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Stern's climate report just scare-mongering
Piers Akerman
–, Sunday, November, 05, 2006, (9:27am)
Few government reports have been greeted with less scepticism than Nicholas Stern's scary scenario on climate change, but seldom has a report purporting to be a serious study been so deficient in scientific back-up. While its contents have been taken as gospel by various interest groups, the media and the ALP, a number of bona fide experts are deeply concerned at the report's lack of any real intellectual rigour.
Without gilding the lily, Dr Brian O'Brien, a strategic and environmental consultant, who was the foundation Director and Chairman of the WA Environmental Protection Authority, and previously Professor of Physics and Space Science in the US, has all the credentials necessary to make a reasoned, educated review of such a report.
His verdict is damning. He says that not only are its forecasts out of whack with the last report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) of 2001, but also that if Stern wasn't so driven by political goals he should have waited until next year when the IPCC's fourth report is due to be published.
"I think they're being quite naughty,'' he said. "All this apocalyptic talk when the situation is not so cataclysmic that they couldn't have waited till 2007 for the best available transparent data rather than rely on the coupling together of a five-year-old, out-of-date IPCC report, amended with references to a difficult-to-obtain German publication Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change, edited by H.J.Schellnhuber (Cambridge University Press), which is not only not readily available but was not subjected to the usual process of peer review.''
Professor O'Brien, who has a number of experiments still orbiting Earth aboard various satellites is currently assisting NASA recover data from the Apollo 11 program which the space agency "misplaced'' before coding, was clearly exasperated when he spoke with me from his Perth home.
"There are a number of obvious problems with the report,'' he said, "not least being that Stern relies on the IPCC's 2001 report which estimated the maximum sea level rise forecast by 2100 would be somewhere between 9cm and 88cm and a leaked report of next year's IPCC report says the rise is possibly between 14cm and 43cm.''
Clearly, Stern has chosen to take the darkest possible view of the future.
The professor said that in its initial report in 1995, the IPCC explicitly stated that its definition of climate change differed from that of the United Nations and Kyoto, because their definition included natural events plus human activities. "The first question, then, is what is climate change, if the scientific group advising the UN is thinking about natural phenomena as well as the scary stuff?'' he asked. "How about the so-called Federation drought which ran from 1895 to 1903, and the drought which ran from 1991 to '95, or the two in between, which had the most devastating effect in extent and on primary production, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics Year Book for 2001?''
Professor O'Brien referred to remarks made by Robert White, the President of the US National Academy of Engineering to the annual general meeting of the US Academy of Science, in Washington, in April, 1989, where he said: "Whether we in the scientific community like it or not, we have awakened the political beast; we are confronted with an inverted pyramid of knowledge. A huge and growing mass of proposals for policy action is balanced upon a handful of real facts.''
Professor O'Brien described a diagram of a big inverted pyramid, standing on a tiny little apex of a few facts such as increasing concentration of gases and a mass of assumptions rising on top of that, and exploding into all sorts of models and scenarios. The Stern report, he said, is now at the peak of the apocalyptic drawing.
He said the Stern report's sky-is-falling approach to climate change was exactly the same as the technique used at the first world conference on the changing atmosphere, and implications for global security held in Toronto in June, 1988. The opening quote at the conference, attended by more than 300 people from 46 nations was: "Humanity is conducting an unintended, uncontrolled, globally pervasive experiment whose ultimate consequences could be second only to a global nuclear war.''
This alarmist approach reeked of stupidity, snake oil, and misguided gospel preaching but was in line with a formula adopted by the first chairman of the IPCC, Sir John Houghton, who produced the IPCC's first three reports in 1990, 1995 and 2001 and wrote in his book Global Warming, The Complete Briefing, in 1994: "Unless we announce disasters no one will listen.''
Evoking the Great Depression and World War II may garner headlines for climate change but, without a factual basis, the Stern report is little but grandiose scare-mongering. It would be irresponsible in the extreme for politicians to make major policy changes - and major economic commitments - on such specious argument.
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Here's a Time Magazine article from 1974 on global COOLING…
"when meteorologists take an average of temperatures around the globe they find that the atmosphere has been growing gradually cooler for the past three decades. The trend shows no indication of reversing. Climatological Cassandras are becoming increasingly apprehensive, for the weather aberrations they are studying may be the harbinger of another ice age."
Sun 05 Nov 06 (11:33am)
There are not REAL 'climate' problems outlined that have any alteration input from actions of Humanity that have been made obvious in any valid manner by valid SCIENCE. The 'Stern Report' is immediately non-consequential, being only an effort to attach 'dollars' to the generally disinforming 'global warming' rhetoric seen displayed in persistent reprise in Movie and Novel, exampled by that in-consequential Movie from Mr Gore. Generally, the effort seemingly is to produce 'scenarios' (or descriptions of 'times long past') where 'greenhouse' supposition can be made in a factualisation of 'belief', allusion & innuendo.
Indication of the lack of valid SCIENCE there in incorporated is not only in the Rhetoric by-play (by its very existence) but more directly seen within the supposed 'climate models' platformed as 'support' for the 'doom & woe'. It is that these vapid models are the 'science component' of the 'greenhouse drone'. It is from the output of these 'climate models' that 'papers' such as the 'Stern Report' are 'derived'. These 'climate models' would however have to be the greatest farce, the greatest WASTE of Public Money seen in SCIENCE in the past two decades.
Still attached is the Greenhouse Lobby 'talk fest', gabbling more demand for activity than any valid remediation for REAL problems. The 'activity demands' INFACT are only to produce a SENSE of relevance for the 'greenhouse drone', whilst these 'climate models' seem to be a substitute WRITER for the Novels and MOVIES of the 'greenhouse platform', this being one more 'inconvenient' truth the greenhouse lobby avoids. The entire effort portraying only an earnest attempt to perhaps SELL, be it more Climate Books (the 'source' of so many 'doom & woe' Climate Movie scripts) or just 'Climate Change' Insurance policies on some scale above the 'smaller consumer'…
To restate, Climate change is real & Natural, the LIE is in the attempt to make a 'greenhouse effect' causal, and that supposition of an 'unnatural greenhouse additions' are 'making' 'unnatural changes' to Climate. There is NOT any possibility that CO2 can produce a 'greenhouse effect' with its actual properties, nor can any other material labelled with 'greenhouse', as that effect is outlined within the 'greenhouse theory' (see outline 'To Start Discussion' in link * below). There IS a problem real and due to (as yet) unrestrained Human actions, the unheeded effect of the Sprawl of that Populations production of Habitat, noted within the outlines at link ** below.
