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By Paul Chesser on 1.3.10 @ 9:43PM

From the Burlington (Vermont) Free Press today, an article about how scientific consensus on the threat of global warming still exists, despite the revelation of the Climategate emails weeks ago.

From the Burlington (Vermont) Free Press today, an article about how scientific consensus on the threat of global warming still exists, despite the revelation of the Climategate emails weeks ago. And then there's this:

"Burlington's Top Snowstorm Ever"

This weekend's Vermont storm has now become easily the largest snowstorm ever witnessed in Burlington in more than 120 years of record keeping. National Weather Service now reports the official total in South Burlington of 32 inches.

Sigh.

topics:
Global Warming, Environmentalism, Climate Change, Climategate

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Matty| 1.3.10 @ 10:47PM

Weather is not climate - or so the say ;-)

Eric Cartman| 1.4.10 @ 1:47AM

Climate is just a bunch of weather ;-)

Eric Cartman| 1.4.10 @ 4:20AM

So I say ;-)

Richard Baker| 1.3.10 @ 11:13PM

Buy them books and send them to school. I learned in college, St. Louis University, that having a Ph.D doesn't mean intelligence and wisdom. In fact, too many of these folks use their advanced degrees as a weapon to blunt criticism. Don't you believe it.

Margie| 1.3.10 @ 11:56PM

"In fact, too many of these folks use their advanced degrees as a weapon to blunt criticism. Don't you believe it."

Oh, don't I know it! When it comes to the Leftist fascists, they do it best. Or so they think. All one has to do is keep speaking the truth back at them. They will insult your intelligence, pick on your spelling, call you a know nothing simpleton, etc... but it is a pure joy to see them lose out to those whom they view as such.
Because the Truth is always your friend. As long as you seek, speak and serve it, you will always win.

Franklin| 1.4.10 @ 3:06AM

I can't stand the fact that the greenie weenie, money hungry, power grabbers have hijacked my beloved tree-hugging environmental movement!

Early in my life all I wanted was to keep a few trees from disappearing from the face of this earth, keep polluters from poising our land/water/air, and to help people realize that they need to pick up after themselves.

Now it’s all about money, power and lies.

D*mn them, D*mn them all to H*LLLLL!

PALIN/Bachmann 2012

Pete2| 1.4.10 @ 5:55AM

As one who lives in Burlington, I can attest to the 31 inches of snow we got this weekend and the cold temps that came with it. The article about GW that appeared in the paper totally ignored fact and was nothing more than a leftist rant against us "deniers". The real deniers are those who persist in their belief about manmade global warming.

pete2| 1.4.10 @ 8:04AM

Have to make a correction to my last post..the amount is closer to 18 inches. The airport evidently has measured a drift. Independent measurements from many areas have not exceeded 18 inches. Wonder if all the snow fell mainly at the airport?

JP| 1.4.10 @ 8:34AM

What we're seeing in the Northern Hemishphere is a huge drop of the Artic Oscillation beginning in December. The Artic Oscillation is measured by a variance in pressure and wind circulation over the artic circle. When its positive, most of the frigid artic air masses remain bottled up in the very high latitudes -hence, we have milder winters. When it shifts to the negative phase, deep persistent polar masses drive southward.

There was an inkling something was amiss last winter, as much of the Northern Hemisphere failed to get its normal late summer heat waves. Private weather forecasters noted this, and few last August predicted a very cold early winter.

The AO's precipitous drop is brought on by polar stratospheric warming. Of course, there are 101 theories as to why the stratosphere warms.

Pete2| 1.4.10 @ 9:08AM

It's Bush's fault of course.

Ken (Old Texican)| 1.4.10 @ 8:41AM

Wong,
Welcome to our conversations here.
Thank you for that perspective.

For many years, we here in the US possessed the most successful template for wealth creation and living standards improvement ever seen on earth.

We somehow threw away the "template" with the current administration, but I hope we can go find it in the trash next November (elections). If we do, and "take care of business", we can welcome China to world stage economically.

If we take care of business properly, we shall also level the playing field somewhat in our international trade agreements. We shall cease being the indulgent rich uncle and begin driving better bargains with our international competitors,
(like clamping down on inventions piracy etc.)

I look forward to hearing from you again.