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What a Difference A Week Makes
One week ago, we had snow on the ground. it didn’t completely go away until Thursday. Early this afternoon, the Mr was heading out to his man cave, when he mentioned something green outside. So, I toddled myself over to the door to take a peek. I’ll be darned! Day lily sprouting!
Unfortunately, I also noticed that the weeds were making a major comeback as well. 
Does this mean things are going to get back to normal now? As in semi-normal temperatures? 
Yeah Yeah….
….it’s purdy and all that, but seriously, make it go AWAY! It should be in the mid 50s by now, with a hint of little sprigs of green stuff peeking out. Instead, this is what we get?
Enough already! Hey algore…and all the rest of you ‘global warming’ chumps!! 
Facts Can Be Scary
Is the Great ‘Global Warming’ Snowjob Finally Coming to an End?
As the east coast recovers from Snowpocalypse, some global warming alarmists have said that we shouldn’t read too much into the blizzards. We can’t draw broad conclusions about climate change based on particular storms or regional weather trends. You know what? They’re right.
Now there is irony in the fact that the blizzards hit just as the President announced the formation of the Climate Service, charged with managing and coordinating the effects of “climate change.” But that’s all it is: irony. Snowpocalypse neither proves nor disproves the theory that human activities are disastrously effecting earth’s climate, but it did provide an opportunity for several conservative commentators, like Limbaugh and Hannity, to crack wise at the expense of the alarmists.
Chris Matthews wagged his finger at such jocularity, piously declaring that “…the average global temperature last year was the second highest on record…” and that “…cold weather in one area over several days doesn’t change the reality of what’s happening to this planet…” You know what? He’s right too. Well, Chris was right as far as he goes.
Unfortunately, Matthews stopped short of explaining the whole story, which this scientist finds rather disappointing coming from a fellow who, like me, boasts a Jesuit university as an alma mater. Perhaps Chris missed those critical thinking lessons that the Jesuits try to impart on eager young students.
Read the entire piece here.
As I’ve stated MANY times, the government has no interest in the climate, health care, or any number of other issues they are trying to ram down our throats. It’s all about control. Control of the world’s finances, control of their “subjects’, control of our children so they can turn them into good little socialists robots. Unfortunately, due to the lack of voters ability to pay attention and parenting skills on the part of many of our fellows citizens, they are succeeding.
I would suggest to Tingles that he get his head out of Obama’s ass, and start doing his own research. It’s really not that difficult. For the time being, you can find just about everything on the internet, and that includes THOUSANDS of dissenters to the ‘warming’ scam. I’m not talking about people like me, who know algore is full of male bovine excrement. I’m talking about actual SCIENTISTS, who have made it their life’s work to find truth.
Wisdom From The Sultan
The Temperature at Which Global Warming Freezes
A snippet:
Prior to this season’s unfortunate weather, Global Warming advocates had staked their bets on a mild winter in order to show people the pernicious effects of people driving to work and using extra shopping bags. Which was a decent enough angle, considering that we had been experiencing milder winters over the last few years. But the problem with betting that the weather will help prove your point, is that the weather may have other plans. And now digging out of a snowstorm and their own lies, Global Warming advocates are arguing that colder winters and snowstorms are actually another effect of global warming. Which may now need to be renamed, Global Temperatures We Don’t Like.
Had environmentalists hedged their bets by calling Global Warming something vaguely neutral like Global Temperature Imbalance, they would have had a much easier time covering their asses. Because temperature imbalances are a more subjective thing and the graphs are easier to fake. But Global Temperature Imbalance is much less entertainingly alarmist than Global Warming, and the environmentalists knew that they needed a name with some heft to frighten the public. Armageddon. Apocalypse. We think of destruction as a fiery event. And Global Warming was an environmentalist apocalypse, supposedly backed by science. No wonder it got as much traction as it did.
But it isn’t just the weather that’s turning on Global Warming, from Anglia to the IPCC, the scientific case for Global Warming is being undermined by revelations of fraud and malfeasance. And the political case for Cap and Trade is being undermined by the refusal of politicians and nations to cut their own throats so that Al Gore and George Soros can make a few billion selling “Right to Emit Carbon” certificates to every factory on the planet.
Read the whole post here. It’s well worth your time.
Don’t Tell Me….
…..this was caused by ‘global warming’ too!
Record snowstorm leaves 170,000 without power in Dallas area
The storm that hit the region Thursday dropped 12.5 inches of snow at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport in the 24 hours that ended at 4 a.m. That broke the previous 24-hour record of 12.1 inches, set on Jan. 15-16, 1964.
Uh huh. Got it!
Happy Monday
Gee. What a joy to wake up to more of algore’s ‘global warming’! Not exactly like last Monday’s post, is it.
I read they are expecting up to 5 inches, but not sure exactly where in the area. All the schools are closed….again. It looks like we’ve got about an inch, so far. Now, you’d think this wouldn’t be a major deal. Well, most places…in the north….it wouldn’t be, but down here, this is NOT normal!
The NORMAL temp for Podunk in February is 53 degrees. Light jackets needed at most. Normal low? 32, sometime in the middle of the night no doubt.
