Carmichael's Position

This is Your Climate Warming God?

Al “the sky is falling’ Gore, may not be an idiot, but he certainly plays one on TV.

In a “Tonight Show” interview with Conan O’Brian, Al is on his usual save the planet with efficient energy sources soapbox… actually a noble cause… when he makes a claim that the earth’s mantle is “Several Million Degrees… at 2 kilometers or so down.” (tolerate the video below for about 40 seconds and hear it for yourself).

This is POWERPOINT AL GORE!  This is the spokes-model for the Green Generation!  “Several million degrees!”??? 

Really?  Several?  (several being more than 2 usually…)

Million?  (that’s like a hundred thousand 10’s!)

Even using the Kelvin scale the earth’s mantle is estimated between 773 to 1173 degrees.  I’d go on to express that “any 8th grader could tell you that” but that just ain’t true, knowing the state of our public education system.  Which is all the worse, most of the American public is clueless when it comes to science, the scientific method, and quantifiable facts, and wouldn’t begin to realize when they were being manipulated by self-serving charlatans.

God, we’re a bunch of dolts!

Hell, the innermost core of the Earth is estimated at only 7,000 degrees K! Ya know, like only a tenth the temperature of a cup of Starbucks coffee.

Al wasn’t generalizing, in a humorous way, like saying GaZillions of degrees implying it’s “Really really hot!” he was trying to issue a persuasive argument.  This is precisely why Al refuses all invitations by legitimate man-made-global-warming scientific skeptics, he would lose… terribly…  first the arguments, then his perceived credibility, then his speaking tours (where he charges GaZillions of dollars each time!), and then his financing.  Then who would pay his electric bill?

Look, I’m all for alternative forms of energy being investigated and utilized, and the cleaner the better.  And the less dependent we are on the Middle East and other Countries for our supply the better too.  But if you are going to make claims, any claims as an “expert” you better damn well have your FACTS right!  It lends credibility to your argument.  But then again, considering your audience… I guess facts are just an Inconvenient Truth.

What a Difference a Day Makes…

Yesterday I published this photo as an illustration of our recent Snow Storm here in Denver.   

Was recorded as 19 inches here in my neighborhood, and as much as 24 inches in some parts of town… my buddy Derek, up in the foothills had over 4 feet on his balcony!

Today all that changed… I arose this morning to a beautiful sunrise offering to warm the gray.

Later as the gray skies gave way to beautiful blue, I recreated yesterday’s picture.

Certainly a little more “cheery”.

And then I took my camera as I headed to the bank for another pleasant Fall… yes we’re still in FALL!… panoramic of Clement Park Lake.  Columbine High School is just over the hill at the left of the image.

And as I stood on the snowplowed path looking for more images to shoot, a small shadow crossed overhead.  I looked up to see this magnificent falcon floating on the warming currents of air.

Yep, all in all, a beautiful day in Colorado, makes me wish I had more than an hour at lunch time to be out in it.  But alas the weekend is here.  And I as said before, by Sunday most, if not all, of the 19 inches of snow will be a memory in JPEG.

More Photos from the Denver Storm of October 2009

You wanted more… well, at least Mom and Dad did… so…

Please forgive the limited subject matter, it was a work day after all, and unlike many of my fellow Denverites, I couldn’t play hooky thanks to the virtual office capability we have…

These are a few scenes after “act one” of this past two day storm, oddly enough as I write this (Thursday evening) the snow is beginning to intensify once again outside.  I guess 18 inches wasn’t enough.

As always, for larger images click on any of them and head over to my Colorado Landscapes gallery where these are newly inducted members.

This fist one I call “Nor Rain, Nor Sleet, Nor Snow”

And then after the plows, well paid for by our HoA dues, came through for the 3rd time since the beginning of the storm, I took this panoramic.  Boring I know, but I wanted to experiment with some creative effects and stitching. (This one you want to click on to get the larger size…)

And then on my way back in the house I noticed that a number of leaves on our Hawthorne bush were frozen in ice. Pretty cool!  … sorry pardon the pun.

And then finally a general scene on the road to my house… after the plows.

Looking forward to Sunday, when we’re forecast to be back in the 60’s and all this will be memories stored in JPEG. 

Hope you like… need to work on the skills a bit more.

Denver Snow Storm October 28, 2009

Many of you keep asking… so rather than keep saying, “Oh, its about 12 inches or so”… I figured I’d show y’all.

This is my back patio, t’was snow-free last night at midnight… here we are at 5:00pm… 7 more inches expected before noon tomorrow. 

On days like today, my Homeowners Association dues are worth every penny!

Weekend Thoughts… and Snow

Well this past week provided a bevy of fodder to prove the world is full of fools!  From Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid’s stance against allowing the pending “Health Care Overhaul” bill to be made available for a minimum of 72 hours before OUR elected representatives are to vote on it, allowing WE THE PEOPLE to read and digest the thing and to make our support or lack thereof known… to the selection of the “Anointed One” as recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, I really begin to question the ability of people… all people… to think critically.

