Global Warming and Energy

The latest predictions for Isaac have it never becoming a hurricane. Just yesterday it was predicted to become a category two before striking the northern Gulf coast. Once again the predictors were wrong. Isaac has officially become a cat 1 hurricane. The Google map still shows Isaac as a tropical storm though it correctly reports it as a hurricane. This seems like a bug. This is a terrible page. I can't see anything because of the rain graphic. And it doesn't tell me any facts like the wind speed, the storm surge, the coordinates, the direction, or anything else. Granted, it links me to a lot of stuff, but why should I visit Google's crisis page instead of going directly to the Accuweather page?

Obama buys votes in Louisiana by declaring a disaster before any disaster exists. As far as we know, no emergency will exist. Notice he didn't declare Mississippi a disaster. You can bet right after this storm hits, the press will praise Obama for his quick action and contrast that with President Bush. I was wrong. The press is already doing this.

"NBC's Chuck Todd tries to tie Hurricane Katrina and former President George W. Bush to the GOP convention in Tampa. From Sunday's edition of NBC's Nightly News: "There are folks with the Romney campaign who think, 'Boy, Romney can't catch a break ever since he named Paul Ryan. He got a little momentum after the Ryan pick and then he's disrupted by two storms. One, a political storm in Todd Akin which we just brought up. But now an actual storm, and when you think when this storm moves to and closer to Louisiana, the specter, the sort of shadow of Bush and Katrina does hang over this convention. It is something organizers are concerned about and don't be surprised if Tuesday gets changed again.""

It's so predictable.

Germans will build 23 new coal power plants because wind and solar power turned out to be expensive and unreliable. As if we didn't know that all along.

Gas prices to be highest ever for Labor Day.  This doesn't bode well for Obama.