http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/weather-bloggers/ en-us Tue, 21 May 2013 11:27:04 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3021966/posts No politics today. The state of Oklahoma has suffered another blow, courtesy of mother nature and the privilege of living in the middle of Tornado Alley. I watched yesterday as parts of Moore was torn apart. I wondered about my aunt and uncle, living just off I-35. They are okay, but their house did sustain damage. They are elderly and were unable to heed the warnings to flee from the path of the storm. They had no underground shelter, so they rode it out in the bathtub. I can also report that Charles Phipps, the news contributor to Political Realities... Political Realities http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3021966/posts#comment Tue, 21 May 2013 11:27:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3015233/posts Note that either this new 'Sustainability' merit badge -to be released in July 2013- OR 'Environmental Science' is now required for attainment of the top Eagle Scout rank (makes me feel better about just getting to 'Life') So as with American schools, KGB-initiated leftist infiltration of our country is nearly complete- as is demoralization of the populace.  Continuing to force this junk science down our -and our childrens'- throats does nothing but distract the entire society from reality while NWO statists take the reigns... might as well offer an 'Alchemy' MB while they're at it: MeritBadge.org   h/t Doug Powers- Reaganite Republican http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3015233/posts#comment Fri, 3 May 2013 09:03:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3011819/posts A group of 17 Northern Michigan residents have filed a lawsuit claiming a new Consumers Energy wind farm has been making people sick. According to the lawsuit, the $250 million Lake Winds Energy Park wind farm, south of Ludington in Mason County, was built too close to homes. The lawsuit says residents are suffering from dizziness, sleeplessness, headaches and other physical symptoms because of the noise. The 56 turbines (some as far away as a half mile) also are causing vibrations and flickering lights in houses, the lawsuit says. Economic losses are also claimed in the suit. The Shineldecker house... Michigan Capitol Confidential http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3011819/posts#comment Wed, 24 Apr 2013 17:04:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3011210/posts Reaganite Republican http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3011210/posts#comment Tue, 23 Apr 2013 06:05:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3003990/posts THE high priests of global warming are in a panic these days as their prophecies of doom have proved to be as credible as a the Mayan calendar. "Research by Ed Hawkins of University of Reading shows surface temperatures since 2005 are already at the low end of the range projections derived from 20 climate models and if they remain flat, they will fall outside the models' range within a few years," the newspaper Australian reported over the weekend. As always, global warmists blame carbon dioxide. "Another paper published by leading climate scientist James Hansen, the head of NASA's Goddard... The Charleston Daily Mail http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3003990/posts#comment Thu, 4 Apr 2013 06:48:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3003787/posts Associate Director of College Communications, Unity College claims in a press release this month: “Every college or university that claims to be holding a ‘green’ commencement needs to have divested from investments in fossil fuels, or admit that they cannot truly make that claim.” “As the first college in the United States to adopt sustainability science as its central focus, Unity College ascended to the leading-edge of higher education, training the next generation of environmental leaders to pursue trans-disciplinary solutions to the earth’s most pressing problems including global climate change.” “With a unanimous vote by the Board of Trustees in... Accuracy in Academia http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3003787/posts#comment Wed, 3 Apr 2013 20:01:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2999580/posts As severe cold grips the eastern U.S. on March 21, Punxsutawney Phil’s forecast for an early spring is best described as an epic failure. The prosecuting attorney of Butler County, Ohio, Michael Gmoser, wants the groundhog to pay for his flawed prediction, with his life. http://www.washingtonpost.com/ http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2999580/posts#comment Fri, 22 Mar 2013 12:45:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2998746/posts When you buy a car, there are various ratings outfits in the business of calculating the true cost of owning that particular vehicle, inc. insurance, depreciation, maintenance, cost of repairs, etc. Such a comprehensive model is surely more realistic than just looking at the monthly payment or sticker price, and the customer knows if they're actually making a cost-effective, bottom-line decision. But even if you buy-into the now imploding globaloney scam, wouldn't it make sense to apply similar logic to calculate the entire environmental impact of electric vs. internal combustion cars over the full service life... esp since the actual... Reaganite Republican http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2998746/posts#comment Wed, 20 Mar 2013 10:46:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2996457/posts On Tuesday, four Democrats in Congress unveiled a brand-new proposal for a carbon tax. The set-up is simple: The U.S. government would slap a fee on fossil-fuel emissions and refund the revenue back to the public. But there’s a twist: The precise details of the carbon tax have yet to be thrashed out. The four lawmakers are soliciting public comments for how big the tax should be and how best to rebate the money. The proposal is being put forward by Reps. Henry Waxman and Earl Blumenauer, as well as Sens. Sheldon Whitehouse and Brian Schatz. Here are the key... Washington Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2996457/posts#comment Wed, 13 Mar 2013 