Comments on: Anchorage’s record setting cold summer

By: E.M.Smith

E.M.Smith — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 18:02:29 +0000

With apologies to bad poets everywhere …

As I was sungazing through the air

I saw a spot that wasn’t there

It wasn’t there again today

I wish to God It’d go away.

By: Mike Bryant

Mike Bryant — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 03:48:47 +0000

One more:

GLOBAL WARMING FOUND AT EQUATOR

Macapa — New evidence of global warming has been found in this Brazilian city at the mouth of the Amazon River.
Dr. Bruno Penwicky PHD, Professor of Climatology at Gomer State University, said evidence of warming is “incontrovertible”.
“There’s lots of palm trees and stuff, plus it’s always hot and humid here.” Prof. Clinckerdinck, head of an international team of scientists, has been in Macapa for a month, studying the phenomena caused by global warming.
“We walk up and down the beach all day, taking air and water samples. Then we sit under beach umbrellas and analyze the results. I’m telling you, it’s frightening.”
The professor then excused himself, mumbling something about “mai tais” and “nap”.

By: Mike Bryant

Mike Bryant — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 02:54:54 +0000

“Al Gore said over the weekend that global warming is more serious than terrorism. Unless the terrorist is on your plane, then that extra half a degree doesn’t bother you so much.” –Jay Leno

“Governor Schwarzenegger spoke about the dangers of global warming. Schwarzenegger’s exact words were: fire, hot, bad.” –Conan O’Brien

“According to a new U.N. report, the global warming outlook is much worse than originally predicted. Which is pretty bad when they originally predicted it would destroy the planet.” –Jay Leno

By: E.M.Smith

E.M.Smith — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 01:59:43 +0000

“I think it depends on if Those Opposed To Hansen (TOTH) want to stoop down to his level and attempt to begin a PR war or not. (I just made TOTH up by the way, and I’m running with it!)”

Gotta Love it! Toth, the Egyptian god of Science and Writing!

BTW, Orlando wind chill tonight is predicted at 26 to 29 F (!). I suspect that the Alaskan Express is headed south. Expect ‘black humor’ about global warming to spike in the next few months.

Maybe it’s time for a Global Warming Joke Book? It is almost impossible to defend against well done humor…

What does Al Gore call someone who buys Carbon Credits from himself? “Competition”.

What do you call snow in Orlando? “2 inches of Global Warming”.

How do you know Global Warming is real? “I told my computer to tell me it was, and it did!!!!”

What do you call putting a thermometer near a hot building? “Precision”.

I’m sure folks can come up with many many more much better…

By: Kevin Pond

Kevin Pond — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 17:10:13 +0000

Interestingly, Yahoo news has a story today about the arctic having an unusually warm autumn (as predicted by this article) but I don’t recall them reporting on the cool Alaskan summer. How many people, do you think, realize they are only reporting half the story.
I’d be curious to know if Alaska also is having a warm autumn

By: Jim Stegman

Jim Stegman — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 19:40:15 +0000

Update on this article… I checked the AccuWeather records for Anchorage, and through August 20th here are the results:

Days at 75 or above: 0

Days at 70 or above: 2 (3 is the record)

Days at 65 or above: 15 (16 is the record)

Days at 60 or above: 55 (46 is the record)

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Tue, 19 Aug 2008 01:18:34 +0000

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By: Tom in Florida

Tom in Florida — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 20:41:34 +0000

Sorry, mistype, TOMA is Top of Mind Awareness.

By: Tom in Florida

Tom in Florida — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 20:39:34 +0000

Perhaps money would be better spent on a TOMA (to of mind awareness) campaign of banner ads. These ads could have a grabber headline something like “The Truth is Out there” or such, something that many people might find familiar. Then the ad would direct them to this site and Climate Audit with the encouragement that the debate is not over and to judge for themselves. You could flood different markets and media with this campaign over a longer period of time. Every advertising exec knows that the average joe can be persuaded if he sees and hears something often and long enough. Keep telling them to go check the sites out for themselves and they eventually will. This approach also eliminates any rebuttal argument over the wording or content of a press release or article. Just get more people to these two sites and things will happen.

By: Bruce Cobb

Bruce Cobb — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 18:59:46 +0000

Too bad about the bats, Pam. They are fantastic creatures. Coincidentally, we had one flying around inside the house one evening about a week ago. It was the first time it had happened in the 20 years we’ve been here. Managed to catch it when it stopped to rest (it had flown into the bedroom, and I shut the door), gently picking it up with a rag, and with rubber gloves, and tossing it out the window. We see them flying around at night, gobbling insects, just never had one “visit” us inside. I’m sure he was much happier outside.

