Obama says climate change is make-or-break issue

President Barack Obama wipes sweat from his head during a speech on climate change, Tuesday, June 25, 2013, at Georgetown University in Washington. Obama is proposing sweeping steps to limit heat-trapping pollution from coal-fired power plants and to boost renewable energy production on federal property. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

President Barack Obama wipes sweat from his head during a speech on climate change, Tuesday, June 25, 2013, at Georgetown University in Washington. Obama is proposing sweeping steps to limit heat-trapping pollution from coal-fired power plants and to boost renewable energy production on federal property. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

FILE - In this May 21, 2013 file photo, Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz speaks after being sworn in as Energy Secretary, at the Energy Department in Washington. Moniz says coal will continue to play a role in meeting America?s energy needs even as the Obama administration seeks to reduce carbon emissions and combat global warming. In an interview with The Associated Press, Moniz refuted claims by Republicans and even some coal-state Democrats that the president?s climate plan would cripple the coal industry. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

President Barack Obama gestures during a speech on climate change, Tuesday, June 25, 2013, at Georgetown University in Washington. Obama is proposing sweeping steps to limit heat-trapping pollution from coal-fired power plants and to boost renewable energy production on federal property. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

WASHINGTON (AP) ? President Barack Obama is trying to frame climate change as a make-or-break political issue, urging Americans to vote only for those who will protect the country from environmental harm.

He says people in the United States already are paying a price for climate change, including in lost lives and hundreds of billions of dollars.

"If you agree with me, I'll need you to act," Obama said in his weekly radio and Internet address. "Remind everyone who represents you, at every level of government, that there is no contradiction between a sound environment and a strong economy ? and that sheltering future generations against the ravages of climate change is a prerequisite for your vote."

In his remarks released Saturday but recorded at the White House before his trip to Africa, Obama is trying to persuade the public to help sell his climate change plan for him.

That plan, released last week, is bypassing Congress after years of efforts to get lawmakers to pass legislation to deal with the issue.

At the core of Obama's plan are new controls on new and existing power plants that emit carbon dioxide, heat-trapping gases blamed for global warming. The program is intended to boost renewable energy production on federal lands, increase efficiency standards and prepare communities to deal with higher temperatures.

None of the measures in Obama's plan requires congressional action.

Republicans and some Democrats have denounced the plan as a job-killing "war on coal," and opponents could try to undercut Obama's plan or hinder it through legal action if Americans don't seem to be on board.

"The question is not whether we need to act. The question is whether we will have the courage to act before it's too late," Obama said.

Obama has also pledged that the U.S. will lead other nations in a "coordinated assault" to reduce pollution. But he acknowledged Saturday in a town hall meeting with young people in Johannesburg that the U.S. and other wealthy countries must shoulder a disproportionate part of the burden.

His proposal to cut off U.S. subsidies for coal-fired power plants overseas, for example, includes exemptions for the poorest countries where no better technology is available.

"The United States cannot do it by itself," Obama said in South Africa. "I expect it's going to be your generation that helps lead this, because if we don't, it's going to be your generation that suffers the most."

In the Republican address, Sen. Pat Roberts of Kansas says there are troubling, unanswered questions about the implementation of Obama's health care law.

"We must put an end to the fear and uncertainty," Roberts says. "Those 'bumps' and 'glitches' the president talks about? It's a train wreck, folks, and we have to get America out of the way."

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AP White House Correspondent Julie Pace in Johannesburg contributed to this report.

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Penguins? Bylsma to coach US Olympic team in Sochi (Yahoo! Sports)

Penguins? Bylsma to coach US Olympic team in Sochi (Yahoo! Sports)

Dan Bylsma has never coached hockey at the international level. The Pittsburgh Penguins coach does, however, know how to win while juggling a roster dotted with superstars.

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Topographic maps illustrate where Twitter's bird flies highest

Not every Twitter user geotags their musings, but there are enough who do to generate some very insightful data. On its blog today, Twitter shared images from Data Visualization Scientist Nicolas Belmonte, who created topographic maps visualizing the density of geotagged tweets. The result is striking, as tweets clearly correlate with roads, geographic features and even lines of public transit. In addition to the blog's stills, you can futz around with interactive maps of New York, San Francisco and... Istanbul. When you realize the implications of all those tweets from the Bay Bridge, it's frightening enough to consider taking BART across the Bay instead.

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Cameron Diaz Will Play Miss Hannigan In 'Annie.' Really?

There's a lot to be excited about regarding the upcoming remake of Annie. First of all, we're eager to hear what producers Jay-Z and Will Smith do with classic showtunes like "Tomorrow." (We've already heard what Jay-Z can do with "Hard Knock Life.") Then there's the cast: adorable young Oscar nominee Quvenzhane Wallis in the title role, and Jamie Foxx as a modernized Daddy Warbucks. However, we're scratching our heads over the just-announced casting of comic villain Miss Hannigan. Cameron Diaz is talented, okay -- but do we really want to see her in a musical?

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Not in my Social Circle

Do the nerds have to be the cliche types who are math and science buffs who can recite their third grade Earth Science textbook from memory or are they just the very studious types and can be strong in subjects of our choice? (Art nerd, band nerd, English nerd, etc)

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Inbox me if you're interested in a Marvel, Pokemon, or Avatar themed RolePlay.

Also - This account is no longer shared *sad face*

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The 'gold' standard: A rapid, cheap method of detecting dengue virus

June 28, 2013 ? The development of an easy to use, low cost method of detecting dengue virus in mosquitoes based on gold nanoparticles is reported in BioMed Central's open access journal Virology Journal. The assay is able to detect lower levels of the virus than current tests, and is easy to transport and use in remote regions.

Half the world's population is at risk of Dengue virus infection -- it infects 50-100 million people per year, approximately half a million of these require hospitalization and 2.5% (most of which are children) will die. It is one of the most dangerous viruses in the world with no vaccine, and it does not respond to antiviral therapy. The main method of controlling infection remains destruction of the standing water where the mosquitoes, which transmit the virus to people, breed.

It is consequently vitally important to have a way of determining if mosquitoes are carrying Dengue virus, which can be used on site and that does not require specialist equipment.

Researchers from the University of Notre Dame, USA, used a DNAzyme linked to gold nanoparticles which recognises a short sequence of the viral RNA genome common to all four types of Dengue. Once bound, adding magnesium and heating to 37C causes the DNAZyme to cut the RNA leaving the gold nanoparticles free to clump together. This aggregation can be easily seen as a red to clear/colourless colour change.

The components of this test are stable at temperatures above 30C which means that they are easy to store and transport and the assay is able to detect as little as 10 viruses in each sample containing 10-20 mosquitoes.

The ultimate goal is to detect virus infection in just a single infected mosquito or cell. Dr James Carter, the lead author of this study explained, "Full development of our novel DDZ-AuNP detection method will provide a practical, rapid, and low cost alternative for the detection of DENV in mosquito cells and tissues, and possibly infected patient serum, in a matter of minutes with little to no specialized training required."

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Feds: Boston suspect downloaded bomb instructions

BOSTON (AP) ? Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev downloaded bomb-making instructions from an al-Qaida magazine, gathered online material on Islamic jihad and martyrdom, and later scrawled anti-American messages inside the boat where he lay wounded, a federal indictment charged Thursday.

The 30-count indictment contains the bombing charges, punishable by the death penalty, that were brought against the 19-year-old Tsarnaev in April.

But prosecutors added charges covering the slaying of an MIT police officer and the carjacking of a motorist during the getaway attempt that left Tsarnaev's older brother, Tamerlan, dead.

"Tamerlan Tsarnaev's justice will be in the next world, but for his brother, accountability will begin right here in the district of Massachusetts," Suffolk District Attorney Daniel Conley, whose jurisdiction includes Boston, said at a news conference with federal prosecutors.

Three people were killed and more than 260 wounded by the two pressure-cooker bombs that went off near the finish line of the marathon on April 15.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was captured four days later, hiding in a boat parked in a backyard in Watertown, Mass.

According to the indictment, he scrawled messages on the inside of the vessel that said, among other things, "The U.S. Government is killing our innocent civilians," ''I can't stand to see such evil go unpunished," and "We Muslims are one body you hurt one you hurt us all."

The Tsarnaev brothers had roots in the turbulent Russian regions of Dagestan and Chechnya, which have become recruiting grounds for Islamic extremists. They had been living in the U.S. about a decade.

But the indictment made no mention of any larger conspiracy beyond the brothers, and no reference to any direct overseas contacts with extremists. Instead, the indictment suggests the Internet played an important role in the suspects' radicalization.

Before the attack, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev downloaded onto his computer the summer 2010 issue of Inspire, an online English-language magazine published by al-Qaida, according to the indictment. The issue detailed how to make bombs from pressure cookers, explosive powder extracted from fireworks, and lethal shrapnel.

