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posted at 10:00 pm on June 22, 2008 by Allahpundit
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“It’s disappointing and the government will be really worried.”
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No way? Really?
benrand on June 22, 2008 at 10:03 PM
Most people aren’t scientists. But they can easily observe Algore and the rest of the limousine liberals (insert standard Ed Begley Jr disclaimer here) lecturing everyone else about climate change but making NO significant changes themselves.
If these more-green-than-thou rich people really believed it was such a global emergency they would stop taking private jet flights and keeping houses that use 20 times the average amount of electricity. Your average Jane and Joe can see when you mean what you say, and when you don’t. Hence the survey results. It’s pretty much that simple.
inviolet on June 22, 2008 at 10:09 PM
There’s something delicious about that. The fretting, earnest wimpiness of the bureaucrat beginning to feel feckless. Awesomely awesome.
Muswell Hillbilly on June 22, 2008 at 10:09 PM
when the solution to solving global warming is:
carbon taxes, emission taxes, gas taxes, transportation taxes etc
and the public says “oh its a scheme to raise taxes” and government officials are surprised, I believe the problem is the government not the public.
lorien1973 on June 22, 2008 at 10:13 PM
Well when you think about it many European have ancestors who farmed in Greenland before it was cover by a mile of ice. so maybe they have a bit of prespective that algore don’t.
Gwillie on June 22, 2008 at 10:13 PM
As such the case with EVERY liberal stance. It looks on paper and feels good, but it’s not practical at all.
SouthernGent on June 22, 2008 at 10:14 PM
“It’s disappointing and the government will be
really worriedforced to invent a new tax strategywindansea on June 22, 2008 at 10:15 PM
This was my favorite paragraph –
Amazing! They can’t understand why voters are “cynical” about regulations or higher taxes as a solution, and call this cynicism a “contradiction”. That’s because the only solution these bureaucratic socialist hacks are capable of devising to “tackle the problem” is to raise taxes and pile on regulations.
Earth to Barry – You can’t tax your way out of this problem. And yeah, leave our thermostats alone.
Buy Danish on June 22, 2008 at 10:20 PM
Al Gore and his followers will not be pleased
Geophysicist Phil Chapman, the first Australian to become an astronaut with NASA, said pictures from the US Solar and Heliospheric Observatory also show that there are currently no spots on the sun. He also noted that the world cooled quickly between January last year and January this year, by about 0.7C.
“This is the fastest temperature change in the instrumental record, and it puts us back to where we were in 1930,” Dr Chapman noted in The Australian recently.
Now this 11-year low in Sunspot activity has raised fears among a small but growing number of scientists that rather than getting warmer, the Earth could possibly be about to return to another cooling period. The idea is especially intriguing considering that most
idiotsof the world is in preparation for global warming.MB4 on June 22, 2008 at 10:20 PM
I love how the article points out that SMART people believe in it. The poor masses are behind the curve. Gotta work on that.
Limerick on June 22, 2008 at 10:21 PM
I meant to add that this is a big clue that McCain should kill his idiotic global warming ads now.
Buy Danish on June 22, 2008 at 10:23 PM
“What’s this?” thought John McCain. “I can feel nothing warmer at all! That is terrible. Am I stupid? Am I a flat-earther? Am I a denier? Am I not fit to be President? That would be the most dreadful thing that could happen to me. “Oh, it is very hot!” McCain said aloud. “It has my highest approbation.” And McCain nodded in a contented way, and gazed outside, for he would not say that he felt no Global Warming. The whole entourage that he had with him looked and looked, and felt no warming, any more than the rest; but, like John McCain, they said, “It is so warm!” and counseled him to always say that he felt warm when he was out in public. “It is warm, hot even!” went from mouth to mouth. On all sides there seemed to be general warming, and John McCain gave Al Gore the title of Imperial Master of Global Warming Science.
So John McCain went in procession, and every one in the streets said, “How incomparable warm it is! What a warm day it is!” No one would let it be perceived that he could not feel warming, for that would have shown that he was not fit for his office, or was very stupid or a flat-earther or a denier. No day of John McCain’s had ever been as warm as this one.
