Global Warming Striking Northeast
George Savage ·
October 29, 2011 at 2:42am
Residents of one solid blue section of the United States will have a powerful piece of local "climate change" to consider this weekend, just in time for the early phase of President Obama's reelection campaign.
Tell me again what EPA's War on Carbon is all about. And while you're explaining, can we at least agree to stop any more taxpayer-subsidized renewable energy boondoggles for Obama cronies?
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Dec '10
Re: Global Warming Striking Northeast
This cold snap is playing havoc with the film shoot of a friend of mine, a filmmaker with conservative political leanings. He has some choice words to say about the sudden cooling in Connecticut.
May '10
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In. 1984, I was in my third year of college and "fully, half-heartedly" bought into the Reagan is evil line. So I joined a buch of fellow Boston University students and snuck into a Reagan rally in downtown Boston; we did some booing and had a great time! Next year, I want to see SCOAMF signs pop up at televised Obama rallies . If you don't know what that means, Google it.
Nov '10
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Weather is not climate. You set yourself up for ridicule.
I'm a skeptic myself, but I realize that an early winter, even several early and extreme winters, does not a climate make.
Oct '11
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David John: Weather is not climate. You set yourself up for ridicule.
I'm a skeptic myself, but I realize that an early winter, even several early and extreme winters, does not a climate make. · Oct 28 at 7:10pm
Same. Rather, it reminds me there are worse things than a warm world, if one somehow comes to be. Like a seven year old Robin Hood trick-or-treating in thermal gear and snow boots.
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Oh, I'll take the risk. The people I'm razzing, the ones permanently teed-up for the ridicule that never comes, are full Church of Anthropogenic Global Warming members. For these folks, whatever the meteorologic trend of the moment, it portends Armageddon and soon unless the citizenry submit to the yoke of benevolent, planet-saving socialism. Herewith one top-of-the-Google stack example.
From 2006:
Meanwhile, in 2010 (with no hint of irony):
The first story takes recent snowfall declines to predict that the future will be snow free. The latter story takes record snowfall to mean that--wait for it--the future will be snow free. Weather is only climate when it supports socialist political aims, otherwise it's just weather.
Dec '10
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Wonder how those OWS and Occupy Boston fools will hold up to this. Hope this is the beginning of a long, cold winter. If it would only start raining on the west coast...
Jun '10
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Ask the average American to define the difference and see what you get. All it takes is a good dictionary to debunk "global warming" or whatever the current euphemism is. I suppose it's just a matter of time (pun intended) before the public figures it out. And yet the fraud is literally miNd-BogGliNg.
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I sm sitting in Hamden, Connecticut, preparing to give a talk at Yale on Monday, and watching the sky. It is damp and chilly, and the deluge will soon be here.
Dec '10
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Foxnews.com had an article up this morning, talking about the snow storms hitting the East & West Coasts. I live within about 60 miles of the West coast, but don't seen any snow happening here, so where were they talking about? Why Denver, of course! Denver is only 1,267 miles from San Fran, so I suppose I can see how they might think it was on the "coast".
So St. Louis is 886 miles from Philly - does that make a tornado there an event on the East Coast?
May '10
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Weather isn't climate--it's weather x some number of decades. So no, while one freak snow storm doesn't disprove anything, it doesn't support the theory either; and if it makes what is otherwise a scientifically fraudulent thing seem more fraudulent in the eyes of voters, GREAT!
And if it clears out, and leans up Zuccotti Park, GREAT!
Edited on October 29, 2011 at 5:47pmRe: Global Warming Striking Northeast
ParisParamus: Weather isn't climate--it's weather x some number of decades. So no, while one freak snow storm doesn't disprove anything, it doesn't support the theory either; and if it makes what is otherwise a scientifically fraudulent thing seem more fraudulent in the eyes of voters, GREAT!
And if it clears out, and leans up Zuccotti Park, GREAT! · Oct 29 at 8:44am
Edited on Oct 29 at 08:47 am
Exactly. I would have no beef with media coverage of weather but for the fact that warm weather stories flow seamlessly into treatises on inevitable, calamitous, runaway global warming, while cold weather stories are equally predictable in introducing the concept that weather isn't climate and, despite the weather, we face inevitable, calamitous, runaway global warming.
Anthropogenic "climate change" is the non-disproveable hypothesis; meaning, whatever it is, it isn't science.
Michael Crichton did a great job summing up the psychology in his 2003 speech "Aliens Cause Global Warming."
Edited on October 29, 2011 at 5:54pmJul '10
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I really hate it when headline writers personify things like snow. No, snow doesn't "eye" anything, it's a bunch of ice crystals fer cryin' out loud. That is all I have to say.
May '10
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Sitting in my dining room, in suburban Connecticut, 55 miles from midtown Manhattan. The leaves are still on the trees, the ground is warm and saturated. It's a perfect recipe for trees to tip over and drag down the power lines. And here comes the wind. We had October snow in 2008, before that I can't remember the last October snow. Sometimes we have a lot, sometimes we have a little. It's WEATHER!
Dr. Rahe, I'd offer to come have dinner with you, but I am afraid of all the people who think they can drive in the snow. Good luck!
Aug '11
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The Great Adventure!: Foxnews.com had an article up this morning, talking about the snow storms hitting the East & West Coasts. I live within about 60 miles of the West coast, but don't seen any snow happening here, so where were they talking about? Why Denver, of course! Denver is only 1,267 miles from San Fran, so I suppose I can see how they might think it was on the "coast".
So St. Louis is 886 miles from Philly - does that make a tornado there an event on the East Coast? · Oct 29 at 8:40am
Oh, don't get me started on geographically-challenged news and weathercasters! Our city is divided by a river and straddles a state-line, how often do you think they get locations right?
Dec '10
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HeartofAmerica
The Great Adventure!: Foxnews.com had an article up this morning, talking about the snow storms hitting the East & West Coasts. I live within about 60 miles of the West coast, but don't seen any snow happening here, so where were they talking about? Why Denver, of course! Denver is only 1,267 miles from San Fran, so I suppose I can see how they might think it was on the "coast".
So St. Louis is 886 miles from Philly - does that make a tornado there an event on the East Coast? · Oct 29 at 8:40am
Oh, don't get me started on geographically-challenged news and weathercasters! Our city is divided by a river and straddles a state-line, how often do you think they get locations right? · Oct 29 at 11:34am
Portland's in the same category - just ours is N-S rather than E-W.
Dec '10
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George, Larry Bell's "Climate of Corruption" is a must read! Bell was a NASA Engineer/Space Architect in NASA's hey day. He understands how big government and big technology work. His book details how the UN IPCC was manipulating information for years and conspiring to hide the data that didn't support man made global warming. His description of the power politics of climate change for the last 20 years is better then anything I've ever read on the subject.
Everone please check it out. You will be amazed or disgusted or both.
Edited on October 30, 2011 at 4:19amRe: Global Warming Striking Northeast
James Gawron: George, Larry Bell's "Climate of Corruption" is a must read! · Oct 29 at 8:17pm
Edited on Oct 29 at 08:19 pm
James, thanks for the referral. I just downloaded Climate of Corruption to my iPad and will check it on my airline flights this week. I note that Fred Singer wrote the foreword to the book. Singer's Unstoppable Global Warming: Every 1,500 Years has been my go-to book on the topic for some time.