He also downloaded extremist Muslim literature, including "Defense of the Muslim Lands, the First Obligation After Imam," which advocates "violence designed to terrorize the perceived enemies of Islam," the indictment said.

Another tract downloaded included a foreword by Anwar al-Awlaki, an American propagandist for al-Qaida who was killed in a U.S. drone strike, federal prosecutors said.

U.S. Attorney Carmen Ortiz of Massachusetts said it will be up to Attorney General Eric Holder to decide whether to pursue the death penalty against Tsarnaev.

The indictment assembled and confirmed details of the case that have been widely reported over the past two months, and added new pieces of information.

For example, it confirmed that Tamerlan Tsarnaev bought 48 fireworks mortar shells containing about eight pounds of explosive powder from a Seabrook, N.H., fireworks store. It also disclosed that he used the Internet to order electronic components that could be used in making bombs.

The papers detail how the brothers then placed knapsacks containing shrapnel-packed bombs near the finish line of the 26.2-mile race.

The court papers also confirm that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev contributed to his brother's death by accidentally running him over with a stolen vehicle during a shootout and police chase.

The charges cover the slaying of Massachusetts Institute of Technology police officer Sean Collier, who authorities said was shot in the head at close range in his cruiser by the Tsarnaevs during their getaway attempt. The brothers tried to take his gun, prosecutors said.

In addition, prosecutors said that during the carjacking, the Tsarnaev brothers forced the motorist to turn over his ATM card and his password, and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev withdrew $800 from the man's account.

At the same time the federal indictment was announced, Massachusetts authorities brought a 15-count state indictment against Dzhokhar Tsarnaev over the MIT officer's slaying and the police shootout.

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Tom Hays reported from New York.

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Sean Parker Wedding Defense - Business Insider

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Official photo from Sean Parker's wedding.

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Former Facebook president Sean Parker has a guest post on TechCrunch right now that defends his over-the-top $10 million wedding.?

The post is nearly 9,500 words long and addresses criticism that it damaged the ecology of woods where it took place.

Luckily TechCrunch provides a handy summary:

• The wedding site was chosen because it had been previously developed, so there was no environmental impact. The site was not public property, it was a private, for-profit, campground, which was mostly paved in asphalt and or cleared of all foliage. Development only occurred in cleared dirt and asphalt areas.
• The natural environment was not harmed, despite widespread claims to the contrary. There was no harm done to redwood trees, other plants, or animals. There were no endangered species on or near the property.
• We were conscientious about protecting the environment, locating the site with the help of Save the Redwoods League and soliciting advice about how to avoid harming the redwood habitat.
• Hundreds of articles were written in the days following the wedding, yet only one reporter contacted us for comment. Most of the information contained in these articles was erroneous. No original reporting was done, no interviews were conducted, and no fact checking occurred.
• We voluntarily agreed to cover $1 million in penalties related to the Ventana?s lack of development permits and past violations. We also volunteered to contribute $1.5 million in charitable contributions serving the coastal region of the Monterey Peninsula.

If you have time, buckle up and read the epic story here >

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Sanofi's MS drugs get double boost in Europe

LONDON (Reuters) - Sanofi's hopes in the multiple sclerosis market received a double boost on Friday as the European regulator backed an injectable treatment and adopted a more positive stance toward a pill for the neurodegenerative disease.

The European Medicines Agency said it was recommending Lemtrada, Sanofi's biggest MS drug hope, for relapsing-remitting MS, ending a quarter-century development saga for the injectable treatment.

The European regulator also reversed an earlier decision not to give pill-administered Aubagio a "new active substance" (NAS) designation because it is very similar to a much older drug.

Without this designation, Aubagio, which received the regulator's green light in March, could have faced generic copies in Europe in as little as three years - the time required for brief clinical studies of generics and to review applications for approval.

The news sent the stock over 1 percent higher. Sanofi's shares, which have risen around 13 percent since the start of 2013, were trading 0.8 percent higher at 80.65 euros at 1225 GMT, outperforming Paris' CAC40 bluechip index, down 0.7 percent.

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EMA decisions are usually endorsed by the European Commission within a couple of months.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is expected to rule on Lemtrada in late 2013. The regulator recently extended its review timeline by three months but did not request any further clinical data on the drug, Sanofi said in a statement.

Lemtrada, also known as alemtuzumab, has been studied in multiple sclerosis since the early 1990s but its progress to market as a treatment for the disease has been halting and the drug has changed hands many times.

Lemtrada was approved back in 2001, under the different name Campath, as a treatment for B-cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia (B-CLL), although sales for this condition never took off.

It then went back into testing for MS, amid hopes that its ability to knock out immune system cells called lymphocytes would prove effective in a disease that is caused by abnormal immune attacks on the protective sheath surrounding nerve cells.

Still, industry analysts predict the drug will not be the first choice in a market where competition has exploded with new products, including oral treatments like Novartis's Gilenya.

Instead, it may be kept for patients with more advanced MS, occupying a similar position to Biogen Idec's Tysabri.

The current consensus for annual Lemtrada sales is $650 million by 2017, according to forecasts compiled by Thomson Reuters Pharma - a number that could rise following the EU recommendation.

For Sanofi, Lemtrada represents a second win in the MS field, following approval of Aubagio in the United States last year.

Aubagio reported sales of 20 million euros ($26 million) in the first quarter of 2013.

Separately, Sanofi got a regulatory boost in Japan on Friday when it won approval from the government there for diabetes treatment Lyxumia.

($1 = 0.7691 euros)

(Reporting by Rosalba O'Brien and Caroline Copley; Writing by Elena Berton and Ben Hirschler; Editing by Christian Plumb)

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These Imaging Satellites Will Give Us Data That Could Upend Industries, Transform Economies

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'Veronica Mars' Begins Filming: See Set Photos Here!

As glimpses from the upcoming movie surface, Bell tweets new pics as well.
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Kanye West: Blood on the Leaves

Whatever you think of Kanye West, the release of his sixth album is a big deal. I'm totally biased, I've already listened to the album probably two dozen times, and "Blood on the Leaves" is an early favorite.

The song samples Nina Simone's "Strange Fruit" and horns from TNGHT's "RU Ready." It's a dark, twisted tale of betrayal, break up, and oh yeah, MDMA. The contrasting mix of Simone's sorrowful refrain and the upbeat tempo of the horns is infectious, and it fits in with that conflicting Kanye persona we've come to know and love or maybe hate. As it goes with the Konman, you have to wonder if he's talking about his own experiences, or just telling a tale. (Look out for the Beyonce/Jay-Z name checks in the last verse). Doesn't really matter to me! Can't stop listening, either way. [Spotify, iTunes, Amazon]

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4 Often-Overlooked Steps to Starting an Online Business

Last month, Daniel Ingersoll joined me on Power of Attorney to discuss the process of starting an Internet business. ?As part of that discussion, Daniel outlined a number steps that are often overlooked by new entrepreneurs, who may have a great vision for their fledgling business but lack experience in the logistics of starting a new endeavor. ?After forming an entity for the business, Daniel advises that a new entrepreneur:

1. Apply for a federal taxpayer identification number (EIN). ?Daniel advises that this acts as the introduction of the new business to the federal government and the Internal Revenue Service.
2. Register to do business in foreign jurisditions. ?The business entity will be formed in a certain state but must register to do business in all of the other states in which it will do business. ?Generally speaking, if a business entity is required to register to do business in a certain state, it will probably have to pay income tax in that state as well.
3. Register applicable fictitious names. ?Many businesses trade under, or are known by, a name other than the formal name of the company. ?In such cases, the business must register all of its "nick names" with the appropriate court or agency.
4. Obtain necessary local, state, and federal licenses. ?While most businesses do not require a federal business license, many do require certain local and state licenses to conduct business. Just because a company transacts business exclusively online dos not relieve it of the responsibility to obtain the necessary business licenses.

Daniel provided some additional details on implementing these steps in a post he wrote for this site back in April. ?You can listen to my complete interview with Daniel here.

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There's Something Comforting About A Peanut-Shaped Nursery School

People say that peanuts are healthy. They're a super food or something. But the peanut is apparently good for other things too, like inspiring design. The Japanese architect Hiroshi Ueda overlapped two circles to create the peanut concept for this building, completed last year. And it seems only fitting that the peanut house a nursery school.

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Racing to the app grave: the dead, the zombies, and the parasites - Talk Mobile

Your finger hovers over the download button in your smartphone's app store. Maybe it?s free, maybe it?s not. Even if it costs only 99 cents, you spend four times that much at Starbucks every day. Yet you hesitate, haunted by the memories of that app you downloaded a few years ago, fell in love with, and then watched as the servers shut down and the app was abandoned and left to wither and die on your launcher.

