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Just In Time For Winter: Globull Warming Update

Better mention a sweater in your letter to Santa.

At Watts Up With That, data from the National Climatic Data Center are reviewed. The results are quite startling. Every region of the continental United States has shown a cooling trend during the winter from 2001 to the present, and five of the nine regions have also had a cooling trend during the summer. With respect to annual mean temperature, only one of nine regions–the Northeast–has gotten warmer; the other eight have gotten cooler.

American data are significant because the U.S. is a large land mass, and because we probably have the world’s best records. But the absence of warming is a worldwide phenomenon. Pat Michaels:

“The last ten years of the BEST [worldwide] data indeed show no statistically significant warming trend, no matter how you slice and dice them”. He adds: “Both records are in reasonable agreement about the length of time without a significant warming trend. In the CRU record it is 15.0 years. In the University of Alabama MSU it is 13.9, and in the Remote Sensing Systems version of the MSU it is 15.6 years. [Powerline]

Global Warming Update For Your Chilly Friday

Let's get this straight, I am all in favor of solar energy.  Like my dogs, I love the warmth of the sun.  Sunny days make me cheerie.  Blue skies are pretty.  Tanning on South Beach has its rewards.  But....

Eco-campaigners who built a classroom powered by the sun believed they were paving the way for the future.

Instead they have been taught a valuable lesson - there is not enough sun in North London to sufficiently heat their building.

The much feted zero-carbon Living Ark classroom was opened three months ago to great fanfare.

It boasts laudable green credentials and is made from sustainable wood, sheep’s wool and soil. The roof is made of mud and grass and it has its own ‘rain pod’ and solar panels.

But there is snag - its solar panels only provide enough energy to power a few lightbulbs.

As a result the classroom is bitterly cold and uninhabitable for lessons.

Parents have branded it ‘useless’, an ‘expensive piece of wood’ and a ‘great idea for the Caribbean’. [DailyMail]

Have You Ever Heard Of 'Agenda 21'? Inform Yourself!

I had never heard of "Agenda 21" until last night.  Of course as a conservative blogger I get a lot of conspiracy theory stuff thrown my way and so I was understandably skeptical.  But then I researched the matter, and what I found might alarm you.  This is real.  This is not a test.  Inform yourself. 

Most Americans are unaware that one of the greatest threats to their freedom may be a United Nations program known as Agenda 21. The United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Division for Sustainable Development created Agenda 21 as a sustainability agenda which is arguably an amalgamation of socialism and extreme environmentalism brushed with anti-American, anti-capitalist overtones. 

A detailed history on sustainable development, definitions, and critical actions can be found here. Section III of the Agenda 21 Plan addresses local community sustainable development.  The Preamble and Chapter 28 discuss how Agenda 21 should be implemented at a local level. The United Nations purposely recommends avoiding the term Agenda 21 and suggests a cleverly named alternative: "smart growth." The United Nations Millennium Papers - Issue 2 (page 5) says this of Agenda 21 and smart growth:

Participating in a UN-advocated planning process would very likely bring out many of the conspiracy-fixated groups and individuals in our society such as the National Rifle Association, citizen militias and some members of Congress. This segment of our society who fear 'one-world government' and a UN invasion of the United States through which our individual freedom would be stripped away would actively work to defeat any elected official who joined 'the conspiracy' by undertaking LA21. So, we call our process something else, such as comprehensive planning, growth management, or smart growth [emphasis added].

Undoubtedly, residents of any town, county, or city in the United States that treasure their freedom, liberty, and property rights couldn't care less whether it's called Agenda 21 or smart growth. A recent example of this can be found in Carroll County, Maryland, where a smart growth plan called Pathways was drafted by the County Planning Department. The plan, if enacted, proposed a breathtaking reshuffling of land rights: [American Thinker]

That's right.  The UN approved a plan for a "New World Order" and the United States is falling in line, although some of the language being used to describe the initiative has been changed to obscure the connection.

