We interrupt your regularly scheduled stupidity for a weather report, sponsored by Socialist Scientists for the Prevention of Climate Change by Any Means Necessary.
The United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is currently finalizing its fourth assessment report, titled “Climate Change 2007.” Those of you who want to jump the gun and make stupid legislation before the actual report is released, complete with its disclaimers, qualifiers and assorted fine print can read the frightening summary for policymakers (PDF) which says it’s “virtually certain” that the earth is getting warmer and that it’s “very likely” our fault, and omits any data which might tend to undermine those claims. The IPCC is currently editing the report to locate and remove these data.
We’re told to expect that summers will be longer and hotter, winters will be shorter and warmer, droughts will be more common and more widespread, and heat waves and heavy rainfall will be more common. In addition, we’re told that it’s likely that hurricanes and other severe weather will be more common and more devastating, and that the sea level will rise and flood out all our coastal cities.
So, whose fault is today’s gripping cold spell which has caused bitter cold temperatures across much of the U.S. and broken records in Hawaii?
Of course, lows in the 50s don’t even register as winter weather for most, but in tropical Honolulu it’s rather unusual.
The cold spell has been going on all weekend and is expected to last as much as two more days before temperatures start returning to “normal” across most of the U.S., with some northern parts seeing temperatures down to 42 below zero, and places as far south as Kentucky seeing dangerous wind chills.
With temperatures near zero and a wind chill of 25 below, school districts across Ohio canceled classes. “We have a lot of kids that walk to school. We didn’t think it was worth the risk,” Sandusky City Schools Superintendent Bill Pahl said.
It was so cold in Toledo, Ohio — 5 above zero at noon, up from 4 below — that the city closed its outdoor ice rink. “The irony is not lost on us,” said city spokesman Brian Schwartz.
With a temperature of 12 below zero and wind chill of 31 below, Wisconsin’s largest school district, Milwaukee Public Schools, also shut down, idling some 90,000 children. In upstate New York, 34,000 kids got the day off in Rochester because of near-zero temperatures. Schools also closed in parts of Michigan.
Even in Minnesota, where February cold is the norm and people are accustomed to coping, some charter schools closed. — Associated Press
Water mains are breaking in Detroit due to the severe cold. The state of Wisconsin has issued a public health advisory warning people of the dangerous conditions. Over the weekend a 100-car pileup caused by snow and ice killed one and injured many others, not in California, but near Concord, N.H. I could go on and on.
The only exception to the cold seems to be the southwest and Pacific coast, which almost never get very cold in the winter anyway.
It was 17 below this morning, and 4 below this afternoon, has been this way all weekend, and isn’t expected to get above zero until Wednesday. Now, can I please have some global warming with a side of smog?
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Oliver Crangle
Feb 05, 2007
Even if global warming is not real, the anecdotes in your essay are quite un-convincing…
Michael Hampton
Feb 05, 2007
Go outside, make some naked snow angels, and say that again. :)
Laz
Feb 05, 2007
“It is cold outside today, therefore global warming cannot be taking place.” Give this man the Nobel Prize.
David
Feb 05, 2007
All I can suggest to believers in man made global warming science is investigate the history of eugenics. There are many similarities between the two sciences. Personally, I can see a real clear and present danger with the global warming wackos out there. These global warming scientists regularly omit data that does not back there view point. Makes sense that they would want the data to match there self interests as it is much much harder to get those juicy government grants for research if there is catastrophic danger to mankind to point at.
Really, isn’t it rather egotistical to believe that man can affect the earth in such a dramatic way?
David
Feb 05, 2007
All I can suggest to believers in man made global warming science is to investigate the history of eugenics. There are many similarities between the two sciences. Personally, I can see a real clear and present danger with the global warming wackos out there. These global warming scientists regularly omit data that does not back thier view point. Makes sense that they would want the data to match there self interests as it is much much harder to get those juicy government grants for research if there is no catastrophic danger to mankind to point at.
Really, isn’t it rather egotistical to believe that man can affect the earth in such a dramatic way?
Old Timer
Feb 05, 2007
Global Warming = Junk Science
Beware these folks appearing at your local town meeting. It’s just another excuse for land grabs by your government!
Gimme Castro
Feb 05, 2007
Just another excuse for central planners and socialist ideologues to implement “change” via force on the masses. Nothing works better than creating a menace bigger than the individual, whether real or imagined, in order to bring to pass the means for controlling that individual. All the while screaming “The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few!” as they implement their Utopian “Star Trek” society. Only hindsight will stop this steamroller mob mentality.
I’m really having trouble keeping up with all the things the experts say I should be afraid of…
Gölök
Feb 06, 2007
Hmmmm, what is said about the phrase “Climate Change” that creator of the barometer didn’t know? Or did Al Gore invent that as well? The weather and Climate variables have changed back to how they were when I moved to Vancouver in the late 80s. After having it really well, it isn’t Phoenix or Equador here, hasn’t been. Oh that ice bridge to the North Melted a few centuries ago and some Penguins moved to South Africa.
Must be getting cooler there.
Trust us, we’re the media By Mitchell Anderson: is a good one, very surprising. Given the Paper, the editor/publisher is usually into the nutty cult lip service and Authoritarianism.
Did Dan McCleod see some light other than from Ra’s Eye?
michael lundy
Feb 06, 2007
I have completely flip flopped on this issue. I used to believe it but after becoming more INFORMED about it I think it’s one great big U.N bullshit story. Now you really wanna be scared read 1984.again!!
