I have not accepted the UN premise ( the IPCC is a UN bureaucracy ) that the sky is warming and we all must fry. ( Not that warming and increased CO2 is associated with other than prolific plant growth ). The big problem with coal is actually the atmospheric scrubbers whose product has deposited radioactive toxic residue by waterways. I suggest the SourceWatch posts on Coal Ash; which is 'contained' ineffectively. Plus relaxed mining constraints protecting from the folly of strip mining add to water pollution. The idea that CO2 will cause climate change was a premise of the formation of the IPCC and its models : which is dedicated to producing scientism bolstering alarm. Modeling is not data. Nor is peer review of proponents an acceptable substitute for scientific method. Any alleged consensus ( peer review ) falls on the hard reality of stiff dissent from the proposition that we control climate and predict the future ( scientific method in operation ) . Too much simplification has occurred for modeling to be remotely feasible : short timelines, sparse data, unknown processes, chaotic conditions, uncalculable reactions and the reality that a water covered surface on a surface heated from below by nuclear reactions ( with attendant CO2 release ) are not reassuring of the accuracy of projections : especially with methane release from the sea bottom and Arctic tundra plus CO2 coming out of solution in seawater all making a complete and utter hash of any potential for analysis. Not that such could be validated regardless. Wind power doesn't work. Catastrophic gearbox failure is not fixable. Electric cars are hobbled by Chevron's patent lock up on NiMh automotive batteries. See Who Killed the Electric Car? ( EV-1 ) and the history of Toyota's electric RAV4 hybrid. ( I have been interested in the Fundy Power Project in the Minas Basin.) There are really scary stories about Fukushima. Background analysis would suggest that it was part of systematic kludge dogging the nuclear generation industry. The NPT TRAP is only part of the story. GE engineers and building contractors alike resigned over their concerns about putting reactors with used fuel containers requiring constant cooling in an earthquake/tsunami zone. But the green revolution didn't work for Germany nor Spain ( which went solar ). Food for thought. http://www.iop.org/news/13/may/page_60200.html less than half of the general public think scientists agree that humans are causing global warming.( some of us think that meteorologists' scorn is richly deserved ) http://www.climategate.com/ RSS feeds promoting anything from antipathy to outright condemnation of 'warmism' alarm. The source of 'consensus' http://www.webcitation.org/5nCXFD6mY The emails http://michaelkelly.artofeurope.com/cru.htm Delingpole journalizing http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100234054/if-you-still-believe-in-climate-change-read-this/ You must have faith ! ( but not in God ) http://www.interfaithpowerandlight.org/about/ My posts ( see Archives ) at my.opera.com/oldephartte/blog will be history Mar 1. Dec 1 and 4 2009 were my first notes on the climate contention, Much more in sidebar notes and in the pages http://oldephartte.blogspot.ca/p/oz-to-loose-ministry-of-truth-on-posted.html http://oldephartte.blogspot.ca/p/environmental-challenges-art-climate.html Apologies for repetition in those 2 pages. Nor have many of the notes at Livejournal of various sidebar lists on Blogger made it to the summaries.

ps As a person who has barely survived the use of broad spectrum antibiotics twice ( penicillin and tetracycline ) while knowing my digestive tract gets wrecked by E-mycin and clindamycin ( self medication with acidopholus helps, but does not correct the problem ) I am currently diabetic and having the very devil of a time with proliferation of gut flora ( and yes, I do consider I am a self made victim of sugar poisoning, likely with GM pesticide enhancements and corn starch perverting the problem : even though I cut drinking pop years ago...and won't go near 'diet' formulations )possibly as in a precursor to CFIDS. Yet my exposure is likely as nothing to yours. And yes, I smoked for decades.

