This is Global Warming??? Earliest Snowfall in Houston Since 1944
Now I realize that a single anomalous event doesn't spell proof or disproof of an environmental theory, unlike the raving lunatic anthropogenic global warming (AGW) Chicken Little's on the Left, but I find it intriguing that in this coldest year in a decade we in Houston have just experienced our earliest snowfall since 1944...that's longer than I've been alive.
Here's the Houston Chronicles article:
Surprise flurries warm Houston hearts
Fluffy flakes bring delight to some, consternation to others — and tie a 64-year-old record
By ERIC BERGER,, JENNIFER LATSON and JENNIFER LEAHY
Copyright 2008 Houston Chronicle
Dec. 10, 2008, 11:09PM
Falling snowflakes glimmered in streetlights, so wide that they billowed to the ground like parachutes, and so tantalizing that even awestruck adults reached out their hands or stuck out their tongues to catch one.
By Wednesday evening, the flakes were big enough to hold their shape for a moment on the street before melting into the pavement, and a dusting had collected on parked cars in some parts of town.
The flurries tied a record for Houston's earliest snowfall ever and warmed the hearts of winter weather lovers who have pined for snow since it last made an appearance on Christmas Eve 2004.
"I've got a pot roast in the Crock-Pot, and I'm going to go home, change into my warmest pajamas and eat pot roast and enjoy what may be the only real winter day we have all year," said Tina Arnold, an Illinois native who took advantage of the wintry backdrop to pick up Christmas presents Wednesday at The Woodlands Mall.
Since 1895, records indicate, snow has fallen this early just once — on Dec. 10, 1944.
This rare December Houston snow occurs on the tail of another anomalous event, the coldest year in a decade. These two anomalous events are not dispositive evidence that AGW is the scam I have been claiming it to be since I began discussing it, but they do provide two further data points among many which stand in the face of the AGW tidal wave of the past couple decades.
The fact is that, since 1998 global surface temperatures have been trending downward, not upward as AGW advocates would have you believe.
An unfortunate corollary of bad science is that bad politics will invariably follow it. Just as an increasing number of scientists, including a number of those who were included in the ill-advised, ill-conceived, and soon to be ill-fated UN-IPCC, report are coming out in opposition to AGW dogma, Johnny-come-lately politicians are jumping on the AGW bandwagon.
In AGW, Liberal politicians see the answer to their dreams...absolute control of our society. Using the threat of AGW, they can restrict our use of fossil fuels, wreak havoc on our economy, institute government controls on our travel, our consumption, and our freedom; all the while claiming to be doing so "for our own good."
This stuff is straight out of the communist's playbook and it provides those against whom our nation's founders warned us...the "usurpers"...an excuse to exercise absolute power over our lives.
Unlike our AGW advocating brethren, we DENIERS aren't inclined to cite a single event as proof of our beliefs and we tend to rely on facts rather than propaganda to form our opinions...small "inconvenient" facts like evidence of global warming occurring on other planets within our solar system and changes in solar activity which appear to correlate well with changes in our global temperatures, as indicative of what we have been recently experiencing being a system wide phenomenon rather than a man-caused global phenomenon.
We don't look at a 150 year graph of temperature data and declare it as proof of anything but a short term variation in global temperatures. We refuse to make sweeping assertions of "fact" based on that short term data when we know global temperatures have varied widely throughout the history of our planet.
We also know that science ceases to be science when it abandons the principles upon which it has been based throughout history. Cold dispassionate examination and experimentation, not issue advocacy and efforts to defend a theory, are the basic tenets of science.
These AGW theorists like James Hansen and the authors of the IPCC findings have long since abandoned science for politics. They have become Defenders of the Faith for the Religion of AGW and as more and more scientists have become willing to take a stand publicly against this egregious political scam, the voices of the true believers have become more and more strident.
Declarations of urgency and the abject dismissal of and attack against any and all who dare to speak out, as heretics, stand as further proof that these scam artists like Al Gore know their time is limited as is their ability to impose the draconian changes they demand.
Anthropogenic Global Warming is what it began as under Margaret Thatcher back in the Eighties; an effort to impose social changes using a highly questionable theory backed by very weak evidence.
In Thatcher's case, it was an effort to break the power of the coal unions. In Al Gore's case and that of the UN, it is a simple power grab; an effort to impose economic and social changes to more closely resemble the Marxist model and to rein in the free-wheeling economic power of the more successful capitalist nations...nothing more and nothing less.
Thankfully, since 1998 global temperatures have been trending downward again and there is a growing body of evidence that Earth is a self-regulating system that neither warms too much nor cools too much.
There is even a growing minority in the scientific community who assert that not only are we not going to see catastrophic global warming, but that we are on the cusp of a new "mini-Ice Age" similar to that experienced in the 17th and 18th centuries.
What is manifestly clear is that man's existence and efforts can have very little effect on the overall climate of the planet.
It is time for the Leftist Priests of Global Warming Alarmism to shut up and for real scientists, those who can discern fact from wishes, to tell the truth. Carbon dioxide is not a pollutant, it is a naturally occurring gas which every living animal emits...as is the methane coming from the livestock that these same idiots now want to tax.
Beware of fanatics, alarmists, and those who "know" they are right, the more certain they are, the more likely they are wrong.
Long Live Our American Republic!!!!
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