Katrina: Worst EVER?
I heard something blasted across the radio several times today from this AP article:
Hurricane Katrina made landfall south of New Orleans at 6:10 a.m. Aug. 29, 2005, as a strong Category 3 hurricane that flooded 80 percent of the city and killed more than 1,600 people in Louisiana and Mississippi. It was the worst natural disaster in the history of the United States.
The Galveston Hurricane of 1900 is to date the deadliest natural disaster ever to strike the United States. By contrast, the second-deadliest storm to strike the United States, the 1928 Okeechobee Hurricane, caused approximately 2,500 deaths, and the deadliest storm of recent times, Hurricane Katrina, has caused approximately 1,600 deaths.
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Years before there were SUVs and 747s and before there were any cars therwas warm periods in fact there was the medeval warm period followed by the little ice age which proves gore is a liar and so are the greens and the liberal left-wing news media
Posted by: sandpiper at August 19, 2008 11:04 PM (Gdmbk)
I only spent good part of the early year here at Jawa Report posting this 1975 Newsweek article with every hysterical piece of global warming agitprop. Good to see the MSM has finally caught up to us in getting ahead of the disinformation campaign.
Of course, this isn't actually news to those of us who've been paying attention to the Church of Algore for any length of time.
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Enviromorons Create More Pollution Than Anyone On Earth
The Live Earth concerts should be outlawed, if we were really holding Algore and the Church of Gaia to the standards that they want to hold everyone else to:
The most conservative assessment of the flights being taken by its superstars is that they are flying an extraordinary 222,623.63 miles between them to get to the various concerts - nearly nine times the circumference of the world. The true environmental cost, as they transport their technicians, dancers and support staff, is likely to be far higher.
Pathetic, but utterly predictable from a group of know-nothings who blame the populace for "destroying the world" while they crnk out many times the pollution per "artist" than ten or fifteen "average folk." Apparently, the Church of Environmentalism suffers from a lack of mirrors.
The carbon footprint of these concerts is likely to be a permanent stain on our environment. Save the world! Ignore environmentalist and activist celebrities! They're killing us!
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"Lack of mirrors" The Church of Eviromentalism needs to merge with the Church of Edwards. That will get them some mirrors! It won't help them see hypocracy, but they can at least see how good thier hair looks. USA, all the way!
Posted by: Michael Weaver at July 07, 2007 01:41 PM (2OHpj)
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Leftards have always been better at telling OTHERS what to do instead of doing it themselves. They "care" about the poor, for instance, as long as someone else is doing the charity. No difference with the environment. That's why Algore's carbon footprint can be 30 times greater than yours and mine, and why Edwards can talk about the poor while getting $1,200 haircuts, but still tell us to reduce our carbon footprints and care about poverty. Leftards are the biggest assclowns on the planet and shouldn't be taken at all seriously.
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If carbon footprints had any real effect on the environment then I
would get upset too. I have a feeling that the brighter folks
"raising awareness" understand that.
Posted by: RicardoVerde at July 07, 2007 06:51 PM (pqO2r)
if you filter for the partisan bullcrap, I don't think anyone will pay much atention! Nor do I think this deserves any EXCEPT ... as evidence of how frightened the sanctioned candidates, and thier handlers are of Fred! Just remember, nobody says that Fred can't run Indy. I think he would gain even higher percentages than as a Repub.
USA, all the way!
Posted by: Michael Weaver at July 07, 2007 07:21 PM (2OHpj)
Posted by: greyrooster at July 07, 2007 09:19 PM (5hpD3)
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Makes perfect sense to me... They announced some time ago that the concerts would be "Carbon Neutral", and afterwards they would calculate the carbon impact and purchase "Carbon Offsets"... So just who do you think Al Gore is gonna buy his "Carbon Offsets" from? Why, Al Gore's Carbon Offset company of course!
Business as usual, Al Gore fleecing people on a global scale for caring about the environment...
Science: Um, Al Gore is Full of Sh*t, Morons
Set spin cycle to OVERDRIVE, moonbats! Science, which is entirely independent of the dictats and messages required for acceptance by the liberal left and the Democrat Party, is pwning you!
Many of the assertions Gore makes in his movie, ''An Inconvenient Truth,'' have been refuted by science, both before and after he made them. Gore can show sincerity in his plea for scientific honesty by publicly acknowledging where science has rebutted his claims.
For example, Gore claims that Himalayan glaciers are shrinking and global warming is to blame. Yet the September 2006 issue of the American Meteorological Society's Journal of Climate reported, "Glaciers are growing in the Himalayan Mountains, confounding global warming alarmists who recently claimed the glaciers were shrinking and that global warming was to blame."
Gore claims the snowcap atop Africa's Mt. Kilimanjaro is shrinking and that global warming is to blame. Yet according to the November 23, 2003, issue of Nature magazine, "Although it's tempting to blame the ice loss on global warming, researchers think that deforestation of the mountain's foothills is the more likely culprit. Without the forests' humidity, previously moisture-laden winds blew dry. No longer replenished with water, the ice is evaporating in the strong equatorial sunshine."
Gore claims global warming is causing more tornadoes. Yet the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change stated in February that there has been no scientific link established between global warming and tornadoes.
Read it all.
SEE MORE OF ALGORE'S ASSAULTS ON SCIENCE BELOW THE FOLD -->
more...
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I scoff at global warming as a crisis more than most, but I've got a problem with one of your postulations.
"Hurricane scientists reported in the April 18 Geophysical Research Letters that global warming enhances wind shear, which will prevent a significant increase in future hurricane activity."
This seems untrue. Global warming (which I'm reading as 'atmospheric warming' in this scenario) should make the wind carry less mass, making the shearing effect significantly less powerful on a global scale, right? What am I missing?
Posted by: Kevin at July 01, 2007 02:59 AM (1cRKV)
Posted by: HumourFunnyDude at July 01, 2007 09:32 AM (lRQhm)
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TIMES!?! I thought It was MINUS! AFK, I've got some calculations to rework.
Posted by: Kevin at July 01, 2007 10:04 AM (1cRKV)
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Kevin: Nice thoughts. Glad to see that people actually think
about all this science (and claimed "science") that's thrown about.
It seems to me, not being a weather guy and all, that increases in CO2
would raise the temps in the upper troposphere moreso than at the
surface. Tropical cyclones are driven by the temperature
differential between the warm water and the cooler stratosphere.
Warming due to "greenhouse gases" might possibly retard cyclone
formation. Warming due to increased solar activity would very
likely promote cyclone formation, since water absorbes light energy way
better than does air.
The more I read the data, the more it seems likely that the earth has
not even warmed to the levels of the 1930's, and the warming that HAS
taken place is a little bit caused by us but mostly by that big
yellow ball.
Posted by: RicardoVerde at July 01, 2007 10:23 AM (pqO2r)
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It seems to be pretty widely accepted that the earth HAS gotten warmer. Whether (weather) or not human activity has contributed seems to be the mosre contentios issue.
Local coditions such as glacier growth are much more symptomatic of weather, not climate change, Percipitation plays an important part in the growth or decrease of glacieres, as well as tempreture.
Some people believe in the supernatural, some believe in global climate change.
Posted by: John Ryan at July 01, 2007 12:59 PM (TcoRJ)
6Whether (weather) or not human activity has contributed seems to be the mosre contentios issue.
No sh*t, Sherlock. That's the entire point we've been making forever, with morons like you kicking and screaming the whole way.
Looks like you finally woke the f*ck up.
Posted by: Good Lt at July 01, 2007 01:35 PM (yMbfY)
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Al Gore is idiot and a fanatic him and his global warming mantra proves he is crazy and out of his mind him and those crack-pots from GREENPEACE are as wacky as they come we dodged a bullet in 2000 when he did,nt get in the WHITEHOUSE and the SIERRA CLUB named this wacko their GREAT GREEN HOPE Yeah reducing america to a miserble 3rd world status all controled under the green swastika and the eco-nazis and the SIERRA CLUB is radical as well
Posted by: sandpiper at July 01, 2007 06:36 PM (YIXxO)
8Whether (weather) or not human activity has contributed seems to be the mosre contentios issue.
Indeed. But showing how careless the global warming hysterics are when they blame EVERYTHING down to the kitchen sink on global warming serves to illustrate just how hysterical and unscientific you marxist quacks really are. Fuck, even cold winters are blamed on global warming by you nutjobs. Anything and everything is blamed on global warming. You are nothing but agenda-driven wackos.
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Well said, Ricardo, and I think I buy your theories. But I'm stuck on the windshear. Also not a meteorologist, I understand windshear to be the manifestation of wind moving at different velocities (diff speeds and directions) at different altitudes. Those raised temps in the upper atmosphere that you mentioned should, in MY mind, LESSEN the power of them, since the air would have less mass, hence, less momentum.
