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calendar   Wednesday - January 31, 2007

Our Brass Monkey Surrenders

It is now 18° F here in St. Louis and it ain’t gonna get any warmer today. It has been like this for the last week. Our highs have been in the high teens or low twenties day after day after day. SHIT, it’s cold!

Guess what, though? It’s about to get worse! Yes, we have an Arctic Express blasting its way down from Canuckistan, lots of moisture coming up from the Gulf Of Mexico so tons of more snow is on the way. Punxatawney Phil has left the country on a flight to Acapulco. I may not be far behind. DAMN this glowball warming!

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Posted by The Skipper   United States  on 01/31/2007 at 12:25 PM   
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calendar   Wednesday - January 24, 2007

Like A Good Neighbor?

imageimageQuiz: Carefully examine this picture of a former house on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. Would you say the house is no longer there due to: (a) rising flood waters or (b) 150 mph winds?

If you guessed (a) then you are incredibly stupid or you work for State Farm Insurance - or both. State Farm has been refusing to pay insurance claims to people along the Gulf Coast, claiming their homes were wiped off the face of the Earth by flood damage and the people did not have flood insurance.

Mississippi Attorney General Jim hood stepped in and said, “Not so fast, Mr. Big Insurance!”, orders up grand jury and applies pressure. State Farm suddenly realizes their argument doesn’t hold water and agrees to fork over money to policy holders. Obviously greed had nothing to do with this, right?

In related news, State Farm announced today that in order to compete with the GEICO gecko and the AFLAC duck they have hired a weasel to be the new company spokesanimal.


Big Insurer Will Pay 640 Katrina Claims
(NY TIMES) - January 23, 1007

In a move that is expected to jump-start rebuilding along the Mississippi Gulf Coast, State Farm Insurance said yesterday that it had reached an agreement with state officials to pay hundreds of millions of dollars to owners of homes along the coast that were wrecked by Hurricane Katrina.

The agreement settles lawsuits filed by 640 homeowners and allows thousands of others to reopen damage claims that State Farm previously closed. Insurance executives said they expected the outlines of the deal to be adopted by other carriers.

The agreement does not apply to New Orleans, where the failure of the levees left much of the city underwater for days. Lawyers and insurers say no similar settlement talks are in progress there.

For State Farm, the nation’s largest home insurer and the biggest in Mississippi, the settlement allows for “a just, speedy and efficient resolution,” as a spokesman, Phil Supple, put it.

It would also remove a major public relations headache. While State Farm and the other insurers may have had some strong legal arguments, they have been widely perceived as insensitive. In many cases, residents whose houses were reduced to concrete slab foundations received just a few thousand dollars in payments. Some received nothing.

Under the settlement, 300 homeowners who lost everything will receive their full insurance coverage. Mississippi officials said 1,000 others would receive at least half, with the opportunity to negotiate for more.

“A lot of people on the coast are going to see money in their pockets sooner, rather than have to go through a long, drawn-out process of court proceedings,” Mississippi’s insurance commissioner, George Dale, said yesterday.

The core of the dispute was whether the damage to the houses was caused by high winds or surging floodwaters as Hurricane Katrina swept across the coast on Aug. 29, 2005. The insurers said their policies covered only wind damage. But in many cases, they also refused to pay for damage caused by a combination of wind and water.

The settlement does not affect the terms of coverage in the insurers’ policies, but some insurance experts said they expected that the carriers would ultimately rewrite their policies to specifically bar coverage of damage from storm surges.

In the settlement talks, which began last fall, State Farm insisted that the Mississippi attorney general, Jim Hood, drop a criminal investigation of the company’s handling of storm damage claims. It also demanded that he abandon a civil suit against it and other insurers.

The final sticking point in the agreement had been over the framing of a few sentences that would end the criminal investigation. Mr. Hood convened a grand jury last week that began hearing evidence.

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Posted by The Skipper   United States  on 01/24/2007 at 01:04 AM   
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calendar   Sunday - January 21, 2007

Ol’ Man Winter

This is just great. Yesterday temps here in St. Louis climbed up into the low 70’s and I was puttering around outside in a polo shirt and shorts. I go to bed last night thinking all is right with the world and guess what happened? You got it. Al Gore strikes again. I’m starting to get a little ticked at his Glowball Warming Machine™.

As I sit here right now looking out my window, I see nothing but white as far as the eye can see - SNOW, that is. Three inches deep, to be exact. Temps are currently in the upper 20’s and slowly attempting to creep up - which means this nice white stuff is going to turn into a miserable slushy mess by midday.

