile of cash from Heartland. Here’s a clue for DeSmog, Joe Romm and other warmists enjoying a little schadenfreude today. It’s not the money that’s beating you, it’s the message. Your climate fear-mongering backfired. You cried wolf so often the villagers stopped listening. Then Climategate I & II gave the world a peek behind the curtain into the shady practices, petty-feuding and data-manipulation that seems to pass for routine in climate ‘science’. So enjoy the moment, warmists, because what this episode really demonstrates to the world is how little money was needed to bring the greatest scam in history to its knees. That’s not something I’d think you’d want to advertise, but knock yourselves out. It’s what you do best. I see none of the same people at the Guardian or the blogs complaining about this: Dr. James Hansen’s growing financial scandal, now over a million dollars of outside income NASA records released to resolve litigation filed by the American Tradition Institute reveal that Dr. James E. Hansen, an astronomer, received approximately $1.6 million in outside, direct cash income in the past five years for work related to — and, according to his benefactors, often expressly for — his public service as a global warming activist within NASA. This does not include six-figure income over that period in travel expenses to fly around the world to receive money from outside interests. As specifically detailed below, Hansen failed to report tens of thousands of dollars in global travel provided to him by outside parties — including to London, Paris, Rome, Oslo, Tokyo, the Austrian Alps, Bilbao, California, Australia and elsewhere, often business or first-class and also often paying for his wife as well — to receive honoraria to speak about the topic of his taxpayer-funded employment, or get cash awards for his activism and even for his past testimony and other work for NASA. (Update: Dr. Hansen responds here) Or the NGO’s and their budgets (thanks Tom Nelson) With tiny budgets like $310 million, $100 million, and $95 million respectively, how can lovable underdogs like Greenpeace, Sierra Club, and NRDC *ever* hope to compete with mighty Heartland’s $6.5 million? Heartland Institute budget and strategy revealed | Deep Climate Heartland is projecting a boost in revenues from $4.6 million in 2011, to $7.7 million in 2012. That will enable an operating budget of $6.5 million, as well as topping up the fund balance a further $1.2 million. [Sept 2011]: Greenpeace Environmental Group Turns 40 Greenpeace International, based in Amsterdam, now has offices in more than 40 countries and claims some 2.8 million supporters. Its 1,200-strong staff ranges from “direct action” activists to scientific researchers. Last year, its budget reached $310 million. [Nov 2011]: Sierra Club Leader Will Step Down – NYTimes.com He said the Sierra Club had just approved the organization’s largest annual budget ever, about $100 million for 2012, up from $88 million this year. [Oct 2011]: Do green groups need to get religion? That’s Peter Lehner talking. Peter, a 52-year-old environmental lawyer, is executive director of the Natural Resources Defense Council, one of America’s most important environmental groups. The NRDC has a $95 million budget, about 400 employees and about 1.3 million members. They’re big and they represent a lot of people. But me and my little temperature web project to provide a public service are the real baddies here apparently. The dichotomy is stunning. Some additional added notes: “Because of Watts’ past work exposing flaws in the current network of temperature stations (work that The Heartland Institute supported and promoted), the National Aeronautics and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the government agency responsible for maintaining temperature stations in the U.S., has designated a new network of higher-quality temperature stations that meet its citing specifications.” For the record, and as previously cited on WUWT, NCDC started on the new network in 2003 www.ncdc.noaa.gov/crn/annual-reports.html Heartland may have confused the Climate Reference Network with the updated COOP/USHCN modernization network which did indeed start after my surfacestations project: What the modernized USHCN will look like (April 29, 2008) They then asked for 100 million to update it NOAA/NCDC – USHCN is broken please send 100 million dollars (Sept 21, 2010) ### Moderators, do your best to keep the sort of hateful messages I’ve been getting in the past 18 hours in check in comments below. Please direct related comments from other threads to this one. Commenters please note the site policy. ============================================================= PRESS RELEASE 11:45 AM – source heartland.org/press-relea...stolen-and-fake-documents FEBRUARY 15, 2012 – The following statement from The Heartland Institute – a free-market think tank – may be