Agenda 21 is a comprehensive plan of action to be taken globally, nationally and locally by organizations of the United Nations System, Governments, and Major Groups in every area in which human impacts on the environment. [United Nations]

And just how does this agenda threaten you, me and the liberty tens of thousands of our countrymen have died to protect?  I urge you to watch this complete video.  If you don't have time now, please come back when you do.

I think this might open your eyes.  It opened mine, at least enough to look further than before.

Think this is all a big conspiracy theory, just another example of extremist fear mongering?

Then after watching the video, look HERE. 

They aren't even trying to hide it.

The End Of The World?

A friend who recently visited the Mayan ruins returned to breathlessly relate to me how frightening it was for him to learn that the Mayan's had predicted the year 2012 to be the end of the world.  Of course they didn't, it's just that they made calendars and stopped making them for years after 2012.

Maybe they finally discovered what anybody who received a phone book during the 1970's knew, that the calendar for future years followed a predictable pattern which repeated itself such that the same calendar could be used over and over and it wasn't necessary to make one for every year.

Or, since the civilization died out, or disbanded, or dispersed, maybe the market for calendars wasn't as strong as it once was and the guy making them just quit.

Or maybe they really knew something......

The coming year will be an important one for space weather as the Sun pulls out of a trough of low activity and heads into a long-awaited and possibly destructive period of turbulence.

Many people may be surprised to learn that the Sun, rather than burn with faultless consistency, goes through moments of calm and tempest.

But two centuries of observing sunspots -- dark, relatively cool marks on the solar face linked to mighty magnetic forces -- have revealed that our star follows a roughly 11-year cycle of behaviour.

The latest cycle began in 1996 and for reasons which are unclear has taken longer than expected to end.

Now, though, there are more and more signs that the Sun is shaking off its torpor and building towards "Solar Max," or the cycle's climax, say experts.

At its angriest, the Sun can vomit forth tides of electromagnetic radiation and charged matter known as coronal mass ejections, or CMEs.

This shock wave may take several days to reach Earth. When it arrives, it compresses the planet's protective magnetic field, releasing energy visible in high latitudes as shimmering auroras -- the famous Northern Lights and Southern Lights.

But CMEs are not just pretty events.

They can unleash static discharges and geomagnetic storms that can disrupt or even knock out the electronics on which our urbanised, Internet-obsessed, data-saturated society depends.

Less feared, but also a problem, are solar flares, or eruptions of super-charged protons that can reach Earth in just minutes.

In the front line are telecommunications satellites in geostationary orbit, at an altitude of 36,000 kilometres (22,500 miles) and Global Positioning System (GPS) satellites, on which modern airliners and ships depend for navigation, which orbit at 20,000 kms (12,000 miles). [Breitbart]

***Global Warming Update***White Christmas? Yes...No....Yes....Maybe

We spend millions of dollars a year on the National Weather Service.  The only thing it gets right is telling pilots what is happening too far out their windows for them to see themselves.  Predictions more than a few hours out are apparently too much under the control of nature to be understood by man.

Just look at the way the predictions of a white Christmas have bounced around this week. I even heard one forecaster say "We can expect between 1 and 10 inches of snow on Christmas Day".  WHAT??!!!  With that margin of error you'd think he'd given himself enough wiggle room to be right, right?  Well the very next day he said "Now the models are showing the storm passing to our south, missing us entirely".

OH, Come on!  Let me dispel the myth of predicting weather.  It's a hoax.  The news channels use the weather man to get you to watch their show.  Do you really tune in every night to hear about the latest house fire?  Do you really care that another fight broke out between drunk meth dealers somewhere in an alley?  Is that why you tune in?

No.  You tune in because they tease the show with predictions of "white death"  "killer heat waves"  "torrential rainstorms"  "possible tornadoes" and the like.  And of course since they can't predict the weather at all (do you really need more proof?) then they are free to just make it up.  I mean, we've become so accustomed to them being wrong, what's the risk of being wrong on purpose?

