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Headline in the Buffalo News:
Was surprise snowstorm caused by global warming?
Similar warm-makes-cold headlines (“October snowstorm sparks fears of global warming”) have reportedly also turned up in Australia.
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Well it does make a change from everything being Pres Bush’s doing
Posted by aussiemagpie on 2006 10 29 at 10:52 AM • permalinkI wonder if a stroll throught the archives of the Buffalo News for articles written after the Blizzard of ‘77 would yield a headline like “Was surprise blizzard harbinger of new Ice Age?”
Of course, as the Winston Smiths of the Ministry of Wikipedia tell us, the Ice Age scare of the 1970s was just a fringe element puffed up by the media and there was never any widespread scientific belief in it.
Was surprise rape caused by… oh wait, wrong thread.
Posted by flying pigs over mecca on 2006 10 29 at 11:36 AM • permalink#3 Ah, you are missing the critical link. Global warmering is a BusHitlerRovian plot by the imperialist capitalists lead by the great satan to persecute poor religion of peace people and other downtrodden colonized ethnics, and next door’s cockatoo.
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2006 10 29 at 11:44 AM • permalinkThis is sort of OT, but I just want to mention that—> Michael Lonie <—is currently assigned to the Japanese weather machine. I have not even touch those controls, uh, for a while now. Not that that has anything to do with the Buffalo snow storm. Or Katrina. Because it doesn’t.
It’s all due to globular warming.
Posted by wronwright on 2006 10 29 at 11:47 AM • permalink#4 Crash, as I understand it, he removed the “motive”.
What this means isn’t quite clear. Some people think it will make prsecutions easier. Others think it gives a green light to religions that preach terrorism.
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2006 10 29 at 11:52 AM • permalink#14 rinardman
The absence of hurricanes this year is indeed related to global warming. They are not absent, just delayed. It’s just that, like lower gas prices, a sinister Rovian plot is afoot. As soon as the election is over, gas will go to $5 a gallon, and at least six Category 5 (or even 6) hurricanes will hit. New Orleans should evacuate, and all Floridians should head for North Carolina.
Global warming can mean colder, it can mean drier, it can mean wetter, it can mean hurricanes, it can mean blizzards, it can even mean clear sunny days. All we know for certain is that the weather is going to change, and the change is going to end all life as we know it, and it’s all Bush’s fault for refusing to ratify Kyoto.
</moonbat>
Posted by Tatterdemalian on 2006 10 29 at 01:20 PM • permalinkWe have a neighbor, a staunch LibDem, who believes absolutely everything she reads in the MSM. She is a teacher with a masters degree in education, of all things. She is also an alcoholic moonbat of the first order.
Globular Warmening is a horror for her every day. Don’t even ask about the great toilet paper shortage scare of ‘98…or the peanut butter shortage of ‘92.
There are educated people, flawed that they may be, who believe all this stuff. I just wish the local ones wouldn’t call up their resident VRWC member, me, to complain or to tell me about the latest disaster in the making.
This morning, I had to slide my credit card in the Wal-Mart card reader THREE TIMES.
I blame global warming. It couldn’t have been Bush—he would not hesitate to take my money.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2006 10 29 at 01:57 PM • permalinkToday’s SMH, obviously short of any real news, uses digitally-faked pix to show the future disappearance of Sydney landmarks by projected higher tides, caused by global warming. Which leads by a natural coalesence of news stories, to the headline:
Rising seas sweep away Lakemba mosque.Sheikh Hilaly drowns. Thousands celebrateTim. It’s really great of you to keep us posted with all the news of sudden cold snaps around the globe. For those of us who’d still rather not believe that global warming is happening (hey, many of us are still catching up to that ‘world is round’ thing), it’s comforting to hear about all these local weather anomalies. My blind faith tells me you’re probably more right than the hundreds of scientists who have concurred on this issue.
And loadedog comes by to bark his feeble version of sarcasm at us. Never mind all those learned scientists who have actually dissented against the global warmerizening wisdom. I hope you typed that on a bicycle-powered rattan computer, loady!
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2006 10 29 at 04:17 PM • permalinkFor those of us who’d still rather not believe that global warming is happening…it’s comforting to hear about all these local weather anomalies.
