2014 Chicago Has Been Coldest In 110 Years. This means that any minute now some government agency will claim it’s the warmest, ever and we’re all going to die unless we pay carbon taxes.
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Only 50% Of Scientists Blame Mankind for Climate Change In New Study
Only 50% Of Scientists Blame Mankind for Climate Change In New Study. So much for that 97% consensus. Send this to a greentard and make their day.
Global warming may drive aliens to destroy life on Earth. No, really.
It may not rank as the most compelling reason to curb greenhouse gases, but reducing our emissions might just save humanity from a pre-emptive alien attack.
Until now, the threats climate change cultists warned us about have been terrestrial: sea levels rising, year-round snowfalls, year-round heat waves, etc. That wasn’t enough to frighten change-denying terrorists, so now the believers are rolling out the big guns: aliens!
Even the UK Guardian seems a bit skeptical:
It may not rank as the most compelling reason to curb greenhouse gases, but reducing our emissions might just save humanity from a pre-emptive alien attack, scientists claim.
Watching from afar, extraterrestrial beings might view changes in Earth’s atmosphere as symptomatic of a civilisation growing out of control – and take drastic action to keep us from becoming a more serious threat, the researchers explain.
When Neil Armstrong said, “One small step for man…”, one of the lizard people said, “There goes the astronomical neighborhood.”
“Green” aliens might object to the environmental damage humans have caused on Earth and wipe us out to save the planet.
Hmmmm. The aliens sound a lot like progressive Democrats.
“These scenarios give us reason to limit our growth and reduce our impact on global ecosystems.”
ETs may not like the growth that’s already here. We’d advise rich libs like Al Gore to move into eco-friendly huts pronto.
It would be particularly important for us to limit our emissions of greenhouse gases, since atmospheric composition can be observed from other planets,” the authors write.
It’s also important for us to limit our bullcrap emissions since it’s likely that frauds and hypocrites can be spotted from other planets, too.
– Written by Bonfire of the Absurdities
Source: Guardian UK
Global warming update: Mad Max 4 filming delayed because Australia’s too green and pastoral
It’s a global warming tragedy that Australia’s been cursed with such abundant rain that the surrounding hillsides have exploded in grass and flowers.
Tim Flannery is Australia’s version of Al Gore. By that we don’t mean that he’s an overweight guy who’s screwing the wives of his Hollywood buddies. Not at all. Tim Flannery couldn’t get laid in a whorehouse with a fistful of fifties.
But he is the Aussie pied piper of global warming. He comes up with one wild global warming prediction after another and none of them – repeat, none of them – ever come true.
For example, he forecast that Australian rain would become a thing of the past, that its rivers would stop flowing, that its water supplies would dry up and that its land would die.
As ABC Australia reports, the producers of Max Max 4 are now thinking, “If only.”
The highly anticipated fourth movie in the Mad Max series will no longer be filmed in Broken Hill in New South Wales’s far west, despite years of preparation.
Kennedy Miller Mitchell (KMM), the production company behind Mad Max: Fury Road, says the area around Broken Hill is too green for the post-apocalyptic film.
Filming on the movie, which will star Tom Hardy and Charlize Theron, was meant to begin early next year after already being delayed twice because of weather…
Broken Hill Mayor Wincen Cuy says the council understands the decision.
“This decision has been 12 months now in the making and I believe it hasn’t been taken lightly,” he said.“It is a tragedy that it can’t, but nature has caused it, nothing other than nature has caused it.
Yes, indeed, Mayor Cuy. It’s a damn tragedy your town won’t be blessed with the wonders that come with a Hollywood production crew and yet another tragedy that it’s been cursed with such abundant rain that the surrounding hillsides have exploded in grass and flowers.
A tragedy indeed.
Just ask Tim Flannery.
Source: ABC Australia
Sounds like Tim Geithner, Ben Bernanke and Barack Obama are in charge of carbon offsets, too
Put the printing presses in high gear. More dollars. More carbon offsets. More opinions from Al Gore. More of everything no one wants.
