Saturday - March 06, 2010
Run For Your Life
A selection of photographs taken by storm chaser Mike Hollingshead that are making the email rounds as being taken in New Orleans LA just before Katrina hit in 2005. More pics online at his page here.
Great pictures, evil weather, wrong event. These are from Kansas and Nebraska. Several years before Katrina.
That last one may be from Katrina. Then again, maybe it’s from the tsunami in Thailand a few years back. Doesn’t matter. The only way I want to see ANY of these pics in real life is in the rearview mirror of a hemi Charger with a full tank of gas heading in the opposite direction at full speed!
Thanks anyway, C.
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Permalink • Friday - March 05, 2010
Damn that Al Gore
The ships got into difficulties off Sweden’s east coast, and rescuers were on standby to evacuate them if needed, officials said. It is reportedly the worst Baltic freeze for 15 years. The Swedish Maritime Administration said that ice breakers in the area were trying to free the ships, but gale-force winds were hampering the effort.
”As soon as they break the ice it freezes over again,” sea rescue spokesman Peter Lindquist said.
He said no one was hurt and there were no immediate plans to bring people off the ships, but helicopters and military hovercraft were on standby in case evacuations would become necessary.
The agency said four ships were stuck, including the Amorella, a passenger ferry with 943 people on board. Two other ferries that got stuck in the ice were able to break free.
Dozens of ships stuck in the thick Baltic ice off Stockholm have now been freed.
26 other ships reportedly remain stuck firm in ice in the Baltic Sea off the Bay of Bothnia to the north.
Those broke free included five passenger ferries, carrying more than 1000 passengers, who were trapped half-way-through for several hours in frozen waters.
Amorella, a cruise ship with 943 people on board, the smaller Via Mare ferry carrying 66 people, the passenger ferry Sea Wind with 32 people and the Regal Star, a cargo ship with 56 people on board were freed by rescue teams deployed by Swedish Maritime Administration.
Isabella and the Finnfellow, two other ferries that got stuck in the ice, were able to break free Thursday.
Both Sweden and Finland have deployed ice breakers in the area to help the stranded vessels.
STOCKHOLM (AFP) – Around 50 ships, including large ferries carrying thousands, were stuck in the ice in the Baltic Sea Thursday and many were not likely to be freed for hours, Swedish maritime authorities said.
“Around 50 commercial vessels are waiting for help from ice breakers (and) we have had as many as six large passenger ferries stuck, but have managed to free two of them,” Johny Lindvall of the Swedish Maritime Administration’s ice breaker unit told AFP.
He said all the six ferries besides one were shuttling passengers between Sweden and Finland, while the Regal Star ferry, which had been stuck since midnight (2300 GMT Wednesday)—had been on its way to Estonia.
So maybe nobody is quite sure of the number, but it looks like it’s a whole bunch. Icebreakers are working to free them all just as fast as they can. Worst freeze in the Baltic in 15 years. Guess we know where all that ice from the “melting” North Pole wound up. Time to play Where’s Waldo with Al again.
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Permalink • Monday - March 01, 2010
planet IS getting warmer. Got it? ok. It’s settled then. Except here in the UK. Right.
Alright. OK. The planet it really getting warmer. Right.
Scuza me prof. Ah .. bit of a problem here in the UK though.
Weather folks say it’s the coldest in 30 years. Of course, since the science and the argument is already settled I have no idea why the weather folks even bother to tell us inconvenient truths like that.
Head of ‘Climategate’ research unit admits he hid data - because it was ‘standard practice’
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Last updated at 6:49 PM on 01st March 2010The scientist at the heart of the ‘Climategate’ row over global warming hid data ‘because it was standard practice’, it emerged today.
Professor Phil Jones, director of the University of East Anglia’s prestigious climatic research unit, today admitted to MPs that the centre withheld raw station data about global temperatures from around the world.
The world-renowned research unit has been under fire since private emails, which sceptics claimed showed evidence of scientists manipulating climate data, were hacked from the university’s server and posted online.
Now, an independent probe is examining allegations stemming from the emails that scientists hid, manipulated or deleted data to exaggerate the case for man-made global warming.
