A recent group of headlines from the Drudge Report:
CHILL MAP...
3 Deaths Due To Cold in Memphis...
PAPER: GAS SUPPLIES RUNNING OUT IN UK...
Elderly burn books for warmth?
Vermont sets 'all-time record for one snowstorm'...
Iowa temps 'a solid 30 degrees below normal'...
Seoul buried in heaviest snowfall in 70 years...
Historic ice build-up shuts down NJ nuclear power plant...
Midwest Sees Near-Record Lows, Snow By The Foot...
Miami shivers from coldest weather in decade...
If I were a cartoonist I’d draw Al Gore giving a speech on global warming somewhere outdoors. In every frame of the cartoon he’d have to pause his speech and put on another layer of clothing as the weather worsened and the temperature dropped. The last frame would show him so bundled up that he could neither be seen or heard.
…..Hey, a guy can dream, can’t he?
UPDATE: I was taken to task over this original post. Here is an example of one critical comment. There are others.
But your claim that a cold winter is “evidence” against global warming is downright foolish, and shows either a) an interest in misleading people, or b) a blatant misunderstanding of climate change research.
Now watch this archival footage showing a series of Democrat politicians claiming that a warm winter and lack of snow was concrete evidence of global warming. Which just further underlines the fact that a) a double standard exists, and b) those who think anthropogenic global warming exists do so as a matter of belief rather than of fact. It’s almost a climate religion.
January 10th, 2010 8:52 am
I syspect that God is laughing at them all. They have forgotten that He is in charge of the weather, not them.
January 10th, 2010 12:39 pm
I got a big kick out of the “titling” change from Global Warming to Climate Change. This says to me…I don’t know what is going to happen, but we have scientific proof that whatever it is, the human polution is responsible for it.
January 10th, 2010 6:31 pm
I am sure that none of you will actually get this, but one winter doesn’t make a trend.
January 10th, 2010 6:34 pm
Seems to me that last winter was pretty cold. Of course I live in sunny California where “…it never rains in California, but girl don’t they warn ya, it pours, man, it pours.”
January 10th, 2010 6:45 pm
The bitter winter afflicting much of the Northern Hemisphere is only the start of a global trend towards cooler weather that is likely to last for 20 or 30 years, say some of the world’s most eminent climate scientists.
Their predictions – based on an analysis of natural cycles in water temperatures in the Pacific and Atlantic oceans – challenge some of the global warming orthodoxy’s most deeply cherished beliefs, such as the claim that the North Pole will be free of ice in
summer by 2013.
According to the US National Snow and Ice Data Centre in Colorado, Arctic summer sea ice has increased by 409,000 square miles, or 26 per cent, since 2007 – and even the most committed global warming activists do not dispute this.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1242011/DAVID-ROSE-The-mini-ice-age-starts-here.html#ixzz0cGPxrBTn
The Global Warming coolaid tends to choke some folks on its way back up. But it is definately coming back up.
January 10th, 2010 10:11 pm
Dave
I’m sure that you will not actually get this, but the data upon which the ever so dire global warming predictions have been predicated is a hoax. http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/12/understanding_climategates_hid.html
And yes, you are right (there – see, I CAN agree with you…when you are right). One winter doesn’t make a trend. Well spoken! But as this global warming silliness continues to be exposed for the farce it is, one does enjoy noticing that the evidence is getting harder and harder to ignore.
January 11th, 2010 10:56 am
I know about the e-mails, and I disagree that they are evidence of a hoax. But I am not very interested in getting into that discussion right now.
But your claim that a cold winter is “evidence” against global warming is downright foolish, and shows either a) an interest in misleading people, or b) a blatant misunderstanding of climate change research.
January 11th, 2010 11:16 am
Dave
So you choose not to read the link I provide, you choose not to discuss the issue, you claim that cold is not evidence of lack of warmth, and you call ME foolish?
