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SAVE YOURSELF from "Horns"
Last summer, a friend of mine posted a cringe-worthy Huffington Post article on my wall that was titled "8 Movies From The Last 15 Years That Are Super Overrated." How on earth this piece managed to secure publication on a website of that caliber is beyond me since it included such memorable phrases as, "The problem with 2011's 'The Descendants' is that it sucked." Beyond being a terribly constructed and redundant sentence, it is also clearly NOT film criticism.
I try to avoid poor writing and potshots in my own reviews (although sometimes the devil on my shoulder manages to win). But wow, I sure am tempted to pull out some low blow for Alexandre Aja's "Horns," one of the most wretched movies I have watched in quite some time. So rather than drop to the level of that piece, I just decided to revive an old column … "Save Yourself!"
I can understand why Daniel Radcliffe and his management team might have thought this film seemed like a good idea on paper. What better way to shed the squeaky clean image of The Boy Who Lived than to play someone who literally sprouts horns and basically functions as a Satanic figure? "Horns" is basically his equivalent of Miley Cyrus twerking on Robin Thicke at the VMAs, though turns in "Kill Your Darlings" and "What If" accomplish the goal far better by just letting Radcliffe play convincing, real people.
Aja essentially lets Radcliffe off the leash in the role of Ig Parrish, letting him play the entire movie at the energy level the actor rapped "Alphabet Aerobics" on "The Tonight Show." After being falsely accused of raping and murdering his girlfriend, Ig's horns serve as a supernatural blessing (or curse) to divine the real killer because – get this – the protuberances force people to spill all the skeletons from their closets. Every moment feels so incredibly over the top and overblown, be it for comedy or for violence. Actually, come to think of it, the violence even becomes perversely (and appallingly) comic in its heightened proportions.
"Horns" is not like a film in the vein of Sam Raimi's "Drag Me to Hell," where the ambiguity and ambivalence leave an exhilarating void for the viewer to supply their own reaction. It's just an indecisive tonal scramble, not sure whether it wants to be an all-out festival of gory horror or a black comedy. Aja does neither effectively, and the film becomes a brutal slog to endure. It's not even overdone to the point of "so bad it's good." This is just pain bad. D /
Tags: Alexandre Aja, Daniel Radcliffe, David Morse, Heather Graham, Horns, Juno Temple, Max Minghella
Categories : Movie Reviews, Save Yourself!
SAVE YOURSELF from "Red State"
Two years ago, one of the hottest properties at Sundance was Kevin Smith's "Red State." The narrative unfolded as usual: high-profile premiere, studios deliberate buying it, bidding war commences. Afterwards, however, Smith sold the movie to himself … for $20 causing a big hubbub and quite a few eye-rolls and head-shakes.
It was an attempt to make a statement on how backwards the studios' distribution systems really are and how hard it is for filmmakers to tell the story they want. But honestly, could there have been a worse movie for anyone to make that claim with? If the studios keep all movies like "Red State" from getting made or distributed, you might not be too upset about that after actually watching the film itself.
It's an absolutely dreadful movie that has no class or restraint. Smith critiques the Westboro Baptist Church, the notorious anti-gay protestors led by Fred Phelps, as a bunch of backwards ignoramuses – as if the rest of the world didn't already know that. Perhaps a parody or a spoof would have been the more appropriate vehicle. Though I've never seen "Clerks" or any of Smith's other films, I've heard he's quite the humorist.
This is the kind of unintentional humor that usually plagues bad movies such as these. I'm sure some of it might have been planned, in which case Smith proved himself to be a poor imitator of Quentin Tarantino's darkly comedic talents. I think he probably wishes "Red State" was something like "Inglourious Basterds" with gratuitous violence aplenty dealt out to the hated villains.
And I suppose it's a fairly vile turn from Michael Parks as the Fred Phelps surrogate, but it's not like I got any satisfaction out of seeing all the massive bloodshed done to him and his lunatic disciples. Mainly, I just wanted to see the conclusion of the horror story at the core of "Red State," featuring Michael Angarano and his two buds following a sex ad but leading them to the Five Points Trinity Church. But by the time ATF shows up, all narrative and story are thrown out the window to let the bullets fly. Oh, and there's also some criticism of the corrupt government at the end that just feels totally out of place given the rest of the film.
When the dust settles, all that's left are a lot of corpses and a lingering disappointment in the air. Nothing to cheer about there. And for the record, I don't think I'd buy this movie for 20¢.
Tags: Kevin Smith, Melissa Leo, Red State, Sundance
SAVE YOURSELF from "The Road"
I'm in a semi-minority when I say that John Hillcoat's film "The Road" is a dreadful movie. However, I know I'm in a vast minority when I say that Cormac McCarthy's novel "The Road," the book Hillcoat's film is based on, is just as bad – if not worse. Yes, I'm taking issue with the novel that won the Pulitzer Prize and Entertainment Weekly's distinction of the best book of the past 25 years.
To all the haters who are sure to be drawn out of hiding by this pan, I assure you that I'm not some uneducated Philistine who is quibbling with McCarthy's unconventional prosaic style. Sure, it makes it a difficult read, but I actually quite enjoy it. The experience is tough but refreshing, particularly in McCarthy's "No Country for Old Men."
But "The Road" is just tedious and boring. Yes, I know that's the point! But beyond a certain point, I get it. I understand how the man, played with vigor in the film by Viggo Mortensen, and the boy, portrayed by then newcomer Kodi Smit-McPhee in a rather impressive debut, feel on the road. I don't need to spend hours of my time reading them do the same things and having minor variations of the same conversation, day after day. It makes for a great short story or short film, but stretched to novel and feature film lengths, monotony ensues.
Perhaps Hillcoat was fated to displease me with "The Road" since many of my issues with the text and story seem to be rather systemic, foundational quibbles. Yet the upstart Australian director had made a capable, taut thriller in "The Proposition" before he tackled McCarthy's work. ("Lawless" had its issues as well, but I still admired the work on display.)
Joe Penhall's script tries to add some sensationalism to make the story more tolerable (and commercially viable, I can imagine), but the attempts fail miserably. Making The Man's wife a larger character in the narrative adds nothing to the story, even when she's played by the talented Charlize Theron. Adding further dimensions of terror to their foes on the road don't make the movie any more thrilling. Instead, we are left with a film that ambles slowly and uninterestingly towards bleak nothingness and can't succeed at the one thing that should have been a no-brainer for it: a deep character study of the Man and his Son.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbLgszfXTAY
Tags: Charlize Theron, Cormac McCarthy, Guy Pearce, John Hillcoat, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Robert Duvall, The Road, Viggo Mortensen
SAVE YOURSELF from "The Company Men"
It must be tough to make a movie about unemployment after "Up in the Air." After Jason Reitman's film so ingeniously brought employees who had actually been downsized in front of the camera to tell their stories, it felt to me like there was no other way to ever achieve the same candid honesty. I can imagine writer/director John Wells, who had to premiere his film "The Company Men" at Sundance only a month after Reitman's hit theaters, probably muttered a few expletives under his breath when he realized he had to compete with it.
Yes, it does portray in pretty clear detail the effects of the 2008 financial collapse on the hard-working employee, but did it really pick the right protagonist? Granted I really don't care for Ben Affleck unless he's behind the camera, yet his Bobby Walker is suffering a crisis of luxury, not one of necessity. Is that the story of the recession? Tears shed over selling the Porsche and spousal fights over the country club membership. You would think that having to move back in with his parents temporarily was equivalent to moving below the poverty line.
When it's not indulging us with the sob stories of siblings sharing beds (when the children who were really affected by the recession were sleeping on the floor), it's giving us another indictment of post-too big to fail corporate America a la "Margin Call" and "Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps." We get it, Hollywood, you think the corporate world is full of sleazes like Jim Salinger (Craig T. Nelson) who will actually say he works for the shareholders and not for the good of his employees. The man can't even muster up any sympathy when one of his longest-tenured staffers commits the most clichéd act of desperation in film!
