A dusting of snow in Malibu. Real snowfall in Las Vegas. A boatload of snow dumped on us last night. We are in for another real winter it appears, two of them back to back. Spokane, just up the road from us, had to go to DefCon5 snow removal, or whatever they call it, running …
Lotsa Water
Driving out the coast, I had the privilege of driving for the better part of a day alongside the Columbia River. Driving back, the river was just as wide and just as long. What an enormous amount of water, flowing steadily to the sea. And, making this even more fun, we were doing pretty much …
Let It Snow
Today is June 10 and, as I look out my window, the snow is coming down steadily and briskly. And, to pervade the whole thing with a delicious sense of irony, if I don’t accept the tenets of global warming, I am a dangerous lunatic. If I play my cards right, one day I might …
The Pope and Climate Change
Careful readers of this blog will recall that I had a little fun at the Vatican’s expense some time ago on the issue of global warming. In the article I linked to at that time, it mentioned that the pope was going to use his speech at the UN (just now past) to press for …
The Horse Laugh of Freedom
Earlier this winter, I have posted the occasional anecdotal guffaw at the expense of global warming. Comes now Science to back up all the stalwart lovers of liberty who dared to laugh the Horse Laugh of Freedom. Turns out, this year has seen a dramatic plunge in temperature, all around the world, according to all …
Belay My Last
A few weeks ago, I had some fun posting pictures of all the global warming that was making it hard to get up the hill to my house. One response was that one local cooling variation does not a global global warming hysteria undo, and point taken. But it turns out to have been the …
Pressure Testing My Footings
We got six guys to come up to our house today to shovel off our deck, and it took them about an hour. We weren’t interested in finding out just how many feet of snow it would take to kick off some unplanned renovations at our house this summer. Many thanks to the guys, and …
I’m Just Saying . . .
Here is my lovely wife Nancy on our front walk this morning. We are expecting another load of snow tonight, so we’ll see how it goes.
Let’s Just Call It Cold, White Stuff
We should be getting somewhere between 5 inches to a foot of new snow on Thursday. And as it stands, we already have a little walkway shoveled up to our front door, with the current snow coming up to my knees. Nancy and I both have four-wheel drive, so we are still getting up the …
Strange New Respect
The pope appears to have decided to score some easy points with those who are currently whooping the climate change thing. I have mixed emotions. On the one hand, I can’t stand it. Hitching our collective guilt wagon to the bogus science of climate change? But on the other hand, this does do my Protestant …