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Hurricane forecaster says his dispute with school focuses on global warming debate

Posted by Charlie Kilo on April 29th, 2008

The effort to silence those who disagree with the ”Gore Model” is the scientific inqusition of the 21st century: 

By pioneering the science of seasonal hurricane forecasting and teaching 70 graduate students who now populate the National Hurricane Center and other research outposts, William Gray turned a city far from the stormy seas into a hurricane research mecca.

But now the institution in Fort Collins, Colo., where he has worked for nearly half a century, has told Gray it may end its support of his seasonal forecasting.

As he enters his 25th year of predicting hurricane season activity, Colorado State University officials say handling media inquiries related to Gray’s forecasting requires too much time and detracts from efforts to promote other professors’ work.

But Gray, a highly visible and sometimes acerbic skeptic of climate change, says that’s a “flimsy excuse” for the real motivation — a desire to push him aside because of his global warming criticism.

Among other comments, Gray has said global warming scientists are “brainwashing our children.”

Now an emeritus professor, Gray declined to comment on the university’s possible termination of promotional support.

But a memo he wrote last year, after CSU officials informed him that media relations would no longer promote his forecasts after 2008, reveals his views:

“This is obviously a flimsy excuse and seems to me to be a cover for the Department’s capitulation to the desires of some (in their own interest) who want to reign (sic) in my global warming and global warming-hurricane criticisms,” Gray wrote to Dick Johnson, head of CSU’s Department of Atmospheric Sciences, and others.

Air Force fights…global warming?

Posted by Charlie Kilo on April 29th, 2008

Yes, this is your tax dollars hard at work:

The US air force will this week call for the world’s top scientists to come together in a 21st-century Apollo-style programme to develop greener fuels and tackle global warming. It wants universities, governments, companies and environmental groups to collaborate on a multibillion-dollar effort to work out greenhouse gas emissions of existing and future fuels.

Videos inside FLDS Community

Posted by patriot on April 28th, 2008

Some interesting videos from Dateline with interviews of various FLDS members.

Recession forces changes in economic behavior

Posted by patriot on April 28th, 2008

Well, the chickens have come home to roost:

Stung by rising gasoline and food prices, Americans are finding creative ways to cut costs on routine items like groceries and clothing, forcing retailers, restaurants and manufacturers to decode the tastes of a suddenly thrifty public.

Spending data and interviews around the country show that middle- and working-class consumers are starting to switch from name brands to cheaper alternatives, to eat in instead of dining out and to fly at unusual hours to shave dollars off airfares.

Though seemingly small, the daily trade-offs they are making — more pasta and less red meat, more video rentals and fewer movie tickets — amount to an important shift in consumer behavior.

Buffett: recession may be worse than feared

Posted by Charlie Kilo on April 28th, 2008

According to the world’s richest man, its bad out there and getting much worse:

Warren Buffett, the world’s richest person, said on Monday the U.S. economy is in a recession that will be more severe than most people expect.

Buffett made his comments on CNBC television after his Berkshire Hathaway Inc (BRKa.N) (BRKb.N) agreed to invest $6.5 billion in the takeover of chewing gum maker Wm Wrigley Jr Co (WWY.N) by Mars Inc in a $23 billion transaction.

“This is not a field of specialty for me, but my general feeling is that the recession will be longer and deeper than most people think,” Buffett said. “This will not be short and shallow.

“I think consumers are feeling gas and food prices,” he added, “and not feeling they’ve got a lot of money for other things.”

Gasoline May Soon Cost $10 a Gallon

Posted by Charlie Kilo on April 28th, 2008

Personally I call bull on this article. Society will break down when gas hits the $6 to $7 range - well before it ever hits $10. Once it all falls apart and the gas is no longer being imported, stations will sell what’s left for hundreds of dollars a gallon:

Get ready for another economic shock of major proportions — a virtual doubling of prices at the gas pump to as much as $10 a gallon.

That’s the message from a couple of analytical energy industry trackers, both of whom, based on the surging oil prices, see considerably more pain at the pump than most drivers realize.

Gasoline nationally is in an accelerated upswing, having jumped to $3.58 a gallon from $3.50 in just the past week. In some parts of the country, including New York City and the West Coast, gas is already sporting a price tag above $4 a gallon. There was a pray-in at a Chevron station in San Francisco on Friday led by a minister asking God for cheaper gas, and an Arco gas station in San Mateo, Calif., has already raised its price to a sky-high $4.62.

In Manhattan, at a Mobil gas station at York Avenue and East 61st Street, premium gas is now $4.03 a gallon. Two days ago, it was $3.96. Why such a high price? “Blame the people at STOPEC (he meant OPEC) and the oil companies,” an attendant there told me.

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Total wheat crop failure?

Posted by patriot on April 26th, 2008

There’s fungus amongus:

On top of record-breaking rice prices and corn through the roof on ethanol demand, wheat is now rusting in the fields across Africa.

Officials fear near total crop losses, and the fungus, known as Ug99, is spreading.

Wheat prices have been soaring this week on top of already high prices, and futures contracts spiked, too, on panic buying.

An hour well spent

Posted by patriot on April 26th, 2008

Glenn Beck hosts Joel Rosenberg to discuss last days stuff:

Iran rhetoric goes through the roof

Posted by Charlie Kilo on April 26th, 2008

In the last week the Neocon rhetoric against Iran has been going through the roof. Here are several stories:

Joint Chiefs: Iran still aiding Iraqi terror

Adm. Mullen: U.S. Preparing Strike Option Against Iran

Israeli General Warns on Iran

NYPD gets automatic assault rifles

Posted by patriot on April 26th, 2008

Police state, here we come.

The NYPD is pulling out all the stops to beef up safety of the subways. On Thursday it launched a new anti-terror effort called “Operation Torch,” but the cost of the program is raising some eyebrows.

The NYPD’s new firepower consists of cops with Mp5 submachine guns, rifles, body armor and bomb-sniffing dogs.

Starting Thursday, five or six teams a day will patrol the major transit hubs in the city in the new program, all thanks to a 50 percent increase in a Homeland Security grant.

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