Hopkinsville is forecast to get up to 10 inches of rain in two days. This prediction may yet come true because we’ve received 4 inches just on Saturday. There will be still more rain tonight and Sunday.
4.5 inches in the Rain Gauge
You can watch the Little River grow to be the not-so-little river online. Your tax dollar at work.
I had a chance on Tuesday to take some photography of an open field on the outer limits of Hopkinsville. The barn and buildings in the distance belong to the Amish that live in the area.
I measured four inches on the ground at my house. Trigg county received six inches. Hopkinsville is fortunate that ten inches of total devastation did not occur but there’s always next year.
I said yesterday I would build a snowman if I had enough material to work with but what fell turned out to be dry powder not very suitable for packing together. Interesting note that there was more snow on my car than on the ground. The hood actually had 7 1/2 inches.
Let’s spin the wheel another time, the weather man has foretold that Hopkinsville will have devastating snow fall tomorrow. The winter storm warning published by the national weather service guarantees a minimum of four inches and up to 10 inches of the cold white stuff.
* SNOW ACCUMULATIONS OF 4 TO 7 INCHES ARE EXPECTED ALONG AND SOUTH OF A LINE FROM MARBLE HILL MISSOURI TO CALHOUN KENTUCKY. CLOSER TO THE ARKANSAS AND TENNESSEE STATE LINES BORDERING KENTUCKY AND MISSOURI...AMOUNTS MAY APPROACH 8 TO 10 INCHES...WITH LOCALLY HIGHER AMOUNTS POSSIBLE. SOME SLEET MAY MIX IN WITH THE SNOW AT THE BEGINNING OF THE EVENT...BUT PREDOMINANTLY SNOW IS EXPECTED.
With that kind of forecast I expect to be building a very fat snowman tomorrow. In my lifetime Hopkinsville has never had 10 inches of snowfall at one time. It’ll suck though if after all the hype and scaremongering we only get a measly inch or less.
Mullins, a retired state employee, was one of seven landowners who shared $65,000 in what is believed to be the first sale of carbon credits for trees in Kentucky. That means they were paid for allowing their trees to do what comes naturally: Absorb carbon dioxide. [...]
Here we have the other half of the carbon trading marketplace. The Blue Heron buys carbon credits to sooth their guilty conscience. Then that money is paid out to men like Rodney Mullins who are laughing all the way to the bank. For those who live on this planet men are paid for their time and labor but in BizarroWorld men are paid for the work they are NOT doing. When the coal plant burns fuel to produce electricity the trees will absorb it for as long as they remain alive. This mechanism has worked for a very long time without need for a government subsidy. The Blue Heron should ask why are they paying to finance another man’s lifestyle of NOT doing something.
MACED had been planning to sell credits on the Chicago Climate Exchange. But carbon credits are trading very low there now as that emerging market waits to see what Congress will do about climate legislation.
Proponents say that if that legislation includes a cap-and-trade plan, it will bolster a market in which companies that put carbon into the atmosphere pay landowners for allowing their trees to absorb carbon.
Translation: The carbon credit market can’t sustain itself unless it is made mandatory by government fiat. Again I ask how does taxing carbon producers and subsidizing landowners improve the carbon absorption on the landowners’ property.
HamFest in Cadiz was noticably cooler/wetter this year than last. I was there at 10 o’clock Saturday and the Sun hadn’t yet broke through the clouds. I walked all of the booths but didn’t find anything that appealed to me.
Walking down the main drag was very entertaining though.
We haven’t had floods in the Hopkinsville area, but it has rained every day for the last week or more. When it isn’t raining, the sky stays gray. [...]
I suppose this spate of rain is an equinox storm or as it was called in older times, a “line storm”. According to Bulfinch’s Mythology, the cooler weather that’s coming after the line storm is a signal of a cool winter that will last until the next equinox.
I like the anecdotal evidence that Mrs. Netz dug up. I’m already convinced that we will have a colder, snowier winter this year. President Obama spoke a bald-faced lie when he said that shrinking islands were causing hordes of climate refugees and greater conflict around the world. Looking at the photos posted at Prairie Bluestem inspired me to go out this morning when there was thick fog to take some of my own.
All three photos were taken at an intersection on a country road in Christian County.
From the WKDZ website, they are promoting the Blue Heron in the station’s “Business Spotlight” section. The Blue Heron is a local business in Cadiz that sells organic and “green” products.
Even though we are blue, we are a shade of green. We are the only Co2 offset company in this region. Part of your purchase goes toward global tree replantation to help our planet and to offset carbon footprints
The changing weather pattern in the previous year or two is visible evidence that man-made Global Warming Climate Change is fiction. The Weather Channel takes every opportunity to broadcast stories about masses of people succumbing to heatstroke but you’ll never hear about the unusually cool, wet weather that’s happening right here in Kentucky. Neither will they draw any conclusion from the harsher winter weather coming soon or the weather that’s already happened.
Who says carbon dioxide is bad anyway? Is it not an arbitrary decision to call a gas produced by mammals and required for plant life suddenly to be an evil menace. With no human intervention whatsoever the oceans already absorbs and releases large amounts of carbon dioxide. NatGeo makes the mistake of assuming CO2 is a deadly poison. However, the reader should consider they admitted the ocean holds large amounts of carbon easily and naturally. Why should we assume that man-made carbon would be an undue burden.
In conclusion, I’ve never met anyone that works at the Blue Heron. I’m sure they are all very nice people but they are still wrong about the fuzzy, feel-good, save-the-earth mantra. Carbon credits will not remove one single ounce of carbon from the atmosphere. After the Cap and Tax system was setup in the UK, organized crime quickly figured out how they could game the system. Not to mention people like Al Gore that set the odds and own the system, the house always wins. The Blue Heron should not be buying carbon credits at all. That money operates a corrupt system wishing to gain control over the entire economy.
