"When the Weather Won't Fit the Agenda"

I just saw the national weather report for Saturday, March 28, 2009. Blizzard conditions are closing in on the Southern Plains. For this time of the year, especially, this is really unusual. Most of us are buying seeds, rotor-tilling the garden and getting ready for Easter. But get this from an AP story: "A major spring blizzard plodding eastward over the Southern Plains shut down major highways and paralyzed the region as residents braced Friday for up to a foot of snow, freezing 45 mph winds and massive snowdrifts." Later in the story the weather service predicts snowdrifts as high as 20 feet in the Texas panhandle!

Moving right along to a related story, residents of Fargo, North Dakota are bracing for massive flood waters from the Red River to breach their dams. The Red River is some 22 feet above flood stage. The story reads: ". . . the ice-laden river could climb as high as 43 feet, nearly 3 feet higher than the record set 112 years ago." What is the cause of such an impending natural disaster? The rest of the story tells us: "This year, the river has been swollen by heavier-than-average winter, snows, combined with an early freeze last fall that locked a lot of moisture into the soil. The threat has been made worse by spring rains." I thought the earth was overheating due to carbon emissions from the use of fossil fuels! (Funny how where I live in the mid-West the weather service recorded some of the heaviest snow-falls and coldest winters in history in the past three years.)

Interesting. Early Spring blizzards in the Southern Plains. Unprecedented flooding caused by heavier than usual snow fall. How does this fit in with the religion of Man-Made Global Warming? It doesn't. Current cooling trends for the past several years do not fit into the agenda of Global Warming advocates. For the past several years the earth has been cooling, not warming, the sea temperatures have been cooling, Antarctica has recorded colder than normal temperatures, but none of this puts a dent in the mythology of Man-Made Global Warming. Weather is not a static thing. The earth has its normal periods of warming and cooling (witness the "Mini-Ice Age" from the 11th century to the 13th century in Europe), and man has had nothing to do with it. For a balanced perspective from a true scientist I recommend http://www.andrebernier.com/. Andre is a meteorologist in northeast Ohio who (along with many of his fellow meteorologists) seriously questions the science and conclusions of the Global Warming crowd. On his site he has a link to the Canadian Broadcasting System's 2007 documentary "Global Warming--Doomsday Called Off." Check it out.

So, if the earth is cooling down (again--as it naturally does without our help), and the "science" of Global Warming is questionable at best, why are politicians so intent on enacting legislation that will handicap or restrict our industry, our economy, our way of life? Why are government officials so keen on Cap and Trade policies and signing international treaties to restrict our so-called Carbon Emissions? Why is our government advocating "smart meters" placed in every American's home in order to monitor how much energy we are using during the day. Are they concerned about "saving the Planet," or more about controlling the population?