Global warming alert!

[Dave007inVegas]

June 6, 2009

Yes that’s right, June 6, 2009

If it seemed cold to you in Green Bay on Saturday, it was.

The high temperature for the day, reached at 9:50 a.m., was 52. That set a record for the lowest high temperature for June 6, according to the National
The old mark was 53, set in 1943.

Similar records were set across Wisconsin today. Manitowoc's high was 54, breaking the record of 56 set in 1935. In central Wisconsin, records were set in Stevens Point, Wisconsin Rapids, Marshfield and Merrill, all breaking marks set in 1935.

Better get used to it. There are showers and thunderstorms in the forecast for Green Bay through Monday night, with highs of 55 on Sunday and 59 on Monday. Things look better for Tuesday, when it’s expected to be partly sunny and 66.

And….

On the same day…

Bismarck N.D. (AP) Snow has fallen in Dickinson in June, the first time in nearly 60 years the city has seen snow past May.

National Weather Service meteorologist Janine Vining in Bismarck says there were unofficial reports of a couple of inches of snow in Dickinson on Saturday.

Vining says snow in North Dakota in June is uncommon, though it's not unheard of. She says other parts of the state have seen June snow within the past 10 years.

Williston and Bismarck had received only rain as of mid-Saturday, but Vining said snow was possible in those cities later in the day.

:Carcajada:

 

[festeringZit]

The Global Warming charlatans are still pushing their bullshit, and the lemmings keep drinking the kool-aid:

June 6th Wall St Journal


http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124424567009790525.html#mod=djemEditorialPage

'Worse Than Fiction'


Global warming alarmists are fond of invoking the authority of experts against the skepticism of supposedly amateur detractors -- a.k.a. "deniers." So when one of those experts says that a recent report on the effects of climate change is "worse than fiction, it is a lie," the alarmists should, well, be alarmed.
The latest contretemps pits former U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan, now president of the Geneva-based Global Humanitarian Forum, against Roger Pielke, Jr., an expert in disaster trends at the University of Colorado. Mr. Annan's outfit issued a lengthy report late last month warning that climate change-induced disasters, such as droughts and floods, kill 315,000 each year and cost $125 billion, numbers it says will rise to 500,000 dead and $340 billion by 2030. Adding to the gloom, Mr. Annan predicts "mass starvation, mass migration, and mass sickness" unless countries agree to "the most ambitious international agreement ever negotiated" at a meeting this year in Copenhagen.
Even on its own terms, the numbers here are a lot less scary when put into context. Malaria kills an estimated one million people a year, while AIDS claims an estimated two million. As for the economic costs, $125 billion is slightly less than the GDP of New Zealand. Question: Are targeted campaigns using proven methods to spare the world three million AIDS and malaria deaths a year a better use of scarce resources than a multitrillion-dollar attempt to re-engineer the global economy and save, at most, a tenth that number? We'd say yes.
But the Annan report deserves even closer scrutiny as an example of the sleight of hand that so often goes with the politics of global warming. Unlike starvation, climate change does not usually kill anyone directly. Instead, the study's authors assume a four-step chain of causation, beginning with increased emissions, moving to climate-change effects, thence to physical changes like melting glaciers and desertification, and finally arriving at human effects like malnutrition and "risk of instability and armed conflicts."
This is a heroic set of assumptions, even if you agree that emissions are causing adverse changes in climate. Take the supposedly heightened risk of conflict: The authors suggest that "inter-clan fighting in Somalia" is a product of climate change. A likelier explanation is the collapse of a functioning Somali government and the rise of jihadists in the region.
Enter Mr. Pielke, who, we hasten to add, does not speak for us (nor we for him). But given the headlines the Annan report has garnered, his views deserve amplification. Writing in the Prometheus science policy blog, Mr. Pielke calls the report a "methodological embarrassment" and a "poster child for how to lie with statistics" that "does a disservice" to those who take climate change issues seriously.
Mr. Pielke's critique begins by citing a recent peer-reviewed paper by three German researchers that "it is generally difficult to obtain valid quantitative findings about the role of socioeconomics and climate change in loss increases." Reasons for this, the researchers explain, include "the stochastic [random] nature of weather extremes, a shortage of quality data, and the role of various other potential factors that act in parallel and interact."
The report does admit to a "significant margin of error," but this hardly excuses the sloppiness of its methodology. "To get around the fact that there has been no attribution of the relationship of GHG [greenhouse gas] emissions and disasters," Mr. Pielke notes, the Annan "report engages in a very strange comparison of earthquake and weather disasters in 1980 and 2005. The first question that comes to mind is, why? They are comparing phenomena with many 'moving parts' over a short time frame, and attributing 100% of the resulting difference to human-caused climate change. This boggles the mind."
It gets worse. The Annan report cites Hurricane Katrina as a case study in the economic consequences of climate change. Yet there's not even remotely conclusive evidence that temperature increases have any effect on the intensity or frequency of hurricanes. The authors also claim that global warming is aggravating the El Niño effect, which has "ruined livelihoods, led to lost lives and impaired national economies." Yet new research "questions the notion that El Niños have been getting stronger because of global warming," according to Ben Giese of Texas A&M.
We could go on, except we're worried about the blood pressure of readers who are climate-change true believers. Our only question is, if the case for global warming is so open and shut, why the need for a report as disingenuous as Mr. Annan's?

