More evidence Global Warming on hold

[barrons]

<p>[Stagnating</a> Temperatures: Climatologists Baffled by Global Warming Time-Out - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News - International](<a href=“http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,662092,00.html]Stagnating”>Stagnating Temperatures: Climatologists Baffled by Global Warming Time-Out - DER SPIEGEL)</p>

[razorsharp]

<p>Well, this is bad news for the prostitution business. </p>

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The effects of climate change have driven women in communities in coastal areas in poor countries like the Philippines into dangerous work, and sometimes even the flesh trade, a United Nations official said.</p>

<p>Suneeta Mukherjee, country representative of the United Nations Food Population Fund (UNFPA), said women in the Philippines are the most vulnerable to the effects of climate change in the country.

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<p>[‘Climate</a> change pushes poor women to prostitution, dangerous work’ - Nation - GMANews.TV - Official Website of GMA News and Public Affairs - Latest Philippine News](<a href=“‘Climate change pushes poor women to prostitution, dangerous work’ | GMA News Online”>http://www.gmanews.tv/story/177346/climate-change-pushes-poor-women-to-prostitution-dangerous-work)</p>

[barrons]

<p>Or maybe it’s just an easier way to make a $$</p>

<p>[Tweed</a> - Let’s See, Fair Wages for Ph.D.'s or Prostitution? Hmm … - The Chronicle of Higher Education](<a href=“http://chronicle.com/blogPost/Lets-See-Fair-Wages-for/8938/?sid=pm&utm_source=pm&utm_medium=en]Tweed”>http://chronicle.com/blogPost/Lets-See-Fair-Wages-for/8938/?sid=pm&utm_source=pm&utm_medium=en)</p>

[intparent]

<p>Well, we all know weather is not the same as climate. But my honeysuckle is blooming again… in November, in Minnesota.</p>

[barrons]

<p>And even potentialy more and bigger bad news for warming theory</p>

<p>[Climategate:</a> the final nail in the coffin of ‘Anthropogenic Global Warming’? – Telegraph Blogs](<a href=“http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100017393/climategate-the-final-nail-in-the-coffin-of-anthropogenic-global-warming/]Climategate:”>http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100017393/climategate-the-final-nail-in-the-coffin-of-anthropogenic-global-warming/)</p>

[Mr_Payne]

<p>Looks like Santa has a few years left.</p>

[barrons]

<p>More</p>

<p>[Climate</a> Science: Roger Pielke Sr.](<a href=“http://pielkeclimatesci.■■■■■■■■■■■■■/]Climate”>http://pielkeclimatesci.■■■■■■■■■■■■■/)</p>

[Columbia_Student]

<p>It made Al Gore rich.</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/03/business/energy-environment/03gore.html[/url]”>http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/03/business/energy-environment/03gore.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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**As a private citizen, Mr. Gore does not have to disclose his income or assets, as he did in his years in Congress and the White House. When he left government in early 2001, he listed assets of less than $2 million, including homes in suburban Washington and in Tennessee.</p>

<p>Since then, his net worth has skyrocketed**, helped by timely investments in Apple and Google, profits from books and his movie, and scores of speeches for which he can be paid more than $100,000, although he often speaks at no charge. </p>

<p>He is a founder of Generation Investment Management, based in London and run by David Blood, a former head of Goldman Sachs Asset Management (the firm was quickly dubbed Blood and Gore). Mr. Gore earns a partner’s salary at Kleiner Perkins. He has substantial personal finances invested at both firms, officials of the companies said.</p>

<p>He also serves as an adviser to high-profile technology companies including Apple and Google, relationships that have paid him handsome dividends over the last eight years.</p>

<p>Mr. Gore’s spokeswoman would not give a figure for his current net worth, but the scale of his wealth is evident in a single investment of $35 million in Capricorn Investment Group, a private equity fund started by his friend Jeffrey Skoll, the first president of eBay.</p>

