Tuesday, November 5, 2013

BloggeRhythms 11/5/2013

While the incumbent backpedals, distorting his own words uttered over and over again when hustling the quickly unraveling health care tax, another false premise is gaining exposure.
 
According to David Rose of the dailymail.co.uk yesterday, “The 17-year pause in global warming is likely to last into the 2030s and the Arctic sea ice has already started to recover, according to new research.
 
A paper in the peer-reviewed journal Climate Dynamics – by Professor Judith Curry of the Georgia Institute of Technology and Dr. Marcia Wyatt – amounts to a stunning challenge to climate science orthodoxy. 
 
Not only does it explain the unexpected pause, it suggests that the scientific majority – whose views are represented by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) – have underestimated the role of natural cycles and exaggerated that of greenhouse gases.”
 
The data supporting the conclusion that global warming hasn’t occurred in many years, and likely won’t for quite some time in the future, if ever,  is well worth reading, so I’ve included  a link: STUDY- Global warming 'pause' may last for 20 more years
 
Another item that caught my eye regards Harry Belafonte, the 86 year old entertainer who frequently involves himself in social issues. I mention him today because I wonder if he ever considered what the consequences might be if he lived almost anywhere else than the U.S., and kept expressing his political opinions, regardless.
 
Apparently he made an appearance at the First Corinthian Baptist Church where, according to Capital New York, he disparaged the Koch brothers saying: “Already we have lost 14 states in this union to the most corrupt group of citizens I’ve ever known. They make up the heart and the thinking in the minds of those who would belong to the Ku Klux Klan. They are white supremacists. They are men of evil. They have names. They are flooding our country with money.”
 
After reading his comments, I looked his bio up on Wikipedia to find that: “Belafonte has been a longtime critic of U.S. foreign policy. He began making controversial political statements on this subject in the early 1980s. He has at various times made statements opposing the U.S. embargo on Cuba; praising Soviet peace initiatives; attacking the U.S. invasion of Grenada; praising the Abraham Lincoln Brigade; honoring Ethel and Julius Rosenberg and praising Fidel Castro.”
 
Now, this certainly is a free country and therefore, Mr. Belafonte’s at liberty to believe and say anything he wants. However, perhaps he might take a moment before spouting off against the U.S. next time, to consider what might befall him should he go to Russia, Cuba or anywhere else, and make hostile public speeches criticizing them.
 
That’s it for today folks.
 
Adios  

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