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