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There is a new Zogby poll on public attitudes in the US towards global warming and the potential connection between severe weather events and climate change.
Unsurprisingly to us (but maybe not to others), most of the US public feel that global warming is happening (around 70%), and roughly the same amount of people report being more or much more convinced of this over the last two years.
More interestingly, the pollsters asked whether people believed that global warming was having an effect on intense hurricanes, droughts, heat waves and the like. Again, roughly 70% of people thought that global warming was having either some effect or a major effect on these weather extremes (note that the question was not phrased to ask whether any specific event was thought likely to have been caused by global warming (which was probably a good choice)).
This begs the question whether people’s experience of severe weather has convinced them that climate change is occuring. Televangelist Pat Robertson, for instance, said very recently that it was the latest heat wave that finally convinced him. I think this is likely to be true for most of the public who are not following the issue very carefully (which is most of them of course!). The most significant single event in this context was probably Katrina, regardless of how much climate change can or can’t be associated with Katrina the Hurricane (let alone Katrina the Disaster!).
I would guess that this is likely to be a very common way for public opinion to be formed across a whole number of issues. That is, when a dominant theme is very prevalent across a wide spectra of media, everyday occurrences or new information are often processed with that in mind, and given our extraordinary ability to see patterns in noisy data, we often end up associating the theme with our own experiences. Other examples surely abound in medical or political contexts.
Given that pattern, it is probably overly optimistic to expect scientists, who continually stress that single weather events can’t in general be attributed to climate change but that changes in statistics might be, to have much success in conveying these finer points to the public directly. Instead, their skills are probably best used in clarifying these points to those (e.g. journalists, policy-makers) that set the dominant themes in the first place.
This poll is very good news. My brother is a journalist, and he and I had a long conversation recently about how climate science is reported. His basic view is that the media, as a business, essentially has to base their reporting on the public’s understanding of an issue. As long as the public continued to view climate change as a “controversy”, taking a side was viewed as biased. I pointed out that the media has continued to report the “controversy” long after the climate community reached consensus, and did so be reporting the opinions non-climate scientists as a counterpoint to true climate scientists. To which his reply was to remind me that I was a “skeptic” in 1999-2001, and because I was not convinced that climate change was definitively anthropogenic (I basically stand by that, as at the time we still hadn’t established things like whether the ocean is a net source or sink of carbon) I was against conclusively ruling out natural variability. I have since become convinced that natural variability is not responsible, as more and more work has been done.
The upshot is that it takes time to change the popular narrative, even with an engaged press. If the public has come around to seeing that global warming is real and anthropogenic, we can hold out some hope of political progress. But it’s still going to be awfully slow going to convince people of the pressing nature of the risks.
I posted this under the previous topic. In contrast with the Zogby poll, the Pew Center poll conducted last June found that 41% viewed global warming as “very serious” and 33% said “somewhat serious”. Only 41% agreed global warming is due to human activity. So most Americans appear to believe global warming is a problem, but a majority does not believe it is due to human activity. So convincing the American public that GHG emissions need to be reduced remains to be accomplished, according to this poll. You can see the poll results at http://people-press.org/reports/display.php3?ReportID=280. It would be interesting to have the Pew Center poll run again since the June poll preceded the heat wave and the Inconvenient Truth movie.
There’s a lot of research in the psychology litereature about how folks detect trends. The one I always point to is a phenomena called “depressive realism”. Subjects were given randomly blinking lights and a control panel that did nothing to the pattern of blinks. They were told to learn how to control the lights by experimenting with the switches. “Normals” said that they were learning to control the lights, and clinically depressed folks said that the switches didn’t do anything. Why the actual phenomena wasn’t called adaptive optimism or something like that puzzles me. But it does reflect on how the public may put off endorsing strong moves against climate change assuming that they have more control available than is the case.
The “vast right-wing conspirators” ;-) know this all too well, and that’s why FauxNews works so well. The same “noise” is re-re-repeated so often that for some people it becomes their reality. Anyway, that’s how I explain the ’04 election. It’s nice to know that the mainstream media include just enough good noise about climate change to have a positive effect on publicly held reality.
I’m not convinced that, as Eric phrased it, we can “rule out” natural variablity. A lot has been accomplished in disseminating the evidence that natural variablity plays a small role in the current unfolding changes of climate, and that’s all to the good. But the idea of excluding any of the forcings from public scruting seems risky because the varied forcings can gang up on us, in cumulative effect.
When I talk about natural variablity to people who are curious about these questions, I tell them that one of the spookiest scenarios is that where natural variablity turns against us at a time when greenhouse forcing is already creating plenty of risk. Double whammy? There may not be a lot of evidence for that right now, but remember, greenhouse forcing has committed to some risk for one to three or more centuries, which offers plenty of opportunity for risks that don’t seem imminent today.
As I understand it, there are at least four kinds of climate change: natural variation, greenhouse forcing, land-use forcing, and particle forcing (associated with cloud formations that lead to cooling). In the latter case, we’d see a potentially risky situation if efforts to introduce particles happens to be followed by a major volcanic eruption that pushes the cooling in the direction of the Little Dryas.
University students seem to quickly grasp that the varieties of climatic change can combine, interact, producing a cumulative effect. Maybe the general public can benefit from inclusive discussion of such scenarios.
This is also an effect of the pernicious effect of “he said, she said” faux balance journalism. Reputable journalists are creating an impression of a “split decision” from the experts, while at the same time disreputable journalists and political leaders are aggressively pushing the denialist message. The net impression (depending on one’s mix of news sources and one’s gullibility) is that the denialists have the edge.
Ok 70% believe, but the more telling part in the poll is the attitude that major industries should reduce their greenhouse gas emissions to improve the environment without harming the economy. Translation, the global warming stuff is horrible, but don’t ask/require me to do anything.
Lance your concerns are well founded. The network of forcings is complex. There is both constructive and destructive interference between them all. “Rogue waves” are not only possible but in the long run probable. I’d hate to contribute to a “rogue wave” by trying to “fix” the climate.
In an older topic earlier today, I cited how PR firms are packing weblogs with their spam.
A poll wouldn’t be susceptible to astroturf — which suggests the weblogs that are so full of denial don’t represent the public, and that people polled have started to understand there’s a problem.
Of course a single weather event like Katrina can be “attributed” to climate change.
If someone smokes two packs a day of cigarettes for decades and then dies of lung cancer, it is entirely appropriate to “attribute” his death from lung cancer to his tobacco smoking, even though some individuals may smoke just as much tobacco for just as long and never get lung cancer, and other individuals who have never smoked tobacco at all get lung cancer and die.
We know from epidemiology that there is a correlation between smoking tobacco and death from lung cancer, we know the biophysical mechanisms by which the carcinogenic constituents of tobacco smoke cause cancer, and so when we know that a person who died from lung cancer was a lifelong smoker, it is entirely reasonable to attribute his death to smoking.
Similarly, we know that there is a correlation between observed anthropogenic global warming of the ocean surface waters and the observed increase in the size, power and duration of hurricanes, and we know the physical mechanism by which anthropogenic global warming causes bigger and more powerful hurricanes (and indeed in the specific case of Katrina, it was clearly the abnormally warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico that caused it to explode into a monster after it passed over Florida), so, similarly, it is entirely reasonable to attribute Katrina to anthropogenic global warming.
I really think that scientists should stop saying that individual extreme weather events cannot be “linked to” or “attributed to” anthropogenic climate change. Of course they can.
[Response: This soon becomes a debate about the meaning of words like “attribute”. Clearly, it would not be scientifically correct to say about an individual that “he died of cancer because he smoked”, because you can’t be sure about this. You could say “he probably died because he smoked”, which reflects that we know he greatly increased his risk of getting lung cancer by smoking, but there is also a random component to it.
Polls like this one (and an earlier poll looking at similar attitudes in other countries) show a growing acceptance that climate change is a real phenomenon. But like in all political polls, you all need to know the intensity of the opinion/feeling and how it ranks in terms of action people think the government should take. It is hear that I still think we have some way to go.
It seems to me you have it exactly backwards, but I don’t know how to explain it as the analogy you used is a very good one to support the opposite point. You can not prove what caused the individual’s lung cancer, though a strong statistical correlation in a population makes that a less than interesting fact when deciding to light up or not.
WRT Katrina and the summer heat wave convincing people that GW is here and now and a problem, I guess this is just people holding the correct opinion for the wrong reasons and let’s accept it with gratitude.
It is a dangerous thing to purposely use such things in a misleading way, though, as the next cold snap makes you look like a liar!
The population is full of misconceptions, I for one do not rank the misconception that Katrina was caused by CO2 as a high priority to correct. I would not say it, and will correct people who say it to me, but I don’t feel any urge to go out of my way to stamp it out.
As more public opinion polls stack up–expressing meaningful collective awareness that humans are a factor in altering climate–the issue will be significant fodder for political election discourse.
