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Climate Change a “Non-Problem”? Many Scientists Read an Ominous Future in Signs Like Arctic Melt and Rising Global Temperatures, but Norwegian-Born Dr (Periodicals postage paid in Seattle, WA) TIME-DATED MATERIAL — DO NOT DELAY Sports Arts Best ever Norwegian dance « Velg bare én mester— Birkebeinerrittet? naturen. » in New York Read more on page 5 – Rembrandt Read more on page 15 Norwegian American Weekly Vol. 126 No. 32 September 11, 2015 Established May 17, 1889 • Formerly Western Viking and Nordisk Tidende $2.00 per copy Climate change a “non-problem”? Many scientists read an ominous future in signs like Arctic melt and rising global temperatures, but Norwegian-born Dr. Ivar Giaever isn’t worried What’s inside? THOR A. LARSEN with increasing average temperature, the around the world does not seem to be News 2-3 Fishkill, N.Y. key culprit being the increase in fossil sound. Giaever presented data indicating Business 4 fuel usage, which increases the level of that over the last three hundred years, the Recently, I read that Norwegian- CO2 in the air. CO2 would be acting as ocean has consistently risen about 20 cm Sports 5 born Nobel Prize winner Dr. Ivar Giae- a “greenhouse gas,” trapping infrared ra- per 100 years. Opinion 6-7 ver had presented a talk on July 1, 2015, diation from the earth. These views are Earth’s average temperature has Taste of Norway 8 in Lindau, Germany, on global warming, based on some reading over time, films only risen 0.8 degrees Fahrenheit over Travel 9 and stated that “global warming is a non- by Al Gore, TV images of melting ice the last 100 years. Giaever contends that problem.” Having met Dr. Giaever some caps in Greenland, etc. I was really inter- given the very small temperature change Roots & Connections 10 years ago and written an article about ested, but skeptical, about what Giaever, and the methods used to determine aver- Obituaries & Religion 11 him for the Norway Times, (November a very fine biophysicist, could really say age earth temperature, the net change is In Your Neighborhood 12-13 12, 2003, issue), I thought it would be about temperature change to disagree too small to be significant. Giaever also Norwegian Heritage 14 timely to re-connect. First of all, I was with so many scientists in the field of contends there is no evidence to support very surprised he was still technically climatology. the notion by climatologists that this Arts & Entertainment 15 active since he is past 80 by several After our chat, which included evi- temperature rise is accelerating, because Back Page 16 years. Secondly, if he was still techni- dence provided by Giaever, I began to his data presented at the conference indi- cally active, it would be in his field of wonder about my current view of global cated there was NO average temperature $1 = NOK 8.317 bio-physics. warming and climate change! Giaever rise over the last 19 years. updated 09/07/2015 Personally, I have been in basic made several key arguments to support We have seen the melting of gla- agreement with many that the earth his claim. The climatologists’ concern of In comparison seems to be undergoing a climate change rising ocean levels due to climate change See > CLIMATE, page 14 08/07/2015 8.2692 03/07/2015 7.9054 09/07/2014 6.2832 Photo: C.H. / Visitnorway.com 2 • September 11, 2015 norwegian american weekly NyhETEr Fra NorgE Nyheter Jordras i Buskerud Samler inn Best valgdeltakelse blant somaliere Somaliere er den minoritetsgruppen Bergensbanen er i løse luften etter et stort jordras som er ivrigst etter å stemme ved valg utstyr til i Norge. For 12 år siden var somalierne dårligst i klassen, og bare 23 prosent brukte stemmeretten. Den andelen ble mer enn doblet på åtte år, og ved flyktninger forrige lokalvalg gikk halvparten av somalierne i Norge til stemmeurn- Over hele landet ene melder NRK og viser til tall fra Statistisk sentralbyrå. — Det landet samler privatpersoner vi kommer fra er ikke som Norge. Vi inn bæreseler og klær brenner for å delta når vi kommer til et demokratisk land, sier somaliske Sada Sahal. Hun har brukt stemmeretten NRK de siste ti årene og sier det er viktig Dramatiske bilder av barn og foreldre på for henne å stemme. Bare 18 prosent flukt har fått nordmenn til å engasjere seg i av dem som er fra Bosnia og Kosovo flyktningkrisen Europa står ovenfor. I bygder stemmer ved norske lokalvalg. Tross og byer over hele landet blir det nå samlet god integrering, er valgdeltakelsen Foto: holderdeord.no inn klær, toalettartikler og utstyr. svært lav. Sylo Taraku, som er fra Bal- Leire, jord og stein raste ut under skinnegangen på Bergensbanen ved Linneslia i Flå. — I dag har det vært stor pågang av folk kan og står på Arbeiderpartiets liste i som kommer med ting, sier Ask Håkon Eb- Drammen, tror det rett og