After mandating the fuel source for American cars, President Obama also announced today that American computers are going to quit using power hungry Microsoft Windows – and will transition over to environmentally friendly OS X.
Click this link – it is hilarious.
I rode my bike up to the Fort Collins fire this morning. It turns out that almost all off the burn was grass, with only a few small patches of trees. There is still quite a bit of snow in the burn area, as you can see in the picture below (white patches.)
We have had a lot of snow recently, including two heavy, wet snows during the past week. But around noon on Friday, a very strong Chinook wind picked up and spread a government started (un)controlled burn over a few hundred acres.
It is probably a good idea for government employees to check the weather forecast before they start playing with fire. No doubt this will be blamed on global warming.
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Due to the unprecedented meltdown in recent years, Arctic sea ice coverage today is almost identical to the same date in 1974.
The image below overlays the maps.
NSIDC conveniently ignores pre-1979 satellite data, preferring to start their graphs right at the peak. This supports the impression that Arctic ice is declining due to evil humans.
Fortunately, the 1990 IPCC report captured the pre-1979 satellite data, revealing how NSIDC is cherry-picking their 1979 start date at a local maximum.
www.ipcc.ch/ipccreports/far/wg_I/ipcc_far_wg_I_full_report.pdf
Obama wants to get rid of gasoline cars and replace them with compressed natural gas cars. His motivation for this is that burning methane produces slightly less CO2 than burning gasoline.
During the winter of 1970-1971 I was living in Los Alamos, New Mexico. One evening around 8pm a tremendous natural gas explosion occurred. My neighbors’ house exploded in a massive fireball which actually lifted the house next door off its foundation and set it down about a foot away. No one died, but a girl I went to school with suffered brain damage due to a high fever from her burns.
In 1991 or 1992 I was living in Houston, and was awoken by a natural gas pipeline explosion fifty miles away which killed numerous people. The shockwave practically knocked my pregnant wife out of bed.
In 1937, a gas explosion killed 425 school children in New London, Texas.
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Any kind of highly compressed gas (as would be required in a CNG car) is a bomb. Even an inert compressed gas tank containing CO2 or nitrogen would blow up like a bomb if the integrity of the tank were damaged due to an accident or structural defect. But methane is much worse, because it is extremely unstable in the presence of oxygen.
But the most ridiculous thing about Obama’s plan, is that climate alarmists consider methane to be thirty times worse than CO2 for global warming. His motivation for the Obomba Car is beyond idiotic.
Natural gas has killed ten times more schoolchildren than rifles.
Obama has managed to completely lose his core support, only six weeks into his attempted coup.
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LaPierre reserved his harshest criticism for Janet Napolitano’s Department of Homeland Security, which suggested in a recent Web video that citizens protect themselves from gunmen with scissors.
“Scissors? That’s their answer?” LaPierre asked. “Let’s get this straight: To protect our children at school, we recommend a trained professional with a gun, and they recommend scissors? And they say we’re crazy? It’s sheer madness.”
“There’s not a mom or a dad anywhere who wouldn’t feel safer seeing a police car in parking lot when they drop their kids off to school,” he said.
LaPierre: ‘Let Them Be Damned’ – By Eliana Johnson – The Corner – National Review Online
Three days ago this had six inches of snow.
Galena Fire scorches Lory State Park, billows smoke over Fort Collins
Here is what it looked like on Sunday.
We have a Chinook today, which fanned a forest fire burning west of town adjacent to the last year’s big burn. Look for McKitten to declare the end of the world when he hears about it.
“Video games are a key component of the nation’s violence problem … As a grandparent or a parent, to pretend these violent video games don’t make a difference — it’s crazy.”
Rep. Wolf (R-VA)
Representative Wolf thinks these people are video gamers.
Obama demonstrates again that he is genuinely world class stupid.
The purpose of all this insanity is to stop global warming, which stopped 17 years ago.
