Editorials Global Warming Hoax Weekly Round-Up: Aug. 21, 2009
| 20 August 2009
This week British kids wear eco-uniforms, polar bears refuse to drown and greens celebrate their efforts to make our lights go out.
It’s high summer so crank up the air conditioner and open a window to fight global warming as you dive into the fascinating depths of the weekly round-up.
Part One: Al Gore & Friends
It’s summertime, so Al has been pretty quiet in the past week, but he did find some time to open up a new Repower Tennessee office. Considering the size of his own power bill, it’s likely that the state needs repowering.
The Goreacle and his global warming acolytes have been rudely shoved to the back of the news cycle by the current bunfight over health care reform, but Al knows how to grab a headline. He floated the idea of holding his own townhall meetings to promote his ‘climate crisis’.
Al supports the push toward a new ‘.eco’ domain, but that effort has turned messy and green groups are fighting each other for the right to sell the names. It’s almost as if this had something to do with profit rather than the more altruistic goal of saving the planet. Surely not?
One lefty writer called Leonard Pitts used a quote from Al Gore as a way to illustrate that opponents of health care are using scaremongering tactics to frighten people away from reform. I guess he missed this less convenient quote from Al:
“I believe it is appropriate to have an over-representation of factual presentations on how dangerous it (global warming) is, as a predicate for opening up the audience to listen to what the solutions are.”
If you’re confused, remember that using scaremongering tactics to promote the global warming hoax is approved, but use of the same to oppose health care reform is verboten. Clear enough?
Canuckian Hippie David Suzuki has decided he’s suddenly interested in the state of the Canadian mining industry, but only because some firms are willing to say publicly that they ‘believe’ global warming is affecting them. Three short years ago, miners were the climate enemy, but Suzuki’s such an alarmist whore that he’ll cozy up to anyone that might have a buck for him.
Part Two: AGW Scaremongers
In Europe, manufacturers are worried that science has been labeled a ‘force of evil’ by eco-religion nutjobs, and that has made the transition of research to innovation slower and more expensive. Greens the new Luddites, but with less fun.
French wine makers whine that Scotland might become the future of wine. For once, I have to agree with the French, Scotland is no place for wine to be made. One word: haggis.
While we’re talking about the French, Senator John Kerry decided (incorrectly) that global warming is a matter of national security. Unfortunately for Kerry the expression ‘man-caused disasters‘ is already taken.
The Audubon Society knows how to throw an event, take a look at this grassroots movement of, err, 35 people. Is that the sound of a deflating hoax I can hear in the background?
Some unfortunate British moppets will be packed off to school wearing eco-uniforms. I’m not kidding.
just a random image of British school uniforms
The Climatic Research Unit (CRU) is a top-notch collection of shiny-minded boffins that crunch the raw data that underlies pretty much all climate science. Unfortunately, they’ve either lost or deleted all the information, making it impossible for pesky scientists to check their data. Of course, the CRU geniuses couldn’t have made any mistakes, they’re not the types to make careless errors. Oh, wait.
The fine minds at Queen’s University Belfast, the world’s foremost repository of tree-ring data, very probably feels very superior to the hapless CRU crew, because they haven’t lost or deleted any data. They just refuse to share it.
Michael Mann has returned to the front of the climate news pages with a brand new hockey stick. Mann says Atlantic hurricanes are more frequent than at any time in 1,000 years. He’s exaggerating, of course, he’s Michael Mann.
The frequent embarrassments suffered by weather hysterics in their effort to secure funding warn us about global warming has one warmist crying about the ineptness of the headline grabbers. He wonders where the climate change A-Team is, but I have bad news for Mr. Fuller. The A-Team were able to empty automatic weapons at their enemies, but never hit their targets. Ever. Maybe look for a better metaphor, genius.
Oh noes, man was lighting fires way earlier than thought, meaning that we’re even more guilty for causing global warming.
Early man used fire to survive. Selfish bastards
The Economist used to be a serious publication. Note the past tense. More in a separate post here.
A scaremonger coins a new phrase for skeptics, ‘deceivers’. The ‘fraidy person, one Amy Hoyt Bennett of the Citizens Climate Lobby spends most of her time trying to conflate those of us not buying the end of the world hype with people who question Obama’s nationality. Let’s be clear, there is one overwhelming fact that supports Obama’s natural born citizenship and debunks ‘birther’ claims. Hillary. Face it, if there had been anything about his birth place, Clinton would have used it to stop Obama, no question.
Quick question, is Obama reading Bjorn Lomborg’s stuff? Does Bjorn know? Is Benny jealous? So many questions.
A scientist from a country even emptier than Canada worries about more people arriving. This is just another iteration of the anti-human push so common to the green movement, but for a more egregious example, take a peek at the video at Gore Lied. Warning, watching it might cause nausea, what he is discussing edges close to genocide.