And that sometimes makes us hesitant to hand over money, even a dollar, for apps that a developer spent weeks, if not months or years, building. It makes us consider if paying up front for apps and services is the way to go, or to minimize risks by going with free-as-in-ad-supported apps instead, or to try and give developers more money through in-app purchases or subscriptions in hopes that maybe that will help keep them around.

It makes us wonder -- can we depend on our apps? Can we count on them to be there for us when we need them? And which ones?

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NASA picks 8 new astronauts, 4 of them women

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NASA picks 8 new astronauts, 4 of them women
By MARCIA DUNNBy MARCIA DUNN, AP Aerospace Writer??

This photo provided by NASA shows Nicole Aunapu Mann. NASA has eight new astronauts _ its first new batch in four years. Mann is one of the candidates. Mann, 35, Major, U.S. Marine Corps, originally is from Penngrove, Calif. She is a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, Stanford (Calif.) University and the U.S. Naval Test Pilot School, Patuxent River, Md. Mann is an F/A 18 pilot, currently serving as an Integrated Product Team Lead at the U.S. Naval Air Station, Patuxent River. (AP Photo/NASA)

This photo provided by NASA shows Nicole Aunapu Mann. NASA has eight new astronauts _ its first new batch in four years. Mann is one of the candidates. Mann, 35, Major, U.S. Marine Corps, originally is from Penngrove, Calif. She is a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, Stanford (Calif.) University and the U.S. Naval Test Pilot School, Patuxent River, Md. Mann is an F/A 18 pilot, currently serving as an Integrated Product Team Lead at the U.S. Naval Air Station, Patuxent River. (AP Photo/NASA)

This photo provided by NASA shows Anne C. McClain. NASA has eight new astronauts _ its first new batch in four years. McClain is one of the candidates. McClain, 34, Major, U.S. Army, lists her hometown as Spokane, Wash. She is a graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y.; the University of Bath and the University of Bristol, both in the United Kingdom. McClain is an OH-58 helicopter pilot, and a recent graduate of U.S. Naval Test Pilot School at Naval Air Station, Patuxent River. (AP Photo/NASA)

This photo provided by NASA shows Andrew R. Morgan. NASA has eight new astronauts _ its first new batch in four years. Morgan, a medical doctor, 37, Major, U.S. Army, considers New Castle, Pa., home. Morgan is a graduate of The U.S. Military Academy at West Point, and earned doctorate in medicine from the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Md. He has experience as an emergency physician and flight surgeon for the Army special operations community, and currently is completing a sports medicine fellowship. (AP Photo/NASA)

This photo provided by NASA shows Christina M. Hammock. NASA has eight new astronauts _ its first new batch in four years. Hammock is one of the candidates. Hammock, 34, calls Jacksonville, N.C. home. Hammock holds undergraduate and graduate degrees from North Carolina State University, in Raleigh, N.C. She currently is serving as National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Station Chief in American Samoa. (AP Photo/NASA)

This photo provided by NASA shows Tyler N. "Nick" Hague. NASA has eight new astronauts _ its first new batch in four years. Hague, 37, Lt. Colonel, U.S. Air Force, calls Hoxie, Kan., home. He is a graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School, Edwards, Calif. Hague currently is supporting the Department of Defense as Deputy Chief of the Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization. (AP Photo/NASA)

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) ? NASA has eight new astronauts ? its first new batch in four years.

Among the lucky candidates: the first female fighter pilot to become an astronaut in nearly two decades. A female helicopter pilot also is in the group. In fact, four of the eight are women, the highest percentage of female astronaut candidates ever selected by NASA.

Monday's announcement came on the eve of the 30th anniversary of the launch of the first American woman in space, Sally Ride. She died last summer.

The eight ? all in their 30s ? were chosen from more than 6,000 applications received early last year, the second largest number ever received. They will report for duty in August at Johnson Space Center in Houston and join 49 astronauts currently at NASA. The number has dwindled ever since the space shuttles stopped flying in 2011. Many astronauts quit rather than get in a lengthy line for relatively few slots for long-term missions aboard the International Space Station.

NASA Administrator Charles Bolden said these new candidates will help lead the first human mission to an asteroid in the 2020s, and then Mars, sometime in the following decade. They also may be among the first to fly to the space station aboard commercial spacecraft launched from the U.S., he noted. Russia ferries the astronauts now.

"These new space explorers asked to join NASA because they know we're doing big, bold things here ? developing missions to go farther into space than ever before," Bolden said in a statement.

The Class of 2013's Nicole Aunapu Mann, a major in the Marines, is an F/A 18 pilot serving at the U.S. Naval Air Station in Patuxent River, Md. Army Maj. Anne McClain is a helicopter pilot. The two other women, Christina Hammock and Jessica Meir, are scientists.

All four men have military backgrounds, including one who is a former emergency room physician, Dr. Andrew Morgan. The others are Josh Cassada, Navy Lt. Cmdr. Victor Glover and Air Force Lt. Col. Tyler (Nick) Hague.

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Portuguese teachers boycott exams in anti-austerity strike

LISBON (Reuters) - Thousands of teachers across Portugal walked away from final exams held at secondary schools on Monday to protest against planned spending cuts in education, leaving many pupils unable to take the tests, unions said.

The cuts are among the most recent austerity measures proposed by Portugal's center-right administration to meet the fiscal targets of an EU/IMF bailout. Portugal is in the third year of its worst economic recession since the 1970s and unemployment is at a record 18 percent.

Anti-austerity protests have been largely peaceful and more subdued than those in Greece and neighboring Spain but the country has seen a rise in rallies and strikes in recent months.

After talks with the teachers' unions collapsed over the weekend, the education ministry deployed replacement teachers to help invigilate and some schools bundled classes together in gyms or canteens so that the exams could go ahead.

Many pupils were unable to take the tests but in some schools they chanted and waved placards with slogans of solidarity for their striking teachers.

Mario Nogueira, the head of 52,000-strong Fenprof teachers' union, said 90 percent of teachers took part in the strike and that some schools had canceled Monday's exam. There are around 100,000 teachers in Portugal's state education system.

The education ministry said the strike affected less than a third of all pupils and rescheduled their exams for July 2.

Nogueira told reporters the union wanted to negotiate a solution to avoid pay cuts and a forced "mobility regime" whereby teachers may be forced to accept postings far from home or resign when their schools are merged with others as part of the spending cuts.

Exams are scheduled to go on for the coming weeks and union leaders have not ruled out more walk-outs.

Teachers are also protesting against a government decision to increase working hours for all public sector workers by one hour to an eight-hour day.

On June 27, unions will stage a general anti-austerity strike to further pressure the ruling coalition, whose popularity has dwindled after it enacted the largest tax increase in Portugal's modern history this year.

(Reporting By Andrei Khalip; Editing by Raissa Kasalowsky)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/portuguese-teachers-boycott-exams-anti-austerity-strike-153600240.html

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Netflix cuts original TV deal with DreamWorks

FILE - In this Oct. 1, 2011 file photo, a Netflix DVD envelope and Netflix on-screen television menu are shown in Surfside, Fla. Netflix is going to start running original television series from Dreamworks Animation, the company announced Monday, June 17, 2013. Financial terms were not disclosed. Netflix Inc. says the multi-year agreement is its biggest deal ever for original first-run content and includes more than 300 hours of new programming. It expands on an existing relationship between the companies. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee, File)

FILE - In this Oct. 1, 2011 file photo, a Netflix DVD envelope and Netflix on-screen television menu are shown in Surfside, Fla. Netflix is going to start running original television series from Dreamworks Animation, the company announced Monday, June 17, 2013. Financial terms were not disclosed. Netflix Inc. says the multi-year agreement is its biggest deal ever for original first-run content and includes more than 300 hours of new programming. It expands on an existing relationship between the companies. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee, File)

FILE - In this Monday, July 26, 2010 file photo, DreamWorks offices are shown in Redwood City, Calif. Netflix is going to start running original television series from Dreamworks Animation, the company announced Monday, June 17, 2013. Financial terms were not disclosed. Netflix Inc. says the multi-year agreement is its biggest deal ever for original first-run content and includes more than 300 hours of new programming. It expands on an existing relationship between the companies. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, File)

LOS ANGELES (AP) ? Netflix's deal to air original television programming from Dreamworks Animation is a major coup for both companies.

Though financial details were not disclosed, Netflix Inc. says the multi-year agreement announced on Monday is its biggest deal ever for original first-run content. It includes more than 300 hours of new TV episodes in a multi-year deal starting in 2014.

The transaction helps Netflix compete with pay TV channels such as HBO and Showtime, and it gives Dreamworks a potentially lucrative outlet for its shows as it tries to shed its reliance on two or three big-budget movies each year.

