38 posts tagged “global warming”

If you don't see another photo this year, you need to check this out.

When the first Superman movie starring Christopher Reeve came out, the tagline was, "You'll believe a man can fly." well, when you see this, you will believe that an illegal alien murderer can be funny.

William Torres is that guy. The story says...

"He was wearing a hooded sweatshirt with a skull-head pattern on it, pajama bottoms and fuzzy lion-faced slippers..."

Trust me, that description, as silly as it is, doesn't do him justice. Tell me if he doesn't remind you of Wile E. Coyote in his "Acme Missile Kit" just waiting for the Road Runner to beep by. And if nothing else, I think the story debunks global warming once and for all.

I'd like to think that while Americans are bound and determined to be regarded as the stupidest people on the planet, they would still never be caught dead looking like this, but if you are really wondering how I know he's illegal when the story doesn't say it, it's like Friends when Phoebe's brother referred to her masseuse co-worker as a hooker. She protested that the woman was not a hooker, he replied, "Yeah, but when I tell my friends, she will be."

Altered (downgraded) lifestyles, higher taxes, higher energy costs, general inflation, erosion of wealth, greater government control over personal lives, expanded bureaucracy, destruction of growth opportunities in both developed and developing nations, world government, stonings, protection taxes and burkas... those are some of the things that may happen if the warmalarmists have their way.

OK, those last three aren't about Global Warming, they're about Global Islam, but both "advocates" want world government, and of the two, Islam is less scary to me.

But did you catch the part where I said, "may?" That's the same term, among others like "could " and "if," the alarmists use to couch their warnings. Except that the points I've listed are more believable, more possible... and closer to becoming real than is catastrophic warming.

Sunday night, I set my machine to record Chuck on Monday evening on NBC (8pm EST, 7pm Central, repeated this Saturday at 9pm EST, 8pm Central), and on Monday morning, I happened to notice that the recorder was on. At first I thought I'd forgotten to turn it off, but then I realized the record indicator was lit. So I turned on the TV to see what I was getting, and...

Oh... my... GOD! There was the already and yet increasingly hideous Al Gore, emboldened by awards and accolades to strive for new heights of pontification, talking about the "consensus" and how dire our prospects are if we don't do what he's telling us to do, you know the speech.

And all of it is fueled not by facts, but by fear. It reminds me of that old Twilight Zone episode where the aliens create rumors that result in runaway paranoia that eventually turned neighbor against neighbor - not unlike the runaway paranoia about runaway warming is doing.

So the idiot interviewer asked Gore about the credentialed John Christy, a leading critic of the warming hysteria, but when Gore labeled Christy an "outlier," it drew no follow-up questions.

You may know Christy by the more familiar term we give people like him - whistleblower.

And Gore is an "inliar."

Coincidentally, I had read two recent columns, the writers of which had both mentioned Gore in proper context... as a dangerous jackass (my term).

For the record, consensus means nothing, "peer reviewed" means nothing, there is no evidence that CO2 causes warming, there is no real world evidence of any imminent catastrophic warming, scientists widely disagree on the future increase in sea level (if any), there is no graph that shows a steep warming trend, and many of the hottest years (including the absolute hottest) have not been recent, rather they were in the the 1930s. Furthermore, all projections of warming are based on laboratory models which not only cannot accurately project the future, they don't even track to past temperature fluctuations, and temperature gathering itself is enormously imprecise. And man's impact on climate is not only insignificant to this point, but anything people might do to their "carbon footprint" would, at best, result in the tiniest dent in any temperature rise.

No matter what anyone tells you to the contrary, no matter how loud, forceful and confident they are, those are the facts - and if you look closely, they have none of their own - none whatsoever.

Now I've actually been aiding the warmalarmists by calling myself a skeptic - I'm not. Nor am I a denier - because there's nothing to deny. See, a denier is one who, in the face of real evidence and proof, refuses to accept the conclusion. And while I am a skeptic, it's in the same sense that I'm a skeptic about UFOs - I have no doubt they exist, it's just that from what we know about physics and the distances involved, it's not worth considering that any UFO is a ship from another planet... and if you do, you only encourage, empower, and embolden those who consider "the evidence" to be plenty good enough for them.

Lastly, about that "carbon offsets" fraud I mentioned a week or two ago but didn't elaborate on. So they pay to plant trees that supposedly sucks up the carbon they heap on the environment with their private jets and other excesses of the rich and conscientious. Well, here's the problem: the trees they plant of saplings. They have to be since full-grown trees are already sucking other older carbon if you see what I'm saying? But these baby trees don't do anything much right now..Oh sure, in a couple decades there will be this giant sucking sound of CO2 leaving the atmosphere, but again, right this moment, it's all quiet on the western front - except for the sound of celebrity emissions, that is.

"Imagine there's no..." When John Lennon wrote that wonderfully idealistic song, do you think he would he have included climate scientists if he'd known about the trouble they'd be causing today...?

Or would he have just blindly signed on to all the warming nonsense?

