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No Snow? Global Warming! Too Much Snow? Global Warming!
Global warming alarmists are an absolute joke!
ROME – FEBRUARY 12: Bare-chest guys enjoy the snow in front of the Coliseum on February 12, 2010 in Rome, Italy. Rome has seen today its heaviest snow since 1986.
For the first time in 14 years a significant snowfall is forecast here on Hilton Head Island, SC. Around the country and around the world record snows are a common feature of the winter of 2009/2010. But the Warmists will tell us that we can’t use one or two isolated examples of cold snowy weather to disprove their theory that man’s release of CO2 is causing the planet to warm.
But apparently, they can use anecdotal evidence to prove that global warming is real. Their words are coming back to bite them:
Now of course the Warmers are changing their tune. Big snowstorms are now PROOF of global warming.
Fire Andrea Mitchell has a wrap up of the warped thinking that continues to pervade as well as expose the idiocy of the Warmers. And let’s not forget that idiot Keith Olberman.
Here’s what Dylan Ratigan of MSNBC said with a straight face:
“Here’s the problem – these ‘snowpocalypses’ that have been going through DC and other extreme weather events are precisely what climate scientists have been predicting, fearing and anticipating because of global warming.â€
Really? Here’s what the UN’s International Panel on Climate Change said about snow:
FAQ 3.2:Observations show that changes are occurring in the amount, intensity, frequency and type of precipitation. More precipitation now falls as rain rather than snow in northern regions. For a future warmer climate, models project a 50 to 100% decline in the frequency of cold air outbreaks.
Yet, the Northern Hemisphere in February 2009 is blanketed in snow and ice which reflects sunlight back to space causing cooling, not warming. [full size image here.]
Climate Models Not Right in 20 Years!
The Warmists (global warming alarmists) tell us that weather is not climate and that the only way to verify the computer models upon which their theories are based is to look at climate over time. O.K., let’s do that.
Prof. John Christy, a lead author of the U.N. International Panel on Climate Change, recipient of NASA’s Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal testified (PDF) before the House Ways and Means Committee in February 2009. In the hearing he showed a graph showing the predictions of James Hansen, another NASA scientist who has become famous promoting the idea of manmande global warming:
Christy testimony: “GISS†A, B, and C are model projections of global surface temperature from James Hansen in Senate testimony in 1988. “A†and “B†are two “business-asusual†model projections of temperature which assume emissions similar to what has happened (though in actuality these estimates were a bit less than occurred). “C†is a model projection in which drastic CO2 cuts are assumed. “UAH†and “RSS†are two independent global satellite atmospheric temperature measurements (1979-2008) from the University of Alabama in Huntsville and Remote Sensing Systems adjusted to mimic surface temperature variations for an apples to apples comparison with the model projections (factor of 1.2, CCSP SAP 1.1, note all datasets are based on the 1979-1983 reference period). All model projections show high sensitivity to CO2 while the actual atmosphere does not. It is noteworthy that the model projection for drastic CO2 cuts still overshot the observations. This would be considered a failed hypothesis test for the models from 1988.
Clearly the models don’t match reality but that won’t stop the Warmists. Here’s what one Alarmist scientist said: “Models are even difficult for the professionals to understand. Therein lies a problem. You have to take take my word for that”
Yeah sure. We’re going to agree to be taxed by $trillions and remake our society and the economy based on the word of a scientiest who makes his living by promoting global warming alarmism?
One Prediction You Can Count On:
There is one computer model you can count on. By 2020, perhaps even earlier, the belief that man is to blame for global warming may be eradicated entirely!
Finally:
Tea Party Candidate May Ensure A Harry Reid Win
This is just beyond asinine. (h/t doubleplusundead)
Sun columnist Jon Ralston is reporting that the Tea Party has qualified as a third party in Nevada and will have a candidate in the Senate race to battle for the seat held by Majority Leader Harry Reid.
The party has filed a Certificate of Existence but needs to get 1 percent of the electorate to vote for its candidate in November to permanently qualify, according to the report.
Ralston reported that Jon Ashjian will be the Tea Party’s U.S. Senate candidate on the November ballot. Ashjian still must declare his candidacy.
Awesome…..this goes a long way towards ensuring Harry Reid stays the Senator of that State.
Look, I’m all for the tea party being a force behind conservatives and agree with much that they stand for but dammit….making a third party is just a recipe for disaster. A complete and utter disaster.
UPDATE
Many thanks to the Freepers who have investigated this Tea Party of Nevada group:
Dr. Sid James, Chairman
Curtis Atwood, Vice Chairman (Atwood Building & Development (LV), contractor)
Eric Scholer, Second Vice Chairman (Scholer Steele & Associates (LV), insurance)
Barry Levinson, Secretary (Personal injury/bankruptcy attorney and former attorney for John Wayne Bobbitt)
Daniel Hayden, Treasurer
Kiana Hayden, At Large Member
Romy Ashjian, At Large Member
Keith Ozawa, At Large Member (President of American Leak Detection, Las Vegas, Nevada)
Jim Ebel, At Large Member
Larry Lathum, At Large Member
More on this Keith Ozawa:
Leland Keith Ozawa, Jr. (CRD #2119830, Registered Representative, Las Vegas, Nevada) submitted a Letter of Acceptance, Waiver, and Consent in which he was fined $5,000 and suspended from association with any NASD member in any capacity for two months. Without admitting or denying the allegations, Ozawa consented to the described sanctions and to the entry of findings that he participated in private securities transactions without providing prior written notice to, and receiving written approval from, his member firm.
Ozawa’s suspension began October 21, 2002, and will conclude at the close of business December 20, 2002. (NASD Case #C02020046)
A bit more:
Looks like Scholer and the Haydens are related:
http://kalamareunion.blogspot.com/
Kiana Hayden: http://kianaonp90x.blogspot.com/
“Dr.†Sid James (that kind of waving of useless credentials screams third party jerk to me) doesn’t have much of a web footprint.
Bottom line: They seem to all be related or connected via real estate in Las Vegas (except maybe the lawyer). There’s virtually nothing that can be found about them, including activity in the Tea Party itself.
Thanks to Freepers Amishdude and Pan_Yan for their excellent research
Just based on the limited research from the Freepers it’s looking more and more like this “candidate” and his group are hijacking the Tea Party name.
UPDATE
Mata looked into the group herself and came up with a few more interesting facts on the ambulance chaser. Looks like he also enjoys suing the LVPD:
Guy with broken neck due to arrest “abuse” and a chopped video tape.. where they settled
http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/2002/Jan-01-Tue-2002/news/17781767.html
http://www.lasvegasnow.com/Global/story.asp?S=7751723Here’s another in 2002 that he sued the police on behalf of a guy who’s DNA got mixed up with his cellmates (note, he was already serving a sentence when the cellmate accused the defendent of rape, and they obtained both their DNA samples. Then the alleged raper got nailed for a year’s sentence based on the DNA later….
http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/2002/Jul-30-Tue-2002/news/19298354.html
This chairman, Dr. Sid James, is pretty much invisible on the net. So is pretty much every person in the group. No political papertrail to follow.
This is some group that has used the tea party name for their own benefit.
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