http://www.investors.com/editorial/editorialcontent.asp?secid=1501&status=article&id=315533893763712
and this
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/environment/environment-minister-sammy-wilson-i-still-think-manmade-climate-change-is-a-con-14123972.html
What if it cools like the little ice age? Have any of them considered that it's a lot more difficult to live in cold like that. Glad I live in San Diego. At least we won't freeze here...hopefully.
Wednesday, December 31, 2008
Saturday, December 27, 2008
As 2008 ends so does man made global warming
The below link is a great article summarizing exactly what happened in global warming this year. Things are looking a bit chilly for the alarmists now.
2008 was the year man-made global warming was disproved
2008 was the year man-made global warming was disproved
Monday, December 22, 2008
Just a garden variety rant
If you talk to the global warming crowd they will all remember that July in 2006; I believe it was July 16th or so where the temperature rose to astronomical highs. It was 105.3 in my backyard by San Diego State University. I found a link to noaa for July 15th but no records for July 16th. I don't know why they have disappeared from their site as those temperatures should have helped the global warming mongers.
Now my point...They all remember that day, that anomaly, but will they remember the freeze of January 2007? We came back from a cruise to the Mexican Riviera and it looked like San Diego just stepped out of a big walk in freezer. Numerous plants died from the cold and lots of pipes cracked. This wasn't the anomaly it was the warning of what is to come...and has come. This coming summer (2009) will people remember this 2008-2009 winter and what it has done to the country. The warm cycle has clearly run out and we're entering a cold one. This is normal, get used to it. Things will warm up again as they always have. The sun has been giving us hints for the last year that this was coming (lack of sun spots). It got cool now we got fricken cold. Looks like the earth doesn't have that stupid fever anymore unless they're gonna call this the shivers. Boneheads.
I'm going to go stand by the fire now, I'm cold.
Now my point...They all remember that day, that anomaly, but will they remember the freeze of January 2007? We came back from a cruise to the Mexican Riviera and it looked like San Diego just stepped out of a big walk in freezer. Numerous plants died from the cold and lots of pipes cracked. This wasn't the anomaly it was the warning of what is to come...and has come. This coming summer (2009) will people remember this 2008-2009 winter and what it has done to the country. The warm cycle has clearly run out and we're entering a cold one. This is normal, get used to it. Things will warm up again as they always have. The sun has been giving us hints for the last year that this was coming (lack of sun spots). It got cool now we got fricken cold. Looks like the earth doesn't have that stupid fever anymore unless they're gonna call this the shivers. Boneheads.
I'm going to go stand by the fire now, I'm cold.
Not too hard to read betweent the lines here...
"I wish to point out, with no malice intended, that the two countries who have major scientific organizations that have been pushing the global warming idea, Britain and the UKMET and the US with NOAA have been burned by the cold that has developed here. NOAA had a December forecast for a warm central US for November that they were forced to revise and the UKMET forecast for a rather bland winter for Europe speaks for itself. Its anything but bland, whether it averages out near the average or not, because what is coming has not been seen in years."
This is from Joe Bastardi's (of Accuweather) blog. Read his post to see what his opinions are of the thought that the world is coming to and end.
Looks like they're freezing their asses off in Europe too. Go figure.
This is from Joe Bastardi's (of Accuweather) blog. Read his post to see what his opinions are of the thought that the world is coming to and end.
Looks like they're freezing their asses off in Europe too. Go figure.
I sure hope it's not too late
We digressed a bit with all of the obamamania but we're back on track now. Could it be too late for Canada? I found this article about how Canada is going to have the first white Christmas across the WHOLE country in about 40 years. Here's an excerpt: Environment Canada senior climatologist David Phillips told CTV Newsnet that "it looks like a very good chance" it will be a white Christmas for all parts of Canada for the first time since 1971.
Thursday, December 18, 2008
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Where did algores consensus go?
This nifty little article seems to fly in the face of algore. What are we to believe now? Better get your parkas.
Sunday, November 16, 2008
OOPS
Trust me, October was a really really hot month
seems as if NASA made up temperatures and then said it was hot.
seems as if NASA made up temperatures and then said it was hot.
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Thursday, September 18, 2008
OBAMA HAS A PURTY MOUTH
Senator Obama (D-Galilee) has adopted the "Justin Timberlake Defense" rather than nut up about his lipstick slur. A gentleman would have apologized, but then again, a real man wouldn't have said it. Since all is now fair, apparently, I give you, in the voice of an angry Hillary voter (do I repeat myself?):
OBAMA HAS A PURTY MOUTH
Barry, you... dear,
Did this sow's ear
Hear right or are you joking?
Even Slow Joe
Appears to know
Whose pig it is you're poking.
Your lame denial
Just makes us smile
When we see your tiny prick
Of conscience
But you lack sense
If you think we'll forget quick
How Gadarenes
Of the mainstream
Pressed to cup your silken purse.
Ignorant swine,
In slow decline,
Swallowing your pearls (or worse).
Phony Jesus,
You can't please us.
You're one more flaccid porker.
No boar: a bore,
A boor, a snore--
Our Hill? O!, how'd you dork her?
Play your race card
You soft, and hard-
ly high-toned, politician.
Ow! (uh?) you howl?
You dare cry foul
'Bout a "common expression"? .!..
So now we're fish,
You metro swish?
Stick your finger in our eyes?
Well, "Pigs" will do--
We'll vote for you
On the day that we can fly.
Sarah Palin
Is impaling
YOU, and you WILL remember:
It's YOUR lipstick
On your wee stick
That we'll mock in November.
OBAMA HAS A PURTY MOUTH
Barry, you... dear,
Did this sow's ear
Hear right or are you joking?
Even Slow Joe
Appears to know
Whose pig it is you're poking.
Your lame denial
Just makes us smile
When we see your tiny prick
Of conscience
But you lack sense
If you think we'll forget quick
How Gadarenes
Of the mainstream
Pressed to cup your silken purse.
Ignorant swine,
In slow decline,
Swallowing your pearls (or worse).
Phony Jesus,
You can't please us.
You're one more flaccid porker.
No boar: a bore,
A boor, a snore--
Our Hill? O!, how'd you dork her?
Play your race card
You soft, and hard-
ly high-toned, politician.
Ow! (uh?) you howl?
You dare cry foul
'Bout a "common expression"? .!..
So now we're fish,
You metro swish?
Stick your finger in our eyes?
Well, "Pigs" will do--
We'll vote for you
On the day that we can fly.
Sarah Palin
Is impaling
YOU, and you WILL remember:
It's YOUR lipstick
On your wee stick
That we'll mock in November.
Sunday, August 17, 2008
YIKES!
http://www.wunderground.com/US/CO/040.html
... Record low maximum temperature set in Denver for August 16th 2008...
58 degrees!!!!!!
118 years ago the old record was 63 degrees
... Record low maximum temperature set in Denver for August 16th 2008...
58 degrees!!!!!!
118 years ago the old record was 63 degrees
Friday, August 15, 2008
Thursday, June 26, 2008
The Lamb of Chicago unveils his seal
and there follows silence for the space of about half an hour. To fill that void, herewith:
THE CANDIDATE GENERAL'S SONG
(after Gilbert and Sullivan (and Iowahawk!); to be played on a rusty calliope)
I'm the very model of a modern Candidate-General.
I've information vegetable (especially arugul...)
Uh...uh... O! I am clean and bright and uh...uh... articulate.
Did I ever tell you, from Harvard Law did I matriculate?
I'm very well acquainted, too, with people communistical.
I ditch them when they "dis" me Kos I'm very egotistical.
With my flip-flopping positions, it seems I'm always in the news.
But be assured I'll screw Israel Kos it's full of fucking Joos
But be assured He'll screw Israel Kos it's full of fucking Joos!
We're sure He'll screw Israel with a "Farrakhan you" to the Joos!
Yes, rest assured He'll screw Israel Kos it's Pfleging full of Joos!
Tell the bitter clingy yokels I'm THE post racial candidate
Do not look behind the curtain; ignore my church that preaches hate.
I said, in matters vegetable (especially arugul...)
Uh, let's say I'm a suitable modern Candidate General.
He said, in matters vegetable (especially arugul...)
O! says that He's a suitable modern Candidate General.
You have read my mythic histories, how Barry became Barack.
Who's sayin' Obama cannot win? This election is a lock!
I need to buy a longer bus cuz there's no more room below it.
That's where past and present friends go cuz I don't intend to blow it.
Samantha Powers and Jim Johnson and ole Jeremiah Wright
Goolsby and my own Grandma (did I ever tell you she is white?).