I'm not so much doubting the idea, just wanting to understand it. They have to be either saying that the increased temps would stagnate the upper atmosphere, lessening the chance of circular weather patterns forming, or they would increase the turbulence in all directions in the upper atmosphere, accomplishing the same goal. I can't wrap my mind around either of those.
Posted by: Kevin at July 01, 2007 10:28 PM (1cRKV)
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Well, I can see the right gearing up for another election year of trying to work on despratly needed change like defense and UN reform while simultainiously trying to run full bore against the electoral bell curve.
Beyond how obvious it is that no one here has any clue what they are talking about when it comes to atmospheric physics except maybe Kevin, I can't help but notice the conspiricism and demonization I am sensing here. It's all a marxist plot! The Sierra Club is behind it! We can't do anything about it without becoming a third world nation!
I suppose it would be futile to recommend reading from a site for a regular university (they would be in on the plot of course). If you want someone who is not a liberal but has extensive university experience, and has degrees that are relivent to the climate change debate I would recomment reading docter Steven Dutches personal site. He has a page about it in the "Science,Psuedoscience, and irrationalism" page near the bottom of his site. Everything there is worth reading, and I can say confidently that his site is what began my journey to the right wing on many issues.
Posted by: Jared Johnson at July 02, 2007 07:25 PM (xLkQz)
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I too suspect the Sierra Club! Isn't anyone even bothering to question why they didn't even bother to set up their headquarters in the Sierra Nevadas? And 'club', the thing that's used to bash in the heads of baby seals, is part of their name?!? No, it's clear that they are part of some illuminati plot. Or maybe the masons (the free ones)!
Oh well, guess I'm stuck wondering about this windshear thing. No big deal though. I probably wouldn't have understood it anyway.
Posted by: Kevin at July 02, 2007 08:26 PM (1cRKV)
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Jared: I never claimed to know much about this stuff, but I do know
people who formerly were Marxists (they never claimed to be such, but
were mighty fond of Che & Co.) and now call themselves "Greens" or
Progressives. They are unanimous in their "fight" against warming.
The earth heats up and cools down. What little science I do know
tells me the earth has been considerably hotter than it is now and cool
to the point where Illinois had ice year round. If you have to
take one or the other, we are better off a little warmer.
So, CO2 offsets the mean temp a couple of tenths, I'm
supposed to junk my pickup? Nope. won't happen. Some folks are
really enthused about this stuff. It gives them a sense of
helping the world or the "little people". Great. Go ahead.
There are still a lot of folks out there who really just want to punish
the "rich" and don't realize they hurt the poor when they do so.
AGW as it is promoted is a hoax.
Posted by: RicardoVerde at July 02, 2007 08:27 PM (pqO2r)
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Ricardo, in case I didn't say it before, I found your opinion enlightening, and thank you for writing it. I too think AGW, as promoted, is a hoax. But I'm starting to think that , factually speaking, it's completely untrue. And not only untrue, but a huge pile of grandiosity, which in this case shows it's ugly face as 'humans are bad for the environment'.
And I DO mean 'completely untrue'. I think we've entered a cooling phase, and each year will be progressively cooler until the late teens of this decade. I'm a scientist, but no climatologist. It will be interesting to see who is right.
Posted by: Kevin at July 02, 2007 10:05 PM (1cRKV)
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Good Lt. You ARE a relentless warrior who clearly will not be stopped, and I SALUTE YOU! It is always a pleasure to see Al Gore's marlarky get gunned down like the freakish thing it is, and you sre so good at doing it! Well done sir ... well done!
USA, all the way!
Posted by: Michael Weaver at June 21, 2007 01:17 AM (2OHpj)
I saw Penn & Teller's Bullshit show they did on GreenPeace and the environment. They interviewed some broad from the Sierra Club (I'm pretty sure it was the SC) and she said that 5000 species of animals were going extinct every year. When she was asked what proof of that she had her reply was.... "We don't have exact proof, but we know it is happening." I hate environmentalists. Their arguments consist of nothing more than bullshit and emotion, and common sense is totally absent in all of their arguments.
As it works out, I don't have air conditioning in my office, so I hope we get the cooling from now till about early Sept. Then I'll take the warming again so I don't have to chop firewood so much for the winter. I just love how magical thinking is so useful when reality needs to be manipulated. Really though, I'd be happy to see honesty return to 'Science' overall. And someone should 'cane' Al Gore for a Con and a Swindler. USA, all the way!
Posted by: Michael Weaver at June 21, 2007 01:57 AM (2OHpj)
I want one of these Global Warming idiots to explain two
things:
Why was it allot hotter during the dinosaurs & Why was it allot
colder during the Mammoths????????
When they can explain that I will buy that the global climate change is man
made.
F*cking idiots is what I say and even worse is the outright lack of reasoning
skill our gen pop have that no can seem to remember basic Earth Science class
(I swear I think I took in Middle School) when they spoke about how the earth
was millions of years old humans being only some 50k or so worth and that
during the Dinosaurs it was a super continent that was a world wide jungle temp
and in the Mammoths days the continents had broken up and the world had cooled
to a world wide ice age followed by another worldwide change that melted the
ice bergs forming the grand canyon and a allot of other type areas.
Actually you know what that maybe the answer to this
ignorance.Maybe we should put the
question of global warming to that new show on TV “Are you smarter than a 5th
graderâ€.I got money that says the 5th
grader would know more about historically president of global climate change.
Posted by: C-Low at June 21, 2007 01:48 PM (ZNANk)
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All I can be sure about at the moment is that it WAS HOT earlier, and then when it got dark, it also got cooler, and now I hear birds chirping, and eveyone knows that chirping of birds causes warming, so I expect it will be warming up again. I found a fan in the basement I can stick in my office window, and that should lead to cooling, which I admit, would be man made, but I swear, after I turn the switch on, I have nothing to do with it ... It gets cooler on it's own. Plus I have some Coke in the fridge, so that will help too.
USA, all the way!
Posted by: Michael Weaver at June 22, 2007 06:34 AM (2OHpj)
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C-Low, with ya there. I was watching some of the 'Walking With Dinosaurs' just a couple hours ago. It was the episode where Antarctica is a temperate rain forest with hot summers, and lots of wildlife. I also like how some shows in the 'Walking With' series tell you about the atmospheric differences of points in prehistory. Al Gore should watch the whole series. Surprising that the BBC would have a show that undercuts other, more left leaning programing. Must have been an oversight. USA, all the way!
Posted by: Michael Weaver at June 22, 2007 06:40 AM (2OHpj)
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I don't know anything about global warming. Allstate Insurance is using it as an excuse not to insure some areas of the country. I do know one thing. If the seas rise 20ft. I will lose my home in Florida. But I will be one super wealthy beach front owner in Mississippi.
Posted by: greyrooster at June 22, 2007 10:42 PM (k0DWG)
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I know I won't have to drive so far to dig for clams. And we can go scuba-diving in the underwater ruins! Way cool!
USA, all the way!
Posted by: Michael Weaver at June 23, 2007 12:49 AM (2OHpj)
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World's largest gas emitter is Texas. The cows fart all day. The Mexicans eat beans and fart all night. Texans like Dickhead are so full of bullshit they fart day and night.
Posted by: greyrooster at June 20, 2007 08:46 AM (t881J)
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Then they run around yelling Yahoo!. A company that carries terrorist wevsites.
Posted by: greyrooster at June 20, 2007 08:47 AM (t881J)
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China cares as much about this, as I do for the gas emitter's John McCain, and Trent Lott!!!
Posted by: JihadGene at June 20, 2007 11:09 AM (l8Hl5)
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Yeah, but it's Eeeeevil Whitey's fault for forcing them to have to keep up with us.
Posted by: Improbulus Maximus at June 20, 2007 12:08 PM (jQsc/)
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Who do you think is buying all that crap they make - the left whines about our emissions then signs free trade deals with the worst polluters on earth (not to mention the human rights issues). I'm done with both 'sides'. Where is the American party?
Posted by: tbone at June 20, 2007 01:19 PM (HGqHt)
UN: Climate Change Causes...Darfur Massacre?
Nothing to do with corrupt thugocracies, roving bands of brutal murderers, lack of consequences visited by the international community (heh) for said thugocracies engaging in genocide, etc.
No. It was and is "climate change."
That's good news for the US military - there's nothing they can do to stop what's really causing Darfur's problems. And we all know what a world breadbasket and model of prosperity Darfur was before this arbitrary assault by the planet's weather patterns; an assault that is literally possessing and directly ordering the lunatics there to slaughter innocents with machetes.
Hence, we don't need to intervene with our military there. Nothing the military can do to stop "climate change."
