West digs out from record snow that's heading east - Nation | DailyAdvance.com

SPOKANE, Wash. — Road crews worked around the clock to remove two feet of snow from Spokane, Wash., streets early Friday as the winter storm that set records in the West moved through the Great Lakes region and bore down on the Northeast.

The storm left thick ice in central Illinois, where up to 14 inches of the snow was expected by morning. Heavy snow started falling before daybreak in Michigan and was forecast to start in the Northeast by midmorning, with up to a foot expected by the evening commute.
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Records were similarly smashed in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, with 25 inches of snow. The past record was 16 inches in 1955.

"It has eclipsed any previous records by a significant amount," said John Livingston, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in eastern Washington.
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Hundreds of schools and school districts from Michigan to New Jersey, New York and New England called off classes.
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In the mountains of Southern California, thousands of motorists began moving Thursday after being stranded overnight as snow and ice made several major arteries impassible. A segment of Interstate 5, the main link between Los Angeles and the Central Valley and Northern California, was closed for nearly 24 hours by treacherous conditions in Tejon Pass. Two portions of Interstate 15 were also closed including a 50-mile stretch in the Mojave Desert that is on the main route between Los Angeles and Las Vegas.

Podcast Reviews: Lord Lawson and The Alarmists - global warming review

I thought there was consensus. At the UChannel Podcast we have had many speakers who build on the assumption there is consensus about global warming and rush to tell us what dramatic policy changes we need to take up. We have had Lord Stern and more recently Thomas Friedman and many others. I can recall only one who took a contrary view in account and this was on waste management. There the word religion was applied. And Lord Lawson, in a recent UChannel Podcast speaks of the likes of Stern and Friedman as alarmists and warns of the alleged consensus also in a way of a intolerant religion.

Lord Lawson propagates a cool look at global warming and in short argues that the warming may not be half as bad as the alarmists claim it to be. He also claims that the time span in which the warming will take place gives ample window for man's adaptation so in his view, global warming, if at all happening, is not a problem. Consequently, the economics of the 'alarmists' are completely wrong in his view. Not only won't they be applicable, or if applied won't work, but also the divert the attention from much worse and pressing problems.

More from fool/fraud Andrew Dessler

Climate uncertainty is a reason to take action and Fred Singer makes big bucks
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Over on Rabett Run, Eli looks into Fred Singer's finances. Turns out you get paid pretty well to be famous skeptic. I should note here that I don't believe skeptics are doing it for the money. I am quite convinced that they would be saying exactly the same thing even if they were not getting paid for it. The huge amounts of money they get paid (according to Eli, Fred got $143,000 for his work on the NIPCC) is just a nice bonus. Hey Fred, can I get a job with SEPP?

Alarmists, Anonymous - Chris Horner - Planet Gore on National Review Online

An issue I explore in Red Hot Lies is how, although alarmists assail skeptics who prefer anonymity (to avoid being the latest victim of a demonstrated pattern of retribution for speaking out), several of the nastiest alarmists themselves hide behind pseudonyms and pen names.

Along that line, one scientist wondered to me rhetorically, “Why is Joshua Halpern, a chemist at Howard University with connections to NASA hiding behind the [blogger] name ‘Eli Rabett’? Skeptics being attacked had the courage to speak out independently and publicly, yet criticisms of these people are mostly from people that hide their identity.” To the extent that “Rabett” is substantively memorable for anything it is for a miserably failed effort to discredit Nir Shaviv over the Svensmark cloud experiment, “getting his scientific butt well and truly kicked” in the words of one scientist. But substantive commentary is not the distinguishing characteristic of “Rabett’s” public utterances; instead, he likes to call names as much as hide his own.

The decision by “Eli Rabett” to engage in personal attacks does not come in a vacuum; he may simply not want people to know of his financial ties to NASA/GISS. That, after all, might cloud their judgment about his ceaseless cheerleading for GISS’s results (which stand out for their deviation from the three other major temperature measuring programs). NASA has a joint fellowship program alternating years with Howard University (even years) and the University of Maryland (odd years). The funding is generated by the NASA Faculty Fellowship Program, NASA’s point man at Howard is Joshua Halpern. In other words, this is significant funding for the graduate program in meteorology at Howard U. is provided by NASA through Halpern, the financial link between GISS and “Eli Rabbet’s” rabid support of the Hansen crowd, another page lists Halpern as a staff member.

It seems likely that “Rabett’s” fear driving him to anonymity is that his alarmism will be frowned upon by those actually guarding the taxpayers’ interests...