Thursday, November 01, 2007

Chicago Asslibs embrace Paganism

1. Chicago Jews abandon Judaism for PC avoda zara:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/915906.html
and also

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/rosnerBlog.jhtml?itemNo=917788&contrassID=25&subContrassID=0&sbSubContrassID=1&listSrc=Y&art=1


2. You may not like what she said about "imperfected Jews," but here is
Coulter on the ADL:

http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=D3B08D44-E1A6-4996-B19D-2F35624B45CB


3. The Seven Swastikas at George Washington University:

http://media.www.gwhatchet.com/media/storage/paper332/news/2007/10/29/News/University.Seventh.Swastika.Not.Yet.Hate.Crime-3066401.shtml


4. From one of America's leading Holocaust Denial web sites:

http://www.rense.com/ufo3/newiscircle.htm and

http://www.rense.com/ufo/israelcornfield.htm
and http://www.rense.com/ufo2/realthing.htm and

http://www.rense.com/ufo2/midaircrash.htm and

http://www.rense.com/ufo/tri.htm and

http://www.rense.com/ufo/stunningisrael.htm
and of course http://www.rense.com/general62/meth.htm


5. November 1, 2007
COMMENTARY

My Nobel Moment
By JOHN R. CHRISTY
November 1, 2007; Page A19
I've had a lot of fun recently with my tiny (and unofficial) slice of the
2007 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change (IPCC). But, though I was one of thousands of IPCC participants, I
don't think I will add "0.0001 Nobel Laureate" to my resume.
The other half of the prize was awarded to former Vice President Al Gore,
whose carbon footprint would stomp my neighborhood flat. But that's
another story.


Large icebergs in the Weddell Sea, Antarctica. Winter sea ice around the
continent set a record maximum last month.
Both halves of the award honor promoting the message that Earth's
temperature is rising due to human-based emissions of greenhouse gases.
The Nobel committee praises Mr. Gore and the IPCC for alerting us to a
potential catastrophe and for spurring us to a carbonless economy.
I'm sure the majority (but not all) of my IPCC colleagues cringe when I
say this, but I see neither the developing catastrophe nor the smoking gun
proving that human activity is to blame for most of the warming we see.
Rather, I see a reliance on climate models (useful but never "proof") and
the coincidence that changes in carbon dioxide and global temperatures
have loose similarity over time.
There are some of us who remain so humbled by the task of measuring and
understanding the extraordinarily complex climate system that we are
skeptical of our ability to know what it is doing and why. As we build
climate data sets from scratch and look into the guts of the climate
system, however, we don't find the alarmist theory matching observations.
(The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration satellite data we
analyze at the University of Alabama in Huntsville does show modest
warming -- around 2.5 degrees Fahrenheit per century, if current warming
trends of 0.25 degrees per decade continue.)
It is my turn to cringe when I hear overstated-confidence from those who
describe the projected evolution of global weather patterns over the next
100 years, especially when I consider how difficult it is to accurately
predict that system's behavior over the next five days.
Mother Nature simply operates at a level of complexity that is, at this
point, beyond the mastery of mere mortals (such as scientists) and the
tools available to us. As my high-school physics teacher admonished us in
those we-shall-conquer-the-world-with-a-slide-rule days, "Begin all of
your scientific pronouncements with 'At our present level of ignorance, we
think we know . . .'"
I haven't seen that type of climate humility lately. Rather I see
jump-to-conclusions advocates and, unfortunately, some scientists who see
in every weather anomaly the specter of a global-warming apocalypse.
Explaining each successive phenomenon as a result of human action gives
them comfort and an easy answer.
Others of us scratch our heads and try to understand the real causes
behind what we see. We discount the possibility that everything is caused
by human actions, because everything we've seen the climate do has
happened before. Sea levels rise and fall continually. The Arctic ice cap
has shrunk before. One millennium there are hippos swimming in the Thames,
and a geological blink later there is an ice bridge linking Asia and North
America.
One of the challenges in studying global climate is keeping a global
perspective, especially when much of the research focuses on data gathered
from spots around the globe. Often observations from one region get more
attention than equally valid data from another.
The recent CNN report "Planet in Peril," for instance, spent considerable
time discussing shrinking Arctic sea ice cover. CNN did not note that
winter sea ice around Antarctica last month set a record maximum (yes,
maximum) for coverage since aerial measurements started.
Then there is the challenge of translating global trends to local climate.
For instance, hasn't global warming led to the five-year drought and fires
in the U.S. Southwest?
Not necessarily.
There has been a drought, but it would be a stretch to link this drought
to carbon dioxide. If you look at the 1,000-year climate record for the
western U.S. you will see not five-year but 50-year-long droughts. The
12th and 13th centuries were particularly dry. The inconvenient truth is
that the last century has been fairly benign in the American West. A
return to the region's long-term "normal" climate would present huge
challenges for urban planners.
Without a doubt, atmospheric carbon dioxide is increasing due primarily to
carbon-based energy production (with its undisputed benefits to humanity)
and many people ardently believe we must "do something" about its alleged
consequence, global warming. This might seem like a legitimate concern
given the potential disasters that are announced almost daily, so I've
looked at a couple of ways in which humans might reduce CO2 emissions and
their impact on temperatures.
California and some Northeastern states have decided to force their
residents to buy cars that average 43 miles-per-gallon within the next
decade. Even if you applied this law to the entire world, the net effect
would reduce projected warming by about 0.05 degrees Fahrenheit by 2100,
an amount so minuscule as to be undetectable. Global temperatures vary
more than that from day to day.
Suppose you are very serious about making a dent in carbon emissions and
could replace about 10% of the world's energy sources with
non-CO2-emitting nuclear power by 2020 -- roughly equivalent to halving
U.S. emissions. Based on IPCC-like projections, the required 1,000 new
nuclear power plants would slow the warming by about 0.2 ?176 degrees
Fahrenheit per century. It's a dent.
But what is the economic and human price, and what is it worth given the
scientific uncertainty?
My experience as a missionary teacher in Africa opened my eyes to this
simple fact: Without access to energy, life is brutal and short. The
uncertain impacts of global warming far in the future must be weighed
against disasters at our doorsteps today. Bjorn Lomborg's Copenhagen
Consensus 2004, a cost-benefit analysis of health issues by leading
economists (including three Nobelists), calculated that spending on health
issues such as micronutrients for children, HIV/AIDS and water
purification has benefits 50 to 200 times those of attempting to
marginally limit "global warming."
Given the scientific uncertainty and our relative impotence regarding
climate change, the moral imperative here seems clear to me.
Mr. Christy is director of the Earth System Science Center at the
University of Alabama in Huntsville and a participant in the U.N.'s
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, co-recipient of this year's
Nobel Peace Prize.
URL for this article:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB119387567378878423.html






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