I find it amazing the reporter can take a statement like, "...arising at least in part from climate change..." And translate it to, "UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said that the slaughter in Darfur wastriggeredby global climate change."
I see it as the difference between farting and crapping. And for those who think it's all the same, well, they need to sit reeeealy far away from me.
Posted by: Barry at June 18, 2007 02:52 AM (blu+l)
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All those problems with Arab herders not able to just waltz in and take whatever they wanted, when they wanted to, but climate change gets the blame?
So, if I go next door and take my neighbor's car can I blame it on the high price of gasoline?
Speaking of which, how big are the Sudanese oil revenues?
The linked article talks about "economic" measures to ease the suffering meaning the UN wants to throw money at the problem. Since that's like shoveling fleas across a barnyard very little of the money will actually reach the poor farmers. None of it will get to those already murdered by their Arab oppressors.
But you can be sure that the leader of Sudan, his entire family, everyone who works for him and assorted generals will all have money to burn.
Posted by: GI Joe at June 18, 2007 08:02 AM (R1skn)
This excuse for Islam’s behavior works out well when there are no JOOOS or Cross-worshipers around to blame or in Iraq when it is muslim killing muslim.
You keep what you kill. It is the Necromonger way!
Posted by: Mrs Abe Froman at June 18, 2007 08:21 AM (lB1bz)
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No...the UN is correct. I also have it on good authority that the Holocaust was caused by an extra cold winter and killing fields of Laos happened after particularly nasty humidity.
Posted by: Randman at June 18, 2007 10:57 AM (Sal3J)
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THERE IS NO GLOBAL WARMING ITS A LIE and DARFUR is the victim of eco-freaks from GREENPEACE,WORLD WILDLIFE FUND, and the rest of the eco-wackos
Posted by: sandpiper at June 18, 2007 11:25 AM (qMAo+)
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Not sure them killing each other is such a bad thing. If we interfer they will all want to come here. There was a TV special on Darfur. They interviewed a woman who say she has had 11 children and 9 of them have died. Real smart lady. Real smart. Can't feed them. Have some more.
Posted by: greyrooster at June 18, 2007 09:27 PM (P3TAU)
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If they would kill the RIGHT ones things would be better.
Imam murdering Imam=Good.
Light skinned Muslim murdering dark skinned Muslim for being darker of skin=Bad.
Those Sudanese dying in the desert aren't the ones sending suicide bombers.
I'm all for giving every member of the Saudi Royal Family a machete and locking them all in one big room. Oh, I didn't forget. I never promised to let any of them out. Nor water in.
Posted by: GI Joe at June 19, 2007 11:45 PM (R1skn)
You Call This A Consensus?
Algore has been lying to you. Color me shocked:
Today, Al Gore is making the same claims of a scientific consensus, as do the United Nation's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and hundreds of government agencies and environmental groups around the world. But the claims of a scientific consensus remain unsubstantiated. They have only become louder and more frequent.
More than six months ago, I began writing this series, The Deniers. When I began, I accepted the prevailing view that scientists overwhelmingly believe that climate change threatens the planet. I doubted only claims that the dissenters were either kooks on the margins of science or sell-outs in the pockets of the oil companies. [...]
Somewhere along the way, I stopped believing that a scientific consensus exists on climate change. Certainly there is no consensus at the very top echelons of scientists -- the ranks from which I have been drawing my subjects -- and certainly there is no consensus among astrophysicists and other solar scientists, several of whom I have profiled. If anything, the majority view among these subsets of the scientific community may run in the opposite direction. Not only do most of my interviewees either discount or disparage the conventional wisdom as represented by the IPCC, many say their peers generally consider it to have little or no credibility. In one case, a top scientist told me that, to his knowledge, no respected scientist in his field accepts the IPCC position.
Sounds like the truth, not the hype and constant demagoguery by Democrats, Bush, and the ignoratti of the world is finally catching up with the world's most pompous Losing Presidential Candidate.
Inconvenient truth for the left and the Democrats. The rhetoric of "climate change" (formerly known as "weather") sounds like a desperate assault on reason formulated instead to pursue monetary and political advantage .
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Look, we get it. You don't beleive in climate change. Will you please stop posting every little scrap on information you can find on the subject, now? It's getting old.
Posted by: Mr Ed at June 03, 2007 06:46 PM (fstX5)
Posted by: Randman at June 03, 2007 07:20 PM (Sal3J)
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Global Warming/Climate Change was prophesied in the BIBLE. Amos 8:8
(maybe that will make it easier for you to accept)
or
The Muslims are causing Global Warming/Climate Change by making us burn up all of their oil. They want to flood us out and hope their deserts will turn into beaches.
Deniers of Global Warming/Climate Change are working in league with the TERRORISTS.
Posted by: John Ryan at June 03, 2007 08:16 PM (TcoRJ)
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Randman, if there was not meant to be any discussion, there would not be a comments section. Grow up.
Posted by: Mr Ed at June 03, 2007 08:21 PM (fstX5)
If you don't like what you're reading, read something else. I'm not going to stop posting on the Global Warming hype, so you can either ignore it or lump it.
I don't care wither way.
Posted by: Good Lt at June 03, 2007 08:51 PM (yMbfY)
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I LOVE THE global warming stuff. The MSM is a wasteland, and few intelligent bloggers are covering it in detail.
Blog ON!
Posted by: DemocracyRules at June 03, 2007 09:47 PM (PnMRH)
Lying whore Solomon cited a 1991 Gallup poll that supposedly found that only a small minority of scientists thought there was man-made global warming.
HERE'S THE TRUTH:
Associated Press December 8, 1997, Monday, BC cycle SECTION: Washington Dateline HEADLINE: WASHINGTON TODAY: Global warming debate generates much heat BYLINE: By DONALD M. ROTHBERG, Associated Press Writer DATELINE: WASHINGTON
One conservative group criticized the news media for accepting claims that there is widespread scientific agreement on global warming.The Media Research Center cited "a recent Gallup poll" that said only 19 percent of the members of the American Meteorological Society and the American Geophysical Union think that a warmer climate has been the result of greenhouse gas emissions.
The Gallup organization said the poll was taken in October of 1991. It noted that some people, opposed to claims that human-induced global warming is occurring,"have used the study to support their position."
"These writers have taken survey results out of context that appear to show scientists do not believe that human-induced global warming is occurring."
The statement from Gallup noted that when asked if they thought human-induced global warming was occurring, 66 percent of the scientists surveyed said yes.
Posted by: Steve J. at June 03, 2007 09:54 PM (XjEsU)
8Randman, if there was not meant to be any discussion, there would not be a comments section. Grow up.
You must be a lib if you consider a discussion telling people who run a site what to post on THEIR OWN FRIGGEN SITE. Learn to read.
Posted by: Randman at June 03, 2007 11:09 PM (Sal3J)
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You ignore Manbearpig at your own peril......
I'm just sayin' and I'm totally serial.
Posted by: TBinSTL at June 03, 2007 11:37 PM (MSiPb)
Posted by: Good Lt at June 04, 2007 01:35 AM (yMbfY)
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DemocracyRules, I know you don't care. But for everyone else who has not taken a course in Propaganda 101, the AP story is absolutely true. But note the 'Bait and Switch'. The reporter quotes the Media Research Center reporting the result of the poll question asking if greenhouse gases are causing GW. That is the Bait. Then the switch, insinuating that Media Research lied about the figure for the Greenhouse Gas question by quoting the result of a very different question on the poll asking about ALL causes of GW.
Personally, I like the quote from Tim Blair yesterday. GW Scientists are holding another World Meeting, this time in Carns, Australia, 1200 miles from the nearest Capitol City. Why such a remote site? Cus it has WARM, Sunny Beaches
Posted by: Mark at June 04, 2007 06:39 AM (QaUJ5)
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Good Lt, I praise your determination in keeping Gore under the lamp like you do. I look forward to every article that disputes the 'consensus', and relish every paragraph. The hysteria Gore and his bots work so hard to create is unhealthy for the nation, and needs to be countered. I say if your starting to 'bore' people, then your doing good work. Bored people are hardly ever hysterical alarmists. Mission accomplished when they are all finally bored into total indifference on the subject, and until then, keep up the 'heat'
USA, all the way!
Posted by: Michael Weaver at June 04, 2007 03:05 PM (2OHpj)
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AL GORE has a new book ASSUALT ON REASON he is nice one to blabber about this he is the one who is unreasonible
Posted by: sandpiper at June 06, 2007 10:43 AM (hm7/x)
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I helped out with all those 'pig-tailed' flourescent lights I started using so I wouldn't have to change them so often! Good work 'ME'! Also ... good work to the rest of you! Take a bow!
