Stalking and Cyberstalking is the willful violation of another person’s stated boundaries either with unwanted phone calls and email or by invading another persons real or virtual property after a request is made to vacate.

 

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This Steller Sea Lion is one of about 500 who live here on my doorstep at Race Rocks. I've been the Ecoguardian at the ecological reserve since 2008. You can cyberstalk me or the sea lions at www.racerocks.com

 

Update: With the onslaught of winter storms and military blasting activities, most of the sea lions have left for the season. Next up: Elephant seal breeding/mating season!

On 8-2-21, at 4:06 pm, I called the number listed for the Cheyenne, Wyoming FBI. This was after extreme harassment and retaliation from my last 2 post. I called 307-632-6224, followed the Prompts and selected prompt 2, for Domestic Terrorism. The man I spoke with asked for my full name. I spelled it out for him. I informed him that I was being Stalked, Mobbed, Harassed by large groups of people across state lines. He said “If you’re being Stalked, contact the Local Law Enforcement”. I repeated this is across state lines. He repeated telling me to contact Local Law Enforcement. I told him “I’m an Army Veteran and not to jump to Conspiracy Theories, I’m being Attacked By Electronic Weapons, as described by the “Havana Syndrome”. He repeated “If you’re being Stalked contact Local Law Enforcement”. Then, he abruptly hung up on me, as I continued to try and explain what was happening.

His reaction was expected. This is what happens to Americans that try to expose waste, fraud and corruption within our Government Agenesis (National Parks Service, Department of the Interior, VA, Law Enforcement). This is what happens when you try to Expose Government Contractors with Billion Dollar Contracts. I can serve my Country proudly, but I can’t expose the Truth to the FBI. I actually have proof of Domestic Terrorism, and the FBI doesn’t want it. This isn’t about me; this is about Truth, and what is really happening to American Citizens on American Soil; by Corporation, Government Agencies, Law enforcement, Hate Groups and Mobs.

 

Again, you still don’t believe me? Take a look at what is happening and has happened to the Steiners; by allegedly former ebay Executives. The extreme measure to destroy and discredit. Once again, people are stunned, but this is what is happening in America. Here are links to the coverage. One of the persons involved was a Retired Police Captain.

 

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There are many other outlets that have covered this too, so you can do your own search.

 

I would like to mention; a 4th Officer that responded to the Jan 6th Riots, Insurgence, committed Suicide. If you’ve listened to the message left on Officer Fanone’s voice mail, while he was testifying; it will give you a little in-site of the Mentality of those Involved in Gang Stalking, Community Mobbing. These men proudly served and protected our Capitol, once again our Nation turns its back on them.

 

Back to what prompted me calling the FBI. Koda and I have received extreme Retaliation from our recent Posts. I have been left sleep-deprived by Noise Campaigns, each time Koda and I step out of our Motorhome; we are mobbed by ATV, Motorcycles, 4 Wheelers and SUVs. Yesterday a man using a little girl. Seriously people; these Adults are using children to Mob, Bait and Harass Targets. Where the hell is Social Services? Or, anyone in Law Enforcement, for that matter. And, this is in the Wilderness of National Forest, in Wyoming.

We stepped out of the Motorhome to go to town and do a few other things, in the car. As soon as were out; a man and, I suppose, his wife show up on 4 wheel ATVs right in front of our Motorhome. He has a little girl setting in front of him, on the same seat. She’s waving like a lunatic, trying to get Koda’s attention. It was just like the man using a little boy, in my Post “Generations”. His wife was following on another ATV. He revved his ATV, making as more noise to draw attention. Koda was off leash, he knew he was going for a ride; takes a look at them and gives them his FU face. He’s an expressive dog. I take a few pics of the spectacle (you know, because Law Enforcement Pretends Not to Believe Me) and Koda jumps in the car. I start the car and get ready to pull out of camp; here come the Hate and Bate team again. They went down to a little patch of woods behind us, turn around and pull out in front of me on the road. They are driving in the middle of the road, at a decent speed, then they slow way down. I’m unable to pass them. Here is a man and woman, with a little girl on the front of an ATV, trying to anger a man in a passenger car. What the Hell isn’t Law Enforcement getting here? I have tons of evidence proving this, but no one will give me the time of day. They will do their diligence to discredit me.

Later, when we came back; they were waiting (with a little girl), at one of the cattle grates. Just like I mentioned others doing in a previous post. Then, as I’m on the phone with the FBI; the guy that had the little girl, drives back and forth, pass our Motorhome, standing up while driving on his ATV, while Koda was looking out the window. The standing is done by many, as they drive pass our Motorhome; to look as threatening as possible to Koda, in hopes he acts out. Like the many acts they preform to bait and try and get me to act out.

 

While we were in town, we stopped at Walmart. As I predicted; the harassment started before we even got out of the car. A young 20 something, backs his car the wrong way, down a row of parking spots, so he could back up to my door, as I get out, and fill the air with car exhaust. I’ve recorded this skit (act) over and over again, in Walmart parking lots. Cars, big trucks, diesel trucks; waiting for me to get out, or put items in my trunk, backing right up to me, then accelerating.

Once in the store, we get the same mobbing and bating as the last time. This time, Walmart employees kept their distance. Someone must have read one of my post. Anyway, perps set up in aisle after aisle. They were completely blocking items I purchase frequently. I would hear a fake cough from the next aisle over, then we get the creepy woman come around the corner, and stair into Koda’ eyes skit. Young teenagers swinging objects as we passed. As we headed to produce, I could see the perps setting up. The carrot section completely blocked. Koda love carrots and I give them as treats and for training. He actually likes many raw vegetables and fruits. So, we finally get some carrots and there are people set up by the apples, avocados, tomatoes and other bins. They weren’t selecting anything, just standing around blocking and waiting. I was able to grab a bell pepper, I looked at Koda and said “We need a sweet onion”. You should have seen the perps rush to the sweet onion bin! I was completely blocked.

Never feed your dog onions or anything with onions. They are poisonous to dogs, and the onion was for me.

A woman that had followed us through the store on previous occasions, approached and distracted me by asking questions about Koda. As she did; an older teen comes running at Koda, waving both arms in the air, the collar of his t-shirt pulled up between his teeth, yelling. Koda, at my side, barked loudly twice. That’s his danger alert, as he stood still at my side. His Medical Alert is; nudging me in my thigh. If I don’t respond to that; it’s sets and barks loudly twice. This dog saved my life in Arizona. I’ve requested he goes to another veteran if I pass. And, adult Americans are teaching children to harass him. The woman acted like she expected it and didn’t say a word. We finished getting our produce, while still being blocked and mobbed. We headed to checkout, to receive the same mobbing and baiting. As we leave the store, we are blocked again at the doors. As I try to pull out of my parking spot; I’m blocked by a big black truck. We pulled to the exit and there are six cars rushing ahead of us for a Stall Campaign. This all can be easily seen on Walmart's Cameras.

