Quotes of the day
posted at 10:30 pm on February 15, 2010 by Allahpundit
“Most [scientists] don’t see a contradiction between a warming world and lots of snow. That includes Kevin Trenberth, a prominent climate scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado.
“‘The fact that the oceans are warmer now than they were, say, 30 years ago means there’s about on average 4 percent more water vapor lurking around over the oceans than there was, say, in the 1970s,’ he says…
“‘So one of the consequences of a warming ocean near a coastline like the East Coast and Washington, D.C., for instance, is that you can get dumped on with more snow partly as a consequence of global warming,’ he says…
“‘Because if it’s cold enough to snow, you will get snow,’ Masters says. ‘We still have winter even if temperatures have warmed on average, oh, about 1 degree Fahrenheit over the past 100 years.’”
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RUSH:… So the temperatures are not warmer, causing all of this snow, ladies and gentlemen. And it’s hilarious for me to watch all this. Global warming, they say, causes more snow, right? Well, then global cooling would cause less snow? I mean, different ways of saying the same thing, right? As one who is possessed with a tremendous amount of logic and critical thinking capability that would have to be true. But when there is less snow, the alarmists say that’s because of global warming. When there is more snow, they say it’s because of global warming. Now, you cannot have it both ways, otherwise you’re contradicting yourself and proving that all you are is on a political mission. Now, we’ve heard from all the experts, all the members of Congress, all the experts in the media telling us that these record snowfalls are just proof of global warming. Well, let’s go back to the audio sound bites. We have about seven of them here. March 21st, 2002, from the Senate floor. Not enough snow was falling back then and Robert Byrd said this proved global warming.
BYRD 2002: We need a climate change strategy badly. Look at the kind of winter we’ve had here in Washington. One snow, three inches? What can we expect for the spring and summer seasons? What’s going to happen to our crops, our livestock, our economy? This is serious. I’ve lived a long time, 84 years. Something’s going wrong out there. I don’t need a scientist to tell me that. We had better do something about it.
RUSH: You gotta listen to this, folks. These are Democrats complaining global warming proved by no snow. No snow in Washington, 2002, proves global warming. Yesterday and the day before, all of this snow in Washington proves global warming. They both can’t be right. Here’s Barbara Boxer, October 29th, 2007, on the Senate floor.
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Via Neptunus Lex.
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“he didn’t mean that about Starbucks…”
Priceless.
ted c on February 15, 2010 at 10:33 PM
Love Rush.
atheling on February 15, 2010 at 10:35 PM
calling all climate trolls ten nine eight seven six………
CWforFreedom on February 15, 2010 at 10:35 PM
Breaking: Romney Threatened by Fellow Airline Passenger
dnlchisholm on February 15, 2010 at 10:35 PM
I think it was Rush where I heard today on the list of concerns of the American public, despite every stunt that has been tried, “whatever you want to call it today” (depending on whether it’s unusually hot or cold outdoors) always ranks dead last.
Marcus on February 15, 2010 at 10:37 PM
My, my, my
SouthernGent on February 15, 2010 at 10:38 PM
Heh.
aquaviva on February 15, 2010 at 10:38 PM
Love the goracle pic.
I’m sure ol’ algore is walking around his 15K sqft house nowadays muttering unintelligibly about his carbon credit values, wearing only a bathrobe and old slippers….shuffling to and fro and saying stuff like ‘the polar bears, you don’t think they’re endangered?’ under his breath…
ted c on February 15, 2010 at 10:39 PM
Call in Captain America (Climategate parody): http://optoons.blogspot.com/2010/02/captain-america-vs-cap-and-trade-click.html
Mervis Winter on February 15, 2010 at 10:39 PM
and the earth is how old?
mr byrd you are but a blip
CWforFreedom on February 15, 2010 at 10:39 PM
Soooooo…
How do we go about getting all the ‘Global Warming’ regulations, fees, taxes, legislation, education indoctrination, and wasted tax dollars on this HOAX rolled back and the hacks who pushed this tripe exposed for the charlatans they are?
I want my pound of flesh! I want anyone who even thinks of trying this in the future to think more than twice about it!
Seven Percent Solution on February 15, 2010 at 10:39 PM
LMAO!
