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Halloween is almost here again, and Dana Point is the place to be, with a creepy collection of ghoulish good times coming this week:
Halloween Creatures of the Night: 6-9 p.m. Thursday through Saturday, The Ritz-Carlton resort, 1 Ritz-Carlton Drive. Wear a costume and test your senses in the Shadow Game, Ghoulish Smell, Bump in the Night, Monster Madness, Let Me Pick Your Brain and the Candy Bar Taste Test. $65 per person. Call 949-240-2000.
Boo Cruise: 5 to 7 p.m. Friday. Haunted harbor cruises every 20 minutes from Dana Wharf Sportfishing & Whale Watching, 34675 Golden Lantern, Dana Point Harbor. Costume contest on every cruise. $5 per person; kids 1 and younger free. Proceeds will benefit Community Autism Now. Call 949-496-5794 or visit www.danawharf.com.
Halloween Spooktacular & Moonlight Movie: 5 to 8:30 p.m. Friday, Lantern Bay Park, 25111 Park Lantern. The city of Dana Point presents free spooky fun, including Halloween cupcake decorating, a kids contest for best pre-carved or decorated pumpkin, a children's costume parade with free treats, and a screening of the movie "Monster House" (PG) at 6:15 with free popcorn. Call 949-248-3530.
Day of the Dead culinary demonstrations: 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Saturday, The Ritz-Carlton, 1 Ritz-Carlton Drive. The resort's culinary team prepares high-end Mexican cuisine for a three-course lunch to mark Dia de los Muertos, or Day of the Dead, a traditional celebration of the lives of loved ones who have died. $109 per person. Call 949-240-2000.
Doheny State Beach Halloween Haunt: 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Saturday. Beach picnic area is transformed into a spooky village with educational booths, carnival games, arts and crafts and more. Free admission, though a donation of one nonperishable food item per person is requested. Call 949-496-6172 or visit www.dohenystatebeach.org.
Halloween Half Marathon, 5K/10K and 1K Kids Run: 8 a.m. Sunday at Salt Creek Beach park, 33333 S. Pacific Coast Highway. Part of the Orangeman Running Series. You can run in costume and partake of other Halloween activities and "tricks or treats." Age-group and costume awards. Pick up a race packet from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday at Road Runner Sports, 24291 Avenida de la Carlota, Laguna Hills. Registration is $99 for the half-marathon (13.1 miles), $60 for the 10K (6.2 miles), $40 for the 5K (3.1 miles) and $15 for the Kids 1K (â… mile). Register online here by Tuesday and save 10 percent by entering checkout code "Pumpkin."
Tidepool Terrors: 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday at the Ocean Institute, 24200 Dana Point Harbor Drive. Family-friendly activities including a scavenger hunt, scary stories from a pirate ghost, creepy critter craft making and four spooky science labs:
• Tidepool Terrors: Find out which tide-pool creatures have the best camouflage.
• Monsters of the Deep: Learn about the unusual adaptations of the vampire squid and other deep-sea creatures.
• Ghastly Goo Science Lab: Make goo to take home and get tips about keeping the oceans clean.
• Cow Eye Dissection: Examine the structures and features of a mammal's eye.
A kids' costume contest will be at 12:30 p.m., with prizes for scariest, best ocean theme and most eco-friendly.
Admission is $6.50 for adults and $4.50 for children ages 4-12. Institute members and kids in costume get in free. Call 949-496-2274 or visit www.ocean-institute.org.
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Few things are more exciting than seeing people embrace something you create, but then to see the international market accept it, well, it is really quite magical. This year Alex and Ani's International Business Development Department has taken the world by storm. Their most recent stop had them in Ireland for the grand opening of a Shop Within A Shop at Arnotts in Dublin. Following a recent redesign of Arnotts' Jewelry Hall, the launch party welcomed more than 250 guests in addition to press and the store's top clients. A holiday highlight includes having a picture of Carolyn featured in one of the holiday window displays viewable from Henry Street. Having journalist, stylist and blogger Rosemary MacCabe Tweet that she loves the brand was definitely another memorable moment.
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The V-sit is an effective abdominal and core exercise that works the rectus abdominis, the external obliques, and internal obliques. This popular ab exercise also engages the hip flexors. The V-sit ab exercise builds core strength by working multiple core areas at the same time. The V-sit is a body-weight exercise that can be done anywhere, anytime.

How to Do It

Begin in a seated position, contract your abdominal muscles and core and lift your legs up to a 45-degree angle.

Reach your arms straight forward or reach up toward your shins as you are able.

Maintain good core posture and a strong spine.

Hold this "V" position for several seconds to begin. As you get stronger, hold the position longer.

Return to your starting position slowly.

Just before you reach the floor, stop and hold the position for a few seconds.

Repeat this entire movement several times.

Common Mistakes to Avoid Doing the V-sit Ab Exercise

One of the most common mistakes made during the V-sit is rounding the back at the top of the exercise. A true V-sit ab exercise results in the back and legs creating a V at the top. Bending your back forward takes the focus off the core and puts strain on the lower back leaving less control work for your abs making the exercise less effective. While doing this makes the exercise easier, it can be more dangerous for your back. Instead, maintain a straight line from your lower back up through your back, neck, and head. All should stay straight from starting position throughout the movement.

