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Big storms a comin’

Posted on March 17, 2008 | Comments Off on Big storms a comin’

Just in time to boost the bluebonnet crop, the rancho is under a flash-flood watch today through tomorrow–with low-level moisture streaming north from the Gulf of Mexico while a Pacific storm system tracks across the southwest tonight. The Austin-New Braunfels radar so far is showing only pockets of dappled green, but I guess that’s going to chance by this afternoon–possibly, unfortunately, smack in the middle of Mr. B.’s little league team’s second game of the season.

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A little math problem

Posted on March 7, 2008 | Comments Off on A little math problem

We already knew the global-warming temperature data was skewed by simple bureaucratic ineptitude. Now we learn that the eighty-six-year-old equation greenhouse-effect believers use is flawed. Making the whole global warming scam even scammier that it looked before. Al Gore, call your banker.

Via Fresh Bilge. 

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Tornadoes

Posted on March 6, 2008 | Comments Off on Tornadoes

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Kid clerk at the hardware store got my attention a while ago when he said there was a tornado down around Goliad that the TV said was headed this way, along with a storm bringing freezing rain. Winter’s last gasp, I guess. As for the tornado, I doubt it. We are under a severe thunderstorm alert, but mainly to the east and southeast of the rancho. The last time a tornado hit in Austin was eighty-six years ago–May 4, 1922, pictured above–and, while it killed thirteen and injured forty-four, it didn’t do much damage as it wasn’t on the ground for long. 

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Climate Debate Daily

Posted on February 24, 2008 | Comments Off on Climate Debate Daily

Global warming threat or global warming bamboozle? Get both sides of the alleged anthropogenic issue, daily. I like this new site by two New Zealand professors so much that I blogrolled it. It’s the very thing the poltroonish MSM should be giving us, but, having pretty much come down on the threat side, can’t be trusted to do it consistently.

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Snickup in Lampassas

Posted on February 15, 2008 | Comments Off on Snickup in Lampassas

Nice town, Lampassas. Just a few score miles northwest of the rancho, actually. The snickup referred to, to use Mr. Boy’s term, is by the federal government, of course: A government temperature sensor right smack in the middle of the urban heat island. Brilliant. Result? An artificial warming trend. One more part of the Global Warming Scam beloved by politicians, like Al Gore, who have nothing better to do. Like closing the border or winning the war. A previous example shows Lampassas is not alone.

Thanks to Rene’s Apple.

UPDATE: Despite such obvious flaws in the ointment, the Californicators want to teach GW in the schools.

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Cedar pollen declining at last

Posted on February 1, 2008 | Comments Off on Cedar pollen declining at last

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Says here, via KVUE, that it’s medium, but it feels like a lot less, at least around the rancho. Yesterday when I ventured out to pick up Mr. B. from school I came back with a snootfull, itching eyes and plenty of sneezing. Today, nothing. Usually, all the high wind we’ve been having the last few days, stirs more pollen into the air. But, this time, it seems to have blown what was there away, which probably means the season is almost over. Which is fine with me.

UPDATE:  Down even more Saturday morning. No more Prisoner of Zenda routine for me. 

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Mr. Boy’s Dictionary

Posted on January 26, 2008 | Comments Off on Mr. Boy’s Dictionary

Wet and Despair: What he calls these gray, overcast and rainy days we’ve been having. More here.

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