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The Military Veteran Peer Network is a great service for our veterans that has just started in Kerrville. This Network unites and supports organizations and people that are serving Texas veterans as well as their families. Through the network veterans will now be able to share their knowledge, communicate and stay connected, post events, and develop best practices to support vets as they transition into civilian life after service.
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Companies and organizations that are convinced the International Telecommunication Union will try to take over the Internet during next week's World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT) don't understand what the meeting can decide on, said representatives of the UN body.
Controversy regarding the ITU's role in Internet governance and economics has preceeded the Dubai meeting. For example, the European Parliament warned that some of the proposals presented ahead of WCIT, if implemented, could result in the ITU gaining power over the Internet.
At a Friday news conference the organization defended its existence and explained its role.
"This conference cannot assign the ITU with regulatory powers. Despite repeating this many times, it seems the message is simply not getting through," said Hamadoun Touré, ITU secretary general.
That stance received some support Friday from Harvard Law Professor Jack Goldsmith, who posted a blog item debunking what he called pre-WCIT "hysteria" and providing detailed background on the limits of the ITU's role regardless of what proposals succeed at the conference.
The Internet and the telecommunication sectors need to work together, according Touré. They are complimentary, and therefore there is no need for the ITU to take over Internet governance, he said.
The ITU has also been criticized for not being open enough, including providing access to documents.
"A number of national governments do make documents available, so this idea that they are somehow secret and need to be leaked is simply not true," said Richard Hill, counsellor to the ITU.
Touré also addressed criticism from Google, which said "governments alone should not determine the future of the Internet. The billions of people around the globe that use the Internet, and the experts that build and maintain it, should be included" on its Take Action website.
Google will find, at the WCIT, an environment completely different from what it is expecting, according to Touré. The meeting is not a place for discussing Internet governance, he said.
One thing the WCIT will do is work to help increase the number of people who have Internet access, said Touré.
"It is very important with all the talk we have heard of Internet freedom that most people in the world can't even access the Internet ... it is out of reach infrastructurally, economically, culturally and linguistically," Touré said.
Changing that is what next week's conference is really about, he added.
Other topics will be how to deal with spam; finding ways to lower the high costs of mobile roaming; and reducing ICT tariffs.
Touré also took the opportunity to address the shutdown of Internet communication in Syria, and called on the country's government to restore access.
Article 33 of ITU's constitution, which Syria has signed, protects the freedom to communicate and the right to access critical infrastructure, he said.
The WCIT conference takes place Dec. 3-14.


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Myths and falsehoods from the assault on global warming science
Research ››› ››› DIANNA PARKER
The conservative media have mounted an all-out attack on climate science in an attempt to discredit efforts to fight man-made global warming. Media Matters for America has debunked prominent myths and falsehoods associated with this smear campaign.
MYTH: The scientific consensus on global warming has been undermined by recent events
MYTH: Erroneous Himalayan glacier statement in IPCC report undermines evidence of global warming
MYTH: IPCC report was wrong about the Amazon and drought
MYTH: New study debunks link between global warming and hurricane intensity
MYTH: CRU director Jones admitted that global warming stopped in past 15 years
MYTH: CRU scientists "destroyed" raw temperature data
MYTH: Scientists "fudged" data with a "trick" to "hide" temperature "decline"
MYTH: NASA admitted its data "are in even worse shape" than CRU data
MYTH: CRU scientists "suppressed" opposition
MYTH: The Earth has been cooling since 1998
MYTH: Snowstorms prove global warming does not exist
MYTH: The scientific consensus on global warming has been undermined by recent events
- Critics have seized on claims about the U.N.'s 2007 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report and emails apparently stolen from the Climatic Research Unit from the University of East Anglia (CRU) as evidence that human-caused global warming is not happening. Conservatives in the media have repeatedly claimed that apparently stolen emails show that global warming is a "hoax," a "fraud," or "junk science," or that they put global warming science in question. For example, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Sarah Palin, The Washington Times, Matt Drudge, Fox News' Bret Baier, the Fox Nation, and Fox & Friends hosts Steve Doocy, Gretchen Carlson, and Brian Kilmeade have all forwarded these claims.
- The Wall Street Journal, New York Post, The Washington Times, HotAir.com, Michelle Malkin, and BigGovernment.com, are all among those in the conservative media who claimed recent accusations against the IPCC are proof that global warming science is in question.
REALITY: "Climategate" attacks on scientists are "unfounded." FactCheck.org wrote:
In late November 2009, more than 1,000 e-mails between scientists at the Climate Research Unit of the U.K.'s University of East Anglia were stolen and made public by an as-yet-unnamed hacker. Climate skeptics are claiming that they show scientific misconduct that amounts to the complete fabrication of man-made global warming. We find that to be unfounded:
- The messages, which span 13 years, show a few scientists in a bad light, being rude or dismissive. An investigation is underway, but there's still plenty of evidence that the Earth is getting warmer and that humans are largely responsible.
- Some critics say the e-mails negate the conclusions of a 2007 report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, but the IPCC report relied on data from a large number of sources, of which CRU was only one.
- E-mails being cited as "smoking guns" have been misrepresented. For instance, one e-mail that refers to "hiding the decline" isn't talking about a decline in actual temperatures as measured at weather stations. These have continued to rise, and 2009 may turn out to be the fifth warmest year ever recorded. The "decline" actually refers to a problem with recent data from tree rings.
REALITY: Scientists have reaffirmed that warming is occurring and say the evidence is overwhelming. In response to the repeated attacks on global warming science, prominent scientists from around the world have come forward to reaffirm the wide consensus that man-made warming is occurring, and say the criticism has little bearing on the overwhelming amount of evidence. Among them are:
- 29 prominent scientists in the U.S.: "The body of evidence that human activity is the dominant cause of global warming is overwhelming." In a December 4, 2009, letter to Congress, 29 prominent scientists, including 11 members of the National Academy of Sciences, stated: "The body of evidence that human activity is the dominant cause of global warming is overwhelming. The content of the stolen emails has no impact whatsoever on our overall understanding that human activity is driving dangerous levels of global warming."
- 1,700 scientists in the United Kingdom: Global warming "is due primarily to human activities." More than 1,700 scientists from the United Kingdom signed a statement responding "to the ongoing questioning of core climate science and methods." The statement said: "We, members of the UK science community, have the utmost confidence in the observational evidence for global warming and the scientific basis for concluding that it is due primarily to human activities."
- American Association for the Advancement of Science: "[S]cientific evidence" shows "that global climate change [is] caused by human activities." On December 4, 2009, the American Association for the Advancement of Science stated that it "has reaffirmed the position of its Board of Directors and the leaders of 18 respected organizations, who concluded based on multiple lines of scientific evidence that global climate change caused by human activities is now underway, and it is a growing threat to society." The statement also said that "the illegal release of private emails stolen from the University of East Anglia should not cause policy-makers and the public to become confused about the scientific basis of global climate change."
- Union of Concerned Scientists: "[T]he IPCC's conclusions remain indisputable," and "nothing" in "stolen emails has any impact on our overall understanding that human activities are driving" climate change. The Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) stated that despite "minor errors" in the IPCC's 2007 report, "Overall, the IPCC's conclusions remain indisputable: Climate change is happening now and human activity is causing it. Nations around the world will have to adapt to at least some climate change, including sea level rise, changes in precipitation, disruptions to agriculture, and species extinctions." In response to the CRU emails, UCS said that the "email content being quoted does not indicate that climate data and research have been compromised. Most importantly, nothing in the content of these stolen emails has any impact on our overall understanding that human activities are driving dangerous levels of global warming."
