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Stop Global Warming Sign…. buried in the snow.
http://www.iceagenow.com/Stop-Global-Warming_Sign_Buried_in_the_Snow.htm
Merry Christmas everyone.
Earth Quake Summary 2010 (more activity)
http://modernsurvivalblog.com/earthquakes/2010-earthquake-summary/
Merry Christmas WUWT and here’s an electric eel powered X-Mas tree: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GO00tPIYSUQ&feature=player_embedded
There was a generation that feared economic armagheddon.
Then there was a generation that feared nuclear annihilation.
This is the generation of climate catastrophe.
None of these fearsome ends came to pass and were mitigated satisfactorily.
What will they think of next?
Merry Christmas y’all !
I built a new house that was not in the 100 year flood plain. Now FEMA says it is in the flood plain and I must pay $300 a month in flood insurance. The flood source is a small creek 1/4 mile from my home. Not only do I have to pay $300/ month in flood insurance for a flood that will never happen, but if I try to sell my house, the buyer has to add $300 per month to their mortgage payment. In other words, I need to take about $60,000 off the price of my house if I want to make the buyer’s monthly payments similar to a comparable house that is not in the flood plain.
Any advice? I contacted a real estate lawyer but he has not been helpful.
I live near Indianpolis.
I just heard an interview with the head of the Australian Mausen Base in Antarctica – asked whether there were any signs of climate change he replied that he first arrived at the base in 1978 and today it looks exactly the same!
It’s official. Denmark has now registered two white Christmas’es in a row. This hasn’t happened since 1870 when registering started. Damn cold too.
Merry Christmas all.
Merry Christmas Anthony, crew, and all who frequent here !
A few days ago I was looking at one of Leif’s presentations [“Does the Sun Vary Enough?” ] and his second slide was a poem so I searched for the author – Piet Hein — and found this:
http://www.boloji.com/literature/00134.htm
After other short and equally interesting poems there is this:
Prayer to the Sun
Sun that gives all things birth
Shine on everything on earth!
If that’s too much to demand
Shine at least on this our land
If even that’s too much for thee
Shine at any rate on me [Piet Hein]
Note: Leif’s slide is a nice graphic; have a look.
http://www.leif.org/research/
Scroll down to 1250.
In Washington State, east of the Cascades, it is now dark, the horses are fed, it is snowing (again), and it is Christmas Eve.
Merry Christmas, all!
And may the sun shine on you.
May the future to come bring happiness to all. May it also bring wisdom the the AGW camp so that they realize the magnitude of their errors. When we make errors may it bring these to our attention so that we may correct them too.
I think the theory of man-made global warming should be renamed ‘the Janus theory’ after the Roman god who had two heads and could look both ways at once, like the AGW theory now accounts for both warmer winters and colder winters.
“He was known as the figure representing time because he could see into the past with one face and into the future with the other.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janus
How about it?
From The Independent:
Biting winters driven by global warming: scientists
http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/biting-winters-driven-by-global-warming-scientists-2169007.html
See also:
http://www.livius.org/ja-jn/janus/janus.html
FEMA CIZED
My advice is hire a geologist that is expert in defining floodplains and then you will have a case for FEMA to have to change it. The specialties in Geology that would apply would be: Geomorphology or Quaternary Geology. I used to be in Bloomington, IN but now in Hawaii so can’t help. Good luck, and I am pretty sure if you are on any type of rise from the lower main floodplain you will have a case.
And a very merry Christmas, everyone!
“I think the theory of man-made global warming should be renamed ‘the Janus theory’ after the Roman god who had two heads and could look both ways at once, like the AGW theory now accounts for both warmer winters and colder winters.”
The theory of gravitation accounts for both an asteroid hitting us tomorrow and one not hitting us. The theory of evolution accounts for both the panda going extinct in the next 50 years and it surviving 500.
And you thought it was cold out?
http://nsidc.org/data/seaice_index/images/daily_images/N_stddev_timeseries.png
Then where is all the sea ice?
Windy, here in NE Oregon , Dog Chewing Christmas bone, digesting grass fed beef,
and listening to wind and Tamarack fire. Love it.
Merry Christmas, every one.
Oh, I understand, according to some forecasts, there is a Siberian Express headed
into the Pac NW US (Canada too) by the new years..
FEMA-CIZED says: {December 24, 2010 at 4:54 pm}
Check with your insurance agent as there is a little publicized grandfather clause that may allow you to keep your original flood rating if your house was built to code and FEMA later changes your flood designation. Also be sure that there was an actual change in the FIRM maps.
Jake says:{December 24, 2010 at 6:19 pm}
“FEMA CIZED
My advice is hire a geologist that is expert in defining floodplains and then you will have a case for FEMA to have to change it.”
Be aware that if your entire county is under a flood discount from FEMA you may not be able to request an individual reassessment of the designation. Check with your county before hiring anyone.
FEMA CIZED
Truly sorry to hear about your plight, can’t help you with advice but don’t take it personally.
The insurance companies, banks and federal bodies are all on a frenzy-feasting at the moment. Cloaking themselves with the righteousness of the planetary saviours they greedily enrich their futures with a multitude of individual miseries by fraud and misdirection.
In plain English you, and countless others are being screwed by snake-oilers.
It’s not you that they’re after, it’s just your cash that they want to fuel their ambitions. Your options to retaliate are somewhat minimal at the moment. Your vote may, in the future, allow a possibility of effective retaliation.
Hold fast. Revenge is tastier when chilled with lashings of patience!
“Christmas Time is Here”, from A Charlie Brown Christmas, Vince Guaraldi on piano
🙂
EPA seizes permit power from Texas on greenhouse gas emissions
12:00 AM CST on Friday, December 24, 2010
WASHINGTON – The Environmental Protection Agency said Thursday that it will seize authority from Texas to regulate major emitters of greenhouse gases because Gov. Rick Perry and state regulators refused to implement the rules.
The move caps a long dispute between Texas and the EPA, which have clashed over the Obama administration’s push to regulate industrial sources of carbon dioxide emissions.
State officials complain the rules will unfairly punish Texas and its energy-hungry industries when they take effect Jan. 2.
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/bus/stories/DN-epatexas_24bus.ART.State.Edition1.4368de3.html
$3,600 a year ($300 a month) seems quite high for flood insurance. Ours (we’re also in the 100-year flood plain—just barely) was more like half that. We are below an old earthen dam, but I’m not sure that even if it went (it’s maybe 3 miles away), we’d have a big problem.
If you still have a mortgage, the mortgage holder will insist you buy the insurance, not FEMA. If you have no mortgage, then it’s up to you, not FEMA—unless there’s something special about your location. I have never heard of FEMA being able to require anything.
As Jake says above, you might be able to appeal the placement of your property in the 100-year flood plain. We just paid off our mortgage, so now I have to decide whether to take the risk, or save the money. . .
/Mr Lynn