"I would rather give John Prescott a French kiss " There ought to be some sort of citation for bravery for such a proposition. My brother gave me a walkabout in the jungle behind his place in Kangaroo Valley, N.S.W. back in 2000. I would have to agree with an assessment of ridiculous proliferation of things venomous : stinging nettles, stinging trees, bull ants, venomous snakes, etc. And wasn't that a laugh about the Commons having had enough warmongering for the day ? You would think nobody was serious about rewriting the map of oil bearing nations to suit the convenience of the energy companies. http://www.oilempire.us/new-map.html

My best day ever was 900 - up from an average of 300-400 depending on whether or not it was the weekend. That was on opitslinkfest.blogspot.ca which did hit 1,618,000...and was shuttered by DCMA games. I almost lose track of the blogs - 2 years at opit.wordpress.com - archived for TSA ( WTF ? I know not ) Years more at My Opera Community and shares at Care 2 and Current TV ( can't do that any more either ) And so many 'lost' who decided not to tempt the authorities further and wiped their blogs. Glad you didn't. And...it's tough to set up shop elsewhere. Keep this open as when and if you might be tempted to get up on the soapbox. It's just too hard to get that sort of exposure otherwise. Hiatus is not always addictive either.

Hello Not Hilzoy. While I`ve missed her and wouldn`t mind finding out how she is faring after going to Africa, a historian with an appetite for Asian cuisine is scarcely to be sniffed at. Given your choice of nom de plume I suspect your name is an acronym like mine - with yours taken from field experience. Your age reminds me of my first post as OldePhartteInTraining in 2005 which was responded to by exMI and ThreeScoreAndTenOrMore. I`m 65 and occasionally quip with my.opera.com nepmak2000 who is 68 ( and his acronym is obvious on arrival ) Your audience awaits. Have fun.

Everybody seems to have run out of steam. You don't seem to have read the same reviews of the situation that I have, though one link hinting at alternative accounts did surface. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/24/boston-bombing-suspect-unarmed_n_3150723.html False Flags, Fake Blood, and Michelle Obama: A Guide to the ... www.wired.com/dangerroom/2013/04/boston-marathon-conspiracies/‎ Apr 23, 2013 – Forget everything you thought you knew about the Boston bombings. The real ... “There is clear evidence of false flag staging here,” he wrote. NH State Rep. Suggests Boston Bombing Was 'False Flag' Conspiracy livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/.../nh-state-rep-suggests-boston-bombin...‎ Apr 23, 2013 – A Republican state representative in New Hampshire posted a video by conspiracy theorist Alex Jones on Facebook last week suggesting the ... Back to Back C-span Callers: Boston Marathon Bombing a False ... www.infowars.com/back-to-back-c-span-callers-boston-marathon-bombi...‎ Apr 22, 2013 – This past weekend, CSpan received consecutive calls from people concerned that the Boston Marathon bombings were a false flag attack. FBI's Boston Bombing False Flag - A CLOSER LOOK! - YouTube ► 60:01► 60:01 www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJ0DGh4fNy0 Apr 25, 2013 NH State Rep. Claims Boston Marathon Bombings Were A 'False Flag' www.ibtimes.com/nh-state-rep-claims-boston-marathon-bombings-were-...‎ Apr 24, 2013 – Republican New Hampshire State Rep. Stella Tremblay believes the United States government may have orchestrated the Boston Marathon ... Northerntruthseeker: Boston Marathon False Flag Attack: Proof That ... northerntruthseeker.blogspot.com/.../boston-marathon-false-flag-attack-p...‎ Apr 23, 2013 – Boston Marathon False Flag Attack: Proof That "Craft" Security Firm Did The Bombing? I received an email from a friend just a few hours ago ... Boston Bombing: Anatomy of a False Flag - Mathaba.Net www.mathaba.net/news/?x=632851 Apr 21, 2013 – False flags are an American tradition. They go way back. The Boston bombings appear the latest. More on that below. Notable earlier false ... Guess I'd never make a pundit. I prefer to research matters rather than idly speculate about what if'a.

