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June 1, 2007 I survived the night, which wasn't fun. I think
the East Coast pollens are more vicious than California's. Or maybe it's a
bug. I need my nose pump.
First thing after I get home, I pump my head out. Relief is just a
continent away...
I will try to get this place up to date after I get home. Meanwhile,
subscribers can read Another Step Farther
Out. And I'll have more goodies in the subscriber area in a couple of
weeks.
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Jerry,
The evidence Boortz cited is on
http://www.worldclimatereport.com/index.php/2007/05/08/neptune-news/
Note that this article shows that Solar irradiance has
increased by steadily from about roughly 1980 to 2000. This increase in
irradiance is given as percent change per year (first derivative) rather
than as a change relative to a baseline irradiance, which makes it look less
significant than it actually is. I don't have time to work with these
numbers this morning, but the data are interesting and the correlation is
dreadfully obvious -- the onset of warming, at least, corresponds precisely
with the increase in irradiance. Even more significant, when that first
derivative nature of the solar data is considered, is that the sun began
warming long before 1920 (since irradiance has been increasing on an annual
basis since the start of the data) Even a mean 0.03%/year increase in solar
radiance since 1920 corresponds to a huge percentage in total solar heating
-- that graph seems to be claiming that the sun is more than 2% hotter over
the last century and the rate accelerated in the 1980's.
Respectfully,
Now that the evidence for solar causation of Global Warming is in, Bush
with unerring timing comes out for Kyoto. Impeccable sense.
I doubt any of the climate models have this factor built in. It certainly
corresponds with temperature trends on Earth, though.
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America's Middle Class Has Become
Globalization's Loser
http://www.spiegel.de/international/0,1518,439766,00.html
SPIEGEL ONLINE - October 24, 2006, 03:49 PM
URL: http://www.spiegel.de/international/0,1518,439766,00.html
A SUPERPOWER IN DECLINE
America's Middle Class Has Become
Globalization's Loser
By Gabor Steingart
At the beginning of the 21st century, the
United States is still a superpower. But it's a superpower facing
competition from beyond its borders as well as internal difficulties.
Its lower and middle classes are turning out to be the losers of
globalization. snip
Any questions?
Two comments
1. The magic "I" word is missing from the article. Any
serious analysis would show that the immigration is deeply hurting the
middle class (unaffordable housing, unacceptable public schools, gridlock,
taxes, crime, etc.) far more than it is helping (cheaper services).
California is the poster child for the evils of immigration with the
native-born middle class in massive flight (millions leaving).
2. The authors have the good sense to recognize that
the massive accumulation of debt in the US, and trade deficits are evidence
of decline, not success. Such wisdom is rare on this side of the Atlantic.
The NYT actually published an article titled "The Tale of the Toaster, or
How Trade Deficits Are Good" (http://classwork.busadm.mu.edu/Economics%20Newspaper%20Articles/Internation
al%20Economics/2004/2004%2004%2025%20The%20tale%20of%20the%20toaster%20or%20
how%20trade%20deficits%20are%20good.PDF)
Predictably, the author, Ben Stein is an Open Borders
fanatic Of course, he has multi-million dollar homes in Malibu and Beverly
Hills. Cheap maids are important when you have that much property to take
care of.
One of them is allegedly in gated community. Nice.
Good for keeping the riffraff out.
Thank you
Peter
Indeed. Neo Cons are not conservatives.
Yes, America's middle class's biggest enemy is
unskilled immigration (both legal and illegal) because in our society "Third
World" parents present us with "Third World" children. America's existing
middle class is unwilling to have its children in "Failing Schools" and the
working definition of a "F.S." is one with more than zero "Third World"-type
children attending it. This has lead to a bidding war for housing in areas
with "Good Schools", and the losers of those bidding wars are forced into
even-more-unbearable commutes as they create new communities even further
away from the Third World populations whose children they are fleeing.
JIM
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