Well, it’s fall. So let’s look at a few more recent stories supporting that global warming propaganda scientific theory, shall we?
- Parts of Wyoming see -35F windchill earlier this week.
- 10-11 Nov: Record Snow in Upper Midwest, breaking records set in the 1890s . . .
- . . . and it’s moving South and East. By the weekend, most of the “lower 48” will be 10 degrees F or more below normal.
- If you’re thinking you remember something along these lines happening 2 months ago – before summer even ended – you’re correct.
- And, finally: no, it’s not just here in North America. Long-range forecasters in the UK have predicted an exceptionally cold winter this year – perhaps the coldest winter in a century.
For what it’s worth: winter doesn’t start until 21 December. That’s still about 5 1/2 weeks away.
But we dare not question where “global warming” is real. Oh, no – mustn’t do that. It’s “settled science”, remember? Never mind the fact that the last nearly two decades of climate data show no warming whatsoever – and longer-term data actually appears to show a cooling trend beginning in the 1930s.
Look, I can’t tell you definitively whether global warming is happening or not; ditto for global cooling. The data just isn’t clear enough to make that determination with any degree of confidence whatsoever. Hell, to me it looks if anything like we’re entering a mild cooling trend. But the data supporting that is iffy, too.
And that’s exactly my point. Because based on, well, actual data . . . those so-called experts claiming that man is “destroying the planet” through causing global warming don’t have enough data to prove their case, either. The data just doesn’t support either theory definitively.
Sheesh. Best I can tell, the majority of climatologists today understand what’s really affecting the Earth’s climate about as well as my cat understands theology or quantum mechanics. To wit: they haven’t a clue as to what’s actually going on. They’re just not willing to admit it.
Why? IMO there’s really a fairly simple explanation. As Mark Felt – Deep Throat of Watergate fame – put it: “Follow the money.” There’s simply too many research grants and professional reputations (and thus future income) at stake.
I’d be careful about cat statements. I’m pretty sure they know more than they let on.
As for global warming, I’m wishing for some of that right now. It would be far better than the 21 degree wind chill we had this morning thanks to that “tropical storm” that blew itself to life near the arctic of the Pacific Ocean.
However, just remember this and pass it on to your friends:
Winter is coming.
Cats possess esoteric knowledge of diabolical information not meant for the mortal world. Yet another reason not to trust the fuzzy little hellspawned bastards. I’m pretty sure the “Evil Dead” series established that cats had something to do with the creation of the Necromicon Ex Mortis, too!
Anyway, I’m just happy that we’re actually starting to have a winter here in SoCal again, unlike last year.
And like you pointed out, Flagwaver, the Starks are always right, eventually.
Maine Coon cats are the collest, nicest cats in the world. They don’t have an evil bone in their hairy bodies. Mine does the NYT and London Times crossword puzzle every week and, truth be told, sometimes posts here using my tag. He keeps himself clean but doesn’t give a shit about the rest of the place. Lazy bastard. But very schmart.
You only think he’s lazy because you haven’t found his hidden laboratory.
2/17 – your opinion of Maine Coon Cats is spot-on. The nicest felines you’ll ever see. Big, furry, purry, and warm!
Hmmm. This cat we have must be part Maine Coon cat. He’s the only cat I’ve ever been around that is nice, comes when called, carries on conversations in complete sentences, and generally is good to have around. At 23 pounds or so, he’s a very good lap warmer, too!
Klaatu Barada Nikto…
2 degrees this morning; high tomorrow predicted to be -5. Winter in Montana! 😀
Pinto Nag: not for another 5 1/2 weeks, lass. (smile)
Yup. This is just practice for the real thing. 😉
Say, do you know why we color Easter Eggs in Montana? So the kids can find them in the snow! 😀
Yep. Spent 3 years out on the eastern MT plains as a youngster, not far from the Canadian border. Dad said there were days he could spit and literally watch it bounce off concrete.
Coldest day – officially, at the location’s weather station – was a reading of -45F during a blizzard. (That was the air temp, not wind chill.) Using identical equipment in another location on the facility, they measured -62F the same night. However, since that wasn’t the official station, -45F was the official low.
