climate change – Page 5 – I HATE THE MEDIA ™

Remember that panic-inducing IPCC global warming report? Well, forget it.

This is going to come as a terrible shock to Al Gore and his band of Gorebots, but that IPCC report – you know, the one that foretold all the horrible consequences of global warming – was mostly hot air.

polar bear ipcc report — The polar bears are going to be fine, but global warming scaremongers may face extinction.

The Australian, one of the largest newspapers in the land down under, reports on chicanery within the IPCC:

THE UN body that advises governments on climate change failed to make clear how its landmark report on the impact of global warming often presented a worst-case scenario, an investigation has concluded.

A summary report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change on regional impacts focused on the negative consequences of climate change and failed to make clear that there would also be some benefits of rising temperatures.

The report adopted a “one-sided” approach that risked being interpreted as an “alarmist view”.

For example, the IPCC had stated that 60 per cent of the Great Barrier Reef was projected to suffer regular bleaching by 2020 but had failed to make clear that this was the worst projected outcome and the impact might be far smaller.

The wording of a statement on between 3000 and 5000 more heat-related deaths a year in Australian cities had suggested that all of the projected increase would be the result of climate change, whereas most of it would be caused by the rising population and an increase in the number of elderly people.

The report, which underpinned the Copenhagen summit last December, wrongly suggested that climate change was the main reason communities faced severe water shortages and neglected to make clear that population growth was a much bigger factor.

Have at it, global warming lunatics. Remind us again how your cause is just and how you’re doing it for the children.

H/T: Tim Blair

Whew! Global warming Armageddon postponed for 200 years!

2200? The global warming narrative has completely fallen apart. It used to be that they tried to scare us by saying our children would all die from global warming. Now it’s been delayed to our great, great, great, great, great grandchildren.

polar-bear-global-warming — The polar bears are saved! The polar bears are saved!

You pretty much knew the global warming scare was petering out when Al Gore bought a beach front house near Santa Barbara. Now global warming scientists have confirmed that the oceans won’t be lapping at his front door anytime soon.

The Independent UK has the hot news on global warming:

The 14 scientists, all experts in their fields of climate research, were asked about the probability of a tipping point being reached some time before 2200 if global warming continued on the course of the worst-case scenarios predicted by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

Nine of the fourteen scientists said that the chances of a tipping point for the high scenario were greater than 90 per cent, with only one saying that the chances were less than 50:50. At current rates of CO2 emissions, the world is on course for following the higher trajectory on global warming suggested by the IPCC.

(By the way, we love the last line of that story. Doesn’t matter that even true global warming believers have indefinitely postponed Armageddon for 200 years, the Independent says things are even worse than the worst IPCC scare stories.)

Source: Independent UK

Military genius Barbara Boxer says carbon dioxide will be the leading cause of war in the next 20 years

The way we understand her gibberish, veterans are returning from we don’t know where – Afghanistan? Iraq? Korea? Germany? – and pleading with Boxer to save the world from future wars by stopping that damned carbon dioxide stuff.

See if you can figure out what the hell Barbara Boxer is saying in this clip.

Every time this woman opens her mouth, she creates another commercial for Carla Fiorina.

Al Gore suicide watch: Pacific islands aren’t disappearing under the waves

Climate scientists have expressed surprise at findings that many low-lying Pacific islands are growing, not sinking.

This is a video of Ian Fry, the Tuvalu delegate to the United Nations Climate Change Conference & Swap Meet in Copenhagen last December. He made an impassioned plea to save his beloved Tuvalu and other low-lying island nations.

Fry tearfully concluded that “The fate of my country rests in your hands.” (Translation: “Give us money before everyone figures out that this is a scam.”)

Too late, Ian. The latest research is a complete rebuff to Al Gore and his global warming acolytes:

Climate scientists have expressed surprise at findings that many low-lying Pacific islands are growing, not sinking.

Islands in Tuvalu, Kiribati and the Federated States of Micronesia are among those which have grown, largely due to coral debris, land reclamation and sediment.