USA, all the way!
Posted by: Michael Weaver at May 31, 2007 05:05 AM (2OHpj)
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All this poppycock over the incandecent bulbs the dim-bulbs and the lightbulbs
Posted by: sandpiper at May 31, 2007 02:58 PM (LKIJT)
Climate Expert/Actor: We're ALL DOOOOMED@!!!!11
Noted climatologist/scientific researcher Leonardo DiCaprio has taken time from his important life of burning fossil fuels, partying endlessly and pretending he is other people to screech the latest chicken-little hysteria that the enviro-Nazi left is pushing. Namely, the sky is falling and we're all going to die.
BE AFRAID! BE VERY AFRAID! THE END IS NIGH! Sounds more like a doomsday cult that the left typically mocks than credible environmentalism, but who are we to notice things like this.
Just for this, I'm going to burn more fossil fuels and take more road trips on the weekend.
Posted by: 1sttofight at May 19, 2007 07:58 PM (51r8a)
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Actors are the most unintelligent and arrested of all artists. They play make-believe. Most people outgrow that stage before their teens. Hell, before they get into double-digits in terms of years. Actors, on the other hand, are forever frozen in their pre-teen ignorance. Why does anybody listen to them? The good Lord blessed my poop with a higher IQ than "Leonardo" has (That name ought to belong to only one man in history, and his last name is da Vinci).
Plug that idiot's pie-hole with a butt-plug. I'm sure it will fit perfectly.
Posted by: Hucbald at May 19, 2007 08:21 PM (XoJMC)
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You might want to <a href="http://www.norcalblogs.com/watts/2007/05/rising_surface_temperatures_ba.html">have a look at this</a>.
Apparently temperature monitoring stations have changed in a couple of significant ways over the years. Many are now being painted with coatings transparent to solar infrared radiation and are now including a lot of electronics gear including power supplies, charging controllers and batteries inside the little monitoring shelters.
Much of the measured temperature rise might be caused by monitoring stations that are coated improperly, made out of the wrong material (some are now made of painted metal), or including electronics gear as noted above.
Posted by: crosspatch at May 19, 2007 10:17 PM (y2kMG)
Posted by: crosspatch at May 19, 2007 10:19 PM (y2kMG)
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There is also a follow up to the article I linked to above where he actually compared the temperatures of wood coated with different coatings.
Posted by: crosspatch at May 19, 2007 10:22 PM (y2kMG)
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And comming from someone who flies all over the world in his private jet putting all those contaminates into the atmosphear and travel also in their air conditioned 4 mpg limos and lecture us on how to tread lightly on their mother the earth how we should all give up our SUVs for sissy pink bicycles and eat les meat what a bunch of wealthy left-wing tree hugging hypotcrits and jerks SHUT UP MR DECAPRIO YOUR HYPOCRACY IS SHOWING SQUAWK SQUAWK
Posted by: sandpiper at May 20, 2007 12:33 AM (Tl3bz)
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To be fair sandpiper, it would only be hypocritical if they actually believed
in the AGW crap. I'm pretty well convinced that most of these
guys know it's BS, but just like where the overall message takes the
country. Marxism by any other name still stinks.
Posted by: RicardoVerde at May 20, 2007 11:45 AM (pqO2r)
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And way back in 1970 they were saying WE HAVE ONLY 10 YEARS LEFT TO SAVE THE PLANET and they said it also in 1980 and 1990 and now those wussietards and WORLD WILDLIFE FUND or GREENPEACE WE HAVE ONLY 5 YEAR LEFT what a load of green malarkey
Posted by: sandpiper at May 21, 2007 12:16 AM (nzpL/)
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Who fuckin' cares anyway? In 5 years we'll probably have a major pole shift and then it all goes to hell in hand basket anyway. I'm thinking of buying beach front property in Alaska cause I figure the poles will shift so much that Alaska will be at the equator again. Buy up that Alaska land now while you can, it'll be a great place for a beach house.
Posted by: DrTheopolis at May 21, 2007 12:40 PM (9ZqGe)
'Global Warming' Update: Scientists Backpeddling, Now SkepticalYou don't say? Someone page Lorrie David for her no-doubt ultra-informed reaction to this.
When you cut through the hysteria and media hype, anthropogenic global warming is little more than another phony issue in the Democrat platform used to attack private industry, consumer choice and to advance Democrat politicians and causes.
Posted by: Kamchatka Bear at May 16, 2007 02:23 PM (gtZwa)
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Well, I guess if we just all sit around the campfire and "believe" there's no global warming, it'll refreeze all that melted arctic icecap. Of course it's making it harder for our nukes to hide under the ice: http://archives.cnn.com/2000/NATURE/01/03/arctic.ice/index.html
Posted by: Dave at May 16, 2007 10:14 PM (5zxY/)
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You can't read...can you Dave. The debate is not IF we are warming but rather the primary cause.
Posted by: Randman at May 16, 2007 11:13 PM (Sal3J)
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Right, the primary cause is Islamofacists. Still need a place to hide the nukes.
If You're In A Giving Mood
Please consider donating to either the Red Cross or The Salvation Army to help the victims of last week's tornadoes, most notably the one that wiped out Greensburg, Kansas. And, of course, disasters to come.
May 6, 1975, at the ripe old age of 7, I hid in the basement while this monster ripped through our city, passing a block away from the house I grew up in.
So I've seen the devastation up close and personal-like. But I've also seen the good that both of these organizations can do in these situations. I vividly remember the help they gave us during that time.
And it's a hand up, not a hand out. Eventually, they went away. Unlike the feddle gubmint, which is actually advertising Food Stamps on the radio here.
Of course, if there are other organizations you think are doing a better job, or are more comfortable with donating to, that's cool too.
For example, our house was completely re-roofed, at no charge, by Mennonites.
You get the drift.
Oh, and it's another reason to shake a servicemember's hand. I also remember the poor National Guardsmen who had the unenviable and boring job of sitting on the corner, day in and day out, protecting us from potential looters.
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Beat you to it. After losing home in Katrina isn't hard to understand what others go through. New house is bigger and better. There is a bright side to everything.
Posted by: greyrooster at May 08, 2007 11:32 PM (l9HRC)
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This is what happens when we outsource are carbon credit industry to Martians. Stop Hallimartian and the Mar$ military industrial complex's neocon cabal plans for inter-planet hegemony. Thus spake Chomsky.
Posted by: wooga at April 30, 2007 01:44 PM (t9sT5)
Posted by: wooga at April 30, 2007 01:44 PM (t9sT5)
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Since the increased solar activity is endangering the environment of both Earth and Mars I would like to offer my new Solar Offsets for only $19999.99. That's right only $19999.99 per 100 offset units.
For each offset we will either, paint one shingle on our roof white to reflect the offending radiation back into space or, if we raise enough money, we will launch the entire contents of the chad holder of the Sandcralwer's three hole punch into low earth orbit. These white reflective chads will circle the entire earth, again reflecting the offensive sunlight back into space.
What? you question if this will help any at all. Well, like al-Gore says, "You have to start somewhere."
Howie's Moisture Farm, way ahead of the curve in solar offset technology.
Posted by: Howie at April 30, 2007 01:53 PM (YHZAl)
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You guys .... Geeez! Isn't the Sun just one big fusion reactor with practically infinite fuel for our projected needs? What we ned to do is figure out how to run electricity doen from the Sun to offset the carbon usage of the entire world! Of course ... carbon isn't really the issue. We learn this as science marches on. However, WE MUST NOT FORGET the feel good effect associated with totally carbon free solar/fusion energy. We can just ignore all the carbon usage required to link up wires to the Sun, and we can claim we are carbon free! And ... It's your patriotic duty to go without sunscreen, so you don't wast any precious energy. USA, all the way!
Posted by: Michael Weaver at April 30, 2007 02:25 PM (2OHpj)
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Um, the solar electricity wires will have to be able to 'bungee' as the Earth pursues it's eliptical orbit, so that could be expensive. Of course, if we embrace socialism, we could just make the wires extra strong, and force the Earth into total conformity with needs of society, and equalized solar energy distribution ... what good is all this variety in nature stuff anyway? USA, all the way!
Posted by: Michael Weaver at April 30, 2007 02:28 PM (2OHpj)
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We warned the Martians years ago that a rampant and uncontrolled increase in harmful greenhouse gas emissions might cause this problem. However, they chose to ignore the truth and called it bad science and alarmist propaganda. Now the Martian polar bears will have no ice caps to live on and there will be a significant increase in dust hurricane storms not to mention a dangerous rise in sand levels all across the planet. Hopefully, the Martians will act now to save their planet by buying more fuel efficent flying saucers, using alternative fuels and recycling more.