That evening after calling the FBI; we get ½ wits zooming by when we step out, or when I fire up a laptop, the Make-a Meal Idiots at dinner, and noise campaign as I get ready for bed. Koda and I are under 24/7, 365 surveillance; as are many Targeted Individuals in the United States of America. “Why is telling the Truth in America so Hard?”

 

So, the title fits the content; “Facing the Storm Alone” If a family member comes to you and tells you they are being Targeted. Mobbed, Harassed by Total Strangers, they are Receiving Electronic Attacks; please believe them. Many don’t have the training I’ve had, and will not survive.

 

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Lo stalking.

Con questo post, comincio una serie di condivisioni di alcuni atteggiamenti di cui ognuno di noi può essere vittima.

 

Da www.stalking.it [ www.stalking.it/?p=1578#more-1578 ]

 

Alla scoperta degli aspetti più subdoli, pericolosi e meno noti dello stalking.A descriverli lo psicologo psicoterapeuta Massimo Lattanzi, fondatore dell’Osservatorio Nazionale Stalking.

 

[...] lo stalking “è un catalogo di condotte peculiari che si manifesta con atti persecutori e molesti. È una forma di violenza essenzialmente psicologica, ma che raramente diventa fisica e sessuale”. Questa è la prima precisazione fornita dallo psicologo psicoterapeuta Massimo Lattanzi, fondatore e coordinatore dell’Osservatorio Nazionale Stalking. Questo significa che non si è vittime dello stalking solo in presenza di intimidazioni reali. Ma già quando esiste un condizionamento mentale.

 

“Gli esordi celati – spiega Lattanzi – sono nell’80% dei casi quelli che gli statunitensi hanno definito gaslighting (condizionamento mentale): un insieme di comportamenti subdoli attuati dal manipolatore (gaslighter) nei confronti di una persona, per confonderla, farle perdere la fiducia in sé stessa, farla sentire sbagliata, renderla dipendente. Fino a farla dubitare della propria sanità mentale”.

 

E la vittima cosa prova? Perché non si ribella?

Si scatena una vera e propria apocalisse emotiva: sopraggiunge il terrore che il gaslighter possa fare del male a lei e ai suoi familiari, qualora tentasse di ribellarsi. E infatti lo stalking si manifesta quando la persona tenta di fuggire da questo condizionamento: la sua fuga viene vissuta come un abbandono, una separazione non decisa, quindi non gradita.

 

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Cosa può provocare questi comportamenti ossessivi nei confronti di un’altra persona?

Nella maggioranza dei casi lo stalking è prodotto da un abbandono, una separazione o un rifiuto reale o immaginario, non gradito. Il presunto stalker vive il cosiddetto C.A.I., colpo di abbandono improvviso, uno tsunami psico-comportamentale. Da quel momento, non potrà più fare a meno (craving) di realizzare comportamenti persecutori.

 

Lo stalker è sempre un soggetto psichiatrico?

Solo il 10% soffre di una psicopatologia grave, con perdita del contatto con la realtà. Mentre circa l’80% sono ben inseriti nella società. Dunque chiunque può diventare uno stalker.

 

Quando allarmarsi?

Se l’altra persona non rispetta i nostri divieti e impone la sua presenza a noi e ai nostri conoscenti o continua a visitare i luoghi da noi frequentati. L’allarme deve suonare più forte quando questi comportamenti cagionano ansia e paura. La raccomandazione è di evitare di isolarsi: questo è proprio quello che spera lo stalker. Dobbiamo confidare sempre a qualcuno quello che sta succedendo, magari anche ai vicini di casa, per “assicurarci” dei testimoni a favore. I presunti stalker, forti del loro “magnetismo”, stravolgono spesso la realtà a loro favore.

 

Come ci si può difendere?

Rivolgendosi a Centri come l’O. N. S: i volontari esperti offrono dal 2002 consulenza psicologica e legale a vittime e familiari. Ad oggi il Network Italiano sullo Stalking conta sette sedi. Collaboriamo con il Sindacato di Polizia Coisp e dal 2007 lavoriamo con successo anche anche con i presunti stalker, e presunti autori senza distinzione di sesso. Non bisogna sottovalutare nessun segnale, l’estrema ambivalenza del presunto stalker, in breve tempo ci può confondere, ingabbiarci per sempre, senza dimenticare che lo stalking può sfociare in un omicidio.

Il fenomeno del cyberstalking: quali sono i suoi numeri? Quali le sue caratteristiche?

Non esiste un “censimento” affidabile degli atti di cyberstalking in Italia, ma sta assumendo un’importanza sempre più significativa nei casi di reato di stalking. Le relazioni che si instaurano via chat o sui social network sono la massima espressione di “virtualità”: si può essere chiunque pur di “sembrare” la persona “perfetta” e sentirsi “amato”. Questo è il territorio prediletto dallo stalker: può osservare, spiare, contattare la vittima. Ma, se rifiutato, il piano virtuale viene abbandonato e la persecuzione diventa reale.

  

Italian Network on Stalking

Per informazioni, consulenze, organizzazione incontri, corsi di formazione, apertura nuove sedi: www.stalking.it, info@stalking.it, skype:stalking.it. Numero Nazionale Stalking 06442476573

 

Silvia Santoni Copyright © CULTUR-E

(31 luglio 2010)

As you can tell if you are look at a picture that is not a picture, it has been removed per request of the person in the picture. See her post below:

 

Hi Heath_bar,

 

I am the girl dressed up as Aeon Flux whose picture you have used without permission. I am asking that you PLEASE remove my image here. I was shocked to find that when a Google Image search is conducted using "Aeon Flux" and "comic con" or "costume", the results link to a photo of me. For the rest of my life, I will remember my attendance and dress at this convention as one of my most shameful moments.

 

I am a young professional, not a model or entertainer of any sort. I am certainly not someone who seeks profit through using my image and believe it or not, it was not my plan to seek major media exposure when I wore this outfit to Comic Con. I had no idea what I was getting myself into at the time. Following the convention, a popular cosplay website asked to use my image, and I respectfully declined. I did not want my image splayed across any website, no matter what type of exposure.

 

I hope that you appreciate my late yet legitimate wariness. I have a mild online presence and have already been subjected to cyberstalking, having my image posted on pornographic websites, and other questionable net practices as a result of my naive costuming. I trust that you will do the right thing, and respect my wishes by removing my image.

 

Thank you very much for your time and understanding, from one Aeon Flux fan to another.

   

UPDATE: It has been over 5 years from the time of the picture was taken and the subject came up at work, so I added a small version of the picture to the gray texted picture.

Walking a thin line on freedom of expression..

Cyber-Extortion Results in Prison Sentence

 

R.H. Alexander figured that he would never be caught. He didn't use his real name, or his real email address. He logged in at computers at public libraries to send hateful emails to his targets in which he threatened to destroy their reputations with online postings, he even taunted his victims that the police would never be able to find him.

 

But he didn't count on the international authorities and their increasing attention to real terrorism and to the people who use the anonymity of the Internet to stalk, harass, and threaten others. Alexander was arrested at a computer terminal in a public library. When presented with the evidence collected, he pleaded guilty to six counts of extortion and admitted that his dastard online aliases were spawned to upset, to create fear, frustration and ultimately to ruin reputations online.

