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Malhar Chaudhari
GameBox Using Arduino
Surfing across the internet, as I am usually found to be, I came across an article to develop your own Retro Gamebox, by APC Magazine (But I have modified the design a bit, to suit to my requirements). Well, it shouldn't be difficult to guess, what might have happened next? I went scavenging for the parts, and then spent the next day assembling and running the Gamebox. Well and then there were a lot of days of playing on that console.
Although implementing this project itself wasn't challenging, what was interesting was to understand the interface between the Arduino and the Television both from a hardware and software end. And the excitement increased manifolds as this was my first project on working with graphics on an embedded platform.
Note: None of the games were designed by me.
Video: Demo of the Gamebox
The components used in this Retro Gamebox are as follows:
Four-way digital switch or 2 Four-way potentiometers
RCA Port and Cable for video and mono audio
Television capable of RCA interface and running NTSC/PAL
Male and Female Connecting cables
The circuit diagram for connecting these components is as shown:
Fig: This is the updated circuit diagram for my design
Although the APC Magazine mentions using an arcade joystick which is essentially a combination of four digital switches which provide direction and movement control. But I am currently using four way potentiometer switches instead. (The kind of arcade joystick mentioned on APC magazine was not available in local markets, and I was willing to experiment with these). These work exactly in the same way as the arcade joystick, and provide the possibility of gameplay where variable speed may be required (But some tweaking would be required). The center position of these potentiometer is kept below the threshold level, so that the Arduino does not pick up false signals. Although two switches are required, one for up and left, and the second for right and down. (And trust me the gameplay doesn't get affected a lot)
Note: The two potentiometric switches could be replaced by a single one, using analog input pins of Arduino and tweaking input control section of the code. I shall upload the schematics and the updated code library for the same. The two extreme values of the analog input could act as the two opposite direction digital inputs.
Coming to the analog video and audio hardware. The Arduino essentially generates the analog video data and the synchronization pulses on its D9 and D7 pins, which are then combined into a single composite signal via resistors and finally connected to an RCA port. The audio is generated by the Arduino using 8-bit PWM pulses on its D11 pin and are passed on to another RCA port.
These signals from the RCA port can be connected to any TV running NTSC. I had an NTSC running television, but for those having PAL based television you will have to connect the D12 pin of the Arduino to ground.
This is how my final system looked like:
Fig: This is the final designed project
The games and the software required to run the device were built for the Nootropic Design Hackvision board, but work well with this system. While most of the software which pertained to taking inputs from the switches was fairly simple and easy to implement for anyone with an intermediate experience on Arduino, the parts that caught my interest were the games and the TVout Library of Arduino that connected this system to the Television.
I haven't worked on building games (But this is something, that I am willing to try my hand at, when an opportunity arrives), I tried doing a thorough study of the TVout Library and am writing some details of the same here.
The library is built up of functions that are bundled up into intuitive categories. A short description of these functional categories is as follows:
Setup Functions
These functions are responsible for sending the output on the screens at specified resolution and also to set the number of times, time and the line to output the data
Flow Control Functions
These are essentially two functions that provide delay in units of ms or frames
Accessor Functions
This is a set of three functions that usually access data related to resolution and the number of characters that can fit on a line
Basic Graphics Functions
These are a set of functions that let you draw graphics on screen. Pixel draw, basic shapes, lines, and bitmaps can be outputted on the screen using these functions
Text Handling Functions
These functions provide you with print functionality for characters, string. Also it helps you set preselected font style or custom fonts and the cursor position
Audio Handling Functions
These functions help you set audio tones by setting the frequency and duration of the tone
Note: The code and other details for this project are available on the APC Magazine page for this project.
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The Pentahouse - designed by Jeremy Carman, Jayson Champlain, Heeje Yang, and Joseph Chang - was scavenged, designed, and built in one week with the oversight of artist Gregory Kloehn.
A modified Shopping Cart Shelter, built by Aleksandr Drabovskiy, Ricky Lo and Sohum Bugaria.
Jeremy Carman tests out Shopping Cart Shelter.
BAM House, another one-week prototype. Designed Alexxa Solomon, Belinda Pak, and Maria Ceja, with oversight from Gregory Kloehn.
The Romad Bicycle Caravan, designed by Jeremy Carman and Jayson Champlain, pops up to provide sleeping quarters.
The Origami Shelter, designed by Alexxa Solomon and Maria Ceja.


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Posts Tagged 'redistributionist'
Obama Wants To Force You To Surrender 'Money You Don't Need'
At the center of his tiny, shriveled little cockroach soul, Barack Obama is a Marxist.
Allow me to recite the central tenet of Marxism: "From each according to his ability, to each according to his need." And please, PLEASE someone explain to me how Barack Obama and the modern Democrat Party are NOT Marxist given that they believe the SAME garbage. Liberals constantly huff at the suggestion that they are socialists as though it is the silliest damn thing they have ever heard. The thing is that they don't want their ideology identified with socialism merely because it is a bad word. BUT "IT" IS A BAD WORD FOR A REASON, AND "IT" IS IN FACT PRECISELY WHAT THEY ARE.
The shoe fits, and Obama and his socialist Democrats need to wear it.
Obama Aims for the Money You Don't "Need"
Mike Brownfield
Over the past several weeks, America has seen on grand display in Washington a singular mindset emanating from the White House: We must raise taxes so that we can keep on spending. This week, though, America was treated to something different—a glimpse inside President Barack Obama's mind, a roadmap of his economic worldview. And what was revealed was a philosophy that is fundamentally at odds with America's job creators.
That insight came during the President's press conference on Monday in which he broached the subject of raising taxes as part of the debt limit deal:
"And I do not want, and I will not accept, a deal in which I am asked to do nothing, in fact, I'm able to keep hundreds of thousands of dollars in additional income that I don't need, while a parent out there who is struggling to figure out how to send their kid to college suddenly finds that they've got a couple thousand dollars less in grants or student loans."
