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Ok, this one is for all of you who do NOT buy into the theory of global warming…According to government scientists, the average temperature across both the contiguous U.S. and the globe during the past climatological winter (December 2007-February 2008) was the coolest since the year 2001. HOWEVER, the average temperature for the U.S. of 33.2 degrees was still 0.2 degrees Fahrenheit ABOVE average. Below is a map which breaks down state by state rankings. Here in California, it was the 27th coldest winter on record and BELOW average. A series of Pacific storms kept our area on the chilly side through the winter months. Furthermore, we were in a La Nina pattern where the eastern equatorial Pacific waters are cooler than average. This typically brings cool temperatures to the Golden State. Meanwhile, much of the East Coast was above average. When you average in all of the states, we ended up being the coolest since 2001. Remember, this is only one winter! If you look at the long term averages, temperatures continue to slowly climb across North America and the globe. The data doesn’t lie; however, some still some debate on what may be causing the warming. We were in the 80’s and low 90’s here in SOCAL over Easter weekend setting new record highs..so spring is off to a WARM start...Time to hit the beach..Have a great weekend everyone and wite back! Rick

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sebar read my blog view my photos
Mar 28, 2008 | 3:40 PM

Well actually, unlike numbnuts Gore, global cooling is correct over a longterm period. Scientific facts also bear this out that we are headed into a longterm ice age with warming trends pursed throughout the period in question. The Earth has warm summers and cool winters and in fact has been even hotter in the past then in recent times. The arctic is actually regenerating as well. Summers in socal always got hot and there were mild ones too. Just because numbnuts goes around hacking about global warming so he can profit from it doesn't make it so. My best advice is visit a certain donut shop grab a free paper and read the news while enjoying their donuts and gourmet coffees like French Vanilla.

American Author, Poet, Songwriter and Filmwriter
"Mark Paul" Sebar
The Power To Write The Best!

o0lux0o read my blog view my photos
Mar 28, 2008 | 5:10 PM

Wrong, NASA actually said recently that the oldest and thickest ice in the arctic is in fact melting. And may I add that the ice count is at the lowest percentage on record. If you want more proof of the ice melting, go talk to mama polar bear but she might be out for a swim.

Walt Meier (National Snow and Ice Data Center) said

"It's like looking at a Hollywood set... It may look OK but if you could see behind you'd see ... it's just empty. And what we're seeing with the ice cover is it's becoming more and more empty underneath the ice cover."

He also said there has been a 50 percent decrease between February 2007 and February 2008 of this ice.

Gore may have done it for self gain but that doesn't make what he's saying untrue. I don't like Gore as much as the next Republican or Conservative but if scientists point the finger saying the wheels are turning, I think I'll give a little listen.

mystere read my blog view my photos
Mar 28, 2008 | 5:46 PM

Rick,

I stopped listening to the Global Warming pundits who are screaming "The Sky Is Falling"; we're just in a cycle of warming and cooling. I remember some of the things taught in science classes: things have a way of balancing out. If it gets a bit warm for a while, it will soon cool down to the point of being unusually cold, then warm up and balance out. Then the cycle begins again...then ends, and it continues on.

I've been reading stuff from Newsmax.com, and it just shows that Al Gore has been making this a political issue for his own selfish motives. I never took the bait, and the things cropping up are proving the Global Warming pundits wrong. If there is some warming due to carbon dioxide gases, it's time to start planting crops for food; after all, plants use up carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, and give off oxygen, which is good for all human and animal life. When you look at the digs done in the polar regions, there is evidence that the climate was once tropical all around. If that occurs, animals will adapt to the climate, and we will have more vegetation, and food crops will grow more readily.

mystere read my blog view my photos
Mar 28, 2008 | 5:50 PM

Oh yes, now think of the wheat crops: more to make flour, more to feed chickens, more eggs, more ingredients for a Mama's doughnut, more sugar canes and sugar beets growing, more coffee beans or tea leaves for a good fix of caffeine: OOOH YEAH...Sounds good?

mystere read my blog view my photos
Mar 28, 2008 | 5:54 PM

Oh yes, you could go to a Krispy Kreme too, or a Winchells, or maybe think that I'm just being a wise cracker pulling Sebar's chains.

sebar read my blog view my photos
Mar 28, 2008 | 8:51 PM

Wheat donuts at Mama's. But Rick will never go there because he is a real donut traitor!

sebar read my blog view my photos
Mar 28, 2008 | 8:51 PM

Ah, nothing personal of course Rick. Just the facts man!

beepbeep read my blog view my photos
Mar 29, 2008 | 12:44 PM

My opinion is not to have an opinion

blcoffman read my blog
Apr 10, 2008 | 1:32 PM

Look I believe we probably started something we have no control over now I have done river clean up trash pick up volunteering time since the 80's yeah well its cleaner State now we all worked hard to clean up a lot but damage like nuclear waste its not my or you duty to pay new taves to clean the world I am opposed I feel we should stop bombing this world for every action there is an equal or opposite reaction!! Just saying the more we talk of it and agree the more we WILL pay for this!!! Hello I can't afford life Now!!!

sebar read my blog view my photos
Apr 10, 2008 | 8:09 PM

According to some very prominent scientists, everything that mankind does to pollute the Earth is less then 1.3% per year. It is the sun that decides our atmosphere and he have no control over the star...got it! The Earth has cooled and heated and actually has been much hotter in the past. We are in the midst actually of an overall cool down towards an iceage and this is a temporary warming trend. Hope you realize this and stop listening to a global schmuck like Gore!

