Article

2007-03-13 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

Archived material is restricted to Rantburg regulars and members. If you need access email fred.pruitt=at=gmail.com with your nick to be added to the members list. There is no charge to join Rantburg as a member.

Posted by Steve 2007-03-13 08:33|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 PSA:

Water is wet, fire burns and extreme cold gives you frostbite.

I guess Global Warming hasn't starting melting the snow up north much this year. "A Inconvenient Truth" I think.

Posted by delphi2005 2007-03-13 08:52|| 2007-03-13 08:52|| Front Page Top

#2 Well, thank you, Roosevelt. What's the weather like out there?

Posted by Besoeker 2007-03-13 09:01|| 2007-03-13 09:01|| Front Page Top

#3 Gaia is one mean, spiteful bitch.

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2007-03-13 09:35|| 2007-03-13 09:35|| Front Page Top

#4 More of the "Gore Effect" by Proxy.

Posted by Bright Pebbles in Blairistan 2007-03-13 09:42|| 2007-03-13 09:42|| Front Page Top

#5 I love the fact that they blamed the extreme cold on global warming.

Posted by mhw 2007-03-13 10:19|| 2007-03-13 10:19|| Front Page Top

#6 God is an iron.

Posted by mojo">mojo 2007-03-13 10:49|| 2007-03-13 10:49|| Front Page Top

#7 Gaia 1 Moonbats 0

Game set and match

Posted by delphi2005 2007-03-13 11:20|| 2007-03-13 11:20|| Front Page Top

#8 "But one of the things we see with global warming is unpredictability."

Yeah...unpredictability! That's it!

Posted by tu3031 2007-03-13 11:32|| 2007-03-13 11:32|| Front Page Top

#9 That silly global warming...such a tease.

Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious 2007-03-13 11:47|| 2007-03-13 11:47|| Front Page Top

#10 As pointed out over at Tim Blair's site, if unpredictability is a hallmark of gobular waning, then it's not a scientific theory, since prediction is required for science.

Posted by Rob Crawford">Rob Crawford 2007-03-13 11:48|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2007-03-13 11:48|| Front Page Top

#11 this time she and Arnesen were prepared to don body suits and swim through areas where polar ice has melted.

Good lord, did they think the Artic turned into a chilly day in Colorado? Maybe they should try and get reimbursement from Al Gore?

Posted by Anon4021 2007-03-13 12:04|| 2007-03-13 12:04|| Front Page Top

#12 According to most scientists there will eb sharp increase in temperatures in Northern hemisphere from here to July.

Posted by JFM">JFM 2007-03-13 12:05|| 2007-03-13 12:05|| Front Page Top

#13 Maybe, JFM, and maybe not. That's what ExxonMobilliBurton *pays* those scientists to say...

Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious 2007-03-13 13:11|| 2007-03-13 13:11|| Front Page Top

#14 Temperatures in TLH near normal BUT signficantly warmer than even 2 months ago.

Posted by Shipman 2007-03-13 13:42|| 2007-03-13 13:42|| Front Page Top

#15 OMG, in my neighborhood it's getting warmer every day! We're DOOOMED!

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2007-03-13 15:02|| 2007-03-13 15:02|| Front Page Top

#16 So quit teasing me: was the airplane damaged? I mean if it hit a sled and a snowshoe, surely there must have been something broken....("And quit calling me Shirley")

Posted by USN, Ret. 2007-03-13 15:04|| 2007-03-13 15:04|| Front Page Top

#17 Al Gore invented the internet. Did he invent global warming too? Must be all that hot air coming out of his big mouth. I kind of like global warming - makes it a lot easier to live in Minnesota.

Posted by CB 2007-03-13 15:17|| 2007-03-13 15:17|| Front Page Top

#18 Now how does that hot air come out of his mouth when his head is way up his ass?