According to Al Gore, the creation of a carbon offset market is the magical solution to all our global warming problems. Create an American market similar to Europe’s and global warming will be halted in its tracks. And if a billion or two extra dollars should happen to end up in the Goracle’s pocket, well, that’s something that just can’t be avoided.
Just one thing: The European market doesn’t work any better than the crystal ball Gore used to predict global warming.
Reuters has the details:
Carbon offsets neared all-time lows Friday, confirming their status as the world’s worst performing commodity, as slumping demand meets rising supply of the U.N. instrument traded under the Kyoto Protocol.
Rising supply amid slumping demand? This sounds like the United States dollar under Geithner, Bernanke and Obama.
Carbon offsets have fared uniquely badly because a U.N. climate panel continues to print new offsets, regardless of a widening glut in emissions permits in the main demand market, the European Union’s carbon market.
Put the printing presses in high gear. More dollars. More carbon offsets. More opinions from Al Gore. More of everything no one wants.
Source: Reuters
Al Gore gets all hot and bothered during global warming speech
The Goracle put on one of his patented “I’m so angry I could spit” performances and even threw in a few special words to show just how angry he is.
The Aspen Institute held a media forum and Al Gore showed up to speak. The Goracle put on one of his patented “I’m so angry I could spit” performances and even threw in a few special words to show just how angry he is.
The Colorado Independent was there to record them for posterity:
“They pay pseudo-scientists to pretend to be scientists to put out the message: ‘This climate thing, it’s nonsense. Man-made CO2 doesn’t trap heat. It may be volcanoes.’ Bullshit! ‘It may be sun spots.’ Bullshit! ‘It’s not getting warmer.’ Bullshit!” Gore exclaimed.
And he wasn’t done. No, he was just getting warmed up about global warming deniers:
“When you go and talk to any audience about climate, you hear them washing back at you the same crap over and over and over again,” he continued. “There’s no longer a shared reality on an issue like climate even though the very existence of our civilization is threatened. People have no idea! … It’s no longer acceptable in mixed company, meaning bipartisan company, to use the goddamn word climate. It is not acceptable. They have polluted it to the point where we cannot possibly come to an agreement on it.”
What caused Al to get so het up? No one knows for sure, but we can imagine the following scene:
Laurie David is curled up next to the Goracle in bed in their luxurious suite after the speech. Little beads of sweat are forming on her brow. She gives out an involuntary gasp and says, “Oh, Albert. I know I’m just contributing to global warming and that’s against everything we believe in, but it makes me sooooo hot when you talk all manly-like during your speeches.”
And Al smiles and thinks to himself, “Imagine that. I’m doing Larry David’s wife and saving the planet simultaneously. I am a global warming stud.”
Source: Colorado Independent
The science is settled: 69% think global warming is a crock of something that smells very bad
Uh-oh. In another blow to the Gospel According to Saint Al, it turns out that the vast majority of Americans are apostates.
“The science is settled” is the mantra repeated by global warming true believers to justify their faith in a fraudulent religion. Ad nauseam.
Uh-oh. In another blow to the Gospel According to Saint Al, it turns out that the vast majority of Americans are apostates.
Rasmussen has the details:
The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey of American Adults shows that 69% say it’s at least somewhat likely that some scientists have falsified research data in order to support their own theories and beliefs, including 40% who say this is Very Likely. Twenty-four percent (24%) don’t think it’s likely some scientists have falsified global warming data, including just six percent (6%) say it’s Not At All Likely. Another 10% are undecided.
The number of adults who say it’s likely scientists have falsified data is up 10 points from December 2009 .
Fifty-seven percent (57%) believe there is significant disagreement within the scientific community on global warming, up five points from late 2009. One in four (25%) believes scientists agree on global warming. Another 18% aren’t sure.
