Let's get the housekeeping notes out of the way.  First, regular visitors will notice a new look to the blog, (if you don't, press 'refresh').  Second, I've created a new category for all the Weekly Round-Ups, and I've jumped in my bloggy time machine and gone through all the old posts and re-categorized them.  Now you can select 'Weekly Round-Up' from the category list and have endless hours of skeptical fun. 

Talking of skeptical fun, last week's round-up was featured by a dirty hippy blog, and it seems he don't like it much.  Poor fried-green or whatever his dirty hippy name is doesn't get that I'm not trying to persuade him, I'm laughing at him.  I firmly believe that we can all look at the hysterical greens running around in fear of everything and laugh.  It's good for the soul, or something.

Anyway, enough of the rave reviews, it's time for more fun with AGW.  Loads of linky goodness for you this week, as usual.  Just remember to jump back up here after you've grabbed your sneak peak at this week's hottie, who's packing real heat.

Please let me know in the comments if you like the new blog look; if you don't like it, tell the hippy, he'll probably agree with you.

I have more 'friends' than Al for you this week, mostly because Saint Al of the Expanding Waistline has been busy running all over the USA doing fundraisers for Democrats facing November elections.  I'm sure he's buying offsets from himself to keep the carbon footprint small, so don't worry.

Al was in the Netherlands this week, or Holland if you prefer to call the flat lands of Europe something that sounds less like a Peter Pan location.  He drove a fuel efficient Audi A6, not a white bicycle; make of that what you will, I feature only because I like Audis.

The DesMoines Register calls Al out for his earlier statement that blamed global warming for the Iowa floods.

Mt friend at Skeptics Global Warming has another chuckle waiting for you with the new hit comic strip Gored but Not Gorgotten.  Check it out, and have a mooch around the rest of his great blog too while you're there.

For even more humor, visit my other friend (yeah, I have two now, how about that?) at Gore Lied.  You'll be glad you did, he's a photoshop fiend, that lad.

Canadian hippy, socialist and cuddly totalitarian David Suzuki is all about the kids this week.  Get 'em while they're young he figures:

What's up, doc?

You might have heard that Canadians rejected the huge carbon tax agenda of the Liberals in a general election this week.  More on that in Part Four.  This article is worth a look up here because it includes the sound of david Suzuki's head exploding as he realizes that not only did the 'Green Shift' get beaten, but it took with it any chance of another politician betting heavy on carbon taxes:

I wish that the alarmists would get their stories straight.  I thought we only had 10 years until the Earth exploded? 

25% of mammals are about to be extinct according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature, a group I've never heard of.  Darwinism's a bitch.

News.com.au, a news site, is roundly condemned for scaremonger bias in photography. 

A polar bear in peril.  Gov. Palin & rifle not pictured

Formula One, the only sport I still watch, tried to show that it thinks green thoughts by shoving green striped tires onto its 4mpg super cars.  Heh.

Global warming kills golf courses.  Add it to the list.

Canada's oilsands will pollute the Great Lakes, despite them being a 4 hour flight away.

Aussie kids learn about global warming in school.  Maybe they'll have less time for cricket practice and in 15 years England will win a match again.

Is there a difference between a regular terrorist or an eco-terrorist?  I think not.

Brushing aside accusations of hyperbole, alarmists this week have predicted that global warming will  cause global warfare and mass evacuations of people to the Antarctic. 

home sweet home

Swiss researchers are concerned about plant's rights.  The article actually uses the term 'plant dignity'.  I'll remember that when I bite the head off my next stick of broccoli; should have evolved, suckah.

No round-up is complete without a mention of warming muppet Jim Hansen.  This week he doesn't see the need for debate.  Just like he doesn't see the need for accurate science, I guess.

I bet these kids could beat up those Aussie kids that are being taught to be afraid of the weather.

