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Life! Liberty! Leesburg! LMAO!

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“Ryan N. Maue's Seasonal Tropical Cyclone Activity Update


North Atlantic Hurricane Season slowest since 1997 -- Figure

Global and Northern Hemisphere Tropical Cyclone Activity remains near 30-year historical lows -- three years in a row now of considerably below-average activity globally. -- Figure
Consequence of the transition from La Nina to El Nino during the past year


The best of 2009: Hurricane Bill, Hurricane Fred, Hurricane Rick, Super Typhoon Melor, Typhoon Parma

Oct 29: The North Atlantic hurricane season has not produced a storm in over 3-weeks and, if no more develop, the season overall would rank as the slowest since the El Nino year of 1997. Hurricanes Bill and Fred accounted for over 82% of the Accumulated Cyclone Energy [ACE**] -- a metric that combines intensity, duration, and frequency of hurricanes and tropical storms during a year. The remaining storms were weak, rather short-lived and unremarkable. Indeed, the Accumulated Cyclone Energy [ACE] of 44 ranks among the slowest during the past half-century. Elsewhere, the Northern Hemisphere and Global ACE when calculated either with 12- or 24-month running sums, remains just above historical 30-year lows. Indeed, the global ACE sunk to record low levels during the early summer prior to the typhoon activity in the Western Pacific and the hurricane activity in the Eastern Pacific. While it may seem like the world has experienced considerable tropical cyclone activity lately, 2009 as a whole is still well behind normal or climatology. The previous Southern Hemisphere cyclone season including the Southern Indian and Pacific Oceans along with the Australian region produced historically low levels of ACE (from Oct 2008 - Apr 2009). So a global sum during the past 12 or 24 months will simply show the depressed tropical cyclone activity experienced.
This is a natural consequence of the rather unusual flip from strong La Nina to El Nino conditions during the past calendar year, which did not happen at all during the period of 1976-2006 as indicated by the MEI-ENSO INDEX (LINK). It is expected by NOAA and others that the current-El Nino is locked in for the rest of winter 2009-2010 and may indeed strengthen. This would suggest enhanced typhoon activity in the Western Pacific throughout the rest of the fall and winter which will necessarily increase the NH ACE. The Southern Hemisphere TC season may begin at any time now, but most activity is experienced between January and March.

**Note: The Accumulated Cyclone Energy metric combines frequency, duration, and the intensity of tropical cyclones into one value that can be calculated from historical storm records as well as current operational center (i.e. NHC) advisories. The ACE is simply the wind speed squared (times 10^4 kts^2) for each 6-hour storm location and intensity estimate -- added up for an entire season or whatever period you wish to define. CLIMO based upon 1979-2008 climatology.”

“Now Strat, you just don't UNDERSTAND science. In science, we've had the worst hurricane season EVER!”

“http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/science/11/02/kilimanjaro.glaciers/index.html

(CNN) -- The ice and snow that cap majestic Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania are vanishing before our eyes.

If current conditions persist, climate change experts say, Kilimanjaro's world-renowned glaciers, which have covered Africa's highest peak for centuries, will be gone within the next two decades.

20 years... wow.”

“It's not getting warmer. Ask Sarge.”

“Melt the ice instead of paying the price, cause americans eat burgers and not enough rice.”

“considering that the earth is billions of years old, and we're talking about fluctuations of tenths of degrees celsius over decades, and ice ages come and go over periods of thousands of years, i remain skeptical

there. take my silly libbie card”

“fruitbats are so silly”

“Did Beckkk even graduate high school?”

“no, but i graduated college. how about you contribute something worthwhile instead of giving xl and stove ammunition?”

“Why don't you go fvck yourself with a rusty razor, Scotty Boy? LMAO”

“you need to stay out of stovie's med cabinet, sonny”

“I'm not 100% sold - on the same note, I think that the adverse effects of fossil fuel use (not only on the environment, but on the fact that it's constantly fought over) are pretty clearly defined. It's not right that global warming may serve as a "false flag" to finally bring about some more eco-friendly power sources and a general increase in consideration for the natural world... but these changes should've been made decades ago, whether global warming is real or not. If it turns out that global warming is a scam, hoax, or simply poor science, I'll join in calling for the heads of those who have perpetuated it. The ends don't justify the means if it turns out to be a lie... but the ends are nice regardless.”

“the thing is it's probably too late anyway. even if we all went green overnight it wouldn't matter.”

