BabbleFest

BRITAIN faces years of blackouts and soaring electricity bills because of the drive toward green power, a leading energy expert warned last night.

A study of 2,000 years of Chinese temperature records by a group of Chinese scientists has yielded the conclusion that warming temperatures recorded in the 20th century are within historical ranges, and neither the amount nor the rate of warming is anything exceptional.

But the flaws in the study are obvious: they didn’t have Phil Jones lose all the original data, and they forgot to have Michael Mann make the Medieval Warm Period disappear.

The unpossible! Islands growing (and not sinking) in the Pacific!

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20627633.700-shapeshifting-islands-defy-sealevel-rise.html

And in the category of  “stupid stuff experts say”:

“It’s not possible to simply move people living in highly urbanised areas to new land, says Naomi Biribo of the University of Wollongong in New South Wales, Australia”

Yup, you’re right Professor. TOTALLY IMPOSSIBLE to move people to new places to live. Why, in the whole history of mankind no one has EVER migrated to a new place to live due to bad living conditions in the old homeland! We humans prefer to die in place rather than move! Adapt? Hell no, we won’t go!

Lemme tell you, there is DEFINITELY a link between “global warming” and “mental illness” … but NOT in the way these clowns are talking about:

http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/64827

Global warming causes cancer and mental illness … right. Please note, though, the real purpose of this utterly speculative piece of non-scientific buffoonery is to convince the government to spend money to investigate the claim. Wonder who would be lining up to scarf up those “research” dollars?

So, if you’re a global warming enthusiast, how do you make sure the temperature gets warmer? Simple … just quit including the temperature readings from colder stations!

http://www.vancouversun.com/technology/Scientists+using+selective+temperature+data+skeptics/2468634/story.html

Turns out Ralphie’s mom was right after all. Not about shooting his eye out with his Red Ryder 200 shot carbine action BB gun, but about falling icicles being known to kill people.

According to this Reuters report

Six people have been killed in three days by icicles falling from buildings in a central Russian region, ITAR-TASS news agency reported Tuesday.

San Diego County and Palm Springs – you know, southern California San Diego County and out-in-the-desert Palm Springs - have been  hit by a snowstorm accompanied by rain, sleet, hail and ice.

A couple of days ago Palm Springs was 85 degrees.

Clearly, more proof of man-made global warming.

You hear people complaining all the time:  it always rains on the weekend.

Science says otherwise. A recent study concluded more rain comes down mid-week than on weekends:

The study was carried out by atmospheric scientist Thomas Bell of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., and his colleagues. They looked at data collected by NASA’s Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission satellite from 1998 to 2005. This method has advantages over rain data collected with ground-based gauges that can vary from one gauge site to the next.

They found it rains on average more between Tuesday and Thursday than from Saturday through Monday. The clearest day of the week was Saturday, with nearly twice the rainfall on the wettest day, Tuesday afternoon.