Depression is a sentiment a movie needs to earn to be justified, and "The Company Men" ultimately just wallows in self-pity rather than putting its stark depiction of a catastrophic time in American history to good use. When a protagonist seriously considers underemployment as a long-term alternative, then I start to question a film's social compass. Yes, psychological satisfaction is important from your vocation … but does it balance with the intrinsic disappointment from not realizing your own sense of worth and potential? Such a decline in our guiding philosophy might be one of the sadder aspects of the recession.
Tags: Ben Affleck, Chris Cooper, John Wells, Kevin Costner, Maria Bello, Rosemarie DeWitt, The Company Men, Tommy Lee Jones
SAVE YOURSELF from "Tron"
Disney has invested quite a bit of money into promoting "Tron: Legacy" – $150 million, to be exact. I've been watching as they've hyped this movie for the past three years with a fair bit of skepticism. I've wondered why they need such a massive push for a big-budget visual effects spectacle for quite some time, so over the fall, I decided to look for answer in "Tron," its 28-year-old predecessor.
I found one pretty good reason to promote "Tron: Legacy" so excessively: the original "Tron" is TERRIBLE! And not even terrible in the sense that you can step back and laugh at it; it's just terrible!
Sure, the visual effects are obscenely outdated, and that's reason for a few giggles. It's also dated by kids playing games at an arcade. I mean, who does THAT anymore? I guess you could say that watching "Tron" certainly gives you an appreciation for the flawless integration of FX into movies, and it sure makes you want to bow at the feet of "Avatar" and "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button."
With its extensive use of computer graphics for visual spectacle, "Tron" is considered by many to be a pioneering film in technological development and a window into the future. Well, I can tell you know from a 2010 perspective that the future came and left "Tron" in the dust a very long time ago. Plenty of movies have done similar things, and watching "Tron" is like sending a telegram when you could just send a text message: that's to say extremely antiquated and a futile waste of time.
Don't get me wrong, there's something very cool and novel about seeing how things were done in the past and seeing our progress. But it's brutal when that movie doesn't have any value other than its depreciation to offer. "Tron" has a completely incoherent plot that baffled moviegoers back in 1982 because it dealt so much with the unfamiliar computers. The filmmakers claimed that it was misunderstood back when the movie came out largely to cover the movie's lackluster box office receipts. (To be fair, there was also a little science-fiction movie called "E.T." dominating the market at the same time.)
Yet even now, in a generation of overexposure to computers, the movie still doesn't make sense! All I could discern from that plot was that Jeff Bridges' Kevin Flynn invented the TRON program, his intellectual property was stolen, and he beams himself inside the program to prove his creation. From then on, it's a total mess of seemingly unconnected events inside the computer that have little going for them other than the retro '80s appeal.
The movie has managed to become a cult hit over the years, and I'm a little flabbergasted that people actually love this movie. I don't see anything other than effects that are funny for a few minutes, and then when the novelty wears off, we are left with nothing but a snooze of a movie with a strange plot.
So I'm honestly shocked that Disney would throw so much behind "Tron: Legacy" when the original is so pathetic. I think they know it and are starting to fret that people like me would see the 1982 movie; according to a report in The Los Angeles Times, the DVD of the original is pretty hard to find since Disney is hardly releasing any new copies to meet the demand. Most studios release some new edition of a predecessor when a sequel comes out, and a special edition of "Tron" is nowhere to be seen.
"Tron: Legacy" is being built as the cinematic equivalent of Wall Street's "too big to fail" companies. The commonly held theory is that if enough money is poured into a production, moviegoers will recognize the investment and go see it on blind faith. While the fanboy hype is high on this release, reality may be setting in that this might not have been such a smart move (which I could have told you the second I finished the original). According to The Hollywood Reporter, tracking indicates an opening weekend of a low $35 million, which would mean the movie would probably only net about $150-$175 million in the United States.
Given that the film will cost the studio $320 million by December 17, these numbers would be catastrophic for Disney. Just as when the "too big to fail" firms sunk led to change on Wall Street, /Film reports that if "Tron: Legacy" were to bomb, the impact on Hollywood could be enormous. My prediction is that if the sequel is anything like the 1982 "Tron," the road to failure has already been paved.
Tags: Disney, Jeff Bridges, Save Yourself!, Tron, Tron: Legacy
SAVE YOURSELF from "Lost in Translation"
Plenty of people will tell you to run to "Lost in Translation;" I, however, am not telling you to walk. I'm telling you to run in the other direction and SAVE YOURSELF!
Now, by all means, if you want to spend an hour and a half of your valuable time watching an excruciatingly subtle movie that shows not the slightest bit of emotion, this could be your movie. Some people take pleasure in seeing movies like this because they, in some form or fashion, feel like they have power because the filmmaker has let them fill in the emotional blanks. I like movies that show people living their lives, no matter how dismal or boring that may be. Sofia Coppola gives us in this movie a portrait of two people who might as well be dead because they show such few signs of life.
It's a 90-minute movie that feels like 90 hours in moviewatching hell – or, as Coppola sees it, Japan. We get to see plenty of a much younger Scarlett Johansson (here in her breakout role), but if you want to go ScarJo watching, there are plenty of magazines and websites for that. In "Lost in Translation," Coppola gives us these ten minute asides of Johansson visiting various tourist locations looking perplexed and bored to tears. I'll give her that she really communicates the later of the two emotions to the audience, as our impatient American mind yells, "GET ON WITH IT! SEE THE DARNED SIGHTS AND GET THE PLOT MOVING!"
The movie drags on following two bored souls in Japan, the photographer's wife left to stew in her own juices played by Johansson and a burnt-out alcoholic actor played admirably by Bill Murray. I won't pretend like Murray deserved a Razzie for his work here because it wasn't awful. But in terms of the kind of performances the Oscars have rewarded and nominated in the past decade, this just falls short of expectations. In essence, it's Murray playing the same character we've laughed at for two decades, only now we are supposed to pity him because this funny guy has suddenly turned vapid.
The two strike up friendship unexpectedly and begin to converse on occasion. Talking makes up only about a third of the movie, however. Coppola left me wondering how on earth I'm expected to buy their relationship, but more importantly, why I should care an iota. I've been more invested in the characters that populate corny romantic comedies than this, something that should not be able to describe any Best Picture nominee. The counteracting of my argument is that Coppola is using the European technique of letting the dialogue provide the mood and the emotions to tell the story. I have no problem with this, but "Lost in Translation" is so frigidly distant that I felt there was never an opportunity to make any sort of connection to it.
By the time the movie wrapped up, I could have cared less about how to interpret the open-ended conclusion. It's as painfully reserved and wistfully distant as the shy kid in middle school. All politeness aside, that's NOT the person I want to spend my valuable time with. The Coppola last name is the stuff of legends, and it's a shame that Sofia can just tote it around because she was born with it, not because she truly earned it.
Tags: Bill Murray, Lost in Translation, Scarlett Johansson, Sofia Coppola
SAVE YOURSELF from "Ali"
And you thought I had forgotten about this series.
I'm back again with another movie in the "Save Yourself!" series, which is designed to steer you clear of movies that will serve no purpose other than to waste your time. I see plenty of movies, and better me than you, right? I don't want you to make the same mistakes I do.
This pick might shock you a little bit because it certainly shocks me. Will Smith is the man who can do no wrong; he basically walks on water at the box office. And director Michael Mann almost always delivers – I'll forgive "Public Enemies" because "The Insider" and "Collateral" were both great. And when you throw in a cast that includes Jon Voight, Jamie Foxx, and Jeffrey Wright, that's another good sign. Heck, they even got LeVar Burton, who is known to my generation as the guy from "Reading Rainbow," to play MLK!
Don't let the signs fool you. "Ali" is a bore from beginning to end. Rather than float like a butterfly, the movie drags like a bag of bricks. And instead of stinging like a bee, the movie lands with so little impact that you could mistake it for having no ambitions at all.
But surely you have your doubts. How can it be boring when it has Will Smith? And in an Oscar-nominated performance, no less! It's simple: there's too much Will Smith in the movie and not enough Muhammad Ali. It's as if he found the pride of the famous boxer buried deep inside of him and then decided to play only that emotion.
