Thursday - April 05, 2012

Bear With Me On This One

Healthy polar bear count confounds doomsayers

The debate about climate change and its impact on polar bears has intensified with the release of a survey that shows the bear population in a key part of northern Canada is far larger than many scientists thought, and might be growing.

The number of bears along the western shore of Hudson Bay, believed to be among the most threatened bear subpopulations, stands at 1,013 and could be even higher, according to the results of an aerial survey released Wednesday by the Government of Nunavut. That’s 66 per cent higher than estimates by other researchers who forecasted the numbers would fall to as low as 610 because of warming temperatures that melt ice faster and ruin bears’ ability to hunt. The Hudson Bay region, which straddles Nunavut and Manitoba, is critical because it’s considered a bellwether for how polar bears are doing elsewhere in the Arctic.

The study shows that “the bear population is not in crisis as people believed,” said Drikus Gissing, Nunavut’s director of wildlife management. “There is no doom and gloom.”

The debate over the polar-bear population has been raging for years, frequently pitting scientists against Inuit. In 2004, Environment Canada researchers concluded that the numbers in the region had dropped by 22 per cent since 1984, to 935. They also estimated that by 2011, the population would decrease to about 610. That sparked worldwide concern about the future of the bears and prompted the Canadian and American governments to introduce legislation to protect them.

But many Inuit communities said the researchers were wrong. They said the bear population was increasing and they cited reports from hunters who kept seeing more bears. Mr. Gissing said that encouraged the government to conduct the recent study, which involved 8,000 kilometres of aerial surveying last August along the coast and offshore islands.

Mr. Gissing said he hopes the results lead to more research and a better understanding of polar bears. He said the media in southern Canada has led people to believe polar bears are endangered. “They are not.” He added that there are about 25,000 polar bears across Canada’s Arctic. “That’s likely the highest [population level] there has ever been.”

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   Tuesday - March 27, 2012

EPA Is Out To Screw Us All

I guess I spoke too soon with that court ruling on the EPA and the coal mines. The EPA just announced it’s proposal to HALVE emissions on all future coal and oil fired power generation plants.

The Environmental Protection Agency proposed limits on greenhouse-gas emissions from new power plants on Tuesday, taking the first major regulatory action to address climate change as promised by President Obama‘s administration soon after he took office in 2009.

“We’re taking a common-sense step to reduce pollution in our air, protect the planet for our children, and move us into a new era of American energy,” EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson said in a statement released with the regulations.

The “new era” for energy will mean less reliance on coal, which currently provides nearly half of U.S. power supplies, and greater use of cleaner-burning natural gas, the EPA said in a release summarizing the rules. The agency is proposing that new fossil-fuel power plants — namely those fired by coal and natural gas — emit no more than 1,000 pounds of carbon per megawatt-hour of energy produced. That’s about the same amount of carbon emissions produced by today’s natural gas-plants and about half the amount of produced by coal plants.

“EPA’s proposed standard reflects the ongoing trend in the power sector to build cleaner plants that take advantage of American-made technologies, including new clean-burning, efficient natural-gas generation, which is already the technology of choice for new and planned power plants,” the EPA release said.

Even before EPA officially announced the rule, environmentalists were cheering and critics of the agency were jeering. The rule is sure to reignite a fight over climate change both in Congress and on the campaign trail.

Senate Environment and Public Works Committee ranking member James Inhofe, R-Okla., immediately vowed to fight the rule by introducing a congressional resolution to nullify it. “This plan is the most devastating installment in the Obama administration’s war on affordable energy: It achieves their cap-and-trade agenda through regulation instead of legislation,” Inhofe said at a hearing on Tuesday.

Hey Climate Change deniers - deny this!! It doesn’t matter what you say, what proof you’ve found that the whole Carbon thing is a lying phony scheme, it doesn’t matter that at least half the population is against it. The EPA - which apparently has the power to regulate us to death WITHOUT Congressional approval!!!!! Tyranny! - is going ahead and doing whatever the hell it wants to to fight greenhouse gases and climate change, AND YOU CAN’T DO JACK SHIT ABOUT IT, YOU STUPID WINGNUT LOSER.

The regulation, which was due to be released last July but was held up at the White House, stemmed from a settlement with environmental groups and states. The government already controls global warming pollution at the largest industrial sources, has adopted the first-ever standards for new cars and trucks and is working on regulations to reduce greenhouse gases at existing power plants and refineries.