“But it’s freezing cold out here!” a little child visting from Britain cried out at last. “Just hear what that innocent says!” said the father: and one whispered to another what the child had said. “But it is cold out here!” said the whole British and American people at length. That touched John McCain, for it seemed to him that they were right; but the thought within himself was, “I must go through with feeling all the Global Warming. I do not dare to do otherwise” And so he held himself a little higher, and his aides held on tighter than ever, and proclaimed the Global Warming which did not exist at all.
MB4 on June 22, 2008 at 10:26 PM
This was also reported back on May 2, 2008 by Colin Brown, Deputy Political Editor, the Independent (UK): “Green tax revolt: Britons ‘will not foot bill to save planet’: Majority of Britons are opposed to increases in green taxation.” From the article: “The survey also reveals that most Britons believe ‘green’ taxes on 4×4s, plastic bags and other consumer goods have been imposed to raise cash rather than change our behaviour, while two-thirds of Britons think the entire green agenda has been hijacked as a ploy to increase taxes.” Indeed it is perhaps a preview of what American will come to think of new green regulations.
And there’s a difference between the US one one hand and Britain and Europe on the other hand. Regulations here in the USA are likelier, on average, to be actually enforced. Our pols always include clauses to allow and encourage groups to litigate for enforcement. And other countries have less trouble than the US has in undoing bad legislation. Filibusters not only keep legislation from being passed; they also keep legislation from being repealed; deals are made, and so on.
It would tend to make us poorer and more dependent on our politicians; it would further politicize how we deal with our needs in daily life. The politics of dependence.
ForNow on June 22, 2008 at 10:29 PM
How is this true…they wind up with a government that wants to impose this green crap on them, but they don’t buy it…almost the opposite of the deluded morons in this country. It seems that the more green/socialist government they get, the less they believe in it…but it’s too late now, they are way around the bend at this point to turn it around in their country…the sad thing is, the idiots who are now lapping it up in this country can’t even recognize the fact that we are catching up with Brit policy at breakneak speed. And then they’ll blame the conservatives he for it when the facts catch up. It’s like watching a slow motion train wreck happen to the US and there isn’t a damn thing I can do about it but scream!
AUINSC on June 22, 2008 at 10:31 PM
See this on Drudge?
Guardian
Skywise on June 22, 2008 at 10:33 PM
Rut-Roh Duh Environmentalist-Propaganda isn’t working.
Chakra Hammer on June 22, 2008 at 10:34 PM
Is this what Scientists do? Spread fear and alarmism and attack their opponents using slander? Funny, I was always under the impression that scientists argued their points with facts and repeatable testing methods to objectively prove their cases…
Skywise on June 22, 2008 at 10:34 PM
Ruh roh. A change (awakening) in Europe? They’re finally coming to realize the creeping shari’a? Now, “climate change” aka weather? WTF??!!!
Dr.Cwac.Cwac on June 22, 2008 at 10:35 PM
There’s nothing like real life to get in the way of an artificial, guilt-complex driven, “green” utopia, is there?
Weight of Glory on June 22, 2008 at 10:41 PM
wow, if they haven’t fooled the brits with all the gorbull warming mania, then they must really be baffled.
i was watching one of my fav brit coms from the 90’s and they had a reference to global warming and green house gases back then.
how cutting edge of them.
TheCulturalist on June 22, 2008 at 10:43 PM
Hmm, he wants people locked up for not believing in his ability to predict the future. Sounds reasonable.
trubble on June 22, 2008 at 10:49 PM
Every hysteria, such as that of James Hansen, is the result of a traumatic experience, one that cannot be integrated properly into the person’s understanding of the world. The emotions appropriate to the trauma are not expressed in any logical fashion, but do not simply evaporate. They express themselves in behaviors that in a weak, vague way offer a response to the trauma. These behaviors are, in other words, meaningful. If James Hansen can be made aware of the meaning of his behavior, through hypnosis for example, then his confused emotions can be then be released so that he will no longer need to express them in improper hysterical behavior. It is analogous to lancing a boil or draining an infection.
