Thursday - February 15, 2007

Glowbull Warming Daily Briefing

Yes, it’s February - a month which typically contains what we call “winter”. Sadly, the picture below is not from Maine or Minnesota - it’s from Washington, DC. The glaciers are advancing southward and are thankful for Al Gore, who is doing a wonderful job of distracting mankind while the next Ice Age sneaks up on us. As I sit here in St. Louis writing this, everything is frozen and covered in snow outside and the thermometer says it is 9°F outside. Cold enough for ya ... ?

Snowstorm Closes Schools, Snarls Travel
_{NEW YORK (ABC NEWS) - Feb 15, 2007}

Blowing snow and sleet glazed windshields and roads across the Northeast and the Midwest on Wednesday, messing up Valentine’s Day flower deliveries and wrecking couples’ plans for romantic dinners. The storm grounded hundreds of flights and forced the closing of schools and businesses from Kentucky to Maine. Many of those stuck at home had no heat or lights because of blackouts that affected more than a quarter-million customers.

“I’m just trying to figure out where to take my wife for Valentine’s Day,” said Skip Daniels, the emergency management director in Sussex County, N.J. At least 13 deaths were blamed on the huge storm system.

Blizzard warnings were posted for parts of New Hampshire, Massachusetts and Maine, where as much as 2 feet of snow was possible. Some areas reported more than 3 feet. There were hundreds of accidents. The Ohio State Highway Patrol alone handled more than 1,200, but there were few injuries because most vehicle were moving slowly, Sgt. Brett Gockstetter said.

The storm’s cold, snow, sleet and rain made life difficult for Valentine’s Day messengers. “Cold. Slippery. Nobody has their sidewalks sanded,” said Caroline Roggero at Rose Petal Florist in Newport, R.I. “They all want their delivery today.” The storm was a convenient excuse for husbands and boyfriends who forgot to send flowers.

Some delivery drivers got stuck on the roads. Flowers delivered to offices were turned away because the businesses were closed. And customers had to change their orders to have flowers delivered to homes instead of places of work.

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   Wednesday - February 14, 2007

Glowbull Warming Daily Briefing

The enviroweenies have now decided to go after Valentines Day - and flowers. Yes, it seems it costs too much carbon being pushed into the atmosphere by freight planes flying in flowers from all those tropical Third World countries south of the Equator. They want us guys to switch to chocolates or some other such drivel in order to save the planet.

What they fail to recognize is that our poor neighbors in Africa are already starving - and now they want to take away a source of revenue? Hmmm. Tough choice here. Should we continue to heat up the planet 1/10,000th of a degree per year or should we just let all those starving kids in Africa expire? I vote for the kids. Have a rose on me, Mr. Gore!

Valentine Bouquets Are Bad For The Planet
_{LONDON (TELEGRAPH-UK) - 1:53am GMT 10/02/2007}

The Valentine’s Day bouquet — the gift that every woman in Britain will be waiting for next week — has become the latest bête noire among environmental campaigners. Latest Government figures show that the flowers that make up the average bunch have flown 33,800 miles to reach Britain.

In the past three years, the amount of flowers imported from the Netherlands has fallen by 47 per cent to 94,000 tons, while those from Africa have risen 39 per cent to 17,000 tons. Environmentalists warned that “flower miles” could have serious implications on climate change in terms of carbon dioxide emissions from aeroplanes.

Andrew Sims, the policy director of the New Economics Foundation, said: “There are plenty of flowers that grow in Britain in the winter and don’t need to be hothoused. Air freighting flowers half way round the world contributes to global warming. You can argue the planes would be flying anyway but the amount of greenhouse gases pumped out depends on the weight of the cargo.”

Vicky Hird, of Friends of the Earth, said: “We don’t want to be killjoys because receiving flowers can be lovely but why not grow your own gift?” The figures also revealed that imports of roses from Ethiopia have grown from zero to 130 tons a year since 2003. Kenya is the second biggest exporter of flowers after the Netherlands, followed by Colombia and Spain.

In total, Britain imports more than £315 million of flowers, with the typical Briton spending £39 a year on them. “That’s very little when you think what we spend on CDs, coffee and even lipstick,” said a spokesman for the Flowers and Plants Association. He said the boom in Third World flowers would help poorer countries to build schools and boost the economy.

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   Tuesday - February 13, 2007

NOT AGAIN!