Posted by: DrTheopolis at April 30, 2007 02:32 PM (9ZqGe)
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How about 10,000,000 giant solar operated freezer units at the north pole.
Posted by: greyrooster at April 30, 2007 02:44 PM (4ytNJ)
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Then we can make some jello pudding pops...mmmmhmmmm...gyawww...
Posted by: DrTheoHuxtableopolis at April 30, 2007 03:25 PM (9ZqGe)
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Its becuase MARVIN THE MARTIAN and K-9 have their own SUV and besides they need the water from the ice cap to power their ELUDIUM Q-38 EXPOSIVE SPACE MUDULATOR you see marvin wants to blow up the earth becuase it obstructs him view of venus and he also needs the water for all those intant martians SQUAWK SQUAWK
Posted by: sandpiper at April 30, 2007 04:04 PM (lIqve)
Posted by: Unclezeb at April 22, 2007 05:51 PM (l4QX/)
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Lotta holes in that there 'theory'
USA, all the way!
Posted by: Michael Weaver at April 22, 2007 07:56 PM (2OHpj)
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Sure. Anything you say. We tied a record low high for this date of 77F today (IOW, tied the lowest high temperature for 04/22 EVAR) here in the Alps of Texas.
Positively Algorhythmic.
Posted by: Hucbald at April 22, 2007 08:09 PM (94gQ6)
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QC - Although I never recall looking for or even near some of those videos, I do stand corrected for the self pwn3ge.
Well played, sir.
;-D
Posted by: Good Lt at April 22, 2007 09:13 PM (yMbfY)
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All that HOT AIR from those eco-wackos they should bar GREENPEACE and AL GORE from the ARCTIC CIRCLE their HOT AIR would melt it
Posted by: sandpiper at April 23, 2007 10:07 AM (nzpL/)
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The current trend towards reality on this subject makes me extremely happy. Thanks Good Lt for keeping this stuff out front!
USA, all the way!
Posted by: Michael Weaver at April 20, 2007 02:50 AM (2OHpj)
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You know what people on the left are going to say, "This guy is a right-wing hack, so he's not credible." Our response should be, "And Al Gore is what exactly?"
Posted by: Richard Romano at April 20, 2007 09:32 AM (iD1fP)
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Al Gores A CONVENT EXCUSE FOR WORLD GOVERMENT RUN BY THE UN
Posted by: sandpiper at April 20, 2007 09:43 AM (nmyGF)
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Are you guys still talking about this? It's over. Like the war in Iraq is over. Christ... you guys are like fucking "I'm not dead yet" knight in "The Holy Grail."
Posted by: John at April 20, 2007 10:39 AM (S3Rzh)
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Actually, the guy in the video shows you how moronic you are. YOu just prove him right.
The truth hurts about Algore and anthro-global warming, which is why it must be vanquished.
Posted by: Good Lt at April 20, 2007 11:05 AM (yMbfY)
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This is all CRAP! Al Gore invented the global climate and if we piss him off he will take it away from us. I now live in a tent in my backyard just to honor Al Gore. Al is the savior of all men. May Al bless me and my family.
Posted by: Rome at April 20, 2007 11:31 AM (/GrlO)
Posted by: Michael Weaver at April 20, 2007 05:07 PM (2OHpj)
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As for John, I think he is a paid stooge! If he was here honestly, you'd think he would have learned something by now so for him to remain so entrenched in leftist stupidity almost requires he be paid to promote it. IMO. USA, all the way!
Posted by: Michael Weaver at April 20, 2007 05:10 PM (2OHpj)
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Michael: Said that right. John's true name must have a muhammed or ali in it somewhere. That is unless his boyfriend is a muslim.
Posted by: greyrooster at April 20, 2007 08:33 PM (E6u6Q)
'Global Warming' Update: NOT Caused by Humans
Unless, of course, there are Republicans polluting Mars with their OilCheneySUVs and lack of plenary indulgence carbon offsets. Which they most certainly are.
Drip, drip, drip - the scientists (not politicians) are coming out one by one to refute the biggest media/leftist-driven hoax in human history.
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President Bush believes that Global Warming is a fact.
"President Bush discusses Global Climate Change"
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/06/20010611-2.html
Posted by: John Ryan at April 19, 2007 03:59 PM (TcoRJ)
Posted by: wooga at April 19, 2007 05:14 PM (t9sT5)
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You use the President's words when it's convenient to your argument but with everything you disagree with, he's just a liar and only serves the interests of Halliburton and big oil companies.
We can only assume that you read the first paragraph to "prove" your point. There isn't much debate about the existance of global-warming. The debate, which is all by leftists with no real knowledge of the situation and scientists who have grant dollars to lose, is whether or not it is man-made global warming or naturally occuring.
From your source:
"[work towards] an effective and science-based response to the issue of global warming." [Emphasis mine]
And one not grounded in baseless-politics and emotion.
"... risen by .6 degrees Celsius over the past 100 years"
[Emphasis mine again]
Not exactly shooting up the thermometer there is it?
"There was a warming trend from the 1890s to the 1940s. Cooling from the 1940s to the 1970s. And then sharply rising temperatures from the 1970s to today."
This, in spite of the laws enacted such as the outlawing of CFCs - in this country at least. Other countries? Not so much.
Based on the math, we should start seeing another cooling trend in the next few years. What will the talking points be when that happens?
"There is a natural greenhouse effect that contributes to warming" [again my emphasis]
natural <> man-made - therefore, we have no control over it and no amount of money thrown at the problem will have any effect.
"no one can say with any certainty what constitutes a dangerous level of warming"
If you're going to quote something as your source, it should at least back up your argument.
Get back to us on the man-made global-warming talk and how we need to "reduce our carbon footprint" when a majority of the scientists can't agree whether it exists or not. As long as half are saying it doesn't and that we're just going through a natural phase, I think I would prefer to keep the money in my pocket, thank you.
The real kicker is all of Hollywood celebrities preaching to us about what we should be doing while not practicing what they preach. In their twisted world, flying on their private jets serve the greater good. I have more respect for Ed Begley, Jr because he, at least, is not a hypocrite. Maybe looney tunes but not a hypocrite. I would be curious to hear your views on these hypocrites such as Laurie David and Al Gore. They're good at telling us how to live as they personally do more harm to this so-called man-made global warming than any 100+ or so regular people in their jets and using more energy in their mansions than everyone on my street.
Assuming you work for a living and don't live off the government teet, how much more of your paycheck are you willing to give up to pay for the US to fund the Kyoto protocol? If "We account for almost 20 percent of the world's man-made greenhouse emissions" and "account for about one-quarter of the world's economic output", why are we expected to be one of the few to adhere to the treaty and pay an extremely large percentage of the cost while the biggest offenders are not even required to take part?
That, my friend, is where liberalism breaks down. Few people, regardless of their politics, disagree that things like universal health care or some other liberal talking point are necessarily bad things (although partial birth abortion is wrong no matter how you argue it) but every liberal I ask how much of their paycheck they're willing to give up to pay for their favorite social program, their answer is always "none". They just want it to magically happen.
Posted by: slug at April 19, 2007 05:53 PM (pW60k)
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John Ryan is speaking through his belly button again
USA, all the way!
Posted by: Michael Weaver at April 19, 2007 06:28 PM (2OHpj)
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What of the Coolilng World article, JR? The mediots and Democrats and environmentalists were using the same rhetoric, dire predictions of death, starvation and catastrophe, etc. Why should I believe anything they say, especially when there are more than enough scientists (and scientific evidence like Mars warming) refuting the anthropogenic assertion?
Why don't you believe National Geographic, or climatologists or weather experts when they don't tow your line? Because your politics are more important that factual, scientific reality. You believe the "global weather" is getting worse, even though there is no scientific or statistical analysis or evidence to support this assertion anywhere. Algore's slideshow is not "evidence" or anything, and has been rightly refuted by scientists from across the political spectrum. You believe it as an article of faith, therefore making anthro-global warming a dogmatic religion.
John Ryan only shows up when I post Global Warming posts anymore, so I'm really posting these scientific refutations of global warming huxterism it just to irritate him/it.
He and his kind can't stand to see balance to their politics (that's right - the environmental "movement" is about politics and not science), so we're here to provide it. If it were up to them, we'd all be living in mudhuts picking berries constantly somewhere hugging trees while worshiping golden Algore and Clenis idols.
Posted by: Good Lt at April 19, 2007 08:34 PM (yMbfY)
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Global warming, is the next Y2K. I bet John Ryan bought that too.