Sigy on June 22, 2008 at 10:54 PM
And he’s a head scientist at NASA and has been for years… Probably guiding and developing the US’ science policy and research…
Make you feel all warm and fuzzy inside… don’t it? :(
Skywise on June 22, 2008 at 10:54 PM
When Al Gore and the rest of these ‘greenies’ begin living as hermits in caves, then I will listen to them and not a moment sooner.
mustng66 on June 22, 2008 at 10:56 PM
That is why the Left is so disgusted with Democracy. I mean, if those in the ME bought into AGW, they would be able to cut emissions by 99% in a week. And the Left craves that type of power.
The Left goes balistic when they think civil liberties have been infringed upon for national security reasons. But give them a global security reason, and they all but trip over themselves signing their lives and rights away in order to assuage their guilt. Funny, that.
Leftists are the same the world over. Luckily, it appears most of the world isn’t bat-shinola crazy enough for them. Yay!
VolMagic on June 22, 2008 at 10:57 PM
I am rubbing my hands together in delight at the prospect of this moron going through with this. I particularly look forward to hearing Barry O’s constantly shifting positions on the matter.
Moving on, here’s more fun news:
Here’s a recent story about New Zealand sheep farmers revolting because they are being scapegoated as flatulating, methane producing polluters who must be taxed, despite the fact that there is virtually no industrial pollution in this area.
If the Greens can’t rely on the Sheeple who can they rely on?
Buy Danish on June 22, 2008 at 11:01 PM
For those of you who did not understand my professional and scholarly analysis of James Hansen, when you boil it down to it’s essence basically what I said was that James Hansen is a #ucking loon!
Sigy on June 22, 2008 at 11:04 PM
The founder of The Weather Channel, though no longer employed there, wrote an interesting story about global warming.
See it here:
http://www.kusi.com/weather/
Travis1 on June 22, 2008 at 11:06 PM
In other words Sigy, what you are saying is that sometimes a cigar is just a cigar and a loon is just a loon.
Holmes on June 22, 2008 at 11:06 PM
MB4 on June 22, 2008 at 11:09 PM
Sorry. Go here to see the founder of The Weather Channel’s comments on global warming being a hoax:
http://icecap.us/index.php/go/joes-blog/comments_about_global_warming/
Travis1 on June 22, 2008 at 11:12 PM
ooooh. and here I thought u were saying he was beaten or molested as a child.
TheCulturalist on June 22, 2008 at 11:18 PM
In other words, they need to come up with more convincing ways to shove this BS down our throats.
CurtZHP on June 22, 2008 at 11:19 PM
Here’s a more recent story by John Coleman in his address to the San Diego Chamber of Commerce:
http://www.kusi.com/weather/colemanscorner/19842304.html
Travis1 on June 22, 2008 at 11:24 PM
“We want the government to do more without taxing us more.”
Hey Brits, how’s that universal health care goin’?
Rhinoboy on June 22, 2008 at 11:26 PM
There was a news headline floating around somewhere today that the global warming nut Hansen wants to put on trial people who don’t believe.
Great. Now we’re back to trials for heresy. Blasphemy next?
rockhauler on June 22, 2008 at 11:26 PM
As anyone every asked what will happen if AGW is real?
Why would it be so bad to have a warmer earth. There will be more plant life with increased CO2. More land to farm to feed the 7 billion + people of the world. sure New York, washington d.c. and LA might be under water but is that really a bad thing?
Since most liberals live close to the shore Global warming might solve alot of problems.
unseen on June 22, 2008 at 11:27 PM
Dear God, Travis, are you somehow unaware of how many times we have been treated to links to this story as if it were written this morning?
Please take the time to familiarize yourself with your surroundings.
Jaibones on June 22, 2008 at 11:29 PM
CurtZHP on June 22, 2008 at 11:19 PM
Not true. since the gov tries to tax the problem to death without offering any solutions most smart people see it for the sham it is.
If the gov wanted to reduce CO2 emmisions the6y would be paving the way for more nuclear plants, electric cars, more solar, wind, geothermal generation.
they would be increasing CAFA standards, increasing crop production to trap more CO2, etc. Instead we get cap and trade and outlawing the lightbulb.
unseen on June 22, 2008 at 11:32 PM
Sorry Jaibones. I just did it again for those who may not be familiar with it… Ease up.
