I said it was going to be $100 per barrel by the end of the year. Yep. Poor dollar, low stocks, invasion by Turkey. Yep.

Tehachapi wind farm (click here)

It sure looks good to me.

Wind farm at N.D. border to start by year's end (click here)
By Ben Shouse
Another border-straddling wind farm announced Wednesday it would start spinning by the end of the year, putting South Dakota on track to quadruple its production of electricity from wind.Acciona Energy, based in Sarriguren, Spain, is building 120 wind turbines at the Tatanka Wind Farm in North and South Dakota, according to the Governor's Office of Economic Development. The company has turbines in 180 wind farms worldwide.Tatanka will generate 88.5 megawatts of energy, enough to power the equivalent of roughly 26,000 homes. It would be the largest turbine installation in the state.
The state's first major wind farm is 44 megawatts near Highmore. The second - slated for 51 megawatts in South Dakota and 99 in Minnesota - is Minn-Dakota, also set to come online this year.

PRODUCTION (CRUDE OIL) ON THE DAVIS #5 FLOWING INTO TEMPORARY TANKS: (click here)

There is also a video of the zealotry of the industry culture at the bottom of the link.

The Electric Car (click here)

...The 2007 Tokyo motor show featured a raft of new models and radical concept cars giving a glimpse at our motoring future.

The Disaster President - Well said, Mr. Moore

George Stands on Yet Another Pile of Rubble (click here)

Georgie can't take the heat, "President gets his photo op four days after fire started."

Current USA military deaths in Iraq :: 3838

Minimum known Iraqi deaths :: 71,259

Current excess Iraqi deaths :: over 655,000

Current Iraqi refugees :: over 2 million

Progress toward stability and political solution for Iraq ::

Turkey: U.S. Won't Stop Iraq Invasion (click here)
Prime Minister Says American Objections Will Not Deter Fight Against Kurdish Rebels
ANKARA, Turkey, Oct. 25, 2007

One year ago, Bush stated he would invade Pakistan. This is the kind of leadership that results in stabilization of regions and negotiable peace? No. This is a figure head acting on the strings of his extremist electorate base. The Republicans don't make policy without a head nod from their electorate while stacking the deck for their profiteers. The USA doesn't need to be lead by puppets.

Rudy Giuliani - Which ever way the wind blows. Will the real Giuliani please stand up.

Blind ambition causes Rudy to submit to 'strategies' that will win an election. He is not capable of finding his own footing in policy making. The Republican Rudy Giuliani has emerged as a front runner without a backbone. This is typical of any Republican candidate for president. They are figure heads, no different than Walker Bush. Giuliani is a puppet whom's puppeteers are the Religious Right and Corporate Greed. Gosh that sounds familiar.

... in March, Rudolph W. Giuliani, who was not at the time known as a zealous supply-sider, held a news conference in Midtown Manhattan to announce that the conservative activist and former presidential candidate Steve Forbes would become his campaign co-chairman.

In the happy bluster of the event (Forbes declared that a Giuliani administration would launch "an assault" on the federal tax code), the former New York mayor was asked whether he would endorse Forbes's signature policy, the flat tax. A decade earlier, when Forbes made the flat tax part of the policy discussion, Giuliani dismissed it out of hand. Now, Giuliani was amenable. "The flat tax," he said, "would make a lot of sense."

(By Reed Saxon -- Associated Press)


It seemed a surprisingly ideological declaration for a candidate who had been billed as the pragmatist and the moderate in the 2008 Republican presidential field. For conservatives who believe in the policy, it split the difference between a thrilling moment and a puzzling one. "I've got to tell you, I don't think he understands what the Steve Forbes flat tax proposal is," said Alan Viard, a resident scholar at the conservative American Enterprise Institute.

That Forbes and the Giuliani campaign had ever gotten together was largely the work of one man -- a longtime conservative insider and friend of Giuliani's who was once a Republican candidate for governor of California -- Bill Simon. Simon, the Giuliani campaign's policy director, had arranged a lunch at which Giuliani made the case to Forbes that he was the right kind of Republican. "What came through with both Bill and the mayor was that they really got it on the economy and on taxes," Forbes said.

Starting last fall, when Giuliani first called Simon and said he was running for president, Simon, 56, has been more responsible than anyone for Giuliani's policy education, and he has been the agent charged with managing the sometimes eager, sometimes awkward relationship between the former mayor of a liberal city and the conservative establishment.