Alright, this is getting ridiculous! I’ve seen more snow this year than in my entire life up to this point. WTF is going on? Is this Mother Nature’s way of harassing Al Gore? Snow is coming down heavy again outside this morning and temps are hovering around freezing (for the umpteenth straight day). In fact, our temps haven’t climbed out of the 20’s and 30’s for over two months. You know what this means, don’t you ...? It means ... it’s Winter, dummy.

UPDATE: this is un-freaking-believable! There’s a damn blizzard going on outside right now. In St. Louis! White-out conditions and snow piling up. Visibility is about twenty feet and that’s it! DAMN! I HATE AL GORE AND HIS GLOWBULL WARMING MACHINE!

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Holocenic Park

_{Vic Harville - Stephens Media Group}

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   Monday - February 12, 2007

Quote Of The Day

“Global warming is a myth and every serious person and scientist says so. It is not fair to refer to the U.N. panel. IPCC is not a scientific institution: it’s a political body, a sort of non-government organization of green flavor. It’s neither a forum of neutral scientists nor a balanced group of scientists.

These people are politicized scientists who arrive there with a one-sided opinion and a one-sided assignment. Also, it’s an undignified slapstick that people don’t wait for the full report in May 2007 but instead respond, in such a serious way, to the summary for policymakers where all the “but’s” are scratched, removed, and replaced by oversimplified theses.

This is clearly such an incredible failure of so many people, from journalists to politicians. If the European Commission is instantly going to buy such a trick, we have another very good reason to think that the countries themselves, not the Commission, should be deciding about similar issues.”

-- Václav Klaus, President of the Czech Republic

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   Sunday - February 11, 2007

Cosmic Ray Attack

I love this whole glowbull warming crap. It just gets more and more interesting every day. Today we find out that cosmic rays seem to be responsible for part of the damage. The science makes sense to me but I would like to see the results of the experiments they plan on conducting in Switzerland.

The cycles of heating and cooling seem to coincide with high solar activity and other factors that could influence the amount of cosmic rays hitting our atmosphere. Factor in fluctuations in the Van-Allen Belt and this team of scientists could be on to something. Then add in the fact there are fewer pollutants in the air nowadays thanks to clean air acts and what you have is a lot of clear skies over our heads. Them cosmic rays are pounding us! HELP! RUN AWAY! RUN AWAY!

Cosmic Rays Blamed For Global Warming
_{LONDON (TELEGRAPH-UK) - 1:08am GMT 11/02/2007}

Man-made climate change may be happening at a far slower rate than has been claimed, according to controversial new research. Scientists say that cosmic rays from outer space play a far greater role in changing the Earth’s climate than global warming experts previously thought.

In a book, to be published this week, they claim that fluctuations in the number of cosmic rays hitting the atmosphere directly alter the amount of cloud covering the planet. High levels of cloud cover blankets the Earth and reflects radiated heat from the Sun back out into space, causing the planet to cool.

Henrik Svensmark, a weather scientist at the Danish National Space Centre who led the team behind the research, believes that the planet is experiencing a natural period of low cloud cover due to fewer cosmic rays entering the atmosphere. This, he says, is responsible for much of the global warming we are experiencing.

He claims carbon dioxide emissions due to human activity are having a smaller impact on climate change than scientists think. If he is correct, it could mean that mankind has more time to reduce our effect on the climate.

The controversial theory comes one week after 2,500 scientists who make up the United Nations International Panel on Climate Change published their fourth report stating that human carbon dioxide emissions would cause temperature rises of up to 4.5 C by the end of the century.

Mr Svensmark claims that the calculations used to make this prediction largely overlooked the effect of cosmic rays on cloud cover and the temperature rise due to human activity may be much smaller.

He said: “It was long thought that clouds were caused by climate change, but now we see that climate change is driven by clouds. “This has not been taken into account in the models used to work out the effect carbon dioxide has had. “We may see CO2 is responsible for much less warming than we thought and if this is the case the predictions of warming due to human activity will need to be adjusted.”

Mr Svensmark last week published the first experimental evidence from five years’ research on the influence that cosmic rays have on cloud production in the Proceedings of the Royal Society Journal A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences. This week he will also publish a fuller account of his work in a book entitled The Chilling Stars: A New Theory of Climate Change.

