Quote of the day
posted at 11:38 pm on November 5, 2007 by Bryan
“I’ve had a lot of fun recently with my tiny (and unofficial) slice of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). But, though I was one of thousands of IPCC participants, I don’t think I will add “0.0001 Nobel Laureate” to my resume.
The other half of the prize was awarded to former Vice President Al Gore, whose carbon footprint would stomp my neighborhood flat. But that’s another story.Large icebergs in the Weddell Sea, Antarctica. Winter sea ice around the continent set a record maximum last month.
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My experience as a missionary teacher in Africa opened my eyes to this simple fact: Without access to energy, life is brutal and short. The uncertain impacts of global warming far in the future must be weighed against disasters at our doorsteps today. Bjorn Lomborg’s Copenhagen Consensus 2004, a cost-benefit analysis of health issues by leading economists (including three Nobelists), calculated that spending on health issues such as micronutrients for children, HIV/AIDS and water purification has benefits 50 to 200 times those of attempting to marginally limit “global warming.”
Given the scientific uncertainty and our relative impotence regarding climate change, the moral imperative here seems clear to me.”
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Clear as mud to the brainwashed masses. Apparently you haven’t seen Gore’s powerpoint enough to know where your morals should lie.
Now please put on this brain slu… errr hat, and watch the following video.
James on November 5, 2007 at 11:51 PM
When Polar bears survived the last global warming, and BBQ’ed the penguins:
http://sayanythingblog.com/entry/another_inconvenient_truth_about_the_global_warming_fraud/
An Aussie tale.
AZCON on November 5, 2007 at 11:56 PM
You know what’s funny? I have one of the smallest “carbon footprints” of anyone I know, yet I’m a “denier”, and my small “footprint” isn’t deliberate. I work from home so I hardly use any gas in my car, but even when I do, I happen to drive a car that gets 25 to 30 mpg, which still stomps all those new “hybrid SUVs”. I also don’t read the liberal rags known as the nation’s major newspapers, and I suspect most of those that do are the extreme left, as these papers cater to them. (They know their audience). I get my media electronically, saving all those trees!
RightWinged on November 6, 2007 at 12:01 AM
What about The Five Great Extinctions, Al?
What did we do to cause them?
Since humans didn’t even exist, yet?
The current “scientific” persecution mania- about being to blame for climate change- is an inverse form of Messianic complex and a morbid form of egomania.
As if we know enough to say what is going on with the climate, since the variables are too great for our feeble ability to calculate all of the permutations.
Not polluting or over-taxing the environment makes sense, but hysteria in response to inchoate fear leads societies over cliffs, not to sensible solutions.
profitsbeard on November 6, 2007 at 12:05 AM
If the Libs really believed in global warming, they would be buying the second row of houses back from the beach.
AZCON on November 6, 2007 at 12:11 AM
Clearly he is on the payroll of Big Oil and needs to be crucified for the heretic that he is.
All praise to the Goracle!
Queasy on November 6, 2007 at 12:16 AM
After reading this quote, I feel the need to go outside and set a whole bunch of tires on fire. It’s really cold out here in MT and my neighbours may appreciate it. Especially the homeless ones….
mjk on November 6, 2007 at 12:18 AM
I’m not sure there’s a moral imperative for the Americans to improve the public health of nations that are already growing much faster than they are.
Kralizec on November 6, 2007 at 12:21 AM
These guys couldnt even deliver on their promise of the most active hurricane season, ever, 2 years in a row. These warmer 2 years actually produced less.
I remember back in the late 70′s to early 80′s we were going thru a global cooling and another ice age.
One year, increase of CO2 was the cause of the warming, then shortly after another study revealed O2 levels are higher now than they were decades ago (hmmm, plants feed off of CO2, multiply/pollenate in the warmer climates, thus giving off more O2) so as a result the increased oxygen was then blamed, then quickly forgoten about and man-made CO2 became Al Gore’s culprit, again.
The earth has its seasons just like we have spring, fall, summer, and winter. Scientists have theorized this and have evidence of it dating back thousands of years, probably more.
Instead of looking like idiots (too late) by trying to blame humans for global warming, why not just try to tackle POLUTION? No one can deny the fact that we do pollute (but not as much as Eurpoe or China who don’t even require catalytic converters). People might be more motivated to help fight polution if it werent for bogus science and rich knuckle-heads crying global warming and annoying everyone. What happens when someone annoys you? You do things to purposely make them mad…like buy an old H1 Hummer that gets 1 mile per gallon.
El Guapo on November 6, 2007 at 12:24 AM
To quote the illustrious mythology of Fraggle Rock, “The Trash Heep has spoken”.
