Gene's Footnotes

I have never been impressed by the messenger and always inspect the message, which I now understand is not the norm. People prefer to filter out discordant information. As such, I am frequently confronted with, "Where did you hear that...." Well, here you go. If you want an email version, send me an email.

December 07, 2009

Professor Carter on earth climate

Professor Carter, here, on the my-car global warming even if it is cooling crisis.  Irene sent it along so I won't have to do any work.

You already know some items that I have discussed, but here is a nut-job, denier from Australia who studies deep sea cores who also discussed ice core samples, and so on, covering some 400,000 years of climate. 

He is also not boring, so I will give up.

In all, we have been on a cooling trend for the last 100,000 years of this Halocene period, the spike in 1998 is not at all unusual, the climate is static since 2000, and we are most likely heading into a cooling period, a steep one.   (Not if, when.)

Oh yes, there can't be any polar bears because the world has been much warmer in the past and they are all dead.  Here is a photo of a bear obviously drowning.

I can see why the left will have to take control of the Internet.

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November 05, 2009

Potpourri

Stray Notes:

1.  A street guy who has worked Bay Street, Scotia, etc in Toronto for many years in the gold business shares a recent insight. He says it is only in the past few months he came to understand how gold price is manipulated and its extent. He points out there is no gold in the U.S. vaults. His advice:  get the metal and hide it.





Rob Kirby Explains Gold Price Manipulation by Jay Taylor, Oct 29, 2009www.miningstocks.com
cbassi@miningstocks.com


2.  From UK:



Judge rules activist's beliefs on climate change akin to religion

Tim Nicholson entitled to protection for his beliefs, and his claim over dismissal will now be heard by a tribunal
Tim Nicholson
Tim Nicholson leaves an employment tribunal at Audit House, London. Photograph: Anthony Devlin/PA
...In a significant decision today , a judge found Nicholson's views on the environment were so deeply held that they were entitled to the same protection as religious convictions, and ruled that an employment tribunal should hear his claim that he was sacked because of his beliefs....

3.

Obama-Pelosi to Health Insurers: Shut Up or We'll Shut You Down

By Brad O'Leary






... No longer able to sit idly by while the President and his chief minion in the House amateurishly try to revamp one-sixth of the U.S. economy, the health insurance industry released a study they commissioned that analyzes the costs of the Obama-Pelosi plan. The results are quite sobering. The study shows that "between 2010 and 2019 the cumulative increases in the cost of a typical family policy under this reform proposal will be approximately $20,700 more than it would be under the current system." (Emphasis mine.)

... Obama and Pelosi wasted no time demonizing the health insurance industry with hyperbole and rhetoric. And then Pelosi lowered the boom, expressing "tremendous interest" in revoking the industry's decades-old antitrust exemption. This proved to be no empty threat, as the Democrat-run House Judiciary Committee promptly passed a bill to do exactly that....   (No facism here)


4.  Hilary Clinton shows her hand while talking to Pakistani leaders:  


“The percentage of taxes on GDP (in Pakistan) is among the lowest in the world... We (the United States) tax everything that moves and doesn’t move, and that’s not what we see in Pakistan,” she said.

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