Global Warming = More Deaths? Not So.

So here's another global warming theory:

With the destabilization of the weather, we should be having more deaths due to weather-related incidents. Check again.

From 1990 - 2006, the time in which global warming is supposed to be at its height, weather-related deaths are down 87% compared to 1900 - 1989. So what's the next crazy claim we need to refute?

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article2983816.ece

Weather Channel Founder: Global Warming ‘Greatest Scam in History’

You just know there has to be something flukey about this whole global warming alarm if even the founder of the Weather Channel is calling it a scam:

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2007/11/07/weather-channel-founder-global-warming-greatest-scam-history

Arson, Not Global Warming

Fire raging in southern California have forced, to this point, 365,000 people to evacuate their homes. While the 250,000 acres that have been burned are truly a tragedy, it hasn't stopped some lawmakers from making knee-jerk global warming accusations. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid tried to point the finger at global warming and then later backed down on his comments.

http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/wildfires-get-personal-for-lawmakers-2007-10-24.html

However, the AP reports that police are making arrests in an arson investigation directly linked to the fires. A $70,000 reward is currently being offered for information in the case.

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20071025/D8SFUL0O0.html

By the way, efforts to thin forests and clean up underbrush in order to help prevent fires like this have been held up for years by environmentalists. Isn't it a bit ironic that their desire to save a few trees and retain a pure natural habitat has actually created more fuel for this fire to spread quickly and destroy 250,000 acres?

http://michellemalkin.com/2007/10/23/wildfires-and-environmental-obstructionism/

Homeruns, 1998 vs. 1934, and Greenland

Homerun Weather

Homeruns are down all around baseball this year. While there were 11 players that hit more than 40 homeruns last year, only four are on pace this year -- and, overall, the entire league is on pace to hit 578 fewer homeruns than last year. So what does this have to do with global weather?

Some speculate that the COOLER weather this year may have something to do with it. From a recent ESPN article: "Lawson contends that offensive cycles generally span decades (the 1930s, '50s and '90s were particularly kind to hitters) and are related to climate changes. In a nutshell, hot, thinner air helps a baseball travel farther. Cool temperatures and denser air are a deterrent to offense."

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/columns/story?columnist=crasnick_jerry&id=2973727

CYCLES. Cool temperatures. Recall the Cleveland-Seattle series that got SNOWED out earlier this year? Or that 64 degree game start temperature in Philadelphia on the 10th of August?

1934 vs. 1998

But I thought we were in the middle of a warming trend? What about all those charts that show temperatures skyrocketing over the next 20 some-odd years? Got me. 1998 was touted as the hottest year on record which means for the past ten years we've been beneath that peak. So that's not upward. However, it's come to light that 1998 wasn't the hottest year on record. That distinction actually belongs to 1934.

http://www.norcalblogs.com/watts/2007/08/guest_weblog_a_report_from_the.html
http://washingtontimes.com/article/20070813/COMMENTARY08/108130024/1012/commentary
http://www.thestar.com/News/article/246027

It interesting that the global warming activists have been so narrow-sighted. the 1930's were littered with scorching temperatures, droughts (recall the Dust Bowl?), and drastic weather shifts during the winter (these days that would be called "unpredictable" and a sure sign that warming was active).

http://kyky.essortment.com/dustbowl_rcmk.htm

And go figure that the 1930s are cited above as an active period for homeruns. What's actually a bit ironic is the fact that during the 20's and 30's there were journalists writing about global warming -- or whatever they may have called it back then. I wonder what they thought when the world didn't melt away. Maybe they forgot when WWII refocused their attention?

http://www.washingtontimes.com/article/20070814/NATION02/108140063

Greenland Trends

Perhaps the fears of our ancestors stemmed from reports of warming in Greenland, a trend that lasted from 1881 - 1955 -- you know, when there was the big craze for cross-country treks in SUVs. Temperatures in Greenland have actually been cooler since than during that time frame and, in fact, one report cited an increase in ice in Greenland's interior.

http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Minority.Blogs&ContentRecord_id=175b568a-802a-23ad-4c69-9bdd978fb3cd

Gorey Dining

With a straight face he pours out his concern about our world. He sings you to sleep with lullabies about we need to take care of our environment and by doing so we must all make sacrifices. The film industry threw awards at him for his enlightenment.

Yeah, I'm talking about Al Gore. With his deepest sympathies he was regrettably unable to make a sacrifice and NOT serve an endangered fish at his daughter's wedding. The Chilean sea bass populations are on a steep decline and, according to the following article which describes the event, are nearing extinction; however, if you were a guest of the Gore's this past weekend then you found one seasoned on your dinner plate.

http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,22090734-5001031,00.html

Nice follow-up to Live Earth, Al. What's next? Rotisserie bald eagles?

Memorial Day Cold Wave Overseas

When Memorial Day rolled around in the United States most parts of the country experienced nice, warm weather. However, other parts of the world weren't so fortunate.

How about snow in Germany? This is actually a follow-up on one of the snowiest winters ever in the Alps. In case you forgot, they've been recording weather there a bit longer than here in the US.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/worldnews.html?in_article_id=458562&in_page_id=1811

Chile lived up to its homonymic name and was quite chilly... to the tune of sub-freezing temperatures. The result was a record demand for electricity as Chileans tried to keep warm.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20670001&refer=latin_america&sid=av0tvGQPKLKU

The Office of an Environmentalist

Recycle bins? Low-energy computer monitor? The idea of the paperless office finally put into practice?