Netflix Inc. doubled down on original children's programming, hoping to strengthen its push to become a family entertainment brand. The new content should ease some of the pain of losing a range of kids shows from Viacom Inc.'s Nickelodeon network, including future episodes of "Dora the Explorer," which Amazon.com Inc. snapped up for its streaming service in early June.

"This is arguably a groundbreaking deal," said Tuna Amobi, a Standard & Poor's equity analyst who covers both Netflix and DreamWorks Animation.

While concerns remain about how much the deal will cost Netflix in the end, the company said it is a global deal that will allow it to debut the original series in the 40 countries where Netflix operates. That could help spread the costs over more territories and more subscribers if Netflix continues to grow overseas.

"The big question is if this is going to be an international catalyst in terms of subscriber growth," Amobi said.

Investors hailed the deal as a win-win. Netflix shares rose $15.70, or 7.3 percent, to close at $229.69 on Monday, while DreamWorks shares rose 92 cents, or 4 percent, to close at $23.73.

The deal suggests DreamWorks will significantly ramp up its production of TV shows. Currently, it only produces "Dragons: Riders of Berk" for Cartoon Network, which completed a run of 20 episodes at 23 minutes each ? less than 8 hours of content in all ? in March.

A second season of "Dragons" is set for release in the fall, and Netflix had already contracted with DreamWorks for a series based on its upcoming film, "Turbo." But the deal suggests that several new series will have to debut each year to fulfill the industry standard deal length of five to seven years.

New series will be based on characters either from future film hits, past franchises like "Shrek," or even older hits, including the hundreds of characters like "Casper the Friendly Ghost," which DreamWorks acquired when it bought Classic Media last July for $155 million.

The new DreamWorks shows aren't likely to tread on ground already covered under its existing TV shows, according to DreamWorks spokeswoman Allison Rawlings.

DreamWorks already licenses characters from "Kung Fu Panda," ''Madagascar" and "Monsters vs. Aliens" to Viacom's Nickelodeon, which has been producing original animated TV shows based on those movies since 2008.

The multi-year agreement tops the undisclosed amount Netflix spent on "House of Cards," the political drama starring Kevin Spacey that debuted to rave reviews on Netflix in February.

Netflix has been adding original programming to its roster of older movies and TV show reruns, and is set to launch the Jenji Kohan-created "Orange Is the New Black" next month. The company has said that for the next several years, it will contain original content spending to within 10 percent of its $2 billion in annual content costs.

Netflix's increased focus on children's programming is seen as a departure from the tactics of traditional premium pay TV channels such as HBO, Starz and Showtime, whose original shows tend to be tailored to adults. It also ramps up the competition for children viewers with Amazon, which said last month it will produce three new original kids shows for members of its Amazon Prime subscription plan.

Netflix has said it has 29.2 million streaming video subscribers in the U.S. and 7.1 million internationally as of the end of March. Those figures are up 5.8 million and 4.1 million respectively from a year ago.

In December, Netflix announced it will offer Disney movies, starting with films released in 2016. It declined to make a similar deal for the rights to Sony movies starting in 2016, which was kept by Starz.

Investor reaction wasn't uniformly positive. Analyst Rich Tullo of brokerage Albert Fried & Co. said he doubts that DreamWorks has the capacity to produce more than one or two new series a year.

"It's physically impossible without this content being spread out over 10 years," he said.

Hit TV shows aren't guaranteed, and it's not clear that this will make up for Netflix's loss of Nickelodeon content, he said.

"Are they going to lose 2 million subscribers off losing Nickelodeon content? That's possible too," he said.

Associated Press

Source: http://hosted2.ap.org/APDEFAULT/f70471f764144b2fab526d39972d37b3/Article_2013-06-17-Netflix-Dreamworks/id-d0d5506707cb4e0d862a9d3c942f18d1

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Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup | Watts Up With That?

The Week That Was: 2013-06-15 (June 15, 2013) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project

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Quote of the Week: For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled. Richard Feynman [The Quotes Page]

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Number of the Week: 96%

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THIS WEEK:

By Ken Haapala, Executive Vice President, Science and Environmental Policy Project (SEPP)

NIPCC in China: The editors of the two large reports by the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC) are attending a press conference held by the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) where CAS announcing the translation of the reports into Chinese. The Academy?s invitation to the event stated:

??NIPCC is what its name suggests: an international panel of nongovernment scientists and scholars who have come together to understand the causes and consequences of climate change. In 2009 and 2011, NIPCC publicized two reports named Climate Change Reconsidered, providing evidences the IPCC ignores and questioning the proposal of IPCC that climate change is caused by human greenhouse gas emissions.

China information center for global change studies of CAS edited and published the Chinese version of ?Climate Change Reconsidered: Report of the NPICC? to facilitate Chinese scholars? understanding the opinions of NIPCC. The International Symposium of Global Changes is held on this occasion to enhance exchanges on the new advancements internationally and researches. A press conference will be held, with lead authors of NIPCC reports Craig D. Idso (USA), Robert M. Carter (Australia), S. Fred Singer (USA) and many other prominent scholars of the field presenting.?

Researchers from home and abroad are warmly welcomed to attend the conference.

Time: June 15th 2013

Venue: Xijiao Hotel, Beijing

http://english.ucas.ac.cn/Lists/Events/ListDispForm.aspx?List=dc8f2138-7d88-4a0d-bad4-6939139997da&ID=164

Such an event clearly illustrates that 1) the science is not settled, 2) the absurdity of claims of 97% of climate scientists support the concept that carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions are causing unprecedented and dangerous global warming, and 3) leaders of the Chinese Academy have a better command of the principles of modern Western science than the leaders of many once venerable Western scientific institutions.

Also the event vindicates the work by S. Fred Singer who conceived and directed the NIPCC project and Fredrick Seitz who provided valuable guidance until his death in March 2008. Along with two other scientists, Seitz and Singer were vilified by largely unsubstantiated ad hominem attacks by Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway in the Merchants of Doubt. Publications such as Science carried fawning reviews of Merchants and refused to publish a rebuttal by Singer, the only one of the four still living.

The Heartland Institute was the publisher of these reports as well as the first one, and will be the publisher of the upcoming report. Please see links under NIPCC in China.

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IPCC Hype: According to an article by Bob Ward, who is Policy Director at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics and Political Science, the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has secretly delivered the draft of the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) to the governments involved. According to the IPCC schedule it would be Summary for Policymakers (SPM) because the authors are still writing the synthesis report and papers are still being accepted. As typical, for the IPCC the summary comes first, then the research. The review of the SPM by governments ends on August 2. The schedule does not clearly state when the government representatives will be negotiating the findings in the SPM.

Ward?s article is all too characteristic. ?Governments around the world have just received one of the most important scientific reports ever written.? According to Ward, the reports state that at the end of the century temperatures will be ?about 3 deg C higher than the little ice age.? Apparently, he and the IPCC remain blissfully unaware that the models have not been validated, thus are useless for prediction, and that they are failing miserably.

We will have to wait to see if the IPCC has tightened its review methods as Ward claims: ??governments and the public can be confident that the report will be the most reliable scientific assessment of climate change that has ever been produced.? Please see link under Defending the Orthodoxy, and http://www.ipcc.ch/scripts/_calendar_template.php?wg=8#.UbzDmPm1Fc4

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Carbon Dioxide and Temperatures: Astrophysicist Murry Salby of Australia?s Macquarie University gave a technical talk at Helmut Schmidt University, Hamburg, Germany, on the relationship between CO2 concentrations and temperatures in which he attributes the rise in atmospheric CO2 concentrations more to a rise in temperatures (from natural causes) than from human emissions. His assertions are controversial. For those who wish to explore the arguments and some of the responses please see link under Challenging the Orthodoxy.

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The Mean Is Meaningless: Christopher Monckton had a post on WUWT titled No significant warming for 17 years 4 months. This was followed by a comment by a person identified by only rgbatduke, who Judith Curry thinks is Robert Brown, a lecturer in Physics at Duke University. The comments are penetrating. There are many climate models, each making different projections of future temperatures. A mean (average) of the results of these models has no scientific meaning. The models have not been validated and there is no reason to assume the mean of the models approaches some true mean (value). The same applies for standard deviations derived from the models, and to the probability ?likelihood? statements of the products of the models. It particularly applies to the ?science? presented by the EPA in Federal court. Brown also argued that those models that perform well against temperatures should be enhanced, and those that perform poorly should be thrown out. Please see links under Challenging the Orthodoxy.

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It?s Real: The US production of oil increased by 14% last year, the greatest increase among countries producing a million or more barrels a year, according to the BP Statistical Review of World Energy, 2013. In 2012, the US was the third largest producer of oil, behind Saudi Arabia and Russia. This increase is in spite of Washington?s policies, which have caused the production of oil, natural gas liquids, natural gas, and coal from federal lands to fall, both in quantity and as percentage of total production.

