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Bullshit. Russtafa has a little baldy and he can't get it up. And now everybody knows it.
aww baby i know you could make me get it up yah sexy wench.you want your bum paddled hard and then a good root
for the love of bob just smile nod walk away and let the village idiot soak in his miseryQuote:
Originally Posted by trish
Thanks. Apparently I needed that.Quote:
Originally Posted by muh_muh
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Death threats, intimidation and abuse: climate change scientist Michael E. Mann counts the cost of honesty
Research by Michael E. Mann confirmed the reality of global warming. Little did he know that it would also expose him to a vicious hate campaign
http://1.2.3.11/bmi/static.guim.co.u...imatol-007.jpg Research by US physicist and climatologist Michael E. Mann demonstrating an increase in global temperatures infuriated climate change deniers. Photograph: Greg Rico
The scientist who has borne the full brunt of attacks by climate change deniers, including death threats and accusations of misappropriating funds, is set to hit back.
Michael E. Mann, creator of the "hockey stick" graph that illustrates recent rapid rises in global temperatures, is to publish a book next month detailing the "disingenuous and cynical" methods used by those who have tried to disprove his findings. The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars is a startling depiction of a scientist persecuted for trying to tell the truth.
Among the tactics used against Mann were the theft and publication, in 2009, of emails he had exchanged with climate scientist Professor Phil Jones of East Anglia University. Selected, distorted versions of these emails were then published on the internet in order to undermine UN climate talks due to begin in Copenhagen a few weeks later. These negotiations ended in failure. The use of those emails to kill off the climate talks was "a crime against humanity, a crime against the planet," says Mann, a scientist at Penn State University.
In his book, Mann warns that "public discourse has been polluted now for decades by corporate-funded disinformation – not just with climate change but with a host of health, environmental and societal threats." The implications for the planet are grim, he adds.
Mann became a target of climate deniers' hate because his research revealed there has been a recent increase of almost 1°C across the globe, a rise that was unprecedented "during at least the last 1,000 years" and which has been linked to rising emissions of carbon dioxide from cars, factories and power plants. Many other studies have since supported this finding although climate change deniers still reject his conclusions.
Mann's research particularly infuriated deniers after it was used prominently by the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in one of its assessment reports, making him a target of right-wing denial campaigners. But as the 46-year-old scientist told the Observer, he only entered this research field by accident. "I was interested in variations in temperatures of the oceans over the past millennium. But there are no records of these changes so I had to find proxy measures: coral growth, ice cores and tree rings."
By studying these he could trace temperature fluctuations over the past 1,000 years, he realised. The result was a graph that showed small oscillations in temperature over that period until, about 150 years ago, there was a sudden jump, a clear indication that human activities were likely to be involved. A colleague suggested the graph looked like a hockey stick and the name stuck. The results of the study were published in Nature in 1998. Mann's life changed for ever.
"The trouble is that the hockey stick graph become an icon and deniers reckoned if they could smash the icon, the whole concept of global warming would be destroyed with it. Bring down Mike Mann and we can bring down the IPCC, they reckoned. It is a classic technique for the deniers' movement, I have discovered, and I don't mean only those who reject the idea of global warming but those who insist that smoking doesn't cause cancer or that industrial pollution isn't linked to acid rain."
A barrage of intimidation was generated by "a Potemkin village" of policy foundations, as Mann puts it. These groups were set up by privately-funded groups that included Koch Industries and Scaife Foundations and bore names such as the Cato Institute, Americans for Prosperity and the Heartland Institute. These groups bombarded Mann with freedom of information requests while the scientist was served with a subpoena by Republican congressman Joe Barton to provide access to his correspondence. The purported aim was to clarify issues. The real aim was to intimidate Mann.
In addition, Mann has been attacked by Ken Cuccinelli, the Republican attorney general of Virginia who has campaigned to have the scientist stripped of academic credentials. Several committees of inquiry have investigated Mann's work. All have exonerated him.
Thousands of emails have been sent to Mann, many deeply unpleasant. "You and your colleagues… ought to be shot, quartered and fed to the pigs along with your whole damn families," said one. "I was hopin [sic] I would see the news and you commited [sic] suicide," ran another.
Yet all that Mann had done was publish to a study suggesting, in cautious terms, that Earth had started to heat up unexpectedly in the past few decades.
"On one occasion, I had to call the FBI after I was sent an envelope with a powder in it," Mann adds. "It turned out to be cornmeal but again the aim was intimidation. I ended up with police security tape all over my office doors and windows. That is the life of a climate scientist today in the US."
