REPENT, THE FOCUS GROUP IS NIGH

• Evangelical and Born-Again Christians (24%)
• Agnostics and atheists (4%)
• Adults who have not completed high school (23%)
• People with a  Bachelor’s degree or higher (9%)
• People who do not believe humans evolved from earlier species (20%)
• People who believe Earth was created in six days, as described in the Bible (20%)
• Republicans (17%)
• Democrats  (10%)

• People who believe in evolution (10%)
• People with no religious affiliation (10%)
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LIVING WITH A SICK ELEPHANT

NANNY RAIN DROWNS PHILADELPHIA MUMMERS PARADE

AUDIENCES  SAW  THE  DEMOCRATIC
 NATIONAL  CONVENTION  WILT  LAST NIGHT, 
 AS OUTBREAKS  OF  THUNDER AND HAIL  TO  THE  CHIEF  
AND  HEAVY  DOWNPOURS OF  SCRAPPLE &  KULTURSMOG    ACCOMPANIED  A  SQUALL OF   SEMANTIC  AGRESSION  

 PASSING  FROM  THE  WEST WING  TO  THE  LEFT COAST

WHO NEEDS A TESLA ?

   FORGET  LITHIUM BATTERIES: A BLACK  TRAFFIC  COP  ARRESTED  AMERICA'S  FIRST  GREEN  PRESIDENT  FOR   RACING  A  FAST ALTERNATIVE  VEHICLE  IN 1872

The Observer  reports that in1872. black Washington D.C. policeman William West 
arrested President Ulysses S. Grant for speeding as he drove his gig down 13th  Street, where Officer West had cautioned him against racing  the day before, and the  President had  solemnly promised to drive more slowly in future.  When West saw Grant racing friends on the same street the next day, he collared him..

 West's  account  of the 1872 incident appears in a 1908 article in the Washington Star celebrating his retirement from the police force :

“I cautioned you yesterday, Mr. President,” answered the policeman, “about fast driving, and you said, sir, that it would not occur again.” 

“Did I?” mused Grant, still with a quizzical smile on his features. “Well, I suppose I forgot it, and that I might have been going a little bit too fast this evening: but hang it officer, these animals of mine are thoroughbreds, and there is no holding them.” 

“I am very sorry, Mr. President to have to do it, for you are the chief of the nation, and I am but a policeman. But duty is duty, sir, and I will have to place you under arrest,” West replied.
“All right,” cried Grant, “where do you wish me to go with you?”

The policeman said he must go to the station house. At the President’s invitation the policeman took a seat in the vehicle, and as they drove, the war hero questioned him about himself and his antecedents.

Grant went to the courthouse and paid a fine of $20. 

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TIME  SPENT AWAITING THE  ANSWER  MAY  BE   PROFITABLY  PASSED VIEWING

THIS GENTLEMAN'S  SHREWD  OBSERVATIONS ON
WHAT  SHOULD  REALLY
 COME  FIRST  IN  AMERICA'S  FOREIGN  POLICY  

THEY'RE NOT EXTINCT ! THEY'RE JUST RESTING

          BLEEDING  EDGE  ONTOLOGY  NEWS  FROM WATTS UP WITH THAT

NATURAL HISTORY NEWS Beltway & Big Apple Vegetables Respond to Convention Speeches

ABC  NEWS  REPORTS  'HUGE CROWD'  GATHERING
 DOWNWIND  OF  CLEVELAND  AND  PHILADELPHIA :

POLITICAL CLIMATE MODELING MARCHES ON

VLAD & DONALD SEAL NATO PRIVATIZATION DEAL

COME DANCER, AND PRANCER, AND DONNER AND BLITZEN

 SANTA'S  JANUARY THAW & RECEDING ARCTIC ICE  WOES
HAVE  BEEN  COMPOUNDED  BY 
 THUNDER  AND  LIGHTNING

SCARCE  500 MILES   FROM  HIS  WORKSHOP

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MONCZILLA'S  SUPERPOWER  IS IGNITING  UNDERWATER VOLCANOES WHILE MISQUOTING  HORACE

DENIERS HAVE BEEN  PLAYING CLIMATE  POKEMON  FOR  YEARS  -- 
 PIKAJU'S COUSIN  CHICKLITTA  WAS CAUGHT  NEXT  TO  DR S. FRED SINGER 
 AT  THE  HEARTLAND INSTITUTE'S 1CC-9 CONFERENCE  IN 2014:

DR. SINGER IS THE ONE ON THE RIGHT

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                                                    BUT   WHERE   DOES 

 STAND  ON  THIOMERSAL  IN  BUILDING 7 ?

