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onion says:
December 24, 2010 at 6:36 pm
“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.
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Or, we could say that the theory of gravitation accounts for both the panda going extinct and not extinct all at the same time, maybe from the evolution of asteroids.
Too much rum in the egg-nog makes for a pickled onion!
Merry Christmas everyone! Stay safe in all the cold weather around the globe and don’t worry about anything – there’s still plenty of ice at the poles; weather patterns are still well within bounds; sometimes up a bit and sometimes down; make your adjustments as necessary and take care of your’s; I know I will.
See you after Christmas!
pax says:
December 24, 2010 at 5:26 pm
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.
You have links?
Well. Merry Xmas to all – and a well deserved rest to Anthony and family.
Been bush today for a well-earned barbie by a little-known stream, with swifts and woodpigeon abounding. Some beautiful native birdsong. Lots of sunblock required with a burn-time of about 20 minutes
Steaks, saussies, burgers and salad with oodles of fresh strawberries and cream – and a few tinnies to wash it down (Chiraz for ‘er indoors though – must preserve the decencies)
The benefits of living down-under in the antipodes, is that we get to see all the Global Climate Disruption going on in the world.
And of course, New Zealand’s re-calculated historic temperature records now show no significant warming in the past 100 years – so it must be just everywhere else that is suffering.
Sorry warming has such disasterous effects on those in the North – our turn will come in 6 months time
Cool Yule one and all
Andy
Merry Christmas Anthony, I know you’ve already gotten the gift you want with your wife’s surgery going well. Enjoy your time off and with her and your children. There isn’t a thing in the world more important to a man (well, a real man 😀 ) than his family.
And Merry Christmas to everyone. May we all harden our resolve to soften our hearts.
onion says:
December 24, 2010 at 6:36 pm
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.
Janus is also the god that the month of January is named after. Janus is the Roman god of doorways. Yes, doorways. I say we call it the Janus theory for ‘Don’t let the door hit ya where the good Lord split ya’.
Mike says:
December 24, 2010 at 6:51 pm
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?
There is a large unusual high pressure cell over Greenland. The Arctic region is experiencing very different pressure cells to the norm of recent history. This will cause a massive winter over the whole of the northern hemisphere, at the expense of some Arctic warming. I notice you didn’t post an ice extent of the Antarctica region?
I hope you are not cherry picking Mike?
Sanity begins to return to world financial markets:
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-12-24/blackrock-blames-credit-crisis-as-record-outflows-hit-clean-energy-funds.html
December 24, 2010 at 10:46 pm …. Amino … it’s at DMI…”For første gang i over 100 år har DMI registreret, at Danmark to år i træk oplever en landsdækkende hvid jul.
Klimatolog Mikael Scharling har gennemgået alle de data, der er til rådighed fredag eftermiddag og vurderer, at kriterierne for hvid jul er mere end opfyldt; det vil sige, at mindst 90% af landets areal er dækket med mindst ½ centimeter sne.
Juleaftensdag varierer snedybden aktuelt fra få centimeter i dele af Jylland til over en meter på Bornholm.” Not much need for a translation after all Danish and English are two Germanic dialects, right??!! So the island of Bornholm has in some places more than 1 metre…at my Swedish island of Öland , N Möckleby had 65 cm this Xmas day morning, no change from yesterday, it’s about 20 miles of my summer house…The Öland blizzard has a name of its own: “Fåk” like “hawk” with an f… More about Piet Hein etc. later…
December 25, 2010 at 2:23 am …”20 miles N of my summer house”
Onion:
Gravitation: Either an asteroid will hit the earth tomorrow OR it will not
Evolution: Either the panda will become extinct within the next 50 years OR it will not
AGW: In future, winters will be generally warmer AND they will be generally colder.
Not the same thing at all.
Merry Christmas everyone! Much appreciation to Anthony and all the moderators for creating and maintaining such an awesome site. Thanks to all the posters; I really enjoy the comments and banter from many of you. This is a great blog. I think I’m officially addicted to it!
It is worth re-stating the physical truth that completely undermines the whole AGW craze. And that is that the very idea of a “greenhouse effect” and back radiation somehow warming the planet is absurd nonsense and violates the laws of physics. For more information see Alan Siddons and Hans Schreuder’s excellent website http://www.ilovemycarbondioxide.com/.
here you will find the true sceptics and not mere lukewarmers.
merry co2 Xmas to all!
John of Kent.
Merry Christmas everyone and thanks to WUWT for a year of excellently informative and provocative blogs.
Amino Acids in Meteorites says:
December 24, 2010 at 10:46 pm
You have links?
Only in danish, Google Translate:
http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fjp.dk%2Findland%2Ftrafik%2Farticle2287519.ece&sl=da&tl=en&hl=&ie=UTF-8
FEMA-CIZED says:
December 24, 2010 at 4:54 pm -Flood plain
In the UK you would have a chance to appeal as these flood plain zones are extended by computer modelling using parameters that might be totally irrelevant to your circumstances. The IPCC recently handed down a diktat on planning for increased flood risks that in our country increased the flooding risk threshold by up to 25%. That could be the source of the problem.
If the reclassification is correct you might be able to carry out your own approved mitigation.
Worth checking with the relevant authority.
tonyb
Hey, anyone know how to cook a turkey?
I’m starting a bit of a crusade to get everybody to ready Ezra Levant’s book, Ethical Oil
http://www.amazon.com/Ethical-Oil-Case-Canadas-Sands/dp/077104643X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1293291797&sr=1-1
Worth every penny.
Merry Christmas everyone!!
Merry Christmas Jesters!!!!
onion says:
December 24, 2010 at 6:36 pm
“”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.”
Why is it that warmists always dare to compare their drivel with the theory of gravitation or evolution when you warmists have no evidence at all. Some kind of world domination complex? People didn’t believe Einstein or Newton without checking their stuff. Stop being preposterous; what you warmists have is a conjecture, and this conjecture predicts now milder AND colder winters. Clean up you act first and then come back, and don’t start by comparing yourself with the biggest minds in history; it reeks of hubris.
Merry Histmas! I kan’t say it properly because the EPA is regulating my use of the third letter of the alphabet.
Robert of Ottowa, I’d suggest the ButterBall Turkey hotline, or their website, if you have not found them yet. And always, always 1) Thaw the bird first and 2) triple check to ensure that the giblets are no longer inside before you start cooking the bird. Trust me on this one.
Merry Christmas to one and all from the dry southern steppe of North America (send snow, please! Pretty please!) We’re having ham et cetera – tomorrow, after the rest of the family staggers into town.
Merry Christmas, everyone!
To re-visit the FCC’s plan to take complete control of the internet, see the dissenting Commissioners’ comments here.
Finally: is “onion” a bot? Or just a beginner?
Smokey says:
December 25, 2010 at 9:10 am
“Finally: is “onion” a bot? Or just a beginner?”
I don’t think he’s a bot – the newfangled double prediction of milder AND colder winters stems from a recent paper by the PIK (author Petoukhov), e.g. here:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1341388/Global-warming-Britain-longer-colder-winters-melting-sea-ice-plays-havoc-weather-patterns.html
and it doesn’t look like Cook has already updated his standard rebuttal attempts by now:
http://www.skepticalscience.com/heading-into-new-little-ice-age.htm
and as his material is used by that bot writer, i forget his name, we had him here a while ago, i don’t think his bot can already react on the ambiguous forecast line.
Geoff Sharp says:
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Hi Geoff
My friend Barry impressed by my graphing skills, send me some data to plot against CETs. Since it is open thread I thought the RESULT could be of interest to some but not all of the contributors.
Merry Christmas.