Posted by: davec at April 19, 2007 11:02 PM (63hdl)
Posted by: Good Lt at April 19, 2007 11:35 PM (yMbfY)
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Good Lt and others ... Check out a book (if you can find it) called "ECOLOGY WARS : Enviromentalism, As If People Mattered" By Ron Arnold. Guy used to be an 'enviromentalist' till the movement got hijacked for political purposes. He is still a conservationist, but disowns the lies and falsified and faked crises that dominate the 'new' movements. It's from 1993, so it may be out of print, BUT IT SHOULDN'T BE! USA, all the way!
Posted by: Michael Weaver at April 20, 2007 02:10 AM (2OHpj)
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Vehicular traffic on Mars has increased immensely since 1997 - growth rate far exceeds even China. Of course, it's only up to 2 now.
Posted by: Glenmore at April 20, 2007 09:31 AM (JWf4t)
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More likly this whole thing is a natural process of the earths climate but liberals are using this as a excuse to create world goverment
Posted by: sandpiper at April 20, 2007 09:56 AM (nmyGF)
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John Ryan is a sick little commie faggot who allows black muslims to bugger him.
Posted by: greyrooster at April 20, 2007 09:02 PM (E6u6Q)
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The article is incorrect. Travolta does not have "his own private runway." He belongs to a jet park where all the members of that community all have access to the runway.
He's still a vapid hypocrite, though.
Posted by: brainy435 at March 30, 2007 11:48 AM (JPs/+)
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The biggest sinners are usually the loudest preachers. How heavy is the toll of sins and wrongs that wealth, power and prestige exact from man.
Posted by: tbone at March 30, 2007 12:39 PM (HGqHt)
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That must be straight out of the communist manisfesto.
Posted by: greyrooster at March 30, 2007 03:48 PM (TRmKF)
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I'm going to go out on a limb, and actually proclaim Travolta is stupid, not evil. It doesn't take brains to 'act', because all you are doing is repeating lines with emotion. You only need enough brains to understand the words that are coming out of the directors mouth, and to pretend you feel things. Now Gore is stupid, but not quite so much. I think he does qualify as evil though. Or he is a total wooden puppet for some handler, or other ... which would go a ways to explaining his personality.
USA, all the way!
Posted by: Michael Weaver at March 31, 2007 03:46 AM (2OHpj)
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Another liberal hollywood hypotcrit with their holier then thou attatude who becuase they make money pretending to be some one their not and then puttering around in their private jets and pulling this stuff on us what a bunch of rank hypotcrits and TRAVOLTA is no longer the big draw he was when he was younger and a wealthy socialist idiot and spokeswacko for that crazy scientology nut cases
Posted by: sandpiper at March 31, 2007 11:18 PM (9NBAS)
'Global Warming' Update - Yet Another Ice Storm
It is with heavy heart and sad disposition that I write this post.
I was not able to attend the much-anticipated Gathering of Eagles today because of a freak occurrence of global warming that paralyzed much of this metropolitan area overnight.
And by global warming, I mean a fierce ice/sleet storm that covered every location from Delaware to Boston in nearly a foot of slush, ice and/or snow. When I awoke this morning, the global warming had frozen the slush that had been collecting all afternoon and evening on the roadways to a solid sheet of ice. Navigating the unplowed and untreated roads would have been very dangerous in my front-wheel drive Honda (problems in the past have taught me this), and I felt that the risks of trying to push through the quagmire of man-made sleet/ice/snow/warming was enough to turn me away from the long trip.
This has been frustrating, and I apologize to the readers for not being able to cover the event. Ragnar hopefully made it down there, although many international airports were closed and/or in flux last night due to the global warming.
G-d Bless the Veterans. I wish with every fiber of my being that I could have been there. I wonder if Algore's conspicuous consumption of 25X my energy usage could have had anything to do with this.
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Warmest winter on record retard. It's all over the news, but I wouldn't expect you to know that. You probably don't believe them scienticians unless they're doin' stuff like making all thems boner pills you take.
Posted by: John at March 17, 2007 11:12 AM (S3Rzh)
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I SAW IT ON THE NEWS THEREFORE IT HAS TO BE TRUE!!!11
DAN RATHER SAID SO!!11!!
Posted by: Good Lt at March 17, 2007 11:23 AM (yMbfY)
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Yea, well, this doesn't mean it isn't global warming you know. It could be that all the warming has caused excessive "turbulence" in the atmosphere leading to ah, um, overly excessive cooling and abnormal , like, winter weather , you know. Just ask "Gore-doh", he's an assxpert. Next we'll be hearing, again, about the plight of the polar bears.
"
1 Warmest winter on record retard".....what record would that be ? The weather records in the US ? They go back ,ohhhhh, about 120 years, what was the winter of 1657 like on the east coast, how about 1588, or 1322, or 250,000 years ago ? Can you tell me that, or can't you regurgitate somethingelse you know nothing about ? Jackass. Just for the record, asswipe, in the past there have been vineyards in England and Greenland was green an yadayadayada. Fact check, shithead, before you critique. NEXT !!
Posted by: Edward Lunny at March 17, 2007 11:34 AM (QkaPP)
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Yes, this is the warmest winter on record, that is, if you count December through January as Winter. The NOAA data that gets to the point shows 0.72C above the mean for that period (it's not really clear if they are refering to Dec 1-Jan 31, but I assume they meant that). Why the announcement now? February was the third COLDEST month on record, 0.9C below the mean. If they waited a month or so to include all the records for the winter, then it is ikely that this winter will go down in history as slightly warmer than average.
Lies, damned lies, and statistics. Mr. Twain we miss you.
Posted by: RicardoVerde at March 17, 2007 11:35 AM (QrIXC)
"If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you do read the newspaper, you're misinformed.""......and if you write for a newspaper you are what can be called "mentally challenged". If you publish a newspaper you're just another America hating libtard, for the most part.
Posted by: Edward Lunny at March 17, 2007 12:40 PM (QkaPP)
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Don't quote Twain. He would have kicked you in the nuts if he were alive today.
Ah well.... doesn't matter. You guys are on your way down the shitter anyway. Comes from drinking the koolaid Bush & Co has been feeding you for the past few years.
Fuck yer dumb.
Posted by: John at March 17, 2007 03:10 PM (S3Rzh)
Criticisms of Mr. Gore have come not only from conservative groups and prominent skeptics of catastrophic warming, but also from rank-and-file scientists like Dr. Easterbook, who told his peers that he had no political ax to grind. A few see natural variation as more central to global warming than heat-trapping gases. Many appear to occupy a middle ground in the climate debate, seeing human activity as a serious threat but challenging what they call the extremism of both skeptics and zealots.
Notice that they didn't say "most."
Wonder how many death threats will be flooding those inboxes on West 43rd between tonight and tomorrow.
Posted by: JOHN RYAN at March 12, 2007 09:20 PM (TcoRJ)
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THE LEFT is addicted to doom. The Crisis of Capitalism, 'The Population Bomb', ‘Silent Spring’, ‘The Limits to Growth’, the Return of the Ice Age, ‘The China Syndrome’, Nuclear Winter, Killer Bees, Acid Rain, Globalization, Frankenstein foods, The Ozone Hole, are all catastrophes that didn’t happen. Some were factually wrong and the rest never became a crisis. When a doomsday theory is disproven, poof!, the MSM drops the story. The left and the MSM run on Clear and Present Danger like a fuel, and doom theories garner massive attention, with accompanying sales of newspapers and airtime. Facts seem to have nothing to do with it. The ‘Limits to Growth’ (The Club of Rome, 1972) a hugely popular book in its time, predicted logarithmic growth in population and resource consumption, with arithmetic growth in supply. This would produce overpopulation, the exhaustion of energy and other resources, the impoverishment of billions, a collapse in the food supply, and mass starvation and death. Their computer models, supported by many eminent scientists, claimed the world would run out of oil by 1992, and all their other predictions also proved wrong. Nevertheless, lefties continue to fret about imminent resource exhaustion, while the MSM issues no corrections or mea culpa. These doom theories were presented in sequence, all were promoted by the left, pumped by the MSM, and used to mobilize millions worldwide. The common idea was and is, that doom could (can) only be averted with more state control and intervention, strict economic controls, suppression of capitalism, and wealth redistribution.
Posted by: DemocracyRules at March 12, 2007 10:26 PM (L/SIz)
This is just my 2 cents but I bet we see more "global warming" scrutiny closer to the election and if there is a democratic president you can almost guarantee that the scientists who know the truth about global warming will finally speak out against it. To speak out against it now is perhaps percieved as supporting Bush or a right wing agenda. Reason and critical thinking has been thrown out in favor of politics again.
Posted by: DAT at March 13, 2007 06:33 AM (SIJnF)
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Global warming must be real. It is now warm enough for us to plant corn and Bahia grass. Just like we have done for the last 20 years.
