Polar Bear Poop

The expected first freeze date (established over hundreds of years) for my home town here in Massachusetts is October 15th. I just looked on the Accuweather site and, guess what, tonight's low temperature is forecast at 29 degrees ... bulls eye! Also the Farmer's Almanac as well as more reliable forecasts predict that we are in store for a rather harsh winter ... nertz!

Now, I realize that one data point of weather is not the "climate" and we deniers cannot conflate the two. But the alarmists don't seem to have such compunctions ... suddenly our country's first glancing hurricane in ten years, Matthew, is proof that Al Gore is right with his cockamamie "science." So I will suggest once again that the alarmist are full of polar bear poop ... and I, personally, am more concerned with global cooling than with global warming.

Oops, global cooling is also a change in our climate ... so alarmists have it either way! I suppose next they will point to the fact that dry ice is made with carbon dioxide ...

Breaking Wind

This Sunday’s New York Times magazine section had an Acrostic puzzle which, when solved, had a quote from David Mamet about how the weather strangely often follows the moods of man.  This fits nicely into what I was thinking about writing in today’s blog … hurricanes and global warming.

Just this past late May, NOAA predicted that the United States could have a very active hurricane season with 7 to 11 named hurricanes and with 3 to 6 being of the major category … see: NOAA News Story.  This then would be further justification for the global-warming alarmists … such as our chief climatologist in the White House.

Now we are almost through August and these dire predictions, once again, have proven to be a fart in a wind storm.  There have, so far, been no Atlantic-based hurricanes making 2013 one of the slowest starts of the hurricane season on record … see: Wordpress Story.  (Pay no attention to the chart there listing hurricanes by President … it is meaningless since it doesn’t account for the number of their terms.)

Yes, hurricane season is not over until November, so there is still time for this pessimism to come true.  Accuweather, a site I respect, predicts that things might still get dicey … see: Accuweather Story.  But if weathermen (not including Bill Ayers) can’t accurately forecast how things will develop in just the coming months, how are they going to nail how things will be over the next decade or two?