http://tomneuville.com Serving District 25 Counties of Rice, Le Sueur, Sibley and Scott Wed, 19 Dec 2007 23:29:13 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 2007 has turned out to be a pretty cold year. It seems whenever we have a "hot day" someone claims that is proof of global warming. So why isn't cold or frigid temperatures evidence that global warming is not at a "tipping point" ? Here is an interesting article from the ... http://tomneuville.com/archives/245 Here is a critical, but well documented and footnoted article which looks into the workings of the IPCC. The Article is entitled: " Politics Posing as Science: A Preliminary Assessment of the IPCC’s Latest Climate Change Report ". The article includes this sentence, "The people of the world should not let themselves ... http://tomneuville.com/archives/244 Here is a good article from the Wall Street Journal today. The article discusses the "cascade effect" of global warming "consensus".  The study of "cascade effect" was also the subject of a Nobel Prize in 2002 to Daniel Kahneman.  "Availability cascade" has been coined for the way a proposition can ... http://tomneuville.com/archives/243 John Coleman is the founder of the weather channel. He has studied climate and weather for many years. Recently, he called the global warming movement a "scam" on his blog. His article is Linked Here from ICECAP. Will anyone listen to John Coleman ? I just discovered the ICECAP website. ... http://tomneuville.com/archives/242 Arctic ice is melting today. There is no doubt about it. Many people are alarmed that ships might actually be able to travel through arctic waters in 20-30 years, or sooner. The Washington Post has written about melting glaciers and the disappearance of Arctic sea ice before. Here is a ... http://tomneuville.com/archives/241 Radio Commentator Dennis Prager visited with William Gray, a pioneer in the area of forecasting hurricanes, and Professor Emeritus in Atmospheric Science at Colorado State University. The Link to the radio interview is Linked Here. The interview can be heard during the first 15 minutes of the 34 minute segment. Dr. Gray ... http://tomneuville.com/archives/239 The Wall Street Journal has an interesting Article describing a different approach to the issue of Global Warming. Linked Here. It's called "Climate Geo-Engineering". This approach suggests that we could add particles to earth's upper atmosphere and reflect 1-2% of the Sun's rays back into space. We know that the approach ... http://tomneuville.com/archives/237 Marilynn and I attended the Joseph Lee Heywood Distinguished Service Award dinner tonight at the Northfield American Legion Hall. It's the "Kick-off" event for the annual Defeat of Jesse James Days Celebration in Northfield. The Banquet honored Chip DeMann for him many years of service to the DDJJ Days committee and ... http://tomneuville.com/archives/232 I received an email from Senate staff regarding the results of the "non-scientific" State Fair Poll regarding the proposed constitutional amendment that will likely be on the ballot next year. The Senate booth polled mostly metro citizens (nearly 80% of respondents). The question was the same as proposed for the ballot ... http://tomneuville.com/archives/231 I received this letter (see below) from a constituent. I thought the letter raised some good questions concerning the number of truly uninsured people in our country. The Health Care issue is important to me. I have introduced my own version of Redesigning Minnesota's health care system, and presented this proposal ... http://tomneuville.com/archives/230