God hasn't taunted the state of Georgia like this since, oh, well, I guess November 16th when Nick Marshall dropped back on 4th and 18...

 

The key words in that state statement are "sample size".

Any statistician worth a s--t, would say that looking at the dynamics of a 6 billion year old planet and using the last 200 years of weather data and, 1. Thinking you had enough data to know what was truly going on, and 2. What was causing the fluctuations, is crazy talk.

Is the climate changing? Yes. I live outside Chicago and if I compare this winter to the one two years ago, when I could leave the house with just a sweatshirt on most days, If that was the only information I used in my decision, I would be featured on next years "Doomsday Preppers". But I also remember 1976, and a lot of winters in between.

We do know that back in the 1500-1600s that Europe went through a mini ice age, (They didn't call them the dark ages for nothing) while Greenland was fit for agriculture during the summer. This was because the Gulfstream that keeps Ireland and England relatively moderate during the winter actually reversed for a time and warmed Greenland and cooled Ireland, the UK, and Northern Europe, and this happened way before Internal combustion engines were invented or coal burning power plants.

The climate is changing, but are we to blame? I think no.

I can't remember who said it on here a few pages ago but, if this were truly about saving our environment, and not about grant money and carbon emission taxes, then the powers that be would be leaning on the biggest pollution culprits (China) to stop screwing up our environment, instead of just trying to scare us and profit from the whole thing. These guys that preach global warming/climate change don't seem to have a problem being the only passenger riding in a G-V while they do their National tour to promote environmental issues...why is that? They don't start throwing stones at China...why not? Because there isn't any money in that.

Why did you try to rob that bank, sir?

Cause that's where the money is.

It is very important to preserve our Natural resources and protect our environment, don't get me wrong, but until someone rides their high horse over to Beijing and tells those guys to stop polluting our planet, unplugging my cable box every time I leave the house isn't going to guarantee a healthy environment for my kids.

And if I unplug my cable box, my DVR won't record Real Housewives of (insert any city) for my wife.

On second thought, maybe I do need to start being more environmentally conscientious.

 

Oh man. They will shut the entire city down completely during this one.....then nothing will happen.

 

Not mine. It's public. Go ahead and grab it.

 

Trying to figure out how to get to work tomorrow. One flight looks like it will have a plane and flight attendants, but no pilots. Another flight looks like it will have a crew, but no plane. Another flight already cancelled. They are showing no delays, but these flights are leaving really early in the morning. Confusing. Obviously I am just going to go to the airport and hope for the best, but what a pain. Commuting is usually easy. I guess I'll probably spend a lot more time in the crew room or at my commuting airport before my sign in tomorrow than I usually do if I even make it.

 

Not to worry. The Georgia DOT has learned their lesson.
They bought some chains yesterday.
They're ready for the next time.

 

Well today the gov was on CNN. I was surprised to learn that Georgia actually does have a fleet of sand/salt trucks. However, they deploy them all around the state kind of like storm chasers. This last storm the trucks were south of ATL and missed out. They were probably watching the weather channel which nobody watches anymore since DirecTV ditched them.

 

I have directv, i guess I don't have the weather channel. The weather channel has gone hysterical demanding in ads I cancel directv or something.

Problem is, why do I care about the weather channel? They're a reality tv show. I'm not even sure if they show weather. I want to somehow say to both parties, the weather channel sucks and the app ain't that great either. I like how directv put it:

Besides, there is a new weather channel that's a lot like watching the weather channel 10-20 years ago. It's great.

 

Dude, how many times I got to tell you...

NO PICTURES!!

(that's a typical 777 crew in the briefing cubicle, just after we've settled who's getting the landing!)

The guy with the cigarette (a senior F/O) is about to say, "Yeah? So who's landing NOW? Get up Beoch! YOU are doing the walk around, trash bags, water bottles, figuring breaks, AND the plotting chart! You got a problem with that?"

 

My favorite line: "you people need to stop laughing at us down here in the south, we see snow only about as often as the rest of you guys win a BCS national championship."