Peter K. Anderson a.k.a. Hartlod(TM)
* http://hartlod.blogspot.com/
** http://hartlodsgallery.blogspot.com/
Sun 05 Nov 06 (11:53am)
Spot on as usual Piers. The Article in the Australian on November 3rd, written by Bob Carter should be compulsory reading. I notice that the release of this report has been times to coincide at a time when the Labour Government in the UK is in trouble and when a meeting about climate change matters is being held in Africa.
I find it extremely questionable that all the current warming trends globally are being blamed on human activity. Of course in Australia, many in the media and in the latte set blame it all on one human being, John Howard.
Sun 05 Nov 06 (11:54am)
After watching Insiders this morning, on the ABC .. I'd understood that Andrew Bolte was the only one in the world who thought such reporting alarmist. But then I remembered I did too.
Sun 05 Nov 06 (06:07pm)
The sudden hysteria over "Global Warming"/"Climate Change" is akin to the perilous Y2K predictions of 1999!
Whilst there clearly is no"due by date" for this latest impending disaster,the latest crop of doom and gloom merchants seem just as paranoid and lost as their 1999 counterparts.
As I say again and again....Does anyone really know?
There is plenty of evidence out there for both sides of the argument.
The continuing drought conditions in the south of Australia,have clearly panicked many people.
Sun 05 Nov 06 (08:07pm)
Who is Brian O'Brian?
His opinions might be compromised if he did or does work for the coal industry, might they not?
Sun 05 Nov 06 (08:12pm)
His background was included in the article. He is a serious climate scientist or the highest repute.
Piers Akerman
Mon 06 Nov 06 (08:16am)
None so blind as he who will not see,& it Apiers irresponsible stupipity to match.
Sun 05 Nov 06 (08:25pm)
Have you anything pertinent to add or is this comment really a true record of the apex of your intellectual striving?
Piers Akerman
Mon 06 Nov 06 (08:18am)
Hi Piers,
No-one would deny that we need to stop pumping effluent into our water systems or gases into the air, but this sea levels rising and the earth getting hotter is alarmist crap.
Land bridges have been disappearing between countries for millions of years because of rising sea levels. This was happening well before man arrived and millions of years before the industrial age began. It will continue to happen.
Obvious also is the fact that the earth has been getting hotter, and colder for millions of years as well as evidence shows. Ice Age, drought, Ice age drought etc. This will also continue.
This hype is nothing more that attempts by govts to allow them to tax everything. But this hype would disappear tomorow if alarmists knew they would have to pay $5 a lt for petrol, $1000 a year carbon tax, and companies sack millions of people because of high taxes paid on output.
Why should we pay these taxes when the biggest offender dont. Howard is absolutely correct.
Mon 06 Nov 06 (04:59am)
Great work Piers,
You have found the one prominent scientist who disagrees with the report, ignored any of his potential political agendas (Chairman of the WA Environmental Protection does not exactly reek of 'green'-ness) and quoted singularly from him.
Sometimes it takes a little scare-mongering to stir people into action. Australia was scared into taking a threat to our nation seriously with the Japaese advance during WWII, despite them never entertaining seriously the idea of invading Australia. But the threat of it stirred an otherwise partially mobilised nation onto a total war footing. Scare-mongering lifts people from complacency.
Even if the Stern report exagerates effects of climate change, which no doubt it does in taking a worst-case scenario, shouldn't we all take action to avoid this from happening? Or are you suggesting we do nothing, and see who is right 50 years from now when you are gone and it is someone elses' problem?
You certainly have never added anything constructive to the debate about global warming and climate change. All you have done is try your hardest to ridicule views that are different to your own.
Mon 06 Nov 06 (10:46am)
Can always count on you to raise total irrelevancies and you have never let me down. How do you do it? Japan's attack on the US and its alliance with Germany count for nothing in your warped accounting.
Piers Akerman
Mon 06 Nov 06 (11:05am)
It is not needed to look back Millions of years even, over the past 30,000 years (as example) a land bridge joining Australia to New Guinea has come and gone, as has a land bridge joining the region of the North Eastern European and Western Region of the North American Continents. See outline articles at link ** below for slides detailing such motions. You will notice also in the slides in link * outline 'Glaciers Reborn' that the Glaciers in China (mentioned as 'melting' far too often') did exist also, covered a much larger region and are still meting after 18,000 years. Notice also the Drastic alteration in Relative Sea Level over the past 18,000 years, there is not any reason to 'believe' that this Rise is complete, there is still too much Ice left, after all. This is not to say that the Melting Ice itself will alter Sea Level 'alone', the redistribution of Liquid Water does have a place to play also and not all trapped water is in a 'frozen form'. Realise that the present 'Sea Levels' would also have existed at some time BEFORE that Ice Age just reverted (it is only one of ~60 recurring "cooling events" within the past ~3 Million year Climate Period).
There is not any relevance at all to a supposed 'greenhouse effect' NOR 'Kyoto' in any regard to the situation 'Pacific Island' resident Population (as example) finds itself placed within. There is not any point attempting to recite that Australia (as example) needs to revise 'attitude' towards the 'Kyoto Protocol' in regard to 'safeguarding' such Population in present 'residence situations'.
Notice that the Temperature of a System is but the measure of the Residual Kinetic Energy of those Material Masses constituting the system. The Kinetic Energy involved in the production of Turbulence within the Material Masses of the System is otherwise 'invisible' to measures of Temperature, involved instead in moving those masses. The Material Masses of the System of interest (i.e. the Environment) are in an order of (10exp24) kilograms, so even a small alteration to System Turbulence will produce a vast alteration to the Temperature of the System.
So in SCIENCE a Temperature of an Environment is NOT even a valid 'statistic' in any effort to validate 'climate change' scenarios for a REAL Environment. Nor are 'ice cores' at all able to produce a valid measure relating either Temperature or even CO2 or other relatable 'quality' of 'past atmospheres', but make for constant and persistent 'unending discussion', the mainstay of the 'greenhouse drone'…
There is NOT any possibility that CO2 can produce a 'greenhouse effect' with its actual properties, nor can any other material labelled with 'greenhouse', as that effect is outlined within the 'greenhouse theory' (see outline 'To Start Discussion' in link '*' below). There IS a problem real and due to (as yet) unrestrained Human actions, the unheeded effect of the Sprawl of that Populations production of Habitat, noted within the outlines at link '**' below. There is not any reason to regard the 'Kyoto Protocol' able to remediate ANY existent "Climate" process involving actions of Humanity. It is rather pointless attempting further justification of 'greenhouse opinion' with any reliance on claiming existent a 'consensus' when by its persistent mention it is shown such 'consensus' cannot exist, due the fact of the persistence of the 'citation' effort. An existent consensus would not need to be so oft mentioned as the 'only remaining' defence of 'greenhouse opinion'....& 'policy'.
Climate change is real & Natural, the LIE is in the attempt to make a 'greenhouse effect' causal, and that supposition of an 'unnatural greenhouse additions' are 'making' 'unnatural changes' to Climate.