- New York Times, Associated Press: Scientists say IPCC errors were "minor" and do not change consensus. The Times reported that the IPCC, "in reviewing complaints about possible errors in its report, has so far found that one was justified and another was 'baseless.' The general consensus among mainstream scientists is that the errors are in any case minor and do not undermine the report's conclusions." Similarly, the AP reported, "Scientists say the problems are minor and have nothing to do with the major conclusions about man-made global warming and how it will harm people and ecosystems."
- RealClimate.org: "[P]ublic perception of the IPCC, and of climate science in general, has been massively distorted by the recent media storm." The staff at RealClimate.org -- which is comprised of working climate scientists -- wrote in response to the media distortions of the IPCC report: "Overall then, the IPCC assessment reports reflect the state of scientific knowledge very well. There have been a few isolated errors, and these have been acknowledged and corrected. What is seriously amiss is something else: the public perception of the IPCC, and of climate science in general, has been massively distorted by the recent media storm. All of these various 'gates' -- Climategate, Amazongate, Seagate, Africagate, etc., do not represent scandals of the IPCC or of climate science. Rather, they are the embarrassing battle-cries of a media scandal, in which a few journalists have misled the public with grossly overblown or entirely fabricated pseudogates, and many others have naively and willingly followed along without seeing through the scam."
MYTH: Erroneous Himalayan glacier statement in IPCC report undermines evidence of global warming
- After stating that "the great climate-change unraveling came none too soon," a New York Post editorial said that the IPCC's "key finding" "was revealed last month to be utterly bogus. ... The IPCC had claimed, with no evidence beyond a citation from a mass-market science magazine, that global warming would cause Himalayan glaciers to disappear by 2035."
- A Washington Times editorial seized on the Himalayan glacier data to claim that man-made climate change science is "dead" and "needs to be buried."
REALITY: Despite IPCC error on Himalayan glaciers, studies show that glaciers are melting all over the world. The IPCC recently acknowledged and apologized for erroneously citing claims that Himalayan glaciers would melt by 2035. However, the IPCC report highlights legitimate scientific studies showing that glaciers worldwide are melting.
Studies show the world's glaciers are melting rapidly. The World Glacier Monitoring Service (WGMS) issued a report in March 2008 showing that, according to a United Nations Environment Program press release, for 30 of the world's glaciers, "the average rate of melting and thinning more than doubled" in a year's time. WGMS later updated its data for 2007-08 and said that the "new data continues the global trend in strong ice loss over the past few decades." Moreover, scientists at the ETH Zurich university reportedly issued a study in 2009 showing that Swiss glaciers had retreated by 12 percent over the past decade.
Glacier experts link melting glaciers to global warming. Glacier expert Michael Zemp is quoted in a CNN.com article as saying, "Glaciers are the best proof that climate change is happening. This is happening on a global scale. They can translate very small changes in the climate into a visible signal." And a January 20 Guardian article reported that "Lonnie Thompson, a glaciologist at Ohio State University, said there is strong evidence from a variety of sources of significant melting of glaciers -- from the area around Kilimanjaro in Africa to the Alps, the Andes, and the icefields of Antarctica because of a warming climate. Ice is also disappearing at a faster rate in recent decades, he said."
MYTH: IPCC report was wrong about the Amazon and drought
- The Wall Street Journal editorial board claimed that the IPCC's reports "are sloppy political documents intended to drive the climate lobby's regulatory agenda." To support this claim, the Journal cited "news that an IPCC claim that global warming could destroy 40% of the Amazon was based on a report by an environmental pressure group." The editorial further stated:
Take the rain forest claim. In its 2007 report, the IPCC wrote that "up to 40% of the Amazonian forests could react drastically to even a slight reduction in precipitation; this means that the tropical vegetation, hydrology and climate system in South America could change very rapidly to another steady state."
But as Jonathan Leake of London's Sunday Times reported last month, those claims were based on a report from the World Wildlife Fund, which in turn had fundamentally misrepresented a study in the journal Nature. The Nature study, Mr. Leake writes, "did not assess rainfall but in fact looked at the impact on the forest of human activity such as logging and burning."
REALITY: The IPCC's statement on the Amazon and drought are correct. Critics of the IPCC claim -- as the Journal did -- that the IPCC erred because it cited a World Wildlife Fund (WWF) report that said 40 percent of the Amazon rainforest is susceptible to drought; the critics say WWF came to that conclusion by misrepresenting a 1999 study in the journal Nature. But Daniel Nepstad, a co-author of the Nature study, has said that "the IPCC statement on the Amazon was correct," and more recent peer-reviewed research also supports the data.
Nature study author: "[T]he IPCC statement on the Amazon was correct." In response to the criticism of the IPCC, Nepstad -- who co-authored the Nature study the WWF report cited -- wrote:
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has been recently criticized in media coverage (e.g. Sunday Times) for presenting inaccurate information on the susceptibility of the forests of the Amazon Basin to rainfall reduction in its fourth assessment. The statement that has drawn the criticism reads as follows:
"Up to 40% of the Amazonian forests could react drastically to even a slight reduction in precipitation; this means that the tropical vegetation, hydrology and climate system in South America could change very rapidly to another steady state, not necessarily producing gradual changes between the current and the future situation (Rowell and Moore, 2000)." (IPCC 2007, Magrin et al. 2007)
The Rowell and Moore review report [the WWF report] that is cited as the basis of this IPCC statement cites an article that we published in the journal Nature in 1999 as the source for the following statement:
"Up to 40% of the Brazilian forest is extremely sensitive to small reductions in the amount of rainfall. In the 1998 dry season, some 270,000 sq. km of forest became vulnerable to fire, due to completely depleted plant-available water stored in the upper five metres of soil. A further 360,000 sq. km of forest had only 250 mm of plant-available soil water left.[Nepstad et al. 1999]" (Rowell and Moore 2000)
The IPCC statement on the Amazon is correct, but the citations listed in the Rowell and Moore report were incomplete. (The authors of this report interviewed several researchers, including the author of this note, and had originally cited the IPAM website where the statement was made that 30 to 40% of the forests of the Amazon were susceptible to small changes in rainfall).
After the Rowell and Moore report was released in 2000, and prior to the publication of the IPCC AR4, new evidence of the full extent of severe drought in the Amazon was available. In 2004, we estimated that half of the forest area of the Amazon Basin had either fallen below, or was very close to, the critical level of soil moisture below which trees begin to die in 1998. This estimate incorporated new rainfall data and results from an experimental reduction of rainfall in an Amazon forest that we had conducted with funding from the US National Science Foundation (Nepstad et al. 2004). Field evidence of the soil moisture critical threshold is presented in Nepstad et al. 2007.
In sum, the IPCC statement on the Amazon was correct. The report that is cited in support of the IPCC statement (Rowell and Moore 2000) omitted some citations in support of the 40% value statement.
RealClimate: Amazon "issue" is "completely without merit." In a February 14 post on "IPCC errors: facts and spin," Real Climate noted that claims that the IPCC statement on Amazon forest dieback are false are "completely without merit." RealClimate noted that Nepstad has said that the IPCC was correct and stated the "only issue is that the IPCC cited the WWF report rather than the underlying peer-reviewed papers by Nepstad et al. These studies actually provide the basis for the IPCC's estimate on Amazonian sensitivity to drought."
MYTH: New study debunks link between global warming and hurricane intensity
- HotAir.com's Ed Morrissey claimed that a new study in Nature Geoscience "concludes that hurricane strength has little to do with global warming" and "nothing to do with AGW or carbon emissions," and that it's "yet another reason to dismiss the highly-politicized" and not "reliable" IPCC report.