The findings, published in the magazine New Scientist, were gathered by comparing changes to 27 Pacific islands over the last 20 to 60 years using historical aerial photos and satellite images.

Auckland University’s Associate Professor Paul Kench, a member of the team of scientists, says the results challenge the view that Pacific islands are sinking due to rising sea levels associated with climate change.

“Eighty per cent of the islands we’ve looked at have either remained about the same or, in fact, gotten larger,” he said.

Bad week for Al Gore. First he lost his wife. Then he lost another talking point. And we’re not sure which one he’ll miss more.

Source: ABC News Autralia

Global warming attracting unattractive fish to Greenland

A new study of ocean life off the balmy shores of Greenland has discovered 10 species of fish that have never before been seen in the area. And they are some of the ugliest damn fish you’ve ever seen.

henry-waxman — The hideous creature above is an Icelandic catshark. This hideous creature is a California liberal.

Naturally, scientists fear that global warming is responsible for attracting these unattractive fish to the area.

National Geographic has the money quote:

“Rising ocean temperatures due to global warming–which could be drawing unfamiliar fishes to the region–and increased deep-sea fishing may be responsible for the spike in fresh fish faces seen off Greenland.”

Can global warming, perhaps, be blamed for the rash of unattractive species recently attracted to Washington, DC?

Source: National Geographic

President Obama wants to save the planet, but not if it interferes with something more important.

Der Spiegel, the highly-respected German magazine, has gotten hold of recordings of some “private” conversations between world leaders. And it looks like Obama definitely wanted to change the world, but not if it required him to, you know, like inconvenience himself.

barack obama copenhagen — "We are here to save the...oh, hell, look at the time. I'd love to talk more, but I'm taking Michelle to dinner tonight."

Believe it or not, there’s new news from the Copenhagen Climate Climate Summit & Circle Jerk that took place last year.

But first, let’s review what the President said before the summit that was billed as “our last chance to save the world.”

Few challenges facing America – and the world – are more urgent than combating climate change. The science is beyond dispute and the facts are clear. Sea levels are rising. Coastlines are shrinking. We’ve seen record drought, spreading famine, and storms that are growing stronger with each passing hurricane season….

Once I take office, you can be sure that the United States will once again engage vigorously in the [climate] negotiations, and help lead the world toward a new era of global cooperation on climate change…

Delay is no longer an option. Denial is no longer an acceptable response. The stakes are too high. The consequences, too serious.

Now here’s the new news. Der Spiegel, the highly-respected German magazine, has gotten hold of recordings of some “private” conversations between world leaders. And it looks like Obama definitely wanted to change the world, but not if it required him to, you know, like inconvenience himself.

President Barack Obama at the Copenhagen summit, in leaders’ conversations “accidentally” recorded and now published in Der Spiegel:

In response to Sarkozy, Obama makes it clear that he is not prepared to stay beyond a few hours. “Nicolas, we are not staying until tomorrow. I’m just letting you know. Because all of us obviously have extraordinarily important other business to attend to.”

Who knew that hope and change meant “Hope I don’t have to change my flight.”

H/T: Andrew Bolt

Uh-oh. ClimateGate scientist admits “unprecedented” temps aren’t all that unprecedented

Phil Jones, one of the “scientists” implicated the infamous ClimateGate scandal, admits in a new paper (written with six other scientists) that Earth’s current temperature is mumble-mumble-mumble. What’s that, Phil? Did you admit that “unprecedented” may be too strong a word?

Minnesota Vikings cheerleaders — We were going to illustrate this story with an image of Vikings, but we got distracted when we ran across this photo of Viking cheerleaders

CO2Science.com takes the “un” out of unprecedented for us:

In the words of the seven scientists, “temperatures during the warmest intervals of the Medieval Warm Period,” which they defined as occurring “some 900 to 1300 years ago,” “were as warm as or slightly warmer than present day Greenland temperatures.”

