The Gallipoli campaign resonated profoundly among all nations involved.
In Turkey, the battle is perceived as a defining moment in the history
of the Turkish people; the campaign was the first major battle undertaken in the war by
Australia and New Zealand, and is often considered to mark the birth of
national consciousness in both of these countries.
Anzac Day, 25 April, remains the most significant commemoration of military casualties and veterans in Australia and New Zealand. This is the 98th Anniversary.
That Girl - Activist Actress Marlo Thomas writes creative fiction.
Her latest excursion is in the field of Science Fiction which she has written for the Huffington Post (Link).
How can one column get so many things wrong?
Climate change is one of those topics that practically dares you to step
up to it. We know it exists and we know it's critical, but it's so
enormous that it's hard to wrap your head around it.
Climate change exists. Right. Climate has changed since the beginning of time. She says that "it's so enormous that it's hard to wrap your head around it.."
Then she failed to get her head around it!
She obviously isn't aware that climate change is a term that the alarmists decided to use when the natural global warming stalled. The CO2 caused runaway Global Warming hypothesis has been falsified, the warming has stalled.
Discussions and conferences will be held, concerns will be voiced,
problems will be addressed, plans will be made and actions will be
taken.
Hypocrites have been flying around the world for discussions and conferences for more than twenty years. All in vain.
She then addresses Ways to be Green.
Eat less Meat?
The carbon emissions that result from meat
production are some of the most potent, and are large contributors to
climate change.
Actually Cattle are emission neutral. As Gerrit van der Lingen explains on the New Zealand Climate Science Coalition site (Link)
Dr Gerrit van der LIngen explains why emissions of methane from cattle and sheep should not be part of any emissions trading system in New Zealand. According to MAF, 98.7% of agricultural methane comes from ruminant enteric fermentation, released by burping; and is part of a natural closed loop that has nothing to do with fossil sequestered carbon. (LINKto download pdf)
The ‘relationship’ between
CO2 and temperature this century
David Deming has a BS in geology and his Phd is in geophysics. He is Associate Professor of Arts and Sciences at the University of Oklahoma. Deming is the author of more than thirty research papers and the textbook Introduction to Hydrogeology. He is an associate editor for the academic journals Petroleum Geoscienceand Ground Water. (link).
NCTCS blog has previously reported the exchange between Dr David Deming and IPCC Lead Author Jonathan Overpeck (link.) Overpeck emailed Deming saying that, to scare people, they had to get
rid of the Medieval Warm Period (MWP.) Phil Jones (Professor in the
School of Environmental Sciences, UEA) referred to it in the Climategate emails.
David Deming gave evidence to the Senate enquiry (see you-tube below), although as he hadn't
archived the email, didn't mention Overpeck. Later, Overpeck put his
hand up as the author.
Dr Deming has written for the Washington Post a piece titled:
He describes the current cold weather in the Northern Hemisphere.
The United Kingdom had the coldest March weather in 50 years, and there
were more than a thousand record low temperatures in the United States.
The Irish meteorological office reported that March “temperatures were
the lowest on record nearly everywhere.” Spring snowfall in Europe was
also high. In Moscow, the snow depth was the highest in 134 years of
observation.
He details predictions made by Alarmists:
winter snowfall will become a very rare and exciting event. (British IPCC contributor David Viner)
children just aren’t going to know what snow is. (environmental activist Robert Kennedy Jr.)
less snow and more blizzards (Associated Press)
He continues:
Portraying cold weather as the result of global warming is only one
aspect of the circus. Gems that stand out include claims that
earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanoes are caused or will be made worse
by global warming. Last year, we were told that global warming could
“turn us all into hobbits,” the mythical creatures from J.R.R. Tolkien’s
novels.
Confronted by an endless avalanche of such nonsensical drivel, it seems
almost foolhardy to argue facts. There has been no increase in mean
global temperature for 15 years.
Although the Alarmists are now switching to saying extreme weather events are caused by Global warming, David details
Drought is not increasing
Tornadoes are not
increasing in frequency or intensity.
Worldwide hurricane activity is near a 40-year low. Over the past 20
years, sea level has risen by about 5 centimeters an ominous trend
unless you’re aware that since the end of the last Ice Age, global sea
level has risen 120 meters.
Global sea ice
was above the 30-year mean and higher than it was in March 1980.
Dr Deming concludes:
With each passing year, it is becoming increasingly clear that global
warming is not a scientific theory subject to empirical falsification,
but a political ideology that has to be fiercely defended against any
challenge. It is ironic that skeptics are called “deniers” when every
fact that would tend to falsify global warming is immediately explained
away by an industry of denial.
