GASOLINE CARS GREENER THAN ELECTRIC!!!

It has been said before, but I will repeat it again:

GASOLINE CARS GREENER THAN ELECTRIC!!!

and let me restate it again, just in case any ekonutsies don't get it:

GASOLINE CARS ARE  (and will continue to  be...) GREENER THAN ELECTRIC!!!

After a 2 year study the German Öko Institute has concluded that gasoline powered vehicles are cleaner than Electric powered vehicles. The implementation of electric cars will have NO IMPACT on the reduction of CO2 until 2020!  (let's ignore the fact that the whole CO2 meme is dubious...)

Instead, the study recommends further improvements in fuel efficiency of gasoline powered vehicles.

While the EU continues to stumble head over heels, foisting all sorts of ineffective Green initiatives upon its citizens, is it any wonder the economy of Europe is going down...and staying there?

NORTHERN USA SNOW RECORDS BROKEN

AP:

In Boston, for example, 49.6 inches of snow has fallen this winter, or 19.3 inches more than normal.

In Madison, Wis., where it never had snowed more than 76.6 inches, the city already had seen 77 inches by Feb. 12.

Last week, Grand Rapids, Mich., shattered its December-February snowfall record of 85.1 inches set in 1951-52. As of Tuesday afternoon, 90.4 inches had fallen.

And though the month doesn't end until Friday, the city has a new February record of 37.1 inches, surpassing 1990's 35.5 inches. ...

In Chicago, more than 50 inches has fallen since the beginning of December, which is about 15 inches above normal and makes this the first winter since 1978-79 the area has seen more than 50 inches of snow, said Amy Seeley, a weather service meteorologist.

• THIS IS HARDLY THE STUFF OF ANY MAN-MADE, CO2 GLOBAL WARMING CATASTROPHE.
• AL GORE: STFU.

MORE ON THE RECORD-BREAKING WINTER HERE. AND HERE.

IOWA: ONE OF THE SNOWIEST WINTERS IN DECADES

DES MOINES REGISTER:

So far - and don't those two words give one pause - Iowa has received an average of 36.7 inches of snow this winter.

That's a foot more than what is normal for this time of year and 4 inches more than the state usually receives for the entire winter season, which begins in November and ends - well, when it ends.

This month, Iowa has received an average of 13.2 inches of snow.

Normal: 6.3 inches.

It's the highest February total since 1994 and the most for any month since December 2000, said Harry Hillaker, the state climatologist.

• THAT'S HARDLY THE STUFF GLOBAL-WARMING IS MADE OF...

ER UM... I MEAN... IF MAN-MADE CO2 CAUSES GLOBAL-WARMING, (AND SINCE MAN-MADE CO2 HAS BEEN STEADILY AND CONSTANTLY INCREASING SINCE 1994), THEN HOW COULD THIS WINTER BE THE COLDEST AND SNOWIEST IN DECADES - ALL OVER THE WORLD, IN BOTH THE NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN HEMISPHERES!?!?

• IT' DISPROVES THE AGW HYPOTHESIS. PERIOD.

• AL GORE: PLEASE STFU.

FOR A NEARLY COMPLETE LISTING OF THIS WINTER'S SEVERITY ALL OVER THE GLOBE GO TO GATEWAY, BRRRRR!

OIL CLOSES ABOVE $100/BARREL FOR FIRST TIME - and what we can do about it!

*******UPDATE - 2/20/08: AS I WROTE BELOW (YESTERDAY!) IT'S ALL ABOUT SUPPLY AND DEMAND - NYTIMES:

Supply Fears Push Oil to Triple Digits
By CLIFFORD KRAUSS

HOUSTON — Crude oil closed above $100 a barrel for the first time Tuesday, vaulting through a longstanding psychological barrier amid persistent concern about whether production can keep up with rising global demand.

The day’s price rise of more than 4 percent capped a week-long run-up that began when President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela threatened to cut off oil exports to the United States over a legal struggle with Exxon Mobil. Crude oil fell from a record $100.10 a barrel in New York on speculation that a U.S. Energy Department report will show stockpiles rose for a sixth week, according to Reuters. Crude oil for March delivery dropped as much as 90 cents, or 0.9 percent, to $99.11 a barrel in after-hours electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange.

... World supplies have been trimmed by substantial cutbacks in production in Iraq and Nigeria in recent weeks. Nigeria alone has lost about 10 percent of its daily production since guerrillas stepped up their sabotage and kidnapping of oil workers in the Niger Delta at the end of last year. Some analysts fear that OPEC could cut production further when it meets next month to counter the prospect that a softening world economy may eventually weaken demand and push prices down.

Oil is expensive.

Expensive oil drives up costs, increases inflation, and decreases the discretionary income people have to spend - and so increases the threat of recession, too.

And a recession in the USA causes the entire world to go into a recession - because the entire world depends on US consumption.

ON ALL COUNTS IT IS BAD.

There is an easy solution: INCREASE SUPPLIES.

This can be dome easily: just let the oil companies drill for more oil in places they think there is a great chance of finding a lot; (their belief is what will incentivize them to invest billions - and it won't cost the taxpayer a single penny!).