My flag-trampling friend Bill Ayers, yes, the man I barely even know,
Has an "explosive" personality, so he'll be last to go.
His "explosive" personality, ensures he'll be last to go!
It's just like it was in the 60's: he's always the last to go!
If your Daddy always paid your bills, then you would be last to go!
In Illinois or D.C., I've never written legislation.
Hope and change! And... change and hope! are all I need to run this nation.
I said, in matters vegetable (I really dig arugul...)
Uh... Hey! Why shouldn't I be your modern Candidate General?
He said, in matters vegetable (He wants some more arugul...).
Uh... Hey! Why shouldn't He be our modern Candidate General?
Gather round my children and hear of my birth parthenogenic.
Where? No one cares! But for that, I've a memory photogenic.
No Rezko, no reward, I say, and I'm the chance you have to take.
George's third or Jimmy's second--a momentous choice for you to make.
I'll pick Judges with my heart--behold your superlegislature!
Recede, ye tides (Canute abides); let us all go back to nature.
First, turn in your smokes (I need the tokes; gum and patches will not do).
Now take your naps, then it's dreamcatchers, kumbayas and scoubidou.
We'll take our naps, then it's dreamcatchers, kumbayas and scoubidou!
Did you hear that, Shaggy? Dreamcatchers, kumbayas and Scooby Doo!
The lightworker bestows dreamcatchers, kumbayas and more for you!
Look on my works, ye puny: I'm the reborn Ozymandias.
Your usual lives are past. Just ask "What does He demand of us?"
Now eat your matters vegetable (but leave for Me arugul...)
Uh... Well, ain't I more than just your modern Candidate General?
We'll eat our matters vegetable (but for divine arugul...)
Uh! This tastes gross, but He's our modern Candidate General.
In my youth I went around the world, and studied in madrassa.
Michelle says the worm has turned: Whitey, behold your new Messiah.
I don't know jack 'bout wars and such: only that I'll bring the troops home.
I have got a shiny pretty seal; it only lacks a coxcomb.
John McSame is a confused old lame, but don't let it get you down:
I'll tax your gas, brunch in Tehran, and I'll bike all around the town.
Hey, it's tricky to rock a rhyme that's right on time, tr-tr- tricky.
But I'm a Candidate General so tricky, so tr-trrrrrrrrricky!
He is a Candidate General so tricky, so tr-trrrrrrrrricky!
He's tricky, so Tricky Dicky tricky (how is it B?) Tricky!
For a hopey changey changer, He's ticky tacky tr-trrrrrrrrricky!
My father figures taught me, when you act, do so audaciously.
Had Hillary just dumped Bill, she'd have won this so bodaciously.
That said, in matters vegetable (hands off of my arugul...)
Uh... Ha! Suckas! I'm your only modern Candidate General.
Again? With matters vegetable (and what's with the arugul...)?
Uh... Ok, The Possum is our modern Candidate General.
I've got my cash, it's quite the stash, and I will spend it as I please.
I pledged WHAT? Soros says MoveOn.org, I've tyrants to appease.
Anointed not elected; let us not think of twenty-twelve.
Free health care, and roses everywhere; no depths I will not delve.
Forgiven loans, and pinafores and (why not?) Alinsky primers
I'm your blank screen, your empty suit, to put fruit on my kids' dinners.
I'll shit unicorns and rainbows--y amigos, si se puede!
Solar bikes on moonlit nights; at my name, you'll want to cry Mayday!
Solar bikes on moonlit nights; at His name we'll want to cry Mayday!
Why not trikes, on sunlit nights? We hear His name and we cry Mayday!
He is Alpha and Omega and soon you will all cry Mayday!
I bend the laws of space and time; everything is malleable.
I'm Kenyan, Muslim, apostate; yet this year I am "sale"able.
Listen, in matters vegetable (You know I mean arugul...)
Uh... Screw you! I'm your new eternal Presidente General.
We've heard, in matters vegetable (for Barack's sake! arugul...)
Uh... Screw us? We sought a Christ, not a Presidente General.
Global warming cooling climate change, I'll milk it for its worth, fools
If I play my cards right, I'll soon be Emperor of the North Poles.
I decree there'll be no more drilling, whether off our shores or no.
You no like?--take a hike (you need the walk) ANWR you gonna go?!
Scarlett hearts me, artsy-fartsy hearts me! But it's all political
Michelle I tell you. You believe her or your shrewd politico?
OW! Motherf... Of my children. Tell me true: Is it my socks again?
Let us "dap", but just a tap. OW! Michelle you...'re pretty in the rain?
Don't look at us, You are on Your own. (In four years we'll try again)
No, huh? You're the Rock of my uh... Gibraltar! Let us off to Spain!
OW! Motherf... Uh... OW! The press is here. OW! and soon we must deplane?
She's the best--she rules this nest, and "pulli domum adsidere"
It's bacon and waffles until I die, or out on my derri-
Airs, airs, (and a well-timed hook) have laid me low. Don't look funereal.
Know this: you may duck and weave, but must tack right for the General.
No Chorus? In my few years, I've used these flap-doodle ears: hear all,
You may duck, bob and weave, but you must tack right for the General.
Coming, Dear and Chief! Uh... I was momentarily distracted.
No, NOT her. FAUX News claims our campaign is verily impacted.
O! and all the Greenwalds too? Am I losing the progressives?
McCain wants a hundred years of war, our country is recessive.
Berate the Manchurian Candidate; talk about his temper.
Then juxtapose my baritone with his whiny little timbre.
Some will sigh, but 'til pigs fly, I'll decry his negativity.
They'll be sold, return to my fold and sing of my nativity.
Truth be told, this is getting old. No time for inactivity.
Though in tales old the wolf on the fold fell before passivity
Our tinpot god must give a nod to our new aggressivity.
You'll come back, come back to worship my intellect so towering.
I'm not the Me you knew, but remember: I don't do cowering.
Fifty-seven states--some will take my bait and then I'll win her all.
Wait! It's staff's mistake! I have to speak in tongues for the general!
... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... (chirp, chirp) ... ... ... ... ... ...
... --- ... ... --- ... ... --- ... ... --- ... ... --- ... ....
THE CANDIDATE GENERAL'S SONG
(after Gilbert and Sullivan (and Iowahawk!); to be played on a rusty calliope)
I'm the very model of a modern Candidate-General.
I've information vegetable (especially arugul...)
Uh...uh... O! I am clean and bright and uh...uh... articulate.
Did I ever tell you, from Harvard Law did I matriculate?
I'm very well acquainted, too, with people communistical.
I ditch them when they "dis" me Kos I'm very egotistical.
With my flip-flopping positions, it seems I'm always in the news.
But be assured I'll screw Israel Kos it's full of fucking Joos
But be assured He'll screw Israel Kos it's full of fucking Joos!
We're sure He'll screw Israel with a "Farrakhan you" to the Joos!
Yes, rest assured He'll screw Israel Kos it's Pfleging full of Joos!
Tell the bitter clingy yokels I'm THE post racial candidate
Do not look behind the curtain; ignore my church that preaches hate.
I said, in matters vegetable (especially arugul...)
Uh, let's say I'm a suitable modern Candidate General.
He said, in matters vegetable (especially arugul...)
O! says that He's a suitable modern Candidate General.
You have read my mythic histories, how Barry became Barack.
Who's sayin' Obama cannot win? This election is a lock!
I need to buy a longer bus cuz there's no more room below it.
That's where past and present friends go cuz I don't intend to blow it.
Samantha Powers and Jim Johnson and ole Jeremiah Wright
Goolsby and my own Grandma (did I ever tell you she is white?).
My flag-trampling friend Bill Ayers, yes, the man I barely even know,
Has an "explosive" personality, so he'll be last to go.
His "explosive" personality, ensures he'll be last to go!
It's just like it was in the 60's: he's always the last to go!
If your Daddy always paid your bills, then you would be last to go!
In Illinois or D.C., I've never written legislation.
Hope and change! And... change and hope! are all I need to run this nation.
I said, in matters vegetable (I really dig arugul...)
Uh... Hey! Why shouldn't I be your modern Candidate General?
He said, in matters vegetable (He wants some more arugul...).
Uh... Hey! Why shouldn't He be our modern Candidate General?
Gather round my children and hear of my birth parthenogenic.
Where? No one cares! But for that, I've a memory photogenic.
No Rezko, no reward, I say, and I'm the chance you have to take.
George's third or Jimmy's second--a momentous choice for you to make.
I'll pick Judges with my heart--behold your superlegislature!
Recede, ye tides (Canute abides); let us all go back to nature.
