From Ed Rendell's Washington Times Editorial (Democratic Governor of Pennsylvania)
"First, to call off this game because of snow is further evidence of the "wussification" of America. We seem to have lost our boldness, our courage, our sense of adventure and that frontier spirit that made this country the greatest nation in the world. A little snow, a potential traffic tie-up, a long trip home caused us to cancel a football game? Will Bunch, a writer for the Philadelphia Daily News, said that if football were played in China, 60,000 Chinese would have walked through the snow to the stadium doing advanced calculus as they did so. He's probably right, and it's no secret why the Chinese are dominating on the world stage."
Thank God Someone Said It!!!
BB
Wednesday, December 29, 2010
Hard to Believe This Cyclone Caused So Much Flooding
Ragedy looking TC "Tasha" caused large-scale flooding in Queensland. Didn't look that bad from space.
Scotland Comes to Ireland's Aid
Did you ever think you would see a "water-shortage" in Ireland, one of the wettest places I have ever been to, personally. - HLG
Scotland sends bottled water to Northern Ireland
Water from bottling plants in Banff and Forfar will be loaded onto the Larne ferry later on Wednesday.
The move follows an agreement between the Scottish Government and the Northern Ireland Assembly.
The delivery of about 160,000 litres of bottled water is being carried out by Scottish Water.
Scotland Minister for Transport and Infrastructure Keith Brown said the Scottish government was pleased to be able to offer the support to Northern Ireland.
"Scotland understands only too well the impact of severe winter weather on households and infrastructure. At a time when 40,000 households across Northern Ireland are without water supplies we are pleased to be able to extend this support to a friend and neighbour in need," he said.
"The continuing thaw has seen a four-fold increase in calls to Scottish Water from householders and businesses dealing with burst pipes in Scotland."
'Full capacity'
Peter Farrer, Scottish Water's customer service delivery director, said the support provided to Northern Ireland would not hamper efforts to deal with Scotland's own water problems.
"We understand completely that homes and businesses in Scotland are without water because of leaking or burst pipes, however this helping hand to our neighbours will not affect our service to our customers in Scotland," he said.
"We have been working at full capacity for several days, and drafting in extra resources to deal with the impact of the extreme weather in Scotland. This has involved responding to leaks, delivering bottled water and providing advice.
"None of this frontline response will be diverted in Scotland to handle this request. Neither will it impact on our ability to deal with any water supply issues that arise in Scotland.
"We are confident that Scottish Water customers will appreciate that the situation in Northern Ireland is truly exceptional and that it is right that any assistance available is offered."
Scotland sends bottled water to Northern Ireland
Water from bottling plants in Banff and Forfar will be loaded onto the Larne ferry later on Wednesday.
The move follows an agreement between the Scottish Government and the Northern Ireland Assembly.
The delivery of about 160,000 litres of bottled water is being carried out by Scottish Water.
Scotland Minister for Transport and Infrastructure Keith Brown said the Scottish government was pleased to be able to offer the support to Northern Ireland.
"Scotland understands only too well the impact of severe winter weather on households and infrastructure. At a time when 40,000 households across Northern Ireland are without water supplies we are pleased to be able to extend this support to a friend and neighbour in need," he said.
"The continuing thaw has seen a four-fold increase in calls to Scottish Water from householders and businesses dealing with burst pipes in Scotland."
'Full capacity'
Peter Farrer, Scottish Water's customer service delivery director, said the support provided to Northern Ireland would not hamper efforts to deal with Scotland's own water problems.
"We understand completely that homes and businesses in Scotland are without water because of leaking or burst pipes, however this helping hand to our neighbours will not affect our service to our customers in Scotland," he said.
"We have been working at full capacity for several days, and drafting in extra resources to deal with the impact of the extreme weather in Scotland. This has involved responding to leaks, delivering bottled water and providing advice.
"None of this frontline response will be diverted in Scotland to handle this request. Neither will it impact on our ability to deal with any water supply issues that arise in Scotland.
"We are confident that Scottish Water customers will appreciate that the situation in Northern Ireland is truly exceptional and that it is right that any assistance available is offered."
Gosh-darn Global Warming!