Travis1 on June 22, 2008 at 11:33 PM
Travis1 on June 22, 2008 at 11:24 PM
Post to your heart’s desire. I myself never read the story. It is always best to provide infomation no matter how many times its been posted before
unseen on June 22, 2008 at 11:34 PM
You may be interested in this, about the Father of Climatology, Reid Bryson.
(It also happens to be a great primer on the history of climate change).
Buy Danish on June 22, 2008 at 11:39 PM
Interesting Read!!!
http://wattsupwiththat.wordpress.com/2008/06/22/if-global-warming-was-a-company-decison-how-would-you-vote/
Gore and Hansen suck!!
bucko36 on June 22, 2008 at 11:41 PM
High Priest Hansen’s Madame Guillotine reprise.
I know the gutter and I know the stink of the street
Kicked like a dog, I have spat out the bile of defeat
All you beauties who towered above me
You who gave me the smack of your rod
Now I give you the gutter
I give you the judgement of God!
Vengeance victorious
These are the glorious days
Women of Paris, come gather your bloody buquets!
Now gaze on our goddess of justice
With her shimmering, glimmering blade
As she kisses these traitors she sings them a last serenade
Sing, swing
Savour the sting
As she severs you, Madame Guillotine
Slice, come paradise
You’ll be smitten with Madame Guillotine
The world may be ugly, but each man must do what he must
Give in pretty dear, in a year you will be pretty dust
Now come let our lady possess you
In her breathtaking, hair-raising bed
She will tingle your spine
As she captures your heart and your head
Sing, swing
Savour the sting
As she severs you, Madame Guillotine
Slice, come paradise
Our Delilah will shave you razor clean
God, when did man lose his reason?
Save us, my God, if you’re there
God, can you not feel the terror like a fire in the air?
Flash, slash! Glisten and gash!
She will ravash you, Madame Guillotine
Split, Madame just bit
Give her more to bite, she’s a hungry queen
Sing, savour the sting
As she severs you, Madame Guillotine
Slice, come paradise
Hail her Majesty!
Madame Guillotine!
Percy on June 22, 2008 at 11:49 PM
Drudge has up a story that some “leading global warming scientist” wants to bring oil execs up on trial for crimes against humanity for denying global warming.
“Global warming scientist” is an oxymoron. Or would that be a misnomer?
Little Hitlers are a better term.
I am beginning to think that these so called scientists, if given the opportunity, would march millions to the gas chambers to “save the planet!”
What’s a million lives when it’s the planet your saving??
Very dangerous zealots out there.
JellyToast on June 22, 2008 at 11:50 PM
I forgot to mention that Mr. Watts web is one of the fastest growing and most informative web sites in the rebuttal of of Gore’s, “Non Scientific” support of AGW(Man Made Global Warming). His site is getting bigger and better everyday. Everyone with a interest on the subject and in the truth should review it often.
bucko36 on June 23, 2008 at 12:00 AM
One bastard goes in, another one comes out.
Tuco on June 23, 2008 at 12:05 AM
There are apparently two kinds of people in the world, my friend. Those who have plenty of Al Gore’s carbon credits and those who have the job of taking the bus to work and sitting in the dark at home.
Tuco on June 23, 2008 at 12:09 AM
for the record, i hadn’t seen that link. i know have it bookmarked.
not that i needed anything more to convince me of the truth behind the global warming scare, but i still like more because, well, i’m an info packrat.
TheCulturalist on June 23, 2008 at 12:10 AM
You don’t have to be a scientist to smell manure and call BS.
silverfox on June 23, 2008 at 12:12 AM
cap and trade 6 TRILLION in economic hurt. sounds like a great plan to me. Where to I sign up to pay more because we all know we will not use less.
You have to buy gas to get to work,
You have to buy food to live
You have to use electricity to heat/cool your house, to scare away the night, to watch your TV, use your computer.
