Tag: global warming

Snow for Scotland?

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Here in New Jersey, this is usually a hot and sticky season. I don’t know what mid-August is normally like in Scotland; but this year it’s cold and wet and snow is in the forecast ( http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2727734/Wet-cold-bank-holiday-way-forecasters-warn-two-weeks-bad-weather-ahead.html ). The last time it was this cold there, at this time of the year, was in 1919, according to the Weather Service.

Global Warming, eh?

My fear is that archeologists, a thousand or two thousand years from now, seeking for evidence that the fabled civilization of the 21st century actually existed, are going to find Al Gore or John Kerry inside a giant block of ice, with some kind of “Global Warming manifesto” (these monkeys always have a “manifesto”) clutched in their cold, dead fingers.

“Ah, so that’s what happened to them! Right up until the moment they were frozen, the rulers of that lost civilization insisted it was getting warmer!”

Snow in August? Just another sign of Global Warming! Ask any Democrat. Ask any fat-head.

Global Warming makes it cold,

Global Warming makes it hot.

Global Warming makes what is,

And also causes what is not.

I can’t tell you exactly what happens to people who are unfortunate enough to be governed by fools, thieves, liars, charlatans, and criminals… but I’m pretty sure it won’t be good.

Will Global Warming Freeze Out Red-heads?

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Endangered Species: See all these poor red-headed guys? Kiss ’em goodbye, say (lol) “Climate scientists.” Global Warming’s got their number.

“Climate scientists” don’t even try to talk sense anymore.

“Scientists” hired by The Daily Record, in the U.K., have done a study (trumpet fanfare, please) that indicates that the gene that causes red hair is a-goin’ to get switched off on account of Global Warming, reports the Delhi Daily News. (See http://www.delhidailynews.com/news/Could-global-warming-make-redheads-extinct-1404993944/ )

On the same page, there is a link to this: “Global warming creating more ice, data shows record growth in Antarctic level.” Didn’t they just get through telling us the ice caps are melting, due to Global Warming? Now the exact same cause is making the ice caps grow?

There is also an ad on this page for “Creative Writing for Entertainment.” I wonder if it’s taught by climate scientists.

Anyhow, the Daily Record scientists-for-hire say “the increasing sunlight in Scotland is to blame for this extinction of redheads.” Scotland had a lot of redheads in the first place “because the gene that causes this hue of hair is likely due to the lack of sun in the country.”

How come there aren’t a lot of red-headed Eskimos?

Really, how do you even have a conversation with people who think like this? Global Warming causes cold, Global Warming causes hot,/ Global Warming causes what is, and it causes what is not.

Your Tax $$ at Work: the Columbia U. School of Climate Change Hysteria

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If you want your kid to grow into a prize ninny, Columbia University can make it happen.

In return for decades’ worth of student debt, your son or daughter can enroll in “climate change games” in which students compose tragic, fictitious voice mail messages from imaginary people about to be killed by imaginary Global Warming. (Source: “Columbia University to spend $5.7 million in taxpayer funds on climate change games,” by Katherine Timpf, May 26, 2014,  http://www.campusreform.org/ID=5641 )

This idiocy is funded by a $5.7 million grant from the National “Science” Foundation–money that real people had to work for.

Ah, what a festival of reason! A gala of clear and sober thinking! What a great way to earn a college degree! Made-up messages from people who are about to be drowned by an onrushing tsunami (“I love you, Mom–glug,glug!”), or broiled alive by the Warming, or choking for air because “I’m out of CO2 credits!” It’s Atlantis meets The Towering Inferno for a disaster movie fest.

Utterly shameless. But visit that Campus Reform site. You’ll find this left-wing drivel has completely taken over America’s whole university system.

This is how a great country winds up being governed by fools and bastards.

I’ll bet I could’ve aced that course, inventing voice mail messages like these:

“Oh! If only we’d passed Cap and Trade, this earthquake never would’ve happened!”

