And yet to play out, let’s also not forget Al Gore’s 2008 prediction: “Entire north polar ice cap will be gone in 5 years”
-Anthony
By Dennis Avery in the Canada Free Press
“2008 will be the hottest year in a century:” The Old Farmers’ Almanac, September 11, 2008, Hurricanes, Arctic Ice, Coral, Drinking water, Aspen skiing
We’re now well into the earth’s third straight harsher winter-but in late 2007 it was still hard to forget 22 straight years of global warming from 1976-1998. So the Old Farmer’s Almanac predicted 2008 would be the hottest year in the last 100.
But sunspots had been predicting major cooling since 2000, and global temperatures turned downward in early 2007. The sunspots have had a 79 percent correlation with the earth’s thermometers since 1860. Today’s temperatures are about on a par with 1940. For 2008, the Almanac hired a new climatologist, Joe D’Aleo, who says the declining sunspots and the cool phase of the Pacific Ocean predict 25-30 years of cooler temperatures for the planet.
“You could potentially sail, kayak or even swim to the North Pole by the end of the summer. Climate scientists say that the Arctic ice . . . is currently on track to melt sometime in 2008.” Ted Alvarez, Backpacker Magazine Blogs, June, 2008.
Soon after this prediction, a huge Russian icebreaker got trapped in the thick ice of the Northwest Passage for a full week. The Arctic ice hadn’t melted in 2007, it got blown
into warmer southern waters. Now it’s back. (Reference)
Remember too the Arctic has its own 70-year climate cycle. Polish climatologist Rajmund Przbylak says “the highest temperatures since the beginning of instrumental observation occurred clearly in the 1930s” based on more than 40 Arctic temperature stations.
(This uneducated prediction may have been the catalyst for Lewis Pugh and his absurd kayak stunt that failed miserably – Anthony)
“Australia’s Cities Will Run Out of Drinking Water Due to Global Warming.”
Tim Flannery was named Australia’s Man of the Year in 2007-for predicting that Australian cities will run out of water. He predicted Perth would become the “first 21st century ghost city,’ and that Sydney would be out of water by 2007. Today however, Australia’s city reservoirs are amply filled. Andrew Bolt of the Melbourne Herald-Sun reminds us Australia is truly a land of long droughts and flooding rains.
“Hurricane Effects Will Only Get Worse.” Live Science, September 19, 2008.
So wrote the on-line tech website Live Science, but the number of Atlantic hurricanes 2006-2008 has been 22 percent below average, with insured losses more than 50 percent below average. The British Navy recorded more than twice as many major land-falling Caribbean hurricanes in the last part of the Little Ice Age (1700-1850) as during the much-warmer last half of the 20th century.
“Corals will become increasingly rare on reef systems.” Dr. Hans Hoegh-Guldberg, head of Queensland University (Australia) marine studies.
In 2006, Dr. Hoegh-Guldberg warned that high temperatures might kill 30-40 percent of the coral on the Great Barrier Reef “within a month.” In 2007, he said global warming temperatures were bleaching [potentially killing] the reef.
But, in 2008, the Global Coral Reef Monitoring Network said climate change had not damaged the “well-managed” reef in the four years since its last report. Veteran diver Ben Cropp said that in 50 years he’d seen no heat damage to the reef at all. “The only change I’ve seen has been the result of over-fishing, pollution, too many tourists or people dropping anchors on the reef,” he said.
No More Skiing? “Climate Change and Aspen,” Aspen, CO city-funded study, June, 2007.
Aspen’s study predicted global warming would change the climate to resemble hot, dry Amarillo, Texas. But in 2008, European ski resorts opened a month early, after Switzerland recorded more October snow than ever before. Would-be skiers in Aspen had lots of winter snow-but a chill factor of 18 below zero F. kept them at their fireplaces instead of on the slopes.
*Sources:
Predictions of 25-30 year cooling due to Pacific Decadal Oscillation: Scafetta and West, 2006, “Phenomenological Solar Signature in 400 Years of Reconstructed Northern Hemisphere Temperature Record,” Geophysical Research Letters.
Arctic Warmer in the 1930s: R. Przybylak, 2000, “Temporal and Spatial Variation of Surface Air Temperature over the Period of Instrumental Observation in the Arctic,” International Journal of Climatology 20.
British Navy records of Caribbean hurricanes 1700-1850: J.B. Elsner et al., 2000, “Spatial Variations in Major U.S. Hurricane Activity,” Journal of Climate 13.