The Stern report is made as a waste of "time & money" demanding that now we all waste more "time & 'money".
Peter K. Anderson a.k.a. Hartlod(TM)
* http://hartlod.blogspot.com/ ** http://hartlodsgallery.blogspot.com/
Mon 06 Nov 06 (11:10am)
The world climate has always been changing. It heats up and cools down. Have some experts forgotten the basic facts?
Presently on one side of the world there are floods, on the other side at the same time there is drought and heat. Why is supposed change not global?
Where does the recent 3-5 year high solar flare activity on the sun fit into the global warming science data? Where is the date? Who has that data?
Reality in absence of scientific data is interesting. For example evidence indicates the global warming climate change business is a secondary issue to world ocean fish depletion and associated social and economic and environmental consequences that are already occurring.
Wake up Australia. Fish stocks are so depleted that marine animals are dying of starvation. Pacific island people are dying due to major body organ failure linked to complete protein malnutrition. Pacific unrest and coup's are linked to loss of fish as the primary trading commodity of the barter economy. Shelving or (smoke) screening of the Pacific situation is now costing Australia billions.
Environmentally, irrefutable evidence indicates dumped sewage nutrient pollution is feeding invasive algae that blooms on warmer days when food is present. The blooms are smothering and killing estuary seagrass that produces small fish that feed migratory fish.
Algae blooms are smothering Great Barrier Reef and causing coral to die and whiten. Algae can not bloom without food.
The cause of the invasive algae blooms and GBR coral 'bleaching' is nutrient pollution, not global warming or climate change. Who can prove this incorrect?
I think the global warming issue is a very likely smokescreen for government political agenda, including development of nuclear energy and abolition of the coal industry.
At the same time the smokescreen is hiding government negligence to sustainably manage the marine environment including the Pacific region.
Mon 06 Nov 06 (12:20pm)
If this is global warming, bring it on. Who cares if Kiribati goes under? If I can sunbake on St Kilda Beach in July it will be well worth it.
Mon 06 Nov 06 (01:41pm)
Well done, Piers.
As an expatriate Australian scientist and businessman who has lived in the USA for over 10 years, I would like to add to your points by highlighting some of the key science problems for the pro-global warming political lobby, which never seem to get an airing in the general media in Australia and elsewhere, perhaps because of an overly developed sense of political correctness. Consideration of these scientific issues are especially important in light of the media debate, spurred by the British PM's comments after the release of the Stern Review.
In summary, the key problems are:
1. yes, there is an indisputable rise in atmospheric CO2, but there is no clear evidence that this is causing or will cause a rise in global temperature;
2. atmospheric CO2 levels are in fact at their historical lows currently in a 500 million year cycle, having generally been falling for the last 500 million years from a point around 450 million years ago when it was about 20 times the current level — in fact, it has been continuously falling since 200 million years ago, when the level was more than double current levels — the recent rise in CO2 is almost non-discernable on a 200 million year scale;
3. climate has always varied, and we are currently in the Holocene Period geologically, which is an interglacial warm period that began about 11,000 years ago — there have been 17 ice age cycles in the last 2 million years, and on a smaller timescale, historical records document the existence of what is known as a "little ice age†between 1450 and 1850, and what is known as the "mediaeval climate optimum†of warmer temperatures than the present, around 1,000 AD, plus even larger and more rapid temperature variations (certainly not caused by human activities) can be found in high resolution ocean core data going back 3,000 years;
4. the global climate models (GCMs) used by the IPCC do not predict on a retrospective basis any of the documented past climate events, so how can you have confidence in them predicting future climate events? In addition, the GCMs are unable to reproduce the El Nino events, or any other quasi-periodic variations of climate which we have hard historical data for;
5. Instead, the data for solar activity and temperature, since around 1860 (when solar activity was started to be recorded) show an almost perfect 1:1 correlation, suggesting that this is the key connection;
6. Satellite and weather balloon data both correlate perfectly with one another, to show that there has been no global warming of the atmospheric temperature at all, and that the surface weather station data shows a small temperature increase, but this is entirely related to the "urban heat island†(UHI) effect, since most weather stations are located in and around major cities, where there are heat sinks of concrete and asphalt etc — once you remove the UHI effect from the surface data, these actually show a slight cooling of temperature.
7. Also, the years around 1940 were in fact the hottest years of the 20th century, and not those at the end of the century as the media would have you believe — there was a marked warming effect between 1920 and 1940, peaking during WW2, after which atmospheric temperatures consistently cooled until around the mid 1980s.
8. The weather satellite data also shows that at present, temperature gradients running from the North Pole to the South Pole indicate clearly that the mid latitudes in the North Pole there is a warming trend from 1979 to the present (where the UHI effect is largest because of the concentration of population and industrial activity from North America and Northern Europe), but that from the Tropic of Cancer to the South Pole, there is actually generally a cooling trend over the same period.
9. Also, regarding the feared concept of sea level rise following global warming events, the actual data of tropical average sea-surface temperature and global average temperature over the period from 1900 to the present show a precise inverse correlation — ie., a rising global temperature actually is correlated with a fall in sea level, the exact opposite of what the global warming lobby would have you believe.
These issues are well documented here in the US among climate scientists, such as Dr Fred Singer, the father of US atmospheric weather measurements and among other things, the first director of the US Weather Satellite Service, as well as Dr Roger Pielke Snr's weblog at the Colorado University Climate Science Department http://climatesci.atmos.colostate.edu/, to name only a couple.
Mon 06 Nov 06 (02:31pm)
on #7
that was NOT a global phenomenon.
"from 1945 to 1975, the temperatures in the North Atlantic region, like those in the rest of the Northern hemisphere, cooled slightly, while they were increasing in the Southern hemisphere".
The authors say: "The southern hemisphere temperature reconstructions are shorter and less reliable; they do indicate cooler conditions before 1900, but not the same inter-centennial variation evident in the north.
"The average shows greater recent warming than earlier in the 20th century, and there is no evidence of the slight 1945 to 1975 cooling seen over many northern hemisphere land areas.
this piece of evidence does NOT prove human induced global warming is not possible.
Mon 06 Nov 06 (03:14pm)
on #3 regarding the Medieval Warm Period often cited by sceptics as proof weather was warmer back then:
Nevertheless, the concept of a Medieval Warm Period (MWP) has taken on a life of its own, with the implicit assumption that it was a global phenomenon and that temperatures were warmer than in recent decades.
There is little evidence that this was so. Hughes and Diaz argued a few years ago that the available evidence allowed nothing more significant to be concluded "than the fact that in some areas of the globe, for some part of the year, relatively warm conditions may have
prevailed". Subsequent research has not altered that conclusion.