A team of more than 60 scientists from around the world are preparing to conduct a large-scale experiment using a particle accelerator in Geneva, Switzerland, to replicate the effect of cosmic rays hitting the atmosphere. They hope this will prove whether this deep space radiation is responsible for changing cloud cover. If so, it could force climate scientists to re-evaluate their ideas about how global warming occurs.

Mr Svensmark’s results show that the rays produce electrically charged particles when they hit the atmosphere. He said: “These particles attract water molecules from the air and cause them to clump together until they condense into clouds.”

Mr Svensmark claims that the number of cosmic rays hitting the Earth changes with the magnetic activity around the Sun. During high periods of activity, fewer cosmic rays hit the Earth and so there are less clouds formed, resulting in warming. Low activity causes more clouds and cools the Earth. He said: “Evidence from ice cores show this happening long into the past. We have the highest solar activity we have had in at least 1,000 years.

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   Saturday - February 10, 2007

Climate Hysteria

You all know my position: the Global Warming freaks lost me when they started trying to tell me that the issue is settled, no more discussion will be tolerated and that I need to just STFU. I’ll be damned if I’ll just accept someone’s word that something is happening without verifiable proof. So far no one has demonstrated to me a direct correlation between mankind as the sole or even major cause of global warming and rising temperatures on a global scale with incontrovertible facts based on pure scientific research that has been peer reviewed by scientists on both sides of the argument.

I’m getting too much hysteria, media brainwashing, propaganda, finger-pointing and irrational accusations of conspiracies. In other words, too many people are peeing on my leg while trying to convince me it’s raining. I want to see some hard scientific data from both sides and an open discussion as well as continued research and more importantly ... long range planning that incorporates contingencies for rising temperatures and dropping temperatures. For the last time: the cause of climate change is not nearly as important as how we plan to adapt to it.

_{Mike Lester - The Rome (GA) News-Tribune}

A Skeptic’s Take On Global Warming
-- by Bill Steigerwald

Timothy Ball is no wishy-washy skeptic of global warming. The Canadian climatologist, who has a Ph.D. in climatology from the University of London and taught at the University of Winnipeg for 28 years, says that the widely propagated “fact” that humans are contributing to global warming is the “greatest deception in the history of science.”

Ball has made no friends among global warming alarmists by saying that global warming is caused by the sun, that global warming will be good for us and that the Kyoto Protocol “is a political solution to a nonexistent problem without scientific justification.”

Needless to say, Ball strongly disagrees with the findings of the latest report from the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which on Feb. 2 concluded that it is “very likely” that global warming is the result of human activity.

I talked to Ball by phone on Feb. 6 from his home on Victoria Island, British Columbia, which the good-humored scientist likes to point out was connected to the mainland 8,000 years ago when the sea level was 500 feet lower.

Q: The mainstream media would have us believe that the science of global warming is now settled by the latest IPCC report. Is it true?

A: No. It’s absolutely false. As soon as people start saying something’s settled, it’s usually that they don’t want to talk about it anymore. They don’t want anybody to dig any deeper. It’s very, very far from settled. In fact, that’s the real problem. We haven’t been able to get all of the facts on the table. The IPCC is a purely political setup.

There was a large group of people, the political people, who wanted the report to be more harum-scarum than it actually is. In fact, the report is quite a considerable step down from the previous reports. For example, they have reduced the potential temperature rise and they’ve reduced the sea level increase and a whole bunch of other things. Part of it is because they know so many people will be watching the report this time.

Q: Why should we be leery of the IPCC’s report—or the summary of the report?

A: Well, because the report is the end product of a political agenda, and it is the political agenda of both the extreme environmentalists who of course think we are destroying the world. But it’s also the political agenda of a group of people ... who believe that industrialization and development and capitalism and the Western way is a terrible system and they want to bring it down.

They couldn’t do it by attacking energy because they know that would get the public’s back up very quickly. ... The vehicle they chose was CO2, because that’s the byproduct of industry and fossil-fuel burning, which of course drives the whole thing. They think, “If we can show that that is destroying the planet, then it allows us to control.” Unfortunately, you’ve got a bunch of scientists who have this political agenda as well, and they have effectively controlled the IPCC process.

