Archives for the 'warmalism' Category
Bear Facts
Published on 15 May 2008 at 9:02 am.
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We go deep north to Kate of Small Dead Animals on the large, very live ones:
Gateway notes a cull would make more sense and measures the ice.
I’m kind of torn about this issue. I’m frankly annoyed that the global temperature trends may get in the way of my retirement plans: houseboat on scenic, tropical Hudson Bay.
Carbon Runway Skidmarks
Published on 14 May 2008 at 8:55 pm.
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As hilarious as this story is about Sir Paul’s $165,000 hybrid Lexus being flown halfway around the world at a horrendous cost to Gaia, it raises some serious questions. UK Telegraph:
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Great News on the Warm Globe Front
Published on 10 May 2008 at 3:30 pm.
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Great tits not impacted by global warming.
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You’re Getting Warmer
Published on 7 May 2008 at 2:50 am.
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It short, what this NZ commentator is saying is:
1. Miniscule, incremental, measurement-defying CO2 savings* are stupid even if you believe we can stop the world from warming up.
2. Scientists have not yet established whether they know what they are talking about, but have established that they want you to think they do.
And maybe most importantly, news to [...]
Hurricane Watch
Published on 29 Apr 2008 at 10:11 am.
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Filed under academia, warmalism.
Hurricane forecaster and noted warming skeptic William Gray says Colorado State University is trying to ice him out by cutting publicity support for his forecasts. Not clear from the article what that means. No more press releases or press conferences? They won’t hand out his number when reporters call during hurrican season? Not a lot [...]
iGnore
Published on 3 Apr 2008 at 11:30 am.
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The Prophet serve the Anointed One? Not likely. Does the mountain come to Mohammed? OK, bad choice of analogies. Boston Herald:
Core Sample
Published on 19 Mar 2008 at 8:39 am.
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Blair drills one.
Waltzing Mathilda vs. Gaia
Published on 9 Mar 2008 at 7:41 am.
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Filed under Australia, history, song, warmalism.
A V-8 sings it. That and more musical news via Tim Blair.
In other important Australian news, archaeologists in Melbourne have found a hole in the ground and they think Ned Kelly’s in it, along with a bunch of other crims.
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Jetsetters vs. Life
Published on 26 Feb 2008 at 8:46 pm.
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Canadian glitterati’s Oscar night globe-warming operations nearly cost seven transplant patients their lives. Globe and Mail:
Banner Day for Gaia
Published on 25 Feb 2008 at 8:31 pm.
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Eco-infiltrators scurry across Heathrow’s tarmac, scale a plane, drape a banner for the planet.
It took 90 minutes to arrest them. Al Qaeda, you paying attention?
Best Scientific Minds
Published on 3 Feb 2008 at 11:14 am.
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On the project. Luddite Kate dares to question their conclusions. OK, maybe mock is a better word.
Cavedwelling trog van der Leun counts 500 factors to 100 percent DOOM!
If what Tim reports is true, we should endeavor to be more like the Chinese, who seek to answer to the old question of song … they’ll stop the [...]
Global Colding
Published on 2 Feb 2008 at 10:39 am.
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Roundup at Gateway. Colding is already causing chaos in China. Iraqis see colding as a sign of peace, but what the heck do they know? Governments must act to stop colding now!
Barnyard Gas Threat
Published on 22 Jan 2008 at 9:15 am.
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Gas emitted by farm animals studied by Swedes. The surprise is which end of the cow they’re interested in, and the implications this has for anyone who is truly concerned about the very future of Earth itself. via Herald:
Gore Effect Baghdad
Published on 11 Jan 2008 at 2:46 pm.
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As if Iraq didn’t have enough problems. But he is the 2007 Peace Nobelist. Could work.
Staying Together for the Planet
Published on 3 Dec 2007 at 11:03 pm.
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Never mind that it screws up children’s lives. Divorce is bad for the environment.
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Eco-Bash
Published on 28 Nov 2007 at 10:36 am.
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My old pal Peter Howe takes an eco-swipe at Bush 43 with faint praise for Bush 41’s new wind turbine at Kennebunkport. Monied political gentry more deserving of knocks on that score might be Ted Kennedy and Al Gore, though. Boston Globe:
Self Eco-Cancelling Moral Stance Taken
Published on 23 Nov 2007 at 12:13 pm.
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Good news! They’re not reproducing. Daily Mail:
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Science Settled
Published on 16 Oct 2007 at 8:51 am.
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Says old geezer who’s been around a while. Prominent meteorologist on Gore, Nobel:
Big(carbon)footed
Published on 15 Oct 2007 at 10:42 pm.
