January 2009 Archives

By John Coleman, KUSI

The key players are now all in place in Washington and in state governments across America to officially label carbon dioxide as a pollutant and enact laws that tax we citizens for our carbon footprints.

Only two details stand in the way, the faltering economic times and a dramatic turn toward a colder climate. The last two bitter winters have led tthe public to be skeptical that any runaway global warning. There is now awareness that there may be reason to question whether CO2 is a pollutant and a significant greenhouse gas.

How did we ever get to this point where bad science is driving big government? And how will we ever stop it?

By Elmer Beauregard

So as part of the "Stimulus Package" they are spending $400,000,000 on global warming research. I'm not sure how that will stimulate the economy, but I'm sure a few choice beauracrats will get some much needed "change" if you know what I mean?

My question is, will this money only go to researchers trying to prove Global warming or will groups who are skeptical also get some money?

It seems to me that if you really want to stimulate the economy you would want to prove once and for all the Global Warming is dead, which would turn lose this economic sleeping giant. Unfortunately, I have a feeling they are spending this money because their current lies aren't working anymore and they need to find some new lies to plug the holes in the global warming fear mongering dam.

I think I'll apply for some of this just to see what happens.

By Elmer Beauregard

Well January is almost over and in the Twin Cities it never got up to 32º this whole month. This has happened only 3 times before 1912, 1978 and 1979 and now 2009, if tomorrow stays cold. The hottest day of the year so far was January 1st, when it made it all the way to 30º. And let's not forget the 3 days in arow where it didn't get above 0º.

In honor of this cold stretch I am working on our next music video and we need your pictures of subzero readings on your thermometer. Send them to elmer(a)m4gw.com. The song is to the tune of Van Morrison's "Tupelo Honey" our version is "2 Below Honey"

Newsblaze

Astronaut Jack Schmitt Joins SkepticsAmerican astronaut Dr. Jack Schmitt - the twelfth person to walk on the
Moon, when he and Eugene Cernan were the last two to walk there - is
the latest scientist to be added to the roster of more than 70 skeptics
who will confront the subject of global warming at the second annual
International Conference on Climate Change in New York City March 8-10,
2009.

"As a geologist, I love Earth observations," Schmitt wrote, "But, it
is ridiculous to tie this objective to a 'consensus' that humans are
causing global warming when human experience, geologic data and
history, and current cooling can argue otherwise. 'Consensus,' as many
have said, merely represents the absence of definitive science. You
know as well as I, the 'global warming scare' is being used as a
political tool to increase government control over American lives,
incomes and decision making..."

By Elmer Beauregard

Just like when Reagan took over after Carter he immediately solved the Hostage Crisis, Obama has done the same thing only this time with Global Warming.

In Obama's Inaugural Speech he said he would "roll back the spectre of a warming planet". Well, the noon temperature in Washington DC at the President Obama's swearing-in was 28 degrees F., eight degrees colder than when Bush was sworn in eight years ago, in fact the earth has been cooling off under the Bush administration.

Obama also pledged to "harness the sun and the winds and the soil to fuel our cars". That one might be a little harder to pull off, but if he could I suppose it would look something like this.

That's what Kevin Grandia seems to be saying at the Huffinton post, Ignore the fact that we are experiencing the coldest winter in 20 years, the sheeple are starting to wake up, judging by the number of Google Searches on Global Skepticism.

A Troubling Trend in Global Warming Denial on the Internet
Our 2008 analysis of global warming misinformation finds that there was a very significant upswing in online activity.

This trend should be troubling to US policymakers and campaigners wanting to implement new greenhouse gas reduction strategies.

Gregory F. Fegel , Pravda



The earth is now on the brink of entering another Ice Age, according to a large and compelling body of evidence from within the field of climate science. Many sources of data which provide our knowledge base of long-term climate change indicate that the warm, twelve thousand year-long Holocene period will rather soon be coming to an end, and then the earth will return to Ice Age conditions for the next 100,000 years.

Ice cores, ocean sediment cores, the geologic record, and studies of ancient plant and animal populations all demonstrate a regular cyclic pattern of Ice Age glacial maximums which each last about 100,000 years, separated by intervening warm interglacials, each lasting about 12,000 years.

