Study: Global warming doubled hurricanes

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Sunday July 29, 2007 · 11:51 PM PDT

2007/07/29 · 23:51

Perhaps we can now start making "global warming causes hurricanes" more than a flimsy shock tactic:

Global warming's effect on wind patterns and sea temperatures have nearly doubled the number of hurricanes a year in the Atlantic Ocean over the past century, says a new study by US scientists.

Excerpts from the study by Greg Holland of the National Center for Atmospheric Research and Peter Webster of Georgia Institute of Technology were released in the United States late Sunday.

[...]

"These numbers are a strong indication that climate change is a major factor in the increasing number of Atlantic hurricanes," Holland was quoted by AFP as saying in a
statement.

Surely this must gain us traction in Florida, a battleground'08 state?

If Gore runs and was nominated, the fact that he already "won" Florida once, combined with a strong link between global warming and hurricanes, should bag him Florida. That, in turn (especially with the recent news about North Carolina's proportional electoral votes), means he should win the general.

Fox News to battle global warming - SERIOUSLY!

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Wednesday May 09, 2007 · 4:52 PM PDT

2007/05/09 · 16:52

It's best to fight a battle, such as global warming, on multiple fronts.

While many have been following the rise of global warming activism on the left, for a long time now I've been hoping and praying for a similar rise on the right. Why? Once both ends of the political spectrum begin to act, things will really happen. (Example: the 90-something-to-1 FDA vote in the senate today.) It's tough to get a risk-averse politician to spend political capital. Solution: get the value of that capital down to zero.

If we can get the GOP on board, our struggle is over.

Follow me below for a recap of this "Fight on the Right" --- and some absolutely mindblowing breaking news. Trust me: your jaw will smash your space bar.

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Google News results: Swiftboating our prez candidates

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Tuesday March 20, 2007 · 5:09 PM PDT

2007/03/20 · 17:09

Search "Al Gore" at Google News and the top four hits, displayed prominently because they have images (while the remainder do not), are:

(1) Al Gore's Science Called Fiction
(2) Town Official Defends Al Gore's Energy Efficient House
(3) Some Criticize Al Gore's Profits from Toxic Mining
(4) Polar Bears Agree to Settle Suite Against Publisher of Al Gore's An...

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ABC news: "Electronic voting machines could skew elections"

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Sunday October 22, 2006 · 9:58 PM PDT

2006/10/22 · 21:58

Over time, this is becoming less and less tin-foil hat territory:

ABC NEWS

Electronic Voting Machines Could Skew Elections

Researchers, Candidates Have Little Confidence in Machines Designed to Make Elections Easier to Call

By JAKE TAPPER, REBECCA ABRAHAMS and EDUARDO SUNOL

Oct. 22, 2006 -- Cheryl Kagan, a former Maryland Democratic legislator, was shocked when she opened her mail Wednesday morning. Inside, she discovered three computer discs. With them was an anonymous letter saying the discs contained the secret source code for vote-counting that could be used to alter the votes cast through Maryland's new electronic voting machines. "My understanding is that with these disks a malicious person could skew the outcome of an election," Kagan said.

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Monday March 27, 2006 · 1:20 PM PST

2006/03/27 · 13:20

The new Democracy Corps poll is out. I've spent considerable time digging into it, and I found something to warm the hearts of all environmentalists. The issue

Create tax incentives for alternative energy/wind/solar/biofuel

polled as significantly more important than "Implement the recommendations of the 9/11 Commission / inspecting 100% of containers".

WAKE UP DEM LEADERS: GET AHEAD OF THE ALT ENERGY CURVE BEFORE THE REPUBLICANS STEAL IT FROM US!

Let me repeat: Alternative Energy is more important in voters' minds than port security. Hello? Hello? Are any of you dumbass Dem consultants listening...?

Polling data below. Read More

More NYT bias, against Kerry?

Winger

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Thursday January 26, 2006 · 8:43 PM PST

2006/01/26 · 20:43

Is it my imagination, or could this Kirkpatrick piece at the NYT be ever so slightly right-wing biased?

Kerry Urges Alito Filibuster, but His Reception Is Cool
By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK
January 27, 2006
WASHINGTON, Jan 26 -- Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts could not attend the Senate debate on the Supreme Court nomination of Judge Samuel A. Alito Jr. on Thursday. He was in Davos, Switzerland, hobnobbing with international business and political leaders at the World Economic Forum.