However, what solutions will be ultimately proposed, and the actual effectiveness, holds my keen interest.
In the course of implementing a near zero carbon lifestyle and economy (that seems to be possible with current technology), it will be interesting how the huge financial stakeholders (coal, oil, nuclear) leverage their media and influence. For example, Paul Scott, of PlugInAmerica, has told me he drives all year, and powers his home using solar (PV) generated electrons. This kind of decentralized power generation, while empowering individuals, changes the order of things with some winners and some losers.
In agreement, Iâ��d submit the public awareness shift is result of recent Broadcast TV, cable, magazine, Gore movie, and other alternative media climate themed showings–more than any widespread deep cognitive understanding of the issues. Still heartening news, nonetheless.
Climate is constantly changing. If you asked these same people if they would rather have the same weather as 250 years ago, they would all say yes. Hell, that was the last part of a mini Ice Age. We have been living in what has probably been the optimum time for our species.
We shloud not expect it to continue indefinitely.
I think there is an issue with journalists being sufficiently informed to challenge the politicians that try to shirk their responsibilities with regard to global warming.
Too often I see articles in which journalists simply accept politicians comments unequivocally. There was a rare case in Australia recently in which a journalist actually challenged a politician on his carbon pricing policy. In this case the politician ended up looking pretty silly, if only more could do the same.
The situation in Australia is not great in this regard. Our prime minister has decided not to support emissions trading, and even though our states have banded together to create a scheme, there doesn’t seem to be much hope that it is going to get off the ground.
#6, Natural variability is fine, it happens as often as a change of winds, you must take a look, say with a view from the International Space station instead of a look from your living room window.
Global average temperatures do not deny natural variability, but they show a constant trend, upwards, not like a roller coaster, natural variations occur with ever changing weather systems constantly. A look at the world from afar offers a different conclusion, the back yard view is much more variable, should not be applied convincingly for AGW arguments, not in times of climatic transitions..
RE: #15 – Let me share how I run my factory. I look at yield and fall out weekly, QTD, rolling 13 week and on even longer time scales. For the shorter time scales, if I “alarm” on a positive spike, I need to make sure that I alarm at a higher alarm limit than I would for an alarm based on one of the longer time series. Do you understand why I do things this way? Do you understand why the level of innate variation in climate is so important to characterize on many different time scales? Do you understand why “constant trend upwards” statements regarding what is, in terms of Earth history, a short time frame, get challenged?
I think the best way to explain all this to uninformed people is the analogy of loaded dice. Admit that many factors affect whether or not any particular event occurs, but one of them is the concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. So increasing that concentration loads the dice in some direction. Climate scientists think they know a reasonable amount about the sort of changes that might occur and an increase of extreme weather events should be one of them. But even if the climate scientists are wrpng about specific predictions, the edfault position should be that something will happen and it is foolhardy to assume it will be benign. The onus should be on those who argue we should continue to increase our emissions of greenhouse gases to show that there will not be significant effects.
I wonder if it might be better to put this another way (when refering to a particular hurricane for example): Similar events are possible without global warming, so individually are not proof, but higher temperatures do increase the average strength of tropical storms and also the average sea level, both of which increase the danger from storm surges.
For perspective let’s not forget that in previous polls 75% of Americans were convinced that Saddam Hussein was behind 9/11!
When they say this I simply respond “Remember it’s global averages that are important”.
Did you read Dr. Curry’s paper? Given the info in table #1 and the fact that we are still 10 years from the peak I’m not sure you are correct when you say this is a “misconception”. Yes, we can’t know for sure with regard to any specific storm but the stats are shocking.
Concern about unpredictable random events shouldn’t be used to determine action. They can either amplify or counteract actions, for good or bad. Global climate change, by itself, is net bad, at least in that people have to move to follow the desired climate, and probably change their technologies. Counteracting it is, in that sense, net good. On the other hand, change is how evolution happens.
If we or nature went too far in cooling the earth, yes, people would have to move. But ice piled high on land at the poles would drop the sea level and make much more land available at shore lines in temperate and tropical areas, plus, on the average, probably improve weather in those areas.
Hank, that’s a good link.
I started the Dano character after watching the spam on TCS, after the then-CA Governor announced a ‘Kyoto-lite’ for the state and that day a number of commenters from Michigan gave instructions on how to start a recall and further detailed actions.
The issue is how certain public dialogue is gamed. I believe that polls can reflect astroturf activity, and that websites can mobilize a demographic to action – galvanization is the key to public action and spam can serve to galvanize. That the poll numbers mentioned in the post are steady, however, may indicate across a broad spectrum spam is ineffective (but I don’t think that’s the point – concentrated action is).
I forgot to include a couple of thoughts on #22. Do what you think is best based on predictable senarios, and be prepared for all most likely outcomes.
Some people don’t think of heat waves as being severe weather events even though heat waves contribute much to many weather related problems: heavy power use, less work, worsening drought, fires and heat fatalities. In the US, July is usually the warmest month of the year.
The first week of August was also very warm in the Midwest and Northeast (4-8 degrees F above ‘normal’ for July 30 – Aug 5, 2006, according to the DOC/DOA Weekly Weather and Crop Bulletin.
How much of the six week (July 1- Aug 6, 2006) heat in the US could be viewed as just due to variability in weather and how much could be viewed as due to global warming?
I wish someone would evaluate the heat released from the munitions in escalating world conflict. This could be a contributing factor also. Climate depends on millions of factors. Since man began to smelt metals the C02 has been on the rise.
I think it is dangerous to be happy that the public believes GW for the wrong reasons. This is suscptible to backfiring on the next reversal.
Scientists could do a lot better in communicating complex ideas – but unfortunately there are few gifted like Carl Sagan to do so. Nevertheless, ensuring that the public understands the basic science would be of immense benefit in counteracting the disinformation promulgated by GW deniers.
I just ran across this weatherman’s view.
This continues to be alarming but not in the way trained professionals like this claim. You have to blame individual political leanings on this. Just Count the fallacies.
re #11 by by SecularAnimist: Sounds much like impeccable and erudite analysis leading to preposterous conclusions. So, some smoke and never get cancer, others don’t smoke and get cancer, and yet others smoke and get cancer. The latter is an AHA! moment???!!! Other than matching some pre-conceived notion, it’s on the surface silly.
I don’t understand the concern over polling. Are we waiting for the right percentage to prove our notion, as in science through democracy? Or is it just the excitment of converting sheep to follow the herd of independent minds? In either case, I’m afraid science is not a democratic process; though advocacy is.
Sorry, I’m just an old lay scientist iconoclast trying to keep everyone’s feet on the ground.
While global warming poses the danger of heavier losses for insurers, the industry has started to mine the business opportunities by offering products aimed at mitigating the environmental problem – along with claims, a new report says.
Some insurers are using new premium credits and risk management programs that will encourage more energy-efficient construction and driving and reduce greenhouse gas emissions, said a study issued Tuesday by the Ceres coalition of investors and environmental groups.
But more companies need to adopt innovative approaches to tackle the problem over the long term, the report said.
Global warming, fueled by the emission of such gases as carbon dioxide, is believed to be changing climate and leading to more intense hurricanes, droughts, floods and wildfires. The study comes nearly a year after Katrina ravaged the Gulf Coast, causing an estimated $45 billion of insured damage, a record for a hurricane.
Many insurers have raised rates, imposed new or higher wind deductibles, and shrunk their business in hurricane-exposed areas, and the report says they’re forgoing about $3 billion a year in premiums as a result. In Florida and Louisiana alone, more than 600,000 homeowners’ policies were dropped or not renewed in the past year, the report said.
The increased risk, however, “creates vast opportunities for new products and services” to help consumers and businesses reduce their losses while reducing pollution and its climate effects, Lubber said.
The report identifies 190 such products and services that are either available or under development at dozens of insurance companies, brokers and other insurance organizations in 16 countries.
Fireman’s Fund, for example, is introducing premium credits for certified “green,” or energy-efficient, commercial buildings. The company also plans new green products, including a provision to replace conventional damaged property with improved energy-efficient property.
The St. Paul Travelers Cos. is rolling out premium discounts for hybrid electric-gasoline vehicles, saying data shows drivers of hybrids are less likely to have accidents than people who drive gasoline-powered vehicles.
Insurers can also provide coverage for carbon-reduction capital projects and consulting services in designing and managing such projects, Ceres said.
In addition, some insurers are stepping in to cover risks involved in “carbon trading.” Many countries are capping their greenhouse gas emissions, and businesses that can’t meet their emissions targets can buy credits from those who are below targets.
American International Group and broker Marsh & McLennan Cos. have launched carbon emissions credit guarantees, and the carbon-trading market in the European Union, alone, is expected to hit $30 billion by the end of this year, the Ceres report said.
I suppose an optimist might say this is a conservative business decision to protect the industry’s bottom line that also provides much-needed incentives for people to make environmentally sound decisions. On the other hand, a pessimist might argue that the insurance industry is merely exploiting AGW to ,and drop risky policies; insurance underwriters will likely benefit whether global warming is real, or not (or less severe than predicted).
