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Global is supposed to mean world-wide, as in a “global catastrophe.”A global phenomenon should affect everyone, everywhere.
For the past two weeks, the average high temp in Nashville has been 45. Historically, our average high temp in February is 55. For the next week, the average high temp is forecast to be approx. 45 each day. This is not just a one fluke day anomaly. We’re running a month of consecutive days where our temps are 10 degrees below normal.
In layman’s terms, it’s cold.
But the AGW true believers are quick to assert that this in no way refutes the documented long-term trend of global warming. The models, they assure, in fact predict that there will be more extreme weather, more snow, more record cold days. Right.
I am reminded of John Wisdom’s parable of the invisible gardener, which runs thus:
“Two people return to their long neglected garden and find, among the weeds, that a few of the old plants are surprisingly vigorous. One says to the other, ‘It must be that a gardener has been coming and doing something about these weeds.’ The other disagrees and an argument ensues. They pitch their tents and set a watch. No gardener is ever seen. The believer wonders if there is an invisible gardener, so they patrol with bloodhounds but the bloodhounds never give a cry. Yet the believer remains unconvinced, and insists that the gardener is invisible, has no scent and gives no sound. The sceptic doesn’t agree, and asks how a so-called invisible, intangible, elusive gardener differ from an imaginary gardener, or even no gardener at all.”
And so, I ask the AGW true believers, How does this invisible, intangible, elusive global warming which produces cold weather and more snow differ from imaginary global warming, or even, no global warming at all?
is worth a read.
This one expecially.
William Grigg at Pro Libertate on the doctrine of Interposition.
With 40+ inches of global warming on the ground in the Washington DC area, defenders of global warming have been scrambling to deflect or rebut the taunting of the skeptics. Contessa Brewer of CNN, attempting to swim in waters way over her head, made the assertion online that the large snowfalls on the East Coast don’t refute global warming, because warm air carries more moisture. The heavier snowfalls, according to the dear Contessa, are actually BECAUSE of global warming – because warm air carries more moisture.
While technically this assertion is true, it doesn’t help the defenders of global warming one inch! If the syllogism “global warming -> more moisture -> more snowfall” were true, then we ought to see more total inches of precipitation in the DC area, right?
Let’s go to the numbers, Johnny.
Over the past 30 years, the average precipitation for the month of January at Washington Reagan Airport has been 2.72 inches.
Total precipitation for January of 2010? 1.37 inches.
Average precipitation for the month of February? 2.71 inches
Precip so far for February of 2010? 1.79 inches.
Yep, from these stats its clear to see that the warmer air caused by global warming has been carrying more moisture and that this has been causing the large snowfall amounts in DC.
Wait.. No, that’s not right… Something…
Never mind.
Perhaps Contessa Brewer should get out an elementary science book and remind herself of this simple science fact. When it’s warm the moisture in the air comes down as RAIN. When it’s cold, the moisture in the air comes down as SNOW.
Is there any difference in the amount of moisture / precipitation in DC this year vs the past 30 years. NO!
There. Is. No. Increase. In. The. Amount. of. Moisture!.
The only difference is that it’s COLDER.
Which leads me to a prediction. It’s only a matter of time before Contessa informs us that Gobal Warming is causing it to be COLDER.
Andrew Breitbart at the Tea Party Convention in Nashville (referring to the outrageously biased mainstream media coverage of the Tea Party movement):
“That my friends is not media bias. That is contempt for the American people”
Then, he looked into the cameras and addressed the mainstream media:
“Your days of doing this are over. It’s not your business model that sucks, it’s you that sucks.“
watch the video (3 minutes)
yes he did.
Chris Van Hollen of Maryland, chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee said THIS about Ted Kennedy’s Senate seat…“Why would you hand the keys to the car back to the same guys whose policies drove the economy into the ditch and then walked away from the scene of the accident?” “For the Republicans to say vote for us and bring back the guys who got us into this mess in the first place, I don’t think it’s a winner.”
I mean, it is Ted Kennedy’s Senate seat, but this is unseemly!
Does this strike anybody else as weird?
The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (which is run jointly by all of the current Democrats in the US Senate) thinks that all they have to do to persuade folks to vote against Scott Brown is to link him to the Tea Party movement.
Maybe it’s just me. But national polling has shown that the Tea Party movement has higher favorability ratings that either the Republican or the Democratic Party.
While the choir might respond well to this attack, I think the majority of independent voters greet news of Brown’s affilation with the Tea Party movement as a positive, not a negative.
Apparently, it’s not just the Coakley campaign in MA that’s out of touch. From inside the beltway it appears to be axiomatic that Tea Party = Evil.
I don’t think most voters agree. We’re going to find out tomorrow.
According to the weatherman, sometime between 9am and noon tomorrow, the temperature will reach 32 degrees and by 3pm will climb all the way up to 38. It will be the first time since the evening of January 2nd that the temperature here in middle Tennessee has gotten above freezing. According to the National Weather Service the last time that we had nine consecutive days of below-freezing temperatures was in 1899. That was 111 years ago.
It was warmer at McMurdo Station, Antarctica yesterday than it was in Nashville, TN.
As someone else has observed, when it’s hot it’s global warming; when it’s cold it’s just weather.
I think the percentage of folks in Middle Tennessee who believe in global warming has fallen with the thermometer.
photo captioning by Pansy