 

Although lawsuits are more common in these circumstances, the 21-month sentence handed down was more than double the 10 months recommended by the sentencing guidelines and has since set a new cybercrime standard.

 

Tomitheos Journalism

 

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Name: Karli Dinkler

 

Age: 23

 

Hometown: Dexter, New Mexico

 

Likes: Conspiracy Theorizing, Cyberstalking, Putting Tape Over My Laptop's Webcam, Star Gazing, Rock Collecting, Tinfoil Hats, Watching Ancient Aliens, The X-files, Watching Other People Through Binoculars

 

Dislikes: The Government, False Alien Abduction Claims, Being Body Snatched and Then Replaced With a Cloned Version of Yourself, Not Using Multiple VPNs to Hide Your IP Address, Arnold from Best Buy (You know what you did.), Being Watched Through Binoculars

 

Why I should be picked for Star School: Listen, I'm here to make it big so I can get my invitation into the Illuminati. I'm confident at least 4 of this show's staff is involved in an alien conspiracy and I wanna get to the bottom of that. And I wanna meet those aliens. Also I'm really good at finding out the truth, so if you're ready to confront that, I'm your gal! I know I am ready, so Let me in!! If I win, maybe we could spin this off into a History Channel show? Who knows!

 

Face claim: Melissa Benoist

 

photo courtesy

www.valleyfaces.com/wp-content/images/MarkZuckerberg.jpg

 

2009

ushers

the reinvention

of Mark Zuckerberg

Ritchie Rich

a more powerful sales pitch

a new dream stitch

without any hitch

his detractors

nervously bitch

a Midas touch

some Itch

 

I was reading about Mark Zuckerberg on the latest issue of GQ ..

 

About Mark Zuckerberg Wikipedia

 

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Zuckerberg

 

Mark Zuckerberg, (born May 14, 1984) is an American computer programmer and entrepreneur. As a Harvard student, he created the online social website Facebook, a site popular among American college students, with fellow computer science major students and his roommates Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes. He serves as Facebook's CEO. He has been the subject of controversy for the origins of his business[2] and his wealth[3].

 

Time Magazine added Zuckerberg as one of The World's Most Influentional People of 2008. Zuckerberg fell under the Scientists & Thinkers category for his web phenomenon, Facebook, and ranked 52 out of 101 people. The list consisted of international revolutionaries that honors people from Barack Obama and Dalai Lama to Michael Phelps and Brangelina..

  

Mark Zuckerberg was born in Boca Raton, Florida, and raised in West Palm Beach, Florida, by his parents, Edward and Karen Zuckerberg, who are both doctors. Early on, Zuckerberg enjoyed making computer programs, especially communication tools and games. He started programming when he was in middle school. While he was attending Phillips Exeter Academy in high school, he built a program to help the workers in his dad's office communicate and a version of the game Risk. He also built a music player named Synapse that used artificial intelligence to learn the user's listening habits. Microsoft and AOL tried to purchase Synapse and recruit Zuckerberg, but instead he decided to attend Harvard University.[4]

 

[edit] College years

 

Zuckerberg attended Harvard University and was enrolled in the class of 2006. At Harvard, Zuckerberg continued creating his projects. In 2003, he created Coursematch, a site that allowed students to see other students enrolled in the same classes.

 

Later in 2003, he created facemash.com, a Harvard-specific image rating site similar to Hot or Not. Zuckerberg developed this as a prank to protest that there was no directory of students' images at Harvard. It was only online for four hours before university officials took it down. The computer services department brought Zuckerberg before the Harvard University Administrative Board, charging him with violating rules on computer security and intellectual property. [3].

 

In 2004, he created a tool to help students in one of his classes, The Rome of Augustus, study for their final exam. The tool allowed students to post relevant information they had to learn about historic events and it quickly became the study guide people used instead of their text books. The marks on the 2004 final exam in that class were higher than any other year.

 

At Harvard, Zuckerberg was also a member of Alpha Epsilon Pi, a Jewish college fraternity.

 

[edit] Facebook

Zuckerberg (right) with Robert Scoble in 2008

 

Main article: Facebook

 

[edit] Founding

 

Mark Zuckerberg launched Facebook from his Harvard dorm room on February 4, 2004. It quickly became a success at Harvard and more than two-thirds of the school's students signed up in the first two weeks. Zuckerberg then decided to spread Facebook to other schools and enlisted the help of roommate Dustin Moskovitz. They first spread it to Northwestern, UCLA, Harvard and Yale and then to other Ivy League colleges and schools in the Boston area, including Boston University and Boston College. By the beginning of the summer, Zuckerberg and Moskovitz had released Facebook at almost forty-five schools and hundreds of thousands of people were using it.

 

[edit] Moving to California

 

Zuckerberg moved to Palo Alto, California, with Moskovitz and some friends during the summer of 2004. According to Zuckerberg, the group planned to return to Harvard in the fall but eventually decided to remain in California. To date, he has not returned as a student to the college. They leased a small house which served as their first office. Over the summer, Zuckerberg met Peter Thiel who invested in the company. They got their first office on University Avenue in downtown Palo Alto a few months later. Today, the company has seven buildings and several hundred people in downtown Palo Alto, forming what Zuckerberg calls an "urban campus".

 

[edit] News Feed

 

On September 5, 2006, Facebook launched News Feed, a product to show what your friends were doing on the site. Zuckerberg was criticized as some saw News Feed as unnecessary and a tool for cyberstalking. The first piece of news ever on a Facebook News Feed appeared in Zuckerberg's own facebook profile. It read, "Kerry sucks at tennis."

 

[edit] Facebook Platform

 

On May 24, 2007, Zuckerberg announced a Facebook Platform, a development platform for programmers to create social applications within Facebook. This announcement sparked a lot of interest in the developer community. Within weeks, many applications had been built and some already had millions of users. Today, there are more than 400,000 developers around the world building applications for Facebook Platform.

 

On July 23, 2008, Zuckerberg announced Facebook Connect, a version of Facebook Platform for building social applications on other websites.

 

[edit] Facebook Beacon

 

On November 6, 2007, Zuckerberg announced a new social advertising system at an event in Los Angeles. A part of the new program, called Beacon, enabled people to share information with their Facebook friends based on their browsing activities on other sites. An eBay seller, for instance, letting friends know automatically what they have for sale via the Facebook news feed as they list items.

 

The program came under heavy privacy concerns from both privacy groups and individual users. Zuckerberg and Facebook failed to respond to the concerns quickly, and on December 5, 2007, Zuckerberg ultimately wrote a blog post on Facebook[5] taking responsibility for issues with Beacon and offering an easier way for users to opt out of the service.

