Category: The sky is falling! The Sky is falling!

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Frying Dinner on the Sidewalk Tonight

Forecast for today said high of 97°F. Dam*ed lying Weatherbuggy. The current report from the high school’s weather station is slightly higher in temp…

Well, now that the actual temp is DOWN from 111°F, the heat index of 115°F seems OK, right? Right?

Oh, dear. Spoke a bit too soon. After burning myself on the table saw out on the deck, I decided to check again:

And "downtown's on fire, man"

Again, if weather forecasts are this inaccurate from one day to the next, even IF the global warmistas’ Cult of Anthropogenic Global Climate Scare-ism models hadn’t already been shot full of holes, I’d still have no reason to place any confidence in them, now would I? At least not confidence enough to further wreck the global economy with their proposed “remedies” for “problems” they’ve not offered anything more than failed computer models to support..

Meanwhile, it’s hot. It’s called “Summer”. I remember it from last year about this time. *heh*

And speaking of heat and summer and all that jazz, as I have been, how can I neglect to link this (via Sister Nicole) and give a hearty and soul felt “AMEN! Preach on brother!”

(One small cavil about The Church of The Blessed Evaporator: w/o AC, Congress wouldn’t meet so often and make so much trouble, and “feddle gummint bureaucraps” wouldn’t have all those nice, air conditioned offices from which to work their deeds of iniquity. Sad that such a boon to humanity can be perverted so… *sigh*)

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Reason #1,365,92 Why I Don’t Trust Climate Scare-ists’ Models

Just think about it for a few seconds. The comparative size, accuracy and reliability of the data sets used by Climate Scare-sim Cultists is minuscule, wildly inaccurate and unreliable (using their data setsd, their models have yet to be able to “post-dict” ANY climate and have proven wildly off in predictions to date, even with data cheating and outright lies to make their case) compared to your garden variety weather forecasters’ data sets. And yet, who really has found weather forecasters’ predictions to be all that close to what comes to pass?

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What a Difference Location Makes

Quite apart from the asininity of determining a global temperature in tenth of a degree (Celsius) increments, the variability of recording/reporting stations has never been dealt with in any rational or convincing way by cultists from the Cult of Anthropogenic Global Climate Scare-ism.

Let me take just one data point as an example. We have two relatively credible temperature reporting stations located within roughly 1,000 feet of each other, here in the lil burg where America’s Third World County Central is located. Early this morning, one reporting station reported a low temp of 79oF (just a smidge over 26oC). The other reported 84oF (nearly 29oC).

Now, you go figure how many radical differences like that are not resolved in favor of the lower number by cultists from the Cult of Anthropogenic Global Climate Scare-ism, ‘K?

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About That “Scientific Consensus” Thingy…

There are many, many examples of “scientific consensus” being flat out wrong, from the scholastics who derided Galileo and compelled the Catholic church to place him in house arrest (as much to protect him from the Academia Nut Fruitcakes of the 17th Century as anything else… plus ça change and all that, I suppose… ) to the much trumpeted “consensus” about Anthropogenic Whatever-They’re-Calling-It-Today. Here’s Jacob Bronowski mentioning yet another “scientific consensus” in a snippet from his 1973 presentation, “The Ascent of Man”–

Of course, Bronowski was exaggerating a wee tad. After all, J.J. Thomson was working diligently at that time to prove the existence and properties of electrons, which he called “corpuscles”, and others were exploring and debating the existence and properties of atoms, but in general what Bronowski asserts is as true of the “scientific community” of the very early 1900s in regards to consensus on the existence of the atom as “scientific consensus” today regarding Anthropogenic Whatever-They’re-Calling-It-Today: the accepted dogma of those with the power of position, money and the public’s ear is just as anti-scientific today as the assertions from ignorance of the anti-atomic dogmatists of the early 1900s. And the real scientists are working today, just as out of the limelight as Thomson and his colleagues were in 1900.

But, of course, then Thomson was awarded a Nobel for his work in 1907 and the tide began to turn…

“Scientific consensus” has as often been wrong as right over the centuries, and we’d do well to learn the lesson that theory must bend to fact, and not the other way around as those who embrace the Cult of Anthropogenic Whatever-They’re-Calling-It-Today would have it with their always wrong (at least so far) computer models that “prove”–with faked data as often as not, it seems–the sky is falling (though no one has been hit by a chunk of sky yet, despite their predictions).

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More “Global Warming”

Yeh, yeh, I know the fallacy of arguing weather conditions to counter blather from The Cult of Anthropogenic Global Climate Scare-ism, but since the cult regularly fakes “data” and turns a blind eye to the elephants in the room (we don’t even know what the solar constant is anymore, not that we ever really did, and only Ian Pilmer, once a well-respected geologist who is now vilified by the CAGCS for raising inconvenient facts, seems to be seriously addressing the role of volcanism in climate), I feel in no mood to play fair with The Cult of Anthropogenic Global Climate Scare-ism. So there.

So, on the first week and a bit of “Spring” here in America’s Third World County, we’ve had freezing temps overnight, every night, and temps only today began climbing into the plus 50 degrees Fahrenheit range.

Gotta be that Global Warming, eh, since these temps are unusually cool for early Spring around here.

*feh*

Do note that some CAGCS cultist loonies are actually asserting anthropogenic causes for increased volcanic activity. Roll that one around for a while, would you? Your CO2 “contamination” of the atmosphere is, according to these “maroons” (to use Bugs Bunny’s label), causing volcanic eruptions!

Oh, they have long, convoluted, irrational “explanations” for their assertions, but it all boils down to an assertion of mankind’s power over geologic formations to such a degree as to make the mythic Greek gods envious.

*headdesk*

I dread to ask what more these cultists can do to discredit their religion.

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Snowmageddon 2011?

*heh*

Just when it was (relatively) safe to go outa the house: in the last 1-1.5 hours, nearly 2″ of powder over packed snow & ice on America’s Third World County streets and roads. Makes for more treacherous driving than if it were snow alone, of coure. OTOH, it is kinda fun to watch dumbasses trying to drive in the stuff (as long as one can stay out of their line of attack).

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This S&G hook is pretty much the theme song for today’s “Third World County Snowmageddon Demolition Derby”.

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Another “Authority” Weighs In on AGW

Add to the weight of opinion expressed by the Lemming Herd composed of Anthropogenic Climate Change Fanboiz calling themselves scientists, Vacuum-Headed Celebrities and politicians *spit* who are crying “The ski is falling! The sky is falling!” the views now expressed by…

Osama bin Laden.

Now, don’t take me wrong, but I actually have more respect for bin Laden’s point of view than for any from the other groups I cited above. That’s not to say I respect his views at all, only to indicate what sort of respect I give the views of the aforementioned groups of cretinous workers of iniquity.