Qualquer dia, eje, hum, ainda vamos ouvir o Sócras, hum, a dijere, que é pai do D. Afonso Henriques, eje, hum!
O Oba-Palhaço, eje, é um bom Palhaço, não habia... Nexexidade!! Eje hum!
Climate change from CO2 may not be as bad as predicted
By Bryan Clark
According to a recent study funded by the National Science Foundation's Paleoclimate Program, climate change may be far less sensitive to carbon dioxide fluctuations than previously predicted.
The most notable predictions of CO2-based climate change came from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report in 2007. The report suggested that should the CO2 in the Earth's atmosphere double from pre-Industrial standards (pre-1850), it could result in a global 2 to 4.5 degree Celsius (3.6 - 8.1 degrees Fahrenheit) temperature increase worldwide. The mean level in this finding was 3 degrees Celsius (5 degrees Fahrenheit). This, of course, would be catastrophic, leading to the melting of polar ice, as well as significant sea temperature increases and global flooding due to rising ocean levels.
It appears that that these dire numbers might not be accurate according to a the lead author of the new report, Oregon State University researcher Andreas Schmittner.
"Many previous climate sensitivity studies have looked at the past only from 1850 through today, and not fully integrated paleoclimate date, especially on a global scale," said Schmittner. "When you reconstruct sea and land surface temperatures from the peak of the last Ice Age 21,000 years ago - which is referred to as the Last Glacial Maximum - and compare it with climate model simulations of that period, you get a much different picture.
Talk of 'nuclear default' sums up Left's anger at EU dictates
Tempers are fraying in austerity-racked Portugal. A top socialist politician was taped at a party dinner calling for diplomatic warfare against the EU's northern powers and issuing threats of debt default.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financialcrisis/8959687/Talk-of-nuclear-default-sums-up-Lefts-anger-at-EU-dictates.html
O QUE PAGAMOS NA FACTURA DA ELECTRICIDADE....
Caros amigos:Vocês por acaso sabem o que pagam na factura da electricidade?Eu também fiz a mesma pergunta antes de saber o que andamos a pagar.Vejam, neste exemplo duma factura de cerca de 66,50 €.
O que se paga:
- 3,8 €, correspondentes a 6% do IVA (vamos passar a pagar 23%);- 4,5 €, correspondente a 7% de Taxa para a RDP e RTP (para que Malatos, Jorge Gabrieis, Catarinas Furtados e outras que tais possam receber 17.000 e mais €/mês;- 35,6 €, para subsídios vários, que correspondem a 53% do total da factura (em 2011 estes subsídios vários já atingiram 2.500 M€. Para não se perderem são dois mil milhões de Euros)- 22,6 € correspondente realmente ao EFECTIVO consumo efectuado, ou seja 34% do total da factura. Desta forma, apenas consumimos 22,6 € de electricidade, mas pagamos no total 66,50 €.
Mas agora vamos ver o que são os subsídios vários, ou seja, os 53% do total da factura que pagamos, e que este ano já vão em 2.500 M€.Permaneçam sentados para não caírem:
- 3% são a harmonização tarifaria para os Açores e Madeira, ou seja, e um esforço que o país (TODOS NÓS) fazemos pela insularidade, dos madeirenses e açorianos, para que estes tenham electricidade mais barata. Isto é, NÓS já pagamos durante 2011, 75 M€ para aqueles ilhéus terem a electricidade mais barata!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- 10% para rendas aos Municípios e Autarquias. Mas que m... vem a ser esta renda? Eu explico: a EDP (TODOS NÓS) pagamos aos Municípios e Autarquias uma renda sobre os terrenos, por onde passam os cabos de alta tensão. Isto é, TODOS NÓS, já pagamos durante 2011, 250 M€ aos Municípios e Autarquias por aquela renda.
- 30% para compensação aos operadores. Ou seja, TODOS NÓS, já pagamos em 2011, 750 M€ para a EDP, Tejo Energia e Turbo Gás.