All that is necessary to have this happen is for Congress to OPEN UP ANWR, and demand that FLA and CA open up the waters off their coasts for drilling.

THERE IS NO RISK TO THE ENVIRONMENT:

• Canada safely and cleanly drills for oil right next door the ANWR.
• Louisiana allows drilling in the Gulf - off its coast. NOT ONE OF THESE OFF-SHORE RIGS LEAKED DURING KATRINA - THE WORST HURRICANE IN THE GULF'S HISTORY.
• And the waters off of California are easier to drill in than the North Sea - where Norway and the UK have safely drilled FOR DECADES!

People who claim that burning oil creates too much CO2 and that CO2 is causing global warming are WRONG:

• there is no "man-made" global warming;
• the world is actually cooling; this winter (2007-8) is one of the coldest and snowiest in DECADES - for both hemispheres.
• And the prior warming trend was NOT outside historical norms/cycles.
• AND CO2 IS A LAGGING INDICATOR OR PRIOR WARMING PERIODS AND NOT A CAUSE.

Therefore, there is simply no excuse for NOT ALLOWING the energy companies risk their own capital and drill as much as they want.

The moratorium on drilling in ANWR and off the coasts of FLA and CA are a MUCH GRAVER RISK than global warming or leaks or any other risk of "damage" to the local environment.

Continuing the moratorium is IRRATIONAL, and SELF-DESTRUCTIVE.

It puts at risk the entire world's economy.

OVERLY EXPENSIVE OIL is one of the two or three MOST important issues facing the entire world.

The USA must lead on this issue and IMMEDIATELY take the necessary steps in Congress to increase supplies.

I PREDICT, THE DAY THE CONGRESS ACTS THE PRICE OF OIL WILL DROP 25%.

That would help the entire world's economy IMMEDIATELY.

And it would also mean the USA would NOT be sending as much money to the Middle East, not per barrel, and not as many barrels, either.

IT'S A WIN WIN WIN WIN WIN!

$117 BILLION WASTED ON "CLEAN" ENERGY IN 2007

ACHRNews:

The global investment in clean energy grew 41 percent in 2007, reaching $117.2 billion, according to analysts at New Energy Finance Ltd. Wind power drew the greatest amount of investments, followed by solar energy and energy efficiency,

Since climate change is NATURAL and not caused by man-made CO2, ALL of this $117 BILLION is wasted. WE MIGHT AS WELL BE BURNING IT! Heck, it would be better if we burned it, at least then we'd get something out of it: across MOST of the world, IT'S THE COLDEST WINTER IN 100 YEARS!

Add to this all the money wasted on carbon-credits and caps and swaps etc, and well IT'S A MIND-BOGGLING GLOBAL BOONDOGGLE - an elaborate scam, a hoax invented to hurt industry, capitalism, the freemarket, trade AND make buddies of the pol's rich.

EVEN MORE PROOF AGW IS BS: EARTH'S ELLIPTICAL ORBIT, VOLCANISM AND WARMING OCEANS

SCIENCE DAILY:

The Earth's orbital behaviors are responsible for more than just presenting us with a leap year every four years. According to Michael E. Wysession, Ph.D., associate professor of earth and planetary sciences in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, parameters such as planetary gravitational attractions, the Earth's elliptical orbit around the sun and the degree of tilt of our planet's axis with respect to its path around the sun, have implications for climate change and the advent of ice ages.

People often think of orbits as circular, but they're not that smooth and simple. They are often a less-than-perfect eccentric circle.

"All planets travel in an ellipse around the sun, but the shape of that ellipse oscillates," he explains. "When the Earth's orbit is more elliptical, the planet spends more time farther away from the sun, and the Earth gets less sunlight over the course of the year.

These periods of more-elliptical orbits are separated by about 100,000 years.

Ice ages occur about every 100,000 years, and they line up exactly with this change in the Earth's elliptical shape."

Er um... how does curbing our carbon-"footprint" change our orbit? IT DOESN'T!

REUTERS:

Rises in the sea level around Antarctica in the past decade are almost entirely due a warming ocean, not ice melting, an Australian scientist leading a major international research program said.

The 15-year study of temperature and salinity changes in the Southern Ocean found average temperatures warmed by about three-tenths of a degree Celsius.

Satellites also measured a rise of about 2 centimeters (about an inch) in seas in the southern polar region over an area half the size of Australia, Rintoul told Reuters.

"The biggest contribution so far has been from warming of the oceans through expansion," said Steve Rintoul, Australian leader of an Australian-French-U.S. scientific program.

Melting sea ice or Antarctic ice shelves jutting into the ocean do not directly add to sea level rises.

Er um... why is the water down there getting warmer!? VOLCANISM:

A volcano beneath Antarctica’s icy surface has been detected for the first time.

Under the frozen continent's western-most ice sheet, the volcano erupted about 2,300 years ago yet remains active, according to a study published Sunday in an online issue of the journal Nature Geosciences.

"We believe this was the biggest eruption in Antarctica during the last 10,000 years," said study co-author Hugh Corr, a glaciologist for the British Antarctic Survey (BAS). "It blew a substantial hole in the ice sheet, and generated a plume of ash and gas that rose around 12 kilometers (7.5 miles) into [the] air."