If it’s any consolation, the entire Midwest just got hit overnight with our third miserable winter storm this year. Kansas and Nebraska really got hammered. Eight winter-related deaths so far today. Why don’t we all go find Al Gore and beat the living snot out of him. Maybe he’ll turn off his blasted machine.

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Posted by The Skipper   United States  on 01/21/2007 at 09:32 AM   
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calendar   Thursday - January 18, 2007

Hot Air

It is official now. We’re all going to die. The planet is burning up and it’s all because of gas-guzzling SUV’s. In fact, there is a move afoot to decertify any weatherman or climatologist who disagrees with the concept of glowball warming. Now Nancy Pelosi is going to generate a lot more hot air on the subject. We’re doomed.

I don’t dispute the fact that greenhouse gases are bad and mankind may be responsible for part of the recent increase but there are other forces wt work here that are being completely ignored. That is the big problem I have with the chicken littles out there. They are too focused on what mankind is doing to the planet and ignoring the climate cycles that are being caused by other forces and have been doing so for millennia.

No one is preparing for an increase in temperatures. Everyone is too busy pointing the finger at automobiles and coal-burning electrical plants. Who cares what causes it? The problem is that there IS a problem and it is not going to go away even if you take every automobile off the road and use nothing but nuclear energy to generate power.

Kyoto be damned. Almost none of the countries that signed on to that treaty have met their goals. Meanwhile, countries that are in a high gear of industrialization like China are spewing greenhouse gases in high volumes and no one can stop them. None of the countries in the EU met their goals either. Give it up, people!

Stifling dissent by decertifying anyone who disagrees is NOT the way to go. We need more open discussion and research into how we can cope with rising temperatures. The biggest carbon dioxide “sink” on the planet is the algae in our oceans. What damage is El Nino doing to them and can we do anything about it? Are we in a “hot” part of sunspot cycles? Evidence says we are. How do we cope? Do we stop building close to the oceans for a while until we see how much sea levels may rise?

There are just too many questions to leave it all up to a bunch of blowhards in Washington and we sure as hell don’t need people stifling dissent. Let’s get our heads together and do more research. Spend more money on climatology and less on stem cell research. It won’t matter whether we have Parkinson’s Disease if we’re all extinct for not having prepared for hotter times.

The human race has survived because we’re adaptable. We need to keep that in mind and proceed from there. We need to adapt to change before we start pointing the finger of blame - especially if we don’t fully understand all the factors at work. HELLO! Is anyone out there listening ... ?

Pelosi Turns Up Heat On Global Warming
Speaker Ignoring House Traditions To Force Legislative Action On Climate Change
WASHINGTON (AP) - January 18, 2007

imageimageHouse Speaker Nancy Pelosi, intent on putting global warming atop the Democratic agenda, is shaking up traditional committee fiefdoms dominated by some of Congress’ oldest and most powerful members.

She’s moving to create a special committee to recommend legislation for cutting greenhouse gases, most likely to be chaired by Rep. Edward Markey, D-Mass., a Democratic leadership aide said Wednesday. Markey has advocated raising mileage standards for cars, trucks and SUVs and is one of the House’s biggest critics of oil companies and U.S. automakers,

Pelosi has discussed the proposal with at least two Democratic committee chairmen: fellow Californian Henry Waxman of Oversight and Government Reform, and West Virginia Rep. Nick Rahall, who heads the Natural Resources panel. Pelosi intends to announce the move this week, said the leadership aide, who spoke on condition of anonymity because not all of the details have been worked out.

The move, to some degree, would sidestep two of the House’s most powerful Democratic committee bosses, in shaping what’s expected to be at least a yearlong debate on global warming:

• Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman John Dingell of Michigan, a defender of the auto industry and at 80 the longest serving member of the House.

• New York Rep. Charles Rangel, who as the 76-year-old chairman of the tax-writing Ways and Means Committee, would have to clear any tax on carbon-based fuels like coal, oil or natural gas, which have been blamed for warming the atmosphere. A chief advocate of such a tax is former Democratic Vice President Al Gore.

Rahall said he had spoken with Pelosi about the idea of a new select committee. Rahall’s panel oversees energy development on public lands, including coal, oil and natural gas as well as cleaner, non-carbon sources such as geothermal and windmills.

“I’ve been assured that no legislative jurisdiction would be taken away from any committee,” Rahall said. “No legislative responsibility would be shifted from any committee.”

