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The Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality hearing scheduled for Wednesday, February 14, 2007, at 10:00 a.m. in room 2123 Rayburn House Office Building has been postponed due to inclement weather. The hearing is entitled “Climate Change: Are Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Human Activities Contributing to a Warming of the Planet?”

The hearing will be rescheduled to a date and time to be announced later.

DC WEATHER REPORT:

Wednesday: Freezing rain in the morning. Total ice accumulation between one half to three quarters of an inch. Brisk with highs in the mid 30s. North winds 10 to 15 mph...increasing to northwest 20 to 25 mph in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation near 100 percent.

Wednesday Night: Partly cloudy. Lows around 18. Northwest winds around 20 mph.

And this...

Maryville Univ. in St. Louis area cancelling screening of Al Gore's 'Inconvenient Truth' because of a snowstorm.

I was thinking to myself, the two times I cleared the 6 inches of snow at our domicile, what I wouldn't give for a little "Gore Bull" warming or Greenhouse effect or climate change.

After all the only thing keeping Iowa from becoming a tourist mecca is an ocean.

I always laugh, in the summertime, when people complain about the humidity.

I tell them I'll take it over winter weather any day of the week.

I find it much easier to shovel and have yet to see it cause cars to slide off the road.

Extreme Ways

On the same day I read

New Study: ’2013 ranks as one of the least extreme U.S. weather years ever’– Many bad weather events at ‘historically low levels’

The Ragister reported

Iowa scientists: Spring floods, summer droughts more likely with global climate change

The Capitol Square Crapper quoted Gene Takle

“In the scientific community, we have debates on the details, But there are very, very few scientists who are active in studying climate science who deny the existence of the role of heat-trapping gases in raising our global average temperatures, and the fact that these heat-trapping gases are produced by humans.”

This group didn't get the memo

50 international scientists released a comprehensive new report on the science of climate change that concluded that evidence now leans against global warming resulting from human-related greenhouse gas emissions.

Six years ago, Takle didn't sound convinced himself about the Greenhouse Effect, err Global Warming, err Climate Change.

"If the climate is changing, you can't stop it over the next 50 years, What's coming is coming and we better be prepared to adjust to it."

IF?

Nearly ten years ago, Takle was part of a group that told us, global warming might not be as severe in the central United States as in other parts of the country because of a ‘hole’.

There's a hole alright and the scientific community is united in that fact. 

Well blow me down

Three excellent columns at Powerline...

John Kerry disgraced himself yet again...when he launched a salvo against the Bush administration at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

...Kerry's latest folly.

...“When we walk away from global warming, Kyoto, when we are irresponsibly slow in moving toward AIDS in Africa, when we don’t advance and live up to our own rhetoric and standards, we set a terrible message of duplicity and hypocrisy,” Kerry said.

Speaking of duplicity and hypocrisy...Kerry himself has actually had the opportunity to vote on the Kyoto carbon emissions treaty.

...this says it all…

U.S. Senate Roll Call Votes 105th Congress - 1st Session

Vote Date: July 25, 1997, 11:37 AM

Question: On the Resolution (s.res.98 )

Declares that the United States should not be a signatory to any protocol to, or other agreement regarding, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change of 1992, at negotiations in Kyoto in December 1997 or thereafter which would: (1) mandate new commitments to limit or reduce greenhouse gas emissions for the Annex 1 Parties, unless the protocol or other agreement also mandates new specific scheduled commitments to limit or reduce greenhouse gas emissions for Developing Country Parties within the same compliance period; or (2) result in serious harm to the U.S. economy.

YEAs 95
NAYs 0
Not Voting 5

Kerry (D-MA), Yea

Duplicitous and hypocritical: that pretty well sums up John Kerry.

What Makes A Protest Newsworthy?

This point is closely related to the "Grim Milestones" post immediately below. Earlier today, "tens of thousands" of demonstrators gathered on the Mall in Washington, D.C. to protest the Iraq war. The cast of speakers was less than impressive: Dennis Kucinich, Susan Sarandon, Sean Penn, Jane Fonda.

...Organizers said the biggest challenge facing the anti-war movement today is how to hold together a loose coalition of groups with divergent agendas using celebrities who peaked in popularity 10 to 30 years ago.