Michael Brune, executive director of the Sierra Club, an advocacy group fighting coal-fired power, said in an interview that the regulation shows that President Barack Obama is moving to a cleaner energy future.

“It’s a strong move,” Brune said. “It means there will never be another coal plant built without new technology and it probably means even those won’t be built because they can’t compete.”

Other advocacy groups, however, said the regulation was imperfect, since it “grandfathers” in existing plants.

“EPA also must focus on the main source of power plant carbon emissions—existing coal-fired plants, many of them more than 50 years old, which are responsible for nearly 40 percent of U.S. carbon emissions,” said Kevin Knobloch, the president of the Union of Concerned Scientists, who said the regulation was a historic step to “trim” carbon emissions.

Even if the proposal did result in no new coal-fired power plants being built in the U.S., the coal would be exported and burned for electricity elsewhere, contributing to global warming. Export would also increase emissions because of the pollution from the transportation.

But Republicans said the new rule could not come at a worse time, with concern about high gasoline prices and energy taking center stage in the presidential election.

Fox News on TV is reporting that the combination of old plants closing and new ones having to spend dozens of millions more per boiler to install carbon catching filters will likely cause a TWENTY PERCENT jump in the price of electricity. Oh yeah, that one won’t have any downstream economic impact at all, will it? Other than causing the price of everything to nearly double.

So I guess the energy companies will just have to build nice clean non-polluting nuclear generators instead. Oh wait, that’s not allowed.

Well then, they’ll build natural gas fired ones, using all that natural gas the Canadians want to sell us. Oh wait, we not going to get that pipeline, are we?

Well then, the whole darn Northeast seems to be sitting on a massive deep deposit of natural gas. Let’s get to frakking and get it out. Oh wait, that’s not going to be allowed either. Shit.

And Obama keeps a campaign promise after all. Allow me to quote the One, from his 2008 campaign:

And you can guess the result ... and it wasn’t any unintended consequence from some well intentioned piece of legislation. This is a purposeful, tyrannical move by a branch of the government without any oversight or voter control to destroy the nation. PERIOD.

The proposal does not cover existing plants, although utility companies have announced that they plan to shut down more than 300 boilers, representing more than 42 gigawatts of electricity generation — nearly 13 percent of the nation’s coal-fired electricity — rather than upgrade them with pollution-control technology.

Rolling blackouts much? Welcome to the Turd World you dumb crackers, population: you.

Too bad the greenies didn’t really get their way: they wanted this proposal to apply to current power plants too, which would have shut down half the power plants in the nation overnight. Way to kill the economy stone dead, fuckwits. But that’s what they really want: they want half the population to die off, and the rest of us to live shivering in caves, dressed in Renewable Resource Rags™ while eating our government supplied daily ration of bean paste. Because greenies are the ultimate Luddites: they believe that fire is bad, and anything and everything that has come from that is wrong and must be abolished.

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   Friday - March 23, 2012

Cat is out of the bag

Well, gee, I toldja so a few years back, right?

Effective World Government Will Be Needed to Stave Off Climate Catastrophe
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To be effective, a new set of institutions would have to be imbued with heavy-handed, transnational enforcement powers. There would have to be consideration of some way of embracing head-in-the-cloud answers to social problems that are usually dismissed by policymakers as academic naivete. In principle, species-wide alteration in basic human behaviors would be a sine qua non, but that kind of pronouncement also profoundly strains credibility in the chaos of the political sphere.

Behavioral economics and other forward-looking disciplines in the social sciences try to grapple with weighty questions. But they have never taken on a challenge of this scale, recruiting all seven billion of us to act in unison. The ability to sustain change globally across the entire human population over periods far beyond anything ever attempted would appear to push the relevant objectives well beyond the realm of the attainable. If we are ever to cope with climate change in any fundamental way, radical solutions on the social side are where we must focus, though. The relative efficiency of the next generation of solar cells is trivial by comparison.

The author also suggests downplaying nuclear power and clean coal, but at least has the honesty to ponder the “gosh, how do we set it up so that a tyrant can’t abuse the system if he gets in charge?” issue. Too bad no answer to that one is included. He does write in a nice erudite style, which slightly hides and softens the message, which is as cold and absolute as only Science or Stalin can be.

Stupid greenies. You aren’t going to push developed nations back into the stone age, and you aren’t going to stop developing nations from developing. If they ever do. If you really want to minimize waste heat and CO2 levels, then you have no other realistic choice: beef must go, and the world must learn to live on chicken and fish. Oh, and everything must run on electricity, generated by nuclear reactors and tidal generators. Wind power is a circle jerk daydream, and solar power is a minimal localized solution with a huge cost overhead and a nearly infinite break even point.

