The Bourbon Addict

It wil be time to vote soon. This time, vote for liberty and vote for a smaller governmment, let’s put power back in the hands of the people!    ~KM 

Some meteorologists, including former hurricane center director Neil Frank, say as many as six of this year’s 14 named tropical systems might have failed in earlier decades to earn “named storm” status.

“They seem to be naming storms a lot more than they used to,” said Frank, who directed the hurricane center from 1974 to 1987 and is now chief meteorologist for KHOU-TV.
Rush to name storms may be costing you money | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle

as we all know this is to try to make the global warming theories work. we all know that a warm earth has less storms than a cold one. a cold Earth  has more extreme temp. differential that actually causes more storms if the whole planet is warm it rarely storms in comparison.
`KM

    Myth #11: Thanksgiving is a happy time. Fact: For many Indian people, “Thanksgiving” is a time of mourning, of remembering how a gift of generosity was rewarded by theft of land and seed corn, extermination of many from disease and gun, and near total destruction of many more from forced assimilation. As currently celebrated in this country, “Thanksgiving” is a bitter reminder of 500 years of betrayal returned for friendship.

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i guess define many? less than 5% ogf the population? for 5% the beaty pagents are bad. c’mon, this is about family for most of us!!!! i am partial chippewa and my wife mostly lanapi. we celebrate to be around kin. 

`KM

Down and dirty like: there have been periods of vulcanism that have spewed 2X to 3X the amoount of co2 and particulates in the air in a  matter  of hours than we have since the industrial revolution. all the temp did was swing. then eventually it swang back. its a wholly cybernetic system, thats extremely hard to model which is why scientists chose the assumption of an environmental stasis upon which to start their models which is wrong as we know and they also even the ipcc says they dont know how clouds fit into the model NASA’s Bruce Weilicki says “we present new evidence from a compilation of over 2 decades of accurate satellite data that the top of the atmosphere tropical radiation budget is much more variable and and dynamic  than previously thought. results indicate  that the radiation budget changes are caused by changes in tropical mean cloudiness. the results of several current climate model simulations fail to predict  this large observed variation in tropical energy budget. the missing variability in the models highlights the critical need to improve cloud modeling … this leads to a  threefold uncertainty  in the predictions of the possible global warming over the next century. we caution against interpreting decadal variability as evidence of greenhouse gas warming”: B.A. Weilicki et al., “Evidence for large decadal variability in the tropical mean radiative energy budget, ” Science 295 (2002): 841-44LOLi doalbedo at least.. that what my computer modelling teacher said (we used macs, and an app called stella). i actually spent time modeling solar output and cloud cover. fun stuff. on a  mac SE LOL. onlly one semester. only one paper. it was only about 10 pages. i actually used it in my ecology clas as extra cedit to bring me from aA- to big Ol A. the other model i did was on aids and its spread was about 20- pages. turns out my model is still holding up :) `KM 

THE
United States’ leading hurricane forecaster says global ocean currents,
not human-produced carbon dioxide, are responsible for global warming.

William Gray, a Colorado State University researcher, also said the Earth may begin to cool on its own in five to 10 years.

Speaking to a group of Republican MPs, Dr Gray had harsh words for
researchers and politicians who said man-made greenhouse gases were
responsible for global warming.

“They are blaming it all on humans, which is crazy,” he said.

“We’re not the cause of it.”

Dr Gray said in the past 40 years the number of serious hurricanes
making landfall on the US Atlantic coast had declined even though
carbon dioxide levels had risen.

He said increasing levels of carbon dioxide would not produce more, or stronger, hurricanes.

Dr Gray, 77, has long criticised the theory that heat-trapping gases generated by human activity are causing the world to warm.

Earlier this month, he dubbed former US vice-president and 2000
Democratic presidential candidate Al Gore “a gross alarmist” for making
the Oscar-winning documentary, An Inconvenient Truth, which helped focus media attention on global warming.

Yesterday, Dr Gray said that politics and research into global
warming had created “almost an industry” that had frightened the public
and overwhelmed dissenting voices.

He said research arguing that humans were causing global warming was
“mush” based on unreliable computer models that could not possibly take
into account the hundreds of factors that influenced the weather.

He said little-understood ocean currents were behind a decades-long
warming cycle, and disputed assertions that greenhouse gases could
raise global temperatures as much as some scientists predicted.

“There’s no way that doubling CO2 is going to cause that amount of warming,” he said.

Dr Gray also said warming and cooling trends could not go on
indefinitely and believed temperatures were beginning to level out
after a very warm year in 1998.

Ocean currents to blame for warming: expert | The Daily Telegraph

But what drives the oceans currents? solar flares? i doubt its anything man made. You’ll see more and more experts disputing global warming fad in the next few years. i can’t wait. I love being one of the few, but vocal minority that is right.

~KM

“It’s no longer about whether (climate change) is happening but about how we deal with it,” he said.

Global warming could bring hunger, melt Himalayas | Science | Reuters

ug, and he admits at one point he thought the farking climate would stay the same. idiot!!!

`KM

Meteorologists don’t know how much snow falls each day and where it lands. They also don’t know how much rain comes down, nor how much of that is a heavy downpour instead of a light drizzle. [….] It’s all water,” Petersen says of drizzle, snow and all the other forms of precipitation. “We’ve got to keep track of it in every form to truly understand the climate of Earth.”

FOXNews.com - Weathermen Have No Idea How Much Rain Falls Worldwide - Science News | Current Articles

so again, scientist have a little more than a basic understanding of teh climate and how it interacts with the planet, which is the truth, maybe even over zealous of a statement as my hunch is we know next to nothing, and they expect us to swallow the fact that they are certain humans cause global warming and that global warming is a bad thing? laughable at best.

~KM

First it was cell phones in cars, then trans fats. Now, a new plan is on the table to ban gadget use while crossing city streets.

wcbstv.com - Bill Banning iPods In Crosswalks Slated For Albany

oh my, a $100 fine for wearing your ipod to cross the street? when will the government ever stop trying to protect us from ourselves??? geez.

~Km

For example, the past 10 years in the Pacific Northwest have been hotter than any time in recorded history, Mote said.

UW scientist contributes to climate report | TheNewsTribune.com | Tacoma, WA

so, the earth has been making weather for 4.5 billion years and we have been recording history for less than 450 years. so, we have been recording weather patterns for less than 1/1000th percent of the time the earth has been making weather, and scientiss have the gall to make the above statement. all i have to say is big  deal, statistically speaking we have been recording history for an insignificant amount of time, so the statement i quoted is worthless, statistically.

~KM

But cloud formation in the 21st century — hard enough for weather
forecasters to predict for tomorrow — is among the remaining puzzles.

“Large
uncertainties remain about how clouds might respond to global climate
change,” according to a draft of the report under review by the
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), meeting in Paris.

Warmer
air can absorb more moisture, meaning more clouds and so more rain and
snow in many regions. But much more cloud cover might also brake
warming because more sunlight will bounce off the white tops back into
space.

Clouds a puzzle for U.N. global warming panel | Tech&Sci | Science | Reuters.com

I have been saying this for years. <sigh> hotter air means more evaporation which means more clouds which means higher albedo which means more ligfht reflected from warming up the earth which means cooler temps which means less clouds etc…

~KM