The remarkable developments come from the combination of technological advances in precise horizontal drilling, multi-port hydraulic fracturing using sand or ceramic proppants to keep fractures open under intense pressure, a chemical mix to promote flow, and expanding knowledge of oil and gas bearing formations. Isaac Orr of The Heartland Institute termed it ?smart drilling.? As more wells are drilled, knowledge on how to drill them and keep them productive expands. We do not know how much oil and natural gas products can be recovered, at a given price level, but with changing technology and knowledge the estimated recoverable amounts expand over time.

A major issue with this boom is getting the oil and gas from the fields to refineries and the market. According to the BP review ?The average crude price at a major benchmark hub in Europe last year was $111.67 a barrel, compared with $94.13 in Oklahoma.? The oil produced from shale is light as compared to that from the North Sea, therefore should command a higher price. The necessary pipelines need to be built, but will be opposed by many in Washington and by environmental organizations, many of which oppose all energy, except, perhaps, that from solar and wind.

At a time in which many in Washington and in the several states are complaining about tight budgets, in 2012 North Dakota experienced a 29% increase in taxable economic activity, according to the editors of Master Resource. This is largely attributable to the oil field activity in the Bakken formation.

Please Article #4 and links under Energy Issues ? Non-US, Washington?s Control of Energy, and Oil and Natural Gas ? the Future or the Past?

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Carbon Tax: The Heartland Institute and the R Street Institute hosted a debate on the question: Should conservatives accept a carbon tax? The concept was that the revenues from the carbon tax would be offset by reductions in other taxes, unspecified. Global warming was specifically excluded for the debate. Both sides of the issue were well represented with James Taylor, of Heartland, and David Kreutzer of Heritage Foundation opposed and Andrew Moylan of R Street and former US Representative Bob Inglis, of Energy and Enterprise Initiative in favor. From his questions, it quickly became evident that the moderator, Ronald Bailey of Reason magazine, had already formed an opinion supporting of carbon tax. T

The debate can be summed as those who do not trust the government to permanently reduce other forms of taxation to offset a carbon tax as opposed to those who do. The proponents of the tax asserted that the EPA would regulate carbon fuels anyway, presenting the false dilemma that the choice is between an expansion of government power thru taxation or the expansion of government power thru EPA blunt force.

Inglis asserted that his opponents are against the concept of self-government, as the country?s founders envisioned. The false dilemma and the concept of self-government triggered an idea for different debate. The label ?conservative? is poorly defined. During the contentious debate on the adoption of the Constitution to replace the Articles of Confederation, many founders grudgingly admitted that a stronger central government was necessary, but stipulated its powers must be few, defined, and limited. To address these concerns the Bill of Rights was quickly added by the new government. The founders demanding limited government could be identified as conservatives.

The question could be then phrased as: What limits to government power will prompt conservatives to discuss expansion of government powers thru a carbon tax? A possible answer could include clear limits on government regulatory power, especially the EPA, which evokes science that is not publicly available, and uses models that have not been validated, in proclaiming a need for regulatory expansion in the name of public health.

Proposed limits to power could include: 1) no secret science ? all data and computer codes must be publically available; 2) independent replication of all studies used to justify regulation; 3) all models used must be validated; 4) all litigation agreements (sue and settle) must meet the above conditions; and 5) all existing regulations not meeting the above must be immediately rescinded.

Such conditions should provide a practical basis to discuss the merits of a carbon tax.

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Amplifications and Corrections: Last week?s TWTW discussed sea level rise, the uncertainty, and the possible acceleration of the rate of rise. Physicist Donald Rapp send a set of papers a making a powerful argument that ?It is possible that all (or most) of the claimed acceleration is due to ground water depletion, not global warming.? He may be right. We appreciate all those who take the time to send amplifications and corrections.

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SEPP Web Site: Several readers stated that their antivirus software flagged an item when they downloaded from the SEPP website. We found three unauthorized items, deleted them, and worked with the host provider to tighten the security of the website. One of the items had the name Blackhat, which, years ago was a code name for a NSA operation, purpose unknown. We will endeavor to be vigilant.

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Number of the Week: 96%. Last week, TWTW linked to a post by Roy Spencer showing the great divergence between observations and the projections from 73 CMIP5 climate models for the period 1979 to 2012 between latitudes 20 deg N and 20 deg S (approximately the tropics). As stated, the linearization of the observations hide the climate shift shown by the actual data. However, the end points for 2012 are illuminating. A rough measurement shows that 70 out of 73 of the models (96%) projected a warming greater than twice that shown by the observations. All 19 US models were in the 96%. Will this divergence appear in the IPCC AR5? http://www.drroyspencer.com/2013/06/epic-fail-73-climate-models-vs-observations-for-tropical-tropospheric-temperature/

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ARTICLES:

For the numbered articles below please see this week?s TWTW at: http://www.sepp.org. The articles are at the end of the pdf.

1. Fracturing in California

Democrats revolt against a ban on oil and gas ?fracking.?

Editorial, WSJ, Jun 7, 2013

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324767004578488821344316236.html

2. U.S. Corn Belt Expands to North

Warmer Climate, Hardier Seeds Help Crop Gain on Wheat, North Dakota?s Staple

By Owen Fletcher, WSJ, Jun 14, 2013

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324904004578539352566317388.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_LEFTTopStories

[SEPP Comment: Informed the reporter that there is another driving factor for this shift ? carbon dioxide enrichment.]

3. Why U.S. Wood Can?and Should?Power Europe

A forest owner (and Rolling Stones keyboardist) on the benefits of ?biomass? sales.

By Chuck Leavell, WSJ, Jun 9, 2013

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324798904578529690411491374.html?mod=ITP_opinion_0

4. U.S. Oil Notches Record Growth

Rise in Production Is World?s Largest; Fueled by Fracking

By Keith Johnson and Russell Gold, WSJ, Jun 12, 2013

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324049504578541601909939628.html?mod=WSJ_hps_LEFTTopStories

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NEWS YOU CAN USE:

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NIPCC in China

Chinese Academy of Sciences Publishes Heartland Institute Research Skeptical of Global Warming

?Another sign that the latest science does not support claims of catastrophic man-made climate change?

By Joseph Bast, Craig Idso, S. Fred Singer, and Robert Carter

http://heartland.org/press-releases/2013/06/11/chinese-academy-sciences-publishes-heartland-institute-research-skeptical-

Climate Change Reconsidered ? Translation by the Chinese Academy of Sciences

By Joe Bast, Craig Idso, S. Fred Singer, Robert Carter, Heartland, Jun 11, 2013

http://heartland.org/policy-documents/climate-change-reconsidered-translation-chinese-academy-sciences

Exclusive: China Translate 1,200-Page Rebuttal to Climate Change Agenda

By Staff Writers, Breitbart, Jun 11 2013

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/06/11/exclusive-China-rebuttal-climate-change

Challenging the Orthodoxy

On the meaning of ensemble means

By Andrew Montford, Bishop Hill, Jun 14, 2013

http://bishophill.squarespace.com/blog/2013/6/14/on-the-meaning-of-ensemble-means.html

No significant warming for 17 years 4 months

By Christopher Monckton, WUWT, Jun 13, 2013

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/06/13/no-significant-warming-for-17-years-4-months/

[SEPP Comment: See the link immediately above for a comment on the article.]

Before and After the Temperature Standstill

By David Whitehouse, GWPF, Jun 11, 2013

http://www.thegwpf.org/temperature-standstill/

An Engineer?s Take on Climate Change #2

By Ronald Voisin, WUWT, Jun 14, 2013

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/06/14/an-engineers-take-on-climate-change-2/

Man-Made Global Warming WRONG ? The Ten Reasons.

By Cohenite, NCTCS, Jun 5, 2013

http://theclimatescepticsparty.blogspot.com.au/2013/06/man-made-global-warming-wrong-ten.html

Murry Salby: CO2 is the integral of temperature

By Lubo? Motl, The Reference Frame, Jun 12, 2013

http://motls.blogspot.com/2013/06/murry-salby-co2-is-integral-of.html

Defending the Orthodoxy

Climate Change by the Numbers

By Bob Ward, Project Syndicate, Jun 11, 2013

http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/the-ipcc-s-fifth-assessment-of-global-warming-by-bob-ward

What to Make of a Warming Plateau

By Justin Gillis, NYT, Jun 10, 2013

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/11/science/earth/what-to-make-of-a-climate-change-plateau.html?_r=1&

World in danger of missing climate goals

By Staff Writer, WNN, Jun 10, 2013

http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/EE-World_in_danger_of_missing_climate_goals-1006137.html

Natural disasters not odd coincidences:

By Robert Redford, USA Today, Jun 11, 2013

http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2013/06/10/president-obama-climate-change-column/2407783/

[SEPP Comment: When all else fails bring in Hollywood.]

Questioning the Orthodoxy

Are Climate Scientists Wrong About Man?s CO2 Emissions?

