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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (852083)	4/24/2015 4:29:27 PM
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Well, the Israelis should just bulldoze those Islamic temples and build the temple, so Jesus will return and then the Rapture will happen! I mean, who's going to stop them? Netenyahu is just the guy to do it!

To: Wharf Rat who wrote (852083)	4/24/2015 4:58:38 PM
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'Everybody Loves Raymond' Actor Sawyer Sweeten Commits Suicide at 19 Child actor Sawyer Sweeten — whom Americans watched grow up on the hit TV show "Everybody Loves Raymond" — has committed suicide, his sister said in a statement. Madylin Sweeten said she was "devastated" to report that "our beloved brother, son, and friend" Sawyer Sweeten had taken his own life. "This morning a terrible family tragedy has occurred," Madylin Sweeten said in a statement via the manager she shared with her brother, Dino May. "He was weeks away from his 20th birthday. At this sensitive time, our family requests privacy and we beg of you to reach out to the ones you love." Sweeten and his twin brother began appearing as toddlers Geoffrey and Michael Barone on the hit show starring Ray Romano when they were under two years old, according to IMDb. Madylin Sweeten also appeared on the show as their sister Ally Barone. "Everybody Loves Raymond" ran from 1996-2005 on CBS. Kevin Winter / Getty Images file Actor Sawyer Sweeten, known for his role on "Everybody Loves Raymond", has reportedly killed himself at the age of 19. Actors Sawyer Sweeten, left, and Sullivan Sweeten attend the "Everybody Loves Raymond" series wrap party at Hanger 8 on April 28, 2005 in Santa Monica, California. —Richie Duchon

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4/24/2015 7:51:59 PM

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Global Warming ‘Pause’ Extends Nearly 18 And A Half Years
By Michael Bastasch http://thelibertarianrepublic.com/global-warming-pause-extends-nearly-18-and-a-half-years/

Satellite temperature readings show there has been no warming trend for nearly 18 and one-half years, meaning there has been no statistically significant warming since the late 1990s.

Two satellite datasets show that warming has been more moderate than predicted by the United Nations and most climate scientists. The Remote Sensing Systems satellite dataset shows there has been a warming trend of only 0.01 degrees Celsius per century since December 1996.

RSS shows the least amount of warming of the two main satellite temperature datasets, the other dataset is run by scientists at the University Of Alabama in Huntsville. Taken together, both datasets shows a warming trend of just 0.35 degrees Celsius (or 1.37 degrees per century) since 1990 – about half of what was initially predicted by the United Nations.

“The RSS satellite dataset shows no global warming at all for 220 months from December 1996 to March 2014 – more than half the 435-month satellite record,” says Christopher Monckton, an English lord and noted global warming skeptic. Monckton has been researching and tracking global warming data for years.

“The global warming trend since 1900 is equivalent to 0.8 Cº per century. This is well within natural variability and may not have much to do with us,” Monckton says.

Satellites measure the lowest reaches of the Earth’s atmosphere and that data is formulated into temperature readings. Most government climate agencies, however, rely on land and sea surface temperature readings to come up with their global climate measures. While both measures have their setbacks, they both show that warming a has been much more moderate than predicted.

A new study by Duke University researchers found that the world has not warmed as fast as previously predicted. Duke scientists found that “natural variability” has dominated the temperature record, causing observed changes in the temperature record from year to year.

Researchers reconstructed a 1,000-year temperature record and “found that climate models largely get the ‘big picture’ right but seem to underestimate the magnitude of natural decade-to-decade climate wiggles,” said Patrick T. Brown, a doctoral student in climatology at Duke University.

“Our model shows these wiggles can be big enough that they could have accounted for a reasonable portion of the accelerated warming we experienced from 1975 to 2000, as well as the reduced rate in warming that occurred from 2002 to 2013,” Brown said.

What does all this mean? Brown said it means that predictions of dire global warming are likely overblown and that a “middle-of-the-road warming scenario is more likely, at least for now.”

“Statistically, it’s pretty unlikely that an 11-year hiatus in warming, like the one we saw at the start of this century, would occur if the underlying human-caused warming was progressing at a rate as fast as the most severe [UN] projections,” Brown said. “Hiatus periods of 11 years or longer are more likely to occur under a middle-of-the-road scenario.”

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