I say yes, you say no, OR People are Strange

PatMom,

You are drawing conclusions that do not appear in the article.  Climate change science does not rely on one measurement criteria but rather multiple criteria. The climate change models are continually being updated and reevaluated.  

The Koch brothers funded a review of the science behind the climate change models.  The review was conducted by a prominent climate change sceptic, Richard Muller.  After he and his team reviewed the data, Mr Muller stated the following:

"The skeptics raised valid points and everybody should have been a skeptic two  years ago," Muller  told the AP. "And now we have confidence that the temperature rise that had previously been reported had been done without bias."

http://news.yahoo.com/skeptic-finds-now-agrees-global-warming-real-142616605.html

Gumby, so sorry about the sucky marriage. I had one of those too.



Yes, Greece is a nice place to live, in spite of all the troubles it has right now. I just came back from my evening walk with my dog around the Acropolis.

I went to my new primary care dr for the second time today. What a good choice I made. It was to review the few tests she wanted done that my onc hadn't covered. There was lots of good news. My B-12 level is to high (supplements every other day now). Thyroid looks good.

Now the best one. My cholesterol is 265, LDL is 130 (not terrible) My HDL (the good one) is 112.  The doctor says she has never seen an HDL so high and maybe the test was an anomaly. I said it is usually over 80. That makes the ratio 2.4. (Ducking for cover -trying not to be hit by flying sunflower pots.

I do need to go buy calcium citrate. I knew that was the better one but grabbed a huge bottle of calcium carbonate at the store and it is not gone but it is constipating me (I know TMI) but if it is doing that the calcium is not going to my bones.

Then for the last 5-10 minutes of the appointment we discussed the sketch that I made while I was waiting for her of the stuffed owls I will be making for the grandkids for Christmas. I need to get on that one soon.

PatMom,  Weather ---- Climate.  Two different things.

rosemary-b,  I think your daughter has her hands full now. 

She says she's done.

this is off topic, but then what isn't; there's a big computer virus going about - if you get an email with no content but a hyperlink, especially from someone you haven't emailed in a long time - it's a bug.

I've gotten 4 of them, but people I haven't emailed in YEARS - so some program must go digging into people's address books for never emailed, or haven't emailed in ages - whatever - it's gotta be a big one, I've gotten so many.

DON'T OPEN THE HYPERLINK.....I'm on a Mac, and even I run a virus protection now.

 Also - Paul Begala has a fabulous column about the Texas ruling - thanks again Linda for posting it..such a giggle, or groan, or SCREAM...

Blue - no film - I LOVE IT!

Baxter had the rest of his teeth out today. He's on morphine again. Crazy cat.

Yeah for the good doctor visit Rosemary!  And a gentle ear rub for Baxter ... if he is anything like Murphy he will surprise you with how little he cares that he is toothless.   

Remember my foundling kitten who got adopted?  They named him Baxter.  I knew the minute I heard it that I liked the name and just now realized why it seemed so familiar.

Never open a link from an email unless you are expecting it and know exactly what it is.  Nobody I know would send me one without a personal explanation ... and one that is not full of grammar and spelling errors for sure. 

"Companies do not care about people. They care about money. Very rich people who have grown rich and want to continue to become even more rich and more powerful do not care about common people. They care about money and profit."

A very broad, blanket statement indeed.  So is there such a thing as philanthropy or charity?  Must we depend solely on government to enforce even the most basic help for the most vulnerable in our society? 

Oooh....sweet tea vodka! I'll have some of that, mixed with lemonade while I'm enjoying the (not really) blue skies here in Seattle.

Mary 

Can't bloody believe we are having a debate on climate change.

Bartender, I thought you said this was a safe neighborhood.

Anything to take my mind off the sky being magenta with yelllow polka dots. The liberals say the big polka dot is the sun. I think it's Rush smiling down at us! Conspiracy theorists claim its a ploy to get this thread closed....

Yes. Last week's heat wave was a tactile hallucination by millions of brainwashed liberals.

The ignore button ensures that it will always be a sunny day and a safe neighborhood ... I use it liberally. Love snarks, Anne -- my favorite flavor!



I worked from home today because I had to sit down three times while I was getting ready for work. Guess I'm not as better as I like to believe. So new schedule will be half-days in the office Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday, and working from home on Wednesday. Slow and steady wins the race, or some nonsense like that. Doesn't apply to Superwomen until they have to sit down while getting ready for work. *sigh*



I fell asleep watching the news this evening, too. Double *sigh*



I am reading a very interesting book called "God's Hotel" by Victoria Sweet, about the last almshouse in the United States -- a hospital in San Francisco called Laguna Honda. It is excellent, and touches on many of the things we talk about here -- care for the indigent, a discussion of health care, access and insurance in Switzerland, and the practice of medicine in a country and an atmosphere that demands ever-greater efficiency that sometimes costs more than it saves. I would have liked to see some more detail in some of the stories, but nonetheless I highly recommend it.



Queued up for afters, I have "Holidays in Heck," by PJ O'Rourke, a sequel to "Holidays in Hell," a book that caused me to laugh hysterically to the point of uncontrollable tears at breakfast in a Bob Evans restaurant in Dayton, Ohio. I hope to be similarly entertained.



L