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AP Photo/Mahesh Kumar A., File
In this May 2015 file photo, a man pours water on his
face during a hot summer day in Hyderabad, India.
Satellite data shows no
pause in global warming
AP Photo/Gerald Herbert
A supporter of Donald Trump holds up a sign at a campaign rally in New Orleans on Friday.
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Associated Press
WARREN, Mich. — With an eye
on the general election — and suddenly
“Àexible” on immigration — Donald
Trump has backed off from some of
the hardline rhetoric that has fueled his
presidential campaign, at least for the
moment.
“%elieve it or not, I’m a uni¿er,”
Trump offered during a raucous rally
Friday in suburban Detroit. “We are
going to unify our country.”
Republican adversary Ted Cruz
wasn’t having it. “Donald is telling
us he will betray us on everything
he’s campaigned on,” he said as he
campaigned in Maine, one of ¿ve
states voting in weekend primaries and
caucuses.
Trump’s apparent outbreak of moder-
ation on several fronts, including the
most inÀammatory one, immigration,
comes after a dominant Super Tuesday
performance that extended his reach
for the Republican nomination and as
GOP establishment ¿gures stepped up
to assail him.
In the rollicking Republican debate
Thursday night, Trump retreated from a
position paper on his website, saying he
had swung in favor of more temporary
H-1B visas for skilled foreign workers.
His stance against that had been one of
the few speci¿c policies he had laid out.
“I’m changing, I’m changing,” he
said. “We need highly skilled people in
this country.” Hours later, his campaign
released a statement backing away
from the new position, deepening the
sense that Trump’s agenda may be less
strategic than improvisational.
He spoke of compromise.
“In terms of immigration — and
almost anything else — there always
has to be some, you know, tug and pull
and deal,” Trump added. “You have to
be able to have some Àexibility, some
negotiation.”
Cruz and others lashed out at
Trump’s sudden embrace of Àexibility
on the central issue of his campaign.
“Flexible is Washington code word that
he’s going to stick it to the people,” Cruz
said Friday.
Campaigning in Kansas, rival Marco
Rubio said Trump has shown “constant
movement” on the issue, a “pattern” the
Florida senator says is “disrespectful to
voters.”
AP Photo/Paul Sancya
Republican presidential candidate, Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., takes
photographs with the audience at a campaign rally in Kansas on Friday.
“He ¿nally took a position on ...
guest workers coming from abroad, and
then as soon as the debate was over he
changed back,” Rubio said in Topeka,
Kansas. He added, “I think it indicates
that this is a person who has spent zero
time thinking about public policy.”
Mitt Romney, the GOP’s 2012
presidential nominee, followed up a
lacerating speech against Trump by
declaring Friday he would not vote for
the billionaire if he became the stan-
dard-bearer in the fall.
Romney told NBC’s “Today” show
he would “do everything within the
normal political bounds to make sure
we don’t nominate Donald Trump.” He
also said, “I’m not running for president
and I won’t run for president.”
Still, some members of Romney’s
vast donor network said they were ready
should he reconsider. Republican donor
Bill Kunkler said he had recently spoken
to Romney’s 2012 ¿nance chairman,
Spencer Zwick, and told him he would
support Romney again.
“Mitt is the guy who will put the
party before himself,” Kunkler said.
Also this week, Republican foreign-
policy luminaries from diverse Àanks of
the party wrote an open letter opposing
Trump’s candidacy, for his “hateful,
anti-Muslim rhetoric,” his “embrace of
the expansive use of torture” and more.
Trump is showing new sensitivity on
these matters.
He said Friday he understands the
U.S. is “bound by laws and treaties”
and he will not order U.S. military
of¿cials to violate or disobey those
laws if elected president. His statement
attenuated earlier comments that he
would revive waterboarding in interro-
gations — which is now illegal — and
“a lot worse,” and that he would target
the wives and children of suspected
extremists.
This was a switch of sorts from the
debate the night before.
“These animals over in the Middle
East, that chop off heads, sitting around
talking and seeing that we’re having a
hard problem with waterboarding?” he
offered in the debate. “We should go
for waterboarding and we should go
tougher than waterboarding.”
Despite the softened tone on some
issues, though, Trump is still Trump.
He canceled an appearance at the
American Conservative Union’s Conser-
vative Political Action Conference,
often a can’t-miss event for candidates
catering to the right. It was there Friday
that Ben Carson brought a formal end
to his campaign for president, where he
drew an adoring standing ovation and
said there are “a lot of people who love
me, they just won’t vote for me.”
Trump’s decision to skip the meeting,
meanwhile, “sends a clear message
to conservatives,” the unhappy group
tweeted.