“The speaker roster reminds me of the old Hollywood Squares game show,” said one unnamed staffer of Vegan Lesbians for Racial and Nuclear Justice, whose dozens of members will cross the continent to join the rally today. “I mean Fonda, Sarandon, Glover and Jackson might as well be Charo, Joan Rivers, George Gobel and Paul Lynde. How am I going get my group excited about geopolitical and military strategy with these has beens leading the way?”

It's hard to say how many people attended the demonstration; the Washington police no longer issue estimates of crowd sizes. Organizers said they were hoping for 100,000, and news accounts say there were "tens of thousands." I haven't seen a photo that shows the entire crowd; this one comes closest:

You can't judge from a single picture, but I haven't seen anything that makes me think the demonstration was anything special in terms of turnout.

Contrast this with a demonstration that occurred in the same place, just a few days ago, when"tens of thousands" of demonstrators gathered to protest the 34th anniversary of Roe v. Wade:

I don't know which protest was bigger, but I'm pretty sure I can predict which one will get more press coverage. My home-town paper, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, didn't cover the abortion protest at all. Again, whether and how a demonstration is covered has a lot more to do with the political agenda of reporters and editors than with the number or enthusiasm of the demonstrators. And I think we all know what narrative the liberal media are now pushing. It's the "will to lose" that John O'Sullivan identified at the National Review summit last night.

Grim Milestones

...people are talking about a statistic that has been kicking around for a while: illegal aliens murder approximately 12 Americans a day. Is this accurate? I'm not sure; this isn't a statistic that is officially kept, so estimates are based on more informal surveys. The number seems to have been popularized by Congressman Steve King.

While I'm not sure that it's right, the 12 per day figure is plausible. There are 16,000+ murders a year in the U.S., so, if my math is correct, that number implies that, if there are around ten million illegal aliens, they commit about ten times their pro rata share of murders.

Twelve per day works out to 4,380 a year, or around 16,600 during the time that has elapsed since we have been engaged in Iraq. This is more than five times the number of military deaths in Iraq.

My point here is not to argue for the accuracy of Representative King's numbers, but rather to note how discretionary the concept of a "grim milestone" is. If the mainstream media kept a "grim milestone" count on murders of Americans by illegal aliens, imagine how it would re-frame the debate over illegal immigration. But the media have no interest in that particular set of "milestones." What constitutes a "milestone" depends not on the actual magnitude of the issue, but rather on the political agenda of the mainstream media.

Those Distant Bells

Unable to weather the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change latest report on the Greenhouse Effect, err Global Warming, err Climate Change, a meteorologist broke down in tears while on phone with my wife at a boarding area in the San Francisco Airport.

He said, I've never cried because of a science report before.

He has vowed to stop flying and is considering a vasectomy so he can't have children in order to leave a lighter carbon footprint.

Having his tubes tied would be more accurate, maybe a HISterectomy and the scientific community is united in that fact.

Secretary of State John Kerry weighed in on the IPCC findings(?) -- If this isn't an alarm bell, then I don't know what one is.

Lurch should know.

You rang?

FYI -- First picture is Espera Oscar de Corti as Iron Cody Eyes, The Crying Indian.

The Prince

The man who would be King, if the job wasn't being done by his Mum, has nothing better to do than worry about the Greenhouse Effect, err Global Warming, err Climate Change.

Prince Charles has called people who deny human-made climate change a "headless chicken brigade" who are ignoring overwhelming scientific evidence.

Chuckles should check up on Mike the Headless Chicken.

Overwhelming scientific evidence would have denied Mike could make it 18 months after his head had been cut off, but yet he did.

About 7 years ago, Charles stated -- "we need to act very rapidly indeed" to avert environmental disaster."

Nearly 60 months ago, Charles predicted we have “less than 100 months” to avoid the irreversible damage caused by global warming

Charlie should worry more about his wife's head ware.

The gravitational pull on that piece alone could throw the whole solar system out of whack and the scientific community is united in that fact. 

I'd say we've got less than 40 months for that to happen.

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.

Garden Party

The Marion Contrarion has a post that mentions the Linn County Solid Waste Agency is doing some terrace plantings and multi-faceted landscaping for future windbreaks, natural fencing, visual blocking, and erosion control.

The work is being done by Culver's Garden Center & Greenhouse.

Practicing for his new career?

I see it as a logical transition for the Big Lug Nut, with all the garbage and manure he's spread over his political career and the scientific community is united in that fact.


Ricky Nelson - Garden Party

The Name Game

Not just Postponed, the CLIMATARDS want to cancel Gore-BULL Warming altogether.