As chair of Energy and Commerce, Dingell oversees the Clean Air Act — and would have the most to lose by letting another panel take the lead. The panel’s staff chief, Dennis Fitzgibbons, a former auto company lobbyist, said Dingell was philosophically opposed to Pelosi’s plan.

“He has always been cool to the idea, because it undermines the fundamental idea for establishing committees in the first place, which is to acquire expertise in a certain area,” Fitzgibbons said.

Dingell, asked about the new committee, said, “I have not been officially informed.” Waxman, like Markey a one-time protege of Dingell, said that Pelosi discussed the idea of a special committee with him several days ago. He, too, is a skeptic.

“I believe the existing committees can deal effectively with global warming,” he said Wednesday. “But I can also understand why the speaker believes it’s important to highlight this issue.”

A new committee would give Pelosi a vehicle to push a regulatory scheme for reducing greenhouse gases and pit her against President Bush, who plans to outline his global warming approach in his State of the Union next week. Mr .Bush has repeatedly opposed any mandatory reductions in carbon dioxide emissions, instead advocating voluntary approaches and research on new technologies.

Pelosi has supported mandatory reductions with specific target dates for achieving them. “It’s an issue that the speaker thinks is critical to address,” said Pelosi spokeswoman Jennifer Crider.

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calendar   Wednesday - January 17, 2007

Winter Weather Report

News Flash: In Sydney, Australia yesterday the Australian Open tennis tournament had to be delayed due to temperatures reaching 105 degrees at mid-day. Climatologist Al Gore pointed to the extraordinary heat wave in January as further proof of Glowball Warming. Gore was said to be en route to Australia to help determine the extent of the heat damage. Film at 11:00 ....

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Today’s forecast calls for more of the same devastating Winter heat wave

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Posted by The Skipper   United States  on 01/17/2007 at 06:03 AM   
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calendar   Sunday - January 14, 2007

Sunday Funnies

This is an open post (and probably the only post today). This blog (and yours truly) are going to take the day off to celebrate our Third Birthday (see below) and also to try to melt the glacier that currently covers our SUV.

Feel free to cuss and discuss any topic that comes to mind. I’ll check back on you maniacs later tonight or tomorrow morning. I will have the voting setup for the Third Annual Barking Moonbat Hall Of Fame on Monday. Previous inductees include John Kerry (2004) and Al Gore (2005). This year’s crop of nominees are all worthy enough to join that distinguished company. We shall see who you choose this year.

For now, here is something for you to ponder and discuss to see if you can help me figure out the answer to an unexplained mystery of nature:

A duck’s quack doesn’t echo (believe it or not, it’s true). WHY?


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In case you didn’t notice, Glowball Warming has suffered another setback this year as Ol’ Man Winter descends on the Midwest once again. It’s moving East so the rest of you folks better get ready. Outside my house here in St. Louis, the trees are groaning under the weight of tons of frozen rain. Everything is covered in a layer of ice several inches thick. No snow yet. We’re under a severe weather alert until Monday morning. I just hope our power company (Ameren UE) has better luck this time. The last winter storm we had in November left half a million people without power for nearly two weeks.

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Posted by The Skipper   United States  on 01/14/2007 at 01:00 AM   
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calendar   Wednesday - January 10, 2007

Hot Enough For Ya?

Climate Experts Worry as 2006 Is Hottest Year on Record in U.S.
(WASHINGTON POST) - Wednesday, January 10, 2007

Last year was the warmest in the continental United States in the past 112 years—capping a nine-year warming streak “unprecedented in the historical record” that was driven in part by the burning of fossil fuels, the government reported yesterday.

According to the government’s National Climatic Data Center, the record-breaking warmth—which caused daffodils and cherry trees to bloom throughout the East on New Year’s Day—was the result of both unusual regional weather patterns and the long-term effects of the buildup of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

“People should be concerned about what we are doing to the climate,” said Jay Lawrimore, chief of the climate monitoring branch of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. “Burning of fossil fuels is causing an increase in greenhouse gases, and there’s a broad scientific consensus that is producing climate change.”

The center said there are indications that the rate at which global temperatures are rising is speeding up.

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Fine. Now let me put in my two cents ...

HORSE FEATHERS!

We’re in the bloody upswing of a cycle that has been repeating itself for millions of years. The “hottest year on record” was 130,000 years ago!