REALITY: The Nature Geoscience and IPCC findings on future impact of global warming on hurricane intensity are consistent. The Nature Geoscience study did not say -- as Morrissey claimed -- that "hurricane strength has little to do with global warming." Rather, it said that "greenhouse warming" will increase hurricane "intensity" while decreasing hurricane "frequency." This finding is consistent with the IPCC report, which found that "it is likely that future tropical cyclones ... will become more intense," but there is "less confidence in projections of a global decrease in numbers of tropical cyclones." While the two reports differed on whether human-caused warming has already changed hurricane activity, the author of the Nature Geoscience study said the IPCC provided "an accurate summary of science that existed at that point."
Study in Nature Geoscience says models project increases in hurricane intensity due to greenhouse warming. The study (subscription required) Morrissey cited, which was authored by 10 climate experts, states that "greenhouse warming" will cause an increase in tropical cyclone (hurricane) intensity but a decrease in tropical cyclone frequency:
[F]uture projections based on theory and high-resolution dynamical models consistently indicate that greenhouse warming will cause the globally averaged intensity of tropical cyclones to shift towards stronger storms, with intensity increases of 2-11% by 2100. Existing modelling studies also consistently project decreases in the globally averaged frequency of tropical cyclones, by 6-34%. Balanced against this, higher resolution modelling studies typically project substantial increases in the frequency of the most intense cyclones, and increases of the order of 20% in the precipitation rate within 100|[nbsp]|km of the storm centre.
IPCC report also said "it is likely that future tropical cyclones ... will become more intense." From the IPCC's 2007 Synthesis Report:
Based on a range of models, it is likely that future tropical cyclones (typhoons and hurricanes) will become more intense, with larger peak wind speeds and more heavy precipitation associated with ongoing increases of tropical sea-surface temperatures. There is less confidence in projections of a global decrease in numbers of tropical cyclones. The apparent increase in the proportion of very intense storms since 1970 in some regions is much larger than simulated by current models for that period.
Author's study said IPCC made conclusions based on science at the time. The study's co-author, Tom Knutson, is quoted in an AP article as saying the IPCC based its conclusion that warming "had already altered storm activity" on the science that was available at the time:
In 2007, the authoritative Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said it was "more likely than not" that man-made greenhouse gases had already altered storm activity, but the authors of the new paper said more recent evidence muddies the issue.
"The evidence is not strong enough that we could make some kind of statement" along those lines, Knutson said. It doesn't mean the IPCC report was wrong; it was just based on science done by 2006 and recent research has changed a bit, said Knutson and the other researchers.
MYTH: CRU director Jones admitted that global warming stopped in past 15 years
- Gateway Pundit blogger Jim Hoft claimed in a headline on February 14, "It Was All a Lie: Climategate Scientist Admits There Is No Global Warming."
- In his Washington Post column, George Will wrote: "Global warming skeptics, too, have erred. They have said there has been no statistically significant warming for 10 years. Phil Jones, former director of Britain's Climatic Research Unit, source of the leaked documents, admits it has been 15 years."
REALITY: Jones said: "I'm 100% confident that the climate has warmed." The conservative media seized on a BBC interview in which Jones said that temperature data do not show "statistically significant" warming since 1995 in order to suggest he "admitted" warming stopped or is not occurring. In fact, Jones stated in the interview he's "100% confident that the climate has warmed," but that 15 years is generally too short a time period to achieve statistically significant results. Jones added that statistical significance is "much more likely for longer periods." From Jones' BBC interview:
B - Do you agree that from 1995 to the present there has been no statistically-significant global warming
Yes, but only just. I also calculated the trend for the period 1995 to 2009. This trend (0.12C per decade) is positive, but not significant at the 95% significance level. The positive trend is quite close to the significance level. Achieving statistical significance in scientific terms is much more likely for longer periods, and much less likely for shorter periods.
C - Do you agree that from January 2002 to the present there has been statistically significant global cooling?
No. This period is even shorter than 1995-2009. The trend this time is negative (-0.12C per decade), but this trend is not statistically significant.
E - How confident are you that warming has taken place and that humans are mainly responsible?
I'm 100% confident that the climate has warmed. As to the second question, I would go along with IPCC Chapter 9 - there's evidence that most of the warming since the 1950s is due to human activity.
RealClimate.org: Media are distorting Jones' comments about warming over the past 15 years. In a February 15 post, RealClimate responded to a Daily Mail article that had distorted Jones' comments by claiming Jones "admits ... [t]here has been no global warming since 1995.″ The RealClimate scientists wrote:
What Jones actually said is that, while the globe has nominally warmed since 1995, it is difficult to establish the statistical significance of that warming given the short nature of the time interval (1995-present) involved. The warming trend consequently doesn't quite achieve statistical significance. But it is extremely difficult to establish a statistically significant trend over a time interval as short as 15 years -- a point we have made countless times at RealClimate.
RealClimate also noted that Jones had "confirmed to us that our interpretations of his comments in the BBC interview are indeed the correct ones, and that he agrees with the statements in our piece above."
Long-term data show clear warming trend with 2000-2009 as warmest decade on record. The IPCC stated in 2007 that multiple lines of observational evidence establish that "warming of the climate system is unequivocal." NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS), the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the U.K. Met Office, and the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) have all stated that 2000-2009 was the warmest decade on record for the globe.
From the Met Office:
MYTH: CRU scientists "destroyed" raw temperature data
- On Fox News' Special Report, senior political analyst Brit Hume said: "Now it has come out that the original raw data used to create these models has been destroyed or otherwise disposed of. The response of the alarmists to these revelations has been that the emails were taken out of context and that the destruction of all that raw data was done for space reasons. There's a one-word answer to all of that: Please."
- On Fox Business' Cavuto, The Washington Examiner's Michael Barone said they "destroyed all the original data. Only data that they have now is data that they have manipulated and adjusted, perhaps to fit their hypotheses. And, as a result, we're not being asked to [lower greenhouse gas emissions] on the basis of science." Later, Barone said, "They have non-retrievable data. They say they can't get their original data. They have non-replicable data."
REALITY: Raw temperature data still exists at original meteorological stations. Contrary to the claim that the CRU scientists "destroyed" raw temperature data to cover up cooling and that the results, therefore, can not be replicated, scientists say the original data are still at the meteorological stations where they obtained them. Moreover, other climate organizations have replicated CRU's results using similar data sets to demonstrate a similar long-term warming trend.
Scientists: The data were not destroyed. Both Jones and Gavin Schmidt, a climate modeler at NASA, have stated that the raw data are still at the original weather stations. Jones is quoted in a Greenwire article as saying, "We haven't destroyed anything. The data is still there -- you can still get these stations from the [NOAA] National Climatic Data Center." Also, in response to a comment on RealClimate asking whether it is true that the CRU lost the data, Schmidt replied, "No. The original data is curated at the met services where it originated."
Scientists note that datasets from other research centers show the same long-term climate trends. Greenwire also reported that Tom Karl, director of NOAA's Climatic Data Center, "noted that the conclusions of the IPCC reports are based on several data sets in addition to the CRU, including data from NOAA, NASA and the United Kingdom Met Office. Each of those data sets basically show identical multi-decadal trends." The article further noted that Ben Santer, a climate scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, "said CRU's major findings were replicated by other groups, including the NOAA climatic data center, the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, and also in Russia."
