AGW – Climate Change – Unsettled Science

Posted on June 12, 2012 by Ken McMurtrie

Do I understand much of this article? No, but I still reblog it as an example of a very comprehensive understanding by an expert.

There may be several reasons why warmists agree and support the AGW/Carbon Dioxide-Global Temperature relationship etc., none of which I agree with, but the one that is clearly a bogus reason is that “the science is settled”.

If this article does not make clear the complexity of our climate science – its range and variability of input factors, measurements, interactions, feedbacks, forcings and responses;  its range of human assessments, scientific data compilation and computations; and finally the range of conclusions that can be reached, then I wonder what else might.

And yet, we have a world-wide political and financial mechanism in place, supported by the media and many corrupt organizations, which is based on a belief that the science is sufficiently understood and correct.

Your comments please!

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Climate Change

Outline

Change in the planetary winds (conceptually documented in the diagram above) is the least remarked but most influential dynamic affecting surface temperature.  Wind is a response to pressure differentials. So, a change in the wind is due to a change in these pressure differentials.

The following post describes why pressure differentials and the the planetary winds change over time.

From Wikipedia we have: “the troposphere is the lowest portion of Earth’s atmosphere. It contains approximately 80% of the atmosphere’s mass and 99% of its water vapor and aerosols. The average depth of the troposphere is approximately 17 km (11 mi) in the middle latitudes. It is deeper in the tropical regions, up to 20 km (12 mi), and shallower near the poles, at 7 km (4.3 mi) in summer, and indistinct in winter.”

The notion that there is  a tropopause in high latitudes or that it is somehow ‘indistinct…

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Vaccinations – More worrying information.

Posted on June 12, 2012 by Ken McMurtrie

A hard-hitting view of the vaccination scene sourced at ‘Natural News‘. Given the evidence of the damage being done, this article seems appropriate.

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Are Happy People Healthier? New Reasons to Stay Positive

Posted on June 12, 2012 by Ken McMurtrie

A nice relief from the doom and gloom!

This article from, of all places the ‘Oprah’ magazine. I hope readers will realize that my source for this was the internet with no direct connection to Oprah, enough said.

Scientists are finding more and more proof of the remarkable way our emotions can affect our immune system.
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9/11 – A reminder of the civilization wrecking conspiracy.

Posted on June 12, 2012 by Ken McMurtrie

Not the first time this has surfaced, but worth publishing here because it is a concise summary and seems to be very much on the ball.

Also because it is the root cause/excuse for all the recent-past, and current Middle East enslavement by the Western forces.

Here is the transcript:

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A Mystery from Earth’s Red-Hot Inner Core

Posted on June 11, 2012 by Ken McMurtrie

This post from Sott.net, I find interesting. All of the universe is a mystery, creation is a mystery. Our bodies and nature, although very well understood in the fashion of our science and knowledge are still wonders of our universe and still a mystery in many ways.

The earth is also well-known to science but not absolutely. It is not something that most of us are familiar with regarding its technical and detailed formation and its evolution on a short-term basis.

So I thought this post worth copying in order to highlight its mysteries, as they are rarely brought to the public view. So there are unknowns and we must expect these and never kid ourselves that we “know everything”. Of course rarely do we securely feel that we know everything, but very often that is the way we act.

The other reason for my interest is that it seems that the amount of heat internally in our planet and the amount that finds its way to the surface, a natural process, as heat likes to meander one way or another “towards” cooler objects or places. In this post no mention is made of resulting contributions to our average global surface temperature, which is sad because it may be of great importance.

Inner Core

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More Afghans Dead: Karzai Blasts the United States

Posted on June 8, 2012 by Ken McMurtrie

Robert Dreyfuss, The Nation, has this article posted on Sott,net.

The US has lost the plot in many areas and in many ways, including Afghanistan where it has lost its war on terror and its war of terror, neither of them winnable in the long run. This article is interesting in that it indicates a strengthening of Russian – Chinese ties encompassing other important Middle East and sub-continent players.

Here is the article for your assessment:

Leon Panetta, the over-his-head US secretary of defense, is in Afghanistan today after a day on which the greatest number of civilians were killed so far in 2012. But Hamid Karzai, the Afghan president, isn’t there. He’s in Beijing, meeting with the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, an all-Asian bloc led by China and Russia. The SCO, not surprisingly, is expressing a greater interest in building ties with Afghanistan as the United States begins its long, drawn-out drawdown to 2014. And Panetta, it seems, is trying to interest India, a rival to China, which is taking a greater interest in Afghanistan too. It’s the Afghan endgame.

