Noel:

Methinks Leon is over at the Daily Kos giving back massages and foot rubs. You might want to check over there.

NS: Living in Maine, I can tell you that this has been the coldest and snowiest winter in years. The ski slopes are packed with people, lodges are full and snowmobilers are having the time of their lives with all the snow. As I look out my window, I can see the snow piled so high from my snowblowing the driveway, that I can't see my neighbor's house anymore (view is blocked). The five-foot high fence I put up to keep my white lab out of my raspberry patch (he chews up the branches on the plants) is useless this winter because the snow has buried the fence. So I'm chasing ol Buddy out of the patch a lot (twigs are sticking up out of the snow. Buddy says "yum yum"). The road in front of the house, which is usually more than wide enough for two cars, is now so narrow that two cars have to slow down to a crawl to pass each other by. I've raked the snow snow off my roof 6 times this year because of the weight of the snow on the roof. More snow is forecast for later today.

My question: where is global warming in a winter when ya really need it???? ;+}

Liberal's Basic Rule For Discourse: I don't care if you agree with my premises, but I demand that you agree with my conclusions.

First he is complaining that Philadelphia did not really have 40 days that dropped below freezing this winter or 56 days since last November:

Philadelphia Winter 2008 Low Temperature History

Philadelphia Nov 2007 - Feb 2008 Low Temperature History

Then he was complaining that the snow fall in Philly this year has been the same as 1950:

Historic Philadelphia Snow Fall

According to Leon the only temperatures that happen are the ones that he is outside during and any change in snow fall never happened before. 

The Anti 'Man-Made' Global Warming Resource

Does this mean I can keep my light bulbs?

Then I guess this suggests that the cure for global warming is more global warming.

Kind of like a vaccine.

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"People only insist that a debate stop when they are afraid of what might be learned if it continues." - George Will 

The following is a statement from the Reality broadcasting network.  This is only a test. 

If global warming caused additional evaporation (which would lead to greater precipitation) then shouldn't the northeast being seeing record RAINFALL instead of SNOW?

After all, if the planet was warming beyond normal, you'd think it'd be too warm for this much snow.

 This has been a test of the REALITY broadcasting network.  We now return you to your normal programming.

Here's some stats from where I live:

2007-2008:  25 nights below zero so far

2006-2007:  18 nights below zero

2005-2006:  6 nights below zero

2004-2005:  14 nights below zero

2003-2004:  16 nights below zero 

This "clearly" shows something about my region...and the trends show variation within a predictable range.

Clearly, the globalarmists are full of crap.

Ahh, but you see bass, they are actually pretty smart.  It is like playing chess---they strategically placed their pieces in the right spots, some time ago, to eventually be able to claim both cooling and warming as our fault---of course all based on CO2 emissions.  Remember the "Day After Tomorrow" movie---it was fictional right?  Everybody dismissed it.  But know the sheeple will go back to this horribly scientifically inaccurate movie and say "see, now our CO2 is going to send us into the next ice age!  We are going to end up like all of those souls in 'that global warming ice age movie' ". 

Checkmate.

I have stated this here before, but it is always worth repeating.  I have a very close friend, like family, that I got into a global warming debate (obviously, said person was the AGW'er) last summer.  They recited all of the MSM's talking points, blah blah blah.  Nevertheless, once I had them against the ropes they actually CITED the movie "Day After Tomorrow"----and this person, of whom is really actually smart, has  A MASTERS DEGREE IN GEOLOGY!!  To me that is pure evidence that people are dismissing science to promote their agendas....and it is extremely scary..... 

"Controlling carbon is a bureaucrat's dream. If you control carbon, you control life," Richard Lindzen - March 2007.

If you look closely at lotr's chart. You will notice they compared this to the 1961-90 mean temps. In short this "warm" chart is trying to portray a lot of the areas warm by comparing it to a known cool period.

How many ways can we distort?

And it still shows that in january most of the US is cooler than the cooler 61-90 mean.

"There is a clear attempt to establish truth not by scientific methods but by perpetual repetition."
- Richard S. Lindzen, Ph.D. Professor of Meteorology, MIT

The snowbanks outside our house are taller than my 6' husband. After this winter, he is SO glad that he bought a snowblower this year. And I can not wish for Spring to come soon enough, although I have a feeling with all this "global warming" piled up in our front and back yards that we are going to have severe mudpits.

and (to them) the solution will always be socialism.

The cooler than average global temps during the last few months are typical of La Nina, just like the record warmth during 1998 was primarily contributed by El Nino, not global warming. Why hasn't anybody noted this? I'm sure if the discussion was on '98 you would rush to note El Nino's influence. Inferring that a few months of cooler than normal temperatures is the beginning of a major shift in climate is complete nonsense. Let's see what happens when we shift out of the current phase in the ENSO cycle.