Do you have electricity at your house Bernard? Do you drive a car, use air conditioning? If you do... Shut up.

Bernard .. have you heard of Solyndra and all the over bankrupt "green" .. and i think green means money companies that Obama gave millions too ... Let the free market win and stop protecting the Huge Corporations .. oh thats right the huge corporations run the government. I hate the term global warming so do you think it is man made? it is climate change .. I thought we went through a warm spell when the vikings were living in greenland .. oh yeah the industry back then warmed everything up

Bernie : Call Barrett the Demo ask him why he still dumps crap in our rivers and
lake --Blended H2o. How's your Obama algae fuel car running don't forget to check
your tire pressure. How many MPG does Obama's car get and his 747 must run on
cooking oil."This is what you voted for" let's see O'balme'o been in office 4 years and
the Demo's had both house's for 2 years ....OH wait it's Bush's fault !!!
Hey how's the war's going for Oblame'o and I hear it's hot @ Club Gitmo
If you need a ak47 call Holder's Army surplus center in D.C.
Bernie are you looking for a Hotel to buy . call 1800 251-RINO ask for Honey Fitz.

Well here come the three stooges again. Just more reruns if ignorance to be played out for our amusements. Ever try to rationalize with these bozo’s. Ever try to rationalize with drunks and alcoholics‘? Jason wants us to shut up if we are in a better position than he is??? Johnny Blade Has misgivings for those that produce his living. They require some reforming constraints but to throw the baby out with the bath water is the wisdom of fools. Let us not forget this Gaylord of yours. LOL back to the Vikings‘!! As if he does not have enough on his plate.. Yes New energy systems investments will have some failures. DUH its all part of a learning curve. Now lets see how is the radioactive black oily coaly toxic industries doing. LOL well your sitting in it . After over a century for oil and coal they are still having catastrophic failures. Less than a century and every living species on this planet is infected with radioactivity and accumulating. As to the two 9 years of war, with no end in sight, blank debt accumulating checks for them, with an economy destroyed to a 9% retraction rate and 750,000 per month to unemployment.. Obama has ended one of them thar wars and the other is being exited. Not like when the republicans exited Viet-Nam and Cambodia leaving all of those that supported us to be slaughtered to the tune of over 2 million people. No Obama is more responsible than that. Lordy,lordy do try to keep up. Razzle dazzeling with ignorance will not serve you well.

bernad .. i didn't know u were that ignorant .. So did Mr. Nobel Peace prize winner start another war in Lebanon?? ..Did he assassinate an American citizen with a drone strike, did he not sign the NDAA where he can without warrent detain America citizens indefintly .. i can keep going but i figure you got your kneepads on thanking your messiah

"Yes New energy systems investments will have some failures. DUH" .. But they use taxpayer money DUH .. why does the government get to pick winners and losers .. where is the free market .. you r a stooge

Bernard you may be the most ignorant person here. Your comment "Ever try to rationalize with drunks and alcoholics‘?", proves it. Why would an alcoholic be any less rational than a non-alcoholic? Irrational is some moron (like you), that looks out of his window and makes a conclusion about climate change. The highest temperature ever recorded in Wisconsin was 114 F at Wisconsin Dells on July 13, 1936, and the lowest temperature on record was minus 55 F, reported from Couderay on both February 2 and February 4, 1996. So are we experiencing an ice age?

