We take climatology and global warming seriously here at IHateTheMedia.com because we have bets on which eco-celebrity’s beachfront property will be flooded first by the rising oceans.
Unfortunately our path to riches was recently dealt a setback by space.com:
Sunspot big. Earth small. 'Nuff said.
Some unusual solar readings, including fading sunspots and weakening magnetic activity near the poles, could be indications that our sun is preparing to be less active in the coming years.
… the recent findings indicate that the activity in the next 11-year solar cycle, Cycle 25, could be greatly reduced. In fact, some scientists are questioning whether this drop in activity could lead to a second Maunder Minimum, which was a 70-year period from 1645 to 1715 when the sun showed virtually no sunspots.
We thought the “Maunder Minimum” was the cover charge at a cheesy nightspot, but it’s something worse:
The Maunder Minimum coincided with the middle — and coldest part — of the Little Ice Age, during which Europe and North America were subjected to bitterly cold winters. Whether there is a causal connection between low sunspot activity and cold winters has not been proven; however, lower earth temperatures have been observed during low sunspot activity.
Those folks should’ve used windmills and driven their SUVs less. Oh, wait….
We don’t deny earth’s climate is changing because it’s constantly changing. And we don’t deny human activity affects climate because humans are part of the ecosystem. We do, however, deny that ceding control of our lives to politicians and pinheads is going to change that.
They also know this, but a successful conman never reveals the con.
- Written by Bonfire of the Absurdities
Source: Space.com, Answers.com
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DO NOT WORRY!!!
AGW will still be in vogue as it also causes global cooling.
1+1=POTATO If you don’t believe off to the reeducation camps. Which John Kerry (who served in Vietnam) says are not that bad.
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Please continue to make checks payable to Al Gore, Inc.
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If the Sun can cause an ice age, maybe it can cause the Earth to warm aswell.
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Mike, there you go, lampooning the Green Gospel of Irreverend Al Gore (who doesn’t believe it himself) by using logic.
Excellent!
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Liar! Denier!
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Is this the line for the Denier tattoo?
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You mean the tattoos that holocaust survivors have from the Nazi death camps? These “Global Warming” frauds have more in common with the Nazis then they realize, & if they do, they don’t care.
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Exactly, or maybe a black armband with the letter “D” on it. Isn’t it funny how history repeats itself? But this is what happens when the liberal de-education establisment gets hold of our children.
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Consider this: A vital, trace gas, essential to life on earth, and present in tiny quantities, is increased by even more miniscule quantities by us dreadful humans, and which has been present in far greater quantities in the past (to the benefit of the planet), is castigated by these incredibly thick eco-greenies, yet the sun (responsible for ALL life), in it’s cyclical way gets spotty and non-spotty over billennia, resulting in a natural variation in climate. What criteria do YOU think is most likely to have a detrimental effect on us all? And can we do anything about it, other than adapt? Shall we tattoo those who don’t swallow it, build pointless windfarms and send mirrors into space?
Also consider this: What sort of fellow humans really believe that the nasty CO2 will have any effect at all, to the extent that they would send us all back to the dark ages to try and prove it?
What if they’re wrong (and they are)? What then? It’ll be too late, and they’ll be long gone.
The scientific “intelligentsia” of the world has degenerated into the most ludicrous, pointless, self-indulgent farce in its whole existence. So to say that humans are destroying the planet may be true, but not in the way that they’d have us believe – it is THEY who will destroy us all, with their sad religion and abandonment of true science.
How long will it be before EVERYBODY wakes up to this scam?
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Astronomy is one of my hobbies. I have a telescope you could fit an average size person in. This is old news. I had a friend tell me about the “Maunder Minimum” and mini-ice age about 3 years ago when the Solar Minimum had been dragging on years longer than it should have. The Solar Maximum was supposed to peak in 2012 and was predicted to be one of the most active cycles since the one in the 1800′s that caught telegraph offices on fire from a huge solar flair. About a year ago the solar activity started to pick up, nothing major but were coming out of the minimum. This is the 2nd time I have seen this reported this week and it makes me wonder why this wasnt talked about 3 years ago and all of a sudden its now news?
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The reason is very simple, NO GRANT MONEY.
I’ve made a living for over thirty years designing machine that involve electro-magnetic radiation energy transfer (IR, UV, and X-Ray) along with convection and conduction energy transfer systems. I can tell you with 100% certainty that it is the big bright ball in the sky that determines what our climate and global temperature is and will be.
Even with my background I still get into arguments with completely naive people that read a news story and think they know more than I.
Get ready for a very nasty few years as not only do humans not do well with cooler temperatures, neither do our food sources.
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We need someone to figure out how to add more real estate to the tropics.
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Here’s a question for the master climatologist Al Gore: Is it just me or does the sunspot in the picture look like Uranus?
Oh, wait, he’s a climatologist, not a proctologist. Ah, close enough for climate science work.
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I am a government employee, a well-educated man, AND a liberal! I laugh at you Conservatwits and your failure to understand the anthropogenic cause of global climate change.
You have blamed everybody for global warming! The scientists! The government! And now who do you have left? The sun.