But we cannot entirely rule out the possibility of a globally extensive warm episode (or episodes) for at least part of the period from A.D. 1000 to A.D. 1300, because of the paucity of high-resolution records
(especially from the oceans and the southern hemisphere) spanning that interval. High precision borehole temperature measurements from Greenland (7), and some from Antarctica (8), do point to warmer
conditions around A.D. 1000 than in recent decades , but other paleoclimate records provide a different picture. For example, tree ring data from the southern hemisphere do not provide support for a warmer
period ~1000 years ago.
"The Medieval Warm Period and Little Ice Age are labelled at roughly the times when they are historically believed to have occurred, although it
is still disputed whether or not either were global event"
Mon 06 Nov 06 (03:17pm)
Christopher Monckton has written an interesting and readable response to the Stern report (first of two parts) in the London Telegraph. It might give Honest John and Rowdy et al some food for thought - but I doubt it.
Mon 06 Nov 06 (03:39pm)
Your replies are sometimes entertaining in that they try to show the zenith of a learned scribe but seem to get lost in the text,keep it "plain english" as in an insurance policy, no more oxymorons eh?
Honest John sure has you tagged,funny how you resort to bluster & putdowns instead of answering the hard ones,but then .........
Mon 06 Nov 06 (08:02pm)
Not much point wasting time with limp thinkers like you. If you have a point about the issue, make it, otherwise, flaccid off.
Piers Akerman
Mon 06 Nov 06 (10:10pm)
MarkC what is plainly shown is that 'greenhouse warming' is NOT possible by application of the 'greenhouse theory', nor even able to be seen potentially responsible for UNNATURAL climate change. It is only as OPINION that you cite 'issues' with Steve's information, yet at issue is the inability of what is presented as (greenhouse) 'climate science' to account for these fluctuations. Scepticism is also validly seen in any situation where the 'claimed truth' is only an observed 'event', but the (greenhouse) 'explanation' is incapable of actuality or existence as a Process within the (Environment) SYSTEM being noticed...as exampled with the supposed 'greenhouse effect' process.
Further, justification of 'greenhouse opinion' seems overly reliant on claiming existent a 'consensus' which would not need to be so oft mentioned as the 'only remaining' defence of 'greenhouse opinion'....& 'policy' if there WAS a 'consensus'. There is NOT any possibility that CO2 can produce a 'greenhouse effect' with its actual properties, nor can any other material labelled with 'greenhouse', as that effect is outlined within the 'greenhouse theory' (see outline 'To Start Discussion' in link '*' below). As an easy issue to illuminate these flaws, regard the supposed 'greenhouse heat trapping' with Photons interacting with Atmospheric Molecules, simplified for this thread discussion.
There is not any 'trapping' of 'heat', all molecules within the Atmosphere get 'faster' when expressing a gain in Kinetic Energy with this activity measured in a Median (not all velocities are identical) as 'temperature' of the Material Mass. The Photons that are remitted (by CO2 & CH4 as example) present Energy NOT involved in this Kinetic Energy gain process & are released in a RANDOM direction (due to the random motion of the originating molecules) and thus the TRENDED overall direction of motion of Photons is in line with the gravitational stratification of the MASS of the Atmosphere.
Thus in line with the decline in INTERCEPTION rate the motion of the Photons within the BOUNDS of the Atmosphere is OUTWARD. Next, H2O is not a high remitter of Photons and has a large Spectral region of interaction, gaining Kinetic energy strongly (100x that rate of CO2) & so increases in atmospheric CO2 will decrease the incidence rate of H2O so cooling the lower atmosphere. This is seen in those calculation Steve mentioned after removal of the 'urban heat isle' effect from the Median Surface Temperature showing a COOLING effect.
The ONLY Reason the sprawl of Human Habitat is NOT producing far stronger Turbulence is due to the INCREASE in CO2 near specifically, CH4 having such a NARROW Spectral region of interaction to be near inconsequential as anything other that as a 'cascade repeater'. So the MATERIALS tell us that if NOT for CO2 rising, those alterations to TURBULENCE expressed in observed WEATHER PATTERNING alterations would be far more exaggerated.
This is as the observed rise in the Median surface temperature is only the RESIDUAL of that alteration in overall Kinetic Induction, the remainder placed into the processes of overall System Turbulence where in it is INVISIBLE to measure of Temperature. It is the incapable effort displayed to processes ENERGY that makes the 'greenhouse theory' so flawed & the 'greenhouse effect' IMPOSSIBLE, with 'opinion' not of any relevance until the materials REAL properties are noticed.
As such the effort to produce 'examples by opinion' so often seen in 'greenhouse science' rhetoric is not relevant to the Environment, there is NOT any real link by notice of those materials IN the Environment within which is produced 'Climate' nor any displayed valid realisation of the Energy presented in the Environment that is powering 'Climate' processes...so before example MarkC you need to show HOW a 'greenhouse effect' can even exist. If CO2 is 'artificially reduced' System Turbulence WILL increase unless Surface Treatment within Human Habitat construction receives more DIRECT & urgent attention…
Climate change is real & Natural, the is however LIE within the persistent attempts to make a 'greenhouse effect' causal, and that supposition of 'unnatural greenhouse additions' are 'making' 'unnatural changes' to Climate.
Peter K. Anderson a.k.a. Hartlod(TM)
* http://hartlod.blogspot.com/ ** http://hartlodsgallery.blogspot.com/
Mon 06 Nov 06 (11:03pm)
could you explain that in plain English. I clearly get lost and no one is going to read all that text.
Tue 07 Nov 06 (12:01am)
Moving past the inane 'objections' of 'nik' (for the moment) lets look at another 'easy' issue in regard to SCIENCE, commonly mentioned within the 'greenhouse drone'. It is not quite truth that CO2 'absorbs' more Infrared Region Photons that H2O. The preoccupation of the 'greenhouse drone' perpetually overlooks the remittance behavior of the interactions involved. The overall absorbance is shown in chart displaying a 'Plot of Atmospheric Absorbance' within link * outlines. In this plot it is also possible to notice the horizontal axis as the Planetary Surface whilst the 'plot' dipping shows the progress of Photons in that portion of the overall Electro-Magnetic Spectrum towards the surface. It is also that a CO2 reemits ~100 times the Energy (as a secondary Photon) than does a H2O molecule, whilst H2O can also interact with a reasonable range of 'Visible Spectrum' Photons, seen also in the above mentioned Chart.
The distribution of CO2 within the Atmosphere is also linked to the solubility with H2O, the Condensation and Ice point Altitude presenting a 'barrier' to the progression of CO2, hence the apparent 'increase' if CO2 towards the Surface. This is NOT due to gravitational differentiation at a molecular level, but infact the action of gravity on Water Droplets and Ice Crystals. In the above mentioned Chart, notice also the very NARROW interaction spectrum of CH4 (methane). Methane also has a 'high' remittance behavior of Energy in the form of Secondary Photons whilst presenting a LOWER solubility with Water & so CH4 is less hindered in its Motions within the Atmosphere as is CO2...again without gravitational differentiation at the molecular level at all relevant. So the persistent mention from the 'greenhouse drone' of supposed 'heavy' or 'heavier' molecules 'staying lower' is simply further indication of the lack of SCIENCE there in incorporated not only in the Rhetoric byplay but more directly within the supposed 'climate models'.