I know how you feel. It’s a balmy -5 up here in the last frontier.
Yeah. there are a couple of TV shows that have to do with Alaska. One of them is Buying Alaska. I’ve seen it maybe six times and, brother, you can have it. The other I have watched is Alaska State Troopers. No thanks. Oh. I enlisted at 17 and the first guy I ever met who was from Alaska was black. I was like, “There are black people in Alaska? Who knew?” I still remember his face and name.
2/17 I just remembered, back in ’71 at Ft. Lewis (before they let the zoomies in 😉 our boot camp company had a whole platoon of Eskimos that I think were from Alaska. Tough little dudes who kept to themselves.
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I have a friend who’s a professional hard rock miner in Alaska. He generally works about 800 – 1000 feet below ground. He told me the weather doesn’t bother him that much; it stays about 52 degrees year ’round, down where he works. 😀
1 – Cats know everything, including where all the black holes are and how to find them.
2 – The Thames could freeze this time, as it has many times in the past. The Mississippie froze in January 1976. It made the BBC news report in London, which I saw. Tugs and grain barges frozen in place on the riverside.
3 – If ‘they’ stop harping on climate and study weather, ‘they’ would learn a lot more and get more respect from me. Weather is short-term. Climate is long-term. ‘They’ are confused, and want money.
4 – Winter is cold. Sometimes it snows a lot, sometimes not. Summer is warm. Sometimes it rains a lot, sometimes not. End of story.
And the furnace guy is coming to visit my furnace to figure out why it will sometimes run on its own, and sometimes it won’t. Anyway, my house is clean, and the grocery store already has turkey stock on the shelves, but not that soft cheese I like at this time of year.
And one year I rode my motorcycle to work on December 20, in shirt sleeves.
To go long with your #4, and sometimes the hot days in summer never get above 90°, like this past summer.
Maybe we should follow the money: http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/feb/14/funding-climate-change-denial-thinktanks-network
Look Dr. Know, based on what I experience the world is getting colder. So much so that just hearing “global warming” just makes me mad. We might be experiencing record droughts, a glut of “super storms” and the ice caps are still melting at a record pace but that doesn’t equate to the climate changing. Like I said – from my vantage point – the weather has been pretty damned cold. Not warmer!
Maybe you should follow the money and realize that scientists and their liberal agendas aren’t to be trusted. They need those grants to continue working in the field and in the lap of lazy luxury.
For example: The droughts in California aren’t record – it’s just part of a normal rainless dry cycle. I’m sure the rain will come back like normal next year. And if not next year then the year after. There just isn’t point in changing what we do because Global Warning isn’t happening.
Well, I see we have another visit from our Excel- and generally-ignorant Herr Doktor Doktor Weiß-Nichts. “Wie geht’s, Herr Doktor?”
Yeah, those “dirty conservatives” came up with an average of $15M a year over 8 years to counter government-funded propaganda on the subject. That’s called free speech, toolbox.
Apparently, you’re unaware that the Federal government provided $2.668 billion for “climate science research” in 2014 alone – specifically, 23% out of of a total of $11.6 billion in climate change related spending. I will go out on a limb here and assert that essentially none of that $2.668 billion in climate change research funding went to those who are not global warming advocates.
http://fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R43227.pdf
Come back when you get a chance. Next time, maybe you’ll even have a logical argument with pertinent facts vice an irrelevant non sequitur journalistic hit-piece to support your POV.
By the way – you wouldn’t be a former Army statistician, would you? (Don’t bother answering – that was a joke you wouldn’t get.)
Geeze Hondo you are really fired up about this German Doctor. How come you put “dirty conservatives” in quotations? Who called anyone a “dirty conservative”? The amount of money the federal government provided is insane! Do you think they vet the scientists so they only give grants to the ones that will do their bidding? On that PDF, it says:
“Over the past two decades, federal funding for climate change-related activities has expanded
from scientific research, almost exclusively, to
a wide variety of programs to (1) develop and
disseminate technologies; (2) build an informational and analytical foundation for future policy
actions; (3) plan for adaptation to actual or expected climate change; (4) assist private sector
decision-makers and lower-income countries; and (5) address additional needs”
To me, that spending seems different that funneling money into anti-climate change think tanks. It seems like most of that spending is aimed at technology to combat potential climate change in the case of the Earth finally turns against us. Like 10 more years of drought in California will require certain agricultural changes so people don’t starve.