A fully developed hurricane can release heat energy at a rate of 5 to 20×10^13 watts and converts less than 10% of the heat into the mechanical energy of the wind. The heat release is equivalent to a 10-megaton nuclear bomb exploding every 20 minutes. According to the 1993 World Almanac, the entire human race used energy at a rate of 10^13 watts in 1990, a rate less than 20% of the power of a hurricane.
Summary: Smaller climate changes than the one we have made so far have caused the fall of many civilizations. Brian Fagan lists more civilizations that fell because of minor climate changes than I ever knew existed.
So what are you going to do when Iowa becomes a desert and the price of bread reaches $10 per slice? Regardless of the cause of the climate change, we have to control the climate or die. We have to keep the climate stable and optimal for the agricultural technology that we already have. New technology can’t be deployed instantly no matter how fast it is invented. And the next famine will be global. We could loose 6 Billion people, including those rich business people and Professor Ball.
Placing responsibility for individual weather events with global warming is a fool’s game. Yet, increased forest fires, more severe and widespread heat waves and draughts, larger and more powerful storms, are all predictable consequences of global warming.
Most predicable, a warming earth will soon start to emit considerably more greenhouse gases than humans. Carbon sinks will become carbon emitters-like forests, permafrost, and the oceans. Particularly alarming is melting methane hydrate, which likely has caused severe bouts of global warming in the past.
â¢	There is an estimated 400 billion tons of methane trapped in permafrost ice.
â¢	An estimated 50% of surface permafrost will melt by 2050, and 90% by 2100.
â¢	Methane is more than 20 times as strong a greenhouse gas as CO2-the sudden release of just 35 billion tons of methane would be like doubling the CO2 in the air.
â¢	Ocean bottom ice will start to melt-releasing some of the estimated 10,000 billion tons of methane trapped in it.
John Bolduc, post 2, the Pew poll is interesting but what should be worrying is that people put a very low priority on doing anything about the problem. There is a difference between Democrats and Republicans but even Democrats put global warming barely higher than immigration as an issue to be dealt with. I would be curious to see how high the issue climbs in people’s priorities when mass migration starts to happen.
It is interesting to see that Spain and France are two countries which are particularly worried about the issue. One can guess why and it probably has something to do with water shortages in both territories. France has already predicted a fall in agricultural yields for this year. Spain of course is in the front line for people fleeing Africa.
The Economist about two issues ago published a good special on The Horn of Africa detailing drought, famine and over-population as plaguing that particular part of the earth’s surface – leaving aside the unremitting violence in that region.
I hope that The Horn of Africa is not a model that we will all follow shortly.
What will the public believe after a few cold winters or even years? Human memory is very short and our climate observations short and disputed.
Relying on public feelings and evangelists for ‘evidence’ is surely no way to run public policy. A sign of desperation by teh ‘global warming ‘alarmists’? Or is it a sign of the failure of populism?
version of the politics of fear, note it is always the future that will be worse, diverting attention from present problems.
Not so long ago it was the next ice age, then the death of the oceans, then the population bomb, limits to growth and the death of the forests from acid rain. People like to be scared, and when there is money to be made out of the scares as well (not always!) they get taken up by insurance companies, research and then regulators – get ‘institutionalised’. Supportive scientists get the limelight, for a while.
So what? Volcanoes exploding is how Pacific islands are built. Does that make volcanoes a good thing? The fact that evolution takes place doesn’t mean we have to help it along. Natural selection works by time and death — whose children do you want to die so that evolution can be helped along?
This is an ad hominem argument. If you have evidence that anthropogenic global warming isn’t happening, present your evidence. Insulting those who disagree with you gets you nowhere.
re: 39. Quite true. Furthermore, the very idea that a layman thinks they know more then the consensus of literally thousands of climate scientists throughout the world and essentially every major scientific society across the world is probably the ultimate height of sheer arrogance. Sadly such insults without facts or data within the realm of science are part of the skeptics/denialists repertoire when the science does not support them. This was also recently seen following the release of “An Incovenient Truth” with many attacks on former VP Gore that had nothing or very little to do with the scientific issue.
Coby #33, the 10 trillion watts of energy (1990) you mention is dwarfed by the couple watts per sq meter for anthropogenic GH gasses over 500 trillion square meters of earth. Also the hurricane energy is being absorbed elsewhere, not additional, so it can’t be compared to the anthropogenic energy inputs.
I keep getting mailings from Senator John McCain about doing something about global warming. There is a reasonable chance that, whichever party prevails, we may have an administration committed to controlling greenhouse gas emissions in 2009. Changing Congress may take longer, but it seems likely the US will change direction significantly in the next 5-10 years. If the US starts providing leadership, it may have a significant global influence, and China and India may be brought on board. Unfortunately, even when the commitment is made, it can take some time for changes to actually be made, so we may not have that long to wait.
Re #37: You read too much Crichton. Forget Crichton.
I have no disagreement with what you say. The figures were only intended to illustrate the vastly different scales of heat energy between global climate systems (if a single hurricane involves that much energy, imagine how much is in the system) and human activity, specifically heat released from weaponry (if it takes a ten Mt bomb/20 min to match one hurricane, clearly the current use of weaponry will not have a significant global impact).
Re changing US political rhetoric: this is clearly a hopeful thing, but the challenges are far from met by simply having some campaign promises. Even if a passionate advocate such as Al Gore ran and won the presidency, the entrenched corporate powers will not roll over easily. The democrates are always appealing when the Republicans are in power, but so far the kinds of fundamental changes needed never seem to occur.
#29 Mark, Amazing, a name calling meteorologist claiming that AGW has no facts backing it up, without explaining the current warming trend, aside from its “natural”, with oozing assurances that the great urban sprawl of humanity, I suppose also found in the Arctic (with huge temperature increases of late), explains the flaws in GT records. May be during the Miocene, the time when CO2 concentrations was about the same as now, there was a lot of Polar ice? Or this alligator skull found on Ellesmere Island was moved in flight by argentavis seeking to have lunch in a cold place?
Now, seriously, what is needed is a meteorologist or anyone with a contary view, specifically finding the flaw not found by those 2000 IPCC scientists. Such a claim must be scientifically compelling, not like name calling. I’ve read many such poorly researched articles, they have the same easy to read slant, totally designed for mass consumption, designed to steer away the public from a proper course of reasoning.
How about something more scientific, such as the areal distribution of humanity. A density function of course.
A transform, related to the level of development, could be applied, leading to reasonable estimates of anthropogenic energy dissipation / power / work. Classic stuff, work applied at an interface. Hey, guess what, it’s one o’ dem boundary condition thingies!
I’ve wondered, not about heat released, but about how much biologically (eventually) available iron and nitrogen got flushed into the ocean during and after WWII. I suspect it’s trivial (at the rate sunken ships and aircraft would rust, anyhow) compared to annual windblown iron-containing dust. And for explosives, I’d imagine the value of those as fertilizer are trivial compared to nitrogen oxides in rainfall from internal combustion engines.
The man cannot fathom the source of increased CO2 concentration except to surmize it must be attributed to bad breath.
I am writing to respond to Jim Woodmencey’s article “Global warming or global whining?” from the August 2-8 2006 edition of Planet Jackson Hole. It is evident from Mr. Woodmencey’s article that he was galvanized by Al Gore’s movie “An Inconvenient Truth” albeit not in a manner intended by the filmmakers. On this, at least, we agree. I found the movie in question to contain as much hyperbole as sound scientific reasoning. But countering one set of ill-formed conclusions with another serves no one. The asymmetry here is that Mr. Gore has little substantive background in atmospheric science whereas Mr. Woodmencey has a degree in meteorology and ought to know better.
Among atmospheric scientists, physicists, oceanographers and others who study Earth’s energy balance there is virtually no debate on either the existence or the causes of global warming. The mechanisms for global warming are among the most well understood in climate research and are really not all that difficult to grasp. Although it is true that climate on Earth has vacillated (in some cases wildly) in past epochs there is no evidence in the anecdotal, historical or paleoclimatological records of a strong simultaneous upswing in both carbon dioxide concentration and temperature in such a compact temporal signature.
To claim that scientists do not understand how to subtract background readings from temperature data is laughable. To further downplay the significance of a global increase of 0.5 degrees C in temperature in 100 years reflects an astounding ignorance of how sensitive the ocean-atmospheric system is to perturbation. If Mr. Woodmencey really believes that humans contribute substantially to global warming due to respiratory processes then he is welcome to hold his breath for as long as he wishes but scientists are able to largely identify CO2 in the atmosphere by source. The significant increase in atmospheric C02 levels is not due to breathing, it is due to changes in land use and use of the atmosphere as an industrial CO2 dump for the past 150 years.
Mr. Woodmencey’s article reaches its height of inadvertent humor when he complains about Mr. Gore’s “connect the dots” graphics while simultaneously claiming that a 20 percent increase in atmospheric CO2 in less than 50 years isn’t really significant because it represents only an increase from 0.0315 to 0.0380 percent. I’m guessing that neither chemistry nor statistics are Mr. Woodmencey’s strong suits as that statistically very significant increase is largely responsible for a rapid and increasingly dramatic change in climate that we are currently experiencing.
Is global warming real? Yes. Do we know the causes? Almost certainly. Can increases in tropical storm frequency and ferocity be linked to global warming? Yes, though due to the complex nature of boundary conditions in the atmosphere the link is statistical. Do we know where climate change is going? That’s a little more speculative but most of the computer models have been good at predicting what we’ve seen to date (except that they consistently err on the conservative side) and future trends do appear to indicate an exponential increase in global warming, at least in the short term. Is that good or bad? I don’t know. But change is coming.

