Climate change cultist cries over coral and corn

posted at 9:32 pm on December 15, 2009 by Cassy Fiano
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In the most absurd posting of the day, enviromoonbat Bill McKibbin (a guy who spells Earth with two As) explains how he sobbed at a church in Copenhagen… because of coral. And corn. And rocks.

This afternoon I sobbed for an hour, and I’m still choking a little. I got to Copenhagen’s main Lutheran Cathedral just before the start of a special service designed to mark the conference underway for the next week. It was jammed, but I squeezed into a chair near the corner. The Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, gave the sermon; Desmond Tutu read the Psalm. Both were wonderful.

But my tears started before anyone said a word. As the service started, dozens choristers from around the world carried three things down the aisle and to the altar: pieces of dead coral bleached by hot ocean temperatures; stones uncovered by retreating glaciers; and small, shriveled ears of corn from drought-stricken parts of Africa. As I watched them go by, all I could think of was the people I’ve met in the last couple of years traveling the world: the people living in the valleys where those glaciers are disappearing, and the people downstream who have no backup plan for where their water is going to come from. The people who live on the islands surrounded by that coral, who depend on the reefs for the fish they eat, and to protect their homes from the waves. And the people, on every corner of the world, dealing with drought and flood, already unable to earn their daily bread in the places where their ancestors farmed for generations.

Those damned shriveled ears of corn. I’ve done everything I can think of, and millions of people around the world have joined us at 350.org in the most international campaign there ever was. But I just sat there thinking: It’s not enough. We didn’t do enough. I should have started earlier. People are dying already; people are sitting tonight in their small homes trying to figure out how they’re going to make the maize meal they have stretch far enough to fill the tummies of the kids sitting there waiting for dinner. And that’s with 390 parts per million CO2 in the atmosphere. The latest numbers from the computer jockeys at Climate Interactive—a collaboration of Sustainability Institute, Sloan School of Management at MIT, and Ventana Systems, is that if all the national plans now on the table were adopted the planet in 2100 would have an atmosphere with 770 parts per million CO2. What then for coral, for glaciers, for corn. I didn’t do enough.

So I guess we’re blaming poverty and world hunger on global warming now, too? I guess that follows the same line of thinking that got Al Gore his Nobel Peace Prize, too — since global warming apparently causes war as well. Nevermind that Climategate has pretty much cemented what so many have suspected for so long, that the whole global warming cult is a scam, one engineered to manipulate people into getting more money and more control for the leaders of the cult. With global warming, there’s all kinds of money to be made and control to be exerted over people’s lives. Just look at cap and trade.

As I read the idiotic post above, I couldn’t help but think of this video:

The sheer ridiculousness of all of it astounds me. First of all, how does McKibben even know that the “dried up ears of corn” actually came from Africa? That the stones were uncovered by glaciers? Couldn’t someone have just, I don’t know, picked up a few rocks off the ground and said they were now exposed even though they used to be hidden by glaciers? And I’m curious. If these glaciers have all melted, then why is there such drought in Africa? Where does all the water go? I thought that if the glaciers melted, the oceans would rise and then flood every continent. Apparently Africa is exempt from this “fact”.

In any case, even if manmade global warming was real, who in their right mind is actually going to cry over a friggin’ rock? Or cry over a tree? You’ve got to be a little batty to cry hysterically at the mere sight of coral and corn. For heaven’s sake, we have enough wussy men in the world. Man up!

Fortunately, most adults won’t be impressed by the whiny emotionalism. That effects girls around the age of fifteen — and those who have the mentality of a fifteen-year-old girl (i.e., liberals and enviromoonbats). Most adults want to see the facts, not some girly man crying over a few ears of corn. And unfortunately for global warming cultists, the facts aren’t backing them up anymore. NASA found that ocean temperatures are cooling, not warming. Climategate showed us that scientists are manipulating the data to make the public believe global warming is actually taking place, when it isn’t. But that won’t stop this guy from crying over a few ears of corn and a couple pieces of coral.

Hat Tip: Ace of Spades

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