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Climate change slowing?

Originally shared by Raw Story

Great animated chart inside

In their study of media coverage of the 2013 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report, Media Matters for America found that nearly half of print media stories discussed that the warming of global surface temperatures has slowed over the past 15 years. While this factoid is true, the question is, what does it mean?

The same problem applies to the ‘pause’ (or ‘hiatus’ or better yet, ‘speed bump’) assertion. It’s true that the warming of average global surface temperatures has slowed over the past 15 years, but what does that mean? One key piece of information that’s usually omitted when discussing this subject is that the overall warming of the entire climate system has continued rapidly over the past 15 years, even faster than the 15 years before that.

Chart http://www.skepticalscience.com/graphics.php?g=47

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/10/18/sorry-conservatives-the-global-warming-pause-doesnt-mean-what-you-think-it-means/

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Who Plotted The Government Shutdown

Originally shared by G. Gibson

Petition (see below): Prosecute The Conspirators Who Plotted The Government Shutdown In Violation Of 18 USC § 2384

Conspirators Include:

Edwin Meese III – Former Attorney General under Ronald Reagan
Charles Koch – Co–owner, Koch Industries
David H. Koch – Co–owner, Koch Industries
Michael A. Needham – CEO Heritage Action for America
Ted Cruz – United States Senator from Texas
Alfred S. Regnery – President, The Paul Revere Project
Andrea Lafferty – President, Traditional Values Coalition
Andresen Blom – Senior Strategist, Center for Civic Virtue
Angelo M. Codevilla – Professor Emeritus, Boston University
Becky Norton Dunlop – Former White House Advisor, President Ronald Reagan
Bob Reccord – Executive Director, Council for National Policy
Brent Bozell – President, ForAmerica
Brian Baker – President, Ending Spending
Chris Chocola – President, Club for Growth
Cindy Chafian – President, The Mommy Lobby
Colin Hanna – President, Let Freedom Ring
Craig Shirley – Reagan Campaign Biographer
David Bossie – President, Citizens United
David Bozell – Executive Director, ForAmerica
David McIntosh – Former U.S. Representative, Indiana
David Williams – President, Taxpayers Protection Alliance
Don Devine – Senior Scholar, The Fund for American Studies
Duane Parde – President, National Taxpayers Union
Eric Cantor – House Minority Leader
Erick Erickson – Editor, RedState.com
Gary Aldrich – President, Patrick Henry Center for Individual Liberty
Gary Bauer – President, American Values
Grace Marie Turner – President, The Galen Institute
Heather Higgins –President, Independent Women’s Forum
James Martin – Chairman, 60 Plus Association
Jenny Beth Martin – Co–Founder, Tea Party Patriots
Joe Gregory – CEO, Gregory Management Co.
Kay R. Daly – President, Coalition for a Fair Judiciary
Kenneth Blackwell – Conservative Action Project; President, Constitutional Congress, Inc.
Kevin Gentry – Koch Public Sector
Lee Beaman – Businessman, Nashville, TN
Lewis Uhler – President, National Tax Limitation Committee
Marco Rubio – United States Senator from Florida
Marjorie Dannenfelser – President, Susan B. Anthony List
Mat Staver – Liberty Counsel
Mathew D. Staver – Chairman, Liberty Counsel Action
Matt Kibbe – President, FreedomWorks
Michael Grebe – leads the Bradley Foundation
Mike Lee – United States Senator from Utah
Mitch McConnell – Minority Leader, United States Senate, representing Kentucky
Myron Ebell – President, Freedom Action
Pat Toomey – United States Senator from Pennsylvania
Patrick Pizzella – Conservative Action Project
Penny Nance – President, Concerned Women for America
Phyllis Schlafly – Conservative Action Project
Ralph Benko – President, Center for Civic Virtue
Senator Rand Paul – United States Senator from Kentucky
Rebecca Hagelin – Activist and Right Wing journalist
Rev. Lou Sheldon – Chairman, Traditional Values Coalition
Richard Rahn – President, Inst. for Global Economic Growth
Stuart Epperson – President, Council for National Policy
Susan Carleson – President, American Civil Rights Union
T. Kenneth Cribb – Former Domestic Advisor, President Ronald Reagan
Tom Donelson – Chairman, America’s PAC
Tony Perkins – Conservative Action Project
William Wilson – President, Americans for Limited Government

http://www.credomobilize.com/petitions/prosecute-the-conspirators-who-plotted-the-government-shutdown-in-violation-of-18-usc-2384

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BBC Archives: HG Wells on newspapers and automobiles

Originally shared by Edward Morbius

Apropos some of my recent posts on the news and my little Burkefest, Tom Bolitho pointed me to two archived audio recordings of HG Wells speaking on the matter of newspapers (if you think the current state of the news is, well, anything new, or that what eventually became the WWW was somehow not foreseable … tune in).

His comments on motorcars and consequences of invention is also wonderful.

My biggest shock was that he lived long enough to have made high-quality sound recordings (well, reasonably high quality — recording technology progressed much further in the next decade, and musical recordings from the 1950s are often considered superior to contemporary performances).  I’d always somehow considered him a 19th century figure.  Checking Wikipedia:  born 21 September 1866, died 13 August 1946, aged 79.  The recordings would be about 3 and 13 years prior to his death.

The BBC archive also looks to be a rather appealing place to explore at more length.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/hg_wells/12403.shtml

http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/hg_wells/12409.shtml