The climate debate goes on…and it’s reached a peak during the past few weeks with two huge pieces of news from the Obama Administration and the U.S. House of Representatives.

Recently the Obama Administration released a report on the global climate.   Here’s the link: Globalchange.gov    Barak Obama is a Democrat, and you can probably guess the slant the report takes, which is fine.   And no, I’m not Republican…I’m registered as an Independent…so I’m unbiased here. 

 Here’s the main idea of the report for us…New England’s climate could become that of the Carolinas in the next 100 years!  Here’s the section describing this: Northeast Climate Impacts.  Judging by the weather over the past few weeks, you might not mind that. 

According to the report, these are the possible climate change scenarios affecting  Southern New England.  

• Shorter, wetter and less cold winters.    
• The length of the winter snow season would be reduced. Hot summer conditions would arrive three weeks earlier and last three weeks longer into the fall.  
• Sea level in this region is projected to rise more than the global average.    

• Short-term (one- to three-month) droughts are projected to occur as frequently as
  once each summer across the New England states.

On the heels of this report, The United States House of Representatives recently passed a bill which would slash industrial pollution to fight global warming.  The bill states that polluting U.S. companies must reduce emissions of carbon dioxide and other gases by 17% by 2020 and 83% by 2050, from 2005 levels.  These companies which include oil refineries, factories and electric plants, must phase in cleaner, alternative sources of energy.    The bill is now on the floor of the Senate, which is expected to draft its own bill.  This could take awhile.

Anyway, I’ve read the Global Climate Report from beginning to end, twice.  I have a problem even believing that there is significant global warming.  This chart below shows something extraordinary…the number of reporting stations reporting (blue line) versus global temperature (red bars).  In 1990, with the fall of the Soviet Union, many suburban Siberian reporting stations stopped reporting.  Siberia..cold.  Notice the rise in temperature when those cold stations were shutoff.   These are the kinds of things one must look at.   This is from a report issued by a private organization called Icecap.