Mailbag: It’s change in the wrong direction

Well, it looks like everything I have said about this global warming scam is starting to come true. The Earth may be going into a cooling period now, so you noticed the extreme environmentalists are now talking about climate change instead of global warming. That covers them no matter what the Earth is doing naturally.

Fantasies, Follies and Frauds - JamaicaObserver.com

While carbon dioxide may behave itself under pressure in sandstone, in limestone CO2 becomes chemically active and soon starts dissolving ways out of its subterranean confinement.

This is probably what is meant by the expression: "All hell breaks loose!"

In this part of the world, burning coal for any reason is an act of lunacy. There are a few more small problems with building a bauxite plant in the Cockpit Country.

Above all is the naked threat to civilised values, the destruction of culture, the devastation of important, unique and irreplaceable biological resources, the irredeemable pollution of underground aquifers, the ethnic cleansing of history and tradition, the subversion of small farming and the eradication of our capacity to feed ourselves. From my point of view, it looks a little like cultural genocide.

Animal populations are all in the numbers :: Bob Henke :: PostStar.com

Waterfowl populations are exploding. Canvasback ducks, once touted as a species doomed to extinction by global warming, have increased 35 percent in this year alone. The overall population is 16 percent higher than the 20 year average. Overall, waterfowl populations are up 87 percent over the 20 year average and some areas of the U.S. have seen a 108 percent increase in a single year. I bet global warming will not be blamed for this success, although it is probably a factor.

Western Montana shatters cold-weather records, with more on the way

Towns throughout western Montana set cold-weather records on Saturday.

Missoula's low of 10 degrees shattered the previous record of 20 degrees, set in 1973. "We kind of killed that record," said meteorologist Jeff Kitsmiller at the National Weather Service.

And the Garden City's high of 31 degrees was another record, for the lowest maximum temperature on Oct. 10, beating out the 42-degree mark set in 1985.

Even more impressive, though, was Seeley Lake's record-setting low of 2 degrees, shattering the 12-degree record set in 1987. And Drummond went one better, dropping to 1 degree early Saturday to beat its previous low mark of 12 degrees, also from 1987.

Up north, Polson got down to 10 degrees on Saturday morning, mocking the previous low of 25 degrees - set on Oct. 10, 1932.