Prof Jones today said it was not ‘standard practice’ in climate science to release data and methodology for scientific findings so that other scientists could check and challenge the research.
He also said the scientific journals which had published his papers had never asked to see it.
Appearing before the committee’s hearing into the disclosure of data from the CRU alongside Prof Jones, the university’s vice chancellor Prof Edward Acton said he had not seen any evidence of flaws in the overall science of climate change - but said he was planning this week to announce the chair of a second independent inquiry, which will look into the science produced at CRU.
Challenged about one email in which he tells a sceptic he does not want to give him data because it will be misused, Prof Jones admitted: ‘I have obviously written some pretty awful emails’.
But Prof Jones insisted the scientific findings on climate change were robust and verifiable.
And he said 80 per cent of the raw data used to create a series of average global temperatures showing that the world was getting warmer
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Permalink • Friday - February 26, 2010
Another hole in the clouds
We’re getting a temporary reprieve in the weather, but we’re not getting our hopes up. The system is pretty much stalled off the southwest coast of Long Island, and it’s a tight little spiral that just keeps going around and around. Right now the “pump” is out there over the ocean, and the “dump” is up over Albany. But the system spins counter-clockwise, so it could sweep back down into southern NY and our chunk of NJ in a few hours. And let’s not forget the rest of the system out over Michigan, Ohio and Pennsylvania, just waiting to be pulled into the mixer. It ain’t over yet. Crap.
The good news is that when it isn’t snowing, and the clouds open up, the sun comes through and the temperature goes up to the mid 30s, letting stuff melt off quickly. We got about 2-3 hours of that late this afternoon, but as night fell it started snowing again.
graphic from weather.com
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Permalink • Thursday - February 25, 2010
A Hole In The Clouds
Weather update - it’s been snowing here for more than 12 hours. It’s been snowing pretty hard for most of that time. Yet we have almost no accumulation. We had 1/2” of slushy slop early this morning, then the snow turned drier. But the ground is still warm, and I guess the temps were right at, or just above, freezing all day long. So while we had flakes in the air, nothing stuck to the ground. Nor to the roofs. Not even to the trees and bushes. A little cover on the grass, that’s it.
Now that the sun is down it’s several degrees colder, and the flakes are starting to add up. But they’re very fine right now. We’re up to a whopping great 1/4” at this point. Other areas not too far north or east or us have at least 8” of fresh yuck on the ground.
I guess it’s our turn now. The storm is still predicted to last at least another 12 hours. Rats.
Update: 10:30pm - and now the wind has arrived. Here we go!
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Permalink • This is getting old
Here we go again. 6"-12" expected, some places may see up to 30”. Winter just will not let go this season. It’s already been snowing for a full day up in New England, and now the storm has worked it’s way down to us.
I should be grateful that we had our little break this past week. It was warm enough to melt off most of the old snow, even letting the grass peek out in several places. Which attracted hundreds of Canada geese, who came and ate it all. So now the lawn is mostly just dirt and goose poop. Great.
Anyway, the local schools are already closed, offices are deciding to shut down, so on and so forth. The roads are still clear right now, but the weather wienies say it’s going to snow for the next 36 hours. Maybe more. I blame Al Gore.
ALBANY, N.Y.—A day after a storm dumped more than a foot of snow, causing tens of thousands of people to lose power and stalling air and rail traffic, weather-weary Northeast residents braced for a repeat—a second storm packing potentially damaging wind gusts up to 50 mph and possibly more than another foot of snow.
The second part of the two-day, 1-2 winter punch was expected Thursday, and the National Weather Service said the storm would be “significant and long-lasting.”
As much as a foot of snow was expected in Philadelphia, which has had its snowiest winter with more than 70 inches and is still digging out from back-to-back storms around the beginning of this month. The Albany area, which was pounded by Wednesday’s weather, can expect more of the same for a second day, and the western Catskills could get up to 20 inches of snow.
Even before a flake fell, the impending storm set off some sharp exchanges among competing forecasters, with one warning of a “snowicane.”
The National Weather Service criticized State College, Pa.-based Accuweather Inc. for referring to the storm that way and for saying it would be “hurricane-like” and a “monster.” NWS meteorologist Craig Evanego said the terminology was “almost inciting the public, inciting panic.”