Chip on February 15, 2010 at 10:40 PM
As a long standing AGW climate skeptic, all I can say to the warmers is Pttttthhbb.
Welcome back AllahP. You were on fire today. You did seem to miss out on getting in a shot at Glenn Beck. I mean, like he totally dissed your little sugar dumpling, Meggie Mac last week.Fer shure.
GnuBreed on February 15, 2010 at 10:40 PM
Whatever works.
CWforFreedom on February 15, 2010 at 10:41 PM
I just watched a show from 2007 where they were crying about “not enough snow” being a direct result of global warming.
LibTired on February 15, 2010 at 10:42 PM
Probably a Jet Blue non-stop flight. The article makes a point to say he was in economy when if you look at a seating chart, that’s all there is on that model.
Marcus on February 15, 2010 at 10:42 PM
I generally think Donald Trump is a jackass. But you have to love him for his latest outburst:
Donald Trump: Climate campaigner Al Gore ‘should be stripped of Nobel Peace Prize’
Sharke on February 15, 2010 at 10:42 PM
Sharke on February 15, 2010 at 10:42 PM
Ohhh SWEET! thx
ted c on February 15, 2010 at 10:43 PM
Everybody sing along:
There’s a snowstorm in Atlanta,
And a white-out in D.C.
The orange groves have been quite frigid,
As has all of Tennessee.
12 inches have hit ground in Dallas,
Are you in Knoxville in your palace?
ALBERT GORE JUNIOR, WHERE ARE YOU?
**to the tune of Car 54 Where Are You?
kingsjester on February 15, 2010 at 10:44 PM
They must have been talking on a Thursday. Global warming only causes extra snow on Sundays and Tuesdays, but less snow on Thursdays. There’s a note about this in the last IPCC report.
neurosculptor on February 15, 2010 at 10:44 PM
What gets me is that the cap & tax scheme, whether you believe global warming or not, wouldn’t do a darn thing to change the climate. It’s all about money and power. Period.
txag92 on February 15, 2010 at 10:44 PM
Mr. Gore. Call for Mr. Gore. Please pick up the white accountability phone Mr.Gore!
capejasmine on February 15, 2010 at 10:44 PM
It’s his version of having a pick-up truck.
SouthernGent on February 15, 2010 at 10:45 PM
My arm is getting tired – I’ve been patting myself on the back for having called global warming a hoax.
KillerKane on February 15, 2010 at 10:46 PM
Donald Trump: Al Gore… you’re fired!
I’ve been telling the other teachers for years that it’s all fake. Even libtards are going to start getting it. Just in time. Piltdown Man lasted a lot longer than AWG.
Mojave Mark on February 15, 2010 at 10:46 PM
Hmmm. I might have a shred of respect for Trump now.
Naaaahhhh…… not after he tried to use Eminent Domain to seize the home of a little old lady in Atlantic City so he could build a parking garage for one of his casinos.
He might be right about this but he’s still a douche.
UltimateBob on February 15, 2010 at 10:48 PM
Did you and I read the same article? It clearly states the airline was Air Canada according to the link provided.
Knucklehead on February 15, 2010 at 10:49 PM
Easy credibility comparison:
Al Gore vs. Michael Crichton — which person would you choose to get scientific information from? Game over.
GnuBreed on February 15, 2010 at 10:51 PM
Some cable channels ‘Just Happen’ to be running that scaremonger POS movie,“The Day after tomorrow”, is that supposed to convince people the same thing as the NPR puke that snowstorms are caused by AGW?
Chip on February 15, 2010 at 10:52 PM
“It’s OK, he didn’t mean that about Starbucks”
HAAA!!
katy on February 15, 2010 at 10:52 PM
You know the silly part is that they are right as far as evaporation and snowfall are concerned. The problem of course is that these are natural cycles and have nothing to do with their idiotic theory.
They have lied and fudged the evidence so often their credibility is totally shot.
The True Believers however will stay faithful to the High Church of Global Warming and Al Gore will never need for cash.
sharrukin on February 15, 2010 at 10:57 PM
I don’t know where Al Gore is tonight, but I hope he’s freezing his fat *ss off.
b3026 on February 15, 2010 at 10:58 PM
Missed the Air Canada part. Just looked up the seating chart for the aircraft model on Google and they were mainly Jet Blue models, but I suspected it was a one-class aircraft and I was right about that.
