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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!

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…

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…

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?

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.”

The latest scandal to emerge in the great global warming hoax comes to us from the University of East Anglia, where climate scientists have now admitted that much of the original data upon which they have based their claims of global warming were unceremoniously dumped, recycled or otherwise trashed… way back in the 1980s!

London’s Times Online writes fearlessly about this scandal, which draws into question yet other chunk of research that cannot be verified when used to support the ever-more-shaky global warming hypothesis upon which the cap-and-trade swindle is being based.

Whether blaming the internal combustion engine or spa filters, it seems no matter how many “green weeks” NBC, The CW and other networks have each year, Algore and his zittoheads are being proven fools and flim-flam artists extraordinaire more and more as time marches on… need I mention this was one of the colder summers on record in decades?

AccuWeather.com is reporting that in July, over 3,000 new record low temperatures were set in July; this, despite the growing frenzy to “deal with climate change” in an Algore/Barry Obama nation.

This news comes from Jesse Ferrell’s blog at AccuWeather, and the information flies in the face of global warming claims. And that’s only in the US, by the way. Ferrell’s a careful, scientific guy who wasn’t necessarily looking for the added attention that comes with disputing Algore’s fevered fantasies of a falling sky.

At least someone knows how to respond to Chicken Little with real scientific data! Stuff like this offers real colon cleanse reviews for all the … manure? … Algore is shoveling with his Oscar-winning PowerPoint presentation.

Whether true dupes or faked propaganda, I get emails and comments from a variety of zittohead brainwashees on the topic of global warming. Most are convinced by emotional (but faked) photos of polar bears on ice floes. They couldn’t be more misinformed.

Yet there are reliable sources out there. I mention them whenever I feel frustrated by some idiotic story by an idiotic journalist participating in these liberal-socialist scare tactics, who would rather yell that the sky is falling than harvest their Blackberry plants.

They’ve been misled and misinformed by Algore’s misleading propaganda. For a more rational look at global climate change, read “Unstoppable Global Warming: Every 1500 Years,” by Dr. Fred Singer and Dennis T. Avery, as well as “Climate of Extremes: Global Warming Science They Don’t Want You to Know” By Patrick J. Michaels and Robert C. Balling, Jr. If you prefer video over reading, try The Great Global Warming Swindle from the BBC.

From a scientific perspective, all this material is far more solid than emotion-based faked photos of polar bears on ice.

NASA climate scientist Dr. James Hansen has called for civil disobedience and other forms of protest on Monday, March 2, to bring attention to his pet cause of global warming, and how neat it is to be an Algore zittohead with no mind of his own. But the best part of this illegal call by a Federal employee for civil disobedience is the forecast for DC tomorrow: snow, snow and more snow!

Current forecasts project more than 12 inches of snow to hit the entire east coast, including DC, by and throughout Monday. That would be just the latest in yet another example of idiot zittoheads calling for global warming demonstrations in the middle of wildly contradictory weather. It would be fun to watch nature contradict these zittoheads from the comfort of some home theatre seating tomorrow!

The sky is falling, according to the Associated Press and their writer, Seth Borenstein.

Borenstein is only the latest to pen a panicked story about global warming and file it under “news” rather than “opinion.” The radical Marxist left is certainly feeling their oats after the Obama victory, but now they are pressing ahead to make sure Obama does what they voted him in to do: destroy American society for the sake of Mother Nature.

Fortunately, in an exclusive fictional interview, Mother Nature told WonderfulPessimist.com, “Global warming? I’m feeling a bit of a chill, if my opinion counts for anything. I’ll be fine, though; I have a nice mug of herbal tea and honey. Don’t panic, dearies. I have a tankless water heater now and Mama’s just fine.”

Shortly after that fictional interview, a far-left hit-squad of zittoheads took Mother Nature out with a deadly spiked tea. Algore personally claimed full responsibility and reminded everyone he invented the Internet, in a hastily-released press release.

A British judge, Stephen Hockman, is leading a liberal drive to establish an international court to enforce environmental agreements between nations and “punish” nations who fail to comply with such agreements, according to the Telegraph UK Web site.

“The time is now ripe to set this up and get it going,” he said. “Its remit will be overall climate change and the need for better regulation of carbon emissions but at the same time the implementation and enforcement of international environmental agreements and instruments.”

Of course, part of “the time is now ripe” has to be translated thus: Barack Obama is the incoming US president and we have to get this passed while he holds the office. Get ready to get reamed, America. You voted for it, you’re gonna get it, kind of like the shocking price of renewal on term life insurance rates following the initial term.

It’s an Algore/zittohead wet dream.

Oliver Tickell, a true Algore zittohead, of the UK Guardian, wrote recently that in a planet only four degrees Celsius warmer, all we can do is, “prepare for extinction.”

OK, good, great, thanks for that. Then let’s drop the politics and enjoy the time we have left, shall we?

Let’s put that to the test. As I write this, it is a pleasant 72 degrees Fahrenheit outside my home office. That’s 22 degrees Celsius. And if it were four degrees Celsius warmer? Well, that’d make it 26 degrees Celsius and… 78 degrees Fahrenheit! Oh my God, head for the hills and don’t forget granny! Especially considering it was warmer than that all last week.

Heaven forbid we enter another period of time like the Medieval Warm Period (CE 800-1300), when Europe thrived and only doom-saying liberals were out of work. Why that’d be… paradise?

It seems no matter how much evidence flies in the face of their conclusions, global warming nuts like Algore and acolytes like Tickell will bend themselves into contortions to make anything that happens fit their theory. In early propaganda efforts, Gore was promoting double-digit warming numbers as though they were established, scientific fact.

Then the real scientists started speaking up and we found out that, at worst, it was more like a one-degree shift upward that peaked in the early 1990s and has been on the decline in the past decade or so. In fact, let us not forget that the winder of 2007-08 was so cold, it wiped out nearly a century of so-called global warming; the planetary temperature dropped a whole degree.

While Tickell’s piece, which would be more interesting reading if her were writing up a list of best diet pills, is still pushing warming, other pieces are now starting to attempt to incorporate global cooling – like a sudden new ice age – as fitting in with their theory.

Beware global warming, folks: you just might freeze to death! What idiocy.