It's Cold!!!!

Jaffrey Municipal-Silver Ranch Airport Lat: 42.8 Lon: -72 Elev: 1040 Last Update on Jan 16, 7:52 am EST

Fair with Haze -19°F (-28°C) Humidity: 77 % Wind Speed: S 5 MPH Barometer: 30.30" (1030.1 mb) Dewpoint: -24°F (-31°C) Wind Chill: -32°F (-36°C) Visibility: 6.00 mi

Looking forward to some global warming, please!

Glow Ball Worming

Extreme Alaska cold grounds planes, disables cars

"I've never seen it this cold for this long," he said. "I remember it 70 below one time, but not for a week and a half."

Ha.

Musings

under the category of "it's blindingly obvious to me, why can't everyone else see it."

Subject is Barack Obama's near-universal appointments of Clinton era retreads: It's payback time. He bargained with the entrenched power-brokers of the Democrat party to get the nomination and he's paying the debt. It's the Chicago way. So much for "Hope-n-Change".

Subject is "global warming" becoming "climate change". It's a religious thing. It's human nature to seek a god, and one that is active. A god that does nothing doesn't scratch the itch in people's souls. Hence when one sets up Gai as "god" it's natural to anthropomorphize the earth and the environment. There has to be something active going on and because global warming isn't warming well it obvious becomes climate change. Read "State of Fear" for further exploration of this particular phenomena.

Regarding the economy and bailouts I'll simply point to H.L Mencken: “For every problem there is a solution which is simple, clean and wrong.” For extra credit investigate the history of success of Keynesian economics, if you can find it.

Spring Sprung

Got 4" of "global worming" last night and today. [rolleyes] The driveway is too soft to plow. Hopefully it will melt soon.

Can't Wait For April Showers

I am so ready for Spring:

Last Update: 5:20 am EDT Mar 27, 2008 Forecast Valid: 9am EDT Mar 27, 2008-6pm EDT Apr 2, 2008

Today Slight Chc Rain Hi 42°F

Tonight Rain/Snow Lo 29°F

Friday Snow Likely Hi 36°F

Friday Night Chance Snow Lo 17°F

Saturday Mostly Sunny Hi 36°F

Saturday Night Mostly Clear Lo 17°F

Sunday Sunny Hi 44°F

Sunday Night Partly Cloudy Lo 23°F

Monday Rain/Snow Likely Hi 40°F

Home Life This Week

Not much to post today. #1 Son and I got home safely yesterday from our respective jobs through the snow storm. There were a few idiot drivers, including one who pulled out in front of me in the center of town as a local policeman sat and watched.

I have noticed that the snow plows are running in much tighter formations on the highways. Get behind a squadron and there is no way you're getting past until they decide to pull over and let you pass. This can make travel on the highways very slow; slower than it needs to be.

Wife and children are still recovering from the loss of one of our does. She had a very long hard labor. The vet came and tried to get the first kid out which was stuck with a turned head. She ended up having to do an emergency C-section to save the kids. 3 of 4 kids made it, 2 bucklings and a doeling, but the doe did not. Everyone is doing better today.

So far this kidding season we've ended up with 4 bucklings and 1 doeling. Usually we raise the bucklings for meat and they get appropriate names, but this year 3 of the 4 bucklings are already designated to be sold as pets and have regular names. I do hope the rest of the kidding season goes better than the first 2 does.

Looking forward to Spring.

p.s. The blog broke 2,500 visit yesterday. Whoopee.

I Never Did Like Hockey

The fabled world-wide temperature rise graph known as "the hockey stick" has been invalidated, again: Blogger Finds Y2K Bug in NASA Climate Data

"NASA has now silently released corrected figures, and the changes are truly astounding. The warmest year on record is now 1934. 1998 (long trumpeted by the media as record-breaking) moves to second place. 1921 takes third. In fact, 5 of the 10 warmest years on record now all occur before World War II. Anthony Watts has put the new data in chart form, along with a more detailed summary of the events.

The effect of the correction on global temperatures is minor (some 1-2% less warming than originally thought), but the effect on the U.S. global warming propaganda machine could be huge."

Check out the links for the actual data and Anthony Watts' summary. Michael Asher has a number of blog entries that make interesting and informative reading for those interested in the truth about "global warming" and "global climate change".

Recent Events in Global Warming

Sorry it's been almost 2 weeks since the last update. Life and liberty has had me rather busy.

Here are some recent tidbits on the "global warming" silliness:

1. BBC Video "The Great Global Warming Swindle". The original on Google is gone (surprise, surprise surprise), but here is a 2 minute preview, and another source for the full video courtesy of Curmudgeonly & Skeptical.
2. This delightful bit of irony also came from Curmudgeonly & Skeptical, "Frostbite ends Bancroft-Arnesen trek". The quote at the end of the report is delicious:
   

   "They were experiencing temperatures that weren't expected with global warming"

3. Kim Du Toit's observations on the global warming models are insightful. They can be summed up by this quote:

   "'The global warming models have some disturbing characteristics. For example, their output doesn’t depend on their inputs'"

4. Also interesting is his take on carbon offsets:

   “'Carbon offsets' (2007) = 'Papal indulgences' (1517)
   

   Seriously. It’s just payola to a different absolutionist."

5. Seems to me Al Gore is running some kind of Ponzi scheme (or maybe a check kiting ring) with his "carbon offsets". From "Signal 94: Global Warning is Gore's Retirement Plan"
   

   Gore's carbon footprint may be the size of Godzilla's, but he eases his conscience with 'carbon offsets.' He buys them from himself. And every time someone else buys them, Big Al gets richer.

Enjoy.

Oh the Irony of It All

HOUSE HEARING ON 'WARMING OF THE PLANET' CANCELED AFTER ICE STORM
Bwahahahaha.

Now I have to go plow another 6" of "global warming" off my driveway.

Global Warming, Bah Humbug

Warming, schwarming. Come spend this week up here and tell me there's a warming trend:
Seriously, I'm sure everyone has heard about the latest global warming report. While there is a fair consensus that a climatic warming trend is likely occurring, blaming human civilization for said trend is not quite the consensus that the MSM and the authors of this report would have you believe.

Here is one study that contradicts the so-called report:

The Physical Evidence of Earth's Unstoppable 1,500-Year Climate Cycle

Read it and make up your own mind

If you want a more readable take on the subject check out Michael Crichton's State of Fear. It's a fiction story, but the science behind it is real. Check the references and footnotes for the facts that support this novel.

Some diligent searching will find other sources that cast credible doubt on the whole global warming, climatic catastrophe, mankind is at fault hoopla. Go forth and read with an open mind.

Update: And for a more humorous take on the subject, check out Penn and Teller's B....... Environmental Hysteria (warning: mild profanity). There are also lower bandwidth and 2 minute summary versions.
Courtesy of Curmudgeonly & Skeptical