Category Archives: Weather/Climate

Big snow

Posted on February 5, 2010 | Comments Off on Big snow

Can’t say I’d mind seeing D.C. buried by a blizzard for a while, so long as Veeshir has a full pantry and keeps his power. Serves the home of hot air right. Can you say Cap & Trade?

I worry more about Mr. B.’s godfather, Richard Torovsky, at the Reveille Vineyards in the rural Shenandoah. Been snowing heavy all day out there, he said on the landline a few minutes ago, and is still coming down hard tonight. More is expected tomorrow. The  snow is not up to his porch yet but it’s wet snow and it packs like concrete. Fortunately, he has a 4-ton, 4-wheel drive tractor to get around on.

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Up she rises

Posted on February 5, 2010 | Comments Off on Up she rises

The Brazos, that is, according to JDAllen and Bob Dunn, here and here. They ought to know, the river being in their backyards, more or less. I need to drive down off the mountain and see if Shoal Creek is rushing white-water yet.

She gets that way after all the rain we’ve been having. “Like this weather?” the fish man asked me the other day at the H-E-B. Does anybody?, I replied. He said no more. Actually, all this rain will have a good result: the Bluebonnets and other wildflowers should be really good in a few more weeks.

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UN’s proof of warming? Anecdotes

Posted on January 31, 2010 | Comments Off on UN’s proof of warming? Anecdotes

Is the science settled? What science? The IPCC proof of melting ice in the Alps, Andes and Africa was a magazine article and a student dissertation. Both relied on interviews with mountaineers and their unscientific opinions. This global warming hoax just keeps getting plainer and plainer.

Via Drudge.

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The Wind Power Shuck

Posted on January 30, 2010 | Comments Off on The Wind Power Shuck

Blast from the past. 2010:

Barry and his party would have us believe they can tax coal power plants out of business and we’ll all get by on wind and solar power. Uh, huh. Except for people in the snow belt:

“Minnesota invested itself in alternative energy sources years ago, and so the revelation that the state spent $3.3 million on eleven wind turbines hardly qualifies as news. However, the fact that they don’t work in cold weather does.”

Well, the state can always sue the manufacturer. Hee. And Minnesotans can be thankful they still have coal-power electricity to keep them warm. So far, anyhow.

Via Hot Air.

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Bolivar Point lighthouse

Posted on January 23, 2010 | Comments Off on Bolivar Point lighthouse

BolivarTX

This iron-plate landmark, which still stands though it’s inoperative and closed to the public, began operation in 1852. During the great hurricane that wrecked Galveston in 1900, more than a hundred people survived by crowding onto its spiral staircase to escape the tidal surge.

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Cedar Fever is back

Posted on January 19, 2010 | Comments Off on Cedar Fever is back

I had thought, with all the recent rain, it would have washed the pollen out of the air. But noooo. Doesn’t help that daytime temps are back in the 70s. KVUE’s pollen counters expect high numbers through the end of the month.

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Reprieve for those Himalayan glaciers

Posted on January 17, 2010 | Comments Off on Reprieve for those Himalayan glaciers

Hundreds of feet thick ice in the Himalayas has been under threat of melting for two years now from, what else, global warming. Now the United Nations is riding to the rescue. Their agency for “climate change” is, uh, reconsidering.

Seems they had zero proof after all. Just an old New Scientist clipping they liked. So they made it the centerpiece of their alleged “latest research” report in 2007. Now they’ve been caught out. Oops. Al Gore, call your publicist!

UPDATE:  Why the mistake? A number of reasons, including a typo: “…predicted date for shrinkage of the world total from 500,000 to 100,000 km2 is 2350, not 2035.” More here. Hee.

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