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I’m still digging out from 3 feet’s worth of RFK Jr’s ‘anemic winter’ …

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  February 8th, 2010 at 09:00 AM  | 

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…so people will understand that I’m about as interested as David Freddoso in being overly nice in pointing out his past bloviating. My back isn’t actually killing me, right now, but that’s only because I was being very, very careful about removing all that anemic winter from the car.  I’m going to be forty in a couple of months; I don’t bounce back from straining myself over anemic winters like I used to.

Three observations about our marvelous new technological paradigm:

  1. Everything in print gets recorded these days. Everything.
  2. Nothing ever goes away. Ever.
  3. The only thing that people are patient about when it comes to online matters is in waiting for just the right moment to demonstrate that someone is an idiot.

I would join David in suggesting that RFK Jr get out of the weather prediction/doomsaying business, only I can’t for the life of me think of anything else that he’d be any less incompetent at.  Ditch digging?  He could learn that on the job.

Moe Lane

PS: Just to reinforce the scorn: the plural of anecdote is not data; I am not obligated to accept your religious beliefs as being scientifically valid; and this is why political dynasties are a bad idea.

Enjoy your morning.

Crossposted to Moe Lane.

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  • http://thesandsinstitute.org Vassar Bushmills

    It’s one of the conundrums of the modern age that people can be continuously wrong, or lie, but never lose a free forum to spill their bilge one more time.

    That they are allowed get away with it was always the cause of one of Mr Bushmills’ rants. He always said, “In the Bible, on the second wrong guess, they threw false prophets over a cliff.”

    Seems appropriate.

    By the way, VB is somehere over Greenland I suppose, and will be on station tomorrow.

    St George

  • throwback59

    observations about that number:
    1. you’re still a kid, sonny
    2. Isn’t that RFK Jr’s I.Q.?

  • Next93

    No one is ever going to call me a warmist, but I have to point out that that there are two sayings that pretty much cover all weather conditions:

    Summer: “It’s not the heat, it’s the humidity”
    Winter: “Yeah, but at least it’s too cold to snow”

    The weather geeks love to point out that there’s no such thing as too cold to snow, but the fact is that when you’re at -20, any moisture in anything but the fastest-moving air mass has precipitated out long before it gets to you. On the other hand, when we start to get to the point where CO2 actually exists as a gas, like in March, we get buried in snow.

    Point is, heavy snowstorms in certain parts of the country are actually pretty much consistent with the idea of warming. Which is to say, they’re proof of absolutely nothing. Weather isn’t climate when it’s snowing any more than it is when it’s sweltering.

  • Next93

    Sorry, I meant to say that the two sayings cover all weather conditions here in the upper midwest. Your mileage may vary.

    This is what happens when you click “send” because you’re late for work.

  • melvinwinter

    Here’s a parody video on global warming featuring Kermit the Frog singing “It’s Not Easy Being Green”: http://www.youtube.com/user/Optoons#p/u/0/r2XIGTR4hiY

  • throwback59

    we are going to be hit with? Man, I’m not looking forward to summer.

  • DefendUSA

    Remember *That *storm*?
    We were snowed in for a week living five miles from Dulles. We measured 27 inches in our yard. My husband did not head downtown for a week…and gee, I do remember the weather being cold and not anemic in all the years since. After all, winter is cold and summer is hot!!

  • Wing Zero

    Moe, and I’m hurting. But I did my driveway about 6 times to keep it from piling up. Then I helped out my neighbor. She had let it sit. Up front, her drive way was pure ice. That stuff was a flipping explitive to move.