Another mistake made during the V-sit is swinging the arms up when you lift your legs and back. Remember the V-sit is a core exercise so moving of the arms lowers the effectiveness of the exercise on the core muscles. Instead, start with your arms at your sides at the starting position. When you lift, your arms should stay parallel to the ground as they were at your sides. You should not point your fingers to your toes, rather your arms should stay parallel to the floor as you lift.

Modifications to the V-sit Ab Exercise

The V-sit is an advanced ab exercise. If you are new to the V-sit, remember form is more important than the number of reps you do. That said, there is a modified V-sit ab exercise you can try that may be easier than the traditional V-sit, but also will help you build form and core strength as you learn. In a modified V-sit, instead of the legs being straight throughout the movement, the knees bend at a 90-degree angle and are brought towards the chest as you lift. When you release or lower the legs are straightened back to the starting position. Throughout the modified V-sit, your back and head alignment remain straight as mentioned above.

You may not be able to do more than 10-12 of the V-sit ab exercise before you reach failure. You are not alone. Feeling the burn early and much means the exercise is working, so keep up the good work.

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Divide green onion pieces evenly into 8 to 10 groups.
Roll slice of beef snugly around 1 group of onions.
Secure with toothpick or tie with string.
Repeat with remaining onions and beef.
Heat oil or saute in heavy large skillet over medium-high heat.
Add meat rolls seam side down and saute about 1 minute.
Continue sauteing, shaking pan constantly, until rolls are evenly browned.
Reduce heat and add soy sauce, sugar, sake and Dashi.
Cook another 3 minutes.
Remove meat, using slotted spoon, and let cool slightly.
Meanwhile, cook pan juices over medium-high heat until reduced by half.
Discard toothpicks or string from rolls.
Return rolls to skillet.
Add syrupy rice wine and shake pan constantly until well glazed.
To serve, cut each roll into 1/2-inch rounds and thread on skewer.
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Serving size: Complete recipe
Calories 567 Calories from Fat 190
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 21 g32.9%
Saturated Fat 4 g19.9%
Trans Fat 0 g
Cholesterol 161 mg53.7%
Sodium 2659.5 mg110.8%
Total Carbohydrates 35 g11.7%
Dietary Fiber 4.4 g17.8%
Sugars 22 g
Protein 54 g108.6%
Vitamin A 96.1% Vitamin C 91.2%
Calcium 9.1% Iron 53.9%
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Re: Pathological Science, Earth is on brink of mass extinction - again
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Earth is on brink of a sixth mass extinction, scientists say, and its humans fault
Al Gore: Polar Ice Gone in 5 Years, 2009
John Kerry claims the Arctic will be ice-free by summer 2013
PoliticFact rates this "Barely True" in 2009. Huh?
In 2011, PolitiFact changed the name of Barely True to Mostly False. Huh??
Doug rates all of this as pathologically, reality denyingly false, then and now.
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Re: Pathological Science - An Inconvenient Scam, 10 years later
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May 07, 2016, 03:08:49 PM »
Who knew these predictions would all be false. Probably everyone who knew the models were wrong, like the designers of the models and the manipulators of the data.
GORE, TEN YEARS LATER - Steven Hayward, Powerline
Hey, kidsdid you realize its the tenth anniversary of Al Gores Academy Award and Nobel Prize winning movie, An Inconvenient Truth? Michael Bastasch of the Daily Caller has gone back and checked on some of Gores near-term predictions and foundspoiler alert!that lots of them look pretty silly now:
One of the first glaring claims Gore makes is about Mount Kilimanjaro in Africa. He claims Africas tallest peak will be snow-free within the decade. Gore shows slides of Kilimanjaros peak in the 1970s versus today to conclude the snow is disappearing.
Well, its been a decade and, yes, theres still snow on Kilimanjaro year-round. It doesnt take a scientist to figure this out. One can just look at recent photos posted on the travel website TripAdvisor.com.
In 2014, ecologists actually monitoring Kilimanjaros snowpack found it was not even close to being gone. It may have shrunk a little, but ecologists were confident it would be around for the foreseeable future.
There are ongoing several studies, but preliminary findings show that the ice is nowhere near melting, Imani Kikoti, an ecologist at Mount Kilimanjaro National Park, told eturbonews.com.
Actually that one was easy to knock back at the time, since theres good data showing the slow retreat of Kilimanjaros snow going back well into the 19th century, before Ford and GM built their first SUVs.
Bastasch goes through several more Gore howlers, but Ill just add one of my own from recent studies. Gore made much of Greenlands ice sheet melting so rapidly youd think the continent was a grilled cheese sandwich in a pizza oven. Science magazine reports this week that the interior of Greenlands enormous ice mass appears to be . . . completely stable. Heres the University of Illinoiss press release about it yesterday:
Study finds ice isnt being lost from Greenlands interior
Scientists studying data from the top of the Greenland ice sheet have discovered that during winter in the center of the worlds largest island, temperature inversions and other low-level atmospheric phenomena effectively isolate the ice surface from the atmosphere recycling water vapor and halting the loss or gain of ice. A team of climate scientists made the surprising discovery from three years of data collected at Summit Camp, an arid, glaciated landscape 10,500 feet above sea level in the middle of the Greenland ice sheet.
This is a place, unlike the rest of the ice sheet, where ice is accumulating, says Max Berkelhammer, assistant professor of earth and environmental sciences at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Berkelhammer is first author on the study, reported in Science Advances, an open-access online publication of the journal Science.
For fans of classic films, heres my 46-minute rebuttal of Gores movie, though it is way out of date now, since it was done before climategate, before the duration of the temperature pause became evident, and before the numerous recent studies concluding that most of the UN IPCC computer models overestimate climate sensitivity.
And heres the seven-minute update I did one year latercomplete with a Bruce Jenner reference!
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May 08, 2016, 06:12:49 AM »