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Five Scandinavians, eager to exalt prevaricating prophet of theoretical inconvenience from hypothetical disaster, leapfrog actual savior of real people from confirmed warmongering murderousness. Newsbusters re Irena Sendler, a 97-year-old Polish woman who saved 2,500 Jewish children from certain death in the Warsaw ghetto during World War II.
Gore Derangement Syndrome
Published on 15 Oct 2007 at 7:40 am.
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Get yours here!
Paul Krugman at NYT wants to know what it is about Al Gore that drives right-wingers crazy. Here’s Krugman’s theory:
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King Al the Green
Published on 14 Oct 2007 at 10:36 am.
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Tom Friedman is rapidly becoming one of my favorite Sunday morning reads.
Today, Friedman is worried about the succession of Nobel Al Gore the UNcrowned, though I haven’t noticed any shortage of mountebanks, charlatans and jackanapes in the field. Friedman frets that none may pick up the Green Mantle that will allow us to best all [...]
Anointed!
Published on 12 Oct 2007 at 8:05 am.
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Gore enNobeled! This gives me a warm, globby feeling inside!
Verdict: Full of it
Published on 10 Oct 2007 at 10:34 am.
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That’s a Brit court. The Nobel jury’s still out on the Goracle. Corner:
Enviro-Math with Don
Published on 9 Sep 2007 at 8:27 am.
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5000 polar bears + 17,000 polar bears = 22,000 polar bears - 15,000 polar bears = impending doom, I tell you! Or, historically, whatever.
The seals will be happy to hear that. Earth gets warm, earth gets cold. It happens. Sometimes the sky falls, too. I suspect a study of frozen polar bear poop cores in the pack ice would show [...]
Carbon Footprint Small
Published on 1 Sep 2007 at 12:04 pm.
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As conscientious green anti-democracy hooligans think globally, attack cops locally. Star Trib:
Destination Hell
Published on 17 Aug 2007 at 11:21 am.
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Please put your seat in the uptight position. Smoking is unavoidable on this flight. Please direction your attention to the front of the cabin, where Satan, your flight attendant, will demonstrate inevitable damnation procedures.
Rocket Scientists Heard From
Published on 10 Aug 2007 at 1:19 pm.
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NASA to warmalists: Cool it!
Via the Oxford Medievalist, who’s seen it all before … hot, cold, famine, plague, witchhunts, Vikings running Ireland, Normans running England, count ‘em four Crusades, Moors in Andalusia, Turks at the gates of Vienna, you name it … and tends to take the long view. While you’re there be sure to hit his [...]
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Mrs. Carbon Sasquatch
Published on 25 Jul 2007 at 11:32 pm.
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Go for the environmental irresponsibility. Stay for the scandal mongering. Wonder at the strange obsession.
Snowball Warming
Published on 10 Jul 2007 at 11:15 am.
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Tim Blair warms to his topic, with snow that shouldn’t, TV that didn’t, warm-and-fuzzy math, and Liz Hurley’s other two large things: her carbon footprints.
More deeper ’struth from downunder: Andrew Bolt on what’s wrong with Zimbabwe. You guessed it.
Son of Gore
Published on 5 Jul 2007 at 8:05 am.
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I’m going to guess the Toyota Prius ceases to be carbon-neutral long before it gets to 100 mph. Never mind the safety issue. All I have to say is we’re lucky the only gore in this story is Al.
Hot Poll
Published on 26 Jun 2007 at 1:46 pm.
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Global warming poll: 71 percent of people smarter than “the vast majority of scientists.” They think global warming is a natural process, much as it has been periodically over the past 4.5 billion years or so.
Offset Your Carbons
Published on 22 Jun 2007 at 1:38 am.
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All the way to China:
BEIJING, China (AP) — Developed countries are hypocritical for criticizing China’s greenhouse-gas emissions while buying products from its booming manufacturing industry, the Chinese government said.
Gaia Vs. The Greenies
Published on 16 Jun 2007 at 8:31 am.
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Mother Nature attacks Pearl Jam concert site in Venice, forces cancellation of preachy rocker’s performance. Bush’s fault? I thought you could buy your way out of Gaia’s wrath.
Some people think global warming causes hurricanes. I think the evidence is quite clear that carbon offsets cause whirlwinds.
UPDATE: Driscoll on the immanentization of the eschaton.
Woes of Kilimanjaro
Published on 12 Jun 2007 at 11:14 pm.
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Who’d know better than the Jungle Trader that the snowless peak of Kilimanjaro as an icon of global warming was a lot of bunkum. Poppycock. Balderdash and rot.
Now, my good man, about that chota peg.
Repent!
Published on 7 Jun 2007 at 7:21 am.
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Maggie’s Law: “The amount of scientific evidence needed to establish a moral truth is inversely proportional to the degree to which this truth is congruent with liberalism’s moral ends.”
Date of Doom
Published on 3 Jun 2007 at 10:59 pm.
