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Sigh. Not good news for the extreme weather crowd - from Reuters -
“The 2007 hurricane season may be less severe than forecast due to cooler-than-expected water temperatures in the tropical Atlantic, private forecaster WSI Corp said on Tuesday.”

“Because the ocean temperatures have not yet rebounded from the significant drop in late spring, we have decided to reduce our forecast numbers slightly,” said Todd Crawford, a WSI seasonal forecaster.

Cooler than expected water temperatures?  Ocean temperatures that have not yet rebounded?  Yikes!

This is hard to believe, but from someone like Elizabeth Edwards, not impossible.  Oh, and she lives in a 28,200 square foot house.  No joke.  How’s that electric bill Lizzy?

From The Politico - “We’ve been moving back to ‘buy local,’” Mrs. Edwards said, outlining a trade policy that “acknowledges the carbon footprint” of transporting fruit.

“I live in North Carolina. I’ll probably never eat a tangerine again,” she said, speaking of a time when the fruit reaches the price that it “needs” to be.

So what have we got so far from our ‘do as we say, not as we do’

- one square of toilet paper per person, per use.
- give up bottled water (transport costs, plastic comes from petroleum)
- new taxes for BBQs
- no tangerines !

Straight out of the Daily Telegraph in Australia - “LAST month Australians endured our coldest June since 1950. Imagine that; all those trillions of tonnes of evil carbon we’ve horked up into the atmosphere over six decades of rampant industrialisation, and we’re still getting the same icy weather we got during the Cold War.”

Global warming can mean colder, it can mean drier, it can mean wetter, that’s what we’re dealing with.  It’s called WEATHER !

Those pesky flatulent bovines are at it again and this time they are burping too.   So says the UK Guardian.

“The diet of farmed animals can be changed to make them produce less methane, a more potent global warming gas than carbon dioxide. Farmed ruminant animals are thought to be responsible for up to a quarter of “man-made” methane emissions worldwide though, contrary to common belief, most gas emerges from their front, not rear, ends.”

And at all my times at the zoo I have never once heard a cow or sheep say excuse me after they burp. 

Perhaps we should move to alter the diet of the great “Goreacle” so he may spew less hot air too.  Every little bit helps, yes ?

The BBC reports  that as temperatures plunged to -8 F. in parts of Argentina’s provence of Rio Negro that snow has fallen for the first time in 89 years.

 ”Bitterly cold weather in May caused some 20 deaths and forced the Argentine authorities to ration supplies as the country’s energy system came under strain”

“Argentine meteorologists are predicting more cold and even freezing weather over the next few days. ”

But hey, with the Live Earth carbon generating concerts going on, who’s going to even notice this!