First, the civilian dead.

Karzai is charging that a NATO airstrike killed eighteen Afghan civilians, including woman and children, as part of a US-led ground operation in Logar province. Reported the AP: “Villagers displayed 18 bodies at the provincial capital on Wednesday, including five women, seven children and six men….”

“This is unacceptable. It cannot be tolerated,” President Hamid Karzai said in a statement condemning the strike in Logar. He criticized NATO for not being able to provide an explanation for the vans piled with bodies of women and children that villagers displayed to reporters.

What’s especially sad about the slaughter in Logar is that it occurred immediately following a suicide bomb attack blamed on the Taliban in which three suicide bombers killed twenty-two innocent civilians at a marketplace in Kandahar. Taken together, the two incidents represent the worst day of violence in Afghanistan so far this year, providing further evidence – if any was needed – that that idea that the United States is making things better in that war-battered nation is a sick joke.

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Collapse at Hand: The Economy Comes Unglued

Posted on June 8, 2012 by Ken McMurtrie

Federal Reserve Note

Federal Reserve Note (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

This Sott.net post appears to be a reasonable assessment of the current global financial situation.  Paul Craig Roberts of Counterpunch is the author.

Ever since the beginning of the financial crisis and Quantitative Easing, the question has been before us: How can the Federal Reserve maintain zero interest rates for banks and negative real interest rates for savers and bond holders when the US government is adding $1.5 trillion to the national debt every year via its budget deficits? Not long ago the Fed announced that it was going to continue this policy for another 2 or 3 years. Indeed, the Fed is locked into the policy. Without the artificially low interest rates, the debt service on the national debt would be so large that it would raise questions about the US Treasury’s credit rating and the viability of the dollar, and the trillions of dollars in Interest Rate Swaps and other derivatives would come unglued.

In other words, financial deregulation leading to Wall Street’s gambles, the US government’s decision to bail out the banks and to keep them afloat, and the Federal Reserve’s zero interest rate policy have put the economic future of the US and its currency in an untenable and dangerous position. It will not be possible to continue to flood the bond markets with $1.5 trillion in new issues each year when the interest rate on the bonds is less than the rate of inflation. Everyone who purchases a Treasury bond is purchasing a depreciating asset. Moreover, the capital risk of investing in Treasuries is very high. The low interest rate means that the price paid for the bond is very high. A rise in interest rates, which must come sooner or later, will collapse the price of the bonds and inflict capital losses on bond holders, both domestic and foreign.

The question is: when is sooner or later? The purpose of this article is to examine that question.

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US Attempts to Mass-Murder Its Way to Victory in Syria.

Posted on June 8, 2012 by Ken McMurtrie

This article by Tony Cartalucci , ‘Land destroyer’, adds more substance to this blog’s belief that the US is violating international laws and abusing the rights of the Syrian government to defend itself against an outside threat.

The US and its associates are blatantly lying about their involvement in Syria and about who is creating the massacres. The press are lying in their reporting of these incidents and about the antagonists.

If Russia does not put up its hand for humanitarianism and force the issue to stall the UN/NATO/US/Israel tirade of takeover and control, that will represent pretty much the end game. Only Iran will be left and there will be no stopping the evil machine.

Here are the truths:

June 6, 2012 – As revelations emerge that the violence in Syria has been premeditated by Western planners years before the Arab Spring unfolded, and as the facade of “democratic aspirations” collapse in the face of a sectarian-driven bloodbath, US officials and Western think-tank policy makers speaking with Bloomberg have stated that their final message to Russia in order to begin regime change is essentially this: the violence will continue to be purposefully escalated until regime change is accomplished – Russia can capitulate now and have a say in how a transition occurs, or capitulate later and suffer exclusion as was the case in Libya.

Bloomberg cites “US officials” who claim they are meeting with Russia to seek an “orderly transition.”


Image: Brookings Institution‘s Middle East Memo #21 “Assessing Options for Regime Change (.pdf),” makes no secret that the humanitarian “responsibility to protect” is but a pretext for long-planned regime change.
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Bypassing Surgery: Can Leafy Greens Repair Your Arteries?