 

[edit] ConnectU Controversy

 

Zuckerberg's Harvard classmates, Divya Narendra, Cameron Winklevoss, and Tyler Winklevoss, claim he stole their idea for their own site, ConnectU. A lawsuit was filed in 2004 and has been dismissed without prejudice on March 28, 2007, but was never ruled on. It was refiled soon thereafter in U.S. District Court in Boston, and a preliminary hearing was scheduled for July 25, 2007.[6] At the hearing the judge told ConnectU parts of their complaint were not sufficiently pled and gave them the ability to refile an amended complaint. On June 25, 2008, the case was settled and Facebook agreed to pay an undisclosed amount of cash and stock.[7]

 

As part of the lawsuit, in November 2007, confidential court documents were posted on the website of Harvard alumni magazine 02138. They included Zuckerberg's social security number, his parents' home address and his girlfriend's address. Facebook filed to get the documents taken down, but the judge ruled in favor of 02138.[8]

 

[edit] Microsoft investment in Facebook

 

On October 24, 2007, Facebook Inc. sold a 1.6% stake to Microsoft Corp. for $240 million, spurning a competing offer from online search leader Google Inc.[9]

 

[edit] References

 

1. ^ [1]

2. ^ news.com article about 02138

3. ^ [2]

4. ^ "Hacker. Dropout. CEO.".

5. ^ The Facebook Blog | Facebook

6. ^ PC World - Facebook Tries to Fend Off Copyright-Infringement Claim

7. ^ U.S. judge backs Facebook deal in suit over origins | Technology | Reuters

8. ^ news.com article about 02138

9. ^ Microsoft invests $240 million in Facebook - U.S. business - MSNBC.com

      

Kalliope is currently a victim of Cyberstalking and art theft. Her online portfolios have been temporarily disabled until legal proceedings are finalized and the criminals responsible for these acts are brought to justice.

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

  

A blog (a blend of the term web log)[1] is a type of website or part of a website. Blogs are usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Entries are commonly displayed in reverse-chronological order. Blog can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a blog.

 

Most blogs are interactive, allowing visitors to leave comments and even message each other via widgets on the blogs and it is this interactivity that distinguishes them from other static websites.[2]

 

Many blogs provide commentary or news on a particular subject; others function as more personal online diaries. A typical blog combines text, images, and links to other blogs, Web pages, and other media related to its topic. The ability of readers to leave comments in an interactive format is an important part of many blogs. Most blogs are primarily textual, although some focus on art (art blog), photographs (photoblog), videos (video blogging), music (MP3 blog), and audio (podcasting). Microblogging is another type of blogging, featuring very short posts.

 

As of 16 February 2011, there were over 156 million public blogs in existence.[3]

  

The term "weblog" was coined by Jorn Barger[4] on 17 December 1997. The short form, "blog," was coined by Peter Merholz, who jokingly broke the word weblog into the phrase we blog in the sidebar of his blog Peterme.com in April or May 1999.[5][6][7] Shortly thereafter, Evan Williams at Pyra Labs used "blog" as both a noun and verb ("to blog," meaning "to edit one's weblog or to post to one's weblog") and devised the term "blogger" in connection with Pyra Labs' Blogger product, leading to the popularization of the terms.[8]

 

Origins

 

Before blogging became popular, digital communities took many forms, including Usenet, commercial online services such as GEnie, BiX and the early CompuServe, e-mail lists[9] and Bulletin Board Systems (BBS). In the 1990s, Internet forum software, created running conversations with "threads." Threads are topical connections between messages on a virtual "corkboard."

 

The modern blog evolved from the online diary, where people would keep a running account of their personal lives. Most such writers called themselves diarists, journalists, or journalers. Justin Hall, who began personal blogging in 1994 while a student at Swarthmore College, is generally recognized as one of the earliest bloggers,[10] as is Jerry Pournelle.[11] Dave Winer's Scripting News is also credited with being one of the oldest and longest running weblogs.[12][13] Another early blog was Wearable Wireless Webcam, an online shared diary of a person's personal life combining text, video, and pictures transmitted live from a wearable computer and EyeTap device to a web site in 1994. This practice of semi-automated blogging with live video together with text was referred to as sousveillance, and such journals were also used as evidence in legal matters.

 

Early blogs were simply manually updated components of common Web sites. However, the evolution of tools to facilitate the production and maintenance of Web articles posted in reverse chronological order made the publishing process feasible to a much larger, less technical, population. Ultimately, this resulted in the distinct class of online publishing that produces blogs we recognize today. For instance, the use of some sort of browser-based software is now a typical aspect of "blogging". Blogs can be hosted by dedicated blog hosting services, or they can be run using blog software, or on regular web hosting services.

 

Some early bloggers, such as The Misanthropic Bitch, who began in 1997, actually referred to their online presence as a zine, before the term blog entered common usage.

Rise in popularity

 

After a slow start, blogging rapidly gained in popularity. Blog usage spread during 1999 and the years following, being further popularized by the near-simultaneous arrival of the first hosted blog tools:

 

Bruce Ableson launched Open Diary in October 1998, which soon grew to thousands of online diaries. Open Diary innovated the reader comment, becoming the first blog community where readers could add comments to other writers' blog entries.

Brad Fitzpatrick started LiveJournal in March 1999.

Andrew Smales created Pitas.com in July 1999 as an easier alternative to maintaining a "news page" on a Web site, followed by Diaryland in September 1999, focusing more on a personal diary community.[14]

Evan Williams and Meg Hourihan (Pyra Labs) launched blogger.com in August 1999 (purchased by Google in February 2003)

 

Since 2002, blogs have gained increasing notice and coverage for their role in breaking, shaping, and spinning news stories. The Iraq war saw bloggers taking measured and passionate points[15] of view that go beyond the traditional left-right divide of the political spectrum.

  

An early milestone in the rise in importance of blogs came in 2002, when many bloggers focused on comments by U.S. Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott.[16] Senator Lott, at a party honoring U.S. Senator Strom Thurmond, praised Senator Thurmond by suggesting that the United States would have been better off had Thurmond been elected president. Lott's critics saw these comments as a tacit approval of racial segregation, a policy advocated by Thurmond's 1948 presidential campaign. This view was reinforced by documents and recorded interviews dug up by bloggers. (See Josh Marshall's Talking Points Memo.) Though Lott's comments were made at a public event attended by the media, no major media organizations reported on his controversial comments until after blogs broke the story. Blogging helped to create a political crisis that forced Lott to step down as majority leader.

 

Similarly, blogs were among the driving forces behind the "Rathergate" scandal. To wit: (television journalist) Dan Rather presented documents (on the CBS show 60 Minutes) that conflicted with accepted accounts of President Bush's military service record. Bloggers declared the documents to be forgeries and presented evidence and arguments in support of that view. Consequently, CBS apologized for what it said were inadequate reporting techniques (see Little Green Footballs). Many bloggers view this scandal as the advent of blogs' acceptance by the mass media, both as a news source and opinion and as means of applying political pressure.