First, turn in your smokes (I need the tokes; gum and patches will not do).
Now take your naps, then it's dreamcatchers, kumbayas and scoubidou.
We'll take our naps, then it's dreamcatchers, kumbayas and scoubidou!
Did you hear that, Shaggy? Dreamcatchers, kumbayas and Scooby Doo!
The lightworker bestows dreamcatchers, kumbayas and more for you!
Look on my works, ye puny: I'm the reborn Ozymandias.
Your usual lives are past. Just ask "What does He demand of us?"
Now eat your matters vegetable (but leave for Me arugul...)
Uh... Well, ain't I more than just your modern Candidate General?
We'll eat our matters vegetable (but for divine arugul...)
Uh! This tastes gross, but He's our modern Candidate General.
In my youth I went around the world, and studied in madrassa.
Michelle says the worm has turned: Whitey, behold your new Messiah.
I don't know jack 'bout wars and such: only that I'll bring the troops home.
I have got a shiny pretty seal; it only lacks a coxcomb.
John McSame is a confused old lame, but don't let it get you down:
I'll tax your gas, brunch in Tehran, and I'll bike all around the town.
Hey, it's tricky to rock a rhyme that's right on time, tr-tr- tricky.
But I'm a Candidate General so tricky, so tr-trrrrrrrrricky!
He is a Candidate General so tricky, so tr-trrrrrrrrricky!
He's tricky, so Tricky Dicky tricky (how is it B?) Tricky!
For a hopey changey changer, He's ticky tacky tr-trrrrrrrrricky!
My father figures taught me, when you act, do so audaciously.
Had Hillary just dumped Bill, she'd have won this so bodaciously.
That said, in matters vegetable (hands off of my arugul...)
Uh... Ha! Suckas! I'm your only modern Candidate General.
Again? With matters vegetable (and what's with the arugul...)?
Uh... Ok, The Possum is our modern Candidate General.
I've got my cash, it's quite the stash, and I will spend it as I please.
I pledged WHAT? Soros says MoveOn.org, I've tyrants to appease.
Anointed not elected; let us not think of twenty-twelve.
Free health care, and roses everywhere; no depths I will not delve.
Forgiven loans, and pinafores and (why not?) Alinsky primers
I'm your blank screen, your empty suit, to put fruit on my kids' dinners.
I'll shit unicorns and rainbows--y amigos, si se puede!
Solar bikes on moonlit nights; at my name, you'll want to cry Mayday!
Solar bikes on moonlit nights; at His name we'll want to cry Mayday!
Why not trikes, on sunlit nights? We hear His name and we cry Mayday!
He is Alpha and Omega and soon you will all cry Mayday!
I bend the laws of space and time; everything is malleable.
I'm Kenyan, Muslim, apostate; yet this year I am "sale"able.
Listen, in matters vegetable (You know I mean arugul...)
Uh... Screw you! I'm your new eternal Presidente General.
We've heard, in matters vegetable (for Barack's sake! arugul...)
Uh... Screw us? We sought a Christ, not a Presidente General.
Global warming cooling climate change, I'll milk it for its worth, fools
If I play my cards right, I'll soon be Emperor of the North Poles.
I decree there'll be no more drilling, whether off our shores or no.
You no like?--take a hike (you need the walk) ANWR you gonna go?!
Scarlett hearts me, artsy-fartsy hearts me! But it's all political
Michelle I tell you. You believe her or your shrewd politico?
OW! Motherf... Of my children. Tell me true: Is it my socks again?
Let us "dap", but just a tap. OW! Michelle you...'re pretty in the rain?
Don't look at us, You are on Your own. (In four years we'll try again)
No, huh? You're the Rock of my uh... Gibraltar! Let us off to Spain!
OW! Motherf... Uh... OW! The press is here. OW! and soon we must deplane?
She's the best--she rules this nest, and "pulli domum adsidere"
It's bacon and waffles until I die, or out on my derri-
Airs, airs, (and a well-timed hook) have laid me low. Don't look funereal.
Know this: you may duck and weave, but must tack right for the General.
No Chorus? In my few years, I've used these flap-doodle ears: hear all,
You may duck, bob and weave, but you must tack right for the General.
Coming, Dear and Chief! Uh... I was momentarily distracted.
No, NOT her. FAUX News claims our campaign is verily impacted.
O! and all the Greenwalds too? Am I losing the progressives?
McCain wants a hundred years of war, our country is recessive.
Berate the Manchurian Candidate; talk about his temper.
Then juxtapose my baritone with his whiny little timbre.
Some will sigh, but 'til pigs fly, I'll decry his negativity.
They'll be sold, return to my fold and sing of my nativity.
Truth be told, this is getting old. No time for inactivity.
Though in tales old the wolf on the fold fell before passivity
Our tinpot god must give a nod to our new aggressivity.
You'll come back, come back to worship my intellect so towering.
I'm not the Me you knew, but remember: I don't do cowering.
Fifty-seven states--some will take my bait and then I'll win her all.
Wait! It's staff's mistake! I have to speak in tongues for the general!
... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... (chirp, chirp) ... ... ... ... ... ...
... --- ... ... --- ... ... --- ... ... --- ... ... --- ... ....
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
Let us lead by example
Algore has set a precedent for us to follow. Let's all save energy the way he does: Energy Guzzled by Al Gore’s Home in Past Year Could Power 232 U.S. Homes for a Month
Monday, June 2, 2008
Where did all the rain go?
Didn't algore say there were going to be lots of hurricanes? This article seems to imply that Florida's beaches are bone dry. Go figure.
Now that I think about it, isn't global cooling asscociated with lack of rain?
Now that I think about it, isn't global cooling asscociated with lack of rain?
Wednesday, May 28, 2008
The debate isn't over, he's just afraid.
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/208338,czech-president-klaus-ready-to-debate-gore-on-climate-change.html
The prez of Czechoslovakia wants to debate algore...think it'll happen?
The prez of Czechoslovakia wants to debate algore...think it'll happen?
Better get that smudge pot going
This article requests that we all get our carbon footprints into full gear on June 12. I guess they don't believe we're heating up the earth either.
Apparently http://www.grassfire.org/ is heading up this venture. You can even calculate how much you're going to produce: http://www.carbonbelchday.com/
This is great!
Apparently http://www.grassfire.org/ is heading up this venture. You can even calculate how much you're going to produce: http://www.carbonbelchday.com/
This is great!
Friday, May 23, 2008
Wednesday, May 21, 2008
31,000 Scientists and algore's still a loon
Apparantly 31,000 scientists think global warming is a fraud and they've signed a petition to that fact: http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=64734
Memorial Day Snow in Southern California
http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/warnings.php?wfo=sgx&zone=CAZ043&pil=XXXSPSSGX&productType=Special+Weather+Statement
and the text in case they delete the page:
Special Weather Statement
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN DIEGO CA
740 PM PDT WED MAY 21 2008
CAZ042-043-048-050-055>058-060>062-222200-
ORANGE COUNTY COASTAL AREAS-SAN DIEGO COUNTY COASTAL AREAS-
SAN BERNARDINO AND RIVERSIDE COUNTY VALLEYS-THE INLAND EMPIRE-
SAN DIEGO COUNTY VALLEYS-SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY MOUNTAINS-
RIVERSIDE COUNTY MOUNTAINS-SANTA ANA MOUNTAINS AND FOOTHILLS-
SAN DIEGO COUNTY MOUNTAINS-APPLE AND LUCERNE VALLEYS-
COACHELLA VALLEY-SAN DIEGO COUNTY DESERTS-
740 PM PDT WED MAY 21 2008
...COOL AND UNSETTLED WEATHER THROUGH MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND..
A DEVELOPING LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM WILL BRING COOL AND UNSETTLED
WEATHER WITH A CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THURSDAY
AFTERNOON THROUGH SUNDAY. THE BEST CHANCE FOR SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE OVER THE MOUNTAINS. PEOPLE WITH OUTDOOR
ACTIVITIES SHOULD EXPECT PERIODS OF SHOWERS OR THUNDERSTORMS
DURING THE HOLIDAY WEEKEND. THUNDERSTORMS CONTAIN DEADLY
LIGHTNING AND MAY PRODUCE BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS...AND
SMALL HAIL. SNOW IS POSSIBLE ABOVE 7500 FEET IN THE SAN GORGONIO
WILDERNESS AND ON MOUNT SAN JACINTO. RAINFALL AMOUNTS WILL BE
HIGHLY VARIABLE DUE TO THE SHOWERY NATURE OF THE PRECIPITATION.
