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ClimateGate, Take 2
Anyone still on the fence about the questionable validity of global warming should find of interest 500 new emails released publicly, exchanged among some of the top climate scientists in the movement, an event that is coming to be referred to as ClimateGate 2.0.
The overwhelming themes of the emails are that the scientists involved are more interested in concealing the underlying data they rely on, rather than transparency; that they view global warming as a political movement rather than unbiased scientific inquiry; and that the underlying science involved in the conclusions reached is weak, and depends upon a deliberate manipulation of the facts and data involved.
Some of the more scientifically damning emails were written by Peter Thorne, who will of course now be made a pariah by the movement at large, which will claim he was never “part of them.” Anyway, here’s a selection from emails attributed to Thorne:
“Observations do not show rising temperatures throughout the tropical troposphere unless you accept one single study and approach and discount a wealth of others. This is just downright dangerous. We need to communicate the uncertainty and be honest …I also think the science is being manipulated to put a political spin on it which for all our sakes might not be too clever in the long run.”
Maybe some of these conspiratorial global warming scientists can get jobs from Algore when he invents Internet 4.0 and starts selling Earth In the Balance dashboard products.
The liberal argument for nuclear war
Great news, everyone! It turns out, these days, liberals can be war-mongers, too. And war-mongers of the most dangerous type: Algore Zittoheads are now arguing that a small-scale nuclear war could be “the cure” for global warming … by sparking decades of nuclear winter, as well as widespread famine and disease.
Apparently, the only trick for liberals is figuring out how to target such a war in a way that only affects red states.
This future-shock rationalization for nuclear war appeared on the National Geographic Web site, in an article penned by Charles Q. Choi. He quotes several other global warming drones, all in need of OxyElite Pro, including such intellectual idiots as Luke Oman and Michael Mills.
But hey, there it is, President Obama. Bomb Libya! You’ll be saving Mother Earth in more ways than one!
Algore won’t surrender on global warming
One of the snowiest, coldest winters in recent memory won’t deter Algore; on a recent episode of Fox News’ O’Reilly Factor, the host challenged Gore to explain the conditions. On his own Web site, Gore responded and claimed that the conditions currently burying most Americans living north of the Mason-Dixon line are proof… of global WARMING.
Here’s what he told O’Reilly, via his Web site:
“As it turns out, the scientific community has been addressing this particular question for some time now and they say that increased heavy snowfalls are completely consistent with what they have been predicting as a consequence of man-made global warming.”
After the Drudge Report posted the Chicken Little claim, the increased traffic broke Gore’s Web site, keeping it out of service for nearly two hours. Algore might be better off predicting the future of healthcare jobs.
Discovery Channel gunman was Algore disciple
James Lee, the gunman who stormed the Discovery Channel headquarters, taking three hostages before he was shot and killed by police last Wednesday, apparently had a motive for his madness.
As it turns out, Lee had a chance before his death to talk for ten minutes to an NBC producer and share his concerns. It turns out he was upset over the “lack of global warming coverage” on television, citing a viewing of the Algore propaganda film, An Inconvenient Truth, as an “awakening moment” for him.
Of course, Michael Moore immediately started planning his next film to focus on how Lee was inspired by “eight years of Bush-Cheney.” And whined on his Twitter account, “How come no one ever takes hostages after seeing one of my propaganda pieces?” (Psst… hey Mikey… it’s because no one ever finds you home.) Whatever.
Anyway, random celebrity teasing aside, it seems Algore now has blood on his hands for his little propaganda piece. Try that on for size as an inconvenient truth, Al! The loss of James Lee falls on you, buck-o!
It’s enough madness to make a fellow want to acquire a plane ticket, fly to Florida and look into some nice Orlando car rental deals. A few hours looking at the ocean ought be be enough to calm one’s frayed nerves…
Hey… why’s the water black?
Fidel alive and well after all
Fidel Castro made his first major public appearance in about four years, proving he’s still alive at the age of 84. He addressed thousands of students at the University of Havana, marking his return to public life since illness forced him to surrender Cuba’s presidency to his brother.
While he won’t be enjoying any Branson vacations any time soon – or ever – the old revolutionary railed against the threat of nuclear holocaust as well as the dangers of … you guessed it … global warming.
Hey… on second thought… has anyone ever seen Algore in the same room as Fidel? Maybe… just maybe…
Further proof of… global cooling?
Reports this weekend are showing that both Los Angeles and Australia are reporting record temperatures: low ones, that is!
Australia had its coldest day in 100 years this weekend, while the City of Angels recorded a temp of 69 degrees in mid-July… one of the coldest on record, with a day from 10 years ago coming closest to being that chilly.
So while Algore fights off sex charges and cries about global warming, it’s pretty clear that the evidence keeps piling up that either there is no consensus anymore, or it was premature at best to claim there is one.
It’s getting cooler of late, folks, not warmer. Global warming theory’s about as useful as broken fitness equipment.
Vostok Antarctica equals global warming death-knell?
While Algore and his zittoheads continue preaching global warming, temperatures in Vostok Antarctica have almost never been lower since records have been kept.
The latest reports have the temps at -100 Fahrenheit with windchills as low as -142. Sounds like an area that needs a lot of global warming, if you ask me!
Algore might be better suited to various admin jobs than he is to the task of being a faux environmental expert. Time to retire, Al.
