More Global Warming: Record Lows In Oregon

Numerous record low temperatures were recorded in Eastern Oregon last weekend. Thanks Al!

Record lows started falling Thursday with a new low of 20 for Meacham, four degrees cooler than the previous record from 2006, according to information from the Web site for the National Weather Service Forecast Office in Pendleton.

Heppner and Long Creek then set new low temperatures Friday. Heppner hit 29, the coldest that date has seen since 1960 when it was 30; and Long Creek was 21, besting the 1987 record by four degrees.

Saturday set multiple new lows, including the record 22 in downtown Pendleton. John Day dropped to 21, breaking the 1990 record of 23; Meacham's 15 broke the previous low of 20 from 2002; and Mitchell set a record with 21, five degrees cooler than the 2002 record.

Additionally, the top of Airport Hill in Pendleton set a new low of 25; the previous record was 33. And the agricultural experimental station north of Pendleton recorded a low of 18, five degrees cooler than the previous record from 1990.

The cold continued to set records Sunday. Meacham, for the third time in four days, set a record with a low of 15, one degree cooler than the 2002 record. Long Creek and Mitchell again set new records as well Long Creek's low of 21 broke with 1969 record of 25, and Mitchell's 21 broke the 1949 record of 24.

Global Cooling: It's Natural

There can be no doubt that the planet has been cooling lately, Nobel prizes and Academy Awards notwithstanding.

And now, even some of those vaunted authorities have started to take notice.

A number of influential people in Russia, China, India, Indonesia and Vietnam say the planet is now entering a 30-year cooling period, the second half of a normal cycle driven by cyclical changes in the sun's output and currents in the Pacific Ocean. Their theory leaves true believers in carbon catastrophe livid.

Then there's this great summation:

So does the climate computer have a real audience, or is it really just another bag lady muttering away to herself in a lonely corner of the intellectual park? That the computer is heard in Hollywood, Stockholm, Brussels and even some parts of Washington is quite beside the point--they have far less global power and influence than they vainly imagine. Vinod Dar is right: "Contingency planning should entail strategic responses to a warming globe, a cooling globe and a globe whose climate reverberates with laughter at human hubris."

Of course, Democrats haven't figured it out. Nancy Pelosi is trying to save the planet by starving the US of energy.

[T]he wave of change her party has ridden could come crashing down. The pressures facing the nation — troubled financial markets, falling housing prices and rising energy and food costs — are genuinely historic. The next president will inherit a projected deficit of close to $500 billion, and Democrats admit privately that they were caught off guard by the spike in gasoline prices and the hardship it has imposed on middle-income and working-class voters.

With fewer than 20 legislative days before the new fiscal year begins Oct. 1, the entire appropriations process has largely ground to a halt because of the ham-handed fighting that followed Republican attempts to lift the moratorium on offshore oil and gas exploration. And after promising fairness and open debate, Pelosi has resorted to hard-nosed parliamentary devices that effectively bar any chance for Republicans to offer policy alternatives.

“I’m trying to save the planet; I’m trying to save the planet,” she says impatiently when questioned. “I will not have this debate trivialized by their excuse for their failed policy.”