 

The impact of these stories gave greater credibility to blogs as a medium of news dissemination. Though often seen as partisan gossips,[citation needed] bloggers sometimes lead the way in bringing key information to public light, with mainstream media having to follow their lead. More often, however, news blogs tend to react to material already published by the mainstream media. Meanwhile, an increasing number of experts blogged, making blogs a source of in-depth analysis. (See Daniel Drezner, J. Bradford DeLong or Brad Setser.)

Mainstream popularity

 

By 2004, the role of blogs became increasingly mainstream, as political consultants, news services, and candidates began using them as tools for outreach and opinion forming. Blogging was established by politicians and political candidates to express opinions on war and other issues and cemented blogs' role as a news source. (See Howard Dean and Wesley Clark.) Even politicians not actively campaigning, such as the UK's Labour Party's MP Tom Watson, began to blog to bond with constituents.

 

In January 2005, Fortune magazine listed eight bloggers that business people "could not ignore": Peter Rojas, Xeni Jardin, Ben Trott, Mena Trott, Jonathan Schwartz, Jason Goldman, Robert Scoble, and Jason Calacanis.[17]

 

Israel's was among the first national governments to set up an official blog.[18] Under David Saranga, the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs became active in adopting Web 2.0 initiatives, including an official video blog[18] and a political blog.[19] The Foreign Ministry also held a microblogging press conference via Twitter about its war with Hamas, with Saranga answering questions from the public in common text-messaging abbreviations during a live worldwide press conference.[20] The questions and answers were later posted on IsraelPolitik, the country's official political blog.[21]

 

The impact of blogging upon the mainstream media has also been acknowledged by governments. In 2009, the presence of the American journalism industry had declined to the point that several newspaper corporations were filing for bankruptcy, resulting in less direct competition between newspapers within the same circulation area. Discussion emerged as to whether the newspaper industry would benefit from a stimulus package by the federal government. President Barack Obama acknowledged the emerging influence of blogging upon society by saying "if the direction of the news is all blogosphere, all opinions, with no serious fact-checking, no serious attempts to put stories in context, that what you will end up getting is people shouting at each other across the void but not a lot of mutual understanding”.[22]

  

There are many different types of blogs, differing not only in the type of content, but also in the way that content is delivered or written.

 

Personal blogs

The personal blog, an ongoing diary or commentary by an individual, is the traditional, most common blog. Personal bloggers usually take pride in their blog posts, even if their blog is never read. Blogs often become more than a way to just communicate; they become a way to reflect on life, or works of art. Blogging can have a sentimental quality. Few personal blogs rise to fame and the mainstream, but some personal blogs quickly garner an extensive following. One type of personal blog, referred to as a microblog, is extremely detailed and seeks to capture a moment in time. Some sites, such as Twitter, allow bloggers to share thoughts and feelings instantaneously with friends and family, and are much faster than emailing or writing.

 

Corporate and organizational blogs

A blog can be private, as in most cases, or it can be for business purposes. Blogs used internally to enhance the communication and culture in a corporation or externally for marketing, branding or public relations purposes are called corporate blogs. Similar blogs for clubs and societies are called club blogs, group blogs, or by similar names; typical use is to inform members and other interested parties of club and member activities.

 

By genre

Some blogs focus on a particular subject, such as political blogs, travel blogs (also known as travelogs), house blogs,[23][24] fashion blogs, project blogs, education blogs, niche blogs, classical music blogs, quizzing blogs and legal blogs (often referred to as a blawgs) or dreamlogs. Two common types of genre blogs are art blogs and music blogs. A blog featuring discussions especially about home and family is not uncommonly called a mom blog.[25][26][27][28][29] While not a legitimate type of blog, one used for the sole purpose of spamming is known as a Splog.

 

By media type

A blog comprising videos is called a vlog, one comprising links is called a linklog, a site containing a portfolio of sketches is called a sketchblog or one comprising photos is called a photoblog.[30] Blogs with shorter posts and mixed media types are called tumblelogs. Blogs that are written on typewriters and then scanned are called typecast or typecast blogs; see typecasting (blogging).

 

A rare type of blog hosted on the Gopher Protocol is known as a Phlog.

 

By device

Blogs can also be defined by which type of device is used to compose it. A blog written by a mobile device like a mobile phone or PDA could be called a moblog.[31] One early blog was Wearable Wireless Webcam, an online shared diary of a person's personal life combining text, video, and pictures transmitted live from a wearable computer and EyeTap device to a web site. This practice of semi-automated blogging with live video together with text was referred to as sousveillance. Such journals have been used as evidence in legal matters.[citation needed]

 

Community and cataloging

 

The Blogosphere

The collective community of all blogs is known as the blogosphere. Since all blogs are on the internet by definition, they may be seen as interconnected and socially networked, through blogrolls, comments, linkbacks (refbacks, trackbacks or pingbacks) and backlinks. Discussions "in the blogosphere" are occasionally used by the media as a gauge of public opinion on various issues. Because new, untapped communities of bloggers can emerge in the space of a few years, Internet marketers pay close attention to "trends in the blogosphere".[32]

 

BlogDay

Blogday.org[33] was created with the belief that bloggers should have one day dedicated to getting to know other bloggers from other countries and areas of interest. The designated date is August 31, because when written 3108, it resembles the word "Blog". On that day, bloggers recommend five new blogs to their visitors, so that readers discover new, previously unknown blogs.

 

Blog search engines

Several blog search engines are used to search blog contents, such as Bloglines, BlogScope, and Technorati. Technorati, which is among the most popular blog search engines, provides current information on both popular searches and tags used to categorize blog postings.[34] The research community is working on going beyond simple keyword search, by inventing new ways to navigate through huge amounts of information present in the blogosphere, as demonstrated by projects like BlogScope.[citation needed]

 

Blogging communities and directories

Several online communities exist that connect people to blogs and bloggers to other bloggers, including BlogCatalog and MyBlogLog.[35] Interest-specific blogging platforms are also available. For instance, Blogster has a sizable community of political bloggers among its members. Global Voices aggregates international bloggers, "with emphasis on voices that are not ordinarily heard in international mainstream media."[36]

 

Blogging and advertising

It is common for blogs to feature advertisements either to financially benefit the blogger or to promote the blogger's favorite causes. The popularity of blogs has also given rise to "fake blogs" in which a company will create a fictional blog as a marketing tool to promote a product.[37]

 

Popularity

 

Researchers have analyzed the dynamics of how blogs become popular. There are essentially two measures of this: popularity through citations, as well as popularity through affiliation (i.e. blogroll). The basic conclusion from studies of the structure of blogs is that while it takes time for a blog to become popular through blogrolls, permalinks can boost popularity more quickly, and are perhaps more indicative of popularity and authority than blogrolls, since they denote that people are actually reading the blog's content and deem it valuable or noteworthy in specific cases.[38]

 

The blogdex project was launched by researchers in the MIT Media Lab to crawl the Web and gather data from thousands of blogs in order to investigate their social properties. It gathered this information for over 4 years, and autonomously tracked the most contagious information spreading in the blog community, ranking it by recency and popularity. It can therefore be considered the first instantiation of a memetracker. The project is no longer active, but a similar function is now served by tailrank.com.

