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To: Land Shark who wrote (991612)	1/3/2017 7:57:01 PM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1570043

no they dont' only the ones who want grant money it's a scam

To: Land Shark who wrote (991612)

1/3/2017 7:58:45 PM

From: longnshort

Respond to of 1570043

follow the money Dr. Duane Thresher, a climate scientist with a PhD from Columbia University and NASA GISS, has pointed to “publication and funding bias” as a key to understanding how scientific consensus can be manipulated.

Although scientists are held up as models of independent thinkers and unbiased seekers of truth, the reality is that they depend on funding even more than other professions, since much of their research has no market value. Thus, they will study what they are funded to study.

To: Land Shark who wrote (991612)	1/3/2017 8:05:48 PM
From: James Seagrove	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1570043

I'd forget ice ages and worry about this... MISBEHAVING SYRIAN STUDENTS ARE A FEDERAL PROBLEM BY DAVID AKIN, PARLIAMENTARY BUREAU CHIEF As teachers at a Fredericton High School bent over backwards this spring to help Syrian students only to have some of them harass and bully both teachers and other students, a school vice-principal suggested the federal government should help. That vice-principal is right. Misbehaving students is, sadly, an all-too-common problem in our country’s schools but most of the time educators have (or ought to have) the tools to deal with these problems. But when the offending student is part of a wave of recently arrived Syrian refugees — unable to speak English and at odds with Canadian values of pluralism and tolerance — extraordinary help from Ottawa is required. The teachers are saying so themselves. New Brunswick’s capital had accepted about 450 Syrian refugees since last fall and 29 of them became part of the student population of 1,900 at Fredericton High School (FHS) early in the new year. Most of the Syrian students were eager to learn. A handful were not. The teachers described how some bullied younger students and were insolent and disrespectful to teachers, particularly female teachers. One told a teacher that rocket-propelled grenades was his “hobby.” “Our team have been accommodating about seating plans, gender, prayer, respecting refugees, etc. I was very disappointed to think that this was not being reciprocated by some of our Syrian students,” one teacher wrote to vice-principal Robyn Allaby. “This complexity needs to be discussed at the federal level,” Allaby wrote back to her frustrated teachers. The e-mails were among hundreds unearthed through an access to information request made by the news site TheRebel.media that paint a picture of eager and admirably committed teachers bending over backwards to help refugee students only to discover that, for a handful, good intentions were not enough. One teacher observed an older Syrian student bully a younger Jewish student and, with almost trademark Canadian naivete, wrote: “Obviously this is a cultural and political scenario that runs deep and while I like to think we can transcend it all in our classrooms, so far it doesn’t look good. While I would like to simply say they are in Canada and they have to deal with their new reality, it may not be so simple.” Indeed, it may not be so simple. In fact, just before rising for their summer recess, MPs were getting an earful from educators about how complex a problem it has become for many on the front line to integrate students who may be illiterate in Arabic, let alone English, into Canada’s school system. Representatives of school boards in Calgary and in Toronto testified at a House of Commons committee that they needed more federal government funding for “the complex needs” of these students. For the Fredericton teachers on the front line, it wasn’t just money they needed. They scrambled to obtain all kinds of resources, from Arabic language books to information about Syrian education curriculum, to help their students. Watching Canada Day celebrations, it was encouraging — heartwarming even — to see many Syrian refugees join in and celebrate the country that is happy to adopt them and give them new chances at new lives. As U.S. President Barack Obama told the House of Commons last week, Canada has “inspired the world” with its acceptance of refugees. We should be proud of that. But the example of Fredericton High School should remind us to be clear-eyed and practical about the difficulty that many Syrian refugees will have coming to terms with Canadian culture and values. And those e-mails should be required reading for legislators — provincial and federal — considering funding requests from those front-line teachers. torontosun.com

To: Land Shark who wrote (991612)	1/4/2017 10:48:49 AM
From: Brumar89	1 Recommendation Recommended By James Seagrove Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1570043

The earth has spent most of the last million years in ice ages with glaciers covering most of Europe and over half of North America. For most or the current interglacial, the earth has been as warm or warmer than nowl. The warmest part of our interglacial has been named the Holocene Climate Optimum for a reason. I hope we can break the seesaw between short interglacials and long periods of glacial advance, though I don't see any reason to think the warming effect of higher CO2 will be big enough to accomplish that. We should be worried about the next ice age, not mythical runaway warming.

To: Land Shark who wrote (991612)	1/4/2017 11:00:40 AM
From: Brumar89	Respond to of 1570043

The Medieval Warming Period mapping project shows locations where studies of proxy data from the MWP have been analyzed. As everyone can see, there is a LOT of evidence the MWP was comparable to the present and the MWP was a worldwide phenomena. *Figure 1:* Screenshot of MWP Mapping Project (Source: Luening http://t1p.de/mwpdownloaded 27-Dec-2016) A cursory inspection of Figure 1 indicates that there are a large number of warm study locations dispersed throughout the world. However, to determine the global numbers for the Warm-Cold-Neutral-Dry-Wet studies, I downloaded the mapped data for the 934 studies that were available on 30 December 2016 and these are summarised in Figure 2. *Figure 2:* Results from MWP Mapping Project (Source: Luening http://t1p.de/mwpdownloaded 30-Dec-2016) The following observations are evident from Figure 2; a. The number of Warm studies (497) greatly exceed the other studies, namely, 53% of the studies when temperature and hydroclimate date is used and 88% when temperature only data is used. b. The number of Cold studies (18) is very small, at 2-3% of the overall studies. c. The number of Neutral studies (53) is comparatively low, at 6-9% of the overall studies. d. The number of studies that report only Hydroclimatic data is not insignificant. The number of Dry studies (184) and the number of Wet studies (182) are 20% and 19% of the overall studies respectively. ........... wattsupwiththat.com