fell back on climate models that attribute only 15-30% of temperature variation in the 20th century to variability of the El Niño index. As is usual in climate matters, one has only to glance at the authors to know in advance what spin the results are likely to show. The Foster paper included the crème de la crème of climategate characters while the Mclean paper was written by skeptics.

The proportion of global heating from 1976 to 2005 due to prevalence of El Niños over La Niñas vs. greenhouse gas forcing remains uncertain. Nevertheless, the state of the Pacific Ocean is clearly important, not only for its impact on the atmospheric temperature, but also because it regulates the annual rise in CO 2 concentration.

Tisdale, Bob (2012) “Who turned onGhost In the Shell: The New Movie [DVD]

Set in a futuristic Japan after the end of a brutal world war, science has advanced by leaps and bounds giving humanity the choice to prolong life and reduce suffering with the use of sophisticated cybernetics. With all of humanity linked into one system of minds and personalities known as ghosts, the biggest threat to civilization is the cyber terrorists capable of hijacking people s bodies and memories.

When a ghost-infecting virus known as Fire-Starter begins spreading through the system resulting in the assassination of the Japanese Prime Minister, Major Motoko Kusanagi and her elite team of special operatives are called in to track down its source. As they delve deeper and deeper into their investigation, they uncover traces of government corruption