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I have attempted to remain open minded throughout the investigation of Air France Flight 447. I had hoped that the Bureau d’Enquêtes et d’Analyses (BEA) would come forward and present the facts as known. The evidence shows this is not the case and as a matter of fact, the only reason Thales pitots are still on the Airbus airplanes is for the protection of European companies and their European labor/workers. One would think that Boeing might want to update their complaint with the World Trade Organization (WTO)? The European aviation industry is more concerned with their own business interest and...

Czar is the perfect title for Carol Browner, the person President Obama chose to rule over climate policy. The woman runs her kingdom like an autocrat, taking no prisoners and she has a history of demanding secrecy for example.....When working for the Clinton Administration, Browner had her files erased Against a court order, As Michele Malkin reported back in January: According to testimony in a freedom of information lawsuit filed against EPA by the Landmark Legal Foundation, a Virginia-based conservative legal watchdog group, Browner commanded a computer technician on Jan. 19, 2001: “‘I would like my files deleted. I want...

Below is a simple explanation of what Cap and Trade is. It removes all of the administration propaganda and cuts to the heart of what is involved in a "Cap and Trade System". Emissions trading (or emission trading) is an administrative approach used to control pollution by providing economic incentives for achieving reductions in the emissions of pollutants. It is sometimes called cap and trade. A central authority (usually a government or international body) sets a limit or cap on the amount of a pollutant that can be emitted. Companies or other groups are issued emission permits and are required...

Saxby Chambliss returned to the Senate after winning a hotly contested election in which many Georgia conservatives, disgusted with his votes for the bailouts and stimulus and his stance against domestic drilling, voted for the Libertarian candidate, Allen Buckley. The number of votes acquired by Buckley did not allow Chambliss to gain a majority and forced a runoff with his Democrat challenger. Chambliss eventually won the runoff, helped a great deal by support from talk radio and national Republican leaders who were all apparently willing to sacrifice their conservative principles to save the Senate from a filibuster-proof Democratic majority. And...

If you troll around the internet you can find much evidence that the Global Warming, Global Climate Change ect. is all a scientific Hoax. Lets take a look at this past month of June. undefined * Former NASA Scientist Dr. Roy Spencer reports that global temperatures in June have fallen for the 8th straight year. June 2009 saw another - albeit small drop in the global average temperature anomaly, from +0.04 deg. C in May to 0.00 deg. C in June, with the coolest anomaly (-0.03 deg. C) in the Southern Hemisphere. * In my home town New York City’s...

Full Article at: http://www.thedcwriteup.com/2009/07/green-alarm-causes-incalculable-harm/ One of the most annoying assumptions in current politics is that Republicans and conservatives don’t care about the environment. I’ve lived on a river much of my life, so I know from experience that a clean environment is an essential part of a healthy culture. I’ve seen people dump latrines and trash into my front yard, a water-way that thousands of people use every day. The health hazards of pollution and the real world effects of mutilating natural keepsakes are readily apparent for anyone willing to look closely. But looking at the current Waxman-Markey Climate bill,...

The National Weather Service is reporting that 2009 was one of the coldest and wettest June's on record for New York, with an average temperature of only 67.5 degrees, and an almost record of 10.06 inches of rain. The NWS called the month's weather an, "Unusually wet and cool June for Central Park."

Maybe this is why Congressman Waxman had to be rushed to the hospital today. A new poll released by Rasmussen today, reflected how far out of touch the Democratic majority is with America's Voters. Over half of voters say the number one goal of any energy policy should be to keep energy costs low. 56% say that they should not pay one penny more, either in taxes or higher fuel costs, to fight global warming. In fact America is not even convinced that Global Warming is man made. For those of you who have read the Cap and Trade bill...

According to several sources, including Folha Online: (English Translation: Since the beginning of the search for the black box of Airbus, the French Navy have detected several beeps, but after further analysis, these tracks were discarded for not registering the technical parameters of the signals... The BEA has the wrong blood to do it! Le BEA a du mauvais sang à se faire!... The BEA announced a «factual report» would be presented on July 2nd at 3pm. EuroCockpit could publish a synthesis on this accident the same day, just before the BEA conference. No doubt that journalists will then have...

As a follow up to my previous posting (Cap n Trade Bill: Where Will You Be When The Lights Go Out?), I have been reading the cap n trade bill. I know that I'm not the smartest person however I majored in Economics and I still don't understand this bill. How can an American be taxed on individual carbon usage based on some complex formula that depends on a tree being cut in a jungle in Brazil or how many trucks are on the road in India at any given time, not to mention the Chinese industrial output. This bill...

