Snowmageddon

I flew into DC Wednesday night this past week.  It was snowing when the plane landed.
Crikey.
I had been keeping tabs on the weather as always and knew a big snow storm was expected.  Knowing that only meteorologists and economists can keep their jobs being wrong 90% of the time, I was concerned I might find myself grounded in DC for the weekend.
It snowed 1 inch in DC Wednesday.  People were stranded on roads and highways for 6 hours.
It perplexes me that DC has no better snow abatement capabilities than say Atlanta, or Houston.*

Thursday I awoke to clear skies, did my meetings and booked it back to the BAR Corp HQ.

Belle and I have been watching the weather channel off and on over the weekend monitoring the situation.
While the weather channel has named this purportedly record setting winter storm, it appears it was largely an inconvenience, or a day off from work / school.
I read somewhere, that in Wisconsin, they referred to it as "Friday".
From what I've seen, snowmen, snowball fights and sledding were the pastimes of choice to while away the time.

I have heard El Nino in reference to this storm but not Global Worming Climate Change.  Perhaps all the gas has been let out of that bag finally.**




* In 1989, two inches of snow accumulation in Houston which remained for 4 days resulted in 1450 auto accidents over the 48 hour period of Saturday and Sunday.  We don't do snow and ice down here well.

** Remember the ozone hole and CFCs for which we all gave up the more efficient R22 freon many years ago?
Yeah.
The Ozone hole is still there.  For all we know, the ozone hole has been there for the entire lifetime of the earth's atmosphere. It wasn't discovered until the advent of satellites.   But it was an emergency once discovered and obviously due to man's misbehavior.  CFCs being heavier than air tend to settle to the ground. I've not seen any cogent explanation of how they got all the way up there to blow a hole in the ozone layer.

Meanwhile, elsewhere

Lovely sunny day down here today. Sixty-eight degrees.

Ya'll stay warm up yonder. Looks like a boat load of Global Warming  Climate Change is headed your way.

The Science is Settled

Renewable Energy is


not Renewable.


Tam sums it up...could have just posted, "DUH"

Peer Reviewed, no less

The climate "scientists" that have foisted the global warming hoax upon us have forever given science in general, a black eye in my personal opinion.
Just about any report that comes out regarding a "scientific study" I look at with skepticism now.

"Peer Reviewed"  scientific papers just don't carry the same weight they used to IMHO, considering the Peer Review process appears to have a history of being rigged.  

 Today I find this is not limited to the climate sciences.

60 scientific articles retracted.    I find my skepticism reinforced rather than abated.

Global Worming? Not so much.

Let's see:
Two snowstorms in the Northeast before Christmas.
Dallas got zapped by Gru's freeze ray.
It has snowed in Egypt for the first time in 100 years.
It has snowed in Israel.

And the Sun's solar cycle activity is at its weakest in a Century.

But, but! Correlation is not causation!*  There's no proof that the sun's inactivity is directly related to the lack of rise in the atmospheric average temperature the pause in Thermageddon!**

All you faithful Global Warmists are behind the curve.  The nutjobs writing about the coming ice age back in the seventies had it right after all.

Yes, Obama "sciency Czar" John Holdren, I'm mocking you directly.

"White House science czar John Holdren has predicted 1 billion people will die in “carbon-dioxide induced famines” in a coming new ice age by 2020."
Wait....What?
Ice Age?
I thought the entirety of the earth was going to turn into desert a'la Frank Herbert's "Dune".

Faith in Global Worming is a mental disorder foisted upon us by people that despise themselves.
Since they do not feel worthy to live on this magnificent blue marble floating in space, they think you shouldn't either.  Holdren in particular.  I do notice however, that he as not led by example and offed himself.
That would be because, IMHO, he's a Psychotic Fascist.


*Why yes. Isn't that so? Funny how the rise in atmospheric CO2 trails behind the rise in average temps when graphed with actual data as well, n'est-ce pas?
** I totally stole that term from Borepatch.

Al Gore's next gig

If you were wondering what was going to come after Global Worming, wonder no more.

As the global worming schtick has waned, temperatures have refused to rise and the polar icecaps have increased at record rates, the UN saw the writing on the wall and attempted to get some traction with "biodiversity".  The Wormists and the skeptics* were too far gone in a rut induced horn lock to even take notice.  Whatev.

So what's the next ozoneholethermageddon tax dollar gravy train?  Ocean Acidification.

"This Summary for Policymakers states with "very high confidence" that increasing acidification is caused by human activities which are adding 24 million tonnes of CO2 to oceans every day."

Very high confidence. 
Human activities.
Indeed.
Where have I heard that before?

So, the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere and global average temperatures now appear to have no correlation whatsoever. One thing the wormists poo poo that has managed to, begrudgingly, creep into the nooz is the sun seems to be taking a nap.  Sun spots are almost nonexistent.  Could it be? Nah, Sun activity couldn't possibly have anything to do with temperatures on earth could it? Perish the thought cretin, pay no attention to that man behind the curtain.


