Posted by by Christopher Monckton of Brenchley
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Thursday, 6 December 2012 19:59
Climate change conferences come and go, with repeated attempts by the World Statists to set up International governance to manage a non-existent problem. As Lord Christopher Monckton of Brenchley reports from the latest Hot Air fest in Doha, Man-made Global Warming has been almost exclusively confined to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPeCaC) conferences, and there’s been precious little of it “in the wild”. Read his report.
‘A complete economic transformation of the world’
Lord Christopher Monckton of Brenchley reports from Doha
At each event I asked the obvious question: ‘After 16 years without global warming, how confident are you that the official predictions of doom have not been overblown?’ — ‘A shrewish spokesman for the Gaia Foundation replied: “Why should we answer that? You’re a well-known climate denier.” Ma’am, 0 out of 10 for scientific rigor’
…..read more HERE
A carbon tax is climatically useless
by Anthony Watts
Guest post by Chipp Knappenberger – reposted from Master Resource by request
“No matter how much you pay with a carbon levy, virtually nothing is received climatically…. No matter the level of domestic action that we take, it will pale in comparison to the rapid expansion of carbon dioxide emissions in other parts of the world.”
How much global warming will result from U.S. emissions over the course of this century, and how much of that could be prevented by a carbon tax? These two questions have the same simple answer—virtually none. One or two tenths of a degree a century out with–and without–a carbon tax makes the whole climate debate a peculiar exercise.
.…read more HERE
After the phony cliff, we face the terrifying one.
Last week, Fareed Zakaria and Charles Krauthammer appeared in Toronto (where I live much of the time), and while I did not go to their main debate, I went to a tasting of it at a luncheon. There was, I regret to write, as a longstanding friend of both of them, a surreal aspect to the exchange. After the usual compliments one exchanges (as I know from my time on that circuit), they embarked on a dialogue of the deaf, and a mutual flight, joined at the wingtip like Jurassic pterodactyls, soaring above the mighty chasm of American fiscal problems below. The otherworldly discussion of whether the Republican leaders in Congress will reach an agreement with the president about the automatic expiration of the Bush tax cuts of a decade ago vastly overshadowed the issue of reinserting spontaneous growth into the U.S. economy and grappling with the deficit at last.
…..read more HERE
Cheetahs are the fastest runners (60mph) on the planet.
Using a Phantom camera filming at 1200 frames per second while zooming beside a sprinting cheetah, this team captured every nuance of the cat’s movement as it reached top speeds of 60+ miles per hour.
The extraordinary footage that follows is a compilation of multiple runs by five cheetahs during three days of filming.
Ed Notes:
1. for a full screen image (very very highly recommended) click on the 4 arrows at the lower right hand side of the video (beside HD) below.
2. An amazing slow motion shot of the Cheetah almost catching its prey claws extended at the 2:25 mark.
3. To see the Cheetah running at an astonishing 60mph and capturing its prey go to minute 6:10 forward.
Update: Turns out multiple youtube presentations have caused National Geographic to take down the video I had posted here. You can go to the National Geographic site here – Cheetahs on the Edge–Director’s Cut from Gregory Wilson on Vimeo.
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Tuesday, 4 December 2012 0:43
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Mike addresses two Goofy’s this week, one involving the Grey Cup, the other involving some truly Royal expenditures going on in a Democratic Politician’s office.
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