MYTH: Scientists "fudged" data with a "trick" to "hide" temperature "decline"
- On his Fox News show, Glenn Beck said, "How about Phil Jones, head of the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia? 'I have just completed Mike's Nature trick of adding in the real temps to each series for the last 20 years to hide the decline.' Yes, he is talking about a trick that another scientist previously used in a peer-reviewed journal to apparently hide the decline in temperatures. Incredible."
- The hosts at Fox & Friends have also repeatedly claimed the emails "prove" scientists were "doctoring" data or "fudging the numbers."
REALITY: "Hide the decline" refers to unreliable tree-ring data, not actual temperature readings. The Morning Call of Allentown, Pennsylvania, reported that Penn State scientist Michael Mann -- whose "trick" was referenced in Jones' email -- "said his trick, or 'trick of the trade,' for the Nature chart was to combine data from tree-ring measurements, which record world temperatures from 1,000 years ago until 1960, with actual temperature readings for 1961 through 1998" because "scientists have discovered that, for temperatures since 1960, tree rings have not been a reliable indicator." Jones has also stated that it is "well known" that tree ring data "does not show a realistic trend of temperature after 1960," and the CRU has said that "[t]he 'decline' in this set of tree-ring data should not be taken to mean that there is any problem with the instrumental temperature data."
Temperature records show there was no "decline" in actual temperatures to hide. In a December 8 London Times column, Andrew Watson, research professor at the University of East Anglia explained, "The tree-ring measure declines, but the actual temperatures after 1960 go up." Jones has similarly explained that "it was absolutely necessary to remove the incorrect impression given by the tree rings that temperatures between about 1960 and 1999 (when the email was written) were not rising, as our instrumental data clearly showed they were." Indeed, measurements from each of the major climate centers show the clear warming trend.
Scientists have stated that the word "trick" is being misinterpreted. Scientists say the word "trick" is a commonly used expression and does not indicate deception. Bob Ward, director of policy and communications at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics, is quoted in a Guardian article as saying of Jones' email: "Scientists say 'trick' not just to mean deception. They mean it as a clever way of doing something -- a short cut can be a trick." RealClimate also explained that "[s]cientists often use the term 'trick' to refer to ... 'a good way to deal with a problem', rather than something that is 'secret', and so there is nothing problematic in this at all." Further, Penn State concluded in an investigation of charges against Mann that they "were not falsifying data; they were trying to construct an understandable graph for those who were not experts in the field. The so-called 'trick' was nothing more than a statistical method used to bring two or more different kinds of data sets together in a legitimate fashion by a technique that has been reviewed by a broad array of peers in the field."
AP: U.K. investigation shows "no evidence" that CRU scientists "had tampered with data." The Associated Press reported on March 31 that "[t]he House of Commons' Science and Technology Committee said Wednesday that they'd seen no evidence to support charges that the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit or its director, Phil Jones, had tampered with data or perverted the peer review process to exaggerate the threat of global warming -- two of the most serious criticisms levied against the climatologist and his colleagues." The House of Commons issued the report on March 31.
MYTH: NASA admitted its data "are in even worse shape" than CRU data
- A March 30 FoxNews.com article advanced global warming skeptic Chris Horner's claim that climate scientists' emails show that the CRU temperature data are inaccurate, and that NASA's, "by its own admission," "are in even worse shape."
- The Fox Nation linked to the FoxNews.com article with the headline, "NASA Rocked by 'Climategate II' "
REALITY: NASA did not say its data are "in worse shape" than CRU's. Apart from the fact that there is no evidence that CRU scientists tampered with temperature data, NASA did not say its data are "in worse shape" than CRU's. The accusation is based on distortions of an email exchange in which a reporter asked NASA whether it is "correct to say that NASA's data is more accurate than" other groups' data. Neither of the two NASA scientists who replied suggested that NASA's data are wrong or unreliable.
NASA scientist said that NASA data are "accurate" but intended for a different purpose than other data sets. In the email exchange, a USA Today reporter asked NASA whether "it [is] correct to say that NASA's data is more accurate than NCDC's since it has more sources? In the media, it would be ideal to refer to one source rather than two." NASA scientist Reto Ruedy replied that for the reporter's purposes, using NCDC data for U.S. means and CRU's data for global means is more accurate. From Ruedy's email:
No, your statement is NOT correct; to get the US means, NCDC's procedure of only using the best stations is more accurate. If that were our goal, we would proceed in the same way. Actually, whenever we report on US means in our publications, we recompute all US means using only USHCN data.
My recommendation to you is to continue using NCDC's data for the US means and Phil Jones' data for the global means. Our method is geared to getting the global mean and large regional means correctly enough to assess our model results.
We are basically a modeling group and were forced into rudimentary analysis of global observed data in the 70's and early 80's since nobody else was doing that job at the time. Now we happily combine NCDC's and Hadley Center's data to get what we need to evaluate our model results. For that purpose, what we do is more than accurate enough. But we have no intention to compete with either of the other two organizations in what they do best.
NASA's Hansen stated that NASA's "method of analysis has features that are different than the analyses of the other groups." In a subsequent email, NASA's James Hansen told the reporter that NASA's "method of analysis has features that are different than the analyses of the other groups." From the email:
Well, I guess that I would say it a bit differently.
Our method of analysis has features that are different than the analyses of the other groups. In some cases the differences have a substantial impact.
For example, we extrapolate station measurements as much as 1200 km. This allows us to include results for the full Arctic. In 2005 this turned out to be important, as the Arctic had a large positive temperature anomaly. We thus found 2005 to be the warmest year in the record, while the British did not and initially NOAA also did not. Independent satellite IR measurements showed that our extrapolations of anomalies into the Arctic were conservative. I am very confident that our result was the correct one in that instance.
Also, as we show in our 2001 paper, our urban warming correction in the U.S. differs from the NOAA correction (we have a larger adjustment, which decreases recent temperatures relative to last century). I would not claim that one is superior to the other, but the different results provide one conservative measure of uncertainty. In general it has proven very useful to have more than one group do the analysis.
Also it should be noted that the different groups have cooperated in a very friendly way to try to understand different conclusions when they arise. You will see that we had co-authors from the other groups on our 2001 paper. And in general it is a bad idea to anoint any group as being THE authority. Science doesn't usually work best that way.
NASA, CRU, and NCDC data all show similar long-term warming trends. While, as Hansen noted, there are some differences in how NASA, CRU, and NCDC analyze the data, all three show a similar long-term warming trend. Hansen included the following chart in a NASA document released in March:
On its website, the Met Office explains:
One important thing to note is that the difference between the GISS [NASA] and HadCRUT3 [CRU] analyses are smaller than the calculated uncertainties on the HadCRUT3 data set -- the data sets are not inconsistent. The largest component of the uncertainty arises from the fact that temperatures over large areas of the Earth's surface remain unobserved. There are very few observations in the Arctic and Antarctic. GISS attempts to estimate temperatures in these areas, HadCRUT3 does not. This is the major source of difference between the analyses, which can be seen if, instead of a global average, one takes the average temperature anomaly between 60S and 60N. Over this slightly smaller area, the GISS and HadCRUT3 analyses give very similar results.
MYTH: CRU scientists "suppressed" opposition
- On Fox News Sunday, host Chris Wallace claimed that the leaked emails "seemed to indicate that some of the climate change advocates were suppressing opposition."
- In a Wall Street Journal op-ed, Cato Institute fellow and author Patrick Michaels claimed that the emails reveal "a silencing of climate scientists" and "dramatically weakened the case for emissions reductions."
