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To: Land Shark who wrote (1006387)	3/16/2017 5:21:53 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Respond to of 1574864

Weird Polar Warming Appears to Have Made February of 2017 the Second Hottest Ever Recorded I think the scientific consensus will be that February probably should not have been so darn hot. But it was. And that’s pretty amazingly weird. ** Clocking in at 1.32 C above 1880s averages, the month was oddly and disturbingly warm. The strong equatorial Pacific Ocean surface warming that was the El Nino of 2015-2016 had long since passed. The effects of a weak La Nina cooling of the same waters during late 2016 still lingered. And the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO) — a measure of ocean surface temperature oscillation in the Pacific that tends to help drive natural variability based warming and cooling cycles — showed a meager warming bias value of 0.08 (or barely positive). All these factors pointed toward a climate system that should have been pulling the world into a cyclical short term cooling during 2017 and 2018 (relative to 2016 record warmth). Global temperatures under such conditions would have been expected to recede about 0.1 to 0.2 C off highs hit during 2016 of 1.2 C hotter than 1880s temperatures. Averaging in a still disturbingly warm range near 1 C above 1880s values but waiting for the next El Nino cycle for a run at new global record warmth. Heat Heads Toward the Poles** But, so far, the expected cyclical cooling isn’t happening. Instead, January of 2017 showed up as 1.14 C hotter than 1880s while February was 1.32 C hotter. The combined average of these two months was 1.23 C warmer than the preindustrial baseline — or a hair warmer that the 2016 average. This shouldn’t have happened. But it did. And now there is some risk that 2017 may be yet another record hot year. The fourth in a row consecutively. (a commenter says 65% chance of a new record; that ain't good. No link provided.). robertscribbler.com

To: Land Shark who wrote (1006387)	3/16/2017 6:56:42 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574864

No, you simply made up a lie.

To: Land Shark who wrote (1006387)	3/16/2017 7:22:08 PM
From: locogringo	1 Recommendation Recommended By FJB Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574864

Russian bank tells DOJ mysterious Trump computer connections may have been hacker hoax A Russian bank has reported to U.S. authorities that mysterious communications resumed recently between one of its computers and an email server tied to President Trump’s business empire, and it has developed evidence the new activity may be the work of a hacker trying to create a political hoax, Circa has learned. Alfa Bank is asking the U.S. Justice Department for help solving the mystery and pledged its full cooperation. Alfa wants U.S. authorities to help unmask a computer inside the United States that it believes has been used to launch cyberattacks spoofing the appearance of a backdoor communication channel between Moscow and America’s 45th president, according to a source directly familiar with the bank’s request.The bank believes "these malicious attacks are designed to create the false impression that Alfa Bank has a secretive relationship with the Trump Organization,” the source said, speaking on condition of anonymity. Alfa Bank has insisted since media stories began appearing last fall about the computer communications -- known as Domain Name Server lookups -- that it has never had a relationship to Trump or any of his companies and that any computer connections between the two parties’ computers were innocuous. The resumption of the computer pings started last month, and Alfa’s cybersecurity experts traced evidence that the activity was actually being spoofed -- or hacked --through a third party from a masked computer address inside the United States, the source said. Like a return address The attacks attempted to trigger verification signals between Alfa Bank and a server associated with the Trump Organization, the source said. The source said the spoofing attempt is equivalent to someone in the U.S. sending an empty envelope to the Trump Towers but putting on the envelope a return address in Russia, causing the Trump server to falsely return the communication back to Moscow. <more> Original Article