I Don’t Know That I’d Call It “Shameless”

Seems a little tame, don’t you think?

LOL shameless. RT @StevenTDennis: Key pt: Obama's final climate rule for existing (coal) plants will be delayed until 2015 – after midterms

— Lachlan Markay (@lachlan) June 25, 2013

Oh Nooooees! The Gerbil Warmenists Are…

…starting to lose British politicians

For more than 20 years now, we have been told that this country was going to get hotter and hotter and hotter, and that global warming was going to change our climate in a fundamental way. Do you remember that? We were told that Britain was going to have short, wet winters and long, roasting summers. It was going to be like 1976 all over again, with streakers at Lord’s and your Mr Whippy melting before you could even lick it, and Hyde Park scorched into a mini Kalahari.

They said we were never going to have snow again, and that we should prepare for southern England to turn gradually into a Mediterranean world. There were going to be olive groves in the Weald of Kent, and the whole place was going to be so generally broiling in summer that no one would be able to move between noon and 4pm, after which people would come out to play boules and sip pastis, to the whine of a mandolin, in the dusty square that had once been a village green.

It hasn’t quite turned out that way…

(via Maggie’s Farm)

Global Warming Is For Realz

My God, it’s even now affecting the Sun

Tornadoes are a known natural cause of destruction here on Earth, but who knew they were also hitting other areas of our solar system? A recent video released from the NASA’s Solar Dynamic Observatory (SDO) shows a sped up version of a 38-hour tornado experience on the sun.

Throughout the one-minute clip, multiple tornadoes can be seen making contact. According to Space.com’s YouTube page, the footage captured June 3 shows plasma moving across the sun’s surface, which is also commonly referred to as “sun tornadoes.”

NOW will all you Deniers come to your senses?

The Garden State

Rob has been showing some loverly pictures of the verdant fecundity that is his garden down South. A few years ago we both planted some fig trees at basically the same time.

Here’s his today

And here are its Jersey “siblings”

I am right on the edge of where these things can live per the USDA; the winters are turning them into Fig Banzais…

He also has some nice Roma tomatoes starting to fill out where as mine are just starting to grow

Ah well…there ain’t much ‘victory’ in this garden at this point!

A Cold Friday Night Meal…

…in freakin’ May.

Thanks Al. Tons.

Like many folks on the East Coast my plans of summeresque grilling evaporated, strike that, were washed out by this cold drizzly rain were under. May 24th and it’s in the low 40s. Global Warming my left shoe.

Anyhoo, so I needed to dig into the Warm Me Up Scottie bin:

Firstly, of course, was red wine

I picked this up the other night whilst the Bingleys were enjoyng some burgers with kcruella. It’s about $13 and is a very smooth velvety wine with soft tannins. A few glasses put me in the mood to brown about 1lb of italian sausage and 2 Pamelas (cut into bite-sized strips) in large straight-sided pan

I must herewith confess that I used turkey sausage; with the addition of a couple of teaspoons of fennel seed it worked perfectly fine, plus there’s no grease to drain off.

Once it’s reasonably browned add 3/4 cup each of wild rice and brown rice and a healthy amount of red pepper flakes

and 2 cups chicken stock, 1 1/2 cups white wine and 1/2 cup of water

and 3 cloves of chopped garlic

bring it to a boil then reduce to simmer, cover and cook for 45 minutes or so until the rice is mostly done (remember this is brown rice which takes a lot longer than white rice) during which time you will be studiously ignored by someone who in fact DID get a lot of chicken

a fact which he conveniently forgets

Once the rice is mostly done toss in a pound or so of fresh chopped asparagus

and cover and cook for 10 minutes or so until the asparagus is done but still crisp and eat

with more wine as appropriate, of course.

It’s Memorial Day Weekend

Here in NJ it’s 46º degrees with a frigid driving rain. I just dove into a thick sweatshirt and rag wool socks.