Predictions of coral loss: Hoegh-Guldberg et al., Science, Vol. 318, 2007. Status of Coral Reefs of the World 2008, issued by the Global Coral Reef Monitoring Network, Nov., 2008.
Aspen climate change study: Climate Change and Aspen: An Assessment of Potential Impacts and Responses, Aspen Global Change Institute, June, 2007.
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Tom in wonderfully warm Florida (12:55:38) :
I predict that Dallas Tx will be the hottest spot on Earth by next December, especiallly when Jerry Jones’ Dallas Cowboys miss making the playoffs again.
(How many years in a row is it now?)
That would be one since they were in the playoffs last year. 🙂
The insult you were looking for was how many years has it been since they won a playoff game and that would be 13, I think. Since there are a number of teams that have an equal or worse record, that particular one doesn’t sting very much.
>With regard to the Murray/Darling inflows, the wild fires that have occurred in the upper catchment of the Murray River since 2000 have reduced runoff as the forests regenerate, trees having first dibs on ground water.
Some research by the Bushfire CRC suggests that wildfires in catchments can reduce runoff by up to 20% for a decade.
The fires did not occur until Jan/Feb 2003, and in the first 10 years inflows increase (not decrease) because forests are replaced initially with bare ground and then small trees. The larger of the fire episodes – the largest “natural event” since at least the mid 19th century occurred in December 2006 (a year when inflows were half the previous record low, and rainfall in many areas far below previous records lows). The fires have increased runoff not decreased them.
Perth would have run out of water by now if it were not for the desalination plant and the massive draw down of ground water north of Perth.
Brisbane and Melbourne are now on water rationing (5 million people), and Adelaide is fast tracking a desalination plant as the Murray River (it’s main source of water) is now below sea level in its lower reaches and at severe risk of hyper salination and acifidification.
All these predictions. Reminds me of a time when people read newspapers and at the end of each year the Sunday supplements had forecasts for the upcoming year issued by psychics. In my mind, today’s climate forecasts have all the credibility of a psychic’s predictions. They look at the trendline from the depths of the Little Ice Age and make predictions based on that, figuring the odds favor their predictions. Throw in a little pseudo-science to give it an air of respectability and alleged journalists fawn all over these new age psychics with their calls of doom and the need to repent.
And in ten years we’ll doubtless be told we’re ten years from reaching a tipping point.
AEGeneral (06:44:02) :
I agree, that even though many (me included) are having fun with singular cold weather events, these are things that make it “real” for folks who aren’t able to follow some of the complexities and convolutions. I think the other thing that makes it real for folks is when the power, control, money and idealogy aspects of the story are told with the backdrop of some local cold weather to get their attention.
BTW, I’ve seen a few of those letters to the editor myself which is refreshing, but certainly a long time coming.
david (17:03:09) :
Appropriate and cost-effective water supply infrastructure in the Gippsland region would have seen recent floods (i.e 2007) not only fill Melbournes reservoirs, but also allow for excess flood water to be redirected into the Murray to provide for an environmental flow that would have flushed the coorong wetlands by now.
Inaction on the part of successive state governments in Victoria has resulted in a shortage of supply infrastructure and the current restrictions.
Ongoing lack of planning and investment in cost/effective water supply infrastructure has (ref restrictions) and will diminish the quality of human life in the Australian SE, as well as the environment.
While the federal government is happy to build and/or extend dams in the ACT to secure water supplies. Ref http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/05/20/2250534.htm
The state governments can only sit on their hands. Ref http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200209/s678384.htm
Here is an end of year, 10 years ahead prediction, which I sincerely hope does not come true.
When Green Chickens Come Home To Roost.
Somewhere in the USA, Sometime in 2018…
FADE IN.
OUTSIDE: EARLY EVENING – NOVEMBER.
– A weary group of men and women, chained into a gang, trudge along a city road. Their guards carry rifles, and short whips. A light dusting of snow is falling.
– They pass a Primary (Elementary) school where the teachers and students have assembled to watch them pass. The Principle of the school turns and faces the assembled children and staff and raises her arms.
Principle: (Stern Encouragement) “Now children all as one – Sceptics are Septics”.
Assembled Children and Staff: (Chanting) “Sceptics are Septics… Sceptics are Septics… Sceptics are Septics…”
– Some of the chained people steal glances at the children.
Guard: “Eyes Front!”