These 'climate models' would have to be the greatest farce & WASTE of Public Money seen in SCIENCE in the past two decades still attached to a greater LOBBY 'talk fest' action than any valid determinations in SCIENCE. INFACT these 'climate models' seem to be a substitute WRITER for the Novels and MOVIES of the 'greenhouse platform', this being one more 'inconvenient' truth the greenhouse lobby avoids and removes the 'Stern' comments from any related 'reports'.
This issue involves the QUALIFICATION of Energy, a consideration to be made prior to calculations of 'how much' Energy is present. Materials all behave differently within different Spectral Regions, a 'blanket approach' as taken in the 'greenhouse drone' is obviously not realistic nor paying any attention to the Environment which isn't a vague 'thing' (being as REAL as the materials constituting it) & is NOT a cliché phrase to be just included in 'greenhouse rhetoric' by-play, then forgotten. There is also a poor understanding of Kinetic Energy, Turbulent Cooling along with Temperature & Pressure seen within 'greenhouse rhetoric'.
It is 'nik' that there is little wrong with my posts STILL, these attempts at belittlement are a common ploy heard from the 'greenhouse drone' in the effort to avoid SCIENCE. There is obviously a need for more independent thought to be enacted within the 'greenhouse drone', these formulistic 'objections' only made to avoid issues the 'greenhouse drone' prefers to keep 'hidden. To anticipate, there is also nothing 'wrong' with CAPS, consider such as BOLD, ITALIC or another 'modern font-face styles' if preferred. Very few intent on discussion mention that I am 'hard to understand' & often are complimentary of the 'rational' and readily comprehendible outlines of complex issues I produce. For more detail 'nik' see links * & ** below.
Peter K. Anderson a.k.a. Hartlod(TM)
* http://hartlod.blogspot.com/ ** http://hartlodsgallery.blogspot.com/
Tue 07 Nov 06 (09:45am)
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Much appreciated, Heather. BTW, great work on your HDR images! The flowering gum is amazing. Never seen one before.
Steven - a truly beautiful scene, can almost see the water moving. Like your comment also. L&F from Heather, Australia.
LIKE! Best regards. Nadia.
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Steven - beautiful scene & photo. Gorgeous. L&F from Heather, Australia.
Thanks for the suggestion, HOMEDOC. Medium format would be a dream for me, but for the time being, a Nikon D7000 must suffice. You're quite right about experimenting with varying exposure times. Since I'm using HDR processing most of the time, each exposure is different, but it's good sometimes to break the pattern and go with a radically fast exposure time and a higher ISO. Once in a while I try it, though I haven't been highly satisfied with the results. As for exhibiting, this is more of a hobby than a profession, so I'm not usually actively seeking a venue, though I have sold some work. As a painter and a commercial illustrator I've had more financial success. No matter. It's just great fun to travel, to record, and to see the reward on the Mac when the job is complete!
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Skip to comments.Man (Freeper kanawa) stabs bear to death
Posted on 07/22/2006 5:30:03 PM PDT by kanawa
A Waterloo man and his dog made a harrowing escape from the clutches of a vicious black bear Thursday while portaging near Wawa, Ont.
Tom Tilley, 55, killed the nearly 200-pound bear by jumping on its back and stabbing the aggressive animal with a six-inch hunting knife after his dog alerted him and distracted the bear.
"Love is a very powerful emotion and my thought right away was, 'You're not going to kill my dog,' " Tilley said yesterday.
"I really consider my dog a hero. Without that first warning I would have had the bear clamping down on my neck."
Tilley had planned on spending 12 days portaging through the area near Wawa with his American Staffordshire, Sam.
Four days into the trip, as he was making his third trip back to the water near Abbey Lake to retrieve his gear, he heard his dog growl and noticed the bear closing in on him. He said he did what he's been taught to do when a bear is close -- he starting waving his arms and slowing started backing away from the animal.
The bear moved off the trail, but a few seconds later reappeared, cutting off Tilley's escape route.
"That's when I knew I had a serious problem . . . I was lunch," he said.
Sam, who was behind Tilley before the bear moved up the trail, was now between the bear and his owner. Instead of taking an aggressive stance, the dog stood sideways blocking the bear's route.
"The bear took a few steps down the trail and clamped its mouth on the back of my dog," Tilley said. "By attracting the bear's attention like that and distracting the bear from me it gave me the quick opportunity I needed to run around to the back of the bear, get on its back and with my knife start stabbing it."
Tilley had recently purchased the knife that would save his life after reading the story of Jacqueline Perry, the young Cambridge doctor who was killed by a bear last September.
Perry's husband attempted to fend off the animal with a Swiss Army Knife -- the only weapon he had.
"When I read the report about her death, it really hit home to me that these things are possible," Tilley said.
"I owe her husband a real debt of gratitude because if I hadn't heard her story and got that knife, I wouldn't be telling this story."
After making sure the animal was dead, Tilley realized he had suffered a wound to his hand and Sam had two puncture marks on his back. He needed to get help, but was a two-day portage away from civilization.
Dragging his canoe across the short portage, Tilley paddled for about an hour before he came across a pair of Americans who happened to have a satellite phone.
They called for help and two hours later, a cargo plane arrived to take Tilley back to Wawa for medical attention.
He was treated and released from hospital.
News of his feat passed quickly through the small community, with a population of just over 3,000.
"He had a lot of cojones to do what he did," said Brenda Grundt, who operates the local news site Wawa-news.com and drove Tilley two hours back to where he'd left his van after the incident.
"It's pretty amazing. Here's a guy that wouldn't be here if he hadn't happened to have a knife on him."
As for Tilley, it wasn't until he was back in his van alone with Sam that he took in the gravity of the situation.
"I just thanked God I was alive and that my dog was alive and cried a bit, but they were tears of thanks and relief," he said.
The Ministry of Natural Resources has sent the bear's body to Guelph and Ottawa for testing.
"It's very unusual for a bear to attack a person (and) pretty amazing this gentleman was able to kill it just with a knife," said Jolanta Kowalski, spokes-person for the ministry.
Because Wawa doesn't have a veterinarian's office and a specialist wasn't available to treat his hand, Tilley decided to push through and make the long journey home that night.
Back in Waterloo, news of his experience trickled back to amazed friends and family. Despite the danger, Tilley said the incident hasn't erased his love of the outdoors.
