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Email, Schemail….updated

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What’s to worry about.  I’ve got it covered…

From FoxNews.com, “Official: Some Clinton emails ‘too damaging’ to release“.

EXCLUSIVE: The intelligence community has deemed some of Hillary Clinton’s emails “too damaging” to national security to release under any Hillary_Mad_Magazine_What_Me_Worrycircumstances, according to a U.S. government official close to the ongoing review. A second source, who was not authorized to speak on the record, backed up the finding.

The determination was first reported by Fox News, hours before the State Department formally announced Friday that seven email chains, found in 22 documents, will be withheld “in full” because they, in fact, contain “Top Secret” information.

The State Department, when first contacted by Fox News about withholding such emails Friday morning, did not dispute the reporting – but did not comment in detail. After a version of this report was first published, the Obama administration confirmed to the Associated Press that the seven email chains would be withheld. The department has since confirmed those details publicly.

 

#BlackIceMatters

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From CBS Baltimore, “Neighbors Losing Patience Where Plows Still Haven’t Cleared Streets“.

BALTIMORE (WJZ) — The dig out from the weekend snow storm continues across Maryland.

Derek Valcourt with the growing frustrations in some areas where plows still haven’t cleared the streets.

Black_Ice_MattersWhat’s making some people bitter is trying to understand why all of the streets around them have been plowed, but they’re still stuck.

Along Millvale Road in the Millford Mill area of Baltimore County, neighbors are losing patience, knowing all the surrounding streets have been plowed.

“It’s been four days and no one has come down our block yet,” said Tony Redd.

“I figured this neighborhood would get a plow to come through at least once out of five days, and we haven’t even seen a plow,” said James Forman.

Daily Darwin – Chasing Balls

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Darwin duly points out that if man was meant to play golf (chase little balls around) he wouldn’t have been given his own little set much closer at hand.

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Natural selection deems that some individuals serve as a warning to others. Who are we to disagree? The next generation, ever and anon, is descended from the survivors

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Peak Oil – Getting Greased

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With all the various comparisons of the price of a barrel of oil to water, or milk, or say Starbucks coffee  one other comparison bears making–

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** Peak Oil:  is the point in time when the maximum rate of extraction of petroleum is reached, after which it is expected to enter terminal decline.  It is often confused with oil depletion; however, peak oil is the point of maximum production, while depletion refers to a period of falling reserves and supply.

AGW – Turbine Deicing

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Use your critical thinking abilities to determine what life would have been like during this weekends “SnowZilla” winter weather event had a majority of the energy supply been provided by green sources such as solar or wind.  How  cold and dark would your home have been?

From WUWT, “The Fire and Ice Department“,

The entire rationale for wind turbines is to stop global warming by reducing the amount of CO2 being returned to the atmosphere from the burning of fossil fuels.

AGW_de-icing-wind-turbineIn the attached picture, recently taken in Sweden, freezing cold weather has caused the rotor blades of a wind turbine to ice up bringing the blades to a complete stop.

To fix the “problem” a helicopter is employed (burning aviation fuel) to spray hot water (which is heated in the frigid temperatures using a truck equipped with a 260 kW oil burner) on the blades of the turbine to de-ice them.

The aviation fuel, the diesel for the truck, and the oil burned to heat the water, could produce more electricity (at the right time to meet demand) than the unfrozen wind turbine could ever produce. (Before it freezes up again).

The attached picture is a metaphor of the complete insanity of the climate change debate.

In decades to come this one photo alone with sum up an era of stupidity, when rational thought, logic and commonsense was abandoned and immense wealth and resources needlessly sacrificed.