The Autumnal Equinox has just occurred, at 2:40PM UTC (7:49AM PDT) marking the end of summer. Despite our Jay Zwally countdown to the end of summer reaching zero on the sidebar, the Arctic sea ice is still there and gaining fast.
That’s one more alarmist prediction that did not come true, even though we had a new record low on Arctic extent, while simultaneously setting new record highs in the Antarctic.
I’m going to take a few days off to be with family and practice some target and skeet shooting, one of my hobbies. After this week, I think I’ve earned it.
Moderators will check in periodically. Thanks everyone for your consideration. This might be a good time to think about inviting a friend to visit WUWT. – Anthony
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3-page in-depth report on environmental groups not happy with the Sierra Club:
20 Sept: Businessweek: Ken Wells: Environmentalists Split Over Tortoise Treatment at Solar Farms
Construction of such large-scale green-energy projects has splintered environmental groups. When concern over global warming was at a peak, national organizations such as the Sierra Club and the Natural Resources Defense Council threw their support behind industrial-scale wind and solar installations on public land. Now some smaller conservationist groups object to what they consider an environmentally destructive gold rush…
Similar disputes are playing out elsewhere and show a growing concern among green groups and willingness to block large-scale solar and wind projects when the cost to wildlife and habitat seem to outweigh the benefits of fighting climate change. A surge in supplies of cheap, clean-burning natural gas has also begun to undercut demand for more costly green energy…
Conservationist and Native American groups sued to halt five other Mojave solar projects…
Dozens more solar plants could arise across the American desert West. A July BLM (Bureau of Land Management) plan allocates 285,000 public acres to 17 solar zones. An additional 19 million acres — an area almost the size of West Virginia — may be approved for solar projects.
Janine Blaeloch, director of the Seattle- based Western Lands Project:
“This is the ritual privatization of public lands, turning our deserts into permanent industrial zones that will utterly transform the sites upon which these solar plants are placed,” Blaeloch says. “Even if they are dismantled in 50 years, the desert will be unable to restore itself.” …
The Ivanpah Solar Electricity Generating System is BrightSource’s first plant..
BrightSource’s largest shareholders are Alstom Power Inc. with 18 percent; VantagePoint Capital Partners, 25 percent; and Morgan Stanley, 10 percent, according to a 2011 filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Investors in Ivanpah include Google Inc. with $168 million and NRG Energy Inc. (NRG), $300 million. It received $1.6 billion in federal loan guarantees, according to the company…
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-09-20/tortoises-manhandled-for-solar-splits-environmentalists
I presume you meant 14:49 UTC, rather than 14:40? Or are we getting cheated 9 minutes of summer this year? 🙂
couldn’t believe in the middle of BBC’s IT program “Click” yesterday, Google &carbon offsets came up. no program is safe. warning: there’s a CAGW Shell Oil ad to endure before the report begins :
21 Sept: BBC: Click: The mobile internet arrives in the Amazon Rainforest
(6mins46secs in: mentions how google has given smart phone apps to some tribes to report illegal logging AND TO TRADE CARBON OFFSETS DIRECTLY WITH THE GLOBAL MARKET.)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/click_online/9753711.stm
25 June: Mashable: Zoe Fox: How Google Earth Is Preserving, Sharing Indigenous Culture
When corporations around the world choose to purchase carbon stock from the Surui people, they can easily turn to the cultural map in Google Earth, to understand the culture where they are investing their money.
“It’s not just about absolute Greenhouse gas reduction, there’s a social impact to buying Surui carbon,” Moore says. “But it’s not just for carbon buyers, interested students and the worlds can learn about this people.”
Since hearing about the Surui tribe’s project, indigenous tribes around the world have reached out to Google Earth Outreach for help creating similar projects. Moore says a number of other tribes in the Amazon, as well as the Māori people of New Zealand, First Nations of Canada and American Indian tribes have expressed interest in making their own cultural maps…
http://mashable.com/2012/06/25/google-earth-surui-cultural-map/
no wonder the google algorithms are set to CAGW advocacy.
Re Goode ’nuff on September 22, 2012 at 10:17 pm:
Reference
Might be the long-known GM brands effect. A base model Chevy gets bought for utility, it has to work reliably or else that customer will be buying from a different maker next time. And low end buyers are more numerous than high end, it’s not good business to tick them off.
