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Here are two articles that rebuke global warming or climate change, whatever the sales pitch of the day the lefties are using to scare folks in order to give power to those who don’t deserve it and take away power, I mean freedom, from those who do. The first article is from the Houston Chronicle. Skiing in Houston anyone?

HOUSTON BRACES FOR ICY NIGHT AFTER RECORD EARLY SNOWFALL

First the snow, now the chill.

A steady snowfall, the earliest in Houston’s history, continues this afternoon after flakes began falling shortly after dawn this morning. Meanwhile, temperatures have fallen throughout the day and as of 1 p.m. were sitting at 33 degrees at Bush Intercontinental Airport. Factor in the wind and it felt like 24 degrees.

So far snow wasn’t accumulating widely, but once the ground gets cool enough amounts of two inches or more are still considered possible. Freeways and streets are wet as the snow immediately melts as it hits the pavement, and forecasters are concerned that will turn to ice as the mercury drops.

A 12-hour freeze period is expected to begin after sundown today, continuing into Saturday, which could cause hazardous driving conditions.

A freeze warning has been issued for more than 20 Texas counties, including the coastal counties of Chambers, Galveston, Brazoria, Matagorda and Jackson, extending northward through Harris, Montgomery, Fort Bend, Wharton and Liberty counties, then stretching as far northwest as the cities of Bryan and College Station and as far northeast as Trinity and Polk counties.

There’s a nearly 100 percent chance of precipitation this afternoon, and that almost certainly will be snow because of the air temperature.

Icy roads after dark
Widespread light to moderate snow is forecast through the afternoon, with pockets of heavier snow possible in some areas.

The forecast has caused the National Weather Service to call for a winter storm warning until 8 p.m. for much of southeast Texas, including the immediate eight-county Houston area and areas to the north and northeast.

The snowfall should gradually decrease after 5 p.m. as the storm system moves eastward, setting the stage for icy roads after dark and a freezing night during which temperatures will dip into the upper 20s.

The icy roads and hazardous driving conditions are the most treacherous factors on officials’ minds. The city of Houston, Harris County and Houston Airport System all have sand trucks ready to coat freezing roads and runways.

Harris County Emergency Management Coordinator Mark Sloan said that driving today could be risky.

“We could have bad road conditions in the afternoon just based on wind and snowfall,” Sloan said. “Prepare for a slow drive home and take the appropriate precautions and be patient. Think holidays while you’re driving.”

Could be worse tomorrow
Road conditions could be even worse by the time people wake up Saturday morning after the hard freeze overnight. But by Saturday afternoon, all precipitation should melt away under mostly sunny skies with highs reaching the upper 40s.

Harris County Judge Ed Emmett said some toll roads may be closed entirely once the freeze begins tonight.

“The toll roads are really our biggest concern in the sense of bridges and overpasses,” Emmett said. “We build these very high, dramatic flyovers in this part of the state, because we know we don’t freeze very often. But when they freeze, it’s really bad.”

The Houston Airport System is also prepared, with sand trucks and chemical trucks on standby to fight the ice. While the inclement weather could delay or cancel some flights, travelers should call 281-230-7000 to use the airport system’s real-time automated service to check the status of their flights. Travelers can also check the airport system’s Web site at www.fly2houston.com.

Airport officials are less worried about runways icing over than they are the roads because the runways are made of very thick concrete, which would require at least three days of subfreezing temperatures for icy conditions to form there, said Frank Haley, the airport system’s interim chief operating officer.

“We’re not expecting that kind of event here in Houston,” Haley said. “We’re looking at very minimal impact, we believe.

“Although it is an unusual event in Houston … we are completely prepared. We are completely ready for this,” Haley added.

Aircraft pilots also will forward their braking reports to officials after they land their planes, which will help the city and air carriers keep tabs on whether hazardous conditions develop.
Continental Airlines said customers scheduled for flights to affected airports today through Sunday will have a one-time option to change their itinerary without penalty as long as they plan to travel no later than Dec. 20. Refunds may be requested for canceled Continental flights.

Houston Independent School District schools held classes today since hazardous road conditions are not expected to be a problem in the morning. HISD officials will monitor weather conditions throughout the day in case school closures become necessary, but said afternoon bus rides home should not be affected if just a light amount of snow falls. However, after-school activities have been canceled.

Here’s Ann Coulter’s right on analysis:

Do Smoking Guns Cause Global Warming, Too?
by Ann Coulter
12/02/2009

As we now know (and by “we” I mean “everyone with access to the Internet”), the University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit (CRU) has just been caught ferociously manipulating the data about the Earth’s temperature.