If you read between the lines, which doesn't take much decoding, President Obama effectively believes that any income you have which you don't "need" belongs to the government, as writer John Steele Gordon explains in Commentary. And, Gordon writes, Obama's statement "demonstrates an astonishing economic illiteracy":
To be sure, someone earning a great deal of money has an income greater than what he spends. . . But, unlike Scrooge McDuck, the rich do not put the excess in a vast money bin and frolic about in it. They invest it. What a concept! Where does Obama think new capital comes from, the tooth fairy?
How much income is too much? It's hard to say, and the President doesn't put a number on it. But that high-tax policy is so important to the President that he is willing to personalize the issue, offering up the fact that he has made a boatload selling books and can afford to pay taxes on it, as he did in his Twitter town hall when he remarked:
"But what I've also said is people like me who have been incredibly fortunate, mainly because a lot of folks bought my book . . . for me to be able to go back to the tax rate that existed under Bill Clinton, to pay a couple of extra percentage points so that I can make sure that seniors still have Medicare or kids still have Head Start, that makes sense to me."
On top of personalizing the issue, the President is pulling out all the stops in a take-no-prisoners demagoguery campaign, ranging from the subtle to the explicit. His criticisms of tax loopholes for corporate jets and oil and gas companies are legion, his calls for millionaires and billionaires to "pay a little bit more" are anything but subtle, and his threats over the failure to reach a tax-soaked debt limit deal are frightening.
The President's "your money is the government's money" mindset is having an impact on the mind's of America's job creators. A new survey of small business owners and executives prepared for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce shows how the U.S. political environment has impacted the business environment, and the insights are troubling.
According to the survey, a vast majority of small business owners (84 percent) say the U.S. economy is on the wrong track. Tellingly, the threat of regulation and taxes are the two issues in Washington posing the greatest threat to their business, while economic uncertainty, America's growing debt and deficit and Obamacare are top challenges as well. And when asked whether they'd like Washington to lend a hand or get out of they, 79 percent choose the latter.
And therein lies the difference. When President Obama sees successful businesses, he sees green. And when they look back, they see red. The President wants to take more so he can spend more and do more, whereas those who are the engine of America's economy just want the government to do less so they can thrive. Unfortunately, a meeting of the minds seems a long way off.
Democrats are at their hearts Marxists and fascists who believe that you and everything you produce belongs to the government – and that the government should belong entirely to THEM so that they have the power to decide who wins and who loses. I've written about this fact at length before. Again, this is a central tenet of Marxism and socialism, but for some reason we're not supposed to be able to call these people what they clearly are.
Mind you, this disgraceful little turd Barry Hussein is a HYPOCRITE Marxist, as the following evidence of what a stingy, selfish, greedy little swine Obama was with his own money just a few short years ago when he was a rich liberal who didn't think anyone was watching. Amazingly, the facts show that Obama didn't seem to think there was such a thing as "money he didn't need" then:
Did you know, for instance, this about Barack Obama?
Prior to his run for President, Barack and Michelle Obama were in the top 2% of income earners, but actually gave less than the average American in charitable giving.
Obama gave .4% of his income. In spite of being rich, and being in the top richest 2% of Americans, Obama gave only $1,050 to charity. When the average American household (that's mostly us in the bottom 98%) gave $1,872, which was 2.2% of their incomes.
For the record, Barack Obama was 450% more selfish, more stingy, more greedy and more self-centered than the average American. Even though the average American had nowhere NEAR Obama's wealth. And that is a documented fact. And let's also consider how much Michelle Obama earned by receiving lavish political patronage because of her husband's career.
Obama seemed to "need" every penny of his money when he was selfishly refusing to give basically ANYTHING to the poor that he now so hypocritically and self-righteously claims he cares about. And that is a FACT. So when this vile little hypocrite weasel self-righteously lectures us on how much we should be willing to give more in taxes to Big Brother, just realize it is coming from the very worst kind of demagogue and liar.
Then there's the fact that if these rich liberals want to give more money, THEN THEY CAN AND SHOULD GIVE MORE MONEY. They can give to charity; they can give to a government fund that uses the money to pay down the debt when they do their taxes. They keep talking about how generous they should be but they never seem to be generous with their own money.
Let me go on quoting from the same article on liberals and "paying their fair share":
And then you find that as cheap and chintzy and stingy and selfish as the redistribution of wealth president (a.k.a. Barry Hussein) was before he decided to run for president, his vice president was even STINGIER. Because Joe Biden gave less than one-eighth of one percent of his wealth to charity.
And, of course, Democrats who lecture us on "paying our fair share" while they either welch on their debts, refuse to contribute to charity, cheat on their taxes, or all damn three are a dime a dozen. Let's have a few prominent examples: Bill and Hillary Clinton, who have largely welched on Hillary's campaign debts. There's Charlie Rangel, the man who chaired the committee that wrote the tax laws while not bothering to pay his own damn taxes. There's "Turbo Tax" Timothy Geithner, the man in charge of the Treasury and I.R.S. who didn't bother to pay his own taxes. There's former Democrat candidate for president John Kerry, a millionaire, who tried to wriggle away like the worm he is from paying the taxes he should have paid on his yacht. There's Kerry's wife and fellow Democrat Teresa Heinz-Kerry, who in spite of inheriting the Heinz fortune actually pays less in taxes than the median American family. And then there's a bunch of more garden variety cockroach Democrats such as Eric Holder, Tom Daschle, Bill Richardson, and Claire McCaskill. And don't forget the vile putrid bunch of Democrats running Bell, California.
And let me throw in "San Fran Nan" Nancy Pelosi into the mix. Here's an already filthy rich woman who increased her wealth by 62% last year while millions of Americans are suffering. She'd certainly be one who would say, "Screw America, screw the American people and screw the unemployment rate; I'm getting MINE.
These people just make me want to lose my lunch into a bucket. That's something I wouldn't mind donating to the government.