I have both notable articles and notable links which I feel compelled to leave as especially important.l When it finally becomes impossible to keep them up I batch the lot and put them up as a separate post on a page listed on my homepage. Mind, that's with articles. With sources - blogs and more - I co post at Delicious and Diigo, with Yahoo and Google Bookmarks waiting should failure occur. And Bookmarking gives one a topical index/tagfile. Not to mention the Community does the same - and have Searchable finds. BTW I am oldephartte on Diigo, opit on Delicious and currently oldephartte.blogspot.ca

BTW You should note that your blog is - as are many other good sites - subject to a warnoff by Web of Trust. I suggest you ask that rating be reviewed.

Climate changes....as do weather patterns. There is a lot of hogwash promoted about humanity's ability to predict and change the future. I had a proper collection of links at opitslinkfest.blogspot.com at a post on climate in contention which is currently unavailable. Even so, a look at the sidebar at oldephartte.blogspot.ca and at http://oldephartte.blogspot.ca/2013/01/opits-notes.html should show there is a lot less to 'scientific consensus' than political pundits and the UN would have you believe.

The BBC is enjoying a scandal where 28 - mostly so-called environmentalists' - managed to spin coverage of the AGW scam. Now, my blog records are not available, but I have been following this story for 3 years now when I finally had a WTF moment about the supposition that man causes climate change. The merest awareness of the nature of scientific method will tell you prophecy is innately unscientific. So I found out what was happening - including people like Denis Rancourt losing positions for speaking out against fraud. Some intel : http://www.prweb.com/releases/prweb2013/1/prweb10308274.htm http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2013/08jan_sunclimate/ http://pielkeclimatesci.wordpress.com/ Why is this happening ? heh The United Nations : Corrupt, Ineffective, Dangerous In each case, the UN hoped to use the "global warming" scam as a ..... But here's the shocker: He will invite the United Nations to tax Americans directly. And the ... www.akdart.com/un.html

LOL As a means of getting news on varied interests I started using RSS aggregators years ago. Several have annoyingly bit the dust - or fallen into disuse such as Bloglines. Google Reader is being pushed hard by Google but I still prefer the Blogger Dashboard - old style - which I literally use as part of a demonstrator of RSS feed results. Netvibes and My Opera Community take a good deal of attention as well. All in all, I try to suggest links of interest and show what current posts are like. Not that YouTube can`t bury one with suggestions in a moment. http://opitslinkfest.blogspot.com/2009/06/opit-online.html

Dubya was 'for' nation building when it meant a clusterfuck. Check out the story of the Fallujah water treatment plant as a sample of progress. Or check out the police showers that electrocuted residents.

This is way late out the gate ... but I got the impression at the time that the Malik Hasan case might well be a frame up to stimulate the Islamofascist meme. The reason being in that case there were original reports of 2 or 3 shooters....and the site of embarkation to Afghanistan tended to have such incidents with some regularity.

Blue Girl Red State would have serious issues that Republicans dominate the ranks of serving officers - and she has reasons to be interested. And the premise of this post is blather from the get go. Yet there are factors affecting opinions of the enlisted which deserve to be aired/investigated. Religious indoctrination and political gamesmanship has gone so far as to include instructor time in training institutions - in Israel too - for known racists. But Islamophobia, religious intolerence, and profiling are all of a piece with the entrenched forces that produce the likes of Glenn Beck. One would not want trained killers to sympathize with their victims. The incidence of remorse and suicide is far too high as it is. Officers are people of superior intellect, even if naive before their blooding. They are likely to investigate dissenting views such as http://www.leadingtowar.com/watch_online.php I contend Valerie Plame/Wilson was most likely outed because she would not go along with the Cheney gang's manufactured intel promoting a toothless old tiger as dangerous when the proof he was not was routinely verified by examining military related installations in the country embargoed against normal trade. Aluminum tubes for processing yellowcake into fertilizer are not that exotic a technology so as to fool anyone who cared for long. No. The military would have been aware of the thrust to destroy Iraq as a nation. All the rest was window dressing around that objective. But what might routinely be said to pundits could be quite different !