And don't even get me started on Jon Voight, whose Academy Award nomination for this role is an absolute travesty. He appears in the movie for literally no more than five minutes, and when he does, there's no emotion. There is nothing that moves you, no moment where you step back and say, "Wow, this is a great performance." From what I can tell, it's a very good impersonation of Howard Cossell. But if he can get that close to Oscar gold for just that, so can any decent celebrity impersonator on the streets of Vegas.
Honestly, I wonder if Michael Mann actually directed this. He's made longer movies than this, yet he has always managed to keep them moving at a brisk clip. "Ali" is like a exercise in hubris, with ridiculously long drawn-out sequences in which very little happens. In these ten minute stretches, we see more of a nightclub singer than we do of Muhammad Ali, which is who we watched this movie to see. Mann, with the help of a good editor, could have cut at least 45 minutes from this bloated biopic, although I'm not sure if I would even want to see the movie then. I can watch Will Smith be himself in plenty of other entertaining movies; I don't need to see him pretend to be someone he's not, all the while still being himself.
Tags: Ali, Howard Cossell, Jon Voight, Michael Mann, Muhammad Ali, Will Smith


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Carbon Dioxide 'Pollution' On Vacation In Hawaii
Posted: February 13, 2019 | Author: Jamie Spry | Filed under: Carbon Dioxide, Climatism, CO2, Dud predictions, Extreme Weather, Failed Climate Models, Fake News, Hot Spot, Snow Pack, Uncategorized | Tags: Carbon Dioxide, carbon dioxide emissions, Climate Change, Climatism, CO2, Extreme weather, Global Warming, Grand Solar Minimum, Green New Deal, Hawaii, Maui, Mauna Kea, nature, Polipoli State Park, Science and Environment, snow, Snow Extent, Snow Pack, The Hot Spot, The Missing Hot Spot | 2 Comments
Source Photo : Things People in Hawaii Generally Don't Have to Worry About
"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible." – Bertrand Russel
ANTHROPOGENIC global warming theory implies that mankind's gasses, primarily, carbon dioxide (deceptively known as "carbon pollution" for politics and shock value) is supposed to be warming the lower troposphere – the first 10 kilometres of Earth's atmosphere.
WHILE the fingerprint for Carbon Dioxide forcing exists in computer simulations, it is yet to be found in the physical world:
THE MISSING 'HOT SPOT'
One of the most important pieces of the climate change debate rarely cited … the missing 'Hot-Spot' | The Missing Hot Spot | Climatism
WHILE debate rages about the causes of global warming, most of the public and our policy makers are not aware of the most basic salient facts:
1. The greenhouse signature is missing. We have been looking and measuring for years, and cannot find it.
Each possible cause of global warming has a different pattern of where in the planet the warming occurs first and the most. The signature of an increased greenhouse effect is a hot spot about 10km up in the atmosphere over the tropics. We have been measuring the atmosphere for decades using radiosondes: weather balloons with thermometers that radio back the temperature as the balloon ascends through the atmosphere. They show no hot spot. Whatsoever.
If there is no hot spot then an increased greenhouse effect is not the cause of global warming. So we know for sure that carbon emissions are not a significant cause of the global warming. If we had found the greenhouse signature then I would be an alarmist again.
Dr David Evans, former consultant to the Australian Greenhouse Office from 1999 to 2005
FULL Report here : The Missing Hot Spot | Climatism
S-NO-W HOT SPOT OVER HAWAII!
BESIDES precipitation, the most important element required for snow to form is cold air. Yesterday's winter blast set a new (interim) record cold temperature for the 50th state of -12°F or -11.1°C.
via weather.com :
Just after midnight on Monday, a number of sensors atop Mauna Kea dipped below 12 degrees Fahrenheit, according to the Mauna Kea Weather Center, a facility supporting a number of telescopes atop the 13,770-foot volcano on the Big Island of Hawaii.
If those temperatures are deemed accurate, at least four of those sensors would exceed the official all-time state record low in Hawaii of 12 degrees (-11.1 degrees Celsius) also set atop Mauna Kea on May 17, 1979.
Hawaii Storm Might Have Set the State's All-Time Record Low; Snow Fell on Maui, Too | The Weather Channel
LOWEST-ELEVATION SNOWFALL EVER RECORDED
SNOW is not unheard of in mountainous parts of the tropical island chain, but officials say the coating at 6,200 feet (1,900 meters) at Polipoli State Park on Maui could mark the lowest-elevation snowfall ever recorded in the state.
Strong storm brings damage — and snow — to Hawaii | The Seattle Times
Historic Snow Storm Hits Maui Hawaii – YouTube
SEE original video of 'emotional' gentleman discovering rare snowfall at 6,200 feet here :
'It's f***ing snowing': Snow falls in Maui, Hawaii | Metro Video
'It's f***ing snowing' – Snow falls in Maui, Hawaii | Metro Video
IT'S ONLY WEATER, BUT…
GLOBAL Warming alarmists have already been quick to denounce this as just a weather event, which it is. "You're confusing weather with climate!" they insist on my twitter account. As they themselves aggressively look for the next heatwave, flood, drought or forest fire to blame on "CLIMATE CHANGE!".
REMEMBER that rule: Cold = Weather, Hot = Climate.
YES, this is just a weather event. However, it's worth keeping in mind that such "weather" including the record cold and snow experienced in the current NH winter was not expected in the era of the "HOTTEST XXX EVAHH", so gleefully marketed by the global warming theory obsessed mainstream media.
IN FACT, according to the '97% consensus' of 'climate experts' and sycophant mainstream media, "Snowfalls are now just a thing of the past". And, "a very rare and exciting event [where] children just aren't going to know what snow is."
SEE for yourself what climate 'experts' predicted about snow…
IN 2000, climate expert Dr David Viner of the University of East Anglia's Climate Research Unit (CRU) assured us that :
Snowfall will become "A very rare and exciting event…
SNOWFALL Will Become "A Very Rare And Exciting Event…" | Climatism
IN 2001, the UN IPCC predicted diminished snowfalls as human CO2 increased, claiming that "milder winter temperatures will decrease heavy snowstorms" due to human activity…
IPCC – Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
THEY also forecast "warmer winters and fewer cold spells, because of climate change…"
warmer-winters-ipcc
2000 : a prediction from Professor Mojib Latif of Germany's GEOMAR Heimholtz Centre for Ocean Research…
"Winters with strong frosts and lots of snow like we had 20 years ago will no longer exist at our latitudes." – Professor Mojib Latif
2000 : Spiegel…
"Good bye winter. Never again snow?"
2004 : Mark Lynas told us…
"Snow has become so rare that when it does fall – often just for a few hours – everything grinds to a halt. In early 2003 a 'mighty' five-centimetre snowfall in southeast England caused such severe traffic jams that many motorists had to stay in their cars overnight. Today's kids are missing out . . . Many of these changes are already underway, but have been accelerating over the last two decades. Termites have already moved into southern England. Garden centres are beginning to stock exotic sub-tropical species, which only a few years ago would have been killed off by winter…" – Mark Lynas
2005 : Christopher Krull, Black Forest Tourism Association / Spiegel…
Planning for a snowless future: "Our study is already showing that that there will be a much worse situation in 20 years."
2005 : George Monbiot on climate change and snow…
Winter is no longer the great grey longing of my childhood. The freezes this country suffered in 1982 and 1963 are – unless the Gulf Stream stops – unlikely to recur. Our summers will be long and warm. Across most of the upper northern hemisphere, climate change, so far, has been kind to us…
2006 : Daniela Jacob of Max Planck Institute for Meterology, Hamburg …
"Yesterday's snow… Because temperatures in the Alps are rising quickly, there will be more precipitation in many places. But because it will rain more often than it snows, this will be bad news for tourists. For many ski lifts this means the end of business."