"My daughter says I'm not allowed to go up there anymore," he said with a laugh. " But I left my canoe there knowing I'll have to go back to get it."
Photo-BRENDA GRUNDT, WWW.WAWA-NEWS.COM
I've in the past discussed with my friend and breeder and even here on FR, what to do in the highly unlikely case of facing a predatory bear and it being momentarily distracted by my dog. The consensus was I should take advantage of the opportunity to escape, to validate my dog's sacrifice by saving my own life. But, boy, reality can sure be different than hypotheticals. While the motivation for my action was my love for Sam, my choice may have given me greater odds of survival than running away would have in this instance. I would have been running towards the end of the portage where my gear was but my canoe was still at the beginning of the portage. I had no way to truly escape the area and would have been left with the difficult possibility of facing this bear, when he was done with the appetizer, in a frontal attack armed only with the knife. What would I have done, offered him my one arm to chew on while I stabbed with the other? Of course none of this was going through my mind at the time, I only saw my beloved canine friend being attacked and an opportunity to stop it.
All thanks to God for seeing me and Sam through this safely. And while nothing can mitigate the loss of Dr.Perry, her husband has my deep gratitude for sharing his story with the media and motivating me to buy the knife.
And Sam....I've said many times in the past that he is a gift from God to me. He had already help 'save my life' by the opening up of my heart that resulted from his coming into my life, But now he has been instrumental too in saving my physical life. Folks that have heard the account are planning to apply for him to be inducted into the Purina Hall of Fame, I certainly believe he has shown himself worthy of that honor.
Real Man Ping!
I fully expect PETA and the ACLU file a lawsuit on behalf of the bear for wrongful death.
In light of our conversation just prior to the commencement of my trip, you might find this interesting ;~)
Awesome, kanawa, you and sam have fulfilled the long
pact between man and dog.
Tet, digger and shorty, send our regards!
Exciting adventure story! All the necessary elements.
Wow...Tarzan ain't got nothin' on you!
Good job to save your dog...
Thanks tet, the relationship between man and dog is certainly one of the greatest gifts our Creator has bestowed upon us.
Not a big guy either. I was expecting a mountain of a man. Great story to tell around the campfire.
So, this is you and Sam? Give that dog a steak, man! Actually, he needs a steak every single day. Glad you're here to tell the tale.
Why oh why does the media always emphasize the *color* of the bear?!?
Now if you could just train pitbulls to reliably bark or make other warning behaviors before they trounce on other animals less threatening than bears, you might have something.
Check out the latest post on pitbulls attacking a horse:
Hi GVnana, how is your dog?
Good boy Sam!@!!!
And now, I will get a swiss army knife.
Bear ping!
I'm reading again....
YOU are Tilley?
I'm impressed! I understand that bears have tough skin/thick fur!
OMG! It is you!
Thank God you are ok!
We have a hunting legend here right at FR!
Note the dog standing in the background. LOL.
Good job hombre!
Show us a picture of the knife he used.
A six inch blade is actually too small for this job!!!
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And ping it hard. We have a legend here!
Change the 'he' to a 'you'.
You are speaking to the stabber :)
That is Tilley!
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I knew Bill Gates had another life somewhere. Now he is wrestling bears.
I knew all of those "Halloween," and, "Friday The 13th," movies would pay off for someone.
If he had been a fan of, "Gentle Ben," he'd have been lunch -and his little dog, too!
So glad you survived. Bless you and your dog, too!
Cool.. way to go! I'm not worthy...
Michael, this is worth of a Just Damn! ping, rare as they are these days. (Hope you are doing well).
Gun? I thought you were suppose to sing to the bear???
This is not true?
Just Amazed
You're such a Stud,what a story!
Amazing! You deserve every kudo and to be awarded the Croix de Freep.
Great story and Sam is a great dog. Glad you're both safe.
Doggie Ping?
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Dude - you are a badass - every guy dreams of taking down a bear with only a knife - and to save your dog on top of it, even better - nice work.
Good job! I was going to make a bad pun, but that would be unbearable...
Did you carve your name on a nearby tree? ;)
Wow! What a story!
Have you seen this story about a FReeper,his dog, and the slain bear?
The only question I have is "do those big balls of yours get in the way when you walk?"
Thank heavens you and the pooch are alright. I think I'd carry a 12 gauge next time I went hiking/camping in those woods, though.
Atta boy, Sam!
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Bill DeLind's phone rang at 4:30 a.m. Tuesday with bad news. It may have been snowing outside, but it was raining inside his art gallery.
A water pipe broke, flooding the DeLind Gallery of Fine Art, 400 E. Mason St., and the storage area directly below. As many as 250 artworks were damaged, said DeLind, who is particularly worried about 35 or 40 pieces.
One is a Picasso.
"It was one he did during a summer trip to Vallauris, France," DeLind said of the 1957 linocut print of a bullfighter by Pablo Picasso, which was in the basement storage area. "That is probably the most scary one at the moment. . . . The piece may or may not be OK."
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A new Principal for Broadlands Academy has been appointed to replace Mr Anderson who will be leaving for a promoted post at the end of this academic year. Please click here to see a letter from Mr J de Sausmarez, Chair of the Management Board.
Exciting news! Broadlands Academy will be running the Duke of Edinburgh Bronze Award Scheme from September. It will be open to all students in Years 9,10 and 11. More detailed information will be available soon but in the meantime click on the link below to find out more.
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was never sure of Kezman, Robben did have some very good games last season and he is young so there is still alot of hope for him, I would expect him to start improving again soon, he is talented. You have to wonder when players like Robben and Ronaldo start to go thru bad spells when they are so young, is it because they are being paid too much, it all comes too easy for them and they get a bit lazy. Roy Keane was probably right when he said too many players were more concerned with what fast cars they were buying instead of training hard. I don't know alot about Krompkamp, think it was his challenge on Heinze that put him out injured!!!


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Cotto's Coach: We Plan To Use Golovkin For Sparring
By Jhonny Gonzalez
According to Cuban coach Pedro Diaz, former three division champion Miguel Cotto (37-3, 30KOs) will have three sparring sessions with hard-punching Gennady Golovkin (24-0, 21KOs) in Big Bear, California, where both boxers are training.
Cotto is preparing for his challenge of undefeated WBA 154-pound champion Austin Trout on December 1 at Madison Square Garden in New York City.
Golovkin, the WBA/IBO middleweight champion, should provide a good sparring experience for Cotto. At their media tour, Trout held a considerable size advantage over the Puerto Rican star. Golovkin is a very physical fighter and one of the most feared punchers in boxing.