And now the cat is completely out of the bag: global communism is the answer to the “problem”. Redistribution and rationing, by force. Great, let’s do it. Because the first thing the Oceania Ministry of Finance will figure out is that investing in Eastasia is a waste; no matter how much money, effort, or technology you invest there, things will never improve. And Eastasia is wall to wall people, and always has been. Better to just cut them off now; in 20 years there won’t be anyone left, and think how much less waste heat and CO2 that will mean.

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   Saturday - March 10, 2012

Fake And Inaccurate

An Army of Andrews fights all the BS memes, all the time.  I found this one at CNN this morning while looking for news stories. It’s a 15 picture photo essay of the Por ‘n Starvin’, their harmonious-with-nature home brought low by Glowball Warming!!!1111!!

On the shore of a vanishing island

Daesung Lee sees global connections the rest of us often don’t recognize or choose not to dwell on.

Lee, an international photojournalist, spent two months photographing the people of Ghoramara Island, located in the Ganges Delta region in India’s West Bengal state. The island has been dramatically affected by global climate change.

“I have researched the effect of global warming, which is caused by mass consumption and pollution. Since the 1980s, more than 50% of the Ghoramara has vanished due to erosion by the sea. As a result two-thirds of the population have moved away from the island,” Lee says.

“This world is more connected than we can imagine by globalization. Most of the products we use for everyday life are produced by people we never know.”

He says many people who aren’t involved in the consumption of these products become “environmental refugees.”

“I hope people realize that climate change is more serious than we know and we have a major responsibility for it. I also hope people consider the impact that our consumption has on the world … and make efforts to reduce it by recycling products and using them long term.”

Working on the remote island had its challenges. With no electricity, Lee was forced to leave the island to go to the mainland every three days to charge his camera batteries.

He posed villagers on the shore and took portraits of them in juxtaposition with the beauty of the vanishing island.

“The villagers in Ghoramara have begun to save money in preparation to buy new farms,” Lee says. “I could see the traces of a heritage vanishing by the rising tides. Exposed roots of plants destroyed by the erosion serve to illustrate the absence of foundation in the lives of these people. The sea is swallowing up their past, while their future remains unknown.”

– Robert W. Johnson, CNN

What he isn’t telling you is that the island of Ghoramara is little more than a hump of mud on the outside edge of a bend in the Rupnarayan River where it dumps into the Bay of Bengal at the north end of the Indian Ocean. It’s a pile of silt with some grass growing on it. As anyone who knows anything about rivers knows, they are constantly changing. Riverine silt islands come and go all the time. It’s just that in this overpopulated and poorest corner of the Turd World, people will live on any piece of somewhat dry ground they can find. In this case, there was probably no more room in the nearby town of Kakdwip (is that the ancestral home of Barney Frank??) and it was either live on the silt pile or share the stanky mangrove swamp to the East with a bunch of tigers. Climate change, global warming, increased consumption, and insufficient recycling have nothing to do with this eroding mud pile whatsoever. But it does make a better picture than some lone polar bear clinging to a bit of sea ice, right? And most folks won’t even read the whole one paragraph story, they’ll just look at the pictures. And then Blame Bush.

See the map at Wiki, or Google Map up 21.916667, 88.129722.

Fight the meme. Do not accept the lie.

PS - the Rupnarayan River was dammed some years ago, some miles upstream at Kolaghat, for a hydropower generator. This lowered the level of the river, perhaps allowing this pile of silt mud to surface and dry out in the first place. The province of West Bengal is in desperate need of electricity, so it is entirely probable that the electricity people - government employees - have been running more water through their turbines to produce it. That would put more water in the river, which would in turn rise up in level, and erode or drown the mud island as it should have done all along.

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   Thursday - March 08, 2012

The Sky Is Falling, The Sky Is Falling

No wonder it feels like Spring today. Here in NJ, in the middle of March, in the waning days of Winter, it’s nearly 70°F out, again. I’ve got the heat off and the windows open, which is airing out some of last night’s aroma from the chicken curry I made. We’re getting a couple of nice days of Global Warming, because you can’t warm the planet without having more potent energy from the Sun. And that’s what we’ve got right now.

Sun fires off 2 huge solar flares, could impact weather on Earth

[ but, but , but ... didn’t the warm mongers insist just a couple of years ago that climate had nothing at all to do with the Sun??? ]

A massive solar storm is due to arrive at Earth early Thursday, and is expected to shake the globe’s magnetic field while expanding the Northern Lights.

