Posted by
Catmman on Wednesday, May 30, 2007 1:16:45 PM
There are multiple stories today about varying climate around the globe.
Now, this doesn't make a blip on the screen for a person like me who understand there are always variations in climate. These articles should be proof positive (at least anecdotally) that global climate fluctuates continually - it always has, and it always will.
First we have
Freak snow, ice across Europe. Ironically, as Nancy Peolsi speaks of the global warming she 'witnessed' in Greenland, a so-called freak snow storm was ravaging the city where she was in Germany.
Next, the alarmist story
Lake Okeechobee ties record low level. Now, nowhere in the story was AGW mentioned. How long until the likes of Laurie David or other Gore acolytes proclaim this as another sign of climate catastrophe? There is no context when the alarmists glom onto a story like this. Florida is in a drought. Here in San Antonio, TX, we are sitting at over twenty inches of rain in less than five months.
And finally, for you 'cap-and-trade' fans out there, look what the future holds in store for us if we go down that road:
Argentina Rations Gas to Companies, Chile Amid Cold (Update1) . Another so-called freak weather incident causes an energy shortage. Read between the lines. Think of this scenario in reverse. We have a harsher than normal winter. Since we've instituted cap and trade quotas on energy, northeastern energy companies must reduce energy consumption at the source, reducing access of electricity or heating oil when it's most needed. Far fetched? Far more likely than the polar ice caps melting in my book.
Don't fall for alarmist rhetoric. Use common sense and evaluate things for what they are - natural cycles which occur all the time.