Brooding giant

Although ice buried the unnamed volcano, molten rock is still churning below. David Vaughan, a glaciologist with the BAS and a co-author of the new study, said the discovery might explain the speeding up of historically slow-moving glaciers in the region.

SOMEONE TELL AL GORE TO STFU. PLEASE.

BOTTOM-LINE: climate change is natural.

UK: Bottled Water Is Immoral

The British government is not set to convince its proletariat that bottled water is "unfashionable."

From the Telegraph:

Drinking bottled water should be made as unfashionable as smoking, according to a government adviser.

"We have to make people think that it's unfashionable just as we have with smoking. We need a similar campaign to convince people that this is wrong," said Tim Lang, the Government's naural resources commissioner.

Bottled water generates upto 600 times more CO2 than tap water.

Phil Woolas, the environment minister, added that the amount of money spent on mineral water "borders on being morally unacceptable".

Their comments come as new research shows that drinking a bottle of water has the same impact on the environment as driving a car for a kilometre. Conservation groups and water providers have started a campaign against the £2 billion industry.

A BBC Panorama documentary, "Bottled Water: Who Needs It?", to be broadcast tomorrow says that in terms of production, a litre bottle of Evian or Volvic generates up to 600 times more CO2 than a litre of tap water.

You know, maybe it's me, but haven't we been told by the leftist MSM all these years that tap water is dangerous? And, uh, now, bottled water is dangerous?!?!?

This reminds me of Nineteen Eighty-Four where one year the media tells the people that Oceania is at war with Eurasia, and the next year Eastasia is the enemy.

Paper or plastic? If you say paper, then you want to destroy the earth by destroying trees. If you say plastic, then you want to destroy the earth with non-biodegradable substances.

Either way, the message is, human beings destroy the Earth by the very fact of their existence. Gaia, mother Earth, is threatened by humans, who are merely an unnatural blight upon her body, an unwanted organism in the ecosphere, a bit of tissue it would be better to abort.

When I was four years old, I remember being in church and hearing the Minister say, "The people were worshiping stones and trees." I thought that was the most absurd thing I had ever heard. Worship rocks? WTF?

But, now I am an adult and I see that, all around me, people are worshiping mother Earth. Paganism did not die. It became the environmental movement.

Reliapundit adds: GREAT POST PASTO! Here's an additional facet, (excerpt from above):

"Drinking bottled water should be made as unfashionable as smoking, according to a government adviser.

"We have to make people think that it's unfashionable just as we have with smoking. We need a similar campaign to convince people that this is wrong," said Tim Lang, the Government's naural resources commissioner."

WELL: It may be "UNFASHIONABLE" to smoke... NOW, but it might be even worse - if the left gets its way: These left-wing wackos/paganists/eco-nutsies in the UK actually want to require a license for smoking.

And they think drinking bottled water is just as bad.

IS THERE ANY PART OF OUR PRIVATE LIVES OR ANY PART OF THE FREEMARKET THEY DON'T THINK THEY HAVE A RIGHT TO CONTROL!? No, there is not. Sheesh.

GLOBAL WARMING HYSTERIA ALERT: Attention: Environmentalists, Democrats, Europeans, Movie Stars, Nobel Panelists, ...

... you've all been had:

Is it safe to say we've been scammed yet?
A record cold January has helped winter sea ice grow across the Arctic.

Temperatures in January set cold weather records and caused the Arctic Sea Ice to expand to its previous levels.
The Financial Post reported:
The Cryosphere reported that the Arctic sea ice is back... and it's thick.

The disappearing sea ice that was supposedly going to dramatically change the North, if not the world, is back. Thanks to really cold weather -- gee, where did that come from?--winter sea ice has been growing across the North. "Clearly we're seeing the ice coverage rebound back to more near normal coverage for this time of year," says Gilles Langis, a senior ice forecaster with the Canadian Ice Service in Ottawa.

There goes a good story. And if you doubt me on this, the source is as biased on climate change as sources get: The CBC. And if the weather stays cold, the ice will get even thicker, says the report...

This isn't the only sign of rising sea ice and extra-cold temperatures. The U.S. National Climatic Date Center reported the other day that temperatures in the United States set cold records in January. "The average temperature in January 2008 was 30.5 F. This is -0.3 F cooler than the 1901-2000 (20th century) average, the 49th coolest January in 114 years."

...As for ice, A University of Illinois report showed that Arctic sea ice is back to its previous level.

The American Thinker reported that not only is the ice growing, but it is growing thick.

Just in case you have never seen it, go here and watch it all. It is well worth your time, and after watching all 9 segments, you will know more about this subject than 3/4 of the so-called "intelligensia" on the planet.

And just in case you haven't read this: it's a must. And it is as true now as when it was written--over 4 years ago.

BILLIONAIRE LIBS AND ACTRESSES PUSH FOR GLOBAL TYRANNY TO STOP "MAN-MADE GLOBAL-WARMING"

AP: UN Seek New Leaders on Global Warming

UNITED NATIONS — Virgin CEO Richard Branson offered Monday to set up an "environmental war room" to lead the world's efforts to find a fix for global warming.