A giant blast of plasma spat from the sun at as much as 4 million miles per hour Tuesday—by some measures the largest solar event since late 2006—and it could lead to serious issues on Earth, forcing some planes to reroute, knocking out power grids, and blacking out radios.

The sun unleashed the cosmic double whammy late March 6, erupting with two major flares to cap a busy day of powerful solar storms, Space.com reported. One of the flares is the most powerful solar eruption so far this year.

Both of the huge flares ranked as X-class storms, the strongest type of solar flares the sun can have. They followed several weaker, but still powerful, sun storms on Tuesday and came just days after another major solar flare on Sunday night.

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Solar radiation storms could reach as high as S4, he noted, which could cause astronauts on the International Space Station to seek shelter from the heightened radiation levels associated with such a storm.

These effects should last about 24 hours, probably lingering overnight into the early morning hours on Friday, pending another eruption—“and we think there will be more coming,” Kunches said.

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   Saturday - February 25, 2012

One Fine Day

Weather or Not



It’s a lovely early Spring day here in Clinton in the dark dead of Winter. The sun is shining brightly, the sky is blue with just a couple little cotton ball puffs of cloud. It seems to be about 45° out. And it’s snowing. Say What? Let me check again. Nope, it stopped. Nope, it started again. Stopped again. Now it’s snowing again. Arrggh, MAKE UP YOUR MIND, I can’t take it anymore!!! Is it Winter, Spring, or Fall??

Sorry. I guess I’m having a momentary lapse of season.

One fine day in the middle of the night
Two dead boys got up to fight
Back to back they faced each other
Drew their swords and shot one another
A deaf policeman heard the noise
And came and killed the two dead boys

I’m so confused.

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   Thursday - February 09, 2012

Please Just Shut Up And Go Away

The Himalayas and nearby peaks have lost no ice in past 10 years, study shows

Meltwater from Asia’s peaks is much less than previously estimated, but lead scientist says the loss of ice caps and glaciers around the world remains a serious concern

Earth’s Polar Ice Melting Less Than Thought

Ocean levels worldwide are rising about six hundredths of an inch per year

0.06” is a hair thicker than a dime, which is 1.35mm or 0.053”. At that rate it would take the oceans 200 years to rise a foot, and more than 1000 years to rise enough to seriously screw with the world’s coastlines.

The GRACE satellite experiment, however, covered the entire globe and found that all the world’s glaciers and ice caps combined, apart for those in Greenland and Antarctica, had lost about 148 billion tonnes of ice, or about 39 cubic miles, annually between 2003 and 2010. The individual glaciers on the fringes of Greenland and Antarctic contributed an additional 80 billion tons over the same period, the study published in Nature found.

“This is the first time anyone has looked at all of the mass loss from all of the Earth’s glaciers and ice caps with GRACE,” said John Wahr, professor of physics at the University of Colorado at Boulder, who was part of the research team that analysed the satellite data.

Surface area of all the open water on the planet: 361,132,000km² = 139,433,844 sq mi.

V = H*L*W = H * area, therefore V/area = H. Substituting in the values, 39 cubic miles ÷ 139,433,844 sq mi. = 0.0000002797” , which is a hair more than a quarter of a ten millionth of an inch. Don’t forget that most manual static measuring tools lose precision after 0.0001”; you simply can not measure less than a ten thousandth with any kind of accuracy outside of a laboratory. In a dynamic environment, like the surface of an ocean, it would take untold zillions of measurements over time - oodleplexes of them - to calculate this kind of delta.

So 39 cubic miles sounds like a lot, but the earth is a big place, and if you spread it out over all the existing water surface, it amounts to nothing.

Is the climate changing? Sure. That’s it’s job. It’s always changing. Can we say for sure whether the long term trend is hotter or colder? No. Precision recording thermometers have existed for perhaps a century, and have been in widespread use for perhaps half that time. Actual global climate - not current weather patterns in a semi-local area - runs on a geologic time scale, and 50 years of data barely scratches the surface of that. Assuming of course that the data is accurate, which it often isn’t. Assuming even further that we can trust the published GRACE data, and that is debatable. Climate scientists have lied to us so many times now that I wouldn’t believe them if they cried wolf and there were lupine teeth biting my leg.

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   Tuesday - February 07, 2012

The Midnight Sun Scenario…

The Coming of the New Ice Age.

