Here’s the right one.

(Whew, better watch what I paste in! :-)

In a way, kind of sorry if it is. Where else will I go for my nuts&berries climate howlers?

BTW, caught a puff piece on CNBC today. They were interviewing the head of the the cable unit of NBC and bragging about how great they were doing. Mostly with some network named “Oxygen”, but for some reason, they didn’t mention the recent TWC acquisition.

Ain’t it grand when the media get to “report” on themselves?

Gurk! Resolve, never read blog again while drinking coffee. You owe me shirt!

Seriously (sort of) the ‘minimum’ and ‘pessimum’ are two different things. One is sunspots (minimum) the other is temperature/climate (cold). They each get a different name. While I prefer that the present minimum be called the Landscheidt Minimum in honor of the guy who predicted it; there is a certain charm to the set of “Hansen Minimum / AlGore Pessimum”…

Unfortunately, the actual names will be assigned by politically connected committees of scientists with little sense of irony…

“Actually, NBC already runs “Weatherplus” as a digital sub-channel on OTA (Over The Air) television…”

Now that NBC has the weather channel, Weather Plus (which was never profitable) is being shut down.

“…Shortly after the acquisition of The Weather Channel on October 8, 2008, NBC announced that Weather Plus would be shut down by the end of 2008…”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBC_Weather_Plus

My guess is that once “N”othing “B”ut “C”rap bought The Weather Channel, those who worked there were given a “quiz”. One (or more likely, many) of the questions probably had to do with global warming and their feelings and beliefs.

People. Wake up. Did you watch “Expelled” by Ben Stein? This screwed up world we live in is being taken over by fruitcake liberal whackjobs. You cant disagree with them or you are a “non-believer” but GOD HELP YOU if you want to speak to them about your religious beliefs……. they dont want to hear it and will SUE YOU to get you to stop.

I think its about time people start forcing the shutdown of this green shit. I, for one, and probably for THOUSANDS upon thousands are SICK OF IT. And I dont want to hear anymore bull crap green this or green that anymore.

My toenail fell of. Lets blame it on global warming!!!!!!!! Asswipes.

Sounds like a twelve-year-old describing a new physiological experience.

It’s been years since I paid any attention to TWC, but I still respect Jim Cantore’s reporting from, e.g. Kill Devil Hills.

It was pretty dramatic in 1992 when Andrew passed directly over the HQ of the Hurricane Center with TWC reporters hunkering down on the lee side.

” How about Heidi? I note she’s by way of NCAR out of Columbia where her research interest was the North Atlantic Oscillation. I wonder if she’s wondering. Or wandering. ”
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Don’t worry about heidi. she’ll have a good new job in January.

“Nothing useful left on the weather channel anyway. ..”

‘back in the day’ the weather channel was essential viewing for me. It was on virtually all the time, and I would actually TAPE IT if there was some weather ‘event’ nearby. Now, I NEVER watch it. If I need the local weather, I’ll get it off the web. WILL NOT turn on the weather channel.

And speaking of “local weather”…

You may have noticed they have “weather reports” for all sorts of little places now…

…you may have wondered whose weather station is installed in Cuspidor, East Turnip, Horseface Creek, etc.

Answer: THERE ISN’T A WEATHER STATION

Those “observations” are extracted from a computer analysis of what the temperature “should” be at those locations. Except for the actual airport observations, “Your Local Weather” on the weather channel is mostly phoney baloney.

You may also have noticed that the seven day forecasts are a joke. Those are also 100% computer-generated.

Real human being weather forecasters at the National Weather Service use computer-generated predictions as a STARTING POINT, which is then refined using human intelligence and experience to create a real weather forecast.

At the weather channel, raw computer projections are presented to the public unrefined, as a seven-day forecast.

I have already taken to calling it the Gore Minimum, although the two syllable Maunder & Dalton precedents tend to favor Hansen Minimum. Should the Thames freeze again, we should force them both to sit on it with bare bottoms.

Now THAT’S a mental picture I did NOT need! You owe me a keyboard!!

I have already taken to calling it the Gore Minimum, although the two syllable Maunder & Dalton precedents tend to favor Hansen Minimum. Should the Thames freeze again, we should force them both to sit on it with bare bottoms.