Marcus on February 15, 2010 at 10:59 PM
We’re supposed to believe the warm-mongers even though they’ve lied to us and can’t remember where they’ve placed the critical data while at the same time disbelieve what our own senses are telling us.
But, it’s only so that the Eco-statists can run our lives and redistribute everyone’s property equually so it’s all good./sarc
Chip on February 15, 2010 at 11:00 PM
It’s just so hilarious to watch the AGW hoax completely crumble on The One’s watch.
jjrakman on February 15, 2010 at 11:00 PM
BIG DEPOSIT: This could end up as one of the largest suburban leases of the year, but it can’t be good. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. has leased 150,000 square feet, the entire building, at the Woodfield Corporate Center, 200 N. Martingale in Schaumburg. The federal guarantor of bank accounts needs what it calls a “temporary Midwest satellite office” as it processes receiverships and asset sales involving Midwestern banks. The FDIC said it will move in beginning in March and that the office will have up to 500 workers.
MB4 on February 15, 2010 at 11:02 PM
Yes, but if a conservative Prez was at the helm, it’d fall apart more quickly and more decisively.
atheling on February 15, 2010 at 11:03 PM
My kid is pilot for Jet Blue. I don’t think they have Embrarer 190′s in their fleet anymore. Strictly Airbus now, or according to him.
Knucklehead on February 15, 2010 at 11:05 PM
Algore dwarfs Bernie Madoff in terms of being the perpetrator of massive financial fraud.
Why isn’t he in prison?
wildcat84 on February 15, 2010 at 11:05 PM
Thread winner!
I’d so love to hear THAT produced!
wildcat84 on February 15, 2010 at 11:08 PM
It’s the new libtard Pavlovian reaction.
The answer: more taxes!
That’s the response libs are trained for.
wildcat84 on February 15, 2010 at 11:11 PM
The cold in Florida did kill some of the invasive Burmese Pythons in the Everglades. So, in theory, Glowbull Warmyn has done some good.
TinMan13 on February 15, 2010 at 11:13 PM
“…the best scientists that money could buy”
LOL
onlineanalyst on February 15, 2010 at 11:15 PM
Remember South Park was the first, in their Hurricane Katrina parody episode (The day before the day after tomorrow), to suggest that “Global Warming will create a new ice age”.
wildcat84 on February 15, 2010 at 11:15 PM
If a conservative was Prez, the SEC would be investigating Al Gore
phreshone on February 15, 2010 at 11:16 PM
Where is SteveMG
Del Dolemonte on February 15, 2010 at 11:16 PM
Emergency meeting w/Chuckles?
Sharke on February 15, 2010 at 11:17 PM
Picking oakland’s condom out of his sphincter.
thomasaur on February 15, 2010 at 11:17 PM
The world is moving too fast for them now, and they’re getting tired of pushing this rock uphill.
Saltysam on February 15, 2010 at 11:20 PM
Wow a degree and when it cools a degree what will that mean a coming ice age…a degree warmer than 30 years ago maybe who knows look at their data oh sorry you can’t. The Earth has been around longer than 30 years and so has the climate which fluctuates. What is it with the climatologist? Maybe they are the ones that need to be studied.
Dr Evil on February 15, 2010 at 11:21 PM
From what, to what? Was the start-point at “nominal”, or still recovering from the Little Ice Age?
These hoaxers have no shame!
OldEnglish on February 15, 2010 at 11:23 PM
This is an excellent point, and a serious question.
Millions, perhaps even billions, of people have been hurt by this fraud.
Saltysam on February 15, 2010 at 11:24 PM
The same Kevin Trenberth who corresponded with Michael Mann regarding the validity of how they measure their junk science/religion?
Warmer indeed by what, 0.72 degrees? The global-average lower tropospheric temperature anomaly soared to +0.72 deg. C in January, 2010. This is the warmest January in the 32-year satellite-based data record.
Looks like NPR is shoveling more than snow.
Mark Boabaca on February 15, 2010 at 11:27 PM
Some people are advocating climate change?
