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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (909756)	12/20/2015 12:48:57 PM
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As Tony Heller has pointed out, NASA scientists declared already in 1971 that runaway greenhouse effect due to CO2 is not possible: NASA Has Known Since 1971 That CO2 Is Not Dangerous, Yet Lied To The Public Continuously Posted on November 8, 2015 by tonyheller New York State is investigating Exxon for telling the truth about CO2 in 1976, but the big story is that NASA and NCAR have known since 1971 that CO2 is not dangerous – yet have lied to the public about this for over 30 years. In 1971, the top climatologists at NCAR and NASA reported that a runaway greenhouse effect is not possible, because the CO2 absorption spectra is nearly saturated already. vademecum.brandenberger.eu/pdf/klima/rasool_schneider_1971.pdf This is exactly what NCAR’s current radiative transfer models show. Adding more CO2 has very little effect on downwelling longwave radiation. But it is worse than it seems. Scientists have actually known for 115 years that CO2 is not dangerous. Knut Ångström, asked an assistant to measure the passage of infrared radiation through a tube filled with carbon dioxide. The assistant (“Herr J. Koch,” otherwise unrecorded in history) put in rather less of the gas in total than would be found in a column of air reaching to the top of the atmosphere. The assistant reported that the amount of radiation that got through the tube scarcely changed when he cut the quantity of gas back by a third. Apparently it took only a trace of the gas to “saturate” the absorption — that is, in the bands of the spectrum where CO2 blocked radiation, it did it so thoroughly that more gas could make little difference. The Carbon Dioxide Greenhouse Effect The evidence of fraud is overwhelming. An essential component of greenhouse gas theory is that a hotspot will appear in the upper troposphere. It hasn’t happened. New Satellite Upper Troposphere Product: Still No Tropical “Hotspot” « Roy Spencer, PhD Satellites show that there has been about 0.1C warming over the past 25 years. Even less than the sensitivity calculated by Rasool and Schneider in 1971 Wood for Trees: Interactive Graphs All of the climate models have overestimated warming, many by a large amount. It doesn’t matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn’t matter how smart you are. If it doesn’t agree with experiment, it’s wrong. Richard P. Feynman Catastrophic global warming theory has failed. But rather than tell the truth and lose their reputations and funding, NASA and NOAA scientists have chosen to tamper with the data and continue lying to the public about something they have known is not a problem – for 45 years. realclimatescience.com

To: Wharf Rat who wrote (909756)	12/20/2015 12:53:20 PM
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Thank you, Lincoln and the Republican party. Of course, opposing slavery today is an anti-Muslim hate crime. Opposing slavery (and female genital mutilation) causes resentment that causes Muslims to join Islam.

To: Wharf Rat who wrote (909756)	12/20/2015 1:01:03 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573852

Japan has liberals too: The Revolutionary Loser's League They're leftists who can't get girls and hate Christmas and capitalism. If Japan had a Bernie Sanders, these pathetic twerps would have someone they could rally behind. Single men stage anti-Christmas rally in Tokyo By Rick Moran "East is east, west is west, and never the twain shall meet," wrote Rudyard Kipling. Perhaps that's why the story of a demonstration in Tokyo by single men against Christmas is so inexplicable. The name of their group speaks volumes: the Revolutionary Losers' League. And it shouldn't surprise you that they're communists who hate western holidays and capitalism. AFP: The group of about 20 -- part of the Communist-inspired group that routinely protests Western holidays -- marched under angry banners that read "Smash Christmas!" in Tokyo's Shibuya district, where couples and families strolled for holiday shopping. The scrooges -- mostly single men -- said they were against capitalism and were opposed to the commercialisation of Christmas. "In this world, money is extracted from people in love, and happy people support capitalism," said the head of the organisation, formally called Kakumeiteki Hi-mote Domei, or the Revolutionary Losers' League. [ How true. And unhappy loveless people support socialism. ] "Christmas is the most symbolic event for this," he added. The man, who identified himself only by the pseudonym MarkWater, said the rally was also in support of unloved men. "Unpopular men, who don't have a girlfriend or are not married, are overly discriminated. We want to break this barrier," he told AFP amid the shouting protesters. In Japan, Christmas is not an official holiday and is mostly celebrated informally as a romantic event for couples, while the New Year's day is an occasion for family reunion. The Christian population remains small in the Asian country, stores offer special holiday sales and people decorate Christmas trees at home. The group has held past marches to denounce imported Western holidays, including rallies against Valentine's Day. There are significantly more women than men in Japan - 51.3% to 48-7% - but fewer women are getting married and having children. This has led to a declining, aging population with adults staying single into their 30's - if they get married at all. But the commies calling themselves "losers" is appropos. This is not about demographics as much as it is a statement against the "happiness" of families who share holidays and experience a closeness and intimacy that these young men are unable to feel. Railing against capitalism is not the story. It is the jealousy and enviousness of the lonely, trapped in a demographic death spiral, who are unable to find spiritual fulfillment in their lives. Thomas Lifson adds: Actually, this is not inexplicable at all. The Japan Communist Party (JCP) sees Japan in decline and is trying to harness itself to anger over the despair. It is playing what we call the “victim card” with the chosen name “Revolutionary Losers.” The bet is that there are more losers than winners in Japan, so becoming their voice offers some hope of rising support. Christmas in Japan is almost entirely a commercial phenomenon, driven by retailers and manufacturers eager to create an occasion on which consumption of their products becomes a social obligation. For example, Valentine’s Day (obviously, another imported holiday) has become a day on which males in offices are required to give females white chocolate, while the females must give the males dark chocolate. Failure to do so becomes an insult. The chocolate is known as “giri-choco” (“obligatory chocolate”). Christmas is no different. Aside from toys for children from Santa, the holiday has been most brilliantly exploited by Kentucky Fried Chicken (a joint venture between KFC and Mitsubishi Corporation), which created the fiction that the traditional way Americans celebrate Christmas is with fried chicken. Thus, on Christmas Day, lines form at KFCs across Japan, as parents do their best to discharge their obligation to offer an authentic holiday. The Wall Street Journal is only the latest American news outlet to notice this. Photo credit: Wall Street Journal One can find this either charming or repellant, depending on your values. The JCP obviously falls in the latter camp. And that is the basis of its reaction. Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2015/12/single_men_stage_antichristmas_rally_in_tokyo.html#ixzz3us8w5Pt7 Follow us: @AmericanThinker on Twitter \| AmericanThinker on Facebook