“yeah, there's that too. And I think the "green" shift that we're starting to see now is only because people learned there was a profit in it (though, so far, not enough to go green enough to make any actual difference). My friend works for a big heartless corporation somewhere in the south, and they recently stopped stocking the break room with coffee, tea, and styrofoam cups. He was told this was because his company cared about the environment so dearly that they stopped using styrofoam cups in order to save the polar whalebears or whatever their angle was. Now he has to go downstairs to the cafeteria and pay $2.95 for a cup of coffee. But yeah, it's because they care about the fragile planet
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“the thing is it's probably too late anyway. even if we all went green overnight it wouldn't matter.

LOL - says the assclown who decided to have a family. At least that partly explains why he's a self absorbed, absentee parent.”

“you know fvck all about yogi”

“pppbtthhh - it was a casual quid pro quo for him calling me a racist in another thread. Hey, how come you didn't say that to him then? And here I really thought you liked me - LOL”

“Let crash do his self-appointed job. Don't question his methods.”

“I always found the comments from people saying how we need to save the earth as rather arrogant. The reality is they are talking about saving humans. The earth is not going to die because of us. It will live on as it has for billions of years. Humans will eventually become extincted at some point anyway. It's just the way it is.”

“STOP HUMAN WARMING!”

“i never called you a racist.”

“Better hop to it, Scotty ---- Sarge needs his spongebath.


Carlin was right. The humans have fvcked themselves. The cockroaches would do a better job running the place.

Too bad about the charismatic megafauna, though.”

“Damn I really like the new tilt. What happened?”

“"Some who are too scrupulous to steal your possessions (politicians) nevertheless see no wrong in tampering with your thoughts." ~ Khalil Gibran ”

“Al Gore could become world's first carbon billionaire
Al Gore, the former US vice president, could become the world's first carbon billionaire after investing heavily in green energy companies.

Published: 7:00AM GMT 03 Nov 2009
Al Gore could become world's first carbon billionaire.

Last year Al Gore's venture capital firm loaned a small California firm $75m to develop energy-saving technology Photo: AP

Last year Mr Gore's venture capital firm loaned a small California firm $75m to develop energy-saving technology.

The company, Silver Spring Networks, produces hardware and software to make the electricity grid more efficient.


The deal appeared to pay off in a big way last week, when the Energy Department announced $3.4 billion in smart grid grants, the New York Times reports. Of the total, more than $560 million went to utilities with which Silver Spring has contracts.

The move means that venture capital company Kleiner Perkins and its partners, including Mr Gore, could recoup their investment many times over in coming years.

Few people have been as vocal about the urgency of global warming and the need to reinvent the way the world produces and consumes energy as Mr Gore. And few have put as much money behind their advocacy and are as well positioned to profit from this green transformation, if and when it comes.

Critics, mostly on the political right and among global warming sceptics, say Mr. Gore is poised to become the world's first "carbon billionaire," profiteering from government policies he supports that would direct billions of dollars to the business ventures he has invested in.

Representative Marsha Blackburn, Republican of Tennessee, has claimed that Mr Gore stood to benefit personally from the energy and climate policies he was urging Congress to adopt.

Mr Gore had said that he is simply putting his money where his mouth is.

"Do you think there is something wrong with being active in business in this country?" Mr. Gore said. "I am proud of it. I am proud of it."”

“November 03, 2009
Gore Denies He Is Profiting From Global Warming

"Of course I invest according to my beliefs and values," former Vice President Gore said in response to claims he is profiting from climate change. "I put my money where my mouth is," he added.



Watch this weasel try to defend his bullsh1t for yourself

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2009/11/03/gore_denies_he_is_profiting_from_global_warming.html”

“Only those who seek to disprove Global Warming/Climate Change have an agenda. (Ask around.)”

“i wonder if climate change will produce a bumper crop of sour grapes?”

“XLOLX!!!”

“Has Anyone Read the Copenhagen Agreement?
U.N. plans for a new 'government' are scary.


By JANET ALBRECHTSEN

We can only hope that world leaders will do nothing more than enjoy a pleasant bicycle ride around the charming streets of Copenhagen come December. For if they actually manage to wring out an agreement based on the current draft text of the Copenhagen climate-change treaty, the world is in for some nasty surprises. Draft text, you say? If you haven't heard about it, that's because none of our otherwise talkative political leaders have bothered to tell us what the drafters have already cobbled together for leaders to consider. And neither have the media.

Enter Lord Christopher Monckton. The former adviser to Margaret Thatcher gave an address at Bethel University in St. Paul, Minnesota, earlier this month that made quite a splash. For the first time, the public heard about the 181 pages, dated Sept. 15, that comprise the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change—a rough draft of what could be signed come December.

So far there have been more than a million hits on the YouTube post of his address. It deserves millions more because Lord Monckton warns that the aim of the Copenhagen draft treaty is to set up a transnational "government" on a scale the world has never before seen.

