The weather has been unseasonably cool around here lately, and very nice it has been, except perhaps for the global warming ‘consensus’.
Cool News on Climate Change
Capital Ideas
By: K. Lloyd Billingsley
8.15.2007
SACRAMENTO – On August 4, the temperature here was 104 degrees Fahrenheit. That’s nothing unusual for California's capital in the summer, as residents know full well. What happened next proved unusual indeed.
Within 24 hours, the temperature dropped a full 28 degrees to 74, the lowest "high" temperature for an August 5 since they began keeping records. That would be 130 years ago, in 1877, only a few years after Mark Twain was writing for the Sacramento Union.
The next day, August 6, 2007, the mercury plunged again, to 74 F, another record and the lowest "high" temperature for that day since 1906 — 101 years ago when the reading was 77. Sacramentans donned jackets, duly noted in "Summer chill is one for the ages," a front-page, above-the-fold story in the Sacramento Bee on August 7. The normal high for this time of year, the story noted, is 93. Cooler temperatures continued during the week, to the delight of locals.
"Don't tell Al Gore," the story began, "but global warming is taking a holiday in Sacramento this week."
Mr. Gore is a leading proponent of the theory that the world is rapidly getting hotter, that this change is due to human activity, and that the only way to avert catastrophe is to quash economic activity. The theory is a subdivision of the fundamentalist pantheism that has become a kind of national religion. It admits no possibility of reasonable doubt, and disdains those who remain skeptical as heretics, obscurantists, and pawns of big business.
The amount of overall global warming actually detected by scientists in the past century ranges between one and two degrees Fahrenheit, or 0.07 and 0.08 degrees Celsius. Not much, in other words. Warming theorists warn that there is more to come, but as farmers know, the weather does not always cooperate with predictions.