I once quoted Burton Folsom in his great book "New Deal Or Raw Deal?" It's time to quote that passage again:
Throughout American history, right from the start, charity had been a state and local function. Civic leaders, local clergy, and private citizens, evaluated the legitimacy of people's need in their communities or counties; churches and other organizations could then provide food, shelter, and clothing to help victims of fires or women abandoned by drunken husbands. Most Americans believed that the face-to-face encounters of givers and receivers of charity benefited both groups. It created just the right amount of uplift and relief, and discouraged laziness and a poor work ethic.
The Founders saw all relief as local and voluntary, and the Constitution gave no federal role for the government in providing charity. James Madison, in defending the Constitution, observed, "No man is allowed to be a judge in his own cause, because his interest would certainly bias his judgment and, not improbably, corrupt his integrity." In other words, if relief, and other areas, were made functions of the federal government, the process would become politicized and politicians and deadbeats could conspire to trade votes for food" (New Deal or Raw Deal, page 76-77).
Prior to FDR, the American people took care of their OWN, family by family, town by town, county by county, state by state. They had NEVER had welfare, and in fact found the very concept of welfare distasteful. And I'm going to tell you right now that they were better, stronger people than we are as a result of that moral superiority and that faith in THE PEOPLE and not the GOVERNMENT.
Barack Obama – who gave virtually NOTHING to charity when giving would have demonstrated the character he proved he DIDN'T have – doesn't trust the American people, or much care about them, for that matter. He doesn't want to help people; he wants to grow the size of government. He wants only to make the state bigger and bigger and more and more powerful and controlling. Obama is angry because he doesn't believe people should have the right to decide for themselves how much of their own money they "need"; HE wants to make that decision for them and then impose it on them so he can seize their money and redistribute it to people who will vote for him and for his party.
Whenever a Democrat calls for more taxes, understand that what they are really saying is that they believe that the government is too small and needs to become larger. And whenever they call for more taxes for the sake of helping people, what they are really saying is that you are a bad and immoral person who can't and shouldn't be trusted to help people in need and that it is better to take your money away from you and put it into the coffers of a big government socialist redistributionist agency which will piss it away on boondoggle programs that benefit the politically connected far more than they do the poor. And the fact that even as Barack Obama and the overwhelming Democrat majority that had dictatorial control of both branches of Congress made government bigger than it has ever been and yet blacks are now worse off than they've been for generations and women are being set way back is the icing on the cake of the proof of that fact. Liberals hurt the people they cynically and falsely claim to be helping – and then demagogically use the misery that they themselves created to accumulate even more power for themselves and their failed agenda.
But let me be even more specific and address Obama directly. Obama says rich people – who already pay a massive share of the income taxes in America – should have more of their money seized so it can be redistributed in the form of student loans. What is interesting is that this massively subsidizes the university system that has been almost entirely hijacked by the ideological left. The more money becomes available in student loans, the more these supposedly "caring" liberals increase the cost of college tuition (the price of which has inflated FAR more than the price of ANY OTHER good or service). So what happens? Obama takes money OUT of the private economy, and OUT of the hands of the people who actually create jobs, and puts it into the pockets of liberals in universities who then turn around and raise the cost of tuition to screw college students. And this "progressive" boondoggle has been going on for YEARS.
THAT'S what liberal compassion looks like: it bascially looks just like the hypocritical, self-righteous face of Barack Obama.
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Home Depot CEO Says Obama An Airheaded Academic Who Demonizes Real-World Job Creators
Flopping Aces got all their video from Townhall. I got all the quotes from the following interview from Flopping Aces.
Go to either site to watch the videos of the interview.
CNBC's Greg Hengler said that Home Depot CEO Bernie Marcus
"…may have been the best defense of small business, and the most important attack on the Obama administration all year. Marcus knows a little something about small business, because his business – Home Depot – was once a small business before it became a very BIG business. Home Depot employs 320,000 people, so Mr. Marcus knows a few things about job creation.
Bernie Marcus had the following broadside blast against the administration that he clearly views as ruining America and ruining the US economy:
Now you take some of the people the President surrounded himself with, now think about it a second, they're all academics…most of them…I mean all of them, they come out of Harvard they come out of Yale. These guys are all on tenure. By the way they're all on tenure. Tenure means they get paid whether they work or not, tenure means they are on insurance for life, tenure means they don't ever have to worry about anything just because they were there for a number of years. America is not that way. America is not that way. And if the President got out of, you know, Washington, in his cloak as I talked about, and started moving around the peasants which is people like everybody else in the world except for Washington. Washington has their own insurance plan, they got their own pensions, they don't even abide by their own rules they everybody else lives by.
This "tenured" Obama "Washington" crowd sounds profoundly un-American, for what it's worth. You get the sense they could have woke up in Moscow, circa 1950, and fit in with the commissars and their never-once-succeeding five year plans just fine.
And Bernie Marcus speaks with unforked tongue when he accuses the whole Obama administration of being a bunch of common-senseless eggheads with no actual private sector experience whatsoever:
You can see why an incredibly successful CEO who's actually DONE SOMETHING to create real jobs in the real world would be rather pissed off at the two-years'-worth of Obama's demonizing the job creators of the business world.
Bernie Marcus continues, apologizing to a president who appears to despise actual job creation for his record of actual job creation:
Marcus – And when I talk to people who are creating jobs today…these are not villains. These are not monsters. They're not like…
Kernan – And you think they are being portrayed that way?
Marcus – Oh, there is no question about it.
Kernan – How many employees does Home Depot have?
Marcus – They got about 320,000
Kernan – So you, Arthur and Ken are directly or indirectly responsible for 300,000 jobs?
Marcus – Yeah, we're monsters and we're disgusting human beings and I recognize that and I apologize to America right now, I'm sorry that I made wealth and I'm sorry that I'm creating jobs.