Jeff2161 on February 15, 2010 at 11:28 PM
Mother Nature advocates that the climate change every day … for a healthy planet.
Mark Boabaca on February 15, 2010 at 11:30 PM
Everyone who still believes in this horsecrap should have “Al Gore’s B!tch” forcibly tattooed on their foreheads so we can identify them. Imagine going into business or getting into a romantic relationship with someone and finding out later that they fell for this nonsense. If there’s one good thing that’s come from this hoax it’s that it’s separated the wheat from the chaff.
Sharke on February 15, 2010 at 11:35 PM
Man-Made Global Grifting is the real term for this.
The climate will always change, thankfully. What the alarmists do is make an catastrophe scenario, when there’s no evidence to prove sea levels rising, polar caps melting, polar bears dying, and dogs and cats living together.
A warming period has actually proven to be a benefit and not a detriment. Where’s the evidence in past Earth history, i.g. Medieval Warming Period, of global disasters during warming periods. Yet mini-Ice Ages had shorter growing seasons. People starved.
What’s a looming disaster is allowing government agencies to regulate commerce, strangle small business with taxes, destroy our standard of living as we know it.
That’s Anthropological Global Grifting
Kini on February 15, 2010 at 11:35 PM
Another word for climate change: Weather.
Which, even with satellites, can’t be predicted with precision 72 hours out. Much less 50, 100, or 1,00 years out…
wildcat84 on February 15, 2010 at 11:35 PM
Loved your little ditty…
lovingmyUSA on February 15, 2010 at 11:37 PM
Where is the “Pudge”? Mr. Gore where are you?
Mason on February 15, 2010 at 11:37 PM
Most [scientists] don’t see a contradiction between a warming world and lots of snow… this week.
mankai on February 15, 2010 at 11:43 PM
Ewwww…
just
Ewwww…
Ace would be proud of you! :)
lovingmyUSA on February 15, 2010 at 11:43 PM
I’m sorry, these Hitler parodies just never get old for me.
I think it’s because you just know that’s what all these lefties are doing in private – throwing self indulgent tantrums – and what they really think but just won’t say in public. LOL
inviolet on February 15, 2010 at 11:43 PM
So I guess all those jerks driving scooters and hybrids have blood on their hands for causing the deadly snow storms.
mankai on February 15, 2010 at 11:45 PM
JetBlue is also contracting out some of the regional runs to other companies flying the smaller jets like Emrarier and Bombardier. Go to Travelocity and look up flights from, say, Portland, Maine to Washington DC, etc, and you’ll see the regionals listed as “JetBlue” in the fine print.
AW1 Tim on February 15, 2010 at 11:49 PM
Yes. Yes they do.
AW1 Tim on February 15, 2010 at 11:51 PM
The science in that movie is super serial!
– Nobel Laureate Albert Gore, Jr.
ya2daup on February 15, 2010 at 11:52 PM
Now that we know it was all a hoax, can we take back Al’s Bucky Beaver Badge Award?
Kini on February 15, 2010 at 11:55 PM
Socialism makes it colder. Everyone knows that and most scientist agree and my dog ate the data and you are all mindless right wingers who don’t think man can damage the planet.
tool bag/
kahall on February 15, 2010 at 11:55 PM
wildcat84 on February 16, 2010 at 12:09 AM
Thank you
Buford Gooch on February 16, 2010 at 12:14 AM
While it is true that warming temperatures could cause more snow to fall in certain places, we would see an overall change in the snow line moving North. So while North Dakota might get more snow, Kansas might get more precipitation but as rain and maybe no snow at all.
What we are seeing over the past several years is a general Southward movement of the continental snow line. Warming temperatures will not do that.
There’s more here.
crosspatch on February 16, 2010 at 12:15 AM
If one of those hot-shot scientists would just give us the perfect temperature, we could all meditate and just, like manifest it, dude.
-Jerry Brown
Meremortal on February 16, 2010 at 12:15 AM
Yeah, I’ve got a buddy in an email thread who simply will not give up on this nonsense. Says Jones is now a “crackpot” and dismisses him because he simply cannot bear losing his religion.
