Let’s see: for the better part of the year since the end of August, the Raleigh area has had temperatures at or below normal, in some cases 5, 10, 15, even 20 degrees below average. The next 10 days look to be at or below the average. We actually had tiny snow showers the other day, and have a potential for that Friday morning. Brrrrrr!

• More Cold Air; Lake Effect Kicks In
• Unseasonably cold weather to continue, meteorologist says
• Arctic winds forecast for the weekend
• Angler Should Adjust To Cold Weather
• Blizzards and icy winds forecast for weekend as Arctic blast sweeps in from the north
• Wednesday is respite until cold weather returns
• Record lows recorded, but warmer temps for Thanksgiving
• Bundle Up, Manatee: More Cold Temps This Week
• Yes, those were snow flurries in Indianapolis, and the cold weather forecast continues
• Another cold blast with snow showers on the way

The problem is not in finding these stories, but knowing when to stop posting them.

Of course, the AGW Climahysterics will tell us this is “just weather.” Just remember that when they start down their Chicken Little paths over a few days of warm temps.

Oh, since I have the program up at the moment, the record high for Raleigh for November 20 is 79F. In 1942.

Did anyone out there catch the halftime report on NBC during the Redskins-Dallas game? Bubblehead Meredith provided possibly one of the most irresponsible climate change reports of all time. I wish I could find the video, but, she claimed that the seas will rise 200 feet, that climate change has dried up all the water in Australia, and that the snows and glaciers are melting on Mt. Kilimanjaro because of climate change. Even the most irresponsible anthropogenic global warming sucker (Al Gore) wouldn’t make the claim about 200 feet of sea height change. The UN IPCC, a hysterical document in itself, only claims a few inches.

As far as the water in Australia, the temps have been flat for 10 years. And, if the glaciers are all melting, wouldn’t that mean more water? The data shows that it was much wetter during the Global Climate Optimum, and drier during the Little Ice Age. Hmmmm.

Mt. Kilamanjaro? No, not global warming. In fact, the problem is warm air flowing up the mountain because of clear cutting.

Now, I am not against “going green.” Being responsible about the environment is a good thing. But, consider that when they say “go green,” they mean “climate change.” And NBC is going and changing their icons and logos and whatnot green. They started during Sunday Night Football. Then they proceeded to show us dozens of commercials featuring low mileage vehicles. Super!

Going Greenis not “walking to work.” It’s not “no longer driving, no taxis, taking mass transit.” It is not “washing in cold water to save energy.” It’s not “driving a hybrid.” Though, I will give props to Keith Olbermann, as painful as that is, for drinking filtered tap water and reducing the number of plastic bottles. That reduces pollution and landfill size. If you want to do it to save some energy, great, but, what they mean is global warming, not saving resources.

As far as Peter King and eating organic, that may be considered green, but, it is not necessarily healthy, as it is many of those chemicals, which are environmentally safe, which guard the veggies from disease. But, at least he doesn’t go idiot with travel mode.

You want to go green? Don’t litter. Plant some plants and/or trees. Save the rainforests. Save some species. Stop including AGW as going green. Let real environmental issues stand on their own, rather then making them all about AGW.

Perhaps some of the climahysterics can explain how this occurred

A surreal scientific blunder last week raised a huge question mark about the temperature records that underpin the worldwide alarm over global warming. On Monday, Nasa’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS), which is run by Al Gore’s chief scientific ally, Dr James Hansen, and is one of four bodies responsible for monitoring global temperatures, announced that last month was the hottest October on record.

This was startling. Across the world there were reports of unseasonal snow and plummeting temperatures last month, from the American Great Plains to China, and from the Alps to New Zealand. China’s official news agency reported that Tibet had suffered its “worst snowstorm ever”. In the US, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration registered 63 local snowfall records and 115 lowest-ever temperatures for the month, and ranked it as only the 70th-warmest October in 114 years.

So what explained the anomaly? GISS’s computerised temperature maps seemed to show readings across a large part of Russia had been up to 10 degrees higher than normal. But when expert readers of the two leading warming-sceptic blogs, Watts Up With That and Climate Audit, began detailed analysis of the GISS data they made an astonishing discovery. The reason for the freak figures was that scores of temperature records from Russia and elsewhere were not based on October readings at all. Figures from the previous month had simply been carried over and repeated two months running.

The error was so glaring that when it was reported on the two blogs - run by the US meteorologist Anthony Watts and Steve McIntyre, the Canadian computer analyst who won fame for his expert debunking of the notorious “hockey stick” graph - GISS began hastily revising its figures. This only made the confusion worse because, to compensate for the lowered temperatures in Russia, GISS claimed to have discovered a new “hotspot” in the Arctic - in a month when satellite images were showing Arctic sea-ice recovering so fast from its summer melt that three weeks ago it was 30 per cent more extensive than at the same time last year.

This is what the Climahysterics call science. Cooking the books. Falsifying the data. Making it up as they go. And NASA is not the only ones. The UN IPCC recently came up with some wonky data to continue their Chicken Littleism, “Despite no global warming in 10 years and recording setting cold in 2007-2008…”

Don’t forget these two quotes from Al Gore, who is, of course, one of the main leaders in the AGW movement

• “In the United States of America, unfortunately we still live in a bubble of unreality. And the Category 5 denial is an enormous obstacle to any discussion of solutions. Nobody is interested in solutions if they don’t think there’s a problem. Given that starting point, I believe it is appropriate to have an over-representation of factual presentations on how dangerous (global warming) is, as a predicate for opening up the audience to listen to what the solutions are, and how hopeful it is that we are going to solve this crisis.”
• “When you have the facts on your side, argue the facts. When you have the law on your side, argue the law. When you have neither, holler. “

The AGW crowd in a nutshell. Also, add in that they rarely practice what they preach. Like tax increases, that is always for the other guy/gal.

