First Order of Business, Buy into Overblown Crisis

I saw this story earlier today about President-elect Obama's urge to curb global warming. I hate his rhetoric about the need to get ourselves independent of foreign oil, but somehow that doesn't include additional oil exploration in our own soil.

Recently, President Bush signed into order the opportunity to open up more oil shale exploration in Utah and Colorado. This is exactly the kind of thing that Obama won't do. He talks about bringing millions of jobs to the US through the expansion of alternative energy, but what about existing technologies that can make a huge impact now? And the global warming "crisis" is not what it seems.

Anyway, this most recent rant is dedicated to the global warming topic. Here is an article from some smart guys at IBD editorials talking about the mix up by the global warming fanatics. Here's some of what they had to report:

Hansen's claim of the hottest October ever came after reports of unseasonal snow and record low temperatures.

China's official news agency reported that Tibet had suffered its "worst snowstorm ever."

The Swiss lowlands last month got the most snow for any October since records began.

Zurich received 20 centimeters, breaking the record of 14 cm set in 1939. Ocala, Fla., experienced the second-lowest temperature recorded for October since 1850.

Elsewhere in the U.S., the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration registered 63 local snowfall records and 115 lowest-ever temperatures for the month, and ranked it as only the 70th warmest October in 114 years. So how did Hansen claim it was the warmest?

Booker writes: "The reason for the freak figures was that scores of temperature records from Russia and elsewhere were not based on October readings at all. Figures from the previous month had simply been carried over and repeated two months running."

And that information that was disproven later came from the geniuses at NASA.

These are the blogs and sites that debunked the widely circulated rumor that October was the hottest month since they've been keeping track, Watts Up With That and Climate Audit.

Commenting on the same story, the guys at Powerline had this to say about the subject:

As the scientific evidence continues to accumulate, it becomes increasingly clear that "global warming" hysteria is based on a combination of bad science and fraud.

And remember all the hype recently about how the arctic is melting at unprecedented rates? You should have at least heard about some of the fuss about putting polar bears on the endangered species list, not because they're actually endangered, but because of the projections about the melting ice caps. Well apparently they're growing at unprecedented rates.

Lame. Find something better to do people. Can we not be alarmists about everything? Geez.