AND THEY SAY THIS WITH A STRAIGHT FACE DESPITE THE FACT THAT 2007-08 IS SHAPING UP AS THE WORST WINTER THE GLOBE HAS HAD IN SEVERAL DECADES!

The British billionaire, speaking at the start of a U.N. debate on climate change, said it would be run by a world figure in global warming and could serve as "a tool for the U.N." to ferret out good ideas and calculate each nation's costs.

IF THAT SOUNDS UN-DEMOCRATIC TO YOU, YOUR RIGHT! THESE ECO-NUTSIES ARE NOT DEMOCRATICALLY INCLINED. BUT OF COURSE; IT'S FOR THE "COMMON GOOD." COMMON GOOD - THAT''S WHAT HITLER CALLED DAS VOLK.

"The 'war room' will be independent of politics," Branson said. "But in the end it will need the United Nations, governments and other organizations to help make sure implementation happens."

HE SAYS INDEPENDENT OF POLITICS, BUT HE MEANS INDEPENDENT OF DEMOCRACY.

Branson outlined the idea at a press conference with U.N. General Assembly President Srgjan Kerim and actress Daryl Hannah, and then again at a luncheon for the delegates attending the two-day debate.

WHO THE F*CK ELECTED BRANSON AND HANNAH ARBITERS OF PERSONAL/COMMERCIAL.GLOBAL CONSUMPTION/PRODUCTION/ENERGY!?

..."This is just as important as stopping nuclear proliferation. This is just as important as stopping terrorism," New York City Mayor [NANNY] Michael Bloomberg said. ... Bloomberg proposed a new U.S. tax on carbon emissions...

OMFG?!?!?!: A LIB RECOMMENDING HIGHER TAXES AND AND MORE REGULATIONS. SURPRISE SURPRISE SURPRISE.

... "In such a case of emergency, leadership is needed," said Kerim, a Macedonian diplomat and economics professor. "This planet does not know where the borders are." ...

• THIS IS THE REFRAIN FROM THE SOCIALIST TRANS-NATIONALISTS: NO BORDERS, NO SOVEREIGNTY. CARBON TAXES AND AMNESTY.
• BRANSON AND HANNAH AND BLOOMBERG - AND THE UNELECTED LEADERS OF THE UN - WANT US TO PUT OUR FAITH IN A LEADER, A FUHRER, A POLITBURO, A BRAIN TRUST - BUT NOT THE FREEMARKET OR IN DEMOCRACY.
• SCREW THEM.

THAT'S WOULD BE A BAD IDEA EVEN IF AGW WERE REAL - WHICH IT IS NOT.

What Branson and Bloomberg and the UN socialists and transnationalists want AND HOW THEY INTEND ON GETTING IT is no different that what Shearman & Smith suggested in their book: The Climate Change Challenge and the Failure of Democracy: they WANT less democracy and more tyrnanny - FOR THE COMMON GOOD, OF COURSE.

LOOK AT IT THIS WAY: They want the AGW trains to run on time.

This has been blogged extensively: Flopping Aces:

Environazi’s exposed! In the new doom and gloom climate change book, The Climate Change Challenge and the Failure of Democracy (Politics and the Environment), the authors tell us that a Democracy like the United States is bad, an authoritarian government like China - good.

In this provocative book, Shearman and Smith present evidence that the fundamental problem causing environmental destruction–and climate change in particular–is the operation of liberal democracy.

Its flaws and contradictions bestow upon government–and its institutions, laws, and the markets and corporations that provide its sustenance–an inability to make decisions that could provide a sustainable society.

Having argued that democracy has failed humanity, the authors go even further and demonstrate that this failure can easily lead to authoritarianism without our even noticing.

Even more provocatively, they assert that there is merit in preparing for this eventuality if we want to survive climate change.

They are not suggesting that existing authoritarian regimes are more successful in mitigating greenhouse emissions, for to be successful economically they have adopted the market system with alacrity.

Nevertheless, the authors conclude that an authoritarian form of government is necessary ...

OTHER BLOGPOSTS HERE AND HERE AND HERE.

IF YOU HATE TYRANNY AND LOVE FREEDOM, THEN DON'T VOTE DEMOCRAT, BECAUSE THEY'LL TURN OVER OUR SOVEREIGNTY TO THESE TRANSNATIONAL AND TYRANNICAL SOCIALISTS.

FOR THE COMMON GOOD.

RECORD BREAKING COLD IN THE MIDWESTERN USA

CNN/AP: Nation's 'Icebox' hits record 40 below zero

The temperature in International Falls, Minnesota, fell to a record 40 below zero Monday, just a few days after the northern Minnesota town won a federal trademark making it officially the "Icebox of the Nation."

It was so cold that resident Nick McDougall couldn't even get his car trunk lid to close after he got out his charger to kick-start his dead battery. By late morning, the temperature had risen all the way to 18 -- below zero.

"This is about as cold as it gets, this is bad. There's no wind -- it's just cold," said McDougall, 48, a worker at The Fisherman, a convenience store and gas station in the town on the Canadian border. "People just don't go out, unless you have to go to work."

