Global warming is measured fact and there is very little to debate about it. Many of denialists are not aware that regular weather measurement are conducted for several hundred years. In Prague they are measure on daily basis since 1774 such weather phenomena like temperature, humidity, pressure, and rainfall. University of Vienna and Leipzig measure weather even longer. The trend is clear that average temperature is rising. There are some oscillations where some decade were extremely cold while some years had hot dry weather. Any change in global temperature would be tied to oscillation from solar radiation, but rapid increase of temperature in past 200 years is tied to human action.
Posts by kaik
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72Arctic Ice Increasing
by Perry inarctic has gained hundreds of miles of ice the last three years.
red shows the september 2012 minimum extent.
green shows the current extent, which is likely the minimum for 2015. the arctic has gained hundreds of miles of ice over the past three years, much of which is thick, multi-year ice.. article.
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PORTRAIT OF A MAN FALLING
by Terry inportrait of a man falling.
(a short story by terry edwin walstrom).
get out of herethis is my fathers funeral; you dont belong here; you are a liar!.
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kaik
I still remember this day as was it yesterday. My spouse is New Yorker and lost couple friends/acquaintances in WTC. I have a memory of two jumpers, one woman in violet dress holding a hand of elderly gentlemen in suit, and jumping out together. This is the most striking image I have from that day.
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If she doesn't comply an orange jumpsuit is in her future
by DJS inscotus: kentucky clerk must issue same-sex marriage licenses.
by ariane de vogue, cnn supreme court reporter.
updated 8:02 pm et, mon august 31, 2015. let's hope this is the final screech from the haters who wrap themselves in the bible - or their egoist political philosophy i doubt it will be, but let's hope..
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kaik
Her case will be forgotten by the election. There will be different issues to deal with it than some unimportant county official. However, her beliefs is very good way to present the craziness of Christian extremism to the masses via media. She is an excellent poster child for crazy teaching of Apostolic church, and I am hoping she stay in the spotlight for much longer. -
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Getting ready to visit the San Diego area......Any suggestions?
by drewcoul inmy son is getting ready to move to hawaii.
we are driving from indianapolis to san diego next week so that they can ship his car from the west coast and save about a thousand dollars versus shipping it from here.
i am only going to be there for a few days, thursday through sunday and would like some suggestions of what to do while i'm there.
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kaik
I love San Diego, I go there quite often. My favorite place is Mission San Diego:
There are some many things to do. I highly recommend San Diego Zoo, Aquarium, museums, head out to beach. Best carpaccio I ever ate was in San Diego. Great city to visit.
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If she doesn't comply an orange jumpsuit is in her future
by DJS inscotus: kentucky clerk must issue same-sex marriage licenses.
by ariane de vogue, cnn supreme court reporter.
updated 8:02 pm et, mon august 31, 2015. let's hope this is the final screech from the haters who wrap themselves in the bible - or their egoist political philosophy i doubt it will be, but let's hope..
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kaik
I do not think she will resign. She earns good salary for KY, and if she does, her career is over as a county official. While she has a good chance to be reelected by her supporter, the chance are slim as the county is heavily democratic (she is D), and it has Morehead State University with extremely young population. This demographic group predominantly gay-friendly.
I will see her going back to jail for another contempt of court. There is also possibility that KY AG would investigate her conduct, but also she may be sued by forcing her subordinates to disobey federal judge. She got her 15 min fame up. She could resign or she could continue to perform duties as required by elected official. Nobody is taking her religious beliefs, and she is not required to conduct any SSM ceremony.
Once the backlash from her stance turns against her church, I would not be surprised, if they show her a door. Lastly, no major church wants to be associated with bigotry and homophobia as represented by Mrs. Davis.
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Largest amount of refugees since WW2 in Europe
by Powermetal4ever inso i had a discussion with my mother about this, and she claims that because of this that: "we are surely living in the last days right now" while i must admit myself that the situation seem chaotic, i don't want to believe that it is the last days.
so question is, how do i face an opinion like that?
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kaik
Thewonderofyou, I have not been in Liberec for 35 years! I generally prefer Plzen [Pilsen] or Kozel over other Czech beer. Litovel and Radegast are not bad either.
Today largest Czech media (MF Dnes) reported that EU wants to resettle 4300 refugees there. Unofficial information (Czech R is too small to keep anything secret), said that the number will be 27,000-30,000 while Slovakia should receive half that number. Not sure which source are correct between Hungarian, Czech, and Slovak media, but the number of Hungarian refugees from Syria is about 17% or 34%. Rest are migrants from all over the world, from India and Bangladesh to Somalia, Ethiopia, and Yemen.
Very clearly what problems are with the refugees can be seen in Denmark. Railway and highway connection between Germany and Denmark was closed Denmark. Refugees are stranded between these two countries and between Sweden and Denmark on ships. Denmark is refusing any EU quotas. Since Denmark limited welfare benefits, it became undesirable destination for the refugees.