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   Friday - February 09, 2007

Ten Thousand BC

_{Scott Stantis - The Birmingham (AL) News}

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   Wednesday - February 07, 2007

Most Ridiculous Item Of The Day (so far)

Gore Says Bush Administration Paying
Scientists To Dispute Global Warming
_{MADRID , SPAIN (CNN) - Tuesday, February 06, 2007}

Former Vice President Al Gore said in an interview on Tuesday the Bush administration is now paying scientists to dispute global warming since the administration can no longer argue against it.

During an interview with CNN affiliate Cuatro in Madrid, Gore said, “they’ve lost the argument and they don’t want to stop dumping all this pollution into the Earth’s atmosphere.

The only thing they have left is cash and now they’re offering cash for so-called skeptics who will try to confuse people about what the science really say. But it’s unethical because now the time has come when we have to act.”

Gore was the Democratic nominee against Bush in the 2000 presidential election. His film, An Inconvenient Truth, is up for the best documentary Oscar.

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GlowBull Warming: The Other Side

Global Warming: The Cold, Hard Facts?
Global Warming is not due to human contribution of Carbon Dioxide
By Timothy Ball
_{(CANADA FREE PRESS) - Monday, February 5, 2007}

Global Warming, as we think we know it, doesn’t exist. And I am not the only one trying to make people open up their eyes and see the truth. But few listen, despite the fact that I was the first Canadian Ph.D. in Climatology and I have an extensive background in climatology, especially the reconstruction of past climates and the impact of climate change on human history and the human condition.

Few listen, even though I have a Ph.D, (Doctor of Science) from the University of London, England and was a climatology professor at the University of Winnipeg. For some reason (actually for many), the World is not listening. Here is why.

What would happen if tomorrow we were told that, after all, the Earth is flat? It would probably be the most important piece of news in the media and would generate a lot of debate. So why is it that when scientists who have studied the Global Warming phenomenon for years say that humans are not the cause nobody listens? Why does no one acknowledge that the Emperor has no clothes on?

Believe it or not, Global Warming is not due to human contribution of Carbon Dioxide (CO2). This in fact is the greatest deception in the history of science. We are wasting time, energy and trillions of dollars while creating unnecessary fear and consternation over an issue with no scientific justification. For example, Environment Canada brags about spending $3.7 billion in the last five years dealing with climate change almost all on propaganda trying to defend an indefensible scientific position while at the same time closing weather stations and failing to meet legislated pollution targets.

No sensible person seeks conflict, especially with governments, but if we don’t pursue the truth, we are lost as individuals and as a society. That is why I insist on saying that there is no evidence that we are, or could ever cause global climate change. And, recently, Yuri A. Izrael, Vice President of the United Nations sponsored Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) confirmed this statement. So how has the world come to believe that something is wrong?

Maybe for the same reason we believed, 30 years ago, that global cooling was the biggest threat: a matter of faith. “It is a cold fact: the Global Cooling presents humankind with the most important social, political, and adaptive challenge we have had to deal with for ten thousand years. Your stake in the decisions we make concerning it is of ultimate importance; the survival of ourselves, our children, our species,” wrote Lowell Ponte in 1976.

I was as opposed to the threats of impending doom global cooling engendered as I am to the threats made about Global Warming. Let me stress I am not denying the phenomenon has occurred. The world has warmed since 1680, the nadir of a cool period called the Little Ice Age (LIA) that has generally continued to the present. These climate changes are well within natural variability and explained quite easily by changes in the sun. But there is nothing unusual going on.

Since I obtained my doctorate in climatology from the University of London, Queen Mary College, England my career has spanned two climate cycles. Temperatures declined from 1940 to 1980 and in the early 1970’s global cooling became the consensus. This proves that consensus is not a scientific fact. By the 1990’s temperatures appeared to have reversed and Global Warming became the consensus. It appears I’ll witness another cycle before retiring, as the major mechanisms and the global temperature trends now indicate a cooling.

No doubt passive acceptance yields less stress, fewer personal attacks and makes career progress easier. What I have experienced in my personal life during the last years makes me understand why most people choose not to speak out; job security and fear of reprisals. Even in University, where free speech and challenge to prevailing wisdoms are supposedly encouraged, academics remain silent.

I once received a three page letter that my lawyer defined as libellous, from an academic colleague, saying I had no right to say what I was saying, especially in public lectures. Sadly, my experience is that universities are the most dogmatic and oppressive places in our society. This becomes progressively worse as they receive more and more funding from governments that demand a particular viewpoint.