America is speaking out, but will the government listen? In a Rasmussen Poll released today, only 19% of US voters feel that the unread bill that passed the house on Friday will help the economy. Guess the people aren't drinking the Presidential Kool-aid about the bill producing jobs because 42% feel the Cap-and-Tax bill will hurt the economy. In fact the only ones who support, believe in the global warming measures are those who Identify themselves as democrats. The force feeding of Cap and Trade may be having an effect on the Presidents ratings, because Rasmussen also reports Obama's approval...

I’m confused. I can’t figure out the high-and-mighty Democrats who rule our country. Either I’m dumb as a rock or they’re a bunch of hypocritical tyrants. Specifically, on the issue of federal land and energy development, what I can’t figure out is when is the environment sacred and when is it not? When is federal land of such untouchable environmental value that all energy exploration is banned – no matter what – and when can those protections be swept away as if they don’t exist? The only answer I can come up with: Whenever the Democrats want. I’m talking about...

The Brazilian Navy and Air Force have announced the termination of the SAR mission for Air France Flight 447. All hope for solving the mystery of Flight 447 now rests on finding the “black boxes”. Very few noticed the Le Figaro article late Thursday night which stated: According to several sources contacted Thursday, French forces have captured a signal, “they revolve around the past few days to locate it,” said a military source. “The question now is rather whether the issuer is still attached to the black box view of the circumstances of the accident,” says a close source. As...

In the interest of caution, the NTSB advisory appeared earlier yesterday evening in my RSS feed however the advisory was not published on the NTSB website until this morning and I wanted to wait until official confirmation. As Eurocockpit says: “This initiative of the NTSB is more than welcome: almost a month after an accident for which no one can say that the probes did not play a major role, no airworthiness directive (AD) has been issued (yet?) by Europe. If the NTSB was to “discover” an anomaly in the AA type probes, the U.S. Administration of Civil Aviation (FAA)...

The Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act signed into law on June 17, 1930, it raised tariffs on over 20,000 imported goods to record levels. In the United States 1,028 economists signed a petition against this legislation, and after it was passed, many countries retaliated with their own increased tariffs on U.S. goods, and American exports and imports were reduced by more than half. The Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act is credited with turning a very bad recession into the Great Depression. Tomorrow Congress will vote on the Waxman-Markey bill aka Cap and Trade.Experts estimate the annual costs will approach $3,000 for every family within...

Did you realize that global warming made Tiger Woods lose? Or that CO2 makes fish ears bigger? Or that a hotter planet makes human brains smaller? Uh...uh...uh...I forget where I was going with this...

The average arctic temperature is still not above (take your pick) 32°F 0°C 273.15°K–this the latest date in fifty years of record keeping that this has happened. Usually it is beginning to level off now and if it does so, it will stay near freezing on average in the arctic leading to still less melting than last summer which saw a 9% increase in arctic ice than in 2007.

Cap and Trade the reality. Breakdown of the Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade plan set for vote this Friday and creation of Government Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Registry. Costs, percentages and figures. Net result zero effect on environment $1,500 - $3,000 bill to average American family. Old Glory Radio Video Morning Report 06/25/09 - LINK TO VIDEO REPORT -

FLORIDA HURRICANE PREPARATION You all should be aware of hurricane preparations, but in case you need a refresher course: We're about to enter the peak of the hurricane season. Any minute now, you're going to turn on the TV and see a weather person pointing to some radar blob out in the Atlantic Ocean and making two basic meteorological points. (1) There is no need to panic. (2) We could all be killed. Yes, hurricane season is an exciting time to be in Florida. If you're new to the area, you're probably wondering what you need to do to prepare...

Photo from the International Space Station! Full size image here.One giant belch likely emitting more CO2 into the atmosphere than all the cars on earth do in one year!(Excerpt) Read more at floppingaces.net ...

The latest news from Australia indicates that our friends down under are giving up on climate change: In the last week of Parliament before the long winter break, Australian senators voted to consider other Bills ahead of the emissions trading scheme legislation. That means a vote on emissions trading is unlikely this week. It probably will not take place until August, which would kill off the chances of the Government getting the first stage of a double dissolution election trigger before the break. In order to get a double dissolution trigger, the Government must fail to pass the same Bill...

