Record Lows in South Africa

You know, I thought with "global warming" it was supposed to get, well, warmer. Tell that to the citizens of South Africa which just experienced their coldest September night in recorded history with several areas experiencing snow!

http://www.int.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=14&art_id=vn20080921084615870C810928

Old Farmer's Almanac: Global Cooling

How long has Al Gore been tracking weather? Well, the Old Farmer's Almanac has been tracking weather for 217 years and its latest predictions contradict those warming fanatics. Prepare for global COOLING! That's right.

"We at the Almanac are among those who believe that sunspot cycles and their effects on oceans correlate with climate changes," writes meteorologist and climatologist Joseph D'Aleo. "Studying these and other factor suggests that cold, not warm, climate may be our future."


http://www.usatoday.com/weather/news/2008-09-09-farmers-almanac_N.htm

It's All About the Sun

The single biggest influence of climate on our planet is the SUN, not humans. In a recently released report, we have just experienced our first "sunspot-less" month in 100 years. What does that mean to us? Well: "In the past 1000 years, three previous such events -- the Dalton, Maunder, and Spörer Minimums, have all led to rapid cooling."

Read on...

http://www.dailytech.com/Sun+Makes+History+First+Spotless+Month+in+a+Century/article12823.htm

Cold April

According to the National Climatic Data Center this past April was the coldest April in the past 11 years and was the 29th coldest since record keeping began 114 years ago.

http://www.wctv.tv/home/headlines/18801014.html

Gore: Lies and Big Money

From "An Inconvenient Truth" we have more lies. ABC's 20/20 just ran a spot on how Al Gore's alarming documentary deceived viewers by using computer generated video footage from the movie The Day After Tomorrow to depict calving of the Antarctic ice shelves. Karen Goulekas, Special Effects surpervisor from The Day After Tomorrow confirms, "That's a fully computer generated shot. There's nothing real in there."



http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2008/04/22/abc-s-20-20-gore-used-fictional-film-clip-inconvenient-truth

This comes on the heels of Gore admitting what had long been suspected and many sources attempted to prove -- he has a number of financial interests in advancing global warming. This came within weeks after Richard Campbell, a spokesman for Gore's Generation Investment Management fund, continued to claim that Gore did not have a financial interest, and someone who thinks you can benefit financially from carbon offsets lacks knowledge in the industry.

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2008/04/11/gore-admits-financial-reasons-advancing-global-warming-hysteria

Excuse me, Mr. Campbell? Carbon finance is a multi-billion dollar international industry! This Fortune Magazine article does a nice job of dissecting the industry and how it works. Companies like EcoSecurities buy carbon credits from those that prevent carbon dioxide from entering the atmosphere for about $4 and sell them to international banks for about $18. The banks are risking that these credits will gain value or sell them to a European power company that needs the credits to meets its regulatory obligations (so if you don't siphon off enough CO2 as a power plant, you can just buy your way into meeting standards). How about the Chinese HFC23 (a refrigerant gas that effectively traps heat) factories that are allowed to claim 11,700 carbon credits for creating a gas that they've been selling for years? They've sunk $150 million into creating the product but have made $6 billion from credits, prompting some to point out that, "Chinese refrigerant companies have become carbon-credit factories that only incidentally sell refrigerants."

Read on... it's unbelievable how much money is being made, not from a product, but from the prevention of making a product that plant life around the world naturally absorbs and turns into oxygen:

http://money.cnn.com/2008/04/15/technology/Gunther_carbon_finance.fortune/

This Should All Sound Familiar

Global warming is the end of the world! The human race will become extinct!

Sound a bit extreme? Sound a bit familiar? It should, and not just because that's the rhetoric of our current day. Alarmists have been trying to scare us for 40 years about over-population, famine, and global cooling. None of them have come to pass. Check out this revealing recap:

http://washingtontimes.com/article/20080406/COMMENTARY/48905088/1012

Ottawa Snow: 14 Feet and Counting!