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Become a steward to increase your department or program’s representation in CGE and to help direct the efforts of our union! You should especially consider joining the Steward council if your department or program is not currently represented on the 2018-2019 Steward Council.
CGE holds regular Steward Council elections each Winter, but the CGE Executive Council is empowered to appoint stewards to vacant seats at any time. The Executive Council may appoint additional stewards in already represented areas, as well. Contact our VP for Organizing, Kali Doten, if you’re interested in serving on the Steward Council.

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Hey all I thought this web site and the show would be of interest to you all. Hope you enjoy!!
ROFL Nice find, Bite_Me! Really funny and interesting...BTW, who was the meanest gunslinger in the West?
I saw a program on the Discovery Channel (I think thats the correct channel) about how Billy The Kid really died. It was actually quite interesting.

industry_corpus2: Film & Entertainment


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Laravel is a free, open-source PHP web framework, created by Taylor Otwell and intended for the development of web applications following the model–view–controller (MVC) architectural pattern. Here is a memo when I had setup it.
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Have you ever received a handwritten thank you card from someone?
Most people rarely send thank you cards at all anymore. When thank you cards are sent, most times they are printed or pre-made from a store or online boutique. Don’t get me wrong those are lovely as well. But a handwritten thank you card is much more inimate and warming to recieve. Thank you cards can even be a joy to write. Even though it takes time to think about what exactly to write and then send them out, it can really put an extra big smile on a person’s face. One thing I am passionate about is always putting a smile on my loved ones faces.
I love shopping in Tuesday Mornings and craft stores like Hobby Lobby because I always find the cutest stationery and thank you notes set. For all my Kreative Passions orders, I write a personal thank you cards to the customer. I think its more of the thought that counts and it is well apprectiated on the recieving end.
Last week, I was shopping at a random Tuesday Mornings store that I came across in the Dunwoody, GA area. I found the cutest collection of handcrafted cards and stationery sets. I kid you not, I was like a kid in the candy store. I sat on the floor of the store and went through three entire bins of greeting cards, notepads, calendars, and thank you card sets. If I could I would have come out of that store with every single set. But I have put myself on a personal spending budget- so I only picked on set.
For $5.99 I got this girly styles Note Card Set with includes 50 Note cards in 2 designs with matching envelopes and a cute little box to match. First of all the note cards are super cute and give me this amazing Kate Spade tease. But the packaging excited me the most. I mean the box designs brings so many ideas to mind. I can use it for little keepsake nicknacks,on my dressor or a travel boc for jewelry, I can given use it as a decor piece or a gift box. I can wait to write more thank you notes for my Kreative Passions orders and put a smile on my customers faces.
Yes, these are the types of things that excite me. I can’help it …. I’m a Passionista!
A true Passionista writes handwritten thank you notes to show appreciation to loved ones and friends.
Previous Sunday is Hair Day !!!

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The final lineup was assembled in 1980. Cheater took Western New York by storm with it’s incredible live shows, crazy antics and the record release of the 10″ EP “Ten Cent Love Affair. Cheater sold over 10,000 copies of this self released EP and performed 345 shows in 1981! The Album was only released in New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio – USA, yet reports have come from all over the United States and Europe from Cheater fans and Jeff Cosco fans!
The band never released it’s 1983 recordings until 2005 on CD. Included are the first 4 songs from the original EP. This is classic rock at its best. Jeff Cosco, Don Mancuso (Lou Gramm Band), Chris Mawdesley, Kevin McKee, Blayne Pierce, and Ron Rocco (Black Sheep) started it all. In the later shows and recordings Jimmy Fox (Toronto) joined up. Reunion shows and avid fans have kept this band going for over 35 years!


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Kings Lock cottage was built in 1796 and is the last surviving lock keeper's cottage in Leicester. It has been run as a tearoom since 2004.
Kings Lock is situated directly in front of the cottage. It is Lock Number 38 on the Leicester branch of the Grand Union Canal and is the point were the river becomes a canal.
An all weather outdoor seating facility together with ample open area seating means you can enjoy the setting whatever the weather.
There are comfortable indoor seating areas so you can enjoy friendly chats in our cosy period tearoom.
Dogs are very welcome in the garden areas and the Boathouse. We provide bowls of water and a selection of doggie snacks from the menu.
Enjoy the beautiful views across The Meadows and challenge yourself to name the varied wildlife that you spot.
A brilliant stopping place for walkers, cyclists and boaters alike!
We have high chairs avaiable for our youngest guests. There is an outdoor playhouse for dry days and we can provide colouring activities for wetter days.
Over 65? Come down and enjoy a 10% discount on Thursdays.

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Our Director's monthly Sports Management Magazine column is now available online in the September/October edition.
Modernising the way people search and book sports is essential to opening up sport and physical activity (PA) to the mass market. Innovative approaches to the ordering process in services like takeaways, taxis and accommodation have grown these markets exponentially. Learning lessons from these examples will have a big impact on grassroots sport.

industry_corpus2: Sports


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How to Buy Your First used cars in Modesto?
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Milica comes to the pub with the intention to renew her relationship with a married man, Milan. Evening passes in a tense atmosphere full of sexual tension between them.
Tamara Todorović was born on the 27th of November, 1996, and she is a junior student at the FDA in Belgrade.

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The latest shocking news out of North Korea, according to South Korea's intelligence agency (NIS), is that a top-ranking general had allegedly been executed with an anti-aircraft gun.
Furthermore, The Times noted that South Korea's spy agency "has in the past been accused of leaking shocking news about their isolated and secretive neighbor to unsettle its government or divert attention from domestic scandals."
On the other hand, the NIS was right about the the 2013 execution of Mr. Kim's uncle, Jang Song Thaek, who was Kim's uncle and formerly served as the country's de facto No. 2 official.
Spies add that while they can't reveal their sources this time around, they trusted their information enough to present it to the South Korean parliament.
The Wall Street Journal reports that these grisly executions are meant to instill fear and discourage people from ever stepping out of line.
"They're saying, 'This is what happens to the senior officials, this could happen to you,'" Michael Madden, editor of the website North Korea Leadership Watch, told the Journal.
Senior North Korean military officer Hyon Yong Chol (R, front) attends the 4th Moscow Conference on International Security (MCIS) in Moscow April 16, 2015.
Elias Groll at Foreign Policy magazine made a similar argument. He wrote: "Why use such a weapon [in this case, an anti-aircraft gun]? South Korean spies say that a large crowd had gathered for Chol's execution. Presumably the spectacle of a human body being destroyed by high-caliber machine gun fire is one the crowd will not forget anytime soon."
And it wouldn't be the first time North Korea executed someone by firing squad. There are also reports that Kim executed two of his uncle's top aides in 2013 using this method.
Adding to the plausibility of the execution story is the evidence that suggests North Korea has executed people with anti-aircraft guns before. Recent satellite imagery of North Korea appears to show people standing in front of anti-aircraft machine guns, waiting to be executed.
The images, which were included in a U.S. Committee for Human Rights in North Korea report, are from October and were taken at a military training area near Pyongyang.
In the end, although the execution story is more plausible that some of the crazy-sounding news that comes out of North Korea, the Hermit Kingdom is so opaque that it might be a while before we know for sure whether or not the latest tale is true.

industry_corpus2: Politics & Administration


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as you might or might not have noticed, my last post already dates back a few days. That is because I, along other artists here in Weimar, took part in the yearly 24h-comic-day, a challenge where you 24 hours to draw a 24 pages comic book.
But I have to admit, that I have only managed to complete the half-marathon. In 12h I've drawn 12 pages of a short story about the first meeting of the little hero (now named: "Master Bru"), which you surely now, as one of the first papercrafts of this blog, and his companion Xavin, which I'm about to develop as a papercraft soon.
To ease things while drawing, I wrote everything in German. But if you wish, I could translate the comic in english. Just write a comment, to let me now if there's someone, who's interested in it.
So if you're like to read about a new fragment of the history of Master Bru, then check out this short story! And don't worry, the next papercraft awaits you soon!


text: As Well As The Preferred Url To Open When A User Launches The Web Application There Are Multiple Ways That The Installation Process Can Be Triggered - Url Openers - Free Bulk URL Opener for Multiple Links or Websites A Uniform Resource Locator (URL), colloquially termed a web address,is a reference to a web resource that specifies its location on a computer network and a mechanism for retrieving it. A URL is a specific type of Uniform Resource Identifier (URI), although many people use the two terms interchangeably. URLs occur most commonly to reference web pages (http), but are also used for file transfer (ftp), email (mailto), database access (JDBC), and many other applications.