- 50% para o investimento nas energias renováveis. Aqueles incentivos que o Sócrates deu para o investimento nas energias renováveis e que depois era descontado no IRS, também o pagamos. Ou seja, mais uns 1.250 M€.
- 7% de outros custos incluídos na tarifa, ou sejam 175 M€. Que custos são estes? São Custos de funcionamento da Autoridade da Concorrência, custos de funcionamento da ERSE (Entidade Reguladora dos Serviços Eléctricos), planos de promoção do Desempenho Ambiental da responsabilidade da ESE e planos de promoção e eficiência no consumo, também da responsabilidade da ERSE.
Estão esclarecidos? Isto é uma vergonha. NÓS TODOS pagamos tudo!
Pagamos para os açorianos e madeirenses terem electricidade mais barata, pagamos aos Municípios e Autarquias, para além de IMI's, IRS's, IVA's em tudo que compramos e outras taxas... somos sugados, chupados, dissecados...
Passem a todos os v/ amigos e conhecidos.
“As dívidas dos Estados são eternas, foi que eu estudei
Económico
07/12/11 14:30
Ex-primeiro-ministro falou sobre a crise europeia, numa conferência em Paris.Numa conferência em Paris com colegas universitários da Sciences Po, onde estuda Ciência Política, José Sócrates, foi questionado por um dos alunos se os Estados europeus deveriam pagar imediatamente as suas divídas.O ex-primeiro-ministro respondeu que "para pequenos países como Portugal e Espanha, pagar a dívida é uma ideia de criança. As dívidas dos Estados são por definição eternas. As dívidas gerem-se. Foi assim que eu estudei"."Claro que não devemos deixar crescer a dívida muito, porque isso pesa depois sobre os encargos. Todavia, para um país como Portugal, é essencial financiamento para desenvolver a sua economia. É assim que eu vejo as coisas", concluiu Sócrates, citado pelo Correio da Manhã.
http://economico.sapo.pt/noticias/as-dividas-dos-estados-sao-eternas-foi-que-eu-estudei_133219.html
Espelho meu… diz-me quem fez mais cortes do que eu!
Apesar de bastante comum, o mais perigoso defeito dum político é a egolatria. É o que acontece com Mário Soares. Apesar dele por estes dias gozar dum estatuto de quase inimputabilidade, é difícil atender ao seu “manifesto”, um arrazoado de moralismo oportunista cujo objectivo, para além de embaraçar a direcção do seu partido, não é mais do que boicotar a recuperação nacional, chamando a si as luzes da ribalta. Para aqueles que por qualquer razão não têm memória, convém relembrar que, quando entre 1983 e 1985 Soares liderou o chamado Governo do Bloco Central, Portugal estava à beira de uma ruptura financeira, o que implicou uma forte intervenção do FMI.
Fado é Património Imaterial da Humanidade
O Fado foi reconhecido este domingo pela UNESCO como Património Imaterial da Humanidade.
'Que Estranha Forma de Vida', de Amália Rodrigues, foi ouvido na sala, após um discurso emocionado de António Costa, presidente da Câmara de Lisboa."Foi uma grande alegria, sobretudo depois de uma espera tão longa", afirmou à SIC a directora do Museu do Fado, Sara Pereira.
http://www.cmjornal.xl.pt/detalhe/noticias/lazer/musica/fado-e-patrimonio-imaterial-da-humanidade
PP obtém maioria absoluta em Espanha
Quando estão escrutinados 83,34 por cento dos votos, o PP obtém 44,42 dos votos e 186 deputados conta os 28,673 por cento do PSOE que perde 59 deputados para 110, o seu pior resultado de sempre.
O pior resultado anterior de sempre dos socialistas tinha sido registado pelo agora vice-presidente da Comissão Europeia, Joaquin Almunia, que em 2000 se ficou pelos 34,16 por cento dos votos e 125 deputados.