Residents of the area use electric engine block heaters to keep their cars from freezing.

"You plug in your car, for sure, and you put the car in the garage if you can," McDougall said. His garage is full of other things, so he had to park outside -- a "big mistake."

The previous record low in International Falls was 37 below, set in 1967, said meteorologist Mike Stewart at the weather service in Duluth. The cold was expected, he said: "When the winds finally died off and the skies cleared off, it just dropped."

The temperature also fell to 40 below in Embarrass, 80 miles southeast of International Falls. That's just one degree above the all-time record in Minneapolis, 250 miles to the south, that was set in January 1888, the weather service said.

LET'S GET THAT STRAIGHT: (a) - The temperature in International Falls, Minnesota, fell to a record 40 below zero Monday... The previous record low in International Falls was 37 below, set in 1967 ;(b) - That's just one degree above the all-time record in Minneapolis, 250 miles to the south, that was set in January 1888, the weather service said.

Er um... it's COLDER than EVER breaking ALL-TIME records set five decades ago. Five decades during which time the atmosphere has had TONS AND AND TONS AND TONS MORE CO2 put in it. YET IT'S COLDER. Colder than EVER in the Midwest USA, in China, all over Central Asia - and they're having records snows in Europe.

This is not the stuff global warming catastrophes are made of. WHAT COULD THIS MEAN!? Simple:

• AGW = BS.
• AL GORE: STFU.

DON'T BE HOODWINKED INTO SUPPORTING HIGHER TAXES OR MORE REGULATIONS TO REDUCE CO2 OR SLOW "MAN-MADE GLOBAL WARMING" - BECAUSE THERE IS NONE.

IOW: DON'T VOTE DEMOCRAT.

TURKEY IS HAVING ITS WORST WINTER IN DECADES

The New Anatolian (Ankara): Cold freeze continues to paralyze eastern Turkey, one dead

Freezing weather conditions continue to paralyze life in Eastern Anatolia.

A person froze to death in Hizan town of eastern province of Bitlis.

Gendarme forces found the body of a 25-year-old person who froze to death near Hacimehmet village due to feezing weather.

Flights were cancelled in Van due to heavy snowfall.

Temperatures in provinces of Erzurum and Ardahan dropped to -31 degrees Celsius on Thursday night, the meteorology department said.

On the other hand, roads to 215 villages are still closed to traffic in the region due to heavy snow and blizzard.

Meteorology authorities say there will be some relief next week as temperatures will start to rising by 5-10 degrees Celsius as of Monday.

THIS IS HARDLY THE STUFF GLOBAL WARMING IS MADE OF!

MOST OF THE WORLD IS HAVING THE WORST WINTER (2007-2008) IN SEVERAL DECADES!

• AS GATEWAY SAYS: BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!
• AS IS SAY: AGW = BS.
• AL GORE STFU.

SEVERE WINTER WEATHER KILLS DOZENS IN KASHMIR

BBC: Twenty killed in Kashmir snowfall

Trucks waiting along highway in Indian-administered Kashmir At least 20 people have been killed and 10 are missing after heavy snowfall in Indian-administered Kashmir, police in the state say.

The road link between the valley of Kashmir and the rest of India has also been cut for the last five days.

Avalanches triggered by the heavy snow hit several homes.

Police and the army have rescued more than 30 people in a village south of the summer capital, Srinagar, where eight houses were hit by an avalanche.

The dead include two entire families, each comprising six members.

The authorities have evacuated several villages as more avalanches are feared after an improvement in the weather.

The 300km highway linking Srinagar with the winter capital, Jammu, has been closed for the past five days.

Thousands of lorries and buses are stranded on the road, which is the only surface link between the valley of Kashmir and the rest of India.

Hmmm ......Record cold around the world this winter - with record snows. WHAT DOES THIS TELL US ABOUT MAN-MADE GLOBAL WARMING?

• AS JIM OF GATEWAY SAYS: BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!
• AS I SAY: AGW = BS.
• AND: AL GORE STFU!

AGW IS A HOAX PERPETUATED BY THE LEFT TO RAISE TAXES AND INCREASE THEIR LONG-HELD SOCIALIST REGULATORY SCHEMES.

THERE IS NO GLOBAL WARMING: 2008 COLDER THAN 20TH CENTURY AVERAGE

WUWT (VIA TIGERHAWK - VIA GLENN):

NOAA/NCDC: Jan08 Colder than 20th century average

Let us give NOAA credit for making this release:

“The average temperature in January 2008 was 30.5 F. This was -0.3 F cooler than the 1901-2000 (20th century) average, the 49th coolest January in 114 years. The temperature trend for the period of record (1895 to present) is 0.1 degrees Fahrenheit per decade.”

For those that have been harping about my “2nd coldest in 15 years” headline, it appears that NCDC has that one beat with “the 49th coolest January in 114 years”.

