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Old 02-13-2007, 10:23 PM   #1
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http://www.drudgereport.com/flash8.htm


HOUSE HEARING ON 'WARMING OF THE PLANET' CANCELED AFTER SNOW/ICE STORM
HEARING NOTICE
Tue Feb 13 2007 19:31:25 ET

The Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality hearing scheduled for Wednesday, February 14, 2007, at 10:00 a.m. in room 2123 Rayburn House Office Building has been postponed due to inclement weather. The hearing is entitled “Climate Change: Are Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Human Activities Contributing to a Warming of the Planet?”

The hearing will be rescheduled to a date and time to be announced later.

DC WEATHER REPORT:

Wednesday: Freezing rain in the morning...then a chance of snow in the afternoon. Ice accumulation of less than one quarter of an inch. Highs in the mid 30s. Northwest winds around 20 mph. Chance of precipitation 80 percent.

Wednesday Night: Partly cloudy. Lows around 18. Northwest winds around 20 mph.
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Old 02-13-2007, 10:41 PM   #2
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ain't irony grand ??
sorta like when you see a tow truck towing a tow truck
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Old 02-14-2007, 03:12 AM   #3
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And they're both in a snowbank.

It looks like the Blizzard of 1886 up there.

Our public servants should have just clattered into the meeting leaning cross-country skis on the wall -- except maybe for the inexperienced snowmobile drivers who tangled runners jockeying for parking space.
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Old 02-14-2007, 06:31 AM   #4
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Our public servants ...
he he... funny name.
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Old 02-14-2007, 09:12 AM   #5
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Hm. I thought that the premise is that global warming will create severe, wildly fluctuating weather as the pond heats up. NOLA had a tornado recently (like adding salt to a fresh wound) and then there's the 12 feet of snow in Oswego, NY (sp?)
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Old 02-14-2007, 09:17 AM   #6
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Presented for your erudition, my summary of the current state of the Global Warming debate:

The Left and Scientists - "Aaaaaaahhhhh!!!! Aaaaaaaahhhhhhhh!!!! We're destroying the planet! The weather is going insane! Didn't you see "The Day After Tomorrow"?

The Right and Business - "Please. This is all a perfectly normal cycle. There isn't enough data to support Global Warming. Besides, its bad for the economy. May we please cut down some more forests and sell them to the Japanese, now?"

There. Saved you all that time reading up on things. No need to thank me.
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Old 02-14-2007, 10:06 AM   #7
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Presented for your erudition, my summary of the current state of the Global Warming debate:

The Left and Scientists - "Aaaaaaahhhhh!!!! Aaaaaaaahhhhhhhh!!!! We're destroying the planet! The weather is going insane! Didn't you see "The Day After Tomorrow"?
Not quite. We have another problem. Therefore we must innovate. Only wacko extremists are going "Aaaaaahhh!!!!" But then wacko extremists must change facts and rewrite history to entertain their emotions.

Grab a rope in the middle. Those two flaying ends banging one another - those are the left and right wing extremists who fear and deny. Higher intelligent is the upper center of that rope - where centrist are located. Centrists learn the latest problems, innovate, and make those problems irrelevant. Global warming is another problem just like air pollution, ozone depletion, acid rain, etc. Shot the wacko extremist and then we have solvable problems. Notice those wackos (Urbane Guerrilla and Ronald Cherrycoke) don't have any serious education.

Centrists have long acknowledged the reality of global warming. Only wackos - especially the rightmost wackos – are going ‘Aaaahhhh!!!!” as they again try to stifle innovation.

Classic extremist must hype the problem as a major disaster to be ignored or to fret over only for a political agenda.

The left and right are both at the bottom. Intelligence? Move up the rope where centrists reside. If you think there is a left and right, well the wackos had you stretch out the rope to make them look better.
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Old 02-14-2007, 03:00 PM   #8
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Is everyone so enthralled by the "Global Climate Change" agenda that it's now considered unusual to have ice and snow in the wintertime?
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Old 02-14-2007, 03:08 PM   #9
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Hm. I thought that the premise is that global warming will create severe, wildly fluctuating weather as the pond heats up. NOLA had a tornado recently (like adding salt to a fresh wound) and then there's the 12 feet of snow in Oswego, NY (sp?)
Exactly. I don't know how a snowstorm changes anything. It's not like the global temps are going to spike 20° in a year.
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Old 02-14-2007, 03:40 PM   #10
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Is everyone so enthralled by the "Global Climate Change" agenda that it's now considered unusual to have ice and snow in the wintertime?
Nope. Just starting to pay attention to the vast scientific community and their overwhelming evidence of global effects. Particulary the polar findings. Today, I'm enjoying my expected prairie snow and single digit temps, thank you!
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Old 02-14-2007, 07:30 PM   #11
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Check out the graph of solar activity vs. temp ... almost 1:1 correspondence. CO2 and temp don't correllate anywhere near as well. Perhaps a resolution telling the sun to produce more stable levels of output will solve things?
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Old 02-14-2007, 09:17 PM   #12
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Wednesday: Freezing rain in the morning...then a chance of snow in the afternoon. Ice accumulation of less than one quarter of an inch. Highs in the mid 30s.
1/4"?!?! I woke up to three inches of compacted ice. Took me over 4 hours to chisel two thin tire track paths to the street.

And as far as Al Gore goes, he addressed Congress I think 2 years ago in January on the subject of global warming. It was the coldest day of the year. That guy couldn't win at solitare if he cheated.
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Old 02-14-2007, 11:04 PM   #13
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Check out the graph of solar activity vs. temp ... almost 1:1 correspondence. CO2 and temp don't correllate anywhere near as well. Perhaps a resolution telling the sun to produce more stable levels of output will solve things?
I'm not seeing any map. Link? Anyway the climate is a complex system made up of many other complex systems. Solar activity alone does not affect the climate and it would stupid to pretend it does.
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Old 02-14-2007, 11:36 PM   #14
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Funny, I was thinking the same thing about CO2 emissions ...

The map, among other information, appeared in a video that I'm pretty sure I linked to ... but there is at least one paper that I found via a quick search.
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Old 02-14-2007, 11:39 PM   #15
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It is naive to think any one thing is causing global warming. There is probably five or so reasons if not more.
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