To me, all that Guardian article is saying is that energy companies with a lot to lose are ensuring future financial success. Moving tens of millions of dollars into specifically anti climate change research. Think tanks that only exist to refute the ignorant, greedy, liberal, no nothing scientists. You know, people that have dedicated their life to research. Like Exxon, they must only worry about that bottom line – sweet sweet grant money. That’s like me hiring people to come up with arguments to disprove/discredit evolution. These would also find a home with that truth sayer Alex Jones.
Um, MC – OK, let me spell it out to you.
1. The Guardain is known as a highly left-wing rag.
2. DrKnow is a leftist tool
in the DC areaout on the Left Coast who consistently comments here taking the PC/leftist line. He’s also abysmally ignorant for someone claiming to hold a PhD. The “Herr Doktor” part above is a joke based on his ignorance.3. The first sentence the article he cites is as follows: “Conservative billionaires used a secretive funding route to channel nearly $120m (£77m) to more than 100 groups casting doubt about the science behind climate change, the Guardian has learned.” That kinda tips their hand regarding lack of objectivity.
4. The “dirty conservatives” quote was satire. You do understand the concept of satire, right?
5. The $2.668 figure is the 23% of the $11.6 billion total that was provided by the Federal government for climate science research in 2014. The other 77% was devoted to the other topics you mentioned; those other topics are also irrelevant here. We’re discussing the relative magnitude of pro- and anti- global warming theory spending.
6. That $2.668 billion in Federal spending for 2014 alone – which was money you and I paid in taxes, and undoubtedly was all spent on pro-global warming theory research since that’s one of the Administration’s pet causes – is more than 22 times the 8 year total about which the Guardian’s article complains. I’ll get worried about private spending to promote the global-warming-is-unproven POV when and if the Federal government stops supporting blatant propaganda on the issue.
Is that spelled out plainly enough, or do I need to drop it down to the “see Spot run” level?
Those are some pretty big assumptions you’re making about me. Just because I have disagreed with you on women in the military and climate change I am a leftist tool from DC? Maybe you should get your facts strait before you spout off again.
Well, “Herr Doktor” – based on what I’ve seen from your comments here so far, I see no reason to change my evaluation of your political leanings. You’re welcome to prove me wrong.
My memory was in error. You’re in fact commenting from the lost Left Coast vice the DC braindead zone.
West Coast, Best Coast.
That’s true, as voted on by illegal aliens, natural-born American felons, the LGBT alliance, and the fans and friends of Jerry Brown and Nancy Pelosi.
… and Regan. Bill Buckley. Biola University. Pepperdine University. Andrew Breitbart. Dumb things come from everywhere, good things come from everywhere. It’s dangerous to paint with such a wide brush 2/17 Air Cav & Hondo.
Don’t take yourself so seriously. No else is.
A Doctor who can’t spell straight? Once you can spell above a third grade level I may be willing to listen to your arguments.
1. Your tone leaves me thinking you’re not the nicest guy. Or you’re at least very ownery. Maybe this is Dr. Know’s fault.
2. That Guardian article revolves around the 120 million made by private donations. Why would “dirty conservatives” be donating so much money to specifically anti-global warming think tanks. I figure they’d at least attempt to be objective with their money. Seems like you’d only funnel that much money in such a manner in order to guarantee your interests remain profitable. As opposed to donating money for actual research. But that’s not smart investing as there would be no guarantee the research was going to benefit your bank account.
3. You say “undoubtedly was all spent on pro-global warming theory research since that’s one of the Administration’s pet causes”. That seems a bit reductionist. $2.86 billion is a drop in the Ocean. You’re going to complain that efforts to ensure a better future – regardless of who or what is behind it – is money that shouldn’t be spent?