I really don't know who to believe.
Many other places in the news claim just the opposite.
I recently read something about Kilimanjaro's ice cap is clearly disappearing though maybe not as fast as Gore had us believe
Same is true for Greenland.
I have different sources making different claims. So how the heck can I possibly have any clue?
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Quote from: ccp on May 08, 2016, 06:12:49 AM
I really don't know who to believe.
Many other places in the news claim just the opposite.
I recently read something about Kilimanjaro's ice cap is clearly disappearing though maybe not as fast as Gore had us believe
Same is true for Greenland.
I have different sources making different claims. So how the heck can I possibly have any clue?
There is warming and there is human caused warming. The real warming started at the peak of the last ice age. It started hundreds of years before the industrial age' and the hockey stick, sharp uptick of late theory has been proven false. The current peak has held 18 years without warming even though CO2 levels are still increasing. We had a cooling in the 1970s too. Which means other factors are coming into play. Factors not factored into the models.
Agreed, CO2 is a greenhouse gas and fossil fuel combustion releases it. Therefore some warming effect comes from man. That CO2 came from decomposed plants, fossil fuels, which in turn took it from the atmosphere where it is being returned, not an unnatural process. These 'high levels' of CO2 we are experiencing measure at 0.4 parts per thousand, not exactly smothering us. And what is there is enhancing plant life, greening the planet and producing more oxygen for the animal life. Again, not an unnatural or unprecedented cycle.
The models and forecasters have been off by a factor of about 7 fold. They don't account for negative feedback effects, and were skewed by the lying and manipulation of the data. Alarmist politicians, Al Gore, etc. get it wrong by a factor of maybe 100-fold.
None of the proposed solutions solve anything, they just cause poverty.
Nuclear is safe and CO2-free, it could power the whole grid and is being ignored, which means no one is serious about this anyway.
Do you know any climate scientists who refuse travel or work summers without air conditioning?
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This guy and his family have made out like bandits with taxpayer funding of his climate change institute. Talk about cashing in on government programs. Whole family are living like 1 %. Even tax deduction for charity sent to India for Gods sake:
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No Need to Panic About Global Warming
There's no compelling scientific argument for drastic action to 'decarbonize' the world's economy.
January 27, 2012
Editor's Note: The following has been signed by the 16 scientists listed at the end of the article:
A candidate for public office in any contemporary democracy may have to consider what, if anything, to do about "global warming." Candidates should understand that the oft-repeated claim that nearly all scientists demand that something dramatic be done to stop global warming is not true. In fact, a large and growing number of distinguished scientists and engineers do not agree that drastic actions on global warming are needed.
In September, Nobel Prize-winning physicist Ivar Giaever, a supporter of President Obama in the last election, publicly resigned from the American Physical Society (APS) with a letter that begins: "I did not renew [my membership] because I cannot live with the [APS policy] statement: 'The evidence is incontrovertible: Global warming is occurring. If no mitigating actions are taken, significant disruptions in the Earth's physical and ecological systems, social systems, security and human health are likely to occur. We must reduce emissions of greenhouse gases beginning now.' In the APS it is OK to discuss whether the mass of the proton changes over time and how a multi-universe behaves, but the evidence of global warming is incontrovertible?"
In spite of a multidecade international campaign to enforce the message that increasing amounts of the "pollutant" carbon dioxide will destroy civilization, large numbers of scientists, many very prominent, share the opinions of Dr. Giaever. And the number of scientific "heretics" is growing with each passing year. The reason is a collection of stubborn scientific facts.
Perhaps the most inconvenient fact is the lack of global warming for well over 10 years now. This is known to the warming establishment, as one can see from the 2009 "Climategate" email of climate scientist Kevin Trenberth: "The fact is that we can't account for the lack of warming at the moment and it is a travesty that we can't." But the warming is only missing if one believes computer models where so-called feedbacks involving water vapor and clouds greatly amplify the small effect of CO2.
The lack of warming for more than a decadeindeed, the smaller-than-predicted warming over the 22 years since the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) began issuing projectionssuggests that computer models have greatly exaggerated how much warming additional CO2 can cause. Faced with this embarrassment, those promoting alarm have shifted their drumbeat from warming to weather extremes, to enable anything unusual that happens in our chaotic climate to be ascribed to CO2.
The fact is that CO2 is not a pollutant. CO2 is a colorless and odorless gas, exhaled at high concentrations by each of us, and a key component of the biosphere's life cycle. Plants do so much better with more CO2 that greenhouse operators often increase the CO2 concentrations by factors of three or four to get better growth. This is no surprise since plants and animals evolved when CO2 concentrations were about 10 times larger than they are today. Better plant varieties, chemical fertilizers and agricultural management contributed to the great increase in agricultural yields of the past century, but part of the increase almost certainly came from additional CO2 in the atmosphere.
Although the number of publicly dissenting scientists is growing, many young scientists furtively say that while they also have serious doubts about the global-warming message, they are afraid to speak up for fear of not being promotedor worse. They have good reason to worry. In 2003, Dr. Chris de Freitas, the editor of the journal Climate Research, dared to publish a peer-reviewed article with the politically incorrect (but factually correct) conclusion that the recent warming is not unusual in the context of climate changes over the past thousand years. The international warming establishment quickly mounted a determined campaign to have Dr. de Freitas removed from his editorial job and fired from his university position. Fortunately, Dr. de Freitas was able to keep his university job.