Less Snow and Drier Summers in German Forecast | Germany| News and in-depth reporting from Berlin and beyond | DW | 30.04.2006
2006 : The Independent's somber editorial admonished us that the lack of snow was evidence of a "dangerous seasonal disorder"…
The countryside is looking rather peculiar this winter. It seems we have a number of unexpected guests for Christmas. Dragonflies, bumblebees and red admiral butterflies, which would normally be killed off by the frost, can still be seen in some parts of the country . . . Some might be tempted to welcome this late blossoming of the natural world as a delightful diversion from the bleakness of this time of year. But these fluctuations should be cause for concern because it is overwhelmingly likely that they are a consequence of global warming . . . all this is also evidence that global warming is occurring at a faster rate than many imagined…
2007 : BBC "One Planet Special"…
"It Seems the Winters of Our Youth are Unlikely to Return" presenter Richard Hollingham … speaks to climate scientists to get their views. Their conclusion? In the words of the BBC, they all give "predictions of warmer winters, for UK & the Northern Hemisphere".
2007 : Schleswig Holstein NABU…
"Ice, snow, and frost will disappear, i.e. milder winters" … "Unusually warm winters without snow and ice are now being viewed by many as signs of climate change."
2007 : Western Mail (Wales Online) … article, entititled "Snowless Winters Forecast for Wales as World Warms Up" quotes one of the global warming movement's key figures, Sir John Houghton, former head of the IPCC and former head of the UK Met Office…
Former head of the Met Office Sir John Houghton, who is one of the UK's leading authorities on climate change, said all the indicators suggest snowy winters will become increasingly rare He said, "Snowlines are going up in altitude all over the world. The idea that we will get less snow is absolutely in line with what we expect from global warming."
2007 : Die Zeit…
"First the snow disappears, and then winter."
2008 : Another prediction…
A study of snowfall spanning 60 years has indicated that the Alps's entire winter sports industry could grind to a halt through lack of snow…. In some years the amount that fell was 60 per cent lower than was typical in the early 1980s, said Christoph Marty, from the Swiss Federal Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research in Davos, who analysed the records. "I don't believe we will see the kind of snow conditions we have experienced in past decades," he said.
2014 : the global warming theory-obsessed New York Times touted "The End of Snow?" Reassuring their readers that "This is no longer a scientific debate. It is scientific fact."
"The truth is, it is too late for all of that. Greening the ski industry is commendable, but it isn't nearly enough. Nothing besides a national policy shift on how we create and consume energy will keep our mountains white in the winter — and slow global warming to a safe level.
This is no longer a scientific debate. It is scientific fact. The greatest fear of most climate scientists is continued complacency that leads to a series of natural climatic feedbacks…"
(Climatism bolds)
The End of Snow? – The New York Times
2017 : The Age's resident global warming catastrophist Peter Hannam signalled the end of snow…
Snowy retreat: Climate change puts Australia's ski industry on a downhill slope | The AGE
Australia's ski resorts face the prospect of a long downhill run as a warming climate reduces snow depth, cover and duration. The industry's ability to create artificial snow will also be challenged, scientists say.
A 2003 CSIRO report, part-funded by the ski industry, found that resorts could lose a quarter of their snow within 15 years…
Icons under threat: The Alps – General – In Depth – theage.com.au
DOES the CSIRO and '97% of all experts' still stand by their predictions of "no-snow"? Or is their alarmist sophistry simply more global warming climate change fear-mongering designed to push their socialist agenda based not on evidence but on political dogma, ideology and overheated UN IPCC / CSIRO climate models?
SNOW EXTENT DATA
WINTER snow extent is increasing globally as CO2 emissions rise…
HIGHEST snow mass build-up since 1982
Yota111 on Twitter: "Highest snow mass build-up since 1982… "
RECORD NORTH AMERICAN SNOWFALL 2018
'FALL' snow extent is also increasing globally as CO2 emissions rise…
Rutgers University Climate Lab :: Global Snow Lab (Fall NH)
Rutgers University Climate Lab :: Global Snow Lab (Eurasia Fall)
Rutgers University Climate Lab :: Global Snow Lab (NorAm Fall)
ALARMISTS U-TURN
NOW, of course, climate scientists are trying to dig themselves out of snow that's kept falling…
Looking back at 65 years' worth of statistics, Environment Canada's senior climatologist David Phillips noted that since 1948, winter temperatures in the prairie regions have increased by an average of four degrees Celsius… Ironically, warmer weather can mean greater snowfall. "As we warm up, we may see more moisture, we may see more moist air masses, and therefore we could very well see more snow rather than less snow, because the air masses are going to be more moist and so therefore you're going to be able to wring out more snow than you would be if it was dry air," Phillips said.
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"Interestingly, some scientists have stated that increasing snow is consistent with climate change because warmer air holds more moisture, more water vapor and this can result in more storms with heavy precipitation. The trick, of course, is having sufficient cold air to produce that snow. But note that 93% of the years with more than 60″ of snow in Boston were colder than average years. The reality is cooling, not warming, increases snowfall." – Veteran Meteorologist Barry Burbank
LISTEN to what the 'experts' promised you back then. Because, if they got it wrong then, how can you trust what they are foretelling today or tomorrow? The answer is you cannot, because they have no idea what long-range conditions Mother Nature is going to serve up in such a "chaotic" and complex system as our climate.
BUT, one thing is a "97%" certainty within the current and scary world of post-modern climate 'science' – whatever scenario suits and supports the political and ideological position of man-made 'climate change' will be predicted, promoted and spread like a hurricane within the compliant mainstream media, throughout our most 'esteemed' scientific institutions, our schools and of course throughout academia – DAMN the data and real-world evidence!
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Why John Christy's Missing Hotspot Matters
Posted: April 5, 2017 | Author: Jamie Spry | Filed under: Climate science, Empirical Evidence, Fact Check, Hot Spot | Tags: AGW falsified, Climate Change, Climate Congressional Enquiry, Climate science, Global Warming, John Christy, Satellite Data, science, Scientific Method, The Hot Spot, The Missing Hot Spot, US Senate Testimony | 1 Comment
"One of the key predicted observations of anthropogenic CO2 climate theory is the existence of an equatorial tropospheric hotspot.
"But nobody has yet managed to unequivocally detect that predicted hotspot."
IMO, one of the most important pieces of the "global warming" aka "climate change" aka "climate disruption" debate … the missing 'Hot-Spot'.
Dr David Evans wrote an excellent piece on the missing "hot spot" back in 2008:
"No Smoking Hot Spot"
(The Australian)
https://climatism.wordpress.com/2014/01/28/the-missing-hot-spot/
"No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong." – Albert Einstein
German garden gnome. By Colibri1968 at English Wikipedia (Transferred from en.wikipedia to Commons.) [Public domain], via Wikimedia CommonsGuest essay by Eric Worrall
One thing which struck me about the recent climate science hearing is how little attention was paid to Dr. John Christy's demonstration of a flawed climate model prediction – the missing Tropospheric hotspot.
A flawed prediction does not automatically mean the models are totally wrong – but it is a strong indicator that something isn't right.
Consider the primary observation. The world has warmed since the mid 1850s, and for the sake of argument lets assume that the world has warmed since the mid 1930s.
Given that warming, you could propose a number of different theories for the cause of that warming, for example;
1. Chaotic shifts in ocean currents or solar influences have influenced global temperature.
2. Anthropogenic CO2 emissions have caused global temperature to rise
Study: Tropical Hotspot 'Fingerprint' Of Global Warming Doesn't Exist In The Real World Data
Posted: September 23, 2016 | Author: Jamie Spry | Filed under: Alarmist Predictions, Carbon Dioxide, Climate science, Empirical Evidence, Fact Check, Failed Climate Models, Global Temperature, Global Warming, Global Warming Stasis, Govt Climate Agenda, Green Agenda, Hot Spot, Satellite Data | Tags: Climate Change, failed climate models, Failed CMIP5 Models, Global Warming Theory, real world data, The Hot Spot, The Missing Hot Spot | Leave a comment
But the (missing) "Hotspot" exists in junk-in, junk-out computer models, which are apparently evidence enough to justify the destruction of capitalism, and the spending of trillions of taxpayers $£€¥ on useless schemes and scams in a hubristic attempt to control the weather and halt an increment of (modelled) warning that, most probably, would be beneficial to humanity.