Posted by: greyrooster at March 13, 2007 07:03 AM (W7E9s)
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After Al Gore invented the internet he invented global warming. And this asshole actually ran for president.
Posted by: greyrooster at March 13, 2007 07:06 AM (W7E9s)
Timothy Ball, a former climatology professor at the University of Winnipeg in Canada, has received five deaths threats by email since raising concerns about the degree to which man was affecting climate change.
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One of the emails warned that, if he continued to speak out, he would not live to see further global warming.
Sounds like the failed "Vote or DIE" campaign, with a tad more irony and a lot more hot air (pun intended.)
The Democrat Party, firmly on Algore's side on this issue, tacitly approves of these tactics by refusing or failing to denounce the tactics.
it's not shocking to you that loving and tolerant Liberals threaten their opponents with death? I mean that's something you would expect from us fascists on the Right, but you loving tolerant loving Liberals? One would almost think that maybe, just maybe you people aren't a fraction as loving and tolerant as you'd like the world to believe you are. I just hope and pray you don't send some of that Liberal love and tolerance my way.
I saw this fruadelent TV ad put on be ENVORMENTAL DEFENSE it shows a train as if it was ready to run down a kid and some jerk saying that GLOBAL WARMING IS REAL AND IS A REAL DANGER this is a lie and where is the fderal goverment or who ever to sue or fine those lying eco-freak liars?
Posted by: sandpiper at March 12, 2007 10:20 AM (YIXxO)
6 These are the same Leftards who bumrush and assault conservative speakers on college campuses today. They are brownshirts in every definition of the word. There is no conservative equivalent to this. The only real threat to freedom of speech today is coming from the Left.
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Well really death threats on the internet are rather quite common aren't they?
As I said before Rooster my address is 924 West End Ave if you would ever like to discuss things in person. I still remeber your threat to have your "friends" from the Bronx visit.Perhaps the only thing sillier than a making a personal death threat on the internet is when you threaten to have someone else do the job for you."My friends are gonna get you"
Carlos liberals are quite a large group of people. In fact, increasing faster than conservatives. So no I am not shocked that someone would say something like that. I was shocked, though, when you agreed with Impy that the Quaker peacemakers should have their throats cut. The only one of the peacmakers who was killed was the 20 year Marine vet.
Liberals ACTUALLY killing people for their political views in the USA ? I don't recall too many of those recently. Were ANY of the 16000 murders committed last year done by liberals ? of course !! but I don't see people fleeing in fear from them. Neither do I see any climatoligsts needing police protection from bombs and gunmen like doctors who perform abortions.
Posted by: JOHN RYAN at March 12, 2007 11:44 AM (TcoRJ)
8Were ANY of the 16000 murders committed last year done by liberals?
John Ryan,
these death threats don't reflect a murderous tendency in Liberals because murder isn't their intent. Their intent is to intimidate and silence. They have a long and well-document track record in that regard. So like I say over and over again, the only real threat to freedom of speech today is coming from the Left.
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First the Facebook liberal stalks and starts a fight in somebody's private home over dissent regarding his chosen 'political positions' (aka, heresy from the Democrat agenda.)
Now we have another flaming liberal advocating and excusing death threats made to those who disagree with the established leftwingnut orthodoxy.
Shorter John Ryan: BEHEAD THOSE WHO INSULT THE CHURCH OF ALGORE!
Note to readers:
John Ryan is excusing and tolerating leftwingnut death threats against anyone who they disagree with.
Disregard anything he writes here from this day forth as the rantings of an unstable and violent liberal mind replete with revenge and murder fantasies.
Where's Glenn Rick Ellensberg Greenwald to condemn this?
Posted by: Good Lt at March 12, 2007 11:55 AM (yMbfY)
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What stance do the muslim oil producers have on global warming ?
Even Bush admits that global warming is a problem
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/06/20010611-2.html
Posted by: JOHN RYAN at March 12, 2007 11:59 AM (TcoRJ)
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Well, I guess that makes global warming fact then! Bush also claims that Iraq is winnable. Is that true, or did you forget that you don't agree with Bush on anything?
Ooo - I LOVE logic games.
John Ryan is now a Bush supporter.
How's that for cognitive dissonance?
Posted by: Good Lt at March 12, 2007 12:04 PM (yMbfY)
12Science is a religion. All that you see and hear and
think is based on the faith that it is real... not a dream, or some
matrix... it is unprovable- your own experience is unprovable.
Posted by: QC at March 12, 2007 02:30 PM (PX+vn)
13 "your own experience is unprovable." The fact that I'm in a position to feel I need proof of anything, is in fact, proof of my existence. If I'm possible, anything else can be possible to. USA, all the way!
Posted by: Michael Weaver at March 12, 2007 03:40 PM (2OHpj)
John Ryan is now in favor of teaching Creation Science in school. Wow! Hell HAS frozen over. USA, all the way!
Posted by: Michael Weaver at March 12, 2007 03:42 PM (2OHpj)
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John Ryan thinks the Saudi's should have influence over US energy, and enviromentl policy. USA, all the way!
Posted by: Michael Weaver at March 12, 2007 03:45 PM (2OHpj)
16All that you see and hear and
think is based on the faith that it is real... not a dream, or some
matrix... it is unprovable- your own experience is unprovable. Hmmm. Somebody stopped reading Descartes a few chapters too soon.
Posted by: wooga at March 12, 2007 07:50 PM (t9sT5)
17Somebody stopped reading Descartes a few chapters too soon.
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Wooga, there are some that don't hold Descartes words and there logical failings as some sort of heaven sent revelation.
Posted by: QC at March 12, 2007 11:50 PM (tnATt)
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QC ... prove it
( Just kidding ;p ) USA, all the way!
Posted by: Michael Weaver at March 13, 2007 02:18 AM (2OHpj)
20Wooga, there are some that don't hold Descartes words and there logical failings as some sort of heaven sent revelation.
That shows you haven't even read the first page of Descartes. The whole point was to establish the bounds of logic outside of revelation. Look, I know it has limits. It's basic stuff, and not even original. But that's why it's taught to and understood by college freshmen/soph. He is at least useful for some illustrating some basic logical principles and methods which you obviously never learned. If you actually studied philosophy, you would recognize the distinction between a priori and a posteriori knowledge.
But hell, if you want me to launch into some theories of knowledge and existence based on the works of anyone from Epicurus to Plantinga... I could put everybody to sleep!
Posted by: wooga at March 13, 2007 01:18 PM (t9sT5)
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wooga, you are an offensive ass. Bragging about your massive brain in the comments section of a blog only further solidifies your status.
Posted by: QC at March 13, 2007 02:35 PM (PX+vn)
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Uh no, I did not brag about my massive brain. I simply provided arguments, and references where useful as shorthand.
There was no appeal to "my big brain." My head is slightly large, but not big in the traditional Irish sense.
Rudeness =/ offensive. And "offense" is only what the recipient complains, so it is a worthless complaint. I proudly admit to firing "insults" (which is true regardless of your existence or acknowledgment), but I don't care about being labeled "offensive" (as that is entirely contingent upon your subjective personal sensitivity and girliness).
Your handle "QC" is offensive, since it makes me think of QVC the shopping channel and reminds me of my massive amount of debt. That is taunting my financial status, and I demand an apology!
Posted by: wooga at March 13, 2007 03:07 PM (t9sT5)
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John Ryan: Once again. Piss on you. I'm beginning to wonder if stomping your sissified lefturd ass is worth the plane ticket.
Posted by: greyrooster at March 13, 2007 03:12 PM (W7E9s)
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Oh yea, John you lying little punk. They told me there wasn't any 924 west end ave. Said that West End starts where 11th ends at 57th and continues on until it gets to Harlem. Where you probably live with your black boy friend. Is this why they call you John Lyin? Freaking faggot.
Posted by: greyrooster at March 13, 2007 03:49 PM (W7E9s)
There is no convincing scientific evidence that human release of carbon dioxide, methane, or other greenhouse gasses is causing or will, in the foreseeable future, cause catastrophic heating of the Earth's atmosphere and disruption of the Earth's climate. Moreover, there is substantial scientific evidence that increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide produce many beneficial effects upon the natural plant and animal environments of the Earth.
How 'bout them apples?
UPDATE: I'll keep posting this every time there's a wave of paranoid hysteria rippling through the MSM about "global warming:"
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And these are the 17.100 scientists that the main-stream left-wing news media ignore like they always do
Posted by: sandpiper at March 02, 2007 10:45 AM (/4Knp)
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They call skeptic minority "flat earthers", when in fact the flat earther's were the majority trying to silence the minority. Leftards can't even get simple analogies right.
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Algore Does Not Like the "BALANCE" with which the media is reporting on Global Warming (or lack of it depending on which side your on)....this 17,000 scientists upsets Gore's scale a bit...