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Source: ”Climate Change: New Antarctic Ice Core Data


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Posted by The Skipper   United States  on 01/10/2007 at 12:06 PM   
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calendar   Thursday - December 28, 2006

White Christmas, Part II

HELLO, DENVER! Remember that three feet of snow you just finished shoveling out from under? There’s more on the way. Much more. If the snow keeps piling up, we’re going to change your name to “Mile-And-A-Half High City”. Bwah-hah-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha ....

Seriously, all of us here in the Midwest want to thank you fine folks out there in the shadow of the Rockies for draining all of that glowball warming white stuff out of the clouds before it gets to us. It’s currently 58 degrees and clear skies here in St. Looey. I’d like it to remain that way. Keep up the good work, Denver!

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Posted by The Skipper   United States  on 12/28/2006 at 04:42 PM   
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calendar   Thursday - December 21, 2006

Oh, The Weather Outside Is Frightful

I don’t suppose it would make you folks out in Colorado, Nebraska and Wyoming feel any better if I told you that today is the last day of Fall? Cheer up! Winter starts tomorrow and then we can expect some real weather.

The good news is that we start our journey back to the sun tomorrow also. Yes, dear friends, for the five billionth time, our planet is going to experience six months of glowball warming causing the North Pole to melt and beachfront property to be available near you.

So hang in there and try to sweat out this episode of glowball warming. Just remember that, according to Al Gore and the enviroweenies, we’re going through a “warming phase” thanks to all those cows and SUV’s. Toss another log on the fire, mix yourself a hot toddy and kick back. This too will pass ....

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Colorado Blizzard Strands Thousands
DENVER (AP) - (ST LOUIS POST_DISPATCH) - December 21, 2006

imageimageGovernment offices and schools were closed and mail delivery suspended for a second day Thursday after a powerful blizzard dumped more than 2 feet of snow along Colorado’s most populous region and stranded travelers.

Denver, Colorado Springs and other cities along the Rocky Mountain Front Range were virtually ghost towns, with cars and SUVs slipping, sliding and crawling through thick snow toward the suburbs Wednesday.

Some 4,700 people hunkered down overnight at Denver International Airport, where flights in and out were canceled, spokesman Steve Snyder said.

“It feels like I’m a refugee,” said Lisa Maurer, a graduate student at the University of Wyoming who was stuck at the airport while on her way home to Germany.

Bus and light rail service in a six-county region was suspended. The State Patrol reported a rash of collisions, some involving several vehicles, but no fatalities.

More than 30 inches of snow fell in the mountains and up to 2 feet fell in the Denver metro area, with snow expected to let up by noon Thursday. Winds cut visibility and whipped up drifts several feet high on the plains.

Gov. Bill Owens declared a state of emergency and activated the National Guard, which assisted dozens of motorists on the highways around Denver and delivered diapers, formula and bottled water to the airport.

Long stretches of Interstates 70 and 25, the main east-woutes throun West, were closed. Interstate 76 was closed from Denver to Nebraska.

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Posted by The Skipper   United States  on 12/21/2006 at 06:39 AM   
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calendar   Thursday - December 14, 2006

EnviroNuts Take Control

The game of musical chairs in Congress is going to make for some strange new policies for the next two years. The environment is one area that is probably going to see radically different legislation (and bullshit hearings) for the next two years.

As Bill Steigerwald explains below, when Senator James Inhofe (R-OK) departs as chairman of the Environment and Public Works Committee he will be replaced by Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) and the two are “polar opposites.” (Dang! I wish I’d thought of that phrase!)

Inhofe doesn’t believe all the hype about glowball warming and he believes the media is full of crap. Boxer, on the other hand, is a Liberal darling of the media and to her, glowball warming is a religion. Literally. She has faith in the media reports and considers any scientist who questions glowball warming to be a heretic. She probably has a summer home in Kyoto.

So you all better buckle up your seat belts and strap on your helmets for the party that is about to start in January. It is going to be an agonizing two years ahead as the tinfoil-hat crowd tries to make up for six years of being stuck outside in the wilderness. You are going to learn a lot about spotted owls, polar bears and penguins real soon. Oh yeah ... almost forgot ... you’ll also learn a lot about the E-E-E-EVIL oil and energy companies. Stay tuned ...

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Blowing Cool Air at Global Warming
-- By Bill Steigerwald

imageimageDoes hot air about climate change spewed in the U.S. Senate contribute to global warming? No one really knows for sure, since Al Gore didn’t address that question in “An Inconvenient Truth.”

But we’ll probably find out in January, when, thanks to the Democrats’ capture of Congress, Sen. Barbara Boxer takes the wheel of the Environment and Public Works Committee from Republican Sen. James Inhofe and makes a liberal U-turn.

