4 posts tagged “climate”

In a dramatic lesson of how insane and dangerous liberals are, two prominent talking pigs have stepped forward recently and attempted to infuse new life and fear into an issue that you might otherwise have thought would at least be on a back burner now that everyone is concerned about how to heat their homes and run their cars.

I'm talking, of course, about the once funny, and always idiotic, idea that man is causing the planet to warm because there's too much emittin' goin' on. And when the jokes and ridicule didn't cause these chronologically adult jackasses to just... uh... evaporate, I thought that the worsening fuel crisis surely would. But I can't "think" like a liberal, nor can I be so hypocritical as Al Gore is to tell others they will have to suffer the controls and taxes he seeks to impose on them while using infinitely more energy than the average Filipino, and then following that up with infinite² this year.

We already knew that liberals lack the embarrassment gene, and as a result, it's nothing for them to continue to make pronouncements, to hold positions, to issue dire warnings, and to even attempt to continue to implement their failed ideas long after they've been absolutely discredited,. so maybe we shouldn't be surprised that the "global warming" cabal hasn't faded away despite the fact that their "models" have failed in every instance to duplicate real-world conditions. Their latest "adjustment?" "Global warming" is on hiatus. You didn't hear? Well, just try calling "global warming," you'll get a voice message that it's away from its desk and won't be back for a decade.

But now along comes the self-designated King of Warming, Jimmy "The Mule" Hansen, aka, "NASA scientist and Soros lackey, James Hansen, who wants to imprison those who "cast doubt" on -his- theory. I wish I was making that up, but that's exactly what he said before Congress on Monday. Meanwhile, Kofi Annan, aka the Rottenest Man Who Ever Ran the UN, has called for "climate justice," which I won't even attempt to explain here, but you can get a good idea of what Mr. Oil-For-Food meant just by letting your own mind run on the concept. Bottom line: you need to pay more for your prosperity, and he'll be more than happy to help distribute the funds.

Clearly, if anyone should be in jail, it's those who continue to advance as fact the idea that carbon dioxide is responsible for climate change and who then attempt to profit and gain power from their deception. Not that they themselves don't believe what they say, but then so did Hitler, my apologies to Hitler for the comparison.

I can't tell you how much I love it when someone saves me time and effort because:

A) I'm lazy

2) I hate telling people things they ought to know implicitly

C) Other people generally say it better than I can

In light of all that, can you imagine my delight at discovering just now that Randall Hoven has taken time out of his busy schedule to finish off Snowy and Henny for me? I'm going to drop him a thank-you note right now.

Recently, a long-time reader and part-time thinker expressed his anger at the "predictions" he claimed I was making about fuel prices, the future of the Warming religion, and other things, exactly what it's hard to know since his comments were apparently made while he was fully immersed in some sort of stupor. Nevertheless, I thought some clarifying was in order, since if he could have so badly misunderstood what I was saying, it's entirely possible that some other readers could have misunderstood ever so slightly. And you know me, I hate people to be in the dark about anything

So first off, let me make this perfectly clear - I was not predicting. I was merely detailing what was currently happening and extrapolating from there. In other words, what the warmists are saying about what will happen regarding "climate change"... those sorts of things are predictions - they may or may not happen, and since they are arising from rank speculation, any of their predictions that do come to pass are due to Newton's "Crap thrown at the wall" law.

I, on the other hand, was talking about what WILL happen given a continuing rise in fuel prices and the failure of the Democrat Congress to take any meaningful action. You don't have to be a genius (you just have to not be a liberal) to see that oil drives everything, and that the public's uncertainty about price and supply will have a fundamental effect on attitudes - even those of lesser liberals - of the man-on-the-street variety. They are the ones in which economics still trumps ideology, and they are the ones who will be most able to see (because they'll live it) the consequences of failed liberal policy.

Still, having said all that, I don't care if the least among us, i.e. liberals, want to call me a prognosticator, just as long as they don't call me late for dinner, even if dinner is a lot more expensive this year, and well, you ain't seen nothin' yet.

I'm so confident in what I've been saying that I actually have no confidence at all - because I don't need any. What I mean is, to say that I had confidence would also mean that I had some doubt, and since I am only commenting on what's actually happening, albeit it's early stages, words like "confidence" and "doubt" do not apply. Put another way - a way, one even rankest liberal can understand, you're about to see what the meaning of "is" is.

To that end, there's a thoroughly enjoyable article in that magnificent British liberal rag, The Guardian, this very day in which the headline itself would ordinarily be enough to send Hens worldwide screeching that the sky is falling: "Poll: most Britons doubt cause of climate change."

How is that possible? Hadn't they been thoroughly indoctrinated. Ah yes, but what liberals don't get is that economics and security will overcome indoctrination almost every time. Besides, the "warming" indoctrination actually was successful as this quote from the article will attest:

"Those most worried were more likely to have a degree, be in social classes A or B, have a higher income, said Phil Downing, Ipsos MORI's head of environmental research."