Ever wondered what hippies want kids to eat for lunch? Me either, but here is an example anyway:
Anchovy, Goat Cheese and Romaine Salad
8 cloves garlic
1 teaspoon kosher salt
40 anchovy fillets — rinsed and chopped
6 ounces red wine vinegar
1 cup olive oil
1 teaspoon black pepper
6 heads romaine lettuce — rinsed and coarsely chopped
12 ounces fresh goat cheese — crumbled
1 cup red onion — minced
Suddenly, even peanut butter sounds good about now.
The over-caffeinated hippies that populate Seattle have voted against a 20c tax on plastic bags, proving that there is, in fact, hope for the rest of us. Next perhaps, San Franciscans will want to rejoin America.
Australia has a territory called New South Wales. I don’t know why it’s called that, I’ve been to the real South Wales and while I’d agree it could be improved on, I can’t think that anyone missed it so much they’d name a great big swath of Australia after it. But I digress. NSW’s premier, Nathan Rees, is an idiot. He compared global warming skeptics to Nazi appeasers. Two words Mr. Rees, Godwin’s Law. We win.
Another idiot Premier is Dalton McGuinty, leader of Canada’s most populace province, Ontario. McGuinty suffered a flooded basement after a storm, and immediately declared it a sign of global warming. Dumber than a bag of hammers, much?
Florida residents face a 30% increase in power costs because the system is maxed out. Of course, there isn’t enough power because greens block every effort to build new generating capacity. The Sierra Club is proud of costing people lots of money, and Friends of the Earth celebrated their role in ‘killing’ nuclear power in 1995. In case any lefty is still unclear about how to wreck people’s lives, Salon has the answers.
Greenpeace, the eco-terrorist organization, has admitted lying about disappearing Arctic Ice. Video at the link.
Other endangered lions (har-har) live in Kenya, where global warming will kill them off. Add lions to the list.
Continue reading parts Three thru Five…
Comments
People subscribing to this place bring with them the underlying world view that we can do whatever we want with no consequence. Once confronted with the thought that our exploitative way of living could have an adverse effect would cause them to change how they live and this they cannot swallow. So as scientists of real credibility and a reputation to lose continue to side against this way of thinking, these subscribers seek out increasingly obscure and illogical data sets to prove to themselves that they don't have to do anything. The most hilarious part of this whole thing is the argument that scientists will make false claims to gain funding or popularity. This thought could only occur to someone far removed from the science community because this is at odds with a scientist's outlook. Scientists pride themselves with their own intellectual ability and to make a false claim would put this and their ego, reputation and possible career opportunities at risk.
This mindset that we can spew anything we want into the air is a notion that needs to be corrected. In my home city of Madison, Wisconsin we can no longer eat fish from the lakes that our isthmus capital sits between due to high mercury content. This is directly caused by the coal plant at the heart of our city. The next undisputed consequence is the giant ozone hole above Antarctica. Please try to find me an excuse for that. Third, I'd like you to try a simple experiment. I'm not sure if you are able to do this one, as you likely belong to small town America and are driven to uncle joeys farm by grandma, but after asking permission of course, pull mom's car into your garage and shut the garage door. Count the number of breaths per minute, as you will notice, your breaths per minute increases as your whats exiting your tailpipe fills the garage. Once breathing becomes difficult please continue until epiphany occurs.
- The "scientific" community is fraught with fraud, it's not reserved for just politicians; as if you knew anything about how political the funding processes has become, this wouldn't surprise you; as who do you think make funding decisions; hint, it's typically not made by "the scientists".
- With respect to "This mindset that we can spew anything we want into the air is a notion that needs to be corrected"; have you given any consideration as to where exactly the CO2 being being emitted from combustion came from in the first place; hint, plants through photosynthesis combine CO2 with inorganic elements to form the basis of the food supply all need to survive, and technically if the large majority of CO2 initially extracted from the atmosphere by plants were not eventually spewed back, life would cease to exist.
- Yes Mercury had been real problem in older coal plants, and a good example of a problem that warrant solutions; being the type of thing folks who want to worry about real issues should concentrate their efforts on, not contrived ghosts; largely pushed by the most ignorant with the greatest conviction, and/or those having ulterior motives.
- suffocation due to incomplete combustion is due hemoglobin's affinity to CO (carbon monoxide), which you should likely learn a little more about before commenting further en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_monoxide and while you're at it, try to educate yourself a little more on oxygen and carbon dioxide; possibly learning that if you were put a bag over your head, it's the eventual lack of oxygen not an increase of CO2 that will give you cause for concern.
- While there is certainly a certain political element to the funding of science it would then follow that the science would reflect the policies of the reuling party. How do you then explain the consistency with which scientist (for the last 100+ years) have supported AGW? there is evidence in fact that during GW Bush's presidency the facts of AGW where surpressed and yet the science itself somehow did not change.
- Fossil fuels represent millions of years of sequestered CO2. Burning it all in 300 years is probably not necessary to ensure the continuation of life on earth. So rest easy you can turn your AC off and shut the windows.
The best way to avoid putting Mercury in the air is to not burn coal. Considering the destruction that mountain top mining is causing perhaps we should save that coal for a later date.
-You got this one right so at least you avoided the o-fer.
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