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Where are all the hurricanes?

Posted on August 24, 2013 | 6 comments

Al Bore, Obongo and their tax-the-rich (but not them and their waivered few) warmist pals have told us over and over that we can expect more and more deadly hurricanes thanks to global warming, er, climate change, uh, climate disruption, ah, carbon pollution. Yes, that’s it, carbon pollution.

So where are they? This has been the slowest start to a hurricane season on record, i.e. since 1886. Among other inhibiting factors, too much dust is blowing west out of Africa, according to meteorologist Joe D’Aleo. His WeatherBell pal, Joe Bastardi, says we should get ready: “I think this is getting ready to crank up and we should have 2-3 weeks with 5-6 storms and probably a couple of them being major.”

Or not. Obongo did promise to calm the seas, after all, and, since he’s failed at pretty much everything else, he deserves one. And Al, well, as everyone knows, Al could talk anyone or anything to sleep—including hurricanes.

UPDATE: In addition, it’s been the mildest summer across the U.S. in a hundred years. We’ve had a few hundred degree days here but not near as many as usual.

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What if Earth orbited Saturn?

Posted on August 24, 2013 | 2 comments

At the same distance we are from Luna (our moon), that is, which is 384,000 kilometers away. A cool video animation, with disinterested drivers in the foreground, gives you an idea of what it would look like.

Of course, the drivers could not be blase about the earthquakes and tidal waves such a thing would cause every minute of every day. Stuff that would make the lying Gorebot (James Taranto: “The guy has more whoppers than a Burger King”) and his climatechange pals look reasonable by comparison.

Via Millard Fillmore’s Bathtub.

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The return of the skunks

Posted on August 19, 2013 | 13 comments

No sooner than our wildlife removal expert admitted defeat, presented his bill and departed with his wire traps, we sighted two more skunks.

A week later, we see them nightly now, and have taken to carrying flashlights whenever we walk to and from the pool (no bees, this year, mercifully) in the back forty to avoid an unfortunate encounter. Except for the whitish stripe on their backs (actually grayish), they are black, after all, and fit in well with the darkness.

We do seem, of course, to be free of raccoons and armadillos, the expert having trapped seven of the former and three of the latter. No skunk smells yet, the original reason for calling the expert. But I have faith in fate. The odors will return and, then, so will the expert. Maybe if we keep him on salary…

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The coming ice age

Posted on August 13, 2013 | 6 comments

Folks at The Weather Channel keep shrieking about global warming making our temps higher than at any time in human history, blah, blah, blah, and their critics keep replying that the temp trend is down, the record is being manipulated and the Earth has been cooling since 2002. Meanwhile word is trickling out of a possible coming ice age.

This 1683 painting The Great Frost by Jan Grifier shows the Thames River in London frozen over with ice three-feet thick. Nobody’s saying that’s going to happen again, but who knows. Don’t look for it in your forecast. Meteorologists are awfully poor at predicting the weather beyond three days and the honest ones admit it.

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Warming lies continue in face of cooling

Posted on July 17, 2013 | 4 comments

“…temperatures have stopped warming in all the data bases going back as far as 1997. All are showing a cooling since 2002 even as CO2 continues to rise.”

So reminds Weather Bell meterologist Joe D’Aleo, as he dissects the Weather Channel’s and NBC’s determination to continue propagandizing global warming in the face of polls showing fewer and fewer Americans believe in it. As well they shouldn’t.

Meanwhile, it’s coming clear that those climate models the “scientist” hoaxers have relied on to forecast future doom for the planet are failing to accurately predict five years into the future, never mind a century.

I still wonder if we aren’t in danger of an imminent Ice Age, re scifi author Larry Niven’s Fallen Angels, now that the Greens he imagined forcing huge reductions in CO2 (bringing on the Glaciers moving south) are actually in power. And their servant Wormtongue is flirting with our economic disaster in his zeal to reduce CO2.

But I’m probably just infected with the gloom-and-doom we’re all been hammered with for the last decade. Pols need distractions to facilitate their ongoing thefts and bribes and this end-of-the-world stuff works nicely.

UPDATE: The hoaxers and their media cronies have the proof! Proof, they tell you. That’s because they’ve manipulated the numbers, cooling the past, so they can keep claiming “this year” is the hottest ever, etc.

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Another reason for the good Texas economy

Posted on July 11, 2013 | Comments Off on Another reason for the good Texas economy

Production in the oil patch is back up to where it was in 1985, “putting [Texas] in the ranks of OPEC heavy hitters like Venezuela, Kuwait and Nigeria.”

Texas alone produced more than a third of April’s U.S. production of 221 million barrels of crude oil.

Now, I suppose, all we have to do is wait for the EPA’s new jobs-squelching regs on CO2 emissions—fighting the myth of climate change, don’t you know—to depress it again.

UPDATE:  And the Port of Houston surpasses NYC in exports, specifically petroleum, coal and chemicals.

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It’s all global warming, of course

Posted on July 4, 2013 | Comments Off on It’s all global warming, of course

Been a pleasant two weeks at the rancho, with highs in the low nineties and night-time lows in the mid-sixties. Even had some rain. Yep. Coolest start to a July since, oh, I don’t know, but there were others prior to the global warming boondoggle that’s become a billion-dollar science research industry courtesy of the feds.

Naturally, the cool has to be caused by the warming, and it’s supposedly something to do with melting Arctic Ice, according to Weather Underground. Everything is, you know. Cold, hot, rain, snow, drought. It’s Global Warming all the time. WeatherBell meteorologist Joe Bastardi explains why, in this case, as in many others, it’s pure bull. And, alas, he predicts we’ll soon be warming back up to our usual July-August stretch of 100-degree days.

UPDATE:  Local meteorologist Bob Rose says it’s the coolest start to July since 1967. I knew there had to be a precedent that had zip to do with AGW.

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