StarTribune

COLD WINTER, COOL SPRING, TORNADOES AND FLOODS

Nostalgia was a cold thing for Minnesotans in 2008. An old-fashioned winter ushered in the year with five straight months of below-normal temperatures statewide, the first such streak since 1979. April snows were heavy - depressing, some would say - and many northern lakes were still covered with ice instead of anglers for the walleye fishing opener in May. Some migrating birds starved because the bugs they like to eat when they arrive hadn't been born yet. Gardening and farming started two weeks later than usual all across the state. The worst calamities occurred in late spring - a fatal tornado in Hugo and floods in the Austin area. As the year ended, heavy autumn rains and snow in the Red River Valley had people thinking ahead to spring flooding. Statewide, a deep snow cover held the promise of another "traditional winter" stretching into 2009

By Elmer Beauregard

In my original blog entry December 9th I talked about a worldwide temperature chart and said that it was inaccurate because of the large amount of weather stations that went offline when the USSR collapsed around 1990.

I pointed out that this brought the number of reporting weather stations around the world down from a high of 15,000 in 1970 to 5,000 in 2000. This takes some of the coldest places on the planet out of the equation, like Siberia.

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I received some criticism for not mentioning any sources, so I made this Google map with some of the weather stations from the former USSR that went offline in the 80s and 90s (most closing around 1990). Based on this GISS website.

By Elmer Beauregard, January 8, 2009

My friend's son was in Europe for 2 weeks and he's in France right now. He said they got almost 6 inches of snow in Marseille yesterday! He sent these photos. So I guess it hasn't snowed there in like 20. Everything is shut down and kids are playing in the street. Their palm trees are covered in snow, yet we who are always covered in snow never get palm trees, the injustice!

Don't you hate it when the weather goes against your own propaganda?

Morgan Clendaniel, Good Blog

Because it’s Frickin’ Cold. Or, What To Tell Your Crazy Uncle When He Says: “Guess This Cold Means Global Warming Isn’t Happening.”

Here at GOOD, we make a special effort to never refer to the horrible things happening to our climate as “global warming.” This is because what we used to call “global warming” doesn’t just mean the globe is warming up, though those few naysayers out there (we’re looking at you, Matt Drudge) always get to crow to themselves when it is in fact colder than it’s supposed to be. But that’s the same thing. (Here is how cold it is now, but you really shouldn’t be thinking about wind chill, though that’s a different story.)

Flooded out Bangladeshis will duke it out with Eskimos in newly inhabitable land wars.

by Eric Leech, New York, Business & Politics

Global warming is the cause of a number of damaging effects to the earth and its inhabitants, such as climate change, glacier retreat, rising sea levels, and now we may have a new threat on the horizon... world war! According to the 2007 CNA Corporation report, there is clear indication that as the tensions of global warming continue to heat up, so may the possibilities of war.

There are two obvious factors which will be the cause of the increasing threat of war:

By Howard Witt, Chicago Tribune

Canada's vast forests, once huge absorbers of greenhouse gases, now add to problem

Forestry officials in British Colombia used a controlled fire to check the spread of a devastating infestation by the mountain pine beetle. (Reuters photo by Andy Clark / August 8, 2005)

VANCOUVER — As relentlessly bad as the news about global warming seems to be, with ice at the poles melting faster than scientists had predicted and world temperatures rising higher than expected, there was at least a reservoir of hope stored here in Canada's vast forests.

The country's 1.2 million square miles of trees have been dubbed the "lungs of the planet" by ecologists because they account for more than 7 percent of Earth's total forest lands. They could always be depended upon to suck in vast quantities of carbon dioxide, naturally cleansing the world of much of the harmful heat-trapping gas.

But not anymore.

In an alarming yet little-noticed series of recent studies, scientists have concluded that Canada's precious forests, stressed from damage caused by global warming, insect infestations and persistent fires, have crossed an ominous line and are now pumping out more climate-changing carbon dioxide than they are sequestering.

By Elmer Beauregard

Well its 2009 and its time to think of some resolutions, I guess. So here is a list of things I resolve to do in 2009, I'll keep it short so its easier to achieve and set reachable goals, otherwise what's the point.

Every year I resolve to lose those pesky 10 (or 20) extra pounds, to no avail.
This year I resolve to be OK with the way I look, plus that extra weight comes in handy when its -20º.

I resolve in 2009 to START smoking, seeings how they banned it in Minnesota last year. By smoking I will emit quite a bit more of the deadly CO2 into the atmosphere than I normally exhale. But the trees would love it, and it will be good for the economy in these tough economic times, and think of all the taxes it will generate for the state. Plus, if the state banned it, it must be good.

Buy a Hummer.

And I resolve to figure out why oil pumping stations are considered an eyesore but thousands of giant 400' wind generators aren't. Maybe it would help if the oil rigs were made to look like those big tacky sculptures you see at the edge of small towns, only animated. Make one look like a giant Mosquito, which they look like anyway, and have it stinging the earth, or a big Prairie Chicken pecking the ground or Paul Bunyan splitting wood.

ANIMATED GIF WARNING!