God Surely Has a Sense of Humor

I have noticed how often extreme weather has occurred in the middle of human meddling in the environment. I suspect it is evidence of God's sense of humor. You've got to love it when a blizzard descends on Copenhagen during a global warming conference. It is too funny! I can imagine God up there laughing at our silly attempts to pretend we have any control over this world and its environment. They are probably having a good laugh right now.

More Bad News for Global Warmers

Facts are stubborn things especially when they come in conflict with one's politics. Most people will hold to their politics more than their religion. Their faith they will question, but heaven forbid questioning my politics! For the few who have the wherewithal to look at the facts behind this global warming hoax here is more bad news.

• The Times of London writes about the inconvenient truths Al Gore is encountering in Copenhagen.
• Canada is under some severe winter weather. (PS They are really close to the polar ice cap.)
• It is snowing in Australia. Remember, it is summertime down under.

This hoax has got to stop. Defenders of global warming are looking sillier and sillier as each day goes by. For your own self respect, just admit you were wrong and lets get beyond this. Insisting that you are right in light of the rapidly growing body of evidence is just ridiculous.

Edmonton Shatters Cold Record

Edmonton, Alberta, Canada experienced the coldest December 13th in its history on Sunday beating the previous low by 10 degrees! The second coldest December 13th was in 2008. I guess Al Gore was wrong 5 years ago when he said the polar ice cap would be gone in 5 years. Here's the entire story. The last 2 years have been the coldest on record in a city that is about as close to the polar ice cap as any major city in North America.

P.S. Former Vice President Gore started making this prediction in 1995. I guess he's lost track of how much time has passed since then.

Global Warming and Snow

In a recent post we predicted that this winter would be unusually cold in the US Northeast. That prediction is coming true as this story about the Northeast being struck by an early snowstorm shows. That global warming thing must be on vacation.

Global Warming? What a Joke.

Looking at this list of stories making the argument against global warming seem pretty ridiculous.

• Major League Baseball game postponed because of snow in early October.
• US Chill Map for today
• Record low temperatures in Washington
• Coldest early October ever in Nebraska

Even the BBC (Britain's version of CNN or the New York Times) is wondering about the legitimacy of the global warming argument. Their story opens with these lines.

This headline may come as a bit of a surprise, so too might that fact that the warmest year recorded globally was not in 2008 or 2007, but in 1998.

But it is true. For the last 11 years we have not observed any increase in global temperatures.

And our climate models did not forecast it, even though man-made carbon dioxide, the gas thought to be responsible for warming our planet, has continued to rise.

And all the while former Vice President Al Gore continues his maniacal search for relevance. What is it about facts and liberals? They are so good at cherry-picking their facts in order to confirm their politics. Facts that dispute their politics..... well I guess they just don't matter.

Prepare yourselves for the coldest winter in a decade

Cassy Fiano, a great blogger, has a great story about the upcoming "coldest winter in a decade". Bloomberg reports it this way:

The U.S. Northeast may have the coldest winter in a decade because of a weak El Nino, a warming current in the Pacific Ocean, according to Matt Rogers, a forecaster at Commodity Weather Group.

“Weak El Ninos are notorious for cold and snowy weather on the Eastern seaboard,” Rogers said in a Bloomberg Television interview from Washington. “About 70 percent to 75 percent of the time a weak El Nino will deliver the goods in terms of above-normal heating demand and cold weather. It’s pretty good odds.”

Warming in the Pacific often means fewer Atlantic hurricanes and higher temperatures in the U.S. Northeast during January, February and March, according to the National Weather Service. El Nino occurs every two to five years, on average, and lasts about 12 months, according to the service.

Hedge-fund managers and other large speculators increased their net-long positions, or bets prices will rise, in New York heating oil futures in the week ended Sep. 22, according to U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission data Sept. 25.

“It could be one of the coldest winters, or the coldest, winter of the decade,” Rogers said.

U.S. inventories of distillate fuels, which include heating oil, are at their highest since January 1983, the U.S. Energy Department said Sept. 23. Stockpiles of 170.8 million barrels in the week ended Sept. 18 are 28 percent above the five-year average.

It seems like everyone in the know is in agreement - meterologists, futures traders, oil companies - while Congress is debating global warming. Meterologists have a pretty good accuracy where predicting is concerned. They certainly seem to be right a whole lot more than they are wrong. Politicians, on the other hand, have a lousy record at predicting. When is the last time that a politician predicted something and it actually came true?

Global Warming

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is reporting that July's temperatures were below the long-term average for the last 115 years. This agency is part of the Obama administration, an administration that officially believes in global-warming.

The evidence that we have been cooling the last ten years is growing, Al Gore notwithstanding. Lets stick to the evidence and leave politics out of it and we might actually get to the truth. Once something becomes political, the truth becomes irrelevant.