We will never use less. So it is cap and trade so people will pay more and the gov can get rich while saying they are doing something.
It would be too much to ask for concrete solutions so that our standard of living can increase at the same time.
I will not live in a cave, I will not sacrifice my standard of living for the moon god or for the earth goddess.
I will not vote for anyomore “green” canidates
The environmental movement will hang itself with $5.00/gal gas
unseen on June 23, 2008 at 12:17 AM
It should be pointed out that the ONLY thing constant about climate is CHANGE. While its good news that the British public isn’t buying into this enormous scam, its sad that Juliette Jowit, the environment editor can’t manage a moment of honesty and admit that there is no “climate change” or “global warming”…. at least not in the catastrophic Al Gore sense.
This fraud has really gone on far too long, Al Gore and his cohorts should be in jail for crimes against humanity for persisting in this fraud out of pure greed and lust for power. It’s disgusting.
All the good science says that the sun is in its low radiance cycle right now, very few sunspots. Thus we see the cooling that has taken place over the last ten years. But we all need to keep in mind that within the next year or two the sun will probably go back into a sunspot cycle as it always does. This means the earth will eventually start warming slightly again, totally normal of course, but the “global warmers” will start screeching all their propaganda again. And once the sun begins its sunspot cycle the propaganda will appear to have substance again.
So its important that we press our representative in Congress to strike down all public funding for this fraud. The only way to stop the scam is to stop funding it. Let your Congressman know what you think and please do it soon!
Maxx on June 23, 2008 at 12:19 AM
Now I lay me down to sleep,
I pray to High Al my air conditioner to keep;
And if I should sweet before I wake,
I pray to High Al my bath water not to take.
MB4 on June 23, 2008 at 12:27 AM
The same schmucks that want the world to believe in massive government conspiracies about 9/11 in order to discredit the Bush administration also want the world to accept the government’s assurance that AGCC is real and “the debate is over.”
The IPCC is a fraud. The field of climatology is a disgrace, and the scientists in that community are bought and paid for by petty bureaucrats and crisis-mongers like Gore and Ted Turner.
spmat on June 23, 2008 at 12:27 AM
Travis1 on June 22, 2008 at 11:24 PM
Don’t worry about Jaibones Travis1, he must be having a bad day. It’s alway good to re-link important stories that others may not have seen.
Maxx on June 23, 2008 at 12:30 AM
Talk about inconvenient truths. A conservative think tank recently revealed that former Vice President Al Gore, the Oscar winning global-warming scourge, used $30,000 worth of energy in his suburban Nashville home last year. That’s 221,000 kilowatt-hours, 20 times the national average.
He owns multiple SUVs and flies around on private jets, just like his friends in the global-warming movement, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Laurie David, producer of An Inconvenient truth. No hypocrisy here, say those committed environmentalists. They’ve bought “carbon offsets”, such as paying for trees to be planted in Africa to magically erase the pollution they generate here in the U.S. What a joke. [Like being a serial rapist but somehow being absolved by donating money to rape crisis centers, "rape offsets"]
Like adulterous preachers lecturing their flock against sin, Gore and his Hollywood sycophants find it far easier to scold the rest of us for our piggish energy consumption than to put a crimp in their own lavish lifestyles. So spare us the sanctimony, Mr. Gore: He who lives in a massive, electricity-devouring house should not be throwing stones.
- Debra Saunders
MB4 on June 23, 2008 at 12:40 AM
Giant homes, offices, private jets, swimming pools for me; straw huts for the rest of you peons.
- Al “Man Pig” Gore
MB4 on June 23, 2008 at 12:44 AM
Attention Al Gore and James Hansen – you are being challenged.
Lack of faith in Islam causes drought, climate change and pollution.
- Sheik Mohammed Omran
MB4 on June 23, 2008 at 12:48 AM
I’ve always had a pet theory that global warming like organic produce is a affordability issue. Like Whole Foods stock (WFMI) which has had a great twenty year run finally topping out in November 05 at 77 a share. Now despite continued earnings and some growth the stock trades at 26. Global warming brings a certain unknown price tag that people were prepared to pay as long as incomes and personal wealth were going up faster than the imagined price tag. Like the cache of eating organic at a higher price than conventional food folks could pretend the high moral ground.
