In an almost equally horrendous setback for climate alarmism, Climate Change – The Musical is closing. It was funded by the National Science Foundation – ie, your tax dollars. But no doubt it was all part of a scientific experiment to determine the quickest way to lose three-quarters of a million bucks. They’d have been better off doing Little Orphan Mannie, in which the cherubic moppet sings “You’re Never Fully Dressed Without A Tree-Ring”.
The cracks in the AGW hysteria dam have become a flood of reason returning to scientific inquiry. Those AGW prophets, being the kids with their finger in the dyke, will be the first washed away when the dam breaks.
I know that I am just a dumb old country boy, but I have lots of trees on my land and a family full of fireplaces out and around. I don’t cut live trees, but those that are between dead-dead and rotten (for safety reasons if nothing else). I see tree rings all the time.Although I haven’t correlated 80 – 120 year ring records with temperature, I do think there is a good correlation with rainfall. Times with lots of rain get wide rings, tim3es of drought get narrow rings. I realise this is just anecdotal, but isn’t there some brilliant college professor capable of verifying that. I have offered cross sections to local universities, but they are not interested – I suspect that may cast doubt on the narrative. That would make a great science fair project, but all it might prove is that students are smarter than their professors.
“Although I haven’t correlated 80 – 120 year ring records with temperature, I do think there is a good correlation with rainfall. Times with lots of rain get wide rings, tim3es of drought get narrow rings. I realise this is just anecdotal, but isn’t there some brilliant college professor capable of verifying that.”
Old Country Boy
What? How dare you apply simple Occam logic to explain tree ring sizes!
I just bought & planted 4 fruit trees, 3 evergreens and 2 maples on my 6 acre property and the seller kept repeating how important it was to water the crap out of them (Something I already knew BTW) for them to have a better chance to “take”.
How scientific!
It should be a pre-requisite that any person wanting to study in the fields relating to the climate in general to become white coat professors to have been born and raised outside any big urban centre, preferably on a farm or something that has to do with being in touch with nature by living WITH nature.
I get the farmer’s almanac yearly. It’s the most reliable of all in predicting weather.
But what about the ‘climate’? they’ll say
My simple ‘redneck’ thought:
When you are a simple mortal with a life expectancy of about 75 years, all you have to worry about is weather. Climate change is so slow in endlessly shaping the landscape around us back and forth that man has always have to adapt and now with modern scientific advancements in food production for example, mankind can ride with mother nature much easier.
…And if we ever attain the power to be immortal we will surely be over and above worrying about the weather or the climate.
Well said. Brief and to the point.
Get your parkas out of the basement closet.
http://barrie.ctvnews.ca/t-rex-of-winters-in-store-for-canada-old-farmer-s-almanac-1.2013680
Anyone else having trouble accessing http://www.marksteyn.com or http://www.steynonline.com?
I haven’t been able to access either for the past week. I’m using Telus on Vancouver Island.
Take all the above and similar Tweets out of his hashtag, and what’s left are as lonely and bereft as that polar bear on the ice floe.
Great line. Time is on Mark Steyn’s side as each winter gets worse than the last. Even if they didn’t 16 years of cooling all over the Planet. Has crushed Manns theory as the ice flows of reality grind into the fairy dust it is..
When God shuts down Al Gore’s microphone as he makes hash of scripture, you know their ( climate alarmists) game is up
alternate headline: Mann overboard
We tried to reason with him, but he jumped into the abyss.
mr. transfixed on his own low-down, broken hockey stick.