Volunteers honor Gore?
The University of Tennessee waited and waited and now, with the University of East Anglia scandal and the theory of global warming all but froze over… now UT has decided to award Algore (still vastly in need of ephedra weight loss products) an honorary degree in “visionary leadership.” Huh?
Let’s see, if the 1990ish book Earth In the Balance was his Master’s thesis and An Inconvenient Truth was his doctorate thesis, and the UT is still considering awarding the former veep even an honorary degree, then one has to wonder what kind of peer-review panel actually looked over his work for accuracy and truthfulness. Maybe the thesis committee was chaired by Michael Moore?
All I can say to all you young high school seniors considering where to go for higher education is: stay far away from the University of Tennessee. With degrees being handed out this freely and irresponsibly, you’ll soon be able to pick one up in the Wal-Mart toiletry aisle for $1.95. Save over $50,000 in student loans!
Emissions: Perry to the rescue!
Texas governor Rick Perry and several national industry groups filed several separate petitions in Federal court today, questioning the US Government’s authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions. Generally, Perry and the other groups are arguing that emissions regulations are not a Constitutionally-mandated power and, as such, ought to be left to individual states to decide.
Of course, the Environmental Protection Agency will be among those arguing the government’s “Oh yes we can” case. While backing the government off emissions would be a huge Federal budget fat burner, the likelihood of the case gaining traction in court is slim; the US Court System stopped using the US Constitution as its guiding light decades ago…
Companies pulling out of cap-n-trade partnership
Like the best hemorrhoid treatments do to hemorrhoids, market forces appear to finally be forcing global warming measures to the sidelines where they belong. Word is that several companies have pulled out of the US Climate Action Partnership; the latest to jump off are BP, ConocoPhillips and Caterpiller, though they are not alone.
The USCAP existed to help government and business to cooperate on shepherding emission cap legislation… including the notorious “cap and trade” bill… through Congress and into law. Less then a year ago, the measure seemed to be coasting toward approval, but now with a souring economy, more and more companies are not anxious to enact measures that may have minimal environmental impact while skyrocketing the price of goods and services.
Said ConocoPhillips’ senior VP for governmental affairs Red Cavaney, “USCAP was starting to do more and more on trying to get a bill out without trying to work as much on the substance of it.”
Of course, while Bill Clinton forged the path of symbolism over substance in the 1990s with his “politics of meaning,” the scam has been forged into an art by folks like Algore, his zittoheads and President Barak Obama.
Certainly, however, this distancing from global warming-inspired legislation has been helped in no small part by one of the coldest, snowiest winters in quite some time; as one GOP lawmaker recently commented, wryly, “Word is the snowstorms ain’t gonna stop until Al Gore cries uncle.”
If only…
As world freezes, Gore has head in global warming sand
Algore is nothing if not delusional. The former vice-prez is still trying to sell his global warming Kool-Aid, not only in spite of the academic fraud scandal at the University of East Anglia, but in spite of record cold temps being set even as I right this.
Iowa is reporting temperatures that are, on average, 30 degrees below normal. The East Coast is facing an almost unparalleled deep freeze, and Florida is concerned about the current orange crop harvest being spoiled by that same freeze.
Peru’s mountain people could be wiped out, according to some reports, but record low temps; Beijing, China is reporting temperatures colder than any recorded in the last 40 years.
And yet Algore still clings to his fraudulent photos of polar bears on ice cap shards and whines about the need for carbon credits? Still believe in global warming is as reliable as good kitchen faucets? What’s it gonna take, man?
Obama about to go crazy over CO2
Let this be said upfront and blatantly: Carbon dioxide is not not not a “dangerous pollutant.” It is what plants from trees to grass and everything in between need to survive, and in fact, plants give us back what we need to survive after absorbing it: oxygen!
But don’t let basic scientific facts get in the way of a good scare-em-into-taxation policy! The EPA this week, under direction from the Obama Administration, is set to formally declare carbon dioxide… what we breathe out… a “dangerous pollutant.” This EPA finding would give the Fed almost unchecked powers to regulate corporate emissions and tax violators, effectively enacting the cap-and-trade concept without a vote ever being taken.
This is blatant abuse of Federal authority, not to mention bad and faulty science.
Here’s the skinny on CO2, extracted from Wikipedia:
CO2 is a trace gas being only 0.038% of the atmosphere. Carbon dioxide is used by plants during photosynthesis to make sugars, which may either be consumed in respiration or used as the raw material to produce other organic compounds needed for plant growth and development… As of March 2009, carbon dioxide in the Earth’s atmosphere is at a concentration of 387 ppm by volume… Five hundred million years ago carbon dioxide was 20 times more prevalent than today, decreasing to 4-5 times during the Jurassic period and then slowly declining with a particularly swift reduction occurring 49 million years ago… There is about fifty times as much carbon dissolved in the oceans in the form of CO2 and carbonic acid, bicarbonate and carbonate ions as exists in the atmosphere.
It’s a trace gas and was 20 times more prevalent in the past as compared to now.
It seems the Obama Administration, however, has taken some intellectual weight loss Austin-style and just fallen for anything that falls out of Al Gore’s mouth without question or discernment.
Someone should declare Al Gore’s utterances a “dangerous pollutant.”