Last night, Mark Levin accurately labeled Friday's Climate Change vote, "Tax and Kill". Mark says this is the most expensive and destructive bill in American history. Click to listen to audio clip of Mark Levin ==> This is it, folks! The time to save our country from total chaos is now. This Climate Change/Cap and Trade legislation will ruin our country. This is for real. Listen to Mark's words! We have to stop this from happening! Later in the show, Mark quoted his book from the chapter on Enviro-Statism. Click to listen to audio clip of Mark Levin ==>

Unreliable speed is one of the difficult situations that a pilot has to face. Once the failure has been identified, a procedure, based on pitch angles and thrust settings, will assist the pilot in safely flying the aircraft... ...the main difficulty is to rapidly detect an unreliable speed situation. Reaction time is crucial, since the aircraft may stall and overspeed conditions could cause aircraft damage. ...‘We’ were already aware of what the problem was the morning of the accident (the famous erroneous airspeed). There are passed records that display the exact ACRAS messages sent by the AF477. The same causes...

Oh yes, the new term is now "Man Made Climate Change" not "Global Warming". "Man Made Climate Change" allows the Goracle to hide behind a new euphemism and continue to claim the we are destroying the planet.

Starting on Sunday, June 21, 2009, I expect more news coming out of Paris and the le Bureau d’enquêtes et d’analyses (BEA). The “big tent” for the “le cirque” came down on the Paris Air Show Saturday night and the French press/media restrictions on Air France Flight 447 will be most likely be lifted by the Euro/French government. The Brazilian Air Force (FAB) and Navy have been doing a great recovery operation under difficult sea conditions. I don’t expect the additional recovery of any significant wreckage or remains. Brazilian families of Flight 447 are sequestered in the Guanabara Hotel in...

Former NBC anchorman Tom Brokaw has been reduced to doing infomercials. I don't know if it's because he has some psychological need to be on tv or he lost his money to Bernie Madoff. Perhaps he expects to profit from trading carbon credits. Most of us have watched at least portions of infomercials. They often use a similar format. A shill pretending to be a real interviewer asks the questions the seller wants to answer. Usually the seller has a manufactured product, some medical treatment, a book or perhaps some get rich quick scheme. The format can also be used...

Following the EuroCockpit article published June 17, we received letters which shows abundantly [clear] that even if the debate is highly technical, many of our readers are interested in ACARS messages. But as everyone knows, the ACARS messages in question since the day of the accident were never broadcast. Only a [main line code vs sub-code lines] list of these messages (in different versions) has been distributed to the press - France2 in log 20h of June 4. ...We should not rely on the BEA to have full knowledge of the ACARS messages. According to our information, "official version" of...

Critics of the tea parties held in April noted that participants lacked a common theme. They carried signs dealing with a variety of issues making it difficult for simple minded critics to understand what was going on. Critics don't understand that protesters felt that government wasn't interested in them except as a source of funds for government programs that sometimes have little or no apparent value. The original Boston Tea Party had a specific theme - a symbol of what colonists felt was wrong. Colonists were tired of people an ocean away making decisions without considering their input. The new...

Chicken Little Lays Egg by: Brittany Fortier, June 11, 2009 The energy debate in America is at a crossroads. The Obama administration is beginning to partner with Australia to build a “global carbon capture and storage institute.” In April, President Obama spoke at a Student Roundtable in Istanbul, Turkey, saying that he wants the United States to take a leadership role in regards to “climate change” and encourage countries “like China to join us.” Ever since global warming made the leap from scientific theory to purported scientific law, there has been a shortage of discussion on the effects of the...

Associated Press science reporter Seth Borenstein reported on June 10, 2009 that global warming may be causing the winds to die down in the U.S. Borenstein's article, titled "Not so windy: Research suggests winds dying down" reports: The wind, a favorite power source of the green energy movement, seems to be dying down across the United States. And the cause, ironically, may be global warming-the very problem wind power seeks to address. Borenstein also noted: "Several outside experts mostly agree that there are signs that wind speed is decreasing and that global warming is the likely culprit." The article continues:...

New information: An image captured by the Meteosat-9 satellite (Eumetsat) 14 minutes before AF 447 sent the last message, showed that the plane crossed an “agglomeration of clouds” with temperatures as low as -83° C (-117° F)... Based on data collected at the time the flight AF 447 crossed the region of the ocean (about 565 km from Natal-RN), the coordinator of the Ph.D. in remote sensing and the University of Arizona (USA), Humberto Alves Barbosa , meteorologist, suggests a new theory for the accident. He believes that the aircraft may have faced unprecedented conditions in air routes.