THE WEATHER WILL BE CONSIDERABLY COOLER THAN LAST WEEK WITH HIGH
TEMPERATURES RUNNING 10 TO 20 DEGREES BELOW SEASONAL AVERAGES.
INTERESTED PARTIES SHOULD STAY INFORMED ON THE LATEST FORECAST.
$$
SCV
and the text in case they delete the page:
Special Weather Statement
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN DIEGO CA
740 PM PDT WED MAY 21 2008
CAZ042-043-048-050-055>058-060>062-222200-
ORANGE COUNTY COASTAL AREAS-SAN DIEGO COUNTY COASTAL AREAS-
SAN BERNARDINO AND RIVERSIDE COUNTY VALLEYS-THE INLAND EMPIRE-
SAN DIEGO COUNTY VALLEYS-SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY MOUNTAINS-
RIVERSIDE COUNTY MOUNTAINS-SANTA ANA MOUNTAINS AND FOOTHILLS-
SAN DIEGO COUNTY MOUNTAINS-APPLE AND LUCERNE VALLEYS-
COACHELLA VALLEY-SAN DIEGO COUNTY DESERTS-
740 PM PDT WED MAY 21 2008
...COOL AND UNSETTLED WEATHER THROUGH MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND..
A DEVELOPING LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM WILL BRING COOL AND UNSETTLED
WEATHER WITH A CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THURSDAY
AFTERNOON THROUGH SUNDAY. THE BEST CHANCE FOR SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE OVER THE MOUNTAINS. PEOPLE WITH OUTDOOR
ACTIVITIES SHOULD EXPECT PERIODS OF SHOWERS OR THUNDERSTORMS
DURING THE HOLIDAY WEEKEND. THUNDERSTORMS CONTAIN DEADLY
LIGHTNING AND MAY PRODUCE BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS...AND
SMALL HAIL. SNOW IS POSSIBLE ABOVE 7500 FEET IN THE SAN GORGONIO
WILDERNESS AND ON MOUNT SAN JACINTO. RAINFALL AMOUNTS WILL BE
HIGHLY VARIABLE DUE TO THE SHOWERY NATURE OF THE PRECIPITATION.
THE WEATHER WILL BE CONSIDERABLY COOLER THAN LAST WEEK WITH HIGH
TEMPERATURES RUNNING 10 TO 20 DEGREES BELOW SEASONAL AVERAGES.
INTERESTED PARTIES SHOULD STAY INFORMED ON THE LATEST FORECAST.
$$
SCV
Hillbilly letter bout Duhbama
I was emailed this the other day from an acquaintance of mine. I guess the good folk of the hills aren't too keen on Obama. This has nothing to do with Canada or algore or global warming but is damn funny. Enjoy...
Sweetiekin,
Mr. Osama came to the valley t'other day tellin' us howz he's gonna lift us outa this here DEE-pression we all is in. He poked his head into the feed store for what they call a "fo-to op" in his parts.
Well, we get to jawin' round the cracker barrel 'bout the price of arugula n such, n things bein' what they is, one of the boys pulled out a jimmyjohn of the sippin' cider. I mean the good stuff without the federal revenooer stamps, ifn you know what I mean n I think you do.
Long story short, we're gettin' along in fine fashion n Mr. Osama is tellin us how his name wuz O'Sama at first until his daddy or wuz it his granddaddy changed it or some such and its been a source of much confusion ever since. I think that's wut he said anyway, but truth be told I mighta had a few sips before he got there. Mr Osama even wrote a book about it which I ain't never heard of because you know I don't often get over to the other side of the mountain where the Carnegie free liberry 'tis ever since I hurt my leg in the cave-in at the mine.
Well, that Mr Osama kin really chew the hogfat--them cityfolk call it spinning yarn I think, and us boys is all thinking Yessir!, this is one man whose life story I kin really identify with n how ignant I wuz not to know it. Then he goes n axes kin we pass him a jar of the shine. Everybody's hoopin' n hollerin' waitin' to see how Mr Osama rides out the burn in his gullet. Our ole pappy always said you kin tell a lot 'bout a man that way.
Well little missy, he cups that glass in his hand, rolls it around some n sniffs the juice a few times, n holds it up to the lantern light. Then, ifn you kin believe it, he sets it back to the plank! Of course, we push a little, but he still don't want none. Finally, he apologizes, but sez he just ain't used to takin' his likker with "clingy bitters" n ain't sure he wants to start now! Something about manhattans versus cosmos whatever in tarnation that means. You've never seen such audacity, I tell you what!
I guess it was some kinda joke, like Parson Huckabee tells come Sundays down by the river, but Ima tellin' you, you coulda heard crickets chirpin' hadn't they all been killed off back when that Northern feller oiled down the roads.
We jes stood there it seemed like forever n I swear the hands on the dial started spinnin counter-clockity it wuz that bad. I guess Mr Osama and his "handlers"--that's what they called themselves--knew they had stuk the turd in the ciderjar cuz they lit out of here moving fastern a kerosene cat in hell. I heard later things went from bad to worse when they got to the waffle house over by the Piggly Wiggly in town.
Nosiree, ain't no way no how that there Mr Osama gits my vote no more. Yep, as of today, I am officially a "Hill"billy. Same goes for all us down here in the holler.
Hope things is well in Irak.
Yers trooly,
Yer "kissin" cuzzin
Rufus T. Barnswallow
Sweetiekin,
Mr. Osama came to the valley t'other day tellin' us howz he's gonna lift us outa this here DEE-pression we all is in. He poked his head into the feed store for what they call a "fo-to op" in his parts.
Well, we get to jawin' round the cracker barrel 'bout the price of arugula n such, n things bein' what they is, one of the boys pulled out a jimmyjohn of the sippin' cider. I mean the good stuff without the federal revenooer stamps, ifn you know what I mean n I think you do.
Long story short, we're gettin' along in fine fashion n Mr. Osama is tellin us how his name wuz O'Sama at first until his daddy or wuz it his granddaddy changed it or some such and its been a source of much confusion ever since. I think that's wut he said anyway, but truth be told I mighta had a few sips before he got there. Mr Osama even wrote a book about it which I ain't never heard of because you know I don't often get over to the other side of the mountain where the Carnegie free liberry 'tis ever since I hurt my leg in the cave-in at the mine.
Well, that Mr Osama kin really chew the hogfat--them cityfolk call it spinning yarn I think, and us boys is all thinking Yessir!, this is one man whose life story I kin really identify with n how ignant I wuz not to know it. Then he goes n axes kin we pass him a jar of the shine. Everybody's hoopin' n hollerin' waitin' to see how Mr Osama rides out the burn in his gullet. Our ole pappy always said you kin tell a lot 'bout a man that way.
Well little missy, he cups that glass in his hand, rolls it around some n sniffs the juice a few times, n holds it up to the lantern light. Then, ifn you kin believe it, he sets it back to the plank! Of course, we push a little, but he still don't want none. Finally, he apologizes, but sez he just ain't used to takin' his likker with "clingy bitters" n ain't sure he wants to start now! Something about manhattans versus cosmos whatever in tarnation that means. You've never seen such audacity, I tell you what!
I guess it was some kinda joke, like Parson Huckabee tells come Sundays down by the river, but Ima tellin' you, you coulda heard crickets chirpin' hadn't they all been killed off back when that Northern feller oiled down the roads.
We jes stood there it seemed like forever n I swear the hands on the dial started spinnin counter-clockity it wuz that bad. I guess Mr Osama and his "handlers"--that's what they called themselves--knew they had stuk the turd in the ciderjar cuz they lit out of here moving fastern a kerosene cat in hell. I heard later things went from bad to worse when they got to the waffle house over by the Piggly Wiggly in town.
Nosiree, ain't no way no how that there Mr Osama gits my vote no more. Yep, as of today, I am officially a "Hill"billy. Same goes for all us down here in the holler.
Hope things is well in Irak.
Yers trooly,
Yer "kissin" cuzzin
Rufus T. Barnswallow
Friday, May 9, 2008
Cold April
A few days ago I did some basic math on the average temperature vs. actual temperature in April. It looks like San Diego was about 1.6 degrees cooler than the average (and this is using Weather.com's stats no less). Today I came across this article from NOAA. All I know is that the water is cold here and the air temperature is cold, too. I'm suspecting that the month of May will go this route, too. How is it that people are still thinking that humans are the key factor in climate change? Seems to me that the oceans and the sun play the noticeable roles here. Will algore ever learn?
Monday, May 5, 2008
Thursday, May 1, 2008
It's a Diehard global warming scene
So remember that scene where McClain say's "Oops, no bullets" to Hans. This would be that scene, except Hans is algore.
