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How to Use Styrofoam to Promote a Convenient Lie

Actually: How to Use Computer Graphics....
Silly me. It wasn't styrofoam afterall.

Finally - A Debate

Like Al Gore, I am not a scientist, so the best I can do is read what I can about the global warming (or not) claims. I don't understand why he refuses to debate, though. (My snarky side says it's because he knows he's just pulling our legs and he can't debate because he'll lose.)

Well, I don't have time right now to watch this one (I've spent more than enough time going through my google reader until I got to this item!), but I'll post it here to view when I have more time.

(I'm probably the only blogger that puts things on her blog as a "To Do List." But then, if I didn't, I'd lose it. I know.)

Composting & Global Warming

Why do I get into a dreaming-about-next-year's-garden mode in late December? Maybe I'm thinking of plans for the new year. But, now I'm wondering....

Over here, I read, "Composting with worms can help to limit global warming and climate change as well as improve soil."

And over here, it says, "Everybody loves worms because they think they can do no harm but they contribute to global warming."

There's a Yiddish proverb that goes: Worms eat you up dead and worries eat you up alive. That comment sounds the most accurate to me right now!

Dr. Roy Spencer's New Global Warming Website

Dedicated to keeping people informed of his latest research, and of his views on the escalating hysteria over manmade global warming.

No matter what weather event happens these days, someone is bound to blame it on manmade global warming. Snow in Las Vegas and Los Angeles, early cold across the U.S....anything and everything is now evidence that humans have screwed up the weather. Thom Hartmann on Air America recently used some convoluted logic to explain how global warming causes more cold and snow.

The truth is that unusual weather has always been...well...normal. It is perfectly normal for records to be set for cold, heat, rain, drought, etc. Since most locations have records extending back less than 100 years, it can be expected that they will, on occasion, experience some weather event that they had not experienced before.

So, how do climate experts know that unusual weather now is a sign of global warming? They don't.

I used to ice skate on nearby ponds or lakes when I was a little girl. I'm looking forward to knowing if this winter, there might be more ice skating outdoors back "home." Some people might be looking to go ice fishing on Lake Superior even!
For the first time in years, western part of Lake Superior freezes over

This is the most ice I’ve seen in December in years. … I wouldn’t go out yet, but if it stays cold and we don’t get a big wind, people will be out there fishing soon.

It's snowing here in northern Japan, too. And it's windy, windy, windy tonight. Time to go get under the covers!