Funny thing is I'd rather watch Cotto sparring Golovkin than Cotto vs Trout...Golovkin might be a bit to much for Cotto.Comment by GRUSTLER on 10-21-2012
[QUOTE=Mr. Fantastic;12623603][B]All that proves is me manning up to my mistake[/B].[/QUOTE] You wouldn't have to "man up" if you just didn't shoot your mouth off about race if it is not warranted. Just the fact that you had to apologize…Comment by GRUSTLER on 10-21-2012
[QUOTE=Mr. Fantastic;12623603]All that proves is me manning up to my mistake. Being a fair fan does not make me a jack ass you moron, especially since I criticize Canelo as well. At 154 Canelo has put in more work than…Comment by Mr. Fantastic on 10-20-2012
[QUOTE=GRUSTLER;12622948]This proves that you are a JACK ASS. I wasn't mad because you are close to not being a Canelo fan. I just pointed out that you were criticizing Cotto but Canelo is less than Cotto..... Those are facts. Who…Comment by GRUSTLER on 10-20-2012
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This week's giveaway is a collection of Pendleton notebooks, courtesy of Chronicle Books. If you wanna snag the set, leave a comment below with a short journal entry about your day. We'll pick a winner on Friday.
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I've got good news and bad news. The bad news is summer is nearly gone, it's painful to even say it. But the good news is I've got a giveaway from my friends at Northern Sun that's perfect for the fall season.
First of all I've gotta give credit to my friends, Jennilee Marigomen (photographer) and Redia Soltis (stylist), who put these beautiful images together. The video below was shot by Peter Hadfield.
I've got a men's Aput Jacket and a women's Aga Jacket to give away! Both are water resistant and premium down filled, and as promised this one's open to everyone. If you'd like to snag either jacket, leave a comment below describing the first adventure you'll go on.
We'll pick two winners September 13th.
Urbanears hooked me up with a pair of their newly launched RePlattan series of headphones. These headphones are all made of unused parts from previous seasons instead of letting them go to waste!
The coolest part is they've built in a personal ID and GPS coordinates that cover 5 square meters of rainforest. As soon as you purchase a pair of headphones that specific area of rainforest is protected.
They estimate that 500 ants, 10 flowers, 5 spiders and 2 butterflies live in each of those little squares, maybe even a bird, or a tree, or a frog, or a tree frog, or even a bird frog (they never said this).
I also got a little adapter called a Slussen, which lets you dj from your iPhone (the video below explains it better).
So now I get to giveaway one of each to one of you as well! Leave a comment below with the first song you'd listen to. I'll pick a winner next Friday, have a great weekend.
Photographer Marija Strajnic has released a little book about destruction, and I have a copy to give away! If you wanna snag it, leave a nice comment for Marija. More images below!
Justin Longoz wants everyone to know Vancouver is shaped like a giant thumbs up (it actually is). He made these shirts to raise money for Megaphone Magazine, Vancouver's non-profit street paper based in the Downtown Eastside. Megaphone is sold on the street by homeless and low-income Vancouverites, giving them a voice and an economic opportunity. 100% of the proceeds will go directly to the magazine.
Justin has given me two t-shirts to give away! Leave a comment below and tell me which part of the city is the best! I'll pick a winner on Friday! You should also buy a shirt to support the cause, and if you win one give it to a friend!
My friend Hana rules! She's the one in the middle, then on the left, then on the right. She's the one I dedicated the first two Booooooom mixes to (here and here).
She spent the last couple years traveling the world, shooting "switcheroos", portraits of people swapping clothes. After she'd shot more than 200 of them, and had them appear on every blog imaginable, she decided to put together a book.
Well, she's finally released her "Switcheroo Book", and the best news for you guys is that I have a copy to give away! I've been sent hundreds of books since I started this site and I can honestly say this is one of my absolute favourites. She spared no expense producing this thing, and the final product is gorgeous.
If you'd like to snag the book, take a couple minutes to read my short interview with her below, and then leave her am encouraging message in the comments! I'll pick a winner in two weeks (July 12th). This is open to everyone!
Read the Interview below!
This week's giveaway comes from one of the first supporters of Booooooom, Monster Children. My Australian friends have been expanding, they recently moved part of their operation to LA, and now they're shipping from within Canada too!
So we're gonna hook up 4 of you with subscriptions! The first issue you'll get is this one, which features original artwork by Mark Gonzales.
If you'd like this mag to start magically appearing at your door, leave a comment below with a link to your favourite post on Booooooom from 2013 so far!
Coinciding with James Jean's show at New York City's Tilton Gallery earlier this year, was the release of his "Parallel Lives" book. The limited edition of 1,000 signed and numbered books sold out in a single day.
Soon after that James mysteriously vanished. While the artist remains underground, his publisher Pressure Printing has just released an electronic version of his catalog. This version comes with an additional 179 behind-the-scenes process images, I like seeing how his work changes as he goes.
I have a digital copy to give away! If you wanna snag it, leave a haiku message to James in the comments below!
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I think it all makes sense. I am just saying that I have considered reasons why the club MIGHT want Beckham. What good things he COULD bring to the club. At the end of the day I try to see the positive in all situations. I remember when souness paid money for Michael Thomas who I detested for what he had done to us and someone I never thought or wanted to come to Liverppol but he did and then he helped us win an FA Cup and played better than most in the souness era, I held alot more resentment to getting Micky Thomas in than I would if they were to get Beckham. Wouldn't be my first choice signing but if he wore the red of liverpool I'd cheer for him.


