{"id":16813,"date":"2010-12-29T06:00:59","date_gmt":"2010-12-29T12:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=16813"},"modified":"2010-12-28T20:12:27","modified_gmt":"2010-12-29T02:12:27","slug":"i-dont-know-about-you-but-im-cold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=16813","title":{"rendered":"I Don’t Know About You…But I’m Cold."},"content":{"rendered":"

I have thirty inches of snow sitting on my lawn and just wrote a check to Elijah’s Tree Service for the removal of two trees felled by an ice storm that came before Thanksgiving<\/em> this year. He would have been here sooner but I was like 1000th on his list.<\/p>\n

I’m cold and I’m looking<\/em> for some Global Warming about now.<\/p>\n

I have been skeptical of global warming ever since I studied it’s origins soon after Algore’s largely discredited but hugely profitable movie An Inconvenient Truth<\/em> was foisted on an gullible liberal public.<\/p>\n

Jettison the “science” or the politics, and I’m still amazed at the amount of people that believe we have the capacity to predict the weather ten or a hundred years in the future when repeatedly, even comically, meteorologists with all their Doppler and satellite technology, can’t predict the weather accurately beyond twenty four hours.<\/p>\n

Nothing makes fools of more people than trying to predict the weather.<\/a> Whether in Los Angeles or London, recent predictions have gone crazily awry. Global warming? How about mini ice age?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Once the warming failed to appear as predicted, Global Warming conveniently became “Climate Change” as if to say that any<\/em> change in the climate, despite evidence of eons of extreme and catastrophic cold and warm cycles occuring before we got here, are now caused by us.<\/p>\n

Since at least 1998, however, no significant warming trend has been noticeable. Unfortunately, none of the 24 models used by the IPCC views that as possible. They are at odds with reality.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The sight of confused and angry travelers stuck in airports across Europe because of an arctic freeze that has settled across the continent isn’t funny. Sadly, they’ve been told for more than a decade now that such a thing was an impossibility \u2014 that global warming was inevitable, and couldn’t be reversed.<\/p>\n

This is a big problem for those who see human-caused global warming as an irreversible result of the Industrial Revolution’s reliance on carbon-based fuels. Based on global warming theory \u2014 and according to official weather forecasts made earlier in the year \u2014 this winter should be warm and dry. It’s anything but. Ice and snow cover vast parts of both Europe and North America, in one of the coldest Decembers in history.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Is it arrogance or ignorance?<\/p>\n

No matter what happens, it always confirms their basic premise that the world is getting hotter. The weather turns cold and wet? It’s global warming, they say. Weather turns hot? Global warming. No change? Global warming. More hurricanes? Global warming. No hurricanes? You guessed it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Liberal icon Rahm Emanuel made famous the line “Never waste a good crisis” this past political cycle and it appears when one doesn’t present itself they’re perfect content with creating one.<\/p>\n

Nothing can disprove their thesis. Not even the extraordinarily frigid weather now creating havoc across most of the Northern Hemisphere. The Los Angeles Times, in a piece on the region’s strangely wet and cold weather, paraphrases Jet Propulsion Laboratory climatologist Bill Patzert as saying, “In general, as the globe warms, weather conditions tend to be more extreme and volatile.”<\/p>\n

Got that? No matter what the weather, it’s all due to warming. This isn’t science; it’s a kind of faith. Scientists go along and even stifle dissent because, frankly, hundreds of millions of dollars in research grants are at stake. But for the believers, global warming is the god that failed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Hmm. A failed messiah? That sounds familiar.<\/p>\n

Why do we continue to listen to warmists when they’re so wrong? Maybe it’s because their real agenda has nothing to do with climate change at all. Earlier this month, attendees of a global warming summit in Cancun, Mexico, concluded, with virtually no economic or real scientific support, that by 2020 rich nations need to transfer $100 billion a year to poor nations to help them “mitigate” the adverse impacts of warming.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Hmm. A transfer of wealth? That sounds familiar too.<\/p>\n

This is what global warming is really about \u2014 wealth redistribution by people whose beliefs are basically socialist. It has little or nothing to do with climate.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But is there any scientific <\/em>method for predicting the weather, you know for those of us who would be genuinely concerned for future generations if a global climate threat manifested itself in earnest?<\/p>\n

…pay more attention to Piers Corbyn, a little-known British meteorologist and astrophysicist who has a knack for correctly predicting weather changes. Indeed, as London’s Mayor Boris Johnson recently noted, “He seems to get it right about 85% of the time.”<\/p>\n

How does he do it? Unlike the U.N. and government forecasters, Corbyn pays close attention to solar cycles that, as it turns out, correlate very closely to changes in climate. Not only are we not headed for global warming, Corbyn says, we may be entering a “mini ice age” similar to the one that took place from 1450 A.D. to 1850 A.D.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

For those of you Algore disciples that can’t do math…that’s four hundred years of this. If man is causing a warming of the planet, now might be the time to step it up a bit.<\/p>\n

Or move South.<\/p>\n

Miami is experiencing its coldest December in 115 years<\/a>, according to the local branch of the National Weather Service, where employees have exhausted their thesauruses trying to describe the anomaly. (One of them, Dan Gregoria, settled on this: \u201cvery rare.\u201d)<\/p>\n

HEADLINE IN THE MIAMI HERALD ON MONDAY<\/strong> \u201cTime to Pull Out Those Winter Coats Again\u201d<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

…Okay. Farther South.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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