BHO calls it “Snowmageddon;” Al Gore calls it “Global Warming”

One of the worst blizzards to ever hit Washington has nearly buried the West Wing in snow. Experiencing severe weather conditions are Washington, D.C., Maryland, New Jersey, Virginia, West Virginia and Pennsylvania — where parts of Philadelphia have received up to 30 inches of snow.

Since 1870, Washington, D.C. has gotten more than a foot of snow only 13 times. The heaviest on record was 28 inches in January 1922. The biggest snowfall for the Washington-Baltimore area is believed to have been in 1772, before official records were kept, when as much as 3 feet fell, which George Washington and Thomas Jefferson penned in their diaries, according to an AP account.

MONDAY  UPDATE:

Federal agencies that employ 230,000 people in Washington will be closed, as will many businesses and school districts across the region. With more snow expected Tuesday, residents and stranded travelers are struggling with no electricity.

It’s only $1.1 million — the key issue is did Gabby Giffords, hubby have a good time?

Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif) unresponsive to questions and refusing to release details of the Danish junket, finally had to summit her foreign travel expenditure report.

The best takeaway line was: “It was cold… I was there because I thought it was important for me to be there,” Rep. Henry Waxman, (D-Calif), said. “I didn’t look at it as a pleasure trip.”

CBS News’ Sharyl Attkisson reports on the outrageous expenditures of the congressional elites and their travel boondoggle to the Copenhagen Climate Summit, during these economically depressed times. Over 165 travelers made up the U.S. delegation.

Arizona’s Democrat U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (CD 8) spends a lot of time lecturing on the non-science of “climate change.” In fact, on her website, she proudly substantiates that she “walks her talk on solar energy,” by installing solar panels on the roof of her Tucson home to reduce electricity bill and increase energy independence.

What is curiously omitted are her high-flyin’ high-jinxs at the invitation of House Speaker Pelosi at taxpayer’s expense. Mr. Giffords, AKA astronaut Mark E. Kelly, accompanied Gabby to Demark.

Seeing Red AZ has previously followed the arrogance of Ms. Giffords and her congressional colleagues here.

More solid evidence of the effects of Global Warming

Winter Could Be Worst in 25 Years for USA…
CHILL MAP…
3 Deaths Due To Cold in Memphis…
Vermont sets ‘all-time record for one snowstorm’…
Iowa temps ‘a solid 30 degrees below normal’…
Seoul buried in heaviest snowfall in 70 years…
Historic ice build-up shuts down NJ nuclear power plant…
Beijing — coldest in 40 years…
Miami shivers from coldest weather in decade…

These are links to actual news reports, effectively disproving Al Gore’s hysteria.  No wonder he altered the name to an all-inclusive “Climate Change.”  Global Warming wasn’t saleable.

Hey, Lookie, Al Gore! More proof of global warming!

The following news reports are self explanatory and require no commentary from Seeing Red AZ.

Minneapolis – “the snowiest Christmas … in 30 years”:

http://www.startribune.com/local/79869182.html?page=1&c=y

Winter freeze kills 79 in Poland:

http://www.canada.com/news/Winter+freeze+kills+Poland/2370272/story.html

Temperatures plummeting and snowfall causing chaos from Moscow to Milan:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/dec/22/cold-weather-europe-death-toll

A severe winter storm blustered its way across the United States:

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=41554

Global Warming Dumps Snow On Australia’s Summer:

http://therobalution.com/2009/12/14/global-warming-dumps-snow-on-australias-summer/

Sex, lies and a bit of carbon

Exposing the hypocrisy.

Junk Science of global warming exposed

Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK) the ranking member on the Environment and Public Works committee has announced he will call for an investigation on “Climategate.”

During a floor speech, he said, “Today, I will discuss something else – scientific integrity and how to improve it. Specifically, I will discuss the systematic and documented abuse of the scientific process by an international body that claims it provides the most complete and objective scientific assessment in the world on the subject of climate change – the United Nations-sponsored Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, or IPCC. I will conclude with a series of recommendations as to the minimum changes the IPCC must make if it is to restore its credibility.”  Listen to him speak on the topic here.

The Washington Times editorializes in Hiding evidence of global cooling. This telling opener speaks volumes: “Scientific progress depends on accurate and complete data. It also relies on replication. The past couple of days have uncovered some shocking revelations about the baloney practices that pass as sound science about climate change.”

And the UK’s Telegraph weighs in with this exposé, calling the global warming hoax “a scandal could well be the greatest in modern science.“

The global fear-mongering has made a bundle for scientific charlatan, Al Gore, but his celebrity status as a doom-and-gloomer may soon be coming to an end.

Seeing Red AZ wrote about this in No wonder the libs have stopped calling it “global warming.”

Providing a great lesson in citizenship: Union thugs target Boy Scout

Like unions? Here are the rollicking antics of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) taking on an Eagle Scout who apparently poses a threat to their workers due to his volunteerism.

