Frigid Summer in Chicago

If you can spare your next $10 grand to fight global warming and line ACORN vote organizer pockets, don’t read this. On the other hand, read this.

Global Warming drives Chi-town to a sweltering 65F on July 8

Is warming still pretty much the opposite of getting cold? More or less, I mean.

Next, we may hear that unseasonable cold is causing stress to food crops.

Chicago has its coolest July 8 in 118 years
By Tom Skilling
July 9, 2009
For the 12th time this meteorological summer (since June 1), daytime highs failed to reach 70 degrees Wednesday. Only one other year in the past half century has hosted so many sub-70-degree days up to this point in a summer season — 1969, when 14 such days occurred.

Wednesday’s paltry 65-degree high at O’Hare International Airport (an early-May-level temperature and a reading 18 degrees below normal) was also the city’s coolest July 8 high in 118 years — since a 61-degree high on the date in 1891.

Rains on Wednesday were bothersome but generally light in the city, where 0.20 inches fell at Midway Airport. Heavier rains were recorded well west and southwest of Chicago, including an unofficial report of 0.93 inches at DeKalb and 0.60 inches in Pontiac.

Sunshine re-emerges Thursday and should boost temperatures back into the 80s. Southeast winds off Lake Michigan will limit shoreline highs to the mid-and-upper 70s. An isolated thunderstorm may bubble to life in far western sections of the area late in the day.

Windfarms: smaller is better

But how small is small enough?

What “technical problems” could possibly be associated with Obama-blessed and endorsed “clean” energy production? Solar panel investments “unprofitable;” surely you jest.

Batteries and extensive power grids spanning vast distances between consumers are a huge expense, presuming they are feasible at all. Need I say more? Here is a test of human intelligence: What is better for the world, for the biosphere, for humans, and for Obama, nuclear energy, or solar and wind energy?

If your town needs 10 gigawatts of power to sustain itself, how much power will it need during a cloudy week when the wind does not blow? You will absolutely insist on having the nuke anyway, if you have a brain, because we also have clouds, we have nightime, and we have extended periods largely free of useful wind, often when it is COLD OUTSIDE.

Yes, there are technical problems with power solutions that perpetually exist in the future. I feel it in my bones.

Enough of my rant, enlightened though it may be; here is the story.

Pickens Big Wind Farm Plan Blows Away

Thursday, July 9, 2009 11:13 AM

By: Gene Koprowski

Touted relentlessly last year on TV during the election season, a major windmill farm planned by billionaire oilman T. Boone Pickens has been scrapped.

The Dallas Morning News reported that rather than build a massive windmill farm in the Texas panhandle Pickens will build smaller ones in Wisconsin, Oklahoma, and Kansas.

The move is the latest retrenchment in alternative energy plans for the oil industry. BP last week announced it is dropping its “beyond petroleum” campaign and discarding unprofitable solar panel investments in favor of money-making oil drilling plans.

Pickens had earlier indicated he was running into financing difficulties for a big windmill farm. There are technical problems, too. According to the Dallas newspaper, engineers discovered problems in transmitting the energy generated at remote wind farms to populated suburbs and cities. Texas had planned to build $5 billion in transmission lines, but these lines didn’t meet with Pickens’ approval.

Though his energy proposal has failed miserably, Pickens has taken to accepting media requests for interviews again. He is being critical of President Obama’s plans to “cap and trade” carbon emissions, which has fared poorly in Europe where it was implemented a number of years ago. During an appearance on CNBC, Pickens said Obama has done nothing to wean the U.S. off foreign oil, which the oilman thinks leaves the country vulnerable in terms of national security.

Other critics, like Nicholas Loris and Ben Lieberman, of the Heritage Foundation, said in a web memo that cap and trade will raise energy prices as well as unemployment.

Clouds, Climate, and Cosmic Rays

All regulated by ‘one’ phenomenon – changing magnetic fields resulting from solar activity. Not carbon dioxide.

Don’t miss any of this 5-part series by Henrik Svensmark, author of The Chilling Stars.

Turned up here first: Gore Lied Five-part video series: Henrik Svensmark discusses his pioneering research on cosmic rays, cloud formation and global warming

Obama Suppresses Science

It’s true, there’s no debate (permitted):

H/T: Moonbattery EPA Buries Truth About Global Warming Hoax