Which Way The Wind Blows

We've been protesting the Keystone XL pipeline, which would link the refineries of Texas to the tar sands of Alberta, the second-biggest pool of carbon on the planet. And it's that carbon which in turn links all this to Vermont's weather. It's not mere chance that we've had one of the biggest snowpacks on record, followed by the wettest spring on record, followed now by a hurricane bearing almost unprecedented loads of water. It's simply physics.  (Bill McKibben, Bulrington Free Press, 8/30/2011)


McKibben takes time out from protesting the possibility of getting cheap oil from a friendly country (No blood for oil!) to remind us that Hurricane Irene is all man's fault.  Meanwhile, he probably hasn't had time to read the following...


Best known for its studies of the fundamental constituents of matter, the CERN particle-physics laboratory in Geneva is now also being used to study the climate. Researchers in the CLOUD collaboration have released the first results from their experiment designed to mimic conditions in the Earth’s atmosphere. By firing beams of particles from the lab’s Proton Synchrotron accelerator into a gas-filled chamber, they have discovered that cosmic rays could have a role to play in climate by enhancing the production of potentially cloud-seeding aerosols. –Physics World, 24 August 2011 (Link from Climate Depot)

Unfortunately, the climate change crowd are among the most closed-minded people you will ever meet.  Their livelihoods depend upon hyping every storm and every drought as man-made.  No doubt they will ignore or slough this off just as they did the East Anglia e-mail scandal.