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Journalist death toll exceeds Vietnam

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Monday August 29, 2005 · 10:30 AM PDT

2005/08/29 · 10:30

From Reuters, in the Toronto Globe & Mail:

BAGHDAD -- More journalists have been killed in Iraq since the war began in March, 2003, than during the 20 years of conflict in Vietnam, media rights group Reporters Without Borders said yesterday.

Around here we all know Iraq is at least as catastrophic a blunder as Vietnam. But not so with the media, so far. Could this journalist death toll, surpassing Vietnam, be just the ticket to drag the media kicking and screaming into our "Iraq is even worse than Vietnam" frame?

The latest casualty was a Reuters Television soundman who was shot dead in Baghdad yesterday while a cameraman with him was wounded and then detained by U.S. soldiers. That brings to 66 the number of journalists and their assistants who have been killed since the United States and its allies launched their campaign in Iraq on March 20, 2003.

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Sunday July 10, 2005 · 10:16 PM PDT

2005/07/10 · 22:16

So, I was wondering whether or not the "Hurricane increase caused by global warming" idea might actually catch on this year. So I searched for

dennis "global warming" hurricane

at Google News. I was horrified to see the top results was redstate.org. Here were the top search results: Read More

CHIMPEACHMENT?

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Thursday June 30, 2005 · 6:38 PM PDT

2005/06/30 · 18:38

Should we go for Chimpeachment or not?

To chimpeach or not to chimpeach? That is the question.

Obviously, there's a huge buzz about this these days, seemingly incited by the recent Zogby poll.

[Sidenote: if we really want to influence the media, we ought to start an ostensibly neutral polling organisation. It's not about the results: the power comes from the ability to choose the questions. This Zogby poll is a nice example.]

The liberal talkshow host Ed Schultz is incredibly against it. There are some pretty strong views. What are the pros and cons? I even heard Olbermann discussing it.

Would chimpeachment cause too much of a backlash, making us look like whiners?

Tale the poll (which is the main point of this diary, afterall).

Gay men navigate like straight women

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Monday May 09, 2005 · 4:47 PM PDT

2005/05/09 · 16:47

Behavioral Neuroscience reports that gay men tend to navigate like heterosexual women, using landmarks instead of spatial directions. This boosts the evidence that sexual orientation is partly biological in nature. The evidence against the Right-Wing self-righteous Theocratic Mantra "homosexuality is an evil sin" is mounting. (Not that evidence, scientific or otherwise, will ever make a difference to that crowd, alas...)

Some extracts from a New Scientist summary:

Gay men employ the same strategies for navigating as women - using landmarks to find their way around - a new study suggests.

But they also use the strategies typically used by straight men, such as using compass directions and distances. In contrast, gay women read maps just like straight women, reveals the study of 80 heterosexual and homosexual men and women.

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Saturday May 07, 2005 · 5:35 PM PDT

2005/05/07 · 17:35

Unbelievable! In the UK Sunday Times (datestamped tomorrow, GMT):

The Sunday Times - World

May 08, 2005

Captured Al-Qaeda kingpin is case of `mistaken identity'

Christina Lamb and Mohammad Shehzad Islamabad

THE capture of a supposed Al-Qaeda kingpin by Pakistani agents last week was hailed by President George W Bush as "a critical victory in the war on terror". According to European intelligence experts, however, Abu Faraj al-Libbi was not the terrorists' third in command, as claimed, but a middle-ranker derided by one source as "among the flotsam and jetsam" of the organisation.

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Saturday April 09, 2005 · 5:12 PM PDT

2005/04/09 · 17:12

Why did I have to go to the Canadian media to see this?

Caption: Iraqi demonstrators stage a mock reenactment of Abu Ghraib Prison abuses during a rally in Baghdad, Saturday. Read More

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Study: Global warming doubled hurricanes

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Hey Dem Leaders: tax incentives for Alt. Energy is popular!

More NYT bias, against Kerry?

Journalist death toll exceeds Vietnam

Redstate.org, Google News, Global Warming

CHIMPEACHMENT?

Gay men navigate like straight women

Captured Al-Qaeda `Kingpin': MISTAKEN IDENTITY! [updated]

Iraqis stage mock Abu Ghraib; "topple" Bush/Blair/Saddam