Well fast forward to late 2006 when the housing bubble started imploding–housing stocks topped out in July 05. Slowly at first but faster now personal wealth is contracting. And just in case they forget, they get clipped at the gas station for a quick $100 on either coast.
If gas prices continue higher and stock prices lower I would imagine that a lot of things will found under the infamous bus. We’ll probably hit bottom when cities abandon all but aluminum recycling.
patrick neid on June 23, 2008 at 12:48 AM
Its time for James Chicken-Little Hansen to step down. This is a clear case of the fox in charge of the hen house.
Dr. James Hansen, Al Gore’s adviser, is known as the father of “global warming”. He has admitted that he was willing to exaggerate science in order to get public attention. He is an astronomer and a chemist, but Hansen is not a climatologist.
Hansen needs to be the subject of a Congressional investigation to explain nearly a trillion dollar fraud charged against the American taxpayers. He has promoted this fraud from the beginning.
Maxx on June 23, 2008 at 12:49 AM
James Hansen needs to know that we oil folks know how to shoot disgusting vermin (not in the cute cuddly porcupine sense).
TexasJew on June 23, 2008 at 1:00 AM
As you can see, Dr. Hanson is bought and paid for by the global warming alarmist.
Maxx on June 23, 2008 at 1:01 AM
I don’t know how McCain started talking to an anonymous pimple-faced kid who was wearing a penguin suit about “climate change” one day back after a campaign stop of his in 2000 and then turned into such a tree-hugging nutjob. At the time, McCain was in his mid-60’s. Premature dementia praecox, perhaps?
That is a question that’s far more interesting to me as a professional geologist than some pseudoscientists yelping about “global warming” and shaking the rest of us down for their shitty little useless grants.
TexasJew on June 23, 2008 at 1:11 AM
Exactly! When you live in a care-free, no-consequences society, like many of these green/socialist dolts came of age in, then it’s easy to ignore the harsh realities of life…until they bite you in the a**…and it will bite these goofs…but, of course, it will bite all of us as well…and it’s much easier to fix these problems when you are at the top of the curve than when you are in the trough…I don’t know why humanity has to learn the same lessons over and over again…it’s got to be an educational deficiency.
AUINSC on June 23, 2008 at 1:31 AM
don’t know why humanity has to learn the same lessons over and over again…it’s got to be an educational deficiency.
AUINSC on June 23, 2008 at 1:31 AM
It gives people something to do. They always think this time it will be different. since they are the ones doing it they know better then those fools that tried it before. this time they will do it differently, do it better. It doesn’t matter to them that the results will be the same. The dot.com bubble, the housing bubble, now the oil bubble. this time it will be different this time oil will go to $1000.00 a bl and they will make a million gizallion dollars.
This time the environmental movement will make everything green no matter the cost because its for the children. This time their won’t be any war because BHO is going to TALK to our enemies. This time it will be different.
Personaly I see a massive stock market crash coming due to environmental wackos, I see a real war for oil coming, I see very bad things coming. But you know this time it will be different.
unseen on June 23, 2008 at 2:14 AM
Most “smart people” once believed that the Earth was flat. One man found a way to test that theory and proved all the “smart people” wrong by circumnavigating the planet.
So you can understand how the Global Warmists really need to stifle all dissent and prevent any embarrassing scientific tests from being run by anyone before they can get their hands on the 45 trillion dollars they want to steal from taxpayers!
landlines on June 23, 2008 at 2:26 AM
hillbillyjim on June 23, 2008 at 4:34 AM
Of course we have John McCain paying lip service to the Global Warming Wealth Redistribution Dogma, and anyone with common sense and a modicum of skepticism should be “really worried” about that.
hillbillyjim on June 23, 2008 at 4:41 AM
There was a previous time in mankind’s history when such a mindset was prevalent. It was the time of the Inquisition and was called the Dark Ages.
MB4 on June 23, 2008 at 5:58 AM
…the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which found a 90 per cent chance that humans were the main cause of climate change and warned that drastic action was needed to cut greenhouse gas emissions.