Nessas eleições gerais, o PP, liderado por José Maria Aznar, tinha conseguido a que era, até hoje, a maior vitória do seu partido, com 44,52 por cento dos votos e 183 deputados.
QUE TAL ENVIARMOS AS BOAS FESTAS A TODOS OS CONTRIBUINTES DESEJANDO UM PRÓSPERO ANO DE 2012?
Maçons recusam revelar a sua condição
15 Novembro 2011
No debate sobre "A Maçonaria em Portugal", que ontem fechou a Grande Investigação que o DN realizou sobre o tema, os maçons presentes reivindicaram o direito à privacidade. E foi também revelado que as quotas rendem 600 mil euros/ano.O presidente da maior organização mundial da franco-maçonaria liberal considerou disparatada a proposta de os políticos serem obrigados a declarar se são maçons e a hipótese de os juízes nem sequer o poderem ser.António Reis, que é também ex-grão-mestre do Grande Oriente Lusitano (GOL), mostrou-se ainda desagradado por José Moreno, grão-mestre da GLLP, ter dito que o GOL se mete em questões partidárias.
http://www.dn.pt/inicio/portugal/interior.aspx?content_id=2123158
Which part of “totally transparent” don’t you understand?
Donna Laframboise
Later this month thousands of bureaucrats, politicians, media, activists and scientists will travel to Durban, South Africa, for the latest round of UN climate talks. We’ll be advised that the world must slash its carbon-dioxide emissions because a United Nations report, prepared by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), has concluded that humans are changing the climate in dangerous ways.
The people who write the IPCC’s report — which is informally known as the Climate Bible — are supposedly the crème de la crème of world science. Rajendra Pachauri, the person who has been the IPCC’s chairman since 2002, tells us this repeatedly. In 2007 he explained to a newspaper how his organization selects individuals to help write the Climate Bible: “These are people who have been chosen on the basis of their track record, on their record of publications, on the research that they have done,” he said. “They are people who are at the top of their profession.
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A close look at the IPCC’s roster of authors reveals that – on a wide range of topics including hurricanes, sea-level rise, and malaria – some of the world’s most seasoned specialists have been left out in the cold. In their stead, the IPCC has been recruiting 20-something graduate students.
For example, Laurens Bouwer is currently employed by an environmental studies institute at the VU University Amsterdam. In 1999-2000, he served as an IPCC lead author before earning his Masters degree in 2001.
How can a young man without even a master’s degree become an IPCC lead author? Bouwer’s expertise is in climate change and water resources. Yet the chapter for which he first served as a lead author was titled Insurance and Other Financial Services.
It turns out that, during part of 2000, Bouwer was a trainee at Munich Reinsurance Company. This means the IPCC chose as a lead author someone who was a trainee, who lacked a master’s degree, and was still a full decade away from receiving his 2010 PhD.
http://www.mercatornet.com/articles/view/which_part_of_totally_transparent_dont_you_understand
Even as Governments Act, Time Runs Short for Euro
By NICHOLAS KULISH and STEVEN ERLANGER
BERLIN — The window of opportunity to save the euro is rapidly closing, as the sovereign debt crisis erodes the solvency of Europe’s banks and drives up borrowing rates for even once rock-solid countries like France.
On Saturday, the crisis swept away another leader, when Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi resigned after 17 years of dominance in Italian politics to the jeers and cheers of crowds in Rome.
Both there and in Greece, jumbled parliaments came together with urgency to install more technocratic governments that are committed to delivering the difficult reforms and austerity measures demanded by the European Union, the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund.
