Americans Suffer as “Global Warming” Tightens Its Grip on the Nation This December
by PINE BLUFFS – As the year 2008 winds to a close, Americans are fighting valiantly against the onslaught of global warming, which tightened its grip on this nation of 300 million citizens, out there. .. well, you know, clinging to their guns and their religion in a futile attempt to keep cool.
This Christmas week in December 2008, many parts of the west have been hit hard with snow and ice storms. Winter has barely set in, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has reported 63 record snowfalls, and 115 lowest-ever temperatures for the month of December. Here’s what a few cities were experiencing. But surely, in view of what the experts have been saying, this can’t be anything more than an aberration.
In Seattle, temperature was at 32º F and snow was falling. To the chagrin of pilots charged with safely flying passengers in and out of Seattle-Tacoma Airport, visibility was down to just three tenths of a mile. The forecast called for more snow mixed with rain, continuing through Christmas day, adding to the 13 inches of white stuff already on the ground. Seattle? That city doesn’t usually get snow of any magnitude because of its proximity to the warm waters of Puget Sound.
Exasperated Seattle residents told reporters how grateful they were for their wind chill index, devised by the Government some time ago to do more than accurately describe weather conditions; it lets us know how we experience it. “We sure are grateful to the U.S. Weather Bureau for the wind chill index,” a shivering, unnamed resident of nearby Tacoma said. “It lets us know exactly how toasty warm we really are. Just now, it feels like a super 22º.”
In eastern Washington State, Spokane residents have already measured a total snowfall for the month of 46.2 inches, a record for December, according to a Weather Service spokesperson.
Six hundred miles east, in Butte, MT, a winter storm warning was in effect, and the forecast was cloudy and 13º. But were it not for that same wind chill factor, residents would be unaware that “it really feels like 4º.” If ignorance is truly bliss, I think Butte residents might like some just about now.
In fact, winter storm warnings were in effect for parts of Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Utah, Montana, Wyoming, and the western Dakotas. A blizzard warning
covered the mountains of southwest Colorado, while yet another snowstorm closed highways around Reno, NV, the latest in a tiring week of bad weather for that area.
“It’s going to be a heck of a storm,” said Chris Cuoco, senior forecaster for the National Weather Service in Grand Junction, CO. “[Here] we’re expecting significant snowfall in all the mountains of Colorado. Even the valleys are going to see 4-plus inches of snow. The forecast called for up to 20 inches of snow in parts of the Rockies, along with gusts of wind up to 80 mph.
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Post CommentAnthony Joseph Sacco
On January 13, 2009 at 1:49 pm
And now we have this:
Mr. Obama, who said action on climate change would be a priority in his administration, last month picked Carol M. Browner as global warming czar. He tapped Mrs. Browner to fill a new position as White House coordinator of climate and energy policies. What’s frightening is that this appointment does not need Senate confirmation.
Who is she? Until last week, Browner was listed as a memeber of Socialist International, and one of 14 leaders of that socialist group’s Commission for a Sustainable World Society, which calls for “global governance” and says rich countries must shrink their economies to address climate change.
By Thursday, January 8, attempting to hide this from the American public, Mrs. Browner’s name and biography had been removed from Socialist International’s Web page, though a photo of her speaking June 30 to the group’s congress in Greece was still available.
Socialist International is an umbrella group for many of the world’s social democratic political parties such as Britain’s Labor Party. It supports socialism and is harshly critical of U.S. policies.
The group’s Commission for a Sustainable World Society, the organization’s action arm on climate change, says the developed world must reduce consumption and commit to binding and punitive limits on greenhouse gas emissions.
Mr. Obama’s transition team, spinning valiently, said Mrs. Browner’s membership in the organization is not a problem (what else could they say?)and that it brings experience in U.S. policymaking to her new role.
Supporting what this writer said in his article about Mr. Obama’s re-cycling efforts, Mrs. Browner ran the Environmental Protection Agency under President Clinton. Until she was tapped for the Obama administration, she was on the board of directors for the National Audubon Society, the League of Conservation Voters, the Center for American Progress and former Vice President Al Gore’s Alliance for Climate Protection.
Her name has also been removed from the Gore organization’s Web site list of directors. Slimy? You bet, but totally in character for Mr. Gore, whose lies and half-truths about his own background, turned voters off when he ran for President against George W. Bush.
Anthony Joseph Sacco, Sr.
On January 15, 2009 at 6:43 pm
And January 2009 shows no sign of a letup!
The 2nd weekend of January produced a winter storm that deposited up to a foot of snow in parts of the midwest and New England, causing a 59-vehicle pileup in New Hampshire, and deaths in Maryland and Michigan.
The National Weather Service reported 8 inches of snow at Blissfield and Morenci, Michigan, and more than 6 inches fell on Detroit. The Service also forecast a 2nd winter storm for the southern Greatl Lakes and Indiana later this week.
The Pacific Northwest? Washington remains on flood alert as three rivers there flooded due to heavy rains and melting snow that produced extensive damage to roads and property.