Doctor Zero goes all out on Copenhagen and its calls for squeezing industrial economies:
"We’re not going to politely ignore swarms of private jets and limos ferrying you to carbon-belching ‘climate summits,’ where you draw up plans for the Western proletariat to live as primitive hunter-gatherers."
Heh. Worth a look.
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Posted in Obamalot, Science/Engineering, Weather/Climate
Tagged AGW, Climategate, Copenhagen, Doctor Zero, global warming, Hot Air
This is the fraudulent "hockey stick" that is the basis of the Copenhagen meeting seeking to transform the world economy by impoverishing the West. All in service to a charade that plenty of Web wanderers can see while the Legacy Media and most politicians ignore it for their own reasons.
Best brief explanation of the complicated subject I’ve seen is Sammy Benoit’s here. With luck we’ll dodge the Copenhagen clowns, and their disgraceful "scientist" partners, but Barry’s EPA’s plan to regulate our whole economy via carbon dioxide emissions may trump them yet.
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Posted in Weather/Climate
Tagged carbon dioxide, Copenhagen, EPA, Hockey Stick, Michael Mann, Mike's Nature Trick, Sammy Benoit
And that’s just tonight. There’s plenty more to come, according to LCRA meteorologist Bob Rose:
"It’s interesting to note that some of today’s long-range forecast data is showing much of the country, including Texas, getting very cold in the period around Christmas. It’s too early to tell anything about precipitation this far out but as far as temperature goes, the last couple of weeks of December could end up being very cold."
It’s more than interesting. It follows the recent sleeping sun and mocks the warmist scammers in the most direct way. Me, I’d prefer to have a normal Texas winter, i.e. confined to January where it belongs.
Alas, Accuweather’s Joe Bastardi expects our Xmas to mimic the one of 82-83 83-84 when Austin spent almost a week below freezing, even in the daytime, and in the thaw afterward water pipes burst all over town. Yech.
FREAK WINDS: Guadalupe Mountains of West Texas were not a good place to be yesterday: "An automated weather station operated by the US Forecast Service about 2 miles north-northwest of Pine Springs reported a wind gust to 105 miles per hour."
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Posted in Weather/Climate
Tagged early Texas winter, hard freeze, very cold Texas Christmas
"In 2002 I stood in a room of the Smithsonian. One entire wall charted the cooling of our globe over the last 60 million years. This was no straight line. The curve had two steep dips followed by leveling. There were no significant warming periods…Last year, I went back. That fresco is painted over…Hey, why should the Smithsonian put its tax-free status at risk? If the politicians decide to whip up public fear in a different direction, get with it, oh ye subsidized servants."
Heh. Read. It. All.
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Posted in Obamalot, Science/Engineering, Weather/Climate
Tagged Gary Sutton, Smithsonian Institution, The Fiction of Climate Science
But, then, the forecast for it says "mainly before noon" with total accumulation of less than half an inch. The temperature, however, is hovering in the upper 30s, possibly too warm for snow. Except that the forecast calls for it to drop below freezing by 6 p.m. with a hard freeze overnight.
Austin-Travis County EMS, meanwhile, reported an hour ago that the aerial flyovers on U.S. 183 near I-35 have icey conditions and there’ve been several collisions in the vicinity. We’re watching it because Mrs. C. plans to head for Houston in a few hours for the weekend.
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Posted in Mrs. Charm, Rancho Roly Poly, Weather/Climate
Weather historians would say it’s unlikely that tomorrow’s forecast 2-4 inches of snow can possibly come true. It’s been five years since we had any snow at all and that was barely enough to make a snowball.
But, then, after twelve years of global cooling and an extended solar minimum, the trend is headed that way. Our winters have been coming earlier and a very cold Canadian air mass is scheduled to push through this afternoon.
Just checked the latest weather service update, however, and they’re already pooh-poohing the previously anticipated amount of snow. A low cloud deck is pushing eastward and the atmosphere is drying such that "as of right now the trend is down for accumulating snows on Friday." Looks like flurries are most likely. Whew.
UPDATE: Revised forecast at 1 p.m. has snow accumulation of less than half an inch. More like it.
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Posted in Rancho Roly Poly, Texana, Weather/Climate
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