We just did our own survey. 50% of the IHTM staff thinks Al Gore concocted global warming to line his own pockets and 50% think he did it to advance one world government. The margin of error is 50% one way or the other.
Source: Rasmussen
Hilarious: Germany to pay for its new coal power plants by diverting money from climate change fund
Perhaps Germans could figure out a way to power their nation by tapping into the steam coming out of the eco-wackos’ ears.
Angela Merkel’s government has made an announcement that’s sure to make environmental wackos happy – they’re closing down all their nuclear power plants. But Phase Two of the plan will drive the wackos even whackier.
Watts Up With That has the details:
Less than a month after the failed Bonn UN climate confab, Germany has announced a most audacious energy policy: in order to shutter nuclear plants (but not completely scuttle their economy), the German government will direct climate fund cash to building coal and natural gas plants. You can’t make this stuff up.
Germany plans to dump nuclear power by 2022 but clearly needs to meet burgeoning electricity demand especially for a still powerful manufacturing economy dependent upon exports. Solar panels at their latitude and windmills are not going to suffice, so the solution is more coal. The environmental movement must be apoplectic with so many politically correct wires crossing at once.
Perhaps Germans could figure out a way to power their nation by tapping into the steam coming out of the eco-wackos’ ears.
Source: Watts Up With That?
Theory adjustment time: The same Chinese pollution that causes global warming also causes global cooling
The global warming fanatics are now explaining away a decade of cooler temperatures by blaming it on burning coal.
It’s almost funny. No, it is funny. Very damn funny, in fact. One might even say uproarious.
The same global warming fanatics who told us that burning coal is one of the main causes of global warming are now explaining away a decade of cooler temperatures by blaming it on – you guessed it – burning coal.
The BBC manages to explain it all without even cracking a smile:
The lull in global warming from 1998 to 2008 was mainly caused by a sharp rise in China’s coal use, a study suggests.
The absence of a temperature rise over that decade is often used by “climate sceptics” as grounds for denying the existence of man-made global warming.
But the new study, in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, concludes that smog from the extra coal acted to mask greenhouse warming.
Aha! It must be true because it says so in a study. A study presented in a journal with a very long name. That’s good enough for us and we’re confident that it’s good enough for any reasonable person.
China’s coal use doubled 2002-2007, according to US government figures.
Although burning the coal produced more warming carbon dioxide, it also put more tiny sulphate aerosol particles into the atmosphere which cool the planet by reflecting solar energy back into space.
In other words, the problem is also the solution. If it’s warmer, it’s the result of burning coal. If it’s getting cooler, it’s the result of burning coal.
Global warming theory is like one of those Snuggies you see advertised on late night TV – one size fits all.
Source: BBC
Al Gore, laughingstock: A look back at his hurricane predictions
Hard to believe, but it was a mere six years ago the Goracle descended from on high to warn mankind that global warming would inevitably lead to more hurricanes and stronger hurricanes.
Hard to believe, but it was a mere six years ago the Goracle descended from on high to warn mankind that global warming would inevitably lead to more hurricanes and stronger hurricanes.
He foresaw nothing but death and destruction and a little more jingly in his pocket.
CommonDreams.org quotes the Goracle back in 2005:
… the science is extremely clear now, that warmer oceans make the average hurricane stronger, not only makes the winds stronger, but dramatically increases the moisture from the oceans evaporating into the storm – thus magnifying its destructive power – makes the duration, as well as the intensity of the hurricane, stronger.
Last year we had a lot of hurricanes. Last year, Japan set an all-time record for typhoons: ten, the previous record was seven. Last year the science textbooks had to be re-written. They said, “It’s impossible to have a hurricane in the south Atlantic.” We had the first one last year, in Brazil. We had an all-time record last year for tornadoes in the United States, 1,717 – largely because hurricanes spawned tornadoes.
