Monthly Archives: January 2010

Student Dissertation & Mountain Climber Article Causes Doubt on Global Warming

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By Chuck Ring (GadaboutBlogalot ©2009 – 2010)

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The online London Telegraph has reported that some claims of mountain tops baring themselves to the world are based on faulty material and little research.  This information appears to be one more example of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel On Climate Change (IPCC) utilizing faulty information to tout their support of the concept of global warming/climate change.

By now, most everyone is aware that the IPCC is charged with providing credible evidence to support (or not) climate change and/or global warming. Here’s a short quote from the article posted by the London Telegraph:

In its most recent report, it stated that observed reductions in mountain ice in the Andes, Alps and Africa was being caused by global warming, citing two papers as the source of the information.

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Madame Flutterby & Her Sense Of Need

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By Chuck Ring (GadaboutBlogalot ©2009 – 2010)

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House Speaker Pelosi knows how to grab those perks, whether she is deserving of them, or not .  Her entitlements are like the perpetual motion machines of yore, only difference is, Flutterby’s entitlements just keep on giving to her and her entitled staff members.  It has been reported that the total cost for our Congress‘ junket to Copenhagen amounted to a cool million. We have previously posted our own article on this disdainful nose-thumbing, but there’s more.

A new exclusive story from WorldNetDaily informs us that the fish egg lady with the caviar taste has cost the American taxpayer another $101,000 for air travel and aeronautical dining of the finest sort.  The copyrighted story by Bob Unruh has this to say in part:

It reads like a dream order for a wild frat party: Maker’s Mark whiskey, Courvoisier cognac, Johnny Walker Red scotch, Grey Goose vodka, E&J brandy, Bailey’s Irish Crème, Bacardi Light rum, Jim Beam whiskey, Beefeater gin, Dewars scotch, Bombay Sapphire gin, Jack Daniels whiskey … and Corona beer.

But that single receipt makes up just part of the more than $101,000 taxpayers paid for “in-flight services” – including food and liquor, for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi‘s trips on Air Force jets over the last two years. That’s almost $1,000 per week

The story goes on to report on other inappropriate spending by this wastrel of a woman.  And, the story provides some useful links to the 10 most corrupt politicians in the United States of which she is one.  Here’s a link to the story which has other links that are most revealing .

Wait!  This just in. I promise it will startle and astound even the most callous of readers. Click here for startle and astound

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Just A Little Hypocrisy, Do You Think

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By Chuck Ring (GadaboutBlogalot ©2009 – 2010)

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President Obama calling out the SCOTUS during his SOTU seems like so many Crocodile tears. Words about foreign and fraudulent donations seem hypocritical when they came from the Clintons, and now they seem more so, when a probable recipient takes our U.S. Supreme Court to task for doing their job.

If the story, which is linked below, is to be believed, then Mr. Obama escaped serious sanctions only because his illicit gain was a rather insignificant percentage of his overall campaign treasure (in the minds of many) and he didn’t take the 84 million in public money that would have triggered an audit.

Here are some quotes from the story, some of which come from off site sources such as Politico:

OBAMA LIKELY TO ESCAPE CAMPAIGN DONOR AUDIT Politico (hat tip Cathy)

The Federal Election Commission is unlikely to conduct a potentially embarrassing audit of how Barack Obama raised and spent his presidential campaign’s record-shattering windfall, despite allegations of questionable donations and accounting that had the McCain campaign crying foul.

Adding insult to injury for Republicans: The FEC is obligated to complete a rigorous audit of McCain’s campaign coffers, which will take months, if not years, and cost McCain millions of dollars to defend.

Politico articles or observations are not the main sources for the allegations.  A blog called Atlas Shrugs owned by Pamela Geller lays the allegations out in spades and includes 51 posts that relate to Mr. Obama’s foreign and domestic contributors.

Obama’s Crocodile Tears are not the end of hypocrisy

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Edgewood Food Pantry/Clothing Distribution Canceled For Today (01/28/10) UPDATE

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THIS EVENT WILL BE RESCHEDULED ASAP.  IT PROBABLY WILL NOT BE SCHEDULED UNTIL SOMETIME NEXT WEEK, HOWEVER ROBIN PRUDENCIO WILL LEAVE A MESSAGE ON HER NUMBER WHEN IT HAS BEEN RESCHEDULED. ROBIN’S NUMBER IS 505-281-5364.   ALSO, THE NEW SCHEDULE WILL BE POSTED HERE.

The Roadrunner Food Distribution and the Civitan Club clothing distribution in Edgewood has been canceled for today in Edgewood due to to weather and road conditions.

The organizers for both events will reschedule as soon as possible, hopefully within two or three days.

Please check back here for additional information.

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With His Usual Unrepentive Blather — He Shows As Racist

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So skin color is supposed to be what gauges an individual’s ability to be a good or bad President … or individual?  I’m sure the left, to the man or woman, will call him out on this … not.

RealClearPolitics – Video – MSNBC’s Matthews On Obama: “I Forgot He Was Black Tonight”.

He has already tried to shovel his way out on the Maddow show, here.

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Big Solar In New Mexico — Again

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By Chuck Ring (GadaboutBlogalot ©2009 – 2010)

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Albuquerque’s New Mexico Business Weekly has announced a firm has plans for a 2500 acre solar power array for Guadalupe County.  The Spanish firm, GA-Solar announced that the project would be a 300 megawatt facility.  According to the firm, the project will supply enough electricity for 50,000 homes.