The "scheme for the new institutional arrangement under the Convention" that starts on page 18 contains the provision for a "government." The aim is to give a new as yet unnamed U.N. body the power to directly intervene in the financial, economic, tax and environmental affairs of all the nations that sign the Copenhagen treaty.

The reason for the power grab is clear enough: Clause after complicated clause of the draft treaty requires developed countries to pay an "adaptation debt" to developing countries to supposedly support climate change mitigation. Clause 33 on page 39 says that "by 2020 the scale of financial flows to support adaptation in developing countries must be [at least $67 billion] or [in the range of $70 billion to $140 billion per year]."

And how will developed countries be slugged to provide for this financial flow to the developing world? The draft text sets out various alternatives, including option seven on page 135, which provides for "a [global] levy of 2 per cent on international financial market [monetary] transactions to Annex I Parties." Annex 1 countries are industrialized countries, which include among others the U.S., Australia, Britain and Canada.

To be sure, countries that sign international treaties always cede powers to a U.N. body responsible for implementing treaty obligations. But the difference is that this treaty appears to have been subject to unusual attempts to conceal its convoluted contents. And apart from the difficulty of trying to decipher the U.N. verbiage, there are plenty of draft clauses described as "alternatives" and "options" that should raise the ire of free and democratic countries concerned about preserving their sovereignty.

Lord Monckton himself only became aware of the extraordinary powers to be vested in this new world government when a friend found an obscure U.N. Web site and searched through several layers of hyperlinks before discovering a document that isn't even called the draft "treaty." Instead, it's labelled a "Note by the Secretariat."

Interviewed by broadcaster Alan Jones on Sydney radio Monday, Lord Monckton said "this is the first time I've ever seen any transnational treaty referring to a new body to be set up under that treaty as a 'government.' But it's the powers that are going to be given to this entirely unelected government that are so frightening." He added: "The sheer ambition of this new world government is enormous right from the start—that's even before it starts accreting powers to itself in the way that these entities inevitably always do."

Critics have admonished Lord Monckton for his colorful language. He has certainly been vigorous. In his exposé of the draft Copenhagen treaty in St. Paul, he warned Americans that "in the next few weeks, unless you stop it, your president will sign your freedom, your democracy and your prosperity away forever." Yet his critics fail to deal with the substance of what he says.

Ask yourself this question: Given that our political leaders spend hundreds of hours talking about climate change and the need for a global consensus in Copenhagen, why have none of them talked openly about the details of this draft climate-change treaty? After all, the final treaty will bind signatories for years to come. What exactly are they hiding? Thanks to Lord Monckton we now know something of their plans.

Janos Pasztor, director of the Secretary-General's Climate Change Support Team, told reporters in New York Monday that with the U.S. Congress yet to pass a climate-change bill, a global climate-change treaty is now an unlikely outcome in Copenhagen. Let's hope he is right. And thank you, America.

Ms. Albrechtsen is a columnist for the Australian.”

“Dood doesn't care that the US pollutes the world.”

“UNSHUN:
roseyfarter doesnt care that the world is going to sink us down to a banana republic
RESHUN:”

“To hell with the rest of the world if it means giving up our wealth. Let everyone else deal with it.”

“The last administration sunk our economy to banana republic status.”

“Good thing this one is not!

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“Rosey doesn't care if millions of Americans have died trying to HELP the rest of the World.”

“Help? Help support Yankee Consumerism?”

“I'm sure Iraq is pleased as punch at all the help we've been providing them. Things sure are much better there now that we delivered democracy and McDonalds”

“Um Pepsi, do me a favor and um google some of the time before the invasion.”

“lol, yeah, you're right. we're sooooooo noble, helping those poor people out”

“I love Left Coast situational Ethics.

Spent the past two days in training with some Left Coasters....LOL. So out of touch with reality.”

“that's right, because all left coasters are the same. your open mindedness knows no bounds”

“No not all...thats why the population of "legal citizens" keeps dropping.”

“ah, yes, an exclusively left-coast situation”

“http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,662092,00.html

Global warming appears to have stalled. Climatologists are puzzled as to why average global temperatures have stopped rising over the last 10 years. Some attribute the trend to a lack of sunspots, while others explain it through ocean currents.

At least the weather in Copenhagen is likely to be cooperating. The Danish Meteorological Institute predicts that temperatures in December, when the city will host the United Nations Climate Change Conference, will be one degree above the long-term average.

Otherwise, however, not much is happening with global warming at the moment. The Earth's average temperatures have stopped climbing since the beginning of the millennium, and it even looks as though global warming could come to a standstill this year.

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“That the even warmer currents would underflow the surface fresh melt water was predicted by some. Is that a built in thermostat?”