Weather Gone Wild

While many are experiencing “The Year Without a Summer,” the “House of Ill Repute” formally known as the House of Representatives, passed “Cap and Trade” anyway. America must fight global warming despite cooling that’s been so pronounced even alarmists can no longer deny it



For example, the New York Al Timezerra, in an article, “In New York, It’s the Summer That Isn’t,” bemoaned “this could be the coolest summer on record” and “this will have been the coolest June and July since either 1903 or 1881.”



However, it warned, “This summer’s unusually mild temperatures should not buoy global warming skeptics.” After all, it has already predetermined sans scientific explanation that cooler temperatures are just natural variability whereas all warming is without a doubt human caused.



Actually, it quoted William Solecki, a Hunter College geography professor. Now what geography has to do with climatology is questionable, but his expertise was still good enough for the New York rag. However, I too must agree that the current cooling is totally natural and not a result of the “Cash for Clunkers” program.



And, alarmists at the National Snow and Ice Data Center retreated from their preposterous prediction of an “ice free north pole” this summer and now predict “no record low ice extent in 2009.” Even Greenpeace’s outgoing leader, Gerd Leipold, had to admit that his organization’s recent claim of Arctic ice disappearing by 2030 was “a mistake.”



At this point, I could resort to alarmist like hyperbole and call them all “natural climate change deniers.” Instead, I’d rather believe that they’ve begun to accept the possibility of natural change even if only on downslides. To save face, they may eventually have to admit temperature increases could also be natural.



The current global cooling does present alarmists with quite a quandary to their “temperatures goes up but never comes down” certainty. While all their models predicted only increases missing completely this current cooling cornucopia, some alarmists are trying to claim that their models had predicted the cooling all along. Yeah, after the fact fudging really can work.



But, the International Climate and Environmental Change Assessment Project (ICECAP), a non-profit corporation composed of various climate experts, demonstrated that all the climate models are seriously flawed. ICECAP also argues that climate models have drastically over-predicted what little warming there’s been.



In fact, in 2006 ICECAP calculated a 0.6C degree warming for the last century compared to the IPCC’s (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) forecast of 3.3C. ICECAP’s conclusion was that 45% of the increase was in fact spurious urban warming. Still, in 2007 the IPCC again predicted warming up to 0.8C/decade throughout this century, which has yet to materialize.



As a result Obama recently encouraged off-shore oil drilling, not off America’s coast mind you, but Brazil’s. $2 billion in loans were approved for Brazilian Petrobas to get oil for Brazilians. While the money isn’t from American taxpayers directly, they’ll guarantee those loans. Interestingly, Democrat Sugar Daddy, George Sorros, sold 22 million shares of Petrobras just days before the loan approval. Quid pro quo, anyone?



Renowned MIT meteorologist, Professor Richard Lindzen, in a recently published peer reviewed article (SPPI Monthly CO2 Report) stated, “We now know that the effect of CO2 on temperature is small, we know why it is small, and we know that it is having very little effect on the climate.” In other words, the science is in, the scare is out, and the UN is wrong.



So, CO2’s effect on climate is like “pissing in the Mississippi.” Yeah, the river gonna rise, but flooding not happening downstream. “Cap and Tax,” which will cost each family $4600/yr and do little to quell climate change only 0.11C by 2100, is akin to banning every toilet just to prevent “flush flooding.”



So, this August, another greenie weenie Arctic expedition got “ice stuck” requiring rescue. Eco-whackos keep getting trapped because they believe all the hype of disappearing ice. They erroneously think that “polar summers” have become downright cozy. When in reality, polar daily mean temperatures still hover around freezing.



Finally, AP reported that July oceans’ temperatures were the hottest ever on record despite global cooling and a quiescent sun. Yet, just last year NASA under “hack honcho” Jim Hansen announced October 2008 as the hottest ever. But, busybody bloggers quickly discovered that Russia’s September temperature data were mysteriously copied to October’s verbatim.



NASA though whined how they lack the money to properly verify the data; while bloggers did so for free proving how much can get done when getting dressed is optional. So, bloggers wearing only underwear are probably right now swimming the oceans of data to refute this latest alarmists’ claim. To finally answer that infernal question: is that a thermometer in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?