slett skyldes VG stemt i et område som heter Lindelia i Flå eltoft. at folk fra regionen er fornøyd med kommune, ifølge Statens Vegvesen. Han er frivillig i en lokal hjelpegruppe i tingenes tilstand. Et 60 meter bredt jordras har tatt med Det ble raskt dirigert omkjøring via E16 Trondheim og tømmer bagasjerommet til en (Aftenposten) seg veibanen og deler av togsporet ut i Krø- (Filefjell) eller Sigdal, ifølge politiet. Det er kvinne for bleier, sanitetsbind og tepper hun Meltveit Kleppa fikk Homofrydprisen deren i Buskerud. Både Bergensbanen og ikke meldt om skadede som følge av raset. vil gi til flyktningene. I en krok i et stort lager Riksvei 7 har vært stengt. Samtidig meldes Både Flå og Krødsherad ligger i Busk- plasserer de alle gavene de får inn. Planen Magnhild Meltveit Kleppa var egent- det om stedvis fortsatt mye regn og flom- og erud fylke, som av NVE har vært gradert på er å fylle to trailere med hjelpesendinger fra lig imot homoekteskap, men så ble jordrasfare på Østlandet. nest høyeste nivå for jordras-fare de siste engasjerte trøndere. hun overtalt av sin homofile sønn. 2. Bare en knapp time før jordraset dro dagene. Fylket er fortsatt markert på oran- I Ulsteinvik på Sunnmøre samler Mari- september fikk hun Homofrydprisen. med seg grunnen under jernbanen og riks- sje nivå, som er det nest høyeste nivået for anne Breivik inn bæreseler og bæremeiser. — Dessverre er det ennå slik at det vei 7 ut i Krøderen klokken 05 3. september jordras-fare. Hun er lei av diskusjonen over hvordan finnes homofile og lesbiske som sli- morgen, passerte nattoget fra Bergen til Oslo — Raset har tatt med seg ca. 30 meter man skal hjelpe flyktningene, mens de dør. ter, som enten ikke blir akseptert i rasstedet, bekrefter pressevakt for Bergens- av skinnegangen og ført til flere feil på blant Da hun hørte at flyktningene har behov for familien, i nærmiljøet, i idrettslaget, banen, Inge Hjertaas i Jernbaneverket til VG. annet strømtilførsel og fjernstyringssystem, bæreseler til babyene sine, bestemte hun seg eller på arbeidsplassen, sier hun. Den Både Alarmsentralen og Nordre Buske- sier Hjertaas. for å hjelpe. tidligere statsråden, Senterparti-top- rud politidistrikt meldte tidlig om det mellom — Det å samle inn bæreseler er lett og pen og nåværende fylkesmann i Ro- 60 og 75 meter brede jordraset på Twitter. English Synopsis: A 60-meter wide landslide in reaksjonen fra andre er overveldende. Folk i galand synes det er stas å bli tildelt Raset gikk på grensen mellom kommunene Buskerud on Sept. 3 tore apart many roads and train tracks, including a section of the Bergen Railway. nærområdet vil gjerne bidra og i helgen regn- Homofryd prisen 2015, en pris som går Flå og Krødsherad i Buskerud, nærmere be- er jeg med å få inn mye utstyr, seier Breivik. til personer som har kjempet for LH- I Elverum har Oda Mikkelsen Vålstuen BT-saker. «Årets Homofrydprisvinner (18) fylt foreldrenes garasje med klær, sko er en offentlig person som har gått en og leker. Hun ville gjøre noe mer for flykt- lang vei hos seg selv», skriver juryen ningene enn å tenke på det. i begrunnelsen. Kleppa, som kommer Norges eldste kandidat — Noen må jo få det i gang, og så tenkte fra et indremisjonsmiljø i Fister i Ro- Nils T. Døvre har vært medlem av KrF siden 40-tallet jeg at det kan like godt være meg. Vi har alle galand, var egentlig imot både ektes- et ansvar for å hjelpe til, sier Oda Mikkelsen kap og adopsjon for homofile, men VG Vålstuen. snudde i 2008, etter flere runder med I sosiale medier florerer det innsam- sin homofile sønn. Kleppa fikk dermed — Jeg er jo over 100 år, så jeg er ikke lingsinitiativ. Facebookgruppen «Dråpen i en sentral rolle i debatten som kulmin- annet en listefyll. De hadde ikke nok navn, havet» har over 18,000 medlemmer og ini- erte med den nye ekteskapsloven. sier Nils T. Døvre til VG. tiativtaker Trude Jacobsen er helt overveldet (NRK) Døvre fylte 101 år i august, og har vært over engasjementet. Tanken bak var å starte i kommunepolitikken i Nord-Aurdal siden en liten innsamlingsaksjon for venner og Asyltallene doblet i august 1950-tallet. Fra 1972 til 1981 var han også kjente. Hun dro til den greske øya Lesvos for Mer enn 2,000 mennesker søkte asyl ordfører i kommunen. Foran årets kommu- å hjelpe flyktningene og så at det var behov i Norge i august, melder NRK. Det er nevalg ble han spurt av Kristelig folkeparti i for bæreseler, mat og sko til desperate men- en dobling i forhold til samme måned kommunen om han kunne tenke seg å stå på nesker som måtte gå flere mil til øyas hoved- i fjor. 4. september kommer Utlend- liste—igjen. stad. ingsdirektoratet (UDI) med nye tall — Vårt parti har i dag lite oppslutning, — Dette engasjementet hadde jeg aldri over antall asylsøkere i Norge, men og for tiden ingen representanter i kom- forventet.
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