1 I was there for Nixon's first -- to march in the parade -- and the band was doing a great job of shivering like crazy as we waited to get the whole thing started. And our uniforms were pretty warm, as we were from Buffalo, NY.

2 I cannot remember the details of the argument, too abstruse for my aging brain, but somehow cold weather confirms that the planet is warming.

3 You were at Nixon's inaugural? Pretty cool Dana. Lucky you were from Buffalo.

Bill, yeah; that was Judah Cohen who made that argument. I rebutted Cohen at the time at American Thinker  Cohen's argument is warm air changes the jet stream. He argued the polar vortex would break down and spill cold air out over places normally not exposed to it.

It's hogwash.

 Thaw/freeze dates never changed during this period of "climate change" in the arctic, proving there is no correlation between warming and the breakup of the polar vortex (that would make it warmer in the Arctic as the dome of cold air wouldn't be stuck  over the pole.)  A warmer Arctic winter would lead to earlier and earlier thaw dates. It didn't happen.

Also, there is no  evidence of increased snowfall/winter cold in places like Tibet, which would have born the brunt of this polar vortex collapse, during the Medieval Warming Period. Records do not show this (and the Chinese would have recorded it at the time.) In fact the Mongols exploded out of Mongolia and throough central Asia at this time because it was warm and their numbers increased thanks to an increase in their food supply. If it was "cold because it's hot" they wouldn't have been so fortunate.

It was always just a way of making a square peg fit into a round hole.

4 And then there's this https://phys.org/news/2025-01-critical-ocean-current-declined-years.html to tell us that the disaster in process that destroys our climate is not in process after all.

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6 Tim, that sounds suspiciously like a Rep. Hank Johnson argument, doesn't it? He's the guy who didn't want more planes sent to the airbase in Guam because he was afraid the island would tip over.

Yep, I was in DC for Nixon's first inauguration, and have always been damn proud of it. And damn proud to call him my president. Watergate was a railroad job anyway you want to look at it.


I was one of only about three or four members who was legally old enough to drink, though that doesn't mean we were the only ones who did, of course. We had lots of adventures that week...

7 Thank you Bill; that is an interesting point there. And  a true one.

A Hank Johnson argument indeed Dana!

Yeah; Nixon was indeed railroaded. People have forgotten but the Democrats have been doing this kind of stuff at least since Nixon and actually before him. They try to act like they are just defending themselves by responding in-kind but they are the ones who started lawfare  in the first place. It worked with Nixon so they've tried to use it against every Republican President since.