Turn that around, honora, and you see it from a Green perspective. Record highs are “proof positive” of global warming yet record lows and inclement cold snaps are just a statical blip that should be disregarded. Sauce for the goose.

RedinBlueCounty on April 9, 2007 at 12:52 PM

Completely agree. This was a case of the gander however. (The gander being the global warming deniers……or would they be the goose. Yikes….)

honora on April 9, 2007 at 10:29 AM

Are you saying that “Global Warming” is caused by humans?

PinkyBigglesworth on April 9, 2007 at 3:16 PM

I’m saying I am not an expert, but the majority of experts support the idea that a significant portion of global warming is due to carbon fuel burning. Which makes me think we need to pay attention to this and not firmly take a stand on either side. Particularly people like me (and the vast majority of people) who are deeply ignorant in these matters.

Actually the point of this post was the irony (and stupidity) of running a global warming story during a cold snap. I haven’t read anywhere on this blog that there is a “consensus” against global warming because of this cold snap. Look before you leap, read before you react, and think before you speak.

cmay on April 9, 2007 at 6:08 PM

Well no, the irony works only if you accept the unlying premise, that a cold snap contradicts global warming. (The last sentence there, a bit of advice, the “react” puts off the cadence, need a one syllable word there. You’re welcome.)

You know, this is something to consistency. How many times have the global warming deniers tch-tched any reports on record highs, stating (truthfully) that climate change needs to be observed in an aggregate, long term method?

But a cold spell? Katie bar the door!! Proof positive that there is no global warming!! Now that there is some gooood thinkin’!

honora on April 9, 2007 at 10:29 AM

Actually the point of this post was the irony (and stupidity) of running a global warming story during a cold snap. I haven’t read anywhere on this blog that there is a “consensus” against global warming because of this cold snap. Look before you leap, read before you react, and think before you speak.

Anyway, I just saw an entertaining debate on Cavuto. It was the guy that wrote The Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming against some Greenpeace nutjob. The ‘holocaust denier’ got the first word and immediately explained that thirty years ago the eco-wackos set about determining that the Earth was getting colder, using terms like ‘consensus’ and using ad-homenim attacks where that didn’t work. Then he said that the weather started warming, and so they did a 180, using the same methods. Then the Greenpeace guy got his turn. I swear to you that he used the word ‘consensus’ within the first three sentances, and when the conservative questioned his statements he resorted to ad-homenim! It’s rare that you get to see one debater so elegantly prove his opponents point.

Are you saying that “Global Warming” is caused by humans?

Anything that will get me disconnected from the “grid” is fine. Why? Because I am a ham radio operator and I don’t want to HAVE to depend on my electricity coming from the local utility company.

I think going SOLAR is fantastic and finally they are getting off their asses and making it CHEAPER. WOOT!

You know, this is something to consistency. How many times have the global warming deniers tch-tched any reports on record highs, stating (truthfully) that climate change needs to be observed in an aggregate, long term method?

But a cold spell? Katie bar the door!! Proof positive that there is no global warming!! Now that there is some gooood thinkin’!

honora on April 9, 2007 at 10:29 AM

Turn that around, honora, and you see it from a Green perspective. Record highs are “proof positive” of global warming yet record lows and inclement cold snaps are just a statical blip that should be disregarded. Sauce for the goose.

Either “the sky is falling” and we are going to freeze…

…or…

Either “the sky is falling” and we are going to melt.

But a cold spell? Katie bar the door!! Proof positive that there is no global warming!! Now that there is some gooood thinkin’!

Can someone help me out here?

I hope this link works, so far I have been unable to get a link to work.

The piece seemed to be more about alternative energy than global warming…I’m all for achieving affordable solar power despite what I think about the non-threat of global warming.

starflyer on April 8, 2007 at 10:52 PM

That’s because you’re rational and intelligent. But the MSM is not, and they continue to prove it with stuff like this.

BTW, Michael Crichton (at michaelcrichton.com) has some excellent essays about how we will eventually move to better fuel sources without draconian government intervention. History proves him right; we went from burning wood to coal to petroleum (each step is increasingly more efficient and cleaner).

It truly is a religious position to the left.

It’s amzing how fast the libs can take a nothing and make it a something. What some of us are forgetting is how fast they then make things nothings again. This whole Gorebal warming thing will be a nothing again in the 2010’s. Then we’ll be on to something else.
Mojave Mark on April 8, 2007 at 9:58 PM

Actually the Gorifice has been pushing this for some time, just nobody took him seriously until the Kyoto scheme came to be, which essentially was an attempt at a Global (Gorebal?) tax.
Since Kyoto was thrown under the bus, as it should have been, Gorebal warming suddenly became a way to poke Bush in the eye over Kyoto.
It wasn’t too long ago CFC’s and the Ozone hole were the causes du jour.
Interesting how quiet the drive by media get when it’s abnormally cold out.

Beautiful. That was Gorebelicious.

It’s amzing how fast the libs can take a nothing and make it a something. What some of us are forgetting is how fast they then make things nothings again. This whole Gorebal warming thing will be a nothing again in the 2010’s. Then we’ll be on to something else.

Mojave Mark: We are being led down a path to destruction. Libs will tax us into infinity for Gorebal warming. As I said earlier, follow the money… Gorebal Warming is junk science, but the libs see it as a new religion and they will milk it for all it is worth. Mark my words.

Why So Gloomy? [MIT Scientist: 'Alarm over climate change is based on ignorance]

Gorebal warming is a religion for these environmental-wackos.

Neocon Peg on April 8, 2007 at 5:42 PM

Beautiful. That was Gorebelicious.

It’s amzing how fast the libs can take a nothing and make it a something. What some of us are forgetting is how fast they then make things nothings again. This whole Gorebal warming thing will be a nothing again in the 2010′s. Then we’ll be on to something else.

global freeze (now a nothing)
nuclear winter (now a nothing)
vanishing ozone (now a nothing)
disappearing rain forest (now a nothing)
global warming
*the next stupid lemming thing*

Check out my 15 day forecast… Global warm this biatches!

http://wwwa.accuweather.com/forecast-15day.asp?partner=accuweather&traveler=0&zipcode=05404&metric=0