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industry_corpus2: Manufacturing


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Gathering and using threat intelligence is a core capability in cyber security that most organizations are still learning. As these capabilities mature in organizations, having access to broader data sets becomes more critical. This is where Falcon Malquery (CrowdStrike’s Malware Search Engine) comes into play.
Falcon Malquery is a search engine for malware that allows you to search and attribute samples from your investigations. Having access to such a vast collection of samples is critical to making better determinations regarding the source and familial attributes of the malware you are researching. Access to a vast data set will also aid in the hunting, prevention, and yara rule creation process.
In this video we’ll go over the purpose behind Malquery and how you can use it to aid in your malware research process.
As a malware researcher, you encounter an unmanaged asset not protected by CrowdStrike, that has been infected with Ransomware. Where do you start? With Malquery we can start our investigation with a unique string related to the sample. In our example we’re going to take the Bitcoin wallet ID to see if we can find other samples using the same wallet and determine if it’s been seen elsewhere in our environment.
In the search results we can get a timeline of when samples containing this wallet ID were first seen. We can also get an idea of the malware families related to the wallet ID.
Taking things even further, we can download the sample to investigate for other characteristics.
After downloading the sample we’ll use the “strings” utility to extract all readable characters and identify any unique messages inside the binary file. Performing a quick ocular patdown we find a string of interest; the ransom message. We can use Malquery to identify any other samples with the same message.
Searching for the ransom message yields results, and we can see that samples go as far back as 2016 and give us an idea of their delivery method and possible malware family.
Another important aspect of malware research is being able to search based on hex values within your library of malware. This gives you the ability to quickly identify other samples with similar byte patterns.
Beyond identifying other samples with the same characteristics you will be able to identify possible adversaries and review reports related to their techniques, tactics, and procedures. CrowdStrike offers a variety of intelligence reports that are released weekly or in response to an emerging threat. The intel reports are also catered to specific verticals (government, financial, technology, etc…), threat actors, and motivations.
Another reason Malquery is so unique is that it gives you the ability to validate Yara rules against CrowdStrike’s extensive library of malware. Validating your Yara rules against our malware library is crucial because it helps prevent false positives and provides understanding of rule scope. Performing Yara rule validation in Malquery takes seconds or minutes rather than days as you might experience with a self-maintained and incomplete body of malware samples.
Falcon Malquery is a malware search engine that provides you quick access to a vast malware library (over 1 billion samples) and provides you with unique capabilities found nowhere else. Falcon Malquery is a part of Falcon X premium or is offered as a standalone capability.


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Davis LE, Bolejack V, Ryan CW, Ganjoo KN, Loggers ET, Chawla S, Agulnik M, Livingston MB, Reed D, Keedy V, Rushing D, Okuno S, Reinke DK, Riedel RF, Attia S, Mascarenhas L, Maki RG.
An IRAK1-PIN1 signalling axis drives intrinsic tumour resistance to radiation therapy.
Liu PH, Shah RB, Li Y, Arora A, Ung PM, Raman R, Gorbatenko A, Kozono S, Zhou XZ, Brechin V, Barbaro JM, Thompson R, White RM, Aguirre-Ghiso JA, Heymach JV, Lu KP, Silva JM, Panageas KS, Schlessinger A, Maki RG, Skinner HD, de Stanchina E, Sidi S.
Nat Cell Biol. 2019 Feb;21(2):203-213. doi: 10.1038/s41556-018-0260-7. Epub 2019 Jan 21.
Gounder MM, Mahoney MR, Van Tine BA, Ravi V, Attia S, Deshpande HA, Gupta AA, Milhem MM, Conry RM, Movva S, Pishvaian MJ, Riedel RF, Sabagh T, Tap WD, Horvat N, Basch E, Schwartz LH, Maki RG, Agaram NP, Lefkowitz RA, Mazaheri Y, Yamashita R, Wright JJ, Dueck AC, Schwartz GK.
N Engl J Med. 2018 Dec 20;379(25):2417-2428. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa1805052.
Efficacy and Tolerability of 5-Year Adjuvant Imatinib Treatment for Patients With Resected Intermediate- or High-Risk Primary Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumor: The PERSIST-5 Clinical Trial.
Raut CP, Espat NJ, Maki RG, Araujo DM, Trent J, Williams TF, Purkayastha DD, DeMatteo RP.
JAMA Oncol. 2018 Dec 1;4(12):e184060. doi: 10.1001/jamaoncol.2018.4060. Epub 2018 Dec 13.
Diagnosis, Prognosis, and Treatment of Alveolar Soft-Part Sarcoma: A Review.
A Phase II Trial of Sorafenib and Dacarbazine for Leiomyosarcoma, Synovial Sarcoma, and Malignant Peripheral Nerve Sheath Tumors.
D'Adamo DR, Dickson MA, Keohan ML, Carvajal RD, Hensley ML, Hirst CM, Ezeoke MO, Ahn L, Qin LX, Antonescu CR, Lefkowitz RA, Maki RG, Schwartz GK, Tap WD.
Efficacy and tolerability of trabectedin in elderly patients with sarcoma: subgroup analysis from a phase III, randomized controlled study of trabectedin or dacarbazine in patients with advanced liposarcoma or leiomyosarcoma.
Jones RL, Demetri GD, Schuetze SM, Milhem M, Elias A, Van Tine BA, Hamm J, McCarthy S, Wang G, Parekh T, Knoblauch R, Hensley ML, Maki RG, Patel S, von Mehren M.
Ann Oncol. 2018 Sep 1;29(9):1995-2002. doi: 10.1093/annonc/mdy253.
TERT promoter mutations in solitary fibrous tumour.
Demicco EG, Wani K, Ingram D, Wagner M, Maki RG, Rizzo A, Meeker A, Lazar AJ, Wang WL.
Histopathology. 2018 Nov;73(5):843-851. doi: 10.1111/his.13703. Epub 2018 Sep 19.
A Method to Summarize Toxicity in Cancer Randomized Clinical Trials.
Carbini M, Suárez-Fariñas M, Maki RG.
Clin Cancer Res. 2018 Oct 15;24(20):4968-4975. doi: 10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-17-3314. Epub 2018 May 8.
Heymach J, Krilov L, Alberg A, Baxter N, Chang SM, Corcoran RB, Dale W, DeMichele A, Magid Diefenbach CS, Dreicer R, Epstein AS, Gillison ML, Graham DL, Jones J, Ko AH, Lopez AM, Maki RG, Rodriguez-Galindo C, Schilsky RL, Sznol M, Westin SN, Burstein H.
Sarcoma: The Merging of Science and Clinical Care.
J Clin Oncol. 2018 Jan 10;36(2):99-100. doi: 10.1200/JCO.2017.76.9091. Epub 2017 Dec 8. No abstract available.
Carcinosarcomas and Related Cancers: Tumors Caught in the Act of Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition.
Pang A, Carbini M, Moreira AL, Maki RG.
J Clin Oncol. 2018 Jan 10;36(2):210-216. doi: 10.1200/JCO.2017.74.9523. Epub 2017 Dec 8.
Pathologic Angiogenesis of Malignant Vascular Sarcomas: Implications for Treatment.
Khan JA, Maki RG, Ravi V.
J Clin Oncol. 2018 Jan 10;36(2):194-201. doi: 10.1200/JCO.2017.74.9812. Epub 2017 Dec 8.
Tawbi HA, Burgess M, Bolejack V, Van Tine BA, Schuetze SM, Hu J, D'Angelo S, Attia S, Riedel RF, Priebat DA, Movva S, Davis LE, Okuno SH, Reed DR, Crowley J, Butterfield LH, Salazar R, Rodriguez-Canales J, Lazar AJ, Wistuba II, Baker LH, Maki RG, Reinke D, Patel S.
Lancet Oncol. 2017 Nov;18(11):1493-1501. doi: 10.1016/S1470-2045(17)30624-1. Epub 2017 Oct 4. Erratum in: Lancet Oncol. 2017 Dec;18(12 ):e711. Lancet Oncol. 2018 Jan;19(1):e8.
Activity of Eribulin in Patients With Advanced Liposarcoma Demonstrated in a Subgroup Analysis From a Randomized Phase III Study of Eribulin Versus Dacarbazine.
Demetri GD, Schöffski P, Grignani G, Blay JY, Maki RG, Van Tine BA, Alcindor T, Jones RL, D'Adamo DR, Guo M, Chawla S.
J Clin Oncol. 2017 Oct 20;35(30):3433-3439. doi: 10.1200/JCO.2016.71.6605. Epub 2017 Aug 30.
Activity of Pazopanib and Trabectedin in Advanced Alveolar Soft Part Sarcoma.
Stacchiotti S, Mir O, Le Cesne A, Vincenzi B, Fedenko A, Maki RG, Somaiah N, Patel S, Brahmi M, Blay JY, Boye K, Sundby Hall K, Gelderblom H, Hindi N, Martin-Broto J, Kosela H, Rutkowski P, Italiano A, Duffaud F, Kobayashi E, Casali PG, Provenzano S, Kawai A.
Oncologist. 2018 Jan;23(1):62-70. doi: 10.1634/theoncologist.2017-0161. Epub 2017 Jul 28.
Risk assessment in solitary fibrous tumors: validation and refinement of a risk stratification model.
Demicco EG, Wagner MJ, Maki RG, Gupta V, Iofin I, Lazar AJ, Wang WL.
Mod Pathol. 2017 Oct;30(10):1433-1442. doi: 10.1038/modpathol.2017.54. Epub 2017 Jul 21.
Efficacy and safety of trabectedin or dacarbazine in patients with advanced uterine leiomyosarcoma after failure of anthracycline-based chemotherapy: Subgroup analysis of a phase 3, randomized clinical trial.
Hensley ML, Patel SR, von Mehren M, Ganjoo K, Jones RL, Staddon A, Rushing D, Milhem M, Monk B, Wang G, McCarthy S, Knoblauch RE, Parekh TV, Maki RG, Demetri GD.
Gynecol Oncol. 2017 Sep;146(3):531-537. doi: 10.1016/j.ygyno.2017.06.018. Epub 2017 Jun 24.
Targeting sarcoma tumor-initiating cells through differentiation therapy.
Han D, Rodriguez-Bravo V, Charytonowicz E, Demicco E, Domingo-Domenech J, Maki RG, Cordon-Cardo C.
Stem Cell Res. 2017 May;21:117-123. doi: 10.1016/j.scr.2017.04.004. Epub 2017 Apr 13.

