"Baby, It's Cold Outside"

Today is Saturday, October 10, 2009 and I just received three computer photos from my buddy at beautiful Ten Mile Lake in northern Minnesota. Thank the Lord it's our summer home since the pictures showed three inches of snow with a temp high of 16 degrees for the day. My sister, an avowed lib lives in some community just north of Denver. The third game of the baseball play-offs between the Denver Rockies and Philadelphia Phillies was canceled for today, ta-dah, snow. I happened to mention global warming to her on the telephone today and her response was some type of whiny lib thing like, "just stop it"! I didnt' even mention Al Gore but I think that at times like this(cold and snow) all libs wuss out and babble incessently, I snagged the accompanying article from the Toronto Star. It's a goodie. Now, I'm by no means a scientist. Actually, I hate science because I have no apptitude for it. I was lousy in chemistry and every other high school subject that dealt with any kind of science. I even turned down a head basketball coaching position at a nice high school because of this. The administration wanted me to teach 9th grade science. Yuck! A 13 year old would have figured me out the second day so I moved on. But I do know this. We, man, experience cycles of temperature. I read, don't ya know. It's called history. I also know about sun spots and the impact they provide on changing temperatures. Maybe I do know some science.
CO2 is a basic of life so the more people we have the better off we are unless Obama turns us against each other. Maybe that's why he has so many kooks as czars who demand eugenics, abortion, etc. We'll happily kill each other off to save mankind. Read the article below. It's just common sense and it also exposes and makes fun of Al Gore, which isn't difficult to do.

"It's truly extraordinary how every left-of-centre journalist in the country has managed to become an instant expert on the arcane subjects of global warming and the science of climate change.
Imagine, for example, if some average Canadian hack who had never studied the Middle East suddenly announced that he was an authority on Israel-Palestine, knew which side was right and knew how to solve all of the associated problems.
This, however, is what we are told every day when it comes to the fashion of sounding green. The more sympathy we can exhibit for Al Gore's polar bear or David Suzuki's whining, the more trendy and acceptable we become.
There are, however, an increasing number of peer-reviewed and intensely credible scientific minds who believe conventional thinking on global warming is nonsense.
One such being Lord Christopher Monckton, former science adviser to British prime minister Margaret Thatcher and a world-renowned scholar.
He was in Canada recently and appeared on my television show. A man of compelling wit and eloquence, he has defeated so many environmental activists -- he calls them "bedwetters" -- that few of them will now debate him.
"Al Gore has refused several times. Here is a man who is paid $300,000 per speech and has his staff control all of the questions that are asked. People ask why he is so committed," Monckton said. "Simple. He was a failed politician worth $2 million; he's now a famous activist worth $200 million!"
According to Monckton there are more than 700 major scientists who steadfastly refute the notion that the climate is changing to any worrying degree, that global warming is a reality and that the planet is in danger.
"It's all about the need of the international left to rally round a new flag."
Minimal
In a series of articles he appears to show that Earth's sensitivity to increased atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide is minimal.
"Take the example of the medieval warm period," he says. "The bedwetters tell us that this was brief and irrelevant. Yet if we look at history we see it wasn't brief and is certainly relevant. Climate does change but it's minor and it has little if anything to do with man's intervention." A brief pause. "It's about money and control. There is a lot of money to be made out of the so-called green economy and it allows people to tell us what to do -- which is what some people relish doing."
He continues: "Remember DDT, the pesticide used to kill mosquitoes that carried malaria. Jackie Kennedy read a book saying it was harmful, got her husband the president to bring pressure to have it banned and in 40 years 40 million people, mainly children, died. Now we've come to our senses and re-introduced it but only after the fashionable left did their damage.
"Global warming is similar. It makes no sense, is bad science and policies to deal with it will cause terrible problems. People are being indoctrinated and critics are intimidated into silence."
Is he annoyed at his opponents' refusal to take him on?
"Actually I'm rather delighted. It means I'm winning."
Frankly, he's probably right."