The Crazies of the Church of Global Warming has a philosophy, "If God deals you bad numbers--fudge them." Remember when they came out with the announcement that October was the warmest in history and then, "OOPS NEVER MIND." It was James Hansen The Grand Poobah of warming who is screwed up the numbers. It was actually a quite average month. Ranked 70th in the last 114 years. And it wasn't the first time Hansen has screwed up his numbers. In 2007 he was forced by other scientists to revise his published figures for US surface temperatures, to show that the...

A comment on Joe Romm's Climate Progress blog threatens physical harm to those skeptical of man-made climate fears. The June 5, 2009 comment, posted at 3:01 PM, under the name "Creative Greenius" warns any dissenters from man-made global warming fears that "an entire generation that will soon be ready to strangle you and your kind while you sleep in your beds." Romm, a former Clinton Administration official, touts New York Times Columnist Tom Friedman praising Climate Progress as an "indispensable blog.” Romm was also named by U.S. News and World Report as one of the "top 8 Washington players on...

While the serious world waits anxiously for a plausible explanation as to why that Airbus went down, the eco loons have seized their moment. According to Russia Today, a Russian climatologist "believes global warming may have played a serious part." Well, of course. After all, as we know, global warming is responsible for everything from acne, bubonic plague, and childhood insomnia to vampire moths, whale weight loss and yellow fever. It seems only logical that Anthropogenic Global Warming must be to blame for this extreme event too. The Russia Today article says: "Although the exact cause of the tragedy may...

As usual the liberal moonbats are creating problems while ignoring the real ones. Anyone with an ounce of common sense has been listening to those scientists who are either not on government grants or who have enough ethics to say the truth, that it's not 'greenhouse gases', stupid, it's the sun. While libs flail and gnash their teeth over human impact on the climate and their idiotic carbon credit scams and the Obama administration prepares to tax the crap out of us with the cap and trade fiasco, the problem is building right above our heads. Instead of this nonsense...

Climate change causes 315,000 deaths a year-report Thu, 28 May 2009 22:22:42 UTC CLIMATE-HUMAN/ (EMBARGOED) (Embargoed for release at 1000 GMT May 29) By Megan Rowling LONDON, May 29 (Reuters) - Climate change kills about 315,000 people a year through hunger, sickness and weather disasters, and the annual death toll is expected to rise to half a million by 2030, a report said on Friday. The study, commissioned by the Geneva-based Global Humanitarian Forum (GHF), estimates that climate change seriously affects 325 million people every year, a number that will more than double in 20 years to 10 percent...

I ran across an interesting Web site which lets users access data for local weather stations going back into the 19th century. I wandered about the site for a bit, pulling up charts from various places in my region, and found that some have gotten warmer, some have gotten colder, and many have stayed within the same range for a century plus.

Henry Waxman said this about his own climate bill. “I certainly don’t claim to know everything in this bill, I know that we have left it to uh, we rely very heavily on the scientists.” WHY can these so-called leaders write bills and then claim they do not know everything in the bill? They redirect and lay responsibility on other entities such as scientists in this case rather than taking responsibility and demonstrating knowledge of their own proposed legislation. READ THE BILL!!!!

This past February, in a stunning disregard of their fiduciary responsibilities to the American People, the Congress voted on a stimulus bill that they hadn't read. This one bill that single-handedly increased the national debt by 160%. The bill was over 800 pages, and the members of the House received the bill at 11 pm the night before they were to vote on it. The vote couldn't be delayed because Nancy Pelosi was going on vacation to Italy. This past Friday the House Energy committee passed the "cap and trade" energy tax bill. The legislation was over 900 pages, once...

Faced facefwd.com No Wonder Chavez Loves Obama and the Socialist Democrats so much. The new bill just out of committee will make his offshore refineries incredibly profitable. After one week of long hours and heated arguments,and many months of continued propaganda by the GE owned broadcast networks (CBS, MSNBC, CNBC, History Channel, SciFi, A&E) the House Energy & Commerce committee, on May 21, cleared the American Clean Energy & Security Act of 2009, by a 33 to 25 vote. Those backing the Bill claimed it would reduce global-warming pollution to 97% of 2005 levels by 2012, 80% by 2020, 58%...

nthony Watts, author of the weblog Watts Up With That, has completed an outstanding, clearly written report that documents a major problem with the use of the United States Historical Climatology Network (USHCN)to assess multi-decadal surface temperature trends. The report is Watts, A. 2009: Is the U.S. Surface Temperature Record Reliable? 28 pages, March 2009 The Heartland Institute. The Executive Summary reads “Global warming is one of the most serious issues of our times. Some experts claim the rise in temperature during the past century was “unprecedented” and proof that immediate action to reduce human greenhouse gas emissions must begin....

