Fuck its silent in here.......

[J. Walter Weatherman]

Straight from the horse's op-ed pen...

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/30/opinion/the-conversion-of-a-climate-change-skeptic.html?pagewanted=all

CALL me a converted skeptic. Three years ago I identified problems in previous climate studies that, in my mind, threw doubt on the very existence of global warming. Last year, following an intensive research effort involving a dozen scientists, I concluded that global warming was real and that the prior estimates of the rate of warming were correct. I’m now going a step further: Humans are almost entirely the cause.

My total turnaround, in such a short time, is the result of careful and objective analysis by the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature project, which I founded with my daughter Elizabeth. Our results show that the average temperature of the earth’s land has risen by two and a half degrees Fahrenheit over the past 250 years, including an increase of one and a half degrees over the most recent 50 years. Moreover, it appears likely that essentially all of this increase results from the human emission of greenhouse gases.

These findings are stronger than those of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the United Nations group that defines the scientific and diplomatic consensus on global warming. In its 2007 report, the I.P.C.C. concluded only that most of the warming of the prior 50 years could be attributed to humans. It was possible, according to the I.P.C.C. consensus statement, that the warming before 1956 could be because of changes in solar activity, and that even a substantial part of the more recent warming could be natural.

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How definite is the attribution to humans? The carbon dioxide curve gives a better match than anything else we’ve tried. Its magnitude is consistent with the calculated greenhouse effect — extra warming from trapped heat radiation. These facts don’t prove causality and they shouldn’t end skepticism, but they raise the bar: to be considered seriously, an alternative explanation must match the data at least as well as carbon dioxide does. Adding methane, a second greenhouse gas, to our analysis doesn’t change the results. Moreover, our analysis does not depend on large, complex global climate models, the huge computer programs that are notorious for their hidden assumptions and adjustable parameters. Our result is based simply on the close agreement between the shape of the observed temperature rise and the known greenhouse gas increase.

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The careful analysis by our team is laid out in five scientific papers now online at BerkeleyEarth.org. That site also shows our chart of temperature from 1753 to the present, with its clear fingerprint of volcanoes and carbon dioxide, but containing no component that matches solar activity. Four of our papers have undergone extensive scrutiny by the scientific community, and the newest, a paper with the analysis of the human component, is now posted, along with the data and computer programs used. Such transparency is the heart of the scientific method; if you find our conclusions implausible, tell us of any errors of data or analysis.

What about the future? As carbon dioxide emissions increase, the temperature should continue to rise. I expect the rate of warming to proceed at a steady pace, about one and a half degrees over land in the next 50 years, less if the oceans are included. But if China continues its rapid economic growth (it has averaged 10 percent per year over the last 20 years) and its vast use of coal (it typically adds one new gigawatt per month), then that same warming could take place in less than 20 years.

Science is that narrow realm of knowledge that, in principle, is universally accepted. I embarked on this analysis to answer questions that, to my mind, had not been answered. I hope that the Berkeley Earth analysis will help settle the scientific debate regarding global warming and its human causes. Then comes the difficult part: agreeing across the political and diplomatic spectrum about what can and should be done.

Intrepid Reader: Gil

How chilling.

[J. Walter Weatherman]

Conservapedia tackles the Summer Games...

http://www.conservapedia.com/Olympics_2012

Multiple: How many athletes will do the equivalent of Tebowing after a victory? American Meb Keflezighi, who won the silver medal in the marathon in 2004, typically gives glory to God with the sign of the Cross after finishing a race.[3]

Missy Franklin, who has won the most gold medals of anyone in 2012 (tied with Michael Phelps), thanked God as one of her first comments after winning.

Gabby Douglas gave glory to God when she qualified to represent Team USA, and subsequently won two gold medals.

Soccer players in the United Arab Emirates team bowed toward Mecca when they scored a goal. They did not advance to the quarterfinals.

UAE: pwned by God.

Multiple: Will almost no athletes from public school sports programs win any gold medals, despite how public schools spend more than $500 billion annually to teach and train Americans?

The lamestream media state that Missy Franklin, the star swimmer, is a high school student, but fail to mention that she attends Catholic school rather than public school.

