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Fred On OReilly, 1/7/03

Fred gives complete concise answers that actually answer the question. Unfortunately, that doesn't fit the needs of the new sound-bite world.

Romney On Gun Rights

Not good ...

Fred On CNN

Here is an outstanding interview Fred Thompson did with Wolf Blitzer on Sunday, January 6, 2008 on CNN's Late Edition.

Fred On FNC

Fred Calls Out Rudy

AMNESTY is AMNESTY, regardless what bribe you have to pay for it.

Change

It's no longer important to support the relics.

Hemispheres And Ice/Snow Cover

The effects of global warming are obvious, right? Mathematical models alone can't prove cause-and-effect relationships. Robust real-world data backed by demonstrated plausibility would be required for that proof.


The chart line at the bottom shows that sea ice had decreased in 2005-2006 to low levels. Not alarming but low. Since man has only been around for a few years on the Earth and for even less time has been able to measure things like sea ice extent, how do we know that we have the right data from the last 4.5 billion years of the Earth to make comparison to? There have been ice ages for a long time, recently, the last one melted about 10,000 years ago, the Earth has been warming, the sea level has been rising, ever since. The key question is what started the melting, and why is it continuing today?

The ludicrous notion that we humans can effect the planet deny things like the Milochanovik cycles, and change the climate are silly.


Arctic 1/3/2008


Antarctic 1/3/2008
It's obvious the melt has refroze, rather quickly I might add. See this story "Arctic Sea Ice Re-Freezing at Record Pace" of the record fast ice refreeze during the fall. Here’s how NASA explains the record re-growth of ice over that 10-day period in October and November: Record sea ice growth rates after a record low may sound surprising at first, but it is not completely unexpected. The more ice that survives the summer melt, the less open water there is for new ice to grow. When summertime ice extent hits a record low, on the other hand, large areas of open water provide room for the ice to grow once temperatures cool off enough. While summer warming of the upper ocean surface can cause wintertime sea ice regrowth to lag initially, as the fall season progresses and sunlight weakens, the rate of energy loss from the ocean increases. That heat loss coupled with a large area of open water creates ideal conditions for sea ice to form rapidly over large areas. Note currently the arctic ice has returned to normal extent.

The article cited above still adds the doom and gloom message to the science "Recovery still lags" ... how do they know, why isn't it just the natural processes and why won't it continue? Climate on Earth always changes.

But the short answer, ice melts, ice freezes, mother nature makes the rules, not a bunch of anti-growth green socialists/communists. For man to think that he can control or effect the weather is really ignorance on display. Now if you want to believe that because you think the UN should run the world, then there isn't much hope convincing you that natural forcing run the Earth, the Universe and all in between.

For your reading pleasure, Dr. Oleg Sorokhtin a Russian scientists has put out this paper, it portends the start of the cold cycle, possibly the next "Dalton Minimum", the last cold cycle that happened about 1800 and lasted 30 years or so.

Here is an animation of sea ice in the Arctic.

Make your own ice comparisons and view other data here, here.

Oh The Horrors

Ever wonder why with all the hysteria about global warming no one ever talks about this? Burning the land, for agricultural use, on purpose, without regard to the CO2 and other pollutants spewed into OUR atmosphere.

Thousands of fires (each marked by a red dot) are visible in this image captured by the MODIS on Aqua satellite on December 27, 2007. This image shows central Africa - most of the fires are concentrated in the Central African Republic (right center), Cameroon (left center) and Chad (top center). There are some fires south of the Central African Republic in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

The fires in this region, known as the sahel, are agricultural in nature. The sahel is a semi-arid strip of grassland in western and central Africa that runs between the Sahara desert to the north and the more fertile region to the south. You can see more fires in this region, just west of this image here.

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I think you know the answer, it doesn't match the 'mean ole USA' template of the global socialists and the UN.

Cascades, And The Rumor Mill

Today's New York Times, John Tierney makes a bold prediction: global warming hysterics will seize upon every weather anomaly that they can say proves their point and will completely ignore any event that does not fit their scenarios. In other words, business as usual for the global warming racket.

Today's interpreters of the weather are what social scientists call availability entrepreneurs: the activists, journalists and publicity-savvy scientists who selectively monitor the globe looking for newsworthy evidence of a new form of sinfulness, burning fossil fuels.

A year ago, British meteorologists made headlines predicting that the buildup of greenhouse gases would help make 2007 the hottest year on record. At year's end, even though the British scientists reported the global temperature average was not a new record - it was actually lower than any year since 2001 - the BBC confidently proclaimed, "2007 Data Confirms Warming Trend."

When the Arctic sea ice last year hit the lowest level ever recorded by satellites, it was big news and heralded as a sign that the whole planet was warming. When the Antarctic sea ice last year reached the highest level ever recorded by satellites, it was pretty much ignored. A large part of Antarctica has been cooling recently, but most coverage of that continent has focused on one small part that has warmed.

When Hurricane Katrina flooded New Orleans in 2005, it was supposed to be a harbinger of the stormier world predicted by some climate modelers. When the next two hurricane seasons were fairly calm - by some measures, last season in the Northern Hemisphere was the calmest in three decades - the availability entrepreneurs changed the subject. Droughts in California and Australia became the new harbingers of climate change (never mind that a warmer planet is projected to have more, not less, precipitation over all).

If you want to get the rumor mill going, you have to filter out any information that would be contrary. Today's drive by media does a wonderful job at hiding the truth.

When judging risks, we often go wrong by using what's called the availability heuristic: we gauge a danger according to how many examples of it are readily available in our minds. Thus we overestimate the odds of dying in a terrorist attack or a plane crash because we've seen such dramatic deaths so often on television; we underestimate the risks of dying from a stroke because we don't have so many vivid images readily available.

Slow warming doesn't make for memorable images on television or in people's minds, so activists, journalists and scientists have looked to hurricanes, wild fires and starving polar bears instead. They have used these images to start an "availability cascade," a term coined by Timur Kuran, a professor of economics and law at the University of Southern California, and Cass R. Sunstein, a law professor at the University of Chicago.

The availability cascade is a self-perpetuating process: the more attention a danger gets, the more worried people become, leading to more news coverage and more fear. Once the images of Sept. 11 made terrorism seem a major threat, the press and the police lavished attention on potential new attacks and supposed plots. After Three Mile Island and "The China Syndrome," minor malfunctions at nuclear power plants suddenly became newsworthy.

And that is the essence of leftists ideology. From DDT, to every other leftists scare that went bust, the same formulae is used. Tell the lie, tell it often enough and before long people will buy into it. Didn't someone else put this into action? Let me think, oh yeah, I got it -- It was George Goebbels, Hitler's propaganda minister. Good model to follow don't you think?

In his acceptance speech, Mr. Gore didn't dwell on the complexities of the hurricane debate. Nor, in his roundup of the 2007 weather, did he mention how calm the hurricane season had been. Instead, he alluded somewhat mysteriously to "stronger storms in the Atlantic and Pacific," and focused on other kinds of disasters, like "massive droughts" and "massive flooding."

"In the last few months," Mr. Gore said, "it has been harder and harder to misinterpret the signs that our world is spinning out of kilter." But he was being too modest. Thanks to availability entrepreneurs like him, misinterpreting the weather is getting easier and easier.

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