I know, those of us who where around in the late ‘70s know that global cooling was the culpritl The point that Zombie at PJ Media makes is that the left’s solution is the same:

The fact that the media and popular culture and academia have veered from one panic-inducing disaster scenario to another one which completely contradicts the first one is funny enough in its own right. But reading The Weather Conspiracy: The Coming of the New Ice Age opened my eyes to an even more significant aspect of this serial crisis-mongering:

The “solutions” prescribed to solve both Global Warming and the looming Ice Age are exactly the same.

In both cases, proponents of the theory-du-jour say that in order to stave off disaster, we must reverse the march of civilization, stop our profligate use of carbon-based fuels, cede power and money from the First World to the Third World, and wherever possible revert to a Luddite pre-industrial lifestyle.

If you want to voluntarily be a Luddite, fine. I’m actually trying to do the same thing. PERSONALLY. I’m not advocating that anyone follow my example… I just want to have a garden, cook my own fresh breads, and, if there weren’t actual laws against it, have a few chickens in the backyard. That probably screws the Luddite goal because more people baking their own bread, more people using their own ovens, oh dear, we can’t have that!

Oh, wait, do current Luddites like Al Gore follow their own teachings? I doubt Al Gore could cook pancakes from scratch,. Just had to throw that in…

No, I’m just trying to simplify my own life and cut household expenses. What YOU do is your choice. And it certainlhy should not be the government’s business.

Zombie goes on to cite an old 1961 Twilight Zone episode, The Midnight Sun:

The scenario we’re in reminds me of the classic Twilight Zone episode called “The Midnight Sun”: At first we see the characters sweltering in increasingly unbearable heat as the Earth, knocked out of its orbit, slowly plummets into the sun. Just as they are all about to burn to death, in typical Twilight Zone fashion, the lead character wakes up — she had in fact merely been having a fever dream about the world getting hotter; in reality, the Earth had been knocked away from the sun, and they’re all going to freeze to death. Ha ha — gotcha!

Just for fun, I found that 1/2-hour episode and I’m posting it in full.

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   Monday - February 06, 2012

doggy eye candy and some great pix.  have fun.

I’d call it eye candy of sorts. But, if you will please click on this adorable image, you will get an eyeful.
Enjoy.

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   Saturday - January 21, 2012

There’s No Business Like Snow Business

Eeek, winter! Looks like almost half a foot already, and it’s still coming down hard. And it’s cold! We had March for all of December and 2/3 of January; I got spoiled.

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   Wednesday - January 11, 2012

I think I could be in love

An entire news article that explains the oddly warm winter most of the USA has been having so far this season, that goes into a fair level of climate science, and does NOT mention AGW or Climate Change even once. Be still, my heart.

It felt more like March than January in many places last week, as more than 1,000 temperature records fell across the country during a winter that has been unusually warm and dry in many places
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Whether you are rejoicing the lack of cold or lamenting the lack of snow, you may be wondering: What’s behind the weirdly warm weather?

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/01/11/this-winters-weirdly-warm-weather-explained/?test=faces#ixzz1jBn01pve
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Several forces are at work, experts say. To begin with, La Niña conditions have pushed warm water toward Australia in the western Pacific, leaving ocean waters off the American West coast about 5 degrees F colder than usual. As a result, moisture levels are currently low in the atmosphere from California to Washington State.

As for what’s ultimately beneath the weather rut we’re in, climate change is a tempting target but global warming is not necessarily to blame. In fact, a warmer world would cause warmer oceans

... and so on, blah blah blah. And not a single peep from the lunatic fringe.

It’s like actual reporting. Awesome.

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   Tuesday - January 03, 2012

More Than Just Another Fish Story

“This is evolution in action.” [Somebody call Ann Coulter, quick.]

World-first hybrid shark found off Australia

Scientists said on Tuesday that they had discovered the world’s first hybrid sharks in Australian waters, a potential sign the predators were adapting to cope with climate change.

The mating of the local Australian black-tip shark with its global counterpart, the common black-tip, was an unprecedented discovery with implications for the entire shark world, said lead researcher Jess Morgan.

“It’s very surprising because no one’s ever seen shark hybrids before, this is not a common occurrence by any stretch of the imagination,” Morgan, from the University of Queensland, told AFP.

“This is evolution in action.”

Colin Simpfendorfer, a partner in Morgan’s research from James Cook University, said initial studies suggested the hybrid species was relatively robust, with a number of generations discovered across 57 specimens.

The find was made during cataloguing work off Australia’s east coast when Morgan said genetic testing showed certain sharks to be one species when physically they looked to be another.

