First we're going into a a new ice age. Oops, it's warming up. Then it's global warming. Oh wait, it's only warmed slightly. It's snowing there? Better cancel that global warming conference we had planned. We'll do it in August.

Whatever it takes to keep those billions of dollars in research money and environmental contributions rolling in I suppose. Researchers and environmental workers have to make a living too ya know.

Seems it's heating up everywhere I'm not. SHEEEEEEEE-IT! I'm cold.     

Seeing as I can't be everywhere, I guess I'll have to move where I will make the biggest impact. One of the poles.

We'll do it in August.

---MasonM

If Algore is coming, you'd better plan for temps in the 50s, then, at the highest.
The "Gore Effect" and all that.....you know....anywhere he goes to to tell his scary stories inexplicably experiences their worst snowstorm or cold snap in years. Gotta love Rush Limbaugh for keeping track of all these things.

My understanding of global warming is that the heat melts the glaciers which then cools down the oceans leading to colder weather. Or something like that.

That said, I don't think we can really claim we see a large scale weather trend considering how young meterology is and how short a time we've had reliable recorded weather data.

Read State of Fear. You'll like it.

Methinks a polar shift would screw with the weather also. As polar shifts have happened in the past, I think it highly unlikely they would not happen in the future.

polar shifts

--Gidmac

the heat melts the glaciers

--Tex

But that's not what they guy was saying....he says that it's the greenhouse gases in the atmosphere that're doing it, period. He never mentioned the glaciers or poles.
We've been hearing about this since I was in High School and none of the catastrophes have come to pass. There's been one island that disappeared, and of course the GW experts attributed it to that. Rising sea levels.
Their crowd pointed and howled in triumphant vindication.....but then, other experts in whatever field it may be that keeps track came forward, who said that the island was unstable, somehow, and had been eroding in the ocean currents for many, many years, and finally just disappeared. So...round and round it goes.

That oft-downloaded picture of the poor, cute polar bears floating off to their doom on the ice floe....? The one the GW people have been using to extort sympathy for their cause, because it "proves" that the ice caps are "breaking up" and cute, fuzzy animals are tragically affected? Turns out it was taken by a family who went on vacation to northern Canada and took some kind of cruise of the polar region. They just thought it was a cute picture; it had nothing whatever to do with GW. And let's not forget....polar bears can swim.

We're hearing so much about Global warming now, I think, because with the bad winter weather we've been having, the GW agenda is taking a serious credibility hit, or at least they fear it is, and so they're pushing it on us, despite what we're obviously seeing outside. Or rather because of what we're seeing outside.

The President of the Czech Republic is right...Al Gore is insane.

Yeah that was a good book. It opened my mind to a few possibilities I hadn't considered. I blogged about that particular work before and its corrupting influence.

I especially like what it has to say about the inherently unstable nature of the earth we live in. Blizzards, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, tsunamis, tornadoes and hurricanes/typhoons have been around since the dawn of time. We've always had them, and there's no reason to go blaming ourselves for their existence.

It's only a slightly more sophisticated way of saying 'the gods must be angry' and no more guaranteed to be true.

Sure, let's reduce the footprint of civilisation, but let's also not forget our world is so unstable we could be killed at any moment in any one of a multitude of disasters. There's no point wasting too much time and money worrying about it.

Especially so earnestly. That's the most repugnant feature of modern anti- and pro- global warming folk. They're irredeemably earnest in their opinions. They almost remind me of myself, and there's nothing more soul-crushing than realising you're not alone.