Nothing Like a Spring Snow

We awoke today, Easter Day and a three days into spring, to snow. The sun then came out and melted all that snow. It then got to about 41 degrees and, believe it or not, it started snowing again. Hard. With huge wet snowflakes, blowing north to south in my yard, but south to north in my neighbor's yard. And it continued snowing even as the sun came out. In a word, it was weird.

I wonder how that all fits into the global warming alarmists' picture? I thought it fitting, given todays's snow, to highlight an interesting article in the The Australian titled Climate facts to warm to. Of course this article is categorized as opinion whereas a similar article in favor of the global warming hype would be considered to fall into the, ahem... climate category.

My favorite part:

If Marohasy is anywhere near right about the impending collapse of the
global warming paradigm, life will suddenly become a whole lot more interesting.

A great many founts of authority, from the Royal Society to the UN,
most heads of government along with countless captains of industry, learned
professors, commentators and journalists will be profoundly embarrassed. Let us
hope it is a prolonged and chastening experience.

With catastrophe off the agenda, for most people the fog of millennial
gloom will lift, at least until attention turns to the prospect of the next ice
age. Among the better educated, the sceptical cast of mind that is the basis of
empiricism will once again be back in fashion. The delusion that by recycling
and catching public transport we can help save the planet will quickly come to
be seen for the childish nonsense it was all along.

The poorest Indians and Chinese will be left in peace to work their way
towards prosperity, without being badgered about the size of their carbon
footprint, a concept that for most of us will soon be one with Nineveh and Tyre,
clean forgotten in six months.

The scores of town planners in Australia building empires out of
regulating what can and can't be built on low-lying shorelines will have to come
to terms with the fact inundation no longer impends and find something more
plausible to do. The same is true of the bureaucrats planning to accommodate
"climate refugees".

Penny Wong's climate mega-portfolio will suddenly be as ephemeral as
the ministries for the year 2000 that state governments used to entrust to
junior ministers. Malcolm Turnbull will have to reinvent himself at vast speed
as a climate change sceptic and the Prime Minister will have to kiss goodbye
what he likes to call the great moral issue and policy challenge of our
times.

"The great moral issue and policy challenge of our times." Pshaw.