A major snowstorm is once again targeting the Northeast beginning Thursday, continuing into Friday. Here is what you need to know to prepare for this high-impact storm:
THURSDAY AFTERNOON/NIGHT
The storm will reach its peak intensity during this time.Travel impacts will be major, as the storm intensifies rapidly and sweeps toward New England. Major airport delays are likely in Boston (despite a wind-driven rain), New York, and Philadelphia. Delays will also likely “ripple” to Baltimore and Washington, D.C., despite lighter total accumulations expected there.
High winds will spread up the New England coast, so expect downed limbs, wires, and power outages to become more widespread as the evening wears on.
Winds will intensify on the “backside” of this deepening cyclone from northern New England through Upstate New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland, Delaware, northern Virginia, and West Virginia.
Road travel will become dangerous, if not locally impossible Thursday night in these areas due to heavy, wind-driven snow.
“Inciting the public to panic” much? I guess I’d better run to the store this morning - and this time I’ll remember the toilet paper!
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Permalink • Thursday - February 18, 2010
A Change In The Weather
Ok, I say that with quite a bit of sarcasm, but I think it hit 45°F today. The snowpack is shrinking madly; we’re down to perhaps 5"-6" on the ground. Shingles are appearing on roofs again, and the plowed off snow by the side of the road is starting to become it’s proper color: black. I may have even seen a couple small patches of dirt here and there too.
While we have had temps hovering right at or slightly above freezing several times, I think this is the first time it’s been this warm since before Christmas. It’s not Spring yet, but I’ll take what I can get an be happy for it.
... so I’m sure another massive snow is on the way next week. This has been the coldest, snowiest winter here in NJ in at least a decade.
And just for more warming news, Yvo de Boer, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, is bailing. Just a couple months before the big conference in Mexico. I wonder why??
Top U.N. climate change official Yvo de Boer told The Associated Press Thursday that he was resigning after nearly four years, a period when governments struggled without success to agree on a new global warming deal. His departure takes effect July 1, five months before 193 nations are due to reconvene in Mexico for another attempt to reach a binding worldwide accord on controlling greenhouse gases.
De Boer is known to be deeply disappointed with outcome of the last summit in Copenhagen, which drew 120 world leaders but failed to reach more than a vague promise by several countries to limit carbon emissions—and even that deal fell short of consensus.
But he denied to the AP that his decision to quit was a result of frustration with Copenhagen.
“Copenhagen wasn’t what I had hoped it would be,” he acknowledged, but the summit nonetheless prompted governments to submit plans and targets for reining in the emissions primarily blamed for global warming. “I think that’s a pretty solid foundation for the global response that many are looking for,” he said.
De Boer’s resignation comes in the wake of the continuing Climate-gate scandal—a story that began with the leak of stolen e-mails from top climate scientists and led to revelations of sloppy science, efforts to suppress dissenting opinions and ultimately flaws in the U.N.’s top climate policy document.
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Permalink • Wednesday - February 17, 2010
The worst cold snap for 20 years. Lawns and Bambi die in cold.
There must be a mistake somewhere. This can not be correct. Quick, someone call Al Bore.
The worst cold snap for 20 years is turning Britain’s lawns PINK
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Last updated at 4:18 PM on 17th February 2010It used to be that the grass was always greener on the other side. But the coldest winter in 20 years is changing all that with gardeners all over Britain reporting that their lawns are turning pink.
The strange pinky-white blotches are being caused by a fungus that thrives in cold, snowy weather.
The disease called fusarium, or snow mould, has been reported from Surrey to Scotland with Northumberland and Yorkshire particularly badly hit.
Thousands of deer starving to death due to bitter cold
By Fiona Macrae
Last updated at 4:04 PM on 17th February 2010Thousands of deer are starving to death because the coldest winter in 20 years has robbed them of their food supply.
With grass and heather buried under snow and ice, up to 30 per cent of animals have perished on some estates and many more are expected to die before spring.
Some gamekeepers are finding carcasses daily and walkers have been told to prepare themselves for the sight of dead or dying animals.