WASHINGTON (AP)
— Climate change doubters
may have lost one of their
key talking points: a partic-
ular satellite temperature
dataset that had seemed to
show no warming for the
past 18 years.
The Remote Sensing
System temperature data,
promoted by many who
reject mainstream climate
science and especially
most recently by Sen. Ted
Cruz, now shows a slight
warming of about 0.18
degrees Fahrenheit since
1998. Ground temperature
measurements,
which
many scientists call more
accurate, all show warming
in the past 18 years.
“There are people that
like to claim there was no
warming; they really can’t
claim that anymore,” said
Carl Mears, the scientist
who runs the Remote
Sensing System tempera-
ture data tracking.
The change resulted
from an adjustment Mears
made to ¿x a nagging
discrepancy in the data
from 15 satellites.
The satellites are in a
polar orbit, so they are
supposed to go over the
same place at about the
same time as they circle
from north to south pole.
Some of the satellites drift
a bit, which changes their
afternoon and evening
measurements ever so
slightly. Some satellites had
drift that made temperatures
warmer, others cooler. Three
satellites had thrusters and
they stayed in the proper
orbit so they provided guid-
ance for adjustments.
Mears said he was “moti-
vated by ¿xing these differ-
ences between the satellites.
If the differences hadn’t
been there, I wouldn’t have
done the upgrade.”
NASA chief climate
scientist Gavin Schmidt and
Andrew Dessler, a climate
scientist at Texas A&M,
said experts and studies had
shown these problems that
Mears adjusted and they
both said those adjustments
make are supported in
a study in the American
Meteorological Society’s
Journal of Climate.
The study refutes the
“There are
people who
claim there was
no warming;
they really
cannot claim
that anymore.”
— Carl Mears,
Scientist, Remote Sensing
System
idea of a pause in global
warming, “but frankly
common
sense
and
looking at how Earth was
responding over the past
18 years kind of makes this
¿nding a µduh’ moment,”
wrote University of Georgia
meteorology
professor
Marshall Shepherd.
Chip
Knappenberger
of the Cato Institute, who
doesn’t doubt that human-
caused climate change is
happening but does not
agree with mainstream
scientists who say the
problem is enormous, said
this shows “how messy the
procedures are in putting
the satellite data together.”
The
other
major
satellite temperature data
set, run by University
of
Alabama-Huntsville
professor John Christy,
shows slight warming
after 1998. But if 1998
is included in the data,
it sees no warming. But
that should change with a
warm 2016, Christy said.
In fact, Christy used his
measurements to determine
that February 2016 was 1.5
degrees Fahrenheit above
the average for the month
— the largest such disparity
for any month since records
were ¿rst kept, in 199.
As far as what this
means for people claiming
no warming, scientists don’t
expect them to change.
“I don’t know what
Cruz, et al., will do now,”
Dessler said in an email. “I
think it will be increasingly
dif¿cult for them to claim
that the satellite data show
now warming, although
it may be possible to say
that it shows µno signi¿cant
warming.”’
Discovery of knife is latest twist in O.J. Simpson case
LOS ANGELES (AP)
— More than 20 years after
O.J. Simpson’s ex-wife and
a friend were stabbed to
death, police revealed Friday
they are examining a knife
that was reportedly found at
the home where the former
football star was living at the
time.
The
announcement
marked yet another twist
in a case that’s had more
unexpected
turns
than
television’s best crime shows.
The knife was believed to
have been recovered by a
construction worker tearing
down the house. The worker
then gave it to an off-duty
police of¿cer who was
working as a security guard
at a ¿lming location, police
said.
It was unclear when the
knife was found and how
long it was held by the of¿cer,
who is now retired. The knife
was being analyzed by a Los
Angeles Police Department
crime lab for DNA or other
material that could possibly
link it to the killings.
Capt. Andy Neiman
stressed that the authenticity
of the story was not con¿rmed
and that investigators were
looking into whether “this
whole story is possibly bogus
from the get-go.”
“It’s unusual how this
all of a sudden becomes a
huge story during this time,”
Neiman added, referring to
the popular “People v. O.J.
Simpson: American Crime
Story” anthology that is
airing on the FX television
channel.
Simpson was charged
and acquitted in the slayings.
Even if the knife is linked
to him, legal experts say
he could not be criminally
charged again because of
protections against double
jeopardy.
“If they were going to
¿nd this knife and make it
useful in the murder trial,
they should have found it 20
years ago, and they didn’t,”
said Loyola Law School
professor Laurie Levenson,
a former federal prosecutor
and longtime observer of the
Simpson case. “It will just
raise more questions about
the incompetence of the
investigation and probably
lead to more books and more
movies.”
The weapon used in the
killings has been a mystery for
decades. Other knives have
surfaced during the case but
were not linked to the crimes.
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