Just look out your windshield.
Taken just north of Helena, Montana, June 8th. (location corrected)
Just another Kodak moment in what’s shaping up to be “a year without summer.”
Just look out your windshield.
Taken just north of Helena, Montana, June 8th. (location corrected)
Just another Kodak moment in what’s shaping up to be “a year without summer.”
I was there in Montana as well, but it didn’t stick to the ground like that. I was further east. Forgot to turn on my bunk heater and woke up pretty damn cold!
But I came from Texas where it was +35, so I can’t complain.
Look on the bright side Kate…at least Al Gore won’t be firing up his air conditioners as much this year.
Actually, I am glad that we have all this global warming. Just imagine how freakin cold it would be without it.
Global Warming!
Everytime the weather takes a turn colder the whacko brigade comes on out and gives explanations how increased water vapour from the oceans is increasing snowfall because the atmospheric circulation patterns have been altered by the warming, blah blah, except where Global Warming is causing drought, there the water vapour disintegrates and becomes magic free energy dust?!?
It is the explanation for everything, like a one size fits all excuse.
Feel tired? Global Warming Fatigue!
Feel Hungry? Global Warming Causes World Hunger!
Feel sad? Global Warming Depression or Environmentalistitis.
Feel Angry? Liberal. (who believes in Global Warming)
Feel Fat? Because you are and causing global warming!
Feel broke? Can you say Global Warming taxes.
etc,etc,etc,etc….
In less than 2 weeks the days start getting shorter đ
The sad thing is – I used to believe in higher ideals – like the Nobel Prizes . . . . .
It’s getting hotter and hotter. We just need to find out where all that extra-warm heat, as well as the regular heat, went.
“The sad thing is – I used to believe in higher ideals – like the Nobel Prizes . . . . .”
and the Order of Canada is worth sh** now, too, thanks to Morgentaler.
Like my old Dad used to say. “Colder than a well diggers ass.”
Soccermon: What has Morgentaler to do with snow at Great Falls, Montana? Just thought I’d ask!
This friggin cold weather had better come to an end soon otherwise our food crops will be in trouble – leading to shortages and higher food prices.
What can we do to help ? Lets see.
We know that plants grow faster with more CO2.
We know that greenhouses artificially boost COs levels to enhance growth. Upwards of 3 times today’s atmospheric levels.
Some say more CO2 will make our weather warmer.
Soooo, live it up !! Room temperature. Dishwasher. BBQ. Exhale, even !
The year without a summer was 1816.
In Europe, the summer was cold, wet, dark & gloomy.
In the Northern US, it was the âyear without the summerâ. Killing frosts occured in every month, and crops were widely ruined.
In Ohio, it was known as Eighteen Hundred and froze to death.
In New England, it was known as âThe Mackerel Yearâ (they ate fish because everything else failed !!).
Nice picture Kate – I hope you took your ‘woolies’ with you on your southern travels. I hope the shows are going well, the Husky dogs will be the happiest; being right in their element, so to speak.
ron in kelowna, I like your warming solution – more CO2 – and LESS rancid air from the Goricle and Sazzookey. Goricle should be sent over to N.Korea to get his reporters out of hock – they should have known better than to work for a user like that big, howling panty waist.
Correction – that should have been ‘big bellowing panty waist’
an inconvenient summer.
From the “Is there Nothing That Obama Can’t Do” file:
The triumph of energy efficiency: Waxman-Markey
Read the first response.
/unicorns and rainbows, real soon now
A point to ponder: when they were riding high, the AGWers were quick with the insults. A large part of their comeuppance has come from the likes of us remembering those insults.
Thankfully, the hubris/nemesis link isn’t broken.
[quote]The billâs authors clearly understood that Energy efficiency is THE core climate solution â the biggest and lowest cost carbon-free resource by far.[/quote] foobert
“look at all the money they saved” the jingle to die for.