In another instance, I was accused by Canadian environmentalist David Suzuki of being paid by oil companies. That is a lie. Apparently he thinks if the fossil fuel companies pay you have an agenda. So if Greenpeace, Sierra Club or governments pay there is no agenda and only truth and enlightenment?

Personal attacks are difficult and shouldn’t occur in a debate in a civilized society. I can only consider them from what they imply. They usually indicate a person or group is losing the debate. In this case, they also indicate how political the entire Global Warming debate has become. Both underline the lack of or even contradictory nature of the evidence.

I am not alone in this journey against the prevalent myth. Several well-known names have also raised their voices. Michael Crichton, the scientist, writer and filmmaker is one of them. In his latest book, “State of Fear” he takes time to explain, often in surprising detail, the flawed science behind Global Warming and other imagined environmental crises.

Another cry in the wildenerness is Richard Lindzen’s. He is an atmospheric physicist and a professor of meteorology at MIT, renowned for his research in dynamic meteorology - especially atmospheric waves. He is also a member of the National Academy of Sciences and has held positions at the University of Chicago, Harvard University and MIT. Linzen frequently speaks out against the notion that significant Global Warming is caused by humans. Yet nobody seems to listen.

I think it may be because most people don’t understand the scientific method which Thomas Kuhn so skilfully and briefly set out in his book “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.” A scientist makes certain assumptions and then produces a theory which is only as valid as the assumptions. The theory of Global Warming assumes that CO2 is an atmospheric greenhouse gas and as it increases temperatures rise. It was then theorized that since humans were producing more CO2 than before, the temperature would inevitably rise. The theory was accepted before testing had started, and effectively became a law.

As Lindzen said many years ago: “the consensus was reached before the research had even begun.” Now, any scientist who dares to question the prevailing wisdom is marginalized and called a sceptic, when in fact they are simply being good scientists. This has reached frightening levels with these scientists now being called climate change denier with all the holocaust connotations of that word. The normal scientific method is effectively being thwarted.

Meanwhile, politicians are being listened to, even though most of them have no knowledge or understanding of science, especially the science of climate and climate change. Hence, they are in no position to question a policy on climate change when it threatens the entire planet. Moreover, using fear and creating hysteria makes it very difficult to make calm rational decisions about issues needing attention.

Until you have challenged the prevailing wisdom you have no idea how nasty people can be. Until you have re-examined any issue in an attempt to find out all the information, you cannot know how much misinformation exists in the supposed age of information.

I was greatly influenced several years ago by Aaron Wildavsky’s book “Yes, but is it true?” The author taught political science at a New York University and realized how science was being influenced by and apparently misused by politics. He gave his graduate students an assignment to pursue the science behind a policy generated by a highly publicised environmental concern.

To his and their surprise they found there was little scientific evidence, consensus and justification for the policy. You only realize the extent to which Wildavsky’s findings occur when you ask the question he posed. Wildavsky’s students did it in the safety of academia and with the excuse that it was an assignment. I have learned it is a difficult question to ask in the real world, however I firmly believe it is the most important question to ask if we are to advance in the right direction.

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_{Dr. Tim Ball, Chairman of the Natural Resources Stewardship Project (http://www.nrsp.com), is a Victoria-based environmental consultant and former climatology professor at the University of Winnipeg. He can be reached at letters@canadafreepress.com}

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   Monday - February 05, 2007

Are You Chillin’?

Bunch of wimps and wussies out there this week crying over cold toes. Read what Bill Abeling in Bismark, North Dakota had to say in the last sentence below. Sheesh! You’d think you folks had never seen Winter before. Maybe you’ve bought in to all this Glow-Bull Warming shit and thought you’d be able to cruise through January and February with temps never dropping lower than room temperature, eh? WRONG!

I just stuck my nose out the front door and was instantly attacked by Jack Frost. I barely escaped with nose intact. Well, I got news for Ol’ Jack. I’ve got a goose-down filled parka with a real fur hood (suck it, PETA), thick leather gloves, thermal underwear and an old worn out pair of combat boots - which should enable me to dash through the 15 feet through the snow to my 4WD Jeep, crank ‘er up, turn on the heater and dash back inside the house before Jack penetrates my defense. HA! So much for Winter ...