Quoting from the article, it looks like construction will see hundreds of employees and the permanent workforce will be up to 75:

GA-Solar’s parent firm, Corporación Gestamp, will invest $1 billion to develop the project, which will take up to four years to construct. The company will employ 300 during construction, and will have 75 full-time employees once the plant is completed, said GA-Solar and Corporación Gestamp CEO Jon Riberas in a news release.

New Mexico through the Economic Development Department had a say, as did Governor Richardson when he issued this statement:

“I believe this unprecedented investment shows that New Mexico has not only become the center of the North American solar industry, but is ready to take its place as a global player in the production of renewable energy,” Richardson said in a prepared statement.

Surely, something will have to be done to distribute this kind of electricity generation.  Especially, when this project’s capacity is added to output by wind turbine generation and one or two other large solar arrays.  Perhaps, Tres Amigas will play a hand in  the distribution.  That is, if Tres Amigas is ever constructed.

Read the complete story here.

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Edgewood Community Library Story Time — March 2010

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Andrea Corvin, Edgewood Assistant Librarian has provided the following:



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Climate Change & Global Warming Arguments Could Cause Divorce?

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A recent article brings the possibility of divorce as one result of global warming/climate change (gw/cc).  Well, maybe the preceding is a stretch about what the story actually says.  Before we get into the specifics of the article, let us recognize that those two issues have certainly relegated polite discourse among men and women to the manure heap of the internet. Go to any “warmer”  or skeptic blog and look at the bond fire made of virtual personalities and their comments in a point-counterpoint circle.  Of course, one can also see and hear the same on radio and television as disconnected and unrecognized voices and images flit by our collective lives.

Now, what about those divorces.  According to ClimateWire, an online news feed which dishes out information on “The Politics and Business of Climate Change,”  some therapists believe disagreements on different aspects of gw/cc  among couples can end in divorce:

“The danger arises when one partner undergoes an environmental ‘waking up’ process way before the other, leaving a new values gap between them,” said Linda Buzzell, a family and marriage therapist in California. She noted that diet changes are particularly jarring.

The story then suggests that taking or effecting change slowly may b.e the best way to go when there is disagreement between spouses.  One professor has this to say regarding divorce and the twin issues of gw/cc:

“As the focus on climate increases in the public’s mind, it can’t help but be a part of people’s planning about the future,” said Thomas Joseph Doherty, a clinical psychologist in Portland, Ore. “It touches every part of how they live: what they eat, whether they want to fly, what kind of vacation they want”

While the quotes above from ClimateWire are interesting enough, the information provided came from a New York Times article which can be found here.  It is an article that has some humor if you can read between the points made by the antagonists, but which seems confrontational overall.

Strange to say, the articles do not mention any of the recent revelations that have placed ‘warmers” and skeptics at each others throats … that would be the e-mail scandal flap and Himalayan glacier flop.

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Two Rather Strange Revelations

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According to Mail Online, a scientist that was or is involved in the glacier melting pot,  now says he knew the data stating that the Himalayan glaciers would be melted by 2035 was false.  As if knowing the information was false wasn’t bad enough, he added this revelation:

“The scientist behind the bogus claim in a Nobel Prize-winning UN report that Himalayan glaciers will have melted by 2035 last night admitted it was included purely to put political pressure on world leaders.” (emphasis added)

“Dr Murari Lal also said he was well aware the statement, in the 2007 report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), did not rest on peer-reviewed scientific research.”

Of course this revelation adds fuel to the bonfire surrounding other recent allegations and does nothing to gain adherents to the claim for anthropological caused climate change or global warming.  While it is easy to criticize this kind of  activity as stupid and self-serving, it is also easy to see it as fraud on world citizens.

It seems that some skeptics felt they were right to doubt the claim and had started investigating the possibility some time back:

” Professor Graham Cogley, a glacier expert at Trent University in Canada, who began to raise doubts in scientific circles last year, said the claim multiplies the rate at which glaciers have been seen to melt by a factor of about 25.”

The rest of the Mail Online article  can be seen here.

Still another outing for doubting was recently published.  It does not involve a finding of more funny stuff or fraud involving climate change.  It involves a Pew Research Center finding that global warming is dragging the tail end of  Americans’ concerns for 2010.  Global warming stands at 28 % overall as a concern, but last year it stood at 60%  according to the Pew’s published information.  The report notes that other concerns show little change from 2009.
The report is quite long and revealing and it is provided here for those who wish to delve deeper into the thoughts and concerns of their fellow citizens.

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A Time When Tuff Ain’t Enuff

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According to a report in the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) and more than likely, other such media, POTUS has stated his readiness to get tough.  I suppose, getting tough is the opposite of bipartisanship.  Bipartisanship, which is really what he promised, but passed by on his and the Democrats quick trips to cap and trade and the health care bill.

A lesson learned and then unlearned is the same as a lesson never learned and it appears that the lesson taught behind the woodpile of recent events in Massachusetts is already forgotten.  That is, if members of Mr. Obama’s team mean what they have been quoted as saying in the WSJ:

Coming off one of the most difficult weeks of his presidency, Barack Obama has beefed up his political staff and is expected to deliver an uncompromising State of the Union address. Aides said Sunday that the White House wasn’t making any abrupt policy shifts, even as the message was retooled to focus more sharply on job creation.

David Axlerod, one of Obama’s hot rods, is now trotting out the old tired excuse, that everything wrong today can be laid in the lap of the previous administration:

…They’re falling behind. That’s been true for a decade. They look at a wave of irresponsibility from Wall Street to Washington that led to that. And those were the frustrations that got the president elected in the first place …

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