Thursday, April 24, 2008
Rice shortages caused by global warming and climate change
Are climate change and erroneous global warming claims the cause for rice shortages? Are humans to blame for this? Is the world coming to an end because we each can't get 1000 bags of rice at Costco or Sam's club? Are the econuts going to pin this on algore's global hysteria?
NO, NO, NO, and YES.
There, I wanted to be the first to publicly predict this...well at least in my circle.
By the way. Rice will be at it's cheapest in about 3 months after the snow melts in California and the rice production goes out of control...and all the horders will be using up their nuclear winter supplies and not buying any for a year or so.
I guess if the econuts have their way Canada will soon be producing rice as well.
NO, NO, NO, and YES.
There, I wanted to be the first to publicly predict this...well at least in my circle.
By the way. Rice will be at it's cheapest in about 3 months after the snow melts in California and the rice production goes out of control...and all the horders will be using up their nuclear winter supplies and not buying any for a year or so.
I guess if the econuts have their way Canada will soon be producing rice as well.
Monday, April 21, 2008
April Showers bring May flowers
I wonder if these bring flowers too? April snowshowers I guess it's still snowing in Vancouver.
Thursday, April 17, 2008
Could this save Canada, too?
Cleaner Air Means a Warmer Europe
Essentially pollution in the air kept Europe colder and now that they are green freaks over there the sooty particulates reflecting the sun back are gone and the place is warming up. I guess we could take this to Canada and clean up the air here and then the northern hemisphere would warm up, too.
Will this contradiction ever end? I thought algore said the debate was over.
Essentially pollution in the air kept Europe colder and now that they are green freaks over there the sooty particulates reflecting the sun back are gone and the place is warming up. I guess we could take this to Canada and clean up the air here and then the northern hemisphere would warm up, too.
Will this contradiction ever end? I thought algore said the debate was over.
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
Now Hillbillies save the world
Didn't anyone tell Obama that white folk without jobs don't produce greenhouse gasses like the rest of us workin' folk? I guess they could when they go shootin' or somthin' like that, though. I suppose them dumb racist folk could produce methane when they go drinkin' and fartin' and stuff like that, too. That man is smart...I didn't know how unhappy I was until he came and told me so.
He's so darn smart maybe we should ask him how to warm Canada up. Maybe we can start a fund to send him up there and start talking.
He's so darn smart maybe we should ask him how to warm Canada up. Maybe we can start a fund to send him up there and start talking.
Friday, April 11, 2008
California to save the world
Californians screwed
I guess we're gonna pay for climate research. I hope some of this goes to finding out ways to keep global warming alive and well.
In case you don't want to read the article essentially we Californians are going to fund climate research via an increase in our utility bill. Wonderful!
I guess we're gonna pay for climate research. I hope some of this goes to finding out ways to keep global warming alive and well.
In case you don't want to read the article essentially we Californians are going to fund climate research via an increase in our utility bill. Wonderful!
Econut definition
I've been throwing this term "econut" around now for several months and have used it often in this blog. I've done my best to come up with a definition for it and after those efforts this is the best I could find on the web: nutroots from urbandictionary.com. Pretty much their definition is that it is a bunch of environmental cooks and loons and they only make passing references to the term econut. We've all heard Limbaugh's term environmental wacko, this would be a similar word.
I went about creating a real Webster style definition, so here goes:
econut (ē'kō-nŭt) n. 1. A non-harvested seed or fruit (with awfully thin skin) that falls to the ground and is consumed by cave dwellers. 2. An insane or eccentric person who is committed (or has been committed) to saving the world via elimination of all human traces, except themselves…because they live in caves…and there’s nothing crazy about that. 3. The main food source for the cannibals of Ted Turner’s apocalyptic vision of global warming.
Econut finally defined! Any suggestions or modifications will be appreciated.
By the way, we're still trying to keep Canada from freezing; I like maple syrup.
I went about creating a real Webster style definition, so here goes:
econut (ē'kō-nŭt) n. 1. A non-harvested seed or fruit (with awfully thin skin) that falls to the ground and is consumed by cave dwellers. 2. An insane or eccentric person who is committed (or has been committed) to saving the world via elimination of all human traces, except themselves…because they live in caves…and there’s nothing crazy about that. 3. The main food source for the cannibals of Ted Turner’s apocalyptic vision of global warming.
Econut finally defined! Any suggestions or modifications will be appreciated.
By the way, we're still trying to keep Canada from freezing; I like maple syrup.
Thursday, April 10, 2008
Frozen Canadian Mouths
If it's not bad enough that they're gonna freeze their ***** off, now the whackos want to freeze their mouths. The link below goes to Michelle Malkin's site.
The Canadian conservative blogosphere under attack
These poor folks are gonna be popsickles.
The Canadian conservative blogosphere under attack
These poor folks are gonna be popsickles.
Wednesday, April 9, 2008
Please...NO ECONUTS
OK, I put this picture up yesterday and I guess I have some splaining to do.My cousin sent me a junk email from one of his friends who was a finalist at a " 'Going Green Meet-and-Greet' Bon Jovi Contest " (I didn't even know this kind of crap existed). So he wanted us to vote for his business and his essay but instead we proceeded to poke fun. I asked my cousin if he had ever seen those little "go away church people" signs the atheist econuts put on their doors to discourage those paired up bike riding religious folk from interrupting their Kenny G PBS experience. Here's an example:
I then went on to say we needed a little sign like that to discourage these hypocrites from bugging us. (Yes... I drew that, not someone at a skill center somewhere.) Essentially they are preaching their religion (environmentalism) unto us but don't want to hear from anyone else about their religion. The real tragedy is that they don't even know that their sorry little atheist ***** aren't actually atheist. I wonder if econuts believe in Black Nikes and purple shrouds?Me...I'm agnostic.
Monday, April 7, 2008
A nice article by a warming doubter
The Sloppy Science of Global Warming
Roy W. Spencer is a principal research scientist at the University of Alabama. He has published a book on the topic of global warming. It seems as if there are a lot of us out there who doubt this hysteria. I wonder why the media doesn't take notice?
Roy W. Spencer is a principal research scientist at the University of Alabama. He has published a book on the topic of global warming. It seems as if there are a lot of us out there who doubt this hysteria. I wonder why the media doesn't take notice?
Friday, April 4, 2008
Change
Why is it that the Change people (progressives, liberals, leftists, environmentalist whackos, econuts, etc.) preach relentlessly about how society is continually evolving? They seem to want to change and control everything about tradition, religion, our constitution, society, etc. But the one thing they feel should never change is our environment. It should always be the same temperature, the same wind speed, the same rainfall, the same of everything. Don't they realize that Mother Nature was the original Change candidate? This world started out as a lump of rock and change made it habitable and part of that change (the part that made human civilization what it is today) was the warming that has occurred in the last 10,000 years. If we don't do something to keep it this way we won't be living in mud huts like the econuts want, we'll be living in igloos.
ARMED SNOW RAGE
Armed Canadians and "snow rage", also in this link: GLOBAL WARMING FRAUD!! Can you believe it?
http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2008/04/brrrr-bbc-admits-global-warming-dipped.html
Another snow rage one: http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/world/view_article.php?article_id=124425
http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2008/04/brrrr-bbc-admits-global-warming-dipped.html
Another snow rage one: http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/world/view_article.php?article_id=124425
Thursday, April 3, 2008
The Oracle has spoken
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lk8SSqc7ekM
This is the first part of a four part interview with John Coleman. You will be able to link to parts 2-4 from this. Pay particular attention to what he says about hurricane Katrina at the very end of part two. It's about 30 minutes in length and was done around a month ago.
This is the first part of a four part interview with John Coleman. You will be able to link to parts 2-4 from this. Pay particular attention to what he says about hurricane Katrina at the very end of part two. It's about 30 minutes in length and was done around a month ago.
Survivorman
So I was watching Survivorman a few nights ago and Les Stroud said something interesting. He was on some sort of tropical beach somewhere and the place was teeming with life. He commented that finding food there was sure a lot easier than when he's been marooned in desolate parts of Canada. Could it be that food just doesn't grow as well where it's super cold? I think I'd rather live where it's warm.
Wednesday, April 2, 2008
A Goreable Post
Ok, I'm sure it's been done, but not here. Lets see how many words can be gored with the most obvious being gorebal warming.
I've got one...How bout that stuff econuts eat when on the trail to saving the planet? algorp.
It could be their koolaid.
I'll try to come up with more but I need to get outside and chop a tree down for my fire tonight. It's cold.
