It is no longer global warming because it isn't.

It is climate change because it does.

Men are never so likely to settle a question rightly as when they discuss it freely.

— Thomas B. Macaulay (1800-1859), Essay on Southey's Colloquies

All of us could take a lesson from the weather. It pays no attention to criticism.


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Tuesday, April 23, 2013

Mother Nature Gone Berserk

Or is it our perception of Mother Nature than has gone haywire?


It seem as though the weather gods have gone berserk in recent years, as nearly every day the headlines report unusual droughts, floods, prolonged cold and snow, heat waves, or unusual weather events happening somewhere around the globe.

The comment was made by Jennifer Francis. Do you think she might subscribe to CAGW theory? What planet is she on? When haven’t there been reports of ‘unusual’ weather in the headlines? Show me a year when the weather was nothing but fluffy white clouds and gentle summer rains

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it" ~ George Santayana

As for weather history:

Those who cannot remember the past can be manipulated to think today’s weather is worse.

Humans invented writing to help us record and remember the past. Remember the 1970s cooling scare?

Newspapers are a wonderful source of old weather information.

Digitized newspaper archives are an even more wonderful source of weather history that allow everyone with a computer to do their own research on past weather. Below are some compilations that remind us that low CO2 concentration in the atmosphere didn’t stop Mother Nature from dropping a beating on homo sapiens.

Remember this Jen? Or was that before your time?



Lest we forget.




With modern tools such as Doppler Radar and Weather Satellites we can receive advance warning of approaching storms and get ourselves, if not our property, out of harm’s way.

Keeping records allows us to see that the weather is no worse now than it was in the past.

Take a chill pill, Jennifer. Nothing unusual is happening with the weather. We have seen it all before.


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