Governor Palin praised Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele as "bold and courageous" late Tuesday while knocking President Barack Obama as "predictable as Alaska's winter snow." In a statement criticizing the president over General Motors' plan to sell its healthy assets to the federal government following bankruptcy, the Republican governor singled out Steele as a counterbalance to the president. "We have another voice in Washington, D.C. — a man who understands what Alaskans believe: less centralized government control, restrained budgets, more opportunity for development and fewer taxes," The Governor said.

There's an unintentionally hilarious piece in today's Observer by Science Editor (aka chief eco-scaremoner) Robin McKie claiming that he now knows for certain that climate change denial is about to go the way of the dodo. His evidence? Because pop stars Jarvis Cocker, Martha Wainwright, and KT Tunstall, authors Ian McEwan and Cormac McCarthy, and a playwright called Steve Waters have all written songs, books or plays about it. "These are encouraging developments," infers McKie. "For a start they show that the cause of climate-change denial, perpetuated by those who claim everything is tickety-boo on the environmental front, is a...

Stupid ocean buoys fail to support global warmingThe Argos sensor buoys were deployed in hope of getting better ocean temperature data. This data was to support the anthropogenic global warming hypothesis. The actual result is the buoys have found a slight ocean cooling in the six years they have been deployed. The biggest problem with the Argos sensor buoy findings is the readings fly in the face of major climate change computer models. These models postulate that as much as 80-90 per cent of global warming will result from the oceans warming rapidly then releasing their heat into the atmosphere....

If you've ever, or never, been in a tornado watch this video (I cant post video so just follow the link and scroll down the page)

Oprah Winfrey has just found a completely new fanbase after singing the praises of private jet ownership. Given the backlash against conspicuous consumption and concern over carbon footprints (very large in the case of private jet travel), this is not a terribly fashionable sentiment to express these days. Speaking to Duke University graduates on Sunday about success, the talk show queen said: “And I will have to say, it is a wonderful thing to have a beautiful home, or homes….and it is really fantastic to have your own jet, and anybody who says it isn’t is lying to you. That...

Polar Bears "Dropping Like Flies" From Heat Exhaustion Hunter Jeremiah Johnson comforts a polar bear that had collapsed from heat exhaustion before he could shoot it. (Cold Bay, Alaska) Warming temperatures in polar regions are causing an increasing number of polar bears to collapse from heat exhaustion, local hunters report. Jeremiah Johnson, a local hunter who tracks and kills polar bears "because they are there" has seen three of the behemoths collapse before him in just the last month. "It just isn't sporting to shoot one of these creatures when they are suffering like this", Johnson said as he recounted...

It makes one wonder what makes Al Gore leave his palatial mansion with the giant carbon footprint, take a gas guzzling limo, to his private plane and spread CO2 all across the world just to promote the global warming hoax. It can't be that he actually believes the distorted research he peddles. If that was the case, he wouldn't be such a major polluter. Maybe it has something to do with protecting his investment. After all, he is founder and chairman of a venture capital company that has invested about $1 billion in companies that just might make a bundle...

Rasmussen: The gap between Capitol Hill and Main Street is huge when it comes to the so-called "cap-and-trade" legislation being considered in Congress. So wide, in fact, that few voters even know what the proposed legislation is all about. Given a choice of three options, just 24% of voters can correctly identify the cap-and-trade proposal as something that deals with environmental issues. A slightly higher number (29%) believe the proposal has something to do with regulating Wall Street while 17% think the term applies to health care reform. A plurality (30%) have no idea. Heritage.org: Many Americans find the...

The United States suffered through an unusually severe winter, with snow falling in such unlikely destinations as New Orleans, Las Vegas, Alabama, and Georgia. On Dec. 25, every Canadian province celebrated a white Christmas, something that hadn't happened in 37 years. At one point during the winter Europe had such a killing cold wave that trains were shut down in the French Riviera and chimpanzees in the Rome Zoo had to be plied with hot tea.Three of the Great Lakes - Erie, Superior, and Huron - almost completely froze over. More bad news for the Church of Global Warming happened...