We used to see them in Arizona every winter. Hundreds of thousands of climate refugees from the north streaming into trailer parks. Many bought houses and never went back.
Every winter I think about becoming a climate refugee myself, especially the day after I got back from Lisbon, and my bike went down on the ice in -5F weather.
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Anyone who makes it through this video deserves a prize.
Look for Hansen to paint the June Arctic hot red, brown and pink.
They hate her because she is smart, happy, ethical and beautiful. Everything the left can never hope to achieve.
The Sugar Daddy Has Run Out of Sugar; Now We Need New Leaders
by Sarah Palin on Saturday, July 9, 2011 at 3:22pm
Barack Obama’s big government policies continue to fail. He should put a link to the national debt clock on his BlackBerry. The gears on that clock have nearly exploded during his administration. Yesterday’s terrible job numbers should not be a surprise because it all goes back to our debt. Our dangerously unsustainable debt is wiping out our jobs, crippling our economic growth, and jeopardizing our position in the global economy as the leader of the free world.
As a governor, I had to deal with facts, even unpleasant ones. I dealt with the world as it is, not as I wished it to be. The “elite” political class in this country with their heads in the sand had better face some unpleasant facts about the world as it is. They’ve run out of money and no amount of accounting gimmicks or happy talk will change this reality. Those of us who live in the real world could see this day coming.
Back in January 2009, as governor of Alaska, I announced: “We also have to be mindful about the effect of the stimulus package on the national debt and the future economic health of the country. We won’t achieve long-term stability if we continue borrowing massive sums from foreign countries and remain dependent on foreign sources of oil and gas.” Then I urged President Obama to veto the stimulus bill because it was loaded with absolutely useless pork and unfunded mandates. Everyone knows my early and vocal opposition to that mother of all unfunded mandates known as Obamacare starting back in August 2009, and many recall my objections to the Federal Reserves’ inflationary games with our currency known as QE2 from November 2010. It’s a matter of public record that I did not go to Harvard Law School, but I can add.
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Here is a piece of ice. More than 2,000 miles long.
http://www.arctic.io/observations/8/2011-07-09/4-N74.549522-W155.826489
Vostok, Antarctica averaged -92F last month, with some cooler evenings down to -107F.
A three degree warm up would be catastrophic.
Greenland ice cap breaking up at twice the rate it
was five years ago, says scientist Bush tried to gagBy Jim Hansen
Published: 17 February 2006How far can it go? The last time the world was three degrees warmer than today – which is what we expect later this century – sea levels were 25m higher. So that is what we can look forward to if we don’t act soon.
Oct. 2001
Extreme weather means more terrifying hurricanes and tornadoes and fires than we usually see. But what can we expect such conditions to do to our daily life?
While doing research 12 or 13 years ago, I met Jim Hansen, the scientist who in 1988 predicted the greenhouse effect before Congress. I went over to the window with him and looked out on Broadway in New York City and said, “If what you’re saying about the greenhouse effect is true, is anything going to look different down there in 20 years?” He looked for a while and was quiet and didn’t say anything for a couple seconds. Then he said, “Well, there will be more traffic.” I, of course, didn’t think he heard the question right. Then he explained, “The West Side Highway [which runs along the Hudson River] will be under water. And there will be tape across the windows across the street because of high winds. And the same birds won’t be there. The trees in the median strip will change.” Then he said, “There will be more police cars.” Why? “Well, you know what happens to crime when the heat goes up.”
And so far, over the last 10 years, we’ve had 10 of the hottest years on record.
Didn’t he also say that restaurants would have signs in their windows that read, “Water by request only.”
Under the greenhouse effect, extreme weather increases. Depending on where you are in terms of the hydrological cycle, you get more of whatever you’re prone to get. New York can get droughts, the droughts can get more severe and you’ll have signs in restaurants saying “Water by request only.”
When did he say this will happen?
Within 20 (2008) or 30 (2018) years. And remember we had this conversation in 1988 or 1989.
Does he still believe these things?
Yes, he still believes everything. I talked to him a few months ago and he said he wouldn’t change anything that he said then.
http://dir.salon.com/books/int/2001/10/23/weather/index.html
Obama tripled the budget deficit during his first year as president, and blamed it on Bush.
In 2010 he vowed to cut his tripled budget deficit in half, and do honest accounting.
