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To: Gersh Avery who wrote (599832)	2/4/2011 1:03:47 AM
From: FJB	3 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1570679

Reliable forecast under the weather By Michael Graham Thursday, February 3, 2011 - Updated 4 hours ago bostonherald.com Meet the global weirdos. They’re the ones telling you that all the snow outside is proof that it’s getting warmer. Only, they don’t call it “warming” anymore. No, that was back in the “Earth has a fever” days. Back when Al Gore was predicting that the ice caps were melting, the polar bears were drowning and Manhattan would sink beneath 20 feet of water “in the near future.” But then something happened. Since 1998, temperatures have been relatively flat. We’ve got more polar bears than ever, and Manhattan is buried under snow. For a planet-roasting crisis that threatened the human race with extinction, there doesn’t seem to be much actual warming. So then the mantra became “climate change.” The liberals formerly known as “warmists” began predicting that we would experience fundamental changes in our weather. Scientists at the University of East Anglia — the Harvard of climate change — said snow would be “a very rare and exciting event.” Children wouldn’t know what it was. As for summers, in the wake of Katrina “change-ist” groups like realclimate.org predicted “global warming will make hurricanes even worse in the future.” What happened? Nothing. Europe has had three winters in a row of snow and cold temperatures. In the Atlantic, “there has been a dramatic decrease in the number of hurricanes in the last five years,” according to meteorologist Art Horn. “The total energy in all hurricanes around the world has plunged since 1993. The opposite of what was predicted.” So the new fall back is “global weirding.” The site thedailygreen.com has a “Weird Weather Watch” page. The uber-liberal Huffington Post ran a story in August headlined “Global Weirding”: Extreme Climate Events Dominate The Summer.” “The extreme climate events all across the globe must say something about whether climate change is already upon us,” the HuffPo insisted. “Extreme is the new normal.” They quote a professor of “environmental studies and politics” from Oberlin College who says, “More hottest hots, driest dries, wettest wets, windiest wind conditions. So it’s all part of a pattern.” Gore is on board, too. He’s now merely claiming rising temperatures will “create all sorts of havoc, ranging from hotter dry spells to colder winters.” Not “warming,” but “weirding.” Not “heating,” but “havoc.” Which is how global warming can cause more snow, less snow, no snow, avalanches, heat waves, cold snaps, wetter wets, drier dries, gingivitis, delirium tremens and irritable bowel syndrome ?. . . all at the same time! Global warming — is there anything it can’t do? Well, the one thing it apparently doesn’t do is help predict the weather. The UK’s Met Office stopped giving seasonal forecasts last year after mis-predicting warmer winters three years in a row. Meteorologists without a warmist agenda like Piers Corbyn and AccuWeather’s Joe Bastardi, on the other hand, continue to pay the bills by making predictions directly contrary to the “weirdos.” Oddly, they don’t have degrees in politics. For a theory to be scientific, it must be fallible — capable of being proven false. If every weather condition can be used to “prove” global warming simply by being declared “weird,” then it’s not science. It’s a joke. Which is exactly what the environmental movement has become.

To: Gersh Avery who wrote (599832)	2/4/2011 10:29:51 AM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1570679

The main danger nature poses to humans is if she decides we are a virus. Mankind is no serious threat to nature .. it's the other way around. Uh oh, Rat's gonna think you haven't smoked enough weed. But you're right.

To: Gersh Avery who wrote (599832)	2/4/2011 10:47:52 AM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1570679

Today, the world will release 14 months of fossil carbon into the atmosphere. That might just be from oil; I'm not sure. Tomorrow, we will do the same thing. Every year, we release CO2 that took 400 years to sequester. CO2 absorbs heat. Ma nature put that CO2 away to drop the the temperture of the planet; or maybe some other reason and this was just the luck of the physics. Anyway, every day, 14 months worth back in. "if she decides we are a virus" What makes you think she hasn't, already? And,remember, she bats last. "More snow during warmer years .. isn't that interesting." Too cold to snow in this desert...air won't hold enuf water. Maudlandia Antarctic desert Published: November 12, 2008, 4:30 pm Edited: November 12, 2008, 4:30 pm Lead Author: World Wildlife Fund Introduction Antarctica remains the only relatively unspoiled continent on our planet. Almost entirely covered in a permanent ice cap that reaches as much as 4,776 meters in thickness, conditions for life are quite extreme—but, not impossible. Terrestrial vegetation is limited in Maudlandia, though the Dry Valleys region of continental Antarctica is a fascinating ecosystem of flora and fauna highly adapted to polar desert conditions. Colonies of seabirds, penguins, and seals abound around the coasts, obtaining their sustenance from the highly-productive Antarctic seas. While this continent has had relatively little direct interference from humans, it is activity elsewhere that may have the greatest effect on Antarctica. Production of certain gases has contributed to a serious depletion of ozone in the atmosphere over Antarctica, as well as contributing to global warming, which could potentially lead to the melting of vast quantities of ice and a significant change in the landscape of populated areas of the world. eoearth.org