The "Missing Hotspot" IMHO is one of the most important (missing) pieces of the global warming aka climate change debate…
No Hotspot = Global Warming theory fail.
One of the main lines of evidence used by the Obama administration to justify its global warming regulations doesn't exist in the real world, according to a new report by climate researchers.
What the tropical hotspot is supposed to look like. Graphic courtesy Dr. David Evans
Guest essay by Michael Bastasch, reprinted with permission
Researchers analyzed temperature observations from satellites, weather balloons, weather stations and buoys and found the so-called "tropical hotspot" relied upon by the EPA to declare carbon dioxide a pollutant "simply does not exist in the real world."
They found that once El Ninos are taken into account, "there is no 'record setting' warming to be concerned about."
"These analysis results would appear to leave very, very little doubt but that EPA's claim of a Tropical Hot Spot (THS), caused by rising atmospheric CO2 levels, simply does not exist in the real world," reads the report…
15 Questions Why Climate Change Is A Complete Hoax
Posted: February 23, 2014 | Author: Jamie Spry | Filed under: AGW, Carbon Dioxide, Climate Change, Climatism, Consensus, Empirical Evidence, Fact Check, Failed Climate Models, Global Temperature, Global Warming, Global Warming Stasis, Hot Spot, Settled Science | Tags: Climate Change, CO2, Falsification, Theory | 5 Comments
"When even the brightest mind in our world has been trained up from childhood in a superstition of any kind, it will never be possible for that mind, in its maturity, to examine sincerely, dispassionately, and conscientiously any evidence or any circumstance which shall seem to cast a doubt upon the validity of that superstition. I doubt if I could do it myself." – Mark Twain
"There is no harm in doubt and skepticism, for it is through these that new discoveries are made." Richard Feynman, Letter to Armando Garcia J, December 11, 1985
US educator & physicist (1918 – 1988)
"The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift."
No empirical evidence exists proving mankind's extra carbon dioxide caused slight warming from 1976 to 1998, or whether humanity's 3% addition to total carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has caused, or will cause, significant climate change.
The IPCC has spent upwards of one hundred billion dollars over the past twenty five years on climate research, energy studies and climate policy, and is still yet to identify a human signature in the global temperature record.
The only area where the effect of man-made CO2 has been detected is in the climate models which show, predictably, lots of warming. But models are assertions, not evidence, and the real world is falsifying the models and the assertions — all of them.
'That, of course, doesn't mean that humans have no effect on global temperature, because we know that carbon dioxide is a mild greenhouse gas, and we can also measure the local temperature effects of human activity, which are both warming (from the urban heat island effect) and cooling (due to other land-use change, including irrigation). Sum these effects all over the world and obviously there must be a global signal; that we can't identify and measure it indicates that the signal is so small that it is lost in the noise of natural climate variation.' (Bob Carter, Quadrant)
'Scientifically', alarmists have failed to make their case. However, 'emotionally', they have captured the world's intimate attention.
"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible." – Bertrand Russell
It is scepticism that keeps science honest. And given the billions of dollars that are being poured into policies and research on the basis of alarmist model forecasts, people need to be asking a lot of questions about the science.
Here are some questions that sceptics have been waiting for years to receive answers :
Why has there been no global warming for 17 years?
Why have 97% of the climate models failed to foresee this?
Why has Antarctic sea ice been well above normal for more than 2 years?
Why are northern hemispheric winters getting colder?
What makes the present warm period any different from that of the Medieval warm period?
Why is it that CO2 has been suddenly assumed to be the major climate factor and the rest like the sun and oceans are dismissed?
If there is consensus on manmade climate change, then why is there so much controversy over it?
Do you think that it's not necessary to have sceptics in order for science to progress?
If human contribution to CO2 in the atmosphere is 3%, how much should we attribute mother nature's 97% to any 'change' of climate?
By how much will the temperature of the globe change if we commit to a 20% reduction of world emissions by 2050?
By how much will a doubling of CO2 increase global temperature?
Why has the rate of sea level rise decelerated since 2004, despite rising CO2?
Why has global ocean heat content, 0-700 metres, failed to rise since 2004?
What evidence would falsify the theory of anthropogenic global warming?
*Questions 1-8 via NoTricksZone. (Climatism links added)
15. What is the ideal temperature of the planet and who determines it? And what happens if the 'ideal' temperature changes?
H/t to John R. Bolton
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THE Missing Hot Spot
Posted: January 28, 2014 | Author: Jamie Spry | Filed under: Carbon Dioxide, Climate, Climate models, Climate science, Climatism, Dud predictions, Empirical Evidence, Fact Check, Failed Climate Models, Global Warming Stasis, Hot Spot, IPCC, Pseudo-Science, Satellite Data, Science | Tags: failed climate models, The Missing Hot Spot | 3 Comments
One of the most important pieces of the climate change debate … the missing 'Hot-Spot'.
I DEVOTED six years to carbon accounting, building models for the Australian Greenhouse Office. I am the rocket scientist who wrote the carbon accounting model (FullCAM) that measures Australia's compliance with the Kyoto Protocol, in the land use change and forestry sector.
FullCAM models carbon flows in plants, mulch, debris, soils and agricultural products, using inputs such as climate data, plant physiology and satellite data. I've been following the global warming debate closely for years.
When I started that job in 1999 the evidence that carbon emissions caused global warming seemed pretty good: CO2 is a greenhouse gas, the old ice core data, no other suspects.
The evidence was not conclusive, but why wait until we were certain when it appeared we needed to act quickly? Soon government and the scientific community were working together and lots of science research jobs were created. We scientists had political support, the ear of government, big budgets, and we felt fairly important and useful (well, I did anyway). It was great. We were working to save the planet.
But since 1999 new evidence has seriously weakened the case that carbon emissions are the main cause of global warming, and by 2007 the evidence was pretty conclusive that carbon played only a minor role and was not the main cause of the recent global warming. As Lord Keynes famously said, "When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?"
There has not been a public debate about the causes of global warming and most of the public and our decision makers are not aware of the most basic salient facts:
When the signature was found to be missing in 2007 (after the latest IPCC report), alarmists objected that maybe the readings of the radiosonde thermometers might not be accurate and maybe the hot spot was there but had gone undetected. Yet hundreds of radiosondes have given the same answer, so statistically it is not possible that they missed the hot spot.
Recently the alarmists have suggested we ignore the radiosonde thermometers, but instead take the radiosonde wind measurements, apply a theory about wind shear, and run the results through their computers to estimate the temperatures. They then say that the results show that we cannot rule out the presence of a hot spot. If you believe that you'd believe anything.
2. There is no evidence to support the idea that carbon emissions cause significant global warming. None. There is plenty of evidence that global warming has occurred, and theory suggests that carbon emissions should raise temperatures (though by how much is hotly disputed) but there are no observations by anyone that implicate carbon emissions as a significant cause of the recent global warming.
3. The satellites that measure the world's temperature all say that the warming trend ended in 2001, and that the temperature has dropped about 0.6C in the past year (to the temperature of 1980). Land-based temperature readings are corrupted by the "urban heat island" effect: urban areas encroaching on thermometer stations warm the micro-climate around the thermometer, due to vegetation changes, concrete, cars, houses. Satellite data is the only temperature data we can trust, but it only goes back to 1979. NASA reports only land-based data, and reports a modest warming trend and recent cooling. The other three global temperature records use a mix of satellite and land measurements, or satellite only, and they all show no warming since 2001 and a recent cooling.
4. The new ice cores show that in the past six global warmings over the past half a million years, the temperature rises occurred on average 800 years before the accompanying rise in atmospheric carbon. Which says something important about which was cause and which was effect.
None of these points are controversial. The alarmist scientists agree with them, though they would dispute their relevance.
The last point was known and past dispute by 2003, yet Al Gore made his movie in 2005 and presented the ice cores as the sole reason for believing that carbon emissions cause global warming. In any other political context our cynical and experienced press corps would surely have called this dishonest and widely questioned the politician's assertion.