Damn right they're monsters. Tax those rich bastards. Tax them until they fire all their American workers and ship those jobs overseas in countries so evil that they actually allow people and businesses to keep more of what they earn. Tax them until the American economy crashes. Tax them until the USA goes the way of the Dodo bird.
And then vote for Obama to preside over the ruined formerly great nation he "fundamentally transformed."
China has ten times – TEN TIMES – the growth of the United States, while having lower tax rates. And what do Democrats do? Try to raise our tax rates even more. And Democrats are employing Marxist class warfare and "spread the wealth around" redistributionist demagoguery to try to get their way. What is amazing is that the Democrat Party in the United States is literally more communist than the Communist Party in China.
Jobs today are global; they can go anywhere on earth. What American needs to do is respond to the countries' that are taking our jobs away from us. Which is why we need to lower the costs of investing in and doing business in America. Democrats are demanding that we become less and less competitive even as they pursue a strategy of demonizing those who would make America MORE competitive.
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Climate Change Alarmists: 'The Sky Is Falling! The Sea Is Rising!' Oops. Never Mind
I wonder if the global warming "climate change" alarmists get as tired of being wrong as the skeptics are with being right?
I mean, day after day, we keep getting "snowmageddons" on the global warmers' parade.
And the global warmers are forced to tell us obvious self-referentially absurd nonsense such as, "It's only freezing cold outside because it's actually so damn hot."
And the media engages in yet another never-ceasing campaign to make sure the pseudo-scientific drivel that helps justify their leftwing socialist agenda appears legitimate to the gullible unwashed masses.
But cold water is being thrown everywhere on the crap they are peddling.
Climate scientists withdraw journal claims of rising sea levels
Study claimed in 2009 that sea levels would rise by up to 82cm by the end of century – but the report's author now says true estimate is still unknown
David Adam
guardian.co.uk, Sunday 21 February 2010 18.00 GMT
Scientists have been forced to withdraw a study on projected sea level rise due to global warming after finding mistakes that undermined the findings.
The study, published in 2009 in Nature Geoscience, one of the top journals in its field, confirmed the conclusions of the 2007 report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). It used data over the last 22,000 years to predict that sea level would rise by between 7cm and 82cm by the end of the century.
At the time, Mark Siddall, from the Earth Sciences Department at the University of Bristol, said the study "strengthens the confidence with which one may interpret the IPCC results". The IPCC said that sea level would probably rise by 18cm-59cm by 2100, though stressed this was based on incomplete information about ice sheet melting and that the true rise could be higher.
Many scientists criticised the IPCC approach as too conservative, and several papers since have suggested that sea level could rise more. Martin Vermeer of the Helsinki University of Technology, Finland and Stefan Rahmstorf of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany published a study in December that projected a rise of 0.75m to 1.9m by 2100.
Siddall said that he did not know whether the retracted paper's estimate of sea level rise was an overestimate or an underestimate.
Announcing the formal retraction of the paper from the journal, Siddall said: "It's one of those things that happens. People make mistakes and mistakes happen in science." He said there were two separate technical mistakes in the paper, which were pointed out by other scientists after it was published. A formal retraction was required, rather than a correction, because the errors undermined the study's conclusion.
"Retraction is a regular part of the publication process," he said. "Science is a complicated game and there are set procedures in place that act as checks and balances."
Nature Publishing Group, which publishes Nature Geoscience, said this was the first paper retracted from the journal since it was launched in 2007.
The paper – entitled "Constraints on future sea-level rise from past sea-level change" – used fossil coral data and temperature records derived from ice-core measurements to reconstruct how sea level has fluctuated with temperature since the peak of the last ice age, and to project how it would rise with warming over the next few decades.
In a statement the authors of the paper said: "Since publication of our paper we have become aware of two mistakes which impact the detailed estimation of future sea level rise. This means that we can no longer draw firm conclusions regarding 21st century sea level rise from this study without further work.
"One mistake was a miscalculation; the other was not to allow fully for temperature change over the past 2,000 years. Because of these issues we have retracted the paper and will now invest in the further work needed to correct these mistakes."
In the Nature Geoscience retraction, in which Siddall and his colleagues explain their errors, Vermeer and Rahmstorf are thanked for "bringing these issues to our attention".
"Confirmed the conclusions." "Strengthens the confidence." Only it was a giant load of rotting baloney all along.
The "scientists" are trying to tell us that they don't know whether the "error" (make that "propaganda") was an overestimation or an underestimation of a sea level rise. Bullcrap. These are the same people who told us that the Amazon rain forest was being destroyed by global warming when there's no evidence that it is even being affected at all. These are the people who assured us that the Himalayan glacier would melt by 2035, when the "conclusion" wasn't even based on science.
And when it comes to sea levels, these are the same people who made the following massive screw-up because it suited their ideology:
MPs have reacted angrily to a second mistake in an international climate panel report, this time focusing on the Netherlands itself, the Volkskrant reports on Friday.
According to the last IPCC report, published in 2007, some 55% of the Netherlands is below sea level and 65% of gross national product is produced in that area.
But according to the national statistics office CBS, just 20% of the country is below sea level and 19% of GDP is earned there.
'I am very disturbed,' environment minister Jacqueline Cramer told MPs. 'I do not wish to accept any more mistakes.'
Last week Cramer said a mistake in the same report about melting glaciers is 'extremely worrying'.
The science and the facts aren't on the global warmers' side, so they just make up their own. Or, to put it another way, "The IPCC didn't even get their data from scientific studies, but used anecdotal information from advocacy groups such as the WWF and from mountain climbing magazines."
How do you not conclude these people weren't "data shopping" to find the best deal for their propaganda?
At some point – I don't know when – enough people are going to realize that global warming by any other name is not at all about science, and is all about a socialist redistributionist political ideology.
Give me and my military-industrial complex special interests all your money so I can save the planet from an impending attack by evil space aliens. You'll be sorry if you don't because you'll be lobotomized and transformed into a worker drone.