We'll never know, but that shouldn't stop you, so imagine if there were no climate scientists...

What would be happening now?

I could give you my thoughts, but you know me, I'd rather not be responsible for putting ideas in your heads...

"Change is what the climate is always doing and is the result of our planet's orbital eccentricities, axial wobble, solar brightness variation, cosmic ray flux, etc.. There are also plausible terrestrial drivers of climate change too, including super volcanic events and tectonic movement, but these are not in the realm of anthropogenic (manmade) effects and so we won't looking at them here."

See, I just discovered Junk Science, and they're saying everything I've thought and then some... and then some more. If one of you was aware of them previously, damn you for not telling me.

Anyway, to the novice (John, are you reading this?), forget about the piddling stuff warmalarmists have posted on Vox, Junk Science seems to be overflowing with science, so to Icky in Toronto, I say, "Refute THAT!"

Warming - What A Wonderful World This Could Be

I believe it was the ultra-liberal, Meredith Viera, who said that she took a walk in Central park last December and it was 70 degrees, and she thought, "We're all gonna die."

Can you believe that? And unexpectedly gorgeous day at a time when New Yorkers would ordinarily be slogging through snow or trying to hold their own against a cold wind, and she's not just unhappy, she's scared to death.

Well, here's a fact - even if the Earth is warming, it hasn't reached the ideal temperature yet.

I've lived in cold and I've lived in hot - hot is better. Hot has less inconvenience. Hot doesn't need to use more energy. Hot even grows more stuff.

You know what, in addition to the natural beauty, we found to be awesome in our first year in Phoenix? Christmas in the desert. The lights on the cactus, that sort of thing. The next best thing was 80 degrees at Thanksgiving (because there were no decorations to admire). I remembered the thanksgiving long ago when dad and I attended a football game at Cleveland stadium - in the bitter cold.

But while hot is better than cold, "hot" is not even what we're talking about with respect to any warming trend. We're talking about a few degrees - that might move winter back a few weeks and Spring up a few. If only John Denver were still alive, he'd have to be changing he'd have to change the first line of Country Roads to something like "Almost heaven, warm Virginia..."

So while we should definitely conserve and find alternative energy sources for obvious reasons, combating warming isn't one of them - yet. And over time, we'll find new ways to solve our problems.

Even a worst case scenario isn't a tenth (or a hundredth) as scary as another Viera type imagined - that the planet would be uninhabitable. Granted we might then have to do things we can't even imagine now, but also then, there's not evidence that an "uninhabitable" planet can't be restored. i mean, if we can control the environment enough to stop warming, why can't we control it completely?

Can you say, "Earth Dome?" Anyone?

In the meantime, More than others, I should be upset about increased temperatures, but you know what? Here in Phoenix, it doesn't come up often. It should, because it's a crime that more homes don't have solar, but that's another matter.

The point I was making is that a few degrees makes a bigger difference when it's 115 outside. I mean, 108 is hot, 115 is oven-like, and on the day it hit 122 back in the mid-nineties, I just had to go out to see how it would feel like. Wow, it was surreal. I wouldn't want to experience that everday... so it's lucky that it's been a dozen years and we haven't.

Anybody get the idea....? Well, one of the negatives about "global warming" that I read recently was that the Caribbean islands might lose tourist business to areas further north. Hmmm. same goes for wine-growing.

Some people in warm areas might even move north and northern morticians might lose business as less people die there from the affects of cold, so it balances out - business-wise.

Join me now, "We didn't start the fires..."

I happened to look at the TV listings five minutes before it came on, and I noticed that PBS' Nova was going to be talking about solar energy. "GREAT," I thought, "I'm really gonna learn something."

And I did in the opening sentences - that global warming IS real and that it IS causing more intense storms. I later learned that CO2 is causing warming, and that warming is causing our increasingly hotter summers.

This program uses the search for alternative energy sources as a front for its propaganda message, and it's the first time I've ever seen anything like it - smooth and scary. If you didn't know better, you would think warming is real, confirmed, looming larger and larger, and that man is causing it.

Oh, and just as I was about to post, I learned that fossil fuels are running out.

It appears that with warmists, the lies never stop.

Political Science Has A Whole New Meaning Thanks To Warmalarmists

Whatever you think about the wonderful prospect of a warmer environment, there's no denying that elitists are trying use scare tactics to gain greater control over you and your money.

The fact that an actual judge has stated that Al Gore's exercise in self-agrandizement is riddled with errors should be enough to cause anyone to take a step back and demand that cooler heads prevail

Here's an article that puts matters in good perspective.

"Kalee Kreider, a spokeswoman for Mr. Gore, put a positive spin on Judge Burton's ruling: 'Of the thousands of facts, the judge seemingly took issue with only a handful,' she said."

As Brit Hume noted:

You'll recall a British judge ordered the film must be accompanied by opposing views when shown to students and he cited nine scientific errors in the movie... Now former adviser to Margaret Thatcher — Christopher Monckton — has published a 21-page rebuttal to the Gore response. He says there are actually 35 errors or exaggerations in the film and he points out the British judge did in fact use the word "errors" throughout his ruling.