<p>Ion Yadigaroglu, a co-founder of Capricorn, said that Mr. Gore does not sit on the fund’s investment committee, but obviously agrees with the partners’ strategy of putting long-term money into promising ventures in energy, technology and health care around the globe.</p>

<p>“Aspirationally,” said Mr. Yadigaroglu, who holds a doctorate from Stanford in astrophysics, “we’re trying to make more money than others doing the same thing and do it in a way that is superior in ethics and impacts.”</p>

<p>Mr. Gore has said he invested in partnerships and funds that try to identify and support companies that are advancing cutting-edge green technologies and are paving the way toward a low-carbon economy.</p>

<p>He has a stake in the world’s pre-eminent carbon credit trading market and in an array of companies in bio-fuels, sustainable fish farming, electric vehicles and solar power.</p>

<p>Capricorn holds a major stake in Falcon Waterfree Technologies, the world’s leading maker of waterless urinals. Generation has holdings in Ausra, a solar energy company based in California, and Camco, a British firm that develops carbon dioxide emissions reduction projects. Kleiner Perkins has a green ventures fund with nearly $1 billion invested in renewable energy and efficiency concerns.</p>

<p>Mr. Gore also has substantial interests in technology, media and biotechnology ventures that have no direct tie to his environmental advocacy, an aide said.</p>

<p>Mr. Gore is not a lobbyist, and he has never asked Congress or the administration for an earmark or policy decision that would directly benefit one of his investments. But he has been a tireless advocate for policies that would move the country away from the use of coal and oil, and he has begun a $300 million campaign to end the use of fossil fuels in electricity production in 10 years.</p>

<p>But Marc Morano, a climate change skeptic who until recently was a top aide to Senator James M. Inhofe, Republican of Oklahoma, said that what he saw as Mr. Gore’s alarmism and occasional exaggerations distorted the debate and also served his personal financial interests.

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[Lergnom]

<p>Please move this denialist garbage to the politics forum. </p>

<p>I’m sick of listening to idiots like this and at least in that forum their nonsense is hidden away.</p>

[intparent]

<p>From Nate Silver at FiveThirtyEight.com:</p>

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Still: I don’t know how you get from some scientist having sexed up a graph in East Anglia ten years ago to The Final Nail In The Coffin of Anthropogenic Global Warming. Anyone who comes to that connection has more screws loose than the Space Shuttle Challenger. And yet that’s literally what some of these bloggers are saying!</p>

<p>Incidentally, 2009 is shaping up to be the 5th warmist year on record, according to the conspiracists at NASA.

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<p>Agreed, move this garbage to the political forum, please.</p>

[tega]

<p>Yes we should listen to Nate Silver and Al Gore, they are “experts” in climate science, Not!</p>

[barrons]

<p>Yes, Der Spiegel and the London Daily Telegraph are such screwy denialist “blogger” publications.</p>

[Mr_Payne]

<p>Not like it matters either way, liberal hypocrites will still continue to take transcontinental trips to Europe and exotic locales.</p>

[applicannot]

<p>Personally, I don’t care whether or not global warming is occurring at all. Regardless, look at what we’re doing to the earth. The harm may not come in the form of global warming, but it is coming nonetheless.</p>

[AUTransfer]

<p>Agreed with applicannot. Global Warming is technically a misnomer, it’s more lethal climate change but it’s not as catchy and has the word lethal in it. The polar icecaps ARE reducing in size on a yearly basis with us heading towards having NO icecaps during the summer if the trend continues and the saline content of the oceans are changing to the point that it’s negatively effecting fish and plant life. The metaphorical **** is going to hit the fan – call it whatever you want. </p>

<p>Der Spiegel and the London Daily Telegraph are bogus. Absolutely bogus for even your regular political news fix, much less science news. I’m going with the guys at NASA (Not Al Gore) on this one.</p>

[LongPrime]

<p>We are still harvesting zucchini, green tomatoes, in mid-valley Oregon. Near 60º weather.</p>