If the US East Coast gets any warmer, we won't be able to shovel the snow from the runways fast enough! - HLG
Tuesday, December 28, 2010
New York Times Blames Blizzard on Global Warming!
Even Al Gore doesn't have the stones to make that claim!
A Blizzard of Lies in The New York Times By Alan Caruba Sunday, December 26, 2010
“Bundle Up. It’s Global Warming” – December 26, 2010, New York Times opinion article by Judah Cohen.
It’s Orwellian when cold is declared warmth. It’s deceitful and insulting when it occurs in the midst of a huge blizzard shutting down much of the northeast.
I would not even trust the date on the front page of The New York Times because the newspaper long ago lost touch with reality, with sanity, and, one can only assume, readers fleeing to other sources for the news.
When the oft-called “newspaper of record” chooses a day on which Mother Nature is demonstrating what tons of snow and chill air can do to a huge swath of the nation’s northeast with effects reaching Tallahassee, they are either trying to see just how stupid their readers are or doubling down on the global warming hoax they have disseminated since Jim Hansen of NASA’s Goddard Institute declared we’re all doomed back in 1988.
If you want a lesson in Orwell’s “doublethink”, the ability to hold two contradictory thoughts or ideas at the same time, you need only read the first line of Cohen’s article: “The earth continues to get warmer, yet it’s feeling a lot colder outside.” In other words, who are you going to believe? Me? Or your lying eyes?
Judah Cohen, director of seasonal forecasting at an atmospheric and environmental research firm
Judah Cohen is identified as “the director of seasonal forecasting at an atmospheric and environmental research firm.” No further details are offered such as the name of the firm or Cohen’s academic credentials. Is he a meteorologist? If so, he is one of the worst I have ever encountered.
It happens that I know quite a few meteorologists and climate scientists. One of them is Joseph D’Aleo, an American Meteorological Society Fellow, and editor of a science-based Internet site, Ice Cap. Suffice to say, D’Aleo has been one of a hardy band of skeptics that have countered the global warming hoax with hard science, frequently dissecting the bogus “science” put forth by government agencies including National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, and other such sources.
Why We Need a New Global Data Set
In an article titled “Why We Need a New Global Data Set”, D’Aleo wrote the following:
“As I showed in the first analysis, the long term global temperature trends in their data bases have been shown by numerous peer review papers to be exaggerated by 30% to 50% and in some cases much more by issues such as uncorrected urbanization (urban heat island), land use changes, bad siting, bad instrumentation, and ocean measurement techniques that changed over time.”
“NOAA made matters worse by removing the satellite ocean temperature measurement which provide more complete coverage and was not subject to the local issues except near the coastlines and islands.”
‘The result has been the absurd and bogus claims by NOAA and the alarmists that we are in the warmest decade in 100 or even a 1000 years or more and our oceans are warmest ever.”
While Cohen is parroting the World Meteorological Organization’s latest claim that “2010 will probably be among the three warmest years on record, and 2001 through 2010 the warmest decade on record” in England, the Daily Mail was reporting on December 5 that “Britain, just as it was last winter and the winter before, was deep in the grip of a cold snap, which has seen some temperatures plummet to minus 20C, and that here 2010 has been the coolest year since 1996.”
This parallels the weather occurring now in the U.S. where new low temperature records are being set while cities like Columbia, S.C., had its first significant Christmas snow since weather records were first kept in 1887!
Suffice to say that Cohen’s article repeats the usual blather about melting Artic sea ice while waiting until the very end to admit that “the Eastern United States, North Europe and East Asia have experienced extraordinary snowy and cold winters since the turn of the century.”
World Meteorological Organization, a creature of the United Nations
A word to all who did not study meteorology; the World Meteorological Organization, a creature of the United Nations is also the mother ship of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
The IPCC, responsible for the Kyoto Protocols that called for limits on carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions, was totally discredited in 2009 when the exchange of thousands of emails revealed its chief perpetrators of the global warming hoax were manipulating the climate data it reported.