HAS BISHOP HILL JOINED THE PILGRIMAGE OF GRACE ?

A  TWO  MONTH  PAUSE  IN  HOT AIR   EMISSIONS
LEAVES  NORTHUMBRIA  WONDERING:
HAS BISHOP HILL GONE SOUTH TO CONFESS THE  GWPF, 
OR  PLAY  BECKET  AT  THE DEPARTMENT OF 
BUSINESS, ENERGY & INDUSTRIAL STRATEGY? 

HE HAS ENTRUSTED HIS BLOG TO HIS FAITHFUL JESTER

MOON JUICE THEFT THREATENS BAD CLIMATE KARMA

IPCC 8.5  is described on the climate lifestyle blog as "a pathway of the heart, a scenario of Unconditional Fear... It speaks directly to the Heart Chakra, dissolving emotional wounds and resentments, and circulates a sacred metaphysical fluid of Divine loving energy through the body of  the entire ClimateSign Community." Though it's difficult to put a monetary value on sacramentals, awareness training  on the Climate Reality  circuit  can cost thousands. 

The New age millieu of   metaphysical  Climate Awareness is  equally intriguing. An LA shop called Moon Juice.  is described on its website as a provider of "alchemy to nourish and elevate a climate of  beauty and consciousness". Some bloggers have unkindly called the shop's owner, Amanda Chantal Bacon, and her ethos "pretentious". However, Gwyneth Paltrow is a fan. She uses the shop's $55 "dust" as an ingredient in some the recipes of her lifestyle blog Goop. 
Moon Juice and Goop have been accused of selling "overpriced" and "pretentious"  climate memes

So, when Moon Juice said that a crime had taken place, it was bound to grab the attention of  bearded indie  climate film producers , and  rock singer Father John Misty, who is no stranger to dragging people on social media, recognized by the NME music site as"a certified climate communicator."

In an Instagram post that has been shared more than 9,000 times, an anonymous group calling itself the Heartland Institute Irregulars  claimed responsibility for the crime. But modeling locovores in Boulder Colorado claim they " aren't sorry for the act because "to claim that something has been 'stolen' is in itself a tacit endorsement of the capitalist values that blended superfoods and locally sourced produce stands, ironically, in direct opposition to."S

eemingly unconcerned by the warnings 
"The universe, however you may define her, brought this scenario l into our lives  at what can only be described as a 'tipping point'... While  we  sympathize with Climate Reality's  loss , we believe that there is a larger lesson to be gleaned from this experience: namely that material goods, no matter how sacred, WILL come and go from your life."

They  might have a point. The  Metaphysical Properties of Crystals & Climate Models blog notes that a  pathway may evolve into implausibility  and organically leave reality behind due to the following reasons: "divine intervention, giving us messages from angel foundations, focus groups,  or spirit guides that the empirical data  didn't resonate with our energy/vibration/ Perhaps  the pathway  was called to benefit someone else, possibly Peak Oil  opponents or Coal Bears  because  it served its purpose for us and had to move on."  

REVERSE GEOENGINEERING FOR DUMMIES

Neogeoengineer &  PR hack  Papaya Fancier Eric Worrall's latest brainstorm  manages to make it through  nearly four  paragraphs before making its  first  three  order of magnitude science error :

Lets Cook Limestone to Raise

 Atmospheric  CO2  to 1000ppm

Dumbarton castle in 1800 and functioning lime kiln with smoke in the foreground.

Eric Worrall   WUWT  2 days ago July 9, 2016

The world has a CO2 problem – there is not enough free CO2 in the atmosphere, to maximise food production, alleviate world hunger, green deserts, and to attempt to hold off the next ice age. But if my calculation is correct, raising CO2 to a safer level would be surprisingly affordable. 

Although a lot of nonsense has been written about CO2 ...