Ottawa is on the verge of breaking a snowfall record set back in the 1970-71 winter season as it has thus far accumulated 14 feet of snow! There have been four deaths due to roof cave-ins, reports of "snow rage" as neighbors battle for yard space to toss the snow, and one man has even created an 18 foot decorative wall next to his driveway. Go ahead and try to sell these people on "global warming."

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/31/world/americas/31snow.html?ei=5065&en=36bdab2bb3f6d083&ex=1207540800&partner

Baghdad's First Snow!

I can't believe I missed this one, but my son was writing a paper tonight on the fallacies of the "hockey stick" graph and dug up an article from this past January on Baghdad's first snow fall ever recorded. Other sources say it has probably been about 100 years since Baghdad has seen snow, but no one is really certain. Considering how rare snow is in this part of the world, you would think someone somewhere along the 4,000 years civilization has been present in that part of the world would have made a note of it when it actually happened. In any case, I guess "global warming" doesn't apply to Iraq.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7183881.stm

Roy Spencer: Climate Confusion

Check out the new book from Roy Spencer about the global warming political machine.

NOAA's Results: Coolest Winter Since 2001

According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), this past winter was the coolest since 2001. While that may have only been seven winters ago, according to the global warming alarmists we are supposed to be far above that level by now. In fact, since recording of national temperatures began in 1895, this was the 54th coolest winter, placing this past winter in the cooler half of cold winters, and some places like Concord, NH, received more than 100 inches of snow, blowing away records that had existed for more than 100 years.

http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2008/20080313_coolest.html

So what happened to the drastically rising temperatures we were supposed to be seeing? That infamous "hockey stick" graph that was developed 20 years ago has come under fire for its inaccuracies and predictions of widespread tropical disease, severe drought, rapid melting of the world's glaciers and ice caps, and rising sea levels that simply haven't happened.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080314/COMMENTARY/702895001/home.html

Weather Channel Founder: Sue Al Gore!

John Coleman, founder of the Weather Channel, already stated that global warming is the biggest scam in history. Now he is suggesting Al Gore and everyone involved in selling carbon credits ought to be sued for the millions of dollars they have cost alarmed citizens. In a Fox & Friends interview, Coleman reiterated that the degree the world "warmed" up over the last century was obliterated this winter, record temperatures dropping us back down that degree.

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2008/03/04/weather-channel-founder-sue-al-gore-expose-global-warming-fraud
http://www.foxnews.com/video2/player06.html?030608/030408_ff_coleman&FOX_Friends&Climate%20Debate&acc&FOX%20%26%20Friends&-1&Shows&255&&&exp

Globe Cooling, Most Snow in 50 Years

Here are a couple articles that highlight our current temperate state. First of all, the four major global temperature tracking outlets (Hadley, NASA's GISS, UAH, RSS) have all released data that show a sharp drop in global temperatures over the past year. This is not a warming planet and is nowhere close to the anomaly of 1998.

http://www.dailytech.com/Temperature+Monitors+Report+Worldwide+Global+Cooling/article10866.htm

Secondly, snow in North America, Siberia, Mongolia, and China is the greatest it has been since 1966. Toronto just blew away a snowfall record that has stood since 1950. Oh, and that melting ice cap -- it's actually 10 - 20 cm thicker than at this time last year!

http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/columnists/story.html?id=332289

It's time to rid America of the global warming scam and get to more pressing issues at hand. Global warming can no longer be used as a valid political position because the position simply doesn't exist! Speaking of politics... you might get a kick out of this:

2007 Not the Swelter it Was Predicted

We've been getting inundated with all sorts of global warming rhetoric, about how we're going to be scorched off the face of this rock that's spinning around the sun. So what happened when 2007 was predicted to blow away the heat records set in 1998? It actually got colder.

This Boston Globe article is loaded with links to articles about the cold and wintery incidents it mentions:

http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2008/01/06/br_r_r_where_did_global_warming_go/