 

Blogs are given rankings by Technorati based on the number of incoming links and Alexa Internet based on the Web hits of Alexa Toolbar users. In August 2006, Technorati found that the most linked-to blog on the internet was that of Chinese actress Xu Jinglei.[39] Chinese media Xinhua reported that this blog received more than 50 million page views, claiming it to be the most popular blog in the world.[40] Technorati rated Boing Boing to be the most-read group-written blog.[39]

  

Many bloggers, particularly those engaged in participatory journalism, differentiate themselves from the mainstream media, while others are members of that media working through a different channel. Some institutions see blogging as a means of "getting around the filter" and pushing messages directly to the public. Some critics worry that bloggers respect neither copyright nor the role of the mass media in presenting society with credible news. Bloggers and other contributors to user-generated content are behind Time magazine naming their 2006 person of the year as "You".

 

Many mainstream journalists, meanwhile, write their own blogs — well over 300, according to CyberJournalist.net's J-blog list.[citation needed] The first known use of a blog on a news site was in August 1998, when Jonathan Dube of The Charlotte Observer published one chronicling Hurricane Bonnie.[41]

 

Some bloggers have moved over to other media. The following bloggers (and others) have appeared on radio and television: Duncan Black (known widely by his pseudonym, Atrios), Glenn Reynolds (Instapundit), Markos Moulitsas Zúniga (Daily Kos), Alex Steffen (Worldchanging), Ana Marie Cox (Wonkette), Nate Silver (FiveThirtyEight.com), and Ezra Klein (Ezra Klein blog in The American Prospect, now in the Washington Post). In counterpoint, Hugh Hewitt exemplifies a mass-media personality who has moved in the other direction, adding to his reach in "old media" by being an influential blogger. Equally many established authors, for example Mitzi Szereto have started using Blogs to not only update fans on their current works but also to expand into new areas of writing.

 

Blogs have also had an influence on minority languages, bringing together scattered speakers and learners; this is particularly so with blogs in Gaelic languages. Minority language publishing (which may lack economic feasibility) can find its audience through inexpensive blogging.

 

There are many examples of bloggers who have published books based on their blogs, e.g., Salam Pax, Ellen Simonetti, Jessica Cutler, ScrappleFace. Blog-based books have been given the name blook. A prize for the best blog-based book was initiated in 2005,[42] the Lulu Blooker Prize.[43] However, success has been elusive offline, with many of these books not selling as well as their blogs. Only blogger Tucker Max made the New York Times Bestseller List.[44] The book based on Julie Powell's blog "The Julie/Julia Project" was made into the film Julie & Julia, apparently the first to do so.

Consumer-generated advertising in blogs

 

Consumer-generated advertising is a relatively new and controversial development and it has created a new model of marketing communication from businesses to consumers. Among the various forms of advertising on blog, the most controversial are the sponsored posts.[45] These are blog entries or posts and may be in the form of feedbacks, reviews, opinion, videos, etc. and usually contain a link back to the desired site using a keyword/s.

 

Blogs have led to some disintermediation and a breakdown of the traditional advertising model where companies can skip over the advertising agencies (previously the only interface with the customer) and contact the customers directly themselves. On the other hand, new companies specialised in blog advertising have been established, to take advantage of this new development as well.

 

However, there are many people who look negatively on this new development. Some believe that any form of commercial activity on blogs will destroy the blogosphere’s credibility.[46]

  

Blogging can result in a range of legal liabilities and other unforeseen consequences.

  

Several cases have been brought before the national courts against bloggers concerning issues of defamation or liability. U.S. payouts related to blogging totaled $17.4 million by 2009; in some cases these have been covered by umbrella insurance.[47] The courts have returned with mixed verdicts. Internet Service Providers (ISPs), in general, are immune from liability for information that originates with third parties (U.S. Communications Decency Act and the EU Directive 2000/31/EC).

 

In Doe v. Cahill, the Delaware Supreme Court held that stringent standards had to be met to unmask the anonymous posts of bloggers and also took the unusual step of dismissing the libel case itself (as unfounded under American libel law) rather than referring it back to the trial court for reconsideration.[48] In a bizarre twist, the Cahills were able to obtain the identity of John Doe, who turned out to be the person they suspected: the town's mayor, Councilman Cahill's political rival. The Cahills amended their original complaint, and the mayor settled the case rather than going to trial.

 

In January 2007, two prominent Malaysian political bloggers, Jeff Ooi and Ahiruddin Attan, were sued by pro-government newspaper, The New Straits Times Press (Malaysia) Berhad, Kalimullah bin Masheerul Hassan, Hishamuddin bin Aun and Brenden John a/l John Pereira over an alleged defamation. The plaintiff was supported by the Malaysian government.[49] Following the suit, the Malaysian government proposed to "register" all bloggers in Malaysia in order to better control parties against their interest.[50] This is the first such legal case against bloggers in the country.

 

In the United States, blogger Aaron Wall was sued by Traffic Power for defamation and publication of trade secrets in 2005.[51] According to Wired Magazine, Traffic Power had been "banned from Google for allegedly rigging search engine results."[52] Wall and other "white hat" search engine optimization consultants had exposed Traffic Power in what they claim was an effort to protect the public. The case was watched by many bloggers because it addressed the murky legal question of who is liable for comments posted on blogs.[53] The case was dismissed for lack of personal jurisdiction, and Traffic Power failed to appeal within the allowed time.[54][55][56][57]

 

In 2009, a controversial and landmark decision by The Hon. Mr Justice Eady refused to grant an order to protect the anonymity of Richard Horton.[58]

 

In 2009, NDTV issued a legal notice to Indian blogger Chetan Kunte for "abusive free speech" regarding a blog post criticizing their coverage of the Mumbai attacks.[59] The blogger unconditionally withdrew his post, replacing it with legal undertaking and an admission that his post had been "defamatory and untrue" which resulted in several Indian bloggers criticizing NDTV for trying to silence critics.[60]

Employment

 

Employees who blog about elements of their place of employment can begin to affect the brand recognition of their employer. In general, attempts by employee bloggers to protect themselves by maintaining anonymity have proved ineffective.[61]

 

Delta Air Lines fired flight attendant Ellen Simonetti because she posted photographs of herself in uniform on an airplane and because of comments posted on her blog "Queen of Sky: Diary of a Flight Attendant" which the employer deemed inappropriate.[62][63] This case highlighted the issue of personal blogging and freedom of expression versus employer rights and responsibilities, and so it received wide media attention. Simonetti took legal action against the airline for "wrongful termination, defamation of character and lost future wages".[64] The suit was postponed while Delta was in bankruptcy proceedings (court docket).[65]

 

In early 2006, Erik Ringmar, a tenured senior lecturer at the London School of Economics, was ordered by the convenor of his department to "take down and destroy" his blog in which he discussed the quality of education at the school.[66]

 

Mark Cuban, owner of the Dallas Mavericks, was fined during the 2006 NBA playoffs for criticizing NBA officials on the court and in his blog.[67]

 

