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Global Cooling vs. Global Warming

Wed, 14 Jan 2009 15:23:56 -0600

On Wednesday Feb. 18, two films will be shown back-to-back, each representing a different point of view. First Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth" will be shown, which shows the Global Warming theory, followed by Martin Durkin's "The Great Global Warming Swindle" which shows the skeptical side of the argument. The event will be hosted by Jeff Witta. These will be shown at the DISTRICT SERVICE CENTER 5621 County Rd 101, Minnetonka, MN 55345 District Service Center Community Room February 18 at 6:30 to 9:00 The project is through Minnetonka Community Education. It is free, but you must register by Feb.13, Course #89 845 W2 (952-401-5000)

We're Not Like Kansas Anymore!

Wed, 14 Jan 2009 15:18:04 -0600

I Thought Minnesota's weather was supposed to become like Kansas, not the other way around. Shocking cold wave drops temps to 40 below zero By Amy Fortili, Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Temperatures crashed to Arctic levels Tuesday as a severe cold wave rolled across the upper Midwest on the heels of yet another snowstorm, closing schools and making most people think twice before going outside. Early Wednesday, the cold front swept into New York, sending temperatures falling from the 30s a day before to single digits or below zero. It hit 8 below in Massena, on the St. Lawrence River in northern New York, with the wind chill making it feel like minus 25 degrees. In Michigan, temperatures Wednesday morning ranged from minus 17 at Ironwood in the western Upper Peninsula to 10 degrees in the southwestern Lower Peninsula and 12 on Beaver Island. Ironwood earlier recorded a temperature of minus 23. Thermometers read single digits early in the day as far south as Kansas and Missouri, where some areas warmed only into the teens by midday.

Earth on the Brink of an Ice Age

Tue, 13 Jan 2009 09:21:34 -0600

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.

2008 - Coldest Year Since 1979 For Minnesota

Mon, 12 Jan 2009 11:10:01 -0600

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

The Minnesotans For Global Warming Song

Sat, 10 Jan 2009 12:27:27 -0600

Elmer and Daryl have fun playing in the snow. Buy The Digital Files Now! For $1.99 you get the MP3, M4V, and 3GP For your iPhone, iPod or burn a CD or DVD.

OOPS, We Forgot Siberia... Part Deux!

Fri, 09 Jan 2009 12:42:21 -0600

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.
View Larger Map 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.

Snow in Marseille France

Thu, 08 Jan 2009 17:13:07 -0600

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!

This Is Why We Don’t Say Global Warming…

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 11:31:07 -0600

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.)

Global Warming May Cause World War IV

Sun, 04 Jan 2009 21:24:05 -0600

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:

Canada's Forests Causing Global Warming

Sun, 04 Jan 2009 21:01:40 -0600

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.

My Global Warming Resolutions

Thu, 01 Jan 2009 10:45:37 -0600

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!

2008 - A Global Warming Retrospective

Sun, 28 Dec 2008 11:51:55 -0600

By Elmer Beauregard 2008 In Many Ways Was The Beginning of The End For Global Warming It's funny how things go sometimes, one moment you're on top of the world, the next you're having rotten tomatoes thrown at you, I wouldn't be standing next to Al Gore much these days. But people hang their hats on things, like sports teams, the stock market and yes even the weather, and as long as the stock market goes up or your team is winning things are good. But temperatures, like the stock market in 2008 went the wrong way, which made it a very bad year for all those people whose livelihood depends on warming weather.

Cracks in the global warming consensus..

Tue, 23 Dec 2008 17:18:34 -0600

by Arthur Bruzzone, SF Politics Examiner NASA temperature figures show agency reworking recent numbers upwards, older numbers downwards The UN global warming conference held in Poland last week faced a serious challenge from over 650 dissenting scientists from around the globe who are criticizing the climate claims made by the UN International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and former Vice President Al Gore. Set for release this week, a newly updated U.S. Senate Minority Report features the dissenting voices of over 650 international scientists, many current and former UN IPCC scientists, who have now turned against the UN.

Princeton Physicist Calls Global Warming Science "Mistaken"

Tue, 23 Dec 2008 16:54:33 -0600

Written by Michael Asher, DailyTech Scientist fired by Al Gore was told, "science will not intrude on public policy". Noted energy expert and Princeton physicist Dr. Will Happer has sharply criticized global warming alarmism. Happer, author of over 200 scientific papers and a past director of energy research at the Department of Energy, called fears over global warming "mistaken". "I have spent a long research career studying physics that is closely related to the greenhouse effect", said Happer. "Fears about man-made global warming are unwarranted and are not based on good science."