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Set at 2042. Its a warmglob thing Tim Blair found, and he’s suggesting a professor toss to sort it out.
In 2042, if I’m still alive, I’ll be 82 years old, so I don’t particularly give a damn. Won’t be my problem. I was looking forward to the end of the world in 2012. Why mess around? If [...]
Course Correction
Published on 29 May 2007 at 7:38 am.
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In the Captain’s Quarters, a stern look of disapproval at the cut of the AP’s jib. Among other acts of poor seamanship — not knowing its terrorists from its ”militants,” etc. — Al-P misreads the charts on Kyoto. It wasn’t rejected by George Bush. It was rejected by Ted Kennedy. Among others. And we should applaud them [...]
Warmth Kills
Published on 25 May 2007 at 12:54 am.
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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!
Gorespeak
Published on 17 May 2007 at 10:40 am.
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He was for public discourse before he was against it. In the same aptly named blatherfest, ”The Assault on Reason.”
Gorah’s Ark
Published on 16 May 2007 at 8:17 am.
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Greenpeace is building it on Mount Ararat.* No word on whether Greenpeace got the word straight from God or from the Prophet Gore. But its important to get the dimensions right. 300 x 50 cubits, three decks. Updated with a reinforced concrete roof, because the sky is falling, with tinfoil lining to prevent mind control. [...]
Gas Attack
Published on 5 May 2007 at 9:55 am.
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Earnest citizens thinking globularly, acting loco-ly in Brookline practice discrimination based on appearance.
An Inconvenient Nuisance
Published on 23 Apr 2007 at 2:04 am.
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Laurie David is shocked that she can’t just go over to Our Dark Lord Rove’s table, start lecturing him over his rubber chicken about her Academy Award-winning pseudo-science, and find him not only uncowed, but unspeakably rude!
That’s how Laurie and Sheryl Crow are telling it. I’d like to know what they actually said when they got [...]
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Earth Day 2007 …
Published on 22 Apr 2007 at 10:04 am.
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… finds us imperiled by threat of sky falling! Fringe nutjob beliefs now mainstream. You can recycle and engage in conservative practices re energy, environment when it makes sense if you want to. I’m doing it because the signals I receive via the rabbit ears on my tinfoil helmet tell me to.
Unemployment, good for the environment!
I’d Suggest Rubber Boots …
Published on 15 Apr 2007 at 12:41 pm.
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… because you’re guaranteed to step in piles of it at a global warming rally. Instapundit advises dressing warm and tells the incredulously credulous: “… from my perspective we should be doing the same things — working hard to reduce the use of fossil fuels — regardless of what you think about global warming. But the self-righteousness and exaggeration of [...]
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Repent!
Published on 7 Apr 2007 at 4:55 pm.
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The End is Near!
… Actual climatologist who specializes in catastrophic weather calls Al Gore “one of these guys that preaches the end of the world type of things.”
“I think he’s doing a great disservice and he doesn’t know what he’s talking about,” says Dr. William Gray, an emeritus professor at the atmospheric science department at Colorado [...]
Luna Park: Planetary Scourge
Published on 1 Apr 2007 at 1:56 pm.
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Looks like Luna Park is single-handedly killing the planet. Go Luna Park! (Tim’s City of Light roundup on Sydney’s hour-long effort to save the planet. My question … if you want to save the planet, don’t you have to stumble around in the dark for more than an hour? Attn greenies: off the Internet, out of [...]
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Aye of the Beholder
Published on 22 Mar 2007 at 9:49 am.
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Colonial art is retroactively commandeered to enviro cause, prompting deep thought re a Dutch master:
re Rembrandt’s Night Watch, “How did this picture reflect the military-industrial complex of the period?”
Or maybe re Tom Roberts “Shearing the Rams” – “Did the shearers first obtain the rams’ consent? Was the owner-grazier an equal-opportunity employer? Etc”
Do As He Says
Published on 21 Mar 2007 at 9:15 pm.
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Gore refuses to take energy pledge. Planet-saving low energy crap is for peasants like you.
Beyond Normal
Published on 16 Mar 2007 at 10:16 am.
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U of East Anglia Enviro Sciences Prof Michael Hulme, in the Guardian, points us to the dire need for post-normal science, when science as we know it is not enough to …
… save the human race from destroying itself!
Damn your eyes, man! Can you not see!
God, I love a good Charleton Heston moment. Here’s Mike on [...]
Getting Warmer
Published on 12 Mar 2007 at 11:53 pm.
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OOPSDATE: Scientific mission to North Pole to prove Global Warming aborted due to frostbite.
First Channel Four’s “Great Global Warming Swindle,” now the New York Times, “hype” and “exaggeration.” The flood waters rising around Gore, warmglob enthusiasts. Oh, the treachery!
