Weekend open thread

Given the above thread on an almost surreal agitprop song this seems a proper place to post this.
The excerpt below is from Cabaret, the film, and it caused such outrage, particularly in the UK, that the producers effectually suppressed it for nearly thirty years.
It is of course a purely cod anthem intended to satirise the Fascist ethos whilst showing its hollow nature. But it resonated because, I suppose, like all the best lampoons it cut too close to the bone for comfort.
Whatever. But you might notice how close to modern Green Eco Puritanism it is.
Otherwise please to forgive the slightly wobbly cross cutting by the then assistant [unpaid] to the second editor when it turned out two days before release that neither continuity or colour balance were correct. Which caused a panic.
Excerpt here
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http://uk.search.yahoo.com/search?ei=UTF-8&fr=ytff1-tyc7&p=tomorrow%20belongs&type=
Kindest Regards

Perhaps a better title for the video I previously posted, Polar shift of the MOON Captured on film
would be;
Earth Based Polar Shift Influence on the MOON Captured on Film
I do believe it has a lot of valid information.
Turning to Geo Engineering, which I think they are doing with Frankenstorm 2.0 and per the documented visual evidence in that video I posted at 12:27PM, I find this smoking gun;
Aerosol Geoengineering and Hurricane Modification Program Run by Homeland Security

vigilantfish says:
October 27, 2012 at 3:04 pm
I haven’t seen any sign of Smokey lately and I miss his wit, vigour, and graphics links. I hope he’s o.k.
Ditto, but I saw one short Smokey post a few days back. Otherwise nothing since before the last Open Thread Weekend when Louis H???? noted his absence.

Open Thread:
No one likes us — I don’t know why 
We may not be perfect, but heaven knows, we try 
But all around, even our old friends put us down 
Let’s drop the big one, and see what happens 
We give them money — but are they grateful? 
No, they’re spiteful and they’re hateful 
They don’t respect us — so let’s surprise them! 
We’ll drop the big one and pulverize them 
Asia’s crowded and Europe’s too old 
Africa is far too hot 
And Canada’s too cold 
And South America stole our name 
Let’s drop the big one 
There’ll be no one left to blame us 
We’ll save Australia 
Don’t wanna hurt no kangaroo 
We’ll build an All American amusement park there 
They got surfin’, too 
Oh, how peaceful it will be 
We’ll set everybody free 
You’ll wear a Japanese kimono babe 
And there’ll be Italian shoes for me 
They all hate us anyhow 
So let’s drop the big one now 
Let’s drop the big one now 
Randy Newman, Political Science

Open Thread Weeekend… Yocktoseconds!
http://scienceblogs.com/startswithabang/2012/10/15/what-happened-before-the-big-bang

Open Thread!:
http://moonbattery.com/rich-poor.jpg

Vigilantfish: ‘I haven’t senn Smokey lately…I hope he’s o.k.’
Sadly, Smokey was never really OK, but that was part of his charm.
I’d heard he succumbed to heat exhaustion on one of his philanthropic quests to the third world.
Whatever the case, we won’t see his like again. Certainly, none of the more frequent posters on the board sound remotely like our late friend.

Philip Bradley says: October 27, 2012 at 6:52 pm
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Richdo says:
October 27, 2012 at 5:25 pm
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Interesting presentation on wind dependent emissivity of sea water, a bit dated perhaps but I had never seen it…
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Increased wind = increased waves = increased ocean surface = increased emissivity
No mention of increased evaporation, which would also occur.
And wind speeds have increased over the last 2 decades.
unquote
Up to a point. However, it may be that you have not allowed for other factors.
In March this year I observed an ocean smooth off Portugal which was hundreds of miles long and at least a hundred miles wide. Most of that area was smoothed (oil probably, but I would not rule out surfactant pollution) with rivers of smoothed surface snaking out into clean, ruffled water. Outside the smooth there were breaking waves, which I’d guess were indicative of about a Force 3/4 Beafort scale wind (call it 7 m/s), while within the smooth the surface remained glassy.
NASA calculated in 1994 (I can find no later estimates) that enough light oil is spilled onto the oceans each year to coat the surface several times over. The Arctic seas, Barents, Kara, Laptev and East Siberian, have light oil flowing down the major Siberian rivers equivalent to an Exxon Valdez slamming into the coast every five weeks. I have found no published figures for pollution from the North Slope of Alaska.
Now do the sums. Ignore, for the moment, the reduced evaporation of an oil or surfactant coated water surface, just look at the change in emissivity from a smooth to a clean 7m/s ruffled ocean. Then have a look at where the Arctic ice is melting.
The referenced paper says:
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intermediate conclusion: variations of oceanic wind speed have a
dominating influence on climate system, also in comparison with
doubling of atmospheric CO2-concentration (3.7 W/m²)
unquote
Another conclusion: oil/surfactant polltion is the equivalent of a drop in windspeed of up to 7m/s, reducing emissivity by an amount comparable to calculated CO2 warming. An oil-smoothed Arctic will cool slower as the nights draw in. Each year the problem will increase as the low temperatures discourage bacterial degradation of the pollution.
Enclosed seas (Andaman, Lake Tanganyika, Gulf of Mexico, Mediterranean) might usefully be checked for signs of this effect. I’ve seen smooths from end to end of the Med, seen a smooth snaking tens of miles to the horizon from Tenerife, seen the effects on the graphs of global temperature from 1939 to ’45 before they were smoothed and adjusted away.
The Kriegsmarine Effect is real and many-faceted. It should be examined and experiments should be carried out to establish its absolute value.
JF
(Who would quite like to see a detailed examination of the home waters of El Nino. What happens to the ocean/atmosphere boundary layer during the cycle?)