The Australian black-tip is slightly smaller than its common cousin and can only live in tropical waters, but its hybrid offspring have been found 2,000 kilometres down the coast, in cooler seas.

It means the Australian black-tip could be adapting to ensure its survival as sea temperatures change because of global warming.

Let’s see ... sharks have been around for how long? Oh right. Sharks have been around for HALF A BILLION YEARS, and the ones we see today have been in their current form for about 100 million years, give or take a millenium. And in all that time the oceans must have never warmed up or cooled down even a degree, how many ice ages be damned, because now, when one bunch of dorks in dinghies finds the results of an aquatic redneck family get-together, suddenly it’s emergency evolution driven by one and only one possible reason.    

Climate change and human fishing are some of the potential triggers being investigated by the team, with further genetic mapping also planned to examine whether it was an ancient process just discovered or a more recent phenomenon.

If the hybrid was found to be stronger than its parent species—a literal survival of the fittest—Simpfendorfer said it may eventually outlast its so-called pure-bred predecessors. [Drew: wouldn’t that be a littoral survival of the fittest? Or is that too shallow a jest?]

“We don’t know whether that’s the case here, but certainly we know that they are viable, they reproduce and that there are multiple generations of hybrids now that we can see from the genetic roadmap that we’ve generated from these animals,” he said.

“Certainly it appears that they are fairly fit individuals.”

The hybrids were extraordinarily abundant, accounting for up to 20 percent of black-tip populations in some areas, but Morgan said that didn’t appear to be at the expense of their single-breed parents, adding to the mystery.

In other words, this kind of shark, long considered to be several different species, has always interbred - that would cover the “multiple generations” part and the “extraordinarily abundant” part - but Science (cue Heavenly Trumpets) just never noticed it before. But WTF, let’s not admit that, and instead blame Global Warming. And probably George Bush, by next week.

Dorks in dinghies ... chum, but with pocket protectors.

PS - Simpfendorfer??? Sounds like some kind of 4 1/2 string electric guitar for that special musician in your life. Yeah, my sense of humor is that bass.

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weather or not

Damn, what happened? I was just starting to get used to this “winter” where it was 45-55° every day. It was like winter in the UK, which is usually pretty mild. Now suddenly it’s coldaz’ell out there! BRRRR!!!

Farg this, I want Peiper’s climate.

Thanks for nothing, Al Gore.

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   Wednesday - December 14, 2011

Connect The Dots?

Polar bears eating their young, blame Glowball Worming!

BBC Caught Faking Polar Bear Climate Change Photos

Kind of makes me wonder.

Meanwhile, ClimateGate II continues, but I’m so sick of that nonsense I’m not even going to link to it. Ok, I’ll only link it generically, but the whole thing is a crap sandwich with more layers than you can stomach. Canada pulling out of Kyoto, Climate Change blamed for the continued desertification of the Sahel, instead of the goat based economy and the slash ‘n burn practices of the natives AND in direct opposition to the pile of reports over the past 20 years saying the area is getting greener, more data fakery from teh rubber thermometer squad, etc. The only real news from that whole darn genre is the two guys who quit their jobs as hurricane predictors because they realized they had been dead wrong every year for ages, and that the much vaunted models simply don’t work.

I’m sure that Climate Chaos™ will soon be blamed for lions, fish, scorpions, barn cats, sea birds, insects, and all other species who eat their young and always have too. Desperate idiots. Take their keyboards away, they’re a danger to the rest of us.

On the other hand, there may actually be some good news hiding in there somewhere regarding the cannibalism bit, and I think Global Werming should take the blame.

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Not that very many people ever read this far down, but this blog was the creation of Allan Kelly and his friend Vilmar. Vilmar moved on to his own blog some time ago, and Allan ran this place alone until his sudden and unexpected death partway through 2006. We all miss him. A lot. Even though he is gone this site will always still be more than a little bit his. We who are left to carry on the BMEWS tradition owe him a great debt of gratitude, and we hope to be able to pay that back by following his last advice to us all:

1. Keep a firm grasp of Right and Wrong
2. Stay involved with government on every level and don't let those bastards get away with a thing
3. Use every legal means to defend yourself in the event of real internal trouble, and, most importantly:
4. Keep talking to each other, whether here or elsewhere

It's been a long strange trip without you Skipper, but thanks for pointing us in the right direction and giving us a swift kick in the behind to get us going. Keep lookin' down on us, will ya? Thanks.

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