Think again. Mr. Al Gore's office... and part of his contribution to his $30,000/year utility bill:

http://img.timeinc.net/time/photoessays/2007/gore_life/20.jpg

ALARM! The World is Melting!

Well, no, it's really not. However, for a 1-week period in 2005 some parts of Antarctica reached 41 degrees which, of course, will cause a little melting. You have to read between the lines on this one. "Antarctica has shown little to no warming in the recent past" -- yeah, well, what about the long past? Also, there has been NO melting there in the two years since this incident, which is a good term to call it. An anomaly.

http://www.livescience.com/environment/070515_antarctic_melt.html

Japan's oceans are in a sky-rocketing warming trend! Yeah, they use the word "fast" right there to describe 100 YEARS! And how much did it warm up by? A whole .7 to 1.6 degrees Celsius. Whew, that's a lot! Remember when we used to go ice fishing off the coast of Japan in 1907? Oh, and get this... "But the areas surveyed were so small that we cannot say the rise in the water's temperature has been caused entirely by global warming."

http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUST27270120070515?feedType=RSS&rpc=22

Global Warming Frozen Out

This has happened a few times already this year. A global warming rally in Reno, NV, has been postponed due to... drum roll, please... cold, wet weather and sleet. This has been a fairly crazy April, weather-wise. An entire series between the Indians and Mariners got snowed out in Cleveland over Easter weekend. Yeah, that sounds, um, warm. Of course, global warming advocates will cite this "unpredictable" weather as a sign of global warming (snow is a sign of warming?). Funny... I recall a 21-inch overnight pile-up in April 1982, when I lived in Massachusetts. Snow and cold weather has happened in April before and it will happen again. It's a sign of... well, weather being weather.

Here's the link to the rally article:
http://news.rgj.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070414/NEWS18/70414010/1002/NEWS

Warm Up With A Winter Recap

With all the global warming rhetoric that was tossed about this past year, here's a recap of the last few months.

Moose Migration. Why did the moose cross the road? Because it snowed a crap load in Alaska. Moose don't like deep snow and when deep snows hit Alaska they migrate to the cities where the snow is a little more shallow. 76 inches had already fallen halfway through the winter season. Alaskans aren't catching a tan anytime soon.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/01/31/tech/main2417996.shtml

Speaking of Alaska. I was in Anchorage during the 1994-1995 season in which the skies dumped the third highest snow total on Anchorage record: 121 inches. The fourth highest, 111, came in the 2003-2004 season. The other three highs amongst the Top 5 came during the 40's and 50's. Now watch this... the top two highs (132 and 128) came in consecutive seasons: 1954-1955 and 1955-1956. The Anchorage record low then came in 1957-1958 at 30 inches. Unpredictability. It's natural. It's why we scoff and laugh at weather men, remember? By the way, Anchorage hasn't had a snowfall crack the Top 5 low in 20 years, and that one is #5. The other four lows predate 1962. Here, check out the temperatures, too. Looks like 1953 was a scorcher. I guess humans just went and heated things up a bit after that ice age of a 1947 winter.
http://pafc.arh.noaa.gov/misc.php?page=climlist

Death Warmed Over. I'd love to see Al Gore with a straight face tell the families of those that died of freezing temperatures this winter that it's getting warmer outside.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,250625,00.html

Sunny Oswego. At the time of this article, Oswego, New York had already racked up 70 inches of snow -- and it was still falling. I guess they were just shoveling sunshine. Do a little poking around and find out how much they got when it finally stopped.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,250900,00.html

Polar Bears Not Lost At Sea. We've seen the picture, but do you know the context? We've been told that these are stranded polar bears near the polar ice cap. If you read through this site where the picture originated from three years ago, you'll discover that this was just off a main ice sheet that the polar bears deliberately swam to -- to play. Toss in the fact that this was also near the 71st parallel which is nowhere even close to the Arctic Circle, and it's quite plain to see the manipulation.
http://www.whoi.edu/beaufortgyre/dispatch2004/dispatch02.html

Mr. Environment's $30,000 Utility Bill. While Al Gore is busy making all of us feel guilty for driving to work in the morning, what has he sacrificed with the $30,000 he racked up with his luxuries? Some do as I say, not as I do? Let's at least hope he saved a little paper and paid those bills online.
http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=nation_world&id=5072659

Global Warming on Mars. Apparently, the Mars rovers are destroying the Martian atmosphere. Since they're man-made, Mars is warming up, and we all know global warming is due to human activity, perhaps we ought to scuttle any plans to explore any other planet -- ever.
http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/present/2003.html

Just Cool It. Inaccuracies. Imperfections. Technical flaws. Those are just a few words used by those in the scientific community that didn't agree with "An Inconvenient Truth." When Gore stated that the scientists that don't agree with him have been corrupted by industry, one stated, "I’ve never been paid a nickel by an oil company and I'm not a Republican."
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/13/science/13gore.html?_r=1&ref=science&oref=slogin

Frostbite Terminates Quest to Prove Global Warming

It's a shame somebody had to get hurt in this whole sordid process, but here's a case in which an excursion to the North Pole to "prove" global warming cost the toes of one of the explorers. What's amazing is the concluding statement:

"They were experiencing temperatures that weren't expected with global warming," Atwood said. "But one of the things we see with global warming is unpredictability."

Considering they were actually planning to take a swim, what were they expecting? Sandy beaches and rolling hills of green meadows? And what's with this "unpredictability" stuff? How can you not predict freezing temperatures and frostbite conditions in the friggin' Arctic???

So... did this disprove global warming to them?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070312/ap_on_sc/polar_trek_1