Weather forecasters’ predictions of a 90% chance of anything happening should be taken with a grain of salt 100% of the time. I remain in the unenlightened 10% who believe that insignificant man has little to do with the rising and falling of global temperatures.
jackmac on June 23, 2008 at 6:15 AM
Less-Than-Bonnie Prince Charlie is going to be oh so upset with his subjects over their refusal to adopt his daffy views on the environment. Guess he and the Evil Witch Camille will just have to give more speeches so as to get people to see things their way.
pilamaye on June 23, 2008 at 7:13 AM
Al Gore: Forgive them Gaia, for they know not what they do.
LarryinVA on June 23, 2008 at 8:12 AM
Maybe there are too many people homeschooling their children. LoL, and they actually look at facts and not fairy tales.
bridgetown on June 23, 2008 at 8:19 AM
I have this weird habit of perusing and reading green blogs, mostly to laugh inwardly at the kooks (and to get advice on how to save energy costs). There was a post on Green Daily about how the Goracle was using so much energy and the heart-ache it caused, but I wanted to quote one of the replies as a reminder of how obsessed these people are:
I edited it to show emphasis and to change a curse-word. No matter how much common sense tries to make a come-back in the ‘climate change/global warming’ debate, the crazies will always have the upper hand (barring some miracle). There is just too much money and power to be had by buying into this apocalyptic mythos the left has created.
I regret not getting into the
indulgencescarbon credit business. Of course, if everyone who believed that CO2 is pollution would hold their breaths for 5 minutes, they’d be doing the environment and society a world of good.Anna on June 23, 2008 at 8:22 AM
Truth about Al Gore and his Global Warming message…
Al Gore refuses to debate scholars regarding the scientific data (or lack thereof) used for his movie, as well as data used while giving speeches (selling his cause) on foreign soil.
Al Gore has been hiding out, refusing to make appearances where he is forced to take questions from anybody, including the most faithful to his ambitions.
Al Gore is making “bank” off this message (scam), and has not reduced his own personal carbon footprint one bit; in fact, his carbon footprint has increased over this past year by 10% according to the energy company that he pays for his power.
If Al Gore had the scientific data required to back-up his claims, he would be in front of every camera possible selling his message. Truth is, the data doesn’t exist.
Keemo on June 23, 2008 at 8:38 AM
Everything you ever wanted to know about the Global Warming Hysteria and then some:
The Anti “Man-Made” Global Warming Resource
Thousands and thousands of sources and links to reality.
Poptech on June 23, 2008 at 8:39 AM
DSM code?
JiangxiDad on June 23, 2008 at 8:39 AM
Give him a break. A few months ago he said we had only 18 mos. left before the catastrophe hit. Now it’s about 15. He must now make his peace with the world and his maker and his Mum. I assume he is using his last days as he always wished to–as Camilla’s tampon.
JiangxiDad on June 23, 2008 at 8:47 AM
That will never stop squeeing me out. Ick.
Anna on June 23, 2008 at 8:50 AM
In view of China’s huge increase in CO2 output, which has recently passed ours, they would also be protesting in front of the Chinese embassy.
Bigfoot on June 23, 2008 at 9:02 AM
Give Lord God Al an umbrella and he could be in the next Batman movie.
The arch super villain (cartoon op?) of our times, out to control not the US but the entire world.
Teen meelown doll-ers, heh heh, heh heh.
Speakup on June 23, 2008 at 9:20 AM
The other, earlier big scam that still has a great many people fooled is the assertion that trees create oxygen, and that we would not survive without their oxygen producing capability. It never ceases to amaze me that this scam has not only not been squashed, but is still a core part of the greenie mantra.
OldEnglish on June 23, 2008 at 9:21 AM
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24×7 Debunking Machinery.
shaken on June 23, 2008 at 9:37 AM
Was that suppose to be funny?
Maxx on June 23, 2008 at 9:51 AM
“It’s dissappointing and the government will be really worried.”