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text: Posted December 30, 2012 Question: If we did bring in a new head coach do you think Rivera would consider coming back as Def coordinator/assistant head coach? The main reason I hesitate firing him is because of the progress the defense has made throughout the year. A couple more playmakers in the secondary and i think we can be a Seattle/49er level defense No he would not. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


text: Chamois cream. For me it's the first ingredient in the ritual of ride preparation. First thing I do I slab some of that sweet goop on mah area before pulling my bibs on. Granted there are a few of you out there who don't use it, be it on purpose or lack of knowledge. Those who choose not to, I'm sure your significant other thoroughly enjoys your leather-like pads during sexytime. I, on the other hand absolutely need to use the cream otherwise I cultivate an impressive crop of saddle sores, especially during the summer. Here in the Mid-Atlantic the humidity is KILLER during the summer and it takes some serious ass-brocation to fend off the bacterial rave that forms downstairs after 4 hours in the saddle. I've tried numerous brands with varying degrees of success. My goto favorite for the past 10 years has been Assos. For the most part it's done its job well. When I couldn't afford Assos, I'd purchase the Agu Sport Relief cream from Excel. Yet when I saw that Rapha was offering their own line of skin care products including a chamois cream, I couldn't help myself but to try them. You have a fantastic box Being a sucker for aesthetics, the recently released line of Rapha skin care poducts had me salivating. When it arrived all I could do is stare at the packaging. While there are many that couldn't care less about how something looks, as a designer/artist I'm captivated by well-executed product packaging. As always, Rapha's distinct black and Giro pink adorned the small box, as well as their signature script logo and Trade Gothic product description. Like I said, I'm captivated. So just like the Mac fanboy that I am, I began the unboxing. The lid is sealed with a bit of tape containing a description of Mont Ventoux, the location of the flora that inspired the product's scent. I desperately was avoiding breaking the seal, but I finally came to my senses and cracked it open. Inside I was greeted to yet another aesthetic indulgence. The shiny black lid was embossed with the same Ventoux logo on the sealing tape. The canister containing the cream was undoubtedly carefully selected for its distinctive attributes which of course worked to perfection. Nothing that isn't needed is included In addition to aesthetics, what added to my salivary gusher was that the list of "aromatic plants and herbs" they used in creating the cream. My wife and I are in the process of shedding all products containing unnecessary chemicals and or preservatives. Skin care products have been one of our main focuses. Anything with parabens I can't emphasize this enough, Rapha's Chamois Cream smells FANTASTIC!have been ditched for cleaner more natural and hopefully organic products. What's great about Rapha's Chamois Cream is that it contains no parabens, and its core ingredients are all naturally occurring plants and herbs from the Géant De Provence: Mont Ventoux. This compared to my other cream favorite, Assos which contains nearly every paraben type available, including a host of other man-made chemicals. Not saying that Assos is bad for your skin. Nor am I saying that Rapha's doesn't have its own list of big-worded chemical inclusions, it's just that I personally am looking for something with more natural ingredients as its impetus. Twisting off the cap I'm greeted with a blast of French mountains. I can't emphasize this enough, Rapha's Chamois Cream smells FANTASTIC! The combined scents of Lavender, Rosemary, Atlas Cedar, Pine, and a host of others create a powerful effect that aligns itself perfectly with my expectations. The fragrance wakes the senses, signaling the start of your impending 2-wheeled effort. So you love the box, and it smells brilliant, but does it work? To the touch, it's lighter than I expected. I'm used to either the Assos or Agu Sport (Excel) brands that are slightly more dense. At first this was a concern, but upon initial application my fears were assuaged. It doesn't disappear. Even better, it doesn't remind you that you just finger-painted the inside of your crotch with something resembling the consistency of cookie dough. I don't apply as much as others, or, I apply the least amount I can get away with. Chamois cream is expensive in general, so I try to be frugal. Some will need more, some less. The amount you apply is up to you and your largest organ. As for the ride quality, it's unnoticeable and that's perfect. There are times when Assos reminds me that I'm wearing it. Rapha's just does its job without fanfare. So far I've been riding it during the off-season, so the temps have been 60˚ and below. While that doesn't produce a mid-summer type micro-climate downstairs, I do challenge it more than you think. I wear Craft's superb windblocking codpiece underneath my bibs, so my tender areas are touching ribbed technical fibers rather than the usual chamois. With most, and including Assos, I am destined at least one or two flareups. Amazing then that from the first few rides with Rapha's cream the flareups have been quelled. It's actually healed my sun-shy skin rather than maintain the status quo. If that's not a reason to use it, I don't know what is. Pro-Factor rating? Rapha Chamois Cream has an incredibly high* pro factor. From the packaging, to the ingredients, and finally its performance, this product is worthy of any rouleur's backside. Granted, from the viewpoint of your wallet many others provide more bang for your buck if you're looking solely at money vs. volume. Yet if you're looking to accentuate your ride rituals, Rapha's entry can do nothing but enrich it. *Eventually I'll have a ratings system, but that time is not now. Share this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window)Click to share on Google+ (Opens in new window)Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window) STefan I like Rapha. but the hype around it, in some blogs around, reminds me of the apple fan boy groupies. C-Huller Definitely. It's because they both sell the experience as well as the product. When you do that right, your customers become passionate promoters. You don't hear anyone talking about a Dell computer or Bellweather clothing in the same way. I get caught up in both because it's harmless fun. Of course I also worked for Apple as well. 😀 Stefan Right, this blog is nice. there are blogs around who have no other thing to do than praise products in a unconditional way, like only dumb fan boys can do. "huhhh read my lattest rapha soft shell jacket review" well, maybe they get paid, then it makes sense. if not: poor parrots. C-Huller Thanks! Coming from the industry, if I find something I don't like, or can be improved about a product it'll be included in the review. Hopefully I can uphold a since of honesty in my approach to reviews of products. It's what I look for when I'm researching something before I purchase.


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Complaint Review: Vivitek Fremont, ShopNBC; Jim Peterson Vivitek Corp.
Vivitek Fremont, ShopNBC; Jim Peterson Vivitek Corp.48017 Fremont Blvd. Fremont, California U.S.A.
Vivitek Fremont, ShopNBC; Jim Peterson Vivitek Corp. Jim Peterson and his front company Vivitek are defrauding Americans. Jim is a liar selling cheap crap that he misrepresents on ShopNBC Fremont California
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ShopNBC continues to feature this fraud on their network but try to get a repair or replacement from this slime snake oil salesman Jim you will be sorely disapointed.
I went through all the same processes and problems of all the other people that had to deal with the the vastly over rated Vivitec LCD TV and went through. I had all the same problems getting my rebate, getting service on my defective TV so I won't repeate the same things a whole host of other unhappy customers have reported.
A BIG Caveat Emptor (buyer beware) when dealing with the slime Jim Peterson, his front companies and ShopNBC. The whole lot of them should be in prison for fraud.
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Of course, my connected iPhone's music library was available via the touch screen. More impressively, when I chose Pandora from the audio sources menu on the Prius C's touch screen, it automatically launched the app on my phone. That functionality is due to an improvement in car-iPhone connectivity, and is becoming available in other vehicles as well.
Toyota does not give the Prius C much in the way of sound system options. Our Three-trim car had an unbranded six-speaker system, with no upgrade options available. Within its limits, the system sounded good. The bass was robust, although it began to sound like it was underwater with the volume up high. Definition was also good, supported by tweeters in the door panels shooting across the cabin at each other. Turning the volume knob way up resulted in bad distortion all around, but the system sounded nice at moderate volume.
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At the heart of the 2012 Prius C is Toyota's excellent hybrid power train, which helps the little car consistently hit an average of over 50 mpg. Toyota shrank the hybrid system for the Prius C slightly, making it more appropriate for the smaller car. Toyota could explore other fuel-saving technology, such as direct injection, to further improve the economy.
The Prius C gets to show off new cabin technology, the navigation system being one intriguing component. This new, flash memory-based system shows maps in 2D and 3D, and would be a good upgrade across the Toyota model lineup. The Entune app system worked particularly well in the Prius C, giving it very modern external data integration matched by few other automakers.
That the touch screen is so susceptible to glare is a sad flaw in this otherwise excellent cabin electronics package. This one design fault can prove exceedingly frustrating, as it detracts from the general utility of the cabin tech.
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