Well before Giuliani said publicly that he would be a candidate, Simon put him through a rolling seminar that those in the campaign called Simon University, bringing in thinkers to brief Giuliani on key issues. The result is that though many of Giuliani's campaign operatives worked with him when he was mayor, his policy staffers, who have largely been assembled by Simon, come mostly from the think-tank world.

The roster of the seminars was a who's who of conservative intellectuals, and their ideas a menu of conservative thought. There were neoconservatives Norman Podhoretz, John R. Bolton and R. James Woolsey Jr. on foreign policy, as well as less ideological thinkers such as Gen. Anthony C. Zinni and Yale professor Charles Hill; the Hoover Institution's Michael Boskin on taxes and economic policy; Hoover's race scholars Shelby Steele and Thomas Sowell; and retired Gen. Jack Keane and the military scholar Frederick W. Kagan, the authors of the Iraq "surge."

"Simon is an incredible asset for the Giuliani campaign," said Grover Norquist, a conservative anti-tax activist. "He has the added advantage for Giuliani of being a serious social conservative and a pro-lifer, which gives people some assurance that social conservatives and judges will not be ignored."

Though Giuliani's natural inclination has been to talk primarily about national security and his experiences managing the city government in New York, Simon has helped coach him to express himself more prominently on positions that might resonate with the Republican Right: his conservative-leaning disposition on tax and economic policy, and his strict-constructionist views on judges.

Giuliani's senior policy advisers tend to favor some of the least popular elements of Bush administration policy. His most visible foreign policy adviser, Podhoretz, supports an armed intervention in Iran and a lengthy stay in Iraq. Giuliani's lead economic adviser, Boskin, was a prominent proponent of privatizing Social Security and remains convinced of the long-term necessity of private accounts. And Forbes, his campaign co-chairman, believes the Bush tax cuts did not go far enough in cutting marginal tax rates for the wealthy.

This has left Simon managing two ambitious, politically essential projects at once: helping to demonstrate that Giuliani is a conservative, and trying, through Giuliani, to ensure that his corner of the conservative movement is still powerful enough to pick the Republican nominee....

The existance of Human Induced Global Warming is not a myth, not a matter of 'belief.' It's a fact.

Antarctica Wind Chime

To illustrate how deceptive heat transfer is from a state of solid ice to one of sublimination of that ice, the temperatures across ...

October 26, 2007
0600 am
Antarctica

...the continent are freezing. The peninsula continues to be the warmest at a lower elevation/altitude/sea level actually, and the highest point of the ice the coldest.

This is an extreme environment and due to the severity of the cold there exists the ability to 'remain the same while absorbing damage. Over time there is visible loss of ice although the reality is such that the actual temperatures never 'seem' to reflect that. That is the 'property' of the latent heat of water that changes the state of water from ice to vapor. The ice in Antarctica rarely converts to water and runs off the continent, it receives heat from the equator and other latitudes and 'sublimes' into it's gaseous state.

Before the massive shift in cold air to counter the arrival of the heat transfer over East Antarctica, the peninsula was above freezing.

The warmest reporting stations in Antarctica:

Palmer Station, Antarctica

Time :: 3:00 AM CLST

Elevation :: 26 ft / 8 m

Temperature :: 27 °F / -3 °C

Conditions :: Light Snow

Humidity :: 67%

Dew Point :: 20 °F / -6 °C

Wind :: 34 mph / 54 km/h from the NNE Wind Gust :: -

Pressure :: 28.89 in / 978 hPa (Rising)

Visibility :: 10.0 miles / 16.0 kilometers

Aviation
Flight Rule:
VFR ()
Wind Speed :: 34 mph / 54 km/h /
Wind Dir :: 30° (NNE)
Ceiling :: 100000 ft / 100000 m



Vernadsky, Antarctica

Time :: 9:00 AM GMT

Elevation :: 36 ft / 11 m

Temperature :: 27 °F / -3 °C

Conditions :: Partly Cloudy

Humidity :: 68%

Dew Point :: 21 °F / -6 °C

Wind :: 15 mph / 24 km/h from the NE

Wind Gust :: -

Pressure :: 28.90 in / 979 hPa (Rising)