So now the PH level of the oceans is rising because atmospheric CO2!!!111eleventy!11.

Really?
Which tree ring will the sciency-tists point at as the safe PH baseline?
Has anyone thought to look into volcanic activity on the ocean floor? I'm just asking, ya know. Personally, I think we need some federal legislation against those nasty, mega-polluting volcanoes.**

I am officially calling bullshit right here, right now. I no more trust "scientists" whoring for government grants than I do obama.








* I am a skeptic.  Well, actually that's an understatement. I think global worming is unmitigated bullshit.

** When Mount Pinatubo erupted, it put more pollution into the atmosphere in that one event than all of mankind from the beginning of the industrial revolution up to that very moment in time.
We should file a class action lawsuit against the earth for polluting itself.

the final nail in the Global Worming Hoax coffin?

Bill Nye, the sciencey guy, so voraciously vocal about global worming, lo these many years is on Dancing with the Stars.
I remember watching his short spots on TV with my brood when they were young.  Somewhere along the line, Bill Nye the Science Guy episodes got cut.
 I suspect Bill never got over those fleeting moments in the limelight. Not finding actual sciencey stuff  actually interesting, or lucrative, or providing the rush of stardom, Bill hitched his wagon to the global worming hoax.
Now that it appears we are headed into another small ice age, Nye has jumped ship.
Nye is a competitor on Dancing with the Stars.*
I have to give him credit, his dance routine to "Weird Science" was not bad, if not apropos.

On the other side of the "Life as Reality" approach, Bill Engvall just absolutely tore up the Fox Trot.


Yes, I'm watching Dancing with the Stars.  I'm watching for no other reason than the Lovely Belle wants to.





*Star is perhaps not the correct label for Nye.  Opportunist, yes.

Global Warming is just not Cooperating

Michael Mann's hockey stick graph has gone completely flacid.
I'll dispense with the heavy duty sciency graphs, tables and homogenized data bases and just get to my personal complaint.

I have a garagenering experiment all lined up for tomorrow for which I wanted the high temp to hit 100 degrees, minimum.  This is not too much to ask down here in SE Texas in August. It is a frequent occurrence   The chances of rain were kind enough to take the weekend off, but the heat decided to go with it.

















Not one day above 100 degrees and note the overnight lows.  WTF?
Oh don't give me that crap about how it's now called "Climate Change" and the "climate", aka weather, is now experiencing "extremes" just because you re-labeled your failed narrative.
There's only one thing based on more useful lies than fishing - economics.*
There's only one thing based on more variables and fewer constants than Golf - meteorology.*

Looks like it's time to get out the old books about the impending ice age and dust them off.  Eventually one of those crackpots might be right.








* In only two of the four undertakings can you be wrong 90% of the time and remain employed.
Choose two:
A. Fishing
B. Economics
C. Golf
D. Meteorology
E. All of the above.
F. None of the above.
G. Tests give me panic attacks.

Everybody is complaining about the heat

And the humidity.
Uhm, it's SUMMER.
It's not like it's never happened before.

Six months from now everyone will be complaining about cold and snow.
We don't get that down here. It will be either "still summer", or "almost summer".

The irony is that we probably have the cheapest natural gas prices for heating in the entire country and our air conditioners run at least nine months out of the year.

There's some thinking outside to box....

The pine box you will be buried in.

Hyperloop

Evacuated Tube Transport. A mag-lev in vacuum tube.
You can go zinging along like the characters in the opening credits of Futurama.*
The article waxes lyrical about running these vacuum tubes under the ocean.  Considering that we cannot build a pipeline that does not occasionally leak...or explode, I don't think I'd want to be under hundreds of feet of water pressure in a vacuum tube.  A pinpoint leak that produces a water stream that will cut through steel due to extreme water pressure it just not enough. We need a better disaster.
I know, we'll put it under vacuum to suck the water in!
I can see the headlines now; " O-ring manufacturer sued over failure, Federal government considers criminal charges"
Wait, the back half of that is implausible. it's green technology dontchaknow, cuz the 'letricity to power the magnetic levitation system and ginormous vacuum pumps would be provided by solar panel arrays, or wind farms, or tidal current generators, or, or...unicorn farts!**


Oh screw it. I can't go on. Not enough snark left in the tank.
I know science fiction has predicted many scientific accomplishments by imagining the seemingly impossible, but this is just plain stupid.







* bad analogy, they are stuck in foot to head tube traffic.
** oh, wait, that probably has CO2 in it and that causes global worming. my bad.

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What, are you Rambo or something?

Why do you neeeed to carry a gun.  I mean really, if someone starts shooting in the mall are you going to go all Rambo and "Save the Day!"

It's highly unlikely. Unless you happen to be standing behind me when one of my loved ones, or myself is threatened.  Otherwise, you are on your own. If I wanted to be a cop, I would have been a cop.