Global Warming, Sans Warming - The Gore Effect

There’s a little something missing from global warming these days – the warming part. Al Gore and his acolytes have has anointed global warming “settled science” and therefore above debate. This is a status that not even evolution or relativity has been granted, as each is still referred to a theory. Within the past year global warming skeptics have been compared to Nazi holocaust deniers and flat earth adherents.
Unfortunately for the global warming alarmists, science has not treated global warming as settled and has continued to collect data. And as instrumentation becomes more widespread, more accurate and more reliable, the data yielded has been more consistent with the skeptic’s view. Devout environmentalists naturally blame the instruments.
Beginning in 2003, 3000 automated temperature monitoring buoys have traveled around the planet, diving as deep as 6000 feet, taking the oceans’ temperatures at all depths and transmitting that information back to eager climatologists itching to issue yet another headline grabbing alarm. The difficulty is that the data shows that the oceans are not warming. That’s a problem, as those precious models that wrote the screenplay for Al Gore’s Academy Award winning movie state that between 80 and 90% of all warming should occur in the oceans. In fact, the buoys have measured a slight cooling.
Even the machines are heretics.
This past year was the Earth’s coldest in decades and wiped out a century’s worth of warming. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the Goddard Institute for Space Studies Land-Ocean Index, the University of Alabama at Huntsville, Remote Sensing Systems of Santa Rosa, California and the Hadley Climate Research Unit (United Kingdom), have all reported dramatic declines in global temperatures that essentially inverted Al Gore’s imaginary hockey stick graph.
Those who follow the news will recall that China suffered through its coldest winter in 50 years and experienced massive crop failures. This winter brought Baghdad, Iraq its first snow in memory and maybe in recorded history. Jerusalem saw multiple snowstorms. The southern hemisphere has also experienced an unusually cold year. South America’s winter was its coldest in 90 years.
Thursday morning’s spring blizzard on the Palouse is only the latest blast from our own long and relentless winter.
If I have learned nothing else from Al Gore, it is that nothing on this planet occurs without human intervention and any departure from the average is attributable to capitalistic planetary exploitation. I even heard a commentator on CNN attribute the Indonesian earthquake and tsunami to rising CO2 levels.
And so, I blame the cooling Earth on Washington governor Christine Gregoire. Barely two weeks ago, she signed a law mandating that the state reduce its greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels by 2020 and to 75% of 1990 levels by 2035. By 2050 Washington will only be allowed to produce 50% of that 1990 benchmark. To achieve that, greenhouse gas emissions would have to be reduced from current levels by 70%. All this is required to save us from global warming. Judging by the data cited above, the law seems to be working retroactively. When have you ever seen such results from your government?
Or perhaps the Palouse Clearwater Environmental Institute should be faulted for Thursday’s blizzard. Last January, PCEI scheduled a conference to “raise awareness about global climate change.” I was unaware that there was anyone left on Earth who still unaware of global warming. And I doubt that the conference would have attracted anyone who was not already a global warming fundamentalist, fully immunized against evidence to the contrary. The originally scheduled conference had to be postponed when a massive snowstorm buried the Palouse and forced both the University of Idaho and WSU to close for two days. And so, the conference was rescheduled for, you guessed it, last Thursday – blizzard day.
Some time ago, observers noticed that whenever Al Gore arrived to deliver a speech on global warming, abnormally cold weather followed him. It became known as the Gore Effect and the term has even made its way into the Urban Dictionary.
It seems that the more frantic global warming alarmists have become, the colder the Earth gets. When the Washington’s state government and local environmental activists can conjure up snowstorms, perhaps we could call it “Gore Effect outsourcing,” as an actual appearance by Al Gore isn’t even necessary anymore.
I need to conceive a way to market temperature credits.

Al Gore? Global Warming? Never Mind

A century of global warming wiped out in one year?

Over the past year, anecdotal evidence for a cooling planet has exploded. China has its coldest winter in 100 years. Baghdad sees its first snow in all recorded history. North America has the most snowcover in 50 years, with places like Wisconsin the highest since record-keeping began. Record levels of Antarctic sea ice, record cold in Minnesota, Texas, Florida, Mexico, Australia, Iran, Greece, South Africa, Greenland, Argentina, Chile -- the list goes on and on.

No more than anecdotal evidence, to be sure. But now, that evidence has been supplanted by hard scientific fact. All four major global temperature tracking outlets (Hadley, NASA's GISS, UAH, RSS) have released updated data. All show that over the past year, global temperatures have dropped precipitously.

Meteorologist Anthony Watts compiled the results of all the sources. The total amount of cooling ranges from 0.65C up to 0.75C -- a value large enough to erase nearly all the global warming recorded over the past 100 years. All in one year time. For all sources, it's the single fastest temperature change ever recorded, either up or down.

As Lily Tomlin used to say, "Nevermind."

I'm With This Guy

Minnesotans for global warming.

The Unsettled Nature of Settled Science

We've all read the stories about how arctic ice this summer retreated to a record low. That's more proof that global warming is "settled science," right?

Less widely reported is that antactic ice is at a record high. Note how in this article from the New York Times that eight paragrapsh are dedicated to scaring us about global warming before noting that, "Still, he and other scientists acknowledged that both poles were extraordinarily complicated systems of ice, water and land, and that the mix of human and natural influences was not easy to clarify."

And finally, in the very last sentence, the Times admits that: "Sea ice around Antarctica has seen unusual winter expansions recently, and this week is near a record high."

The Washington Times casts a harsh eye on scientific cherry picking.

"And, while it's true that satellite photos have found an ice-free corridor along Canada, Alaska and Greenland and Northern Hemisphere ice at its lowest level since such images were taken in 1978, it's also true that Antarctic ice levels (Southern Hemisphere) are at record highs for that same period.

"That's right, according to the University of Illinois Polar Research Group Web site The Cryosphere Today: 'The Southern Hemisphere sea ice area has broken the previous maximum of 16.03 million sq. km and is currently at 16.26 million sq. km. This represents an increase of about 1.4 percent above the previous SH ice area record high.'

"To be sure, this historic bipolarity of the Southern Hemisphere sea ice maximum corresponding with a Northern Hemisphere sea ice minimum is puzzling.

"The fact that climate illusionists will only reveal the heads side of the coin certainly is not."