Don’t look now, Al, but Anthony Watts reports that your prediction was about 180 degrees off. Hurricane activity is now near an all-time low.
During the past 6-years since Hurricane Katrina, global tropical cyclone frequency and energy have decreased dramatically, and are currently at near-historical record lows. According to a new peer-reviewed research paper accepted to be published, only 69 tropical storms were observed globally during 2010, the fewest in almost 40-years of reliable records.
Furthermore, when each storm’s intensity and duration were taken into account, the total global tropical cyclone accumulated energy (ACE) was found to have fallen by half to the lowest level since 1977.
Paging Al Gore. Paging Al Gore. The 2011 hurricane season started June 1. Has anyone seen Al Gore lately?
H/T: Andrew Bolt
Hide the decline: Sunspots, magnetic activity and global cooling
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.
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:
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
Red faces in the Obama administration: Green cars not so green
An electric car owner would have to drive at least 129,000km before producing a net saving in CO2. Many electric cars will not travel that far in their lifetime.
Obviously, we exaggerate. Not about green cars not being green, but about red faces in the Obama administration. This bunch proved long ago that they are beyond being embarrassed by any of their actions.
But let’s get back to the green car myth with The Australian:
Electric cars could produce higher emissions over their lifetimes than petrol equivalents because of the energy consumed in making their batteries, a study has found.
How is that possible? We’ve been told that electric cars would cure all our ills.
An electric car owner would have to drive at least 129,000km before producing a net saving in CO2. Many electric cars will not travel that far in their lifetime because they typically have a range of less than 145km on a single charge and are unsuitable for long trips. Even those driven 160,000km would save only about a tonne of CO2 over their lifetimes…
The study was commissioned by the Low Carbon Vehicle Partnership, which is jointly funded by the British government and the car industry. It found that a mid-size electric car would produce 23.1 tonnes of CO2 over its lifetime, compared with 24 tonnes for a similar petrol car. Emissions from manufacturing electric cars are at least 50 per cent higher because batteries are made from materials such as lithium, copper and refined silicon, which require much energy to be processed.
Electric cars. The vehicles we’ll all drive on the road to ruin.
H/T: The Australian
Eco-fascist offers free tattoos to those with dangerous beliefs. No word on complimentary haircuts or showers just yet.
Columnist Richard Glover says it’s time for climate-change deniers to have their opinions forcibly tattooed on their bodies.
For some time now it has been the standard operating procedure for some on the left to equate “climate-change deniers” to Holocaust deniers. We’re not sure whose clever idea this was. We are sure that it really wasn’t all that clever.
As is often the case with the progressives this rhetoric could only exist for so long before it was no longer progressive enough. Now, it seems, there is at least one guy willing to ditch the talk of Holocaust deniers and fantasize about incorporating the tactics of the very guys that brought that particular horror about.
Australian Broadcaster and Sydney Morning Herald columnist Richard Glover explains:
Surely it’s time for climate-change deniers to have their opinions forcibly tattooed on their bodies. Not necessarily on the forehead; I’m a reasonable man. Just something along their arm or across their chest so their grandchildren could say, ”Really? You were one of the ones who tried to stop the world doing something? And why exactly was that, granddad?”
On second thoughts, maybe the tattooing along the arm is a bit Nazi-creepy. So how about they are forced to buy property on low-lying islands, the sort of property that will become worthless with a few more centimetres of ocean rise, so they are bankrupted by their own bloody-mindedness? Or what about their signed agreement to stand, in the year 2040, lashed to a pole at a certain point in the shallows off Manly? If they are right and the world is cooling – ”climate change stopped in the year 1998” is one of their more boneheaded beliefs – their mouths will be above water. If not …
Achtung non-believer.
– Written by Kip Hooker at TheVitaminPress.com
Source: Sydney Morning Herald
Eco-wacko: Global warming alarmist Cate Blanchett buys oceanfront estate on low-lying Pacific island
Cate Blanchett’s latest purchase might make one think she doesn’t believe her own line of global warming hysteria.