American 2012 Olympic gold medal winners (as of 8/1/2012)

• Private: Missy Franklin (Catholic high school)
• Homeschooled: Gabby Douglas, McKayla Maroney
• College or adult: Michael Phelps,[4] Dana Vollmer, Vincent Hancock, Conor Dwyer, Kristin Armstrong, Nathan Adrian, Allison Schmitt, Shannon Vreeland, Kim Rhode, Ryan Lochte, Matt Grevers, Aly Raisman, Ricky Berens
• Public school: Kyla Ross, Jordyn Wieber
• Still to categorize:

Multiple: How many athletes will be unfairly expelled based on liberal censorship of their free speech?

...

The liberal thought police expelled a Swiss soccer player for tweeting that South Koreans are "retards."[5]

wrestling: have feminist Title IX quotas destroyed the U.S. team?

TBA

[J. Walter Weatherman]

Other questions to be answered in London:

Multiple:

will atheist nations underachieve in team sports?

Multiple:

Similarly, will atheist nations underachieve in general?

men's basketball:

will selfless play by outspoken Christian Kevin Durant overcome ball-hogging by Overrated Sports Stars Kobe Bryant and LeBron James on USA Basketball?

men's tennis:

will one of the Greatest Conservative Sports Stars -- such as Novak Djokovic -- win the gold medal? Will Andy Murray of atheistic Britain underperform?

8-month pregnant athlete:

Will the lamestream media report on Nur Suryani Mohamed Taibi of Malaysia, who is competing while being 8 months pregnant, or does that send too pro-life of a message?

women's soccer:

ranked #1 and won the gold in the last two Olympics, most recently with a foreign coach. Now that this U.S. team is politically correct, will it underachieve?[14] Major rivals will be Japan, Brazil and France.

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14. A foreigner, reportedly a lesbian, was selected as the head coach of the already champion American Olympic women's soccer team in 2007, and in the following year that team repeated its gold medal-winning performance of 2004. Aren't there American, although perhaps not politically correct, soccer coaches good enough to run the Olympic team?

No one tell Andy Schlafly about Megan Rapinoe.

[J. Walter Weatherman]

And, if that's not enough for you, there's always the talk page...

http://www.conservapedia.com/Talk:2012_Summer_Olympics

Baseball being removed from list

Maybe baseball (and softball) have been removed because they are not included in the 2012 Olympics. [10] "They'rrre out! Olympics drop baseball, softball: Sports eliminated for 2012 Games, but could win way back in 2016" AP, nbcsports.com, July 9, 2005, retrieved July 2, 2012. SharonW 11:43, 2 July 2012 (EDT)

    Baseball was dropped from the 2012 Olympics??? That's a disappointment! Is the sport considered too conservative?--Andy Schlafly 15:43, 2 July 2012 (EDT)

        If it is, why did Cuba win most of the gold medals? (And the most medals overall?) JeffreyB 15:47, 2 July 2012 (EDT)

More evidence that homosexuality leads to lower medal counts and Bible believing enables more medals to be won

Homosexuals have higher suicide rates than the general population (see: Mental Health and Homosexuality). Historically, Christians have faced a lot of persecution, but they don't commit suicide. They know that God wants Christians to be strong and not commit suicide and the Bible has many verses about being courageous plus the Bible is against suicide. Bible believers are more mentally tough than homosexuals. Mental toughness increases athletic performance. Therefore, Bible believers, all other things remaining equal, are able to win more Olympic medals than homosexuals. Conservative 12:52, 6 July 2012 (EDT)

QED. Ceteris paribus.

So let me get this straight: If France loses, it's because of atheism. If the US loses, it's because their coach is a foreign-born lesbian, even though she led the team to gold in 2008. Is that correct? RayM 12:29, 25 July 2012 (EDT)

That's some catch, that Catch 22.

It is no coincidence that the fit and healthy Bible believing martial artist Chuck Norris lives in the state of Texas and not the city of San Francisco! Chuck Norris is no "Nancy boy" and he is the embodiment of mental toughness.

That last one might be a joke.

But, you know... Poe's law and all.

[CBStew]

Other questions to be answered in London:

Multiple:

will atheist nations underachieve in team sports?

Multiple:

Similarly, will atheist nations underachieve in general?

men's basketball:

will selfless play by outspoken Christian Kevin Durant overcome ball-hogging by Overrated Sports Stars Kobe Bryant and LeBron James on USA Basketball?

men's tennis:

will one of the Greatest Conservative Sports Stars -- such as Novak Djokovic -- win the gold medal? Will Andy Murray of atheistic Britain underperform?

