Warmth Kills
According to Drew Carey’s view of prehistory. That makes our continuing existence a mystery. We must have gotten stupider since Cro-Magnon days, because the warmth is going to kill us all. According to Al Gore’s view of the future.
So what are you sitting around for? Start adapting!
Topics: warmalism
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 12:54 am on Friday, May 25, 2007
20 Responses to “Warmth Kills”
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May 25th, 2007 at 9:50 am
Except for the hidebound (progressives) and the hysterics(the Goreacle), I don’t think adapting will be a problem for most of us.
May 25th, 2007 at 11:39 am
Tell that to the coral reefs, the hemlock forests and the countries of Bangladesh and Tuvalu.
May 25th, 2007 at 11:41 am
If I were not a “Denier”, I would be out in the back yard installing a swimming pool, cutting down the ash trees, and planting palms.
May 25th, 2007 at 12:10 pm
I am adapting…..I adjust my air conditioning accordingly during the summer. In the winter, I throw another log on the fire when global warming into reverse.
May 25th, 2007 at 1:30 pm
Right, because if you are able to adapt, that’s all there is to worry about. Clearly, geniuses at work.
May 25th, 2007 at 2:58 pm
My, your sense of humor has deserted you today, eh, corndog? Tsk tsk tsk!
Well……both geological and human history demonstrate that adapting to changing conditions is important for survival. This is because conditions on this planet are always changing through influences well behind the control of mere humans, and always will. It’s the way of the universe, whether influenced by the Hand of God, or simple random events.
Any species ignoring that little fact tends to become fossilized, and studied by future paleontologists. Ask the dinosaurs, or maybe the farmers in Greenland.
Hmmmmm……..I wonder how they will tell the difference between homo sapien greenieust and homo sapien skepticus?
May 25th, 2007 at 3:02 pm
For once, I agree with corndog. It is because of the geniuses among the human race that we have adapted and thrived through all of man’s history, regardless of the various changes of nature–even to the near death of the species at one point. There is always something new to deal with, and thankfully, nature has provided us with something more than mere emotionalism and panic–a reasoning mind that allows us to figure out what to do to survive.
May 25th, 2007 at 3:12 pm
And here I thought social Darwinism went out a century ago.
May 25th, 2007 at 3:31 pm
Heh,
Interesting to see it all play out. If there is any cosmic Karma left, then the Islamists will establish a world-wide caliphate just in time to have humanity wiped out by a huge honkin’ asteroid.
Respects,
May 25th, 2007 at 3:56 pm
“If I were not a “Denier”, I would be out in the back yard installing a swimming pool, cutting down the ash trees, and planting palms.”
I’m busy replaying palm trees with fir trees.
I figure that by the time Al Gore ‘discovered’ the Internet..it was time to SELL internet stocks . Now that he has discovered ‘Global Warming’ an Ice Age must surely be just around the corner.
May 25th, 2007 at 4:50 pm
And here I thought social Darwinism went out a century ago.
Naw, the communists and socialists kept it going all this time.
May 25th, 2007 at 4:52 pm
Interesting to see it all play out. If there is any cosmic Karma left, then the Islamists will establish a world-wide caliphate just in time to have humanity wiped out by a huge honkin’ asteroid.
They’d just say “Insh’Allah!”, Tim.
May 25th, 2007 at 6:07 pm
Right, because if you are able to adapt, that’s all there is to worry about. Clearly, geniuses at work.
As opposed to… what? Not adapting? Interesting survival tactic. Clearly, a genius at work.
May 25th, 2007 at 6:26 pm
JeffS,
Yeah. You know, that whole Insh’Allah business is about the greatest moral cop out I have ever encountered. With that sort of mindset, it’s no wonder Islamic societies have been both as repressed and repressive as they have been these past several centuries.
Therein lies the other problem: How to reconcile Sharia with the concept of no free will? He robbed someone? Under Sharia he gets a hand lopped off, but he could also claim the God willed that he steal.
Without any free will, then nothing is ever your fault. You need never suffer guilt for any reason, because, well, God willed it should happen.
That one phrase, Insh’Allah, explains so very much about how the rest of the world can move on and leave Islam in the dust.
Respects,
May 26th, 2007 at 6:21 am
I find it enormously interesting that corndog considers the rational faculty “social Darwinism”. Reason is an attribute of the individual. There is no such thing as a collective mind, and therefore, there is nothing “social” about it. Those are ideas first put forth by Hegel and picked up by the various collectivist theorists. Hitler and eugenics may have made the ideas unpopular among socialists, but it seems there are those who have no other way to view reason except as an attribute of some disembodied collective mind. It explains a lot.
May 26th, 2007 at 1:27 pm
Salty,
See how easy it is to win an argument when you speak for the other side?
Actually, my argument is that if the entire world is going to hell, you can do all the adapting you want, but your world is still going to be hell.
It’s got nothing to do with Hegel, eugenics or socialism.
It has everything to do with violent weather, drought and mass extinction.
May 26th, 2007 at 5:45 pm
I burned a pile of tires today to help global dimming along. Gotta keep that particulate count up.
May 26th, 2007 at 7:19 pm
Dr. corndog: This world is headed for a disaster of biblical proportions.
President Bush: What do you mean, “biblical”?
Dr corndog: It has everything to do with violent weather, drought and mass extinction. Fire and brimstone coming down from the skies. Rivers and seas boiling. Forty years of darkness. Earthquakes, volcanoes. The dead rising from the grave. Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together - mass hysteria.
(With apologies to “The Ghostbusters”)
May 26th, 2007 at 8:11 pm
you can do all the adapting you want, but your world is still going to be hell.
Well, you can give up and burn in hell if you like. Me, I plan to have ice water.
May 26th, 2007 at 10:03 pm
Ice water, Rebecca? Not cold beer?