“This is what we get for allowing all that homophobia and Income Inequality!”

“We should have listened to the atheists!”

“Oh why, why, why did we wait so long to have a carbon tax! Al Gore was right!”

“Alas! they told us only communism could save us from Climate Change–and we wouldn’t listen! Is it really too late to collectivize?”

Shame, shame, shame…

But that’s exactly what these people at Columbia are incapable of feeling.

A Harmless Little Fairy Tale

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Once upon a time, a man named Monty Banks came to the town of Brottwurst-am-Rhein.  He stood in the middle of the town square and blew a horn until all the townspeople had gathered round him.

“I am a full member of the Universal College of Alchemists,” he declared. “As you all know, the members of the College are the wisest men in all the world. Look, here is my diploma.

“I am here to warn you that, unless you follow the measures I advise, your town will be overwhelmed by a plague of vampire rats and everyone will die. Do not argue with me! The whole matter has already been fully debated and settled by the College.”

“But there are no vampire rats in Germany,” muttered a little tailor in the crowd.

“Denier! Ingrate!” cried Monty Banks. “You would pit your puny wits against the greatest minds in Europe?”

“Officers, throw that man in jail,” said the mayor. “Never mind him, O learned doctor. What is your advice?”

“You are to give me all your money,” said the alchemist, “and do everything I tell you from now on. Otherwise the rats will come and kill you.”

“But who will see that everyone obeys you?” asked the mayor.

“Why, my dear mayor! Who but the mayor and councilors of Brottwurst should execute my policies? Who but yourselves?”

“Oho! That’s different!” said the mayor.

And so the councilors voted to give themselves and the mayor absolute power to carry out Monty Banks’ orders, and took charge of every red  cent the townspeople had. Upon the alchemist’s advice, they forced the people to tear down their houses and live in huts, get rid of their draft animals and pull their carts with their own hands, and throw away all their fine clothes and dress themselves in rags. Very soon the entire town was utterly impoverished–except, of course, for the mayor and council.

And from his jail cell, the little tailor muttered, “There are no vampire rats. No one has ever seen one.” This got around, and soon many people were repeating it. So Monty Banks called a meeting of the whole town.

“You fools!” he said. “Of course you see no vampire rats! That’s because my measures have succeeded! My new laws have protected you from them!”

The mayor and the councilors sagely nodded their heads, and all agreed that Monty Banks had indeed saved Brottwurst.

 

I’m Back

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Five hours in the dentist’s chair yesterday, complicated root canal plus brutal and barbaric removal of a poor old wisdom tooth–nevertheless, here I am. But the next time anyone wants to do anything like that to me, they’re gonna need a net, tranquilizer darts, bloodhounds, and expert Australian aborigine trackers.

So what did I miss while I was getting mangled? Quite a bit, of course. Among the items that stick out are these.

Some Global Warming jackass warns us that Washington, D.C., will soon be underwater. To a lot of folks, that sounds like the answer to a prayer.

Gov. Moonbeam Brown, in the midst of one of the worst droughts in California’s recent history, warns that Lost Angeles Airport will soon be underwater because of Climate Change. I wish some reporter–dream on!–would have asked him this:

“OK, Governor, let’s say this scary story of yours is absolutely true: rising sea levels are all set to inundate LAX. Are you asking us to believe that you guys in the government can actually stop this from happening, if only we pay higher taxes and turn our lights out at 8 p.m. and not use our cars anymore? You can actually hold back the sea?”

Gee, King Canute the Great couldn’t do that. But the purpose of his demonstration was to declare himself only a man and nothing more.

That kind of humility has no place in politics today.

If you need humility lessons from some guy nicknamed “The Great,” you really need humility lessons.

Our Immoral and Unrighteous Government

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Message from a reader, yesterday: “I suggest you limit your crusade to morality and righteousness in America, and leave climate change alone…”

Well, I would–only when government gets into the flim-flam business to take the people’s money and their liberties, I’d say that was pretty immoral and unrighteous.

