The dratted snow is entirely messing up this global warm….errr, I mean…climate change thingy:
Snow cover over North America and much of Siberia, Mongolia and China is greater than at any time since 1966.
The U.S. National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) reported that many American cities and towns suffered record cold temperatures in January and early February. According to the NCDC, the average temperature in January “was -0.3 F cooler than the 1901-2000 (20th century) average.”
China is surviving its most brutal winter in a century. Temperatures in the normally balmy south were so low for so long that some middle-sized cities went days and even weeks without electricity because once power lines had toppled it was too cold or too icy to repair them.
There have been so many snow and ice storms in Ontario and Quebec in the past two months that the real estate market has felt the pinch as home buyers have stayed home rather than venturing out looking for new houses.
In just the first two weeks of February, Toronto received 70 cm of snow, smashing the record of 66.6 cm for the entire month set back in the pre-SUV, pre-Kyoto, pre-carbon footprint days of 1950.
Looking out from my neighborhood, I’ve noticed that Mt. Charleston has a much thicker snow cover than usual (yes, we’re in sight of snow here in the Las Vegas valley) – started snowing up there earlier, and has snowed up there far more often than I’ve seen over my 13 years in Las Vegas. Heck, even the hills behind my house have received several dustings of snow this winter.
I wonder what it all means? Oh, I know – it doesn’t matter; more snow = climate change. Less snow = climate change. Higher temperatures = climate change. Lower tempuratures = climate change. The perfect theory of everything – climate change.
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Wind & Water An Ill-Conceived Hydroelectric Project Would Destroy a Prized Recreational Area ~Sierra Club briefing
Hydro plant opponents sound off
Sierra Club opposes coal gas plant
There were more links, should I keep going? (I wondered why no one responded to the Sierra Club’s efforts to derail alternative energy.)
Sierra Club Democrats vs. National Security. I think this one was my favorite.
Dasein,
Dont have time to read all of those but the last one’s wording points to obvious conservative bias and liberal hatred.
So they talk about the Republicans wanting to drill in ANWR and the Democracts saying it’s not a solution and is harmful to the environment.
Uh, because it’s not a solution and is harnful to the environment.
Then it goes on to talk about how hooked we are on mideast oil which is causing a lot of problems.
Which is true and we should find alternative sources. Wind, water, and sun are my favorites.
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080227/D8V2CFRO0.html
steam,
The links were in response to “Joe’s” contention that democrats (liberals) haven’t killed “wind and water” power alternatives; which they have.
SEW,
But, that’s weather not climate.
Climate change would be like when Ted Turner was asked if global warming was real, Ted responded, “Of course it’s real, haven’t you been outside? It’s hot out there, man.”
Dasein…
Re #98: That guy’s objection doesn’t sound very well thought out. It’s as if he assumes the state’s (or nation’s?) energy portfolio will consist of wind. Gosh, thousands of windmills? Horrors!
Re #99, 100: This is the first I’ve heard of this idea. I used to hang out in Lake Elsinore often. And I have to say, the idea of pumping water from Lake Elsinore anywhere strikes me as a little creepy. I hope they plan on rubbing the canyon down with disinfectant. And what if it catches fire? There is a subtle irony in the fact that the canyon they’re talking about is in the Cleveland National Forest, don’t you think? Lol! All kidding aside, Morrell Canyon is a nice area, and an easy bike ride from the city of Lake Elsinore — the pedal kind I mean. Although that whole area along Ortega Highway (Rt 74) is also a favorite of the ringetty-ringetty and VROOOM-muthafoka-VROOM species of bikers too. So there’s that. Then there’s the hang gliders. I’m not sure how they’d be affected though. It seems to me they’d float down the other side of the ridgeline. Be that as it may, I’m not sure a reservoir nestled in the hills would be a net negative, aesthetic or otherwise. And heaven knows there are plenty of live oak groves in that area. Still, the description of the project sounds weird. Obviously it’s intended as an energy storage mechanism. So it appears the essential question is… is this the best way to go about it? In that respect I think the question should be considered seriously regardless who raised it.
Re #101: I’m afraid a one sentence description doesn’t do it for me. I would hope it doesn’t do it for you either.
Anyway, I regard the Sierra Club in much the same way as I do most other organizations with an axe to grind: sometimes I agree with them, sometimes I don’t. It all depends on the details, not knee-jerks.
The wife and I used to cruise the Ortegs long before we married. Remember the Colony Kitchen at Ortega Highway and I-5? I was the manager and the wife was a waitress more than 30 years ago when I-5 was a four lane highway winding through orange groves.
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The point of the links and my original post was that for liberant group.ls to claim obstructionism from republicans they should look to their own history of obstruction. Nuclear, geothermal, wind, off-shore drilling, ANWR should all be under consideration and objections should be considered and thoughtful. A thousand; hundred thousand? Is that a reasonable objection or unreasonable posturing?
The Sierra Club is a democrat fro
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btw, you once asked about books of economics and the economy. I can’t believe I didn’t think of it at the time. My daughter asked me last weekend about the Washington dictate and globalism; her teacher wrote a paper, published, that dealt with the issue and asked the class to read a critique it. Quick as a flash I responded, “Thomas Sowell wrote two books on economics.” It’s actually four books, but after she found them and read the sections on global economies she understood far more than the book the teacher recommended (Wealth of Nations).