Can we call actress Cate Blanchett a Hollywood hypocrite? We think it’s a reasonable appellation, because while she may live in Australia, but her global warming hypocrisy reaches all the way to Tinseltown.
Blanchett’s latest purchase might make one think she doesn’t believe her own line of global warming hysteria:
The movie star-turned-eco warrior is believed to have recently bought a plot of land in Vanuatu, one of the countries hardest hit by global warming….
Blanchett is thought to have bought some waterfront property in or around the luxury area of Havannah Harbour during a visit last year…
Other sources said she bought property around Havannah Harbour, where the property market for international celebrities and other jetsetters is booming…
The Vanuatu travel and luxury magazine Pacifique breathlessly opined: “Cate Blanchett’s purchase in Havannah Harbour has everyone rethinking this tropical paradise.”
Far as we can tell, there are only two possible conclusions that can be drawn from this story:
1. Blanchett has made the worst real estate investment in history because her new purchase will soon be under water due to the global warming Blanchett rails against, or
2. Blanchett is just the latest in a long line of global warming hypocrites.
Seems clear to us.
H/T: Andrew Bolt
And in art news: Environmental artist carves polar bear out of ice, lets it melt to sound warning
Let’s say you’re an artist. A hack artist, perhaps. Your work really isn’t very good and under normal circumstances you’d either starve to death or have to go get a real job. What to do? What to do?
Let’s say you’re an artist. A hack artist, perhaps. Your work really isn’t very good and under normal circumstances you’d either starve to death or have to go get a real job. What to do? What to do?
This is the post-television age. The iPod age. The iPad age. All an artist need do is figure out a good scam and hornswaggle the media into promoting your “art.”
News24 offers a case in point:
A ten tonne polar bear camping out at Sydney’s majestic Circular Quay isn’t likely to survive for more than a day or two. The bear, made of solid ice, will slowly melt into a great puddle of water under Sydney’s 20°C winter sun, and sculptor Mark Coreth is just fine with that.
In fact, he hopes this slow and painful “death” will remind people of the plight of the real thing.
Here comes the part we love. The part where he tells us he was inspired by the noble native:
“When I was [in the Arctic], the Inuit guides were saying look, you can sculpt a polar bear, that’s fine, but how on earth are you going to sculpt the real issue we got, and that’s the warming arctic?” Coreth said in front of Sydney’s Customs House.
Turns out the Brit has been traveling the world with these frozen polar bear sideshows since 2009. He’s got the spiel down cold, you might say:
“Sitting in the sun, it’s going to melt that bear, that’s the natural warming of the planet, as is happening,” he said.“But when people touch it, when they touch that bear, they melt it, you can feel it melt under your hand, that’s a human impact. Big hard touch, big hard melt.”
But don’t get the impression Coreth is some kind of starving artist. He may love the hell out of the polar bears, but as AFP notes, he’s figured out how to turn a profit by melting hearts with his melting art.
Bypassers can pay Aus$2 to touch the creature, feeling “the ice melting under your hand,” said Coreth, who hopes to raise awareness about global warming and its effect on polar bears, an endangered species.
Touch the creature. Sounds like an online conversation with Anthony Weiner.
H/T: Mike Power
Source: News24, AFP
Hollyweirdo Sigourney Weaver: Global warming discriminates against women
Actress Sigoruney Weaver explaining how global warming discriminates against some very unexpected victims: women.
We try to give you an amusing take on the day’s news here at IHateTheMedia.com. Sometimes we’re funny, and sometimes we’re not.
But the simple fact of the matter is that nothing we sweat bullets to create can possibly compare to the unintentionally funny crap that comes from the mouths of Hollyweirdos.
Take, for example, actress Sigoruney Weaver explaining how global warming discriminates against some very unexpected victims:
Over the past month, I have been speaking to women in Canada and the American Midwest about a powerful force that discriminates against us. I am not talking about the glass ceiling or sexists bosses, although we all know those still exist. I am talking about climate change.