16:55:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2995767/posts A recent article by Brad Plumer at the Washington Post outlines the tension between climate change goals and the need to provide “energy impoverished” nations with access to electricity. “If we want to limit the amount of carbon-dioxide in the atmosphere and hit that 2°C goal, we’ll have to replace about 80 percent of our current fossil-fuel use with carbon-free energy and then use only carbon-free energy to meet our future needs,” he writes. “That’s hard enough.” “But if we want everyone in the world to have as much energy as the average Bulgarian enjoys, then we’ll need twice as... Eagleye Blog http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2995767/posts#comment Mon, 11 Mar 2013 19:23:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2990361/posts At the height of Superstorm Sandy, city residents watching seawater pour into the subway system couldn’t help but wonder: What will become of all the rats? Four months later, that’s still a mystery. And experts aren’t so sure about stories of hordes of displaced rodents fleeing the flood zone and taking up residence in buildings that were previously rat-free. TV stations and newspapers have been rife with reports about rats infesting parked cars and fleeing the East River waterfront for the brownstones of Brooklyn Heights and exterminators enjoying a boom in business. For some city officials, the last straw came... Zen Haven http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2990361/posts#comment Sat, 23 Feb 2013 02:09:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2988245/posts A recent article in the Washington Post exposes once again what climate change skeptics already know: the green movement is designed to lower living standards, not just make living more carbon efficient. “One of President Obama’s goals in his State of the Union address was to make American homes twice as energy-efficient by 2030,” writes Brad Plumer for the Washington Post today. “But would that actually curtail overall energy use and reduce U.S. carbon emissions? That’s a trickier question.” “A second way to look at this is that as Americans get richer, we’re inevitably going to want bigger homes and... Eagleye Blog http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2988245/posts#comment Wed, 13 Feb 2013 22:26:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2988217/posts As mentioned in previous blog entries, several news outlets, including the Wall Street Journal and Washington Post, mentioned that the President, in his State of the Union address, would be addressing climate change. Indeed, in his speech the President called upon Congress to act and create a McCain-Liebermanesque solution while promoting his own executive actions. “I urge this Congress to get together, pursue a bipartisan, market-based solution to climate change, like the one John McCain and Joe Lieberman worked on together a few years ago,” said President Barack Obama. “I will direct my cabinet to come up with executive actions... Eagleye Blog http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2988217/posts#comment Wed, 13 Feb 2013 21:12:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2987417/posts The language used in President Barack Obama’s upcoming State of the Union speech may be vague regarding specific climate change regulations, but two media outlets have now confirmed that new coal regulations by the Administration are likely. “In trying to slow climate change, Obama is considering acting through the Environmental Protection Agency to issue new rules governing carbon emissions by existing power plants, according to three people familiar with White House discussions,” states the Washington Post today (emphasis added). According to the Wall Street Journal’s Peter Nicholas and Keith Johnson, “In the run-up to the speech, Mr. Obama has been... Eagleye Blog http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2987417/posts#comment Mon, 11 Feb 2013 18:05:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2987173/posts President Barack Obama’s upcoming State of the Union address is supposed to be about jobs and the economy. However, it will also likely carry a “green” message, if Politico’s Andrew Restuccia is correct: “‘You’re going to like what you hear,’ White House aides have told green groups, according to an official at one environmental organization who expects the president to publicly commit to moving forward with EPA climate regulations,” writes Restuccia, who asks in his article, “which Obama will show up on Tuesday night?” The Administration feels that a 2007 Supreme Court decision giving the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) authority... Eagleye Blog http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2987173/posts#comment Sun, 10 Feb 2013 21:12:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2987038/posts Remember Enron, the corrupt firm whose failure should have disproved the myth "too big to fail", but didn't? At the time it was the seventh largest corporation. It's bankruptcy was the largest in history until Lehman Brothers failed. Incidentally, Lehman Brothers was also involved in carbon trading. Enron owed part of its early success to emissions trading. Basically emissions trading was established as a way for some companies to profit from pollution while allowing some companies to continue to produce the chemicals that can cause acid rain. Lawrence Solomon, executive director of Energy Probe and Urban Renaissance Institute, is reporting... lawrence Daily Journal World http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2987038/posts#comment Sun, 10 Feb 2013 09:17:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2986540/posts In what may be the first full digital storm panic, federal, state and business officials worried about the snow headed for the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast have taken to Twitter warn that a potential disaster is coming. http://washingtonexaminer.com/ http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2986540/posts#comment Fri, 8 Feb 2013 15:36:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2980007/posts Climatologists pay too little attention to the role water plays in earth's energy system, including the way water vapor affects air temperature. Water's potential to affect