What's that you say? Liberals have already lobotomized themselves, and welcome being enslaved by aliens? Oops. Never mind.
OK, then let me frighten you this way: the aliens will ruin the climate and the sea levels will rise.
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Al Gore And Artic Ice: Truth Is VERY Inconvenient
The gods in charge of exposing scientific liars and fraud must be working overtime these days.
In addition to the giant treasure trove of deceit known as "Climategate," we now have Al Gore – last year's recipient of the Nobel Prize for Science – revealing what a lying demagogue and fraud he is:
Inconvenient truth for Al Gore as his North Pole sums don't add up
There are many kinds of truth. Al Gore was poleaxed by an inconvenient one yesterday.
The former US Vice-President, who became an unlikely figurehead for the green movement after narrating the Oscar-winning documentary An Inconvenient Truth, became entangled in a new climate change "spin" row.
Mr Gore, speaking at the Copenhagen climate change summit, stated the latest research showed that the Arctic could be completely ice-free in five years.
In his speech, Mr Gore told the conference: "These figures are fresh. Some of the models suggest to Dr [Wieslav] Maslowski that there is a 75 per cent chance that the entire north polar ice cap, during the summer months, could be completely ice-free within five to seven years."
However, the climatologist whose work Mr Gore was relying upon dropped the former Vice-President in the water with an icy blast.
"It's unclear to me how this figure was arrived at," Dr Maslowski said. "I would never try to estimate likelihood at anything as exact as this."
Mr Gore's office later admitted that the 75 per cent figure was one used by Dr Maslowksi as a "ballpark figure" several years ago in a conversation with Mr Gore.
The embarrassing error cast another shadow over the conference after the controversy over the hacked e-mails from the University of East Anglia's Climate Research Unit, which appeared to suggest that scientists had manipulated data to strengthen their argument that human activities were causing global warming.
Mr Gore is not the only titan of the world stage finding Copenhagen to be a tricky deal.
World leaders — with Gordon Brown arriving tonight in the vanguard — are facing the humiliating prospect of having little of substance to sign on Friday, when they are supposed to be clinching an historic deal.
Meanwhile, five hours of negotiating time were lost yesterday when developing countries walked out in protest over the lack of progress on their demand for legally binding emissions targets from rich nations. The move underlined the distrust between rich and poor countries over the proposed legal framework for the deal.
Last night key elements of the proposed deal were unravelling. […]
Perhaps Mr Gore had felt the need to gild the lily to buttress resolve. But his speech was roundly criticised by members of the climate science community. "This is an exaggeration that opens the science up to criticism from sceptics," Professor Jim Overland, a leading oceanographer at the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said.
"You really don't need to exaggerate the changes in the Arctic."
Others said that, even if quoted correctly, Dr Maslowski's six-year projection for near-ice-free conditions is at the extreme end of the scale. Most climate scientists agree that a 20 to 30-year timescale is more likely for the near-disappearance of sea ice.
"Maslowski's work is very well respected, but he's a bit out on a limb," said Professor Peter Wadhams, a specialist in ocean physics at the University of Cambridge. […]
Richard Lindzen, a climate scientist at the Massachusets Institute of Technology who does not believe that global warming is largely caused by man, said: "He's just extrapolated from 2007, when there was a big retreat, and got zero."
First of all, the "developing countries" want "progress" toward a deal that would see TEN TRILLION DOLLARS in Western wealth flow to them.
And given the fact that the United States underwrites about a quarter of the U.N.'s budget, and given that most of the world has decided that the United States is mostly responsible for global warming, you can bet that America will be assessed a fair amount more than $2.5 trillion as "our share."
Then you start to find out that the left really want a tax of $145 trillion to "fight" global warming. And your head just starts spinning around on your neck.
You'd think we'd really want to have our science iron clad before agreeing to such a massive commitment. But not so much.
What we have in place of science is "scientism," science as a religious commitment, science exploited to serve the ideological cause of socialist redistributionism. And socialism has been disguised as "saving the planet."
Former prime minister and current global warming alarmist Tony Blair says that we need to destroy our economies so that developing nations might enjoy our wealth "even if the science is not correct."
And the science that blames man as the cause of global warming is not even close to correct:
Logic and chemistry say all CO2 is the same, whether it blows out of a Porsche tailpipe or is exhaled from Al Gore's lungs or wafts off my compost pile or the rotting of dead plants in the Atchafalaya swamp.
"Wrong," say the greenhouse theorists. They maintain that man's contribution to the greenhouse is different from nature's, and that only man's exhaustings count.
Let's review the greenhouse theory of global warming. Our planet would be one more icy rock hurtling through space at an intolerable temperature were it not for our atmosphere. This thin layer of gases — about 95 percent of the molecules live within the lowest 15 miles — readily allows the sun's heat in but resists its reradiation into space. Result: The earth is warmed.
The atmosphere is primarily composed of nitrogen (78 percent), oxygen (21 percent), argon (0.93 percent), and CO2 (0.04 percent). Many other gases are present in trace amounts. The lower atmosphere also contains varying amounts of water vapor, up to four percent by volume.
Nitrogen and oxygen are not greenhouse gases and have no warming influence. The greenhouse gases included in the Kyoto Protocol are each rated for warming potency. CO2, the warming gas that has activated Al Gore, has low warming potency, but its relatively high concentration makes it responsible for 72 percent of Kyoto warming. Methane (CH4, a.k.a. natural gas) is 21 times more potent than CO2, but because of its low concentration, it contributes only seven percent of that warming. Nitrous oxide (N2O), mostly of nature's creation, is 310 times more potent than CO2. Again, low concentration keeps its warming effect down to 19 percent.
Now for an inconvenient truth about CO2 sources — nature generates about 30 times as much of it as does man. Yet the warming worriers are unconcerned about nature's outpouring. They — and Al Gore — are alarmed only about anthropogenic CO2, that 3.2 percent caused by humans. […]
When water vapor is put in that perspective, then anthropogenic CO2 produces less than 0.1 of one percent of the greenhouse effect.
