Category Archives: Weather/Climate

Battles of Wikipedia

Posted on June 1, 2015 | 3 comments

“There was the day in February [2008] when an editor replaced a photo of Hillary on her Wikipedia page with a picture of a walrus. Then there was the day this month [March 2008] when a Hillary supporter changed Obama’s bio so that it referred to him as ‘a Kenyan-American politician.'”

The problem of all encyclopedias, i.e. editorial bias, is sharpened by Wikipedia’s voluntary editing and real-time updating. These days it’s most obvious in the ongoing struggle over global warming/climate change (a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Democrat Party) in manipulated Wikipedia entries about the climate blog What’s Up With That. It’ll be back to political infighting in next year’s presidential campaigns.

Nevertheless, as you will see from the widget at the bottom left of this page, I support Wikipedia for what it indispensably is: a pretty good internet encyclopedia. You just have to read it with a suspicious eye sometimes.

But that was also true of the Britannica and the World Book set I had as a kid.

Via WUWT

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Never mind El Nino, floods are global warming

Posted on May 28, 2015 | 1 comment

Bill Nye, the funny-looking dude with outlandish bow ties plays a nerd on television. And he likes to link his global warming shuck to every disaster. Hence it not only caused the Texas drought. It’s now the cause of the Texas floods.

Never mind the widely-acknowledged culprit, by Accuweather & others called El Nino.

“Nye thinks his alarmism that blames every, single weather event on manmade global warming is just what’s needed to convince more people that the alarmist camp knows what it is talking about,” —Twitchy.

Pity there’s been no global warming recorded for seventeen years now. But that doesn’t stop Nye, Our Little Barry and their warmist cronies, including Texas Tech’s climate “expert” Katherine Hayhoe. Their shuck goes on and on and on.

UPDATE:  And never forget OLB’s best pal and fellow race baiter, Al Sharpton, who also brings God’s wrath into the equation. How convenient. MIA with all of them is the old saw well known to Texas natives that our droughts always end in floods.

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Global warming quickies

Posted on April 19, 2015 | 1 comment

I’ll believe in global warming/ climate change when alligators are swimming in the Potomac River. You know, real reptiles, as opposed to the bipedal federal variety.

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Back in the warm

Posted on March 24, 2015 | 1 comment

Forecast to hit 80 degrees F today at the rancho, for first time in months. Yee-haw. We’ve had more rain than usual, as well, though May is our wettest month, on average.

I thought the damn winter would never end. And it hasn’t in some places up in Yankeeland. Bring on the global warming. I’m more than ready for something besides chill.

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Dissin’ the Pecos

Posted on February 18, 2015 | 1 comment

“In Texas, I had crossed over the Pecos River, which I had read of in many stories. You could have easily walked across the Pecos River without getting your feet wet.”

Now, now, let’s be fair. Depends on the season and the location. The Pecos feeds a reservoir close to the Texas-New Mexico state line, where a hydroelectric plant pumps out the electrons daily. There’s even whitewater canoeing thereabouts, and usually enough water all the rest of the way to the Rio Grande without any walking necessary. It could be belly-deep on a horse in the late 1850s.

Late spring, early summer and mid-to-late fall are the best times for good flow.

Via Alexandria.

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The Israeli car that runs on air…

Posted on January 22, 2015 | 3 comments

…and water and aluminum. Or zinc. And no CO2. All you need, every few hundred miles, is a new dose of water. Pretty cool. Maybe we should ask J.D., our favorite chemist, what he thinks, eh?

Via United With Israel.

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Posted in Blogosphere, Israel, The Economy, Weather/Climate

That federal warmest evah claim

Posted on January 16, 2015 | 2 comments

2014, we’re told today by NASA and NOAA, was the planet’s warmest year evah. (Er, make that “evah” since record-keeping began in—get this—1880.)

What we’re not told by the trumpets of the snooze media is that 2014 was the warmest year evah by the teeny-tiny measure of four one-hundredths of a degree.

Whoppingly warm, eh? Truly toasty, for sure.

And, at that tiny amount, very likely a measurement error.

Via Watts Up With That.

UPDATE:  From Joe D’Aleo at WeatherBell:  “We know there are significant differences urban versus rural, mountain versus valley, land versus water, forest versus grassland, etc.. Trying to create a dataset with one number representing the Global Average Temperatures is a daunting task…”

But not necessarily so hard when your aim is political to begin with.

Indeed, as Judith Curry at Climate Etc. put it on Jan. 20: “Naive scientist that I am, it didn’t occur to me until last night that the timing of the NASA/NOAA [news release] on warmest year was motivated by the timing of the President’s SOTU address…”

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