Ask Me Help Desk - Current Events http://www.askmehelpdesk.com en Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:43:39 GMT vBulletin 60 http://www.askmehelpdesk.com/amhd_imgs/misc/rss.jpg Ask Me Help Desk - Current Events http://www.askmehelpdesk.com Oprah is ending her show! Oh no! http://www.askmehelpdesk.com/current-events/oprah-ending-her-show-oh-no-417824.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:57:00 GMT Well, as some of you may or may not have heard, Oprah Winfrey is ending her daytime talk show after 25 years. The end of the 25th season will be the end of it all.

The show will be missed, but I hope she sticks around for a while.

Anyway, here's the link!
Oprah Winfrey: Ending Talk Show "Feels Right in My Bones" - News - Yahoo! TV

R.I.P Oprah Winfrey Show! You will be missed! ]]> Current Events ohsohappy http://www.askmehelpdesk.com/current-events/oprah-ending-her-show-oh-no-417824.html Climate change scam uncovered? http://www.askmehelpdesk.com/current-events/climate-change-scam-uncovered-417809.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:09:06 GMT Someone has seemingly hacked emails from the University of East Anglia Climate Research Unit that appear to show a conspiracy to hide data that doesn't fit the climate change rhetoric. And yes, the director of the unit has said the emails seem to be genuine.

Some samples:

Quote:
From: Phil Jones
To: ray bradley ,mann@XXXX, mhughes@XXXX
Subject: Diagram for WMO Statement
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 1999 13:31:15 +0000
Cc: k.briffa @XXX.osborn @XXXX

Dear Ray, Mike and Malcolm,

Once Tim’s got a diagram here we’ll send that either later today or first thing tomorrow.

I’ve just completed Mike’s Nature trick of adding in the real temps to each series for the last 20 years (ie from 1981 onwards) amd from 1961 for Keith’s to hide the decline. Mike’s series got the annual land and marine values while the other two got April-Sept for NH land N of 20N. The latter two are real for 1999, while the estimate for 1999 for NH combined is +0.44C wrt 61-90. The Global estimate for 1999 with data through Oct is +0.35C cf. 0.57 for 1998.

Thanks for the comments, Ray.

Cheers
Phil

Prof. Phil Jones
Climatic Research Unit Telephone XXXX
School of Environmental Sciences Fax XXXX
University of East Anglia
Norwich
Quote:
From: Tom Wigley [...]
To: Phil Jones [...]
Subject: 1940s
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 2009 23:25:38 -0600
Cc: Ben Santer [...]

Phil,
Here are some speculations on correcting SSTs to partly explain the 1940s warming blip. If you look at the attached plot you will see that theland also shows the 1940s blip (as I’m sure you know).

So, if we could reduce the ocean blip by, say, 0.15 degC, then this would be significant for the global mean – but we’d still have to explain the land blip. I’ve chosen 0.15 here deliberately. This still leaves an ocean blip, and i think one needs to have some form of ocean blip to explain the land blip (via either some common forcing, or ocean forcing land, or vice versa, or all of these). When you look at other blips, the land blips are 1.5 to 2 times (roughly) the ocean blips—higher sensitivity plus thermal inertia effects. My 0.15 adjustment leaves things consistent with this, so you can see where I am coming from.
Removing ENSO does not affect this.
It would be good to remove at least part of the 1940s blip, but we are still left with “why the blip”.
Let me go further. If you look at NH vs SH and the aerosol effect (qualitatively or with MAGICC) then with a reduced ocean blip we get continuous warming in the SH, and a cooling in the NH—just as one would expect with mainly NH aerosols.
The other interesting thing is (as Foukal et al. note – from MAGICC) that the 1910-40 warming cannot be solar. The Sun can get at most 10% of this with Wang et al solar, less with Foukal solar. So this may well be NADW, as Sarah and I noted in 1987 (and also Schlesinger later). A reduced SST blip in the 1940s makes the 1910-40 warming larger than the SH (which it currently is not)—but not really enough.
So ... why was the SH so cold around 1910? Another SST problem? (SH/NH data also attached.)