Posted by Icerigger 2007-03-13 15:22|| 2007-03-13 15:22|| Front Page Top

#19 Here is a view of the fabled vacation spot of Ward Hunt Island, north of Ellismere Island in the Canadian Arctic. Next stop: 90 deg N (pick your longitude):

Posted by Alaska Paul">Alaska Paul 2007-03-13 16:09|| 2007-03-13 16:09|| Front Page Top

#20 There was a lady I knew (but won't say her name) that did a North Pole expedition about 18 years ago. She would not listen to those who knew (Twin Otter pilots at Resolute) about her late start (April). It is about 500 NM from Ward Hunt Island to the North Pole. Well, she had lots of problems, the greatest of which was that the ice was separating under her tent. Things started breaking up, so a Twin Otter came up and rescued her and her dog team before she was adrift. Now I see that she has a web site, lectures, sells books, the whole bit. The North Pole can be a Nut Magnet, if ya let it, heh.

Posted by Alaska Paul">Alaska Paul 2007-03-13 16:38|| 2007-03-13 16:38|| Front Page Top

#21 Remember the new script, guys, it's not just Global Warming that man causes, it's Global Climate Change! Stay with the program!

Posted by Mac 2007-03-13 18:07|| 2007-03-13 18:07|| Front Page Top

#22 mojo: #6 God is an one iron. ;-)

Posted by RD 2007-03-13 18:54|| 2007-03-13 18:54|| Front Page Top

#23 Twin Otters, why do they love us?

Posted by Shipman 2007-03-13 19:41|| 2007-03-13 19:41|| Front Page Top

#24 Atwood said there was some irony that a trip to call attention to global warming was scuttled in part by extreme cold temperatures. "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."

More important than using a scientific theory to predict anything is the notion that a valid theory is falsifiable (no not provable!). Falsifiability means that the theory can be subjected to a test against the data and that test has the possible outcome that it is shown to be false.

A theory that predicts global warming is responsible for both cooling and warming or additional unpredictability is little better than a religion. Religion also can't qualify for a theory since it makes predictions that clearly cannot be subject to a controlled test and falsifiable.

Posted by WTF 2007-03-13 21:25|| 2007-03-13 21:25|| Front Page Top

#25
Arctic Twin Otters, here's why we love them! This one's for you, Shipman.

Posted by Alaska Paul">Alaska Paul 2007-03-13 21:47|| 2007-03-13 21:47|| Front Page Top

#26 Twin otters are cool but that C47 is sweet!

Posted by 49 Pan 2007-03-13 21:53|| 2007-03-13 21:53|| Front Page Top

#27 So are they still up there? If they wait awhile things are sure to warm up.

Wait until they get the bill for the rescue flight: a few toes will turn into an arm and a leg.

Candidates for the Idiots of the Day.

Posted by john">john 2007-03-13 22:09|| http://john-smokegetsinmyeyes.blogspot.com/]">[http://john-smokegetsinmyeyes.blogspot.com/] 2007-03-13 22:09|| Front Page Top

#28 So, what are you pea-brains saying? That humans don't have an impact on climate, in this day and age?

Posted by Elmolutle Phiger5201 2007-03-13 22:36|| 2007-03-13 22:36|| Front Page Top

#29 The Toga will save us all = the Sun will surrender once the Sun sees how naked we are, no $$$ or property, and that we had forgotten how to operate modern or post-modern machines.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2007-03-13 23:05|| 2007-03-13 23:05|| Front Page Top

#30 OK, AP and SHip; you can have your Twin Otters, but for bush work there is only one aeroplane, the Dehavilland Beaver. And I am not talking about the re-engined turbine Beaver, but the Honest to Orville Radial motored aircraft.
(sorry-linkychallenged, rode the short bus to DOS Skool)

Posted by USN, ret. 2007-03-13 23:52|| 2007-03-13 23:52|| Front Page Top

23:52 USN, ret.
23:51 JosephMendiola
23:30 Old Patriot
23:28 RD
23:23 JosephMendiola
23:07 anonymous2u
23:05 JosephMendiola
22:58 anonymous2u
22:54 john
22:48 Barbara Skolaut
22:48 RD
22:48 trailing wife
22:45 Barbara Skolaut
22:41 RD
22:36 Elmolutle Phiger5201
22:34 Cyber Sarge
22:33 john
22:28 john
22:19 Mike
22:16 john
22:09 john
21:55 john
21:53 49 Pan
21:47 Alaska Paul