What it means

 As for what this result implies, the researchers conditionally — and rather amusingly — state that further warming of present day Greenland climate “will result in temperature conditions that are warmer than anything seen in the past 1400 years.” But, of course, their work more directly and unconditionally implies that late 20th-century and early 21st-century weather has not yet been warm enough to confer “unprecedented” status upon Greenland air temperatures. What is more, Vinther et al. readily admit that the independent “GRIP borehole temperature inversion suggests that central Greenland temperatures are still somewhat below the high temperatures that existed during the Medieval Warm Period.”

The envelope please…And the 2010 Chicken Little Award for Creative Panic Mongering goes to … Phil Jones.

Source: CO2science.org

Al Gore increases his carbon footprint, buys house in ritzy Santa Barbara neighborhood

Sometimes a mansion in Tennessee just isn’t enough. When you’re busy jetting around the world saving humanity from the terrors of global warming, you really need a west coast getaway. So global warming hypocrite Al Gore has now purchased a little place in California.

Oh, wait. Did we say “little place”? Not exactly. It’s a huge friggin’ estate overlooking the Pacific ocean in toney Montecito, California.

The Los Angeles Times reports the hypocritical news:

Former Vice President Al Gore and his wife, Tipper, have added a Montecito-area property to their real estate holdings, reports the Montecito Journal.

The couple spent $8,875,000 on an ocean-view villa on 1.5 acres with a swimming pool, spa and fountains, a real estate source familiar with the deal confirms. The Italian-style house has six fireplaces, five bedrooms and nine bathrooms.

For those of you who don’t live in California, let us explain local real estate terminology.

“Peekaboo ocean view” means you can see the ocean if you stand on a chair and look out the kitchen window.

“Ocean view” means you can see a patch of blue without standing on the chair.

“Oceanfront” means there are actual waves lapping at your back door.

Some people wonder why a man as wealthy as Gore didn’t spring for an oceanfront house.

Well, the fact is that Al Gore is just plain smarter than we common folk. He knows that as the oceans rise, his new house will eventually become oceanfront.

Source: Los Angeles Times

How did all those man-made artifacts end up in places that have “always” been covered in ice?

The world was once (and, undoubtedly, more than once) far warmer than it is today. Far from being a first, the ice has now merely retreated back to where it once was thousands of years ago. And the only thing unprecedented about global warming is the claim that it’s unprecedented.

Oetzi the Ice man — Oetzi, the Alpine Ice Man, says, "Al Gore is a liar."

When LiveScience.com asks the fascinating question, “Who Froze the Tools?” they were not referring to Al Gore and Michael Mann. Tools though they may be, the ones LiveScience was referring to were Neolithic hunting tools left behind by man in places man was never supposed to have existed.

“Warming temperatures are melting patches of ice that have been in place for thousands of years in the mountains of the Canadian High Arctic and in turn revealing a treasure trove of ancient hunting tools.”

LiveScience.com provides the specifics:

In 1997, sheep hunters discovered a 4,300-year-old dart shaft in caribou dung that had become exposed as the ice receded. . . . [Archaeologist Tom] Andrews and his team (including members of the indigenous Shutaot’ine or Mountain Dene) have found 2,400-year-old spear throwing tools, a 1000-year-old ground squirrel snare, and bows and arrows dating back 850 years.

This is similar to the Neolithic silver mine – complete with tools – that was found not long ago in the Alps as the ice retreated. And what about the infamous Ice Man who was discovered in 1991 after being frozen for thousands of years.

Whether it’s Canada Arctic or the Alps or anywhere else in the world, the fraud of global warming is exposed every time the retreating ice exposes more of these artifacts. For if global warming is, indeed, unprecedented, how could these artifacts possibly be found in areas that have supposedly always been covered with ice?

The only logical answer is that the world was once (and, undoubtedly, more than once) far warmer than it is today. Far from being a first, the ice has now merely retreated back to where it once was thousands of years ago.

And the only thing unprecedented about global warming is the claim that it’s unprecedented.

