Don't Swallow The Cap

Backing up his Boss, The Pickle talked to the press about the “Climate Action Plan” (CAP) President Obama unveiled Tuesday (Planet Earth).

Vilsack mentioned the 2012 drought and blamed the over 21,000 forest fires in the country on “climate change.” 

The 2012 drought?

It was just about a year ago that Vilsack refused to answer questions about the connections between climate change and the drought.

Citing the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the administration highlighted Iowa’s average temperature last year was the second-warmest on record since the government began collecting data more than a century ago.

According to NOAA, the warmest year was 1931; 1987 was 3rd; 1921 was 4th and 1998 was 5th.

However, 6 of the top 10 all took place before 1945.

As for the forest fires Boo-Boo, the Forest Service is under Vilsack and cut its budget 5.2 percent and Wildland Fire Management cuts total $125 million because of the President's sequestration.

In addition, the federal government is spending less and less on its main program for preventing blazes in the first place and President Obama has proposed a 31 percent cut for the fiscal year that begins in the fall.

Federal firefighting officials say there is no question the program prevents some fires and makes others less dangerous to homeowners and firefighters alike. 

It looks like someone needs to put a gag on the Ag Secretary and the scientific community is united in that fact.

The World According to Gore

Al Gore and his ilk of environmental wackos have gone off the deep end, again! Gore jetted from France to England and in a speech warned about the impending "planetary emergency". Gore went as far as saying the world is now facing a "danger which could bring the end of civilization". Sounds like he has R.E.M. on his Ipod, "It's the end of the world as we know it and Al feels fine". Gore also stated that he believed scientists who said that there may be 10 years remaining to avoid "crossing the point of no return". Gore defended his use of fossil fuels by saying he is "carbon neutral" and tried to offset any plane flight or car journey by "purchasing verifiable reductions in CO2 elsewhere". That's RICH, Literally!! This coming from the man who helped negotiate the Kyoto Protocol that has cost more than $150 billion so far and has reduced the average global temperature .00015 degrees Centigrade. Gore earlier this year admitted, “Did we think Kyoto would work when we signed it [in 1997]?... Hell no!” Gore also explained that the actual point of Kyoto was to demonstrate that international support could be mustered for action on the environment. To put it simply, he's scaremongering! One of the rules of advertising is to state something and just keep repeating it, whether it's true or not, enough people will eventually believe it!

The Drudge Report has posted this on Gore's ilk:

Hundreds of concerned citizens and leaders from across the nation will join Hurricane Katrina survivors Wednesday to call for the resignation of the heads of the National Hurricane Center (NHC) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) at the NOAA Headquarters just outside of Washington, D.C. During an 11 a.m. demonstration, advocates will demand that NOAA stop covering up the growing scientific link between severe hurricanes and global warming while insisting on real solutions to the problem of global warming.

The resignation call comes because.....leaders at NOAA and the NHC continue to claim that the recent hurricane devastation is part of a "natural cycle."

OFF WITH THEIR HEADS!

Drudge also has this interesting post:

Scientists have found what might have been the ideal ancient vacation spot -- smack in the middle of the Arctic!

First-of-its-kind core samples dug up from deep beneath the Arctic Ocean floor show that 55 million years ago an area near the North Pole was practically a subtropical paradise, three new studies show.

Developing...

Watching And Waiting

I thought I was doing the smart thing when I bought a weather radio, last year, but the National Weather Service is making me wonder.

Their shrill blaring of an alarm for a severe thunderstorm watch is rude, and the scientific community is united in that fact, especially at 2:54 a.m. for a watch that is in effect until 10 a.m.

It's akin to me getting all worked up about a fart, when I may, or may not, crap hours later.

Watching is what the NWS is paid to do, when the situation warrants, then warn me and I'll act.

Do you know the difference between a watch and a warning?

According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, a watch means I should go about my normal activities.

That's damn difficult to do after being startled awake by the horrendous honking of an alarm whose volume cannot be turned down.

Planet Earth

At least President Obama is recycling his cliches when he makes fun of the Flat Earth Society.

And the scientific community is united in that fact.

His own White House doesn't grasp that Alaska, Hawaii and the U.S. Territories are part of the nation as they try  to make the case that 2012 was the warmest year on record with record heat across the country.

The White House cites the NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) as it's source, but the agency actually ranked 2012 the 10th-warmest on record.

Obama's speech on the Greenhouse Effect, err Global Warming, err Climate Change also mentioned that the planet is warming, but the New York Times noted earlier this month that a lull in warming has occurred.