Johnny, Johnny another war in Lebanon??? Try Libya. Which he did not start but was a strong supporter of a U.N. mandate to deal with the situation. LOL happened so fast you can’t keep up. Observe not one American life lost, no boots on the ground, objective obtained falling very, very, very short of the republicans methods of two 9 years of wars and their failures to resolve them.
Did he assassinate a U.S. citizen? Nope that is just another lie you picked up at your Fox Den. A traitor is no longer a citizen by their own admissions. As for the rest of your gobly goop suggest you actually take the time to research your Foxs’ propaganda. I’m not interested in explaining each and every lie or propaganda slop you vomit out. Your replies have done all that is required to identify the stooge of a dancing prancing Fox. Now put your mommies computer away and go do your homework. Actually read a book say on "The Liberal Free Trade Markets"

Well, Well another stooge enters. Hi Greg.. You must be one of those alcoholics, by the way you, attempt to rationalize. You absorb your facts from an individual that is chemically imbalanced. Explains the half baked means by how you determine climate change. Then you babble on about how others derive that information with no knowledge of the other individual. Now put down your bottle and try a simple experiment. Just 2 values o temperature as a means to come to a conclusion is well…?? Now try this call up your local meteorologist [weatherman] and ask them if they could give you the record highs for the past years and record lows for those same years and then figure it out. Try calling as many of these guys and compare their results. DUH why take only one persons opinion or just 2 vague temperatures that your chemically induced brain can handle…

I'm sorry Bernie, I must have been wrong with my analysis of the hard data, on global warming, that you presented in your moronic rants.
"You must be one of those alcoholics, by the way you, attempt to rationalize.", I ask again, why would an alcoholic be less rational than a non-alcoholic?

A consistent trend towards more frequent hot days has not yet emerged. From 1950 to 2006, the observed frequency of 90°F days has increased by 2 days per year across northwestern Wisconsin and decreased by 2-4 days per year over central and southwestern Wisconsin. Southeastern Wisconsin has seen no change.

Ok i did miss speak on the lebabnon i did mean libya .. but f you, take are marching orders from the UN BS .. just like you Globalist sux azz'z you are .. so he ran on ending the wars now the useless Cindy Sheehan has been taken to the woodshed by people like you .. now YOU celebrate wars since your Dhead is in charge .. Oh so he was tried as a traitor really .. The NDAA says you can detain anyone the F stick EXTENDED the f'in Patriot act .. so i tell you what u butt kissin ignoramus WAKE UP

Dearest Greg. Why do I surmise that a more rational individual is more likely to be found in a non-alcoholic? That you have to ask the question even after I gave you a hint [chemically induced] speaks volumes about you. As to your data it is incorrect. You are just making up numbers. Your 2 day per year equals to 112 days increase to the present and 168 days decrease of a 90 day summer? LOL that leaves us with “56” days betwixt the two of decrease at 90 degrees. Which is the amount of years from 1950 to 2006. What a coincident. You did not measure the individual Heat record against the Cold record producing. Of the two which is greater and the lesser and or remains the same. Again an alcoholic is mastered by their emotions in their everyday lives. Observe your emotional responses and half baked annalist. Are you an Alcoholic?
By the way if your local meteorologist will not e-mail you the data then seek out another they are not the only pebble on the beach. Give me the meteorologist e-mail so I can verify your data. You are losing creditability.

Johnny, Johnny what is happening to you? Your ranting is unbecoming of a sane humane being. Are you addicted to some form of mind altering drugs. Notice your inconsistencies‘. Emotional loss of control.
Marching orders from U.N. What in the world are you talking about? Do you know what the U.N. is? Then off you go name calling onto something to do with Global warming? That is how you intend to validate what you cannot articulate? Cindy Sheehan? Who is this? Celebrate what? President bashing then follows and this is to validate what, of your presentation?
So he was tried as a traitor? LOL are you defending him? Is this what you have been reduced to by your rabid fox infection? Detain anyone because he extended the Busch’s’ Patriot Act? LOL you did not read it did you? It does not include Americans. Are you saying our Home security systems are to start to shut down? Just because Obama captured Osama in less than 2 years does not mean we should let our guard down now. DUH. By the way, an American that was illegally detained under the Patriot Act is suing Dick Cheney in Civil Court. A fly in your false ranting Then off you go again trying to make me as you are, a butt kissing something. Hey how about when Obama sent in a virus to slow down any nuclear weapons productions. Sure is better to lose a few viruses than our sons, daughters, mothers, fathers, etc., etc. As the bomb, bomb boots on the ground republican mentality of McCain,Chenny,Mitt. Syria/Iran next?