– The guard smashes his whip across the face of one of the chained men and bright blood splashes onto the snow.
– One of the schoolchildren breaks ranks and staggers forward through the snow.
Schoolboy: (Falteringly Disbelief) “That’s my Dad!?”
– The principle turns abruptly towards the boy and signals to green frocked School Proctors, who leap forward and grab the boy before he can reach the road.
– The struck man slumps to the ground, barely conscious, the man chained next to him takes his arm and drags him to his feet.
Principle: (Outraged) “Shocking behaviour. Samuel Taylor – A months detention. Proctors remove him to the holding room.”
– The proctors drag the boy away.
Assembled Children and Staff: (Continue Chanting) “Sceptics are Septics… Sceptics are Septics… Sceptics are Septics…”
– Two school cleaners stand quietly to the side of the assembly, not being teaching staff or students they are not required to join in. They talk quietly together.
Cleaner One: “So the Higgs Boson has been found at CERN?”
Cleaner Two: “Yes, the Paper by Peebles gives an excellent demonstration of the existence of the Higgs Boson.”
Cleaner One: “Do you miss the research at MIT?”
Cleaner Two: “Of course – but at least I’m able to feed my little girl. – and what choice did I have, Particle Physics isn’t Environmental Science is it.”
Cleaner One: “Same with Nuclear Engineering – now that all the reactors have been shut down – there’s just no more work for a PHD in Engineering in my field.”
– Cleaner Two nods towards the steadily moving chain gang.
Cleaner Two: “Still it’s better than what that lot are facing.”
Cleaner One: “Which is?”
Cleaner Two: “5 Years Hard Labour in the Pig Methane Plant.”
Cleaner One: “Shovel Pig manure for 18 hours a day and get fed…”
Cleaner Two: “Which would you prefer – that – or the alternative?”
– Cleaner one shivered from more than the cold, and drew his coat more tightly around his thin frame.
Cleaner One: “The fertiliser plant – but that’s just for capital crimes isn’t it?”
Cleaner Two: “Apparently “Carbon Denial” is set to become a capital crime – rumour has it, that it’s to be the next Presidential Emergency Directive.”
Cleaner One: (Quietly) “Oh my god… what have we become?”
– Cleaner Two nods silently in agreement.
– The Principle signals a halt to her students and staff.
Principle: (Smug) “Now everyone – we have todays new mantra, lets chant it together for the benefit of these poor deluded people.”
All: (Chanting in practised unison) “Man Made CO2 Causes Global Cooling… Man Made CO2 Causes Global Cooling… Man Made CO2 Causes Global Cooling…”
FADE OUT.
Thank you for that report and references JP. Listened to the audio on the summary of 11th International Conference. Pity it was all group think even the so called balancing force of the journalists and their questions.
Did Corinne Podger really knock out 17 submissions for ABC Australia? I can see now why the ABC has been predicting the imminent death of the Great Barrier Reef for years and is the greatest prophet of doom in the Australian media.
But don’t get me wrong, I am all for doing as much for coral reefs as possible and restoring damaged ones – provided we correctly identify what is causing the damage.
My only sore point is the man made global warming bit.
I am afraid that Ove Hoegh-Guldberg told me nothing that could convince me that man made global warming was causing damage to coral reefs. His summary was basically:
1. Oceans have been warming for the past decade (?)
2. Coral cover is low. (Surely if the oceans are expanding they should be higher?)
3. Nothing has been done to zero fish which affects loss of coral (agree)
4. There is no silver bullet to help coral and global warming. (Adaption?)
5. CO2 is the main culprit and if we are to settle on 450 ppm it is now or never.
JP, I think you hit the nail on the head when quoted that it was in 1982 that the first mass bleaching event was RECOGNISED. I’ll bet that if Capt Cook was aware, he would have recognised some as well. Ove Hoegh-Guldberg sounds very dedicated to coral reefs but also to CO2 as their major threat – even though many others were identified in the symposium.
Sydney’s future eaten: the Flannery prophecy
By Anne Davies, Urban Affairs Editor
May 19, 2004
Sydney Morning Herald
As temperatures around the world warmed by 2 to 7 per cent[sic], Sydney could glimpse its future by looking at the devastating impact that global warming had already had on Perth, which he said was likely to become a “ghost metropolis”.
David:
It’s too bad nobody dealt with the water supplies then, isn’t it?
