Posted by
Dave Perkins on Wednesday, September 20, 2006 2:44:59 PM
Time for a Global Warming Update! (
cue "Good Day Sunshine", "Rainy Day People", "Summer in the City", play all three simultaneously)
A year ago this week, we were watching Hurricane Rita as she ambled toward us here on the Texas coast.
Today we're watching Gordon and Helene expending their energy on mostly open Atlantic water, Gordon in particular looking almost as if he'll go all the way to Europe.
Count with me-- R is the 18th letter of the alphabet. H is the 8th letter.
That's right, kids, this year the number of named Atlantic storms is 44% of last year to date. Less than half. Rita to Helene.
What a colossal disappointment to the BDS victims who claim that Dubya personally creates these storms, to kill black people and whatnot.
Of course, if you DON'T suffer from Bush Derangement Syndrome, you'll be open to the fact that last year on my Gulf Coast it stayed hot, mid 90's hot, through almost all of October. This year? Well, it's week 3 of September and this morning it was 63 degrees in Houston. This afternoon, sunny and 80 degrees...
Gore's goofball movie was a bomb in the box office, and the storms aren't cooperating, so you can always count on the press to gin up some anti-bigbiz environmental headlines--
In
this case, scientists are mad at ExxonMobil for funding groups who disagree with scientists. Yes, the aforementioned funded groups mostly ARE scientists, but never mind that-- the fiction that
all scientists agree on global warming must be maintained at all costs!
Even though one of the named and funded groups is the Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change, they
can't be scientists.... Why? Because
all scientists agree on global warming!
And the proof that they aren't scientists? Well, the CSCDGC itself "disputes the link between greenhouse gas emissions and global warming." Why, those #$%^^&*&(s!! Who do they think they are, calling themselves scientists?!?!?!
Oh yeah,
ExxonMobil doesn't disagree that greenhouse gases cause global warming. They DO disagree that it's a looming ecological disaster with thousands screaming as a 100 foot wall of icy water crashes into downtown Miami, aaargh, save the children, glub glub...
And this year's weather ought to go a long way to support the view that the global warming thing is complex and unpredictable and calls for more study, not knee-jerk wholesale change and economic ruin for all humanity.
Remember-- we have less than half the Atlantic storms of last year to date, right after all the stories in the media about how this year would be the worst in history, millions could die and it's all Bush's fault.
Remember, we have MUCH milder temperatures in the American south this year than last, including several cool fronts about a month earlier than the FIRST front of last year.
And remember my favorite scientists, those old former Soviet meteorologists, who claim that the current waning sunspot cycle is the reason it's been hot, and say that in ten years earth will be substantially COOLER than it is now.
Na zh'drovye, Komrades. :-) I'm with you.