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Editorial and Rants
The idea behind "African Aid" is to take money from poor people in rich countries and give it to rich people in poor countries.
Don't worry, those rich college professors and leftists thugs just love Marxist dictators.
Maybe if we all got together to hold hands and sing songs it will stop those bulldozers.
Where are those "human shields" now? I'm sure some California hippie will gladly lay down in front of that bulldozer, right after they get done making their "Bush is a Nazi" posters.
Those rich rock starts will be sending you some money from their album sales right away.
Don't worry... I'm sure France will help out.
Clear Skies End Global Dimming
May 5, 2005 - From: http://www.nature.com/news/2005/050502/pf/050502-8_pf.html
by Quirin Schiermeier
Earth's air is cleaner, but this may worsen the greenhouse effect.
Our planet's air has cleared up in the past decade or two, allowing more sunshine to reach the ground, say two studies in Science this week.
Reductions in industrial emissions in many countries, along with the use of particulate filters for car exhausts and smoke stacks, seem to have reduced the amount of dirt in the atmosphere and made the sky more transparent.
That sounds like very good news. But the researchers say that more solar energy arriving on the ground will also make the surface warmer, and this may add to the problems of global warming. More sunlight will also have knock-on effects on cloud cover, winds, rainfall and air temperature that are difficult to predict.
The results suggest that a downward trend in the amount of sunlight reaching the surface, which has been observed since measurements began in the late 1950s, is now over.
The researchers argue that this trend, commonly called 'global dimming', reversed more than a decade ago, probably following the collapse of communist economies and the consequent decrease in industrial pollutants.
The widespread brightening has remained unnoticed until now simply because there wasn't enough data for a statistically significant analysis, says Martin Wild, an atmospheric scientist at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich and an author on one of the reports.
Wild and his team looked at data on surface sunshine levels from hundreds of devices around the planet. They found that since the 1980s there has been a transition from decreasing to increasing solar radiation nearly everywhere, except in heavily polluted areas such as India and at scattered sites in Australia, Africa, and South America.
A second study, led by Rachel Pinker from the University of Maryland, College Park, found a similar trend by looking at satellite data, although their research suggests the extent of the brightening is smaller. Unlike ground stations, satellites can sample the whole planet, including the oceans. However, satellite data are difficult to calibrate, and so are considered less accurate than measurements from the ground.
Surprisingly, Wild's study shows a brightening trend in China, despite the fact that there is a booming, fossil-fuel-intensive industry in that country. Wild says he can only speculate that the use of clean-air technologies in China might be more widespread and efficient than has been thought.
In contrast, India's vast brown clouds of smog, which result from wildfires and the use of fossil fuels, have reduced the sunlight reaching the ground.
Researchers will now focus on working out the long-term effects of clearer air. One thing they do know is that black particulate matter in the air has been contributing a cooling effect to the ground. "It is clear that the greenhouse effect has been partly masked in the past by air pollution," says Andreas Macke, a meteorologist at the Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences in Kiel, Germany.
Uncertainties remain part of the game because scientists have only a limited ability to track cloud cover and particulates, says Macke. Increased cooperation in programmes such as the NASA-led International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project should help to close the gaps in our knowledge of how dirty air affects climate, he says.
EU Fails to Cut Greenhouse Gases
June 21, 2005 - From: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4115670.stm
Emissions of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide rose in the European Union by 1.5% in 2003 after falling in 2002, the European Environment Agency reports.
Italy, Finland and the UK were named as the worst offenders while cold weather was blamed for a rise in the use of fossil fuels to heat homes and offices.
Some commentators now doubt the EU can meet its promise to cut emissions by 8% of 1990 levels by 2012.
A spokesman for Friends of the Earth called the new figures "shocking".
"The blame goes mostly to national economy and industry ministers, who constantly block any attempts to introduce mandatory targets for renewable energies, energy efficiency rules or fuel consumption standards for cars," Jan Kowalzig said.
Carbon dioxide emissions have risen by 3.4% since 1990, according to the EEA figures.
The Copenhagen-based EEA said emissions in the 15 old EU member states increased by 53 million tonnes, or 1.3%, in 2003, after a drop in 2002.
According to its figures, between 2002 and 2003, Italy, Finland and the UK saw the largest emission increases in absolute terms - 15m tonnes, 8m tonnes and 7m tonnes respectively.
EU Environment Commissioner Stavros Dimas called on member-states to meet their commitments.
National Public Radio Employment Application - "NPR_app.doc"
Here are our basic criteria for consideration. The "correct" answers are supplied in italics. Any applications that deviate from our high standards will be used as placemats for our pastrami and lox lunches and summarily thrown out.