The problem with global warming, some environmentalists believe, is “global warming.”

The term turns people off, fostering images of shaggy-haired liberals, economic sacrifice and complex scientific disputes, according to extensive polling and focus group sessions conducted by ecoAmerica...

Plus, you look damn stupid (and the scientific community is united in that fact) when the Earth has seen global temperatures flatline since 2001 despite rising greenhouse gas concentrations.

Check out what ecoAmerica says about itself...

ecoAmerica is an environmental non-profit that uses psychographic research, strategic partnerships and engagement marketing to shift personal and civic choices of environmentally agnostic Americans.

"psychographic"?

That's PSYCHObabble and Bonana Fanna Fo, FONY!

Tornado

A recent video released from NASA’s Solar Dynamic Observatory shows a speeded-up version of a 38-hour tornadic incident on the sun.

You know some Warm-Monger like Al Gore, James Hansen or Rob "Boss" Hogg are thinking the Greenhouse Effect, err Global Warming, err Climate Change is to blame.

And the scientific community is united in that fact.

Half The Truth

The Greenhouse Effect, err Global Warming, err Climate Change influenced about half of 2012's wildest weather events.

Included in the half are -- Superstorm Sandy's devastating surge and the blistering U.S. summer heat, but not included were a record wet British summer and the U.S. drought.

Those were chalked up to the random freakiness of weather.

What's interesting is -- All 12 events would have happened anyway, but their magnitude and likelihood were boosted in some cases by global warming

I'm no scientist, and the scientific community is united in that fact, but if they were going to happen anyway, nothing could boost that likelihood.

The different authors of the 21 chapters used differing techniques to look at climate change connections, and in some instances came to conflicting and confusing conclusions.

Not only is the science not settled, neither are the scientists.

Then there's this -- Study: Warming Will Shift Tracks of Future Sandy-Like Tropical Storms Away from U.S. Northeast
 

Rare Earth

I prefer mine medium well.

Get Ready, cause here it comes.

07/07/07 & Live Earth.

Don't they know it's the end of the world?

A Daily Mail investigation has revealed that far from saving the planet, the extravaganza will generate a huge fuel bill, acres of garbage, thousands of tonnes of carbon emissions, and a mileage total equal to the movement of an army.

The most conservative assessment of the flights being taken by its superstars is that they are flying an extraordinary 222,623.63 miles between them to get to the various concerts - nearly nine times the circumference of the world. The true environmental cost, as they transport their technicians, dancers and support staff, is likely to be far higher.

The total carbon footprint of the event, taking into account the artists' and spectators' travel to the concert, and the energy consumption on the day, is likely to be at least 31,500 tonnes of carbon emissions, according to John Buckley of Carbonfootprint.com, who specialises in such calculations.

Throw in the television audience and it comes to a staggering 74,500 tonnes. In comparison, the average Briton produces ten tonnes in a year.

The concert will also generate some 1,025 tonnes of waste at the concert stadiums - much of which will go directly into landfill sites.

Moreover, the pop stars headlining the concerts are the absolute antithesis of the message they promote - with Madonna leading the pack of the worst individual rock star polluters in the world.

Oh the hypocrisy!

Tweedle Dum Al (the 2nd), the father of Gore-bull warming, should be acting more like a father and trying to save his son (the 3rd).

I guess I shouldn't expect too much, his father (the 1st) was an asshole too and the scientific community is united in that fact.

Tweedle Dee Hellary weighed in on the concert...

"The scientific consensus is clear and overwhelming: we are causing the planet to warm, with potentially devastating consequences to ourselves and our children. We need to take immediate steps to address this problem, and I applaud everyone who is participating in Live Earth for demanding action..."

CON sensus is more like it.

In an article entitled...

Alarmist global warming claims melt under scientific scrutiny.

Many of the assertions Gore makes in his movie, ''An Inconvenient Truth,'' have been refuted by science, both before and after he made them.

Then there's this article...

Global warming debunked

Man's contribution to the greenhouse gases was so small we couldn't change the climate if we tried.

What about?

Oldest DNA ever recovered shows warmer planet

Scientists who probed two kilometers (1.2 miles) through a Greenland glacier to recover the oldest plant DNA on record said the planet was far warmer hundreds of thousands of years ago than is generally believed.

(Aaahh) Get ready, cause here I come (on my way)...