This stuff is in a report I am writing for EPRI, so I’d appreciate any comments you (and Ben) might have.
Tom.
Hiding and removing data? Someone has got some 'splainin' to do. ]]> Current Events speechlesstx http://www.askmehelpdesk.com/current-events/climate-change-scam-uncovered-417809.html Obamanoids destruction of womens healthcare underway http://www.askmehelpdesk.com/current-events/obamanoids-destruction-womens-healthcare-underway-417751.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:08:37 GMT Of all things, for the Obamanoids and progressives to attack first, is cancer and womens' health. The American Cancer Society has not scrubbed its site: "If you can't prevent cancer, the next best thing you can do to protect your health is to detect it early. Getting regular check-ups is the best way to do this." ACS :: Early Detection

But now: "New guidelines by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists say most women in their 20s can have a Pap smear every two years instead of annually to catch slow-growing cervical cancer.

"The change comes amid a separate debate over when regular mammograms to detect breast cancer should begin. The timing of the Pap guidelines is coincidence, said ACOG, which began reviewing its recommendations in late 2007 and published the update Friday in the journal Obstetrics & Gynecology." Report: 20-somethings can go 2 years between Paps - Yahoo! News ]]> Current Events George_1950 http://www.askmehelpdesk.com/current-events/obamanoids-destruction-womens-healthcare-underway-417751.html Is the pattern becoming clear yet? http://www.askmehelpdesk.com/current-events/pattern-becoming-clear-yet-417749.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:07:11 GMT A new report just released: ... A new report just released:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091120/...cG9ydDIwLXNvbQ--
Quote:
Report: 20-somethings can go 2 years between Paps

By LAURAN NEERGAARD, AP Medical Writer Lauran Neergaard, Ap Medical Writer

WASHINGTON – First mammograms. Now — in an apparent coincidence — Pap smears.

New guidelines by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists say most women in their 20s can have a Pap smear every two years instead of annually to catch slow-growing cervical cancer.

The change comes amid a separate debate over when regular mammograms to detect breast cancer should begin. The timing of the Pap guidelines is coincidence, said ACOG, which began reviewing its recommendations in late 2007 and published the update Friday in the journal Obstetrics & Gynecology.

The guidelines also say:
_Routine Paps should start at age 21. Previously, ACOG had urged a first Pap either within three years of first sexual intercourse or at age 21.

_Women 30 and older should wait three years between Paps once they've had three consecutive clear tests. Other national guidelines have long recommended the three-year interval; ACOG had previously backed a two- to three-year wait.

_Women with HIV, other immune-weakening conditions or previous cervical abnormalities may need more frequent screening.

Paps can spot pre-cancerous changes in the cervix in time to prevent invasive cancer, and widespread use has halved cervical cancer rates in the U.S. in recent decades. About 11,270 new cases will be diagnosed this year, and about 4,070 women will die from it, according to American Cancer Society estimates. Half of women diagnosed with cervical cancer have never had a Pap, and another 10 percent haven't had one in five years.
Cervical cancer is caused by certain strains of the extremely common sexually transmitted virus called HPV, for human papillomavirus. There is a new HPV vaccine that should cut cervical cancer in the future; ACOG's guidelines say for now vaccinated women should follow the same Pap guidelines as the unvaccinated.

But the updated guidelines reflect better understanding of HPV. Infection is high among sexually active teens and young adults. Women's bodies very often fight off an HPV infection on their own without lasting harm, although it can take a year or two. The younger the woman, the more likely that HPV is going to be transient.

Moreover, ACOG cited studies showing no increased risk of cancer developing in women in their 20s if they extended Pap screening from every year to every two years.

As for adolescents, ACOG said cervical cancer in teens is rare — one or two cases per million 15- to 19-year-olds — while HPV-caused cervical abnormalities usually go away on their own, and unnecessary treatment increases the girls' risk of premature labor years later.
For all the talk about how the term "death panels" is just scare mongering and has no basis in reality, we now have TWO reports that have come out in the same week, both of which suggest LIMITING cancer screenings or preventive medicine.

The first was the mamogram report that said that women shouldn't bother with mamograms under the age of 50 and after 50 should get them every 2 years instead of annually.

In this report, we are being told that women should only get pap smears every two years instead of annually.

Is there anyone who really believes that this is a coincidence?

This is the future of medicine as controled by your government... official "recommendations" of less preventive care that will become government policy and medical decisions made on the basis of cost and not care.

