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Pansy: the rancho’s cold weather flower

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Posted on November 30, 2011 in Rancho Roly Poly, Weather/Climate

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More rain this week?

Posted on November 21, 2011 | Comments Off on More rain this week?

So says WeatherBELL meteorologist Joe Bastardi (formerly of Accuweather):

“Rain is coming for Round Rock  and surrounding environs in the southern plains  early [this] week and  it’s something that is at a premium in a La Nina winter.  The  area from the Trans Pecos  northeast through  northeast Texas and into Oklahoma and Arkansas  could have widespread  1-2 inch amounts…”

Of course this is similar to the forecasts last week, when we got a mere quarter inch altogether. We’ll have to hope Mr. Bastardi knows better.

Meanwhile his colleague, Dr. Dewpoint (Joe D’Aleo), sketches out the wholly natural and therefore repeating AMO and PMO causes of our ongoing drought:

“We have many Texans reading our blogs and the serious drought has affected their lives. Almost every year, other parts of the world have experienced serious drought.  It is of course most likely in areas that are semi-arid to begin with but sometimes extends into areas where rainfall is normally abundant.“

UPDATE: As of Wednesday, Nov. 23, we’ve had about an inch of rain with more expected Friday-Saturday. No drought-buster, but welcome.

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Posted in Blogosphere, Rancho Roly Poly, Scribbles, Texana, Weather/Climate

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Climate change is normal

Posted on November 7, 2011 | Comments Off on Climate change is normal

Indeed, the only constant in climate is change, trending one way for a while and then another—generally depending on solar and ocean temperature cycles, such as El Nino and La Nina.

The melting of the northern ice cap, for instance, comes and goes, while the southern ice cap (known as Antarctica) isn’t melting at all. Look at this photo of the American and British submarines surfaced at the North Pole in 1987.

If that situation was definitive, 24 years later there would be no ice there. Instead, we’re being warned again, by the usual government-funded climate “experts”, the tax-hungry pols and their media cronies, that the northern ice is melting. Sure is a slow melt.

UPDATE:  Meanwhile, the continental USA has not warmed in a decade, summers (despite this past one in Texas) are getting cooler and winter is getting colder. And that is  according to the feds.

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Posted in Obamalot, Science/Engineering, Weather/Climate

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Rural rebellion

Posted on November 1, 2011 | Comments Off on Rural rebellion

In, of all places, Democrat-liberal-socialist California:

“….government regulators are pursuing controversial policies – i.e., diverting water from farms to save a bait fish, the Delta smelt, clamping down on carbon dioxide emissions to address global warming even if it means driving food processors out of the Central Valley, demolishing dams to increase a population of fish that isn’t endangered – without caring about the costs to rural residents.”

Tired of federal-enforcement of global warming yet? It’s only just begun.

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Irony: Big rain dampens AGW hype

Posted on October 10, 2011 | Comments Off on Irony: Big rain dampens AGW hype

We’ve had 2.5 inches of rain at the rancho in the past forty-eight hours, with more forecast, though radar indicates the cells are heading away from us. Not unusual (despite our big drought) for October, which usually sees rain after the heat and high pressure of spring-summer-early-fall dissipate.

Delicious irony, as well, after the daily invited some local journo student group to weigh in with a big Sunday story on how (get this) drought and heat are our “new normal” thanks to impending AGW—which, the story proclaims, most Texas scientists agree is happening, so we’re in big, big trouble.

For one thing, the students are ignorant of Texas history, in which drought and heat are very much the “old normal.” And the rest of their argument is the familiar “consensus” wheeze of the ignorant. The critical mass of scientists, etc., as if science (like politics) was decided by majority vote.

These young journos are as clueless as the old ones who teach them. Probably for that reason. Fortunately they’ll have a lot harder time finding jobs to propagandize us. As for the “scientists,” these “climatologists” need to change their name to “cosmetologists.” They’re more about the latest trend in face powder and lipstick than climate.

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Posted in Rancho Roly Poly, Texana, Weather/Climate

It’s wetter than normal in Texas

Posted on September 27, 2011 | Comments Off on It’s wetter than normal in Texas

Yep. As you see here in this graphic posted by Weather Bell meteorologist Joe Bastardi, in response to Obamalot’s verbal whacking of Gov. Perry for daring to criticizing AGW while dry brush here burns up homes and lives.

I can forgive Obamalot this once. He certainly doesn’t know that drought is our normal condition, Bastardi’s nice graphic here notwithstanding. On the other hand it’s nice to see we’ve been getting so much rain. Heh.

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History lesson for Al Gore

Posted on September 25, 2011 | Comments Off on History lesson for Al Gore

“The Great Hurricane of 1780, also known as Hurricane San Calixto, the Great Hurricane of the Antilles, and the 1780 Disaster is the deadliest Atlantic hurricane on record.

“Over 20,000 people died when the storm passed through the Lesser Antilles in the Caribbean between October 10 and October 16. Specifics on the hurricane’s track and strength are unknown since the official Atlantic hurricane database only goes back to 1851.”

This was long before carbon dioxide from fossil fuels began to accumulate in the atmosphere. Hurricane Katrina, et al, have been pikers by comparison.

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