CURSE YOU ALGORE!!!!!!!!!!

ZOMG!! With 80° Yesterday, 45° Today and a FREEZE Warning Tonight, THIS Is the Face of ONE…

…pissed off turtle.

The Sky Is Falling!

Fun times in Russia

Russia’s Urals region has been rocked by a meteorite explosion in the stratosphere. The impact wave damaged several buildings, and blew out thousands of windows amid frigid winter weather. Hundreds are seeking medical attention for minor injuries.

Included is the ubiquitous Russkie DashCam video…I would need to change my drawers if I saw that through my windshield!

Oh and we’re getting a Special Visitor at 2:24pm this afternoon

BOSTON, Feb 14 (Reuters) – A newly discovered asteroid about half the size of a football field will pass nearer to Earth than any other known object of its size on Friday, giving scientists a rare opportunity for close-up observations without launching a probe.

At its closest approach, which will occur at 2:24 p.m. EST/1924 GMT, the asteroid will pass about 17,200 miles (27,520 km) above the planet traveling at 8 miles (13 km) per second, bringing it nearer than the networks of television and weather satellites that ring the planet.

Although Asteroid 2012 DA14 is the largest known object of its size to pass this close, scientists say there is no chance of an impact, this week or in the foreseeable future.

Judging by this chart and the time of the arrival

it looks like if the scientists have made a slight miscalculation in its path that it would impact the Western Europe/Africa side of the world…further proof of the perils of Global Warming.

Well As Of 10:20 PM It’s Not “The Storm Of The Century”

But it is rather pleasant to see

I do lurves me some snow.

Update: we really haven’t had that much snow here at the Shore

but it is purdy

Morning Update:

We ended up with a very pleasing 9″

and thankfully not the faintest zephyr of a breeze all night so no downed trees or power issues (so far at least).

And as an aside I would willingly bear the love child of Arthur Sicard.

Sunset On Hoth

taken on the boat going home last night.

-9 This Morning, Heading To -20 With -70 Windchill

At Mount Washington, that is.

Where I am it’s a balmy 21.

I may have to change into my thong.

Global Warming

…LA style.

“He Has No Credibility”

That should put paid to any lingering doubts our friend Greg has:

Current situation: Staffers talk about first meeting with Al Jazeera

Just call him Al Gorezeera.

Yesterday morning, the still shell shocked staff at Current TV was called to an all hands staff meeting at its San Francisco headquarters, which was teleconferenced to their offices in LA and NYC, to meet their new bosses.

That would be two of Al Jazeera’s top guys: Ehab Al Shihabi, executive director of international operations, and Muftah AlSuwaidan, general manager of the London bureau.

Ominously missing was the creator of Current, the self proclaimed inventor of the Internet and savior of clean energy, Al Gore, although his partner, Joel Hyatt, stood proudly with the Al Jazeera honchos.

“Of course Al didn’t show up,” said one high placed Current staffer. “He has no credibility.”

“He’s supposed to be the face of clean energy and just sold [the channel] to very big oil, the emir of Qatar! Current never even took big oil advertising—and Al Gore, that bulls***ter sells to the emir?”

Then you really have to ask yourself, “What took those moops so long to see through that pretentious asshat?” The ability of the Left for convenient self-delusion and righteous indignation when the bulb finally is switched on never, ever ceases to amaze me.

Kick Us When We’re Down, Why Don’t You Gaia?

So this morning those of us in the North East were predicted to get 1″-3″ of Global Warming overnight.

we got 6-13

In all seriousness, many folks who had just gotten power back lost it again and, well, you can just imagine what these below freezing nights with snow are doing to those poor people who have lost, well everything.

As I was taking the ferry back from Manhattan yesterday in the driving snow (and 30 knot winds) the road was somewhat congested because the township had bucket loaders out scraping up the ocean-soaked mud-encrusted tumbled and battered remnants of people’s lives and depositing them in rusty extra-large dumpsters.

