Other than the main thrust of Michael Ramirez’ message, there are gems of humor throughout the blackboard. Click on the image to enlarge.
Global Warming
Global Warming Hits Arizona
More than a month after the first day of spring, a cold front is passing through Arizona today. We’re having breezy, showery weather with temperatures sub-sixties. Both of us (and the dogs) have bundled up a bit, since we’re already getting used to the eighty and ninety degree days of late spring. Shorts and tank tops gave way to sweat pants and hoodies.
The weather in Flagstaff, AZ, shown above, is not typical of this time of year, even at their 7000 foot elevation. Yarnell, AZ, just eighteen miles north of us, is forecasting snow showers this afternoon at their 5500 foot elevation. We don’t expect snow here at 2000 feet above sea level, but the windchill had us scrambling for our winter wardrobe having already been put away.
The good news is that we’re going to see a warming trend in the coming weeks. Tomorrow will be fair enough for me to do some outdoor grilling. We’re looking forward to that.
Meanwhile, the GREENBATS® will blame the weather on CO2, no matter what the actual climate engine brings us.
Celebrating Earth Day
Just like the President who is jetting to the Pacific Northwest and Asia today, we are celebrating Earth Day by cranking out as much CO2 as possible. We started by taking the 6.0 liter GMC truck in for service and firing up Damsel’s car to transport me round trip to take the truck in and pick it up later. We’re just sorry that we have to stick around home this week and can’t load up the dogs and go for a 200 mile scenic tour of our beautiful desert.
This evening, we will celebrate by watching two baseball games on our two big screen TVs simultaneously. Although we seldom do this, we will turn on the outside sconces (all seven of them) three in front, three on the garage and one on the back patio. We might even turn on the four RV drive floodlights.
To understand our motivation for doing this, we invite you to visit the Climate and Global Warming Resources Page which will direct you to several works that expose the Global Warming Hoax for what it is – a political sham. Read this page to see why the sun is the major factor in climate determination.
GREENBATS® On Parade
Apparently, this is a bunch of delusional climate alarmists on a march from LA to DC in the name of “climate justice.” They happened to be in Wickenburg, AZ today with their flags and signs vowing to “save the planet one step at a time.” In the photo, one member of the parade was carrying a sign with a link to some parent organization which I removed since I won’t link to any whacko sites, even photographically.
Damsel snapped the image on our way to the supermarket. Click on the image to enlarge.
At any rate, they picked a poor time to march through our town along US 60 on a day when the temperatures are way below normal for this time of the year. The NWS was reporting a high temperature of 63° with windchill to the low 50’s. Many of the homeless-looking and apparently unwashed people in the photo were clad in walking shorts, so I bet they were getting their “Gore effect” welcome to our town. They may have even had a little rain on their parade from scattered showers in the area today.
Politically Engineered Drought
Here’s Ramirez’ take on the political drought in Kali-stan. I love his caricature of Gov. Moonbeam.
Israel, according to Planet Gore, has solved its drought problem. That country has built desalinization plants along their Mediterranean coastline to provide plenty of fresh water for all their needs.
Hey! Wait! Doesn’t K-stan have a rather large ocean immediately to the west?
Farmers’ Almanac More Accurate Than NOAA
A report published on Friday, 2/21, in Investors Business Daily points to the relative accuracy of the venerable old publication, Farmer’s Almanac, to have beaten NOAA climate models. Yes, beaten the government supercomputers barely able to forecast the past, by accurately predicting this winter’s bitter cold throughout most of the nation using traditional methods of looking at sunspots, tides, planetary and lunar positions in order to derive their long-range predictions.
Farmers’ Almanac More Reliable Than Warming Climate Models
Bad Science: It turns out that a 200-year-old publication for farmers beats climate-change scientists in predicting this year’s harsh winter as the lowly caterpillar beats supercomputers that can’t even predict the past.
Last fall, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Climate Prediction Center (CPC) predicted above-normal temperatures from November through January across much of the continental U.S. The Farmers’ Almanac, first published in 1818, predicted a bitterly cold, snowy winter.
The Maine-based Farmers’ Almanac’s still-secret methodology includes variables such as planetary positions, sunspots, lunar cycles and tidal action. It claims an 80% accuracy rate, surely better than those who obsess over fossil fuels and CO2.
The winter has stayed cold in 2014, and snowfall and snow cover are way above average. USA Today reported on Feb. 14 that there was snow on the ground in part of every state except Florida. That includes Hawaii.
Read the entire article here.
More Solar Activity
There is a parade of sunspots crossing near the solar equator today. I went out this morning and captured the sunspots with my usual setup of the Canon SX-40 through the cheap little solar filter from Rainbow Symphony. Click on the image to enlarge.
AR 1974 is pointed directly at the Earth and could produce flares. AR 1975 and AR 1976 look to be more intense and will be pointed earthward in a day or so. This could mean auroras in the arctic, communications and electrical grid blackouts or enhanced radio communications as in Ham Radio. Or, it could mean nothing at all.
We have seen from the past that the presence of sunspots generally means warmer temperatures on earth while the absence of them for prolonged periods tend to bring cold periods called minima. Some examples are the Maunder Minimum, the Dalton Minimum and the 1900 Minimum. There was an unnamed minimum in the 1960’s that had Time and Newsweek predicting a new ice age. But, we know how the news media wants to bend things around to capitalize on sensationalism to sell copy, I guess. Or maybe to put forth a political agenda. I think we all know how the media operates these days.
Reference: Correlating Sunspots to Global Climate.