I am discouraged by the lack of integrity in people’s actions and decisions.  The continuing culture of arrogance, is becoming quite distasteful.  For Nancy and Harry to block We The People from having reasonable access to the bills that are to influence our lives for the next decade is disgraceful and quite frankly, disrespectful.  As to the loyal opposition’s claim of, “The Republicans blocked a similar transparency petition, when the ‘Patriot Act’ was being voted on…” to me doesn’t even begin to compare.  The Patriot Act involves highly sensitive issues of National Security, and publically exposing all the components of that bill would seriously jeopardize our nations defense.  Can somebody please explain to me how a National Healthcare bill, meets that same criteria?  What in this bill is (or should be) classified, Secret or Top Secret?  NOTHING!!!

For me, if a bill contains no National Security issues, then it absolutely should be made public (and in my mind for a period of much longer than 72 hours) we have every right to see what our representatives are voting on, (including any added ‘Pork’ amendments, and we need to hold them accountable…) before the horse is out of the gate, not after!

Now as for the Nobel Peace Prize being handed to one so deserving as Barack Obama… uh… well… wait, I have some lint in my bellybutton…

Really my “Give-o-shit-o-meter” barely registered a flinch.  Why? you ask.  Well… look here (all winners of this… eh’em “illustrious” award):

1. Barack Obama (nominated 2 weeks after he assumed the Presidency)
2. Al Gore (leading cause of CO2 Release… that windbag.  Seriously people… FOLLOW THE MONEY!!!!!)
3. Jimmy Carter (Mom always said if I can’t say anything nice… nuff said)
4. United Nations (Oxymoronic Title if ever there was one…)
5. Yasser Arafat (Terrorists for Peace… = Atheists for God?)

Fundamentally the Nobel Committee will vote for the person or organization who’s desire it is to weaken the strength of “the Great Satin” the United States, and make efforts (or in Barack’s case… read teleprompted words) encouraging the demise of the United States ideals or stature in the world in support of failed socialistic and fascist philosophies.

So I say, hell, let them award it to whomever they like.  Awarding it to people like BHO and Yasser Arafat only serves to lessen the validity of the award, actually it is getting closer to a “Happy Meal Prize" every year.  Really I feel more sorry for previous winners the likes of Mother Theresa and the Dali Lama, REAL Champions for Peace.  Seriously folks do Al Gore, Barack Obama, and Yasser Arafat live to that same standard of character?

Weak Sauce!

And now from the Global Warming front… reporting from 27 degrees, snow, and postponed National League Division Playoff Baseball game hometown of Denver CO… I submit this week’s photos… from Fall to Winter in a PBS fundraiser break!.

Yesterday…

Today…

Oh yeah, we also bombed the moon in search of water-ice… Watch out North Dakota, you could be next! 

Well, that’s all for now, need to get back to my preparations for my trip to the “Center of the Universe” next week.  (That’s New York City for those of you who have never experienced “them”…)

Talk among yourselves…

Lightning Storm Photography

This evening here at Casa De Carmichael there, as they say in the south… “Came up a Bad Cloud!”

So I did what every other dumbass would do in a One Point Twenty One Jigawatt Electrical Storm… I grabbed my Nikon!  And the aluminum tripod too of course… Hell if you’re going to be a lightning rod, you might as well go all the way!

But alas no sacrifice too great for my readers… all 5 of you!

They say that lightning never strikes the same place twice… uh… yeah… right!

Ya think it might have something to do with, the place ain’t the same after God tasers it?

Hope you like… 

Remind me Again? Where’s this Global Warming Crap?

48 Degrees!!!!  That was the HIGH! today here at Casa De Carmichael.  With a steady rain sometimes even heavy.

Yep looking forward to a warm spell… 

Images from the day… Even the represented peacenik mascot had his feathers in a ruffle!

Definitely some pretty intense clouds in our skies, that drained quite well for the past 24 hours.

Even Scrunch had a bit of a ruffle going for him…

sNOw Parking

Yep April 17th here in the Mile High City, and we’re expecting up to 20 inches of heavy wet snow by noon tomorrow.

Not going anywhere today with the top down!

  Doesn’t mean the orchids won’t try.

Back to Those 15 Inches…

It actually did snow and it actually did deposit 15+ inches of the wet and white here in the Denver Metro.

Good thing too, we really needed here in the front range, we have had an especially dry winter.  The other thing I like about snows like this one is that believe it or not, it is already entirely off the streets.  And I’m betting by Mid-day Sunday the only remnants of this snow will be in the piles pushed by our plows.

This snow also lent itself for some photography practice… so here you go… Hope you like.

First the basic requisite snapshots…

And for those of you wondering yes the Beemer stayed put for the duration…

Now for the attempted creative shots…

While I was telling my sister of effects of this latest storm, looking out my front windows, a spring… that’s right it is SPRING… robin graced me with his antics.

This afternoon, after the workday finished, I strolled out to take a few in a meadow I thought would convey the beauty of the storm a bit more…

 

Yeah spring is snow season here in Denver… I just hope I can play golf next Sunday in a tourney I’m in with three buddies of mine.

Fifteen Inches?

Our local weather prognosticators are forecasting up to 15 inches of snow here tomorrow in the Mile High City.  Knowing they are generally as right about the weather as Paris Hilton is on Physics questions, most of us here take predictions like this with a grain or two of NaCl.

However, living up to the Carmichael family motto of “Tout Jour Prest” I thought I’d stock up a bit… ya know… just the necessities.

Don’t ask… its a Gemini thing!