Saturday, May 08, 2010

The Hockey Schtick: Was Nashville's flood caused by global warming?
Apparently, head of the National Center for Atmospheric Research Kevin Trenberth thinks so. However, according to the US Climate Extremes Index for precipitation, there has been no trend in US precipitation over the past 100 years
Increasing avalanche danger in the Cascades
Storms this past week dumped feet of snow over the mountains of Washington state.
Bill Gates pays for ‘artificial’ clouds to beat greenhouse gases - Times Online
The first trials of controversial sunshielding technology are being planned after the United Nations failed to secure agreement on cutting greenhouse gases.

Bill Gates, the Microsoft billionaire, is funding research into machines to suck up ten tonnes of seawater every second and spray it upwards. This would seed vast banks of white clouds to reflect the Sun’s rays away from Earth.
[Gibbs suggests that if gas prices go up, people will be more eager to pay a climate hoax tax] - latimes.com
White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said President Obama remains committed to the energy bill.

"We're also at a time of the year in which gas prices traditionally go up, which I think will be a very public impetus for getting an energy bill done," Gibbs said. "I know there are a lot of people that have worked long and hard on this that don't want to see the great progress that's been made walked away from."

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