John the Libertarian on February 16, 2010 at 12:15 AM
If I could have it perpetually 67 degrees, I’d be happy.
If I win the lottery, I plan to summer in Alaska, and winter in Orlando.
wildcat84 on February 16, 2010 at 12:19 AM
I see that same thing going on with some Face Book friends friends. I don’t get involved usually but it is fun to watch good friends argue. You can tell it is really tough for them.
kahall on February 16, 2010 at 12:20 AM
Oh. I guess I was right then?
kahall on February 16, 2010 at 12:22 AM
There is a boatload of people who should be unemployed ….
Sonosam on February 16, 2010 at 12:22 AM
Hey, that headline about Frank Lautenberg should read ‘hospitalized after fall’ not ‘hospitalized after all’
Godzilla on February 16, 2010 at 12:25 AM
We once knew a gas bag named Al
who was even more shallow than Hal
he pulled off a scam now he’s gone on the lamb
and soon will be nobody’s pal
justonevictory on February 16, 2010 at 12:30 AM
Somewhere Tudie and Muldune (sp) are smiling .
Texyank on February 16, 2010 at 12:48 AM
I want someone to ask Ed Beagly Jr about this again, just to watch him flip out and shout “PEER-REVIEW!” over and over and for the interviewer to point out Phil Jones a source he surely can trust given he was/is a main proponent of “Climate Change” has admitted there’s been no warming since ’95.
Sharr on February 16, 2010 at 12:52 AM
HAL2000?
Kini on February 16, 2010 at 12:58 AM
screw te polar bear. i could care less if AGW is real or fake. i will not give up my freedom for the sake of a couple miles of land that has been underwater before and will be again no matter what we do.
we should pledge that if any tax, reg is passed will will all build big bonfires and keep them going for 100 years.
unseen on February 16, 2010 at 12:58 AM
From Rush’s site,in the video,when Sen.(D)Amy Klobuchar
talks about the concerns if ice fisherman,I can assure
you,that the No.1 concern,is if you are stupid enough to
leave your little shack on the lake,or especially if its
on the river,and its opening time,by the Coast Guard ice
cutter!!
Besides,I haven’t seen a Ice Fishermans Commercial
enterprise being delayed to build there mini fish
factory on zee ice!!
canopfor on February 16, 2010 at 1:01 AM
screw te polar bear
unseen on February 16, 2010 at 12:58 AM
unseen:You first,haha!:)
canopfor on February 16, 2010 at 1:02 AM
Various phrases the Alarmists love using: “Peer-review,” “the science is settled,” “denying AGW is like saying the earth is flat.” What am I missing…
darii on February 16, 2010 at 1:02 AM
The Latin word “algor” means “cold.” The plural “algores” means “cold, inclement weather.”
Looks like the Romans anticipated the Algore Effect millennia before it happened!
darii on February 16, 2010 at 1:05 AM
I’ve lived a long time, 84 years. Something’s going wrong out there. I don’t need a scientist to tell me that. We had better do something about it.
what the hell do you care you will be dead soon.
unseen on February 16, 2010 at 1:11 AM
What we are seeing over the past several years is a general Southward movement of the continental snow line. Warming temperatures will not do that.
There’s more here.
crosspatch on February 16, 2010 at 12:15 AM
you also do not get record cold temps if the earth is warming. there is no possible way for record cold temps to appear during a major warming trend on the earth. esp record cold temps across the globe. this is an impossiblity
unseen on February 16, 2010 at 1:16 AM
He’s probably worried that if we don’t act, then his grandchildren and his grandchildren’s grandchildren will never get the chance to become
Grand Wizards, um, Democrat politicians.darii on February 16, 2010 at 1:17 AM
Love it. This is going in my facebook status. Too funny.
miConsevative on February 16, 2010 at 1:18 AM
The word is getting out.
Today, during the 3 to 6pm radio show on WLW, one of the local weather-guys talked about the current situ here in Cincy and he mentioned the Sun’s minimal ‘state’ and compared it to The Little Ice Age.
And he said the same thing I’ve said: if the Sun’s activity stays where it currently is, then ‘get use to this [kind of] weather, and he mentioned the record cool summer of ’09.
The floodgates are opening now that the warmers have been put on their heels.