What I don’t see is how morality and righteousness can thrive in any nation where the government uses lies and scare tactics to increase its power and wealth at the people’s expense. I write about Global Warming/Climate Change/Whatevuh because it shows Stalinist wannabes trying to use “science” as an excuse to impose their will.

If we believe in Man-Made Global Warming, and if we believe that government can protect us from it, if we give government vast new powers, we are just asking to be enslaved.

The federal government of the United State has taken unto itself powers far in excess of those enumerated powers assigned to it under the Constitution. Before we trust them with more power, let’s look at what they do with the power that they have already.

They run up huge public debt, much of it for vain and frivolous projects, and endanger the economic well-being of future generations.

They have intruded the government into every sphere of public life, in spite of the Tenth Amendment, which limits the federal government’s powers to those enumerated in the Constitution.

They campaign against Christianity, trying to drive it out of the public decision-making process.

They promote abortion, and seek to force Christians and other objectors to fund it.

They promote homosexuality.

They play class warfare and encourage the people to covet their neighbors’ property, and to envy them.

They foment and inflame all kinds of bitter divisions and rivalries among the American people, for their own political advantage.

They steal from us. No one goes home poor from Capitol Hill.

They seek continually to erode our freedoms, especially those guaranteed to us under the First and Second Amendments.

Finally, I don’t know about you, but this particular administration’s lust for lawlessness, nakedly and boldly expressed by its top officials, leaves me breathless.

Do you really want to give more power to persons who have done so much wickedness with the power that they have?

 

 

Acting Guilty

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A friend with whom I rarely agree about anything chides me for not believing the “settled science” of Man-Made Global Warming, as brought to you by those impeccably honest and hardly-ever mistaken Climate Scientists and the Democrat Party.

So far I’ve been unable to make him understand why I don’t believe them. But let me try again, here.

I don’t believe these scientists, and the reason for my disbelief is very simple. They’re acting guilty. I may not be able to evaluate scientific reports and computer models, but I think I can evaluate human behavior. And this is the behavior that convinces me that these scientists are not worthy of belief.

When they refuse to debate the issue, or even answer questions, but just demand we take their word for it because “the science is settled, the debate is over” (when there never was a debate in the first place), they’re acting guilty.

When they exchange countless emails discussing how to “hide the decline” in global temperatures, how to dispose of unwanted data, how to discredit and demonize their critics, and how to deceive the public, they’re acting guilty.

When, instead of answering their critics, they lobby politicians to have their critics’ grants cut off, they lobby universities not to permit their critics’ children to enroll, and publicly demand that the government silence the dissenters, or even cast them into prison, they’re acting guilty.

When they go to court to block any viewing of their data or their research, and insist on keeping it secret, and not open to independent examination, they’re acting guilty.

When they hob-nob with and curry the favor of sleazy left-wing politicians who blatantly try to use “science” as a vehicle for their neo-Stalinist agenda, they’re acting guilty.

Enough “climate scientists” have engaged in the above activities to taint the whole movement. Given that their political sponsors demand our money and our lives as the price of their Saving the Planet, it seems damn near suicidal to trust any of these people to any degree at all.

I don’t trust them because they’re acting guilty.

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Why I Don’t Believe in Global Warming

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I was reading a piece yesterday in which the writer complained that Fox News had tricked a lot of people into being climate change deniers. This is boilerplate liberal bushwa. Like, if it wasn’t for Fox News messing with our minds, we’d just naturally be clamoring for Agenda 21, a carbon tax, Common Core, Obamacare, sodomite pseudomarriage, and all the rest. It can’t possibly be their wicked and idiotic ideas that are turning us off, so it must be Fox News.

Well, I don’t have television, I consider Fox News lukewarm and spineless when it comes to opposing statism, and I have other reasons for not buying into Global Warming. To wit:

1. I am freezing my kiester off. The whole country’s in the icebox. I look out my window and it’s snowing sideways. This is not caused by things getting warmer.