And for those who say that it won't happen... it's just recommendations, not government policy... I give you NICE, the health care rationing body of the UK... a body which has taken "recommendations" of lower levels of care and turned them into government policy. If it can happen in the UK, what makes anyone think that it won't happen here?

The biggest lie ever told is just 9 words long: "I'm from the government and I'm here to help."

Wake up, people.

Elliot ]]> Current Events ETWolverine http://www.askmehelpdesk.com/current-events/pattern-becoming-clear-yet-417749.html Psalm 109 http://www.askmehelpdesk.com/current-events/psalm-109-a-417742.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:03:14 GMT Hello Righty's:

I see that you have embraced the following as your watchword... Here it is in its entirety.

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Psalm 109

1 O God, whom I praise,
do not remain silent,

2 for wicked and deceitful men
have opened their mouths against me;
they have spoken against me with lying tongues.

3 With words of hatred they surround me;
they attack me without cause.

4 In return for my friendship they accuse me,
but I am a man of prayer.

5 They repay me evil for good,
and hatred for my friendship.

6 Appoint an evil man to oppose him;
let an accuser stand at his right hand.

7 When he is tried, let him be found guilty,
and may his prayers condemn him.

8 May his days be few;
may another take his place of leadership.

9 May his children be fatherless
and his wife a widow.

10 May his children be wandering beggars;
may they be driven [d] from their ruined homes.

11 May a creditor seize all he has;
may strangers plunder the fruits of his labor.

12 May no one extend kindness to him
or take pity on his fatherless children.

13 May his descendants be cut off,
their names blotted out from the next generation.

14 May the iniquity of his fathers be remembered before the LORD;
may the sin of his mother never be blotted out.

15 May their sins always remain before the LORD,
that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth.

16 For he never thought of doing a kindness,
but hounded to death the poor
and the needy and the brokenhearted.

17 He loved to pronounce a curse—
may it [e] come on him;
he found no pleasure in blessing—
may it be [f] far from him.

18 He wore cursing as his garment;
it entered into his body like water,
into his bones like oil.

19 May it be like a cloak wrapped about him,
like a belt tied forever around him.

20 May this be the LORD's payment to my accusers,
to those who speak evil of me.

21 But you, O Sovereign LORD,
deal well with me for your name's sake;
out of the goodness of your love, deliver me.

22 For I am poor and needy,
and my heart is wounded within me.

23 I fade away like an evening shadow;
I am shaken off like a locust.

24 My knees give way from fasting;
my body is thin and gaunt.

25 I am an object of scorn to my accusers;
when they see me, they shake their heads.

26 Help me, O LORD my God;
save me in accordance with your love.

27 Let them know that it is your hand,
that you, O LORD, have done it.

28 They may curse, but you will bless;
when they attack they will be put to shame,
but your servant will rejoice.

29 My accusers will be clothed with disgrace
and wrapped in shame as in a cloak.

30 With my mouth I will greatly extol the LORD;
in the great throng I will praise him.

31 For he stands at the right hand of the needy one,
to save his life from those who condemn him.

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I don't ordinarily post religious garbage, but I thought the world ought to know what your favored psalm REALLY says.....

You ought to be ashamed - but you're not.

excon ]]> Current Events excon http://www.askmehelpdesk.com/current-events/psalm-109-a-417742.html Great Balls of Fire http://www.askmehelpdesk.com/current-events/great-balls-fire-417549.html Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:50:24 GMT In a nightmarish prediction of where the world might be headed in this century a new study on climate change is predicting amongst other things an ocean erupting in great balls of fire
Catastrophic climate change 'inevitable', scientists warn | World News | News.com.au
one has to wonder at the timing of this news release, coming as it does ahead of the Copenhagen round of talks. So now we have some scientists telling as there has been no discernible temperature rise in the last few years and another group telling us we are headed for an increase of 6'C.

