I see in the Washington Times that the Department of Homeland Security has hired 1000 at all grade levels to process Obama’s amnisty program. Obama said the program was temporary, but these are perminant positions. It works this way:
The agency hires 1000 people, they work until the processing is finished (assuming that it ever to finish, which is another issue). Then, if it is indeed finished, they have 1000 people for whom they must find work. (Release them? Not going to happen. Thought agencies have had Reductions In Force (RIFs)) They will not be released. What will happen is that DHS will expand their mission to use these people.
Interesting story on findings that our drought in California isn’t the result of “man-made” climate change according to NOAA. That’s the problem with pop versions of so-called climate science — it’s a science that’s still in its infancy, we know very little about it. So what’s happened is people start interpreting every-day or even year-to-year (a blink in time) in ways that simply aren’t very scientific.
Lots of hurricanes? Man-made climate change. A dearth of hurricanes? Man-made climate change. Drought? Too much rain? Throw it all in there. Must be global warming.
That’s not to say there isn’t such a thing as human influences on the climate — but I suspect much more of what we see goes back to a regular, cyclical pattern that the earth has gone through since the the beginning.
What we see are micro-snapshots of weather. Then we take computer models and try to forecast hundreds of years into the future, concluding (with a major push from the political class which sees opportunities in it all) that catastrophe is just around the corner.
“Natural weather patterns, not man-made global warming, are causing the historic drought parching California, says a study out Monday from federal scientists.
” ‘It’s important to note that California’s drought, while extreme, is not an uncommon occurrence for the state,’ said Richard Seager, the report’s lead author and professor with Columbia University’s Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory. The report was sponsored by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The report did not appear in a peer-reviewed journal but was reviewed by other NOAA scientists.
” ‘In fact, multiyear droughts appear regularly in the state’s climate record, and it’s a safe bet that a similar event will happen again,’ he said. …”
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I see in the Washington Times that the Department of Homeland Security has hired 1000 at all grade levels to process Obama’s amnisty program. Obama said the program was temporary, but these are perminant positions. It works this way:
The agency hires 1000 people, they work until the processing is finished (assuming that it ever to finish, which is another issue). Then, if it is indeed finished, they have 1000 people for whom they must find work. (Release them? Not going to happen. Thought agencies have had Reductions In Force (RIFs)) They will not be released. What will happen is that DHS will expand their mission to use these people.
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Interesting story on findings that our drought in California isn’t the result of “man-made” climate change according to NOAA. That’s the problem with pop versions of so-called climate science — it’s a science that’s still in its infancy, we know very little about it. So what’s happened is people start interpreting every-day or even year-to-year (a blink in time) in ways that simply aren’t very scientific.
Lots of hurricanes? Man-made climate change. A dearth of hurricanes? Man-made climate change. Drought? Too much rain? Throw it all in there. Must be global warming.
That’s not to say there isn’t such a thing as human influences on the climate — but I suspect much more of what we see goes back to a regular, cyclical pattern that the earth has gone through since the the beginning.
What we see are micro-snapshots of weather. Then we take computer models and try to forecast hundreds of years into the future, concluding (with a major push from the political class which sees opportunities in it all) that catastrophe is just around the corner.
Anyway, the drought story:
http://www.usatoday.com/story/weather/2014/12/08/california-drought-cause-noaa/20095869/
“Natural weather patterns, not man-made global warming, are causing the historic drought parching California, says a study out Monday from federal scientists.
” ‘It’s important to note that California’s drought, while extreme, is not an uncommon occurrence for the state,’ said Richard Seager, the report’s lead author and professor with Columbia University’s Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory. The report was sponsored by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The report did not appear in a peer-reviewed journal but was reviewed by other NOAA scientists.
” ‘In fact, multiyear droughts appear regularly in the state’s climate record, and it’s a safe bet that a similar event will happen again,’ he said. …”
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