You might think that a force as sweeping as global warming would be an equal opportunity threat: that it would endanger men and women alike. But the fact is climate change exacts a heavier toll on women.
Women produce up to 80 percent of the food in the developing world. Drought and unpredictable rains brought on by climate change will make this work far more precarious. Women will have to labor harder and longer to ensure their families have food, fuel, and water…
Far be it from us to express a strong opinion, but that Alien chick is nuttier than Aunt Dodie’s fruitcake.
Source: Huffington Post
Are government global warming experts smarter than a fifth grader?
Whose hurricane predictions have been correct only twice in the past 7 years? NOAA. Who is one of the leading advocates for the global warming issue? NOAA.
Who tries to predict how many Atlantic hurricanes we will see each year? The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, NOAA for short.
Whose predictions have been correct only twice in the past 7 years? NOAA.
Who is one of the leading advocates for the global warming issue? NOAA.
Who funds this multi-billion dollar federal agency? Those suckers otherwise known as the American taxpayers.
Last year we bet on a trained chimp with a pair of dice to predict how many hurricanes we would see. The chimp almost beat the NOAA experts.
This year we’re putting our money on a pair of fifth grade kids.
Who would you bet on? A multi-billion dollar, taxpayer funded agency that cannot get things right more than 29% of the time or a couple of kids with a 50/50 chance of making the right prediction.
– Written by Whiskeyriver
– Written by Whiskeyriver
NASA-funded group makes up wacky theory to explain why global warming isn’t causing sea levels to rise
Damn it! Damn it to hell! Satellite measurements show that sea levels aren’t rising like the warmers predicted, so a NASA-funded group has come up with its own scientific theory to explain the shortfall.
Damn it! Damn it to hell! Satellite measurements show that sea levels aren’t rising like the warmers predicted, so a NASA-funded group has come up with its own scientific theory to explain the shortfall. And by “scientific” we mean “making crap up as they go along.”
Forbes has the latest global warming “facts”:
Satellite measurements, however, show global sea level rose merely 0.83 inches during the first decade of the 21st century (a pace of just 8 inches for the entire century), and has barely risen at all since 2006. This puts alarmists in the embarrassing position of defending predictions that are not coming true in the real world.
The University of Colorado Sea Level Research Group is coming to their rescue. The NASA-funded group claims glacial melt is removing weight that had been pressing down on land masses, which in turn is causing land mass to rise. This welcome news mitigates sea-level rise from melting glacial ice, meaning sea level will rise less than previously thought. However, it is very inconvenient for alarmist sea level predictions. Therefore, instead of reporting the amount by which sea level is rising in the real world, the Sea Level Research Group has begun adding 0.3 millimeters per year of fictitious sea level rise to “compensate” for rising land mass.
In other words, they’re twisting the facts to make them fit the theory. Kind of like they did with tree ring data and the hockey stick.
Seems to us that those same precise satellite measurement devices that are capable of measuring a miniscule rise in sea levels should also be capable of measuring any corresponding rise in land masses.
We’ll just sit here and wait for the University of Colorado Sea Level Research Group to deliver that data.
Oh, wait. What were we thinking? They’re the Sea Level Research Group. That data will probably have to come from another NASA-funded organization called the Land Mass Level Research Group.
Source: Forbes
It’s a consensus: Most people in the world don’t think global warming is a serious threat
It turns out there is a global warming consensus, but it’s not the one Al Gore was hoping for.
This is not the kind of news Al Gore likes to read as his personal chef is preparing his eggs benedict. No, not at all. Turns out there is a global warming consensus, but it’s not the one Gore was hoping for.
CNS News offers up the details:
Most of the human race does not see global warming as a serious threat, according to a Gallup poll released last week that surveyed individuals in 111 countries.
