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WEATHER REPORTED
An unexpected delight - this report on unusually toasty weather in New York doesn’t mention global warming once:
Just when it seemed like winter’s bite kicked into gear with wind chills in single digits last week, some unexpected mild air is moving into the region and will make for a fantastic start to the work week. By Tuesday, temperatures should hit at least 60 degrees for much of the tri-state region.
“It’s not quite June in January, but it’s good enough for me,” says CBS 2 HD Meteorologist John Elliott.
And so on, all very informative and useful. It’s like a report from olden times, before weather was political.
(Via Citizen Grim)
Ahh!! back in the good old days! I remember them still:
When you could talk about the weather like you might talk about life’s other ponderables - and all in a genial kind of way!
When you could call someone “black sambo” or “silly billy” or even a “monkey” and no-one ever got offended, or if they did they certainly never showed it!
If the weather can be reported without blame, the maybe there is hope for us all!
It’s a start, now about that monkey??
The sun rises and sets. Weather patterns changes. Why? God alone knows.
Posted by stackja1945 on 2008 01 08 at 05:11 AM • permalink“Just when it seemed like winter’s bite kicked into gear with wind chills in single digits last week, some unexpected mild air is moving into the region...”
Maybe this was the after effects of Barack’s speech. Who knows?
Posted by The Best Infidel on 2008 01 08 at 05:25 AM • permalinkThe weather is a redistribution of the suns energy (heat)
here endeth the lesson.
Posted by surfmaster on 2008 01 08 at 05:40 AM • permalink#9, killa, I would love to say I researched that, but to be honest I learnt it doing my coxswains course - part of which involved meterology and weather.
Posted by surfmaster on 2008 01 08 at 06:01 AM • permalinkThey obviously didn’t teach me spelling though. Doh!!!
Posted by surfmaster on 2008 01 08 at 06:24 AM • permalink#8 surfmaster: Have you seen this?
Today, the Space and Science Research Center, (SSRC) in Orlando, Florida announces that it has confirmed the recent web announcement of NASA solar physicists that there are substantial changes occurring in the sun’s surface. The SSRC has further researched these changes and has concluded they will bring about the next climate change to one of a long lasting cold era.
#15 no I haven’t seen it but it doesn’t surprise me, the sun is the provider of just about everything on the bloody planet, (except decent high powered cars), heat, light, day and night. The sun can affect the weather, who would of thunk it?
Posted by surfmaster on 2008 01 08 at 06:50 AM • permalinkI just saw a promo on the ABC for that Catastrophic Man-Made Glowball Warmening special that’ll be on later tonight too - jeepers, how scary!
Here’s Kevni wanting to “protect the children” on one hand, and “our” ABC showing things to frighten the bejeezus out of them on the other.
I’d like an “Overblown Warmenist Hyperbole” filter, please.
Posted by spot_the_dog on 2008 01 08 at 07:05 AM • permalinkWell, it was 70 degrees F in Cincinnati yesterday. Nice. Very nice. The melting of polar ice and flooding coastal areas and islands is a small price to pay for such nice weather in January.
Posted by wronwright on 2008 01 08 at 07:22 AM • permalinkit was very warm in DC yesterday and promises to be so again today. i never got out nor had time to check the actual stats. all i know is that i was rather warm even in the office. but the big question is.. is it really a fashion faux pas to bring out the summer dress, sandals and straw hat in january?
Rhodes Fairbridge and the idea that the solar system regulates the Earth’s climate.
A very interesting 14-page pdf by Richard Mackey on the science of Rhodes Fairbridge, “one of Australia’s most accomplished intellectuals and an early expert on climate change”.
New to me was the concept that the Sun is being dragged into weird orbits — and its output is being varied — by the complex gravitational forces applied to it by the planets.#27, Razor, at least in those day journalists were still keen to take into account the known science and work from there rather than the contemporary crop who only seem have an axe to grind. Anything that does not fit in with their preconceived ideas is simply discarded. I am heartily sick and tired of waking up to a news bulletin that starts with some global warming nonsense.
