{"id":14139,"date":"2012-06-03T18:42:18","date_gmt":"2012-06-03T22:42:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=14139"},"modified":"2012-06-03T18:42:18","modified_gmt":"2012-06-03T22:42:18","slug":"things-are-not-going-well-for-the-global-warming-crowd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=14139","title":{"rendered":"Things Are Not Going Well For The Global Warming Crowd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last Saturday the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/2012\/05\/26\/v-fullstory\/2819327\/heavy-ice-could-delay-start-of.html\">Miami Herald <\/a>posted a story about some delays <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Royal Dutch Shell\" href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/companies\/royal-dutch-shell\/\" rel=\"forbes\" target=\"_blank\">Shell Oil<\/a> is experiencing as it is poised to begin drilling for oil in the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Arctic\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Arctic\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\">Arctic<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The article reports:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>The summer ice melt in the Arctic has often reached record levels in recent years in what many scientists believe is a sign of climate change. But this year a high pressure zone over the coast of <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Alaska\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=64.0,-153.0&amp;spn=10.0,10.0&amp;q=64.0,-153.0 (Alaska)&amp;t=h\" rel=\"geolocation\" target=\"_blank\">Alaska<\/a>, low winter temperatures and certain ocean currents have combined to bring unusually large amounts of ice not only to Alaska&#8217;s northern coast, but farther south in the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Bering Sea\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=58.0,-178.0&amp;spn=16.0,16.0&amp;q=58.0,-178.0 (Bering%20Sea)&amp;t=h\" rel=\"geolocation\" target=\"_blank\">Bering Sea<\/a> as well, National Weather Service officials said.<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>&#8220;I do think it&#8217;s going to be a slow breakup this year,&#8221; Kathleen Cole, sea ice program leader for the weather service, told the Los Angeles Times.<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>The result is that while Canadian waters in the far northern Atlantic have relatively low ice levels, Alaska is an iceberg &#8211; at least for now.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I guess Alaska didn&#8217;t get the message about <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Global warming\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Global_warming\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\">global warming<\/a>. The bottom line here is that man does not control the weather and has a very limited impact on it. There are natural climate cycles that the earth goes through (there was a period of global warming in the Middle Ages&#8211;long before the industrial revolution). Somehow it all evens out.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/?px\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"float: right; border-style: none;\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_e.png?x-id=7af0c578-decd-4c71-9f77-2649570e1d07\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Saturday the Miami Herald posted a story about some delays Shell Oil is experiencing as it is poised to begin drilling for oil in the Arctic. The article reports: The summer ice melt in the Arctic has often reached &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=14139\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[573,1753,3166,55,57,3165],"class_list":["post-14139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-alaska","tag-arctic","tag-bering-sea","tag-climate-change","tag-global-warming","tag-national-weather-service"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14139"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14141,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14139\/revisions\/14141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}