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Re: THE NEW One and Only Climate Change Whatever...
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Maybe Harper will soften his harsh stance as he should feel more comfortable with a majority; not holding my breath, but could happen...[/QUOTE]
We'll see if and how the budget is re-written. That's the one that wasn't voted before the election and had some of the NDP wish list. I wonder if the NDP part will be written out.
Ya I loved that movie. Cannibalism and paranoid suspicion are my bread and circuses. ;-)
I forgot to mention suicide and the contemplation of suicide (and lots of bad teeth)... It was a good movie but quite depressing. Viggo Mortensten is a good actor. Loved him in "A History of Violence" and the movie where he was an undercover cop pretending to be a Russian Mobster.
The other movie that I watched was Rock n Roller which was also somewhat dark but had more senseless violence and some humour. The Russian mobsters reminded me of the Sopranos episode where they ran afoul of the Russian Rambo.
Re: THE NEW One and Only Climate Change Whatever...
I suspect that the budget won't change too much as it became the backbone of the Conservative platform. I doubt that Harper will have much incentive to moderate his views with respect to the things that he promised to do in the election.
The vote results didn't seem to indicate people are concerned with global warming. We'll have to see what happens with the Ontario election.
It surprised me that my local MP lost. I thought he would easily be re-elected. The NDP vote was up substatially and it looks like the Liberal lost as a result. An interesting vote split which was of benefit to the Cons.
I didn't vote. Had something done in the morning which dropped my blood pressure and I spent the rest of the day in bed.
There is, however, a problem with voting in this area. The voting place is in a school auditorium. They do several polling numbers at that location. If you go during the day (school hours) you have to find a parking spot on the street and it's a long walk. If you go later and do get parked it's still a long walk. I want parking with a short walk. Usually the handicapped parking close to the door, which they don't have.
This sort of thing might be why the voter turnout is so low. Practical reasons being more the problem than apathy.
By the way, the numbers which won Larry's prize were close to the projections of the Laurier Institute (LISPOP) projections on the net.
The vote results didn't seem to indicate people are concerned with global warming. We'll have to see what happens with the Ontario election.
It surprised me that my local MP lost. I thought he would easily be re-elected. The NDP vote was up substatially and it looks like the Liberal lost as a result. An interesting vote split which was of benefit to the Cons.
I didn't vote. Had something done in the morning which dropped my blood pressure and I spent the rest of the day in bed.
There is, however, a problem with voting in this area. The voting place is in a school auditorium. They do several polling numbers at that location. If you go during the day (school hours) you have to find a parking spot on the street and it's a long walk. If you go later and do get parked it's still a long walk. I want parking with a short walk. Usually the handicapped parking close to the door, which they don't have.
This sort of thing might be why the voter turnout is so low. Practical reasons being more the problem than apathy.
By the way, the numbers which won Larry's prize were close to the projections of the Laurier Institute (LISPOP) projections on the net.
I would have been close to winning if I hadn't rejected my first instinct and said 100 NDP seats. My problem was that I had a problem allocating the losses between the Liberals and Bloc as the low numbers implied seemed impossible.
I normally try to vote in federal and provincial elections. I don't always vote municipally particularly when I am not familiar with the choices. I would rather not vote than make a random vote in cases where I am uninformed. I fully accept the choice of not voting for whatever reason. That too is a valid choice.
You could have done what I did and voted on Good Friday (or Saturday or Monday). It took about 15 minutes because a few of the NDP supporters couldn't get their head wrapped around the concept that they needed to be able to show ID that proved who they were and where they lived. They were able to vote by getting spouses who had proper ID to swear that they were who they said they were. At 52, I was one of the youngest guys at the polling station. Alternatively you could have called up the local polling office and voted at their office as my parents did. They were away for the early polls and would have returned just in time to vote at poll closing if their plane wasn't late so they decided to remove the uncertainty and went to the local chief electoral office and voted there.
I had no problems finding my polling station as it was in the church that is a 200 meter walk from where I live. They had lots of free parking available.
Yes. Again, this is for me, the line of demarcation between
the meteorological community and us: They work with
computers; we geologists work with observations, and the
observations do not fit with these scenarios. So what should
you change? We cannot change observations, so we have to
change the scenarios!
Instead of doing this, they give an endless amount of money
to the side which agrees with the IPCC. The European
Community, which has gone far in this thing: If you want a
grant for a research project in climatology, it is written into the
document that there must be a focus on global warming. All
the rest of us, we can never get a coin there, because we are
not fulfilling the basic obligations. That is really bad, because
then you start asking for the answer you want to get. That’s
what dictatorships did, autocracies. They demanded that
scientists produce what they wanted....
You frighten a lot of scientists. If they say that climate is not
changing, they lose their research grants. And some people
cannot afford that; they become silent, or a few of us speak up,
because we think that it’s for the honesty of science, that we
have to do it.
DR. NILS-AXEL MÖRNER, Sea-level Expert: It’s Not Rising!
One of his most shocking discoveries was why the IPCC has been able to show sea levels rising by 2.3mm a year. Until 2003, even its own satellite-based evidence showed no upward trend. But suddenly the graph tilted upwards because the IPCC's favoured experts had drawn on the finding of a single tide-gauge in Hong Kong harbour showing a 2.3mm rise. The entire global sea-level projection was then adjusted upwards by a "corrective factor" of 2.3mm, because, as the IPCC scientists admitted, they "needed to show a trend".
Where you find this crap is astonishing. Show me a peer reviewed paper from this guy that says sea-level is not rising. You just make stuff up and search the web for other people that make stuff up. What a joke...
Re: THE NEW One and Only Climate Change Whatever...
More lies; quote your referenced sources. I am eagerly awaiting something peer reviewed and published, I am going to just ignore you completely soon unless you can put together a rational argument...
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