REALITY: Charges of suppression unsupported by evidence. Critics have frequently pointed to a March 11, 2003, email in which Mann suggested a boycott of the journal Climate Research over the publication of a 2003 study by Willie Soon and Sallie Baliunas, and a July 8, 2004, email, in which Jones criticized two papers and said he couldn't "see either of these papers being in the next IPCC report. Kevin and I will keep them out somehow -- even if we have to redefine what the peer-review literature is!" But the Climate Research publisher later conceded the Soon-Baliunas paper should not have been published as it was written, and the papers Jones criticized were included in the IPCC report despite his objections.
Climate Research editors and publisher conceded Soon-Baliunas paper was flawed. The New York Times reported that the Soon-Baliunas paper "has been heavily criticized by many scientists, including several of the journal editors. The editors said last week that whether or not the conclusions were correct, the analysis was deeply flawed." The Times further noted that the "publisher of the journal, Dr. Otto Kinne, and an editor who recently became editor in chief, Dr. Hans von Storch, both said that in retrospect the paper should not have been published as written." The Wall Street Journal reported on July 31, 2003, (accessed via Factiva) that three editors, including von Storch, "resigned in protest over the journal's handling of the review process that approved the study."
CRU scientists did not keep the papers to which they objected out of IPCC. As the Yale Forum on Climate Change & the Media explained, Jones had criticized "two papers, one by [Eugenia] Kalnay and [Ming] Cai (2003) in Nature and one by [Ross] McKitrick and [Patrick] Michaels (2004) in Climate Research, both dealing with effects of land-use change on temperature measurements. Despite Jones' dislike of the papers and his threat to keep them out of the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report, both papers were subsequently included in the Assessment, suggesting that no small group of scientists could be final arbiters of what is included in the IPCC reports."
MYTH: The Earth has been cooling since 1998
- An Investor's Business Daily editorial claimed, "As it turns out, the earth hasn't been warming at all, at least not in the last decade, and reputable scientists have said it may continue to cool for decades to come."
- Washington Post columnist George Will has repeatedly claimed that the Earth has been cooling or has not warmed since 1998.
- Numerous Fox News and other media personalities have made similar claims.
REALITY: 2000-2009 decade was warmer than the 90s, which were warmer than the 80s. Global warming skeptics have seized on the fact that 1998 was the hottest year on record, according to Met Office data, (NASA and NOAA say 2005 was the warmest on record) in order to claim that the Earth has cooled. But scientists reject the idea for several reasons: 1) scientists have identified a long term warming trend that spans several decades; 2) scientists say a decade is too short a time span to make meaningful conclusions about long-term global warming; and 3) the 2000-2009 decade is the hottest on record.
AP: "Statisticians Reject Global Cooling" and have identified a "distinct decades-long upward trend." In an experiment, the Associated Press "gave temperature data to four independent statisticians and asked them to look for trends, without telling them what the numbers represented." Their conclusion was that the "experts found no true temperature declines over time." From the AP's October 26, 2009, article:
Global warming skeptics base their claims on an unusually hot year in 1998. Since then, they say, temperatures have dropped -- thus, a cooling trend. But it's not that simple.
Since 1998, temperatures have dipped, soared, fallen again and are now rising once more. Records kept by the British meteorological office and satellite data used by climate skeptics still show 1998 as the hottest year. However, data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and NASA show 2005 has topped 1998. Published peer-reviewed scientific research generally cites temperatures measured by ground sensors, which are from NOAA, NASA and the British, more than the satellite data.
The recent Internet chatter about cooling led NOAA's climate data center to re-examine its temperature data. It found no cooling trend.
"The last 10 years are the warmest 10-year period of the modern record," said NOAA climate monitoring chief Deke Arndt. "Even if you analyze the trend during that 10 years, the trend is actually positive, which means warming."
The AP sent expert statisticians NOAA's year-to-year ground temperature changes over 130 years and the 30 years of satellite-measured temperatures preferred by skeptics and gathered by scientists at the University of Alabama in Huntsville.
Statisticians who analyzed the data found a distinct decades-long upward trend in the numbers, but could not find a significant drop in the past 10 years in either data set. The ups and downs during the last decade repeat random variability in data as far back as 1880.
Saying there's a downward trend since 1998 is not scientifically legitimate, said David Peterson, a retired Duke University statistics professor and one of those analyzing the numbers.
2000-2009 was warmest decade on record. GISS, NCDC, the U.K. Met Office, and WMO have all stated that 2000-2009 was the warmest decade on record for the globe. Charts from GISS and the U.K. Met Office displaying global average temperatures clearly show that temperatures trended upward in recent decades.
From the Met Office:
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PolitiFact: Experts say "it's misleading to look at only the last 10 years." After Republican strategist Mary Matalin claimed "for the last decade the climate has been cooling," PolitiFact.com wrote that several experts told them "it's shortsighted to say changes within a decade mean that climate change is going away." From PolitiFact:
If 1998 is the starting point, a year many climate skeptics tend to cite, everything looks cooler in comparison, said Raymond Bradley, a climate scientist at the University of Massachusetts. He also pointed out that, when evaluating the impact of climate change on temperature, it's misleading to look at only the last 10 years.
A decade is such a small period of time that "it's like saying, 'It was cold here last week. What happened to climate change?'" Bradley said.
It's a point we heard repeatedly from the climate experts we interviewed. They all agreed that, while climate temperatures may dip from year to year, it's shortsighted to say changes within a decade mean that climate change is going away.
WMO uses 30-year temperature averages "to eliminate year-to-year variations." Regarding long-term climate averages, WMO "requires the calculation of averages for consecutive periods of 30 years, with the latest covering the 1961-1990 period. However, many WMO members, including the UK, update their averages at the completion of each decade. Thirty years was chosen as a period long enough to eliminate year-to-year variations."
MYTH: Snowstorms prove global warming does not exist
- Many conservative media figures and outlets have cited large snowstorms and cold weather as evidence that global warming is not happening or to attack Al Gore for his advocacy on global warming. These include Fox News' Sean Hannity, Gretchen Carlson, Steve Doocy, Stuart Varney, Eric Bolling, Glenn Beck, Trace Gallagher, Bill Hemmer, Laura Ingraham, and the Fox Nation. Matt Drudge, Rush Limbaugh, The Washington Times, the New York Post, and many others have also made the same argument.
REALITY: Snowstorms do not disprove global warming. The overwhelming consensus on warming comes from scientists' measurement and reconstruction of temperatures over many years (i.e. long-term trends), and not from individual, random weather (snowstorms, heat waves, etc). Moreover, scientists say snow and cold weather will not go away as a result of global warming and predict that it may actually increase snowfall in some areas.
NASA: Weather and climate are different, and greenhouse gases are warming the Earth. According to NASA: "The difference between weather and climate is a measure of time. Weather is what conditions of the atmosphere are over a short period of time, and climate is how the atmosphere 'behaves' over relatively long periods of time." NASA further explained that "weather consists of the short-term (minutes to months) changes in the atmosphere," including snow and heat waves. On the other hand, climate is "the description of the long-term pattern of weather in a particular area," or "the average weather for a particular region and time period, usually taken over 30-years." NASA has also said of the recent winter weather:
To many people's confusion, these weather events happened against a backdrop of increasing man-made greenhouse gas levels in the atmosphere that are gradually warming the planet. But scientists stress this weather does not mean that those gases are no longer exerting a warming influence. Nor does it go against the grain of basic global warming theory. Cold snaps and bouts of natural cooling that could last years are expected naturally even as the climate continues on a long-term warming trend, forced by man-made emissions.