This is not the way science is supposed to work, but we have seen it beforefor example, in the frightening period when Trofim Lysenko hijacked biology in the Soviet Union. Soviet biologists who revealed that they believed in genes, which Lysenko maintained were a bourgeois fiction, were fired from their jobs. Many were sent to the gulag and some were condemned to death.
Why is there so much passion about global warming, and why has the issue become so vexing that the American Physical Society, from which Dr. Giaever resigned a few months ago, refused the seemingly reasonable request by many of its members to remove the word "incontrovertible" from its description of a scientific issue? There are several reasons, but a good place to start is the old question "cui bono?" Or the modern update, "Follow the money."
Alarmism over climate is of great benefit to many, providing government funding for academic research and a reason for government bureaucracies to grow. Alarmism also offers an excuse for governments to raise taxes, taxpayer-funded subsidies for businesses that understand how to work the political system, and a lure for big donations to charitable foundations promising to save the planet. Lysenko and his team lived very well, and they fiercely defended their dogma and the privileges it brought them.
Speaking for many scientists and engineers who have looked carefully and independently at the science of climate, we have a message to any candidate for public office: There is no compelling scientific argument for drastic action to "decarbonize" the world's economy. Even if one accepts the inflated climate forecasts of the IPCC, aggressive greenhouse-gas control policies are not justified economically.
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Princeton physics professor William Happer on why a large number of scientists don't believe that carbon dioxide is causing global warming.
A recent study of a wide variety of policy options by Yale economist William Nordhaus showed that nearly the highest benefit-to-cost ratio is achieved for a policy that allows 50 more years of economic growth unimpeded by greenhouse gas controls. This would be especially beneficial to the less-developed parts of the world that would like to share some of the same advantages of material well-being, health and life expectancy that the fully developed parts of the world enjoy now. Many other policy responses would have a negative return on investment. And it is likely that more CO2 and the modest warming that may come with it will be an overall benefit to the planet.
If elected officials feel compelled to "do something" about climate, we recommend supporting the excellent scientists who are increasing our understanding of climate with well-designed instruments on satellites, in the oceans and on land, and in the analysis of observational data. The better we understand climate, the better we can cope with its ever-changing nature, which has complicated human life throughout history. However, much of the huge private and government investment in climate is badly in need of critical review.
Every candidate should support rational measures to protect and improve our environment, but it makes no sense at all to back expensive programs that divert resources from real needs and are based on alarming but untenable claims of "incontrovertible" evidence.
Claude Allegre, former director of the Institute for the Study of the Earth, University of Paris; J. Scott Armstrong, cofounder of the Journal of Forecasting and the International Journal of Forecasting; Jan Breslow, head of the Laboratory of Biochemical Genetics and Metabolism, Rockefeller University; Roger Cohen, fellow, American Physical Society; Edward David, member, National Academy of Engineering and National Academy of Sciences; William Happer, professor of physics, Princeton; Michael Kelly, professor of technology, University of Cambridge, U.K.; William Kininmonth, former head of climate research at the Australian Bureau of Meteorology; Richard Lindzen, professor of atmospheric sciences, MIT; James McGrath, professor of chemistry, Virginia Technical University; Rodney Nichols, former president and CEO of the New York Academy of Sciences; Burt Rutan, aerospace engineer, designer of Voyager and SpaceShipOne; Harrison H. Schmitt, Apollo 17 astronaut and former U.S. senator; Nir Shaviv, professor of astrophysics, Hebrew University, Jerusalem; Henk Tennekes, former director, Royal Dutch Meteorological Service; Antonio Zichichi, president of the World Federation of Scientists, Geneva.
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Re: Pathological Science
Reply #907 on:
June 05, 2016, 09:16:04 AM »
What about the theory that the oceans may be absorbing the additional heat?
Or the melting of the glaciers?
I am not disagreeing only I cannot make up my mind as to what to think.
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Re: Pathological Science
Reply #908 on:
July 07, 2016, 03:10:53 PM »
WE kept hearing how the antarctic ice is melting (maybe it is in the West) but much less about how it is expanding in the East. The net effect was as far as i was able to read kept in the dark . Apparently the net is that Antarctic ice is expanding:
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Re: Pathological Science, Antarctic Ice
Reply #909 on:
July 07, 2016, 04:25:23 PM »
Quote from: ccp on July 07, 2016, 03:10:53 PM
We kept hearing how the antarctic ice is melting (maybe it is in the West) but much less about how it is expanding in the East. The net effect was as far as i was able to read kept in the dark . Apparently the net is that Antarctic ice is expanding:
Arctic ice is (was) contracting because of global warming. Antarctic ice is
because of global warming.
The oceans are rising because of the (formerly) melting Arctic ice. The only ocean not rising is the Arctic Ocean.
Human caused global warming is from the release of CO2 into the atmosphere - CO2 that naturally came from the atmosphere.
Liberals are (were) concerned about the black teenage unemployment rate. Minimum wage laws (and open border policies) worsen the black teenage employment rate.
Black lives matter is a great liberal cause. An innocent black baby is four times more likely to be aborted than a white baby. Whatever.
Liberalism is not really a deep or consistent thought experiment.
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Re: Pathological Science
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July 07, 2016, 06:42:53 PM »
