The argument continues. Here are highlights from an article at UK website Telegraph on the issue of climate:
“A cold Arctic summer has led to a record increase in the ice cap, leading experts to predict a period of global cooling. There has been a 60% increase in the amount of ocean covered with ice compared to this time last year, the equivalent of almost a million square miles. In a rebound from 2012's record low, an unbroken ice sheet more than half the size of Europe already stretches from the Canadian islands to Russia's northern shores, days before the annual re-freeze is even set to begin. The Northwest Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific has remained blocked by pack-ice all year, forcing some ships to change their routes. A leaked report to the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has led some scientists to claim that the world is heading for a period of cooling that will not end until the middle of this century. If correct, it would contradict computer forecasts of imminent catastrophic warming. The news comes several years after the BBC predicted that the Arctic would be ice-free by 2013. Despite the original forecasts, major climate research centres now accept that there has been a “pause” in global warming since 1997. Long-term cycles in ocean temperature suggest the world may be approaching a period similar to that from 1965 to 1975, when there was a clear cooling trend. At the time some scientists forecast an imminent ice age. Professor Anastasios Tsonis of the University of Wisconsin, said: "We are already in a cooling trend, which I think will continue for the next 15 years at least. There is no doubt the warming of the 1980s and 1990s has stopped.” The IPCC is said to maintain that their climate change models suggest a pause of 15 years can be expected. Other experts agree that natural cycles cannot explain all of the recorded warming.”
Maybe politicians should now encourage more use of fossil fuels to keep the planet from cooling. Read the full article here: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/climatechange/10294082/Global-warming-No-actually-were-cooling-claim-scientists.html?fb My thanks to Frank M., who posted the link on his Facebook page.
As I was accompanying a friend to her car this morning, she noticed a note beneath the passenger side windshield wiper. It is the second she has received, the tone and language despicable. She has a handicap permit which allows her to park in areas off-limits to regular drivers. She doesn't have to feed any meters. Apparently, this enrages this person, who threatens to turn her in to the police, which is asinine, as she is not doing anything illegal and is truly handicapped. Since walking is so difficult for her, she doesn't use the car often and it sits in the same spot for up to a week sometimes. Parking is indeed maddening in certain parts of Brooklyn and frustration is understandable, but it is a mystery why this individual has focused on my friend. My guess is that it is one of the shopkeepers along that strip or one of the tenants in the apartments above. The area in question is directly across the street from where I set up the floating book shop most days. I hope I spot the creep in action. I'm so curious about who would do such a thing.
Since I accompanied my friend to the doctor, I opened up the shop late today and held an abbreviated session. My thanks to the gentleman who bought two thrillers in Russian and refused to accept them gratis. He donated a bunch of books in English recently and most of them sold. Thanks also to the woman who bought the book on comedian Sid Caesar, whose Your Show of Shows was huge in the mid 1950's. My parents, who spoke little English, loved it. Caesar often imitated other languages, spouting authentic sounding gibberish. In one sketch he used the phrase: "In de la panza," accompanied by either a stabbing or punching motion to the gut. My dad and I used it on each other for months, laughing. It is one of the fondest memories of my childhood.
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