A Review of Climate Coverage

With all the attention being given by the conservative media (certainly NOT by the MSM) on the recent disclosures about falsifying temperature data by the CRU, now would be a good time for us to review some of our climate references.

We have been following the Anthropogenic Global Warming scam very closely for a number of years. At the risk of being called a ‘denier’ or other such terms, we have not only been skeptical, but have done some of the science homework and research. The following content may always be found on the “Climate and Global Warming” page listed in the sidebar.

Selected Articles from this website

  • Earth’s Oceans – A Mesozoic Hot Tub — Scientific Evidence that Atlantic Ocean temperatures may have once reached 107° (42°C) – about 25°F (14°C) higher than ocean temperatures today and warmer than a hot tub.
  • Ultimate Global Warming – SPF 2 Million Won’t Be Enough — The Sun is a star – a main sequence star whose business is to fuse hydrogen atoms into helium atoms. Fusion is a steady but somewhat unstable and potentially violent thermonuclear process.
  • The “O” Zone — Think of the ozone layer as Earth’s sunglasses, protecting life on the surface from the harmful glare of the sun’s strongest ultraviolet rays, which can cause skin cancer and other maladies.
  • Correlating Sunspots to Global Climate — This is a study in two observations made over the last 400 years: observed annual sunspot numbers and derived global temperatures.
  • The Indefensible Hockey Stick — The “hockey stick” (the graph resembles a hockey stick) graph emerged in 1995 and purports to depict average global temperatures over the last 1000 years or so. The basis of this paradigm, however, can be shown to be flawed.
  • Cosmic Rays, Solar Flux and Global Warming — When you consider the context of this galactic radiation effect, the impact of CO2 emissions caused by humanity literally fade away into climatic insignificance.
  • Apocalypse – Not! — These four essays, “The Four Horsemen of the Non-Apocalypse,” as it were, are grouped into a page entitled “Good news, Mr. Gore, the Apocalypse has been postponed.”

International Conference on Climate Change (this is NOT the UN’s IPCC)

Climate Websites and Blogs

And a few of my favorites

Media Resources

Comfort Food

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Since it was a dark and rainy day today, Damsel prepared one of our favorite “comfort food” dishes – chicken and dumplings. Day-yam – I swear it is the best batch she ever made. Now, I’m too full to blog so click on the picture above and see if you can refrain from drooling on your keyboard.

Not Exactly the Sistine Chapel

Damsel and I saw Michelangelo’s “The Creation of Adam” on the ceiling of “Capella Sistina,” the Sistine Chapel. This cartoon is a crude, but clever satire of the “Job Creationism” this Administration and Congress has tried to foist upon the American Taxpayer as a ‘legitimate’ tactic.

Uncle Daddy

Critics of the administration (including us) believe that until the tax burden is lifted from the small business owners and working class taxpayers, jobs will continue to decline. The recent 0.2 percent ‘reduction. in unemployment is likely to the credit of year-end hiring bubble for the Christmas sales season.

It’s interesting that God in the cartoon is depicted as Uncle Sam. To all you entitlement freaks out there, he’s your Uncle Sam – Not your Sugar Daddy!

A Visit From Cooper’s Hawk

The little birds that normally gather around the bird feeder in our back yard were definitely not present for the visit. It seems that Cooper’s Hawk is a predator of small rodents and birds as large as doves and pheasants. This one appears to be an adult male hawk, with a wingspan of about 30 inches.

Cooper’s Hawk

Click on the image to see a different image in a larger size.

From WikiPedia:

These birds capture prey from cover or while flying quickly through dense vegetation, relying almost totally on surprise. Most prey are mid-sized birds, with typical prey including American Robins, jays, woodpeckers, European Starlings, icterids and doves. Birds preyed on can range in size from wood-warblers to Ring-necked Pheasants. Cooper’s Hawks also eat small mammals, especially rodents such as chipmunks and tree squirrels. Mammalian prey can be as small as mice and as large as hares. Other possibilities are lizards, frogs, snakes and large insects. The hawks often pluck the feathers off their prey on a post or other perch. They are increasingly seen hunting smaller songbirds in backyards with feeders. They will perch in trees overlooking the feeders, then swoop down and scatter the other birds in order to capture one in flight.

First Snowfall of the Season

First Southern California SnowWay off in the distance in this photo (about 40 miles), are the San Gabriel Mountains and the Angeles National Forest. Yesterday, and the night before, precipitation came to our area and was billed by the local weather reporters as the ‘first major storm’ of the season.

After the storm passed, it got quite windy. The wind caused a short power interruption here, inconveniently, right in the middle of the Green Bay Packers vs. Baltimore Ravens Monday Night Football game. The power was only out for a few tens of seconds, not really enough time to get the emergency flashlights turned on (we always keep one at each of our desks and on the table next to where we sit to watch TV. The game came back on after the DirecTV receiver re-acquired the signal. We watched the remainder of the game without any other power interruptions.

You can click on Damsel‘s image above to see the 1024×768 pixel version. Damsel was happy that Green Bay won the game.

Pearl Harbor Day

Today, we honor the men and women who died in the attacks on Hawaii late in 1941. In the photograph below, the Officers and Crew line the flight deck of the USS Ronald Reagan, CVN-76, as they salute the war memorial at the resting place of the USS Arizona.

More than ever, we must honor our Veterans and those who serve today in the best military in the world. God Bless them in this holiday season and always.

USS Ronald Reagan at the Arizona war memorial