To trust the WMO or IPCC at this point in time is futile and dangerous. To trust the garbage coming out of NOAA, GISS and other government entities purporting to predict the climate is also to trust the Environmental Protection Agency that will announce in January 2011 its plans to regulate carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases, claiming they are “causing” a global warming that is not happening.
Americans are being deliberately misled by rogue government agencies with no scientific justification for their continued existence.
As for The New York Times, it is unfit to line the bottom of a canary’s birdcage.
A Blizzard of Lies in The New York Times By Alan Caruba Sunday, December 26, 2010
“Bundle Up. It’s Global Warming” – December 26, 2010, New York Times opinion article by Judah Cohen.
It’s Orwellian when cold is declared warmth. It’s deceitful and insulting when it occurs in the midst of a huge blizzard shutting down much of the northeast.
I would not even trust the date on the front page of The New York Times because the newspaper long ago lost touch with reality, with sanity, and, one can only assume, readers fleeing to other sources for the news.
When the oft-called “newspaper of record” chooses a day on which Mother Nature is demonstrating what tons of snow and chill air can do to a huge swath of the nation’s northeast with effects reaching Tallahassee, they are either trying to see just how stupid their readers are or doubling down on the global warming hoax they have disseminated since Jim Hansen of NASA’s Goddard Institute declared we’re all doomed back in 1988.
If you want a lesson in Orwell’s “doublethink”, the ability to hold two contradictory thoughts or ideas at the same time, you need only read the first line of Cohen’s article: “The earth continues to get warmer, yet it’s feeling a lot colder outside.” In other words, who are you going to believe? Me? Or your lying eyes?
Judah Cohen, director of seasonal forecasting at an atmospheric and environmental research firm
Judah Cohen is identified as “the director of seasonal forecasting at an atmospheric and environmental research firm.” No further details are offered such as the name of the firm or Cohen’s academic credentials. Is he a meteorologist? If so, he is one of the worst I have ever encountered.
It happens that I know quite a few meteorologists and climate scientists. One of them is Joseph D’Aleo, an American Meteorological Society Fellow, and editor of a science-based Internet site, Ice Cap. Suffice to say, D’Aleo has been one of a hardy band of skeptics that have countered the global warming hoax with hard science, frequently dissecting the bogus “science” put forth by government agencies including National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, and other such sources.
Why We Need a New Global Data Set
In an article titled “Why We Need a New Global Data Set”, D’Aleo wrote the following:
“As I showed in the first analysis, the long term global temperature trends in their data bases have been shown by numerous peer review papers to be exaggerated by 30% to 50% and in some cases much more by issues such as uncorrected urbanization (urban heat island), land use changes, bad siting, bad instrumentation, and ocean measurement techniques that changed over time.”
“NOAA made matters worse by removing the satellite ocean temperature measurement which provide more complete coverage and was not subject to the local issues except near the coastlines and islands.”
‘The result has been the absurd and bogus claims by NOAA and the alarmists that we are in the warmest decade in 100 or even a 1000 years or more and our oceans are warmest ever.”
While Cohen is parroting the World Meteorological Organization’s latest claim that “2010 will probably be among the three warmest years on record, and 2001 through 2010 the warmest decade on record” in England, the Daily Mail was reporting on December 5 that “Britain, just as it was last winter and the winter before, was deep in the grip of a cold snap, which has seen some temperatures plummet to minus 20C, and that here 2010 has been the coolest year since 1996.”
This parallels the weather occurring now in the U.S. where new low temperature records are being set while cities like Columbia, S.C., had its first significant Christmas snow since weather records were first kept in 1887!
Suffice to say that Cohen’s article repeats the usual blather about melting Artic sea ice while waiting until the very end to admit that “the Eastern United States, North Europe and East Asia have experienced extraordinary snowy and cold winters since the turn of the century.”
World Meteorological Organization, a creature of the United Nations
A word to all who did not study meteorology; the World Meteorological Organization, a creature of the United Nations is also the mother ship of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
The IPCC, responsible for the Kyoto Protocols that called for limits on carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions, was totally discredited in 2009 when the exchange of thousands of emails revealed its chief perpetrators of the global warming hoax were manipulating the climate data it reported.