Scientists say cold weather will not go away because of global warming, and warming may increase snowfall. As explained in a January 6 AP article, "experts say the cold snap doesn't disprove global warming at all -- it's just a blip in the long-term heating trend." The article quoted Gerald Meehl, a senior scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado, as saying snow is "part of natural variability" and that with global warming, "we'll still have record cold temperatures. We'll just have fewer of them." Moreover, Kevin Trenberth, a climate scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, was quoted in an NPR article explaining that a predicted "consequence" of warming is an increase of snowfall in some areas. From the article:
Most don't see a contradiction between a warming world and lots of snow. That includes Kevin Trenberth, a prominent climate scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado.
"The fact that the oceans are warmer now than they were, say, 30 years ago means there's about on average 4 percent more water vapor lurking around over the oceans than there was, say, in the 1970s," he says.
Warmer water means more water vapor rises up into the air, and what goes up must come down.
"So one of the consequences of a warming ocean near a coastline like the East Coast and Washington, D.C., for instance, is that you can get dumped on with more snow partly as a consequence of global warming," he says.
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Xina535 wrote:SecretAgentMan - does IBS or leaky gut sound like this? Did you have chronic diarrhea? I have not changed anything in my usual diet when the diarrhea started. I am vegan, but eat eggs. I stopped my no sugar, no gluten, low carb, diet on Day 8 because I want to first get my gut straightened out. I started the diet after the diarrhea had already started. I thought if the Cymbalta doesn't make me constipated again, then surely this bland diet would help get me back in shape. Neither was true.
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You use words as "tense" "hard" "tension" "anxious" -- I believe you are magnifying your symptoms tenfold by being so focused on MND, or focused on something being wrong.
BUT I can say for as long as you have been posting - if it was an MND - you would not be speaking, walking, or moving -- or in the very least those things without great difficulty.
guitarguy11 wrote:Xina - I am not sure what to say about your symptoms, but I recognize anxiety when I hear it and also I have had (and I bet most of us have had) similar catastrophic thoughts. It sounds like you have entered a phase with this stuff that it is about to start destroying your life. You can't let it do that. Think of it this way, even if you have the dreaded disease we all fear, do you want to spend the rest of your days without your husband or with him? The answer is obvious - with him. You can't let catastrophic thoughts ruminate through your head and ultimately affect your body. Might you have the ultra rare form of the disease - I doubt it, but I guess there could be some chance. But there is also a chance that you could get run over by a bus tomorrow. You can't live your life this way. I for one, don't want to be scared anymore. I am tired of being scared. I am tired of every time I stumble or drop something or clear my throat having that sinking feeling.
Please, please find someone to help with your anxiety. A counselor perhaps?
One final thought on your hand symptoms, I know about 6 or 7 weeks ago, I did some strong strength tests with my hands and wouldn't you know it, my hands hurt for 2 days. And I think I have reasonably strong, conditioned hands. But do g weird things hurt them. Could all the self testing be hurting you? You bet it can.
Yuliasir wrote:1) is that any sort of indicator of MND? - NO. usually it is the indicator of the fact you have to digest a lot of foreing substances (you are taking meds, your liver enzymes are therefore high to digest them) Ok - this is what me and my family were thinking. I am going to repeat this blood test soon.
2) could that be related to the diarrhea starting? - UNCLEAR. Diarrhoea is a complex process, and could be caused by many factors, but it is in general always a disruption of your guts cells ability to take water from the stool, therefore you have liquid stool. High liver enzymes are in no way a reason of having diarrhoea, but they may have a common root of course if the same agent prevents your gut cells from proper osmos and you also have to digest it in your liver. ok - so there could be a link there, but depending on what is really going on. Or what WENT on - see below
3) could it be related to my explosive twitching outbreak? - HOW DO WE KNOW? Twitching is even a more complex issue than diarrhoea. - yea, it sure is. I was just wondering if anyone had knowledge about liver enzymes link to twitching.
4) would I have any other symptoms, like fever or something else? I haven't ever had a fever or sweats or anything else besides the bloating, gas, diarrhea and explosive twitching (besides my hand problem and heavy, tense arms/shoulder) Here I do not understand the question well. Would you have any other symptomes - in what case? in case of high liver indices? Well, if you have infection hepatite - maybe yes. If not - maybe no. it is good that you do not have fever or sweats, this rather means your immune system and thermoregulation is OK. - right, I meant that if something was wrong with my liver, if I would have other symptoms to show it, like fever or something.
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The big names of the Republican Party continue to roll through Utah to campaign for 4th Congressional District candidate Mia Love.
House Speaker John Boehner will be in town in two weeks to raise money for Love's campaign, and former presidential nominee and current U.S. Sen. John McCain will stump for Love the following day in her campaign to unseat Democratic Rep. Jim Matheson.
Boehner will attend a luncheon for Love's campaign at the Little America in downtown Salt Lake City on Aug. 15. Tickets for the event start at $500 with a VIP reception for $2,500 and a special roundtable meeting with the speaker for $10,000.
McCain will appear at a town hall meeting with Love in at the Utah Cultural Celebration Center in West Valley City on Aug. 16.
The Love campaign said other high-profile national Republican figures are also expected to come to Utah to back Love in the coming weeks.
"A visit from either of these national leaders to Utah is newsworthy in itself, but having them both in the same week is really an embarrassment of riches," Love said in a statement. "Speaker Boehner and Senator McCain understand the damage Barack Obama's policies are causing our great nation, and the necessity of replacing those representatives in Washington who have facilitated the president's agenda. They understand there is no reason a conservative state like Utah should have a representative like Jim Matheson who votes with Barack Obama 75% of the time."
Love had a fundraiser with House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan, R-Wis., in Park City last month, although she couldn't attend because wildfires were threatening Saratoga Springs, where Love is the mayor.
She has also received the endorsements of Ann Romney and Josh Romney, the wife and son, respectively, of presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney.
Although the contest is considered by several national handicappers as one of the most competitive in the nation, Love may need the help to oust Matheson.
A poll released Tuesday by the House Majority PAC and Center Forward, a pair of Democratic groups, said that Matheson had an 18-point lead on Love in the newly created 4th District and showed that two-thirds of voters in the district had a favorable opinion of Matheson.
"This poll underscores Congressman Matheson's strength among Utahns," said Cori Smith, executive director of the group Center Forward, which supports moderate Democrats. "The people of Utah continue to support Jim year after year because he is a true independent who has a long-standing record of working with both parties to do what's right on behalf of his constituents. This election will be no different."
Matheson also won the endorsement of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the world's largest business organization, a group that traditionally supports Republican candidates.
On Monday, the Utah Republican Party opened a call center in West Jordan to help rally support for Love.
"We will use this Victory Center to contact voters one at a time to let them know that Mia Love will stand up to President Obama because Jim Matheson hasn't," Utah Republican Party Chairman Thomas Wright said in a statement.
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Babka is Polish for "grandma", and who doesn't love their dear old granny? Stereotypical grannies are always depicted knitting or baking cakes. I don't recall ever eating a cake baked by either of my grandmas but don't feel sorry for me...both my grannies were utterly brilliant. No one on earth will ever think you quite so gifted and wonderful as your grandma does!
This is a very simple cake. It looks pretty when sliced and is perfect with a cup of tea. By using a slightly smaller tin than usual you obtain more height.
225g unsalted butter, at room temperature
275g caster sugar
4 eggs
275g self raising flour
2-4 dessert spoons single cream (start with 2 and add more if the batter is dry)
3 teaspoons cocoa powder
How to make:
- Preheat the oven to 160°C/fan oven 140°C/315°F/Gas mark 2-3.
