Come visit us at our new web site: www.interestingitems.org Leave your thoughts, comments and opinions. We look forward to hearing from you. Interesting Items Alex Gimarc Monday July 25, 2011 Howdy all, a few Interesting Items for your information. Enjoy – In this issue: 1. CERN 2. Norway 3. Bachman 4. Polar Bear 5. Murdoch 1. CERN. The head of the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), the top physics lab in Europe blocked all public comment on experiment results that demonstrate a connection between cosmic ray flux and cloud formation. This unprecedented step to bury experimental results is widely seen as one of the last gasps of the manmade global warming community to defend its turf. The science behind the experiment was proposed by Henrik Svensmark in 2007 and suggests that incoming cosmic rays end up creating more droplet formation nuclei for clouds. The more cosmic rays get through the magnetic fields of the sun and the earth, the more clouds we see. The more clouds in the atmosphere, the less solar energy makes it through, leading to an overall cooling of the earth. In times of low solar activity with a weaker solar magnetic field, this leads to overall cooling of the earth. The Maunder minimum and Dalton minimums of the last millennia both correlate well with both low solar activity and cold temperatures worldwide. Search with the keywords Little Ice Age for more information. CERN has been running a series of high energy experiments to see if they can reproduce the link between cosmic rays and cloud formation. Preliminary results last December looked pretty good. You can read the discussion from Watts Up With That here: http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/12/16/preliminary-results-for-the-cern-cloud-cosmic-ray-experiment/
As to the unprecedented announcement from CERN management sequestering the results, many in the skeptic community believe that CERN which is funded by the European Union has adopted the EU view of manmade global warming due to carbon dioxide emissions and will not report anything that disagrees with their sponsors. We will see. Science continues to be perverted to the wishes of governments in the interest of expanding governmental power and intrusiveness. 2. Norway. It appears that a single whacko was involved in a car bomb attack in Oslo and the murder of around 80 children on an exclusive island summer camp. The shooting stopped on the island when the perp reportedly surrendered to Norwegian military responding to the event. He spent at least an hour shooting up the island. At the time of this writing, there is no indication that there were any Islamist connections. On the other hand, the near-simultaneous deadly attacks have all the earmarks of an Al Qaida operation. Roger Hedgecock was reporting over the weekend that this was an Islamist shoot, which I believe to be incorrect. Expect the media and the anti-gunners to seize upon this vicious criminal act as yet another example of why firearms must be outlawed. Although Norway has a gun ownership rate over 30%, there was nothing on the island that was able to be used to return fire in a timely manner. Somehow, they managed to turn that location into a free fire zone for maniacs intent on murder. Perhaps it is time to return to the notion of the old Boy Scout summer camp .22 cal rifle range for these sorts of youth camps. There will be a lot more about this before it is all over with, and most of what you hear in the state run media will be anti-gun, anti-conservative propaganda. So keep your eyes and ears open and remain skeptical. 3. Bachman. Michelle Bachman (R, MN) is doing well enough in the race for the GOP Presidential nomination that the dirty tricks from the left have begun. Last week, there was a dual assault on both her and her husband, who runs a Christian based counseling operation. The media went after the candidate with a whispered story from unnamed sources talking about how she suffered from debilitating migraine headaches that put her out of business for hours to days on end. She responded by releasing a statement from her doctor describing the migraines as infrequent and easily controllable. Jeff Jacoby, who writes for the Boston Globe also suffers from migraines. He wrote an article describing the problem. He also went on to note that both Jefferson and Ulysses Grant suffered from migraines. It didn’t seem to slow down either of those men before or after they were elected. You can find the column here: http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2011/07/24/ a_president_with_migraines_ask_thomas_jefferson/. The attack on her husband was spearheaded by the radical gay rights community. One of the things that his service does is help those who want to leave the gay lifestyle. The technique is faith based, strongly grounded in Christianity. And the radical homosexual community has no tolerance for things Christian (which is why we have seen the proliferation of anti-discrimination laws and ordinances which by definition discriminate against Christians). Neither do they have any tolerance for anything that will minister to people who want to leave the lifestyle. Bachman’s husband combines them both. They staged a sit-in at one of his offices last week in an attempt to shut it down or at least to stir up a strong counter reaction and get film for the internet. They did not get the reaction they were looking for. So we see the anti-Bachman narrative shaping up: She is not physically capable of doing the job. And he is a weird, fundamentalist Christian who preys on the innocent Children of the Rainbow (homosexuals). They wouldn’t be doing this unless they were worried about her. Given the number of kids the two of them have dealt with over the years in the foster homes program, I expect they will be able to deal with this first shot across the bow pretty well. Next up? Expect the media to start chasing down the 23 foster children looking for dirt. 4. Polar Bear. Our local McClatchy fish wrapper runs a manmade global warming story at least once a week. The latest and greatest story was death of polar bear cubs due to long swims in ice free waters and how it is all our fault for allowing arctic ice to disappear. Researchers in the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas collared and tracked female polar bears over a several year period in the mid 2000s, paying attention to long distance swims over 50 km. A number of these bears had cubs when they began and not all the cubs were viewed after the swims were complete. The wannabee scientists instantly blamed lack of sea ice forcing the sows into long swims. The problem with this is that they did not spend a lot of time searching for the missing cubs. Due to the small number of sows followed, the analysis that led to identification of a healthy population and doom to all bears is as little as three, count ‘em, three missing cubs. White bears are notorious swimmers, with the longest measured swim in this study being 436 miles over 9 days. There are a lot of reasons to migrate and many animals do it with some regularity. Whales and birds tend to go the farthest. It mystifies me beyond comprehension that these self-described naturalists are no longer trying to discover the wonders and intricacies of the life cycle of the white bear. Instead they appear to be searching for data to support their preconceived notion that anything bad happening to white bears is the fault of mankind. It is an old story best described by the notion that to a man with a hammer, everything in the world looks like a nail. 5. Murdoch. The assault on Rupert Murdoch continued last week with a physical attack upon him while he was testifying to Parliament. The vehicle for the assault is the phone hacking scandal in British media, which caused Murdoch to shut down his newspaper involved. Leftists intend to use the scandal as a vehicle to shut down Fox News and every other media outlet Murdoch is involved in. Interestingly enough, as of this writing, it appears that all British media have been hacking personal phone calls and other forms of personal communication and doing it for a long, long time. The rationale for hacking is driven by the British libel laws, which are much more strict and harsh than American libel laws. In order to properly defend themselves in court, the media has to get the precise words used in every instance – yet another perverse outcome from poorly thought out legislation. Murdoch got hit by a pie. His wife hit the attacker. One wonders what passes for security in Parliament these days when a leftist can walk in with a pie, go up to someone who is testifying, and not be challenged by anyone in the building. More later - - AG "If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen." - Samuel Adams, speech at the Philadelphia State House, August 1, 1776. 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