Average NORMAL snowfall, for an entire year….the green line:
Inch and a half. Since we’ve moved here, we’ve had a dump of 8 inches….in March…a couple of times.
In case you weren’t aware, I believe Al Gore is a major ass, who lies through his ugly teeth, all to make a few million bucks! And you can include all those so called representatives in D.C., who are falling for that BS in order to control our lives, in that mega ass category as well!
Hmmm…. I’m wondering…. If this keeps up, will we get some of that stimulus money to buy snow plows, provide jobs, so people around here can actually get to their jobs? I mean those who still HAVE jobs.
What is that stuff?
I’m not sure if I’ve ever mentioned where my oldest sister, the “progressive”, lives, but it happens to be outside of D.C., in Falls Church, VA. Well, I’m sure ya know they had quite a bit of global warming going on over the weekend. She sent a few pictures, and I thought I’d share a couple. Mind you, this was before it had slacked off.
She tells me they are expecting more of that no winter stuff this week. Yes, there is such a thing as ‘climate change’. It’s called WINTER!
Birds of a Feather?
Osama and Obama on global warming
Discredited climate theories make strange bedfellows
In his State of the Union address last week, President Obama said there was “overwhelming scientific evidence on climate change.” In his most recent message to the world, Osama bin Laden said that climate change “is not an intellectual luxury but an actual fact.” It’s nice to see these two leaders can agree on something.
The hitch is that the man-caused catastrophic global warming theory is dead, and it needs to be buried. Evidence had been mounting for years that there were problems with the global warming model; most telling was that the globe refused to warm up. Carbon emissions continued apace, but the world began cooling. This is why true believers abandoned the “global warming” brand name and tried to shift the debate to the more ambiguous label “climate change,” which is something the rest of us like to refer to as “weather.”
I, and a great many others, have been trying to bring those algore acolytes back to reality. It just hasn’t been working. I guess they, including Obama and Osama, just hate humans, and the U.S. so much, they would rather see it destroyed, than admit someone has been spoon feeding the masses large doses of ka-ka!
You see, the planet cools, you get winter. The planet warms up, you have summer. The tectonic plates shift, there are earthquakes. The planet will do what it’s been doing for millions of years, and there’s not one single thing we can do about it. Arrogance is a dangerous and ugly thing, and the arrogance of the “global warming/climate change” brigade is one of the more dangerous to the planet, and mankind itself.
For the President of the United States and the world’s most wanted, and evil, terrorist to agree on the subject is quite telling. Neither have a clue how the planet actually works. That was something I learned in elementary school. Shame neither of them did.
Uh…..What?
Road crews work around the clock
While many people in West Tennessee played in the snow Saturday, road crews and power companies worked throughout the day to repair the damage caused by Friday’s storm.
We’ve been working straight through since 6:30 yesterday morning,” said Buddy Crick, assistant superintendent with the Jackson Street Department. “We are bringing in another crew to work until 3 in the morning.”
Crick said his crews have spread more than 300 tons of salt since Friday morning. So far the crews have focused on keeping main routes open such as Hollywood Drive, Highland Avenue and Dr. F.E. Wright Drive.
Salt does not work as well on iced streets, and it takes longer for plows to clear the streets, Crick said.
Now, I admire these fine folks for doing a tough job which isn’t exactly normal for our neck of the woods. That being said….”Salt does not work as well on iced streets…”? Really. I don’t know….isn’t salt the stuff that actually does a good job on icy streets in Wisconsin? I remember many salt trucks running around, trying to make the streets drivable. Perhaps I have something mixed up in my tiny little brain? What would you use on icy roads instead?
Why I Am Thrilled To Be Here…and Not There
There:
… SIGNIFICANT SNOW AND ICE ACCUMULATIONS POSSIBLE ALONG AND NORTH OF A CLARKSDALE MISSISSIPPI TO SAVANNAH TENNESSEE THURSDAY AND FRIDAY…
A POWERFUL LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM AND WINTER STORM WILL AFFECT THE MIDSOUTH THURSDAY AND FRIDAY. WITH COLD AIR MOVING IN FROM THE NORTH AND A SURFACE LOW FORECAST TO MOVE FROM NORTH TEXAS TO SOUTH ALABAMA… THE AREA WILL BE IN A FAVORABLE SETUP FOR A WINTRY MIX OF PRECIPITATION.
EXACT PRECIPITATION TYPES AND AMOUNTS REMAIN UNCERTAIN AT THIS TIME. HOWEVER… THERE IS THE POTENTIAL FOR SIGNIFICANT SNOW… SLEET… AND/OR FREEZING RAIN ACCUMULATIONS… MAINLY NORTH OF A CLARKSDALE MISSISSIPPI TO SAVANNAH TENNESSEE.
CONFIDENCE OF SNOW AND ICE ACCUMULATIONS IS HIGHEST NORTH OF A HARRISBURG ARKANSAS TO PARIS TENNESSEE LINE… INCLUDING THE JONESBORO… POCAHONTAS… BLYTHEVILLE… CARUTHERSVILLE… AND UNION CITY AREAS. CONFIDENCE DECREASES SOUTH OF THIS LINE.
