Looks like the coldest El Nino on record. Just a week or two ago, the usual crop of suspects were predicting record warmth in 2013 – because of El Nino.

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Opinion: Global warming takes toll on Colorado forests

It doesn’t take a scientist to understand the connection between climate change and forest fires. Last spring was hot and dry, which resulted in a dry forest that easily burns. This should not surprise us. What is surprising is the pace of climate change and the damage it has already caused to our forests and communities.

The previous spring had record snow in Colorado. Some years are warm, other years are cold.

Opinion: Global warming takes toll on Colorado forests « Summit County Citizens Voice

Earth to Bob, Lodgepole Pine forests can’t exist without fire. The seeds only germinate during crown fires. 100 years of fire suppression is making the forests unhealthy.

Why is the weather so calm in Arizona, and so stormy in the Arctic?

According to numb-nuts brain-damaged alarmists, this is because “more energy in the system” produces stronger storms.

I just took the pictures below in an area north of Los Alamos which was completely wiped out by fire 12 years ago. Prior to the fire, it was overgrown, sickly pine forest, caused by 70 years of fire suppression. Now it is full of life and color, thanks to the fire.

http://www.sciencenews.org/

18 Feb 1952 – RAPID MELTING OF POLAR CAPS CLEVELAND, Sunday.

NASA’s climate messiah bleeds.

What about NASA’s James Hansen putting out a report predicting global warming would decrease Antarctic ice by 40 percent?

Scambos said the new ice data is “a contradiction” to Hansen’s prediction, but he said Hansen’s assessment was done in the early 1980s.

“We would not be doing our job very well if we had not learned something in 30 years,” he said.

Does record Antarctic sea ice refute global warming? | Fact Checker

A few days ago scientists predicted that global warming would cause marathon times to slow.

Will Climate Change Slow Marathon Times?

Climate change is blamed for melting ice, shrinking animals and brewing more intense storms around the globe — but is it slowing the top finish times at the Boston Marathon? Not yet, researchers found, though future increases in temperature could mean fewer records are broken.

Will Climate Change Slow Marathon Times? – Yahoo! News

Today’s Chicago Marathon will almost certainly be the coldest on record, with forecast high temperatures close to 50 degrees.

Yesterday’s Denver Post had a WWII armistice sized headline :

EMPLOYMENT GAINS

After the messiah’s teleprompter-free crucifixion in Denver on Wednesday, the press is desperate to resurrect him.  They pulled the same stunt three days after the Libya disaster, by dropping coverage and obsessing over the Romney 47% tape.

7.8% unemployment, even if it was accurate, would be called out by the press as a catastrophe if a republican were president.

People around the world are worrying about their carbon footprint. But what about their furry friends’ carbon pawprints?

Mass mental illness

Consider the numbers: there are currently around 1 billion pet cats and dogs worldwide (not to mention hundreds of millions of stray ones), and pet ownership rates are vastly higher in western countries. About 40% of US households own at least one dog, compared with about 6% of Chinese homes.

That is because they eat dogs in China

The ecological consequences of pets are significant when you consider the land needed to produce the energy and resources required for a large dog are equivalent to that of a four-wheel drive Land Rover

What about your carbon pawprint?

What about the author’s massive stupidity footprint?