Editorial, IBD, Jun 12, 2013

http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials/061213-659745-co2-increases-follow-temperature-increases.htm

12 Reasons the MET Office Is Alarmed

By Staff Writer, GWPF, Jun 14, 2013

http://www.thegwpf.org/12-reasons-met-office-alarmed/

Climate Models Predict Heat That Hasn?t Occurred

Editorial, IBD, Jun 11, 2013

http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials/061113-659660-observed-temperatures-cooler-than-scientists-projections.htm?p=full

Keep Your Long Flannel Underwear: Climate Scientists Predict Hell To Freeze Over!

By Larry Bell, Forbes, Jun 9, 2013

http://www.forbes.com/sites/larrybell/2013/06/09/keep-your-long-flannel-underwear-climate-scientists-predict-hell-to-freeze-over/#comment-4715

The Pause In Global Warming

By Art Horn, Energy Tribune, Jun 12, 2013

http://www.energytribune.com/77618/the-pause-in-global-warming#sthash.05PEHM2Y.dpbs

Effects of CO2 on Nitrous Oxide Emissions

By Staff Writers, SPPI & CO2 Science, Jun 12, 2013

http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/originals/effects_of_c02_on_nitrous_oxide_emissions.html

In summation, it would appear that concerns about additional global warming arising from enhanced N2O emissions from agricultural soils in a CO2-enriched atmosphere of the future are not well founded.

Problems in the Orthodoxy

Climate talks collapse!

Russia derails treaty track at UN climate summit in Bonn

By Craig Rucker, Jun 12, 2013

http://www.cfact.org/2013/06/12/climate-talks-collapse/

UN climate talks collapse amid acrimony in Bonn

By John Parnell, RTCC, Jun 12, 2013

http://www.rtcc.org/un-climate-talks-collapse-amid-acrimony-in-bonn/

Is UN negotiating an unattainable climate goal?

By Staff Writers, Bonn (AFP), June 13, 2013

http://www.terradaily.com/reports/Is_UN_negotiating_an_unattainable_climate_goal_999.html

Divorce? Lovers finally stumble across boundary object which once kept them together!

By Werner Krauss, Die Klimazwiebel, Jun 12, 2013 [H/t GWPF]

http://klimazwiebel.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/divorce-lovers-finally-stumble-across.html

Climate activist group close to IPCC removes video: The science on which it was based, from Stefan Rahmstorf, is no longer the scientific consensus

By Fritz Vahrenholt and Sebastian L?ning (translated/edited by P Gosselin), No Tricks Zone, Jun 13, 2013

http://notrickszone.com/2013/06/13/skeptical-science-folly-video-based-on-flawed-rahmstorf-foster-paper-disappears/

Met Office withdraws article about Marcott?s hockey stick

By Andrew Montford, Bishop Hill, Jun 14, 2013

http://bishophill.squarespace.com/blog/2013/6/14/met-office-withdraws-article-about-marcotts-hockey-stick.html

[SEPP Comment: What took so long?]

Seeking a Common Ground

A Climate Debate: Both Sides Showed Up!

By Dennis Avery, Center for Global Food Issues, Jun 3, 2013

http://www.cgfi.org/2013/06/a-climate-debate-both-sides-showed-up-by-dennis-t-avery/

[SEPP Comment: Mass starvation occurs more often in cold periods than in warm periods. In cold periods often crops do not ripen, in warm periods they ripen earlier.]

Leading the way with an unbiased climate panel

By Tom Harris, WUWT, Jun 14, 2013

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/06/14/leading-the-way-with-an-unbiased-climate-panel/

Expanding the Orthodoxy

Climate Change Officers

By Judith Curry, Climate Etc., Jun 10, 2013

http://judithcurry.com/2013/06/10/climate-change-officers/#more-11566

[SEPP Comment: A new professional society. Wonder how many of them ever studied climate change history such as by H.H. Lamb?]

Polar Bear Specialist Group adds WWF and PBI activists as full voting members

By Susan Crockford, Polar Bear Science, Jun 6, 2013

http://polarbearscience.com/2013/06/06/polar-bear-specialist-group-adds-wwf-and-pbi-activists-as-full-voting-members/

[SEPP Comment: No doubt to give the organization great objectivity!]

Questioning European Green

German Government Pushes Electricity Costs to Record High

By Daniel Wetzel, Trans. Phillipp Mueller, Jun 6, 2013

http://www.thegwpf.org/german-government-pushes-electricity-costs-record-high/

[SEPP Comment: Government regulations and taxes, not cost of fuel, are causing sharply increasing costs to consumers.]

Merkel Sees the Folly of Green Energy Policy

By Walter Russell Mead, Via Meadia, Jun 13, 2013 [H/t GWPF]

http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/2013/06/13/merkel-sees-the-folly-of-green-energy-policy/

[SEPP Comment: Waiting to see what she proposes to do, rather than what she says.]

Plymouth diesel power stations ?to help green energy

Two diesel power stations planned in Plymouth will compensate for fluctuations in supplies from green energy, say developers.

By Staff Writers, BBC, Jun 11, 2013 [H/t Bishop Hill]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-22845487

Its 52 generators will consume more than 1.1m litres of diesel a year, or about one tanker a week.

Questioning Green Elsewhere

DOE Green Energy Loans: $11.45 million per job and a rounding error?s worth of averted carbon emissions.

By David Middleton, WUWT, Jun 11, 2013

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/06/11/doe-green-energy-loans-11-45-million-per-job-and-a-rounding-errors-worth-of-averted-carbon-emissions/

Communicating Better to the Public ? Exaggerate, or be Vague?

Climate science tells us the alarm bells are ringing

By Michael Oppenheimer and Kevin Trenbert, Washington Post, Jun 7, 2013 [H/t Conrad Potemra]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/climate-science-tells-us-the-alarm-bells-are-ringing/2013/06/07/ca81cb84-cef6-11e2-8845-d970ccb04497_story.html

A Couple of Comments about the Oppenheimer and Trenberth Op-Ed in the Washington Post

By Bob Tisdale, WUWT, Jun 9, 2013

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/06/09/a-couple-of-comments-about-the-oppenheimer-and-trenberth-op-ed-in-the-washington-post/

[SEPP Comment: See link immediately above.]

Communicating Better to the Public ? Make things up.

Bloomberg?s Folly

By Joseph D?Aleo, ICECAP Jun 11, 2013

http://icecap.us/index.php/go/political-climate/bloombergs_folly/

[SEPP Comment: Devastating critique of New York Mayor Bloomberg?s plan and the lack of knowledge behind it. See links below.]

Bloomberg?s race to protect NYC from climate change

By Dana Milbank, WP, Jun 11, 2014

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/dana-milbank-bloombergs-race-to-protect-ny-from-climate-change/2013/06/11/5f06265c-d2d9-11e2-a73e-826d299ff459_story.html

[SEPP Comment: See link immediately above.]

Gotham will be a Southern-fried hot mess by 2020, climate pros warn

City Hall urges preparations for Alabama-slammer summers with heat waves that?ll be hell, and high water from 10% more rain. A quarter of the Big Apple is predicted to be submerged under water by 2050.

By Jennifer Fermino, New York Daily News, Jun 10, 2013 [H/t WUWT]

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/2020-forecast-hell-high-water-city-article-1.1368794

[SEPP Comment: See first link in the section.]

Carbon dioxide emissions rose 1.4 percent in 2012, IEA report says

By Steven Mufson, Washington Post, Jun 10, 2013

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/carbon-dioxide-emissions-rose-14-percent-in-2012-iea-report-says/2013/06/09/35d32bac-d123-11e2-8cbe-1bcbee06f8f8_story.html

The agency said continuing that pace could mean a temperature increase over pre-industrial times of as much as 5.3 degrees Celsius (9 degrees Fahrenheit), which IEA chief economist Fatih Birol warned ?would be a disaster for all countries.?

[SEPP Comment: Nothing is rising faster than hyperbole!]

Gore laments scientists ?won?t let us? tie climate change to tornadoes

By Zack Colman, The Hill, Jun 11, 2013

http://thehill.com/blogs/e2-wire/e2-wire/304755-gore-says-record-breaking-tornadoes-a-result-of-climate-change

Measurement Issues

Australian Warming Exaggerated

By Geoff Brown, NCTCS, Jun 15, 2013

http://theclimatescepticsparty.blogspot.com.au/2013/06/australian-warming-exaggerated.html

Changing Weather

English Winters Back To Normal?Julia Blames Global Warming!

By Paul Homewood, Not a Lot of People Know That, Apr 12, 2013 [H/t GWPF]

http://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2013/04/12/english-winters-back-to-normaljulia-blames-global-warming/

Germany begins to count cost as floods surge north

By Staff Writers, Berlin (AFP) June 11, 2013

http://www.terradaily.com/reports/Germany_begins_to_count_cost_as_floods_surge_north_999.html

Maxeiner, Miersch And Magdeburg: Superstitious Spiegel Devolves To The Dark Ages, Blames Floods On ?Deniers?