...some unexpected mild air is moving into the region…
Clearly, Al Gore didn’t fart in your general direction. Maybe Obama burped?
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2008 01 08 at 09:29 AM • permalinkRe #15, thanks for the link, Sandi. I’ve read a couple articles speculating something like that. Time to stock up on the thermal underwear and firewood, methinks.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2008 01 08 at 09:30 AM • permalink#22; The Deano says it is never the faux pas for the lovely lady to bring out the summer dress. When the weather is good, the ladies must add the radiance to the man’s life.
Posted by dean martin on 2008 01 08 at 09:32 AM • permalink#20 Pogria,
Yes, that was me. I went inside the maintenance shed for a measly 5 minutes to take a deserved coffee break. When I came out, I found no one waxing helicopters. So I asked the VRWC Global Tracker computer to find where you went wandering to. And MarkL. A lefty blog? For shame.
Get back to waxing!
Posted by wronwright on 2008 01 08 at 10:40 AM • permalink#31 TRJ:
Time to stock up on the thermal underwear and firewood, methinks.
Or, according to Al-Gore, wide-brimmed hats, sunscreen and rashies. Nah!
A few years ago I was having strange computer problems at work and at home and, as it turned out, so was everyone else in the 250-personnel organisation I was with at the time (2002-3). The resident tech told me there was a spate of “sun spots”, and this was affecting the earth’s atmosphere and causing the problem.
I checked it out on the web and found that he was correct, and that there had been warnings issued that this would occur.
Anyone else?
Good news out of the UK: you’ll be able to continue contributing to global warming even when you’re gone.
So we won’t be seeing any more of those posts you get here every time it snows somewhere in the world?
Posted by Jefferson Skates on 2008 01 08 at 12:32 PM • permalinkHoax Alert! A fishy smell is coming from SSRC, #15, et al.
SSRC may very well be a hoax or scam.
Steven Milloy starts his quote with “Anyone ever hear of these guys?” Another site calls it a hoax with scam overtones.Several pairs of eyes are on them, tune in next week after the dust settles.
Posted by Harry Bergeron on 2008 01 08 at 12:48 PM • permalinkI’d like an “Overblown Warmenist Hyperbole” filter, please.
Sorry, no such device exists. However, you’re not totally out of luck. The boffins in R&D have been working night and day on an anti-warmenist patch for the Protection Against Caterwauling Obsessives software. Beta versions are available for a minor fee, no warranty stated or implied.
Uh oh, this just in from the Peoples Cube. We don’t need to worry about Gerbil Warmongering anymore, they’ve stumble on Anthropogenic Continental Drift!!!! It’s an Incoherent truth!!
Posted by Old Tanker on 2008 01 08 at 02:29 PM • permalink#53, Pickles,
At least one brainy type says there’s a nuclear reaction at the core, which makes sense since heavier elements must have settled toward the middle while it was still all soupy.
There are also reaction by-products to be found in gas wells.
Posted by Harry Bergeron on 2008 01 08 at 06:44 PM • permalink#51 Old Tanker
Thanks for the laugh this morning!
Posted by aussiemagpie on 2008 01 08 at 07:55 PM • permalink#28 Surfmaster. Glad you posted that. What a superb horseman was Moore.
Normally Mackay people pick up on the good they send elsewhere but having lived there years ago I never heard anyone mention that. Maybe no one knew.
When I was 16/17 I followed Baguette who they said couldn’t run the ‘other’ way in Melbourne but they still took him down for the Newmarket. Moore got thrown on him late and I got 5/1. I’ll never forget the call, with a furlong to go Moore took him out from the ruck and the genius of the combination split them so clinically from the others that it may as well have been a one horse race. No other jockey could have been so utterly skilful and decisive.
The track was a big chunk of my life in those days and Georgy Porgy was a big part of that. Younger Australians these days don’t seem to relate much to the horse racing. Pity.Vale a wonderful Australian talent and personality.
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