4. In all seriousness – where do you get your news? You appear to be a very well read guy who spends a fair amount of time on the internet. What sites get your seal of approval?
5. In two years a conservative will take the white house and we’ll go back to this: http://www.theguardian.com/news/2005/jun/08/usnews.climatechange
Even though that’s all lies right?
Damned if we do, damned if we don’t. Obama goes too aggressive on climate change research. Bush lets big energy sway his policy. Which one is preferable?
1. I gen ornery when I deal with idiocy, written or spoken.
2. The bias of the Guardian article is immediately obvious after seeing the first sentence. It’s also eminently predictable given the source; the Guardian is well-known as a leftward leaning British newspaper. You appear intelligent, so I’m surprised you missed that.
3. $2.688B may be a “drop in the ocean”, Federal budget-wise. However, it’s still over 177X the voluntary, privately-funded annual spending ($15M yearly) that the Guardian, DrKnow, and you are complaining about here. And since I’m paying for that Federal spending on blatant propaganda with my taxes, I damn well have the right to complain about it if I disagree with it.
4. I read multiple news sources. Most are useful – provided you know about and account for their internal biases. I do admit that I refuse to read/watch MSNBC – they’re so comically ineptly biased that I cannot stomach the obvious bullsh!t they attempt to pass off as news; ditto Infowars. I triangulate from there based on my own knowledge and ability to think for myself.
5. For most things, not involving an immediate and pressing threat to health and welfare, letting private industry determine the is virtually always preferable. (Well, if you actually want results it’s preferable.) I’ve served in the military, so I’ve seen the government at both it’s best and it’s worst. I’ve also seen that there ain’t a helluva lot of difference between the two. (Hat tip to Jonn for that observation.) That’s not generally the case in the private sector.
Regarding your speculation about Hondo’s character, I have never met him in person. I have, however, been lurking in the comments section of this blog for a couple years. In that time I have observed, without deviation, that Hondo does not openly ridicule someone unless they have tried very hard (usually by being a condescending asshole) to earn such treatment. Even then, he never does it right away.
Keep this in mind in your observations of the interaction between Hondo and Dr.KnowsJackShit Phd,BS,EIEIO (I do not share Hondo’s maturity and restraint).
The Other Whitey…Thank you. Allow me to address Dr. Know and Mister Contrarian also. Guys, it’s like kindergarten, share, be polite, be courteous. And from me personally…DON’T FUCK WITH MY BROTHER HONDO! He’s one of the smartest, most patient guys on the blog from my experience of him.
Sparks- Nobody is being discourteous here but you. Please refrain from profanity, I just don’t see the need here. It is not discourteous to disagree with someone and have a discussion with them, as I believe that is all that I have ever done. Just because I have different beliefs about women in the military and climate change doesn’t mean I dislike Hondo, I just don’t agree with him, and I have the right to read all of the information and come to an informed opinion on the subjects at hand.
I like how you do not acknowledge your “different beliefs” about how the CDC forecasts the spread of Ebola. That was fuckin hilarious. What does your foot taste like by the way?
Calm down Sparks. No one is in here berating or denigrating Hondo. Disagreeing with the man isn’t calling him names. Geeze. This is a healthy, albeit one sided discussion.
While I’m sure he appreciates you jumping to his defense – Hondo doesn’t need you selflessly defending him. It’s obvious he can handle the back and forth. Talk about kindergarten. “You can’t talk to my friend that way!”
DrKnowPHD,MD…I guess you missed it. It’s just called, “tongue in cheek”, partner. And by the way, “You can’t talk to my friend that way!”
DrKnow…May I offer an observation, using your type of logic. If global warming/climate change, was indeed happening then answer this. Why are the gross revenues of hot air balloon ride businesses at an all time high? If global warming was truly taking place, then all those balloons would rise aloft and disappear into outer space, due to the tremendous increase in atmospheric temperatures. Nothing in the news about THAT one, eh! Yea, so there ya go, deal with it! 😀
You’re that keyed into the hot air balloon ride industry? I’m not certain that is a fair litmus to test the rising global temperatures. But I’ll take your word for it. You win, Global Warming is a fraud.