Source: LiveScience.com

Another idiot damn near freezes to death trying to prove global warming in the Arctic

Oh, my. How long has it been since we had a global warming lunatic who discovered that that Arctic isn’t nearly as warm as the hype lead him to believe?

tom-smitheringale — How's that global warming working out for you, Tom?

Oh, my. How long has it been since we had a global warming lunatic who discovered that that Arctic isn’t nearly as warm as the hype lead him to believe?

The Ski Channel reports the frigid facts:

Tim Smitheringale is perhaps both the bravest and dumbest man we’ve ever encountered. The Australian was on his way to the North Pole, alone, when he fell through an ice sheet. He was close to death when he was miraculously rescued by Canadian soldiers.

His goal? To become the first Australian to reach the North Pole unassisted. He was only 186 miles away when the accident happened. He wrote on his website: “Had a bad fall into the ice today and came very close to the grave.”  

The Sydney Morning Herald tells more tingling details:

Last week he almost quit after excruciating frostbite in his fingers and thumbs forced him to call in an emergency rescue.

Continue reading “Another idiot damn near freezes to death trying to prove global warming in the Arctic”

The real problem with global warming? We’ll be overrun by vegetation.

This video clip from CO2Science demonstrates the devastating impact that an increase in carbon dioxide will have on cowpeas. What’s that? It demonstrates just the opposite?

The Environmental Protection Agency has issued this alarming health warning:

After a thorough examination of the scientific evidence and careful consideration of public comments, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced today that Greenhouse gases (GHGs) threaten the public health and welfare of the American people.

This video clip from CO2Science demonstrates the devastating impact that an increase in carbon dioxide will have on cowpeas. What’s that? It demonstrates just the opposite?

Well, in that case, we recommend that you arm yourself with a hefty machete, because you’re going to need it to get from the sidewalk to your front door.

Damn global warming.

H/T: Andrew Bolt

Al Gore must fear rising sea levels, because he sure heads for the hills in this video

For example, Al Gore prophesized two years ago that “the entire North Polari(ized) cap will disappear in 5 years.” New York, he said, would disappear under the rising seas. And the world would end in a rising tide of…well…rising tides. In this clip, Al Gore gets ambushed by O’Reilly producer Jesse Watters. He squeals like little girl who just saw a spider.

It sucks when your own words come back to haunt you. It really sucks.

For example, Al Gore prophesied two years ago that “the entire North Polari(ized) cap will disappear in 5 years.” New York, he said, would disappear under the rising seas. And the world would end in a rising tide of…well…rising tides.

In this clip, Al Gore gets ambushed by O’Reilly producer Jesse Watters. He squeals like little girl who just saw a spider.

Turns out sea ice has increased by hundreds of thousands of square miles since Gore’s prediction. And the only thing disappearing is the former vice president’s credibility.

H/T: Gateway Pundit

Theory that cow farts cause global warming proves to be a bunch of hot air

Let’s start this story off by apologizing for that headline. It was juvenile. Childish. Beneath the dignity of our readers. Who the hell are we kidding? We know you chuckled. You don’t want to admit it, but you did.

cow-smiling — Cows around the world are happy to hear this news

Let’s start this story off by apologizing for that headline. It was juvenile. Childish. Beneath the dignity of our readers.

Who the hell are we kidding? We know you chuckled. You don’t want to admit it, but you did.

The Telegraph UK has the flatulence news flash:

In the past environmentalists, from Lord Stern to Sir Paul McCartney, have urged people to stop eating meat because the methane produced by cattle causes global warming.

However a new study found that cattle grazed on the grasslands of China actually reduce another greenhouse gas, nitrous oxide.

…Klaus Butterbach-Bahl, of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany, carried out the study in Inner Mongolia in China. He found that grassland produced more nitrous oxide during the spring thaw when sheep or cattle have not been grazing. This is because the greenhouse gas, also known as laughing gas, is released by microbes in the soil. When the grass is long snow settles keeping the microbes warm and providing water, however when the grass is cut short by animals the ground freezes and the microbes die.

