Snow-mageddon, and other weather BS

Well, everybody, here it is. It's the end of the world as we know it.

It's snow-mageddon!



The next day, after we heard that big announcement from Environment Canada... oops, sorry.

You can relax now. It's not such a big deal. False alarm. It's just going to be a snowy couple of days.

Well ok. It sounds like the old joke about the kid asking his dad for $50, and his dad is appalled that he has to give $40. How is it that the kid asked for $30? and by the end, he grudgingly gives five bucks.

We pump, what, millions of dollars into a system that can tell us what the weather is going to be like. What's worse, we pump billions of dollars into policy changes to adapt to ecological alarmists. To name a few: Ozone hole, CFC's, acid rain, rain forest, global cooling, global warming, carbon emissions, and now, that catch-all: climate change.

We're given propaganda like this:



We are coerced to tow the party line, or suffer as ecological pariahs. Even questioning the science draws fire.

They have a Nobel ('peace') Prize winner, that *other* guy on the Clinton ticket fronting their alarmist views. Fifty-two UN scientists put forward a paper, and it's all you hear about in the news for weeks. (IPCC)

The skeptics also have a Nobel Prize winner (this one, a Physicist) , among other distinguished scientists. An International group of 650 scientists are disputing the propositions set out by Gore's faithful.

“I am a skeptic…Global warming has become a new religion.” - Nobel Prize Winner for Physics, Ivar Giaever.

“Since I am no longer affiliated with any organization nor receiving any funding, I can speak quite frankly….As a scientist I remain skeptical.” - Atmospheric Scientist Dr. Joanne Simpson, the first woman in the world to receive a PhD in meteorology and formerly of NASA who has authored more than 190 studies and has been called “among the most preeminent scientists of the last 100 years.”

They are setting out reasons they believe the study is fatally flawed.

One, they do not receive or react to criticism.

Two they are based on flawed mathematical models.

This brings me back my original point.

Two days ago, I was warned that the end was nigh, with such colourful terms as "snowmageddon" or "a big freakin' dump of snow".

Today, those reports have been conveniently dropped down the memory hole, and we look forward to a more conventional "moderate-to-heavy snowfall" e.g., a 'White Christmas'.

If Wednesday's forcast for Friday had a complete reversal by Thursday, how can anyone, with a straight face, compel me to believe their 50 year global warming models.

We might as well use this: