Weather is NOT the same as climate

It never surprises me anymore when a big snowstorm hits the U.S. and global warming deniers trot this out as "proof" that global warming does not exist. Couple that with the release of "An Inconvenient Truth" by Al Gore and you have the doubters, as in a letter to the editor at the Arizona Republic, telling the former vice president to buy a shovel.

First, shorter-term weather patterns are not the same as longer-term changes in climate.

Second, climate scientists have repeatedly said the massive human-caused increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide levels will make weather more volatile until the atmospheric system reaches an equilibrium.

Third, the El Nino effect, which may have contributed to the Denver snowstorm, has been shown to be intensified in power, and made semi-permanent as an atmospheric and oceanic phenomenon, by global warming.

Leaking clampdown at Lancaster High?

So we hear, and that it is all related now to the cosmetology classroom state inspection problems.

Starbucks in DFW Airport, closed at 7 p.m.?

At least the one in Terminal E was. What’s up with that?

Don’t buy Hudson Books’ “Euro” coffee at DFW Airport

It tastes like Starbucks watered down one-third with Folgers and one-third with water.

Now we know why Eddie Bernice Jonson has a share in Hudson and didn’t want the Wright Amendment repealed.

Pushing 500

I sure didn’t think I’d have 500 posts in 2006 and in less than a year’s time.

Met Uncle Barky at the Pegasus News breakout party

Former Dallas Morning News television critic Ed Bark had his blog picked up by Pegasus News when they launched. I spotted him, or who I thought was him, and asked Alan Cohen to confirm for me. I followed Alan over to Ed’s table, eventually introduced myself, and we talked 10-15 minutes about various media issues.

He sounded quite relaxed now that he left Belo. He “gets” a lot of the drive behind blogging and New Media, as well. Having a background from the alt-weekly world before Belo got him, he has previous experience to apply to that new angle.