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Title: Who'll stop the snow?
Source: townhall.com
URL Source: http://townhall.com/columnists/Paul ... 2009/12/20/wholl_stop_the_snow
Published: Dec 20, 2009
Author: Paul Jacob
Post Date: 2009-12-20 08:42:26 by Eric Stratton
Keywords: None
Views: 1026
Comments: 55

Who'll stop the snow?
Paul Jacob
Sunday, December 20, 2009

People express this simple fact with markedly different emphasis and emotion. With joy, my 10-year old screeches it at the top of her lungs. My wife mutters it as if an invading army had just crossed the Potomac — perhaps from Copenhagen, where they had huddled to “do something” about the climate.

This current burst of precipitation is no light dusting: We’ve received more than a foot of snow, and it’s still coming down, the air full of the swirling white stuff.

I like snow. It excites me — in some part because I’m slow to appreciate new realities. I react just as I did in school (more than three decades ago): That is, a miracle has occurred, preventing the cruel teacher, world, you-name-it, from controlling my life as previously planned.

But I’m not a schoolboy anymore. Snow or no snow, I have a column due Saturday evening, and so I must write. Yet, how can anyone sit still in their basement to write when snow pours out of the sky above?

The fond memories of sledding with my daughters over the years, and making snowmen, cross my mind. I don’t even object to shoveling. It’s hard work, but it is also good exercise, leaving one with a firm sense of satisfaction, provided one avoids keeling over from a heart attack.

Minutes ago I could have been found shoveling the driveway and the walk, and cleaning off the cars. The snow was coming down faster than I could shovel it out of the way, so I gave up.

I guess “I can’t get me no satisfaction,” at least not until the snow lets up. But there is some serenity: I can easily accept that Mother Nature is more powerful than I am. (It’s an ancient wisdom: Do not fret about what you have no control over.) And there is nothing anyone can do about it — not President Obama, the federal Congress, the Supreme Court or the United Nations.

For someone who perhaps works too much and plays too little, snow — especially a blizzard — reminds me that sometimes life tosses out curve balls, and that, when that happens, you have to go with the pitch. Hoping for a fastball right down the middle — or protesting the pitch — won’t stop it from breaking across the plate for a strike.

Or help you hit it.

So it is with snow. The flakes are like little whispers that “we’re not in control,” which is scary. But the message is reassuring, too, in signaling that the blowhards on television aren’t in control, either.

It’s often said that timing is everything. I note this East Coast snow storm coincides with the end of the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen.

In Copenhagen, the governments of 193 nations met to dicker over how to control the planet’s weather. On the last day of the event, President Barack Obama proclaimed a “meaningful and unprecedented breakthrough” as the United States, China, Brazil, India and South Africa agreed to a deal whereby developed countries will list voluntary emissions targets and wealthier countries pledged monetary aid to assist poorer countries in dealing with global warming.

The Boston Globe reported that the accord was “not legally binding” and “falls short of even the most timid expectations of what would come out of the much-anticipated talks.” Obama himself admitted that this agreement “will not be sufficient” to micromanage the global thermostat or avoid the most serious effects of climate change.

The Obama-negotiated deal attempts to limit global warming through the end of the 21st century to no more than 2 degrees Celsius over pre-industrial times, while some climate scientists now predict the rise will be 3 to 7 degrees.

Will it work? Can governments around the world concentrate enough knowledge and direct enough sheer force — and, with it, muster up enough compliance — to manage the climate?

Folks in Washington and Copenhagen say “Yes.” Folks shoveling the snow on my block think Mother Nature is not so easily legislated.

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#4. To: Eric Stratton (#0)

Global Warming is a fact. Get over your idealistic and defensive posture.

buckeroo  posted on  2009-12-20   15:19:06 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#5. To: buckeroo (#4)

Global Warming is a fact.

Yeah, yeah. Now why not yammer about how "the science is settled" like Al Gore? Even in the face of the fraud that has been perpetrated with the missing, deleted emails and how it has been shown that they had to "fudge the facts" to make their "science" fit their theory?

James Deffenbach  posted on  2009-12-20   15:46:49 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#6. To: James Deffenbach (#5)

Al Gore and all the politicians claiming fame don't influence my opinions; I regard these monsters as the scum of the Earth. But, it is inarguable that the Earth's average temperature is rising. With rising temperatures we are going to experience incredible changes in our own individual lifestyles. When government attempts methods of regulation of any issue, we are doomed.

buckeroo  posted on  2009-12-20   15:53:18 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#7. To: buckeroo (#6)

But, it is inarguable that the Earth's average temperature is rising.

Please elaborate on how it is inarguable that the earth's temperature is rising. Follow by explaining what the source of the warming is, then explain the Medieval Warm Period, where there wasn't a diesel engine to be found.

Your appeal to authority is unconvincing.

echo5sierra  posted on  2009-12-20   17:42:55 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#12. To: echo5sierra (#7)

Your appeal to authority is unconvincing.

ROTFL.

buckeroo  posted on  2009-12-20   23:32:45 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#13. To: buckeroo, echo5sierra, all (#12)

Where is the evidence?

He is right. An appeal to authority in a scientific argument is never valid.

The data, measurements, and observations are at the heart of matters.

No data = no valid argument.

We know now that the data coming out of the CRU was cooked and cherry picked to fit the hypothesis not the hypothesis formulated to fit the data. Glowbull Warming is a scam which is being pushed to enrich, and increase the power of, the usual suspects.

Original_Intent  posted on  2009-12-20   23:44:47 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#14. To: Original_Intent (#13)

Get out of your Lazy-Boy chair, OI. I want no such thing as government intervention of and/or about global warming phenomena much-less anything else. HELL, the rat bastards in Congress can't even decide how much they want to pay themselves while stripping every man, woman and child of their own dignity.

Global Warming is a fact. And no legislative effort can stop the phenomena. Perhaps when the human population stops climbing geometrically, we can see some positive changes.

buckeroo  posted on  2009-12-20   23:52:06 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#18. To: buckeroo (#14)

Global Warming is a fact.

No it is not.

farmfriend  posted on  2009-12-21   0:48:36 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#20. To: farmfriend (#18)

Yes it is. FACT:

buckeroo  posted on  2009-12-21   0:52:03 ET  (1 image) Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#21. To: buckeroo (#20)

LOL oooo a chart starting in 1955, yeah that proves it. LOL

farmfriend  posted on  2009-12-21   0:53:27 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#23. To: farmfriend (#21)

I often wonder why you think this stuff is so funny. Still, I have the patience to indulge your appetite ... here goes:

buckeroo  posted on  2009-12-21   0:59:24 ET  (1 image) Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#24. To: buckeroo (#23)

Your using a climate model chart to validate your claims and you wonder why I find this funny? I talk to actual scientists about this, you know that.

farmfriend  posted on  2009-12-21   1:02:55 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#26. To: farmfriend (#24)

WOW! You talk to real scientists? They aren't GODS and they can't determine the atrocious consequences of human over-breeding.

buckeroo  posted on  2009-12-21   1:06:30 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


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#28. To: buckeroo (#26)

Even assuming you are correct about human over breeding that has nothing to do with whether the planets climate has changed over the last three decades.

farmfriend  posted on  2009-12-21 01:08:58 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#34. To: buckeroo, farmfriend (#26)

...atrocious consequences of human over-breeding.

I like breeding, buck. It's fun, rewarding and a most worthwhile endeavor.

Not for everyone of course.

I won't be guilted or shamed out of doing the most natural thing in life.

To hell with the birth control nazis.

wudidiz  posted on  2009-12-21 01:18:30 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


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