Oh, goody, we’ve got a live one.
Hey, Loady - the whole point of this post is that local weather anomalies are being blamed on global warming.
So I guess you think it’s OK for your sorry lot to blame anomalies on global warming, but not OK for us to use these same anomalies to discredit it.
You display the same intellectual rigor as your fellow idiot enviroreligionists.
Exactly what kind of load is loadedog carrying? I suspect a weeks-old pantsload, but who knows.
Posted by JorgXMcKie on 2006 10 29 at 04:56 PM • permalinkDear Load
So tell me, how’s that greenie thing workin’ out for you? As a marine zoologist I studied all of these global environmental trends 4 decades ago. They were predicted and predictable, and there were solid scientific reasons for them. I’ve seen nothing to change my mind.
That was until the illiberal godawful greenies made a religion out of them.
Here is a question for the Loads who are enamored of Globular Warmening/Coolening…
How long has the hole in the ozone layer been there? If you answered the obvious “since we started using those horrible CFCs” you would be wrong. It has always been there. That’s science, not religion.
Is it getting warmer. Yes. It’s supposed to. In about 125 years it’ll start getting cooler. It’s supposed to. It’s a 500 year cycle overlaid on a 1500 year cycle overlaid on a 10,000 year cycle overlaid on a 100,000 year cycle overlaid on a million year cycle. And don’t forget to throw in the 11 year solar cycle. It’s even got a name, Milankovitch Theory from 1842 for Gods sake.
You refuse to worry about the things that really need worrying about so there you go…Globular Warmening is critically important, but Sharia Law in Paris isn’t.
Luck with that.
#15, No, no no. Not North Carolina. They’ve got trouble enough without Floridians - glowball warmening is causing hurricanes there too, which floods the swine-farming operations, which makes a big chunk of the neighborhood uninhabitable until the smell dies down.
North DAKOTA! And tell them to take their fuzzy slippers.
Science by consensus is just politics by another name. A flat earth was a scientific consensus, along with an earth at the center of the planetary universe. Those that criticized the consensus view were castigated as heretics. The religion of green bears a striking resemblance to that early era of scientific consensus.
Those sub-editors and headline writers have put in decades of research, dedicated their entire careers to seeking the truth on this issue. I tips me hat to them. I will be taking the wisdom sub-editors as my cue for all the big questions of life from here on in. Because, like the bloghead and his flock I am a certified idiot.
Posted by Miranda Divide on 2006 10 29 at 05:54 PM • permalinkThat’s so typical of those attention-seeking Buffaloans. They’re always trying to outdo both Rochester and Syracuse, where the real story of global warming was in evidence, such as it not snowing on the day of that snowstorm in Buffalo.
That’s not to say we aren’t going to kick their butts on total snowfall again this season, again because of global warming, but, in fact, global warming has been so bad here that we also had to truck our snow in from Buffalo once just to hold our Winterfest downtown. Again and again, Rochester’s weather has been out-proving both Buffalo’s and Syracuse’s on global warming since our incorporation in 1839.
And I’m not bragging, either. It’s a fact. Most people don’t know about this because we don’t brag. That’s a fact, too. It’s so bad here, though, one of our polar bears got a tooth infection last year. Hardly anyone, except us, knows it is THAT bad, here.
Well, if I haven’t convinced you yet, I can go on and on and on about this. But right now I have to go turn the heat up in the house ... it’s almost freezing here from the blowing cold air caused by global warming and it’s still October! Anyway, like we say here, “Take anything a Buffaloan says with a truck load of road salt.”
In Gaia science, it might be attraction of opposites. If it’s warm, you have to expect some cold to find it.
For example, consider a dog in heat. Soon you have all sorts of opposite dogs, and then puppy traffic between the paws.
The puppies are the sea rise.
Like the seven lean years are the Chinese restaurant.
#39 - As they say, Forbes, the truth will out.
Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2006 10 29 at 06:13 PM • permalinkWhew, got the heat turned up and now the exhaust from my furnace is causing the wind to get colder and blow harder.
By the way, forget everything I wrote earlier. Walter is not your ordinary garden variety Buffaloan braggert, he’s just one of those MoveOn moonbats which if you read the postscript to this article, will show that most Buffaloans are sensible people.
