Was Al Gore in New York to give a speech on the “inconvenient truth” of global warming? The Gore Effect has been in spectacular effect all year (it snowed in Malibu earlier this year, for Christ’s sake).
Look up at the ceiling of the room where you are sitting.
If you’re in a typical room, the ceiling is anywhere from 8-10 ft above your head. Now imagine your entire office is filled from floor-to-ceiling with snow. Now imagine about 1-3 feet of snow piled on top of that. Now, imagine that entire depth of snow spread out over the entire Upstate New York area.
Yeah, that’s a lot of snow in just 9 days.
REDFIELD, N.Y. (AP) – A historic snowfall of more than 11 feet is nothing to get excited about in this hardy upstate New York village that thrives on snowmobilers and cross-country skiers.
“In all my life, I mean my entire life combined, I’ve never seen this much snow at once,” said Jim Bevridge, 47, of Timmonium, Md., who drove up for a long weekend of snowmobiling.
I wonder what Mr. Bevridge thinks about global warming right about now?
I wonder what Mr. Bevridge thinks about global warming right about now?
I wonder if he also believes that all that snow means that there won’t be summer next year too!
Two things:
“reeks” is spelled ” wreaks”
If a region had a usual temperature of 22 degrees F for a winter month, and the temp one year rose to 24 degrees F for that month, what would happen to the region’s snowfall that month? What if it rose to 26? 29? These are funny jokes about global warming, but they just MIGHT be a show of ignorance. Just maybe.
Thanks for the editorializing, Jim.
I have a full time technical editor at work, but ’till now haven’t had one for my blog.
However, “reeks” was used intentionally instead of “wreaks” — it’s a literay trick that I’m glad someone noticed (if not understood).
Try applying this meaning of “reeks” to the headline, and see if you get where I’m coming from:
To be pervaded by something unpleasant
Yeah — the conflicting science concerning Global Warming (aka, the cyclical weather patterns that have been ongoing for hundreds of thousands of years) and all the hoopla and hysterics surrounding it smells of political opportunism to me.
“The Earth’s climate has been traveling a well-defined rollercoaster path of temperature change for at least 900,000 years.”
And it’ll continue to roll along up-and-down long after I’m gone. Long after you’re gone. And long after all of humanity is gone.