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Permalink • Tuesday - February 16, 2010
Lake Erie Frozen over; First Time in 14 Years. Many won’t notice coz they already know it all
And their heads are buried in the sand. I could I suppose say heads buried someplace else but then that’d be joining the cruder elements of that sky is falling crowd.
H/T to Tim O for the link.
I’m aware that some folks have another opinion on the subject and heck, they have a right to be misguided. But when many of us refuse to join their crusade they get downright hostile and in fact, even grossly crude. Which is ok too because at least it shows we aren’t debating with anyone of equal intelligence.
We must therefore make allowances for these unfortunates and let them prattle on and on. It helps them to feel good about themselves and lord knows they most likely have nobody else in their lonely lives to feel anything for them.
Following a cold snap in the Northeast, Lake Erie’s surface is virtually frozen over for the first time in about 14 years.
The ice ranges in thickness between paper thin along the northern shore and several inches along the southern shore, where many people are ice skating.
GoErie.com reports that the lake hasn’t completely frozen since the winter of 1995-1996.
Although the ice cover is considered complete, prevailing winds have created some cracks in the ice.
There are also reportedly ice chunks floating off the coast of Dunkirk, N.Y., which is one of the deepest parts of the lake and would naturally be one of the last places to freeze.
Lake Erie, with an average depth of 62 feet, is the most shallow of the five Great Lakes, which is why it is the only one that completely freezes over.
Since lake-effect snow depends on warmer lake temperatures compared to the air, the frozen lake will deter large amounts of snowfall to the lee of the lake.
The current cold snap will keep the lake mostly, if not completely, frozen for at least the rest of the month.
Story by AccuWeather.com’s Gina Cherundolo
SOURCE FOR THE BIG FREEZE WITH CONDOLENCES TO THE NON BELIEVERS
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Can we put paid to this nonsense for once and for all now, and just get people to shut up and stop wasting our money? Come on. When even the deans of the deal tell you that it’s bogus, it’s time to put Al Gore on his little iceberg and push him out to sea as polar bear bait.
PHIL JONES 1860-1880 period, 1910-1940 period, 1975-1998 period, 1975-2009 period are all statistically identical.
C - Do you agree that from January 2002 to the present there has been statistically significant global cooling?
No. This period is even shorter than 1995-2009. The trend this time is negative (-0.12C per decade), but this trend is not statistically significant.
the warming rates for all 4 periods are similar and not statistically significantly different from each other.
( 0.12C is barely 1/6 of the 0.7C that the IPCC was claiming. Much ado and much tax wastage about nothing!)
PHIL JONES: 1995-2009 warming trend only marginally significant. 2002-2009 cooling trend (of equal temperature change!) not even marginal.
B - Do you agree that from 1995 to the present there has been no statistically-significant global warming
Yes, but only just. I also calculated the trend for the period 1995 to 2009. This trend (0.12C per decade) is positive, but not significant at the 95% significance level. The positive trend is quite close to the significance level. Achieving statistical significance in scientific terms is much more likely for longer periods, and much less likely for shorter periods.
C - Do you agree that from January 2002 to the present there has been statistically significant global cooling?
No. This period is even shorter than 1995-2009. The trend this time is negative (-0.12C per decade), but this trend is not statistically significant.
Phil Jones LOST the data and admits to keeping crappy records.
Professor Jones told the BBC yesterday there was truth in the observations of colleagues that he lacked organisational skills, that his office was swamped with piles of paper and that his record keeping is ‘not as good as it should be’.
Phil Jones: Medieval Warming Period may have been warmer than it is now.
Professor Jones also conceded the possibility that the world was warmer in medieval times than now – suggesting global warming may not be a man-made phenomenon.
And he said that for the past 15 years there has been no ‘statistically significant’ warming.
Watts Up was right: local heat islands have corrupted the data gathering stations. What once was a country field is now an asphalt parking lot, and no adjustments were made.
The doubts of Christy and a number of other researchers focus on the thousands of weather stations around the world, which have been used to collect temperature data over the past 150 years.
These stations, they believe, have been seriously compromised by factors such as urbanisation, changes in land use and, in many cases, being moved from site to site.
Christy has published research papers looking at these effects in three different regions: east Africa, and the American states of California and Alabama.