Mark Jen was terminated in 2005 after 10 days of employment as an Assistant Product Manager at Google for discussing corporate secrets on his personal blog, then called 99zeros and hosted on the Google-owned Blogger service.[68] He blogged about unreleased products and company finances a week before the company's earnings announcement. He was fired two days after he complied with his employer's request to remove the sensitive material from his blog.[69]

 

In India, blogger Gaurav Sabnis resigned from IBM after his posts exposing the false claims of a management school, IIPM, led to management of IIPM threatening to burn their IBM laptops as a sign of protest against him.[70]

 

Jessica Cutler, aka "The Washingtonienne",[71] blogged about her sex life while employed as a congressional assistant. After the blog was discovered and she was fired,[72] she wrote a novel based on her experiences and blog: The Washingtonienne: A Novel. Cutler is presently being sued by one of her former lovers in a case that could establish the extent to which bloggers are obligated to protect the privacy of their real life associates.[73]

 

Catherine Sanderson, a.k.a. Petite Anglaise, lost her job in Paris at a British accountancy firm because of blogging.[74] Although given in the blog in a fairly anonymous manner, some of the descriptions of the firm and some of its people were less than flattering. Sanderson later won a compensation claim case against the British firm, however.[75]

 

On the other hand, Penelope Trunk wrote an upbeat article in the Boston Globe back in 2006, entitled "Blogs 'essential' to a good career".[76] She was one of the first journalists to point out that a large portion of bloggers are professionals and that a well-written blog can help attract employers.

Political dangers

 

Blogging can sometimes have unforeseen consequences in politically sensitive areas. Blogs are much harder to control than broadcast or even print media. As a result, totalitarian and authoritarian regimes often seek to suppress blogs and/or to punish those who maintain them.

 

In Singapore, two ethnic Chinese were imprisoned under the country’s anti-sedition law for posting anti-Muslim remarks in their blogs.[77]

 

Egyptian blogger Kareem Amer was charged with insulting the Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak and an Islamic institution through his blog. It is the first time in the history of Egypt that a blogger was prosecuted. After a brief trial session that took place in Alexandria, the blogger was found guilty and sentenced to prison terms of three years for insulting Islam and inciting sedition, and one year for insulting Mubarak.[78]

 

Egyptian blogger Abdel Monem Mahmoud was arrested in April 2007 for anti-government writings in his blog.[79] Monem is a member of the banned Muslim Brotherhood.

 

After expressing opinions in his personal blog about the state of the Sudanese armed forces, Jan Pronk, United Nations Special Representative for the Sudan, was given three days notice to leave Sudan. The Sudanese army had demanded his deportation.[80][81][82]

 

In Myanmar, Nay Phone Latt, a blogger, was sentenced to 20 years in jail for posting a cartoon critical of head of state Than Shwe.[83]

Personal safety

See also: Cyberstalking and Internet homicide

 

One consequence of blogging is the possibility of attacks or threats against the blogger, sometimes without apparent reason. Kathy Sierra, author of the innocuous blog "Creating Passionate Users",[84] was the target of such vicious threats and misogynistic insults that she canceled her keynote speech at a technology conference in San Diego, fearing for her safety.[85] While a blogger's anonymity is often tenuous, Internet trolls who would attack a blogger with threats or insults can be emboldened by anonymity. Sierra and supporters initiated an online discussion aimed at countering abusive online behavior[86] and developed a blogger's code of conduct.

Behavior

 

The Blogger's Code of Conduct is a proposal by Tim O'Reilly for bloggers to enforce civility on their blogs by being civil themselves and moderating comments on their blog. The code was proposed due to threats made to blogger Kathy Sierra.[87] The idea of the code was first reported by BBC News, who quoted O'Reilly saying, "I do think we need some code of conduct around what is acceptable behaviour, I would hope that it doesn't come through any kind of regulation it would come through self-regulation."[88]

 

O'Reilly and others came up with a list of seven proposed ideas:[89][90][91][92][93]

 

Take responsibility not just for your own words, but for the comments you allow on your blog.

Label your tolerance level for abusive comments.

Consider eliminating anonymous comments.

Ignore the trolls.

Take the conversation offline, and talk directly, or find an intermediary who can do so.

If you know someone who is behaving badly, tell them so.

Don't say anything online that you wouldn't say in person.

 

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August 5, 2011

 

RENTON, Wash. — The Renton City Prosecutor wants to send a cartoonist to jail for mocking the police department in a series of animated Internet videos.

 

The “South-Park”-style animations parody everything from officers having sex on duty to certain personnel getting promoted without necessary qualifications. While the city wants to criminalize the cartoons, First Amendment rights advocates say the move is an “extreme abuse of power.”

 

Only KIRO Team 7 Investigative Reporter Chris Halsne holds a key document that really lays bare the city’s intent. The document was quietly filed in King County Superior Court last week. It’s a search warrant accusing an anonymous cartoon creator, going by the name of Mr. Fiddlesticks, of cyberstalking (RCW 9.61.260). The Renton Police Department and the local prosecutor got a judge to sign off as a way to uncover the name of whoever is behind the parodies. Halsne talked with three nationally respected legal experts who believe the use of the cyberstalking statute is likely stomping on the constitution.There goes another “fingerprint”…

 

It’s not just that man-made emissions don’t control the climate, they don’t even control global CO2 levels.

 

Judging by the speech Murry Salby gave at the Sydney Institute, there’s a blockbuster paper coming soon.

 

Listen to the speech: “Global Emission of Carbon Dioxide: The Contribution from Natural Sources”

 

Professor Murry Salby is Chair of Climate Science at Macquarie University. He’s been a visiting professorships at Paris, Stockholm, Jerusalem, and Kyoto, and he’s spent time at the Bureau of Meterology in Australia.

 

Over the last two years he has been looking at C12 and C13 ratios and CO2 levels around the world, and has come to the conclusion that man-made emissions have only a small effect on global CO2 levels. It’s not just that man-made emissions don’t control the climate, they don’t even control global CO2 levels.

 

CO2 variations do not correlate with man-made emissions. Peaks and falls correlate with hot years (e.g. 1998) and cold years (1991-92). No graphs are available from Salby’s speech or paper yet. This graph comes from Tom Quirk’s related work (see below).

 

The higher levels of CO2 in recent decades appear to be mostly due to natural sources. He presented this research at the IUGGconference in Melbourne recently, causing great discussion and shocking a few people. Word reached the Sydney Institute, which rushed to arrange for him to speak, given the importance of this work in the current Australian political climate.

 

The ratio of C13 to C12 (two isotopes of carbon) in our atmosphere has been declining, which is usually viewed as a signature of man-made CO2 emissions. C12 makes up 99% of carbon in the atmosphere (nearly all atmospheric carbon is in the form of CO2). C13 is much rarer — about 1%. Plants don’t like the rarer C13 type as much; photosynthesis works best on the C12 -type -of-CO2 and not the C13-type when absorbing CO2 from the air.

