Here in Colorado, part of the 470 beltway is a toll road — E-470 — run by the surrounding counties and other regioinal authorities. If you have a transponder (as we do), you can use the automated toll section. Since we live at the southeast corner of E-470, we use the toll road every time […]
The slightly tongue-in-cheek term “The Gore Effect” — meaning an abrupt change of local weather towards intense cold when or after Al Gore (prophet of Anthropogenic Global Warming) visits that location — became so-named after a few incidents several years ago (see the link above). These days, it’s generally applied whenever any Warmist group holds […]
The city of Seattle (WA) has decided not to use salt or other chemicals in clearing ice and snow from roads, with predictable results: To hear the city’s spin, Seattle’s road crews are making “great progress” in clearing the ice-caked streets. But it turns out “plowed streets” in Seattle actually means “snow-packed,” as in there’s […]
Courtesy of The Daily Bayonet, who got it from Jammie Wearing Fool: Heh. UPDATE: And here, courtesy of Dave Barry, is striking scientific proof that white people — particularly Southern white people — are inherently rhythmically challenged: ..bruce w..
Accuweather delivers the bad news: In the AccuWeather.com Winter Forecast released in early October, Chief Long-range Forecaster Joe Bastardi said the overall colder and snowier winter will be off to a cold start in December, which could be the roughest winter month for much of the nation. Calling the winter of 2008-2009 one of the […]
It makes you wonder how earth (and humanity) ever survived the Medieval Warm Period or the Holocene Maximum: Hat tip to Instapundit. ..bruce w..
Like Phil at Bad Astronomy, I’ve always been intrigued by Antarctica and have wanted to visit there. But this video clip gives a brief — but sufficient — glimpse into the cold, dark, windy hell that Antarctica can be: http://view.break.com/487339 – Watch more free videos Wowza. That looks like “ten steps and die” weather. ..bruce […]
…the sun is blank — no sunspots: This is how the sun has been for the last six weeks or so. ..bruce w..
A plaintive cry for help from the tree-sitters in Berkeley: Hat tip to Little Green Footballs. ..bruce w..
Purple Avenger (at Ace of Spades) posted the following video. Avenger’s not sure if it’s real or a parody, neither am I: This post over at Reason says that “Syndee L’ome Grace” is a real person, and her name certainly does show up via Google. But . . . sheesh. ..bruce w..