By: Pamela Gray

Pamela Gray — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 17:04:59 +0000

So far, 22 days out of 28 days in July the average daily temperature has been below that of last year. That is, 79% of the time, we have been colder than last year. And 2007 was colder than 2006. We are going to have a cold, long, wet winter. By the way, my bats are abandoning their babies just like I thought they might. When they fledge, they don’t have the strength to fly from the roost and are instead falling onto the attic floor because they are underfed and small for their age. They never make it into the air again. Another farmer confirmed that the same thing is happening where his bats roost.

By: Bruce Cobb

Bruce Cobb — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 16:49:23 +0000

David Wendt: That has got to be one of the most succinct descriptions I’ve seen of the dilemma we face with the whole AGW
monstrosity. Despite being discredited scientifically, and even more so now, with the quiet sun, cooling sea, and a cooling planet, it has taken on a life of its own, with money, politics, and egos involved. The AGW industry will not go down easily, nor without a nasty battle.

By: garron

garron — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 13:47:40 +0000

I think an ad is an excellent idea. I’m good for $100.00. I would enjoy a sentence / paragraph /point competition.

By: Dodgy Geezer

Dodgy Geezer — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 10:09:34 +0000

“…but I do feel there could be a use for a website that summarises the key findings to date from a sceptical point of view. I have some thoughts if people are interested…”

Paul,

I am very much in agreement that the history of this scare be documented.

We are aware that there are regular scares, both of an Ice-Age developing and Global Warming, about every half-century. This is neatly out of effective human memory, because the people actually making the decisions seem to cycle on about a 25 year basis.

This particular scare has been characterised by a lot of lying and reversal of positions – I believe that someone should actually archive the full history for the benefit of future generations before it becomes obvious that the world is cooling and everyone hurries to adjust their position yet again. The IPCC reports are in public space, but a lot of the underlying work is hard to get hold of…

By: Kent Gatewood

Kent Gatewood — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 01:56:27 +0000

Maybe we could get a movie made of Fallen Angels by Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, and Michael Flynn.

By: Pamela Gray

Pamela Gray — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 01:19:49 +0000

Colder here in Wallowa County than last year and last month. Again. It also seems like it is taking MUCH longer to warm up from the night air as well. We don’t hit peak day temps till around 6:00 PM or so.

By: David Wendt

David Wendt — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 23:24:27 +0000

AGW is, as Algore says, the greatest crisis facing the world, not,of course for the reasons he proposes, but because it represents the ultimate example of the use of crisis hysteria and junk science to advance a political agenda. The danger lies in the success the AGW propagandizers have had in making this illusory climate crisis accepted conventional wisdom throughout the world. As a result, governments, businesses, educational institutions, and virtually all of world society is proceeding headlong to implement programs with virtually no possibility of positive effect and incredibly high probability of massively negative outcomes for human prosperity, human freedom and human life.
The AGW debate has never been driven by science, but by politics and I believe the only way that reason can prevail in this literally life or death debate is for the webs of collusion, both political and financial, which connect the leading purveyors this complex fraud to be brought to light and broadcast widely and repeatedly. Unfortunately almost all of the world’s institutions capable of performing such a task are firmly in the thrall of the AGW propagandists, although perhaps a series of well produced and documented videos on YouTube could get the ball rolling. The crowds there seem to have a predilection for conspiracy theories, though they seem to favor money grubbing capitalists as their preferred villains, which is interesting in itself, since almost all the successful conspiracies of history have been perpetrated by virulent anti-capitalists. Admittedly this approach has great peril for reducing the debate to competing ad hominems, a style of argument that I abhor, but twenty years of rational argument based on evidence has had little apparent effect on the Greyhound bus bearing down on the prospects for our future. I fear the the target audience lacks the intellectual sophistication to evaluate the scientific evidence given the easy acceptance of the “settled science” claim regarding climatology, a science so unsettled that, by comparison, psychology looks like plane geometry, which makes adapting the detested tactics of the adversary more acceptable, to me at least, since the consequences of the continuing precedence of the AGW illusion poses such an extreme threat to our and everyone else’s future.

By: F Rasmin

F Rasmin — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 22:08:35 +0000

The article that mentioned Anthonys website was from the UK Telegraph; a newspaper that is rare in NOT being run by left leaning factions!

By: tty

tty — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 21:31:08 +0000

Kornsnö (Snow Grain is the official English term, at least when it comes to aviation weather) is actually convective. Typically it occurs when you have low clouds with freezing temperatures near the cloud tops. When the sun heats the clouds convective movement starts and carries cloud drops up above the freezing level where they first supercool and then freeze. Swedish meteorologists call it “fikasnö” (Cofee-break snow) because it typically starts at 9-10 AM, traditional coffee-break time in Sweden. It also indicates very bad icing conditions aloft.

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