I've posted Memorial Day and Remembrance Day - with less precision and enthusiam as time wears on. My father and uncles were veterans...who advised I not enter military service except as a response to invasion and 'for the duration of the emergency' when I had 3 years of cadet training. U.S. law supports that idea...in theory. Doug's Darkworld and Vagabond Scholar both have articles worth noting. http://opitslinkfest.blogspot.com/2012/05/29-may-dougs-darkworld.html A picture is worth a thousand words http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0jMxDE-i8Ys/T8SJhSgoT1I/AAAAAAAAAWo/JGtQ-7BNNuk/s1600/529670_382115418476365_275683962452845_1183759_1506935906_n.jpg

Hydrofracking is a clusterfuck. There is no other term which covers the myriad ways in which it is energy policy gone wrong. Natural gas is neither natural nor safe. Hydrofracking may or may not be directly responsible for groundwater pollution as regards the radioactive toxic brew of secret ingredients used. Irretrievably wrecking the integrity of bedrock to allow leaching of contained materials is another matter entirely. You thought Gasland was over the top, perhaps. I wonder. Check out the Energy and Water files http://opitslinkfest.blogspot.ca/p/topical-index.html

One can crib the economic offense by seeing whose bonds have been downgraded lately by Standard and Poors as well.

I see you're still at it - and still many are scarcely able to see that political positioning is neither sound scientific practice ( though we know there is fake 'science' around in things like drug tests, for instance ) nor that there are possibilities which are wild beyond Republican/Koch wet dreams. When do people address the 'problems' in realistic terms which also recognize that after blowing up over 500 mountaintops to strip mine coal - contaminating the aquifer in the process - there are enough in Appalachia to supply the market at current rates of consumption for less than 3 years ? Does nobody follow what has happened to farming worldwide and the destruction trailing use of Roundup and 'Roundup Ready' seeds ? We have drought cutting of Australian rice supply to the world and fires in both the American West and Australia causing unprecedented damage to homes because the state has forbidden George Bush's little exercise of brush cutting - which makes me wonder if he wasn't experimenting. I can see reports of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse in full gallop, aided by corporate scheming...and you complain that people who are cynical about claims that the future has been read and we are making it hot don't know how to pay attention ? Let me make it simple. We know thieves are in charge. Why do you trust the liars who sent troops into Iraq over ginned up WMD ( leading to war website/movie ) to make right what they made wrong ? The same people. In case you don't internalize the complaint you make about others, I read it like this. Repeating the same actions and expecting different results is impractical and unrealistic. And that is without even addressing that global temperatures do have a trend over geologic time : cooler.Plus the first half of the 20th century was reckoned exceptionally tame by historic standards. BTW Airframes currently in use were designed more for speed than economy. Nor do jets operate with the efficiency of props. Improvements are possible.

This disgusting anti immigrant action should work wonders at drying up completely the supply of agricultural workers who bring the harvest to market. I had posted the story earlier and congratulate you for researching it further.

Antibiotics are routinely fed to meat animals to make them gain weight faster. They enter humans who eat them just fine. Guess what happens next. If you really want scary news about food just Search 'Rumsfeld Monsanto'. As it happens I've been mining news from places like Care2 for a while now and finding out things I'm not sure I want to know. There's also a 'Water' newsgroup under JanforGore at Current TV that branches out into food topics. Aug 13 2009 I made a couple of collections using material supplied by a raw milk advocate and a retired farmer who decided to blog their concerns and linked to an activist community to share input. http://opitslinkfest.blogspot.com I already had plenty wrong with water going through my brain and didn't need more clusterfuck. Got it anyway. http://cowbossatwscc.blogspot.com/2009/05/welcome-to-cowbosss-blog.html http://www.organicfoodee.com/news/2008/12/urbanfarmin/ http://opitslinkfest.blogspot.com/2009/10/health-and-wellness.html http://opitslinkfest.blogspot.com/2009/07/corporate-farming.html