Ice Age ‘07: Politically Incorrect Weather

Someone apparently forgot to get the memo to winter about the imminent threat from “global warming.” This story says some areas of New York State have received 100 inches of snow since last Sunday and could get 4 more feet, yes feet, next week.

Oh, pardon my ignorance. Global warming, portrayed by internet inventor Al Gore and some really smart people at the UN as the biggest crisis in world history, is now about climate change. So it can get really cold, and that also means it’s warming. And if you don’t understand that logic, you probably didn’t go to the right school.

Oh, and today the Boston Globe’s Ellen Goodman compared global warming deniers to holocaust deniers. Nice. When do the show trials begin?

Remember those photos of poor polar bears supposedly marooned on melting icebergs? Did you also see the photos of the Swedish reindeer? You didn’t? The ones starving in Sweden because the ice on the ground is too thick this winter? Now, there’s an inconvenient truth.

Well, do you remember this past hurricane season? No? That’s because there were very few hurricanes of any note. The climate change prophets of doom in 2006 predicted the meteorological equivalent of a disaster epic, with cyclonic monsters out for revenge because of all the damage your SUV did to the planet. Oops. Another no-show by nature. I live a few miles from the ocean in Virginia Beach and I cannot remember a calmer hurricane season.

Hmmm…the weather is obviously not politically correct, even if The Weather Channel now is.

The city of Chicago was once buried under an ice sheet that was one mile thick.

Want to the earth to cool? Be careful what you wish for.

"Oh, pardon my ignorance. Global warming, portrayed by internet inventor Al Gore and some really smart people at the UN as the biggest crisis in world history, is now about climate change. So it can get really cold, and that also means it’s warming. And if you don’t understand that logic, you probably didn’t go to the right school."

I remember debating on-line in the mid-90s 'global warming'. I became a 'global warming' denier when I was told that 'global warming' could cause hotter temperatures and colder termperatures, more rain and less rain, etc.

At that point I realized that 'global warming' was fatally flawed as an hypothesis. A hypothesis must be capable of being proved right or wrong. But, if everything is consistent with the hypothesis, it can not be factually verified.

I was amazed that those arguing the correctness of global warming could not see this basic scientific problem. At that point I became a 'global warming' denier.

My drains freeze too, I can cope with no water for a day or too but no drain sucks big time.

I remember going to school at Purdue and having my eyelashes freezing together the first time I tried to walk in a -30 windchill.

I moved to Florida within weeks of graduation.

We have our problems, but there's no snow or real cold. Thank you, God, there is no snow.

Let us know if you ever come down for a visit in warmer climes. I don't recommend anyone move here right now with the problem with insurance and taxes, but if you do visit, we'll help you scout out some fun and show you some good restaurants. We'll take you to one of our Brazilian restaurants like Chima. 16 kinds of meat roasted on spit and marinated with brine. Good eatin'...

I stubbed my toe three times in the past year and each time it was cloudy out.

Therefore

Every time it's cloudy out I'm at high risk of stubbing my toe.

Flawed logic in this global warming, junk science.

I was amazed that those arguing the correctness of global warming could not see this basic scientific problem. At that point I became a 'global warming' denier.

This is part of what did it for me too. However the clincher was when I read articles by GW proponents which essentially said that GW was so obviously true that any evidence to the contrary could be safely ignored.

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