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Awesome Way to Stop JW Family from Donating
by Stumpy inso mrs stumpy's mother is still in.
we feel it would not be in her best interest to wake her up at her late stage in life.
she has a good little circle of friends that look after each other and keep her busy and out of meddling in our lives too much.
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kaik
My mom is donating every freaking week, or every time she goes to program. All the time. She had to donate thousand dollars over these years. She used to donate more, but she told me last month that she put $5 equivalent now, but used to put $20 every month. Elderette at her KH told her that my mom is stingy that she could afford to donate more because my mom own her house and she does not pay rent or mortgage.! I wish she would stop donating, but I do not control her finances. -
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Are you angry for having been a JW?
by Half banana ini remember seeing the ex-jws parading around outside the assembly like lepers holding placards of hate.
we were the righteous and enlightened ones... and they were lost in outer darkness.
just dont look at them was the standard response to their unwelcome presence..
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kaik
It is hard to define anger versus being upset or fooled b WT. I am angry that WT destroyed my family, and this cannot be fixed as my biological father had died without having me around. I am angry that even with all the good intention my mom created for me, we really did not had happy childhood (no Xmas, gifts for BD, no sports events, hobbies). Otherwise, I consider it as long gone past, and I am not angry on spending time in KH, study Bible, or reading WT publications. -
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Largest amount of refugees since WW2 in Europe
by Powermetal4ever inso i had a discussion with my mother about this, and she claims that because of this that: "we are surely living in the last days right now" while i must admit myself that the situation seem chaotic, i don't want to believe that it is the last days.
so question is, how do i face an opinion like that?
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kaik
TheWonderofYou Generally, Western press especially German and Austrian provide untruthful accounts on Central Europe and their Slavic people all the time. Sometimes even blaming for bad weather like the heatwave in East Germany and low level of water on Elbe was caused by Czech (did not drought was widespread). Eastern Europe is doing what is required by treaty and they doing what they can. Merkel lifted the barriers, and bypassed all the regulation established by Dublin, and Germany is experiencing floodgate of the refugees. German press constantly accuse that Hungarians mistreat refugees, threaten them with expulsion of EU, blockade, sizing the state properties abroad and so on. But this mess was created by Merkel, and she will be ultimately responsible hosting 800,000 people on the taxpayer money.
Visegrad followed the rule, but it was Germany that broke them. There is no treaty nor regulation among EU where refugees will be settled by some quota. There is none. Every country in EU has own immigration procedure, and EU cannot dictate to who can settle there outside EU community. Every government in EU know that Germany would pick the best and will attempt to leave the undesirable migrants in Eastern Europe.
German media play key role in disinformation. They hide what is and what it not right. They only cite some foreigner news, or journalist does not ask correct question. The reports on refugees show heartbreaking scene and stories. Because West Germans did not experienced censorship; they take the news as objective view of the events. And government propaganda goes overdrive. Instead taking care of children and orphans that are truly affected by the war, the pompous welcome on the train stations are primarily fro economic immigrants. Germans respect the position, because they are persuaded that another approach is not possible nor tolerated.
Go to any Hungarian website, and you will see how these refugees were throwing food and water from the train, and vandalized the area. This people are heading to Germany. What they find will be another refugee camp and some allowance that would bring more relatives. In the long term it is not sustainable and one thing will have to cave. Either EU or mass exodus stopped by military mean.
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Revelation 8:8 Is a comet / asteroid heading here soon?
by FuzzyPaul ini have read a lot and watched some you-tube videos (some by marginally lunatic fringe christians - not necessarily invalidating) searching for asteroid september 2015 or comet september 2015.. there is some biblical evidence that, if one doesn't spiritualize / make literally invalid by symbolic exercise, that at the time of the end of the age there will be a uniquely severe, single great earthquake (isaiah 29:6, zecharia 4:7, haggia 2:6, revelation 6:12, revelation 16:18) and destructive objects described as hail, mountains falling from the sky, stars falling onto earth.
i note that ancients would not recognize the vastness of outer space and meteroids, asteroids, comets, planets being what we know them as.. there is also the exact symbol of "then the second angel blew his trumpet, and a great mountain of fire was thrown into the sea.
one-third of the water in the sea became blood, one-third of all things living in the sea died, and one-third of all the ships on the sea were destroyed.
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kaik
Asteroid/comet impacts are going to happen. They will be bad for survival of species. Ozone layer will be blown off, tsunami will sweep continents, and post-impact winter will decimate food supplies. Species will be affected by UV radiation and new generation of mutated flowers and animals will appear. Small size impact happens once every couple thousand years. If we counting mysterious tungsten explosion; were rather lucky, because medium-size impact do happens at least once during life of Humans. Asteroids like the one from 35 millions years ago in Chesapeake bay changed the climate and blown off a ozone layer which affected the spices survival success.