If everyone knows that water vapor is the dominant greenhouse gas, why do Al Gore and so many others focus on CO2? Call it the politics of the possible. Water vapor is almost entirely natural. It's beyond the reach of man's screwdriver. But when the delegates of 189 countries met at Kyoto in December 1997 to discuss global climate change, they could hardly vote to do nothing. So instead, they agreed that the developed countries of the world would reduce emissions of six man-made greenhouse gases. At the top of the list is CO2, a trivial influence on global warming compared with water vapor, but unquestionably man's largest contribution.
Is it really "science" to completely ignore 97% of the CO2, and ignore 99.9% of the greenhouse gasses in general, and even ignore the sun itself as the cause of global warming? Is it really "science" to ignore thousands of years of geologic history, not to mention the fact that "Greenland" was called Greenland because it used to be green during a previous warming period? Is it really "science" to allow a scientist who was caught red-handed perpetuating scientific fraud years ago to continue to dominate the climate change debate?
Is it really "science" to simply relabel "global warming" to "climate change" when the actual science started to demonstrate – contrary to the global warming lobby's shrill claims – that global warming hasn't happened the last ten years?
And is it really anything even remotely close to "science" to claim that "the science is settled and the debate is over" when that is simply false? If the science is so settled, then why on earth is it that these global warming alarmist feel the need to so routinely misrepresent the facts? Why do they deliberately destroy data? Why do they refuse to comply with Freedom of Information Act requests? Why do they abuse the peer-review system to undermine fellow scientists?
Al Gore has been playing a hysterical alarmist game with bogus facts and figures for years now. That alarmist propaganda was actually why he won the Nobel Prize. In fact, Gore has been screaming that all our ice would melt for years. Newsbusters' Noel Sheppard writes a good article demonstrating how disgraceful and despicable Al Gore and many others have been in this regard.
Another good article details that the polar ice caps actually AREN'T melting. Arctic ice is currently decreasing, but Antarctic ice is actually increasing. And when you put the two ice caps on a chart, you see that the overall ice level is quite stable, just as it has been for the past 150 years.
The thing that most bothers me is that documented liars and frauds such as Al Gore and Michael Mann have been allowed to continue to be liars and frauds. The postmodernist left does not even regard truth as a valid or meaningful category anymore, and all that remains is "the will to power." By any means necessary.
The inconvenient truth for the left is that "climate change" has been documented by their own scientists to be little more than a gang of thugs manipulating the data to suit their agenda while using their power to punish any would-be modern Galileo who disagrees with them. The inconvenient truth for the rest of us is that "truth" doesn't even matter to the left — which is why liars and frauds remain to perpetuate more lies and more fraud. All that matters to them is raw political power. And nothing but nothing would perpetuate leftist power than imposing massive socialist redistributionism in the name of "saving the earth."
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Meet Thomas Schelling, Nobel Prize Winner and Global Warming Demagogue
We can go back and look at Al Gore, a documented fraud, a presenter of entirely false scientific claims, and the winner of a Nobel Prize for science. A British High Court judge found nine "glaring" scientific errors in the Inconvenient Truth "documentary" that garnered Gore his scientific credibility. But the only "inconvenient truth" was that the film was an example of "alarmism" and "exaggeration" and was not fit for viewing by British school children.
"Science" has officially and for the record made itself a propaganda tool to advance radical redistributionist social policies.
And now we have another Nobel prize winner doing the same thing to his own field of economics.
An Interview With Thomas Schelling, Part Two
CLARKE: I wanted to go back to the international climate-change negotiation process. So assuming we had a perfect U.S. bill — written by you or by 15 experts working on this full time — how would the international negotiation process work? It's not obvious that averting global climate change is in the rational self-interest of anyone that is alive today. The serious consequences probably won't occur until 2080 or 2100 or thereafter. That's one problem. Another problem is that those consequences are going to be distributed in a radically uneven way. The northwest of the United States might actually benefit. So how does a negotiation process work? How does a generation today negotiate on behalf of future generations? And how do we negotiate when the costs are distributed so unevenly?
SCHELLING: Well I do think that one of the difficulties is that most of the beneficiaries aren't yet born. More than that: Most of the beneficiaries will be born in what we now call the developing world. By 2080 or 2100 five-sixths of the population, at least, will be in places like China, India, Indonesia, Africa and so forth. And what I don't know is whether Americans are really willing to understand that and do anything for the benefit of the unborn Chinese.
SCHELLING: It's a tough sell. And probably you have to find ways to exaggerate the threat. And you can in fact find ways to make the threat serious. I think there's a significant likelihood of a kind of a runaway release of carbon and methane from permafrost, and from huge offshore deposits of methane all around the world. If you begin to get methane leaking on a large scale — even though methane doesn't stay in the atmosphere very long — it might warm things up fast enough that it will induce further methane release, which will warm things up more, which will release more. And that will create a huge multiplier effect, and it could become very serious.
CLARKE: And you mean serious for everyone, including the United States?
SCHELLING: Yes, for almost anybody.
CLARKE: And when you say, "exaggerate the costs" do you mean, American politicians should exaggerate the costs to the American public, to get American support for a bill that will overwhelmingly benefit the developing world?
SCHELLING: [Laughs] It's very hard to get honest people.
SCHELLING: Well, part of me sympathizes with the case for disingenuousness! I mean, it seems to me that there is a strong moral case for helping unborn Bangladeshi citizens. But I don't know how you sell that. It's not in anyone's rational interest, at least in the US, to legislate on that basis.
Well, let me at least agree with Thomas Schelling to this extent: yes, it is indeed hard to find honest people. Especially from our "experts" whom we count upon to inform us of the facts, rather than leading us by the hand to conclusions based on false premises becauses they are arrogant elitists who think only they are smart enough to handle the truth.