industry_corpus2: Health & Medicine


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Bill O’Reilly apparently saw the recent shooting at the ultra-conservative Family Research Council as some kind of proof that he bore no responsibility for the death of abortion doctor George Tiller. O’Reilly’s thinking seemed to go something like this: a politically-motivated maniac tried to shoot up the FRC (but only succeeded in wounding a security guard) and the liberal media thought it no big deal. Therefore, that proved that when a politically-motivated maniac shot and killed Dr. Tiller, the harsh (liberal media) spotlight on O’Reilly’s inflammatory rhetoric was simply more liberal-bias baloney. Unfortunately for O’Reilly, FRC head Tony Perkins was more interested in blaming the Southern Poverty Law Center, a staunch critic of the FRC, for “creating an environment that led” to the shooting than he was in attacking the media.
“You may remember back in 2009, some in the liberal press accused me of encouraging the assassination of late-term abortionist George Tiller,” O’Reilly said in a discussion with Perkins last night. He went on to play a video of another abortion doctor saying that O’Reilly had engaged in “hate speech” that was “designed to get Dr. Tiller killed and it worked.” (Note: I removed the clip from the video below to avoid copyright infringement. But you can watch it in its original context, in a report on Dr. Tiller’s killing on the PBS show, NOW.
These instances and others we reviewed clearly show that O'Reilly was not reporting the views of others, but was expressing his own views on the doctor.
To get a fuller flavor of just how inflammatory O’Reilly’s rhetoric really was, check out this video mashup put together by Daily Kos’ Jed Lewison.
I hate to say it, Bill, but you’re wrong again. I just Googled “family research council shooting” and got six very recent articles from the likes of the “liberal” New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, CNN, ABC News and Yahoo News.
Perkins accused the Southern Poverty Law Center “of creating an environment that led to this” because they had labeled FRC a hate group. “That gives license to lunatics like, like this to come in with a gun and shoot innocent people,” he said. Priscilla has more on just why the Family Research Council has been designated as a hate group.
O’Reilly said, “I didn’t exacerbate that situation,” meaning with Dr. Tiller, but added that he will “check that out absolutely” about the SPLC.
He continued complaining about the “scant” media coverage of the FRC shooting. As O’Reilly ran down the shooter's liberal bona fides (he volunteered at a gay clinic, he had lots of sandwiches from Chick-Fil-A with him), it was clear where O’Reilly was trying to go: The liberal media only cares about liberals getting killed and they only “went after” him because of their anti-conservative agenda.
Memo to Bill O’Reilly: Why don’t you just come clean about the demonizing you did, do some kind of atonement and stop trying to defend what was really indefensible? I think we’d all feel better if you did.
According to the idiots at Newsbusters, CBS is ignoring the LBGT volunteer angle, as they have apparently been unable to find evidence they even mentioned it on their site articles.
They also proved they can’t read, because they’re also making the same accusation against MSNBC, and they make mention of it in their articles.
Hey, didn’t Koldys write for these people?
" âThat gives license to lunatics like, like this to come in with a gun and shoot innocent people,â he said."
Actually, Billo, it’s no more dangerous than those claims that Pres. Obama is a Muslim terrorist that is trying to take guns away from goobers, or calling Tiller a Baby-Killer, or so many of the other idiocy that Fox spews on a daily basis. But you’re okay with that, right??
Bildo: The most influential thing in TV news, but don’t try to make him accountable for anything he spews out of his ugly piehole.
I hate to say it, Bill, but youâre wrong again. I just Googled âfamily research council shootingâ and got six very recent articles from the likes of the âliberalâ New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, CNN, ABC News and Yahoo News.
Yeah, FOX “news” and its talking heads do this quite a bit – say the so-called liberal media has been silent on something when they actually haven’t been. So much of the time it seems to be nothing more than a biased, knee-jerk claim that they automatically throw out there as red meat for their sheeple to gnaw on (especially BOR and F&F). If FOX “news” didn’t have the so-called liberal media to attack/demean/kick around, half their programming would be dead air time.
Memo to Bill OâReilly: Why donât you just come clean about the demonizing you did, do some kind of atonement and stop trying to defend what was really indefensible? I think weâd all feel better if you did.
BOR is in total denial about the part he played in what happened to Tiller. But that’s the way BOR rolls – It’s kinda pitiful really because all it does is showcase the kind of deceit that BOR is okay with (at least outwardly). Maybe what he did is eating him up inside and, if it is, I can’t say that I feel sorry for him. He used his platform at FOX “news” to target an individual and now that person is dead.
SPLC=Shysters Punking Liberal Chumps. Uber-con artist Morris Dees laughs all the way to the bank.
Yes Killer, you have learned well from Saint Hitler’s Night of the Long Knives. Adolf stated that Other People had bad feeling about the SA, and Other People did the killing – just like you.

industry_corpus2: Media & Journalism


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TOKYO (AP) — Organizers of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics are considering introducing daylight saving time as a countermeasure to the extreme heat that could prevail in the Japanese capital during the games.
Japan has been gripped by a deadly heatwave this summer that has resulted in more than 65 deaths nationwide.
The temperature on Monday reached 41.1 Celsius (106 Fahrenheit), the highest ever recorded in Japan.
Yoshiro Mori, the president of the Tokyo Olympic Organizing Committee, met with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Friday to discuss the possibility of introducing daylight saving time during the 2020 Games.
The International Olympic Committee decided this month the marathon would be staged at 7 a.m. to lessen the effect of extreme heat.
Temperatures in central Tokyo often exceed 35 Celsius (95 F) in July and August, made more difficult because of high humidity.
Mori said after the meeting the prime minister said putting clocks forward one or two hours during the games "may be one solution."
The CEO of the organizing committee, Toshiro Muto, was at the meeting and said such extreme heat had not entered into the Olympic planning.
The 1964 Games in Tokyo were held in October to avoid the harshest of the heat. That was before the Olympics schedule was influenced by rights-paying broadcasters and sponsors.
The 2020 Olympics are scheduled to run from July 24 to Aug. 9.