It is heart breaking.

I Love Joe Bastardi

To Joe’s point, some New York City Hurricane Donna footage from…1960. Look familiar?

Ebola is arguing at this moment with DrudgeRetort GlobalWarming types insisting that it’s “NEVER been this bad”. I sent him this clip to augment his learned weatherman logic.

It’s like a PIEgraph to neopyhtes. Visuals are SO much easier.

They Can’t Sing About All The Jobs Created Or Saved For Them

So Poley Bears and Big Bird will have to do

Has there ever been a more pathetic campaign.

Another Halloween Snowstorm?

I love this kind of talk

AFTER SANDY CROSSES EASTERN CUBA…THE VERTICAL SHEAR IS FORECAST TO INCREASE SIGNIFICANTLY…HOWEVER THE GLOBAL MODELS DEPICT A DEEPENING CYCLONE…POSSIBLY DUE TO SOME BAROCLINIC FORCING. THE NHC FORECAST STILL INDICATES THE SYSTEM BECOMING SUBTROPICAL LATE IN THE PERIOD…ALTHOUGH THERE ARE SOME INDICATIONS IN THE GLOBAL MODELS THAT SANDY COULD BE TRANSITIONING TO AN EXTRATROPICAL CYCLONE AROUND THAT TIME.

“Baroclinic forcing” sounds really unpleasant.

and of course Accuweather is panting about some potential XXX-rated weather Pr0n

Tropical Storm Sandy has formed in the Caribbean, and scenarios for its final destination range from bypassing the East Coast to creating a nightmare for millions of people.

…The worst case scenario for the East Coast involves Sandy paralleling the coast from Florida to the Carolinas this weekend before being drawn inland into the mid-Atlantic or New England early next week.

While the Southeast coast would face heavy rain, strong winds and rough surf, far more serious impacts await communities from Virginia to Maine if this solution pans out.

Reminiscent of the “Perfect Storm,” the weather setup could even lead to heavy, wet snow in the Appalachian Mountains on Sandy’s western side.

However, the above solution is far from set in stone. There is equal possibility that the jet stream will sweep east fast enough to offer the East Coast protection from Sandy. Bermuda may then become the storm’s target.

I blame Bush.

Oh Poop

Energy-Terrorists: Did Anyone Hear About This?

‘Specially you East Coast types?

8/14/2012 12:39 PM

Bomb squad detonates pipe bomb found near pipeline

The Allegheny County Bomb Squad detonated a live pipe bomb found Monday afternoon near a pipeline under construction off Rural Valley Road, Buffalo Township.
State police said Charles Nicholson of Bridgeville, a gas well driller, found the device about 1 p.m. partially buried near the line. Nicholson had been cleaning the work site.

You Know, I Thought A Blackout Affecting 370 Million People Was Bad

Silly me, I think so small

NEW DELHI (AP) — India’s energy crisis cascaded over half the country Tuesday when three of its regional grids collapsed, leaving more than 600 million people without government-supplied electricity in one of the world’s biggest-ever blackouts.

…The massive failure – a day after a similar, but smaller power failure – has raised serious concerns about India’s outdated infrastructure and the government’s inability to meet its huge appetite for energy as the country aspires to become a regional economic superpower.

Good thing our Glorious Leadership in Washington wisely used those hundreds of billions in Stimulus Money to repair and upgrade our electrical grid instead of wasting it on Pie-In-The-Sky projects, right?

Right?

Just don’t try to get “24 Hour Tech Support” from any company anytime soon…

The Most Transparent, All of the Above Administration

…that never was.

PYLE: Energy Department sneaks offshore moratorium past public

Jobs and oil-supply potential are shut down

While the Obama administration was taking a victory lap last week after the 5-4 Supreme Court decision to uphold the president’s signature legislative accomplishment, Obamacare, the Interior Department was using the media black hole to release a much-awaited five-year plan for offshore drilling. That plan reinstitutes a 30-year moratorium on offshore energy exploration that will keep our most promising resources locked away until long after President Obama begins plans for his presidential library.

