Global Warming? Seriously?

As London debates a global warming bill, they experience the first October snow since 1922 (read article here). At the same time, Switzerland - you know, home of the Swiss Alps - just got the most October snow since they began keeping records in 1931 (read article here).

Right now, 60% of Londoners "doubt the influence of humans on climate change." However, it seems that no one in the leadership is willing to doubt this as well, even as we have seen so much evidence that questions whether global warming is actually happening and shows that human impact on climate change is very difficult to prove. 

Check out another one of my posts on the topic and let me know what you think about all of the global warming hype. 

Energy Crisis, Or Lack Thereof

As some of you know, I try to stay up on environmental issues like global warming and the like. Though this is not exactly an environmental issue, it falls in the same part of my brain for some reason. I was sent a link to a video 2 days ago of a lecture by Lindsey Williams on what he calls the Energy Non-Crisis. I have my opinions of it, but wanted to see what you thought. 

Williams essentially says that there is a group of men who determine how much oil can be used and how much it is going to cost. He also says that they have found probably the largest oil field in the world on the Alaskan North Coast, but that the government isn't letting them pump oil out of it, but instead making us buy oil from the Middle East because of a deal made in the 60s or 70s.

Anyway, the video can be found here.

It is a long video, 1 hour and 15 minutes, but please watch it and share your thoughts.

Global Warming Update

This just in:

The temperature in International Falls, Minnesota, fell to a record 40 below zero Monday, just a few days after the northern Minnesota town won a federal trademark making it officially the "Icebox of the Nation."

It was so cold that resident Nick McDougall couldn't even get his car trunk lid to close after he got out his charger to kick-start his dead battery. By late morning, the temperature had risen all the way to 18 -- below zero.

"This is about as cold as it gets, this is bad. There's no wind -- it's just cold," said McDougall, 48, a worker at The Fisherman, a convenience store and gas station in the town on the Canadian border. "People just don't go out, unless you have to go to work."

Residents of the area use electric engine block heaters to keep their cars from freezing.
"You plug in your car, for sure, and you put the car in the garage if you can," McDougall said. His garage is full of other things, so he had to park outside -- a "big mistake."

The previous record low in International Falls was 37 below, set in 1967, said meteorologist Mike Stewart at the weather service in Duluth. The cold was expected, he said: "When the winds finally died off and the skies cleared off, it just dropped."

The temperature also fell to 40 below in Embarrass, 80 miles southeast of International Falls. That's just one degree above the all-time record in Minneapolis, 250 miles to the south, that was set in January 1888, the weather service said.
(Source: cnn.com)

I'm just glad that we're all agreed on the threat of global warming...oh, that's right, no we're not.