I've got one...How bout that stuff econuts eat when on the trail to saving the planet? algorp.
It could be their koolaid.
I'll try to come up with more but I need to get outside and chop a tree down for my fire tonight. It's cold.
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
Plastic bags to the rescue
Another post by our good friend Loren Ibsen:
I was discussing plasma arc gasification with a friend of mine the other day. Basically, this process involves generating a 650V electrical arc in an inert gas like nitrogen. At high temperatures, this creates a plasma field that rips apart material at the atomic (not sub-atomic) level. The idea is to feed trash into the field, collect the resultant energy and byproducts like synthetic gasoline formed when the elements are reconstituted into useful molecules, and eliminate the need for landfills.
The essay below is adapted from an email I sent to this friend. Now that you know something of plasma gasification, the piece will make more sense:
I stand accused of being in love with big projects to address the problems we face, and I fully cop to that. However, I also love small projects that make sense. Today I saw two of my neighbors at Walmart. Their child's elementary has come up with some kind of half propaganda/half fundraising/half-assed scheme that is everything you would expect of a "public-private partnership". Walmart will give the school 5 (count them: five) whole American dollars for every giant (4 feet high by 2.5 feet diameter) clear landscaper's sack crammed full of shopping bags.
This project has been going on all year at school. The teachers have hectored the students into dicking around collecting bags and wasting school time and resources storing these things. That's when they aren't using valuable class time preaching the litany of evils that plastic bags are responsible for.
Of course, my neighbors have fully bought in. What else is a "stakeholder" there for, if not to bleat assent to the consensus of the flock? They are predisposed to believe, as are the teachers who should presumably know better. But just as the Judas goat works its spell by telling the doomed what they want to hear, all the while believing its own lies, such are the educators to whom we've entrusted our children. (Yes, I've mixed sheep and goats. Pretend that was intentional--a clever reference back to the unholy chimera of public-private partnerships.)
And the payoff to this program? One semester of kids' and adults' time, storage,transportation and opportunity costs have yielded 12 sacks, or $60! I like these people, so I was merciful. But, good Gaia, $60!?! Maybe the teachers would do better to teach their pupils some classical economics, not to mention science and math. It sounds good to "Think globally while acting locally", but remember that the predicate is that you first "THINK".
These kids probably already know what a condom is, but ten to one they couldn't tell a male from a female thread. I'm pretty sure though that they do know they are doing penance because we screwed the Indians. Instead of wiping the tears off Iron Eyes' face (ecofreak insult, not racial-the guy wasn't even really a "Native American"), they should be learning scale ratios so they can build a demo plasma gasifier for the school. At least then they could do something useful with all those bags (i.e., burn them).
Of course, it is more fun, and in keeping with the times, to seek out witches when you are in a burning mood, and what better symbol of progress and wealth to demonize than one of the best inventions ever, the plastic bag? I didn't have the heart to tell these people that if we were to eliminate all plastic bags tomorrow, we would save .16% (please read that again--0.16%) of the oil America uses each year. That's generous, since a dynamic calculation would need to account for the increased use of paper and the attendant transportation costs of this heavier, weaker material. I was just glad they didn't go after plastic bottles (0.02% at last count). No doubt that will occur next semester. Their boy is in an advanced class, after all.
What happened to the optimism that made this the best damn country on Earth? (C'mon, in your heart you know it is.) We kicked Hitler in the nuts, gave the Commies a serious beatdown, built Hoover Dam, faked a Moon landing, and still manage to feed the world. We've produced the best scientists, engineers, mathematicians and pretty much own the Nobel in economics. Now we're going to teach our kids to rummage around like raccoons?
I say big projects for a big people. Honestly, if you were a kid again, which would you rather grow up to be, a "photovoltaic technician" or a !!!.PLASMA GASIFIER!!! Doesn't that just sound like something out of E.E. "Doc" Smith and the Lensman Series? 50 years ago if you had gone into a bar and declared you were a !!!PLASMA GASIFIER!!!, that alone would have guaranteed you'd get laid, maybe right there on the spot. While the photovoltaic technician might have made it to first base on a slow night, ultimately he would sleep alone. If that's what American guys want to be, we are in trouble. And if somehow American women are now selecting for mere scavengers, things are worse than I thought.
The truth is that we will never need less energy than we use today. We need a hell of a lot more if we plan to make something of ourselves. Put today's relatively lame solar panels on Enkidu's hut to help him break out of mere subsistence. (By the way, that's merely a slightly inapposite Gilgamesh reference--don't rush to be so offended; I've said plenty enough here to be justifiably pissed about without you waving the PC wand.) As for me, I want plasma gasifiers, fission, fusion, and giant space based solar arrays. Give me underwater turbines and land based solar collectors if your vision is so limited, but I want energy, and a lot of it and I want it now.
Let's burn all the oil we need, if that is what it takes to raise us out of poverty (yeah, you heard me--a hundred years from now, people will look back on our standard of living like we look at cavemen, or the thirld world). When that runs out, burn coal, tar sands and shale. Burn the waste and burn the byproducts. Burn it all! Then burn it again to be sure. That's a recycling program worth talking about.
For those who think it's stupid to burn a wonderful product like oil--a material capable of being transformed into almost anything the human mind can dream up, keep in mind that government and agribusiness have decided our best alternative is to burn food. They've chosen a winner and screwed up as usual. I for one don't want to tell Enkidu that his kid won't grow up to be the scientist that perfects the genetically engineered microbe that gives off hydrogen (this is a real project, by the way) because he starved after we poured his dinner into a three cylinder Smugmobile so we could drive plastic bags to Walmart like coals to Newcastle.
I was discussing plasma arc gasification with a friend of mine the other day. Basically, this process involves generating a 650V electrical arc in an inert gas like nitrogen. At high temperatures, this creates a plasma field that rips apart material at the atomic (not sub-atomic) level. The idea is to feed trash into the field, collect the resultant energy and byproducts like synthetic gasoline formed when the elements are reconstituted into useful molecules, and eliminate the need for landfills.
The essay below is adapted from an email I sent to this friend. Now that you know something of plasma gasification, the piece will make more sense:
I stand accused of being in love with big projects to address the problems we face, and I fully cop to that. However, I also love small projects that make sense. Today I saw two of my neighbors at Walmart. Their child's elementary has come up with some kind of half propaganda/half fundraising/half-assed scheme that is everything you would expect of a "public-private partnership". Walmart will give the school 5 (count them: five) whole American dollars for every giant (4 feet high by 2.5 feet diameter) clear landscaper's sack crammed full of shopping bags.
This project has been going on all year at school. The teachers have hectored the students into dicking around collecting bags and wasting school time and resources storing these things. That's when they aren't using valuable class time preaching the litany of evils that plastic bags are responsible for.
Of course, my neighbors have fully bought in. What else is a "stakeholder" there for, if not to bleat assent to the consensus of the flock? They are predisposed to believe, as are the teachers who should presumably know better. But just as the Judas goat works its spell by telling the doomed what they want to hear, all the while believing its own lies, such are the educators to whom we've entrusted our children. (Yes, I've mixed sheep and goats. Pretend that was intentional--a clever reference back to the unholy chimera of public-private partnerships.)
And the payoff to this program? One semester of kids' and adults' time, storage,transportation and opportunity costs have yielded 12 sacks, or $60! I like these people, so I was merciful. But, good Gaia, $60!?! Maybe the teachers would do better to teach their pupils some classical economics, not to mention science and math. It sounds good to "Think globally while acting locally", but remember that the predicate is that you first "THINK".
These kids probably already know what a condom is, but ten to one they couldn't tell a male from a female thread. I'm pretty sure though that they do know they are doing penance because we screwed the Indians. Instead of wiping the tears off Iron Eyes' face (ecofreak insult, not racial-the guy wasn't even really a "Native American"), they should be learning scale ratios so they can build a demo plasma gasifier for the school. At least then they could do something useful with all those bags (i.e., burn them).
Of course, it is more fun, and in keeping with the times, to seek out witches when you are in a burning mood, and what better symbol of progress and wealth to demonize than one of the best inventions ever, the plastic bag? I didn't have the heart to tell these people that if we were to eliminate all plastic bags tomorrow, we would save .16% (please read that again--0.16%) of the oil America uses each year. That's generous, since a dynamic calculation would need to account for the increased use of paper and the attendant transportation costs of this heavier, weaker material. I was just glad they didn't go after plastic bottles (0.02% at last count). No doubt that will occur next semester. Their boy is in an advanced class, after all.