Given the timing, it is clear that the self-described “all of the above” energy president didn’t want the American people to discover that he was denying access to nearly 98 percent of America’s vast energy potential on the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS).

This guy is a disaster.

ABC NEWS: Global Warming Accelerating!!!!!

The sky is falling, the seas are rising, the polar bears are floating, and it’s all YOUR fault: The government says so.

ths update: Joe Bastardi was kind enough to supply some quantitative corrective measures (BIG data charts here) to ABC’s wild eyed prognostications for me:

@treehuggingsis problem is the actual data does not say that, quite the opposite. twitter.com/BigJoeBastardi…

— Joe Bastardi (@BigJoeBastardi) July 11, 2012

I love charts. And real weather guys.

Uh-Oh…

Maybe I should have checked the forecast before Daughter went to Virginia yesterday…

(h/t ZeroHedge)

Weekend Calorification To Help Ensure Gaia’s Doom

As you may well recall Dear Readers we reported last week that there is GROWING CONCERN amongst the world’s really intelligent and compassionate peoples that fat Americans are dooming the planet.

So to do my Fair Share I made somewhat over 4 pounds of mussels for us on Friday night

washed down with several bottles of pinot grigio and a few fresh baguettes, naturally

And then on Saturday I decided to travel to the epicenter of ‘Merkun epicurean delights, what could well be the very St. Peters locus of our gluttonous theology…yes, I went to Walmart.

And I got their cheapest bacon

and I got some of their fancy organic free-range chicken…which are no where near as endowed as the Pamelas from other places

carefully slice a pocket and place some freshly cut mozzarella

and fresh basil leaves inside

and wrap them lovingly in as many slices of bacon as needed and secure with toothpicks

yes, basically the entire pound of bacon was used on these three Pamelas. This is a good thing.

Anyhooo put those beauts on the grill over indirect heat and cook until the bacon is crispy in the wonderful bacony way

serve with some fresh steamed broccoli and wild rice (making sure to take the toothpicks out of the Pamelas so you’re not dialling 9-1-1 during dinner) and serve with lots of wine

and enjoy doing your part to destabilize the world!

Braise The Lard And Pass The Burgers

If you are thin you are selfishly prolonging Dear Gaia’s agony. That is the inescapable conclusion that any rationally intelligent person will draw from this cutting-boardedge research out of that culinary Mecca that is London

ATHENS, Ga. (CBS Atlanta) – A recent study conducted by scientists in London found that the obese persons of the world are playing an increasingly large role in the rate at which the planet’s finite resources are used.

“Increasing population fatness could have the same implications for world food energy demands as an extra half a billion people living on the earth,” the study concluded.

…Research was conducted based on the theory that the body mass of a population should be factored into the amount of energy it burns, in addition to the number of people residing in a certain region.

Though obesity touches all corners of the Earth, it was found that Americans were especially weighing down the planet.

Scientists, obsessed with social control issues, achingly long for ecological DOOM so they can feel relevant outside of their laboratories. In the 1960s, when there were 3 billion or so of us ants, they predicted DOOM. In the 70s, when there were 4 billion of us we were inundated not by the New Ice Age and mass starvations they predicted but rather by the endless stream of Population Bomb articles talking about how we had too many people on Earth Beloved Gaia and that as Men Of Science they could confidently declare that there was NO WAY Gaia’s delicate EcoSystem could sustain those 4 billion through the coming Winter and we would thus starve (unless we invested in SolyndraSoylent Green LLC).

35 years later, we now have 7 billion people.

7 billion fat people who are living longer and healthier than at any time in history.

To celebrate this wondrous Gaia Gorging I’m going to have dinner at The Palm next week. I invite all of you to plan some gluttony of your own.

Do it for the children.