CAGW Exposed

Global Warming Continues To Pummel Polar Ice Caps By Not Causing Them To Melt

"As I've written previously, we’ve experienced the calmest Hurricane season in 30 years, the quietest tornado season in 60 years; the creation of 19,000 Manhattan islands worth of sea ice, and (again) the Arctic Ice Cap has grown by 533,000 square miles. In 2007, the BBC warned the cap could vanish by 2013. Oh, and we’re at the most industrialized point in human history–and air quality couldn’t be better, according to the EPA."

 

I'm Baaaaaack...

Since October 6 my life has been  a textbook case of the principle that says "If something can go wrong, it will."

It all began on that long lonely road between Saskatoon and Regina, the day after the wedding, when my "check engine" light came on. That was all that happened.  There was no smoke; no strange sounds; nothing heating up; no smell; nothing. Anyway, $160+ later everything car related is tickety-boo.

Then my computer died, or rather the modem, died. I figured it was about time for a new computer, too, so I have been without one for several days (three weeks and a bit). I asked the techie at the computer shop to transfer all my existing documents, address book, bookmarks, etc. to the new one, but even so, everything is different!!...and that after waiting 22 days. (And there ain't no methadone treatment for computer withdrawal. But I did manage to get some books read.) Everything on this brand new computer is different. It will be like starting from scratch.

Somewhere in the midst of that, on an especially cold day, the boiler that keeps the place warm conked out. There was an upside to that, though. The company that I called to fix it sent two young pieces of male eye candy over.  So, I sat and chatted them as they went about their business.

But  ---  or should I say butt --- being plumbers, these young fellows also offered some man cleavage to look at.

Now my stereo system appears to have died. The manuals that came with it might as well be written  in Greek. I'll likely have to get someone from Regina to come out here.

To top it all off, it's been snowing off and on all day. This is the second time since I went offline. GGGGRRRRRRRRR!

Bottom line is, I am now in the poor house and am accepting donations. Gifts in kind, like computer  lessons, or a warm winter coat, will be accepted.

Still Here...

...just bored with blogging. One can only document the absurdities in the world for so long before it becomes far too repetitive.

Anybody wanna gain access to the inner sanctum and share the burden?

I Suppose I Should Weigh In

This is an important thing for Roman Catholics, I suppose. As for me? Meh!

Time For Another Roundup

From the Aaaaargh file:

Child abusing grandma receives conditional term

"A 66-year-old Saskatoon woman who was convicted last fall of common assault and assault causing bodily harm for using violence against a granddaughter who was in her care will be allowed to serve her sentence at home, where she continues to look after three other grandkids."

Protest about 'Redmen' thwarted at Saskatoon high school

"A group of Idle No More protesters says it was blocked from entering a high school basketball tournament last weekend by Saskatoon police.

On Saturday, Bedford Road student Storm Night and about 30 others had planned to stage a protest at the finals of the Bedford Road Invitational Tournament — one of the largest high school basketball tournaments in the country.

The protest concerned the Bedford Road Redmen, a team name with an old logo that some people think is racist. Aboriginal people, in particular, have taken offence at a logo that shows a First Nations man with a red face."

...and the Breath of Fresh Air file:

To Solve Native Issues, Focus more on the Indians and Less on the Chiefs

"The country’s most famous hunger striker has declined to declare victory and moved the aspirational goal posts after successfully hijacking the Prime Minister’s schedule. Canadians are divided as to whether she is a Northern Ontario Mother Teresa or an incompetent small town administrator on a highly publicized weight loss program.

The Idle No More movement has seen demonstrations across the land, so far peaceful and no sign as of peaking. Yet Idle No More has no coherent program or leadership, and indeed is founded upon a rejection of such elements. Surfacing spokespeople demand a shifting grab bag of change.