Until now the global warming debate has merely been an academic matter of little interest. Now that it matters, we should debate the causes of global warming.
So far that debate has just consisted of a simple sleight of hand: show evidence of global warming, and while the audience is stunned at the implications, simply assert that it is due to carbon emissions.
In the minds of the audience, the evidence that global warming has occurred becomes conflated with the alleged cause, and the audience hasn't noticed that the cause was merely asserted, not proved.
If there really was any evidence that carbon emissions caused global warming, don't you think we would have heard all about it ad nauseam by now?
The world has spent $50 billion on global warming since 1990, and we have not found any actual evidence that carbon emissions cause global warming. Evidence consists of observations made by someone at some time that supports the idea that carbon emissions cause global warming. Computer models and theoretical calculations are not evidence, they are just theory.
What is going to happen over the next decade as global temperatures continue not to rise? The Labor Government is about to deliberately wreck the economy in order to reduce carbon emissions. If the reasons later turn out to be bogus, the electorate is not going to re-elect a Labor government for a long time. When it comes to light that the carbon scare was known to be bogus in 2008, the ALP is going to be regarded as criminally negligent or ideologically stupid for not having seen through it. And if the Liberals support the general thrust of their actions, they will be seen likewise.
The onus should be on those who want to change things to provide evidence for why the changes are necessary. The Australian public is eventually going to have to be told the evidence anyway, so it might as well be told before wrecking the economy.
Dr David Evans was a consultant to the Australian Greenhouse Office from 1999 to 2005.
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Understanding How The Missing Heat Causes Climate Change
Posted: October 19, 2013 | Author: Jamie Spry | Filed under: Climate Change, Hot Spot, Oceans, Pseudo-Science | Leave a comment
There has been no atmospheric warming for 17 years, because 2.4 billion nuclear bombs worth of heat is hiding in the bottom of the ocean.
This heat at the bottom of the ocean is affecting atmospheric physics through a mysterious mechanism, which actually doesn't involve any change in heat content of the atmosphere.
The symptoms of this are known as climate change, which has caused all sorts of highly educated people to remark that they don't remember any windy, hot or rainy days prior to a few months ago.

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anti-secrecy web site, dumped thousands of pages of c.i.a. documents in a breech of national security that is being compared tonight to edward snowden's theft at the n.s.a. the c.i.a. is prohibited by law from operating in the united states, but jeff pegues reports the breech has seriously damaged the agency's work overseas.
contractor code named vault 7. the disclosures reveal cyber espionage tools that can take over internet connected or smart tvs and record audio. the documents also cite the ability to hack iphone or google android smartphones. those hacks allow the c.i.a. to then monitor the communications of terrorist groups like isis, which have been using encrypted apps to communicate. critics have wondered why apps like what's app or telegram haven't been disabled, but the documents suggest analysts have the ability to exploit them. earlier this year u.s. intelligence officials accused wikileaks of being a propaganda arm of the russian government after it released damaging democratic party e-mails stolen through russian cyber attacks. when the e-mails were published during the presidential campaign, candidate donald trump praised the organization. >> wikileaks. i love wikileaks. >> reporter: but the latest disclosures now threaten u.s.
wikileaks says it has more information than that revealed by n.s.a. leaker edward snowden, former c.i.a. acting director michael morrell. >> how would you compare this to snowden? >> this is c.i.a.'s edward snowden. >> that big? >> this is huge. in terms of what it will tell the adversaries, and we'll have to essentially start over in building tools to get information from our adversaries, just like we did with snowden. >> reporter: there is no suggestion in the documents that these tools were being used against americans. scott, the c.i.a. is not commenting on the data, nor would confirm its authenticity. >> pelley: jeff pegues for us tonight. thank you, jeff. firefighters tonight are attacking explosive wildfires that are tearing through kansas, oklahoma, texas, and colorado. at least six people have died. more than a million acres have burned, and thousands have been forced from their homes. david begnaud is on the fire line.
wildfires are sweeping across four states in the southern plains. heavy winds and dry brush are making these fires harder to contain, even with help from the air. drew baily is with the u.s. forestry. what's making it so hard to contain? >> the extreme fire behavior and the dryness of the fuels. normal fire fighting tactics are proving to be unsuccessful. >> reporter: in the texas panhandle four people died, including two young ranch hand, sydney wallace and cody crockett were killed trying to save cat federal the raging fires. along the border of kansas and oklahoma, the wildfires have scorched hundreds of acres, destroyed dozens of structures, and killed truck driver cory holt. his truck jackknifed as he drove it into smoke. >> the heat from the fire will push into it. >> reporter: marty logan, a former firefighter-turned storm chaser, has been following these fires for fast 48 hours. what's the point of chasing this for you? >> saving lives. that's my whole objective is to get the word out and save
of kansas line, and we ran up on a fire crew that's just come into this wide-open area to try and extinguish the flames that have reignited here. this was out about half hour ago. then the wind came and the fire started again. >> you can lose your job, but to watch it burn is another thing. >> reporter: jolyn easterwood is a 24-year-old rancher who had been helping to evacuate livestock. last night flames nearly engulfed her family's home. >> this is people's life that's on fire, it's not just land. it's people's life. >> reporter: one of the best resources right now, helicopters which are actively being used in the firefight. scott, those black plumes behind me indicate the fire is still ranging, -- raging, and we're hearing from firefighters that in some cases the wind is pushing the fire to jump a quarter of a mile as it continues to spread. >> pelley: david begnaud, thanks. today president trump praised the new republican replacement for obamacare as
but it was a dead letter to conservative republicans who said that it broke promises that they made to the voters. mr. trump said last week nobody knew that health care could be so complicated. turns out the same is true about capitol hill, where we find nancy cordes tonight. >> it's called good health care. >> reporter: the president led a party-wide sales pitch today aimed at fellow republicans. >> i think really that we're going to have something that's going to be much more understood and much more popular than people can even imagine. >> reporter: conservative lawmakers understand it, but some of them just don't like it. >> obviously we have some serious concerns. >> reporter: they're balking at the bill's tax credits, which are designed to help low and middle-income americans buy insurance. the credits range from $2,000 to $14,000 a year depending on age and family size. kentucky's rand paul called it
we are divided on replacement. >> reporter: republican leaders pushed back, noting that the plan meets party goals like scrapping the individual mandate and repealing taxes on the health care industry. >> it takes power out of washington. it takes power out of the bureaucracy, and puts it back with doctors and patients where itelongs. >> reporter: but some key details are still missing, like how much the new bill will cost. how are you telling your members that this bill will be paid for? >> well, it just got launched yesterday. >> but isn't that pretty integral? if you don't pay for the plan with taxes, what are the alternatives? >> as i said, we'll be looking at the whole proposal here. we'll have ample time to answer all the questions. >> reporter: republicans will need near unanimous g.o.p. support, so today vice president pence met with the sceptics. >> we're certainly open to improvements and to recommendations. >> reporter: there will be no sales pitch to democrats, who made it clear today where they
you are going to hate it. >> reporter: democrats argue older, lower-income americans will hate it more than anyone. some of them could see their obamacare credit cut in half, scott, even as the wealthiest americans enjoy a series of tax cuts under this plan. >> pelley: nancy cordes, thanks. planned parenthood is saying no deal the a proposal from president trump. he said that he would keep funding the nation's largest family planning provider if it stopped providing abortions. we have more now from anna werner. >> reporter: planned parenthood clinics like this one in washington, d.c., provide reproductive health care services for women like nora franco. >> it does make me very angry when i hear about politicians sort of looking to defund an organization that does so much good for so many women. >> reporter: one in five women in the u.s. have visited a >>anned parenthood clinic.
