CLIMATE SUMMIT: A ‘WORKING DINNER’ IN PARIS 

I am skeptical humans are the main cause of climate change and that it will be catastrophic in the near future. There is no scientific proof of this hypothesis, yet we are told “the debate is over” and “the science is settled.”

My skepticism begins with the believers’ certainty they can predict the global climate with a computer model. The entire basis for the doomsday climate change scenario is the hypothesis increased atmospheric carbon dioxide due to fossil fuel emissions will heat the Earth to unlivable temperatures.

Patrick Moore. And he is a climate skeptic.. (And a founder of Greenpeace)

Massive hurricanes used to strike New England. Now scientists are worried that will happen again

Monster hurricanes once plagued New England.. new predictions today that the history of horror may repeat itself.. While Europe was going through the Middle Ages, America’s East Coast was being pummeled by hurricanes at least as intense as Katrina every 40 years or so.. Such storms would be catastrophic if they hit the northeast U.S. today, according to lead author Jeff Donnelly of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution… 

Is this simply a plant of a story to mentally prep us for something they know is coming?

NEW YORK TIMES splashes headline: Obama Pursuing Climate Accord in Lieu of Treaty

The NEW YORK TIMES correctly points out this:

But under the Constitution, a president may enter into a legally binding treaty only if it is approved by a two-thirds majority of the Senate.

And it then goes on to say how President Obama will get around that pesky rule:

To sidestep that requirement, President Obama’s climate negotiators are devising what they call a “politically binding” deal that would “name and shame” countries into cutting their emissions

 

NEW YORK TIMES splashes headline: Obama Pursuing Climate Accord in Lieu of Treaty

July 2012 replaced July 1936 as the hottest month on record. Well... that is until the NOAA replaced July 2012 with July 1936 as the hottest month on record

Accidents happen.

July 2012 replaced July 1936 as the hottest month on record. Well... that is until the NOAA replaced July 2012 with July 1936 as the hottest month on record

Potential Record Ice on Lake Superior May Mean a Cooler Summer

So there you go… get ready for that.

The winter of 2013-14.. the winter that never ends..

Will it be the summer that never begins?

I’ll revisit this post in a few months to see what impact the freeze over had…

Potential Record Ice on Lake Superior May Mean a Cooler Summer

National Guard Distributes Food Packets Given To Soldiers In Afghanistan To Stranded Motorists

Cold air.
Warm heart.

The story from the South is amazing today.. such goodness and compassion, with such chaos and confusion. 

As I wrote in an earlier post, hindsight is 20/20.. But when warnings of a dramatically awful weather system like this are being given, local and state officials should immediately act in the best interest of citizens—and children.

No need to make a scandal of this. But as weather patterns change and get extreme, we all will need to learn how to adapt.. 

This is a work in progress.

But we better start learning that the old times of ‘normal’ are over.. Extremes are here. 

Preparing is key.

National Guard Distributes Food Packets Given To Soldiers In Afghanistan To Stranded Motorists

The weather sure has been strange lately (when isn’t it, of course?) .. but we know why it’s strange: The Jet Stream, which appears to be on a wild summer pattern in 2013. Dr. Jeff Masters from Wunderground writes about it, describing the worldwide weather patterns and upheaval being caused by this surprising and erratic movement of air masses.

And in somewhat related news:

As though we didn’t know this: A decade now of extreme climate and weather..

Accuweather's Jumpin Joe Bastardi argues that recent temperatures on the globe show global warming is not happening--and neither is an ice age

Accuweather's Jumpin Joe Bastardi argues that recent temperatures on the globe show global warming is not happening--and neither is an ice age

The world is on fire with floods, and covered with snow

The flood down under..

Australia floods cover area the size of France/Germany