As Boxer showed Wednesday morning during Inhofe’s hearing on “Climate Change and the Media,” the California Democrat and Inhofe are polar opposites on global warming.

Boxer is a 10-alarm believer in human-caused climate change. She thinks global warming is the challenge of our generation and can’t wait to start holding hearings and passing laws to tax carbon and torture the evil energy companies.

Inhofe, the current chairman, still holds the quaint, old-fashioned conservative belief that government policy—especially when addressing huge issues like global climate change—should be based on nonpoliticized science and should take into account economic costs.

As the Senate’s chief GW skeptic, he is the archenemy of the global worrying crowd and their evergreen allies in mainstream media, who he charges have misled the public with their “nonstop hyping of ‘extreme scenarios’ and dire climate predictions.”

Inhofe also has dared to utter—on the sacred Senate floor!—the politically heretical truth that “catastrophic global warming is a hoax.” (The key word “catastrophic” is usually dropped when his enemies quote him.) Streamed live on the Internet and featuring scientists on both sides of the global warming debate, Inhofe’s hearing was an under-attended, underreported dud.

Incoming chairwoman Boxer, already feeling her oats, pontificated about the importance of a free press, befuddled witnesses with dumb questions and presented evidence she said proved the media are fair and balanced on global warming coverage.

Apparently, Boxer, who touts herself as a former journalist, is the only liberal in America who doesn’t religiously read The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Washington Post or Time magazine.

Because each of those “Four Flagships of the Global Warming Apocalypse”—as well as the major networks and even The Weather Channel—regularly commits what star skeptical witness and Australian paleoclimate researcher Bob Carter said is the media’s main sin: the failure to fairly transmit the reality—i.e., all the facts and the scientific uncertainty—of global climate change to the public.

Amazingly, Boxer wasn’t the most airheaded or most arrogant senator at Inhofe’s hearing. That prize went to New Jersey Democrat Frank Lautenberg, who is equally concerned about his grandchildren’s lives and the polar bears, which he has been mislead to believe by Time magazine have been reduced to “ragged herds searching for food.”

Inhofe called his hearing to show how media bias and unbalanced or simplistic reporting could mislead the public and cause Congress to make “poorly conceived” policy decisions on global warming.

Grandma Boxer’s and Grandpa Lautenberg’s public blatherings unwittingly proved Inhofe’s point. It looks like there’s going to be a lot of scientific silliness in the Senate for the next two years when Boxer and her crew get to be in charge of saving the Earth.


Bill Steigerwald is a columnist at the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. E-mail Bill at bsteigerwald@tribweb.com. ©Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, All Rights Reserved. If you’re not a paying subscriber to our service, you must contact us to print or post this column on the web. Distributed exclusively by Cagle Cartoons, Inc. Contact Cari Dawson Bartley cari@cagle.com for subscription information.


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Posted by The Skipper   United States  on 12/14/2006 at 01:30 AM   
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calendar   Monday - December 11, 2006

An Inconvenient Cow

Other than the fact that cars emit carbon monoxide, not carbon dioxide, the following story only serves to convince me that I was right all along. For years I’ve been worried about cow farts and their impact on the environment. They’re killing us with methane and causing glowball warming. One day cows will rule the world if their evil plan succeeds. Help stop this plot now. Grill a steer today - but don’t pull its hoof ...

Cow Emissions More Damaging To Planet Than CO2 From Cars
(INDEPENDENT - UK) - 10 December 2006

imageimageMeet the world’s top destroyer of the environment. It is not the car, or the plane,or even George Bush: it is the cow. A United Nations report has identified the world’s rapidly growing herds of cattle as the greatest threat to the climate, forests and wildlife.

And they are blamed for a host of other environmental crimes, from acid rain to the introduction of alien species, from producing deserts to creating dead zones in the oceans, from poisoning rivers and drinking water to destroying coral reefs.

The 400-page report by the Food and Agricultural Organisation, entitled Livestock’s Long Shadow, also surveys the damage done by sheep, chickens, pigs and goats. 

But in almost every case, the world’s 1.5 billion cattle are most to blame. Livestock are responsible for 18 per cent of the greenhouse gases that cause global warming, more than cars, planes and all other forms of transport put together.

Burning fuel to produce fertiliser to grow feed, to produce meat and to transport it - and clearing vegetation for grazing - produces 9 per cent of all emissions of carbon dioxide, the most common greenhouse gas. And their wind and manure emit more than one third of emissions of another, methane, which warms the world 20 times faster than carbon dioxide.