- Line an 18cm loose bottomed tin with baking paper.
- Start by beating together the butter and sugar until light and fluffy.
- Slowly beat in the eggs and 2 dessertspoons of cream.
- Fold in the flour. If the mix feels too dry add 2 more dessertspoons of cream.
- Spoon 1/3 of the cake batter into the prepared tin and level the surface. Put to one side.
- Spoon half of the remaining cake mix into a dish. Put to one side.
- Add the cocoa to the half left in the bowl and stir gently until the batter is a nice even brown.
- Spoon the cocoa batter into the tin and level the surface.
- Spoon the remaining plain batter into the tin and level the surface.
- Bake in the over for approximately 1 hour or until a skewer comes out cleanly. Mine took 1 hour 5 minutes.
- Leave to cool completely in the tin, on a wire rack.
- Bask in glory at the wonderful thing you have made.
- Eat.


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Pidgins to creoles to full blown languages
The good word HIGH-MUCK-A-MUCK has spawned a discussion about types of languages and their relationships with each other. LukeJavan8 suggested someone put a thread on Res Diversae on which we can continue this subject under a more descriptive name. This is my attempt to do so. Please read the comments under the good word Discussion of HIGH-MUCK-A-MUCK at
http://www.alphadictionary.com/bb/viewtopic.php?t=5506 .
Then add your contributions here.
I first began my interest in linguistics when I was a masters' degree candidate at the University of North Texas in Denton, Texas. It is an excellent school. I recommend it. In its own way, Perry Lassiter, it rivals Baylor University, and it costs a lot less to attend. I have a granddaughter, BS from Baylor, who is getting her MS at UNT in English for the deaf and mentally challenged.
At UNT I struggled to learn German under the not so deft hands of an ancient German professor. The good Dr. H was far from incompetent. He had taught German for sixty years and he was tired of teaching it. Instead he taught basic linguistics under the guise of teaching four semesters of German. I learned a little German. Linguistics was a welcome diversion for me. The class also had a lot of fun watching young ladies with low cut dresses squirm when Dr. H, meandering up and down the aisles, stopped his meandering to gaze on a particularly pleasingly exposed cleavage. Dr H hated the French and their language. When he said a French word he would always spit on the floor and mutter, "bastard Latin!"
Dr. H dwelt long on what he called Aryanism and is now prosaically called PIE. We learned to count in numerous PIE languages and then worked on the etymologies of many words in PIE languages. Count from one to ten in a few PIE languages and, if you need help get it, count from one to ten in Mandarin Chinese. The reality of PIE will readily dawn upon you. Then we moved on to the development of languages where we learned about regional and cultural accents, dialects, creoles, patios, and pidgins.
I was a major in mathematics and paid my professional dues to systems engineering for almost thirty years. Alas, a stroke ended my remunerative career, and, after some recovery, I became a volunteer English as a Second Language (ESL) teacher. Sometimes I would be paid, but mostly not. For a paying example, I spent several years in part time work teaching ESL to blind students. This was with the Texas government's program for the blind and it paid handsomely.
So here I am. I am not an expert in linguistics as is Dr. Beard, but I am ready to discuss languages in general with the Alpha Agora tribe. By the way, knowing multiple languages helps in teaching ESL and in being a linguist, But we also serve who only stand and speak English (a spoof on Milton).
Let's talk language creations and modifications.
Pidgins to creoles to full blown languages
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Pidgins to creoles to full blown languages
It is dark at night, but the Sun will come up and then we can see.
Re: Pidgins to creoles to full blown languages
In Hawaii, there is a pidgin language that they call pidgin. There is even a book of "translations" from pidgin to English. It's called "Pidgin To Da Max" and quite fun. It's mostly in jest, but a lot of fun.
On a serious note, there is also this out there.
Just one of many pidgins, but it's a start.
On a serious note, there is also this out there.
Just one of many pidgins, but it's a start.
Life is like playing chess with chessmen who each have thoughts and feelings and motives of their own.
Re: Pidgins to creoles to full blown languages
Here's a piece from The Economist on the differences between languages and dialects:
http://www.economist.com/blogs/economis ... explains-8
http://www.economist.com/blogs/economis ... explains-8
Life is like playing chess with chessmen who each have thoughts and feelings and motives of their own.
Re: Pidgins to creoles to full blown languages
I see no one has mentioned the Middle English is a creole myth/hypothesis. Discussion may be found
http://www.oxfordscholarship.com/view/1 ... -chapter-4
https://www.princeton.edu/~achaney/tmve ... hesis.html
http://www.oxfordscholarship.com/view/1 ... -chapter-4
https://www.princeton.edu/~achaney/tmve ... hesis.html
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1990 Ford Mustang GT - My Muscle Stang - July 2013
Rich Silverio • Gilbert, AZ
My 1990 Ford Mustang GT is a California car and it has quite a story. I'm the original owner and received it as a high school graduation gift. From day one, I started modifying it, adding simple bolt-ons such as a K&N air filter, Hurst quick shifter, H-style midpipe, Flowmaster mufflers, underdrive pullies, and a NOS Stage 2 dry kit. I later installed TFS Twisted Wedge heads, an E303 cam, Crane 1.6 roller rockers, and a Cobra intake.
This setup lasted almost 200,000 miles until the stock crank broke. Stroker engines were just starting to come out at the time, and Coast High Performance just released a 347 Street Fighter kit. My goal was to have a California emissions-legal Mustang that would run 11s. I purchased the kit and had Ben Alameda Racing assemble the engine, port the Cobra intake, and set it up with a custom cam.
I was happy with the overall performance, however, things changed once I rode in a friend's 347ci supercharged car. He had the exact same setup except for a blower. I had to have one. After finding a used Paxton kit, I had it installed and the car dyno tuned at Brother's Performance. It cranked out 408 rwhp and 450 lb-ft of torque.
When the day finally came to run at the track, I made a total of three passes. The first pass I ran a 12.9 at 120 mph. The second pass came in at a 12.1 at 121, and the third pass was 11.6 at 123. I was content with my setup as I had met my goals, but shortly after, I read that Paxton was realeasing a new blower—the Novi 2000. Once released, I immediately purchased one. With the new supercharger installed, I set a new goal to run 10s.
In September 2000, I moved to Arizona. After settling in, I was ready to install a new camshaft. But before I could, I realized the stock block was cracked. I ordered a new R302 block, and while the motor was out, I cleaned up the engine bay and installed a UPR Products front K-member, along with front coilovers. The short-block was assembled by Duffee Motorsports, but after completing the build and putting less then 2,500 miles on the new motor, I lost interest.
I went to Firebird Raceway a few times, but I was always plagued with misfortune and never made a full pass. The first time out failed due to a bad RPM Extender, which was cutting spark at 3,500 rpm. The second time out failed due to a tossed cog blower belt. Frustration set in—having been at it for 10 years, I decided to garage her. There it remained for 10 years.
In 2012, I decided to go after that 10-second slip. I went back to working on the '90 GT, adding UPR rear upper and lower control arms, and also battlebox reinforcement plates. I tuned the car to run 15 pounds of boost. I made my first attempt for 10s in February 2012. Once again, I was unable to make a full pass. Track conditions were extremely poor and I managed to snap my cog belt on the launch.
I changed the pulley setup from cog to an eight-rib serpentine. With everything installed, I headed back to Firebird Raceway. This time out would prove fatal for the motor. With untested boost levels and air/fuel readings, I still hit the strip. The pass proved to be strong initially and the blower belt stayed on during launch, but going into Third gear, I knew something was wrong. Later, compression tests showed extremely low readings on cylinders 7 and 8.