Arctic Blast Shuts Down Schools, Trains, Roads
_{(CNN) - 1:19 p.m. EST, February 5, 2007}

A bone-chilling Arctic cold wave with temperatures as low as 38 below zero shut down schools for thousands of youngsters Monday, halted some Amtrak service and put car batteries on the disabled list from the northern Plains across the Great Lakes. The cold was accompanied by snow that was measured in feet in parts of upstate New York.

“Anybody in their right mind wouldn’t want to be out in weather like this,” Lawrence Wiley, 57, said at the Drop Inn Center homeless shelter where he has been living in Cincinnati. Monday lows in the area were in the single digits.

With temperatures near zero and a wind chill of 25 below, school districts across Ohio canceled classes. “We have a lot of kids that walk to school. We didn’t think it was worth the risk,” Sandusky City Schools Superintendent Bill Pahl said. (Calculate your wind chill)

With a temperature of 12 below zero and wind chill of 31 below, Wisconsin’s largest school district, Milwaukee Public Schools, also shut down, idling some 90,000 children. In upstate New York, 34,000 kids got the day off in Rochester because of near-zero temperatures. Schools also closed in parts of Michigan.

Even in Minnesota, where February cold is the norm and people are accustomed to coping, some charter schools closed. The temperature plunged to 38 below zero Monday morning at Hallock in northwestern Minnesota, and to 30 below at International Falls, the weather service said.

Veterinarian Wade Himes wasn’t too concerned as he ate breakfast at the Shorelunch Cafe in International Falls. “We get up and go to work, and people come and see us. I don’t think anything changes that much. [You] just dress warm,” said Himes, 69.

Grand Forks, North Dakota, also registered 30 below. “For this time of year, this isn’t that unusual, as far as temperatures go,” said weather service meteorologist Bill Abeling in Bismarck, North Dakota. “To get record temperatures this time of year in North Dakota, you’ve got to delve down in the 40-below region, so we’re not even close.”

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   Sunday - February 04, 2007

Cuh-Cuh-Cuh-COLD!

Global Warming Panel Blunt About Rising Temperatures, Bleak Future
_{PARIS (AP) - February 1, 2007}

A panel of international scientists predicted Friday that global warming will continue for centuries no matter how much people control pollution, in a bleak report that blamed humans for killer heat waves, devastating droughts and stronger storms.

The report said people were “very likely” the cause of global warming - the strongest conclusion to date - and placed the burden on governments to take action. “It’s later than we think,” said Susan Solomon, co-chair of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

Man-made emissions of greenhouse gases are to blame for fewer cold days, hotter nights, heat waves, floods and heavy rains, droughts and stronger storms, particularly in the Atlantic Ocean, the 21-page report said. It highlighted “increases in global average air and ocean temperatures, widespread melting of snow and ice, and rising global mean sea level.”

Authors of the report called it conservative: It used only peer-reviewed published science and was edited by representatives of 113 governments who had to agree to every word. It was a snapshot of where the world is with global warming and where it is heading, but does not tell governments what to do.

Yet if nothing is done, the world is looking at billions of dollars in costs adapting to a warmer world over the next century, co-author Kevin Trenberth said in an interview. He also warned of at least 1 million deaths in droughts, floods and hurricanes. The study said no matter how much civilization slows or reduces its greenhouse gas emissions, global warming and sea-level rise will continue for centuries.

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   Saturday - February 03, 2007

Friggin’ Cold!

I just woke up to get a glass of water. Forget it! Nothing coming out of the faucet but a reminder that I forgot to let the water drip before going to bed. Glancing at my indoor/outdoor weather thingamabob, it tells me we are in single digits. No shit!?

The front door is frozen shut. It’s warmer in my refrigerator than it is outside. I’m afraid we’re frozen in here in America’s heartland. Glow-bull warming my aching hipbone. I’ve had enough of this crap. When does the next train South leave for Alabama.? I need to get back to Dixie - like ... real damn soon. I may stop in Tennessee and visit ol’ Al Bore on the way. Maybe trash his weather machine while I’m there. I need a plan ...

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   Friday - February 02, 2007

Glow-Bull Warming Report

• Tornados, severe thunderstorms rip Central Florida a new arsehole.


• Punxatawney Phil didn’t see his shadow, predicts early spring.


• The rest of the country is freezing it’s collective cojones off in deep snow.


• Our Bit friends are going to brainwash all their schoolchildren with Al Gore’s movie.


• The United Nations goes to Paris to accuse all mankind of causing glowbull warming.

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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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