Posted by: mrclark at March 02, 2007 11:29 AM (A/6uy)
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shhh....If you're very quiet you can hear an echo bouncing around in Algore's cranium....
"17,000 more DENIERS!!!!
deniers!!!! Aaaaaaaarrrhhhhhggg!!!"
Posted by: mrclark at March 02, 2007 11:35 AM (A/6uy)
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Thanks, I've bookmarked this site, and will continue to spread the good word, that yes, some scientists are still... scientists.
Posted by: Romeo13 at March 02, 2007 03:38 PM (v1/4E)
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Looking back in twenty years this will be one of the biggest hoaxes
foisted upon mankind in modern history. Or, more probably, will be
buried deep down the memory hole as watched over by those more worthy
than us. Who are we to expect scientists to apply healthy doses
of skepticism, logical thought, and um scientific method to such a
problem when there is all this grant money floating about?
Posted by: RicardoVerde at March 03, 2007 09:45 AM (yZ0Nx)
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Ricardo:
Bigger than the Millennium Bug?!?! did no one else feel swindled when 386's in Africa running DOS 3.0 still survived?
Posted by: davec at March 03, 2007 03:11 PM (9DUEl)
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Gore wrote his eco malarkey book EARTH IN THE BALANCE but he had his thumb on the scale
Posted by: sandpiper at March 04, 2007 08:12 PM (vnSBY)
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Martian warming is of course the result of the infinite increase in US-originated vehicular traffic there in the past few years. The correlation is perfect - increased traffic = increased temperature, so clearly the traffic increase caused the temperature increase. Same as on Earth.
Posted by: Glenmore at March 02, 2007 08:18 AM (h/mwe)
Posted by: Randman at March 02, 2007 08:58 AM (Sal3J)
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I brought this up in political science class two years ago. One person argued "well, how can we know for sure it's warming? how can we measure it?". Another seriously tried to argue Glenmore's joke case.
Posted by: Ranba Ral at March 02, 2007 10:02 AM (VvXII)
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The Martians!
Won't anyone think of the Martians!
Posted by: Liberrocky at March 02, 2007 10:04 AM (HR16A)
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Warm beer goes flat faster than cold beer. Why? Warm water holds less dissolved gas.
Increased solar radiation warms the oceans, and forces the CO2 dissolved in the ocean into the atmonsphere. Goes for methane, too.
Posted by: Phillep at March 02, 2007 10:05 AM (XYdYF)
MARVIN THE MARTIAN is testing his ELUDIUM Q-38 EXPLOSIVE SPACE MODULATOR and he needs water for all those INSTANT MARTIANS
Posted by: sandpiper at March 02, 2007 10:39 AM (/4Knp)
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Don't the Martians know that they can buy carbon credits to reduce the problem of solar warming?
Posted by: Good Lt at March 02, 2007 10:42 AM (D0TMh)
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I wasn't aware that carbon credits actually reduced anything. You're just paying some guy in Madagascar not to use his "share" of energy (which he wasn't going to use anyway). Guilty money. Carbon actually reduced? Zilch.
Today's Deep Thought
Listening to Algore making excuses for his stark-naked hypocrisy by pretending that he doesn't use 25-times as much energy as me by buying "carbon offsets" is like a person going into McDonalds, ordering one of everything from the menu, getting a salad and Diet Coke, and then calling that a "diet."
His leigions of braindead bootlickers trying to defend the bombshell revealed this week by something as simple as his own utility bills are even more hilarious to watch.
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Get your facts correct and stop believing half truths and lies of the haters. The costs that were spent were accrued by the Gores using green energy, dummy. That costs a lot more that oil, gas, carbons!!
In the lap of this non-green, oil industries' collusion administration?
Posted by: greg at March 01, 2007 11:15 AM (dYtyy)
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Ok the facts are he is on TVA. TVA has cheap rates so he really sucks the juice. TVA gets it's energy from dams that kill fish. The other bill was for natural gas provided by the evil oil companies. The green claim is becuase al-Gore buys "Carbon Offsets". In other words he pays money for slips of paper from companies that don't actually do anything. No actual carbon emmissions are stopped. The message if you have money you can pay for fake offsets to make yourself feel better about sucking enough power for 20 ordinary homes. If you are poor you can just pay.......and pay and pay some more for the same KWH.
Close enough ?
Posted by: Darth Odie at March 01, 2007 11:19 AM (YHZAl)
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<i>Get your facts correct and stop believing half truths and lies of the
haters. The costs that were spent were accrued by the Gores using
green energy, dummy. That costs a lot more that oil, gas, carbons!!</i>
No one cares about the size of the bill; we wonder why he uses SO MANY MORE kilowatts than everyone else.
I still think it's the pot farm in the basement.
Posted by: Radish at March 01, 2007 11:35 AM (yG+tb)
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Al needs all that power... it takes a lot of energy to run the internet. Green or not, the bottom line is with Al suckin' up a jigawatt of electricity, somebody else has no choice but to buy dirty old fossil-fuel generated electricity. I don't care how it's generated, the truth is Al's use, for someone who wants to tell ME how to make use of energy, is obscene. Certainly no conservation of energy going on at Al's mansion.
Posted by: geobandy at March 01, 2007 11:43 AM (JZz6U)
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I posted this at the link, we see hos it goes over!
""What I’ve seen Gore do very effectively is raising awareness about the issue of climate change and arguing that we should do something about it collectivelly. Not because we liberals are all secretly commies and love to do things collectively but because it is the only fair and effective way to cut aggregate carbon output."
The title of this post should be "The United States is entitled to her extra farts."
Remember that Clinton first and then Bush didn't sign Kyoto because Kyoto didn't establish goals for the entire "collective." Only the "developed" members of the collective were tasked with specific goals. Essentially, they know Kyoto unfairly punishes the rich nations while letting the poor ones still pollute. It is unfair and costly for the developed..err...RICH nations. And yet, those that will argue for implementing Kyoto without full collective effort, now argue against reducing emissions until it is done collectively.
Get some consistency, folks. First, you vilify Bush for not signing Kyoto then essentially use Clinton's and Bush's argument to defend Al Gore. The big difference, though, is that Al Gore wants the world to collectively implement individual Kyoto while excluding himself from the collective. Therein lies the hypocrisy. "
Posted by: bluedog7 at March 01, 2007 01:50 PM (yYph9)
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As usual, politician Gore and his enviro-zombies think that hyperbole and screaming contribute to change. The E-Zs seem to feel that Prophet Gore deserves his life of excess. After all, he pays for his "indulgences" and brings change to the masses through his stirring passionate words.
What creates change, Mr. Gore, is leadership by example.
Posted by: catseye at March 01, 2007 02:11 PM (X+AwP)
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Anyone who can think for themselves will know Al just wants fame and respect from the shallow Hollywood massses. Pity people aren't as passionate as ridding the planet of the real problem for us all...ISLAM
Posted by: Jester at March 01, 2007 03:18 PM (iwtIO)
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I'm glad Gore is finally getting flipped over, and seen for what he is, by at least some of the people. I've been collecting stuff on him for to long, to not be happy about this exposure. USA, all the way!
Posted by: Michael Weaver at March 01, 2007 05:55 PM (2OHpj)
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Hey, gregturd's back, and as odious as ever! I was rather hoping he was dead, but not too much, because I'd still like to meet him in his last moments.
Posted by: Improbulus Maximus at March 01, 2007 06:24 PM (nGEwN)
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Al Gore has a right to tell me to reduce my carbon footprint just as soon as he reduces his carbon footprint to the size of mine. Until then he is just a bullshit artist saying do as I say not as I do. He is just another rich privileged asshole telling me to make sacrifices he himself is unwilling to make; he can fuck off and die as far as I am concerned.
Where have you been? Countless attacks on the validity of the Alarmist position have been documented here. And the hypocrisy of the messenger is a valid area of concern.
The last person I want to date my sister is a convicted serial rapist, no matter how much he lectures me about how to protect her. He is guilty of what he is lecturing me about, and worse, can't come clean about his double standard.
THIS IS POLITICAL. The hysteria is linked to Socialist organizations. Brand new laws will be forced down our throats, and as usual with socialism, there is always an 'elite' body who are poised to benefit from it. Sometimes the messenger IS the messege. Look at bin Laden. He is a mesenger as well. Do you want to accept HIS logic?
USA, all the way!
Posted by: Michael Weaver at March 02, 2007 08:44 PM (2OHpj)
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All this, especially the lefturd comments here, is simply further proof that a good lefturd is a dead one. I pray for American Revolution 2.0 to start soon.
Posted by: Improbulus Maximus at March 04, 2007 10:45 AM (eGb9y)