You see, the public schools did what they were supposed to do - and now reality is doing its job on real people. Me, I got rhythm, I got music, who could ask for anything more? Which is why the following quote is just the cherry on top - -

"There is growing concern that an economic depression and rising fuel and food prices are denting public interest in environmental issues."

YES! And gee, I hope it wasn't something I said?!?

Just kidding, as overly-serious as I may fancy myself to be, even I couldn't affect British thinking... could I? I mean I know I didn't set those European truckers to protestin' fuel prices... did I? No really, did I?

But seriously folks, -denting-? Well remember, the British ARE prone to understatement.

To be fair, the article wasn't all bad news for enviro-warmists. The poll shows people are rightfully doubtful... and cynical... and wary of "stealth taxes, and generally lacking in confidence that their government could handle anything, much less handle it competently, but on the bright side, they are still "broadly concerned" about "climate change."

I'm not worried. it's one thing to be broadly concerned about "warming," and quite another to be imminently concerned about one's degrading lifestyle.

Do I think the Fuel Crisis of 2008 will be the death knell for enviro-wackos? No? If I did, I'd be making a prediction, and if I were to do that, I'd predict just the opposite - no amount of discrediting will cause enviro-warmists to abandon their positions. Why there are still people who believe the Earth is flat, for God's sake. Although in their defense, even those people don't believe man is responsible for "climate change."

And the good news for me personally, and wackos everywhere should be pleased too, is that the rapid rise in fuel prices - and everything prices - has actually caused me to regain my sense of humor. I may be too serious on the outside, but I'm laughing on the inside that the enviro-warmists sowed the seeds of their own demise and that their comeuppance may finally at hand. Looks like we may not have to be hauling dry ice to the arctic after all!

Clearly, the biggest source CO2 being spewed into the Earth's atmosphere is that generated by liberal gasbags wailing about humans spewing CO2 into the Earth's atmosphere.

In other words, if they'd shut up, the problem would go away, and we could get back to the time when we reveled in those rare unusually warm days in the dead of winter instead of doing as Meredith Viera said she did on her 70-degrees-in-January walk though Central Park - worry that we're all gonna die (spoiler - we are)

Still, I heart heart global warming, it's proof that the left believes in religion too.

Some months ago, there was a headline that said the past year was the warmest in 1200 years. The next day, the headline read, "1400 years" (they must have delved further into their statistics and found that stone thermometers can be difficult to read).

My reaction was, Yeah, so? The problem is that last year would have had to have been the warmest year EVER, preceded and/or followed by other warmer than average years until someone can say definitively," this is the warmest century ever." And then the warmest millenium...Then we can set about determining what caused it and trying to figure out if there's anything we can do about it.

But the killer is that we only hear all pain, no gain, all the time. Recently, there was a news item about how global warming would devastate Europe, never mind that Europe has it coming, and that during the last warm period those 1400 years ago, they were growing wine in England.

OK, they weren't growing wine, they were growing grapes, but you get the idea.

The article's main point was that warming would ruin tourism in southern Europe because people wouldn't have to go as far south to enjoy balmy beaches. There was also the concern that warm water fish were being spotted further north, as in, "Is that a swordfish in your swimming trunks, or are you just happy to see me?"

Another article stated that Alaska would become like England is now, though without the accent, I presume, and after the Spinal Tap fiasco, Stonehenge replicas are probably out of the question as well.

The writer did allow, Fagus bless him, that there would be better farming and thus more food further north, but that's IT! And even that would be offset by more disease. Do you think that when the shamrock is displaced by citrus flowers in Dublin, that Irish eyes will be crying or smiling?

Of course the point is, there's never talk about how great a warmer Earth would be, and there's the assumption that the way on... your date here...  is the way it should always be. It's as if the universe is some precise physical system created by somebody in a lab or something, and not by a perfect and all-powerful God.

In the real world, things are always in flux, even in a dome. In case you haven't heard, the one outside Tucson was an utter failure. Which begs the question: If man can't control the climate in a bubble, can Al Gore control the whole Earth?

I mean, we can't even control Al Gore, and he can't control his own bubbles.

Last year in Phoenix was one of the warmest winters I've seen, and it was heaven - low heating bills and green peppers in January. Does it get any better? But this year is absolutely the coldest ever in all my time here, and not only are there no peppers, there are no pepper plants! As in the cold has made them all look like sick puppies.

And my eggplant, forget about it. They look like compost, so now I have to plant new, and that means no eggplant until late April. If that doesn't mean much to you, you have no heart, even of the artichoke variety.

So if global warming exists, and that's more iffy than the weather in Cleveland, the slogan should be: Global Warming - Get Used To It!

Today, the she-beast Senator, Barbara Boxer (0-Ca) wanted to compare global warming dissenters to something, so she reminded willing-fool reporters that there were probably a few dissenters back around the same time that the climate was warmer than it is today who had resisted the idea that the Earth was round.

Barbox thought she was so clever.

Somebody needed to inform the silly Senator that just a little further back than that, there were probably a few dissenters to the idea that the Earth was - flat.