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Signs of the Times Alternative News for Mon, 05 Mar 2012 Finally, PolitiFact calls out GOP candidate on climate Science? Who needs it?Photo: IowaPolitics.comAt long last, mainstream media begins to pay attention to the flat denial of basic climate science being pushed by right-wing Republican presidential candidates. Last year, my work on Climate Zombies — climate-denying candidates running for Congress — earned me a snippet on a New York Times blog, but most mainstream media ran stories presenting climate science as an issue with two sides. Things have been changing as the media realize that people who deny climate science also deny other scientific realities. PolitiFact, the independent fact-checking website, finally took on a Republican candidate for president over his claim that “scientists disagree about global warming” and found it false. Tim Pawlenty to The Miami Herald: Q: There is a strong case for man-made climate change, according to a University of Miami climate researcher I’ve spoken to. Pawlenty’s response piqued PolitiFact’s interest: It’s good that PolitiFact called out Pawlenty.
America the Beautiful "America the Beautiful" is an American patriotic song. The lyrics were written by Katharine Lee Bates, and the music was composed by church organist and choirmaster Samuel A. Ward. Bates originally wrote the words as a poem, Pikes Peak, first published in the Fourth of July edition of the church periodical The Congregationalist in 1895. Ward had originally written the music, Materna, for the hymn O Mother dear, Jerusalem in 1882, though it was not first published until 1892.[1] Ward's music combined with the Bates poem was first published in 1910 and titled America the Beautiful. The song is one of the most popular of the many American patriotic songs.[2] History[edit] Commemoration plaque atop Pikes Peak in July 1999. In 1893, at the age of thirty-six, Bates, an English professor at Wellesley College, had taken a train trip to Colorado Springs, Colorado, to teach a short summer school session at Colorado College. Several existing pieces of music were adapted to the poem. Lyrics[edit]
Godlike Productions - Conspiracy Forum Two seminal Nature papers join growing body of evidence that human emissions fuel extreme weather, flooding that harm humans and the environment By Joe Romm on February 16, 2011 at 5:12 pm "Two seminal Nature papers join growing body of evidence that human emissions fuel extreme weather, flooding that harm humans and the environment" Here we show that human-induced increases in greenhouse gases have contributed to the observed intensification of heavy precipitation events found over approximately two-thirds of data-covered parts of Northern Hemisphere land areas. Changes in extreme precipitation projected by models, and thus the impacts of future changes in extreme precipitation, may be underestimated because models seem to underestimate the observed increase in heavy precipitation with warming That’s from the first of two seminal studies in Nature, “Human contribution to more-intense precipitation extremes” (subs. req’d). Scientists have predicted for decades that human-caused global warming would increased extreme weather events that cause severe harm to humans, property, and the environment. Related Posts:
Educating the Next Generation (Crossposted to the July-August issue of GroundSwell Magazine - the official publication of Common Ground - USA).For those who don't understand Georgism or Land Value Taxation, the following conversation may prove illuminating. For everyone else convinced there are no solutions to our economic ills, it will prove enlightening. I recently met with long-time Georgist and expert on government finance, taxation and transportation policy, and Common Ground member, Bill Batt ( and his wife, Karen, at the lovely country home of Common Ground-NYC's Treasurer and past president, Rita Rowan, just outside Albany. We enjoyed lunch outside, on a beautiful Spring day on the grounds. Bill: "There was a recent article on one of the alternate news sites that said bring back the concept of economic rent. Scott: Of course" Bill: "and it's nice that he used those words. Emmanuelle: What do you mean by rent-seekers? Scott: even Adam Smith" Bill: Yeah!
AboveTopSecret.com - Conspiracy Theories, UFOs, Paranormal, Political Madness, and other "Alternative Topics" Anthony Watts urges WattsUpWithThat readers to disrupt Forbes blog: “shout them down in the comments section” By Joe Romm on March 4, 2011 at 2:30 pm "Anthony Watts urges WattsUpWithThat readers to disrupt Forbes blog: “shout them down in the comments section”" Yes, discredited former TV weatherman Anthony Watts can’t stomach even a couple of scientists posting reasonable comments about an error-riddled piece from Heartland on a blog already over-run by the pro-pollution crowd. He must marshall his readership to “shout them down in the comments section.” Watts has, perhaps more than any other leading anti-science blogger, viciously smeared scientists — and tried to get his followers to game online voting and pile onto other people’s comments sections (see Scientific American “horrified” by “the co-opting of the poll” by users of “the well-known climate denier site, Watts Up With That”). In a new post, he reprints another piece smearing climate scientists by Joe D’Aleo. Watts never retracted the attacks. Watts often feigns a demeanor of reasonableness, as when he had the chutzpah to write in June:
s Movement Home Page The People's Movement campaigns against any measures that further develop the EU into a federal super-state and works to defend and enhance popular sovereignty, democracy and social justice in Ireland. People's News - 6 April 2014 The current edition of People's News, dated 6 April 2014, is available for download here (520 KB). Back issues of the newsletter are available here. New flag proposed for the EU The flag of austerity in Europe. Galway-based artist Barbara Glynn has redesigned the flag of the European Union in order to symbolise its policy of permanent austerity. The new flag flying. New poll reveals lack of awareness and mistrust A new RedC poll commissioned by the EU Democrats, an EU-wide political organization, for the People’s Movement has found that Irish people are not aware of forthcoming changes to the EU's decision-making process and that they are strongly opposed to any further impositions on taxpayers to save the euro. Banking union New print by Robert Ballagh
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