I’m also fairly certain that what’s stopping hot air balloons from turning into space balloons is the lack of oxygen at high altitudes. Don’t Hot Air Balloons “rise aloft” because of fuel? – not because of outside temperatures (although i do think that helps them rise more efficiently).
Quit Trolling Sparks!
They rise because of the temperature differential which equates to an air density differential. I figured a PhD would know that. Dr. Know, you’re an idiot.
DrKnow…Wow what a tool! Man I can’t believe you missed that! Did you miss the “smiley face” at the end too? Again, it’s called…wait for it…SARCASM! As for trolling…I think I’ve been “trolling” here a lot longer than you.
I wonder if “Dr. Know” got his PhD from the same place “Dr.” Blobfish did?
Of course the cold winters are caused by Global Warming. Concerned Scientists say so!
…Hotter air around the globe causes more moisture to be held in the air than in prior seasons. When storms occur, this added moisture can fuel heavier precipitation in the form of more intense rain or snow.
The United States is already experiencing more intense rain and snowstorms. The amount of rain or snow falling in the heaviest one percent of storms has risen nearly 20 percent, averaged nationally—almost three times the rate of increase in total precipitation between 1958 and 2007.
Some regions of the country have seen as much as a 67 percent increase in the amount of rain or snow falling in the heaviest storms — and an updated version of this figure from the draft National Climate Assessment suggests this increase may have risen to 74 percent between 1958 and 2011.
Overall, it’s warming, but we still have cold winter weather.
http://www.ucsusa.org/global_warming/science_and_impacts/science/cold-snow-climate-change.html#.VGO3UofgAco
Hmmmmm …. I think I forgot to end blockquote. Lemme try again. If I’ve failed … at least the block quote ought to be highlighted.
[me] Of course the cold winters are caused by Global Warming. Concerned Scientists say so!
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Well, except long-term data shows an apparent general mild cooling trend since the 1930s – or for the last 80 years. See the last link in the article above.
Yeah, I know, Hondo. This is what I have to put up with — I work with a lot of people who really believe in global warming. I just thought it was funny blaming the cold weather on global warming.
Remember that 2009 UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen … and the 2009 DC Global Warming Rally when Nancy Pelosi had to cancel her appearance due to a snow storm?
Poor polar bears!
Ask California if they’ve received record rainfall. I mean I presume since it’s California – you say “let the liberal and illegals burn”. But considering those farms feed tens of millions I think we should all hope for the best. Which they aren’t getting – at all. We need consistent rain and snowfall and in the right places. Everyone is a damned expert climatologist.
Actually, DrWeiß-Nichts, in May parts of CA had exactly that:
http://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/recordsetting-rain-departs-cal-1/23884619
Oh, and some parts of the greater LA area got enough rain earlier this month to cause mudslides, too:
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-californias-first-rains-of-season-didnt-make-drought-dent-20141101-htmlstory.html
Yes, overall it’s been a much drier than normal year in California. That’s called periodic variability, and happens in semi-arid climates from time-to-time. They’re called “droughts” when they involve a series of drier-than-normal years. And droughts are definitely not unknown in CA and the rest of the US west.
Well, “Doc,” I’m in SoCal. Yes, we had a year without a winter. Guess what? It’s happened before, not recently either, so it doesn’t fall into any new trend. Do you know what the rest of North America had? Record-breaking cold and precipitation, that’s what. Do you know what we DIDN’T have here? An abnormally hot summer, that’s what. Yes, it got hot, but no more so than it always does that time of year. Right now, it’s cooling off.
My line of work is more or less dictated by the weather in California, so I pay attention to it. The weather over the past year is not new or unprecedented.
Your screen name is decidedly ironic, as you don’t seem to know much about the topic at hand. All you seem to have in abundance is an arrogant-prick attitude directed at anybody who disagrees with you.
Give me a break.
“Yes, overall it’s been a much drier than normal year in California. That’s called periodic variability, and happens in semi-arid climates from time-to-time”
I know you’re the smartest guy in the every chat room – but that’s called a drought. It’s been 3 YEARS of below average rainfall. Hence – drought.