“The story is the same for each one,” he said. “The popular data sets show a lot of warming but the apparent temperature rise was actually caused by local factors affecting the weather stations, such as land development.”
“We concluded, with overwhelming statistical significance, that the IPCC’s climate data are contaminated with surface effects from industrialisation and data quality problems. These add up to a large warming bias,” he said.
Such warnings are supported by a study of US weather stations co-written by Anthony Watts, an American meteorologist and climate change sceptic.
Latest bad data in the mix: Dutch sea level rise exaggerated due to bad original measurements.
OSLO (Reuters) - The U.N. panel of climate experts overstated how much of the Netherlands is below sea level, according to a preliminary report on Saturday, admitting yet another flaw after a row last month over Himalayan glacier melt.
Oh puh-leez. It looks like the only idea that is settled is that scientists are a bunch of disorganized dingbats. Bad data collecting, “mere typos” in a glacier report that caused world altering reaction, data hiding, lying to officials and refusing to release data, bogus algorithms to produce fake graphs, messing about with history, and running about crying “the sky is falling!!” over the tiniest, barely significant and short termed temperature anomalies ... it’s over. The death spiral is in it’s last revolution, and all the chunks are falling down the drain. Buh bye.
So can we move on now to our next groundless fear? We’re all gonna be smashed by a rogue asteroid! Quick, let’s spends tra-zillions on Space Rock Defense!!
Yes, the world will inexorably move on from global warming to new crises, both real and imaginary. But before it does, the world should give credit where credit is due: to the global warming skeptics.
For the past 20 years, the skeptics have consistently, courageously — and most importantly, correctly — pointed out the fatal flaws in the hysterical hypothesis of man-made global warming. In the course of their efforts, they have been mocked, threatened (sometimes physically), abused, derided, cursed, characterized as loons, and likened to Holocaust deniers. One green writer for the prominent online publication Grist magazine even suggested Nuremberg-style war crimes trials for the denialists.
All this for the crime of being factually, though not politically, correct.
And I’m not referring to those skeptics-come-lately who, in the wake of Climategate, finally get it. I’m talking about those lone voices, especially during the Bush years. Few in number, they kept the flame of skepticism burning until the cavalry arrived in the form of Climategate, glaciergate, rainforestgate, and now Phil Jones’ anti-climactic climatic admission.
Had the skeptics not succeeded in preventing the U.S. from signing on to the Kyoto Protocol and to President Obama’s cap-and-trade crusade, we would all have been in for a world of hurt as misanthropic socialists — hiding behind their shields of “the environment” and “the children” — destroyed our liberties and ran our economy (further) into the ground.
Hug a skeptic. They saved your bacon.
And it don’t get better than bacon!!
Minor update: looks like we can’t even trust the IPCC with hurricane data. What a non-surprise: just because you have more data gathering points doesn’t mean that there are more storms. It just means you’re gathering more data, and finding storms in areas where you weren’t looking before.
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Permalink • Saturday - February 13, 2010
hate the name, love the site
I’ve installed two little widgety thingies on the right sidebar. They show the weather at my place and at Peiper’s. Just for fun. My brother sent me the link, and it looks like this might be one of the better weather sites online. It’s hooked into all the active local weather stations. You know, those little recording and reporting mechanisms that are all over the country, the ones Watts Up With That was tracking down? Thousands of them.
Turns out that there is one of these stations just a few hundred yards away from where I live. One problem: it’s dead. It’s been reporting ___ degrees, ___ wind speed, ___ wind direction, etc., for some time now. So to get data for the widget I have to use the weather station just south of town. I can’t use the Cherryville station (found at Watts Up) because it doesn’t seem to exist. Or, if it does exist, it doesn’t report in real-time the way these other stations do. Every 5 minutes actually.
Going to this link gets you a nice full size terrain map around your area, and all the local readings. Clicking on any of those numbers brings up that weather station and it’s current readings. Clicking on the ID of that weather station takes you in to the web site itself, and from there you can hit links for all sorts of weather related stuff. The only thing that I can find wrong with the place is it’s name.
It’s called the Weather Underground.