Oh, that’s right, the sun is causing the world to heat up. You are all insane and uneducated. The sun has nothing to do with warming the planet. It’s 93 million miles away! When the sun travels around the earth at night, does the world immediately turn to ice? Boom! That’s logic that just hit you!
Let’s go through this one more time… YOU are killing the earth. YOU are causing global warming! YOU!!!!
Unless something is done–for instance a large scale, multi-trillion dollar government spending plan on the sciences and calf roping camps for at-risk youth–you will all perish.
More people must die–not me, of course–to protect our planet.
The sun? Really. That’s rich.
I bid you good day,
R. Coddington Fahrnsworth, Amateur climate scientist and gynecologist
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An insult! I shall not hear of it! I demand you bring your manservant sir and we shall force yours and mine to a game of FISTICUFFS AT DAWN!
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I rarely wake up before 10 a.m. we would have to reschedule. The inseam of my boxing trousers is being taken out, as well. I shan’t have them back for weeks.
Good day to you sir.
R.
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Shenanigans, I say, Shenanigans! An insult has been proffered and the call to fisticuffs must be met. If truly it is but a pair of trousers that keep us from honor in the squared circle; then I shall offer my own pair of roomy knickerbockers in proxy. If this is found unacceptable, then I have no choice but to proclaim these proceedings as balderdash and piffle!
My apologies to the fair among us for offending their sensibilities with this bawdy discourse but you Sir, provoked it!!!
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I really must delay this. June is the busy season at my plush government office in Washington D.C. There are several co-worker employee birthday events that must be planned and executed. As you know, I am lead functionary on the birthday committee.
And I mentioned the trousers.
This is all terribly inconvenient at the present time, terribly inconvenient.
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OMG, it’s a picture of “The Solar Anus and an Earthen Ben-Wa Ball!” How did that get out of Carol Doda’s private collection?
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I don’t care who you are, that there is funny.
It made my pregnant wife laugh milk out her nipples.
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Now THAT’S something I’d pay to see.
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Such vulgarity! Anus is as anus does. Sphincter? Aye, there’s the rubber…
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Yep… We are all stupid. The sun has absolutely no bearing on heating the earth whatsoever. It’s only heated by the 5% of the CO2 in the atmosphere that is spawned by us garbage humans. We should bow to your all knowingness, your sheer genius and your naked butt. Oh wait… R. Coddington Fahrnsworth. We forgot. You have a concensus of scientists who believe just that. If I remember right, they also had that 400 years ago when they thought the earth was flat. And they were right too.
Why don’t you at least try to think for yourself and for God’s sake, please spare us the agony of your OPINION of the worlds end.
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Sir,
I tried thinking for myself once in 1986 and didn’t like the raw exposure to new ideas or the vulnerability. I prefer to “opinionsource,” which means to let others–especially scientists, comedians and celebrities–think for me. Alec Baldwin, for example, thinks for me on foreign policy matters. My religious beliefs are based on People Magazine’s most sexiest list. Last year, for instance, I was into the Kabbalah. I vaguely remember being a non-practicing Jew.
Also, I always try to get a consensus of psychologists to determine potential sexual partners. Although, to be forthright, I haven’t had need of this group since the early 90s.
R. Coddington Fahrnsworth, super genius, one sexy mutha
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Leave Coddington alone, Sean. He’s the only man on my polo team who has figured out a way to get his horse to fart less…thereby reducing his carbon footprint! I think he’s about to build a green empire around the technology.
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My girlfriend wants to get in on some of that technology. She’s asking if it applies to humans, though. I have no idea why she would want to know that.
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Tell her that I said that the best way to stop undue farting is to double down on beer and chili. You have to chase the CO2 out.
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Regrettably, the discovery of any sort of fart-reduction measure for either me or my polo pony, “Reggie,” is completely untrue. More of your conservative “humor,” methinks.
However, it is probably worth a few million to embark on a government feasibility study to discuss whether such a medicine is possible. Then, we would no doubt need a new agency to regulate its use.
Think of the massive bureaucracy we could create!
Finally, we are getting some where on this site.
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You might consider getting one of those old ‘flavor savers’ that they used to make Welch’s grape juice. Remember that old commercial? I think that device could be modified to accommodate an equine release valve. Just a thought.
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There is a machine out there called a Personal Reclamation Device, it was once promoted by Nancy Pelosi, I think. Originally it was meant for Cows to collect their flatulence in order to reduce the CO2 emitted by the tasty creatures. But, I think with a few hardware modification it could be fitted on to any mammal that farts, including humans.
So, if one has access such a device, I would highly recommend just letting it all rip. Eat all the beans your stomach can handle. Imagine if you could bottle your own farts and use the methane to power your natural gas vehicle, why you could possible make it to the end of the block.
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Just don’t get near any source of ignition.
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OK, I’m going to be serious for a second. Any of you folks that listen to Rush, this is a classic. It is Charlton Heston, reading from Geriatric Park ,… (no wait!) That’s Jurassic Park. (for those not in the older group of us, Geriatric Park was a parody that Rush had, when the movie originally came out. The person who put up this video, did a nice job of putting together photos of Mr. Heston.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozO4YB98mCY If the web site will not allow links, I’ll find a way to hide it, and put it back up.