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Posted on 02.23.10 by K. Daniel Glover @ 7:01 pm
It took two Green Bay, Wis., residents nine weeks to build the igloo, which is 17 feet, 4 inches tall and 27 feet, 4 inches in diameter. They broke the previous record in the “Guinness Book Of World Records,” which was 13 feet, 8 inches tall and 25 feet, 9 inches in diameter. Filed under: Human Interest and News & Politics and Video and Weather Comments: None |
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Posted on 03.02.09 by K. Daniel Glover @ 7:23 pm
A picture really is worth a thousand words. The global warming crowd gathered in Washington today to protest a coal power plant at the Capitol, and the Greenpeace solar-panel truck ended up being covered with snow from the March — yes, March — snowstorm. The sign painted on the side says, “America can stop global warming.” Yes, we can! And we did; we stopped it cold with a snowstorm. The Competitive Enterprise Institute captured the ironic moment on film. Odds are good that you won’t see it in the mainstream media, which doesn’t want to burst the global warming bubble. Filed under: Government and Just For Laughs and News & Politics and Photography and Weather and West Virginia Comments: None |
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Posted on 12.27.08 by K. Daniel Glover @ 12:15 pm
The gang at Minnesotans For Global Warming sure are a creative bunch of enlightened rednecks. President and founder Elmer Beaureguard debuted on YouTube two years ago with a video that embraced car exhaust as “the nectar of global warming” and has supplemented it with a series of videos since then. The latest, “12 Days Of Global Warming,” just went online, and it takes climate-change fear-monger Al Gore to task overplaying his hand in the world’s current pet environmental debate. Watch and enjoy. Filed under: Just For Laughs and News & Politics and People and Video and Weather Comments: None |
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Posted on 12.20.08 by K. Daniel Glover @ 7:30 am
When I was a child and tornado watches and warnings were broadcast for our area, my mother tried to reassure my brothers and me that we needn’t worry because the geography of the Ohio Valley in West Virginia where we lived made tornadoes a rarity. The mountains along either side of the Ohio River discouraged the collision of hot and cold air masses that form tornadoes. Those would have been comforting words if Mom hadn’t followed with a horrifying qualifier that, near as my wild imagination can recall, went something like this: “But if a tornado does form in the valley, it will be like Armageddon. The mountains will trap the funnel cloud, which will bounce off one mountain and then the other, all the way up the valley, destroying everything in sight.” To this day, I get the chills every time a tornado watch or warning is broadcast. Not even maps like the one below from Popular Science, which shows the unlikelihood of death by tornado as opposed to natural disasters like extreme heat or cold, give me much peace of mind. Filed under: Weather Comments: None |