Take the same guts, put it in fancier packaging with more bells and whistles and slap a Cadillac label on it, you’re selling to people with more money to throw away, who probably have another vehicle and will be less inconvenienced when their Caddy is in the shop, who will accept that high-end performance machines like a Caddy will have their “quirks” and need some extra care.
The Stoeger is bought by those who need a reliable working shotgun. The Benelli is bought by those who need a Benelli.
Goode ’nuff says:
September 22, 2012 at 10:17 pm
Gun talk! Yeah! Ok, so I have this Stoeger 2000 that costs at least a third of what my Benelli set me back. After the break in period the Stoeger has performed flawlessly. The Benelli has an occasional cycling blip. WUWT?
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All sorts of possibilities but most likely ammo related with vague and random cycling issues ie:
1)load (gas pressure or recoil force depending on action ) ,
2)how much curve on the shoulder of the leading edge of the shotshell ,
3)and overall length of the shotshell before and after firing .
It can be 1-3 or any combination thereof
That`s generic cycling problems assuming failure to extract isn`t one of them
Fellette
Felless
Felatrix?
Ric Werme says:
September 22, 2012 at 6:28 pm
what’s wrong with the loud speaker under test? I think it’s time for a new
one!
Did you not see the website address. Bit of paper torn off, it’s an old one from 1960s made in hongkong, you may not be old enough to remember, but things have changed since.
Toto says:
September 22, 2012 at 5:17 pm
“On a different topic, a fellow in Norway made an animation of battles in the world over time. There is definitely a hockey stick in that. (warning: don’t scroll down the page past the video if you are easily offended)
http://www.dbtv.no/?vid=1851274759001
”
Not too impressed. While the Napoleonic wars made some noise, the 30 year war that devastated central Europe left not much of an impression in his animation. Also, he didn’t normalize for population, leaving the intended and misleading impression that we’re living in the most dangerous of all times.
‘Sundance says:
September 22, 2012 at 9:13 am
Here is ’2016 Obama’s America’ the full length movie for those interested. I watched when it was at 819 hits and by the time I finished the movie there were over 9,000 hits. It’s going viral’
There is already a movie about this. It is Atlas Shrugged from Ayn Rand’s book. Par 1 was out last year and paer 2 is about to be released
http://www.atlasshruggedmovie.com/theaters?
Jo’s “account is suspended” message is nothing new (unfortunately). See this old WUWT thread from a few months ago where exactly the same thing happened.
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/06/18/skeptic-jo-nova-website-offline/
Stoeger, yeah, man, Shooters Bible.
My dad had a side by side shotgun with Damascus barrels. Nobody ever had enough nerve to try shooting it.
Hi Anthony ,
Ive just been watching ‘Conversation with global warming skeptic Anthony Watts’ on PBS Newshour
At 3.53 http://youtu.be/UmIJCGQzCiU?t=3m53s you say “Global warming has become a business .. theres lots of money involved”
How much do you get from the Heartland Institute and any other sponsors ?
vukcevic says:
September 22, 2012 at 11:47 am
Yummy. I love the smell of testable hypotheses in the morning. Thank you.
In other news; This year’s low Arctic ice extent is almost entirely due to cold weather events. (Please note the lack of sarc tags here)
DirkH says:
September 22, 2012 at 4:25 pm
pat says:
September 22, 2012 at 4:05 pm
“GreenEarthAfrica: Who we are
(Green Earth Africa is a global leader in environmental offsets trading. It specialises in carbon credits, wild life credits and water credits)”
Wild life credits? Do you use them to offset that leopard you ran over the other day?
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Can wild life credits be used toward the purchase of a “Gorillas Gone Wild” video?
Shooting and hearing are not compatible in the nude. I have wondered the same, left ear righthand rifle shooters -high-frequency damage. Right Off-hand pistol shooting presents the same side ear in order to get the sight-eye picture. My wondering is associated back to a child’s grade school science project and Doppler. Having been in front of and slight side of a large caliber explosion the pressure wave is significant with the sound seeming to be many-times louder than from the trigger side. Excluding spring-BB gun and 22 rimfire noise most firearms move the shooter towards the rear, righthand rifle the right shoulder is shoved back accenting the exposure of the left ear. It might be an illusion but shooting in the prone the sound seems less. Ground effect of the sound wave? I have not fired a weapon in 30 years without ear protection. There is the old time open mouth additional protection, always producing of some funny.