American Author, Poet, Songwriter and Filmwriter
"Mark Paul" Sebar
The Power To Write The Best!

FromMDgal read my blog view my photos
Apr 12, 2008 | 9:19 PM

I just read your site biography. I did NOT know you were a meteorologist!! I see you most often as the traffic person during "Good Day LA" (when I watch the internet stream on Monday). I have a degree in meteorology myself. (so I've had to derive the hydrostatic equation, terms in the vorticity equation.... etc etc... ;-) ) Very cool that you have your AMS certification.

As a meteorologist myself, I do have my opinion about global warming. I agree that there are certain physical processes that influence in the short term (La Nina, El Nino, North Atlantic oscillation). But I still do feel that there is a huge impact by humans on the environment. Long term studies still show long term warming.... It's like the stock market. Stocks go up big time and down big time, but overall the trend of the market is upward...... That's my OPINION, at least!

DMMickie read my blog view my photos
Apr 13, 2008 | 2:06 AM

Rick, I am sure you have heard most scientists are now calling the effects of global warming climate change. Sebar, I don't know were you get your information but you demonstrate a lack of understanding about why the planet is cooling in some areas and warming in others. The ice melting at the north pole is cooling the gulf stream which will cause cold weather. If you don't want to believe Gore then read the information printed in Scientific America, Discover, National Geographic, Nature or watch some shows on Discovery CHannel.

sebar read my blog view my photos
Apr 15, 2008 | 6:36 PM

Okay Rick. Have you checked out "Thunder Dead" on youtube (the user who is putting my work online is mpschunks). Listen to all the chapters. The main character is a meteorologist and the story is about scaling a frozen gravitated Ice-Anvil....good luck scaling the clouds and oh. If global cooling has you chilled, try Mama's donuts and warm soft donuts and hot coffee in the morning.

American Author, Poet, Songwriter and Filmwriter
"Mark Paul" Sebar
The Power To Write The Best!

DMMickie read my blog view my photos
Apr 30, 2008 | 10:49 PM

Sebar: Read one of your books. I'd rather drink ink! :0P

This_Aint_Your_Land read my blog view my photos
May 2, 2008 | 10:35 PM

How many starving Africans has Al Gore killed by reducing the grain they used to eat for the sake of creating biofuel?

How bout heating the planet up so that we can have longer growing seasons so we can save some lives?

ibejim read my blog view my photos
May 6, 2008 | 11:14 AM

Attention: the IPCC has extended the "global warming" coffee break for another decade....

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,353844,00.html

Another "model" adjustment.lol

Due to mother nature!lol

Ellafrella read my blog view my photos
May 16, 2008 | 7:52 PM

lol al gore

Rick_Dickert read my blog view my photos
May 19, 2008 | 8:38 AM

Thanks for all of your entertaining comments! Great stuff...Yes..the debate continues...
Rick

This_Aint_Your_Land read my blog view my photos
May 20, 2008 | 11:46 AM

Ok, this one is for all of you who do NOT buy into the theory of global warming…

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That would be 98% of the world. All the REAL scientists agree, but Al (I spend $21,000 a month on electricity) Gore has to maintain his rock star status somehow.

In a way it's a shame that global warming is a farce. It would give key parts of the world longer growing seasons and probably would eradicate world hunger. Meanwhile Al's biofuel mania has driven the price of corn through the roof and has starved half of Africa. Nice going Nobel Prize winner.

donaldtrump read my blog
May 22, 2008 | 2:45 PM

Rick, you posted a pro-global warming comment on a FOX website. You knew that it would be met with some opposition, but whatever, you are probably asked by the higher-ups to post blogs every once in a while. Thing is, you know more about this subject then all these yahoos combined, but you are probably not allowed to bring to bear your knowledge on this subject. That said, here is some food for thought:
"The Bush administration has grudgingly conceded that global warming poses a significant and costly threat to the United States, as scientists have acknowledged for some time. Yet this White House continues to reject action to reduce global warming pollution. It has refused to require cuts in heat-trapping carbon dioxide pollution, significantly raise fuel economy requirements, or hold companies accountable for improving their energy efficiency and using wind, solar and other renewable energy sources".(NRDC)
ScienceDaily (May 22, 2008) — The results of several scientific studies conducted since 1993 have confirmed a 3.2 cm sea level rise. Although this variation might appear negligible, it has in fact turned out to be twice as high as that recorded over the whole of the previous century. This increase in sea level is a consequence of global warming. (science daily)
And Rick, here is what Foxnews.com said:

There’s a new global warming consensus in town.

It’s too bad the once-level-headed but now chicken-hearted Bush administration already has skedaddled, perhaps leaving our standard of living at the mercy of Barack Obama and his high regard for the international hate

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What's up everyone!? I'm Rick Dickert and I do the weather, traffic and breaking news from SkyFox every morning. I love my job..flying..up in the weather..etc..etc..Every day is different. I love the ocean, surfing, hiking and everything about the environment. Blog with me and let me know what is on your mind! A few songs in my IPOD now: -White Stripes “Icky Thump” -Finger Eleven “Paralyzer” -Foo Fighters “The Pretender” -Pennywise “Perfect People” & “Disconnect” -Joss Stone “Tell me ‘bout it” -Feist “1234” -Tiger Army “Forever Fades Away” -Eddy Vedder “Society” (entire Into the Wild Soundtrack) -Fall Out Boy “Thanks for the Memories” Good Movies I’ve seen Recently -Into the Wild -American Gangster How I Spend my Weekends -Napping -Eating -Another Nap -Running -More food -Surfing -More sleep -Hanging with friends and family

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