By P Gosselin, No Tricks Zone, Jun 11, 2013

http://notrickszone.com/2013/06/11/maxeiner-miersch-and-magdeburg-superstitious-spiegel-devolves-to-the-dark-ages/

Hungary says catastrophe averted after Danube hits new record

By Staff Writers, Budapest (AFP), June 10, 2013

http://www.terradaily.com/reports/Hungary_says_catastrophe_averted_after_Danube_hits_new_record_999.html

To NCDC: it?s been two year of La Ni?a, what do you expect?

By Anthony Watts, WUWT, Jun 14, 2013

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/06/14/to-ncdc-its-been-two-year-of-la-nina-what-do-you-expect/

[SEPP Comment: Clear explanation using NOAA maps showing why La Ni?as create droughts in the southwestern US.]

Changing Climate

Borneo stalagmites provide new view of abrupt climate events over 100,000 years

By Staff Writers, Atlanta GA (SPX), Jun 11, 2013

http://www.terradaily.com/reports/Borneo_stalagmites_provide_new_view_of_abrupt_climate_events_over_100000_years_999.html

Link to paper: ?Varied response of western Pacific hydrology to climate forcings over the last glacial period,?

By Stacy Carolin, et al., Science, Jun 6, 2013

http://www.sciencemag.org/content/early/2013/06/05/science.1233797

Changing Cryosphere ? Land / Sea Ice

Ocean Water Melting Antarctic Ice From Bottom Up

By James Foley, Nature World News, Jun 13, 2013 [Catherine French]

http://www.natureworldnews.com/articles/2446/20130613/ocean-water-melting-antarctic-ice-bottom-up.htm

Link to paper: Ice Shelf Melting Around Antarctica

By E. Rignot1, S. Jacobs, J. Mouginot, B. Scheuchl, Science, Jun 13, 2013

http://www.sciencemag.org/content/early/2013/06/12/science.1235798.abstract

New Study Shows Antarctica Ice Is Melting 70% More Slowly Than Thought ? Another Scare Bites The Dust

By Translated P. Gosselin, No Tricks Zone, Jun 15, 2013

http://notrickszone.com/2013/06/15/new-study-shows-antarctica-ice-is-melting-70-more-slowly-than-thought-another-scare-bites-the-dust/

[SEPP Comment: 70% less than what was predicted in the 2007 IPCC-AR4]

Friday Funny (well maybe not so funny) ? XKCD takes on the real climate threat

phics to scale: ice sheets 21,000 years ago versus today?s skylines.

By Anthony Watts, WUWT, Jun 14, 2013

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/06/14/friday-funny-well-maybe-not-so-funny-xkcd-takes-on-the-real-climate-threat/

[SEPP Comment: Cannot attest to the accuracy, but it give a perspective that is often ignored.]

Acidic Waters

Rutgers findings may predict the future of coral reefs in a changing world

By Staff Writers, New Brunswick NJ (SPX), Jun 10, 2013

http://www.terradaily.com/reports/Rutgers_findings_may_predict_the_future_of_coral_reefs_in_a_changing_world_999.html

On the commonly used pH scale, where lower numbers are more acidic, today?s seas are a moderately alkaline 8.2. But they are expected to creep toward 7.6 as carbon dioxide concentration increases in the air. Using a scanning electron microscope and other measurement devices, the scientists examined the proteins and found that all had begun to precipitate calcium carbonate crystals in the test tube at both pH levels.

[SEPP Comment: Unless it goes below 7, lowering the pH of an alkaline solution does not make it more acidic; it makes it more neutral.]

Agriculture Issues & Fear of Famine

Is there a crisis in farming?

By Martin Livermore, Scientific Alliance, Jun 14, 2013

http://scientific-alliance.org/newsletter

Biotech crops vs. pests: Successes and failures from the first billion acres

By Staff Writers, Tucson AZ (SPX), Jun 11, 2013

http://www.seeddaily.com/reports/Biotech_crops_vs_pests_Successes_and_failures_from_the_first_billion_acres_999.html

Review of Recent Scientific Articles by NIPCC

For a full list of articles see www.NIPCCreport.org

Storm-Track Activity: Modeled vs. Measured

Reference: Chang, E.K.M., Guo, Y., Xia, X. and Zheng, M. 2013. Storm-track activity in IPCC AR4/CMIP3 model simulations. Journal of Climate 26: 246-260.

http://nipccreport.org/articles/2013/jun/11jun2013a1.html

Effects of Elevated CO2 on Plant Attacks by Herbivorous Insects

Reference: Klaiber, J., Najar-Rodriguez, A.J., Piskorski, R. and Dorn, S. 2013. Plant acclimation to elevated CO2 affects important plant functional traits, and concomitantly reduces plant colonization rates by an herbivorous insect. Planta 237: 29-42.

http://nipccreport.org/articles/2013/jun/11jun2013a2.html

Reassessing the Past Century of Warming in Australia

Reference: Stockwell, D.R.B. and Stewart, K. 2012. Biases in the Australian high quality temperature network. Energy and Environment 23: 1273-1294.

http://nipccreport.org/articles/2013/jun/11jun2013a3.html

How Do Non-Specialist Sub-Arctic Mammals React to Warming?

Reference: Hof, A.R., Jansson, R. and Nilsson, C. 2012. Future climate change will favor non-specialist mammals in the (Sub) Arctics. PLOS ONE: 10.1371/journal.pone.0052574.

http://nipccreport.org/articles/2013/jun/12jun2013a1.html

Subsidies and Mandates Forever

Eternal Vigilance: Federal Energy Spending Tracker (www.energysubsidies.org)

By Robert Bradley Jr. Master Resource, Jun 12, 2013

http://www.masterresource.org/2013/06/eternal-vigilance-federal-energy-spending-tracker-www-energysubsidies-org/

Link to the Federal Energy Spending Tracker:

By Staff, IER,

http://data.instituteforenergyresearch.org/

EPA and other Regulators on the March

EPA nominee in limbo as Republicans press for documents

By Zack Colman, The Hill, Jun 12, 2013

http://thehill.com/blogs/e2-wire/e2-wire/305059-gop-call-for-epa-data-signals-more-waiting-for-nominee-mccarthy

How the EPA connives with Greens on policy

Radical partisans use threat of lawsuits to intimidate the agency

By Bob Beauprez, Washington Times, Jun 10, 2013

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/jun/10/how-the-epa-connives-with-greens-on-policy/

What happens in the backroom of a sue-and-settle lawsuit?

By Ron Arnold, Washington Examiner, Jun 6, 2013

http://washingtonexaminer.com/what-happens-in-the-backroom-of-a-sue-and-settle-lawsuit/article/2531305?utm_source=Washington%20Examiner:%20Opinion%20Digest%20-%2006/11/2013&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Washington%20Examiner:%20Opinion%20Digest

?Environmental Justice,? EPA Style

If the EPA wants to help low-income and minority populations, it should stick to promoting technologies that reduce pollution for everyone, rather than making environmental issues about racial justice

By Steven Hayward, The American, Jun 9, 2013

http://www.american.com/archive/2013/june/environmental-justice-epa-style

GOP warns of $1T EPA regs

By Julian Hattem, The Hill, Jun 12, 2013

http://thehill.com/blogs/e2-wire/e2-wire/305081-lawmakers-debate-most-expensive-regulation-ever

Rogue EPA Staff Spies On U.S. Farmers, Releases Data

Editorial, IBD, Jun 11, 2013

http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials/061113-659663-epa-spies-on-farmers-releases-data.htm

Methane Emissions from Natural Gas Operations: EPA?s Continuing, Conscious Overestimate

By Katie Brown, Master Resource, Jun 10, 2013

http://www.masterresource.org/2013/06/epa-methane-overestimate/#more-25695

Pebble mine?s Shively discusses future of project, EPA?s watershed assessment

Transcript by Staff Writers, EETV, Jun 13, 2013

http://www.eenews.net/tv/videos/1698/transcript

White House knew about Lisa Jackson?s secret email account

By Michael Bastasch, Daily Caller, Jun 9, 2013 [H/t Timothy Wise]

http://dailycaller.com/2013/06/09/white-house-knew-about-lisa-jacksons-secret-email-account/

Energy Issues ? Non-US

Statistical Review of World Energy 2013

By Staff Writers, BP, June 2013

http://www.bp.com/en/global/corporate/about-bp/statistical-review-of-world-energy-2013/group-chief-executive-s-introduction-.html

Coal remained the fastest-growing fossil fuel, with China consuming half of the world?s coal for the first time ? but it was also the fossil fuel that saw the weakest growth relative to its historical average.