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The biggest compliment that you can receive as a professional photographer is having another photographer book you for their own photography session! Milena and her hubby were expecting their third child and so we decided to head to one of the beautiful jewels of the South Coast for our beach session. Milena looked absolutely radiant in this gorgeous MIA gown from Nest Maternity. With the incredible October sunset behind us, Milena and her little family enjoyed snuggles, belly rubs and frolicking in the sand.
I met this adorable Canadian pair at the PBC Expo in May when they stopped by my stall for a chat. Catching up with them again for their maternity session felt like catching up with old friends. We arrived at Audley in the Royal National Park and hugged, I marvelled at just how much her perfect bump had grown and we strolled around the park, seeking out the perfect pockets of afternoon sun. We laughed and chatted about all the exciting things they looked forward to doing as parents, how thrilled they were that their parents were coming to visit from Canada, and we leisurely walked around the beach near their home as the sun dipped below the horizon, blessing us with the most spectacular sunset colours to wrap up our session! I’m so excited to meet their new little man this week as we do their newborn session! Congratulations Nathan & Heidi!!
In Lillian’s questionnaire, I asked her to define motherhood in just 3 words. She chose Enjoyable, Validating and Defining. These 3 words summed up her maternity session perfectly! She emerged from the car this radiant pregnant goddess, a true vision of beauty, strength, patience, captivating and graceful – I guarantee I didn’t look anywhere near this level of glamorous in my 3rd trimester! She seemed to enjoy each and every aspect of pregnancy, despite it not exactly being a smooth journey. What a wonderful afternoon spent in the golden glow of this sun drenched field! Congratulations Craig & Lillian on the addition of your little princess to your family!
Kellie and I attended high school together, so when she rang and asked if I’d be available to do a maternity session for them, I didn’t hesitate in saying YES! Kris, Kellie and their smiley little munchkin Chloe came out to enjoy an early morning along the banks of the Hacking River at Audley. Awaiting the arrival of their newest addition, Kellie was absolutely radiant and glowing with anticipation and joy. Such a strong connection and so much excitement for this new chapter in their lives.


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When Joseph receives a beautiful coat from his parents, his eleven brothers hate him even more and are driven to sell him to desert merchants who take him to Egypt! There he is made the servant of a wealthy Egyptian who misunderstands him and has him thrown into prison! He shows his God-given gift by interpreting the dreams of two other prisoners. Eventually, the Pharaoh begins to be plagued by dreams and sends for Joseph, who interprets them and saves Egypt in the process. He is made second in command to Pharaoh, and has most of Egypt’s grain stored. Eventually his brothers arrive in Egypt to buy food because of famine, and he must forgive them. Then the dreams that had angered his brothers were in reality prophecies that had come from God.
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Types of data types for which cold storage are appropriate consist of information a company is required to hold for regulatory conformity, movie, photographs, and data which conserved for backup, archival or tragedy recovery purposes.
High-performance major storage is generally considered very costly for sedentary data that is retained on a lasting or indefinite foundation. Design priorities for cold-storage can sometimes include low priced, large capacity and information durability. Data retrieval and response time could be substantially reduced for a cold storage space system than for products or methods made for active data. Common news choices include Linear Tape-Open (LTO) tape and product hard disks (HDDs).
General public cloud solutions concentrating on cold storage consist of Amazon Glacier, Bing Cloud storing Nearline and Microsoft Azure Cool Blob Storage. These types of services provide reduced data access at a lesser price per gigabyte than alternate cloud storage space choices sold by Amazon, Google and Microsoft.
The Open Compute venture (OCP), driven by Facebook, includes projects aimed at cold-storage. The OCP storage committee focuses on the development of specifications and computer software intended to drive development in equipment and also to facilitate greater efficiency and price. The OCP project to produce high-capacity, affordable cold-storage identified shingled magnetic recording (SMR) HDDs with spin-down ability as a highly ideal and affordable technology for cold-storage. Twitter in addition has tested Blu-ray discs and indicated curiosity about low-endurance flash for cold-storage.
Facebook has built cold storage facilities as part of its data centers in Prineville, Oregon, and Forest City, North Carolina. Design priorities have actually included low power consumption, system effectiveness, high density, scalability, data toughness and future-proofing. Facebook has actually talked about its utilization of erasure coding for space-efficient data security.


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Yesterday a writing colleague, Robert Hawkes, launched his poetry book about a Nineteenth Century Anglican Bishop, John Medley. An intriguing aspect of the launch was that it occurred during an Evensong service, in the very cathedral where Medley had been bishop.
I am so sorry to have missed the event, not just for the book launch, but because it was a part of Evensong. My interest in this service is explained in the following blog, that I posted last year, around the time of Remembrance Day.


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Democrats thought they could get away with a massive voter fraud scheme on Election Night.
They worked in secret to reverse a big Republican victory.
But the Democrats got caught red-handed committing this crime to steal the Florida Senate race.
Anti-gun Republican Rick Scott defeated Democrat Bill Nelson in the Florida Senate race.
He led by tens of thousands of votes and Republicans cheered a Senate seat pickup.
But then critics contended the Democrats engaged in massive amounts of voter fraud.
Suddenly the Democrat stronghold in Broward Country did not know how many ballots they had to count.
And in the 48 hours after the election in Broward – led by the controversial election supervision of Brenda Snipes – they produced 61,000 new ballots.
Scott’s lead shrank to just 17,000 votes.
That put it in range for a hand recount.
Florida Senator Marco Rubio tweeted that Snipes broke the law and was trying to steal the election.
–#Broward is where they plan to do it.#SayfieNow democrat lawyers are descending on #Florida. They have been very clear they aren’t here to make sure every vote is counted.
Tim Canova – a Bernie Sanders supporter who ran for Congress in Broward in 2016 – tweeted out a video of ballots being loaded into private cars and transferred to rented trucks.
He said this violated all chain of custody for the ballots and wondered if they were destroyed or replaced.
Canova is well-versed in Snipes’ underhanded tactics.
In 2016 – when he ran for Congress against DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz – a judge found Snipes’ office had illegally destroyed ballots.
Rick Scott and the National Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee filed suit to stop Snipes from stealing the election.
“Two days after voting has concluded, the Supervisor Of Elections is unwilling to disclose records revealing how many electors voted, how many ballots have been canvassed, and how many ballots remain to be canvassed,” Scott’s lawsuit claimed.
Scott also requested Florida law enforcement investigate Snipes office.
To Republicans, this looks like an open-and-shut case of the Democrats using voter fraud to steal an election.
For Nelson to overcome Scott’s 17,000 vote lead, the Democrats would have to commit an insane amount of fraud.


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text: During the early morning hours of Tuesday, Aug. 14 unknown suspect(s) entered a house on Tenth St. The suspect(s) stole numerous items, including a 2016 black Kia Sorento, with Ontario licence plates CASY140, a black Iphone, two Apple Ipads – one with red cover and the other had no cover, an HP tablet with a blue case, an Acer Aspire Laptop – Silver 15.4″ screen, a Coach Purse – red -with long strap. Half a dozen credit cards along with debit cards, Social Insurance Card, Passport and Nexus card were also stolen. If you know who is responsible for this theft or see the stolen vehicle, please call police immediately. If someone is trying to sell you the above items, and you suspect they could be stolen goods, please call your local police service. You can also call Crime Stoppers at 519-258-8477 to make an anonymous report. If your tips leads to an arrest and charges, you could be eligible for a reward.

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I have taken you in my arms, and I love you, and I prefer you to my life itself. For the present life is nothing, and my most ardent dream is to spend it with you in such a way that we may be assured of not being separated in the life reserved for us. . . . I place your love above all things, and nothing would be more bitter or painful to me than to be of a different mind than you.
I’ve long thought that there was something missing from St. John Paul II’s pontificate: he never wrote much about men, masculinity, and fatherhood. Sure, there are some things in his prior writings and certainly some mention in his Theology of the Body, but there’s no Letter to Men or Vires Dignitatem (cf. Mulieres Dignitatem – On the Dignity and Vocation of Women). Some will answer that he wrote Pastores Dabo Vobis, but that’s a document about and for priests. No doubt clear teaching on men, masculinity, and fatherhood would be helpful for priests as well as for other men.
In my work on Mulieris Dignitatem, I started to wonder, if mothers have sort of a primary relationship with children on account of biology (they do spend 9+ months in a woman’s body…), perhaps the special role of men is to be the primary caretaker of the marriage. Perhaps.
St. John Chrysostom’s words above mean nothing if they are not lived, if a husband does not make the choices and take the actions to live them.
I’ve noticed anecdotally that where men are committed to the marriage, not just being passively carried along in family life, that the marriages are different and better. The wife is happier. So are the children, if the couple is blessed to have children. And the husband is happier.
There’s a statistic – I don’t have it handy but you have the mighty interweb at your finger tips – that children are about 20% likely to follow the family’s practice of religion if it’s led by the mother. If led by the father, that number jumps to something like 80%. All those moms are wonderful, good women who are trying their best, I’m sure. But it’s not enough.
And it’s not enough to approach marriage by laying the responsibility of home and hearth at the woman’s feet. The man has to be the leader in the marriage. He has to be the man who says and acts as St. John Chrysostom recommends. I’ve never seen it work well any other way. Feel free to disagree if you like, that’s what the com-boxes are for below.
In some ways, I think women have a role that’s more natural in a biological consideration. But then, to protect her children and herself, she assumes more leadership roles in the family if there is a void where her husband ought to be.
First of all, go with a good Catholic translation. After all, the Bible comes from the Catholic Church. With all due respect to our Protestant sisters and brothers, they have edited the Bible at times. If you want the real deal, read a Catholic version. If you want an abridged and edited version…well, there are many Protestant versions out there. Pick one and enjoy.
And the Lord doesn’t require us to become servile and submissive. In fact, he calls us friends. He lays down his life for his friends. He tells us that his Father will love us as the Father loves Him. (I’m still trying to wrap my head around that!) We are made his siblings in baptism!
If you’re wondering what that means, look at the crucifix.
That looks a lot harder than “being subordinate to the Lord.” I think wives need to realize this sacrifice and be a help (not a hindrance) to their husbands. But it’s the husband who has to love his wife as Christ loved the church. And that is huge. The Church did not go to Christ and say, “You know, you need to lay your life down for me.” The Church didn’t even exist yet.
It’s the husband’s initiative to leave his parents so that he can be joined to his wife. Sure, the wife is going to leave her parents, too; but Scripture and St. Paul are clearly placing the emphasis on the male initiative.


