Posted on 02/09/2008 12:21:56 AM PST by publana
IBD is great, but this is a misuse of the term and a classic example of a journalist not being quite familiar enough with their subject. We could be going into a minimum, that's true, but the "Maunder Minimum" was a specific minimum from about 1645 to 1715; it's not a general term.
It goes without saying that a protracted period of unusual cold will be blamed by the Democrats, the Drive-By Media, and the international Left on industrial capitalism
Thats why the mantra has changed. Its no longer “GLOBAL WARMING”. Its now “CLIMATE CHANGE”. That way, whatever the scenerio, Al Gore & his Cult of Gaia is always in the right. Nice, huh?
BINGO! This allows the BS Science to continue to flourish with aid from the MSM!
Washington's three major mountain highways all closed Friday because of foul weather and avalanche danger, the first time Snoqualmie, Stevens and White passes have been closed simultaneously in 11 years.
Officials began to worry that their two-year snow-and-ice removal budgets might run over because of the unusually nasty weather in the passes.
"All across the Cascades, the avalanche danger is really high," said Mike Westbay, spokesman for the state Department of Transportation.
At Snoqualmie, this season's snowfall exceeded 390 inches Thursday. It wasn't a record, but it was approaching the highest recent levels -- 435 inches that fell during the 1971-72 season and 427 inches in 1973-74. Seasonal snowfall totaled 440 inches at Stevens Pass as of Friday and 509 inches at White Pass; no comparable historic figures were available.
Bart Lutton, terminal manager for Peninsula Truck Lines, said the shutdowns were adding about 4,400 more miles daily to his company's routes, at a cost of several thousand dollars. Some drivers were approaching their mandatory driving-hours limits.
"In my 15 years in Washington this is the worst I've ever seen," Lutton said.
The moon puts out a lot more heat (reflected from the sun) than all the stars combined.
If it gets too cold we can simply scatter lampblack on the snow and increase ground temps. Likewise if it gets too warm we can add sulfates to the fuel of commercial jets transitting the Arctic; the resulting high altitude clouds will cool the polar region. There is a macroengineering fix for most problems. Oh yeah, and if CO2 is really a concern we can add trace minerals to the oceans to increase algae growth and lock up the carbon. The whole climate change propaganda blitz is about hamstringing our economy to the benefit of Europe and others less dependent on hydrocarbon fuels.
If things get cold, Algore will simply reverse himself and declare that man is causing another ice age by burning so many fossil fuels, and the Nobel committee will give him another Nobel Prize.
Sounds like the futures market for carbon credits is gonna take a hit.
Them boys are gettin paid!!
This is sort of a "Duh" quote. The "perhaps" quote is intended to keep the author from getting flamed from the liberal MSM establishment.
According to this article, we're going to wish AlGore wasn't so incredibly stupid.
I already wish that, but wishing won't make it so.
Alfred Nobel was a scientist. I have to wonder what he'd think of his name and a portion of his fortune being attached to a charlatan junk science mongerer like Al Gore.
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Let me humbly submit that a "portion" of Alfred Nobel's greatest creation, trinitrotoluene, be "attached" to Al Gore's nether parts!
Ka-boom!
Translation: Now the idiot left has to get back together and agree on disagreeing.
This data has been around for quite awhile but has only been recently covered by the MSM. I guess if you are interested in Astronomy you know about it, if not you don’t see it at all.
The results of the ongoing research are solid facts, not whispy computer models. Another Maunder type minimum may be in the works.
...there ya have it. :o)
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