The Indian establishment is fractured. The nominal leadership for the Assembly of First Nations has met with the Prime Minister with no tangible results. Numerous other chiefs reject that process, challenge their elected grand chief and darkly threaten serious civil disorder.

Treaty negotiations across the country are stalled. On-reserve poverty reigns in spite of immense public expenditures. Cries of “genocide” and “colonialism” rive the air.

And to top it all, a federal judge has issued a ruling effectively doubling the number of legally recognized Indians in Canada. One wag responded by suggesting we should just declare everyone an Indian and the whole country a reserve. Then none of us would have to pay taxes any more.

How to parse this chain of events? Let us start with Chief Theresa Spence. Were her reserve truly a sovereign nation, it would clearly be called a failed state."

Yup.

Who are the deniers now?

"Last year The Mail on Sunday reported a stunning fact: that global warming had ‘paused’ for 16 years. The Met Office’s own monthly figures showed there had been no statistically significant increase in the world’s temperature since 1997.

We were vilified. One Green website in the US said our report was ‘utter bilge’ that had to be ‘exposed and attacked’.

The Met Office issued a press release claiming it was misleading, before quietly admitting a few days later that it was true that the world had not got significantly warmer since 1997 after all. A Guardian columnist wondered how we could be ‘punished’.

But then last week, the rest of the media caught up with our report. On Tuesday, news finally broke of a revised Met Office ‘decadal forecast’, which not only acknowledges the pause, but predicts it will continue at least until 2017. It says world temperatures are likely to stay around 0.43 degrees above the long-term average – as by then they will have done for 20 years.

This is hugely significant. It amounts to an admission that earlier forecasts – which have dictated years of Government policy and will cost tens of billions of pounds – were wrong. They did not, the Met Office now accepts, take sufficient account of ‘natural variability’ – the effects of phenomena such as ocean temperature cycles – which at least for now are counteracting greenhouse gas warming."

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"We all get things wrong, and by definition futurology is a risky business. But behind all this lies something much more pernicious than a revised decadal forecast. The problem is not the difficulty of predicting something as chaotic as the Earth’s climate, but the almost Stalinist way the Green Establishment tries to stifle dissent."

2012 Probably Not the Warmest Year in America

"Last summer headlines blared, "Hottest July in the history of the United States!" The National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) of the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said so.

This week, NCDC is reporting the same, with the added alarm that 2012 was the warmest year on record and one of the top two years for extreme weather in America.

Climate activists are linking this to man-made global warming, ignoring that the area reported on in the NCDC reports, the U.S. contiguous states (i.e., continental America, not including Alaska), is only 2% of the Earth’s surface. So trends that may, or may not, be real in the U.S. in no way indicate global phenomena. In fact, the U.K. Met Office has admitted that there has been no global warming for 16 years and, this week, announced that temperatures are expected to stay relatively stable for another five years."

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"This week, NCDC’s credibility was further damaged when meteorologist Anthony Watts announced that he had discovered huge differences between their “State of the Climate” (SOTC) reports released each month and the actual database of NCDC temperatures. For example, the July 2012 SOTC report, issued in early August, announced that a new record had been set with the average July temperature for the contiguous U.S. being 77.6°F, one fifth of a degree higher than in July 1936. However, today NCDC say the July 2012 average was actually 76.93°F, nearly 0.7°F less. What is going on?

It turns out that, besides periodically "adjusting" the temperature database in ways that tend to lower historical temperatures, NCDC does not wait for all the data to be received before computing, and announcing, the U.S. average temperature and its rank compared to other months and years. While some stations, such as those at airports, send the data quickly via radio links and the Internet, other stations use old paper forms that arrive by mail considerably later.

When the data from lower technology sources finally arrives, NCDC update their temperature database typically “cooling” the country when all the data is used.

But neither NCDC nor NOAA tells the public and the press if, when the complete data set is analyzed, the temperature announcements in previous SOTCs are no longer correct.