Poor choice of names. Very. That’s the name of a terrorist group. And they now it. But like the “Che” crap, I think they think that makes them cool. Um, wrong.
The growing Internet weather program was given the name Weather Underground, a reference to the 1960’s radical group that also originated at the University of Michigan, which had taken its name from the lyrics to Bob Dylan’s Subterranean Homesick Blues, “You don’t need a weather man to know which way the wind blows.”
So I’ll keep those 2 weather links on the side for a bit for fun, while I debate whether I should associate with these folks. Come on, if your local meat store was The Al Qaida Butcher Shop, would you give them business? Humus by Hamas? The Sinn Fein Leprechaun House, “we put the IRA in IRA-ish”? This is pretty much the same thing.
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Permalink • Wednesday - February 10, 2010
weather, or not
9pm: The snow seems to be changing to rain. It’s just over the freezing point right now, and the precip has become very fine. It feels more like rain, or very, very fine ice. So we’ll get a nice crust on the snow if it gets colder later on. Or we’ll just get heavy, back breaking slop if it stays warm, as predicted. Heavy snow that starts to melt before the storm is over: welcome to New Jersey.
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Permalink • Tuesday - February 09, 2010
Signs, signs, everywhere there’s signs
NOAA: Blizzard Rearranges Climate Change Announcement As D.C. continued to dig out from Snowmageddon and is keeping an eye on another storm system, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration was busy making a climate change announcement.
NOAA, part of the Department of Commerce, is going to be providing information to individuals and decision-makers through a new NOAA Climate Service office. “More and more, Americans are witnessing the impacts of climate change in their own backyards, including sea-level rise, longer growing seasons, changes in river flows, increases in heavy downpours, earlier snowmelt and extended ice-free seasons in our waters. People are searching for relevant and timely information about these changes to inform decision-making about virtually all aspects of their lives,” the release says.
Earlier snowmelt? That would be nice.
Turns out the release was planned prepared ahead of the snowstorm, which shut federal agencies today and forced its senders to hold a press conference by telephone instead of at the National Press Club.
It’s not the first time inclement weather has put a chill on official efforts to tackle climate change. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi had to leave the Copenhagen summit early in December to get back to D.C. before the blizzard known as Snowpocalypse grounded all flights.
Uh huh.
Yep, another walloper is on the way. The Chicken Little Weather Service is saying we could get a foot here. We got 6” the other day, and somehow most of it has evaporated already. Beats me how, since it hasn’t gone above freezing the whole time. Whatever. Guess I’d better go to the store and get a bit of this and that, just in case they under-predict the storm by some miracle.
I just hope Al Gore isn’t anywhere near where I live today. I checked his website but it doesn’t tell me. It does rave on and on about the very first consumer carbon credit being sold. And at a “profit” no less!
The Pennsylvania couple have sold the world’s first carbon credit awarded for a reduction in personal carbon emissions. About 1,800 others have signed up to follow suit - underlining the US public’s readiness to press ahead on the issue.
The Wilsons began by getting rid of their son’s heated water bed, turning off power to computers and televisions when not in use, changing to energy-efficient light bulbs, hang-drying their laundry and, finally, investing $58,000 (€42,000 £37,000) in a solar panel system - until they reduced their electricity bill to zero.
Then they signed up on the MyEmissionsExchange. com site to have their energy savings calculated. They found that they had already saved one tonne of carbon, which earned them a carbon credit. The exchange sold the credit for $21.50 to Molten Metal Equipment Innovations of Ohio, taking a 20 per cent commission.
So they made a profit of $3.58 on an investment of $58,000. Way to go! Obviously beneficiaries of a government education.
If any readers would like to participate in the global carbon credits scam, you can go to myeex.com and they will set you up. All you have to do is fill out some forms and then mail them all your bills, and in a couple months you too could be earning a few extra bucks. Don’t worry, I’m sure your billing information is perfectly safe. Right.
Oh, and that NOAA announcement? What else? They’re going to EXPAND GOVERNMENT to create a new office that will function as a clearing house for climate change data. Yeah, I’ll trust that one. Send all the data to the government (will Hansen be in charge???) and let them distribute it as they see fit.
