on 06-11-2013 09:45 AM
In January of this year, the state of Texas unleashed Tea Party looney bird Ted Cruz to wreak havoc on the nation, and believe it or not, there may be someone worse than he is who could end up as the other senator from Texas a year from now.
David Barton is an evangelical Christian minister who believes that separation of state and church is a “myth”, evolution should not be taught in school, the government should regulate gay sex, schools turn kids gay, the bible opposes the minimum wage, and that people should legally be able to own bazookas, tanks and fighter planes. He has been urged to challenge incumbent senator John Cornyn by Glenn Beck and is, of course, a Tea Party darling.
Barton, in a discussion with snake oil salesman televangelist Kenneth Copeland, comes to the conclusion that abortion is behind global warming and the accompanying crazy weather patterns. They come up with this brilliant explanation by this head-scratching sequence of events…
First, God got mad at us for voting in pro-choice politicians.
Then, with God **bleep** off and wanting to unleash his anger on us, He “opened the door to the curse,” which led to a barrage of floods, tornadoes, murder and pedophilia.
And unlike in the old days when our ancestors would get together and pray for repentance when bad weather struck them, now we just call it global warming and don’t kneel down and pray every time a strong wind gust or blast of thunder is unleashed on us.
on 09-11-2013 12:24 PM
@siggie-reported-by-alarmists wrote:
@**meep** wrote:
@spotweldersfriend wrote:
Cooling down. That's so funny :-D.Hobart 42c and Sydney 46c last summer.:-)Europe is cooling down
"..This March has been the coldest in over 50 years across much of the UK and Europe, and the bitterest ever recorded in places
like Sheffield. From Kiev, Moscow and Berlin in the east of Europe to Dublin, Edinburgh and Copenhagen, temperatures for the
fourth or fifth week running have barely risen above freezing and an Arctic wind has made it seem even chillier. In Germany they
are calling it the "100-year winter". In Bonn, people were said today to be desperate to get out..."
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/mar/28/how-government-end-long-winter
"..After a long, cold winter and a spring that has shown temperatures of up to 6ºC below average there are talks that this summer
could be as cold as the fabled summer of 1816: The Year Without a Summer. ..
"..but the historians may look back on 2013 and refer to it as a year without a spring. This spring has been the coldest in over 50
years across much of the UK and Europe..
Spain braces for 'coldest summer in 200 years'
.."French weather channel Meteo has forecast that this summer will be the worst on record in Western Europe since 1816 – known by meteorological experts as “the year without summer”...
"..France’s main weather channel has announced that there is a 70 percent chance of this summer being cold and wet
across Spain, France, Portugal, Germany and Austria..
Indeed Meep.
and you fail to see the anomalies. extremes of weather hot/cold very wet./ extremely dry. that giggly is climate change do you get it yet ?
on 09-11-2013 12:26 PM
of course not.
on 09-11-2013 12:52 PM
Good point LL apropos climate change reflected within fluctuating climatic conditions/periods. However, trend and period (decadal at least) must be part of an analysis.
SRBA: ".This March has been the coldest in over 50 years across much of the UK and Europe,"
June 19, 2013
A withering early summer heart wave has sent temperatures soaring throughout central Europe since Monday.
Nov 2013
Highest September temperature since 30.5C in London in 2006
SRBA: "May 2013 Spain braces for 'coldest summer in 200 years'"
Nov 08 2013
Killer heatwave hits Spain: Tourists warned to expect dangerously high temperatures of 43C
After six days in early July with temperatures over 40°C (104°F), Portugal officially entered a heat wave. Temperatures reached as high as 45°C in some places in Alentejo and Ribatejo. Rising temperatures led to heat health warnings being issued for Southern England and the Midlands in the UK's first prolonged heatwave since 2006 on 17 July The UK recorded its hottest day since July 2006, with 33.5°C (92.3F) recorded at Heathrow and Northolt in west London on 22 July
For you SRBA : On June 30, Death Valley, California hit 129.2 °F (54.0 °C) which is the hottest temperature ever recorded on Earth during the month of June.
SRBA, you really have no grasp of the term trend and meaningful period. Next you will be posting that the Australian winter temperatures were colder than the previous summer ones.
If you wish to post temperature nonsense stick to that pedalled by Spencer and Christy over 10 years apropos their flawed UAH TLT datasets which showed a cooling trend (still touted by a few) even though now with suitable corrections applied to the UAH measurements (notably orbital decay) they show a warming trend.
"analysing short periods of data is fraught with challenges due to the short-term noise." There is plenty of that here!
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on 09-11-2013 01:08 PM
its a relief to agree occasionally
on 09-11-2013 02:20 PM
PPffffttt......
Alarmism......is a dying religion...
on 09-11-2013 02:30 PM
so gentlemen, have you worked out who has the biggest umm err ahh shoes yet?
on 09-11-2013 02:43 PM
@siggie-reported-by-alarmists wrote:PPffffttt......
Alarmism......is a dying religion...
i dont know about the religious aspects, the religious lobby seems to be with you. similar standards of evidence i guess.
as for the realists , i think the battle is already won.. its simply a matter of the cranks you admire falling further into irrelevance .
on 09-11-2013 03:04 PM
@my*mum wrote:so gentlemen, have you worked out who has the biggest umm err ahh shoes yet?
Hey that is a bit sexist.. what about the ladies?
on 09-11-2013 03:31 PM
The only thing Alarmists seem to be qualified in is hysteria.......
Poor Alarmists....