Monty by Jim Meddick for June 03, 2014

I’m ok with being led by hearsay, but poppycock is where I draw the line.

It’s La chupacabra, not “El Chupacabras.” Please.

Racist? French? I am using correct Spanish. Chupacabra is a feminine noun, not masculine.

You crack me up, Meddick. :-D

Hmm… so Mr. Meddick is a Global Warming believer.

Global warming isn’t happening yet, but it will. Atmospheric warming is happening, but that is mostly still due to global cooling, which reduces the amount of water vapor in the atmosphere, leaving 10% of the Earth’s surface as desert and causing glacial recession. The desert encroachment and glacial recession contribute to the atmospheric warming. Our atmosphere is still too cold and thin to allow vapor to travel very far, resulting in tropical storms where the cycle from water to vapor and back is accomplished in a very tight space and the energy exchange is compressed to produce an extremely violent expression of difference.

Wait 20 years, Colleges and the media will be making a living off global cooling again.

Anyone up for a drinking game? Every time sombody asks why it’s cold if there’s global warming, you take a drink. If somebody tries to explain that weather and climate are not the same thign but nobody listens, you take another.

Sedgwick’s newsletter would probably also mention individual temperatures from specific dates and places. But it wouldn’t show a graph of global average temperatures from the past 150 years. That would upset the readers.

Sorry, but when I was in school (a hunnert years ago in the late 70’s children,) the scientists all scared the pants off us about the impending new ice age. Then the blizzard of 1978 hit—made them look right. No ice age materialized, and now we hear that the science folks were supposed to have been warning about global warming since the 1940’s—quite the contradiction to what they taught. Can you understand why we are all skeptical about all the “theories” of global warming and why they sound like Chicken Little pronouncements to us?

MEMO: re GoatsuckerTO: Master Sedgwick Nuttingham IVFROM: Sisyphos

Sedgie,

You should read the online (at GoComics) story-strip Lost Side of Suburbia; specifically, the tale entitled “The Bogey,” in which a chupacabra (coincidentally named Goatsucker) plays a prominent rôle. This would teach you all you need to know as you set out on your own adventure against the fabled beast….

You’re welcome.

Since I started reading this strip a couple of months ago, it has moved up to the top few in humor in my estimation. How unfortunate that it has delved into the cesspool of politics. If you go political it only is funny to some and not others. Leave politics to the political cartoonists. Do we really want to know the political opinions of Mr. Meddick?

damn it’s cold this AM!

Skeptical Science is a good site. This one is less technical, good for those who it hurts to think.http://grist.org/series/skeptics/The 20th Century is over. Let’s evolve.

Look at the climate changes happening in my climate model. Ta, ta, I’m off to tweak my data.

There is an ‘s’ on chupacabras because it means “the sucker of goats,” not “the sucker of goat.” Not all words ending in ‘a’ are feminine in Spanish. See “el día” and “el agua.”

Please enlighten us to this proof.

We believe science says, not what Rush Limbaugh grunts.

“2nd Civil War”? Thank you for your treason.

Global warming is inevitable. The seas have been cooling for over 15,000 years, due to ice that was stored up as kinetic potential when the world was much warmer. Yes, that is right. When the world is warmer, it converts thermal energy to kinetic energy by the state change of water, and pushes it as far away as it can by subsequent atmospheric pressure increases from continuing evaporation. Eventually, it has to fall out as precipitation. The warmer the world gets, the farther the water vapor penetrates before it precipitates. It can even chain, being returned to the atmosphere from plants, which use only 1% of the water they consume for photosynthesis. The low atmospheric water vapor density of the past 15,000 years has resulted in glacial recession, desert encroachment and atmospheric warming, and will continue to do so until the energy absorbed by the seas is greater than the energy absorbed from the seas by the polar ice and evaporation. As it is, tropical evaporation is only appreciable half the year, and the vapor emitted falls back quickly, creating major storms of great intensity due to the narrow gradient for temperature and vapor. 10% of the Earth’s surface, or 30% of the land surface, is desert because of a lack of sufficient water vapor. If there were sufficient water vapor, its greenhouse effect would be greater than that of any CO2 or CH4 we might pour into the atmosphere.AGW believers are insincere, deceived, mistaken, or just plain incurious and preferring to follow the herd wherever it leads.