This is part of the main point “we” are all trying to make. Attempting to regulate CO2 to control the climate is like …. okay, I can’t think of a good analogy. Something like mooring the Titanic with a piece of thread. Suffice to say it’s RETARDED.
Deal with water supplies, transportation, food supplies. Anything else is pure egotistical hogwash, and a waste of resources. ANYONE complaining about things like water supplies and power generation after FAILING to build such facilities is a moron. Yes. Moron.
By the way, there are a lot of cities in the NH completely swamped with snow right now, since they’ve been hearing the constant drumbeat of GLOBAL WARMING and experienced a few relatively mild winters. It was easy to let the snow clearing equipment and materials and people go, wasn’t it?
This is the responsibility of government: build and maintain infrastructure. Period. And most governments have failed miserably in this one thing. How anyone could even conceive of assigning them any bigger responsibilities is beyond me.
Geoff Pohanka (07:06:03) :
“… mounting evidence against man made global warming…..scientists are becoming confident to speak… I would anticipate a major battle in Congress in early to mid 2008 w……… to control CO2 emissions.”
If you can detach from any frustration over the outcome, I think this battle could be very entertaining and politically educational. What does a politician do when he feels the groundswell of realists while at the same time being challenged by the power brokers? He/she has to make a calculated risk assessment, and a key factor is their judgement of the speed, amplitude, and destructive power of that groundswell.
If they think it will be 4-8 years for the crest, they go with the power brokers. If its 2-4 years most will also go that way, but it gets real interesting if they think the crest hits sooner.
It could also be interesting to see if some younger politicians of whatever party decide this is a foundational issue to build their reputations on. It will also be interesting to see what Obama does if the crest hits sooner. After his AGW speech, I don’t know how he could back off, but if he really is a good politician (and a leader of principle) he’ll find a way to reverse himself. If he can, he builds a bit of credibility with me.
I hate to rain on our parade, but I think Hadley has a decent shot at being correct with their top-5 prediction, unless short-term trends reverse dramatically, and soon.
1) The current Hadley 12-month running mean is +.315. Between my not very reliable linear regression from UAH December daily data, and my gut feeling “correction”, I expect that December 2008 will be 0.3 warmer than December 2007, which will raise the 2008 mean temp to +0.340
2) Take a look at the 12-month running mean temps for Hadley and GISS at http://www.woodfortrees.org/plot/hadcrut3gl/mean:12/from:1995/plot/gistemp/mean:12/from:1995 and you’ll notice an approximate 3-year cycle from about 2001 onwards. We don’t know the root physical mechanism causing the cycle but, like sunspots, we can simply extrapolate from the past. It looks like a rise of 0.05 to 0.07, let’s call it 0.06. That pushes the +0.340 Hadley temp to +.400
3) January+February 2008, by themselves, combined to bring down the 12 month running mean by 0.076 for Hadley, and 0.09 for GISS. Unless this coming winter is really, really, really brutal, expect some of that drop to be given back, Even giving half of it back pushes Hadley to +0.435
The only thing that’ll stop this is a rejuvenated La Nina as per http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601086&sid=aj1nH.0owWcY I am not certain of the outcome of the 2009 annual mean, but Hadley’s estimate is not necessarily a joke. The dice are loaded in its favour. If, in the teeth of all the pro-warming factors, 2009 ends up cooler than 2008, I’m going to start running around predicting son-of-Maunder.
Pierre Gosselin (08:14:03) :
“…CHARLATAN HALL OF FAME..”
How about Kevin Trenberth from UCAR? His testimony to Barbara Boxer’s U. S. Senate committee a few months back with Dr Spencer next to him was sickening.
CodeTech (17:47:54) :
This is the responsibility of government: build and maintain infrastructure. Period. And most governments have failed miserably in this one thing. How anyone could even conceive of assigning them any bigger responsibilities is beyond me.
Agreed.
“Meanwhile, the climate will continue to cool, and AGWers will continue to say “it’s just weather”, or “natural variation” or “noise” temporarily overcoming the underlying and potentially disasterous AGW.”
I don’t think that’s what they’ll do.
I think they’ll take credit for the cooling.
JimB
Hi david,
I enjoy your posts. They’re like eating candy, they’re so much fun:
You seem to imply that the dreaded AGW/CO2 boogeyman is the cause of Australia’s droughts — which are so severe that they cause rivers to drop below sea level! I wondered how a river that flows to the ocean at its ‘lower reaches’ could be below sea level, so I did a search.