Save us from hysterics, who probably just want money: Report: Climate change threatens half of California

A University of California, Berkeley, report released Thursday estimates that $2.5 trillion of California real estate is threatened by climate change.

Real estate and insurance represent the largest sectors at risk from climate change in the state, according to the report. It found that the state has $4 trillion in real estate assets, of which $2.5 million (WT: I assume that is supposed to be “trillion“) are at risk from extreme weather events, sea level rise and wildfires. The projected annual price tag is $300 million to $3.9 billion over this century, depending on how the global temperature rise.

Sigh. Apparently there were no extreme weather events and wildfires in California prior to global warming from SUVs. And the sea level thing has pretty much been a farce. Little proof. Supposition, yes. The sea levels have gone up before during warmer periods, and gone down during colder periods. But even the UN IPCC reports do not go farther then a sea rise of a couple inches. Which has, again, happened before.

Californians should worry instead about environmental policies that increase the severity of the wildfires, because they aren’t allowed to manage the brush, aren’t allowed to clear the dead wood, aren’t allowed to create fire breaks, and aren’t allowed to do proscribed burns, among others.

They should worry about the massive amounts of illegal aliens, quite a few who are criminals. They should worry about the policies that create rolling blackouts. They should worry about the policies that create sky high prices. All liberal policies.

Climahysterics will become more hysterical

It has plagued scientists and politicians for decades, but scientists now say global warming is not the problem.

We are actually heading for the next Ice Age, they claim.

British and Canadian experts warned the big freeze could bury the east of Britain in 6,000ft of ice.

And what’s more, the experts blame the global change on falling - rather than climbing - levels of greenhouse gases.

The warning, published in the authoritative journal Nature, is based on records of tiny marine fossils and the earth’s shifting orbit.

Crank up those SUVs, baby!

And from National Geographic

Emissions of greenhouse gases—such as the carbon dioxide, or CO2, that comes from power plants and cars—are heating the atmosphere to such an extent that the next ice age, predicted to be the deepest in millions of years, may be postponed indefinitely

Greenhouse gasses good! But, hey, let’s hose the economies of the nations of the world, institute legislation that is massively intrusive into our individual lives, all to bring about the next ice age, which even the New York Times acknowledges.

By the way, this is what is known as “science,” rather then “consensus.”

Idling your car, that is

Westchester County (New York) lawmakers last night made it illegal for drivers to keep their vehicles running for three minutes or more while parked.

The goal is to reduce dangerous emissions like carbon dioxide that contribute to Westchester’s poor air quality and to global warming, said Thomas Abinanti, D-Greenburgh, the bill’s sponsor.

“Climate change is the defining issue of the 21st century,” Abinanti said. “We can do our part by not adding to the problem.

And, if you are caught, you’ll get fined up to $250 bucks. Doesn’t that sound great now that Al Gore is being considered to be the “climate czar” in the Barry administration? Not that he did jack during his eight years as VP, of course. Or anything of substance during his post election “Crazy” years other then bloviate.

Even after all these years of following the AGW issue, I still find it humorous that the Believers still do little more then try and draw attention to the issue

Willamette University students and other cyclists will bike to the state Capitol today to promote the fight against global warming. The bike ride will start at 2 p.m. on the university campus.

Yeah, that should solve the problem! Notice that none of these groups every really do anything such as raise money to go to fixing the issue? Even The Goracle is doing little more then going for a collective movement (which should be scary in its own right)

Former V-P and Nobel Peace laureate Al Gore told an audience at the Web 2.0 Summitin San Francisco on Friday that we need to use the latest web tools to organize a social movement in order to help rescue the earth from climate change. Gore, who has been an adviser to Google, served on the board of directors for Apple, and is currently a cleantech venture partner with Kleiner Perkins, said fighting climate change will need the same type of collective movement driven by the web that helped elect Barack Obama.

Granted, the collectivist movement that helped elect DeID* Obama worked. But, there is a vast difference between electing a politician and fixing an issue which they claim is mostly, or completely, Mankind’s fault. But, in reality, the whole AGW issue is there for four reasons: something for the Left to combat the military support by the right, as a way of getting people to join together to follow the Leftist movement, to make some money, and to control the world wide economy. Witness

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Terrible, terrible news

Once famous for their numbers, Norwegian lemmings are disappearing, say scientists, who point an accusing finger at global warming.

The hamster-like rodents burst forth in massive numbers from their sub-Arctic homes every three to five years in a frantic search for food.

The mad dash sometimes causes them to race over clifftops and plummet into the sea, thus giving rise to the theory - now discounted - of mass suicide.

Since 1994, these periodic population explosions have stopped, prompting researchers to ask why.

And, you know what the answer is, right? Global warming. Man-made global warming. It’s those big SUVs, like the Escalade that pre-elect Barry (it’s OK, take a deep breath. Hold. Release. Do it again :)) drives that cause it.

The Lemmings survived all the other warm periods, which have been occurring since end of the last ice age. They’ll survive this one. But, good news! There are 62 million lemmings here in the US to take the Norwegian ones place!