I am from the Government and I am here to help you!

The twelve most frightening words you can hear.

This is for Denver…

For today, 8/19/08, today’s high 82, low 57, avg is 70 which means 69.5 degrees is rounded UP to 70.

For today’s normal value, high 86, low 57, avg is 71 which means 71.5 is rounded DOWN to 71.

Huh?

http://www.crh.noaa.gov/bou/include/showProduct.php?product=clitoday.txt

The purpose of government is to protect men from each other.
When your government decides that it wants to protect you from yourself, then it’s time to get a new government.

In the splice from 93002 (city) to 23062 (Stapleton airport), there is a 14-month overlap. Stapleton was cooler than the city, so you can see the UHI effect. Temperature trended down though at Stapleton from 1932 to 1994.

What about August ‘74? Didn’t the snow level make it down onto the high plains?

This makes me depressed. It seems as if no one understands that there’s a lot of work remaining in the field of climate change. (Outside of here, of course.) Thank goodness for sites like these. I went to graduate school where pro-AGW theory was heavily pushed (at least three authors on that NOAA climate change report could be linked to this school) and begin to believe it after a while. I think I got out just in time!

Steve,
That’s a big problem! I graduated from college before the AGW crowd was big so it wasn’t an issue of any sort for me. But I happened to meet Dr. Bryson (late – UW Madison) and he told me that the research dollars in Atmospheric Science were going to the AGW professors, so more professors did AGW research, and taught that line of thinking to their grad students. Now those grad students are teaching. So there is an entire generation of Atmospheric Scientists that are sold, because it was taught as fact. Many off them are not asking the questions they should….. mainly because the AGW research is still being funded.

It all seems dangerous to me, and heavily political. I interviewed (debated) a grad student over a year ago and he was dead set that ISR only fluctuates about 1W/m2 per solar cycle and that signal is very minor and not important to the temperature record…. so solar impacts are negligible. I asked him about longer cycles, magnetic effects, coronal holes… and got a repeat of “the solar impacts are negligible”. He was dodging and had NO idea what I was referring to.

Not to mention what they did to the story.

Didn’t you hear? The director Paul Vanderhoeven hated and despised Heinlein and made public statements to the effect that he would completely pervert the story.

I’ll say this for him: he is a man of his word.

A good contender for the trifecta:

Worst Movie of the Year.
Worst Adaptation of a book.
Worst Movie of All Time.

(But then there’s Dune and I have to think again. )

My favorite Heinlein: A Citizen of the Galaxy. I consider that among the great works of the English language. (And yes, I am a fan of Shakespeare, Melville, Twain, etc., etc.)

Moon is good but I love Stranger, Troopers, and Starman Jones. Puppet Masters (unabridged) is probably the single best invasion of earth book I have ever read. Doorway Into Summer and Double Star are just wonderful.

What a wonderful tale! I still remember the “education” section with great fondness.

I’d love to see a _good_ movie version.

Hollywood has made a hash of every Heinlein story they’ve tried to do, with the exception of “Destination Moon”.

Starship Troopers was always my favorite Heinlein book and when they made the movie they didn’t even have powered armor! Not to mention what they did to the story.

http://climatesci.org/

Bill Derryberry

REPLY: Bill we had that here days ago. perhpas you missed it?

Who are you? You go from inaccurate insults to demands for fuddy-duddy politically correct debate. If you wish to dictate my intercourse, get Anthony to make you moderator.

I found it infuriating as well. So infuriating that I couldn’t figure out how to post to a blog! :)

This makes me depressed. It seems as if no one understands that there’s a lot of work remaining in the field of climate change. (Outside of here, of course.) Thank goodness for sites like these. I went to graduate school where pro-AGW theory was heavily pushed (at least three authors on that NOAA climate change report could be linked to this school) and begin to believe it after a while. I think I got out just in time!

my hero writer Heinlein

I am a huge OLD Heinlein fan. (Almost) anything up to and including Stranger.

The book that guided me from Tom Swift to the bigger world of SF was his “Have Spacesuit, Will Travel.” “The Moon is a Harsh Mistress” remains my favorite SF novel, I read it early in my computer programming career. I’d love to see a _good_ movie version. I used to think it would have to wait for a movie set on the moon but between CG effects and some work on the Vomit Comet ala Apollo 13, I think it could be pulled off now. Judy Collins gets the title song.

OT – On Track: Oh yeah, climate, err, weather. Nothing too exciting going on in New Hampshire at the moment. Nice hail storms over the weekend (missed me).

O2 levels are nominal.

Whhooooo-ooooh. Scaaaary!!! How about all those hurricanes we were told to beware? There’d better be a lot of hurricanes very quick to meet the

I’ll go so far as to say a small bit is probably due to human influence. A tiny forcing from CO2. A shot of dirty snow (probably temporary as the UDCs develop).

But overall, just a small bit.

Straight forward info without too much technical jargon is the way to go. What bothers me is not the Alarmists that argue that it’s happening and it’s all our fault, it’s the Ecofascists that think we should live as they say we should live. This is the silly stuff that I point out at http://giovanniworld.wordpress.com/

Sure, the earths temp has risen a tiny bit over many years, but I do NOT believe it’s because of humans. Carbon is a tiny fraction of our atmosphere so let’s keep some perspective on the subject.

Thanks for listening.