If you are like me, you were probably looking forward to the predicted sunny skies this afternoon, which obviously didn’t happen. The moist air left over from Saturday’s rain remained in place as the slow moving cold front that brought the rain stalled across south Georgia. This kept the clouds in place and kept the temperatures cooler than expected.

If you were hoping for bright April skies this week, it looks like that won’t happen either, and there is a possibility of rain affecting the upcoming Masters Tournament in Augusta this weekend. For the first part of the week, we’ll see another wedge keep temperatures cooler than normal, with a good chance of fog and drizzle in northeast Georgia.

The wedge moves out on Wednesday, leaving us with a pleasant day for the first round of the Masters on Thursday, but setting us up for a chance of showers and thunderstorms through the weekend. Right now, it looks like the greatest chance of rain is in the western part of the state, but golfers could see rain on Friday and Saturday. The storm system moves out Saturday night, leaving better weather for Sunday.

The week of the 13th promises to be interesting, at least by the early forecasts. There’s a good possibility that cold Canadian air will make one last stand, with a chance of a very late freeze for the first part of the week. Both the 6-10 and 8-14 day outlooks are calling for colder than normal temperatures, and Accuweather is calling for lows in the mid 30s a week from Monday and Tuesday. If you were planning to get your annuals out this week, it might be a good idea to hold off until the forecast becomes clearer as the week wears on.

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This week, the US House and Senate were abuzz when former Presidential candidate Al Gore arrived to address the bodies on the dangers of global warming, and the need for Congress to pass legislation to limit it. Gore called for regulations to limit carbon emissions, ban incandescent light bulbs, ban coal-fired plants that can’t capture carbon, and create a new “Carbon Neutral Mortgage Association”, modeled after Fannie Mae, to promote construction of energy efficient homes.

Gore spoke as if human-induced global warming was the absolute truth and settled science.

Georgia congressman John Linder reminds us in an op-ed that ran in the Washington Times last month of another generally accepted scientific theory that had the support of politicians and the media at the time — the theory of eugenics.

Even though the eugenics theory fell apart after Hitler used it as a justification for the Holocaust, Linder notes that many of the scientists supported the theory because the institutions that provided their funding wanted it that way.

Linder also notes that the most prevalent greenhouse gas is water vapor, but since it can’t be controlled the way C02 emissions can, no one is going after it. He also points out that termites have been estimated to produce more C02 annually than the carbon dioxide produced by burning fossil fuels.

Speaking to a group of Gwinnett Republicans recently, Linder said that after the article was published, he was contacted by a number of scientists that shared his skepticism.

So, before you believe everything that’s in Algore’s Inconvenient Truth, take a look at John’s article, and think about what might really be motivating those who propose restricting America’s economy in the name of the environment.