Bernard, To start off, I don't drink, smoke or use illicit drugs. I do take OTC and prescription medication as needed. My caffeine intake is very low, so your "[chemically induced]" comment is as wrong as everything else you say.
As to me making up numbers, wrong again dipstick. You just have a comprehension problem, probably chemically induced. The number of days is not cumulative over the duration of the study, the change is stated in reference to a time frame, that being "per year". The report states "observed frequency", not annual increase.
The method used in the study was: The source of observed temperature data was 176 weather stations measuring daily maximum temperatures during 1950-2006 in and around Wisconsin, from the National Weather Service’s Cooperative Observer Program. These data were interpolated to an 8-km grid (Serbin & Kucharik, 2009). Trends in the frequency of daily high temperatures exceeding 90°F were estimated using the slopes of linear regression fits for the entire 1950-2006 time series.
I may be losing creditability with you, but you have none with me. I stand by my original comment that states "you may be the most ignorant person here". You are proving it with every post.

Well Greg getting better “BUT” still not there. Your parameters’ were not previously established and now your grid is activated at 90 degrees. That is not what I suggested for you to try. Again ,Record Highs, how many, versus Record LOWS. Now your perimeter of 1950 to 2006 is on a 90 degree activation scale is far to limited for accuracy. Not asking you togo into Palo climatology but something a little more recent on the extremes of measurements for a comparison. Consider this the migrations of your insects, vegetations, animals, viruses, bacteria’s, why even the length of time and amount, for the sap in a tree has. [Maple Syrup Harvesting] Trees, that once were plentiful are leaving [pardon the pun] northward bound and are being replaced by a more southern brand of tree. Now that is a more accurate observable reaction of Mother Natures to the Temperature ambiguity. Good to hear you are on a similar diet as am I. Although your emotions do not become you. Indicates a flaw in your composition. TA-TA for now..

Bernard, Since the blog was about a summer heat wave and you concluded "we have another subtle global warming warning", the data that I provided was sufficient to prove my point, that being "some moron (like you), that looks out of his window and makes a conclusion about climate change" is "irrational".
I don't let others set parameters in my conversations, nor do I need to follow your suggestions. I have already concluded that your thinking is irrational, so why would I follow your lead? You now want me to evaluate the migrations of insects and trees to conclude that your observation, of a hot day, indicated global warming. Irrational again.
At no point in this conversation did I challenge the concept of climate change, rather I challenged you and your irrational comments. I also never used emotion, just facts, so your reading of emotion goes back to your lack of comprehension, that I pointed out in an earlier post.

Once AGAIN off you go into some emotional ranting. I never suggested your conversation to be set in perimeters! That was for the research and what is to be used as the base of how and what you are obtaining your results. As to my looking out the window as the means by witch I obtain my information is naive at best for a response. Why follow me? LOL that is why I suggest you seek out the facts for yourself. Which you do not. You evaluate and conclude with insignificant facts and with a broad brush paint the universe with it. As to irrational. Well observe the flow, of a lack of rationality, with what you claim as your conclusions. No premises’ established . Simpleton rhetoric of a ranting emotionally disturbed mind. It comes and it goes. Sure smells of alcohol.. Some day, when you can get yourself together, try reading a book or two on Palo climatology. Go back, say a couple of Billions years and observe the pretty patterns. See if you can find the various cycles of our planets climates. Note their relations to gasses and continental drifts, sun spots, galactic positioning, etc., etc. If the Birds and the Bees can’t explain it to you then your last resort is EDUCATION !

The study of paleoclimatology never concluded that a hot day was a subtle global warming warning, any more than a cold day would be an indication of an ice age.
It shows nothing but irrational thought, as does your unfounded personal attacks.
Next time you want to shoot off your mouth, be prepared to back it up.