planned parenthood for just one reason -- >> the flu shot. >> controlling asthma. >> reporter: the vast majority of health service, 97%, range from preventing unintended pregnancies and cancer screenings to s.t.d. testing, and planned parenthood does get $500 million from the federal government for clinics nationwide, most of which comes from medicaid reimbursement, but none of that money goes for abortion. yet the republican's plan the overhaul the affordable care act would stop any patient with coverage with medicaid or another provider from using planned parenthood. the organization says cutting off 1.5 million primarily poor or minority women from their planned parenthood health services and taking a huge bite out of the non-profit's funding. planned parenthood executive dawn lagin. >> it's really defunding women from being able to use their medicaid insurance to come to planned parenthood for care. >> reporter: donald trump
acknowledged planned parenthood's services during the presidential campaign but said when it came to federal subsidies... >> i would defund it because i'm pro-life, but millions of women are helped by planned parenthood. >> reporter: now in a statement to cbs news, mr. trump said, "i am pro-life and i am deeply committed to investing in women's health and plan to significantly increase federal funding in support of non-abortion services such as cancer screenings." scott? >> pelley: anna werner for us tonight. anna, thank you. well, for the third day, the president did not take questions and the white house did not provide evidence for his claim that president obama tapped his phones during the presidential campaign. over the weekend mr. trump described this as a fact. the f.b.i. director has asked the justice department to deny mr. trump's claim. white house officials have struggled for days to justify the charge, which appears to have no basis.
margaret brennan has the latest. >> obamacare is collapsing. >> reporter: president trump criticized his predecessor's signature achievement today but did not repeat the unsubstantiated claim that president obama wiretapped his phones during the 2016 campaign. >> it's not that he's walking anything back or regretting it. >> reporter: white house spokesman sean spicer said president trump stands by the allegations he made saturday when he wrote on twitter that mr. obama is a "bad or sick guy." spicer said a taxpayer-funded conditional investigation should now look into the claim. >> i think the smartest, the most deliberative way to address the situation is to ask the house and the senate intelligence committees who are already in the process of looking into this. >> i have not seen that evidence. >> reporter: republican devin nunes, chair of the house intelligence committee, said he would explore the allegations but suggested that the president might have misspoken. >> as you all know, the president is a
politics. he's been doing this a little over a year, and i think a lot of the things that he says you guys sometimes take literally. >> reporter: and senate intelligence committee chair richard burr, a republican, said his committee has not found anything to investigate. >> we don't have anything that would send us in that direction but that's not to say we might not find something. >> reporter: now nunes did announce the first hearing on russian interference in the election will take place on march 20th. scott, also today, we heard president trump's nominee to be deputy attorney general rod rosenstein testify he has not any reason to believe there has been any wiretapping. >> pelley: margaret brennan at the white house. president trump pressed his attack on his predecessor today with this tweet, which we can confirm is erroneous, "122 vicious prisoners released by
the obama administration from gitmo," that's guantanamo bay, "have returned to the battlefield. just another terrible decision." well, the truth is the office of the director of national intelligence says that nine of those prisoners were released by president obama. 113 by president george w. bush. today china warned the u.s. of an arms race in the pacific after the pentagon delivered parts of a new missile defense system to south korea. earlier this week north korea launched missiles in what it called a rehearsal for an attack on u.s. military bases. david martin is learning more about that test. >> reporter: the missiles lifted off simultaneously, so close together an infrared satellite looking down from space initially identified those rocket plumes as coming from a single missile. the four flew toward japan in a
ba iraq -- barrage intended to overwhelm anti-missile defense systems. north korea said the launch was conducted by a unit whose mission it is to attack u.s. bases in japan. had the missiles been launched from the east coast, they could have reached japan. patriot anti-missile batteries already stationed in japan and south korea should have been able to shoot them down if necessary. and the u.s. is now beefing up those defenses by adding a high-altitude system known as thad, which began arriving in korea monday night, although it will be months before it becomes operational. the missiles launched on monday date back to the 1990s. north korea is developing more modern missiles like this one tested last month. and u.s. intelligence has detected signs it may be preparing to test it again. a u.n. report obtained by cbs news concluded north korea has demonstrated major technological progress within a short period of time. among other
significantly increasing the range of its missiles. north korea is expected to launch several more missiles in the coming weeks to show its anger over u.s. military exercises going on in south korea. the north korea news agency accused president trump of creating a nuclear confrontational his teara. secretary of state tillerson will travel to japan, south korea, and china next week. china is the one country with the ability to rein in north korea, but is far, scott, that has not happened. >> pelley: david martin, thank you. still ahead on the "cbs evening news," someone stole her identity and turned her into a fake blogger.
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>> that is the most recent one. that's the miss world crown. >> reporter: meet laura hunter, photographer, beauty queen, and as for politics... >> i would lean a bit more to the liberal side. >> reporter: so it might seem laura hunter was living a secret double life, far-right blogger, anti-muslim, anti-immigrant, and very pro trump. this looks like you. >> it's a picture of me. that's my name. >> reporter: are these your beliefs? >> no. it's negative. it's racist. i'm not those things. >> reporter: you wouldn't write anything like that? >> no, never. >> reporter: but fake laura hunter has since august attracted nearly a million followers on facebook through a site called the conservative daily post. >> i started googling my name, and wow. >> reporter: fake laura even had a madeup bio, living with her dog in eastern tennessee, but real laura is a professional photographer in seattle. she's filed a $50,000 lawsuit against those behind the site whose business address is a post office box. have you heard anything from them? >> no,
>> reporter: neither did we have we reached outing but since the filing laura's picture has become an avatar, an something bizarre happened, fake laura's fans got angry at real laura. >> they think i'm the fake. >> they think you're impersonating someone else. >> yeah. they think, she's a wonderful woman. how dare you? you're trying to ride her coattails. >> reporter: fake news sites can generate thousands in ad revenue but operates in the shadows. laura isn't sure she'll receive damages. she just wants to restore her damaged reputation. >> very simple: if you can't confirm something, don't post it. >> reporter: carter evan, seattle. >> pelley: coming up next, a freight train slams into a casino bus.
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>> we believe jefferson fathered sally hemings' children. >> reporter: sally hmmings was one of jefferson's slaves. they had six children, and some of their names are found with their mothers in jefferson's meticulous expense records, but for decades their relationship was rarely mentioned here out of fear it would taint jefferson's reputation. that started to change in the 1990s. and now a transformation is in the works. hallock is monticello's director of restoration. >> she lived right here? >> we believe she lived right here. >> reporter: hemmings room was once a public rest room. now it's being restored so visitors can see how she lived. >> you can imagine sally building fires here and her children and sally huddled around here in the wintertime staying warm at this very hearth. >> his entire life depended upon savory. >> niya bates is historian of atrican american life
she said hemmings room is part of one life that will accurately portray daily life here, including stories of some of the 600 slaves jefferson owned over the course of his life. what exactly are you trying the change about the narrative of sally hemings. >> understanding sally hemings as a woman, as a mother, as an aunt, as a sister and as an ancestor. >> that makes me the great, great, great, great, great, great grand isn't of thomas jefferson and sally hemings. >> shannon lanier is a descendant. >> for so many years that whole store rir was swept under the rug. >> reporter: a story that will now be front and center at the home of thomas jefferson and sally hemings. chip reid, cbs news, monticello. > pelley: and that's the "cbs evening news" for tonight. for all of us at cbs news all around the world, good night.
>> we are going to start off tonight off script with breaking news from prince george's county. police arrested a burglary suspect who climbed onto the roof of the cinema at the meltway plaza in green belt. police say officers were chasing the suspect when he ran into the mall. then, climbed scaffolding behind a movie screen. and hid in the ceiling. what was the movie playing? he made his way to the roof and surrendered and was arrested. now, we are going to healthcare, and president trump. he says he is behind the plan to repeal and replace obama care. >> this will be a plan where you can choose your doctor and plan. you know what the plan is. this is the plan. and we will have a tremendous, i think we will have a tremendous success. we will do something really, really
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The "Speak up" comments on the Dayton Daily News editorial page are the spewings of gutless wonders. However, not all that call, or write in are selected for print. Nope, that's the job of the Editorial page staff: Editor Kevin Reiley, Editorial page editor Ellen Belcher and "writers" Martin Gottlieb and Scott Elliot. These four people are the ones who write endorsements of candidates- like the one they wrote for deposed Mayor Rhine McLin.
