TWC – Another USA Blizzard or 2... « Musings from the Chiefio

The Weather Channel warns of More Blizzards

The Weather Channel is advising to travel as far south as I-10 to avoid snow and blizzards (one moving eastward now, and another coming next week. That will be 3 in a row.) They are also advising that folks stuck at airports from last weeks blizzard on the East Coast and midwest take any plane they can to a warmer place and then rebook to your final destination (i.e. you will be snowed in again at that prior snowy airport if you don’t get out of there soon.)

Hans Von Storch: Good Science, Bad Politics - WSJ.com

'Climategate' reveals a concerted effort to emphasize scientific results useful to a political agenda.

Anchorage Prepares for Possible Shortage of Natural Gas - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

The ultimate risk is a depressurization of the gas delivery system, a problem that could take weeks to fix. “If it comes to pass, half the population of Alaska would lose heat, and even more would lose power,” Eric Lidji, a reporter, wrote in the Anchorage Press earlier this year. “Industry would be crippled.”

Pajamas Media » Andy Pollack - AGW: The Greens’ Tet Offensive

Environmentalists threw everything they had into the anthropogenic global warming scare, hoping for victory through politics and PR.
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The environmental movement’s Tet Offensive has failed.

But what will the cost of the “all your eggs in one basket” approach be to the environmental movement?

It will be much harder to persuade the public to listen to discussions of the less sexy but verified environmental problems facing us. The press, unable to resist a bandwagon, will enable this. The many important environmental issues facing us will fade from our consciousness until the public’s resentment over being manipulated wanes. There will be many costs to pay in the meantime.