Strangely, NCDC change temperature data even from the distant past without notification. For example, NCDC now assert that the average temperature in July 1936 was 76.43°F, a full degree cooler than the 77.4°F that they claimed for the month in the July 2012 SOTC report. This allows them to continue to claim that July 2012 set a record.

NCDC claims cannot be taken seriously."

Other than that, American blogs are all "gun control" hysteria, while here in Canada, it's all Idle No More and raaaaaaaaacism. And I continue to have fun at SNN's website where the discussion in the comments is getting really, really nasty. It's so refreshing to see a website where the comments policy is "anything goes" and the facade of political correctness has been thrown out the window.

Dear Lamestream Media...

....I don't care if Justin Bieber puked while on stage.  I'm not interested in baby starlets, or for that matter, even adult starlets. But Bieber is a human being, and as such, I think he deserves some dignity. Give it a rest, will you?

Heavy sigh!

This is one of the main reason I cancelled my cable subscription several years ago and put my TV in storage. I'm certain I will never go back. You seem intent of keeping us uninformed and feeding us syrupy pap. Sorry. Not interested.

So, You Think You've Had...

..a shitty day, do you? Well, let me tell you about the shittiest day I've ever had. It happened when I was still living in Saskatoon. I was walking in the park by the Bessborough, when a piece of fresh, steaming bird poop landed on my shoulder. It made me chuckle. Still does.

Could have been worse, I suppose. It might have landed in my hair. Or I might have been looking up with my mouth open.

Always look on the bright side!!

God, I'm pathetic! This is all I've got to blog about???

Taqiyya!!

I wonder which of these two circumstances Morsi is hiding behind.

Morsi Says Egypt Will Honor All International Treaties

Sidebar Update

At the bottom of the "Video" list, under the heading "Who Needs the Canadian Broadcorping Castration (CBC) When You've Got This?", I've added Vision TV. This network broadcasts all sorts of interesting documentaries. I just finished watching one on Crop Circles from a series called The Conspiracy Show. Very interesting stuff. (Gives me something to do while the laundry is on the go just across the hall.)

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!

I just heard on my favourite radio station that Saskatchewanites used 10% more energy yesterday than they used the previous year's Earth Day! Way to go Saskies!!

Even though this radio station is mostly talk radio of the right wing variety, they were interviewing some idiot from SaskEnergy, who tried to convince us that people had more electrically powered conveniences in their possession than they did last year and that's the reason. What a farce!

There's only two possible explanations for the 10% increase, and it's probably a combination of both, and those are 1) our population grew {which it did, thanks largely to the energy sector} and 2) we're on to you. Hah,hah!

Last year I did my duty and during Earth Hour I turned on every possible electric appliance that I could for the whole hour. Even did some baking, using my electric mixer, of course. This year, I just shrugged my shoulders and ignored the event. I suspect most Saskatchewanites did the same. Borrrrrrrring.

And as if SaskEnergy isn't laughing all the way to the bank.

Hah! Hah! Hah!

All hail Human Achievement Hour!!!

PS: This ain't no April Fools joke. It's also been extremely warm for this time of year. I wonder if the air conditioners were on?

It's a Sign of the Times

How many of you have ever received a wedding invitation via email? I got my first such animal this morning, from my daughter. Perhaps that's because they had invitations all printed up and stuff and then the venue at which the wedding was supposed to be got sold and went private.

Although the various costs which had already been incurred, such as the printed invitations and the down payment on renting the venue, were reimbursed by the previous owner, my favourite girl decided to send out an email invitation to a select group instead of freshly printed new invites. My, how things have changed.

Must be hard to plan a wedding in British Columbia when you live in Ft. McMurray, Alberta and many of the invitees live in Saskatchewan. Sometimes eloping has it's advantages.

Anyhow, I know where I'll be on July 21st. Kelowna, here I come! Gonna see the grand-kiddies, too!! EEEEHHHAAAAAWW!