As for the contention that the movie contains thousands of facts, Monckton points out that even if the 93-minute film had just 2,000 facts they would have had to be recited at a rate of one every three seconds.

Today I want to say a few things about the world's three great religions - Christianity, Warmalarmism, and Muslamism which I mention in that order because while I don't respect the tenets of any of them, Christians only try to advance their beliefs by being annoying, while Warmalarmists want to tax and control people, and Muslamists will just kill you if you don't like what they're selling.

Also, compared to the other two, Christianity is rarely in the news, and I'm sure you agree that when it comes to religion, no news is good news?!?

Plus, when there is news, Christians are usually only a little wacky, WAs are insane, and Mussies are, more often than not, downright scary (for lack of a scarier term).

Although Pope Benedict, better known as "Eggs," did recently say that combating warming was a "moral imperative," which, of course, raises the question, Don't you have other matters of faith to deal with, pops? Like... the news of six nuns who have been excommunicated (thrown out, not separated from their heads) from the Catholic Church because they refused to give up their membership in a Canadian group - The Community of the Lady of All Nations, aka, the Army of Mary, whose founder claims to be possessed by the Virgin Mary herself.

And who can blame the nuns, since the Catholic doctrine behind all the Church's teachings is: "Better safe than sorry?"

The nuns aren't Canadian though. In fact, nuns are to Canada about like gays are to Iran. No, our ex-nuns are from the Good Shepherd Monastery of Our Lady of Charity and Refuge in... Hot Springs, Ark. - Ark the herald angels sang, eh?

And get this, the six aren't moving out of their convent since they won it, which makes one wonder what will be the Church's equivalent of the Waco siege?

82-year-old ex-nun, Sister Mary Theresa Dionne, one of the nuns excommunicated, said:
 
"We are at peace and we know that for us we are doing the right thing. We pray that the church will open their (sic) eyes before it is too late."

Remember, better safe than sorry.

A spokesman for the Army of Mary, Father Eric Roy, said Mary impersonator Marie Paule Giguere has not claimed to be the reincarnation of the Virgin Mary. He said the 86-year-old Quebec woman "receives graces" and that "The Virgin Mary took possession of her soul. I would rather say it that way."

Turning to the Warmalarmists, a bunch of Canadian scientists (if that's not a contradiction in terms) took a trip up north (and I'm talkin' damn north, as compared to what Americans think of as "north") and were stunned... STUNNED, by the amount of melting they saw. No mention was made of whether the trip was paid for out of the hundred million or so dollars the Canadian government gave the group or whether it's a separate chargeable expense.

And Quebec has imposed the first "carbon tax," to, as the news dispatch put it, "fund the province's plans to reduce emissions."

Why I'll bet, if you're a Warmalarmist, you happier than a polar bear in the Arctic used to be before all the melting, am I right?

Well, there's another article which you most likely missed because it didn't make Reuters or the AP until today. It's about sugar cane cutters (SCCs) in Brazil. That report talks about the backbreaking work, low pay, and the large uptick in serious cane related diseases the Brazilian laborers have to contend with.

But if ethanol saves the life of one polar bear, it's all worth it, and those Canadian scientists have asked the bears to document any perceived improvements in their living conditions that result from the Quebec tax. Quebecers will no doubt do the same, and my bet is that the bears respond first.

And finally, we turn to news from the Wonderful World of Islam. Manny and the Mullahs over in Iran have labeled the CIA a "terrorist organization," which proves how little they know about America or they would have given that label to the IRS.

Meanwhile, a New York Congressman says there are too many mosques in America which may be an all-time understatement since one mosque could easily be considered too many, and two an epidemic.

Which reminds me, a new TV series premiered last night which features a Muslim exchange student from Pakistan, and while the American family expressed initial consternation, it's amazing how funny and down-to-Earth regular Muslims are. No doubt future episodes will also show how much wiser he is than the average American.

Finally, there's the story of the Malaysian Muslim astronaut which is so amazing that it demands it's own space, ha ha... but trust me, this one is a blast.

Some people will be relieved to hear that next year, we are cutting the number of National Guardsmen on the border by 50%.

Other people will surely be relieved to know that a new Pew Poll shows a big drop in Muslim approval of suicide bombings. As it stands now, only about a third of Muslims, on average, favor the tactic.

Still others will be greatly relieved that John Kyl plans to introduce a scaled down immigration bill before August 4th. He claims that he has learned from his mistakes with the recent failed bill and will make sure that people fully understand what's in  the new bill.

Many people will probably be relieved by new research which shows that if you're fat, chances are your friends will be too.

Most of us will be relieved by Elizabeth Edwards' announcement that she is giving up tangerines in order to combat global warming.

And finally, every last one of us is relieved that the Vox service disruption did not cause a single reported personal disruption..