 

Prof Salby points out that while fossil fuels are richer in C12 than the atmosphere, so too is plant life on Earth, and there isn’t a lot of difference (just 2.6%) in the ratios of C13 to C12 in plants versus fossil fuels. (Fossil fuels are, after all, made in theory from plants, so it’s not surprising that it’s hard to tell their “signatures” apart). So if the C13 to C12 ratio is falling (as more C12 rich carbon is put into the air by burning fossil fuels) then we can’t know if it’s due to man-made CO2 or natural CO2 from plants.

 

Essentially we can measure man-made emissions reasonably well, but we can’t measure the natural emissions and sequestrations of CO2 at all precisely — the error bars are huge. Humans emits 5Gt or so per annum, but the oceans emit about 90Gt and the land-plants about 60Gt, for a total of maybe 150Gt. Many scientists have assumed that the net flows of carbon to and from natural sinks and sources of CO2 cancel each other out, but there is no real data to confirm this and it’s just a convenient assumption. The problem is that even small fractional changes in natural emissions or sequestrations swamp the human emissions.

 

UPDATE Inserted: E.M.Smith covered this point well in 2009

 

…

 

“It is often asserted that we can measure the human contribution of CO2 to the air by looking at the ratio of C12 to C13. The theory is that plants absorb more C12 than C13 (by about 2%, not a big signature), so we can look at the air and know which came from plants and which came from volcanos and which came from fossil fuels, via us. Plants are ‘deficient’ in C13, and so, then, ought to be our fossil fuel derived CO2.

 

The implication is that since coal and oil were from plants, that “plant signature” means “human via fossil fuels”. But it just isn’t that simple. Take a look at the above chart. We are 5.5 and plants are putting 121.6 into the air each year (not counting ocean plants). There is a lot of carbon slopping back and forth between sinks and sources. Exactly how closely do we know the rate of soil evolution of CO2, for example?”

 

* A d v e r t i s e m e n t

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Chiefio also found some interesting quotes pointing out that corn (a C4 plant) absorbs more C13, and our mass fields of corn might just muck up the stats… (it’s a good post).

The sources of CO2 don’t seem to be industrialized areas

 

Suspiciously, when satellites record atmospheric CO2 levels around the globe they find that the sources don’t appear to be concentrated in the places we’d expect — industry or population concentrations like western Europe, the Ohio Valley, or China. Instead the sources appear to be in places like the Amazon Basin, southeast Asia, and tropical Africa — not so much the places with large human emissions of CO2!

 

But CO2 is a well mixed gas so it’s not possible to definitively sort out the sources or sinks with CO2 measurements around the globe. The differences are only of the order of 5%.

 

Instead the way to unravel the puzzle is to look at the one long recording we have (at Mauna Loa, in Hawaii, going back to 1959) and graph the changes in CO2 and in C13 from year to year. Some years from January to January there may be a rise of 0 ppmv (ie no change), some years up to 3 ppmv. If those changes were due to man-made CO2 then we should see more of those rapid increases in recent times as man-made emissions increased faster.

What Salby found though, was nothing like what was expected

 

The largest increases year-to-year occurred when the world warmed fastest due to El Nino conditions. The smallest increases correlated with volcanoes which pump dust up into the atmosphere and keep the world cooler for a while. In other words, temperature controls CO2 levels on a yearly time-scale, and according to Salby, man-made emissions have little effect.

 

The climate models assume that most of the rise in CO2 (from 280 ppmv in1780 to 392 ppmv today) was due to industrialization and fossil fuel use. But the globe has been warming during that period (in fact since the depths of the Little Ice Age around 1680), so warmer conditions could be the reason that CO2 has been rising.

 

Salby does not dispute that some of the rise in CO2 levels is due to man-made emissions, but found that temperature alone explains about 80% of the variation in CO2 levels.

 

The up and coming paper with all the graphs will be released in about six weeks. It has passed peer review, and sounds like it has been a long time coming. Salby says he sat on the results for six months wondering if there was any other interpretation he could arrive at, and then, when he invited scientists he trusted and admired to comment on the paper, they also sat on it for half a year. His speech created waves at the IUGG conference, and word is spreading.

 

A book will be released later this year: Physics of the Atmosphere and Climate.

Roy Spencer wrote along similar lines last year

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September is National #Suicide Prevention Awareness Month - #SuicidePrevention #SuicideAwareness #MentalHealth Themed PSA by Michael Nuccitelli, Psy.D. #iPredator NYC

Free Edu. #FakeNews #Disinformation Image - #TrollTriad Online Assailant & Troll #Psychology Construct by Michael Nuccitelli, Psy.D. (2014) #iPredator NYC – SSL Safe Link: www.ipredator.co/troll-triad

Friday February 2018 – Got One of My Paychecks and #Crumbs Are Beautiful! TY President #Trump – Respectfully, Dr. Nuccitelli #iPredator NYC #GodBlessAmerica

#Cyberbullying Example #Cyberstalking Image – Free Edu. #ChildSafety Graphic by Michael Nuccitelli, Psy.D. #iPredator New York, USA

#Disinformation & #OnlineDeception Themed Awareness Image – Free Edu. PSA by NYS Licensed Psychologist Michael Nuccitelli, Psy.D. #iPredator NYC #BeBest

#DigitalCitizenship #Netiquette & #Cyberpsychology Image – Free Public Domain Educational Graphic by #iPredator New York, USA

#NationalBullyingPreventionMonth #BeBest & #Cyberbullying Tactic “Slut Shaming” Image – Edu. “42 Cyberbullying Examples” Article by Michael Nuccitelli, Psy.D. #iPredator NYC – SSL Safe Link: www.ipredator.co/examples-of-cyberbullying

  

#Cyberspace and Perceptually Distorted Themed PSA by Michael Nuccitelli, Psy.D. #iPredator NYC - Educational #Cyberpsychology #Cyberbullying & #Cyberstalking Website: www.ipredator.co/

#CAIN (aka, Cyber Attack Investigation Network) is an online group of volunteers that investigates & reports #OnlineChildPredators #OnlineAssailants and predatory #InternetTrolls. We’ve been active since 2013 and once again welcoming new members to our 2 private G+ communities.

 

Interested parties must be 18+ years old, have a G+ account and be willing to dedicate a little time helping to target iPredators. Given we are regularly targeted by trolls and other online assailants, our volunteers investigate all interested members first.

 

To become a volunteer, write a comment in this post, send an email to drnucc@ipredatorinc.com or call 347-871-2416. This volunteer work can be included in resumes and on job/school applications. Letters of recommendation and volunteer verification available upon request. Respectfully, Dr. Nuccitelli #iPredator NYC - #InternetSafety #CyberSecurity #IoT #CyberPsychology

 

Edu. #BeBest #Cyberbullying #Parenting & #ChildSafety Awareness Image – Free PSA Created by Michael Nuccitelli, Psy.D. #iPredator NYC

  

#SocialMediaMonster #OnlinePsychopaths PSA by Michael Nuccitelli, Psy.D. #iPredator NYC – Edu. Example of a #PredatoryTroll Post

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