Category Archives: Weather/Climate

Obozo’s latest coverup

Posted on November 12, 2013 | 3 comments

Nevermind the way unsightly, unreliable and unprofitable “wind farms” are lowering property values and killing bats, eagles and other birds to line the pockets of Obozo’s crony capitalists while he preaches socialism for the rest of us.

His Green Energy sidekicks have long been ignoring the “wind industry’s” flaws. Now they’re playing hush-hush with rising complaints within the federal bureaucracy itself, including at the Pentagon.

Seems massed wind turbines produce false echoes on Doppler radar that interfere with tornado and storm forecasting and even the air traffic radars for commercial and military aircraft—causing flights to be unnecessarily diverted, raising fuel costs and increasing travel time.

Via WeatherBELLl Analytics LLC.

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The warmist cult rides on

Posted on September 29, 2013 | Comments Off on The warmist cult rides on

As always the lazy news media—which includes the Wall Street Journal’s reporting—only read the summaries of big reports like the latest one by the dictators club reaffirming that global warming is  still, wait for it, a crisis.

“BTW, there are a lot of good scientists who work behind the scenes who produce the chapters. The Summaries however are written by the state[s]men, environmentalists and high profile scientists whose reputation and wealth is based on the propagation of the faith.”

So the summaries are models of misinformation.

Nevertheless, the latest cult propanganda will continue to be the spur for the EPA’s War on Coal, hiking electricity prices and stifling the economy and, sooner or later, adding a whopping carbon tax. Unless the dimwits who voted for OButthead in 2012 finally get a clue and turn the Congress over to the Republicans next year. They can’t be any worse.

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Ireland bound

Posted on September 16, 2013 | 4 comments

Mrs. Charm departs this morning for the airport and a day mostly in the air (Austin to Newark to Shannon) for eight days in Ireland with friends from Kansas City. They’ll be staying out in the country towns of Kenmare, Doolin and Dingle.

Mr. B. and I will be roughing it, eating Kosher hot dogs and cold cuts and him his favorite TV dinners and EZ Mac. In short, we’ll be glad when she returns, full of tales about the rainy, chilly Irish weather, no doubt. In September!

Did you know that Ireland shares the same latitude (53rd parallel north) as Lake Winnepeg in Canada? Also parts of Alaska? Yup. It is that many miles north. Hundreds of them north of Texas. No wonder so many Irish have emigrated to the US. They came to get warm.

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Our coming winter: colder than usual

Posted on September 14, 2013 | 4 comments

I was thinking back on Labor Day when I cut back the Antique Roses in the Back Forty whether I should go the whole hog one-third trim, or do what I did which was just give them a haircut and plan to give them another one in January, instead of waiting to Valentine’s as is customary with this breed.

Now I wish I had gone the one-third, because January could be icy (probably not snowy, that’s hardly ever true here) according to WeatherBell meteorologist Joe Bastardi. His conclusion is terse: “Another colder, snowier than normal winter is on the way, in my opinion. I would prepare using a blend of 02-03, 09-10 as two-thirds, with 04-05, 06-07 as one-third…”

If the latter half of the statement is confusing, it refers to analogue winters which is Bastardi’s favorite method of forecasting because it frequently works. The winter of 2010, for instance, was so cold here that the green elephant ears in the front beds turned black and fell on the ground. They grew back, of course, from the roots. Go here for his not very technical, reasonably easy to understand explanation with lots of pretty graphics.

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Prescription for losing the White House

Posted on September 7, 2013 | 5 comments

If the Lizard Queen is to have the anticipated chance to take the handoff from Obongo in 2016, all this wind and solar to save the planet nonsense better not go the way of Germany.

“Electricity is becoming a luxury good in Germany…The political world is wedged between the green-energy lobby, masquerading as saviors of the world, and the established electric utilities, with their dire warnings of chaotic supply problems and job losses.”

It could certainly happen here, with the EPA’s war on coal over the next three years. If it does, even the food stampers and welfare voters the Democrats count on might see the (cost of the) light. Not to mention the heat. And the cool.

Our sorry high-unemployment economy, where even sycophant Paul Krugman sees a Democrat failure, alone should be enough but turning electricity into a luxury will do it for sure.

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Al Bore, call your publisher, producer, etc.

Posted on August 31, 2013 | 4 comments

The World Federation of Scientists has a message for the Gorebot and his climate crazies: “Climate change in itself is not a planetary emergency.”

The Federation, composed of more than 10,000 scientists from 110 countries, had this to further say about that:

“Our greatest concern at present is that the intellectual climate for scientific investigation of these matters has become so hostile and politicized that the necessary research and debate cannot freely take place. Political constraints take the form of declaring the underlying science to be settled when it clearly is not; defunding or denigrating research that is perceived to threaten the case for renewable energy; or the use of odious pejoratives like “denialist” to describe dissent from officially-sanctioned views on climate science.”

Golly gosh-a-rooty, does this mean Obongo’s EPA will now stop its war on coal? Can miners in West Virginia and Pennsylvania get back to work? We’ll see, when we learn how much they really respect science that doesn’t support their politics.

Via Instapundit and Fabius Maximus.

UPDATE:  So far, Obumbles is deaf to other conclusions. Gee, what a surprise.

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Israel: Of popsicles and apartheid

Posted on August 29, 2013 | Comments Off on Israel: Of popsicles and apartheid

A nice little tale from IsraellyCool of a friend’s Tel Aviv beach encounter with two Israeli Arab women in skimpy bikinis:

One of the city inspectors, patrolling the beaches, approached us and reminded us to drink water so that we do not get dehydrated.

I told him I had forgotten mine. My beautiful beach neighbours seem to have also forgotten theirs.

“I will get a popsicle as soon as the vendor gets here,” I answered.

“So will we,” answered one of the young ladies next to me.

“Ok, ” said the inspector, “I will send him your way.” And left.

A few minutes later, all three of us were left with ou[r] mouths open.

There, in front of us was the city inspector negotiating his way barefoot on the hot sand, coming towards us.

In his hands were three popsicles!

Welcome to an “Apartheid” state called Israel!

Via Five Feet of Fury.

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