Translated:
Despite all the publicity, money, biased studies, intimidation, cherry-picked data, celebrity hype, fear-mongering and ignoring of facts to the contrary, the public still isn’t completely buying our manufactured climate change scenario.
whitetop on June 23, 2008 at 9:56 AM
Warning, Algore, Warning! The Brits Are On To Your Scam!
“A DVD of the film, The Great Global Warming Swindle, will be available from mid July (despite the strenuous efforts of those who support the theory of global warming to prevent its release). The DVD is an expanded and improved version of the film broadcast in the UK on Channel Four. More interview material has been added, covering a broader range of subjects than was possible in the broadcast film.” – The WAVE
Will FNC air it? Some of the MGW stuff I hear on “Friends” is worrisome.
petefrt on June 23, 2008 at 10:00 AM
No, not at all. It’s too serious a subject for humour.
OldEnglish on June 23, 2008 at 10:01 AM
Then you must have been absent the day your school teacher taught about Photosynthesis. Yes, trees give off oxygen.
Maxx on June 23, 2008 at 10:12 AM
My (poor) understanding of the process is that a tree will scrub air, by retaining pollutants and re-releasing oxygen back into the atmosphere, while, during sunlight, reducing water molecules to separate out oxygen, which it then releases.
My original point concerned the creation of oxygen, which reduction does not do.
OldEnglish on June 23, 2008 at 10:36 AM
Wow. Hansen’s moved from climate change hysteria to Eco-Stalinism.
Mike Honcho on June 23, 2008 at 10:52 AM
OldEnglish on June 23, 2008 at 10:36 AM
Yes, you misused the term “create.” Just say they give off oxygen, then you avoid the silly semantic argument.
Maxx on June 23, 2008 at 11:20 AM
What do the Britons think about Ito integral? I think the math department of any school is convinced its invention was a breakthrough in the stochastic processes. But I don’t know if the regular folk agrees with the academic loonies.
freevillage on June 23, 2008 at 11:33 AM
I regret that you think it semantic that many ordinary folk have been convinced that trees are essential for the presence of oxygen in the atmosphere – to the exclusion of other factors. Obviously there are many who take the time to understand the process, but many others live in the realm of simplistic sound-bites and are fodder for alarmists.
OldEnglish on June 23, 2008 at 11:40 AM
Man the turrets -the serfs are revolting!
They’re grabbing the pitchforks!
TexasJew on June 23, 2008 at 11:45 AM
James Hansen, one of the world’s leading climate scientists, will today call for the chief executives of large fossil fuel companies to be put on trial for high crimes against humanity and nature, accusing them of actively spreading doubt about global warming in the same way that tobacco companies blurred the links between smoking and cancer.
Interpretation: Hansen wants to shake down the major oil companies like they shook down the tobacco companies.
The problem here is that oil is a good, irreplaceable and critical substance and the oil execs are generally about three times smarter than the folks who sell cancer sticks.
Who never went to jail, by the way but who paid this extortion to Elliot Spitzer and those other slimey AG parasites and their “friends” aka business partners.
TexasJew on June 23, 2008 at 11:50 AM
….but he’s super-cereal!!!
Hening on June 23, 2008 at 12:12 PM
When is someone going to thank GW for keeping us out of Kyoto? Can you imagine the trillions we would have thrown down that rabbit-hole by now? We are still going to spend a lot of money but it could have been many times worse…
Nozzle on June 23, 2008 at 12:22 PM
Hansen has a rather long history regarding climate hysteria. He was first known for promoting the idea that the earth was entering a new Ice Age…It seems that he developed a computer program that charted changes in the atmosphere caused by burning fossil fuels which he postulated would lead to a new Ice Age. Sound familiar? More info at this site:
http://www.investors.com/editorial/editorialcontent.asp?secid=1501&status=article&id=275267681833290
Nozzle on June 23, 2008 at 1:30 PM
Who can now disagree that the Greens are just Reds in new uniforms? “You may not disagree with me or I’ll have you locked up!!!” -James Hansen
Gore/Hansen 2012!
Akzed on June 23, 2008 at 4:06 PM
Anna:
Do me a favor and make it 15. :)
Merovign on June 23, 2008 at 4:22 PM
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