These must be liberal lies. Must everything be a liberal lie?
http://www.latimes.com/science/la-me-air-pollution-20141110-story.html
http://www.nationaljournal.com/energy/drought-is-taking-california-back-to-the-wild-wild-west-20141110
The state of California has a damned website specific to informing the public with the “periodic variability” oh but they call it a drought. Probably just to get more sweet sweet Federal dollars.
I’m curious, how many more years of below average rainfall before you allow/deem it to be a concern?
Yes, in California “dry happens” from time to time. There is some evidence that the recent past has in fact been an unusually wet one by long-term standards.
http://www.nytimes.com/1994/07/19/science/severe-ancient-droughts-a-warning-to-california.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm
Other sources indicated that dry spells lasting several (3-6 years) are routine periodic occurrences in much of California – particularly in Southern California.
http://cosmoscon.files.wordpress.com/2014/05/la-rainfall.jpg
http://cosmoscon.files.wordpress.com/2014/05/san-diego-rainfall.jpg
Bottom line: California is semi-arid now. Long term, there’s a good chance it’s going to be more arid that it has been for the last couple of centuries.
And there’s not a damn thing we can do to change the natural order of things if Mother Nature decides to dry her out again.
Ah…that would normally be written, ‘Dr. X, MD PhD.’
Not to pick nits or anything, just sayin’…
Sorry, TOW…this got put under the wrong comment. It was meant for DrKnowPHD,MD.
After a beautiful fall, Colorado has been experiencing what we call an Arctic Chill since Monday. It dropped 25 degrees in 15 minutes late morning that day and has been dropping ever since, -2 this morning, a balmy 3 degrees right now, -6 by tomorrow morning and not much warmer in between. With steady light snow as well. And it won’t warm up until Friday, then cold and snowy again on Sat.
The best source of really understanding weather and climate is the Watts Up With That blog by Anthony Watts.
In my personal opinion, the largest driver of climate on Earth is that giant nuclear reaction in the sky called the Sun. And it seems to be headed for a minimum, an event which heralded the Little Ice Age.
Cold kills far more humans, plants, and animals than heat. Higher temps mean more humidity, more CO2 (NOT the other way around!), and because of that, more plant growth. The very reason we now have fossil fuels to power our society is because the planet was far warmer and wetter than it is today. Dry and cold is the Antarctic or Mars, not much life there.
Procession of the Equinox “the wobble”.
The earth is moving toward an ice age.
Happens every 26,000+- years.
Geologically speaking, we came out of the last ice age roughly 5 to 10 thousand years ago. At least that’s what the Antarctic core samples and sediment samples tell us.
Global Cooling – Nope
Global Warming – Nope
Climate Change – Nice and ambiguous
1stSgtD…+100!
Climate Change as opposed to what? Climate Stagnation? It’s an ecosystem not a computer model. Of course it’s going to change.
Well, this personality clash between Hondo and Dr. Knowslessthanhethinks isn’t particularly useful, especially in view of the simple fact that this planet is in charge and WE ARE NOT. PERIOD.
So here’s the deal. Pay attention now, because these things happened before modern humans ever arrived on this planet.
The Nebraskan ice advance (so-called, because the ice sheets went down to Nebraska) lasted 140,000 years.
It was followed by the Aftonian warming period, which lasted a mere 33,000 years. Out of all the warming periods in the geological record, it was the shortest one in the last 600,000 years.
We are now more than halfway through the warming trend of the Aftonian at 18,000 years, and THIS warming trend was interrupted briefly, 12,500 years ago, by an event called the Younger Dryas, during which an ice dam holding the meltin Laurentian ice shield broke, flooding what is now the Mississippi valley and the St. Lawrence river with cold, fresh water, which was dumped by the billionis of cubic gallons into the Atlantic, thereby SHUTTING DOWN THE THERMOHALINE OVERTURN, and creating a brief, but nasty cold trend.
This is a very large planet. It is bigger than we are. It can wipe us out in a heartbeat, as was shown during the 2004 Boxing Day quake and again, the 2011 Fukushima quake, not to mention other major earthquakes. Or do I need to bring up the North Ridge and Hayward quakes?
