THE RAIN'S A PAIN, BUT THE CAUSE IS PLAIN – GLOBAL WARMING IS ITS NAME – AT 8:35 A.M. ET:  Al Gore speaks, and the flock listens.  From the Business and Media Institute:

If there’s a drought – it’s global warming. When there’s a hurricane – it’s global warming. If there are heavy snows or even blizzards – it’s somehow global warming. And amazingly, the latest round of rainy and windy weather in the Northeast, well that’s consistent with this phenomenon as well, so says former Vice President Al Gore.

Gore, the self-anointed climate change alarmist-in-chief, told supporters on a March 15 conference call that severe weather in certain regions of the country could be attributed to carbon in the atmosphere – including the recent rash of rainy weather.

“[T]he odds have shifted toward much larger downpours,” Gore said. “And we have seen that happen in the Northeast, we’ve seen it happen in the Northwest – in both of those regions are among those that scientists have predicted for a long time would begin to experience much larger downpours.”

But Gore had a specific example in mind. He explained this recent soaking in the Northeastern United States was “consistent” with what global warming alarmists were projecting.

“Just look at what has been happening for the last three days,” Gore said. “The so-called skeptics haven’t noted it because it’s not snow. But the downpours and heavy winds are consistent with what the scientists have long warned about.”

COMMENT:  Some of the "scientists" tell us that, no matter what the weather aberration, it's caused by global warming.

Look, we had a bad storm in the northeast over the weekend.  But I've seen worse storms here. 

Maybe it's time to give the "global warming" thing a rest until some real scientists can examine the data, conduct convincing experiments, and end these farcical "sky is falling" campaigns.

March 16, 2010