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New York Times questions Obama’s expensive travel | WashingtonExaminer.com

The New York Times on Thursday reports on President Obama’s frequent travel aboard Air Force One, at a time when government employees are suffering furloughs and budget cuts.

Almost by definition, Mr. Obama lives a life foreign to most Americans, with the big white house and the ushers and chefs and the airplane fueled and ready to go. When he wants a weekend away, he can fly to Florida to golf with Tiger Woods. When his daughters take spring break, they head to Aspen to ski. He winters in Hawaii and summers on Martha’s Vineyard.

But this summer’s trips come as federal employees are tightening their belts.

Study says global warming caused by CFCs interacting with cosmic rays, not carbon dioxide | Watts Up With That?

From the University of Waterloo, an extraordinary claim. While plausible, due to the fact that CFC’s have very high GWP numbers, their atmospheric concentrations compared to CO2 are quite low, and the radiative forcings they add are small by comparison to CO2. This may be nothing more than coincidental correlation. But, I have to admit, the graph is visually compelling. But to be certain his proposed cosmic-ray-driven electron-reaction mechanism is valid, I’d say it is a case of “further study is needed”, and worth funding. – Anthony

C3: Penn State Perversion Spreads To Oregon State: Another Perverted Climate Science Scandal Exposed

Climate science perversion (aka 'hockey stick' scamming) has become insidious, spreading from institution to institution - the latest university to have its reputation needlessly dragged through the odorous climate hockey stick fecal mess is Oregon State...will agenda-driven academia ever clean up their awful perversion of science?

maribo: Kiribati's battle against sea-level rise: the perception and the reality

Climate change is frustrating. Though unprecedented in recent geological history, human-caused climate change still operates at too slow a pace to capture much of the public's attention. So people try to attribute current events to the long-term trend, and often make elementary mistakes