Dr Butterbach-Bahl said the study overturned assumptions about grazing goats and cattle.

“It’s been generally assumed that if you increase livestock numbers you get a rise in emissions of nitrous oxide. This is not the case,” he said.

To sum up the study in one sentence, far more bullshit has been produced by the global warming cabal than all the cows in the world.

Source: Telegraph UK

Oh, the humanity! Global warming is destroying
Los Angeles!

Los Angeles is broke. Strapped for cash. In the middle of an “urgent financial crisis.” It needs a giant “Will work for food” sign next to every city limits sign. And it owes it all to the global warming scam.

The Wall Street Journal has the details:

What’s brought the famed city to this pass? Global warming, of course. Or more precisely, the crusade against global warming.

A couple of months ago, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa proposed electricity rate hikes of 9% to 28% to wean the city off coal and pay for its aggressive renewable energy portfolio. Residents and businesses bristled at such a steep increase in their electric bills, especially during a recession. Facing irate constituents, the city council nixed the utility’s proposed 5.7% three-month rate hike, the first of four increases planned.

This in turn prompted the utility to withhold $73.5 million of the $220.5 million surplus revenue it was expected to transfer to the city. Without the rate hike, the utility’s interim manager S. David Freeman says it doesn’t have enough money to pay its own bills and hand the city the $73.5 million. The city council complains that the utility is holding the city hostage.

What’s really holding the city hostage is the state’s global warming law and the mayor’s green energy agenda, which includes boosting renewables to 40% of the city’s energy portfolio by 2020. The state’s renewable goal is 33%. The mayor says the city could face hundreds of millions of dollars in fines if it doesn’t comply with the state’s numerous renewable energy and carbon reduction mandates. But of course complying with these mandates means a sharp increase in energy prices, as Los Angeles residents are now discovering.

Global warming is real. The weather is warm. The actresses are hot. And the city’s finances have melted down.

How much more proof do you need, you filthy denier?

Source: Wall Street Journal

Don’t miss your chance to win the Al Gore Cardiac Arrest Sweepstakes

Ahhh, those irrepressible Alaskans. They’re all criminally insane, you know, especially that former governor of theirs. And now word wafts southward of an annual Alaskan contest that may bring global warming guru Al Gore to room temperature.

alaska-ice-thaw — When the ice breaks, so does Al Gore's heart.

The Nenana Ice Classic is an Alaskan lottery which has been run each year since 1917. In January the townspeople mount a tripod out on the frozen Tanana River which runs through the town. The tripod is secured firmly to the ice and a rope runs from the tripod to a clock mechanism on the shore. When the ice breaks up, usually in late April or early May, the tripod gives way, and trips the clock.

The earliest ever ice break up was recorded at 3.27 PM, 20 April, 1940. The latest ever break-up was recorded at 11.41 AM, 20 May, 1964. Past break-up details here. Historically, the ice has broken most often between about 29 April and 8 May. Last year, the ice broke when many alarmists were distracted by their annual May Day celebrations.

Over the years, this event has mirrored global trends with, for example, the second earliest break-up occurring during the famously warm 1998, and the latest year, 1964, remembered worldwide as a cold year. Serious scientific studies have been done on the event and one climate change scientist described it as “a pretty good proxy for climate change”.

The ShadowLands invites commenters to make your best guess. The reader who supplies the closest guess will win our acclaim as well as a mandate for us to believe whatever they say about global warming for the next 12 months. They may also use the term “Closest Guesser, Nenana Ice Classic” on all official correspondence.

Enter today. And watch Al Gore’s face drain of all blood if it breaks the record for latest thaw.

H/T: Tim Blair

Temperatures plummet. So do German fears of global warming.

Yes, my little schatzi, it’s true. Freeze a German’s ass off for a few months and the next thing you know, he’ll say Al Gore’s a dummkopf.

german winter global warming — Ich bin freezing mein heinie offen

Yes, my little schatzi, it’s true.