Gleick be nimble
Gleick be quick
Gleick jump over the candlestick
Damn, burned by global warming again.
Sent PBS an e-mail of support Anthony, good luck! Some nostalgia to go with the (bad) poetry:
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/2012/02/climate-expert-assumed-false-identity-to-obtain-documents.html
Pamela Grey, the opposite to fellow or chap or bloke in Australia is sheila. The early days of settlement saw a preponderance of Irish either as convicts or free people trying to escape the poverty, apparently sheila was the most common name of the Irish women and women being short in supply in early Australia. Thus all women in Australia inherited the common term sheilas the opposite to fellows.
Shooting and hearing general comment: Yes, hearing protection is advisable, however you don’t always have the time to take that precaution. Take it from an old retired Marine. Tinnitus is very common in the military.
Look at that amazing arctic sea ice recovery! At this rate, there will be ice on the equator in 5 years!
Hengist,
Apparently you’re new here but your participation is certainly welcome. Someone will be along shortly to show you the ropes.
Enjoy!
Hengist,
I doubt that Anthony is paid a stipend by Heartland. If I am wrong, post your evidence.
What you are doing is called ‘projection’. The alarmist crowd is swimming in grant money [$6 – $8 BILLION in federal grants paid out each year for ‘climate studies’, and that does not include the grants (AKA: payola) from NGOs and QUANGOs].
You are trying to deflect from the fact that an enormous amount of taxpayer loot is funneled into the pockets of climate alarmists in return for scaring the public with their false alarms. Because no one gets free money for admitting that there is nothing unusual about the current climate.
This is what we have in Australia :- a Prime Minister who says on National Television she needs to stop people “spewing nonsense like carbon dioxide is a good thing”!
The basic facts of the Gillard/Wilson/AWU Fraud Scandal show that it is not complex at all.
The complexity is in the massive money extraction and laundering process involved once Julia Gillard unlawfully enabled her lover Bruce Wilson to open bank accounts and the subsequent wide-spread coverup and conspiracy to pervert the course of justice by so many people and organisations which is still ongoing!!
The intensive investigation and probe by the equity partners of Slater & Gordon partners into the actions of Gillard centred on TWO Files:
(1) the conveyancing file re the 85 Kerr St., Fitzroy property transaction, held at all times by S & G because it had been deliberately and deceitfully misrepresented to the firm by Julia Gillard as a normal investment by individuals not in any way connected with their positions as employees of the AWU! Although the partners may have known Wilson and Blewitt were AWU officers or employees, Gillard must have talked long and hard to convince them that it had nothing to do with the AWU and that there was no “conflict of interest”! The partners certainly did not know Gillard was in an intimate relationship with Bruce Wilson! In his recently released statement Nick Styant-Browne said “the Kerr St.,conveyance and mortgage were both unexceptional transactions for the firm’s conveyancing and mortgage practice”..
(2) the sham AWU Workers Reform Association incorporation file:- held at all times until early September 1995 by Julia Gillard and deliberately kept secret from most of her equity partners, as well as the Victorian Branch and National Executive heirarchy of her principal client the AWU.
This file could NEVER have been opened on the firm’s system and Gillard NEVER considered doing so as it would have immediately exposed her unlawful, unethical criminal actions. She herself said in the interview:- “I’ve just done relatively small jobs for unions that I wasn’t intending to charge for. Ordinarily they would be kept on THE UNION’S FILE!
The internal investigations by S & G were summed up as “the nature of the wrongdoings alleged required us, if we were to take an adverse view of Ms.Gillard in relation to these events, to believe that she had knowingly participated in a fraud and deceived her partners for a year or more about it”!
It resulted in her “resignation” from the firm because they couldn’t afford to honour their obligation to report Gillard to the Law Society and have another public scandal so soon after the Murphy/Harris/Smith fiasco, which was to eventually cost them hundreds of thousands of dollars damages in 1997.
Any Americam lawyers like to have an input into the breaches Gillard committed?
