By FITSNews || Less than three weeks before the start of spring, it’s snowing in South Carolina … again.
And while this early March dusting didn’t produce the substantial amounts of accumulation that certain parts of the state received during a rare winter snowstorm three weeks ago, it’s another reminder that the global warming crowd is 100 percent full of it (as if we needed any more reminders of that).
Actually, we’re kidding … while we firmly believe that the earth’s planetary trends cause warming and cooling, we’re not stupid enough to base our views on climate change solely by the temperature outside.
Like, say … the global warming crowd.
Anyway, until the February 2010 snowstorm hit, Charleston, S.C. hadn’t seen accumulation of more than an inch since 1989. Columbia hadn’t seen snow since January 2003, when around 3 inches fell.
Ironically, just hours before the flakes began falling Tuesday, University of South Carolina president Harris Pastides sent out a campus-wide email that began with the line “across the campus these first days of March, trees are starting to bud and flower …”
Mmmm-hmmm.
By EM March 3, 2010 at 7:07 am
Someone call Lindsey Graham, he is proceeding with the notion Cap and Tax er Trade is a good idea. Is there anyone running against Lindsey?
Snow Balls to Lindsey…
By Recovering Lobbyist March 3, 2010 at 7:12 am
The Upstate got six inches of snow on February 28 and March 1 in 2009 (one year ago). It was 70 degrees the following weekend. Global warming is the agenda of politicians. The weather is the weather. The temperature can change 40 degrees in a day.
By Liberty for Me March 3, 2010 at 8:58 am
I hope its done..I have had enough of this bullshit
By They call me Mr. Sinister March 3, 2010 at 9:19 am
FITS–I’ve got a couple dozen snow balls in a spare freezer for Al Gore and Lindsey Graham (and yes they’ve got rocks in them)!…
By Darth March 3, 2010 at 10:21 am
Let me see, Columbia has seen snow and sleet as late as April in my lifetime…
Maybe, considering Flimsey Graham’s remarks ’bout under 30′s believing global warming as Gospel, it is time for them to reach an epiphany that they’ve been lied to, much as those that relied on the devine right of the big “D” on the ballot and their forebears fought printing the Bible in the vernacular, opposed teaching slaves to read and demanded that recognizing teh “big D” on the voting machine lever was adequate literacy for Bluff Road; lied to “their proles and untermensach”.
The emperor is naked, anthropogenic global warming is a lie. Recycling may preserve some resources, but the energy loss of moving things through the cycle is so often discounted from the equation that its true worth is hidden.
It won’t matter anyway, these distractions will allow Sith Lord Barack to complete the destruction of healthcare in the US and Iran to incapicitate Israel’s only tangible shield, but I digress…
By WorkingTommyC March 3, 2010 at 11:04 am
Lindsey Gaham is not only doubling down on enviro-fascism, he’s quadrupling and quintupling down. He has frequently been meeting with his buddy, Rahm Emanuel:
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0210/33671.html
“I think the Guantanamo issue is one where [Emanuel] understands what I’m trying to do,” Graham said. “There are things that I want to do that require the administration’s buy-in. There are things they want to do that require my buy-in. … He understands you can only go so far by yourself.”
Ah! The wonderfully intricate machinations of deal-making at taxpayer expense. ARE WE MEN OR ARE WE CATTLE, MR. GRAHAM?
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0210/33671.html
Those meetings will surely grease the skids for his being appointed to replace Robert Gates as SecDef.
By Another Opinion March 3, 2010 at 12:34 pm
Politicians view us more as sheep, I believe.
No one should be surprised by Graham’s antics or anyone else’s in politics.
With all the problems in this state, nation, and world people still keep on with the same old same old.
A house divided cannot stand and this is certainly applicable to the U.S. as a whole. Even after 911, Katrina, failing systems everywhere we look, alarming crime rates, especially against children, the people of the U.S. cannot come together on a large scale except to support whatever talking head in politics they believe is representing them. It’s sad.
By Go Cocks! March 3, 2010 at 3:19 pm
At NOAA’s website you will find the following temperature facts for January 2010 globally:
Global Highlights
The combined global land and ocean average surface temperature for January 2010 was 0.60°C (1.08°F) above the 20th century average of 12.0°C (53.6°F). This is the fourth warmest January on record.
The global land surface temperature for January 2010 was 0.83°C (1.49°F) above the 20th century average of 2.8°C (37.0°F)—the twelfth warmest January on record. Land areas in the Southern Hemisphere were the warmest on record for January. In the Northern Hemisphere, which has much more land, comparatively, land surface temperatures were 18th warmest on record.
The worldwide ocean surface temperature for January 2010 was the second warmest—behind 1998—on record for January, 0.52°C (0.94°F) above the 20th century average of 15.8°C (60.5°F). This can be partially attributed to the persistence of El Niño across the equatorial Pacific Ocean. According to NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center (CPC), El Niño is expected to continue through the Northern Hemisphere spring 2010.
At NOAA’s website (http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/ccgg/trends/), you will also find data on worldwide carbon dioxide levels. The CO2 concentration currently stands at its highest level in the last 65,000 years. Since the 1980′s, CO2 concentration has increased at a rate of more than 1% per year.
The temperature trend and the CO2 concentration trend are facts, not theories or outright lies. The theories hypothesizing that higher greenhouse gas concentration will lead to higher temperatures are also very well established. The sticking point in arguments between the global warming crowd and the head-in-the sand crowd seems to be whether all of the CO2 increase and associated temperature increase is due to human activity or is just part of the natural cycle.
I side with the global warming crowd in that the linkage to human activity is highly likely. Perhaps, however, I am wrong and the head-in-the-sand crowd is correct. Is this a question on life’s exam, however, that you are prepared to get wrong? If we take action to reduce CO2 emissions and it turns out to be unnecessary, then we shave perhaps 1% off of GDP growth per year and end up driving smaller and less powerful cars…I can live with that. If we do nothing and are wrong, however, we potentially really screw up the environment for subsequent generations. This I could not live with and hope that you would have difficulty accepting as well.
To paraphrase former Vice President Cheney in his comments regarding the War on Terrorism, global warming is a question that you cannot afford to answer incorrectly, even if FITS believes that a few snowflakes in March in Columbia ends the global warming debate.
By Houseguest March 3, 2010 at 4:17 pm
Becoming more energy efficient by using greener technologies and in the bargain, stimulating new industries and lowering our dependence on foreign oil seems like a no-brainer. Global warming or not, we are sending billions of dollars to regimes that spend their time plotting our spectacular demise. Why continue this?
Why allow China and Germany to dominate the next wave of energy-producing technologies?
Ranting about Graham and Obama on this issue just proves that conservatives will argue about anything they didn’t think up first. I often wonder what Repubs would do if Dems decided that ‘drill, baby, drill’ was the way to proceed…..bet they’d back off and throw up some solar panels.