HonestConservative on November 6, 2007 at 12:26 AM
You must be old!
If climatologists have been wrong, repeatedly, when ever they say “it’s going to be the coldest winter ever!”, or “2006 will be the worse hurricane season ever!”, wait, never mind. I forgot….only a liberal with some kind of financial intrest would follow liars and failures like the Michael Moore and Al Gore cults.
Anyone following the $$ on this? What does Gore have to gain?
El Guapo on November 6, 2007 at 12:34 AM
What “scientific uncertainty”??
Rick on November 6, 2007 at 12:35 AM
I would like to know how Al Gore explains Continental Drift, something I learned in grammar school in the 1980s (back when they actually taught science instead of scare-mongering). Somehow entire continents drifted before humans were even here to destroy the planet. Imagine that.
But of course now when some icebergs are floating around in the Artic, the world is going to end. Uh huh.
Too bad Al Gore wasn’t alive back then, he could have saved us all from Continental Drift!
Michael in MI on November 6, 2007 at 12:35 AM
The local weatherman, except for here in Vegas where it is always sunny, can’t even predict the weather to 100% accuracy. Heck when i lived in NC he was 50% wrong, at least. The weather is still too unpredictable for climatologists to 100% predict and track, so where do some of them, and meteorologists, have the audacity to claim that they know for sure (100%) that global warming is man made, especially sicne it has happened before?
El Guapo on November 6, 2007 at 12:43 AM
He won’t explain it. Like Michael Moore, he will either ignore direct debate with anyone who can prove him a liar or will just dispell you as some right winged, denying, George Bush employed, “Crab People”.
Thanks for supportinghte troops with Project Valour-IT, Michael in MI.
El Guapo on November 6, 2007 at 12:48 AM
I was being sarcastic – should have mentioned that in my comment. I’m still trying to figure out if we are running out of electricity or not – since we’re being told that we need to conserve it by NBC.
Rick on November 6, 2007 at 12:49 AM
Rick
We wont run out, unless your in california. it will just get VERY expensive in the next year thanks to oil prices, and our beloved environmentalists and politicians who forbid our own oil and gas exploration (we are the cleanest at it in the world) and refinery and power plant expansions. They won’t even allow clean coal, or Nuclear. I better get to sleep before i get too ticked at this debate.
my electric prices went up almost 30% to pay for the expansion of the Vegas power plants (they even sent out a warning letter about this), but the city turned down an outsider who wanted to build a plant cheaper and faster (and from his own capitol thus no cost to us- the warning letter did not mention the rejection of competition).
I hate politicians, especially Harry Reid, and environmentalists who only create monopolies and higher prices with their “sensitive and compassionate” policies. They always create more problems than they solve by never looking into all aspects of the future. And don’t get me started on the Vegas water shortage that no one will dare blame our politicians on for forgetting to renew the negotiated allowance from all the other dams up the river from us (yep, they blame that on global warming too). seeing how our population has grown a seemingly 1000% in the past 10 years, you’d think youd look at highway, power, and water demands. But thats just me, a capitolist conservative who plans for the future. Thank God I am military and eligible for orders. I need to work the system and get back into a Republican and rational State, and away from the left coast.
Rant mode off. I need a hug! or a beer.
El Guapo on November 6, 2007 at 1:05 AM
Thanks!!!! Great videos of technical talk versus Gore’s “convenient lies”
I would love Gore (Nobel laureate) to debate the scientist, who has no Nobel prize – just scientific evidence.
Question: can the Nobel committee retract the prize in 20 years when we are all shivering in the next baby Ice Age??
fred5678 on November 6, 2007 at 2:06 AM
I agree that the whole GW thing is just a scam to scare people who can’t think for themselves into demanding that the “government” DO SOMETHING. Since the “problem” is global, the solution must be global as well. That means that someone who wants to rule the whole world has to be pushing this agenda so that s/he can become the “supreme ruler” to prevent the destruction of “Mother Earth”. Who has done more to further this agenda than the man who “invented” the internet before he lost the election in 2000. When he becomes the “supreme ruler” by dint of his “superior intellect”, it will prove that everyone who didn’t vote for him was even dumber than AlGore is.
I’m sure GE wants to sell more CFRs for 20 to 40 times more than the price of an incandescent light bulb. Are they really that much more expensive to make or is this just another scam like the Freon deal back the early 90’s. A lot of people made a lot of money of that and what was the final result. Last I heard the ozone hole is still there and still flucuating as it always has, but now we are using a LESS EFFECIENT COOLANT in our air conditioners and as a result using MORE ENERGY to get the SAME AMOUNT OF COOLNESS.