I think it is time to cut the crap of computer modeling and for someone to bring forth research that is reliable and factual ]]> Current Events paraclete http://www.askmehelpdesk.com/current-events/great-balls-fire-417549.html Sarah Palin Floats Glenn Beck as a Possible 2012 Running Mate http://www.askmehelpdesk.com/current-events/sarah-palin-floats-glenn-beck-possible-2012-running-mate-417499.html Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:31:10 GMT Sarah Palin Floats Glenn Beck as a Possible 2012 Running Mate | Politicususa.com (http://www.politicususa.com/en/Palin-Beck-2012) This is going to be fun! Sarah Palin Floats Glenn Beck as a Possible 2012 Running Mate | Politicususa.com

This is going to be fun! ]]> Current Events NeedKarma http://www.askmehelpdesk.com/current-events/sarah-palin-floats-glenn-beck-possible-2012-running-mate-417499.html Obama the Supply-side President ? http://www.askmehelpdesk.com/current-events/obama-supply-side-president-417424.html Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:07:23 GMT While in China the President, at least rhetorically ,had a bit of an economic epiphany .He suddenly became aware that his runaway spending this year has not accomplished what he intended ;to stimulate the economy and create real jobs. He doesn't sound quite so confident in his recipe so perhaps just by accident ;in comments made in an interview with FOX NEWS Major Garrett ;he stumbled upon a solution that most likely would work.
Quote:
There may be some tax provisions that can encourage businesses to hire sooner rather than sitting on the sidelines; so, we're taking a look at those. I think it is important though to recognize that if we keep on adding to the debt, even in the midst of this recovery, that at some point, people could lose confidence in the US economy in a way that could actually lead to a double-dip recession.
http://www.politico.com/morningmoney/

It must be a bitter pill to swallow admitting his long held beliefs in government spending does nothing to stop job loss ,and indeed contributes to the problem. Has he learned yet that the government interventions in the marketplace, with TARP, stimulus, etc., keeps the economy from stabilizing?
We will find out the answer to that question in early December when he plans to, yet again,assemble captains of industry (perhaps dressing them up in hard hats for the photo-op) for a "Jobs Summit". Hopefully one of them will not be so compromised from taking government cheese to tell the President that the best solution is for the government to get out of the way .

ps .Congrats to all who followed Excon's advice these years to buy gold. You are in the middle of a commodity bubble that will not end until the government takes steps to strengthen the dollar. ]]> Current Events tomder55 http://www.askmehelpdesk.com/current-events/obama-supply-side-president-417424.html Afghanistan is just a yawn http://www.askmehelpdesk.com/current-events/afghanistan-just-yawn-417217.html Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:15:15 GMT it seems Afghanistan is such an unexciting subject these days that it puts politicians to sleep. Victorian MP Fran Bailey sleeps through Edinburgh NATO assembly | World News | News.com.au (http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,26370236-401,00.html) Perhaps this is why Obama has such difficulty... it seems Afghanistan is such an unexciting subject these days that it puts politicians to sleep.
Victorian MP Fran Bailey sleeps through Edinburgh NATO assembly | World News | News.com.au
Perhaps this is why Obama has such difficulty making a decision? ]]> Current Events paraclete http://www.askmehelpdesk.com/current-events/afghanistan-just-yawn-417217.html Has Obama poisoned the jury? http://www.askmehelpdesk.com/current-events/has-obama-poisoned-jury-417175.html Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:18:05 GMT What an idiotic thing to say: "President Barack Obama predicted that professed Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed will be convicted and executed as Attorney General Eric Holder proclaimed: "Failure is not an option." Obama: Professed 9/11 mastermind will be convicted

Ah, the annointed one is sooooooooooo intelligent. ]]> Current Events George_1950 http://www.askmehelpdesk.com/current-events/has-obama-poisoned-jury-417175.html How about that Sarah Palin? http://www.askmehelpdesk.com/current-events/how-about-sarah-palin-417153.html Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:59:13 GMT Hello:

Love her or hate her, she's a force to be reckoned with. Did you buy her book?

I think she could be president in 2012. Palin/Cheney. What a ticket? (Which Cheney do you think I'm talking about?)

excon ]]> Current Events excon http://www.askmehelpdesk.com/current-events/how-about-sarah-palin-417153.html <![CDATA[Australian Senator calls scientology "Criminal Organisation"]]> http://www.askmehelpdesk.com/current-events/australian-senator-calls-scientology-criminal-organisation-417073.html Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:14:47 GMT Senator Nick Xenophon says Scientology is 'a criminal organisation' | National News | News.com.au

The man has balls of steel. He's right of course. It'll be interesting to see how this develops. France and Germany have already convicted it of fraud. More issues here: Scientology controversies - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

What are your thoughts on this "religion"? ]]> Current Events NeedKarma http://www.askmehelpdesk.com/current-events/australian-senator-calls-scientology-criminal-organisation-417073.html