For an idea of the extent of Union Fraud and conspiracy to pervert the course of justice in Australia, check this link.
http://michaelsmithnews.typepad.com/files/qlddelegatesjan96-1.pdf
Pamela Grey
.22, but what kind?? Certainly not .22 Short or Long. .223 would reach that far. 22-250? .220 Swift? Is it a pre-64 Model 70? Or a Black Rifle? Looking for the important information. An inquiring mind wants to know!
Anthony,
Have you ever considered cowboy action shooting?? It’s so very 19th century! You take a cowboy name, get dressed up in period clothes and shoot period (more or less) guns. Just like when you were 13 except with real guns!
For more information, see: http://sassnet.com/
2016 is well worth seeing. I was fortunate enough to attend a preliminary showing by the producers. I suspect that they were trying to “go viral” to get around a boycott by the so called “main stream media”. 2016 is the only source that I know of where Obama’s half-brother George is interviewed. You get the feeling that we got the wrong brother for President. For those who would like more information on 2016, this is the official movie site: http://2016themovie.com/
Shooters,
Should your local politicians make firearm ownership impossible, you might consider a move to Texas. We already have thousands of economic refugees from California and the wife and I are political refugees. FWIW, my great grandfather moved to California in 1849. For those familiar with Northern California, there was a boutique restaurant in a former stage coach stop to the west of Cotati, on Stoney Point Rd as I recall. (I haven’t been back since my Mother died nearly 20 years ago.) My Grandparents met there when it was a stage stop. My father was born in Forestville above the general store. My mother’s family moved to the area in the ‘30’s, and my folks met at the old Santa Rosa Hotel back in the late 30’s. (The Hotel was destroyed in an earthquake in the ‘60s. A mall is there now.) I went to High School in Berkeley and Merchant Marine School in Vallejo. I mention this to explain that I am not an “outsider” just bashing California for the fun of it. There is no joy in seeing what is happening to California.
You may be incredulous as to what follows, but it is the truth! My fellow Texans of both (all?) genders will attest. If your mind is not able to comprehend, then you might consider a refugee half-way house should you move to Texas.
One of our most favored politicians is Land Commissioner Jerry Patterson. His political advertisements brag on being the one who got our Concealed Carry “shall issue” law passed. Unless there is a reason to deny you a license, the state SHALL issue it. Basically, if you can legally BUY a gun, you can get a permit to carry it. He also brags on carrying a gun in his boot. (“Brag on it”: Texas-speak for boasting.)
Then there is our Lt. Governor David Dewhurst. When a crazy shot a rifle on the State Capitol grounds (he didn’t shoot at anybody) there was a demand for more security. The Lt. Governor responded in a pragmatic, moderate way. They put portal monitors at the entrances of the Capitol Building to mollify the liberals. But, if you have a license to carry, you show your permit, they check it in their data base, and you go AROUND the monitor. With your 1911, .45 ACP discreetly tucked under your shoulder. It’s cool. Who says that there is no compromise in Texas politics?. My wife felt bad because she had to go through the monitors while I went around. So, she got her permit also. A California girl (Orange County) she takes great pride in having her license. Her sisters don’t understand.
Finally, and I am not making this up. Honest, as we used to say in the Navy, “this is a real No-Sh—ter”. Texas is perhaps the most liberal statein the Union. By way of example, not only can Jewish-Americans and African-Americans legally own a belt fed machine gun, but also Lesbian-Americans! Compare to San Francisco where Lesbian-Americans are prohibited from that privilege. Yes, I know that in San Francisco NOBODY, except for the police and criminal gangs, can own machine guns. How is it that it’s OK to strip the entire population of their rights when it is offensive to strip just one group of theirs??
Anyway, have a good week end Anthony.
By the way, my nom de la guerre is: Steamboat Jack Maybe. (Cowboy shooting name.)
Regards,
Steamboat Jack (Jon Jewett’s evil twin.)
This gave me a good laugh;
“The Senate unanimously passed a bill on Saturday that would shield U.S. airlines from paying for their carbon emissions on European flights”
Here;
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/09/22/us-usa-carbon-airlines-idUSBRE88L06C20120922
Has anyone checked this out?
http://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2012/09/15/ed-caryl-modtran-shows-co2-doubling-will-have-almost-no-effect-on-temperature/