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And don’t you worry about those scattered showers, they last about 2 minutes, then gone!
Perhaps God is telling algore, the UN, and all those other weasels…..MAN DOES NOT CONTROL THE WEATHER!
They Just Can’t Help Themselves
Well, they could, they just won’t. I’m fairly sure that most people with 2 brain cells to rub together has figured out by now that the lame stream alphabets, ABC, NBC, and CBS, are no longer news organizations, but schills for the ONE’s administration. If you want real news, you’ll have to look elsewhere. True journalists are a dying breed, and unfortunately, there don’t seem to be too many to take their place. The evening “news” is no longer news, it’s gushing opinion.
ABC’s Sawyer Hails Obama: ‘Buck Stops Here’ an ‘Echo of Another Young President’
Two quick items from Thursday’s World News. ABC anchor Diane Sawyer heard “an echo of another young President in another time” in President Obama’s “the buck stops here” taking of responsibility for the failed Christmas Day terrorist plot as George Stephanopoulos explained her reference: “John Kennedy after the Bay of Pigs….The President took responsibility, his popularity shot up. The White House is calculating with the President taking personal responsibility, they can put this behind them.”
Yes, Kennedy took responsibility for the Bay of Pigs. He also cut taxes, and set some goals that wouldn’t destroy the country. When I look back, I see a Democrat they way they use to be……gasp…..conservative! Oh, and in case Mzzzzzzzzzz Sawyer wasn’t aware, it was Harry Truman who said “The buck stops here.” Most grownups do take responsibility for their actions. Since he’s not a grownup, the only ’shock’ I heard from Obama in his teleprompter reading was him taking responsibility…..for a change!
Minutes later, after a report on cold weather, Sawyer considered it evidence of “climate change.” She asked Sam Champion, a global warming devotee: “We’ve all been unnerved about talk about climate change. Is this one of those strange events that signals to you, even you, this is something brand new?” From Chicago, Champion, citing the “cold snap” in North America, Asia and Northern Europe, concurred “it certainly is a question that needs to be looked into.”
“Climate change”? Yeah….it’s called winter ya dumb broad! It happens all the time! Some winters are more cold than others. Some summers are hotter than others. It’s a fact, and there’s not a damn thing anyone can do about it! Honestly, I wish these people would get a freakin’ clue! We do NOT control the weather! We never have. We never will!
Blech!
Increased chance of snow midweek in Jackson; 2 to 4 inches possible
Snow, then even colder weather is moving into Tennessee.
The Tennessee Department of Transportation reported patches of snow and ice on roads in the Tri-Cities area this morning, but the greater concern is widespread snowfall expected Wednesday night and Thursday.
The National Weather Service said accumulating snow at midweek would be followed by an Arctic outbreak of bitterly cold air that will produce the coldest weather of the winter so far.
Accumulations of 2 to 4 inches are now expected midweek over West Tennessee and Middle Tennessee, with the heavier amounts closer to the Kentucky border.
In Jackson, snow is likely after midnight Wednesday, according to the National Weather Service in Memphis. The chance of precipitation Wednesday night, which was predicted at 50 percent Monday, has increased to 70 percent, according to the weather service.
On Thursday, there’s now predicted to be a 90 percent chance of snow Thursday before noon.
We are 45 minutes from Jackson. We moved to Tennessee to get away from the cold and snow. Excuse me, but I really, REALLY, hate to be cold. I REALLY hate snow! Snow makes me cold just thinking about it!
HEY! Boracle! 
Al Gore’s Natural Duct Tape
Britain facing one of the coldest winters in 100 years, experts predict
Britain is bracing itself for one of the coldest winters for a century with temperatures hitting minus 16 degrees Celsius, forecasters have warned.
In case you are wondering, that’s about 3 degrees Fahrenheit. In other words….THAT’S BLOODY COLD!
They predicted no let up in the freezing snap until at least mid-January, with snow, ice and severe frosts dominating.
And the likelihood is that the second half of the month will be even colder.
Weather patterns were more like those in the late 1970s, experts said, while Met Office figures released on Monday are expected to show that the country is experiencing the coldest winter for up to 25 years.
Has The Boracle been spending time in Britain recently? Seems he’s got a knack for freezing the cajones off a variety of citizenry with his presence.
Now, granted, we don’t live in Great Britain. As a matter of fact, we’re not even close (about 4300 miles). Tennessee is on this side of the planet, don’cha know, but if you take a gander at this little screen shot I grabbed this evening from Weather Underground, you’ll see that our neck of the woods is a mite nippy as well.
If you will notice, the NORMAL low is 29. That would be at the coldest part of the night. Ok, yesterday’s low was 22. Nothing all that unusual when the temp gets a little below the norms. What is really starting to annoy the bejabbers outta me is the predicted lows for Monday, when we get home: 10! If I wanted to live where the lows were 10 degrees all the time, I would have stayed in Wisconsin fer the love of pete! Or was that the highs? Hmmm…. And snow???? They are predicting SNOW??? I’m gonna die! sigh….
Seriously Big Ice Cubes
I’m seriously glad we didn’t get all that they were predicting, if this is any indication of what could have been.
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