I am a meteorologist and a former youth leader at church…I have a lot to say on both subjects…and then some
An interesting thing has taken place while away from Facebook, I have been reading. Not just the blogs, although since my netbook has been underperforming, I have been reading books. I finished Youth Ministry 3.0 and am over halfway through The Year of Living Like Jesus. Wow, and I have rested! So I haven’t fallen asleep while reading either. Can’t wait for The Gospel According to Moses. That looks good too.
Mary and her friend Tishia did there first 5 km race today. Well they walked it. Their goal is to run it next year. They are contemplating another 5 k in the summer.
Update: Here are some Videos from Mary and one I took, and Mary’s weight loss blog.
I have been playing with my new Droid the last few days. I have found cool apps and the browser is great! The camera isn’t bad either.
I have a new app that let’s me blog from my Android. Cool.
Unlike some conspiracy theorists, I never bought into global warming as some conspiracy. I have been following this since Dr. James Hansen of NASA testified in congress about his alarmism. I was senior at Penn State when we had an extremely warm summer, and Congress called for hearings. Well, I have been on the skeptic side of the fence, but not far from the fence. Despite what some would think about my religious leanings, have never abandoned science and am always questioning the results until the observations become overwhelming. Since I am an atmospheric scientist by trade and study, the results that some have had have put on the skeptic side.
Well, the BBC sat down with Dr. Phil Jones from the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia. What he says in the interview is telling about more of an ends justifies the means sort of thought within the global warming group.
The emails revealed a form of “noble cause corruption” resulting in a loss of trust in climate science and climate scientists. Early proponents of global warming and environmental activists set the stage for the crisis with early opponents and corporate interests. The scientists, led by the example of Michael Mann, adopted a “bunker mentality.” Jones confirms this reading of the situation: that bunker mentality led directly to an erosion of scientific values and scientific practices, now under investigation by Parliament and a stumbling team hastily thrown together by UEA.
For those of you not familiar with Pajamas Media, they are a center right/libertarian news/opinion site, since I can find little analysis on the Climategate situation in the mainstream. When I have, it is poo-pooed or ad hominem attacks ensue. Read the whole article.
Pajamas Media » Climategate: Not Fraud, But ‘Noble Cause Corruption’.
Ok, now that I have gotten the new blog going, I need to tell everyone here to go there. I already transported my Feedburner feed over to the new site, but I never did a formal announcement. I see Loudtwitter is working again, so I may keep this old site for posting all of my twitter posts through the day. They will have the links to the new site for any new posts that I write. A couple of reasons I went to a new site with WordPress:
So the new site is at Ministry & Meteorology? I couldn’t get wxym.com someone else already had that for some business. All of the links that come from the new site on twitter will go there, so if you click on a ping.fm link from a post that is on my daily wrapup here then you will go to the new site. If you were on the feed, then you already are on the new site. One new feature that I like is Featured Content. If I post something I can keep it on the front page for a while. I have some boxes for some of the categories that I really like to write about and I do have a box for the actual feed so that you can click on my most recent posts, even if they aren’t featured or in my opinion or ministry categories. I like the control over the layout that I have.
Last but not least, I have to thank my wife for all that she has done. She has undertaken creating a business setting up WordPress sites and has taught me how to mess with my site.
Cross posted to the old site.
In an effort to get my health back on track, I am beginning to set some goals.
That’s good for now.
Cool! Notice the football team that Andew is wearing. Yeah, Two of my favorites together!
I have two articles on the meet last night. First out of the TVC (Record-Eagle) since TVC St. Francis is in the LM Confernce. Also out of the Petoskey News-Review kind of our local paper for The Boyne area.
Boyne City and TVC St. Francis tied in the team competition, with Kaleb leading the way for the Boys from Boyne.
Harbor’s Drake Doherty won the giant slalom in 1 minute, 4.09 seconds, followed by Boyne’s Kaleb McNamara (1:04.14) and Mike Cortwright (1:05.08), and St. Francis’ Keaden Hornyak (1:06.03) and Stephen Siddall (1:06.47).
McNamara won the slalom (1:21.26), followed by Doherty (1:21.47), Cortwright (1:22.30), Hornyak (1:23.17) and Grayling’s Mike Olson (1:23.83).
So First in the Slalom and Second in GS. by only 0.05sec…wow!!
Mary and I are going to make an attempt at going to the State meet in Marquette on Monday. I have the day off. The only thing is that we would have to leave really early in the morning to make it to the slopes on time (can’t afford to get a hotel). If we do, we will get pix and video to post after.
Kaleb ran the Regional meet at Nub’s Nob north of Harbor Springs on Thursday. Brandon was able to go and told us that Kaleb hip checked on the first run of the GS (that is he started to fall but was able to bounce back up), so it was a slower time. However, his second run was almost a full second faster than any of the field so he finished 5th. He then had to flawless runs in the slalom, for first place. The entire Boyne City boys team is going to the State competition at Marquette in a little over a week.
Here are some quotes from Kaleb in the Petoskey News-Review:
Kaleb McNamara, who won the boys’ slalom in 1 minute, 8.30 seconds, said he was proud of Boyne’s performance.
“It feels awesome,” McNamara said. “We haven’t done this as a team in a while so it feels good.”
“We were all pretty nervous, but we were determined to win it as well,” McNamara said. “All our guys stood and we were consistent on both runs. We skied pretty decent.”
WooHoo!!! Way to go Kaleb!