Despite those drastic and tangible steps, though, there is a host of problems that could quickly overwhelm Europe’s progress.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/13/world/europe/for-european-union-and-the-euro-a-moment-of-truth.html
Overpopulated, Overbreeding and OverTHERE
Marcus Roberts
As we’ve hit (or are about to, or did so a while ago, or something...) the seven billion person mark, the tone in the media has palpably been one of fear, unease and impending doom. The underlying (or sometimes not so underlying) thought process seems to be: “seven billion people do make an awfully large crowd, and the world really can’t support such numbers – we need to do something about it.” We’ve discussed before that doing “something” usually means trying to stop others from having babies, after all, we in the West (and Japan etc) aren’t contributing to population growth – we’re not even replacing ourselves! No, it’s others (particularly Africans) who need to stop breeding, they can’t even feed themselves! If only they were as educated as we were they wouldn’t have so many babies and they’d realise the joys of having 2.1 kids, or even better, they’d realise the unalloyed bliss of being a GINK. They either need more condoms, or if they want a large family, they obviously need re-education. Preferably by some type of planned parenthood organisation.
A few days ago in the UK Telegraph, Brendan O’Neill wrote an interesting blogpost along similar lines. He discussed the choice (inadvertent or deliberate) of pictures by news organisations to accompany stories about the world’s growing population. Generally, he says, these pictures are of black people, or brown people:
“If it's true that a picture is worth a thousand words, then the stock photos used in articles about overpopulation – Indians squeezing on to a train, Chinese women going shopping, black babies sleeping – frequently reveal more about the modern Malthusian outlook than the articles themselves do…
[A] Guardian report goes for the old classic of little black babies, 12 of them, just lying there, blissfully unaware that they are contributing to the "rapidly growing global population". This one goes for an image of African schoolgirls skipping – scary.”
After all, there is nothing more frightening than a row of black babies, or of African schoolgirls playing in a schoolyard. While they might not consume or pollute as much as the average westerner, you get twenty of them together and suddenly you have the ecological footprint of a single citizen of the USA! Dangerous.
http://www.mercatornet.com/demography/view/9909
Merkel wants 'permanent' supervision of Greece, warns of war
By Valentina Pop
Brussels - Peace should not be taken for granted if the euro fails, German chancellor Merkel told MPs Wednesday (26 October) ahead of the eurozone summit where an increase of the bail-out fund firepower may lead to Germany's own state assets being taken as collateral.
In a dark blue jacket reflecting the mood in and about the eurozone, Merkel abandoned her usual cautious rhetoric warned outright of a war.
"Nobody should take for granted another 50 years of peace and prosperity in Europe. They are not for granted. That's why I say: If the euro fails, Europe fails," Merkel said, followed by a long applause from all political groups.
"We have a historical obligation: To protect by all means Europe's unification process begun by our forefathers after centuries of hatred and blood spill. None of us can foresee what the consequences would be if we were to fail."
http://euobserver.com/19/114075
UN Population Fund funding faces axe in US
Marcus Roberts |
Interesting news has come out of the House of Representatives’ Foreign Affairs Committee this week, and it’s not every day that you can say that! The Republican dominated committee has voted to support a bill that eliminates the funding that was requested by President Obama for the UN Population Fund (UNFPA). The amount that has been cut by the committee is $50million (I assume per annum?) and has only recently been restored by Obama after the Bush administration – typically Republican administrations have withheld funds from the group. The Committee divided along party lines and voted 23-17 in favour of the cut.The reasons for the move given by the Committee are two-fold. First, an economic argument:"Why, when Americans face a struggling economy, skyrocketing deficits and crushing debt should our taxpayer dollars got to an organization that supports coercive abortion and is flush with cash?" asked Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, R-Fla., chairwoman of the committee. She said the U.N. Population Fund has unspent funds of some $500 million.While $50million a year is nothing when compared to the size of the US’ debt, I suppose that every little bit cut from the budget helps, especially when the funding appears to be going to a UN organisation that isn’t spending all its money anyway.However, the second, and more prominent, reason is a moral one. The Committee was critical of the UNPFA’s efforts in China, with its one child policy and reports of human rights abuses, forced sterilisations and abortions.
http://www.mercatornet.com/demography/view/9795
