We can’t afford to wait, because there is a chance that I am right…and then YOU’ll be responsible for destroying EVERYTHING….sun, moon, stars, planets, comets….EVERYTHING!! Destruction is less than 10 years away. And I’ve got a whole herd of people who agree with me, so it must be true (I’ve anointed all of them as “true scientists”): those who disagree are “DEATH RAY DENIERS”: wild kooks who should be ignored. Proof? We don’ need no stinkin’ proof!!! After all, what sane person doesn’t want to SAVE THE UNIVERSE?? …and we’re running out of time!

You might be able to avert this cataclysm by earning as much money as you can and buying all of the shiny new things you can get your hands on. The shiny things will deflect the DEATH RAY FROM SPACE, and will save the universe.

So do your part. Send your whole family to the store NOW. Have the kids buy something every day. Turn your lights on. Buy jewelry and large shiny automobiles: the bigger the better. Wax the cars you already own. Paint your house a bright color, and then buy another house and paint a bright color also. YOU CAN SAVE THE UNIVERSE!!!

(hey, it worked for Algore!)

Shindell’s research indicates that, ironically, much of the rise in polar temperature seen over the last few decades may have resulted from US and European restrictions on sulphur emissions. According to NASA:

My God … I wish they would make up their minds.

Nothing like “consensus” huh?

Why don’t we all agree to leave well enough alone and just embrace whatever is happening. I think we prolly did an okay thing by eliminating man made pollutants. But CO2 is a natural frigging byproduct of LIFE and has been since … well since life appeared on this earth – or close to it anyway.

If we reverted back to the environment that sustained us for thousands-millions of years, without any human contaminants, we would have no problems. Because we produce significant amounts of one class of harmful pollutions does not mean we should produce a second class to alleviate one of the problems of the first. We should eliminate the first class.

As everyone well knows, the Earth is on the way to destruction because of man’s careless action. Every decision man has made throughout human history has, in effect – set up us the bomb, and has now clearly shown to directly link to catastrophic …

Fuck with nature, nature fucks back. And nature always wins. Ask the dinosaurs.

GarandFan on April 9, 2009 at 7:41 PM

Just what did the dinosaurs do to bring on an asteroid?

I don’t believe this modeling any more than any other, but it is pretty funny.

darwin-t on April 9, 2009 at 9:56 PM

Ditto! :)

. Another reason for their forecast reduction is due to anomalous cooling of sea surface temperatures in the tropical Atlantic.

DerKrieger on April 9, 2009 at 12:35 PM

Anomalous my ass.

I don’t believe this modeling any more than any other, but it is pretty funny.

People have blamed the retreat of ice in the Arctic on carbon-dioxide driven global warming.

I don’t know if this was mentioned earlier, but the ice isn’t retreating at the moment.

WUWT Ice Survey Shows Thickening Arctic Ice

The data is collected from the US military web site http://imb.crrel.usace.army.mil. All of the active military buoys show significant thickening ice over the past six months to a year, as seen below…

UPDATE: The military site also has graphs which are supposed to show depth. It appears that many of these are broken, which is why I used the more reliable temperature graphs. The depth at which the ice drops below the freezing point of seawater (-2C) is of course the bottom of the ice. You can’t have water in a liquid state below it’s freezing point.

Some of the buoys have reliable depth data, and they correspond closely to the temperature data…

George Carlin’s comic genius trumps all these brilliant scientists.

Buy Danish on April 9, 2009 at 4:05 PM

Just about my all-time favorite — great to see it available on the web. Bookmarked!

Seems like a waste of effort to me.

They should just give their nutter base a couple grand apiece to pass a Constitutional amendment declaring Global Warming is the truth, or Global Cooling, or Intergalactic Heat Transference or whatever they need to steal fortunes for the Puppet Masters……..and move on.