Ants Marching

Looks like the Ragister, and Jennifer Jacobs, mislead readers when they reported Ed Fallon was running for public office because he said he was going to announce a campaign.

The Ed-ster announced a campaign, but he’s not running for public office.

Fallon wants to find 1,000 people to march coast-to-coast with him to demand action on climate change.

The Great March for Climate Action will set-out from the West Coast a year from Friday and arrive in Washington, D.C. the weekend before the mid-term election

Why wait, and the scientific community is united in that fact, if it is possibly the deadliest crisis humanity has ever faced?

The Ed-ster then went on to compare his over 3,000 mile March with historical Marches --

“In 1930, Mahatma Gandhi led the 240-mile Salt March to defy Britain’s imperial power. In 1965, Martin Luther King, Jr. led the five-day (54 Mile) march for voting rights from Selma to Montgomery.”

The Greenhouse Effect, err Global Warming, err Climate Change  has not occurred and cannot have caused extreme weather of past few years': 'Climate changes naturally all the time, sometimes dramatically. The hypothesis that our emissions of CO2 have caused, or will cause, dangerous warming is not supported by the evidence. The incidence and severity of extreme weather has not increase.

Might as well March into a volcano as they have more impact on earth’s climate than previously thought and are a reason the planet has not heated up as much as expected.

When all the little ants are marching
Red and black antennas waving
They all do it the same
They all do it the same way

Groundhog Day

I don't get the whole overgrown rodent prognosticator phenomenon, but word out of Punxsutawney has Phil predicting an early spring.

I predict that means a minimum of six more weeks of "GoreBull" warming bs.

2007, unlike 2000 when he tried to steal the Presidency, is turning out to be the year of Al Gore.

First an Oscar nod to his schlockumentary and now a nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize.

All this means more jetting around the world and more chauffeured limo rides.

It's okay, he says he's carbon neutral.

He pays for "verifiable reductions in CO2 elsewhere"!

The Inconvenient Truth is Socialist's never see themselves as hypocrites.

We're heading into a cold weekend, highs not even in double digits, and a little greenhouse effect or "GoreBull" warming would be wonderful.

Grounds For Divorce

Family man/Tiny Tot Tyler Olson announced a separation and pending divorce from his wife, Sarah.

This month old statement should have been a clue and the scientific community is united in that fact.

“Somebody asked if I was prepared for the chaos of a statewide campaign and I said my life gets quieter when I leave the house...” 

One can't help but wonder what the problem is after only 5 months into a campaign.

Is it another woman?

Is he gay?

It's okay if he comes out of the closet, but most of his clothes should stay in.

Boss Hogg helped bring them together, did he or the Greenhouse Effect, err Global Warming, err Climate Change, help put asunder?

One thing appears certain, he has commitment issues.

He served less than 6 months as Chair of the Iowa Democratic Party.

4 terms in the Iowa House.

7 years of marriage.

Other questions left hanging, include what becomes of the 55 women in his “Women for Olson Steering Committee"?

Does Sarah stay on as a member?

Heat-err

The United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has updated its findings(?) stating -- scientists are 95% certain that humans are the "dominant cause" of global warming.

How do they arrive at that 95% figure regarding the Greenhouse Effect, err Global Warming, err Climate Change?

The 95% is basically expert judgment, it is a negotiated figure among the authors.

I'm 1,000% sure that is bullshit and the scientific community is united in that fact.

This appears to be the procedure the IPCC uses for reaching all of its conclusions.

At a closed-door meeting in Stockholm this week, each paragraph of a document written by scientists is being projected onto large screens. Delegations from scores of nations participate in the editing: Words will be substituted, emphasis will be added, entire sentences may well be inserted or deleted. 

After four days of haggling, the media will be summoned by the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change to a news conference on Friday where the final version of the document—known as the "Summary for Policymakers"—will be released along with a solemn announcement that "science" has spoken.

Or has it?

There have been repeated complaints about unqualified individual members and that there are "far too many politically correct appointments" involving people with "insufficient scientific competence to do anything useful."

The U.N. has charged the IPCC with weighing the evidence on climate change in an objective manner. The problem is that numerous IPCC personnel have ties to environmental groups, many of which raise funds by hyping the alleged dangers of climate change. This relationship raises a legitimate question about their objectivity.

Rajendra Pachauri, the IPCC's chairman since 2002, has repeatedly said that the IPCC bases its conclusions solely on peer-reviewed source material. Yet many of the sources cited by the 3,000-page 2007 IPCC report were press releases, news clippings, discussion papers and unpublished master's and doctoral-degree theses.

