The more recent (not more accurate) phrasing “Global Climate Change” has only existed to make up for the fact that the weather isn’t behaving “warmer” as once predicted. I remember how GW was once sold as causing deserts and long term droughts. Now, that’s no longer the claim, since it has become obvious to most layman, that it’s not happening! So now it’s the notion that a “less that ideal” climate, is being caused by human pollution. But there’s no such thing as an “ideal” climate. Because weather is rarely anything but ideal. An “average” of annual climate, is simply a statistical convention. Not a reality. And Global Warming readings are supposedly an average of temperature taken globally. I say “supposedly”, because I doubt it’s adjusted for by the square mile. Taking a hundred readings in Texas, and maybe only a dozen in Alaska, tends to skew the results toward it appearing warmer. And don’t just assume the climate experts are compensating for this. Because they have never said or proved that they are. And it would be so easy for them not to, in order to justify their claims and their grant money.

I once cause our local Tv station reporting the temp. as ten degrees hotter, in the morning, than what mine was reading. I knew my gauge couldn’t be that far off. So I emailed the station and mentioned that their reading might have been effected by their roof heating up. I got a reply, that they applied some compensation to their reading to account for this. Meaning, it’s still effected by being too close to the building. But they assume that they can simply adjust the reading a certain amount. Yeah, a guesstimate, most likely. But hardly accurate. And the incorrect measurement for that morning, probably went on record anyway. Uncompensated.

So I wonder just how much of this Global Warming, is simply laziness. At not moving the recording gear far enough away from hot roofs and roadways. They take readings at major airports, out where the jet engine exhausts surely effect everything for miles. They haven’t changed how they do things since the days of the prop engine. Do they compensate for added flights, heating up the air on the ground? There was a noticeable drop in these readings, following 9-11. When all flights were grounded for three days. Gee, I wonder why it got cooler, at the airports?!

Sorry, I forgot. It's the important bit. Right?

Laugh it up while you can — things will get a little humid when half the Big Island slides into the Pacific!

Is there no perfect place to live? I thought a few thousand feet up the side of a mountain in Hawaii would be _the_ place, until I saw pictures of the spreading, widening crack on the side of the volcano…

http://communities.canada.com/theprovince/blogs/olympicscity/archive/2010/02/07/polish-newspaper-accidentally-makes-pedobear-olympic-mascot.aspx

On the other hand we haven’t been getting the weather the man made global warming crowd predicted either.

The new “in group” in climate change is predicting a cooling trend for the next decade or so due to a recurring oscillation. Of course I have my doubts about those patterns being absolutely stable.

I think it’s time to pretend we’re boy scouts and just be prepared for what mother nature sends our way.

My snowblower is getting rusty from no action. Come on D.C., share the white stuff.

I had to winterize the house and go stay with my sister in Pittsburgh until power is restored.

There will be a big need for plumbers when the power returns due to pipes broken by freezing. Last night and tonight the lows will be in the single digits.

Up until 6pm Friday they were predicting we would get 8″.

I’m sure other areas of the Mid Atlancic have the same problem.

Too bad it can’t come down at the rate of 2 feet per hour. That would be cool.

Got a few inches yesterday and snow forecast all week.

I just read about DC getting over 34″ of snow. WOW. The last real snow fall I remember here was before Christmas of 08.

Vancouver is having to truck in snow for the Olympics.