I tried posting my latest post (Obama - GLobal Warming Alarmist!) to Digg and got this message: “This URL has been widely reported by users as being regularly used to spam Digg’s submission process and cannot be submitted at this time.”

Ok, so where’s the spam? It appears to me that my ‘radical’ views don’t fit in well with the DIGG community. And they call the right facists! If you don’t like it, burn the books, oh, I mean ban my posts LOL… Let’s see, I get banned from DIGG, but I let all sides of the issue post their views here without moderation. Seems I am the lesser evil of the two sides of the global warming non-issue! Let’s see how far down the Obama post can get buried!

Guess I am doing something right if the Digg community doesn’t agree with me!

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We are far enough into the campaign now to examine positions on global warming. I will start with Senator Obama since he appears to be the democratic choice to lead us deeper into socialism.

Obama on Global Warming:

“We cannot afford more of the same timid politics when the future of our planet is at stake. Global warming is not a someday problem, it is now. We are already breaking records with the intensity of our storms, the number of forest fires, he periods of drought. By 2050 famine could force more than 250 million from their homes . . . . The polar ice caps are ow melting faster than science had ever predicted. . . . This is not the future I want for my daughters. It’s not the future any of us want for our children. And if we act now and we act boldly, it doesn’t have to be.”
[Barack Obama, Portsmouth, NH, 10/8/07]

First, where does this information come from? From what I can find through much research, we have only been monitoring the ice caps for 35 years. I am not a math major, but can 35 years really be used as a predictor for something that is almost as old as the earth itself? Just doesn’t add up enough to justify Obama’s comments, nor does it even remotely justify the ‘ice is melting’ hysteria. Perhaps this article by CNN is relevant:

Will ice melt open fabled Northwest Passage?
“WASHINGTON (CNN) — Rapid melting of the Arctic ice pack may turn a cherished sailor’s myth into reality. The Northwest Passage, the legendary shipping shortcut from the Atlantic to the Pacific, could be ice-free in as few as 10 years, many predict.”

OK, should we panic now? Probably not, they fail to include the fact that Roald Amundsen successfully navigated the Northwest Passage, over 100 years ago in a wooden boat. Common sense screams out to me that if the passage was clear enough to traverse 100 years ago in a wooden boat, how in the world are we (mankind) causing it to happen? Sounds more like a natural cycle of the earth. Again, media propagated hysteria! Shame on you Senator Obama!

But wait, it gets better! The famed National Geographic has this story: Arctic Melt Opens Northwest Passage!

Oh crap, if Nat Geo says it, I better start stocking up on grass skirts! Well, maybe not. The story is quite misleading and full of holes. One example is the statement,”Extreme” Ice Loss. According to ESA, 2007 represents the lowest amount of Arctic sea ice on record” Sounds pretty impressive! BUT, they admit shortly before this statement that the passage has been navigable before, but with ‘difficulty’. Then they vaguely admit to the time frame “But this is the first time the Northwest Passage has been “fully navigable” since ESA began measuring the Arctic sea ice with satellites.” Ok, 35 years, surely Nat Geo has enough experience with history to know that 35 years doesn’t mean JACK!

Let’s move on to another Obama Quote: “We are already breaking records with the intensity of our storms, the number of forest fires, the periods of drought. By 2050 famine could force more than 250 million from their homes”

So, let’s check some historical facts based on this statement. Lets look at the top ten strongest US Hurricanes:

1. The Great Labor Day Storm
September 2, 1935
Florida

One of just three Category 5 Hurricanes to make landfall in the US, the Great Labor Day Storm had a minimum pressure of 892 millibars (26.35 inches). It caused 423 deaths in Florida. It also was notable for providing the setting for the Humphrey Bogart - Lauren Bacall movie, Key Largo.
2. Hurricane Katrina
August, 2005
Louisiana and Mississippi

Catagory 5. Katrina had a minimum pressure of 904 millibars (26.64 inches), making it the second most intense storm to hit the US, as well as the most costly, and the third dealiest.
3. Hurricane Camille
August 17 - 22, 1969
Mississippi, SE Louisiana, Virginia

Camille, a Category 5, was the second most intense Hurricane ever to hit the United States, with a minimum pressure of 909 millibars (26.84 inches). The final windspeed will never be known because all measuring devices were destroyed, but it is thought to exceed 200 mph.
4. Hurricane Andrew
August 24 - 28, 1992
Florida and Louisiana

A Category 4 when it hit Florida, Hurricane Andrew hit Louisiana as a Category 3. At its peak, Andrew had a minimum pressure of 922 millibars (27.23 inches).
5. Unnamed Hurricane
August 29, 1886
Indianola, Texas

This Category 4 Hurricane turned Indianola into a Ghost Town. Today, the Court House lies 300 feet out in Matagorda Bay. The storm had a recorded minimum pressure of 925 millibars (27.31 inches).
6. The Atlantic-Gulf Hurricane
Florida, Texas
September 10 - 14, 1919

This hurricane struck the Keys as a Category 4, and Texas as a Category 3. At its peak, it had a minimum pressure of 927 millibars (27.37 inches).
7. San Felipe-Okeechobee Hurricane
September 16 - 17, 1928
Florida