Turns out that the Murray River has a series of locks, the first of which was put into service in 1922. Therefore, the locks must have been proposed and planned many years before 1922, no?
The world was mainly agrarian in the early 1900’s, and the main source of CO2 was cattle farts and ocean emissions.
But thanx for prompting me to investigate how global warming could cause a river to drop below sea level. I learned something new, while getting to deconstruct yet another silly AGW conjecture.
Keep ’em coming, david!
2009 is expected to be one of the top-five warmest years on record
Yes, that can be arranged.
(Fresh from the USHCN adjustment page.)
MattN, that graph is only since 1975, see http://water.com.au/_images/Dams/Dams_streamflow.gif for one over a longer period. That’s inflow, not rainfall I’ll grant, but notice the big drop at 1975, just when the graph you linked started. MartinGAtkins: I know it’s December, don’t partonise me. I’m saying we have no more water than this time last year, due to the dry August. I’m not saying the dry August was because of AGW, or whatever, just explaining that our dams are not “amply filled”. The Murray River is not a topic I’m well-informed on, so I’ll drop it.
Bill Marsh:”The insult you were looking for was how many years has it been since they won a playoff game and that would be 13, I think. Since there are a number of teams that have an equal or worse record, that particular one doesn’t sting very much.”
Thank you for clearing that up, but it wasn’t an insult, just a smartalecked jab.
I do think it stings Mr Jones much more than other owners. But then as a Buccaneer fan, well, our owner gave Chucky a three year extention last year, now that hurt!!
Australia is not going through a drought. The water is simply not falling where the people are. However, as a continent, the rainfall is actually greater for the latter part of the last century.
“Australian mean rainfall total for 2007 was 497 mm, slightly more than the long-term average of 472 mm.”
Tom in florida,
Probably. The man wants to win, badly. This is not true of many NFL owners. Since I’m heading to wonderfully warm Florida in about 3 years I suppose I’ll root for the Bucs, but doubt I’ll ever stop rooting for Dallas.
5. CO2 is the main culprit and if we are to settle on 450 ppm it is now or never.
Just fwiw to throw in a bit of “perspective” around this 450 ppm disasterized CO2 concentration number – at which point everything will, snif – snif, die: the human body already exists quite comfortably, without any hyperventilation whatsoever, at a CO2 concentration level of about 56,000 ppm CO2 = 5.6%.
= pCO2 of human body/p total gas in body = 40-44 pCO2/p total gas in body = 40-44/ 713 {atm.p = 760 – [water vapor additition in the upper airways = 47] = 713} : 40-44/713 = ~ .056 = 5.6%, or higher to > 6.0% = 60,000 ppm, if you want.
So from a human physiology standpoint, 56,000/280->450 ppm just doesn’t seem to be worth getting all hot and bothered about, no? Especially since CO2->380 hasn’t bothered anyone yet, and in fact, clinically, CO2 > 70,000 ppm is the point at which CO2 seems to possibly start bothering people – and at about 150,000 ppm most people would probably be in some stage of “CO2 narcosis”.
So, noble AGWer’s, be sure to let me know when we’re starting to get close!
With all the snow and colder weather I thought you all might enjoy this that
I found at theospark.net (dec 23rd (older posts)).
Its a little long but appropriate as the earth cools down and more of you are finding
out that there is more snow to shovel as we move further into 2008/2009 winter
and effects of all this recent global warming going on!
Diary of a Snow Shoverler…….
December 8: 6:00 PM.
It started to snow. The first snow of the season and the wife and I took our cocktails and sat for hours by the window watching the huge soft flakes drift down from heaven. It looked like a Grandma Moses Print. So romantic we felt like newlyweds again. I love snow!
December 9:
We woke to a beautiful blanket of crystal white snow covering every inch of the landscape. What a fantastic sight! Can there be a lovelier place in the Whole World? Moving here was the best idea I’ve ever had. I shoveled for the first time in years, felt like a boy again. I did both our driveway and the sidewalks. This afternoon the snowplow came along and covered up the sidewalks and closed in the driveway, so I got to shovel again what a perfect life.
December 12:
The sun has melted all our lovely snow, such a disappointment. My neighbor tells me not to worry; we’ll definitely have a white Christmas. No snow on Christmas would be awful! Bob says we’ll have so much snow by the end of winter, that I’ll never want to see snow again. I don’t think that’s possible. Bob is such a nice man, I’m glad he’s our neighbor.
December 14:
Snow, lovely snow! Last night. The temperature dropped to -20. The cold makes everything sparkle so. The wind took my breath away, but I warmed up by shoveling the driveway and sidewalks. This is the life! The snowplow came back this afternoon and buried everything again. I didn’t realize I would have to do quite this much shoveling, but I’ll certainly get back in shape this way. I wish I wouldn’t huff and puff so.
December 15:
20 inches forecast. Sold my van and bought a 4×4 Blazer. I Bought snow tires for the wife’s car and two extra shovels. I stocked the freezer. The wife wants a wood stove in case the electricity goes out. I think that’s silly. We aren’t in Alaska, after all.
December 16:
Ice storm this morning. Fell on my ass on the ice in the driveway putting down salt. Hurt like hell. The wife laughed for an hour, which I think was very cruel.
December 17:
Still way below freezing. Roads are too icy to go anywhere. Electricity was off for five hours. I had to pile the blankets on to stay warm. Nothing to do but stare at the wife and try not to irritate her. Guess I should’ve bought a wood stove, but won’t admit it to her. God I hate it when she’s right. I can’t believe I’m freezing to death in my own living room.
December 20:
Electricity’s back on, but had another 14″ of the damn stuff last night. More shoveling. That took all day. Goddamn snowplow came by twice. Tried to find a neighbor kid to shovel, but they said they’re too busy playing hockey. I think they’re lying. Called the only hardware store around to see about buying a snow blower and they’re out. They might have another shipment in March. I think they’re lying. Bob says I have to shovel or the city will have it done and bill me. I think he’s lying.
December 22:
Bob was right about a white Christmas, because 13 more inches of the white shit fell today, and it’s so cold it probably won’t melt ’til August. Took me 45 minutes to get all dressed up to go out to shovel, and then I had to piss. By the time I got undressed, pissed and dressed again, I was too tired to shovel! Tried to hire Bob, who has a plow on his truck, for the rest of the winter; but he says he’s too busy. I
think the asshole is lying.
December 23:
Only 2″ of snow today, and it warmed up to “0”. The wife wanted me to decorate the front of the house this morning. What, is she nuts!!! Why didn’t she tell me to do that a month ago? She says she did, but I think she’s lying.
December 24:
6″ more snow. Snow packed so hard by snowplow, I broke the shovel. Thought I was having a heart attack. If I ever catch the son-of-a-bitch who drives that snowplow, I’ll drag him through the snow by his balls and beat him to death with my broken shovel. I know he hides around the corner and waits for me to finish shoveling and then he comes down the street at 100 miles an hour and throws snow all over everywhere I’ve just been! Tonight the wife wanted me to sing Christmas carols with her and open our presents, but I was too busy watching for the Goddamn snowplow.
December 25:
Merry F#@ur momisugly%**>! Christmas. 20 more inches of the “@ur momisugly!#%&***”slop tonight. We are snowed in. The idea of shoveling makes my blood boil. God, I hate the snow! Then the snowplow driver came by asking for a donation and I hit him over the head with my shovel. The wife says I have a bad attitude. I think she’s a fricking idiot. If I have to watch “It’s a Wonderful Life” one more time, I’m going to stuff her into the
microwave.
December 26:
Still snowed in. Why the hell did I ever move here? It was all HER idea.
She’s really getting on my nerves.
December 27:
Temperature dropped to -30, and the pipes froze. Plumber came after 14 hours of waiting for him; he only charged me $1,400 to replace all my pipes.
December 28:
Warmed up to above -50. Still snowed in. The BITCH is driving me crazy!!!!!
December 29:
10 more inches. Bob says I have to shovel the roof or it could cave in. That’s the silliest thing I ever heard. How dumb does he think I am?
December 30:
Roof caved in. I beat up the snow plow driver. He is now suing me for a million dollars; not for only the beating I gave him, but also for trying to shove the broken snow shovel up his a$$. The wife went home to her mother. 9 more inches of snow predicted.
December 31:
I set fire to what’s left of the house. No more shoveling.
January 8:
Feel so good. I just love those little white pills they keep giving me.
Why am I tied to the bed?
H/T Nebraska Bob
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I predict that Climate Change will continue, like it always has, not only through 2009, but ad infinitum, ad nauseum, on and on, for a very long time, and maybe even longer. And humans will continue to argue about it, not only through 2009, but ad infinitum, ad nauseum, on and on, for a very long time, and maybe even longer.