Mann insists he will not give up. "I have a six-year-old daughter and she reminds me what we are fighting for." Indeed, Mann is generally optimistic that climate change deniers and their oil and coal industry backers have overstepped the mark and goaded scientists to take action. He points to a recent letter, signed by 250 members of the US National Academy of Science, including 11 Nobel laureates, and published in Science. The letter warns about the dangers of the current attacks on climate scientists and calls "for an end to McCarthy-like threats of criminal prosecution against our colleagues based on innuendo and guilt by association, the harassment of scientists by politicians seeking distractions to avoid taking action, and the outright lies being spread about them."
"Words like those give me hope," says Mann.
The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars will be published by Columbia University Press in April
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/20...rs?INTCMP=SRCH
more manufactured lies
Excellent rebuke.Quote:
Originally Posted by russtafa
Well... As good as you'll get from that source of wit anyway.Quote:
Originally Posted by Silcc69
i don't think i will comment until our election and we destroy the bastards for or at least 50 years over this fucking carbon tax .after that i don't think any other countries governments:pumped: will be game to mention global warmingQuote:
Originally Posted by hippifried
because obviously the entire world looks to australia for political guidance?Quote:
Originally Posted by russtafa
test tube old bean
Earth 2100 - saw this in the History channel the other day. Here it is on YouTube
ABC .. Special .. EARTH 2100 .. 1/9 - YouTube
Thought provoking...for anyone who actually thinks, that is.
I mean, even if you ignore the science of climate change, well, we face a lot of challenges from: loss of biodiversity, to topsoil erosion/loss to, well, just name it -- :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Cuchulain
And, too, a very conservative notion would be to re-localize our economies. Which would be great on a whole slew of levels.
And, too, rising gas prices. What happens when it hits $200 a barrel?
The point being is: we cannot sustain this level of consumption, despoliation, industrialization.... We can't have infinite growth on a finite planet. But our entire economy hinges on the idea of endless growth. Politicians demand it. The corporate structure demands it. Well, by law corporations have to keep expanding and growing.... Which puts tremendous pressure on our life support systems.
Again, this is ignoring the idea of climate change.
George Carlin had an interesting take on the planet, well, decaying. He pointed out over 20 years ago that 25 species a day are being wiped out. Today that number is up to 200.... I'd argue with Carlin. I think industrial civilization has a great deal to do with it.
(1992) - George Carlin - Save the planet Viet sub - YouTube
Death threats, intimidation and abuse: climate change scientist Michael E. Mann counts the cost of honesty
Research by Michael E. Mann confirmed the reality of global warming. Little did he know that it would also expose him to a vicious hate campaign:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/20...ers?CMP=twt_gu
Ben I posted this article a few days ago, but I guess you don't bother to update yourself on this or any other thread. Needless to say, Musstafa/Russtafa has dismissed it already.
The 1 percenters will move to higher ground. The rest of will have to evolve into Kevin Costner (Waterworld).
Waterworld is no exaggeration. This'll happen -- ha ha ha!Quote:
Originally Posted by thx1138
I kinda liked it when I saw it....
It's the Road Warrior on water -- :)
Waterworld Theatrical Trailer - YouTube
The Road Warrior (1981) - Movie Trailer - YouTube
So, therein lies the future: either we're inundated with water or we run outta gas.... Which do you prefer -- ha ha! :)
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Originally Posted by russtafa
I can't follow the argument but then I clearly do not possess Russtafa's intellectual prowess. Sarcasm is not one of your well developed traints, so suggest you purchase the attached book and get your carer to read it to you.
'The worldwide insurance industry is huge, three-times bigger than the oil industry. And right now these companies are running scared. Some are threatening to cancel coverage for homeowners within 200 miles of the coast, where destructive hurricanes are on the increase, and in drying areas of the West, where wildfires have wreaked havoc in recent years.
Marsh & McLennan (MMC), one of the world’s largest insurance brokers, called climate change “one of the most significant emerging risks facing the world today,” while the insurance giant AIG has established an Office of Environment and Climate Change to review and assess the risks to insurers in the years ahead.
2011 was a bad year for insurance companies due to the steep rise in catastrophe-related losses. And the industry’s own scientists are predicting that things could get a lot worse in the years ahead.'
http://www.care2.com/causes/what-ins...te-change.html
And the polar bears are going extinct... please send more coco-cola
I think you are being unfair, Faldur, Cuchulain has made an interesting point. I was once told that a major reason why Lee Raymond, when he was CEO of Exxon, rejected climate change, was that he was afraid that the company would be taken to court by an environmental group on the grounds that if the oil companies conceded that they had contributed to climate change, they should be liable for penalties. How it could ever stand up in court I don't know, and although BP, Shell, Arco as it was, and other imdependent oil companies have acknowledged the human element in climate change, they haven't been sued. But if someone tried it, it would be a costly waste of time for all but the lawyers. Of course, if you believe in climate change, we are all to blame -but that is why the remedy is in a universal change of behaviour, from treating the environment as if it didn't matter, to cherishing it as if it were our children. I don't think the consumption of coco-cola, or even coca-cola, or Pepsi would help....though the world could very well end in a fizzzz....
please ,please save the polar bears
Who's Bob Lutz?Quote:
Originally Posted by Ben
"Robert Anthony "Bob" Lutz is a former Vice Chairman at General Motors and upper level manager at several car companies."