 

[texansfan]

It's all about money. I've heard that Gore has made around $100 million with this hoax.

The earth is actually cooling, the seas aren't rising.

 

[Mistermj]

We are going into a sunspot minimum period...much colder weather for the next 50 years at least.

Even the Discovery channel is catching on to the real science.

 

[texansfan]

That clown is actually working on a sequel to the original hoax. Let's watch the looney left line up to watch this garbage.

The previews of the sequel will consist of a late term abortion followed by a screening of watching men have anal sex.

 

[paftraft]

It's all about money. I've heard that Gore has made around $100 million with this hoax.

The earth is actually cooling, the seas aren't rising.

Yes, but Nancy Pelosi is resistant oil drilling here in the US, in order to save the planet. Has any other house Majority Leader been more clueless?

 

[punter]

Meanwhile back in the real world.

The Swiss have developed a way of making a "blanket" to protect their glaciers from melting. These glaciers have been frozen since the begining of recorded time are fast disappearing.

 

[THawk+]

Glaciers go through cycles also... read up on what is going on and what has gone on in the past...

you may be enlightened with information on how the earth has worked long before any of us were on it and long after we leave it...

You seem like an intelligent person all you have to do is read and study the facts about the earth and how it works....

 

[steaktartar]

It's all about money. I've heard that Gore has made around $100 million with this hoax.

The earth is actually cooling, the seas aren't rising.

:think2:

 

[punter]

Glaciers go through cycles also... read up on what is going on and what has gone on in the past...

you may be enlightened with information on how the earth has worked long before any of us were on it and long after we leave it...

You seem like an intelligent person all you have to do is read and study the facts about the earth and how it works....

These glaciers have never gone through this severe melting at least not since human beings could write.

 

[texansfan]

:think2:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/...sea-levels-is-the-greatest-lie-ever-told.html

 

[texansfan]

These glaciers have never gone through this severe melting at least not since human beings could write.

http://www.dailytech.com/A+Melting+Arctic+Happy+News+for+Mankind/article12882.htm

 

[punter]

Tex, I think you need to broaden your reading list. Dont be like Loren nobody is out to get you. The evidence is overwhelming the earth is getting warmer. Even the Bush administration had to admit it.

 

[texansfan]

Tex, I think you need to broaden your reading list. Dont be like Loren nobody is out to get you. The evidence is overwhelming the earth is getting warmer. Even the Bush administration had to admit it.

Stop listening to Al Gore. Lol, you agree with Bush on 1 thing so you bring him up? Who cares what Bush thinks. I get my info from people in the field, not politicians.

By the way, the Earth has always warmed and cooled. My contention is that there isn't man made global warming like Al Gore states.

 

[THawk+]

Tex, I think you need to broaden your reading list. Dont be like Loren nobody is out to get you. The evidence is overwhelming the earth is getting warmer. Even the Bush administration had to admit it.

Earth goes in cycles... You have heard of the ice age???

Look at facts, the real facts on how the earth works and what is going on right now and you will realize things are not what you think they are...

I did believe in global warming until I started researching on how the earth worked and scientific evidence that was overwhelmingly disproved that theory...

It's obvious yo are not analytical nor open minded when it comes to learning because all the facts are out there all you have to do is read it and study...

I am learning all the time that is what I like to do and I analyze everything...

 

[punter]

Can you scan and post your diplomas and or give a credible source as to why the earth as we know it is not in serious peril from global warming?

 

[THawk+]

Do some research... It is something I do, always learning...

No one holds my hand, if you like to learn or do research you will do it...

If you just want to argue then you have plenty of people here to do that with, I can't be bothered...

If your mind is already made up then so be it... I am always open to new information and research... I take it all in and form an opinion... No one view point or thing makes my mind up...

Never really see you debate any subject... Most of the time just shout people and their opinions down... If you are a schooled intelligent person why do that....

 

[texansfan]

Can you scan and post your diplomas and or give a credible source as to why the earth as we know it is not in serious peril from global warming?

Can you? What is a credible source? Someone whose opinion you agree with?

Can you tell me what makes Gore an expert? His movie was so full of bs and much of it has been shown to be wrong.

 

[punter]

You best start learning the truth rather than a bunch of lies from folks with an agenda. Quit getting your information from political sources.

Yes we have had climate changes. Ice ages and such but never anything of this speed without being accompanied wit a catastrophic geological event or meteor collision.

 

[festeringZit]

Punter is just not very bright.

If the Democrats spoon feed him the pablum, it is truth to him.