Livestock also produces more than 100 other polluting gases, including more than two-thirds of the world’s emissions of ammonia, one of the main causes of acid rain. Ranching, the report adds, is “the major driver of deforestation” worldwide, and overgrazing is turning a fifth of all pastures and ranges into desert.Cows also soak up vast amounts of water: it takes a staggering 990 litres of water to produce one litre of milk.

Wastes from feedlots and fertilisers used to grow their feed overnourish water, causing weeds to choke all other life. And the pesticides, antibiotics and hormones used to treat them get into drinking water and endanger human health.

The pollution washes down to the sea, killing coral reefs and creating “dead zones” devoid of life. One is up to 21,000 sqkm, in the Gulf of Mexico, where much of the waste from US beef production is carried down the Mississippi. The report concludes that, unless drastic changes are made, the massive damage done by livestock will more than double by 2050, as demand for meat increases.


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Posted by The Skipper   United States  on 12/11/2006 at 03:58 AM   
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calendar   Friday - December 08, 2006

An Inconvenient Freeze

I am sick and tired of this deep freeze that is being caused by glowball warming. At first I was confused because I thought glowball warming would heat things up and make for milder winters. Now however, the scientists morons tell me that this freeze is a side effect of glowball warming and only proves they are right. I have a strong suspicion that someone is peeing on my leg and telling me it’s raining.

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Why am I at dead center of this freezing sinkhole? Obviously, Al Gore doesn’t like me.

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In addition, not being satisfied with having made a 100% wrong prediction for the last hurricane season, our fearless prognosticators decide to predict another killer hurricane season next year. They say their prediction for the 2005 season was wrong thanks to dust blowing off of Africa into the Atlantic which killed all of the storms before they could form. Evidently the dust blinded that damn butterfly that flaps his wings and makes all of the hurricanes.

The funny part is that if they keep predicting killer hurricane seasons, eventually they will be right in much the same manner that a broken clock is right twice a day. Look for them to tell us “I told you so” when that happens. Morons.

Active 2007 Atlantic Hurricane Season Is Forecast
MIAMI (Reuters) - Fri Dec 8, 2006 10:44am ET148

The 2007 Atlantic hurricane season will be busier-than-average with an expected 14 tropical storms, of which seven will strengthen into hurricanes, a noted forecasting team founded by Dr. William Gray said on Friday.

The prediction for a busy year by the Colorado State University forecasters was the second in two days from reputable forecasters to warn that the below-average 2006 season was likely to be just a lull in an extended period of heightened Atlantic storm activity.

The CSU team, led by Gray and Philip Klotzbach, failed as did other forecasters to accurately foresee that the 2006 season would be a modest compared to ferocious hurricane seasons in both 2005 and 2004.

The hurricane experts said they had failed to take into account the unexpected formation of an El Nino weather phenomenon in the eastern Pacific, which tends to dampen Atlantic storm activity.

The CSU team said in its first forecast for the 2007 storm season, which begins on June 1, that of the seven hurricanes foreseen, three were expected to become “intense” hurricanes, with winds exceeding 111 miles per hour (178 km per hour).

“The 2007 Atlantic hurricane season is expected to be more active than the average 1950-2000 season,” Klotzbach said in a statement. “However, this is an early prediction. One of the important questions for the upcoming season is whether El Nino conditions will continue through 2007.”


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Posted by The Skipper   United States  on 12/08/2006 at 11:44 AM   
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calendar   Friday - December 01, 2006

Suddenly Snow

Is it true what they’re telling you on the news about a winter storm in the Midwest? HELL YES! Here in St. Louis we have about a foot of snow on the ground this morning and even worse it’s on top of a layer of frozen rain that came before the snow. Snow on top of ice. And it ain’t going nowhere soon. Temp outside is 28 degrees (-1 degrees with wind chill). Do any of you have an recipes for mixing hot chocolate with vodka? I ain’t going anywhere for a while ....

The Skipper’s ride is under there somewhere ...

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Posted by The Skipper   United States  on 12/01/2006 at 10:37 AM   
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calendar   Thursday - November 30, 2006

Ol’ Man Winter

We now have about 5-6” of snow on the ground here in St. Louis and more still coming down. The weather goobers say the worst is yet to come. Gee, thanks!

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Posted by The Skipper   United States  on 11/30/2006 at 06:18 PM   
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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:
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