Spring Has Sprung, The Grass Has Ris' - I Wonder Where The Birdies Is?
Tuesday, March 20, 2007
NOWCAST - As expected winter held on to the very last moment with hail showers, blustery winds, and snow down to 1500-2,000 feet on the foothills to our east. Temperatures were quite chilly remaining in the 40's most of the day. We will see patchy frost tonight as spring dawns on Wednesday. Spring officially rolled in at 5:07 this evening. The weather the rest of the week looks like some sunshine, some clouds, and some rain as we will be close to the jet stream and the wetter half of the weather. Temperatures will be cool Wednesday, above seasonal normals on Thursday and cooler on Friday. Click side panel for latest forecast.OUTCAST - And the beat goes on. I can't help but mention the travels of Bill Bradbury, Oregon's Secretary of State and his pitch for global warming. He has been traveling around the state with his DVD of The Inconvenient Truth and making claims of gloom and doom. In a recent town hall meeting in Tillamook the other day, he told residents that in the future, unless global warming is stopped now, their city will be under water as the oceans rise some 26 feet.
Even the tattered IPCC report suggest rises of 12-20 inches not exaggerated amounts claimed by Gore and company. He also mentioned that with the rising ocean, Portland will have water lapping at curbs clear up to SW 5th Street. I wonder where he gets this information? Who makes these predictions? Experts now have a difficult time just trying to get a weather forecast right five days out much less some 25-50 years from now. Gads! The Secretary of State completed a rigorous training program led by Al Gore to spread the message about the threat of, and solutions to, global warming. A select group of 1,000 global warming warriors took part in an intensive tutorial about issues surrounding global warming. It is one thing to help discuss and spread the word on how to be better stewards of our planet and such, but to carry a one-side film around with scare tactics is another thing. Consider the source.Frisbee size snowflakes? I remember this past winter one day when snowflakes the size of
silver dollars were falling, it was so neat to watch. This generally occurs when they tend to melt in warmer air aloft and stick together creating this illusion of enormous flakes. Interesting article to read here.Record snows in Juneau - With 192.4 inches of snow, the Winter of 2006 is now only 1.9 inches behind the record 194.3 in 1964. They have set daily and monthly records recently in the snowfall department and still have a few days left this month to break the record. A few of those large snowflakes would do it in a hurry, eh?
S. Fred Singer, an atmospheric physicist, is professor emeritus of environmental sciences at the University of Virginia, adjunct scholar at the National Center for Policy Analysis, and former director of the U.S. Weather Satellite Service. Read his latest thoughts here.
-- posted by Pat Timm @ 7:59 PM,
1 Comments:
- At 3:39 PM, Pete Conrad said...
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Well, well! What a perfidious bunch. Oregon's Secretary of State along with all of those schooled [i.e. brainwashed]in the new fad of ignoring real science will hopefully half a short half-life.People will see them as the charlatans they are as they tire of hearing the 'sky is falling' day after day. When will politicians and the mainstream media enter into serious and constructive debate about the issue? Why do they ignore and ostracize any scientist who takes them to task? S. Fred Singer's commentary should be read by all. It is short,concise and non-technical.
Pete Conrad, Battle Ground, WA