• RWTW.
• AND READ THIS EARLIER POST: 2008 WAS THE SECOND COLDEST YEAR IN THE LAST 15.
• AND THIS WINTER MIGHT BE WORSE: MUCH OF THE WORLD IS HAVING SEVERE WINTER WEATHER - THE UK; EUROPE; THE MIDDLE EAST; CENTRAL ASIA; CHINA ARE ALL HAVING THE MOST SNOW IN SEVERAL DECADES.

BOTTOM-LINE: ANTHROPOGENIC GLOBAL WARMING IS BULLSHIT.

• AGW IS A LEFTIST HOAX PERPETUATED BY THE LEFT TO ACHIOEV THEIR LONG-HELD GOALS: TO RAISE TAXES, INCREASE REGULATIONS, PREVENT THE EXPANSION OF OUR INDUSTRIAL ECONOMY AND THE FREEMARKET.

• BY SCARE-MONGERING THE PUBLIC INTO SHYING AWAY FROM INCREASED INDUSTRIALIZATION, THE LEFTIST AGW CROWD HAS DIRECTLY ELEVATED THE PRICE OF OIL AND - (BY PREVENTING US FROM BUILDING REFINERIES, POWER PLANTS AND EXPLOITING FOR OIL IN THE USA) - FORCED THE WEST TO SEND MORE MONEY TO THE JIHADO-TERROR FINANCIERS IN OPEC THAN WE REALLY NEEDED TO, OR SHOULD HAVE BEEN. \\
• (WE SHOULD BE DRILLING FOR OIL IN ANWR AND OFF THE COASTS OF CA AND FL - AND WE SHOULD BE BUILDING DOZENS OF COAL-BURNING POWER PLANTS. THESE EFFORTS WOULD INCREASE SUPPLIES AND LOWER PRICES.
  
• AND THEY ARE DOMESTIC, WHICH MEANS WE'D BE SENDING LESS MONEY TO OPEC.)
  

• AND THESE SCARFE-MONGERGERS ARE ALSO RESPONSIBLE FOR KEEPING AFRICA AND THE THIRD WORLD IN UNDERDEVELOPED POVERTY: WHAT THE THIRD WORLD NEEDS TO END THEIR POVERTY IS EXACLTY WHAT WE USED TO END OURS: INDUSTRIALIZATION

MORE PROOF THAT GLOBAL WARMING HAS CEASED

HALL OF RECORD:

I have updated 50-state monthly high temperature records for 2007 from NOAA data [CLICK TO ENLARGE]:

The were no new monthly statewide records during 2007.

Using NOAA data for daily records and methodology [link to December 2007 as an example of the data used], no daily record tied or exceeded a monthly record for any of the 50 states during any of the 12 months.

• Each state can have only 1 statewide record per month or 12 new records for any one year
• If any location in the state ties or exceeds a record high set previously, the record is now recorded for the latest year and the record count for the year previously holding the record is reduced by one.
• Since previous records are eliminated, each year for the entire range has exactly 600 opportunities to set a new record... there is no bias or advantage for records set in early years; there is a slight bias for the current year since ties go to the current year.

While these records do not tie directly to other calculations of average temperatures which may be subject to some interpretation, it is reasonable to infer that:

• Since 2000 there has been a noticeable absence of high temperature extremes or "heat waves"
• The 2001-07 period may have been cooler than the 1994-2000 period

Hmmmmmmmm, what does this mean?

• THESE DATA SHOW WE ARE ALREADY IN A NATURAL COOLING PHASE - FOLLOWING A NATURAL WARMING ONE.
• IT MEANS AGW = BS.
• AL GORE: PLEASE STFU.
• MCCAIN, TOO.

We need to expand drilling for oil and mining for coal - WITHOUT WORRYING ABOUT AGW.
This will briong ebnergy prices down and help the WORLD economy.

WE DON'T NEED NO STINKING LIBERAL GAS OR CARBON TAXES!

MORE SNOW RECORDS DESPITE AL GORE AND AGW

OREGON MAIL TRIBUNE:

... storms have brought abundant snow all over the Southern Oregon Cascades and Siskiyous.

The snow depth at the Siskiyou Summit (elevation 4,600 feet) on Jan. 31 was 65 inches, more than three times the average depth of 19 inches for the end of January, and the most ever measured at that site since record-keeping began in 1935.

The water content of the snow (18.4 inches) also set a record: It was 347 percent of the end-of-January average.

Two other sites within a mile of the Mount Ashland summit had about 160 percent of average snow depth for the end of January and 140 percent of average water content, said Steve Johnson of the Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest.

Johnson worked in blizzard conditions Thursday to measure the snow.

"It was quite a day, with snow falling at two inches per hour," Johnson said. "The road was like coming west in 1840."

As of Friday, Crater Lake National Park had received a total of 348 inches of snow since October, 65 inches more than the average, and 127 inches of snow were on the ground at park headquarters.

On Sunday, the Rogue and Umpqua basins had a combined average snow water content of 152 percent of normal, and every basin in Oregon had at least 100 percent of average snow water content.

By Sunday morning, the Mount Ashland ski area had received more than 240 inches of snow for the winter, 80 percent of its annual average of about 300 inches, and there are 10 weeks of skiing still to come.

MORE SNOW THAN NORMAL - DESPITE HIGHER ATMOSPHERIC CO2 CONTENT.

