A Site for Shore Eyes

Certain climatologists declared the winter of 2006-2007 the warmest on record. They made this declaration before winter even began, and reaffirmed it a couple of days ago. Here in New Jersey, on St. Patrick’s day, a snow plow just went by the house, and the outside temperature is a blistering 27 degrees Fahrenheit. Rest assured that global warming will make most of the snow disappear before spring officially rolls in.

According to the Regional Climate Office at Rutgers University, http://climate.rutgers.edu/stateclim while January was indeed unseasonably warm, February 2007 was the 15^th coldest since 1895, and the coldest February since 1979.

Raise your hand if you believe the global warming hype is not agenda-driven. I’m having trouble seeing the hands of the people in upstate New York, who got 12 feet of snow a few weeks back.

A meeting in Washington, DC concerning global warming was cancelled a couple of weeks back due to an ice storm. In other action, two women who planned on walking across the North Pole to demonstrate the melting of the Arctic ice, turned back due to the cold. One of them got frostbite in three toes.

Meantime, if not back at the ranch, at least in Northampton, Massachusetts, a group of religious leaders started walking across the state to bring attention to global warming. They warmed up on lentil and minestrone soup after walking eight miles in deep snow. They plan on completing their journey, but I doubt that they’ll succeed in making a believer out of me.

Proponents of human-caused global warming during the twentieth century seem to have no explanation for the Medieval Warm Period of 800 to 1300 A.D. nor for the Little Ice Age of 1300 to 1900 A.D. http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/press/pr0310.html I can only suspect that the world industrial community began cutting back on automobile emissions and burning of industrial fossil fuels beginning in 1301 or thereabouts.

How does one obtain a consensus on a supposedly scientific study? Apparently you simply send a copy of the study to hundreds of leading scientists, even if they don’t agree with its findings, and if they don’t respond, you attach their names to it. That’s what happened recently, and some are threatening to sue if their names aren’t removed.

Whether or not human-induced global warming is real (the predictions of a coming ice age during the 1970s apparently weren’t, but stay tuned), the shrill screams of the advocates make me wary of their motives. The snow on the ground in the middle of March also seems a bit suspicious. So much for the St. Patrick’s Day Parade.

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