Freeze a German’s ass off for a few months and the next thing you know, he’ll say Al Gore’s a dummkopf.

The Local brings us the cold, hard facts:

Germans are losing their fear of climate change, according to a survey, with just 42 percent worried about global warming.

It seems the long and chilly winter has taken its toll on climate change sensibilities despite the fact that weather has nothing to do with climate.

The latest figure is a clear drop from the 62 percent of Germans who said they were scared of such changes just in autumn 2006.

The new survey, carried out by polling company Infratest for Der Spiegel magazine, showed a quarter of those questioned thought Germany would profit from climate change rather than be badly affected by it.

Many people have little faith in the information and prognosis of climate researchers with a third questioned in the survey not giving them much credence. This is thought to be largely due to mistakes and exaggerations recently discovered in a report of the intergovernmental panel on climate change, the IPCC.

And in other news, a German cold front is set to invade Poland this weekend.

Source: The Local

Here’s a great idea: Let’s sacrifice democracy to save the world from global warming

Don’t you get the impression that global warming advocates compete to see who can make the most outrageous comments? British scientist James Lovelock just moved into first place.

james-lovelock — If global warming is such a serious problem, why is James Lovelock wearing a sweater?

Don’t you get the impression that global warming advocates compete to see who can make the most outrageous comments? British scientist James Lovelock just moved into first place.

The Guardian UK reveals Lovelock’s latest lunacy:

Humans are too stupid to prevent climate change from radically impacting on our lives over the coming decades. This is the stark conclusion of James Lovelock, the globally respected environmental thinker and independent scientist who developed the Gaia theory.

It follows a tumultuous few months in which public opinion on efforts to tackle climate change has been undermined by events such as the climate scientists’ emails leaked from the University of East Anglia (UEA) and the failure of the Copenhagen climate summit.

“I don’t think we’re yet evolved to the point where we’re clever enough to handle a complex a situation as climate change,” said Lovelock in his first in-depth interview since the theft of the UEA emails last November. “The inertia of humans is so huge that you can’t really do anything meaningful.”

One of the main obstructions to meaningful action is “modern democracy”, he added. “Even the best democracies agree that when a major war approaches, democracy must be put on hold for the time being. I have a feeling that climate change may be an issue as severe as a war. It may be necessary to put democracy on hold for a while.”

Get your limey ass in line, pal. Here in the good ol’ USA, we’ve already put democracy on hold for healthcare. Can’t put it on hold for anything else for the foreseeable future.

Source: Guardian UK

Bad stuff, blame global warming. Good stuff, credit good Mother Gaia

Things aren’t going well for Mother Gaia. Oh, not because of global warming, but instead because those damn arctic animals won’t die off like the global warming theory predicts.

bowhead whale — Bowhead whale enjoying a little global warming

Things aren’t going well for Mother Gaia. Oh, not because of global warming, but instead because those damn arctic animals won’t die off like the global warming theory predicts.

NewScientist.com tells the good news for arctic critters:

CONTRARY to popular belief, Arctic animals have done rather well over recent decades. The first analysis of a 40-year database of Arctic species reveals that populations grew by 16 per cent on average between 1970 and 2004.

The Arctic Species Trend Index covers 35 per cent of all Arctic vertebrate species. The analysis, led by Louise McRae at the Zoological Society of London, shows several mammals have benefited from hunting bans. Populations of bowhead whales, for instance, have risen by about 3 per cent per year for 30 years.

But the trend masks worrying recent declines. Warmer waters in the Bering Strait boosted the Bering Sea pollock between 1970 and 2003 by increasing plankton growth, but numbers have since declined. The dark-bellied brent goose has also declined, after an initial recovery of numbers. The team says the recent declines could be linked to climate change.

Got that? Animal populations are up, but it masks a worrying decline.

Global warming doubletalk at its finest.