F
Feb 06, 2007
The earth is a complex huge ecosystem, ‘global’ warming can cause temporary regional cooling. The planets carbon ratio is above 300ppm and climbing rapidly, at 1000ppm was the Cambrian extinction that wiped out over 60% of the planets species. With India and china growing, we are gonna be pumping huge amounts of carbon into the atmosphere. The planet is warming that’s a fact. How much and what will be the effects and should we be doing something about it, are other issues.
You forget that the rest of this winter and fall was extremely warm.
J. Bruno
Feb 06, 2007
Many theories propose that the planet will actually cool at first due to tons of ice melting into the seas. I have not researched it.
Lenny Zimmermann
Feb 06, 2007
Semms kind of a non-story to me. Whether or not not you believe in global warming (and I think it’s pretty safe to say there is pretty good scientific evidence and consensus that we are seeing a general warming trend in global temperatures, the differences mostly revolving around how much) or that any of it is caused by human activity (the evidence is a LOT less clear on that point), the current cold points on the North American continent don’t prove or disprove anything. Heck the last European ice age was mostly likely cause by a general warming trend (which caused a disruption of warmer ocean currents affecting the European continent.)
In other words global warming can have, and historically has had, cooling, sometimes even extremely so, effects. Either way we’re still talking about an event of geological proportions where local conditions in any given short time frame are pretty indicative of nothing. Indeed it is those same kinds of events that those opposed to the idea of a general global warming trend often disavow (such as hotter then usual summers in any given place not being indicative of a general warming trend.)
In other words, just because it’s cold outside now does not, in any way, provide proof or disproof of the total, overall climactic changes our planet may or may not be going through.
Rob Davidson
Feb 06, 2007
While I tend to get infuriated at times with evangelistic “Man-Made Global Warming” fanatics, I do get a chuckle over their gullibility.
Unfortunately, I am old enough to remember the exact same sort of nonsense that was being spewed forth back in the 70’s – by the same kind of people – only then it was “Global Cooling” and the impending Ice Age that we were all going to facing by now.
I also remember how all of these so-called experts were crying the blues over world population, and how the Earth couldn’t possibly feed the billions of people. Everyone was going to be starving by the year 2000 – even those of us in the industrialized countries would be suffering.
seef
Feb 06, 2007
The Global Warming “issue” isn’t a right- or left- wing thing. All I know is I’ve been following the Junk Science blog for years. Steven Milloy is considered a “wingnut” (tied to big oil and tobacco somehow). I’m anti-government, anti-war, anti-??? (I’m Libertarian-Atheist all the way. Bush, Rush don’t believe this stuff either, but for my sake for different reasons..!!) This Junk Science site, in my opinion, is NOT biased one way or the other (sure, his snide comments are biased, but 99% of the time I agree). Fine, Global Warming is happening, but not from excessive CO2!!! Look at the history, as noted by prior posts.
My opinion? Climate Scientists aren’t all that far removed from Meteorologists (weathermen with degrees?).
PS- Articles containing the word “consensus” drives me crazy. There have been majority opinions, not a consensus!!!
Right Wing Toledo
Feb 12, 2007
Heaven forbid that anyone consider the “Sun” in their calculations. After all, that particular body of gas has been working overtime for the past 20 years or so, I’m sure that it has nothing to do with increased temperatures.
Besides, Artic ice sheets are diminishing (psst… Antartic sheets are incresing). And we know that Global Warming exists, the Earth is Flat, the Atom is indestructible, and there are only 4 elements: Air, Earth, Fire, & Water (Love does not count you Bruce Willis movie fans.)
Bob
Feb 13, 2007
Cold weather is also a symptom of Global Worming. Global Warming causes the atmosphere to heat up, melting the ice caps. This causes ocean temperatures to drop and lessen rain and humidity values. As a result the earth starts to plunge in to a micro Ice Age. So all this cold weather we’re seeing could still be a result of Global Warming.
Of course that’s just my opinion, and I’m probably wrong.
Henry the Eighth
Feb 15, 2007
Man made global warming is complete and utter nonsense! Who ever heard of a scientific “consensus”? Did we build the space shuttle because of a “consensus” among aeronautical engineers that it would work? As opposed to cold hard facts about flight and space travel that had been tested and proved over the course of decades? Of course it was and is the latter! If the earth IS getting warmer, of which there is still much debate, it is due to the natural cycles of the planet and, as one poster mentioned, the Sun and its cycles.
Curtis
Mar 27, 2007
You have no clue how science works do you? Climate is a long term trend. Weather is short term. The trend is that it is getting warmer, many of the warmest years to date have been recently. You also seem to have forgotton last Oct-Dec. Nice WEATHER then. The fact is that cardon dioxide traps heat (or we would be frozen icecubes). Common sense says more carbon dioxide would trap more heat. Science confirms that the AVERAGE temperature has gone up. Anyone with any math knowledge knows that an average can include high (and low) number. The average of 5, 5,5 is 5. The average of 0,5, 10 is still 5. But they are very different data sets. The cost of action is $$ (kind of), better efficiency (get some of your money back), less environmental destruction, and less dependence on overseas oil. The cost of inaction could be none…or very costly in 30 years. All I can say is that the people who say global warming is BS, and we need to do nothing are right, because if they are not we are in for big trouble.
socialflea
Mar 27, 2007
Most people tend to look at one area, the area they live in and say “I’m cold what they’re saying about climate change must not be true.” When you look globally this winter has been very warm. In Allentown Pennsylvania where I live February was the fifth coldest on record, but December was the warmest on record. As cold as it has been since the middle of January it doesn’t out way the warmth we’ve seen, and the winter as a whole was slightly above average. My little tidbit doesn’t prove global warming, but if you look globally it tells a different story.