Bingo, bango, bongo and now we're back to cold. Ice storms everywhere. 3/4ths of the fruit crop lost in California and snow at LAX. We won't see global cooling stories or mention of "the Gore Effect" in the MSM, but we will see "climate change" stories if the cold weather lasts.
And now, all hail the climate nazi:
The Weather Channel’s (TWC) Heidi Cullen, who hosts the weekly global warming program "The Climate Code," is advocating that the American Meteorological Society (AMS) revoke their "Seal of Approval" for any television weatherman who expresses skepticism that human activity is creating a climate catastrophe.She's got a blog, and as the story says, check out the responses.
Here's my take, as someone with a few meteorology courses in days past. Take a look at the 100 year temperature record for St. Louis, Missouri and tell me what caused the warming in the 1920s. It sparked the famed "Dust Bowl" days. Nobody seems to blame that on GW. Our current warming shows up most dramatically in urban areas, but many of the rural sites outside the sprawling concrete jungles do not show the same. Cities have shown a marked increase in nighttime low temperatures for years, which skews the averages upwards.
So, in that sense the warming IS man-made, but more due to a raising of nighttime lows or the siting of the instruments than an accumulation of CO2 in the air, since we should be seeing warming at nearly every site if carbon were to blame. Just my two cents.
MORE 1/19/07
A colleague brought up the following--if the global warming nazis continue down this path what's next, stripping away people's university degrees? Sounds silly, but it's the definition of slippery slope.
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