Source: NewScientist.com

Music to celebrate Earth Hour: Santana’s Turn Your Lights On

Hey,sorry we’re a little late with this, but most of the country can still celebrate the idiocy of Earth Hour by turning on every light and playing Carlos Santana’s “Turn Your Lights On.”

Hey, sorry we’re a little late with this, but most of the country can still celebrate the idiocy of Earth Hour by turning on every light and playing Carlos Santana’s “Turn Your Lights On.”

– Thanks to reader CO2Insanity

Earth Hour 2010. Think of it as your chance to party like a North Korean

Earth Hour is Saturday night, March 27 from 8:30 to 9:30 pm. It’s an event we traditionally celebrate by turning on every light in the house, firing up the flat screen TV, and burning every kilowatt possible.

korean-lights — Think of South Korea as the vibrant, electricity-filled life you have now. Think of North Korea as the dark, cold life environmentalists dream of.

But the eco-wackos of the world celebrate by turning off all their lights, singing Kumbaya and huddling together for warmth. In other words, it’s like a typical night in North Korea. And that’s the future environmentalists see for you.

The Melbourne Herald-Sun points out the stupidity of it all:

The land where the lights are permanently out, as the famous satellite photograph shows of the stunning difference between the northern and southern ends of the Korean peninsula….

Nothing better captures the utter inanity of the cult of global warming and its characterisation of carbon dioxide as an even greater Satan than George W. Bush’s America than Earth Hour. Insufferably smarmy, quite pointless, contradictory, utterly inchoate.

Although I have to concede a certain bizarre honesty in the way the concept projects – a tacit admission that the anti-CO2 crusade actually does seek to literally turn off the lights…. Earth Hour seems to project that looking – literally – like North Korea is not only a good thing but where the aggressive campaign against CO2 will end up.

No, no, no, comes back the response. In the post-carbon future, alternative energy will provide all the light we want.

So if we can, if we supposedly will, look like today’s South Korea in that glorious future, why not celebrate turning on the lights?

Unbeknownst the Willie Nelson, he penned the eco-wackos’ anthem: “Turn out the lights, the party’s over.”

We say, “Turn on the lights, the party’s just getting started.” And we invite you to join us, friends, in noting Earth Hour with a celebration of the wonders of electricity.

Source: Andrew Bolt

Terrifying reports of unprecedented arctic warming. From 1922.

The global warming in the arctic is unprecedented.. We’re all going to die! The earth is doomed!

The warming in the arctic is unprecedented. We’re all going to die! The earth is doomed!

Ice is disappearing. Polar bears are dropping like flies. Seals are vanishing. Fish are going the way of the dodo. As reported in the October 10, 1922 edition of Monthly Weather Review.

Good thing Al Gore wasn’t around to scare the bejeebers out of everyone back then.

Source: Watts Up With That

Eco-wacko alert: First the glaciers cried, now they bleed

Back in September we reported the story of the crying glacier that supposedly symbolized the emotional trauma global warming was causing the earth. Well, hell’s bells, man, what will the eco-wackos say about this bleeding glacier in Antarctica?

Antarctica glacier bleeds

Back in September we reported the story of the crying glacier that supposedly symbolized the emotional trauma global warming was causing the earth.

Well, hell’s bells, man, what will the eco-wackos say about this bleeding glacier in Antarctica?

WebEcoist.com reports the Southern Hemisphere’s hemoglobic happenings:

The waters beneath Taylor’s Glacier are a kind of ancient time capsule where a community of microorganisms was able to develop and evolve in an environment not found anywhere else on Earth. When the lake was trapped under the glacier some 1.5 – 2 million years ago, some simple life forms were trapped in it. The subglacial lake contains no oxygen, but is home to at least 17 different types of microorganisms. The water is hyper-salinated (very salty), and its unusual coloring is due to its high iron content, which instantly rusts upon being exposed to air outside of its closed-in origin, creating the blood red waterfall. The strange and inhospitable conditions in the subglacial lake had led researchers to wonder just how all of those microorganisms could have survived in the extremely cold, airless, completely dark environment for so long.

