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Over the last four years, the only thing Obama has demonstrated he can do is read a teleprompter, hang out on the golf course, and put our children further in debt. What are these people smoking?

h/t to Marc Morano

Temperatures aren’t rising, nor are hurricanes and tornadoes increasing – so the other brain-damaged senator from California has determined that global warming boils down to Tropical Storm Sandy.

Sen. Barbara Boxer said she had a one word answer for why President Obama promised to act on climate change in his second inaugural address: “Sandy.”

Boxer called Hurricane Sandy a turning point in public opinion on global warming, and said Washington will act to curb CO2 emissions not via legislation but through the Environmental Protection Agency.

“My view is they have no choice but to act,” Boxer said

Barbara Boxer sees carbon tax in the mix | Politics Blog | an SFGate.com blog

Apparently there has never been a storm surge before this autumn.

Last year, DC didn’t have much snow – because of global warming or climate change or perhaps climate disruption caused by evil Americans. During Obama’s first week in the palace after his second coronation, he has fixed the climate in DC!

Weather Street:Clouds and Precipitation Forecast Movie

Erie, Pa., officially picked up 16.3 inches of snow at the airport Monday alone, making it the snowiest January calendar day on record, and the snowiest day in any month for Erie since Nov. 29, 1979! Snowfall records there began in 1893.”

Lake-Effect Snow Hammering Great Lakes Region | Weather News | Weather Underground

Imposing still more “global warming” restrictions on the U.S. economy makes about as much sense as losing your car keys in Boston but insisting on searching for them in Los Angeles. True, global carbon dioxide emissions have risen more than 33 percent since the year 2000. However, U.S. carbon dioxide emissions have declined during that time and will continue to decline for the foreseeable future. The U.S. Energy Information Administration reports that during 2012 alone, U.S. carbon dioxide emissions declined by 8 percentcompared to 2011. 

China by far emits more carbon dioxide than any other nation. Chinese emissions, moreover, are growing rapidly. China alone accounts for 75 percent of the global increase in carbon dioxide emissions since 2000. If the United States completely eliminated all of its carbon dioxide emissions today (something that is impossible to do), the only thing we would accomplish would be to delay by about five years an equal increase in Chinese emissions. And China has repeatedly and emphatically insisted it will not agree to any restrictions on its carbon dioxide emissions.

Thankfully, President Obama’s asserted global warming catastrophes exist solely in his mind.

President Should Declare Global Warming Victory and Go Home | Heartlander Magazine

It is nineteen degrees warmer in downtown Denver than it is here in Fort Collins. I have no idea why.

http://wxug.us/10ki5

The US had much worse and longer lasting droughts in the 1930s and 1950s, and the trend has been towards less drought.

But rumour is that the climate models predicted that all kinds of really bad stuff was going to happen, so that proves that the current drought is due to climate change*.

* No one has any idea what climate change means, but we do know that higher taxes and Obama worship are essential to prevent it.

Warm air from the rapidly melting Arctic is freezing Minnesota solid.

Roseville OVAL Closed Due to Cold Weather | KSTP TV – Minneapolis and St. Paul

Jan. 8, 2013:  In the galactic scheme of things, the Sun is a remarkably constant star.  While some stars exhibit dramatic pulsations, wildly yo-yoing in size and brightness, and sometimes even exploding, the luminosity of our own sun varies a measly 0.1% over the course of the 11-year solar cycle.

There is, however, a dawning realization among researchers that even these apparently tiny variations can have a significant effect on terrestrial climate. A new report issued by the National Research Council (NRC), “The Effects of Solar Variability on Earth’s Climate,” lays out some of the surprisingly complex ways that solar activity can make itself felt on our planet.

Solar Variability and Terrestrial Climate – NASA Science

NASA has almost caught up with the state of climate science in the 18th century.

h/t to Tom Nelson

Twitter / ClimateOfGavin: Pliocene, perhaps 400ppm CO2 …

h/t to  Tom Nelson and Marc Morano