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So you’ve already gathered that I love to blog, cook, bake and eat out. Something you may not know is that I am an avid reader and always have a book on my bedside table ready to read. I am about to jump on the Fifty Shades of Grey bandwagon as soon as my friend gets her copy back from someone else who borrowed it. Right now, I’m reading The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet’s Nest, the final book of Stieg Larsson’s three-part series.
Eat My Globe by Simon Majumbar. He is a judge on “The Next Iron Chef” on Food Network, and the co-editor of a hugely popular UK food blog who traveled around the world in search of the world’s greatest food. This book has been on my list of must-reads for quite some time. I imagine that once I pick it up, I will not want to put it down. What an awesome life…traveling and eating only the best foods you can find. If I had the resources, I would jump at the opportunity to do something like that. The only logical thing to do in that situation is, of course, to write a book documenting every step of the way. I can’t wait to get my hands on this memoir.
Cook Like A Rockstar by Anne Burrell. She’s my favorite chef on Food Network. I love her crazy demeanor and even crazier hair. She is the host of Food Network’s “Secrets of a Restaurant Chef” and “Worst Cooks in America” — of course I was rooting for her team the whole way, and yes, Team Anne won! There’s got to be some great recipes in her book that are easy to understand and include ingredients that are easy to find. I don’t know about you, but I would definitely love to learn how to Cook Like A Rockstar and I don’t think there could be a better teacher than Chef Burrell.


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We break down where to stay, what to eat, and what not to miss in the Middle East’s latest crown jewel.
It’s hard to imagine that only 60 years ago, the gleaming seaside oasis now known as Abu Dhabi was nothing more than vast swathes of sand and desert. Once home to a prosperous pearling industry, it wasn’t until 1958 and the discovery of oil that development in the region started to boom thanks in large part to the vision of Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan—an enigmatic ruler who is considered to be the U.A.E.’s founding father. He wanted to leave a lasting legacy to his people and decided to build, quite literally from the ground up.

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The US General Services Administration (GSA), the largest property owner in the U.S., promotes government-wide efforts to create green, sustainable buildings. To support this work, the General Services Administration has issued two Realty Services Letters, one on the topic of Green Lease Policies and Procedures for Lease Acquisition and the other on Energy Star Requirement for Lease Acquisition, and a final Sustainability Update. These policies incorporate modified and additional green language in all federal leases, they also require buildings to earn the Energy Star label.
When structured properly, green leasing can be mutually beneficial for the tenant and the landlord, however there are a few barriers to making green leasing ubiquitous in the private sector. One of the biggest barriers to green leasing is feedback and measuring the return on investment. A tenant occupying a small portion of a large commercial building might make certain efficiency upgrades, but if the building is not submetered, there is no way to show their accomplishments or measure their savings. Also, some sustainability strategies are impossible to pursue depending on who is in control of which areas. For instance, a tenant might want to insulate the roof to provide for more energy savings, but might not have that kind of control.
While green leasing adoption still lags behind conventional leasing, it is clear that green leases are becoming an established strategy for enabling more environmentally and financially efficient operations in all types of buildings.
A green lease aligns the incentives of both the landlord and the tenant toward conservation of resources and efficient operation while helping maintain a healthy, productive interior environment.
In a traditional commercial lease, the tenant is typically responsible for paying its rent, plus additional pass through costs, such as its proportionate share of the property taxes, building insurance, and maintenance costs. This type of lease may discourage an owner's investment in green building upgrades because they may not provide a sufficient return. The landlord pays, but most of the benefits go to the tenant in the form of lower maintenance and operations costs. If the landlord undertakes green construction, he or she may not realize a share of the resulting savings. For more efficient buildings, landlords will likely be able to charge a higher rent, but that increase may not generate a return sufficient to justify the investment.
If, instead, a gross lease is used, where the landlord pays some of the costs usually passed to the tenant, incentives align better for green design. In this set-up, the landlord can recoup its investment through reduced operating costs and continued high efficiency. In order to affirm tenants have a stake in the building’s green character, some costs need to be passed through to the tenants to provide the proper incentives. For instance, landlords could require tenants to achieve LEED for Commercial Interiors certification, participate in recycling programs, specify green improvements and disposal of waste, use of energy efficient light bulbs, motion sensing light timers, low-flow toilets, or Energy Star rated appliances in their leases.
Building information modeling, or BIM, is a powerful type of computer software that promises to enhance the functional, technical, and economic performance of all construction, no matter how complex. BIM is a design tool showing how different building systems will function and interact under different conditions or variations. Buildings designed using BIM may consume less energy, emit less carbon, be more comfortable thermally and acoustically, utilize less water, and be more cost-effective than buildings that do not use BIM.
BIM allows building designers to visualize and modify digital models of possible construction designs while showing any or all of a building’s many components and systems. For instance, if a designer tweaks the roof slope, the software immediately adjusts and displays the entire digital model to reflect the change in all other systems.
The BIM tool can compare multiple design options and optimize a design based on selected parameters. So, for instance, if a client wants to optimize a building's design to enhance daylighting or energy use, BIM can help designers accomplish those goals. BIM can also help designers predict how a building will perform into the future and keep architects in the planning stages for heating, cooling, ventilation, plumbing, electricity, and other system needs rather than handing off those responsibilities. BIM is very conducive to collaborative design and integrated project delivery.
In general, electricity cannot be easily stored on a large scale for commercial and residential use. Because of this storage and distribution problem, supply and demand for energy must be kept at equilibrium, as much as possible, in real time. In the past, utilities have attempted to increase power generation to meet peak demands. Peak electricity usage varies by location and season, but generally, demand is highest during business hours and early evenings. However, on hot days in the summer when air conditioning loads are significant, energy demands can exceed what utilities are able to provide.
Demand response is an incentive strategy that utilities use to entice their customers to lower demand for electric power generation during severe (peak) times when demand may outstrip capacity. Customers are paid for reducing their electricity consumption for a short period during a critical "peak load" time. Demand response works for consumers and business owners alike (demand side) because commercial and residential property owners can be paid for their energy curtailment, as well as for utilities (supply side) because a successful demand response program may obviate the need to build a new power plant, or expand the capacity of an existing one.
Recently representatives from small and medium sized cities convened in Portland, Oregon for the first-ever Urban Sustainability Accelerator.
The program has been designed by Portland State University to assist smaller cities and neighborhoods with their sustainability policy ideas, as well as recommendations and strategies for implementation.
Portland is well-known as a leading sustainable city and the Accelerator will offer mentorship and advice from Portland’s sustainability experts. Portland has led in a variety of sustainability efforts. Portland was the first American city to adopt a Global Warming Action Plan in 1993, and it is consistently ranked one of the most sustainable cities (if not the most sustainable). Mother Nature Network ranked it #1 in 2012, and Popular Science also called it the greenest city in the U.S. in 2008. In 2012, the city recycled 63% of its waste and held the highest number of LEED certified buildings in the country. The city cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 12.5% per capita between 1993 and 2009, while the rest of the country’s greenhouse gas emissions increased.
Passive houses are not only designed to operate with minimal (if any) active heating and cooling, but also, thanks to a bright student design team, they could also become affordable for almost anyone.
Designing a passive house that maintains a constant level of thermal comfort with minimal active heating and cooling is accomplished by focusing on 1) optimal window orientation for maximal use of the sun's rays, 2) a highly insulated building envelope that is virtually air-tight and 3) thoughtful HVAC design (mechanical, passive or hybrid) that keeps the home at a relatively steady, comfortable indoor climate.
A passive home's solar orientation lets heat from the sun warm the interior during the winter, while integrated shading structures provide cooling and keep unwanted incremental heat out during the summer.
The Passive House Institute, which certifies passive homes, claims that the design cuts energy costs by 65-90%, however some experts, such as Martin Holladay, dispute this, and claim that passive houses not only are less efficient, but also will always need an integrated mechanical system to achieve near-constant thermal comfort.
Empowerhouse in Dearwood, Washington D.C., which won the affordability contest at the Solar Decathlon in 2012 is one excellent example of passive house design that not only reduces energy costs by 90%, but also uses a thoughtful "light-mechanical" HVAC design incorporating renewable energy to achieve net zero performance.