Re online Story, "Former Qbase VP sues company," Dec 4; Here goes the tax dollars. Thanks, David Esrati, keep exposing them.
David Esrati loves attention. His good ideas are swallowed up by his immaturity, petty gossip and his "Hey, look at me" syndrome.
David Esrati has zero credibility and is proven yet again to be nothing more than a punchline to a joke that was never funny in the first place.
Money our new mayor spent getting elected: $1,500 (sic) Money the outgoing mayor spent trying to get elected for another term; $175,000; Knowing David Esrati didn't even get his own vote: Priceless. Friends don't let friends vote for Esrati.
For those of you unfamiliar with the QBase story- I first wrote about their ponzi-scheme funding based on taxpayers footing the bill back in Feb 09, the Dayton Daily News is still in denial I not only scooped them, but was the first to break the news that Qbase forced employees to donate to political campaigns. Search this site on Qbase to get more of the story.
Since the election, I scooped them on the Qbase lawsuit as well- and the story on the redistricting, was the first to post the actual campaign finance reports- the list goes on. Please note, I'm not paid to do their job, or the job that should be done by the Board of Elections.
The reality is, these comments could all be called in by one or two people. It could be people from Qbase, or from the Montgomery County Democratic Party.
I've tried to do my part to keep people informed- from videotaping candidates' nights and posting them on YouTube, to digging up documents and posting the behind-the-scenes look at how the money moves in Dayton (see the Michael Greitzer post, for a recent example).
One reader has suggested that I ask for payment via the "Rational Street Performer Protocol:" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threshold_pledge_system I would prefer that some of you take the time to weigh in with signed letters to the editor- [email protected] not to defend me, but to question the value of the "unsigned comments" and the comment system on their site that has run amok. (You can post what you send in here- so we can see original vs. published- remember, 200 words or less).
While my psyche can handle this crap (it's amazing what Special Forces school prepares you for)- it's this kind of public bashing that stops good people from stepping forward to challenge the status quo.
My view of how Dayton could be, is much different than of those in power. I don't believe in no-bid contracts, behind closed doors public meetings and the public funding of private business. No matter what the Dayton Daily News says, I'm not going to stop.
And to tip-the-hat to P.T. Barnum- thank you, Editorial board for at least spelling my name right, it's about the only thing you get right when you publish anything about me.
David E., I for one am glad that you are not going to stop. I think it's obvious that we disagree on some points of discussion from time to time and in my opinion that's a good thing. It makes for real discussion and serves to test view points for validity (mine, yours, or someone else's). Hopefully in that process rational, reasoned thought leads to further education that prompts appropriate action…blah, blah..
Anyway, I haven't been able to find any other source that reports on Dayton's political underbelly and subsequent dealings. Thanks for doing this and keep on hammering away.
I'm of the impression that the "Speak Up" column is not edited by Reilly, Belcher, or anyone else who gets a byline; rather, it's compiled by an intern or minimum-wage new hire in about 15 minutes per issue–after which the anonymous cub reporter goes to edit the obits, write filler, and do all the other drudge-work that occupies the beginning of a reporter's career.
I'm also of the impression that legitimate journalism accepts anonymous commentary only when there's justification–as, for example, in the case of whistle-blowers who might suffer retaliation.
Time for "Speak Up" to shut up.
3) the fact that Martin Gottlieb wrote literally like 4 or 5 editorials trying to somehow justify why he and the rest of the editorial board Space Cadets completely blew every single aspect of having even a shred of insight into what the Mayor's race would entail, or how it would end up… a simple "we ****ed up. Good luck Gary" would have been sufficient.
I stopped paying for the paper 2 years ago, and I'm glad I did. I'm a HUGE supporter of local stuff (Dragons, theater, restaurants). But as long as the anonymous comments continue, and the Editorial Board remains a bunch of partisan bafoons, I won't spend a dime on the Dayton Daily.
What does a couple of callers in Speak-up have to do with the Editorial Board? I'm pretty sure if Martin or Ellen have anything to say about you, they'll just say it–much like Dayton voters did when they told you to take a hike in November. Grow a spine and move on. Who cares what a couple of callers say?
I would have to agree with Molly. You seem to have the spine to put your neck out there. Accept that people are going to take swipes. It's part of the game. Learn to enjoy the hate. That said, Molly seems to have an obsession with you. You two ever consider dating?


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TGP: GQ Special Correspondent and former MSNBC and ESPN host Keith Olbermann threatened to "get" President-Elect Donald Trump in a tweet posted Thursday morning.
Olbermann also called Trump a "Russian whore".
Olbermann's threat to "get" Trump was a reply to a tweet by Trump earlier Thursday questioning why the Obama administration did not do anything about the alleged Russian hacking.
In previous tweets posted Wednesday and Thursday, Olbermann has called the election the "Trump Putin coup" and posted and re-posted an eight minute long GQ 'Resistance' video rant calling on the Electoral College to refuse to honor Trump's November 8 victory. Olbermann called on Hillary Clinton to ask her electors to vote for a moderate Republican president instead as a way to persuade 38 Trump electors to switch votes and deny Trump the presidency.


The blast of arctic cold that hit the U.S. Midwest this week will linger on Thursday, but it's pushing east and losing much of its bite. He was not wearing a hat or gloves and wasn't dressed for below-zero temperatures.
The frightful cold, expected to bottom out with record lows Thursday morning, was blamed for several deaths across the region, and fears for the most vulnerable populations soared as night fell.
The North Polar Vortex is an extremely cold counterclockwise spinning mass of air which usually sits over the Arctic Sea, but as global warming has melted Arctic Sea ice and warming air makes its way into the Earth's northernmost regions, the vortex is disrupted, causing the cold air to split up and some of it to move further south.
The city's lowest temperature on a January 30, minus 15 degrees, happened back in 1966, the weather service said.
United States media have attributed at least five deaths since the weekend to the freezing conditions and a major snowstorm that preceded the blast of Arctic air now gripping the region. Governors in Wisconsin and MI declared states of emergency and ordered all state government offices closed; some state agencies in IL were closed Wednesday, as well. Several other locations in Minnesota and North Dakota plunged to risky lows, including Warren, Minnesota (minus-47); Lisbon, North Dakota (minus-46); and Park Rapids, Minnesota (minus-42).
Minnesota residents cranking up gas heat to survive the constant subzero temperatures there forced Xcel Energy to ask that all 460,000 of its customers lower their thermostats to 63 degrees to conserve natural gas, the Minneapolis Star Tribune reported.
The NWS has warned people in affected areas to cover their mouths when outside to protect their lungs from the "severely cold air".
A University of Iowa student was found dead outside a building at the campus early on Wednesday.
The US Postal Service - known for its commitment to bringing the mail whatever the weather - suspended deliveries in parts of Indiana, Michigan, Illinois, Ohio, Iowa, the Dakotas and Nebraska. Mail service won't be restored in MI until February 1, officials said.
"By Friday, temperatures in the Upper Midwest will finally rebound to well above zero", the NWS says, "with high temperatures making it into the teens and low 20s".
In Detroit, General Motors Co suspended operations at 11 MI plants and its Warren Tech Center after a utility made an emergency appeal to users to conserve natural gas after extreme cold and a fire at a compressor station. Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV canceled a shift on Thursday at two of its plants.


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Q: Registering a user automatically in cakephp Is it possible in cakephp that a user be registered automatically with a predefined set of inputs (username, password and all that...) provided by the programmer.?
I want to register a user automatically whenever he tries to enter/access a member's restricted area.
Please help me achieve this functionality.
Using cakephp v1.2, xampp
Thanks...

A: :)
Found the answer, :)
I simply assigned
'$this->data'

some values by myself like this
$this->data['User']['password'] = "test";
$this->data['User']['email'] = "test@email.com";
$this->data['User']['password'] = "Registered";

and then the add action did it's work accordingly..

A: This sounds weird.  Why not just prompt for a username and password, then check to see if the user exists.  If the user exists, try to authenticate them.  If not, create an account with the credentials provided.  Would that not work?

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