1. Gender:
A) Female
B) Effeminate Male
C) Homosexual Male
D) Male but guilty about it, have a lisp, and am considering a sex-change operation
E) Normal heterosexual male
Correct answers: A, B, C, or D
2. Race:
A) White
B) Negroid
C) Jewish
D) Hispanic
E) Asian Indian with an unfathomable name like "Sneedek Ungrapradesh"
F) White but can manage convincing or empathetic pronunications of "Neecarlagua" or "Barheeo" that suggest I actually hang out with spics in dangerous neighborhoods
Correct answers: C, D, E, F, or B if we need a token nigger
3. Religion:
A) Jewish
B) Reform Jewish
C) Unobservant, secular Jew
D) Atheist Jew
E) Lapsed Catholic but I've been interested in the Kabbalah lately
F) Lapsed Episcopalian but I have a lot of Jewish friends, really
G) Unitarian Universalist
Correct answers: D, C, B, A, F, E, G in that order
4. Education:
A) CUNY
B) Columbia Journalism School
C) Berkeley
D) Brown
E) The Hebrew School
F) Wright State University
Correct answers: A, B, C, D, or E
5. Marital Status:
A) Married to any influential male in New York or Washington who feeds me news leaks and would be glad to see me trot off to NPR every day so he'll be out of earshot of my all-knowing, smug, pseudo-intellectual voice
B) Single, no one can stand me because I'm a yattering harpy or a fey excuse for a male
C) Divorced, no one could stand me because I have a nasal, whining, supercilious voice that never stops
D) Divorced more than once, absolutely no one could stand me because I'm a neurotic, hectoring termagent with serious mental problems
Correct answers: A, B, C, or D
6. Where is Indiana?:
A) Somewhere west of 42nd Street
B) I think it's next to Idaho, isn't it?
C) West of Louisiana
Correct answers: A, B, or C
7. According the the FBI's Uniform Crime Statistics; What Group Commits the Most Violent Crimes per Capita in the United States?:
A) Young lazy black males
B) Young lazy Hispanic males
C) Working white crackers in the Midwest
Correct answer: C, despite all evidence to the contrary
8. What is Your Conception of the American Midwest?:
A) A large agricultural and industrial region that was the engine for much of America's growth and prosperity, settled mostly by white European immigrants whose work ethic, honesty, and devotion to family made it a safe and enjoyable place to live
B) A dark, forbidding, uncharted no-man's-land I've flown over on the red-eye from L.A., inhabited by inbred German farmers with huge gun collections and a seething hatred of Jews and nonwhites. No good delis. Useful for occasional "color" features to lead listeners to believe we know where it is.
Correct answer: B
9. On your desk are two possible story leads in Dayton, Ohio for "Morning Edition" handkerchief-wringers. You have a four-minute slot to fill and can only use one. David Kastenbaum has been booked for a fast flight out of JFK and is nervous about being so far away from a deli and being beat up by crackers, but he's agreed to interview your choice. They are:
A) A white high school student in traction who was set upon by a gang of African-Americans who gave him a "curbie," blinded him in one eye, collaped a lung, broke four ribs, and deprived him of a football scholarship by crushing his kneecap. They needed his lunch money for wine. The student is only the latest in an alarming pattern of black-on-white violence at a large high school.
B) Linda Wertheimer's nephew by her sixth husband, a homosexual associate professor of comparative literature at Wright State University, was called a "homo" by a white who rejected his advances at the local Starbucks. He's had to increase his antidepressant dosage and psychotherapy visits and take a leave of absence until he recovers. Possible angle is the alarming rise in "gay-bashing" in the American Midwest.
Correct answer: B, of course
10. An Israeli Jew with a fake passport was arrested on the Ohio Turnpike with $20 million worth of the dangerous psychedelic drug "Ecstacy" in his trunk. The state troopers had to Mace him when he resisted arrest. It's well-documented that Jews run the Ecstacy trade worldwide and most large seizures of the drug have involved Jews. We have no stories in the pipeline this morning on homosexual New York performance artists or Zimbabwean naturalists fighting to save the rare Bukkake Beetle from extinction as white farmers are raped and slain all around them. We may have to run this story. What spin should you put on it?:
A) The questionable legality of search-and-seizure laws under current interpretations of the Fourth Amendment
B) The alarming increase in police brutality in the American Midwest
C) The alarming increase in "racial targeting" methods employed by police in traffic stops
D) The widespread destruction and increasing dissipation of white American youth, especially impressionable females, through the use of a drug formulated and marketed by Jews reaping huge profits
Correct answers: A, B, or C

