It’s global warming, don’t you know. The excuse for everything, nowadays. Perhaps even Polanski’s rape and flight. Or not. Depends on who you listen to. As usual. This winter, expected to be the coldest in years, should fix any "shrinkage." Meanwhile, the Japanese… Oh, please.
Via Simply Jews.
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Tagged global warming, mount ranier, Polanski, rape, statutory rape
The latest global warming scare? The warming oceans (that aren’t, actually, warming) could cause the Earth’s normal tilt of 23.5 degrees from the vertical to increase. Then what? They don’t say. But when it comes to Pap & Tax (otherwise known as Cap & Trade) the U.S. Chamber of Commerce is lobbying for a wait-a-minute debate on what could cause our drift into a Third World economy.
Via Watts Up With That.
UPDATE: Good analysis of the fraud by Norman Rogers, a former Zero Population Growth activist who remembers that exaggeration and scare stories produced membership in ZPG far better than facts.
MORE: Peter D. Ward and Donald Brownlee explain, in their 2002 book The Life and Death of Planet Earth, what an increased tilt might mean: "…if we tilted too much, or if the tilt shifted, our climate would become more extreme or be thrown into chaos. This may have happened to Mars, in fact, allowing that planet to lose its oceans."
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Where to, oh storms? To Texas, hence, to shed a little rain upon our cracking, dusty drouth? As the Seablogger notes, none can say:
"We cannot model and hope for more than partial accuracy ten days out, yet politicians profess to be panicked about models of the climate a century hence. Some of them are simply grabbing for money and regulatory power. Many others believe — like the idiot Senator from Michigan, Debbie Stabenow, who thinks she can feel global warming when she flies."
So, unlike the idiot senator and her other credulous colleagues, we’ll just have to wait and see.
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You might think, with all the AGW hysteria, and the Dems rushing to double our electric bills, that the whole globe would be saturated in CO2. You would be wrong. Sure, this satellite mapping of the earth’s atmospheric distribution of carbon dioxide is a year old. But it’s also the first one ever made, and was assembled from data collected between ’02 and ’08. The first one ever made. Think about that for a minute. I’m no great hand at graphics, but it sure looks to me like the major culprits are California and China. So how about it Speaker Pelosi? How about starting by doubling your energy bills?
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Tagged AGW, AIRS July 2008 CO2 (ppmv), carbon dioxide mapping, CO2, global warming
Surprise, surprise. Barry’s EPA hasn’t done its homework:
"EPA has not done its own evaluation of the global warming theory. Rather, it has relied on analyses by others, mostly the U.N.’s IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) report. That report, however, was a political document, not a scientific one."
EPA has, however, quashed an in-house rebuttal of the Dictator’s Club. Can’t have dissension, oh no. That wouldn’t be, uh, scientific.
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"As the U.S. House of Representatives [narrowly passed] a climate-change bill, the Australian Parliament is preparing to kill its own country’s carbon-emissions scheme. Why? A growing number of Australian politicians, scientists and citizens once again doubt the science of human-caused global warming."
Well jolly good for them. Finally some common sense. Not that it will have any influence on our political crooks. Now to see whether the Senate has more honesty. I suspect not. Some think the American electorate will not remember who done this deed when their electricity bills double and the economy craters. I think they will, and the Dems will pay big time.
Hairnet and giveaway is the translation of the bill’s cap and trade title by Steve Hayward at No Left Turns who suspects the last-minute bill has so many loopholes for favored (read big contributor) outfits that it will have no measureable effect on "the risks of global warming." But, come on, we can’t change the climate. How smart do you have to be to figure that out?
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Tagged AGW, American economy, Australian Parliament, cap and trade, carbon-emissions scheme, coal-fired power plants, electricity prices, global warming, hairnet and giveaway, No Left Turns, Steve Hayward
I was willing to hear out the warmists on their Chicken Little bit until the Dictator’s Club weighed into it. I mean, come on, this is the outfit whose human rights council is run by tyrants who spend its time condemning Israel, while its Muslim members oppress women, gays, Christians, Jews, etc.
Now comes that paragon of corruption, Kofi Annan, issuing a phony little warmist addendum that draws a sneer from an expert that it is "a poster child for how to lie with statistics…worse than fiction." Isn’t it about time somebody figured out what’s going on here? It ain’t science, that’s for sure.
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