So, he has a stake in so-called "denying" global warming. I mean, saying global warming is real, is happening presents a threat to the entire automobile industry. So, I certainly understand where he's coming from.
Bob Lutz (businessman) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Again, I understand why the right want to deny global warming. And it is the right. Isn't it? :)
Ya know, it's a left wing conspiracy. These people that push global warming are merely watermelons. Green on the outside. But RED on the inside. They're socialists. Who want to destroy the free market -- and ultimately freedom. No wonder the right are terrified.
The idea of a socialist plot to destroy capitalism (of course we don't have a pure capitalist system... but that's beside the point) should worry anyone that values their so-called freedom -- :)
Again, to acknowledge that global warming is real and is happening is a sharp attack on Milton Friedman -- and his economic theories, his beliefs. Because we'd have to regulate the hell outta corporations. And that's a big no no to the ol' Friedman model -- :)
Milton Friedman on the Basis of the Free Market - YouTube
Milton Friedman on the Importance of Teaching Free Markets - YouTube
LOL.
Sen. Inhofe: The Bible Proves Global Warming Is A “Hoax”
"Well actually the Genesis 8:22 that I use in there is that “as long as the earth remains there will be springtime and harvest, cold and heat, winter and summer, day and night.” My point is, God’s still up there. The arrogance of people to think that we, human beings, would be able to change what He is doing in the climate is to me outrageous."
http://www.care2.com/causes/sen-inho...is-a-hoax.html
here come the carbon taxes SMH
Australia is paying 23 dollars per ton and climbing
According to Chronicles 4:2 “Also he made a molten sea of ten cubits from brim to brim, round in compass, and five cubits the height thereof; and a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about.” This "states" that pi = 3! Not possible so perhaps not everything in the Bible is true. Just a thought!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Cuchulain
Think Positive People!!
Sahara Forest Project that breathes life into deserts claims Climate Week 2012 award
http://1.2.3.13/bmi/l.yimg.com/bt/ap...ogo_161520.gifBy Gaby Leslie | Yahoo! News – 1 hour 13 minutes ag
It may be hard to imagine an arid desert in full bloom, but one UK firm has dreamed up a way of turning the driest places on Earth into fertile land.
The ‘Sahara Forest Project’ uses specially-built greenhouses that turn salt water into fresh water using solar power, enabling crops to be grown in deserts.
http://1.2.3.11/bmi/l.yimg.com/bt/ap...jpg_142212.jpgGreenhouses turn salt water into fresh water using solar power so crops can be grown. Photo: Climate Week
Seawater Greenhouse, the firm behind the project, claims it offers the answers to three of the biggest challenges the world faces from damaging climate change – the need for clean energy, clean water and sustainable food production.
It could mean crops growing in the Sahara Desert, which was once believed to be a lush forest environment with flowing lakes and abundant flora and fauna.
Now the firm is about launch its Sahara Forest Pilot Project on a one-hectare site just outside Doha, Qatar, after landing £3.3m in funding.
The British company was recognised today at the Climate Week Awards as it scooped the Best Product title.
Other Climate Change Award winners from 13 other categories included Too Good to Waste doggy boxes for diners to take their restaurant leftovers home and the team behind the Close The Door, which works towards improving the energy efficiency of shops by keeping high street doors closed.
Climate Week, which runs from the 12 -18 March, is the country’s biggest climate change campaign, backed by Prime Minister David Cameron and the likes of Sir Paul McCartney and actress Sienna Miller.
Mr Cameron said: “I am extremely pleased to support Britain’s second Climate Week. Climate Week in 2011 was Britain’s biggest ever environmental occasion and Climate Week 2012 is expected to have even more impact.”
Kevin Steele, Climate Week’s founder said: “The Climate Week Awards offer a vision of what a low-carbon society could look like, and that vision is being acted on by the hundreds of thousands of people taking part in Climate Week across Britain.”
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/sahara-fore...012-award.html
Emissions set to surge 50 pct by 2050: OECD...
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/...82E0FF20120315
So the pomes roll out the trendy lefty celebs 2.our government does it 2 and every ones laughsQuote:
Originally Posted by Stavros
professor Tim Flannery asked not to make any further climate predictions because he is bringing climatologist's into disrepute
Why can't Russtafa be more like that nice Simon Baker?
Simon baker is a whimp =not a true Aussie
Michael Chiklis from THE SHIELD is a top bloke and a great American if he is like his character
Well what about Mel Gibson?