This planet has its own agenda. Our influence on it is lower than the rate of interest paid on a standard savings account. We have been modern humans, who we are now, for barely 125,000 years, and it was NOT until the last 180 years that we actually polluted the water or atmosphere in any way. China is the worst polluter on record right now. Go fuss at the Chinese, OK?
As I have said repeatedly, WEATHER IS SHORT TERM. That means that weather runs in short-term cycles and there is nothing we can do about it other than be aware, be prepared, and use science to produce accurate weather forecasts.
The current cold weather was predicted in October, and is the byproduct of Typhoon Nuri’s rampage up into the vicinity of Alaska, disturbing the jet stream’s ‘normal’ pattern and forcing Arctic air into the lower lattitudes.
Is that part simple enough for anyone who doesn’t get it? It’s weather. It’s a short term cycle. These cycles can and do last anywhere from 3 to 30 years and then change to the opposite.
Climate change, on the other hand, is LONG TERM. These long term cycles last THOUSANDS of years. They become the subject of legends and myths, e.g., Persephone kidnapped by Pluto and spending 6 months out of each year with him; the Bifrost Giants, creating a permanent winter; the Gilgamesh story, Tablet 10, describing a natural event – a disastrous flood, which left behind people who had turned to clay (sounds exactly like Fukushima’s tidal wave aftermath to me); and drought caused by Phoebus Apollo driving his sun chariot too close to the Earth.
Unless we have another event that causes ice sheets to form, as in multiple large volcanic eruptions all at once, the likelihood of any of us seeing another real ice age is slim to none. And we have nothing to do with that, or with a warming trend. That is part of this planet’s natural cycle.
The sky is a brighter, clearer Kodak blue now than it ever was when I was 7 years old. That’s before some of you were even bright ideas in someone’s head.
However, I will give you a warning: based on the recessional wobble and the movement of the polar axis (0 degrees Capricorn, winter solstice) through the sky, we are NOW approaching a long-term change in climate.
The Serpentary constellation, Ophiuchus, represents man’s struggle with nature. The polar axis is in the process of moving past the last star in Ophiuchus (rho Ophiuchi) and we have from now until 2020 to resolve our relationship with Nature.
What does that mean? If we don’t pay attention to these things and stop squabbling over warming vs. cooling, we’re all screwed.
And for your information, Dr. Know, when I get produce at the grocery store, I check the label of origin. It usually says PRODUCT OF MEXICO. Maybe you should read labels once in a while. Some of my food comes from Uruguay, Germany, France, Italy, and Sardinia.
You’re not quite as smart as you think you are, but you are a smartass, and you’re boring, too. And no, I’m not interested in what publications you read. You don’t read what’s really important: the sky, the clouds, the position and angle of the sun in summer and winter.
Did you know that when snow is coming, if you pay attention you can smell it on the wind? No. I didn’t think so.
Wow you sure typed a lot. You are really passionate about mother nature being in charge! We better treat her right so she doesn’t destroy us in a fit of rage.
Personally, I think God is in charge. He and only he provides for me and my family.
Lastly, you have no idea how smart I think I am.
Based on comments you’ve made here previously, the fact that you think yourself quite intelligent is IMO obvious. And also IMO, the fact that you aren’t as smart as you believe yourself to be is similarly obvious.
On that point, Ex-PH2 has you pegged perfectly.
Great, we can lump in ‘Believes in imaginary friends’ with all your other short comings.
I know a majority of the regulars here are ‘believers’, but some of us aren’t and we all seem to tolerate each other well enough, but I just couldn’t resist taking that swipe when you left that hanging out there to be smacked. Cheers.
That’s not how it works, doofus. God is in COMMAND — Mother Nature is IN CHARGE. He didn’t set the automation in motion to continuously screw with the controls. Translation: Give your soul to God, ’cause your ass belongs to the planet. You’re nothing more than a parasite. Remember that.
I dunno about you guys, but it’s cold up here.
Out of curiosity, on a scale of 1-10, how much does a girl appreciate you giving her your wool cap while you walk with her through the cold to her dorm (talking with her the whole way, of course; I’m not a creeper type like some of the people we know…)?