Posted on June 8, 2012 by Ken McMurtrie

From GreenMedInfo, by Margie King, Health Coach

Bypass the Surgery: Let Leafy Greens Repair Your Arteries

We all know that leafy green vegetables are good for us, but do you know why they’re so good?  There are plenty of reasons but, when it comes to heart health, the secret is nitrates.

In a paper published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation, researchers from the University of Pittsburgh propose that high levels of dietary nitrate might in part explain the vascular benefits of diets rich in leafy greens.

Since the 19th century nitrates have been administered to patients with angina to dilate their arteries and increase blood flow.

Vascular diseases (disorders of the circulatory system) can lead to heart attacks, strokes and even death.  The Pittsburgh researchers pointed out that typical treatments for these disorders, such as bypass surgery and angioplasty, actually induce vascular injury and can lead to an over-proliferation of the cells of the blood vessels in a way that limits blood flow.

According to the researchers, nitric oxide is an important molecule that helps maintain the contractility and health of vascular smooth muscle cells.  Multiple studies have linked vascular disease to a decreased level of nitric oxide and it is believed that therapies increasing the availability of nitric oxide could help protect vascular health.

Usually, nitric oxide in our bodies is synthesized from the amino acid L-arginine by an enzyme called nitric oxide synthase.  In the University of Pittsburgh research, it was found that when rats sustained blood vessel injury that synthesis was disrupted.  However, a secondary process that generates nitric acid from nitrate was activated.

The researchers found that supplementing rats with nitrate before inducing vessel injury significantly limited the extent of the damage, while a diet low in nitrate exacerbated it.

What kinds of greens are best for your heart?

Leafy greens and root vegetables are good sources for nitrates with beetroot, turnips, celery, spinach, lettuces, carrots and radishes generally having the highest levels.  Fertilizers used in growing vegetables can boost their nitrate content.

Besides vascular health there are many other good reasons to eat your leafy greens.  Greens have a wide range of nutritional benefits. They contain vitamins A, C, E and K as well as prodigious amounts of calcium, iron, potassium, magnesium, phosphorous and zinc, not to mention the fiber, folate, chlorophyll, micronutrients and phytochemicals that protect against disease.

Greens are also rich in cancer fighting antioxidants. Generally speaking, the darker the leaves, the more nutrient dense is the vegetable.

While iceberg lettuce, Boston bibb or even romaine all have a place at the table, it is best to make the effort to add in more of the nutrient dense dark greens.  These include serious greens like kale, bok choy, collards, Swiss chard, mustard greens, broccoli rabe, escarole and dandelion. These greens are powerful allies for your body, assisting in purifying the blood, strengthening the immune system, promoting good intestinal bacteria (probiotics) and improving circulation, liver and kidney function.

Give greens a chance.  Your body will thank you.

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Climate Change Alarmists Leading the World Toward Global Governance

Posted on June 7, 2012 by Ken McMurtrie

Another author posting on Sott.net about the AGW scam. Susanne Posel, Activist Post, reminds us of the politics, the non-science, the world government agenda that has suckered many of the world’s governments, including Australia, into setting up financially and socially destructive control systems.

None of it to do with global temperature or climate change, whatever the name, but everything to do Global Warmingwith global control.

Climate change alarmists are hard at work, pushing their agenda of man-made global warming which ultimately leads to global carbon taxing through the governance of the UN.

Daniel Sarewitz, professor of science and society and co-director of the Consortium for Science, Policy and Outcomes at Arizona State University, asserts that:

There is not any serious debate about whether anthropogenic climate change is happening. Scientists are certain about that, and it is unfortunate that the national debate is lagging so far behind.

The move toward convincing the general public that man-made CO2 is responsible for global warming partially stems from a study from 2000 which was co-authored by James Hansen, a prominent eco-fascist. Hansen’s team admits that, “rapid warming in recent decades has been driven mainly by non-CO2 greenhouse gases . . . not by the products of fossil fuel burning, CO2 and aerosols.” And then admonishes that the method of controlling emissions output should “focus on air pollution has practical benefits that unite the interests of developed and developing countries. However, assessment of ongoing and future climate change requires composition-specific long-term global monitoring of aerosol properties.”

As Hansen states that global warming is not man-made, he still desires to see global governance over emissions regulation and carbon taxation mandated by international law to reduce this imaginary problem.

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