The article goes on – read it here – with a seriously leftist-tilted back-and-forth about climate change and the degree to which America is morally obligated to commit economic hari kari in order to atone for its sins to the developing world.
Then we get to the moral nitty gritty to end the article:
CLARKE: I wanted to ask one more question, to go back to the moral issue here. It does seem to me that the strongest case for mitigating the effects of global climate change is a moral one. It is based not on our own interest but on the interests of people in the developing world who don't yet exist. But it also seems to me that — while I don't know much about game theory — collective bargaining theories generally assume the participants are rational and self-interested. So how does one go about making sense of an arrangement where we must set our self-interest aside? How does one make the moral case in a situation like this? Or is my description of collective bargaining just totally idiotic?
SCHELLING: Well, I think you have to realize that most people have very strong moral feelings. I think in a lot of cases they're misdirected. I wish moral feelings about a two-month old fetus were attached to hungry children in Africa. But I think people have very strong moral feelings. In fact, I'm always amazed by the number of people who at least pretend they're worried about the polar bears. […]
SCHELLING: And I think the churches don't realize that they could have a potent effect in not letting so much of god's legacy — in terms of flora and fauna — be destroyed by climate change.
SCHELLING: But I tend to be rather pessimistic. I sometimes wish that we could have, over the next five or ten years, a lot of horrid things happening — you know, like tornadoes in the Midwest and so forth — that would get people very concerned about climate change. But I don't think that's going to happen.
Now, Thomas Schelling one the one hand tells us that we should feel intensely morally obligated to "beneficiaries [who] not yet born" – as long as they're not "a two month old fetus" who is presumably about to be aborted – in which case we apparently have absolutely no obligation at all. But stop and think: the moral logic of abortion means the future generation doesn't matter unless we subjectively want them to matter. No one who advocates abortion has any right to lecture others that they should not only care about but sacrifice for "beneficiaries not yet born." Then Schelling proceeds to presume from his own massive personal arrogance that the American people's moral intuitions are faulty, but that his are functioning perfectly. Which of course justifies him in lying to us to steer us toward the conclusion dictated by his own superior moral reasoning.
And then this man who presumes himself to be so morally superior to everyone "beneath" him, who is entitled to "exaggerate the threat" of global warming because Americans are not responsible to make sound moral decisions if they know the truth, says he hopes "horrid things" happen to we the poor, the huddling, the ignorant and unwashed masses.
This economist seems to live more by the law involving the telling of a lie often enough that it is believed far more than by the law of supply and demand.
It's funny that Schelling mentions polar bears, as an admitted global warming exaggerator now proceeds to run into the pseudo-science of another global warming exaggerator. And you have – unlike Al Gore or Thomas Schelling, who have credibility in the scientific community without having any ethical integrity – a genuine scientist being persecuted because he cares about the truth:
One of the world's leading polar bear experts has been told to stay away from an international conference on the animals because his views are "extremely unhelpful," according to an e-mail by the chairman of the Polar Bear Specialist Group, Dr. Andy Derocher.
The London Telegraph reports Canadian biologist Mitchell Taylor has more than 30 years of experience with polar bears. But his belief that global warming is caused by nature, not man, led officials to bar him from this week's polar bear specialist group meeting in Denmark.
Taylor says the polar bear population has actually increased over the last 30 years. He says the threat to them by melting Arctic ice — illustrated by a famous photo taken by photographer Amanda Byrd — has become the most iconic cause for global warming theorists. The photo is often used by former Vice President Al Gore and others as an example of the dangers faced by the bears. But it was debunked last year by the photographer, who says the picture had nothing to do with global warming, and that the bears were not in danger. The photographer said she just happened to catch the bears on a small windswept iceberg.
And we have the same types of people as Thomas Schelling suppresing the conclusions of science that show the opposite of what they want science to show. Consider the White House's suppression of a scientific report by the EPA.
Or you can go back to the "hockey stick model" to see just how far "respected" scientists are willing to go in order to pass off a bogus theory for mass consumption — and just how willing other scientists are to unquestioningly accept whatever "evidence" supports their preconceived ideological notions.
Harvard economist Martin Feldstein apparently lacks Thomas Schelling's godlike view, and thus doesn't seem to think he possesses the divine right to distort the truth in order to lead Americans to the conclusions he ordains as "moral."
Feldstein simply looks at the economics – which, who knows, may be a strange thing for an economist to do these days – and concludes:
Americans should ask themselves whether this annual tax of $1,600-plus per family is justified by the very small resulting decline in global CO2. Since the U.S. share of global CO2 production is now less than 25 percent (and is projected to decline as China and other developing nations grow), a 15 percent fall in U.S. CO2 output would lower global CO2 output by less than 4 percent. Its impact on global warming would be virtually unnoticeable. The U.S. should wait until there is a global agreement on CO2 that includes China and India before committing to costly reductions in the United States. […]
In my judgment, the proposed cap-and-trade system would be a costly policy that would penalize Americans with little effect on global warming. The proposal to give away most of the permits only makes a bad idea worse. Taxpayers and legislators should keep these things in mind before enacting any cap-and-trade system.
Aside from the fact that building scientific evidence indicates that global warming is a gigantic load of malarkey (just consider how the fact that the planet ISN'T warming has now led the alarmist movement to instead begin using the term "climate change"), global warming-turned climate change alarmists have an even bigger problem to worry about: the fact that the developing world has no interests in committing their own versions of hari kari for the sake of a theory. China and India are poised to become "global warming polluters" on such a scale that any reductions in American and European greenhouse gasses would be utterly insignificant. So why should we dramatically undermine our lives?
Chinese and Indians know what it's like to live in a mud hut, which is the inevitable result of dramatically hamstringing our economic output to conform to the demands of the global warming alarmists. The western radicals either don't know what such deplorable conditions are like, or they believe that they – being the true arrogant elitists they are – will continue to live in their glass houses or ivory towers.