When Grandma & Grandpa canât pay for the electricity or new appliances and are huddled in bleak squalor⌔look at all the money they saved”
When Grandma & Grandpa canât pay for the added cost for food and must resort to pet food ⌔look at all the money they saved”
When Grandma & Grandpa canât pay for their medications, but by that time their vital systems are shutting down anyway⌔look at all the money they saved”
When Grandma & Grandpa die, a very undignified end indeed, we can put on their gravestones ⌔look at all the money they saved”
What a sick bunch of bastards
I’ve been looking at crop reports. We can stagger through this year, but the sun had better get cracking for next year.
I’m in the US NE right now, and temperatures are back to their low in the cooling period after the 50s. Back then, this had the NY Times all excited about the next Ice Age. Now those same temps are proof of catastrophic global warming. All I know is that warm weather crops aren’t going to do well this year.
When I blogged here back in the winter that some region in the world was in for a cool summer because Mt Redoubt (Alaska) was blowing off steam bigtime, I was hoping it would not be us.
Damn.
More record low temps all over southern Alberta again yesterday according to Global am news.
And our damn deer have no garden to eat – hey wait….
Could it be Big Ass Al is now blowing cold?
JLC, currently in Malaysia, decides to take the summer off and look what happens!
Get out those Hummers, people; crank up those 4 million BTU barbies and set fire to that pile of old tires you’ve got lying around.
I dunno if this will work or not, but it can’t do any harm.
Chinese people on my job here are about to sacrifice a goat in the hope of turning things around.
We could try that, too.
Please, please, please, won’t someone send some global warming my way – there’s frost this morning.
On the bright side, I didn’t have to wait until the fall to find out if my brand new, high-efficiency furnace works. đ
Spot the mis-truths and half-truths. Pay special attention to the weasel words..
http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20090609/sc_mcclatchy/3249010
God has finally seen fit to curse Alaska and the Yukon with warm weather.
Damn you Palin!
WINNIPEG, Manitoba (Reuters) – The multiple frosts that have blanketed Western Canada in the last week are the most widespread in the top canola-growing province of Saskatchewan in at least five years, the Canola Council of Canada said on Tuesday.
Two overnight frosts last week have already resulted in some Saskatchewan farmers reseeding their canola, a Canadian variant of rapeseed, said Jim Bessel, senior agronomy specialist in the province for the industry group Canola Council.
Other farmers are waiting to see growth signs that would suggest their canola plants have survived the frost, which lasted for up to five hours at a stretch. That new growth is slow to appear with generally cool temperatures holding crop development behind schedule.
“We just don’t see a lot of activity happening from a crop development perspective,” Bessel said. “(The extent of frost damage) is a really difficult one to call right now … It’s very erratic.”
In Manitoba, the frost is the worst in memory for its frequency and area covered, said Derwyn Hammond, the province’s senior agronomy specialist for the Canola Council.
“Certainly (it’s) the worst year I’ve seen,” said Hammond, who has worked for the Canola Council for 15 years.
With deadlines for full canola crop insurance ranging between June 10 and 20 in Manitoba and Saskatchewan, Hammond said he expects most farmers will choose not to reseed.
Cool weather may have actually saved some of the new crop that was at such an early growing stage that it wasn’t yet vulnerable to frost, said Doon Pauly, crop specialist for the government of the western province of Alberta.
“It’s the equivalent to a frost in the second or third week of May,” Pauly said. “That’s the bright side.”
The downside of the cool weather is that it has left crops in general well behind schedule, he said. The Alberta canola crop is two to three weeks behind development, Pauly said, while the Canadian Wheat Board estimated on Monday that Western Canada wheat and barley crops are at least 10 days behind.
Fields with frost damage can develop bare pockets or a thinned-down plant population that gives weeds more room to grow, said Pauly, adding that some Alberta areas reported frost as recently as Tuesday morning.
But despite frosts and cool weather, it’s too early to say if canola yields will suffer, he said.