With a new engine build on its way, I sent the heads back to Ben Alameda Racing. During the teardown, he discovered the spring rates were very low, which may have caused valve float. I've rebuilt the engine to 349 ci and purchased Coast High Performance boost-friendly -15.3cc pistons. I also went with a much more aggressive camshaft.
I'm almost ready to revisit the track again, and this time I'm expecting to reach my goal. Wish me luck.
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Court Upholds California Ban on Race Preferences, Again
A federal appeals court has rejected efforts by a group of California high school and college students to do away with Proposition 209, the 16-year-old state constitutional amendment that bars racial preferences in public education and other areas.
A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit, in San Francisco, said it was bound by the decision of another panel of that court that upheld the 1996 ballot measure just a year after California voters approved it.
The group of student plaintiffs argued in their suit that Proposition 209 violates the U.S. Constitution's equal-protection clause because it causes the unfair exclusion of African American, Latino, and Native American students from higher education in California.
Just in the year after Proposition 209's adoption, the number of black, Latino, and Native American freshmen at the University of California-Los Angeles and UC-Berkeley dropped by more than 50 percent, court papers say. The University of California system has sought to mitigate the effects of the constitutional amendment by such measures as admitting the top 4 percent of graduates from any California high school, using a more comprehensive review of applicants, and decreasing the weight of standardized tests.
The new challengers sought to bring an "as applied" challenge to the measure in contrast to the facial challenge that was rejected soon after it was adopted. In addition to arguing that Proposition 209 drives down admission of underrepresented minority applicants, the plaintiffs argue that the amendment created an unequal political structure that burdens the efforts of minority group members to change the state's affirmative-action policies.
In its April 2 decision in Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action v. Brown, the 9th Circuit court panel said, "Our prior decision in Wilson II [Coalition for Economic Equity v. Wilson] dealt with and rejected both of these arguments. ... We are bound by Wilson II."
The court also said that the earlier 9th circuit panel decision upholding Proposition 209 was not overruled by the U.S. Supreme Court's 2003 decision in Grutter v. Bollinger, which held that student body diversity is a compelling governmental interest and that narrowly tailored race-based admissions policies are constitutional. Grutter permitted narrow uses of race in education, but it did not bar states from prohibiting them, and language in the 2003 high court decision suggested that California and other states were laboratories for experimenting with alternatives to race preferences.
"Because Grutter spoke only to whether race-based affirmative action programs are permitted, and not to whether they can be prohibited as was the case in Wilson II, it is impossible to hold that Grutter overrules Wilson II," Judge Barry G. Silverman wrote for the new 9th Circuit panel, which was unanimous on that issue.
Silverman said in a footnote that "the Supreme Court appears poised to reconsider whether race-based affirmative action programs are even permissible at all." The high court has agreed to hear Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin (No. 11-345), which will examine the university's use of race in undergraduate admissions.
The court panel ruled 2-1 that Mark Yudof, the president of the UC system, was not immune from the students' suit under 11th Amendment immunity. But that minor victory was probably little comfort to the student plaintiffs after the 9th Circuit panel went on to reject the main claims in their suit.


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Could an Alaska mining project jeopardize Earth's largest bald eagle gathering?
Before dawn, Steve Lewis crosses the snowy flats around Southeast Alaska's Chilkat River. Beyond its braided channel rise the Takhinsha Mountains, obscured by fog in the murky autumn light. A handful of biologists follow Lewis -- a tall, trim 42-year-old with a close-cropped beard -- as he sloshes through riffles to a gravel bar. He builds a perch snare by tying an alder branch to an upright log and rigs it with a spring-loaded loop. "Ready for action," he whispers, hoping to conceal our presence from the Chilkat's chattering denizens.
Dozens of bald eagles, their chirps surprisingly meek, hunker in the river's bare cottonwoods. Between 3,500 and 4,000 migrate each fall to this six-mile stretch of the Chilkat Valley, called the Council Grounds, in the largest gathering of bald eagles on Earth. To protect them, Alaska designated a 48,000-acre area as the Chilkat Bald Eagle Preserve in 1982.
The eagles come here -- about 21 miles north of Haines -- to feed on spawning chum salmon. The great mystery is where they come from. Eagles migrate thousands of miles to exploit seasonal food sources, which means the new arrivals could live and breed as far away as the Rocky Mountains in the Lower 48. Also puzzling is how they know the chum emerge after other salmon runs have finished.
Lewis, a Juneau-based U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service raptor expert, and the others are here to help University of California-Santa Cruz doctoral candidate Rachel Wheat catch and outfit eagles with solar-powered GPS transmitters to find some answers.
But where Lewis and his colleagues see globally significant biological riches, Constantine Metal Resources sees a different treasure. In February, the company closed a deal to accelerate exploration of a 5-million-ton copper-zinc deposit with what it calls "tremendous expansion potential" right above the Chilkat's largest headwater tributary, three miles from the preserve.
As with any protected landscape, the resources that sustain wildlife here do not begin and end with the preserve's boundaries. Lewis and others fear that mine pollution could jeopardize this important chum run -- just as they begin to understand its role -- and the mainland eagle populations that depend on it.
On paper, the Chilkat Bald Eagle Preserve is "the most protected piece of real estate in Alaska," says former state Rep. Peter Goll, a Haines resident who fought for the preserve and helped craft its first management plans.
On the ground, it's a different story.
Like many Alaska towns, Haines' fortunes rose and fell with natural resource supplies. It boomed as gold seekers headed north to the Klondike, then to Porcupine Creek near the Constantine claim in the late 1890s. When the big mines closed in the 1930s, canneries sustained Haines until commercial overfishing forced them to fold in the early '70s. By the '80s, Haines' sawmills followed suit, leaving many of its 1,700 residents jobless.
Hoping to revive Haines' timber industry, the state opened the heart of eagle habitat to large-scale clear-cutting in 1979. National conservation groups, supported by Goll and many other locals, sued to block the timber sale. They lost the suit but won powerful allies in Congress, who floated a provision to create a national eagle refuge.
Determined to avoid federal interference, local miners and loggers, and state and town officials forged a landmark compromise with conservation groups, creating a state forest open to resource development and an eagle preserve that permitted only low-impact activities, such as subsistence fishing, hunting, research and wildlife viewing.
Ironically, the timber market never rebounded and even the eagles' most diehard foes came to see their economic potential. In 1985, local businessman Dave Olerud, who once threatened to rally opponents to kill off "those goddamned buzzards," started the Bald Eagle Foundation, which runs an annual festival that draws close to 300 tourists each November.
To a degree, Haines owes its life to the preserve, which also offers sanctuary to 300 to 400 resident eagles. As many as 15,000 people visit the area annually, sleeping, eating and shopping in locally run businesses. Tourism accounts for most jobs in Haines, but the work is seasonal: Unemployment rates last year swung from 4.7 percent at the height of tourist season in August to 12.9 in February, compared to a national high of 8.3 percent. Though most people in Haines clearly value the preserve, many also want new opportunities. A survey last year revealed that 50 percent of residents support local "larger scale mining such as the Constantine Mineral deposit in the Chilkat Valley."
The mine isn't the only development project on the horizon. On Connelly Lake, a few miles north of the Council Grounds, a proposed hydroelectric dam is moving forward. So are state plans to build a heavy-duty bridge on the Chilkat for big rigs hauling Yukon ore -- potentially making Haines the Pacific Rim's prime ore shipping site -- good news for Constantine.