Global Warming Drifts Over NoDak
February 27, 2009
Winter.
Ever.
Snow, wind, and cold have assaulted North Dakota yet again in the past 24 hours. In Bismarck Friday morning the temperature was 12 below zero with a new inch or two of snow expected following Thursday’s more significant storm.
According to USA Today, snow in the southern part of the state was bad enough Thursday that snowplow operators were pulling off the road, blinded by the whiteout conditions. A foot of snow was common in the heaviest band.
How much snow? 400% more than normal.
Those were early days, it turned out. Frequent storms, followed by howling northwest winds and record-breaking cold, have made it a winter to remember. On January 15, the morning low at the Bismarck airport was 44 below zero, the coldest ever for the date, and one degree shy of the all-time coldest reading for a state known to be less than balmy.By the end of January, many counties had more than 400 percent of normal snow totals on the ground, and Governor John Hoeven had declared a state of emergency.
“There has been a repeated pattern,” said Fong, ”where the county will come and plow a road and then two days later, without any additional snow, the road becomes impassable again.” Relatively speaking, the people in Bismarck have gotten off light. Divide County, in the state’s northwest corner, has received 500 percent of normal snowfall.
Obama’s $646 Billion Cap-And-Trade Green Tax
As I see it, the most important single item in President Obama’s budget is his commitment to a cap-and-trade plan (to limit and reduce carbon emissions). It represents nothing less than an absolutely breath-taking attempt at reengineering the entire American economy. The White House expects the system will begin generating revenue for the government in 2012. By auctioning off carbon permits, the White expects the plan to bring some $80 billion a year between from 2012 to 2019.
1) What this is, of course, is a de facto business tax that will get passed along to workers and consumers. (Not to mention the impact on economic growth.) And not a small tax, at that. Over that same period, the White House expects regular corporate taxes to bring in some $3.8 trillion dollars. So the cap-and-trade auction impose an additional 20 percent tax or cost above that level. And remember that we already have the second highest corporate tax rate in the world.
Lot’s of snow, cooling temperatures and the Bamster is going to undermine the engine of civilization to save us from global warming.
Perfect. It matches the logic of all of his policies.
Roy Ryder :
Date: March 2, 2009
The Global Warming alarmists are already trying to distance themselves from their earlier insanity (as opposed to their current insanity). They are expunging from the records anything that states that Global Warming would actually involve warming or be global. The current line of reasoning is that cold weather happens because the global warming has knocked things out of kilter, despite there being no actual warming. This logic will become more and more tortured until we’re all freezing to death because we can’t afford to heat our homes so we save the planet.