Just curious: I like the girl, don’t want to make any dumb mistakes and have doors close on me.
…you giving her your wool cap while you walk with her through the cold to her dorm ….
It’s not worth getting frostbite on your ears, pal.
Curmudgeon-6, out.
Well, I figured that if anyone was to get frostbite, it’d be better me than her.
Do you really want to date a girl who is stupid/helpless enough to not wear a wool hat in cold weather?
Pinto Nag: well, fashion and vanity do make people do dumb things. Otherwise, there would be no explanation for miniskirts worn in freezing weather. (smile)
It’s also true that the less a girl wears, the dumber the boys around her get.
True dat. The Deity gave men two heads, but only enough blood to operate one at a time. (smile)
It’s not like she was wearing a miniskirt and a halter top. She just forgot to bring her cap…
The direct correlation is still there, laddie. Otherwise strip clubs wouldn’t make money. She doesn’t have to be in a bikini to affect your decision-making process.
I guess? I mean, she’s real pretty, but I don’t think that my decision-making process was off.
She forgot her cap, so I let her use mine until we got to her dorm.
I speak from experience, Farflung. If you think she’s hot, she’s affecting your decision-making. Here’s a question, and be honest. Would you have been in such a hurry to offer up your own PPE if she was fugly? Understand this is not a value judgement, just making a point.
I don’t actually know. I want to say yes, but at the same time I probably only walk with her after class because I like her. Otherwise, we’d probably only interact inside the classroom only.
So, I don’t know. If it hadn’t been the girl in question but someone else, maybe not.
Yup, and about 70% of heat loss happens through the scalp. She’d have done better to wear the miniskirt and halter top, and wear a wool cap with them. Beauty is as beauty does, and one day, she won’t be beautiful anymore. Think man, THINK.
I’m fighting a losing battle over this, aren’t I?
Just trying to give you the benefit of over 100 years collective experience in the male/female thing, lad. From both sides.
Do what you think best. Just make sure it’s an informed decision, not one made in haste due to excess hormones and horns. Those kind of decisions often are truly head-scratchers the next day.
Yeah, I think I understand.
I’m not one to rush into things; if I have to make a snap decision, I can, but I prefer to try to think through things ahead of time.
So, I do appreciate the advice. I’m trying to figure things out, and I won’t do anything… impulsive. Not until I’m sure that she’s someone I want to go with.
I wouldn’t call them head scratchers so much as “slam my head into the wall repeatedly wondering how I could be so stupid.”
Even when I did successfully seal the deal (generous estimate: 1 time out of every 18) it was rarely worth the effort. At least until I met my wife. The one is worth all the effort and then some. In my experience, though, the One is not a chick that you look at for the first time and think, “I wanna tap that!”
One day, you’ll understand. Just give it time, and for God’s sake, try not to spend too much money in the meantime.
Well, the sooner I understand, the better… Especially your last comment on “the One”.
Don’t worry on money, I’m keeping a very close eye on it. Don’t intend it to fly off on me.
She had forgot it in her room, actually. It’s not like she had consciously decided “hey, I’ll freeze my damn ears off”.
If you wanna be happy
For the rest of your life,
Never make a pretty woman your wife,
So from my personal point of view,
Get an ugly girl to marry you.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYeXtB-Vadw&feature=player_embedded
Useful facts concerning the well financed leftist globull everything.
1: http://www.rggi.org/ Check their membership and advisory board, real close. N/E region and the several eastern provinces of Au’ Canada.
2; http://www.theclimateregistry.org/ S.F., Ca based carbon trading exchange.
3:www.http://americancarbonregistry.org/ S.F., Ca.
4: http://www.v-c-s.org/how-it-works/vcs-registry-system
That barely scratches the surfacce of US based carbon trading/climate change operations that are solely left-funded operations. Watch your utility bills, go very high from here on out. Lame duck congress and a lame duck POTUS to boot.
When you check out the rggi, pay attention to the NGO’s and private utilities involved in it. Anybody seen any new permits being issued for nuc powered plants lately?