Breakthrough on U.S.-Russian Relations? "We’re Not Looking Into Anybody's Soul," Says U.S. Official, Previewing "Sober" Yet Optimistic Announcement

Kim, you inspired me to read more about global cooling and found this 2/11/07 article by Nigel Calder very interesting, at timesonline.

"[Svensmark] saw from compilations of weather satellite data that cloudiness varies according to how many atomic particles are coming in from exploded stars. More cosmic rays, more clouds. The sun’s magnetic field bats away many of the cosmic rays, and its intensification during the 20th century meant fewer cosmic rays, fewer clouds, and a warmer world...
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"...Svensmark and his small team at the Danish National Space Center hit the jackpot in the summer of 2005. In a box of air in the basement, they were able to show that electrons set free by cosmic rays coming through the ceiling stitched together droplets of sulphuric acid and water. These are the building blocks for cloud condensation. But journal after journal declined to publish their report; the discovery finally appeared in the Proceedings of the Royal Society...."

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You are so right, the CO2 global warming propaganda is purely political.

(PS - I've tried posting this twice, maybe third time lucky :)

Posted by: kim | Apr 1, 2009 5:06:30 PM

In science, skepticism is the antidote for the confirmation bias. IMO, just as CO2 global warming data needs to be challenged, we also need more information before confirming Conservative predictions that President Obama's discussions with Russia will lead to "giving away the farm".

Where did you gather the insight that the new US strategy is only "vain hope that 'hope and change' are going to be persuasive"? I've also found it helps to lower the patronizing tone - common, "brain dead fool" ?

One of the MOST embarrassong moments of the bush administration was "I have looked into his soul"...I still cringe when i hear it..it made america sound like we were the village idiots..

I recently came across your blog and have been reading along. I thought I would leave my first comment. I don't know what to say except that I have enjoyed reading. Nice blog. I will keep visiting this blog very often.

Sarah

Yeah, just give Moscow what it wants now so maybe they won't take too much in the future.

Good strategy there, Neville Obama.

"Obama is a brain dead fool to think putting the missile defense of Eastern Europe on the table as bargaining chip is going to be effective. "

Exactly. Iran has nothing to lose at this point and everything to gain by having nukes. Iran with nukes will still have a continued mutually beneficial relationship with Russia, which imo, doesn't really care if Iran has nukes or not.

CenterOne at 2PM. Ocean acidification is exaggerated. Increased CO2 in the ocean will do just as it does in the atmosphere, that is fertilize plant life. Furthermore, the action of CO2 on the oceanic biosphere, in conjunction with the sun, will increase the rate at which carbon is virtually permanently sequestered from the carbon cycle, decreasing the time estimated to remove the anthropogenic CO2 we are placing in the environment. Ocean acidification is not imaginary, just as climate warming from CO2 is not imaginary. Both effects are trivial, though, and they've been exaggerated in order to stampede the herd into expensive, unnecessary, and deadly policy changes. Policy changes which, incidentally, accrue great power to politicians, and disempower all other people, but poor people selectively more. Do you like that?

Obama is a brain dead fool to think putting the missile defense of Eastern Europe on the table as bargaining chip is going to be effective. The Russians are not as stupid as the Taliban who happily announce that efforts to engage them are insane and idiotic. I have no objection to Obama talking to the Russians, and the Chinese, or anyone for that matter. I do object to him giving away our strategic advantages in the vain hope that 'hope and change' are going to be persuasive to them. Those guys are realists, and appreciated Bush's realism. They will be happy to cozy up to Obama's foolish rhetoric as he gives away the farm.

I might be wrong, I even hope I'm wrong. But I don't think I am. The world is populated with very smart people who understand power. Obama and crew don't understand much but rhetoric and Western elite guilt.
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To me this sudden outbreak of 'Good America Mania' where the U.S. is attempting to improve relations with Iran, China, Russia and other enstranged countries is nothing but strategic politics. Its all drive by the Afghanistan quagmire; U.S. needs international support and does not mind courting any likely supporter. Afghanistan seems have emerged as a global reconciler.

I like all the comments about the 'successful' SDI program that Reagan supposedly fathered. There is no such thing, and if there's a nuclear war, we're all still dead.

It was a tragic waste of money that led to some of our current huge deficits. Where are you people getting your information?

Nick, riiigghht...the man has degrees and honors you couldn't pronounce but here you are questioning his intelligence. LOL!

Another Bush bash, lovely. Always looking for a way to sneak that in there aren't they.

president awesome should learn that "all i needed to know about life i learned in kindergarten" is not applicable to foreign relations.

of course, i am assuming he can read at that grade level

Well, just so long as the US isn't pointing a GUN at Russia's head.

Posted by: Mockingbird | Apr 1, 2009 8:01:18 AM

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You do know that all government is an exercise in the threat or use of force, right?

From jaywalking to ICBM treaties, force motivates actions of people and nations.

Like Obama or Medvedev have souls. Obama is an empty vessel upon which liberals project their fondest dreams, while Medvedev is a hollow puppet of Vladimir Putin.

Obama has already tipped the Russians to the fact that he is not serious about missile defense.

Clever strategery, that.

Ha ha ha.

Kim: I agree that climate science is not settled, particularly when it comes to ocean acidification and its impact our food chain, something you have not mentioned. So, if as you suggest, CO2 is not responsible for the temperature rising, what about our oceans?

And even if you believe an attempt to trade Russian influence is foolish, why would re-engaging Russia be an act of "brain dead fools"?

According to Jeffrey Goldberg, a national correspondent for The Atlantic, nuclear proliferation experts he's spoken with judge the chance of a terrorist detonation to be as high as 50 percent in the next 10 years. Two years ago Obama stated that the possibility of a terrorist group obtaining a nuclear weapon was “the No. 1 threat” facing America and he has made proposals to secure the world’s loose fissile material during his first term. Does that appear sensible even to a conservative?

So the Russian people want to go back to the days of standing in line for bread and only one quarter of a million people living well in the midst of millions who did not?

I'm sure the Obama administration can come to many agreements with Russia. The question is what are they giving up? it seems Obama is more then happy to abandon eastern Europe to the Russian sphere of influence. Keep in mind Eastern Europe wants a missile shield and their want has nothing to do with Iran. The fact we were going to base interceptors in Eastern Europe had nothing to do with Iran.
100 bucks says the obama administration's announcement does nothing to prevent Russian interference in former republics like Georgia or Ukraine.

Reagan: The Republicans have to go back to the 80's to Cling to a President that...

Hob Knobbed with Russian Leaders.

Who is Responsible for De-Regulating [Wall Street & Banking Systems] which lead the [Savings and Loan Scandal] as well as the Previous this times Economic Dibacle !!

No Regulation, No Rules, translates to Mass Chaos !!

Its sad to see Ronald Wilson Reagan so Over-Used when the Republicans had a Republican President and Majority Senate and Congress, when Bush never saw a [Spending Bill] that he Ever Vetoed..

You can scream all you want...

Bush will not get off the Hook that easy.

And we will tell you that, every minute of the Every day..

Talk about Bush, My Bad, Deserves all the Tongue Lashing, as mcuh as Possibe