2. Global Warming is pushed by Democrats, and the truth is not in them. If a Democrat inadvertently tells the truth about anything, he has a blood pressure surge, foams at the mouth, and requires medical attention.

3. The agenda of the Warmists is flagrantly obvious. “Give us unheard-of powers over every aspect of your lives, pay colossally high taxes to us, obey us in everything–and we’ll save you from the Global Warming.” Yeah, yeah.

4. I am still freezing my kiester off.

5. If it’s really such a terrible crisis, then how come all the big, important GW alarmists are living in gigantic mansions, riding around in stretch limos, and zipping off to Davos in their private jets at the drop of a hat? Talk about a carbon footprint! If hypocrisy was bricks, these guys would be the Great Wall of China.

6. “Climate Change Scientists” and their auxiliaries have been caught lying and cheating so often, it becomes obvious that lying and cheating are their regular stock in trade.

7. Instead of openly debating the issue, they rely on name-calling, threats, intimidation, and scare tactics. This is not how honest men behave. This is how liars and cheaters behave when they’re afraid of getting found out.

8. I am freezing my kiester off.

9. Some of these mountebanks have admitted that they have exaggerated and told fibs in order to “emotionalize the issue” so that the public would listen to them and do as they say. Where I come from, that’s called lying.

10. There is nothing we can do on earth to nullify the action or inaction of the sun. If there is Global Warming, then the sun is doing it and it’s mere bullying and deception for our glorious leaders to tell us that they can put a stop to it by taking away our light bulbs and air conditioning.

I could go on, but it’s too cold to write any more.

U.N. Ninnie: Communism Can Save the World from Global Warming

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The new United Nations climate honcho, Christiana Figueres, says “democracy” isn’t fit for fighting Global Warming. If we really wanna Save the Planet, we gotta turn to… communism!

Is she purposely trying to satirize herself? Not only is communism the best way to fight Global Warming, she says: but China ought to be the world’s role model. China? The biggest polluter on earth–that China? Where you can practically cut the air with a knife and pile it in stacks? Yup, that China.

Where do they find these people? Well, Ms. Figueres, born in Costa Rica, is a lifelong bureaucrat from a family of bureaucrats, and for many years has been a paid Global Warming-monger. In other words, she has spent her entire life totally insulated from reality. No wonder she doesn’t believe in democratic institutions! She’s never been introduced to one.

Yowsah, yowsah, communism is the answer. Re-open the gulags. Get them re-education camps back into gear.

Did you know that, under communism, a single cubic yard of Polish soil contained enough lead to make a lead soldier?

Did you know that, under the genius of the USSR’s central planners, they practically dried up the Aral Sea–once one of the world’s largest lakes?

For more on communism’s sterling environmental record, see http://hotair.com/archives/2014/01/16/un-climate-chief-declares-communism-best-for-fighting-global-warming/ .

“But, dahling, it won’t be communism for me!”

More Global Warming Mischief

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While everyone was occupied with the boiling disaster that is Obamacare, the Worst President Ever issued yet another executive order on Friday, Nov. 1. This peach is entitled, “Preparing the United States for the Impacts of Climate Change.”

And the way we do that, boys and girls, is… can you guess?… to give the federal government more power! Because if the schmendricks in Washington get enough power, they’ll control the weather and protect us from Global Warming. (See the report from GOP USA, Nov. 4, on Free Republic.)

They will Save the Planet by setting up a special “climate change task force” of progs and ninnies, and by giving the federal government more control of land use and resource policies. By “federal government” they mean the President, especially.

Seeing the terrific job they’re doing, controlling health care, we don’t see why they shouldn’t be allowed to control the weather, too.

Can you imagine the “climate policy” equivalent of Obamacare?

They should’ve run this out for Halloween! It would’ve given everybody a damned good scare.