“Canola is so plastic. If the remainder of June we get good moisture and reasonable heat, the yields can recover
The deafening AGW silence of the MSM newscasts is worrisome. The situation must be so alarming that the truth would cause panic. Only a few stories obviously written months ago purporting to be current have slipped through to browbeat the ignorami.
Thank goodness for recycled and repackaged episodes of Daily Planet 24/7. They will keep the dream alive.
I recall hearing a few weeks ago about the predictions of the Environment Canada spokesguy saying that this summer is going to be hot and dry.
I spoke with someone who manages a power generation plant saying that the provincial power agency has their own weather forecasters (who, he swears, are almost never wrong) saying that this summer is going to be cool.
I’m putting my money on a cool summer. Dagnabit! I want some global warming, too!
“The sad thing is – I used to believe in higher ideals – like the Nobel Prizes . . . . . ”
The real Nobels are still valid – real science.
It is the Nobel Peace Prize that is such a stinker, like it was molded out of petrified caribou poo or something.
Any group that would give Yassir Arafat, Jimmy Carter and Al Gore an award is a well &truly fek’d up organization.
“The real Nobels are still valid – real science.”
They gave Paul Krugman a prize for Economics… Just sayin’
This friggin cold weather had better come to an end soon otherwise our food crops will be in trouble – leading to shortages and higher food prices.
~ron in kelowna at June 10, 2009 1:54 AM
Food shortages!
Just think of the effect it’ll have on the development of bio-fuels.
Welp, I know this won’t help but, down heya in N. Louisi-Yana they have been bailing hay for 2 weeks now, and it looks like they may get 4 cuts this summer on those hay fields.
At the Produce Stands we already have watermelons, purplehull peas, string beans, bucos tomatoes, cantelope, onions, cumbers, blackberries, dewberries and plums.
Peaches are coming real soon.
As per Ron in Kelowna: less than 2 weeks the days start getting shorter đ
We should hit our longest day around July 6th, sunrise at 6:23 am and sunset at 8:42 pm.
It showed Regina, Saskatchewan on June 17th to be Sunrise: 4:45 am, Sunset: 9:12 pm.
Got my info from; http://www.sunrisesunset.com
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I emailed my Montana Senators Baucus and Tester about the weather we have been having versus the phony “global warming” they are planning to tax away. Tester’s office replied that John has been planting crops on his farm earlier and earlier due to all the warming. I told them his farm must be in quite a “banana belt” if that is the case. You can’t tell these true believers anything, but sometimes it feels better to try.
Also look at the NIPCC report at:
http://www.nipccreport.org/
880-page book challenging the scientific basis of concerns that global warming
Dr. S. Fred Singer and Dr. Craig Idso and 35 contributors and reviewers present an authoritative and detailed rebuttal of the findings of the IPCC
The authors cite thousands of peer-reviewed research papers and books that were ignored by the IPCC, plus additional scientific research that became available after the IPCCâs self-imposed deadline of May 2006.
Oh what joy, Mana from heaven. Obama can do anything
one good year without summer, a major crop failure and Dr. Mengele Suzuki and Al Gore will be rid of 20% of pesky humanity. Clear sailing on Gores mega yacht and Suzuki’s diesel pusher bus with a drop in the population of the hoi polloi.
cal2- but too bad its not the 20% who’d happen to be the Gor/zuki Koolade swillers. These asswipes will somehow find themselves doing very well, thankyou very much- at the utter expense of the down-trodden of our society.
I really hope (and believe) there is a God taking copious notes of the crimes being perpetrated against humanity by scumbags such as these!
I really hope (and believe) there is a God taking copious notes of the crimes being perpetrated against humanity by scumbags such as these!
Posted by: Snagglepuss at June 10, 2009 11:53 PM
And the ultimate irony would be that these eco-fanatics would be punished by a God they never believed in to begin with.