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The REAL Intent Of Cap-And-Trade: Bringing Global Governance
I have longed believed that global warming was based on an agenda intended to bring about the socialist redistribution of wealth and create the one-world order long feared by conspiracy theorists and believers in the Book of Revelation.
I don't have to "believe" any longer, though. Because Al Gore spilled the beans on the socialist boondoggle.
From the Climate Depot:
"I bring you good news from the U.S., "Gore said on July 7, 2009 in Oxford at the Smith School World Forum on Enterprise and the Environment, sponsored by UK Times.
"Just two weeks ago, the House of Representatives passed the Waxman-Markey climate bill," Gore said, noting it was "very much a step in the right direction." President Obama has pushed for the passage of the bill in the Senate and attended a G8 summit this week where he agreed to attempt to keep the Earth's temperatures from rising more than 2 degrees C.
Gore touted the Congressional climate bill, claiming it "will dramatically increase the prospects for success" in combating what he sees as the "crisis" of man-made global warming.
"But it is the awareness itself that will drive the change and one of the ways it will drive the change is through global governance and global agreements." (Editor's Note: Gore makes the "global governance" comment at the 1min. 10 sec. mark in this UK Times video.)
And, yep, they want that socialist redistribution of wealth, too:
The environmental group Friends of the Earth advocated the transfer of money from rich to poor nations during the 2007 UN climate conference.
"A climate change response must have at its heart a redistribution of wealth and resources," said Emma Brindal, a climate justice campaigner coordinator for Friends of the Earth.
And how else do we redistribute the wealth but by taxing the bejeezus out of the people who produce wealth so we can take the fruits of their hard work and success away from them and give it to the non-productive?
In addition, calls for a global carbon tax have been urged at recent UN global warming conferences. In December 2007, the UN climate conference in Bali, urged the adoption of a global carbon tax that would represent "a global burden sharing system, fair, with solidarity, and legally binding to all nations."
"Finally someone will pay for these [climate related] costs," Othmar Schwank, a global tax advocate, said at the 2007 UN conference after a panel titled "A Global CO2 Tax."
Schwank noted that wealthy nations like the U.S. would bear the biggest burden based on the "polluters pay principle." The U.S. and other wealthy nations need to "contribute significantly more to this global fund," Schwank explained. He also added, "It is very essential to tax coal."
It doesn't matter that the U.S. isn't the worst polluter any more. Not even close. China now has that distinction, and is expected to continue to pull away from all other competitors for the title. China is building 500 new coal plants, averaging one every four days. The U.S. is now second, and will very shortly be third, behind India.
The fact that neither China nor India want anything to do with hamstringing their economies for the sake of an increasingly obvious bogus global warming theory is utterly beside the point.
And whether the theory is true or not is really besides the point for the supporters of such hard-core environmental measures, anyway. Just ask former Colorado senator Tim Wirth, who said:
"We've got to ride the global warming issue. Even if the theory of global warming is wrong, we will be doing the right thing — in terms of economic policy and environmental policy."
It's the thought that counts, after all. Now matter how much that thought counts, or how many American people's lives are negatively impacted by it.
It doesn't really matter that the science tells us that we haven't had any "global warming" for a minimum of five years now, and that we can actually expect global cooling for the next 20 years. The science increasingly is telling us something that your average nursery school kid could have told you (get ready for this): THE SUN WARMS THE EARTH!!! But if the facts get in the way of our socialist redistributionist global warming theories, dammit, then so much the worse for the facts. When will you get that through your thick heads?
A C-SPAN transcript of James Inhofe as entered into the Congressional Record is a fun read for former conspiracy theorists who are now simply reporting the plain facts:
Jacques Chirac said:
"Kyoto represents the first component of an authentic global governance."
That is not me. That is Jack Chirac. It answers the question why are these countries over in Europe so interested that we do something in this country that is going to hurt our economy. The answer came from Margot Wallstrom, Minister of the Environment for the European Union. She said:
"Kyoto is about the economy, about leveling the playing field for big business worldwide."
Yes, there are other countries that would love to have America be overtaxed and have all these economic problems that we don't have right now. It could inure to their benefit; there is no question about that. No one would deny that.
There's nothing new about foreign countries wanting to undermine America by seeing it destroy itself with stupid and useless energy policies. What is NEW is that we elected a president of our own country who wants to undermine America by seeing it destroy itself with stupid and useless energy policies.
Barack Obama, in a candid moment during a speech to supporters in San Francisco:
"The problem is not technical, uh, and the problem is not mastery of the legislative intricacies of Washington. The problem is, uh, can you get the American people to say, "This is really important," and force their representatives to do the right thing? That requires mobilizing a citizenry. That requires them understanding what is at stake. Uh, and climate change is a great example.
You know, when I was asked earlier about the issue of coal, uh, you know — Under my plan of a cap and trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket. Even regardless of what I say about whether coal is good or bad. Because I'm capping greenhouse gases, coal power plants, you know, natural gas, you name it — whatever the plants were, whatever the industry was, uh, they would have to retrofit their operations. That will cost money. They will pass that money on to consumers."
Obama also said he'd bankrupt coal plants, with coal being America's number one domestic energy resource responsible for half of our nation's electricity. And refusing to use the resources God gave us when there is clearly nothing even CLOSE to being as cheap or as efficient is hardly the way to improve our national sovereignty.
It comes as no surprise to those who have been following Obama's radical leftist agenda that his own choice for "climate czar" would be a documented socialist and member of a group that calls for "global governance."
These are people who LOVE to take advantage of any "crisis" they can find to ram home their agenda. Obama's Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel said it; Obama's Secretary of State said it. And when they get their crises, they use them to ram home their socialist global governance agenda.
Thomas Jefferson, understanding how truly marvelous and exceptional the nation he helped create truly was, said to those who would have us look toward Europe, "The comparisons of our government with those of Europe are like a comparison of heaven and hell."
Unfortunately, too many liberal elites such as Barack Obama are now trying to bring that hell to our shores.
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