Visibility :: 12.0 miles / 20.0 kilometers

Aviation
Flight Rule:
VFR ()
Wind Speed :: 15 mph / 24 km/h /
Wind Dir :: 50° (NE)
Ceiling :: 100000 ft / 100000 m

The coldest reporting stations are :

Vostok, Antarctica

12:00 PM VOST

Elevation :: 11220 ft / 3420 m

Temperature :: -61 °F / -52 °C

Humidity :: 42%

Dew Point :: -68 °F / -56 °C

Wind :: 9 mph / 15 km/h from the West

Wind Gust :: -

Pressure :: in / hPa (Rising)

Visibility :: 12.0 miles / 20.0 kilometers

Aviation
Flight Rule:
VFR ()
Wind Speed:
9 mph / 15 km/h /

Wind Dir:
280° (West)
Ceiling:
100000 ft / 100000 m


Siple Dome, AA

9:50 PM NZDT

Temperature :: -15 °F / -26 °C

Wind :: Calm

Wind Gust :: -

Pressure :: 28.79 in / 975 hPa

Aviation
Flight Rule :: NA
Wind Speed :: 0 mph / 0 km/h /

Wind Dir :: N/A

Ceiling :: -


Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, Antarctica

Time :: 9:50 PM NZDT

Elevation :: 9285 ft / 2830 m

Temperature :: -59 °F / -50 °C

Conditions :: Snow

Wind :: 15 mph / 24 km/h from the ESE

Wind Gust :: -

Pressure :: in / hPa (Falling)

Visibility :: 7.0 miles / 11.0 kilometers

Clouds :: Few 7874 ft / 2400 m
(Above Ground Level)
Aviation
Flight Rule :: VFR ()
Wind Speed :: 15 mph / 24 km/h /
Wind Dir :: 120° (ESE)
Ceiling :: 100000 ft / 100000 m

These are two interesting images, especially the response of 'cold' in Antartica

October 26, 2007
0722 gmt
Southern Hemisphere


October 23, 2007
1931 gmt
Southern Hemisphere


These satellite images are approximately two and a half days apart. Of notable significance is the massive movement of 'cold' air to counter the arrival of a heat transfer vortex. In the bottom image the coldest air mass is 'orange' in color and located in majority over the highest portion of the Blue Ice which is in Eastern Antarctica.

In the image at the top the 'area' of cold moves off the top ice to meet the heat transfer vortex arriving at the shoreline of Antarctica. That 'cold' is lost to the ice continent and will have a huge impact on the stability of the ice structures.

...So far this month, there's only been a trace of snow recorded. Typically 8 cm. falls during October.

October 25, 2007

Millet, Canada

Photographer states :: Damage to a portable garage from the high winds on Wednesday. Evidence of past storm can be seen(the rope). This structure was once picked up and thrown over the house by a 90mph wind gust

NO PERCIPITATION is a reality the USA and it's neighbor to the north has yet to get it's mind around.

Winds brought warm weather (link at title to entry)
(Breaking News) Thursday, 25 October 2007, 13:23 PST
Citizen Staff

Citizen staff
Those gusts of howling wind brought more than power outages to the area.
The chinook-like gusts also pushed the temperature to a high of 18.8 C by 3 p.m. Tuesday, just shy of the record for that day of 20.1 C, set in 1999. But the high for Wednesday of 16.8 C, reached at midnight, broke the old record for Oct. 24 of 15.6 C set in 1982.
The temperature dropped quickly over the following hours and a low of -1 C was recorded for Thursday morning.
"The cooler air is nicely settled in across the area," Environment Canada meteorlogist Jim Steele said Thursday morning.
Steele said the wind was the result of warm air from the south following in behind a front that dropped 22.8 mm. of rain on the city on Monday, which broke the old record for the day of 19.4 mm., set in 1978.
Power outages hit about 400 homes in the Prince George area, B.C. Hydro spokesman Bob Gammer said.
The first of the outages struck at about 5 a.m. Wednesday while the last of the lights was back on by about 10 p.m.
Wind speeds had reached as high at 43 km/h by 7 p.m. Tuesday and continued to howl late into the night before starting to subside at about 2 a.m. Wednesday. However, gusts of 28 km/h were recorded at about the time the first calls came into Hydro offices.
Steele said the current pattern should continue until Saturday when more rain clouds are expected to roll in for the weekend, with a chance of wet snow in the early morning.
So far this month, there's only been a trace of snow recorded. Typically 8 cm. falls during October.