Soooooo....for all of you our there who still stare at TV programs, movies and "documentaries" predicting how man made global warming is about to bring an end to life as we know it, then let me ask you this: do you really think they can predict the weather years away, when they can't even get Christmas right?

Now don't be too hard on yourself.  You might just be one of those kind hearted people who doesn't think about things as deeply as others.  Here's a way to test yourself to find if you are just a nice person who is easily fooled.  Ask yourself this question: are you still amazed how time and time again when you are looking for something, it always seems to be in the last place you look?  No, really, do you still think that this truism is some kind of magical coincidence? 

Well then you probably belong to that large group of people who have not come to realize that the reason the thing you are looking for is always found in the last place you look is because only a fool would keep looking in other places for something he has already found.  It's okay, but now that you have reached a new level of awakening you don't have to be a democrat anymore.  You've got until December 31st to change your party affilliation.

But, in the meantime, if you have the irresistable urge to run out and buy up all the bread and milk, hunker down in front of the TV and engage in hours of wide eyed blinking, then get ready.  What you are really going to see will be jovial weather gals and dudes snookering you into watching hours worth of house fire reports and drunken brawls so they can sell commercial advertising.

And if you REALLY want to get scared then check out this report from the Sydney Morning Herald:

Piers Corbyn works in an undistinguished office in Borough High Street. He has no telescope or supercomputer. Armed only with a laptop, huge quantities of publicly available data and a first-class degree in astrophysics, he gets it right again and again.

He seems to get it right about 85 per cent of the time and serious business people - notably in farming - are starting to invest in his forecasts.

I have not a clue whether his methods are sound or not.

Piers Corbyn believes that the last three winters could be the harbinger of a mini ice age that could be upon us by 2035, and that it could start to be colder than at any time in the last 200 years. He goes on to speculate that a genuine ice age might then settle in, since an ice age is now cyclically overdue.

Happy now?

Remember What I Said About Corn Fed Pork?

Remember what I said just the other day?  Well, here's the Investors Business Daily weighing in on the subject of corn fed pork:

Here's the bottom line for the ethanol tax credits additive to the White House-GOP tax compromise:

• $6 billion in subsidies for 2011.

• $10 per extra gallon of ethanol.

• $14 million per extra job.

• $1.2 billion to attract one extra Senate vote.

In a season of giving in Washington, the ethanol lobby may come away with even more than it hoped for and its ardent defenders sought.

The Senate version of the $858 billion tax bill unveiled late Thursday — just a week after Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., proposed extending the ethanol tax credit at a reduced 36 cents a gallon — would keep the current 45-cent credit.

Extending ethanol subsidies at a cost of $6 billion for one year would result in an extra 600 million gallons, putting the subsidy at $10 per incremental gallon, according to recent projections from Iowa State University's Center for Agricultural and Rural Development.

$6 Bil For 420 Jobs

Center director Bruce Babcock said in an e-mail that each 100 million gallons of ethanol creates 70 jobs. Thus, 600 million gallons would result in 420 jobs, or about $14 million per job.

Oh sure.  They are listening to the people, right?  The days of earmarks are over, right?

Maybe, but the days of ears of corn and pork laden legislation are alive and doing very well, wouldn't you say?

Who Profits From 'Green' Energy? The Reds

President Obama plans to put Jimmy Carter's solar panels back up on the White House.  He has called for an increase in solar, wind and other forms of green energy, like electric cars. But have you ever wondered  who profits most from a shift away from dependence on foreign oil, to "Green" technology?  Red China.

China currently produces fully 97% of the world’s rare-earth oxides, the raw materials that can be refined into metals and blended into specialty alloys for defense, commercial and power-generation components.

“China’s control of a key minerals market has US military thinkers and policy makers worried about access to materials that are essential for 21st-century technology like smartphones – and smart bombs,” the Wall Street Journal reports. Plus stealth fighter jets, digital cameras, computer hard drives – and wind turbine magnets, solar panels, hybrid and electric car batteries, compact fluorescent light bulbs, catalytic converters, and more. [CanadaFreePress]

The 17 rare earth metals, some with exotic names like lanthanum and europium, form unusually strong lightweight magnetic materials.