This all leaves me with a big chill.

Fiberal Guilty

Unlike snowflakes and human finger prints it appears that the wealthy who pay to reduce their carbon footprint are all the same...

HYPOCRITICAL!

There's Norman Lear, Barbra Streisand, John Kerry, Diane Feinstein and Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Sunday presenters at the Academy Awards were given certificates "representing 100,000 pounds of greenhouse gas reductions from TerraPass, which describes itself as a "carbon offset retailer."

...100,000 pounds is the total amount of carbon dioxide created by 20,000 miles of driving, 40,000 miles on commercial airlines, 20 hours in a private jet and a large house in Los Angeles.

Al Gore has gotten some well deserved criticism for the excessive energy consumption at his mansions.

Especially since he could be paying his utilities to utilize wind power, but "according to public records, there is no evidence that Gore has signed up to use green energy in either of his large residences. When contacted Wednesday, Gore's office confirmed as much but said the Gores were looking into making the switch at both homes".

It all smacks of those who, at one time, paid money to the government to get out of military service or paid others to go in their place.

Cool Under Heat

Maybe the Greenhouse Effect, err Global Warming, err Climate Change won't be as bad as feared.

Your body will adapt to the heat over time

University of Iowa physiology professor, Keven Kregel, says humans don’t adjust well to cold temperatures, but warm temperatures are a different story.

It's certainly much easier to shovel and and the scientific community is united in that fact.

It also requires less clothes.

Draw The Line?

Five rallies, all with different starting times(?), will be held around the state today, against the proposed Keystone XL pipeline.

Or as the online Ragister referred to it, the propoosed  Keystone XL pipeline.

These “Draw the line” activities are being stirred up by the Greenhouse Effect, err Global Warming, err Climate Change crowd and that means State Senator Rob "Boss" Hogg, who said --

“Most Iowans know that the Keystone pipeline would make climate change worse and would threaten our natural resources”

If most Iowans did, you wouldn't be demonstrating and the scientific community is united in that fact.

Draw the line?

Is that another blurry red line?

What difference at this point does it make?

We've only got 1.75 billion years and perhaps as much as 3.5 billion years left, based on the rate of rising temperatures of the Sun.

Back to Boss Hogg --

Opposition to the pipeline is growing even more, however, as Iowans realize that TransCanada wants to condemn American farms and ranches to build the pipeline to Port Arthur, Texas, to export tar sands on the global market.

But Boss, to satisfy environmental concerns, Keystone XL builder TransCanada, rerouted the pipeline around environmentally-sensitive parts of Nebraska and Construction of the final section of the pipeline “will disturb less land than the pipeline that has already been built.”

The Electric Co.

On the same day our friend Cal (Freedom's pal) called to see if we had power, because he and 4,200 others went a few hours without, MidAmerican Energy had a rate increase brochure in our mailbox.

The company claims this is the first base rate increase they have requested since 1995.

Semantics and the scientific community is united in that fact.

Just last fall they were awarded a rate increase by the Iowa Utilities Board because -- Higher rates were warranted to cover increased environmental costs, increased costs of coal to fuel MidAmerican power plants, and increased coal transportation costs.

According to MidAmerican's President and CEO, this increase is because the "day-to-day operations and maintenance costs, such as materials, supplies, and the labor associated with generating and delivering electricity, have continued to rise tremendously. In addition, the projected cost of fuel and evolving environmental standards significantly impact our business."

The same reasons for the rate hike last year.

We know one guy is happy about the increase

electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket…even regardless of what I say about whether coal is good or bad, because I’m capping greenhouse gasses, coal power plants, natural gas…you name it…whatever the plants were, whatever the industry was, they would have to retro-fit their operations. That will cost money…they will pass that money on to the consumers

Obama's buddy, Warren Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway, should just suck it up and take a hit in their bottom line since neither one is good about paying their fare share of taxes. 

Science

The onetime Governator, Arnold Schwarzenegger, is holding what is described as a major forum on the Greenhouse Effect, err Global Warming, err Climate Change at the USC Schwarzenegger Institute for State and Global Policy.

According to Arnold -- The science on climate change is in, the debate is over and the time for action is now

How very Al Gore of him and the scientific community is united in that fact.

Schwarzenegger is, in all actuality, a parody of himself.

 Listen to me now, and believe me later