And we’re not just talking about winter or a cold winter, though I think the fact that many winter records regarding snowfall and low temperatures are being broken in this year in so many places around the globe should at least be noted. The greater subject IS that there is a mounting body of evidence that, a) the validity of much of the data used to promote the global warming scare is not surviving serious scientific scrutiny, and b) the earth is, in fact, cooling, and has been doing so for several years.
Perhaps you should note that, a) I did not create the current weather conditions, and b) there just might be a valid perspective on the issue of “global warming” other than your own. However please throw an extra log on your fireplace before doing so.
January 11th, 2010 11:48 am
My point isn’t to have a long argument about global warming. My point was to point out that it is foolish to think that a cold winter is evidence of anything related to global warming. I don’t pretend to be an expert on climate science, which is why I tend to avoid conversations about it. But I do know enough to know that a cold winter is pretty meaningless. Your second paragraph in the most recent comment (11:16AM) has valid points; your original post did not, at least not any valid points related to climate science.
Further, I am quite aware that you don’t create weather conditions, and that there are numerous perspectives on climate science. I don’t pretend otherwise, nor did I imply otherwise.
January 11th, 2010 11:50 am
Oh… and I didn’t refuse to read the link you provided. Once again, I said nothing of the sort.
January 11th, 2010 12:06 pm
Dave
You don’t pretend to be an expert on climate science, yet you are apparently knowledgeable enough to summarily dismiss the leaked emails as valid evidence of data tampering. OK…
And I never accused you of “refusing ” to do anything. I did say that you have chosen not to read the link I provided. Quite a different matter.
And whether or not you happen to think the original post is valid… well, that is a matter of your own personal opinion and not even and expert opinion by your own admission.
January 11th, 2010 1:06 pm
Not really – in either instance, you are still wrong. And in either instance, you claim something to be true that I didn’t say or imply.
Of course, you give zero reasons why your original content is valid and relevant to any conversation on global warming or climate change, and I stick to my position. It isn’t relevant. It isn’t valid. And your attempt to use irrelevant “evidence” to disprove global warming is silly.
January 11th, 2010 3:43 pm
Actually, I am amazed to think that anyone has scientific credentials forwarding they have the history to make ANY claims as to the overall trends and skewing from those trends. I believe that we have a little over 100 years of documented data. We know that the climate cycles, but we don’t have the history to show when the next ice age “should” occur etc. So, we are all looking at a portion of a cycle making great claims as to how we are affecting that cycle – when in reality – we don’t know where we are in the overall curve. It really is presumptious and silly.
January 11th, 2010 5:05 pm
I syspect that Al is laughing at them all. They have forgotten that he is in charge of the weather, not them.
February 19th, 2010 12:01 pm
Isn’t it interesting that one of, if not the, chief architect(s) of the global warming/climate change phenomena discussion has, in the last week, admitted that there has been no warming for the last fifteen years. Also, he has admitted that the famous “hockey-stick” data has been lost (or is not available.) Of course we all know why this winter set so many snow and cold records, the Saints won the superbowl. That might be our best weapon against “global warming.”
February 20th, 2010 8:24 am
I question whether or not the world is cooling or warming as a whole at all.
So you have how many “official” weather stations recording temperature all over the world, many of which either were not there or have changed locations in the past 100 years or so.
The only way I believe this could truley be decided within the scientific method would be to have a temp station every ten sq miles or so across the whole planet without changing spots, then compare the numbers every 50 years for the next 1000. How are the supposed to tell us the planet is cooling or warming decisively without establishing a solid control?
February 20th, 2010 8:55 am
Anthony
It does seem to be a fact that the earth has had periods of cooling and warming. I don’t think that has ever been seriously in dispute. The problem comes when science is co-opted by those with a political agenda which is what has clearly happened here. And I’m not sure one could set up enough temp stations anywhere on the planet to counter a group of scientists with a political agenda who have proven they are willing to manipulate collected data in order to further that agenda.
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