The Morning Call, a Pennsylvania newspaper, reports that Nick Balzano, president of the local SEIU, told the Allentown City Council that the union is considering filing a grievance against the city for allowing 17-year-old Kevin Anderson to clear a 1,000-foot walking and biking path at a local park. Anderson did the good deed in pursuit of his Eagle Scout badge. He toiled more than 200 hours over several weeks to complete the project.

“We’ll be looking into the Cub Scout or Boy Scout who did the trails,”  Balzano told the council.

Obama morphs into Teddy Roosevelt while waging war with George Bush

In an obvious attempt to divert attention away from the massive political defeats suffered by President Obama on Tuesday, the daily pumps him up as the anti-Bush environmentalist. This morning’s Page One, above-the-fold article, including three large photos — plus the generous jump page coverage — is titled: Obama moves quickly to preserve the West. And if that doesn’t grab you, the line, Policies favoring environment over industry, should.

The puff piece article is a clear indication the left learns little from harsh realities. Although Obama personally and repeatedly urged support of Democrat candidates in Virginia and New Jersey, the voters rejected Chris Deeds in his gubernatorial bid and turned out sitting Gov. Jon Corizine in favor of fiscally conservative Republicans. Yet inexplicably, the newspaper’s coverage is replete with knocks against former President George W. Bush. 

A few examples taken from the article clearly indicates Bush, though no longer a political entity, still makes a fine foe:

 – [steps] President Barack Obama has taken to reverse environmental policies of the Bush administration since taking office in January.

 – For eight years, the Bush administration crafted policies that opened doors wider for multiple uses on public lands. Users such as mining and logging companies won greater access in some areas, and federal agencies were given greater leeway in allowing development.

 – The Bush administration had planned to open up [a park area] to off-road vehicles.

 – In a sharp departure from the Bush administration, the Obama team has halted new uranium-mining.

 – “The environmentalists have been waiting in the wings for eight years,” quoting an assistant professor of political science at ASU, who obviously has a political rather than conservationist axe to grind.

 – “The previous administration was really all about extraction of resources from the land,” they quote reliable liberal Rep. Raul Grijalva.

 – While the Bush administration went after the region’s oil and gas reserves as a way to achieve greater energy independence, the Obama administration is shifting the focus to solar, wind and geothermal power as it looks for ways to boost both the economy and the state of the environment.

It’s the blame game at work.  And when Democrats have no one to blame but themselves, they are not above hauling out a Republican former president to slap around.

If you liked Obama’s Cash for Clunkers program, you’re gonna love this

As part of the Obama administration’s “economic stimulus” package, $300 million in rebates for buying energy-efficient products has been set aside as a reward for ditching your old appliances. State governments were required to submit detailed plans to the Obama administration to explain how they would give that taxpayer money away. So unlike the “Cash for Clunkers” program, each state is in charge of its own “Cash for Appliances” plan.

Programs have already been scheduled for California, New York, and Florida. If you think your neighbors should be paying to replace your no longer trendy refrigerator and harvest gold washer with newer appliances, Arizona’s energy department contact information is here.  Michelle Bermudes, the energy coordinator in charge of Arizona’s appliance rebate program, can be reached at (602) 771-1151.

Back in January, the liberal New York Times, a newspaper that endorsed Obama for president, wrote this about the “stimulus” costs estimates:  But anyone who looked closely [at the table of numbers from the Congressional Budget Office] would have seen something strange about the table. It suggested that the bill would cost only $355 billion in all, rather than its actual cost of about $800 billion.

Why? It turns out that the table was analyzing only certain parts of the bill, like new spending on highways, education and energy. It ignored the tax cuts, jobless benefits and Medicaid payments — the very money that will be spent the fastest.

Even the New York Times gets it.

No wonder the libs have stopped calling it “global warming”

After the scientific community reconsidered the evidence and began to renounce the concept of “global warming,” it was found that the slipperier term “climate change” worked better with focus groups. This could be why.

Now, even the BBC asks, “What happened to global warming?”  But to placate the supporters of the questionable theory, they conclude, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, that “global warming is set to resume.”

The National League Division Series being played in Denver has been “sweating” Game 3 scheduled for tonight. Low temperatures between 18 and 24 degrees along with a 30 percent chance of freezing drizzle have been predicted by the National Weather Service. The coldest temperature at the start of a World Series game over the last 22 years was 38 degrees in 1997.

This report by the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee‘s office references over 400 prominent scientists from more than two dozen countries who have voiced significant objections to major aspects of the so-called “consensus” on man-made global warming. Many of these scientists are current and former participants in the UN IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change), but have become outspoken critics of the climate claims made by the UN IPCC and former Vice President Al Gore.

Among these experts are those who have won Nobel Prizes for their outstanding contributions to their fields, in such diverse areas as climatology; geology; biology; glaciology; biogeography; meteorology; oceanography; economics; chemistry; mathematics; environmental sciences; engineering; physics and paleoclimatology. They just might know a thing or two more about the subject than a former tobacco farmer who has become unimaginably wealthy by hustling global warming hysteria.

Seeing Red AZ has previously covered the Hot Air of Global Warming.