To trust the WMO or IPCC at this point in time is futile and dangerous. To trust the garbage coming out of NOAA, GISS and other government entities purporting to predict the climate is also to trust the Environmental Protection Agency that will announce in January 2011 its plans to regulate carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases, claiming they are “causing” a global warming that is not happening.
Americans are being deliberately misled by rogue government agencies with no scientific justification for their continued existence.
As for The New York Times, it is unfit to line the bottom of a canary’s birdcage.
Friday, December 24, 2010
Maybe Spend Carbon Credit Budget on Fixing This?
Heavy Snow in Paris Forces Canceled Flights and Airport EvacuationsBy Vickie Frantz, AccuWeather.com Staff WriterDec 24, 2010
9:26 AM ET Share |
Charles de Gaulle airport canceled 400 flights on Friday morning and evacuated close to 2,000 people.
Heavy snow on the roof of the airport prompted officials to evacuate one of the terminals The Telegraph reported. Nearly 2 feet of snow was being cleared by emergency workers.
The roof of the terminal had collapsed shortly after being built in 2004, killing four and injuring six others. The weight of the snow raised fears of another collapse.
The airport is also experiencing a shortage of glycol, plane de-icing liquid. The shortage forced the cancellation of 200 arriving and 200 departing flights according to CNN.
Stranded holiday travelers stayed overnight at the airport on Thursday, and the evacuations will compound the travel problems the airport is experiencing.
Paris will have improving weather later today.
"Over the last 24 hours, Paris has received 2 inches of snow," said AccuWeather.com Senior Meteorologist, Rob Miller. "The snow should taper off and end this evening, Paris local time."
9:26 AM ET Share |
Charles de Gaulle airport canceled 400 flights on Friday morning and evacuated close to 2,000 people.
Heavy snow on the roof of the airport prompted officials to evacuate one of the terminals The Telegraph reported. Nearly 2 feet of snow was being cleared by emergency workers.
The roof of the terminal had collapsed shortly after being built in 2004, killing four and injuring six others. The weight of the snow raised fears of another collapse.
The airport is also experiencing a shortage of glycol, plane de-icing liquid. The shortage forced the cancellation of 200 arriving and 200 departing flights according to CNN.
Stranded holiday travelers stayed overnight at the airport on Thursday, and the evacuations will compound the travel problems the airport is experiencing.
Paris will have improving weather later today.
"Over the last 24 hours, Paris has received 2 inches of snow," said AccuWeather.com Senior Meteorologist, Rob Miller. "The snow should taper off and end this evening, Paris local time."
Wednesday, December 22, 2010
SAVE NICOLE MITCHELL
Today I was "admiring" Nicole's outfit - and thrilled that she was back at a normal hour (11:00 am CST) so I could "admire" her. Finally - TWC made a good decision. I decided to brag that I could watch Nicole, so I called Klingfree. He ignored my call and let the phone go to his "secretary." So I decided to e-mail him about Nicole.
Then Klingfree promptly e-mailed me back (I knew he was in his office, his secretary said he was "busy with a client." whatever that means). His disturbing news - Nicole is forced off the air after December.
This is wrong, ludicrous, stupid and disgusting. A decision like this would never happen at FWSAAB Studios.
So, Nicole, if those boneheads at TWC want to ruin an already pathetic cable channel - let them. We would love to have you work at FWSAAB full time. In fact, we will give you your own channel - Nicole Mitchell - 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Similar to Howard Stern's agreement with Sirius.
FSWAAB - Not just a name but a group of guys devoted to Nicole's well-being and future.
BB
Then Klingfree promptly e-mailed me back (I knew he was in his office, his secretary said he was "busy with a client." whatever that means). His disturbing news - Nicole is forced off the air after December.
This is wrong, ludicrous, stupid and disgusting. A decision like this would never happen at FWSAAB Studios.
So, Nicole, if those boneheads at TWC want to ruin an already pathetic cable channel - let them. We would love to have you work at FWSAAB full time. In fact, we will give you your own channel - Nicole Mitchell - 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Similar to Howard Stern's agreement with Sirius.
FSWAAB - Not just a name but a group of guys devoted to Nicole's well-being and future.
BB
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