And every ill now to man, the world is now due to global warming now know as climate change one of our biggest industries to make a fortune from. Just ask Al when he is not chasing massage therapists around a cubicle like a wolf in heat.
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Re: Pathological Science
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July 08, 2016, 09:11:16 AM »
Quote from: ccp on July 07, 2016, 06:42:53 PM
And every ill now to man, the world is now due to global warming now know as climate change one of our biggest industries to make a fortune from. Just ask Al when he is not chasing massage therapists around a cubicle like a wolf in heat.
Warming temps in Antarctica cause more snowfall. But not elsewhere? Warming doesn't cause more melting too?
But snow cover mitigates warming trend.
Antarctic Ice hits new record maximum:
The area of North America covered in snow has increased in the last 30 years. Who knew?
You heard about this where else, NY Times, MSNBC, nowhere??
CO2 emissions are continuous. Warming is not. Is there something else going on here?
Not just the science and the media are biased, google search results too!
The "ever-thickening blanket wrapped around the planet" consists of CO2 levels of one part per 2500, a 0.0004 concentration of atmospheric CO2, just slightly above the minimum in earth's history.
If CO2 levels were falling continuously instead, plant life, and eventually all life, would cease to exist.
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Re: Pathological Science
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July 08, 2016, 10:28:55 AM »
I cannot even browse through my medical readings without being inundated with Climate Change propaganda. We are even advised to discuss it with all our patients! What are these people kidding me? I should discuss climate change on patient's health? Oh you have a cough? Must be climate change. You have a rash? Must be climate change. You are depressed? Must be the rainy day we had which is of course due to climate change. You are constipated? Also climate change. Allergies bad this year? Well we know that is man made. You are overweight. Obviously that is because the Republicans are blocking a soda sugar tax:
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Re: Pathological Science, science isn't a belief system
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July 30, 2016, 07:52:16 AM »
Hillary Clinton pauses while speaking during the Democratic National Convention (DNC) in Philadelphia on July 28, 2016.DANIEL ACKER/BLOOMBERG/GETTY IMAGES
ON THURSDAY NIGHT, Hillary Clinton made history when she became the first woman to lead a major presidential ticket. In a speech filled with reminders of her experience and her plans for reform, one remark stood out: I believe in science! she said, chuckling. I believe climate change is real, and that we can save our planet while creating millions of good paying clean energy jobs.
Delegates filling the convention hall in Philadelphia roared in approval. Pockets of Twitter, too. Just as quickly, though, reactions turned cynical: How awful it is, in this day and age, that a presidential candidate must say she believes in science? In the retelling, Clintons laugh became a nod to the absurdity of the moment.
Yes, its absurd that a presidential candidate has to explicitly declare an allegiance to science. But the problem with what Clinton said runs deeper. Science is not a philosophy or a religion. It is a methodimperfect, yet powerfulof testing and accumulating knowledge. Its not something you believe. You can believe that the scientific method is a good way of amassing knowledge. You can use that knowledge to shape policy.
Yet thats not how American politicsespecially in this electiontalk about science. When people say Do you believe in climate change or global warming, that is the wrong framing, says Cristine Russell, a veteran science reporter now at Harvards Kennedy School of Government. Science is not a belief system.
Of course, the word science has come to represent much more than the scientific method. More than ever, it shapes American culture and is a subculture unto itself. To be giddily fascinated and informed by the discoveries of neuroscientists and physicists and climate scientists is a privilege. When Clinton says she believes in science, shes using the language of a community, fostered by the Internet, that builds cachet out of scientific curiosity. A love for the products of science has become cultural currency.
It has also become political shorthand. Both US political parties have adopted positions on issues informed by science, and as those issues have become more divisive and the positions more extreme, some people have characterized them as either pro-science or anti-science. But of course the platforms dont actually have anything to do with science as a practice. Both sides may choose different evidence to rely on, or interpret that evidence differently. At the extremes, some groups may ignore evidence entirely.
Nowhere is that divide more apparent than climate change. The science here has reached all-but-inescapable conclusions. Some policymakers, primarily liberal, have formed policies that depend upon those conclusions. Others, mostly conservative, have made policies that dispute those conclusions (for all kinds of different reasons). But to the public, that divide now gets framed in terms of acceptance and denialstates of belief. The idea that you can believe your own facts is an unfortunate consequence of the whole climate denial movement, says Russell.
And now the Democrats have adopted those same words and tactics. Theparty platform echoes Clintons belief framework: Democrats believe that climate change poses a real and urgent threat to our economy, our national security, and our childrens health and future. In a short film shown at the convention on Wednesday, director James Cameron explicitly focused on an emotional message about the dangers of a warming climate to target swing voters.
Clintons line suggests that shes at least in on the joke. It was a laugh lineoffset by a pause, thrown out in a mocking, sing-song voice: And I-I-I believe in science! Shes intentionally using emotional rhetoric, both as a jab at her opponents and a signal to supporters.
But even if Clinton understands how silly it is to conflate belief in science with belief in the products of the scientific method, her line is still problematic. Clintons target is Donald Trump, who has claimed that climate change is a hoaxthat the evidence for it isnt real, or true. But Republicans could hear her tone as mocking not their candidate, but them.
