A.G.W. on the Rocks

Once again, facts fly in the face of anthropogenic global warming dogma. According to the University of Illinois's Arctic Climate Research Center, the sea ice is not melting at an alarming rate, much to the relief of the booming polar bear population. Here's a hint, folks. Climate should be evaluated not by reviewing years and decades of data, but by hundreds, thousands and tens of thousands of years of data. That's the only way to put it in a proper context. Of course, that would leave the global warming Chicken Little alarmists with only one thing to shout:  "The sky is normal! The sky is normal!" 

And that wouldn't sell very many movie tickets. Right, Al?

HT: Daily Tech

The Answer is Not Blowing in the Wind

According to this Reuters report, Texas had a power grid emergency on Tuesday. What caused the emergency? Well, let's just say it doesn't always blow in Texas:

A drop in wind generation late on Tuesday, coupled with colder weather, triggered an electric emergency that caused the Texas grid operator to cut service to some large customers, the grid agency said on Wednesday...

[Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT)] said the grid's frequency dropped suddenly when wind production fell from more than 1,700 megawatts, before the event, to 300 MW when the emergency was declared.

In addition, ERCOT said multiple power suppliers fell below the amount of power they were scheduled to produce on Tuesday. That, coupled with the loss of wind generated in West Texas, created problems moving power to the west from North Texas.

Here's an idea. Build a few nuclear power plants.

Staring at the Sun

The Investor's Business Daily reports that some scientists are predicting a period of global cooling. Is the cause air pollution? A lack of carbon dioxide? The "Evil Trinity" of Bush, Cheney and Rove? Not exactly. The scientists (obviously paid off by Big-Oil and Big-Carbon Dioxide) think it's *gasp* the sun:

Solar activity fluctuates in an 11-year cycle. But so far in this cycle, the sun has been disturbingly quiet. The lack of increased activity could signal the beginning of what is known as a Maunder Minimum, an event which occurs every couple of centuries and can last as long as a century.

Such an event occurred in the 17th century. The observation of sunspots showed extraordinarily low levels of magnetism on the sun, with little or no 11-year cycle.

This solar hibernation corresponded with a period of bitter cold that began around 1650 and lasted, with intermittent spikes of warming, until 1715. Frigid winters and cold summers during that period led to massive crop failures, famine and death in Northern Europe.

You can read the entire article here.

Minnesotans for Global Warming

M4GW is a serious organization with a sense of humor. So, let's turn up the global thermostat and embrace the warmth. And now for you amusement . . .

The Global Warming Song

HT: NARN

The Greatest Scam In History

It is the greatest scam in history. I am amazed, appalled and highly offended by it. Global Warming; It is a SCAM.

That' according to John Coleman, the founder of The Weather Channel. Read the rest of his article here.

HT: News Busters

Sound Instruction Through Film

In an earlier post, I mentioned that there was going to be a showing of the film The Great Global Warming Swindle at a local nature center on October 13th. Well, I decided to go and make sure that at least one person who has abstained from Al Gore's kool-aid attends the event. The nature center is tucked away in a residential neighborhood of a Minneapolis suburb. It's quite a nice little park/squirrel haven. At any rate, the nature center staff and the gentleman facilitating the event were all quite pleasant. The total attendance ended up at around 10 people. Interestingly enough, they had about the same attendance for each of the two showings of Al G.'s hysteria flick which were shown back in April. Interestingly, they were not able to locate a copy of TGGWS on DVD or VHS. They ended up downloading a copy off of Google Video.

The film was very well done and, I think, did a good job of refuting some of the main arguments for anthropogenic global warming. However, what I found interesting is that all ten of the people in attendance were skeptical of the view that global warming is mainly anthropogenic. I guess Gore's acolytes took him at his word when he said that the debate is over. Once you buy into that bit of rhetoric, there's no point in polluting your mind with opposing views, no matter how fact-based they are. After all, science isn't about critically examining the evidence. It's about taking a stand on a issue and refusing to consider any evidence to the contrary. Kind of like, well, blind faith.

Inform Yourself on October 13th

The film "The Great Global Warming Swindle" will be presented by the Westwood Hills Nature Center in Saint Louis Park, MN on Saturday, October 13th. You can find more information here.

"The Great Global Warming Swindle" was first aired in March 2007 on the UK's Channel 4. The film casts serious doubt on the evidence for human-caused global warming as presented in Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth". If you're curious as to why a Nature Center, of all places, would show this film, you can read about it at Fraters Libertas.