A little bit of historical trivia: about 32 years ago this daughter of mine, the bride to be, first stood up all by herself, in the middle of a playpen in a hotel room in Revelstoke, BC, which is not that far from Kelowna. Of course, there are no straight lines from point A to point B in the British Columbia interior. All there are is scary, narrow, winding, mountain hugging roads with a steep drop off the side of the road. And I get really claustrophobic in the mountains. But Kelowna is beautiful. Like my daughter, and she comes by it honestly. Ahem. Hem.

Drats!

Valentine's Day came and went and no one so much as sent me a card or bought me a box of chocolates. Then earlier this week it was Sadie Hawkins' Day. Never occurred to me that I could have taken advantage of it. And I would so much like to be a kept woman. Oh well.  Onward and upward. Or is that downward? I like to say I'm over the hill, rolling down the other side, picking up speed. All that dizziness is enough to make me forgetful.

For some reason, this reminds me of my daughter. One day, when she was about seven or eight years old, I was driving around town with her in the front seat. In the back seat, were a couple of friends. Suddenly daughter blurts out "God I'm hot!" and she wasn't referring to the temperature in the car, either. Anyway, Mom and back-seat friends couldn't contain our laughter.

Daughter is now eight days shy of being 33 years old and she's still hot. And she can still make me laugh.

Sorry For The Absence...

...It's not for lack of interesting absurdities in the news. It's lack of enthusiasm for blogging, plus too much "getting ready for Christmas" sort of work.

Sometimes the news has too much of a "same old, same old" quality about it. Besides that, it's noon already, and I still haven't had breakfast. I'm hungry.

I might be back at it later today.

But then again, I might not.

Off To Alberta

Birthday girl awaits.

Be back on Sunday, most likely. Monday at the latest.

Okay. I Rise to the Occasion...

...although I'm certain this is not quite what you had in mind. But to give you hope as you grow old - Arnie:

Don't know what I'll do next year. Maybe I'll play fair.

Not Gone

Seems my car has other plans.

It wants to sit in the parking lot and freeze to death. I'll have to see if I can have it hauled away tomorrow.

Why do I always get cravings for A & W Teen Burgers, or Big Macs when my car is on the fritz?

Must be a guardian angel!

"Stubble Jumping Twit"

Pete in 'Sauga has discovered a new way to find my blog on Google. I answer to many names, including Stubble Jumping Twit.  Yup.  This knuckledragger is very versatile.

CBC Is Watching - Again

Sitemeter is showing yet another visit from CBC in Toronto, this time at 4:55 AM CST, 6:55 at the Centre of the Universe. They looked at this entry and followed the links to The Future of CBC and CBC Bias.

I wonder if he or she agrees with me or disagrees? I wonder if they gossip about me during the coffee breaks? Oh, to be a fly on the wall.

I hope I haven't scared them too much. I know what it must be like to fear that your job might just go poof. But, shit happens and life goes on. As American novelist, Ernest Hemingway said: "The world breaks everyone, but afterward, many are stronger in the broken places." So let me have a little heart to heart talk here.

Look, I know you folks are primarily left-leaning, and, as such, you think of yourselves as our betters, but once that notion is broken and your employer is cut away from the public teat, I trust you will have enough integrity to rise again with lessons learned and a deeper understanding of why state funded media is not a public good. That would be considered a spiritual awakening, and believe me, life goes so much better after you've arrived at the other end of a spiritual transformation. And that's because humility is so much greater a teacher than arrogance.

In the meantime, I invite you to read two more of my entries on the CBC: What to Do About the CBC and What to Do About the CBC - Part II

Whittling About Half Done

This sudden explosion of old previously unpublished posts will take a break now. It's past 4:00 AM and I really, really need my beauty rest. Might not get up until noon tomorrow.

On the Road

I'll be away for a week or more. Don't expect to be able to blog much, if at all. See you in two weeks.