Some members of the mainstream media (MSM) have been working overtime trying to blame the extremely cold winter east of the Mississippi River and in other parts of the world is due to a "collapsed" jet stream and polar vortex due to global warming.  Two of many  incorrect reports about this winter's cold All this started when a Rutgers' researcher, Dr. Jennifer Frances, gathered data from a far-too-short period of time (~25 years) that omitted even the 1970's when -- as we old meteorologists well remembered -- the jet stream was extremely wavy. This resulted in a heavily biased paper that appeared to tie the jet stream to cold winters due to recent levels of CO2 concentration. I attended her presentation at an American Meteorological Society meeting in Nashville in 2013 (much of her presentation was editorial cartoons mocking people who didn't think global warming was the end of the world, indicating a high level of personal editorial bias).  Sure enough, subs...

The problem with this theory is that if you flood the market with gold, the price would drop correspondingly -- to maybe a $1/once.  That said, mining asteroids is a great idea for rare minerals!

 

This is a pretty clever idea. Click here for details. 

We've heard a lot about the electric crisis in Nashville. But there are still ~25,000 people without power two weeks after the storm in northern Mississippi! The worst is in Lafayette County (in the center of the outages) with about 5,000 people without power.  In Tennessee, all but about 400 people have their power back on. 

Wind and solar work okay on a sunny, 75° spring day with a breeze. But they fail when needed the most as this latest storm again demonstrates.