[M2inOR]

I spent the last two weeks traveling around Iceland. Yes, the climate is changing.

Man caused? Doubtful.

We had a mini ice age 500 years. At one time, not long ago, Iceland was completely under glacial ice. That ice has been receding long before man stepped foot in Iceland and even Europe. Fossil remains also show teaches of warm weather plants and animals from thousands and millions of years ago.

Sometimes climate change is influenced by plate tectonics. Other times by astronomical events. Sometimes by volcanic action. None of those can be stopped by human activity.

Best we can do is adapt. Darwin told us that it's survival of the fittest!

[ringmic88]

Climate Change = Grifting for the politically corrupt

[golfing eagles]

Originally Posted by MandoMan

I hear you. This isn’t a government plot. It’s a newscast plot. All of these TV news stations base their charge for advertising on how many people are watching. Most TV news stations, have taken to doing whatever they can to keep people watching. Decades ago, the weather report was boring. Now, the stations do whatever they can to keep people watching instead of changing the channel or going to the kitchen or something. The best way they have found is by presenting the weather report in an alarmist way and warning you throughout the news that you won’t want to miss this. Garbage. They are presenting the unlikely worst it could be as if people should worry about it. Thus the heat index. It’s so much more impressive than just the temperature because it’s so much higher. In the north, they also do it with the Wind Chill Factor. It looks so much scarier, so you keep watching through the next commercial to find out what horrible thing to expect. Alarmist! Remember that word. Don’t believe TV weather reports. I use Weather Underground online. It just takes a minute, and it’s in line with the national report combined with lots of local weather gathering stations. Try it. It’s very different from what you’ll see on TV, but more accurate. Imagine! You’ve been wasting maybe half an hour a day on TV weather! You don’t need to do that. TV weather also tries to keep people watching by using attractive weather women in sexy dresses and high heels. That’s for you, guys, and they lay look great, but the way they are being used is disgusting. Or they use weather men who crack jokes. Keep ‘em laughing. Yech! How often to you see serious, plain weather people these days? It isn’t common.

I don’t watch TV news or TV news/entertainment mixtures like Good Morning America at all (and I don’t get news from sites like Facebook, either). I thus save myself hours a day to use on other things—like writing this. I find much of the so-called news on TV to be alarmist and lacking in context. If there isn’t video available, it isn’t covered because it’s boring. Someone’s speech isn’t generally covered unless the person makes a gaffe or trips and falls. That’s when it becomes “newsworthy”. TV news is trying to make you a news junky—an addict. And the News level is aimed at the lowest common denominator of the audience. Do you want to be that dumb and gullible? Just say no!

I agree, EXCEPT----in a few hours POTUS will be in Arizona pushing his "climate change agenda" and all the "accomplishments he has made" so far. I think it goes beyond sensationalized weather reports. The additional advertising revenue a media outlet might gain from sensationalized reporting are just crumbs from the table of the real powers that stand to gain from spending trillions on this "agenda"

[mikemalloy]

Originally Posted by kansasr

Your grandchildren are just going to love the world we're leaving for them.

Are you referring to the debt that they will have to service?

[waterflower]

Welcome to mind control 101
problem-they cause
reaction-your scared-government help me
solution-grab your money and never fix anything

[Cobullymom]

Originally Posted by mikemalloy

Are you referring to the debt that they will have to service?

The dept, the corruption, the socialism and much more..

[NoMo50]

It's Florida. It's summer. It's hot. That's breaking news?

I've said this many times, and stand by my assertion: If you really want to know what drives the man-caused climate agenda, follow the money.

[bogmonster]

If you look at the hard numbers that the climate people put out, transportation is a very small contributor to CO2. One of the biggest is air conditioning.

To that point, all those that truly believe in global warming, please post your addresses and I will personally stop by and pull your air conditioner cut out switch so that you are no longer a contributor.

Wait, what? It’s not your air conditioner that is the problem, just mine? How could I be so blind?

[bonrich]

The only way I can tell if the weather is to be bad, is when the TV weathermen show up with their suit jackets off, and their sleeves rolled up. They are in a heightened state of excitement and moving quickly on the map. Then I know it's going to be a climate change catastrophe!

[NoMo50]

Originally Posted by golfing eagles

What make and model of SUV did Fred Flintstone drive???

Had nothing to do with Fred's SUV. I blame it on dinosaur flatulence.

[rsmurano]

The earth goes thru these climate cycles every so many thousands of years and it will keep doing so, no matter if we drive gas cars, have cows that fart, or have billions of people on it. Most of the media fake news channels push a certain narrative and has been doing this for many years. You can go back a 100 years and look at these so called climate scientists that claim glaciers are thawing (we had 40,000 glaciers back then, and we have the same amount today), our coastlines will be under inches of water each year, our former president was getting blamed for some of the hurricanes we had those years, and you remember the big ozone hole that was so scary looking many years ago? Some of these dire predictions also used the term "10 years from now we are doomed if nothing gets done", sound familiar?
BTW: I did get a kick out of the weather channel last year during the hurricane evacuations we were having. They actually stated to "not" use your EV to evacuate, and they listed a few reasons. This was from a pro-climate crisis channel.