Warmy believers Grist look at why deniers always win debates.  They blame the dweeb scientists poor debate skills, instead of the obvious but inconvenient truth, it's the science, stupid.

Tasty Danish.  Descendants of the viking hordes no longer support global warming as the cause of shrniking glaciers.  No comment on pillaging however, which I find worrying.

Iceland, bastion of sustainable energy and the envy of greens everywhere is broke.

Tesla Motors, electric car dreamers, is nearly broke.  Who could know that a $109,000 car you can't buy for at least a year wouldn't be a success?

The Lies of Global Warming, Part One.

Al Gore was the first politician to take global warming seriously and bring it to national attention.  Except for that Jefferson guy in 1781.

Finnish seals that were finished in 2001 have increased their population, but are still apparently finished in Finland seven years later.

Why can't some women make up their mind?  First female Ph.D. in meteorology decides warming is fake.

NASA says globe is warming, but wait, NASA says its not.  Hansen/Spencer cagematch to be announced.

Martians are parking their SUV's, closing factories and switching to compact fluorescent lamps in a last ditch effort to stop the Martian warming.  They agree with Al Gore of the blue planet people that the big yellow ball in the sky has nothing to do with heat.

Marvin the Martian and Green friend

Alaskan glaciers love bad weather.

Evidence of a Global Cooling Consensus, Parts One, Two and Three.

Another new plant opens to convert food to fuel.  Starving Africans were unavailable for comment.

It's the sun, stupid.

Fake emergency (global warming) gets trumped by an actual emergency (global economy).

EU nations are fighting to back off their climate goals in desperate efforts to save their industrial economies. More here.  Some more here.  Even more here.

I mentioned that Canadians rejected the carbon tax; it's part of a growing trend of weariness of the alarmists.

The Arctic is freezing again.  Fast.

How can you tell which scientific reports are most likely to be wrong?  If you've heard of it, its probably wrong.

People hate carbon taxes.  (h/t commenter iceFree)

Just ask Stephane Dion.  Or the Liberal Party.

Not news, but fun.

More about how Stephane Dion wrecked carbon taxes forever.  I'll remember him as a hero, but he won't thank me for it.

Bats, meet windfarms.  Oh, sorry.

More EU green agendas go under the economic bus.

Lower oil prices makes alternative energy too expensive by comparison.

Oneologist talks sense about warming

The EU bans incandescent bulbs, stories of high mercury levels in groundwater due in 10 years.

Dirty hippies try to storm UK Parliament and besmirch the name of suffragettes.

UK scientists tell their government to drop the junk science and get real to save the economy.

Penguins may hold the key to surviving global warming.  The secret is to tie your feet together and shuffle while wearing a tux.  You're welcome.

Finnish chemist:

Here's a super funky tool that lets you see what the temperature is at various altitudes and then compare the result to any year in the previous ten.  Screenshot teaser:

The North Pole has lots of ice.  Bring your own Gin.  More here.

Global warming is over, we're into a coolinbg period.

Spots spotted.  On the Sun.  Really. 

Sol's attraction not what it was, unfortunately.

No warming since 1995.

Bjorn Lomborg, the most maligned man in the universe (except Carrot Top, maybe) asks that we let the data speak for itself.

The Middlebury Community Network isn't buying into the AGW hoax, and nor should you.

This week's global hottie comes to you thanks to my curiosity about a TV show.  I'm old enough to remember a terrible TV show called Battlestar Galactica, so when I heard that there was a new series, I guffawed and ignored it.  My loss, as it turns out its a terrific show.  The DVD gods have smiled on me and my shiny new blu-ray player so I've been enjoying season one this week. 

Since the series deals with the end of mankind as we know it, just like Al Gore warns us (apart from the evil robot invasion part), I think it's fair to use a hottie from the show.  Deniers, meet your global hottie of the week, the star(buck) of the BSG, Katee Sackhoff. 

Guy math: tats + guns > flesh alone

That's your round-up, have a great weekend.

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