Global Warming, Anyone?
April 9th, 2007 by Scott
From the AP regarding baseball game cancellations:
For the fourth straight day, games were wiped out by snow at Jacobs Field, sending the Seattle Mariners packing without playing an inning that counted.
From Charlotte Today - April 8, 2007
The polar air outbreak that began Thursday reached the bottom this morning, when temperatures dropped to 21 degrees at 7 a.m. at Charlotte/Douglas International Airport. That not only broke the low-temperature record for the date, but it was the coldest for any April day in Charlotte history.
Anchorage Daily News - April 8, 2007
An extra-cold winter on the Alaska Peninsula has frozen sea otters out of the bay and pushed them onto the tundra near Port Heiden where they’re easy prey for wolves, humans and hunger.
So is ‘global warming’ taking a vacation? Let’s not forget some of the hurricane “predictions” from last spring:
May 22, 2006 - CBS: A hectic, above-normal tropical storm season could produce between four and six major hurricanes in the Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico this year.
May 22, 2006: NOAA: For the 2006 north Atlantic hurricane season, NOAA is predicting 13 to 16 named storms, with eight to 10 becoming hurricanes, of which four to six could become ‘major’ hurricanes of Category 3 strength or higher,” added retired Navy Vice Adm. Conrad C. Lautenbacher, Ph.D., undersecretary of commerce for oceans and atmosphere and NOAA administrator..
August 3, 2006: Colorado State University’s Tropical Meteorology Project: We estimate that 2006 will have about 7 hurricanes (the average is 5.9), 15 named storms (average is 9.6), 75 named storm days (average is 49.1), 35 hurricane days (average is 24.5), 3 intense (Category 3-4-5) hurricanes (average is 2.3) and 8 intense hurricane days (average is 5.0),” said meteorologists Phil Klotzbach and William Gray. They estimated the probability of a major hurricane making a U.S. landfall to be about 40 percent above the long-period average.
So what were the total numbers in the end?
Total Hurricanes to make U.S. Landfall: 0
Total Major Hurricanes: 2 (NOAA Prediction: 6)
Total Named Hurricanes: 5 (NOAA Prediction: 15, revised to 10)
Total Named Storms: 10 (NOAA Prediction: 28, revised to 16)
Meteorology is a tough gig, I’ll admit. I had to take several classes while attending Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. And that’s my point. It’s tough. You can’t get it right all the time. Heck, you’re lucky to bat .400 in this game.
Which is why I wonder why the religious attitude of ‘global warming’ is reaching such a fever (no pun intended). Just look at those headlines I mentioned above. RECORD COLD.
Yet those on the far left will shout as loudly as they can when there’s one single day that’s a bit warmer than the rest. Warmest January on record?
Big deal? Where are they to shout “Coldest April on Record”?
Just remember the frozen ocean and sea otters the next time someone shouts “Global Warming.”