If you believe in an All-powerful God, why would you worry about climate change. Are you afraid that He can’t keep it all under control? Do you think that mere humans can “fix” it if God can’t keep it under control. If you’re an atheist, then I guess you should worry since you only have this life and then you’re gone.
TruthToBeTold on November 6, 2007 at 2:25 AM
Naw…I just go out and smoke the tires off my Vette…….. :p
doriangrey on November 6, 2007 at 2:25 AM
Ahhh….good to see the fires didn’t smoke them off for ya.
PatrickS on November 6, 2007 at 3:29 AM
I could use both!
flyawaybird on November 6, 2007 at 5:36 AM
Power.
cheers
eon
eon on November 6, 2007 at 7:27 AM
Sounds to me like a case of orbital precession influencing the tilt of the Earth’s axis, which would cause more extreme seasonal changes.
James on November 6, 2007 at 7:51 AM
Saying “ I don’t believe in Gore”
Is as heretical to a lefty as
Saying “ I don’t believe in God” to a Primitive
The thing about the believer is that they will not be swayed by facts or reason.
The only difference between believers is their witchdoctor.
I don’t know if there is a god or not but I am certain that Algore is full of shizzle.
TheSitRep on November 6, 2007 at 7:55 AM
Dorian, what model? I’ve got an original ’71, with the 454 BIG block, 4 speed. No power steering, no power brakes or AC…old school baby. I love the chrome bumpers. I get about 11 mpg and aint scared to light ‘em up.
Alden Pyle on November 6, 2007 at 8:05 AM
Is it true that Gore is setting up his climate change commission in Jonestown? They have the facilities, complete with the infamous Kool-Aide…he would call it Warm-aide.
right2bright on November 6, 2007 at 8:28 AM
I must be old?
I must be confused!
I don’t know what your response meant.
HonestConservative on November 6, 2007 at 8:37 AM
Wow! I couldn’t agree more. Arguing with a ‘Fanatical True Believer’ of whatever denomination is useless. They are blind to anything that does not support their belief.
Oldnuke on November 6, 2007 at 10:06 AM
I see the speaker’s problem:
He makes the assumption that the Global Warmists are concerned about human life: they aren’t.
The Global Warmists are simply the latest incarnation of Paganism, which worships “nature” and cares nothing for human life: it actually works to devalue human life. The Pagans in early Rome had prostitutes in the Pagan temples to promote this philosophy.
Make no mistake: these extremists want to take away all enjoyment of human life and give your vote to polar bears, snakes, rats, ants, and grubs. They’ll push a “one creature, one vote” agenda until every human is gone (including, lastly, themselves: Paganism is self-destructive).
landlines on November 6, 2007 at 11:00 AM
Now that’s what I call a true global-warming machine.
Smoke ‘em if you got ‘em – or else, go light a pile of tires on fire and watch the magic…
Rick on November 6, 2007 at 11:09 AM
BRYAN, links? Do you have anything from or on an old website of yours with some info on this Africa trip? I would love to see it.
shooter on November 6, 2007 at 11:56 AM
If global warming was true all nations would immediately move to stop buying any goods made in China, the world’s greatest spewer, a dictatorship based on greed and corruption
The civilized nations have superior oversight on manufacture. America has a passal of greedy lawyers waiting to pounce inside the borders.
We know global warming is promoted for political motives because China is given a pass, while America is demonized
Meanwhile global pollution is real.
Items are being released that cannot be retrieved. In particular heavy metals never break down. At least strontium 90 has a half life while lead is forever
Yet China is the world’s ‘recycler’ of lead. China is paid to take spent batteries from the world. Recycling seems to mean stirring it into paints, or substituting lead for the traditional softeners in vinyl min blinds for export
For ten years, ten million sets of mini blinds from Asia came into the USA and are now stewing in dumps leaching out their lead, or still in homes
Chinese waste products are being salted into their exports. My cats got toxic food from this scam
Where is the outrage?
Where is Gore? Trying to shut down the last US factory for our sins of not obeying the socialist oligarchy from which he feeds
entagor on November 6, 2007 at 12:23 PM
TruthToBeTold on November 6, 2007 at 2:25 AM
Your last paragraph hits the nail on the head. When I was a young kid in the ’50s, my maternal grandfather and my dad were talking about the possibility of a nuclear war. They were talking about how some people were saying that humans could destroy the whole planet with nuclear war. Then they just started laughing and were saying that only God is going to destroy this planet in his own good time. After that, I don’t worry about any of this b.s. that is espoused by some of these “learned people”.
And another thing, if you don’t believe in God and that He created all of this, is the height of arrogance. If you think that all of this just happened by circumstance your level bubble isn’t between the lines.
That’s my opinion.
cjs1943 on November 6, 2007 at 12:32 PM