I love my neighbor.
#37—Yup, global warmening is gonna ruin the annual claim to upstate snow capital bragging rights. Imagine…the constant carping about the snow and cold…will turn into constant carping about how cold and snowy it used to be! And with an actual warmening outcome of milder and pleasant weather, upstate New Yorkers might have to learn to talk about something other than the crappy weather. Nah…
Here’s a question for you, Miranda. Al Gore has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Government. He never finished theology school or law school. His whole career has been spent in politics with a sideline of teaching government courses. Now, here’s the question:
How does any of this qualify him to be the Final Word on Environmentalism and Global Warming? Don’t you people vet your gods and gurus?
That’s so typical of those attention-seeking Buffaloans.
Hah! That’s Buffalonian, Kodak-boy.
Just goes to show how provincial these Rochesterers are. 45 minutes away and they don’t even know the name of their betters.
I’ve never took a drive to Rochester when I lived in B-lo, cuz I couldn’t think of a damned thing to do there. The George Eastman House? Be still, my heart.
Admit it, the only thing you’re good for is letting us poach talented Amercks.
Forbes, (#42) ya got that right.
Dave S, (#46) you did put the “c” in Amerks just to prove your point about provincialism, right? And yes, it’s great that the Amerks can still be the Buffalo Sabres farm team now that Tom Golisano has bought the Sabres and brought them out of bankruptcy. We’re always ready to help out ‘our betters’.
#46 Dave S -
I’ve never took a drive to Rochester when I lived in B-lo, cuz I couldn’t think of a damned thing to do there. The George Eastman House?
Whoa. Nobody told me the George Eastman House is in Rochester.
(checks on hotels in Rochester)
Posted by wronwright on 2006 10 29 at 07:59 PM • permalinkMemo to fellow global warmening skeptics:
We should band together, help promote global warmenising and rising sea levels while at the same time offering to relieve true believers of their soon to be inundated land on Sydney Harbour, Bondi Beach, Cottesloe, Peppermint Grove, etc. It’ll be the most lucrative property trust in history.
#24 Hey, loada_something_else, Mars is warming, the ice caps are shrinking.
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2006 10 29 at 10:58 PM • permalinkDon’t you people vet your gods and gurus?
What, and have to think about something, Rebecca? Please! We all know that the lefties are emotive in nature, and not disposed towards cognition.
I love my neighbor.
Great footnote to that stupid article, Dusty! Thanks for the link…Walter Simpson sounds like a genuine idiot.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2006 10 29 at 11:57 PM • permalinkOh, ferchrissakes.
How do these idiots even find their way to the bathroom in the morning?
(Or maybe they don’t; that would explain their warm feeling.)
Posted by Barbara Skolaut on 2006 10 30 at 12:01 AM • permalinkCheektowaga [sp?] is a suburb of Buffalo (or at least a small town near Buffalo). I think it’s also an Indian tribe name, crash, but I’m not certain of that.
Posted by andycanuck on 2006 10 30 at 01:01 AM • permalinkCheektowaga: suburb of Buffalo. Name comes from the Seneca word for “place of the crabapple tree” or “land of the crabapples”. I’ve heard both translations.
The earliest inhabitants were the Neuter tribe (I kid you not). They were driven out by the Seneca, who were in turn driven out by global warming (really).Now lets make fun of Depew, and then head over to the Anchor Bar for some wings.
Cheektowaga is a lawn with two pink plastic flamingos.
Cheektowaga is an old Polish lady edging her grass with scissors.
Cheektowaga is a dinner invitation of “Jeetyet?”
Cheektowaga is a 28-year-old doughy guy with fat cheeks and a mustache going to his Mom’s house for pierogi.
Cheektowaga is a waitress at the Villa asking, “What kin I get youse guys?”
Cheektowaga is a garden in front of the porch with the Virgin Mary in a bathtub shrine.
It’s not so much a place as a state of mind.
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Face facts Tim, EVERYTHING that happens from now on is caused by global warming. I caught a cold last week from global warming. Global warming also caused a pothole to develop just down the road from me. I’d fix it myself, but I went to the hardware store to get a shovel only to find out that it’s closed on Sunday because of global warming.