Developing world oil demand surpasses wealthy nations: EIA

By David Sheppard, Reuters, Jun 11, 2013

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/06/11/us-eia-stea-nonoecd-idUSBRE95A16120130611

Could US Oil Trends Alter How Oil Prices Are Set?

By Geoffrey Styles, Energy Tribune, Jun 14, 2013

http://www.energytribune.com/77723/could-us-oil-trends-alter-how-oil-prices-are-set#sthash.5FDljwGI.dpbs

Fear and bad policy is holding back the UK?s huge shale potential

By Dan Lewis, City A.M., UK, Jun 12, 2013 [H/t GWPF]

http://www.cityam.com/article/fear-and-bad-policy-holding-back-uk-s-huge-shale-potential

Energy Issues ? US

Exporting Natural Gas

By Donn Dears, Power for USA, Jun 14, 2013

http://dddusmma.wordpress.com/2013/06/14/exporting-natural-gas/

Washington?s Control of Energy

Sales of Fossil Fuels Produced from Federal and Indian Lands, FY 2003 through FY 2012

By Staff Writers, US Energy Information Administration, May 2013

http://www.eia.gov/analysis/requests/federallands/pdf/eia-federallandsales.pdf

Oil and Natural Gas ? the Future or the Past?

Energy agency: US oil-and-gas reserves up 35 percent, thanks to shale boom

By Zack Colman, The Hill, Jun 10, 2013

http://thehill.com/blogs/e2-wire/e2-wire/304495-eia-shale-boom-drives-us-oil-and-gas-reserves-up-35-percent

The Mighty Bakken (Resourceship in action: II)

By Fred Lawrence, Master Resource, Jun 14, 2013

http://www.masterresource.org/2013/06/mighty-bakken-resourceship2/

[SEPP Comment: Part 2 of a well-written and informative series ? we simply do not know how much is down there and how much can be recovered. With changing technology and knowledge, the recoverable amount expands over time.]

Fracking Energy Mess: Deconstructing the Green Agenda

By Michael Economides and Peter Glover, Energy Tribune, Jun 11, 2013

http://www.energytribune.com/77587/fracking-energy-mess-deconstructing-the-green-agenda#sthash.w2I7k3WN.sKXJr7zh.dpbs

Return of King Coal?

Clean Coal Needs Another Look

By Donn Dears, Power for USA, Jun 11, 2013

http://dddusmma.wordpress.com/2013/06/11/clean-coal-needs-another-look/

[SEPP Comment: Focus on a solution that is practical and works.]

Environmental Organizations Don?t Want Clean Coal. It?s Making Fossil Energy Too Expensive. Really!

By Larry Bell, Forbes, Jun 11, 2013

http://www.forbes.com/sites/larrybell/2013/06/11/environmental-organizations-dont-want-clean-coal-its-making-fossil-energy-too-expensive-really/

Oil Spills, Gas Leaks & Consequences

Cleanup work after BP oil spill end in 3 states

By Staff Writers, AP, Jun 10, 2013

http://www.boston.com/business/news/2013/06/10/cleanup-work-after-oil-spill-end-states/jfNglfgHQorCBIoLT2RYpM/story.html

[SEPP Comment: According to the report, BP spent over $14 Billion.]

Nuclear Energy and Fears

Nuclear plant closures show industry?s struggles

By Michael Blood and Ray Henry, AP, Jun 8, 2013

http://fuelfix.com/blog/2013/06/08/nuclear-plant-closures-show-industrys-struggles/

Alternative, Green (?Clean?) Solar and Wind

Can You Get More than 100% Solar Energy? The Answer is Yes!

By Cliff Mass, His Blog, Jun 14, 2013

http://cliffmass.blogspot.com/2013/06/can-you-get-more-than-100-solar-energy.html

[SEPP Comment: More problems for the grid. Shows actual production and solar radiation on a roof top rather than modeled production.]

Goldman Sachs Eyes Japan Offshore Wind in Clean Energy Expansion

By Chisaki Watanabe, Bloomberg, Jun 13, 2013

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-06-13/goldman-sachs-eyes-japan-offshore-wind-in-clean-energy-expansion.html

Spain: Sorry about this, but some of these renewable-energies subsidies have got to go

By Erika Johnsen, Hot Air, Jun 9, 2013 [H/t Timothy Wise]

http://hotair.com/archives/2013/06/09/spain-sorry-about-this-but-the-renewable-energies-subsidies-have-got-to-go/

Alternative, Green (?Clean?) Energy ? Other

Ethanol Use Creates a Spike in Global Food Prices

By Staff Writers, NCPA, Jun 10, 2013

http://www.ncpa.org/sub/dpd/index.php?Article_ID=23262&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=DPD

Wood Not So Green a Biofuel? Logging May Have Greater Impact On Carbon Emissions Than Previously Thought

By Staff Writer, Science News, Jun 13, 2013 [H/t GWPF]

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/06/130611122103.htm

Link to paper: Mineral soil carbon fluxes in forests and implications for carbon balance assessments.

By Buchholz, et al., Bioenergy, Jan 29, 2013

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gcbb.12044/abstract

Carbon Schemes

Moving Iron in Antarctica

By Staff Writers, Atlanta GA (SPX), Jun 13, 2013

http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Moving_Iron_in_Antarctica_999.html

Link to paper: Role of biogenic silica in the removal of iron from the Antarctic seas

By Ingall, et al., Nature Communications, Jun 10, 2013

http://www.nature.com/ncomms/2013/130610/ncomms2981/full/ncomms2981.html

Environmental Industry

NRDC chief: Fracking ?most complicated thing I?ve encountered?

By Zack Colman, The Hill, Jun 11, 2013

http://thehill.com/blogs/e2-wire/e2-wire/304785-nrdc-chief-fracking-most-complicated-thing-ive-encountered

[SEPP Comment: Totally clueless!]

The Sierra Club Exposed

By Marita Noon, Energy Tribune, Jun 13, 2013

http://www.energytribune.com/77674/the-sierra-club-exposed#sthash.NimdKqsO.dpbs

Potentially ?catastrophic? changes underway in Canada?s northern Mackenzie River Basin

By Staff Writers, Los Angeles CA (SPX), Jun 13, 2013

http://www.terradaily.com/reports/Potentially_catastrophic_changes_underway_in_Canadas_northern_Mackenzie_River_Basin_999.html

Other Scientific News

Science, Heal Thyself

By Ferric Fang, Project Syndicate, Jun 5, 2013

http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/using-science-to-address-threats-to-the-scientific-enterprise-by-arturo-casadevall-and-ferric-c?fang

Last year, for example, when C. Glenn Begley and Lee Ellis sought to reproduce 53 ?landmark? preclinical cancer studies, they discovered that nearly 90% of the findings could not be reproduced. While the researchers who originally published those studies may have profited from increased funding and recognition, the patients who need new cancer treatments gained nothing.

[SEPP Comment: Highlights the need for independent reproduction of studies before major policy decisions including funding. Disagree with the authors comments on climate change. The alarm is not based on scientifically-established principles.]

NASA To Study How Pollution, Storms And Climate Mix

By Staff Writers, Edwards CA (SPX), Jun 10, 2013

http://www.terradaily.com/reports/NASA_To_Study_How_Pollution_Storms_And_Climate_Mix_999.html

New study proposes solution to long-running debate as to how stable the Earth system is

By Staff Writers, Southampton, UK (SPX), Jun 13, 2013

http://www.terradaily.com/reports/New_study_proposes_solution_to_long_running_debate_as_to_how_stable_the_Earth_system_is_999.html

Link to paper: The Emergence of Environmental Homeostasis in Complex Ecosystems

By James Dyke and Ian Weaver, PLOS, May 16, 2013

http://www.ploscompbiol.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pcbi.1003050;jsessionid=342B29A1D6AE6804179E9B06A99E702C

Abiogenic methane made in the mantle from carbonate?

By Matt Ridley, His Blog, Jun 8, 2013

http://www.rationaloptimist.com/blog/is-gas-made-in-the-earth?s-mantle.aspx

[SEPP Comment: A long debated issue.]

Other News that May Be of Interest

Signs that Davis Strait polar bears are at carrying capacity

By Susan Crockford, Polar Bear Science, Jun 10, 2013 [H/t GWPF]

http://polarbearscience.com/2013/06/10/signs-that-davis-strait-polar-bears-are-at-carrying-capacity/

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BELOW THE BOTTOM LINE:

Climate change could slash snowfall in Southern California mountains

By Bettina Boxall, LA Times, Jun 14, 2013 [H/t WUWT]

http://www.latimes.com/news/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-southern-california-snow-20130614,0,1562365.story

[SEPP Comment: Based on studies of unvalidated models. Snowfall observed from Los Angles is rare, but occurs on the next set of mountains further east.]

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