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Global warming is ‘no longer a planetary emergency’

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“The World Federation of Scientists, at its annual seminars on planetary emergencies, has been advised by its own climate monitoring panel that global warming is no longer a planetary emergency.  Professor Essex called for ‘free and open debate on all aspects of climate science, even where hypotheses are put forward for examination that openly contradict the official positions of political entities.’ He said the panel found persuasive indications that climate models systematically understated natural climate variability and significantly exaggerated the impact of CO2 emissions. Accordingly, past, present and proposed policy measures could be shown not to provide net benefits to society.”

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/08/28/global-warming-is-no-longer-a-planetary-emergency/

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Scientists insist global warming ‘hiatus’ will be brief

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“Grasping one of the thorniest issues in climate politics, the researchers said the recent slowdown lies in a natural but temporary cooling in the tropical Pacific Ocean.  Contrary to earlier predictions, warming of Earth’s surface in recent years has not occurred in lock-step with rising levels of heat-trapping gas in the atmosphere.  Over the last 50 years, temperatures have risen by an average of 0.12 degrees Celsius (0.21 degrees Fahrenheit) per decade. But over the last 15 years, the increase has slowed to a rate of 0.05 C (0.09 F) per decade, even though fossil-fuel carbon emissions continue to break new records.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/08/28/scientists-say-global-warming-hiatus-will-be-brief/

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John Kerry: Science on climate change is ‘irrefutable and it is alarming’

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“US Secretary of State John Kerry said Monday the evidence for climate change was beyond dispute but it was not too late for international action to prevent its worst impacts. ‘The science is clear. It is irrefutable and it is alarming,’ Kerry told a climate conference in Majuro in the Marshall Islands in a video address from Washington.  ‘If we continue down our current path, the impacts of climate change will only get worse.’  Kerry said without strong, immediate action, the world would experience threats to critical infrastructure, regional stability, public health, economic vitality, and the long-term viability of some states.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/09/02/john-kerry-science-on-climate-change-is-irrefutable-and-it-is-alarming/

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Britain fights EU’s ‘Big Brother’ bid to fit every car with speed limiter

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“Drivers face having their cars  fitted with devices that slam on the brakes if they go over the speed limit, under draconian new road safety measures being drawn up by  officials in Brussels. All new cars would have to include camera systems that ‘read’ the limits displayed on road signs and automatically apply the brakes.  And vehicles already on the road could even be sent back to garages to be fitted with the ‘Big Brother’ technology, meaning that no car in the UK would be allowed to travel faster than 70mph – the speed limit on motorways.  The EC’s Mobility and Transport Department aims to slash the death toll from traffic accidents by a third by 2020.”

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2408012/Britain-fights-EUs-Big-Brother-bid-fit-car-speed-limiter.html

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Bombing Syria Is An Act of War

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“2 years ago the president told Assad to leave office. Looking for the lowest-cost way to accomplish this objective (without explicitly using American forces), the president then supported the rebels covertly. When the rebels lost ground in the last year, the president looked for a pretext. The chemical event, no matter how it came to be, is that pretext.
Although the president has tried to sell bombing as a limited one-time event in response to a chemical event, none of the major players believes this. They know that it is an act of war. The president further acknowledges that it is an act of war by seeking congressional approval.”

http://www.lewrockwell.com/lrc-blog/bombing-syria-is-an-act-of-war/

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FBI increases surveillance of Syrians in U.S.

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“The FBI has beefed up its surveillance of Syrians living in the United States ahead of a possible US military attack on Syria, The New York Times reported Sunday. The newspaper said FBI agents are set to interview hundreds of Syrians in the coming days.
US officials are especially concerned because Syria’s close ally Iran has warned that any military action on Syria would leave Israel in flames.  It said senior FBI officials have also directed the bureau’s field offices to follow up with sources linked to Syrians as part of an effort to identify any talk of a retaliatory strike. And Syrians currently under investigation will be placed under closer scrutiny.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/09/02/fbi-increases-surveillance-of-syrians-in-u-s-nyt/

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U.S. transport ship with hundreds of Marines deployed to the Mediterranean

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“The US Navy has deployed an amphibious transport ship to the Mediterranean, where five destroyers are already in place for possible missile strikes on Syria, a defense official said on Sunday.  The USS San Antonio, with several helicopters and hundreds of Marines on board, is ‘on station in the Eastern Mediterranean’ but ‘has received no specific tasking,’ said the defense official, who spoke on condition of anonymity.  Unlike the destroyers deployed to the area, the San Antonio carries no Tomahawk cruise missiles but can ferry up to four helicopters and is designed to bring Marines ashore by chopper or landing craft.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/09/01/u-s-transport-ship-with-hundreds-of-marines-on-board-deployed-to-the-mediterranean/

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White House sends resolution to Congress asking for approval on Syria strikes

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“The White House formally asked Congress Saturday for authorization to conduct military strikes in Syria in a draft resolution framing a narrow set of operations, in a bid to ease fears of another open-ended war.  The document says support from Congress, requested by President Barack Obama in a stunning development on Saturday, would ‘send a clear signal of American resolve.’  ‘The objective of the United States use of military force in connection with this authorization should be to deter, disrupt, prevent and degrade the potential for future uses of chemical weapons or other weapons of mass destruction,’ the draft resolution reads.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/08/31/white-house-sends-resolution-to-congress-asking-for-approval-on-syria-strikes/

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I Am Curious About Why Vital Information Was Not Publicized

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“The government’s intelligence statement says that they had information three days before the gas event. I am curious. Did Obama privately warn the Syrian government not to make a gas attack? Did he reveal to them that he had intelligence of their activities so as to stop them? Why didn’t Obama make this intelligence fully public prior to the attack? Wouldn’t that publicity have made it very difficult for an attack to have been ordered? Even if the intelligence was not 100% able to nail down an impending attack, why was it not made public? How can we be sure that this intelligence is meaningful if, prior to the event, the U.S. government didn’t consider it reliable enough so as to issue a warning?”

http://www.lewrockwell.com/lrc-blog/i-am-curious-about-why-vital-information-was-not-publicized/

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The U.S. Will Regret Intervention in Syria

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“One argument for U.S. intervention in Syria is as a message to Iran to take seriously U.S. threats toward its nuclear program—on which Obama has also painted himself into a corner by saying he will not allow Iran to get nuclear weapons. Yet military options to prevent Iran from getting nuclear weapons or a nuclear capability have never been very credible—bombing likely will not get all of Iran’s nuclear facilities and will likely only spur Iran to accelerate the program to deter further attacks. In fact, limited U.S. intervention in Syria may not only fail to intimidate Iran, but act as a similar nuclear accelerant.”

http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=4702

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