used for attribution. For more information, contact Communications Director Jim Lakely at jlakely@heartland.org and 312/377-4000. Yesterday afternoon, two advocacy groups posted online several documents they claimed were The Heartland Institute’s 2012 budget, fundraising, and strategy plans. Some of these documents were stolen from Heartland, at least one is a fake, and some may have been altered. The stolen documents appear to have been written by Heartland’s president for a board meeting that took place on January 17. He was traveling at the time this story broke yesterday afternoon and still has not had the opportunity to read them all to see if they were altered. Therefore, the authenticity of those documents has not been confirmed. Since then, the documents have been widely reposted on the Internet, again with no effort to confirm their authenticity. One document, titled “Confidential Memo: 2012 Heartland Climate Strategy,” is a total fake apparently intended to defame and discredit The Heartland Institute. It was not written by anyone associated with The Heartland Institute. It does not express Heartland’s goals, plans, or tactics. It contains several obvious and gross misstatements of fact. We respectfully ask all activists, bloggers, and other journalists to immediately remove all of these documents and any quotations taken from them, especially the fake “climate strategy” memo and any quotations from the same, from their blogs, Web sites, and publications, and to publish retractions. The individuals who have commented so far on these documents did not wait for Heartland to confirm or deny the authenticity of the documents. We believe their actions constitute civil and possibly criminal offenses for which we plan to pursue charges and collect payment for damages, including damages to our reputation. We ask them in particular to immediately remove these documents and all statements about them from the blogs, Web sites, and publications, and to publish retractions. How did this happen? The stolen documents were obtained by an unknown person who fraudulently assumed the identity of a Heartland board member and persuaded a staff member here to “re-send” board materials to a new email address. Identity theft and computer fraud are criminal offenses subject to imprisonment. We intend to find this person and see him or her put in prison for these crimes. Apologies: The Heartland Institute apologizes to the donors whose identities were revealed by this theft. We promise anonymity to many of our donors, and we realize that the major reason these documents were stolen and faked was to make it more difficult for donors to support our work. We also apologize to Heartland staff, directors, and our allies in the fight to bring sound science to the global warming debate, who have had their privacy violated and their integrity impugned. Lessons: Disagreement over the causes, consequences, and best policy responses to climate change runs deep. We understand that. But honest disagreement should never be used to justify the criminal acts and fraud that occurred in the past 24 hours. As a matter of common decency and journalistic ethics, we ask everyone in the climate change debate to sit back and think about what just happened. Those persons who posted these documents and wrote about them before we had a chance to comment on their authenticity should be ashamed of their deeds, and their bad behavior should be taken into account when judging their credibility now and in the future.
Don't know why that comforts you. Here's a better way to look at it.... Melt Accelerating. So by September you're looking at a plus 1600 GigaTon melt.
Not anymore! roflmao
You are aware are you not that there is always a summer sea ice melt.
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#1417. To: mcgowanjm (#1376)
ignorance knows no bounds....;}
#1418. To: mcgowanjm, Liberator, A K A Stone (#1392)
Notice the thread?
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#1421. To: mcgowanjm (#1416)
Waiting for the 'pilots' condition.
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#1425. To: redleghunter (#1421)
So you now think the Turks used drones to cause a NATO outlash?
#1426. To: Mad DogLOL! That's all that you have, (#1420)
LOL! That's all that you have,
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#1430. To: mcgowanjm (#1425)
No. The USSA used the drone.
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MD; LOL!
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5C and above – Highly unlikely nightmare scenario
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#1449. To: SJN (#1448)
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/06/21/arcus-june-sea-ice-outlook-the-new-normal/
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The stolen documents were obtained by an unknown person
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