air temperature is well established in science. As I have noted in previous posts the ability of CO2 to affect temperature is highly questionable. Those who spend much time in greenhouses know that they are often very humid places because water evaporates from plants and from surfaces that get wet when the plants are watered. Meteorologists typically refer to the water vapor content of the air as relative humidity which is how close the... Lawrence Journal world http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2980007/posts#comment Sun, 20 Jan 2013 08:01:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2979066/posts Measurement 'literally beyond index' Despite glowing words of praise from admirers in the neo-commie Obama Administration, by any measure -social security, health care, unemployment benefits, whatever- the booming China of today hasn't got much to do with socialism. Indeed, government handouts are far more prevalent in the US, and modern Chinese 'communist' leadership -who run a tight ship and enjoy a budget surplus- have come right out and said that American entitlement culture (with Obama as it's primary cheerleader) is precisely what's destroying us. So tell me who's the capitalists now: the Chinese may live under an oppressive dictatorship, but they learned not to restrain... Reaganite Republican http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2979066/posts#comment Thu, 17 Jan 2013 15:37:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2977998/posts Stung by being called an “idiot” by Senator David Vitter (R-Louisiana) for his claim that victims of 2012′s Hurricane Sandy suffered more than victims of 2005′s Hurricane Katrina, Senator Harry Reid (D-Nev) attempted to explain his way out the scathing characterization. “My colleagueÂ’s focus on quantitative data overlooks qualitative differences between the two events,” Reid argued. “First, New Jersey and New York are states where many important people live. Many of the homes that were destroyed were million dollar properties. The same could be said for the businesses.” “Most of the properties destroyed by Katrina were more like broken down... Semi-News/Semi-Satire http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2977998/posts#comment Mon, 14 Jan 2013 18:23:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2977493/posts The following is a news release from the University of Copenhagen in March, 2007. I've decided not to put it in my own words because I agree with Professor Andresen, and want the article to reflect his views rather than mine. He is the professor not me. Discussions on global warming often refer to 'global temperature.' Yet the concept is thermodynamically as well as mathematically an impossibility, says Bjarne Andresen, a professor at The Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, who has analyzed this topic in collaboration with professors Christopher Essex from University of Western Ontario and Ross McKitrick from... Lawrence journal world http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2977493/posts#comment Sat, 12 Jan 2013 21:14:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2976155/posts The claim that carbon dioxide (CO2) can increase air temperatures by "trapping" infrared radiation (IR) ignores the fact that in 1909 physicist R.W. Wood disproved the popular 19th Century thesis that greenhouses stayed warm by trapping IR. Unfortunately, many people who claim to be scientists are unaware of Wood's experiment which was originally published in the Philosophical magazine , 1909, vol 17, p319-320. Philosophical Magazine might not sound like the name of a science publication, but a century ago leading scientists published their discoveries in it. During the early 19th Century many physicists supported the theory postulated by Benjamin Franklin... Lawrence Journal World http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2976155/posts#comment Tue, 8 Jan 2013 21:10:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2974913/posts Living in this city your entire life gives one the opportunity to experience things you would not normally encounter in any other part of the country. Many of these experiences are deeply unpleasant and disturbing, including periodic attempts, with varying degrees of success, by terrorists to blow up large sections of it, along with its inhabitants. Putting aside the preternatural feeling that I’m living in a very bad Michael Bay film-as if there is any other kind-there aren’t many things that occur to or in New York that shake me out of the existential torpor which stems from spending most... American Rattlesnake http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2974913/posts#comment Fri, 4 Jan 2013 16:44:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2974806/posts The residents of California are about to become victims of what Weather Channel founder John Coleman has accurately called "the greatest scam in history". They will be paying higher energy bills to help carbon traders get richer. In the 1990's the corrupt Enron company began paying scientists and purported environmental groups to support the outright lie that slight increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide could increase atmospheric temperatures. Enron also supported politicians who were willing to go along with this scheme. Enron's goal was to get governments to establish a system for trading what the company called "carbon credits". Companies producing... Lawrence Journal World http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2974806/posts#comment Fri, 4 Jan 2013 08:42:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2969297/posts “Whumph!” It sounds like somebody just dropped a sack of potatoes from 50 feet high into 3 feet of powder snow. On instinct, you will turn to see where it came from. There are no indicators: A moonscape of fresh snow extends as far as you can see up the steep mountain slopes. If you’re not scared by now, then you don’t realize the risk: The daunting power of nature may be about to unleash its ultimate winter force, an avalanche. The “whumph” noise is a warning sound that an avalanche may be imminent. It occurs when a deep layer... San Francisco Chronicle / SFGate.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2969297/posts#comment Sun, 16 Dec 2012 17:58:23 GMT