The fourth strongest Hurricane to hit the US mainland caused a lake surge on the inland Lake Okeechobee in Florida that rose as high as nine feet, flooding nearby towns. A Category 4, it had a minimum pressure of 929 millibars (27.43 inches)
8. Hurricane Donna
September 8 - 13, 1960
Florida to New England

Donna is the only hurricane known to have produce hurricane-force winds in Florida, the Mid-Atlantic states, and New England. At its peak, it had a minimum pressure of 930 milibars (27.46 inches).
9. Unnamed Storm
September 30, 1915
New Orleans, Louisiana

This unnamed Category 4 Storm reached a minimum pressure of 931 millibars (27.49 inches). It flooded Lake Pontchartrain, causing it to overflow its banks and killing 275 people.
10. Hurricane Carla
September 11, 1961
Texas

A Category 4, Carla had a minimum pressure of 931 millibars (27.49 inches), tying it with the 1915 Louisiana storm.

Well, where is the trend Mr Obama? Where have all the hurricanes gone since 2005? Enough on that mute non-issue!

So, as we can all plainly see, Senator Obama is BLINDLY following and not leading, much like those who are blindly following him to the polls! My next posting we will examine in some detail Senator Obama’s grand plans to combat “Global Warming”

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BEIJING - Pollution turned part of a major river system in central China red and foamy, forcing authorities to cut water supplies to as many as EIJING - Pollution turned part of a major river system in central China red and foamy, forcing authorities to cut water supplies to as many as 200,000 people, the provincial government and a state news agency said Wednesday.
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Some communities along tributaries of the Han River — a branch of the Yangtze — in Hubei province were using emergency water supplies, while at least 60,000 people were relying on bottled water and limited underground sources, Xinhua News Agency reported.

Residents in some towns were getting water from fire trucks, the Hubei provincial government said on its Web site.

Five schools were closed in Xingou township, while others could not provide food to students, the Xinhua report said without elaborating.

The pollution was discovered Sunday when water plant workers from Jianli County found that the Dongjing River, a tributary of the Han, had turned red and foamy, the Hubei Web site said.

Water plants along the river suspended intake and cut tap water to as many as 120,000 people, according to reports on the site. Xinhua said 200,000 people were without water.

Tests showed the polluted waters contained elevated levels of ammonia, nitrogen, and permanganate, a chemical used in metal cleaning, tanning and bleaching, Xinhua said. The pollution apparently flowed down from the Han River, the Hubei government said without elaborating on its source.

Water from nearby Lake Chang was being diverted to dilute the pollution.

Most of China’s canals, rivers and lakes are severely tainted by industrial, agricultural and household pollution. Chinese leaders say the country faces a critical water shortage, partly due to chronic pollution and chemical accidents.

In one of China’s worst cases of river pollution, potentially cancer-causing chemicals, including benzene, spilled into the Songhua River in November 2005. The northeastern city of Harbin was forced to sever water supplies to 3.8 million people for five days. The accident also strained relations with Russia, into which the poisoned waters flowed.

A paper mill dumped waste water directly into the Han in September 2006, forcing authorities to cut water supplies for a week in some areas, the Xinhua and government reports said. They did not say how many people were affected.
Pulled from http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080227/ap_on_re_as/china_polluted_river

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Twelve-month long drop in world temperatures wipes out a century of warming

Over the past year, anecdotal evidence for a cooling planet has exploded. China has its coldest winter in 100 years. Baghdad sees its first snow in all recorded history. North America has the most snowcover in 50 years, with places like Wisconsin the highest since record-keeping began. Record levels of Antarctic sea ice, record cold in Minnesota, Texas, Florida, Mexico, Australia, Iran, Greece, South Africa, Greenland, Argentina, Chile — the list goes on and on.No more than anecdotal evidence, to be sure. But now, that evidence has been supplanted by hard scientific fact. All four major global temperature tracking outlets (Hadley, NASA’s GISS, UAH, RSS) have released updated data. All show that over the past year, global temperatures have dropped precipitously.

Meteorologist Anthony Watts compiled the results of all the sources. The total amount of cooling ranges from 0.65C up to 0.75C — a value large enough to erase nearly all the global warming recorded over the past 100 years. All in one year time. For all sources, it’s the single fastest temperature change ever recorded, either up or down.

Scientists quoted in a past DailyTech article link the cooling to reduced solar activity which they claim is a much larger driver of climate change than man-made greenhouse gases. The dramatic cooling seen in just 12 months time seems to bear that out. While the data doesn’t itself disprove that carbon dioxide is acting to warm the planet, it does demonstrate clearly that more powerful factors are now cooling it.

Let’s hope those factors stop fast. Cold is more damaging than heat. The mean temperature of the planet is about 54 degrees. Humans — and most of the crops and animals we depend on — prefer a temperature closer to 70.

Historically, the warm periods such as the Medieval Climate Optimum were beneficial for civilization. Corresponding cooling events such as the Little Ice Age, though, were uniformly bad news.

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