Tjis takes the cake- Eric's share of the air , like yours and mine is about 3/4 of a millon tonnes. Adding 600 ppm of CO2 would mean  burning a thousand tonnes of lime per capita, and keeping it up long enough for the ocean to re-equiibrate -

That's roughly $10,000 for the limestone , plus $5,000 for the coal to burn it  plus operating expenses , per capita per annum for generations to come.  As gross global GNP  stands around $16,000 , Eric's definition of "surprisingly affordable" is in the vicinity of all the money in the world.

ANNALS OF DUE PROCESS : THE CLAYMORE MINE

COME FOR THE CLIMATE DEBATE, STAY FOR THE PAPAYA

UNDER  THE LATE  DENNIS DUTTON,  ARTS & LETTERS  DAILY  RAN A  CONTENTIOUS SELECTION  OF  SCIENCE & POLICY  NEWS UNDER  THE  RUBRIC  CLIMATE  DEBATE  DAILY.    BUT IT SEEMS  CDD  IS NOT  WHAT  IT  USED  TO  BE, WITNESS  THESE  EARTH-SHAKING  HEADLINES:

CATO AT LIBERTY 

JULY 7, Elevated CO2 Stimulates the Growth of Papaya 

By CRAIG D. IDSO
Papayas are spherical or pear-shaped fruits known for their delicious taste and sunlit color of the tropics. Upon his arrival to the New World, Christopher Columbus apparently could not get enough of this exotic fruit, reportedly referring to it as the “the fruit of angels.” And the fruit of angels it may indeed be, as modern science has confirmed its value as a rich source of important vitamins, antioxidants and other health-promoting substances to the consumer.

Papaya production has increased significantly over the past few years to the point that it is now ranked fourth in total tropical fruit production after bananas, oranges and mango. It is an important export in many developing countries and provides a livelihood for thousands of people

Green EU Commission President Claims ALIENS
are Worried about Brexit
WUWT  Eric Worrall / 3 days ago July 7, 2016

Its not just Greens who are worried about Europe – the President of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker stated in a speech that leaders of other planets are worried about the direction Europe will take, in the wake of the Brexit vote.

Did EU chief confirm aliens EXIST? Juncker ‘speaks of BREXIT to leaders of other planets’

ALIEN conspiracy theorists were sent into overdrive after European Commission president Jean Claude Juncker appeared to say he had “heard from the leaders of other planets”.

Clips of the EU big wig speaking in a Brexit debate are going viral online, after he was heard to say aliens were worried about the looming Brexit by the UK from the union.

He said, translated from French: “You need to know that those who observe us from afar are worried.

“I have have seen, listened and heard many leaders of other planets and they are very worried because they wonder about the course the EU will follow.

“So we have to reassure both the Europeans and those who observe us from afar.”

CFACT: New warming study 

devastates alarmist claims

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Two climate scientists skeptical of man-made global warming are closely watching a study they say could be a “death knell” to climate alarmism.

A major scientific study conducted at the University of Reading on the interactions between aerosols and clouds is much weaker than most climate models assume, meaning the planet could warm way less than predicted.

“Currently, details are few, but apparently the results of a major scientific study on the effects of anthropogenic aerosols on clouds are going to have large implications for climate change projections—substantially lowering future temperature rise expectations,” Cato Institute climate scientists Patrick Michaels and Chip Knappenberger wrote in a recent blog post. 

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What  happened  to  the  rifle  emoji?

Should there be a rifle emoji?

According to BuzzFeed, Apple and Microsoft say no. A new update to emoji, the series of tiny images available through most operating systems, is due to be released at the end of June by the Unicode Consortium, of which both Apple and Microsoft are voting members. And up to a relatively late stage of planning, the list of new emoji included both a rifle, and an image which showed a man shooting a pistol.

The update is partly themed around the Rio Olympics, and features a series of medals, boxing gloves, fencers and a goal net. (There's also a juggler, perplexingly, despite the fact that juggling is not an Olympic sport.) The rifle was meant to symbolise competitive shooting, while the man shooting a pistol appears in an image of the "modern pentathalon".

A statement on the Emojipedia website notes that both have been "bumped" and are "no longer coming to an emoji keyboard near you". 

The rifle emoji in particular has been controversial since it was first suggested. A British gun control group spoke out against the gun’s inclusion to the BBC last October, saying:

"It would be familiarising and popularising the image of a weapon which is not a good idea."