People who remain unconvinced that humans are a significant contributor to climate change are not necessarily anti-science (whatever that means). Many have simply grown distrustful of climate scientists and their relationship with the government. Theyre not wrong to be skeptical. Science in its purest form is the best method humans have yet come up with to apprehend the world around them. But its humans who execute itpeople with hopes and dreams and fears. To deny the potential for bias is to marginalize a huge number of potential voters who have doubts, or who hope scientists describing an impending apocalypse are wrong.
Clinton did not say that she believes in science unequivocallyshe likely understands the imperfections in the research she uses to guide her policy positions. But by playing the science card for laughs, she risks alienating the voters shes trying to attract. In this narrative, not only does Clinton become the candidate of the pro-science voters, but she validates the opposition of people who think science is just another way of knowing.
To reinforce the idea of science as something you can believe or not believe, to force Americans into pro-science and anti-science camps, robs science of its power. It changes the practice of science from a method for understanding into a dangerous political weapon. And in the end, that makes science smaller. At its best and most objective, science can heal divides, answer questions, solve problems. Its not a talking point.
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Pathological Science, NOAA data with and without NOAA adjustments
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September 06, 2016, 06:50:30 PM »
(National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, NOAA, is an American scientific agency within the United States Department of Commerce focused on the conditions of the oceans and the atmosphere.)
Raw data, actual data (Science):
'Global warming' / 'climate change' (as measured in July temperatures in the US) was 0.02 degrees Celsius since the beginning of the Industrial age and 0.00 since 1896. The human caused component was considerably less, less than any margin of error and mathematically rounds to zero.
Adjusted data (Science deniers?):
After tweaking the data by often more than a degree they still show less than one degree of warming in Celsius since the beginning of the industrial age.
NOAA adjusts all pre-2000 data lower and all recent data increasingly higher in order to draw their conclusion:
A good measure of how fraudulent the NOAA adjustments are, is the percent of days over 90 degrees. July 1936, 1901, 1934, 1931, 1930 and 1954 all had more days over 90 degrees than 2012 did, yet NOAA shows 2012 as the hottest. The frequency of 90 degree days in the US has declined since the start of records in 1895. July 2016 (NASAs hottest July ever) was almost exactly average since 1895.
A good indicator of hottest years is the number of July daily maximum temperature records. The 1930s were much hotter than any recent years.
The NY Times USED TO report this stuff:
Which group has the science deniers?
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Re: Pathological Science
Reply #915 on:
September 07, 2016, 01:26:48 PM »
Doug.... well done.
I love it.
To me, man's understanding of nature pales in comparison to the eternity of perfection exhibited by the system of nature. Everything that exists, that has ever existed, or that ever will exist, was meant by nature to exist or die; yet, mankind, armed with 70 years of personal knowledge, and perhaps two centuries of collective, "advanced" knowledge, thinks that he knows how things "should be."
The Rhinos never even existed before they became "extinct." Some people need to think about that for a moment, because they clearly don't get the concept... Gore and Kerry being amongst them.
It's all a matter of perspective.
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Re: Pathological Science
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September 07, 2016, 10:36:48 PM »
DDF, Thank you. Isn't it amazing that 99% of the warming comes from agenda-paid 'scientists' adjusting the real temperatures.
Who is denying the data?
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Re: Pathological Science
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September 08, 2016, 12:41:50 AM »
Quote from: DougMacG on September 07, 2016, 10:36:48 PM
DDF, Thank you. Isn't it amazing that 99% of the warming comes from agenda-paid 'scientists' adjusting the real temperatures.
Who is denying the data?
You're welcome. Great post...interesting.
The ones making money off of it, or the new age hippies coming out of school that want you to adhere to their vegan, birkenstock wearing, moral code.
It's all a matter of perspective.
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Pathological Climate Science, How they stifle dissent, Wikileaks, Podesta,Steyer
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October 27, 2016, 12:30:11 PM »
WikiLeaks Exposes Podesta-Steyer Climate McCarthyism
How the Center for American Progress campaigned to suppress speech
The latest WikiLeaks dump contains plenty of insider dirt on John Podesta, the founder of the Center for American Progress and the campaign manager for Hillary Clinton. Perhaps the tawdriest story to be exposed by Podestas pilfered e-mails is the bragging by an employee of ThinkProgress, an arm of the Center for American Progress, about how they got Roger Pielke Jr.s scalp.
A July 2014 e-mail from Judd Legum, an editor at ThinkProgress, to billionaire Democratic climate activist (and former coal-mine investor) Tom Steyer exposes the climate-change McCarthyism that the Left and its myriad allies in the liberal media use to discredit or silence anyone who doesnt adhere to the orthodoxy of the climate catastrophists.
In the e-mail, Legum boasted to Steyer about how ThinkProgress had silenced Pielke by preventing him from publishing at Nate Silvers then-new website, fivethirtyeight.com, on the issue of climate change. Legum was also asking Steyer, indirectly, for more money. Steyer and Podesta both sit on the board of the Center for American Progress. Between 2008 and 2014, Steyer gave the Center for American Progress some $3.85 million. Ill come back to the specifics of that e-mail shortly.
First, some background. Pielke, a professor at the University of Colorado since 2001, holds degrees in mathematics, public policy, and political science. He has authored or co-authored seven books. He has won several awards for his academic work. For about two decades, he was a prolific writer and speaker on climate issues. In 2013, he testified before Congress and declared that there is exceedingly little scientific support for claims found in the media and political debate that hurricanes, tornadoes, floods and drought have increased in frequency or intensity on climate timescales either in the United States or globally. During that same testimony, he said that global weather-related losses have not increased since 1990 as a proportion of GDP. He went on, saying that there were also no observable increases in floods, tornadoes, or droughts.