Respondents were asked: “How serious of a threat is global warming to you and your family?” They were given the options of anwering: not at all serious, not very serious, somewhat serious or very serious.
Worldwide, only 42 percent told Gallup they believed global warming was either a “somewhat serious” or “very serious” threat.
As highly-trained experts in advanced mathematics, we have been able to determine that that means 58% don’t think it’s a serious threat.
In the United States, 53 percent of those surveyed think global warming is a “somewhat serious” or “very serious” threat. Gore shouldn’t celebrate those numbers, though, because that’s down from 63% in 2008.
Only 10% of the residents of Somaliland think global warming is a somewhat serious or very serious threat.
Greece is is the nation most afraid of global warming. Perhaps that nation’s economic woes can be attributed to the fact that 87% of Greeks spent all their money on Gore’s snakeoil.
Source: CNS News
History according to Saint Al: Gore compares his global warming crusade to civil rights battle
Al Gore now compares his global warming battle to the civil rights battle, If that’s the case, we can only assume that he pictures himself filling the role of Dr. Martin Luther King…
Al Gore now compares his global warming battle to the civil rights battle, If that’s the case, we can only assume that he pictures himself filling the role of Dr. Martin Luther King, the fiery preacher who moved the masses with his religious loquacity.
TheHill.com has the details of Gore’s historical allusion illusion:
Al Gore told young green energy advocates Friday that progress on global warming must come from a strong grassroots movement that can counter the oil and coal lobbies, which he alleged have “paralyzed” governments.
Gore – who compared action on global warming to the Civil Rights movement – was the keynote speaker at Power Shift 2011, a Washington, D.C. conference attended largely by college students.
“It’s true that governments by and large have been politically paralyzed because the energy companies, the coal companies, the oil companies, the coal-burning utilities, they have spent enormous amounts of money and they have succeeded in many countries in paralyzing the political process,” the former vice president said.
… Gore said the Civil Rights movement was fueled by youth questioning their parents about legal discrimination, and he drew a link to climate change.
“When they could not answer that moral question coming straight from the conscience of young people, that is when the laws began to change,” Gore said. “You need to ask, ‘tell me again why its al right to put 90 million tons of global warming pollution into the atmosphere every 24 hours, 20 percent of it will still be there in 20,000 years.’”
As we recall our 1960s history, the civil rights movement was marked by a series of marches. Seems to us that Gore’s fat, flabby, flaccid body could benefit immensely from some marching.
So it is strictly with Gore’s health in mind that we say, “Hit the road, Al.”
Source: TheHill.com
Cancel your vacation plans: Predictions for ice free Arctic summers pushed back. Again.
Damn it. We were so sure our investment in a summer resort in the Arctic was going to pay off in a big way. But now the predictions for an ice-free Arctic have been pushed back. Yet again.
Damn it. We were so sure our investment in a summer resort in the Arctic was going to pay off in a big way. But now the predictions for an ice-free Arctic have been pushed back. Yet again.
The BBC has the new, improved ice free prediction:
Scientists who predicted a few years ago that Arctic summers could be ice-free by 2013 now say summer sea ice will probably be gone in this decade.
The original prediction, made in 2007, gained Wieslaw Maslowski’s team a deal of criticism from some of their peers.
Now they are working with a new computer model – compiled partly in response to those criticisms – that produces a “best guess” date of 2016.
Best guess. That’s a highly scientific term that means “making shit up as we go along.”
Source: BBC
Genius Democrat Claire McCaskill: “The good news about the recession is that our emissions are down”
Missouri Democrat Claire McCaskill revealed the silver lining to the recession: lack of economic activity has reduced those pesky greenhouse gasses.
California Democrat Barbara Boxer has long held the unofficial title of World’s Dumbest Senator. But now it looks like she may have a little competition from Missouri Democrat Claire McCaskill.