Commerce Department Proposes Establishment of NOAA Climate Service
New office would target nation’s fast-accelerating climate information needs
NOAA launches http://www.climate.gov as portal for climate science and servicesFebruary 8, 2010
Individuals and decision-makers across widely diverse sectors – from agriculture to energy to transportation – increasingly are asking NOAA for information about climate change in order to make the best choices for their families, communities and businesses. To meet the rising tide of these requests, U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke today announced the intent to create a NOAA Climate Service line office dedicated to bringing together the agency’s strong climate science and service delivery capabilities.
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Permalink • Friday - February 05, 2010
Oops
Pious Prius may be in trouble! Toyota can’t catch a break, since their holier-than-thou mobile doesn’t seem to have any.
DETROIT — No sooner had Toyota dealerships begun to repair accelerator pedals on millions of recalled vehicles than the carmaker said it was considering yet another major recall, this time for problems with the brakes on its Prius hybrid.
Safety regulators in Washington said Thursday that they would open an investigation into the brakes on the 2010 Prius, which had been spared from the recall lists.
Other branding experts feel that even if safety fears about the Prius prove to be unfounded, the car will not escape the bad publicity which has dogged Toyota as a whole following the safety recall on other cars in its portfolio.
“If the corporate halo becomes stained , it is inevitable that it will pollute the Prius,” said Milorad Ajder is managing director of IpsosMORI Reputation Centre.
“In fact this will be accentuated on the Prius because it is positioned as being benevolent and ethical.”
Of course the Prius is exempt from the gas pedal recall. Like the human appendix, that device serves no purpose on a Prius. As Jeremy Clarkson put it, ”What about speed? ... ... Nope, it hasn’t got any.”
Other fun news about greenie bashing ...
Business Week cuts the mustard and asks “Is Global Warming a Crock of S*%t?” and concludes ... that you should come back for Part 2 and Part 3 next week. But in the meantime,
But after two centuries in which technology and science were key to creating our modern world, we’ve put the quest for honest, open, and rigorous science on the back burner, because widely publicized and aired “pundits” blame the advancement of science and technology for putting the planet in danger.
Things on the planet are warmer than they used to be, just as in the 1970s things were colder than they once were. The industrial revolution and greenhouse gases were rising in both of these periods, so the spirit of impartial scientific inquiry demands that one look for other factors that may have changed in the equation.
That is not denying things are different from the way they once were. No. The people being labeled deniers are simply asking why the nearly 15% of respected scientists who don’t agree with this climate hypothesis can’t be heard or are quickly dismissed as quacks.
UK’s CRU chief data faker Phil Jones could get 10 years in the pokey for fraud. Can we extradite Hansen while they’re at it?
everything in this post was stolen from Theo’s. He’s like the new Instapundit, only with hot chix instead of blended puppies. But mostly his place is a link dump. I try to write at least a few meaningful words about stuff and drop in a quote or two.
UPDATE: Not from Theo’s!
India Pulls Out Of IPCC: Says They Can’t Trust UN
India forms new climate change body
The Indian government has established its own body to monitor the effects of global warming because it “cannot rely” on the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the group headed by its own leading scientist Dr R.K Pachauri.
The move is a significant snub to both the IPCC and Dr Pachauri as he battles to defend his reputation following the revelation that his most recent climate change report included false claims that most of the Himalayan glaciers would melt away by 2035. Scientists believe it could take more than 300 years for the glaciers to disappear.
The body and its chairman have faced growing criticism ever since as questions have been raised on the credibility of their work and the rigour with which climate change claims are assessed.
Guess they looked at the data and said Sari, sarong numbers? [oops, that was so easy and bad it was cliche] I bet Pachauri is just Mr. So Popular over there right now, and is finding his name becoming the new Hindi verb for telling a lie.
[Indian Environmental Minister Mr. Jairam Ramesh] announced the Indian government will establish a separate National Institute of Himalayan Glaciology to monitor the effects of climate change on the world’s ‘third ice cap’, and an ‘Indian IPCC’ to use ‘climate science’ to assess the impact of global warming throughout the country.
“There is a fine line between climate science and climate evangelism. I am for climate science. I think people misused [the] IPCC report” [he said].
Good for you India. Way to go.
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