An additional link is here for the related, two-hour vid presentation on the ‘unusual nature of the current solar minimum’. It’s kinda ‘science-geeky’ but it’s worth a look-see.
You will be enlightened, trust me.
CPT. Charles on February 16, 2010 at 1:20 AM
Global Warming has become the mythological god of a cult, and this “god” causes the earth to warm and the earth to cool and it causes heavy snow and tornadoes and hurricanes and blizzards and tsunamis and thunderbolts just like Zeus or Neptune were once thought to do.
It must be very difficult for a fanatic to give up such a powerful “god”.
Dhuka on February 16, 2010 at 1:21 AM
Of course, Limbaugh is right that there are some people who will attribute ANY weather to AGW, but the fact remains that the article does not claim that the snow is because of AGW. What was Rush responding to there?
DaveS on February 16, 2010 at 1:23 AM
What gets me is that the cap & tax scheme, whether you believe global warming or not, wouldn’t do a darn thing to change the climate. It’s all about money and power. Period.
txag92 on February 15, 2010 at 10:44 PM
no nothing about global warming but it would have made a nice way to hide the record spending by Obama which after all was the main reason for it.
Obama wanted to get cap and trade and the increased rev form it so he could use the money to fund his socialism and balance the budget when cap and trade went down he started pushing Obamacare so that he could kill off all the old people make social security and medicare solvent and still spend money on his pet projects. If he doesn’t get Obamacare the dems have no new money and will have $trillion defiects for generations.
If Obamacare goes down look for the dems to turn to the military and gut that department. this was the main reason Obama waffled on sending troops to Afgan. It was only when Obamacare looked likely to pass did he send the troops.
Now he is trapped. No new rev form the bottom of the deck and the spending is already out the door. he will need a new rev stream and the bank tax idea looks like it will fail too. he will be forced to hike taxes on the middle class and if he does he is done.
unseen on February 16, 2010 at 1:24 AM
What was Rush responding to there?
DaveS on February 16, 2010 at 1:23 AM
the media was trying to tie global warming to the record snowfall esp MSNBC hosts…
unseen on February 16, 2010 at 1:27 AM
O/T===
@PATR2012 about 2000+ in attendance. Great responses from crowd. Palin hit the issues – small gov’t, less spending, energy, power of America
Great night w/ Sarah Palin @DaytonaChamber She wants to come back w/ fam to see the 500 again nxt year. Great speech and Q/A. Inspiring!
wait I thought Palin didn’t talk about issues?
and then she posts this:
People are asking me to comment on yesterday’s Fox show that felt like another kick in the gut. Bristol was one who asked what I thought of the show that mocked her baby brother, Trig (and/or others with special needs), in an episode yesterday. Instead of answering, I asked her what she thought. Here is her conscientious reply, which is a much more restrained and gracious statement than I want to make about an issue that begs the question, “when is enough, enough?”:
“When you’re the son or daughter of a public figure, you have to develop thick skin. My siblings and I all have that, but insults directed at our youngest brother hurt too much for us to remain silent. People with special needs face challenges that many of us will never confront, and yet they are some of the kindest and most loving people you’ll ever meet. Their lives are difficult enough as it is, so why would anyone want to make their lives more difficult by mocking them? As a culture, shouldn’t we be more compassionate to innocent people – especially those who are less fortunate? Shouldn’t we be willing to say that some things just are not funny? Are there any limits to what some people will do or say in regards to my little brother or others in the special needs community? If the writers of a particularly pathetic cartoon show thought they were being clever in mocking my brother and my family yesterday, they failed. All they proved is that they’re heartless jerks. – Bristol Palin”
- Sarah Palin
unseen on February 16, 2010 at 1:29 AM
Ok, now then… with false lies of Global Warming revealed… let us go back comrades to worrying about the real issues….
Anthropogenic Continental Drift!
Razgriez on February 16, 2010 at 1:35 AM
You will be enlightened, trust me.
CPT. Charles on February 16, 2010 at 1:20 AM
CPT.Charles: Heres the current Sun image!:)
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http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/data/realtime/eit_304/1024/latest.html
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http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/
canopfor on February 16, 2010 at 1:36 AM
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