[Sabella]

Originally Posted by golfing eagles

I generally watch WFTV (ABC affiliate) in the morning for local news and weather. I have no idea about other stations, but for the last 2 weeks they have been pushing harder than ever their narrative of high temperatures. This morning they claimed that we have substantially higher temps than normal, and used the terms "unprecedented", and "dangerous". What is insidious is their use of "heat index" almost to the exclusion of actual temperatures so they can put triple number digits on their map. No comparison of these "heat indices" with past values are given.

OK, actual high temps in the Villages 7/27-8/3----94,96,95,96,96,98,96 avg 95.86
Oh, wait a minute, that was LAST year
This year, same dates---89,90,96,97,91,95,93 avg 93.00 or 2.86 deg COOLER
This is what the weatherman claimed is "substantially higher than usual". So I'm calling BS on that.
I can only assume that the news media has access to more complete temperature data than those numbers I just pulled off the accuweather website, so clearly they are LYING TO US. Why???? Is there an agenda at work here?

Meanwhile, pretty much all of Central Florida is under a heat advisory, which the weatherman stated was unusual. True, there was no heat advisory this time last year when it was 2.86 degrees WARMER. So why is that?

Well, heat advisories are issued by the National Weather Service, a division of NOAA which falls under the Department of Commerce, lead by a cabinet level secretary.
So, here is what they are doing:
"Today, U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina M. Raimondo announced funding opportunities from NOAA's $2.96 billion in Infrastructure Law funds to address the climate crisis and strengthen coastal resilience and infrastructure. Over the next five years, NOAA’s targeted investments in the areas of habitat restoration, coastal resilience, and climate data and services will advance ongoing federal efforts toward building climate resilience.

Looks like they're getting plenty of media support for their "efforts"

Draw your own conclusions, but IMHO it appears that reporting temps as heat indices, issuing heat advisories when it is actually cooler than last year, and Good Morning America's lead story every day on the weather serves to push the continuing false narrative of "global warming", for which a few figure to profit immensely.

Addendum: This morning's GMA story is about a glacier they hunted for that is melting at an "unprecedented" rate. Probably true, but there are other glaciers that are growing. And in another 40,000 years those glaciers will grow 2 miles of ice over much of the Northern Hemisphere.

Thank you hopefully people are smart enough to get what you’re saying and to stop listening to fake alarmist news.

[rherb55]

Originally Posted by golfing eagles

I generally watch WFTV (ABC affiliate) in the morning for local news and weather. I have no idea about other stations, but for the last 2 weeks they have been pushing harder than ever their narrative of high

OK, actual high temps in the Villages 7/27-8/3----94,96,95,96,96,98,96 avg 95.86
Oh, wait a minute, that was LAST year
This year, same dates---89,90,96,97,91,95,93 avg 93.00 or 2.86 deg COOLER
This is what the weatherman claimed is "substantially higher than usual". So I'm calling BS on that.
I can only assume that the news media has access to more complete temperature data than those numbers I just pulled off the accuweather website, so clearly they are LYING TO US. Why???? Is there an agenda at work here?

Meanwhile, pretty much all of Central Florida is under a heat advisory, which the weatherman stated was unusual. True, there was no heat advisory this time last year when it was 2.86 degrees WARMER. So why is that?

Well, heat advisories are issued by the National Weather Service, a division of NOAA which falls under the Department of Commerce, lead by a cabinet level secretary.
So, here is what they are doing:
"Today, U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina M. Raimondo announced funding opportunities from NOAA's $2.96 billion in Infrastructure Law funds to address the climate crisis and strengthen coastal resilience and infrastructure. Over the next five years, NOAA’s targeted investments in the areas of habitat restoration, coastal resilience, and climate data and services will advance ongoing federal efforts toward building climate resilience.

Looks like they're getting plenty of media support for their "efforts"

Draw your own conclusions, but IMHO it appears that reporting temps as heat indices, issuing heat advisories when it is actually cooler than last year, and Good Morning America's lead story every day on the weather serves to push the continuing false narrative of "global warming", for which a few figure to profit immensely.

Addendum: This morning's GMA story is about a glacier they hunted for that is melting at an "unprecedented" rate. Probably true, but there are other glaciers that are growing. And in another 40,000 years those glaciers will grow 2 miles of ice over much of the Northern Hemisphere.

You need another hobby……

[NotGolfer]

I'm from the midwest, where there are/were a lot of farms etc. The folks up there will say that the climate cycles. Some years are hotter OR wetter than others. Farmers depend on weather so many use the Farmer's Almanac or other publications. Yes, this summer seems unusual. It's HOT up north too---as well as out west. Being from the midwest, they do get brief respites where the temps are pleasant. BUT as another stated---humidity has a lot to do with the "comfort" etc. I don't watch the MSM because they're "selling" time and ratings.
I do believe there's an adjenda but many are too blind to recognize it and I'm not speaking of JUST the weather!

[rherb55]

You have too much time on your hands…. Get out of the house and enjoy your life. Don’t worry about the weather…..