Prime Minister Stephen Harper congratulates Team Canada on OLYMPIC GOLD MEDAL hockey win (Conservative Party of Canada)
February 28, 2010 by admin
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Prime Minister Stephen Harper today congratulated Canada’s men’s hockey team on their gold medal victory at the 2010 Olympic Winter Games.
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Prime Minister Stephen Harper congratulates Team Canada on OLYMPIC GOLD MEDAL hockey win (Conservative Party of Canada)
February 28, 2010 by admin
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Prime Minister Stephen Harper today congratulated Canada’s men’s hockey team on their gold medal victory at the 2010 Olympic Winter Games.
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Prime Minister Stephen Harper congratulates Canadian men’s curling team on Olympic gold medal (Conservative Party of Canada)
February 27, 2010 by admin
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Prime Minister Stephen Harper congratulated the Canadian men’s curling team, whose exceptional performance today was rewarded with a gold medal at the 2010 Olympic Winter Games.
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PM congratulates Canadian four-man bobsleigh team on Olympic bronze medal (Conservative Party of Canada)
February 27, 2010 by admin
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Prime Minister Stephen Harper congratulated the Canadian men’s bobsleigh team, Canada 1, whose exceptional performance today was rewarded with a bronze medal at the 2010 Olympic Winter Games.
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PM congratulates Canada’s speed skaters on Olympic gold in team pursuit (Conservative Party of Canada)
February 27, 2010 by admin
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Prime Minister Stephen Harper congratulated the Canadian men’s long track speed skating team, whose exceptional performance today in the men’s team pursuit was rewarded with a gold medal at the 2010 Olympic Winter Games.
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PM congratulates snowboarder Jasey-Jay Anderson on Olympic gold medal (Conservative Party of Canada)
February 27, 2010 by admin
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Prime Minister Stephen Harper congratulated Canadian snowboarder Jasey-Jay Anderson, whose exceptional performance today in the men’s parallel giant slalom was rewarded with a gold medal at the 2010 Olympic Winter Games.
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PM congratulates snowboarder Jasey-Jay Anderson on Olympic gold medal (Conservative Party of Canada)
Bernier’s Lost His Briefing Book Again
February 27, 2010 by admin
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Maxime Bernier, long time climate denier is relying on German scientist Mojib Latif to back up his claim that scientists are now casting doubt on climate change science.
In his letter to La Presse, Bernier wrote:
“Some very serious scientists believe that we are under-estimating the influence of the sun and other factors that have nothing to do with carbon emissions.
Mojib Latif, a German researcher associated with the IPCC who essentially supports the warming theory, said last fall that temperatures may decline for two decades before warming resumes. No model predicted this. But the same models claim to predict the number of degrees of warming by the end of the century. And that’s only one of the “certainties” about which there is no consensus.”
Mojib Latif does not merely “essentially” support consensus science. He most emphatically supports it. He is sick and tired of his work being distorted. (I am including the Guardian article about his work). The distinction between climate and weather is well discussed by Latif.
First thing Monday morning I will be sending Mr. Bernier a copy of Global Warming for Dummies. It is a briefing book I suggest he read, and not leave behind when he is distracted.
Leading climate scientist challenges Mail on Sunday’s use of his research
David Adam, environment correspondent
guardian.co.uk, Monday 11 January 2010 16.47 GMT
Mojib Latif denies his research supports theory that current cold weather undermines scientific consensus on global warming
Mojib Latif, a climate expert at the Leibniz Institute at Kiel University in Germany, said he “cannot understand” reports that used his research to question the scientific consensus on climate change.
He told the Guardian: “It comes as a surprise to me that people would try to use my statements to try to dispute the nature of global warming. I believe in manmade global warming. I have said that if my name was not Mojib Latif it would be global warming.”
He added: “There is no doubt within the scientific community that we are affecting the climate, that the climate is changing and responding to our emissions of greenhouse gases.”
A report in the Mail on Sunday said that Latif’s results “challenge some of the global warming orthodoxy’s most deeply cherished beliefs” and “undermine the standard climate computer models”. Monday’s Daily Mail and Daily Telegraph repeated the claims.
The reports attempted to link the Arctic weather that has enveloped the UK with research published by Latif’s team in the journal Nature in 2008. The research said that natural fluctuations in ocean temperature could have a bigger impact on global temperature than expected. In particular, the study concluded that cooling in the oceans could offset global warming, with the average temperature over the decades 2000-2010 and 2005-2015 predicted to be no higher than the average for 1994-2004. Despite clarifications from the scientists at the time, who stressed that the research did not challenge the predicted long-term warming trend, the study was widely misreported as signalling a switch from global warming to global cooling.
The Mail on Sunday article said that Latif’s research showed that the current cold weather heralds such “a global trend towards cooler weather”.
It said: “The BBC assured viewers that the big chill was was merely short-term ‘weather’ that had nothing to do with ‘climate’, which was still warming. The work of Prof Latif and the other scientists refutes that view.”
Not according to Latif. “They are not related at all,” he said. “What we are experiencing now is a weather phenomenon, while we talked about the mean temperature over the next 10 years. You can’t compare the two.”
He said the ocean temperature effect was similar to other natural influences on global temperature, such as volcanos, which cool the planet temporarily as ash spewed into the atmosphere reflects sunlight.
“The natural variation occurs side by side with the manmade warming. Sometimes it has a cooling effect and can offset this warming and other times it can accelerate it.” Other scientists have questioned the strength of the ocean effect on overall temperature and disagree that global warming will show the predicted pause.
Latif said his research suggested that up to half the warming seen over the 20th century was down to this natural ocean effect, but said that was consistent with the 2007 report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. “No climate specialist would ever say that 100% of the warming we have seen is down to greenhouse gas emissions.”
The recent articles are not the first to misrepresent his research, Latif said. “There are numerous newspapers, radio stations and television channels all trying to get our attention. Some overstate and some want to downplay the problem as a way to get that attention,” he said. “We are trying to discuss in the media a highly complex issue. Nobody would discuss the problem of [Einstein's theory of] relativity in the media. But because we all experience the weather, we all believe that we can assess the global warming problem.”
Bernier’s Lost His Briefing Book Again
PM congratulates Canadian men’s short track speed skating 5,000-metre relay team on Olympic gold medal win (Conservative Party of Canada)
February 27, 2010 by admin
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Prime Minister Stephen Harper today congratulated the Canadian men’s short track speed skating 5,000-metre relay team. An exceptional performance today was rewarded with a gold medal at the 2010 Olympic Winter Games.
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PM congratulates Charles Hamelin on Olympic gold medal (Conservative Party of Canada)
February 27, 2010 by admin
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Prime Minister Stephen Harper today congratulated Charles Hamelin, whose exceptional performance in the Men’s 500-metre short track speed skating event was rewarded with a gold medal at the 2010 Olympic Winter Games.
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PM congratulates Charles Hamelin on Olympic gold medal (Conservative Party of Canada)
PM congratulates François-Louis Tremblay on Olympic bronze medal (Conservative Party of Canada)
February 27, 2010 by admin
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Prime Minister Stephen Harper today congratulated François-Louis Tremblay, whose exceptional performance in the Men’s 500-metre short track speed skating event was rewarded with a bronze medal at the 2010 Olympic Winter Games.
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PM congratulates François-Louis Tremblay on Olympic bronze medal (Conservative Party of Canada)