Palo climatology does no conclude or even imply that one day or one week or one month or one year is the start of an ice age or global warming. Never said that it did. Asked you to evaluate the patterns from core samples, that they have taken to form a rational picture of our planet’s temperatures fluctuations‘. Alas this is deemed by you as IRRATIONAL??? This speaks volumes about your mental stability. Do you see irrational facts playing out all about you?? Symptoms of one who has been bitten by a rabid fox. No doubt, you also hold that education is a worthless goal as well. Your comments exposes you as the irrational stooge. My original premises of you is being vindicated, with every delusional non fact you choose to communicate. LOL and we have not even advanced to the evolutionary status of our existence. You would be comfortable with the Louisiana educational system. They are about to prove, with a much to do about nothing rhetoric, how dinosaurs’ roamed the earth 6,000 years ago. That creation [Hocus Pocus] is a science. LOL.. No need of facts for they are IRATIONAL… Ha, Ha, Ha, You should be able to get an A+ through their educational methods.
Back it up?? Spoken like a true regressive republican with a fringe of an intoxicated Tea bagger.

Uncontrolled babbling is a sure sign of an irrational mind.

@Bernard -

Give it up already - Greg schooled you and all you can do is throw out a bunch of inconclusive mumbo-jumbo and personal insults.

Greg wins, you lose - move on!

LOL now you have one of your buddies coming and feeling sorry for you and want me to leave you alone. Withdraw is for you to decide. Not some dude off the street. Take it like a sheeple republican loser and go back to your herd and enjoy a day of chewing your cud. Stray out again and I’m around I’ll be on you for another fun filled time of debating. Try bringing some actual facts and a tad more education with you.
LOL James are you related to the missing Hoffa?

What is global warming? .. enlighten me. Ok i got it you want to use the global warming fallacy to control people .. you must work in the government. Let see how much surface area of the planet is cement? I say less than 1% ... maybe the oceans heat up and cause water vapor which heats up the planet .. lets drain the freakin oceans

Multi-story malls and underground parking will make the weather better today? No. But it would make any development 100x more expensive that more would be out of work.

Bren, it's called SUMMER. When it is in the mid 70°'s next week did we all move underground and rip down the strip malls?

Steve, how does skimming material work for you as a "job creator?" It is called SUMMER, or "summer" if you are calm. (I confess to being fascinated by your workplace gestalt if your Patch claims are true. The beatings will continue until morale improves? ; )

There are grants for sustainable building as well as tax incentives. There are also opportunities to re-fit existing structures to be more environmentally friendly. A tour of the SMART house at the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry revealed that its $500,000 construction price tag, following state and local construction regulations, saved enough in utility charges etc., to pay for itself in three years. There's growing interest in LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certification in our area (MATC offers curriculum). Johnson Controls is a world leader in this technology. So I believe that inability to adapt to new technologies/trends will be more costly to related industries in the mid and longterm in terms of competitiveness.

Nothing is going to make the weather better today that I know of, unfortunately.

Johnny, if you wish to believe that the sun doesn't warm the earth, that's fine. Just leave that nice shady parking spot open for me. ; )

They built a house that would have used well over $167,000 of utilities per year?

No, I shouldn't think so. I understand that they were able to sell excess energy too. What an amazing house, really attractive. Even the furnishings were recycled/repurposed.

FYI on the underground parking, construction costs run about $20,000 per space. The above ground style parking deck, found at Bayshore and the southern edge of Mayfair is about $10,000 per space. Surface parking normally runs about $400-$1200 per space.

Who has $500,000 to build a "green" house? Some rich movie star or Al Gore.