Pielkes work was backed up by data and, in many cases, by the findings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. But that didnt matter to Podestas attack dogs at ThinkProgress. Long before his congressional testimony, Pielke had been the subject of a years-long smear campaign led by ThinkProgresss Joe Romm. In fact, Romm had what can only be described as an obsession with Pielke. In a recent Twitter posting, Pielke wrote: Propaganda works: I count more than 160 articles at the Center for American Progress trashing me over the years.
A review of those articles shows that the vast majority of them were written by Romm. In reply to Romms increasingly shrill attacks, Pielke was civil, even gentlemanly. In 2010, Pielke challenged Romm to a public debate in Romms hometown, at a date and venue of his choosing offering to contribute up to $10,000 to the winners favorite charity. Romm, to his eternal discredit, refused. Furthermore, on his blog, Romm routinely deleted comments he didnt like, including those that called him out for ducking Pielkes challenge to debate.
I have followed Pielkes work for years. In 2007, while editing Energy Tribune, I published an interview with his father, Roger Pielke Sr., who is also a climate scientist. In 2009, I published an interview with the younger Pielke on the same subject. I find both of them to be careful observers and thoughtful writers. Last year, I reviewed one of Roger Jr.s books for The Weekly Standard.
This week I spoke to Pielke by phone. Asked for his initial reaction to the ThinkProgress e-mail, he replied, I was just a professor with a blog. I had no funding. Really? They are going to go brag to a billionaire to shut down a professor with a blog? If thats the case, I guess I was doing some pretty good stuff.
Pielke went on to say that Romm had waged a campaign of personal destruction against him. Nothing less than removing my voice from the public space was acceptable. That campaign was carried out by Romm and other members of the Green Slime Machine at liberal media outlets like the Daily Kos and Huffington Post. Among other things, those outlets labeled Pielke a disinformer and climate confusionist. They did so even though Pielkes views on climate are decidedly mainstream: He favors a carbon tax, increased energy efficiency, and a global effort at removing incentives for fossil fuels and creating incentives for carbon neutral sources, including both nuclear and renewable.
ThinkProgresss smear efforts reached an apogee in 2014, after Pielke published a single article on fivethirtyeight.com the website Silver had launched with the goal of using data and statistics to inform a new style of journalism. Pielkes article addressed the inflation-adjusted cost of hurricanes. I made the fairly mundane but obvious observation that disaster costs are not increasing because of extreme weather events, Pielke said. I made the fairly mundane but obvious observation that disaster costs are not increasing because of extreme weather events, Pielke said.
Nevertheless, Pielkes article met a storm of protest, led by the bloggers at ThinkProgress, who published not one but two articles on the same day (March 19, 2014) that Pielkes article was published on fivethirtyeight.com. The first person quoted in both of ThinkProgresss articles was none other than Penn State climate scientist Michael Mann, one of the originators of the much-disputed hockey stick graph. It is worth noting that four years ago this month (October 22, 2012, to be precise), Mann sued National Review, the Competitive Enterprise Institute, Rand Simberg, and Mark Steyn for defamation. That litigation is still pending. (For Steyns paint-blistering take on Mann, the lawsuit, and climate McCarthyism, read his December 15, 2015, testimony before a U.S. Senate committee.)
And it wasnt just ThinkProgress. Immediately after Pielkes article appeared on fivethirtyeight.com, the Green Slime Machine went into overdrive. The Daily Kos expressed dismay that Silver would hire as one of his science writers the egregious purveyor of disinformation on climate change, Roger Pielke, Jr. Pielke was also trashed by writers at Slate, Earth Island Journal, and the Guardian. Rather than stand behind Pielke, Silver fired him. Silver didnt even favor him with a phone call. Pielke told me that two and a half years later, Silver still hasnt contacted him. You cant have a real journalistic enterprise if your only goal is to be popular, Pielke told me.
Now, back to WikiLeaks. In Legums e-mail to Steyer, he wrote that its fair to say that without ThinkProgresss continual trashing of Pielke and his work, Pielke would still be writing on climate change for 538. Legum continued, He would be providing important cover for climate deniers backed by Silvers very respected brand. But because of our work, he is not. I dont think there is another site on the internet having this kind of impact on the climate debate. Legum concluded his note by writing, Thanks for your support of this work. Looking forward to doing even more in the coming months.
So there you have it: One of Podestas highest-profile operatives is bragging to one of Americas richest climate activists that he and his team have silenced a prominent academic for the sin of disagreeing with Mann and other climatologists. ThinkProgress, Romm, and their fellow travelers denigrate anyone who might be getting money from the wrong funders. But when it comes to soliciting big bucks from Steyer and then bragging about how effective you are at defaming people on the other side well, thats okay because, you know, climate change.
The WikiLeaks story about Pielke has, predictably, been ignored by the liberal media. No stories about it have appeared in the Daily Kos, Huffington Post, or Media Matters. It doesnt fit their narrative. A few pieces about the Podesta-WikiLeaks story have appeared in conservative outlets, include a recent piece published on Breitbart by the British journalist James Delingpole, who got it exactly right. He wrote: If the science is as settled as it frequently claims, why is it necessary to orchestrate attacks on any scientist who speaks even slightly out of turn?
Since the fivethirtyeight.com uproar, Pielke has quit publishing about climate change. Hes gone on to become a world-leading expert on sports and doping. He now heads the Sports Governance Center at the University of Colorado, which is housed within the universitys athletics department. He has more than 8,000 followers on Twitter and is an active, maybe rabid, tweeter. Im having a blast, he told me. Working on climate change, he said, you wake up, its the same people arguing about the same stuff. In sports, you have no idea what idea you will be writing about. . . . Theres so much going on. Theres so much upheaval.