• AGW = BS.
• AL GORE: STFU.

THIS IS ANOTHER REASON NOT TO NOMINATE MCCAIN: HE BELIEVES IN THE MAN-MADE GLBAL-WARMING NONSENSE - AND WILL RAISE TAXES TO STOP IT.

20,000 Scientists Denounce Global Warming Hysteria

BROOKES: Scientists denounce global warming hysteria

Time for an Australia New Zealand Royal Commission on Global Warming

A group of Australian and New Zealand organisations and scientists today called on the governments of Australia and New Zealand to set up an Australia New Zealand Royal Commission on the Science of Global Warming (to be known as "The ANZIG Royal Commission" — the Australia New Zealand Inquiry into Global Warming).

The chairman of Australia's Carbon Sense Coalition, Mr Viv Forbes, said that many groups and individuals in Australia and New Zealand had listened with alarm and disbelief to plans of both governments to saddle their people and industries with the burdens of carbon taxes and the risks of carbon trading which he described as "an open invitation to massive fraud" .

We also fear the enormous costs of taxing and decimating our backbone industries of farming, mining, power generation, cement making, forestry, mineral processing and tourism and subsidising many expensive and ineffective alternate energy proposals. The very high costs to society of the actions being proposed require that we settle the science before forcing the whole ANZ community into a futile and expensive exercise to solve a problem that may not exist. "Do it just in case" is not an option.

The Australian Government has set up the Garnaut Review to look into the likely costs of various proposals for reducing carbon dioxide emissions. However, we need a parallel independent inquiry into the science to determine whether any action at all is required.

The science is definitely not settled. Hundreds of qualified independent scientists around the world now question whether sufficient attention has been paid to the proven historical influence of natural solar cycles, and many other aspects of climate science. Since the scientific investigations for the IPCC fourth assessment report were completed 18 months ago, new research and new observations have cast serious doubt on many of the IPCC  s conclusions.

Everyone, from the highest government minister to the lowliest taxpaying consumer, must realise that unless it can be proved beyond reasonable doubt that carbon dioxide causes excessive global warming, there is no justification for imposing restrictions and costs on emitters of carbon dioxide.

These burdens will pass inevitably on to the whole community, and will fall most heavily on those who can least afford them. No valid, verifiable scientific proof has yet been established.

All we have are hypotheses and speculations based on computer models. Governments have a duty to create an opportunity for the full range of scientific evidence to be examined and evaluated. This can best be done by way of a Royal Commission of Inquiry.

Australia and New Zealand are both heavily dependent on primary production and world trade, neither have nuclear power, and both are leaders in science in the southern hemisphere. The whole hemisphere would be very damaged by the global warming extremism of Al Gore and old Europe.

Al Gore is more motivated by extreme Green politics than scientific truth while Old Europe believes that their nuclear capacity protects them from the carbon costs they plan to impose on others.

Mr Forbes said that this proposal is the joint initiative of The Carbon Sense Coalition based in Australia and the New Zealand Climate Science Coalition, and is supported by individual scientists and industry representatives

... Mr Forbes said that it is clear there is growing concern among the world scientific community about the conclusions being promoted by the IPCC.

In contrast to the 2000 or so scientists who are claimed to have contributed to the IPCC (many of whom do not support the extremist political conclusions promoted by the IPCC) there are at least 20,000 scientists who have signed their names in public opposition to the IPCC. (See references below).

AGW = BS.

By supporting green taxes - and carbon trading and limiting the spread of coal power plants and nuclear power plants and oil exploration - the Left is DIRECTLY contributing to increased Third World poverty and degradation.

What th Third World needs is more electricity and more factory jobs - and a refrigerator and an electrical stove in every home.

Leftist policies prevent this.

IOW: AGW = BS which kills poor people.

CHINA'S WORST WINTER IN SIX DECADES GOING TO GET WORSE

BBC:

China's already struggling to cope with the worst snow storms its seen in 50 years, but the government there is warning more bad weather's on the way.

About 100m people have been affected by three weeks of heavy snow, but experts say the worst-hit areas face several more days of snow and freezing rain.

Parts of the country have ground to a halt as the weather causes widespread chaos to railways, roads and airports.

REUTERS: DEATH CRUSH IN STAMPEDE AMONG CHINESE SNOWBOUND - VIDEO:

• Reuters reports that 250,000 homes have been destroyed by the snow and ice.
• That might translate into at least 1,000,000 homeless.
• Perhaps even than Katrina.
• Due to SNOW.

AL GORE: STFU!

MAJOR SNOW STORMS FROM JAPAN TO EASTERN CANADA

CANADA.COM:

Snow blankets central, eastern Canada

Central and eastern Canadians continued to shovel out and spread salt after a ferocious winter storm dumped heavy snow and freezing rain on eastern Quebec and Atlantic Canada on Saturday.

Parts of southern and eastern Quebec were hit with between 15 and 35 centimetres of snow.

Snow disrupts traffic on Pacific side of central, east Japan

MIDWEST USA:

A snowstorm made travel treacherous Friday in the Midwest and Northeast and was blamed for at least 10 traffic deaths.

