ISA | Panel heats up on global warming issue

Others seem sure. Thomas Peterson with the National Climate Data Center at NOAA has looked at temperature readings from 600 A.D. until now and said the trends show temperatures right now should not be as warm.

“With historic research showing we should be trending cooler, we are in fact warming,” Peterson said. He did say global warming is not uniform. “The Southeast in the U.S. and in Greenland has cooled a bit. But there has been warming in the Arctic and in the U.S. overall.” He pointed out some changes resulting from the warming cycle with plants blooming earlier, animals moving closer to the poles, Arctic warming with the ice thinning, and Antarctic cooling with ice getting thicker.

“Every single model shows we are warming, and that goes against what we should be doing right now,” he said.

One example showed a model of a summer in Minnesota by the year 2095 will have the same type of climate as Oklahoma. Southern Illinois, he said, will have the same summer climate as Houston. “I don’t even want to know where Houston will be,” he said.

March 30, 2009: North Dakota Harsh Conditions Kill Deer

It's been a tough winter back home this year, but I can't remember seeing the results as illustrated with these photos. You would occasionally come across dead deer walking for pheasants and would always see pheasants frozen solid from an overnight low reaching the 75 below windchills.

These photos were taken from a landowner removing the deer from the fields after several continuous days of COLD! Nature at work!

Rep. Herseth Sandlin Supports Global Warming [Hoax] Tax

PIERRE - In the coming weeks, Congress will address climate change legislation designed to cut greenhouse gas emissions in the next ten years to 20 percent below 2005 levels. The legislation would set a limit, or cap, on carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel sources - oil, coal, and natural gas. Under the guise of protecting the environment, the proposed plan, dubbed “cap and trade,” is really a new tax designed to make energy produced from coal and gas more expensive. Congresswoman Stephanie Herseth Sandlin, a member of the House Committee on Global Warming, supports this legislation. Estimates from a South Dakota Public Utilities Commission study have shown that under cap and trade, residential electric bills in South Dakota would increase more than 48 percent. All South Dakotans would pay this tax increase.

Charlie Clark of Keldron, SD recently returned from lobbying in Washington, DC on behalf of the Moreau Grand Electric Cooperative and the South Dakota Rural Electric Association. “Moreau Grand has a higher percentage of lower income customers,” he said. “We have several hundred delinquencies, some more than 90 days late. If our customers are already having difficulty paying their electric bills, a 48% increase will be sure to skyrocket our delinquency rate.”