The P-I's weather blog reports that record low temperatures were set today:
Sea-Tac Airport hit 18 degrees around 4 a.m., breaking the record of 22 degrees. That was set in 1975.It's tempting to use this opportunity to make fun of the global warming scaremongers, but that would be premature. Maybe Ron Sims' initiative to reverse global warming is already working!
Hope he's enjoying his wonderful massive Guvmunt pension and healh benefits, which no American except Guvmunt Honcho's get anymore..
Time for another Movie Al
"The Incoherent Truth about Global Cooling"
This I gotta watch.................
PS VETO is an Italian friend of mine, who doesn't like your Pork.
Shhh... we want Shark and the rest of them to keep it up so we can run them into the ground in a few more elections.
Give old Mr.Sharkansky the rope, he'll hang himself!
Posted by: me on November 29, 2006 07:33 PMHey Witz, there are a lot of other scientists who DO NOT agree with the global warming conspiracy theorists, and they're victims of harassment and blackballed in the scientific community for thinking differently. I don't see you libs screaming FREEDOM OF SPEECH! FREEDOM OF SPEECH! No, "Freedom for me, but not for thee," that is the liberal way. It's called a theory for a reason. Also, don't you think it's odd that hmmm...the unusually high sun surface temperatures the past few years may have something to do with the Earth's surface temperature? No, that would make too much sense.
Posted by: Spaceboy on November 29, 2006 08:26 PMIt's the idiots like you from Texas who think you know how to drive in inclement weather just because you're in a 4WD with a V8. It's always you guys in the ditch, or crossways in the road that keeps the rest of us from getting anywhere when we get a dab of snow.
Keep telling yourself about all those scientists who dispute global warming. Truth is most of them are a figment of your imaginattion. The overwhelming majority of the scientific community agree global warming is a fact.
For that matter, keep telling yourself how well things are going in Iraq, and the bad news is just the liberal bias of the mainstream media, trying to discredit the Bush Administration.
You are only fooling yourself.
Posted by: Unkl Witz on November 29, 2006 08:41 PMWitz, why is that you liberals always resort to name calling when someone does not agree with you? Spaceboy didn't feel the need to call you an idiot.
Posted by: malamute on November 29, 2006 09:32 PMOh, yeah Unkl, what is it exactly about Bush that ruined your life?
Posted by: deadwood on November 29, 2006 09:43 PMYou talk tough from the comfortable confines of your keyboard. Perhaps you would care to take this tone w/me in person. I hereby offer you the opportunity to get up in my grill and tell me what a delusional, self-righteous punk I am. If you don't accept my invitation then you're nothing but a FREAKING CRYBABY COWARD.
P.S. Bring that quivering tub of Crisco, Ivan with you. He's a tough guy too.
Record low temp of PLUS 18 degrees F ??...
Wimps.
I grew up in northern North Dakota, where (with some accuracy) we used to say there was nothing between us and the north pole except a barbed wire fence: In mid-winter MINUS 18 degress F at night would be considered not too bad. I still remember what minus 40-45 degrees F feels like; even 50 below a couple times. People who have never been outside in below-zero weather have NO IDEA how cold -40 feels (admit I don't miss that much).
It was -50 degrees F in the upper Methow Valley once (late 60s, IIRC). But that was pretty much a one-time abberation; at least since modern record-keeping started.
Posted by: Methow Ken on November 30, 2006 12:05 AMCan you explain WHY it's so cold and so much rain & snow?
Let me guess. Mr PHD Gore knows it all.
Fools.
Posted by: Army Medic/Vet on November 30, 2006 06:42 AMKind of reminds me of a news report I heard just this morning on KOMO radio. Remember how all the hurricane "experts" predicted a major increase in the number of severe hurricanes that were going to hit the US this past season? Caused, as I'm sure you will recall, by global warming? The spokesman related that all the "experts" agreed that there would be lots more really bad hurricanes but he guessed that their computer model for the prediction must have been wrong. He said something about weather patterns and predictions being an inexact science.
You might want to try and keep that in mind.
Posted by: Jay on November 30, 2006 07:15 AMI am going to post this series of links AGAIN! Read them (if you can).
The largest influences on climate are extraterrestrial and therefore outside man's influence.
Global climate cycles:
Daily rotation, day to night.
Earth annual orbit, seasons.
I don't think these two need a link.
The following cycles that effect climate are extraterrestrial influences, the sun and orbital effects.
Sunspot 11 year cycle
Solar Variations
Solar 1100 year cycle
Milankovitch 21,000 year cycle
Orbital influences
The Maunder Minimum
I am sure somehow Ron Sims and Mayor Nickels can alter the solar and orbital cycles.
Here just a few of the climate cycles that only recently have been identified.
The Pacific Decadal Oscillation El Nino Southern Oscillation
North Atlantic Oscillation
Volcanic cycles
In other words there are dozens if not hundreds of known climate oscillations on time scales of hours, day to night, to 10's of millennia. How many oscillations have we not discovered because we only have direct recorded scientific weather data of less than 300 years. We have the geological record, but how many variables are not geologically apparent.
What happens when many of the peaks of these cycles occur at the same time?
Global Warming!
None of the cycles are attributable or affected by humans.
We are coming out of a period of "mild" weather, or not many of the cycles peaks or valleys coincided. The Puget Sound area has been both glaciated and tropical at various times in geological history.
We only understand a fraction of the climatic cycles, so to jump to the conclusion that humans cause global warming is contrary to the entire scientific method, and sheer idiocy.
Al Gore and Global warming nuts are not looking for scientific truths, they seek POLITICAL power by pushing altering the political structure, not the climate.
Yeah! Just look at the market for "Carbon Credits."
3 Billion and rising, just trading "Carbon Credits."
Am I having a browser problem or is it a problem with your server? The way your original posting appears on my screen it indicates you led into a link to KingRon's Kyoto Kolumn. The one where he pats himself on the back for land use controls and $$$ projects in the name of global warming.
Since I can't pull up the global warming bashing you reportedly committed should I switch to Firefox?
And yeah. I'm looking at you danw/unkl witz and the rest of your ilk.
"continued destruction of the commons"
Snort.
Spoken like the true, communist fool you are.
Would that 'going alone' also include the 98-0 US Senate vote rejecting Kyoto? Fool?
Posted by: jimg on November 30, 2006 12:19 PMChina is EXEMPT!
That makes as much sense as arguing for birth control for everyone except India.
Posted by: Rey Smith on November 30, 2006 12:38 PMYou're way off base here. As you were poking fun at global warming, you hardly brought attention to the 60+ degree weather in NY while we had a cold snap.
Did you ever take a statistics course? If not, it's understandable why you think 1 event can be used to extrapolate something that includes billions of billions of events. For example, you could say a batter for the Mariners who goes 4 for 4 in one game is the greatest hitter the league has ever seen -- carefully ingoring his .217 lifetime average (which is meaningful).
So, by being so silly, you actually show you either 1) have no grasp of statistics or 2) have no real data to back your claims and must rely upon your readers to be ignorant for your point to be accepted.
Either case...you hurt your own arguments.
Posted by: GOPlease on November 30, 2006 01:33 PMGive me a break.
Posted by: Jeffro on November 30, 2006 01:44 PM