What happened to the optimism that made this the best damn country on Earth? (C'mon, in your heart you know it is.) We kicked Hitler in the nuts, gave the Commies a serious beatdown, built Hoover Dam, faked a Moon landing, and still manage to feed the world. We've produced the best scientists, engineers, mathematicians and pretty much own the Nobel in economics. Now we're going to teach our kids to rummage around like raccoons?
I say big projects for a big people. Honestly, if you were a kid again, which would you rather grow up to be, a "photovoltaic technician" or a !!!.PLASMA GASIFIER!!! Doesn't that just sound like something out of E.E. "Doc" Smith and the Lensman Series? 50 years ago if you had gone into a bar and declared you were a !!!PLASMA GASIFIER!!!, that alone would have guaranteed you'd get laid, maybe right there on the spot. While the photovoltaic technician might have made it to first base on a slow night, ultimately he would sleep alone. If that's what American guys want to be, we are in trouble. And if somehow American women are now selecting for mere scavengers, things are worse than I thought.
The truth is that we will never need less energy than we use today. We need a hell of a lot more if we plan to make something of ourselves. Put today's relatively lame solar panels on Enkidu's hut to help him break out of mere subsistence. (By the way, that's merely a slightly inapposite Gilgamesh reference--don't rush to be so offended; I've said plenty enough here to be justifiably pissed about without you waving the PC wand.) As for me, I want plasma gasifiers, fission, fusion, and giant space based solar arrays. Give me underwater turbines and land based solar collectors if your vision is so limited, but I want energy, and a lot of it and I want it now.
Let's burn all the oil we need, if that is what it takes to raise us out of poverty (yeah, you heard me--a hundred years from now, people will look back on our standard of living like we look at cavemen, or the thirld world). When that runs out, burn coal, tar sands and shale. Burn the waste and burn the byproducts. Burn it all! Then burn it again to be sure. That's a recycling program worth talking about.
For those who think it's stupid to burn a wonderful product like oil--a material capable of being transformed into almost anything the human mind can dream up, keep in mind that government and agribusiness have decided our best alternative is to burn food. They've chosen a winner and screwed up as usual. I for one don't want to tell Enkidu that his kid won't grow up to be the scientist that perfects the genetically engineered microbe that gives off hydrogen (this is a real project, by the way) because he starved after we poured his dinner into a three cylinder Smugmobile so we could drive plastic bags to Walmart like coals to Newcastle.
Saturday, March 22, 2008
Who is Jennifer Marohasy?
This is a link to a broadcast from ABC Radio National of Australia regarding the recent global warming summit ignored by the media:
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/counterpoint/stories/2008/2191714.htm
This above link will direct you to either a real audio or windows media player, her segment begins at the 27:39 mark and continues to the 40:43 mark.
In summary, the earth has cooled in the last 10 years...interesting that CO2 has increased in this time.
Here is the print article link:
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23411799-7583,00.html
Jennifer Marohasy's credentials:
Director Australian Environment Foundation
Senior Fellow, Institute of Public Affairs.
FYI she's funded in part by some oil companies...oh well, algore uses alot of oil so i guess he's helped to fund her.
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/counterpoint/stories/2008/2191714.htm
This above link will direct you to either a real audio or windows media player, her segment begins at the 27:39 mark and continues to the 40:43 mark.
In summary, the earth has cooled in the last 10 years...interesting that CO2 has increased in this time.
Here is the print article link:
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23411799-7583,00.html
Jennifer Marohasy's credentials:
Director Australian Environment Foundation
Senior Fellow, Institute of Public Affairs.
FYI she's funded in part by some oil companies...oh well, algore uses alot of oil so i guess he's helped to fund her.
I'm dreaming of a white...Easter?
looks like a snowy blustery Easter for our fine French speaking Canadians.
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20080321/weather_east_080321/20080321?hub=TopStories
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20080321/weather_east_080321/20080321?hub=TopStories
Thursday, March 20, 2008
The limitless atmosphere
Miklós Zágoni, a NASA scientist, says the global warming models are wrong. He then resigned from NASA.
Apparantly NASA thinks the atmosphere is a zillion miles high and he doesn't. Now i'm no scientist but i've seen what happens to space aliens when they are shot out of the airlock on sci-fi movies...they pop!
I guess the idea of the article is that the current models used to determine global warming are predicated on the fact that the atmosphere is limitless which it isn't.
This spells trouble for Canada because I was counting on algore's theory to be correct and we could then heat them up.
Here's the link to the full article:
http://www.dailytech.com/Researcher+Basic+Greenhouse+Equations+Totally+Wrong/article10973.htm
Apparantly NASA thinks the atmosphere is a zillion miles high and he doesn't. Now i'm no scientist but i've seen what happens to space aliens when they are shot out of the airlock on sci-fi movies...they pop!
I guess the idea of the article is that the current models used to determine global warming are predicated on the fact that the atmosphere is limitless which it isn't.
This spells trouble for Canada because I was counting on algore's theory to be correct and we could then heat them up.
Here's the link to the full article:
http://www.dailytech.com/Researcher+Basic+Greenhouse+Equations+Totally+Wrong/article10973.htm
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Maybe warming ain't so bad
Hey Abbot!!!
I started this blog for just this type of post. I received this via email from Loren Ibsen and hope it is just the first of many. Enjoy:
So the founder of the Weather
Channel, John Coleman, says CAGW is a scam. Maybe he's right, maybe wrong, but nonetheless I hear the consensus crumbling. I predict 2008 is the year. When it does happen, it will be the Glacier Calving Heard Round the World.
I will keep harping on "The Consensus" because I am concerned that we are losing one of Western Civilization's great contributions to the world: the scientific method. It's part of the broader "assault on reason", if you will. The thing that scares me is how ready people are to sell our birthright for a mess of outrage.
Because there is always the need to anticipate and prevent misunderstanding (where that misunderstanding is honest), let me state that I am not saying warming and/or climate change aren't happening, nor that humans have no impact. My position, with which I hope you will agree, can best be expressed as the following equation:
Improper Methodology + Correct Answer = BAD SCIENCE.
To elaborate:
What we are seeing now has made me realize that we are not immune from the mass hysteria that has driven extreme religious movements through history. It is especially incumbent upon the believers, and those whose preexisting policy preferences predispose (PPPP) them to accept the theory to be rigorous in not only the work, but in insisting that dissenters be allowed to respond.
Proponents should be required to show their work and properly archive their data so that others may properly review it. This has been an accepted part of peer review and the scientific process as long as I can remember. At least, that was the ideal as it was taught to me in grade school so many years ago. Why is it not so now? Why can a major proponent refuse to share information (collected on the government dime) with a skeptical scientist on the grounds that he "knows" the scientist is just going to try to poke holes in the work?
That is the whole point of science. Nothing is ever proven, only falsified, and work that withstands or adapts in light of methodical scrutiny is seen (or traditionally has been) as stronger for it.
Cheap rhetorical tricks abound. It is human nature that this be so. And, yes, it goes on on both sides of this debate. One side call the other "deniers", a despicable attempt to demonize the opposition by evoking comparison to Holocaust denial, while the other refers to the "warm-mongers." (That is, I do, but mostly to needle the True Believers.) This is to be expected on the political side, but we should all insist that science be above that. There really are larger issues at stake here. Anyone who professes to be concerned about the Bush administration's politicization of science must be concerned about the state of global warming science, if the protestations are more than mere angling for partisan advantage.
Science requires that we revisit prior hypotheses and predictions to scrutinize them for errors when they fail to act as expected. For example, when we are told that CAGW will lead to more and bigger tropical storms, the relevant experts who say nay are shunted aside. When the prediction fails to hold, we are told not that the hypothesis has been modified, but that the prediction was only ever for bigger storms, not more. The record is flushed down the memory hole. Meanwhile, every named drizzle has been touted as "proof". Then, when the most recent hurricane season turns out to be the weakest in 30 years, we are told that any one season is not predictive (true, just as it was when the data "favored" the believers). To add insult to injury, the resulting droughts from the lack of rainfall (no storms, remember?) are then blamed on climate change.
I keep thinking that an homage to Abbott and Costello is in order (when is that ever untrue?). I haven't worked it out yet, but the idea would be something like this:
....
Costello: so, tell me how this works again.
Abbott: look, dummy: Global warming is on first, global cooling is on second, and climate change is on third.
C: wait, I'm already confused. I thought global cooling came first.
A: that was the old lineup. Try to keep up. Now global warming leads to
global cooling. If the runner gets by those two, it's up to climate change to mop up.
C: so if I drink water from a plastic bottle, I'm heading for global warming?
A: at first. Keep it up and the ice in greenland will all fall into the ocean (stage whisper) ...in about a thousand years.... Then you get cooling.
