Fort Mac Fire Global Warming – Obama Says Suburbs Too White
‘Of course’ Fort McMurray fire linked to climate change, Elizabeth May says
The leader of Canada’s Green Party said Wednesday climate change was partly to blame for the wildfire devastating Fort McMurray, Alta., touching off a debate about whether it was the right time to discuss the causes of the conflagration.
“Of course,” Elizabeth May said Wednesday when asked if there was anything about the fire that is linked to global warming. “The temperature records were being smashed through last month for northern Alberta,” she said, while noting that no single event is caused by climate change alone. “It’s due to global emissions.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/elizabeth-may-fort-mcmurray-climate-change-1.3566126
Obama’s last act is to force suburbs to be less white and less wealthy
Hillary’s rumored running mate, Housing Secretary Julian Castro, is cooking up a scheme to reallocate funding for Section 8 housing to punish suburbs for being too white and too wealthy.
The scheme involves super-sizing vouchers to help urban poor afford higher rents in pricey areas, such as Westchester County, while assigning them government real estate agents called “mobility counselors” to secure housing in the exurbs.
Castro plans to launch the Section 8 reboot this fall, even though a similar program tested a few years ago in Dallas has been blamed for shifting violent crime to affluent neighborhoods.
It’s all part of a grand scheme to forcibly desegregate inner cities and integrate the outer suburbs.
http://nypost.com/2016/05/08/obamas-last-act-is-to-force-suburbs-to-be-less-white-and-less-wealthy/
Whites Need Not Apply: BBC Advertises ‘Black, Asian, Or Minority’-Only Positions
A range of British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) television departments, programmes, and radio stations are currently offering highly desirable, paid internships, but white people are prohibited from applying.
Creative Access – an organisation, registered as a charity, which offers placements at “many of the UK’s top media organisations” – has listed a number of BBC placements on its website, demanding applicants are only from “Black, Asian and non-white minority ethnic backgrounds”.
The website’s list of opportunities shows that all but four of the positions currently available are for jobs at the publicly-funded BBC, and Creative Access is funded by the British tax payer despite its charity status.
The Kentucky lawmaker who wants men to ask wives’ permission to take Viagra
Kentucky lawmaker Mary Lou Marzian introduced a bill to ban men from accessing Viagra unless they had a signed note from their wife, two doctor visits and a sworn promise that they’d only use the drugs with their spouse.
The registered nurse wanted to highlight the difference in politics between men and women’s health regulations. Kentucky has 4.4 million people and only two abortion clinics. New laws signed by Governor Matt Bevin last week make it even more difficult for women to access abortions.
Marzian spoke to the Guardian about the tongue-in-cheek bill in the state’s house of representatives, which has 80 male legislators and just 20 female ones.
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/feb/18/kentucky-bill-wife-permission-viagra-mary-lou-marzian
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Of course, Obummer blames “Climate Change” for the wildfire.
”…many consider wildfire as an accelerating problem, with widely held perceptions both in the media and scientific papers of increasing fire occurrence, severity and resulting losses. However, important exceptions aside, the quantitative evidence available does not support these perceived overall trends. Instead, global area burned appears to have overall declined over past decades, and there is increasing evidence that there is less fire in the global landscape today than centuries ago. … For the western USA, they indicate little change overall, and also that area burned, at high severity, has overall declined compared to pre-European settlement.”
”…a common perception that fires have increased or worsened in recent years around the world [11,26–29]. Where these reports are accompanied by quantitative observations, they are often based on short timescales and regional data for fire incidence or area burned, which do not necessarily reflect broader temporal or spatial realities.”
”Analysis of charcoal records in sediments [31] and isotope-ratio records in ice cores [32] suggest that global biomass burning during the past century has been lower than at any time in the past 2000 years.”
”… a general decrease of global fire activity at least in past centuries…”
”There was indeed an increase in the number of fires from the early 1980s to the late 1990s. However, the past three decades have been characterized by an overall decrease in area burned, and also a decrease in the number of fires from mid-2000 (figure 2) [37,38]. This is often not recognized even within the scientific community, with some authors continuing to underpin the importance of their fire-related research with an increase of fire in this region [16,39].”
”In contrast to what is widely perceived, the detected global area burned has actually decreased slightly over this period [between 1996 and 2012] (by 1% yr−1). A more recent global analysis by van Lierop et al. [36], based primarily on nationally reported fire data supplemented by burned area estimates from satellite observations, shows an overall decline in global area burned of 2% yr−1 for the period 2003–2012.”
”… there is increasing evidence suggesting that there is overall less fire in the landscape today than there has been centuries ago [34,101], …”
Doerr, Santín 2016 Global trends in wildfire and its impacts: perceptions versus realities in a changing world” Philosophical Transactions B
http://rstb.royalsocietypublishing[DOT]org/content/371/1696/20150345
actually, wildfires have been on the decline:
The stats are in:
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/68ccbb9bd0c1a4d45d952a278b0b889ecfb0214002c4afeb7bf32f0e8032193d.jpg
As of 2016 Sep 02: total area burned in Canada has been declining since 1987 even including the Ft. McMurray fire.
THIRTY YEARS at a rate of -2,800 ha per year
21 years, out of the past 34 years, have had area-burned tallies larger than 2016.
…and, all the while, Mannkind’s CO2 emissions have steadily increased.