Lanthanum is used in the batteries of hybrid cars, neodymium is used in magnets in the electric generators of wind turbines and europium is used in colored phosphors for energy-efficient lighting. [Reuters]

China began mining rare earth minerals in the 1980s, and by the mid-90s was well surpassing the U.S. in production.  China had several competitive advantages over the U.S.  First, it has some of the best concentrations of rare earths in the world, including the huge Bayan Obo mine in Inner Mongolia.  Second, it had cheaper labor costs.  Third, it had laxer environmental rules. [Forbes]

Hmmm....And you thought all that talk about going green, and tightening environmental rules was motivated solely by an insatiable lust for hugging trees.

You big silly.

Global Warming Update: Coldest Winter In 1,000 Years On Way

Okay, it was the hottest summer on record in Russia.  Now it's going to be the coldest winter in 1,000 years, according to a recent report.  But before you panic, consider this: who was keeping temperature records 1,000 years ago, and what instrument were they using to measure it with?

After the record heat wave this summer, Russia's weather seems to have acquired a taste for the extreme.

Forecasters say this winter could be the coldest Europe has seen in the last 1,000 years.

The change is reportedly connected with the speed of the Gulf Stream, which has shrunk in half in just the last couple of years. Polish scientists say that it means the stream will not be able to compensate for the cold from the Arctic winds. According to them, when the stream is completely stopped, a new Ice Age will begin in Europe. [RT.com]

Of course in the same article there is a glimmer of hope, as admittedly no one can predict the future:

“We will be able to judge with more certainty come November. As for last summer's heat, the statistical models that meteorologists use to draw up long-term forecasts aren't able to predict an anomaly like that.”

Of course, Al Gore has never let those kinds of human limitations keep him from inciting global panic.

Conway Buys Into Obama/Gore Global Warming Language

He's running for the US Senate from Kentucky so Jack Conway has to speak highly of coal.  But when it comes to discussing Obama's approach to dealing with the environment, Conway is fully on board with his fellow liberal and the crazed sexual aggressor, Al Gore.  Conway says we need to reduce our "carbon footprint."

In an interview with Ryan Alessi at MyCN2.com Conway pays lip service to the coal industry, but then goes on to praise Obama's Oval office speech by agreeing that America needs to be taking steps to reduce carbon.

Now, let's be clear, if there is a reason for improving the technology for burning coal, oil and natural gas so as to reduce pollution, what is it?  The one offered by Obama/Gore/Conway is buying into the "Global Warming" hoax.

Sorry Jack, your slip is showing.  You are a global warming apologist, born from the liberal wing of the Democratic party and pandering to the coal industry just so you can get elected.

This is just the kind of double talk America has grown tired of.

GLOBAL WARMING UPDATE: What Are WE To Believe?

Two reports are out on the subject formerly known as "Global Warming":

This from Little Green Footballs:

Two separate sources of climate data have confirmed that this April was the warmest April ever recorded — and the world’s average temperature was the highest on record for the January-April period: 2010: Warmest year on record so far.

And then this from World Net Daily:

A new "Little Ice Age" could begin in just four years, predicted Habibullo Abdussamatov, the head of space research at St. Petersburg's Pulkovo Astronomical Observatory in Russia.

Abdussamatov was speaking yesterday at the Heartland Institute's Fourth International Conference on Climate Change in Chicago, which began Sunday and ends today.

The Little Ice Age, which occurred after an era known in scientific circles as the Medieval Warm Period, is typically defined as a period of about 200 years, beginning around 1650 and extending through 1850.

Will scientists one day looking back on all this talk about how hot it is followed by how cold it is perhaps come up with one of those scientific names for the era we are living in?  If so, I have a suggestion, "The Menopausal Era".