Jay, I think the real question is, how important is it to keep building (urban/suburban sprawl) or finding new ways to use existing structures? I think this is a better way to go than continuously sprawling out. As I wrote above, we are turning farmland--food land--into sprawl at an eventually unsustainable rate. I think it's something we should deal with before it becomes a problem.

mau, the SMART House was a project/exhibition of the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago. There are people who can afford such construction, but there was a great deal also to be learned about new ways to approach renovation. The relative I visited the House with, for example, renovated their kitchen and bathroom in a completely different way than originally planned as a result, with a focus on water saving. (They didn't spend $500,000!)

Did your relative have the skills to renovate themselves or did they have to depend on contractors?

@Bren.... You need to get on the telephone with the CEO of Kohl's and work your powers of persuasion. Kohl's turned down the opportunity to move from the Menomonie Falls sprawl to construct themselves a new 20+ story office tower, and parking ramp, on the vacant park-east freeway corridor.

mau, since you ask the plumbing and electrical work was done by certified contractors, as was the cabinetry and energy star appliance installation. The latter was necessary because the previous stove was a 1932 model installed during their "vintage" phase (don't ask. They had and used a c. 1910 "plunger" vacuum). A favorite Parisian bistro has wall mounted booths for two and this has been recreated to serve as a breakfast nook.

The bathroom features a type of commode that automatically adjusts water flow, saving water. New insulation retains coolness/heat. The relative hand laid wall tile recycled from brown bottles. A new niche wall features small off-beat souvenirs from Toyko, Istanbul, etc. My favorite are the ceiling tiles. The lid of my favorite small, ornately carved wooden box with an onion-shaped ball-top was used to create a reverse mold. Hundreds of this element were cast in plaster and installed on the ceiling. All done by hand. So a contractor/artisan combo. Hope that helps!

Jay, in response, I contacted a relative at Kohl's Corporate (not CEO), who shares that most of the staff lives in the near vicinity of the original location. The decision to stay in MFLS was better for the commuting employees. Most of the company's outbuildings are in that area too. The MFLS choice was in Kohl's better interest, based on what I heard.

Yes i completly agree it is the sun and solar cycles .. if i misunderstood that is why i wanted you to clarify Global Warming .. most people us this to mean Man Made warming

Is this what Bren is talking about?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36lNS1ruK4s

You're right but talking about this flies in the face of the global warming scare. We are in a La Nina pattern.

How often does La Niña occur?
El Niño and La Niña occur on average every 3 to 5 years. However, in the historical record the interval between events has varied from 2 to 7 years. According to the National Centers for Environmental Prediction, this century's previous La Niñas began in 1903, 1906, 1909, 1916, 1924, 1928, 1938, 1950, 1954, 1964, 1970, 1973, 1975, 1988, and 1995. These events typically continued into the following spring. Since 1975, La Niñas have been only half as frequent as El Niños.

La Niña Challenge for Corn Following Corn?
Jan. 4, 2012
http://cornandsoybeandigest.com/corn/la-ni-challenge-corn-following-corn

It's the NWS calculation. I believe wind speed and direction are also a consideration, as Ozaukee was left out of the warning because the lake breeze was expected to be higher. I will defer to them, as it didn't feel like 137 degrees at any time yesterday, but if I were in a corner surrounded by hard surfaces, it may have.

Yup :-)

I also don't recall there ever being a need to tell us it's windy or cold, either. However, folks STILL leave their kids in the car, their pets in the car, and people do die in this stuff. I think trying to make it sound more official is a way to say, "we're not kidding."

mau you are describing people on the far side of green. Few urban dwellers can live as the ancestors did. My utility bills, though, are extremely low because my home has excellent cool air/heat retention (except when the cat insists on sleeping in the enclosed porch and leaving the door open).

@Bren -

I'm waiting to hear how ALEC and the Koch Bros are responsible for the heat wave!

We tried to get Schmitzy and Bren to talk about other things. But when ever we tried, it always came back to Obama for Schmitzy and ALEC for Bren - what are we to do?!?!

In the new Waterworld, you can to choose to side with either Kevin Costner or Dennis Hopper!

Hopper may be dead, but his spirit lives on in the respect and admiration of his fans!