I have a concealed carry weapon.  It is there in seconds when I need it.

You have the police.  They are there in minutes at best, just in nick of time to draw a chalk line around your corpse.

Well, if the shooter didn't have a 30 round clip and had to reload, "someone" would tackle him while he was reloading.

Someone?  Who?  You?
Well....."some....one" would.
Who? You?
Someone.
Would.


This little contrived conversation was inspired by a discussion in an airport bar this evening.  I'm still trying to knock teh stupid out of my ears like swimming pool water.  I found myself in a simultaneous "discussion" about global worming and gun control on the opposite side of two fervent and woefully under-informed  true believers in both.  I was starkly reminded, like a brick to the forehead, that this country may very well be irreparably divided.   I call dibs on Texas, the deep south, and some of the fly-over states to be named at a later date.
East coast and left coast, you guys are on  your own.

The Four Seasons

Early Summer
Summer
Late Summer
Christmas

Late Summer is running a little long this year. Usually we are in the Christmas Season shortly after Thanksgiving.  The Christmas Season will officially start shortly when I navigate to Amazon to shop gifts for the Grandchildren.

I bought two new winter coats a short while back, something a bit more stylish and urban than my traffic yellow ski parka.  Obviously wishful thinking.

The ski parka? That's so the ski resort rescue team can more easily find me.

No, it is not global worming. It was like this in the 70's when the doom and gloomers were telling us we were headed into another ice age.

Such a Shame, poor Al

snort...sniggle...bwahahahahaha

Couldn't keep a straight face

The Goracle's "Current TV" is on the block for sale

"Founded in 2005 by Al Gore, Current TV quickly made a name for itself as a go-to source for environmental incoherence, Democrat lunacy, and far-left diatribes. If providing an outlet for liberal kooks was the goal, it succeeded admirably. However, if it was trying to attract viewers, well, it's had some difficulty. Now, it's up for sale."

Please.... do go ahead and point and laugh. After all the global worming fraud Algore has foisted on the world, he deserves it.

Being that the weather is so fair today

We are going to watch the Texans' game.
It's 73 degrees outside and sunny. If this is the result of Global Worming, I say, "more please".
Oh, wait.
To paraphrase:
NOAA deploys state of the art weather stations and disproves global worming.

This must just be weather.

Rattling the Saber

Penn State appears to have rotted from the top down.
Heh.  Penn State professor. Michael Mann has elected to undergo the colonoscopy of discovery. "Discovery"  in the legal sense..

Dr. "Hide the decline in the Hockey Stick" says he is going to sue the National Review.  I'd be willing to bet that if this suit even makes it to the point of actually being filed, it gets dropped at the first request for production of documents.

I hope he's deluded enough to carry on. I'm looking forward to watching his "Global Worming".  I'm sure his partners in crime are feverishly performing the "I have to pee pee" dance right now.  Many of his esteemed Global Warming colleagues will be implicated if Dr. Mann's documents become public record.

I wonder if a defense fund has been set up yet at the National Review? I'll kick in at least the price of a movie ticket to whatch this unfold.

Shhhh. It's starting. Pass the popcorn

Let Me Help You With That

No, really it's no trouble at all

It's teh eevil Trees!

go here

and here

Plants, to a lesser degree, give off similar substances, such as terpenes from pine trees.

We have a few of those around here, pine trees that is. Roughly eleventy!!11! Billion.

I thought Ozone was a good thing. I mean, what ever happened to the whole Ozone hole crisis thing?

Oh. Nevermind Algore found a better wealthredistribution scheme; Global Warming Climate Change, er Climate Disruption, er Sustainability!

I only mock you, in the most church lady loving way, because you are self loathing insane moonbats that believe you don't deserve to live on planet earth Mother Gaia and you think I should not either.

By all means, please lead by example and euthanize yourselves first. 

Bad Karma

Another electric vehicle goes up in flames.


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In Which a Proud HillBilly Debunks Global Warming

The fork has been stuck in the global worming hoax. It's so done you need a spoon to scoop it up.
It's gotten so debunked it's not even fun to post mocking diatribes about it anymore.
A Proud HillBilly taps the final brad into the coffin with a 7 pound sledge.

Why is my Air Conditioning Running?

CoolChange has been posting daily weather reports, I suspect as a mild jab at our brethren much much farther north.   If we don't get a good January cold front pretty soon, I'm going to have to mow my lawn again. (damnit)
We had something akin to winter last year that froze the vine on the north side of the house all the way back down to the ground.  It's about half way up the fence again since last year. Today? It's T-shirt and shorts weather.

The Vine is not complaining.

Politics +Science

I've been wrong before. That was not my last post for the evening.
I've posted, often, about my disdain regarding the global warming hoax. It has nothing to do with science. It is nothing more than a scheme of control and wealth redistribution.
Borepatch just wrapped up the subject and hammered the nail down to the head.

If you haven't already, hit the link and go read the whole thing.
keep your powder dry.