No, it’s not natural. It’s not. It’s caused by man, damn it. Man is making the planet bleed. And the only way to stop it is to raise taxes and make Al Gore even richer.

Yeah, that’s the answer.

Source: WebEcoist.com

Larry Summers’ winter of our discontent

Don’t blame unemployment on the Obama administration. Blame it on global warming. That’s what White House economic advisor Larry Summers says.

snowball-fight — Global warming has caused gangs of unemployed hooligans to take to the streets

Don’t blame unemployment on the Obama administration. Blame it on global warming. That’s what White House economic advisor Larry Summers says.

He actually said this winter’s blizzards would cause unemployment to spike, but other voices in the administration have already blamed the cold weather on global warming. So it stands to reason that the administration’s official position must be that global warming is causing unemployment.

Reuters reports the details:

“The blizzards that affected much of the country during the last month are likely to distort the statistics. So it’s going to be very important … to look past whatever the next figures are to gauge the underlying trends,” Summers said in an interview with CNBC, according to a transcript.

Construction activity was hit particularly hard by the storms, but many restaurants and stores also had to close, putting the brakes on hiring plans and temporarily throwing some employees out of work.

We are, of course, highly-trained economists here at IHateTheMedia.com and our theory is that unemployment won’t start to decrease until this crew in Washington joins the ranks of the unemployed.

The climate’s not looking very good for them at the moment. And it has nothing to do with global warming.

Source: Reuters

The snowiest decade on record was…?

Evil climate denier Anthony Watt says 2001-2010 was the world’s snowiest decade in, well, decades. And Rutgers University has the stats to back him up. But Al Gore says you should just ignore all that fluffy white stuff you’re up to your ass in.

“Just as it’s important not to miss the forest for the trees, neither should we miss the climate for the snowstorm,” Gore wrote in a wonky Op-Ed for The New York Times.

“The heavy snowfalls this month have been used as fodder for ridicule by those who argue that global warming is a myth,” he acknowledged.

“Yet scientists have long pointed out that warmer global temperatures have been increasing the rate of evaporation from the oceans,” he wrote. And that puts “significantly more moisture into the atmosphere – thus causing heavier downfalls of both rain and snow.”

Unfortunately for the Goracle, Watt and the Rutgers University Global Snow Lab respectfully disagree. At least we think it was respectful.

“Now that we have reached the end of the meteorological winter (December-February,) Rutgers University Global Snow Lab numbers (1967-2010) show that the just completed decade (2001-2010) had the snowiest Northern Hemisphere winters on record. The just completed winter was also the second snowiest on record, exceeded only by 1978. Average winter snow extent during the past decade was greater than 45,500,000 km2, beating out the 1960s by about 70,000 km2, and beating out the 1990s by nearly 1,000,000 km2. The bar chart below shows average winter snow extent for each decade going back to the late 1960s.”

Who’s your money on?

Source: New York Daily News, WattsUpWithThat.com

Obama says man cannot control nature. Except when there’s a hefty tax involved.

First clip: Obama announces that man cannot control nature. Especially if you’re talking about earthquakes.

Second clip: Obama announces that man can control nature. Especially if you’re talking about global warming.

If he can figure out how to do Quake-and-Trade, he’ll suddenly change his mind and decide we can control earthquakes, too.

Shang Kwon on Merry Christmas 2024: “Merry Christmas…and welcome back!” Dec 26, 05:49
CO2Insanity on See the Epstein trial records.: “Fixed.” Jul 4, 07:13
JPTravis on See the Epstein trial records.: “This is a test. My last comment never showed up.” Jul 4, 06:33
JPTravis on See the Epstein trial records.: “I read about this. What a despicable performance by the Florida prosecutors. It seems clear they were bought and paid…” Jul 3, 06:51
deepthinker on Biden in France for D-Day, just tried to sit on an invisible chair.: “Are you sure he was trying to sit or did he do the Biden and really sit?” Jun 16, 04:10