Category Archives: Weather/Climate

Early winter, again

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Winter has arrived, says meteorologist Bob Rose of the Lower Colorado River Authority. About a month early. Cold and raining this week, at least through Wednesday. Then highs only in the 50s. Even some snow forecast but not expected to be cold enough for it to stick. Nothing like the above sat photo of 2004’s record snowfall across South Texas. That dark spot on the upper left edge of the snow line is Lake Travis. I could do without a repeat early winter, the same thing that happened to us last year. But since global temps haven’t been warming for twelve years now (contrary to the delusional convictions of so-called climate "scientists" and other warm-mongering politicians) I suppose we have to expect it.

Warmergate, Climategate, or Climaquiddick

The one-world government boys are hot to deny that there’s any truth to Warmergate. Not surprising. If you were in service to dictators who finally had a chance to destroy the economies of the Western democracies with their very own cooperation, would you back down?

This is the best roundup I’ve seen on the whole fiasco, from the Y2K Glitch and the Arctic Ice Melt to the Poor Polar Bears, the Hockey Stick That Wasn’t, and the Tree Ring Circus. Don’t look for any of this in American newspapers, however. They’d have to back up too far. They’ve been cheerleaders for a long time. At least the Wall Street Journal’s op-ed gives credit where credit is due: the Web.

Fortunately, Brit newspapers are rising to the occasion, which is appropriate considering that the Warmergate (Mark Steyn’s felicitous term) ground zero is at the East Anglia Climate Research Unit in their backyard. 

Via The Seablogger.

The “Greenhouse Effect” Scam

New research says the so-called Greenhouse Effect, the basis of the IPCC’s report and the EPA’s new regs on carbon dioxide emissions, not only cannot be verified but violates the laws of physics:

"Thus, scientific support for the man-made global warming hoax slowly collapses while politicians rush to lock in massive international wealth-redistribution in its name. Those pesky ‘greenhouse gases’ just don’t behave in a politically correct manner."

Not that this or anything else is likely to slow down the Democrats mad rush for higher taxes for a "solution."

Via The Seablogger.

There is no law of averages

As Barry prepares to jet off to Copenhagen to promise to continue our descent to the poorhouse by cutting our carbon emissions to make the dictator’s club (i.e. the UN) happy, the climate naysaying is mounting.

Statistician, AMS member and blogger William M. Briggs shows the illogic in Barry’s logic:

"Diminishing glaciers did not prove AGW; they were instead a verification that ice melts when it gets hot. Fewer polar bears did not count in favor of AGW; it instead perhaps meant that maybe adult bears prefer a chill to get in the mood. People sidling up to microphones and trumpeting ‘It’s bad out there, worse than we thought!’ was not evidence of AGW; it was evidence of how easily certain people could work themselves into a lather."

Briggs is the self-published author of an amusing book on the law of averages that isn’t.

Meanwhile, Canadian businessman Stephen McIntyre, the famous blogger debunker of the infamous hockey stick "proof" for AGW gets a timely writeup in the WSJ.

Even (gasp) cBS is weighing in objectively (what will they think of next) on the hacked emails.

And blogger Megan McArdle, who (cough, spit) actually believes in AGW, notes the real problem with those emails: the major climate model predicting doom ahead could be rubbish. A little item financed in part by (you guessed it) the American taxpayer.

Oops, now there’s more climate science faking in New Zealand.

So will Barry notice any of this stuff and unbutton if not completely remove his climate hairshirt and spend more time trying to get our economy back on track? Naw. That’s above his pay grade. Apparently.

Plane Stupid

Planestupid.com’s "beware global warming" ad has polar bears raining from the sky. They leave big blood smears as they smack into the sides of buildings on the way down. Besides being designed to upset children, it’s a really stupid (also sickening) ad for a cause that’s increasingly acknowledged to be fraudulent. Propaganda at its most preposterous.

Science fraud

The anthropogenic global warming guys have been whacked again and again and, now, again. But these scientific fraudsters (in it to keep their research funding and salaries healthy) keep rolling on. Barry may be sliding on Cap & Trade, but the EPA still is penalizing emitters of carbon dioxide and trying to put the coal industry out of business. So even if Copenhagen now deserves to be stopped in its tracks, the "climate-change" circus likely will keep traveling on for a while longer.

Via the Seablogger and Power Line.

More rain

Nice, seasonally-normal event tonight and tomorrow. Some thunderstorms expected and amounts up to two inches in spots. Result of a low-pressure trough moving in from the west which is drawing in moisture from the Gulf of Mexico.