Nearly 7 ½ inches of snow was reported at Chicago O'Hare International Airport before the front moved out of the area Friday. About 500 flights were canceled at O'Hare, which canceled 600 flights Thursday and housed hundreds of stranded travelers who spent the night awaiting planes from other cities also affected by the storm. More than 9 inches of snow delayed flights at Chicago Midway Airport on Friday.

At least 12 inches of snow was reported in Springfield by Friday morning, said National Weather Service meteorologist Gino Izzi.

Ten inches fell in Bloomington, and Southern Illinois saw up to 11 inches dumped near Palmyra northwest of St. Louis.

XINHUA:

Snow fell in several prefectures on the Pacific side of central and east Japan since Sunday morning, causing cancellation of flights, close of highways and delay of trains in the wide areas.

According to the Japan Meteorological Agency, 3 cm of snow had accumulated in central Tokyo and Yokohama, and 18 cm in Yamanashi Prefecture's Kawaguchiko city as of 10 a.m. (0100 GMT).

Tokyo's Haneda airport said more than 20 flights in and out were canceled, while the East Japan Railway Co. said operations of two of its lines were affected by the snow.

Several speedways in the snow region were closed out of security concerns.

The meteorological agency forecasted up to 15 cm of snow in plains of the Kanto region, up to 30 cm in the Koshin region and up to 5 cm in the Tokai region through late Sunday.

• AGW IS BS.
• AL GORE: STFU.

UN PUTS A PRICE-TAG ON DEALING WITH GLOBAL WARMING HYSTERIA: $20 TRILLION

YUP: TRILLION (AP):

Global warming could cost the world up to $20 trillion over two decades for cleaner energy sources and do the most harm to people who can least afford to adapt, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon warns in a new report.

Ban's report provides an overview of U.N. climate efforts to help the 192-nation General Assembly prepare for a key two-day climate debate in mid-February. That debate is intended to shape overall U.N. policy on climate change, including how nations can adapt to a warmer world and ways of supporting the U.N.-led negotiations toward a new climate treaty by 2009, U.N. officials said Wednesday.

The treaty, replacing the Kyoto Protocol when it expires in 2012, could shape the course of climate change for decades to come. The Kyoto pact requires 37 industrial nations to reduce greenhouse gases by a relatively modest 5 percent on average.

Much of the focus has been on the United States, the only major industrial nation to reject the treaty, and on fast-developing nations such as China and India. Many are looking to next year, when a new U.S. president takes the White House. The leading contenders in both political parties favor doing more than the voluntary approaches and call for new technologies that President Bush espouses.

In his 52-page report, Ban says that global investments of $15 trillion to $20 trillion over the next 20 to 25 years may be required "to place the world on a markedly different and sustainable energy trajectory." Today, the global energy industry spends about $300 billion a year in new plants, transmission networks and other new investment, according to U.N. figures.

Now you can readily see why there are so many socialists, utopianists and crooked carbon-traders campaigning for all kinds of carbon schemes and carbon taxes - (including Johnny McCain!): they're ITCHING to get their carbon-free fingers on just a little bit dough!

And since AGW is BS every single solitary cent spent on curbing man-made CO2 is WASTED.

2007-8 is shaping up as not only the coldest of the short century, but one of the coldest winters in several decades.

Yet so convinced are the PC libs, the lefties, the assorted pseudo-do-gooders in the CW crowd, and the intimidated centrists that they don't even trust their own eyes. As in, "who ya gonna believe - Al Gore or your lying eyes!" It's the Emperor's Clothes all over again - and they will cost YOU AND ME $20 TRILLION.

If we MERELY nominate McCain, then it guarantees that we're going down that road.

And it will reduce ALL of our living standards and our incomes.

FOR NOTHING.

Sigh.

MORE PROOF AGW = BS: SNOW IN ARABIA

If a tree falls in a forest and nobody is there, does it make a sound?

If it snows in the freakin desert kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the MSM doesn't report it, was it a MIRAGE!?!

NOPE: NEWSBUSTERS: Rare Snows and Cold in Saudi Arabia Ignored by US Media

The selective coverage of international weather events by global warming obsessed media continued this weekend as near-record low temperatures in Saudi Arabia mixed with snow went totally ignored by American press outlets.

... Russia's RIA Novosti reported on Friday rare weather conditions in Saudi Arabia, it certainly wasn't surprising that, according to Google News, not one American press outlet found it newsworthy (emphasis added):

Northern parts of Saudi Arabia are covered with snow with schools, mosques and administrative bodies paralyzed, local media reported Friday.

The oil-rich kingdom is being hit with subzero temperatures and snow storms with freezing winds of up to 50 km/h (30mp/h). Some regions have been experiencing problems with water supplies as pipes have frozen, and livestock has died from the cold.

The Saudi Gazette reported late in December that the winter was expected to last 89 days, with temperatures reaching below zero. National media said the winter is the coldest in the country for 20 years.

Hmmm. Coldest in 20 years. I guess that's why our press are disinterested.

MSM: "All the news that fits out slant."

We know better:

• AGW = BS.
• AL GORE: STFU.