Shocking cold wave drops temps to 40 below zero

Why isn’t Al Gore in jail?

No one has mentioned it yet, but “pravda” means truth in Russian. It’s an old totalitarian joke, though one gaining favor lately in the US as well.

JiangxiDad on January 12, 2009 at 10:59 AM

An Inconvenient Pravda?

….. “Snowball Earth”.

Seven Percent Solution on January 12, 2009 at 7:21 PM

Nice scary movie.
There’s dropstones in a lot of places.
In the Medicine Bow Mtns W. of Laramie, I know.

I’m not worried even though I live in ND. If I gotta move, I’ll go to the wilderness somewhere else.
I’m sure it won’t happen. But that’s why a technological society (with some common sense) would survive better than a Middle Ages society like the kind Gore & his cronies want us to go back to.

My intuition tell’s me that the last ice age is still in melting and a tropical climate is at hand in the northen atmosphere. For this, Russia will come across the arctic sea for vacation on our coast. Already it has planted a flag at the bottom of the arctic floor claiming the North Pole.

“…such as rational energy policies that improve standards of living…”

Why don’t we just open up our energy sources to the free market? Why should the government be crafting “energy policy”?

progressoverpeace on January 12, 2009 at 6:27 PM

I like your words. Mine are a little terse. I have been telling people for years that our knowledge of climate science is on a par with the world’s knowledge of chemistry in Mendeleev’s time.

I’d much prefer a shorter cool period, long enough to debunk AGW and discredit Gore, Hanson & co.

LarryD on January 12, 2009 at 6:06 PM

How can you discredit Hanson? He has predicted both a new ice age and runaway AGW.

It is a fact that colder temperatures would be far more harmful to humanity than warmer temperatures. Colder temperatures would result in less land that is suitable for farming, less land suitable for habitation, more deaths due to freezing temperatures and increased disease due to more frequent winter conditions.

Let’s suppose that CO2 emissions are actually causing the Earth’s climate to warm. This would have a positive effect on life on earth, if we were entering an “ice age”.

Also, humanity’s reliance on fossil fuels has enabled the world population to grow to over 6 billion. This population explosion was made possible because of the advances that a reliance on fossil fuels has brought about. These advances include: mechanized farming techniques, refrigeration, air, ground and sea transportation of food and other vital goods, home heating and air conditioning, the availability of speedy emergency services, the availability of modern medicine, the availability of fresh drinking water, the availability of water for irrigation, the availability of indoor plumbing, etc.

If we dramatically reduced or eliminated the use of fossil fuels before finding a suitable, safe and environmentally safer substitute, we would reduce the worlds limit to sustain human life, and billions would die unnecessarily.

This is why we should not rush into any global solutions “half-cocked”. There may be unforeseen negative consequences.

Second learn to fend for yourselves be it hunting, fishing, mechanic etc. It is always a good idea to be an “everyman” kind of individual that a foucused person with only one skill that may or may not be needed during a crisis.

unseen on January 12, 2009 at 10:10 AM

When I Was in college, I had a history professor who said virtually the same thing. He said that if the economy went bad that people that could fend for themselves could make it while Phd’s like himself would be at the mercy of others.

……….. “Snowball Earth”.

“I’m also disinclined to put much trust in Pravda the New York Times on any story, given its history of propaganda and deception.”

Fixed it for ‘ya……………

Guardian on January 12, 2009 at 7:05 PM

Like “The End Is Nigh”?

If I misfired, I apologize – my bad…

catmman on January 12, 2009 at 6:19 PM

No misfire. You are absolutely correct about the modeling problem. My longstanding challenge to global warmers has been that, if they are so good at modeling such complex systems, they should just use their super-human modeling abilities to model a much simpler system, like the S+P500, make hundreds of billions in profits following their models’ predictions, and finance their inane schemes with their own money. Of course, they can’t, and our experience with econometrics has shown us the limits of such models for predictive value (even for the vastly simpler systems of stock price time series).

If I misfired, I apologize – my bad…

I’ll give you the one about Pravda though, to a point, but granted

A cool period like the Dalton or Maunder Minimum. Maybe.

I’d much prefer a shorter cool period, long enough to debunk AGW and discredit Gore, Hanson & co.

Now flatulance of all kinds should be outlawed..

jcila on January 12, 2009 at 5:22 PM

You can’t do that! I would explode! :)

catmman on January 12, 2009 at 5:50 PM

Two things:

1) Our MSM is more anti-American than Pravda, these days.

2) Look at the Vostok data, yourself. It’s self-evident.

I dont believe we should pave the earth..
But i think since CO2 is what all humans exhale..
I have a small problem with claiming that as a dangerous gas..

Now flatulance of all kinds should be outlawed..
as well as all of the Hot air comming from the environmentalists..

That alone would solve the problem