8-month pregnant athlete:

Will the lamestream media report on Nur Suryani Mohamed Taibi of Malaysia, who is competing while being 8 months pregnant, or does that send too pro-life of a message?

women's soccer:

ranked #1 and won the gold in the last two Olympics, most recently with a foreign coach. Now that this U.S. team is politically correct, will it underachieve?[14] Major rivals will be Japan, Brazil and France.

...

14. A foreigner, reportedly a lesbian, was selected as the head coach of the already champion American Olympic women's soccer team in 2007, and in the following year that team repeated its gold medal-winning performance of 2004. Aren't there American, although perhaps not politically correct, soccer coaches good enough to run the Olympic team?

No one tell Andy Schlafly about Megan Rapinoe.

Israel is out of any medal competition!

[Fork]

Asked at Tonklunch today:

Who would win in a fight - Christian Cassius Clay or MUSLIN Muhammed Ali?

[Wheezer]

Multiple: How many athletes will do the equivalent of Tebowing after a victory? American Meb Keflezighi, who won the silver medal in the marathon in 2004, typically gives glory to God with the sign of the Cross after finishing a race.[3]

Is that really what signum crucis is about?

[R-V]

The Cheesecake Factory finally gets some recognition.

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/08/13/120813fa_fact_gawande?currentPage=all

[Canadouche]

The Cheesecake Factory finally gets some recognition.

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/08/13/120813fa_fact_gawande?currentPage=all

About time. I can't convey how overjoyed I was when they opened a restaurant in Buffalo.

[J. Walter Weatherman]

The Cheesecake Factory finally gets some recognition.

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/08/13/120813fa_fact_gawande?currentPage=all

This Dr. John Wright sounds like a real socialist.

[Wheezer]

The Cheesecake Factory finally gets some recognition.

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/08/13/120813fa_fact_gawande?currentPage=all

About time. I can't convey how overjoyed I was when they opened a restaurant in Buffalo.

Slowly I turned. Note to New Yorker: the small caps are even dumber than the fucking dieresis.

Oh, and fuck HCAHPS. You get a Z-pack if you need one, not because you want one.

[R-V]

The Cheesecake Factory finally gets some recognition.

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/08/13/120813fa_fact_gawande?currentPage=all

About time. I can't convey how overjoyed I was when they opened a restaurant in Buffalo.

Slowly I turned. Note to New Yorker: the small caps are even dumber than the fucking dieresis.

Oh, and fuck HCAHPS. You get a Z-pack if you need one, not because you want one.

I am not exaggerating when I say that I understand less than 1% of your posts.

[Chuck to Chuck]

The Cheesecake Factory finally gets some recognition.

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/08/13/120813fa_fact_gawande?currentPage=all

About time. I can't convey how overjoyed I was when they opened a restaurant in Buffalo.

Slowly I turned. Note to New Yorker: the small caps are even dumber than the fucking dieresis.

Oh, and fuck HCAHPS. You get a Z-pack if you need one, not because you want one.

I am not exaggerating when I say that I understand less than 1% of your posts.

I got the Three Stooges riff.

[Eli]

The Cheesecake Factory finally gets some recognition.

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/08/13/120813fa_fact_gawande?currentPage=all

About time. I can't convey how overjoyed I was when they opened a restaurant in Buffalo.

Slowly I turned. Note to New Yorker: the small caps are even dumber than the fucking dieresis.

Oh, and fuck HCAHPS. You get a Z-pack if you need one, not because you want one.

I am not exaggerating when I say that I understand less than 1% of your posts.

Does Wheezer even like sports? How did he end up here?

[J. Walter Weatherman]

The Cheesecake Factory finally gets some recognition.

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/08/13/120813fa_fact_gawande?currentPage=all

About time. I can't convey how overjoyed I was when they opened a restaurant in Buffalo.

Slowly I turned. Note to New Yorker: the small caps are even dumber than the fucking dieresis.

Oh, and fuck HCAHPS. You get a Z-pack if you need one, not because you want one.

I am not exaggerating when I say that I understand less than 1% of your posts.

I gather that this is what sent him over the edge:

Cerberus has owned controlling stakes in Chrysler and GMAC Financing…

I'll double down and say that such persnickety typographic dictates are utterly undermined by the savagery of using the HTML <small> element for this instead of <abbr>.