C: but I thought we had cooling right now.
A: who told you that? Haven't you been listening? (aside: boy, the state of education today!)
C: no, no. I heard that Antartic ice cover set a record this past winter.
A: but Arctic ice was at a record low this summer.
C: so ice was low in the summer?
A: global warming!
C: and high in the winter?
A: global cooling!
C: it seems like you have an answer for everything, all right.
A,C (together): CLIMATE CHANGE!
C: hoo-boy!
....
(work in progress. All rights reserved. The one exception is that I will hand over the concept free of any restriction to Rush Limbaugh should he see it as good material for a skit. There, I said it: RUSH LIMBAUGH! Feel free to disengage your critical apparatus and brush off your ad hominems. Go on, DO IT! Prove me right about everything I just wrote.)
In summation:
1. Yay for science, reason, the classical tradition, the Enlightenment and rigorous skeptical inquiry.
2. Boo for mystical thinking, obscurantism, substitution of policy preferences for science, and the spirit of Lysenko.
So the founder of the Weather
Channel, John Coleman, says CAGW is a scam. Maybe he's right, maybe wrong, but nonetheless I hear the consensus crumbling. I predict 2008 is the year. When it does happen, it will be the Glacier Calving Heard Round the World.
I will keep harping on "The Consensus" because I am concerned that we are losing one of Western Civilization's great contributions to the world: the scientific method. It's part of the broader "assault on reason", if you will. The thing that scares me is how ready people are to sell our birthright for a mess of outrage.
Because there is always the need to anticipate and prevent misunderstanding (where that misunderstanding is honest), let me state that I am not saying warming and/or climate change aren't happening, nor that humans have no impact. My position, with which I hope you will agree, can best be expressed as the following equation:
Improper Methodology + Correct Answer = BAD SCIENCE.
To elaborate:
What we are seeing now has made me realize that we are not immune from the mass hysteria that has driven extreme religious movements through history. It is especially incumbent upon the believers, and those whose preexisting policy preferences predispose (PPPP) them to accept the theory to be rigorous in not only the work, but in insisting that dissenters be allowed to respond.
Proponents should be required to show their work and properly archive their data so that others may properly review it. This has been an accepted part of peer review and the scientific process as long as I can remember. At least, that was the ideal as it was taught to me in grade school so many years ago. Why is it not so now? Why can a major proponent refuse to share information (collected on the government dime) with a skeptical scientist on the grounds that he "knows" the scientist is just going to try to poke holes in the work?
That is the whole point of science. Nothing is ever proven, only falsified, and work that withstands or adapts in light of methodical scrutiny is seen (or traditionally has been) as stronger for it.
Cheap rhetorical tricks abound. It is human nature that this be so. And, yes, it goes on on both sides of this debate. One side call the other "deniers", a despicable attempt to demonize the opposition by evoking comparison to Holocaust denial, while the other refers to the "warm-mongers." (That is, I do, but mostly to needle the True Believers.) This is to be expected on the political side, but we should all insist that science be above that. There really are larger issues at stake here. Anyone who professes to be concerned about the Bush administration's politicization of science must be concerned about the state of global warming science, if the protestations are more than mere angling for partisan advantage.
Science requires that we revisit prior hypotheses and predictions to scrutinize them for errors when they fail to act as expected. For example, when we are told that CAGW will lead to more and bigger tropical storms, the relevant experts who say nay are shunted aside. When the prediction fails to hold, we are told not that the hypothesis has been modified, but that the prediction was only ever for bigger storms, not more. The record is flushed down the memory hole. Meanwhile, every named drizzle has been touted as "proof". Then, when the most recent hurricane season turns out to be the weakest in 30 years, we are told that any one season is not predictive (true, just as it was when the data "favored" the believers). To add insult to injury, the resulting droughts from the lack of rainfall (no storms, remember?) are then blamed on climate change.
I keep thinking that an homage to Abbott and Costello is in order (when is that ever untrue?). I haven't worked it out yet, but the idea would be something like this:
....
Costello: so, tell me how this works again.
Abbott: look, dummy: Global warming is on first, global cooling is on second, and climate change is on third.
C: wait, I'm already confused. I thought global cooling came first.
A: that was the old lineup. Try to keep up. Now global warming leads to
global cooling. If the runner gets by those two, it's up to climate change to mop up.
C: so if I drink water from a plastic bottle, I'm heading for global warming?
A: at first. Keep it up and the ice in greenland will all fall into the ocean (stage whisper) ...in about a thousand years.... Then you get cooling.
C: but I thought we had cooling right now.
A: who told you that? Haven't you been listening? (aside: boy, the state of education today!)
C: no, no. I heard that Antartic ice cover set a record this past winter.
A: but Arctic ice was at a record low this summer.
C: so ice was low in the summer?
A: global warming!
C: and high in the winter?
A: global cooling!
C: it seems like you have an answer for everything, all right.
A,C (together): CLIMATE CHANGE!
C: hoo-boy!
....
(work in progress. All rights reserved. The one exception is that I will hand over the concept free of any restriction to Rush Limbaugh should he see it as good material for a skit. There, I said it: RUSH LIMBAUGH! Feel free to disengage your critical apparatus and brush off your ad hominems. Go on, DO IT! Prove me right about everything I just wrote.)
In summation:
1. Yay for science, reason, the classical tradition, the Enlightenment and rigorous skeptical inquiry.
2. Boo for mystical thinking, obscurantism, substitution of policy preferences for science, and the spirit of Lysenko.
From NPR no less...
read the whole article but paragraph 4 is definitely the best:
"There has been a very slight cooling, but not anything really significant," Willis says. So the buildup of heat on Earth may be on a brief hiatus. "Global warming doesn't mean every year will be warmer than the last. And it may be that we are in a period of less rapid warming."
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=88520025
"There has been a very slight cooling, but not anything really significant," Willis says. So the buildup of heat on Earth may be on a brief hiatus. "Global warming doesn't mean every year will be warmer than the last. And it may be that we are in a period of less rapid warming."
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=88520025
Tuesday, March 18, 2008
Is Al Gore really Blofeld?
I got an interesting email from a friend of mine we'll call Kurt Foster:
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5jZFrUDFVEuhk2So73AEDIyYrJ50g
This Blog you have created is great. I’ve enjoyed the posts so far and after reading about the dire straights Canada may be in I have to wonder if there is any relationship to Japans efforts to cut global warming by shortening the length of their professional baseball games (see link above). By cutting the length of play by 6 percent they figure they can reduce their carbon dioxide emissions by 209 tonnes over 864 games, whatever that means (I’m in construction too). This is a result of their enlistment and participation in the Kyoto Protocol. Now I don’t know much about the Kyoto Protocol but what is the relationship with the recent climate change not just in Canada but in most of North America? What is the actual agenda of the Kyoto Protocol? Kyoto Protocol/SPECTOR? Is Al Gore really Blofeld? There may be a more sinister motive lurking beneath the surface.
Monday, March 17, 2008
Smudge pots to the rescue
Could this funny device save Canada? Maybe the econuts could take some old washing machine drums and hemp tie them to some old recycled bong pipes and fill them with their eco-oil. I'm sure they all have a lighter somewhere to get them lit.
Name that epoch...
Being the scholar that I am I learned what the pleistocene epoch is and that we are currently in the holocene epoch. How often is it in history that you can name the coming age? We have a rare opportunity to lay credit to someone for what's about to come...how bout the "algorestocene epoch?" I suspect the coming glaciation of Canada will be liked just about as much as algore so it seems fitting to use his namesake. I like it.
Just for kicks you might take note that wikepedia lays blame for global warming to carbon dioxide as well. Go figure.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epoch_%28geology%29
Just for kicks you might take note that wikepedia lays blame for global warming to carbon dioxide as well. Go figure.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epoch_%28geology%29
Sunday, March 16, 2008
The Oracle
KUSI weather man, John Coleman, who wants to sue algore. I guess some don't really see the debate as over. Check out his links from the KUSI weather page: http://www.kusi.com/weather
Saturday, March 15, 2008
ice age
YIKES
I guess I had better count my blessings I only had a little hail come my way. That looks like it was awfully cold.
I guess I had better count my blessings I only had a little hail come my way. That looks like it was awfully cold.
Help Canada
It's saturday night here in San Diego and a hail storm just pelted all of the blossoms off of my fruit trees. Thanks alot algore. So, how bout we get going on looking at exactly what global warming is doing to Canada and how we can help them. I think i'm gonna cozy up to a nice wood fire in my fireplace tonight and maybe start it with a duraflame or something like that.
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