What lessons did he learn from his stint in the climate-change discussion? He replied that the debate is almost religious in its intensity. Instead of having a rational discussion about the best ways to reduce carbon dioxide emissions, the debate has become solely about power, about who gets to speak and whose voices are deemed legitimate. The smear campaign against him by Romm and ThinkProgress was designed to make public speech costly.
In a concluding thought, he told me: After all this, Im a big supporter of academic tenure. I have no doubt that if I didnt have tenure, Id be doing landscaping now. Robert Bryce is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute.
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Catastrophic Global Warming Postponed
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December 15, 2016, 11:47:52 AM »
It's looking like a white christmas as seen from my living room this am on a beautiful day of roughly -10 F. Anecdotal proof of ... nothing.
Probably looks a lot like photos I've posted other years. Winters just keep coming, in spite of what you read. Forecast is for below 0 C. highs and lows for the next 3 months. Much like 100 years ago.
Alarmists only claim less than one degree warming per century. Skeptics point out 90% of that is in the 'adjustments' made by the alarmists.
If it did warm one or two more 10ths of a degree before we got off fossil fuels and the plants all had a nice increase of one more parts per 10,000 of CO2 to blossom and produce oxygen for us to all breathe, well that's not all bad!
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Re: Pathological Science
Reply #920 on:
January 15, 2017, 07:51:05 AM »
New study suggest oceans are warmer than previously measured due to inaccurate measurement techniques:
Here is the new study:
This definitely reminds me of the endless meta analyses we see more and more of in medicine trying to splice every pubic hair down the middle to find some sort of answer.
I have no idea if this new study is legitimate or not, but I am very suspicious of much of what I read in medical literature as to the results, interpretation or usually even the significance of it other then it makes names for those who get their article in the journal and the journal acts as though any of it means anything to the real world individual patient care .
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Daily Mail: World Leaders Duped
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Quote from: Crafty_Dog on February 07, 2017, 12:17:38 PM
Might I second the idea that this is an important piece.
The skeptics have been asking the alarmists to explain the 18, 19 and nearly 20 year pause in global warming that violates and invalidates all of their models.
In response we this this false, duped, manipulated report put out by presumably esteemed scientists "based on misleading, unverified data".
And they allege 2016 was the hottest year on record without saying how much hotter, what was the margin of error in the sampling, or whether they were using actual or 'adjusted' data to reach that unverified conclusion.
From the article:
A high-level whistleblower has told this newspaper that Americas National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) breached its own rules on scientific integrity when it published the sensational but flawed report, aimed at making the maximum possible impact on world leaders including Barack Obama and David Cameron at the UN climate conference in Paris in 2015.
The report claimed that the pause or slowdown in global warming in the period since 1998 revealed by UN scientists in 2013 never existed, and that world temperatures had been rising faster than scientists expected. Launched by NOAA with a public relations fanfare, it was splashed across the worlds media, and cited repeatedly by politicians and policy makers.
But the whistleblower, Dr John Bates, a top NOAA scientist with an impeccable reputation, has shown The Mail on Sunday irrefutable evidence that the paper was based on misleading, unverified data.
It was never subjected to NOAAs rigorous internal evaluation process which Dr Bates devised.
His vehement objections to the publication of the faulty data were overridden by his NOAA superiors in what he describes as a blatant attempt to intensify the impact of what became known as the Pausebuster paper.
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These wall-adornments with torches are cast out of high-quality resin. They are nice accessories for each Dungeon Game and are supplied unpainted. Modelled by Thomas Kramme, painting and pictures by Thomas Gessler.
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Hairlytop Interface moves organically in response to light
The Hairlytop Interface is an interactive surface display made of soft solid-state actuators and optical sensors which react to light. Jointly developed by the University of Electro-Communications and Symphodia Phil, when placed on an iPad that is playing a video, it moves organically, like a living thing, in response to changes in the brightness of the screen.
"One feature of this system is that the motion is very cute, like that of an animal. Another feature is that it can be used extremely freely in terms of design."
"Basically, the system consists of lots of optical sensors and shape-memory alloy components. Because the structure is very simple, units can be attached in a variety of places. For example, these could be used on the surface of a pet robot, to give it fur like a real pet. In the future, as a challenge, we'd like to try making a floor that's full of these, so the whole floor can move."
"What's new about this technology is how the units are controlled. Ordinarily, controlling a lot of these individually would take time. Controlling the motion of a thousand, or ten thousand, would mean a very heavy computing load. But with this system, as long as there's a video, thousands or tens of thousands can be controlled at once. The point is that technology like this is a very good way to control an assemblage."
The Hairlytop interface uses light as stimuli for movement, but various other sensors, such as audio or magnetic sensors, can be used for different effects. The developers would like to create range of applications for this system, including educational toys and plush toy accessories.
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University of Electro-Communications
Symphodia Phil


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