Recently leaked e-mails from the “scientists” at CRU show that, when talking among themselves, they forthrightly admit to using a “trick” to “hide the decline” in the Earth’s temperature since 1960 — as one e-mail says. Still another describes their manipulation of the data thus: “[W]e can have a proper result, but only by including a load of garbage!”

Am I just crazy from the heat or were they trying to deceive us?

Global warming cheerleaders in the media were quick to defend the scandalous e-mails, explaining that, among scientists, the words “trick,” “hide the decline” and “garbage” do not mean “trick,” “hide the decline” and “garbage.” These words actually mean “onion soup,” “sexual submissive” and “Gary, Ind.”

(Boy, it must be great to be able to redefine words right in the middle of a debate.)

Also, of course, the defenders said that the words needed to be placed “in context” — the words’ check was in the mail, and they’d like to spend more time with their families.

I have placed the words in context and it turns out what they mean is: gigantic academic fraud.

The leaked e-mail exchanges also show the vaunted “scientists” engaging in a possibly criminal effort to delete their own smoking-gun e-mails in response to a Freedom of Information request. Next, the fanatics will be telling us that “among scientists,” this behavior does not indicate knowledge of guilt.

If I recall correctly, their next move should be to fire the special prosecutor late Saturday night.

These e-mails aren’t a tempest in a teapot. They are evidence of pervasive fraud by a massively influential institution that has dominated news coverage of global warming.

CRU was regularly cited as the leading authority on “global climate analysis” — including by the very news outlets that are burying the current scandal, such as The New York Times and The Washington Post. The CRU alone received more than $23 million in taxpayer funds for its work on global warming.

Having claimed to have collected the most complete data on the Earth’s temperature for the last half century, the CRU’s summary of that data was used by the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change for its 2007 report demanding that we adopt a few modest lifestyle changes, such as abolishing modern technology, reverting to hunter/gatherer status and taxing ourselves into servitude.

But then last weekend — in the middle of the “Let’s Cook the Books!” e-mail scandal — the CRU said that all its data on the Earth’s temperature since 1960 had been irretrievably “lost.” (Although I suspect “overcooked” might be a more apt term.)

The way this episode is unfolding, the environmentalists may be forced to drop their phantom threat of global warming and go back to the phantom threat of global cooling.

Most disturbingly, the CRU-affiliated “scientists” were caught red-handed conspiring to kill the careers and reputations of scientists who dissented from the religion of global warming. Indignant that scientific journals were publishing papers skeptical of global warming, the cult members plotted to get editors ousted and the publications discredited.

This sabotage of global warming dissenters may be more galling than their manipulation of the data. Until now, the global warming cult’s sole argument has been to demand that everyone shut up in response to the “scientific consensus” that human activity was causing global warming.

That’s their idea of a free and open debate.

It’s always the same thing with primitive people — voodoo practitioners, rain dancers and liberals. In lieu of facts, debate and a weighing of the evidence, religious fanatics respond to all counterarguments by invoking a higher authority: the witch doctor, a “scientific consensus,” “the Constitution” or “historians are agreed.”

Liberals won’t tell us why Congress passed a law outlawing incandescent lightbulbs by 2014 — a bill solemnly delivered to the president in a Prius hybrid (making it the slowest-moving bill in U.S. history). Instead, they tell us there’s a “scientific consensus” that we have to use fluorescent lightbulbs or we’ll all die.

They won’t tell us why Ten Commandments monuments must be stripped from every public space in America. Instead, they tell us “the Constitution” says so (according to the high priests who interpret it to mean things the document doesn’t remotely say).

They won’t tell us what Sen. Joe McCarthy lied about. They say: Historians are agreed that McCarthy was a liar. (These are the same historians who also stated as fact that “few American Communists were spies” — until decrypted Soviet cables proved that the Communist Party was awash with Soviet spies.)

This is precisely what liberals accuse Christians of doing, but which Christians never do. We don’t cite the Bible as authority — and then refuse to let anyone read it. We certainly don’t claim to have “lost” it, so you can’t check for yourself. But that’s exactly what the CRU has done with its secret data allegedly showing a warming Earth.

Also, biblical data on the great flood and Noah’s ark have held up remarkably well.

Even if the Earth were warming — which apparently it is not — the idea that humans using energy-efficient lightbulbs would alter the temperature of the globe is approximately as plausible as the Aztecs’ belief that they were required to wrench the beating heart out of living, breathing humans in order to keep the sun on its path.

Sadly, the “human sacrifice deniers” lost the argument to Aztec CRU scientists, who explained that there was a “scientific consensus” on the benefits of ritual murder.

But at least the Aztecs only slaughtered tens of thousands of humans in the name of “climate change.” The global warming cultists want us all dead.

Back to Reetzality. That’s it, that’s my Reetzality for the Day.

Thanks for the read.

Brett Reetz