Ultimately, if you think about all the youth that everybody has mentioned here in Africa, if everybody is raising living standards to the point where everybody has got a car and everybody has got air conditioning, and everybody has got a big house, well, the planet will boil over -- unless we find new ways of producing energy. - Obama speaking on Global warming in Johannesburg
When I was younger, "population explosion" was a serious topic of concern, because over population exacerbated so many critical problems in the world. It seemed like the politically correct crowd and the religious right crowd both repressed that open discussion. So now, we face potentially catastrophic consequences of over population and modernization, with that discussion still unpopular. The people of modern western societies seem to self regulate their population growth with birth control. But that is not the case with many cultures of the world, and their people expect higher standards of living, just as the President says.
President Obama tried the other day to elbow Al aside to lead with his assertion that hurricanes are getting worse and that only he has the power to put them in their place. Hurricanes are actually getting not worse, but fewer. Only three major hurricanes have made landfall so far in Mr. Obamas presidency. Grover Cleveland, who was president between 1885 and 1889, entertained 26 major hurricanes during his presidency, and that was before global warning was invented.
what frustrates Al and the snake-oil industry is that the skeptics can no longer be shut out of the conversation. We can expect the climate crisis industry to grow increasingly shrill, and increasingly hostile toward anyone who questions their authority, Kenneth P. Green, a former member of the U.N. panel, predicted three years ago. Another former panelist, Dr. Kimimori Itoh, a Japanese physical chemist, calls the phenomenon the worst scientific scandal in history. When people come to know what the truth is, they will feel deceived by science and scientists.
On Wednesday the Post published an in-depth interview on climate change with Gore that quoted him saying: The extreme events are more extreme. The hurricane scale used to be 1-5 and now theyre adding a 6. The fingerprint of man-made global warming is all over these storms and extreme weather events.
I was talking to the lady cutting my cajan turkey at Kroger today. We got to talking about how this summer has been quite the anomaly compared to the last decade. Then, surprising, she looked around and leaned across the counter and stated that "the climate is changing" and she "can't believe people didn't believe global warming sooner" (our climate has been very cool and rainy this summer). I did my best not to laugh, smiled, and thanked her for the meat.
It is scary how stupid/blissfully naive the average person is.
Heard on the radio about a week ago that the NHC was predicting 19 named storms in the GULF alone by the end of the season......smdh.
I wonder what the next C.L.E. (Catastrophic Liberal Event) will be? All the libs were running around back in the 70s screaming about how the world was going to run out of food in 1993 if people didn't stop procreating. As soon as that came to pass, they latched on to carbon dioxide. When this scam blows over -- probably around the time we enter a mini ice age in the next 30 years or so -- I guess the liberals will climb to the mountain top and give us lectures on ocean acidification.
So, whats in store for this winter? The Days of Shivery are back! 
For 20132014, we are forecasting a winter that will experience below average temperatures for about two-thirds of the nation. A large area of below-normal temperatures will predominate from roughly east of the Continental Divide to the Appalachians, north and east through New England. Coldest temperatures will be over the Northern Plains on east into the Great Lakes. Only for the Far West and the Southeast will there be a semblance of winter temperatures averaging close to normal, but only a few areas will enjoy many days where temperatures will average above normal.
Significant snowfalls are forecast for parts of every zone. Over the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic states, we are red-flagging the first ten days of February for possible heavy winter weather. More importantly, on February 2, Super Bowl XLVIII will be played at MetLife Stadium in New Jerseys Meadowlandsthe very first time a Super Bowl will be played outdoors in a typically cold weather environment. We are forecasting stormy weather for this, the biggest of sporting venues. But even if we are off by a day or two with the timing of copious wind, rain, and snow, we wish to stress that this particular part of the winter season will be particularly volatile and especially turbulent.