McCaskill’s glass was half full, but her brain was half empty when she spoke to the Georgetown University College Democrats on March 28. That’s when she revealed that there’s a silver lining to the recession: The lack of economic activity has reduced those pesky greenhouse gasses.
It does appear, however, that the bullshit and resultant methane emissions were rather heavy that day at Georgetown.
Incredible photos: California mountains crippled by 50 feet of global warming
“Three Tahoe resorts, Sierra-at-Tahoe, Sugar Bowl and Squaw Valley, have reported that their season snow totals now exceed 600 inches. That’s more than 50 feet of snow!”
The Gospel According to Saint Al said that snow was a thing of the past. Looks like somebody forgot to tell Mother Nature.
“This entire winter season has really been an embarrassment of snow riches for several ski resorts throughout California especially around Lake Tahoe,” according to Weather.com. “Three Tahoe resorts, Sierra-at-Tahoe, Sugar Bowl and Squaw Valley, have reported that their season snow totals now exceed 600 inches. That’s more than 50 feet of snow!”
Puh-leeze. These are not photos of snow. They are photos of extreme weather conditions brought on by worldwide climate change.
A snowbank at the Mammoth Mountain ski resort
There’s a building under there somewhere at Alpine Meadows
Skiing stopped at Alpine Meadows when the snow level reached the height of the lift
A walkway cleared through the snow at Heavenly Valley
Big deal, you say, it’s not unusual for snow level to reach mid-window at Mammoth Mountain. Then you find out this is a third story window.
The road near Lake Tahoe
How’d you like to clear the snow out of this driveway near Tahoe-Donner?
Source: Weather.com
ClimateGate 101: Berkeley professor explains the real scandal
We didn’t know there were any rogue academics willing to risk their careers by speaking out against ClimateGate. We were wrong.
We didn’t know there were any rogue academics willing to risk their careers by speaking out against ClimateGate. We were wrong.
Here’s Professor Richard A. Muller – from Berkeley, of all places – explaining the real problem with Michael Mann’s “hide the decline trick” and the ClimateGate emails.
Tag team in the Senate: Inhofe and Barrasso gang up on Obama’s global warming “expert”
Republican Senators James Inhofe of Oklahoma and John Barrasso of Wyoming teamed up on Obama Science Guru John Holdren, who had predicted global cooling back in the ‘70s.
Think of it as bad cop and badder cop. Republican Senators James Inhofe of Oklahoma and John Barrasso of Wyoming teamed up on Obama Science Guru John Holdren, who had predicted global cooling back in the ‘70s.
The Daily Caller has the details:
The exchange started with Barrasso addressing the committee’s witness, Environmental Protection Agency Director Lisa Jackson.
“Forty years ago, the same scientists that are predicting the end of the world now from global warming were predicting the end of the world from global cooling,” said Barrasso. “So if we had committed the same amount of taxpayer resources and government manpower that the administration now wants us to commit to prevent global warming — if we’d done that prevent global cooling, we wouldn’t be the most prosperous nation on earth.”
He continued: “The fact is that the same doomsday predictions we were getting 40 years is the exact same thing this agency and this administration today. Only now…the problem is man-made global warming.”
… Still later, Inhofe got into the science debate by citing a 1971 study by Dr. John Holdren, who just so happens to be President Obama’s advisor on science technology. In that study Holdren wrote, “The effects of a new ice age on agriculture and the supportability of large human populations scarcely need elaboration here.” Holdren went on to write that the effects could “generate a tidal wave of proportions unprecedented in recorded history.”
A visibly satisfied Inhofe then turned to Boxer, and stated, “So even the president’s people are agreed with me, Madam Chairwoman!”
Inhofe and Barrasso must have felt like that old Steales Wheel song: “Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right, here I am, stuck in the middle with you.”
The video really is worth watching if for no other reason that to watch Barbara Boxer attempt to control events as they spiral out of control. Damn, we’re so proud to have her as our Senator.
Source: DailyCaller.com
