But But we must find Manbearpig. I am serial.

Manbearpig lives (at least in AlGore's mind)

We all thought that the myth of Manbearpig was finally settled after the Climategate.  It showed what many of us have known all along but could not prove, that much of the Global Warming Climate Change Manbearpig data was suspect and most likely altered or skewed to a certain outcome.

But give some props to AlGore for his stubbornness.   I am serial.  He is still out there still trying to say any kind of weather phenomenon is  because of Manbearpig:

“[T]he odds have shifted toward much larger downpours,” Gore said. “And we have seen that happen in the Northeast, we’ve seen it happen in the Northwest – in both of those regions are among those that scientists have predicted for a long time would begin to experience much larger downpours.”

This is preposterous on its face.   We have had Nor’Easterns before and will have them in the future.   Just as we will have some summers hotter than others and some colder.   Just as the Sahara will one day be green again, as it has been several thousands of years ago.

The Climate of the Earth is not predicable and never will be, and all the computer models in the world could never replicate the variables that affect the climate and the temperature of the Earth.  Nature is not something that you can put into a model and predict its outcome.   And with the last 2 huge Earthquakes over the last few years changing the rotation of the Earth, we have no idea what effect that will have on the climate over the next decade or millennium.

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***Update

Now we know why it is so cold   via Aaron Gardner

It’s Not Cool Being Green in the UK

Looks like the Brits have jilted AlGore. 

What would Kermit think of this article today in the Times of London?

Suddenly being green is not cool any more

As the credit crunch bites, environmental policies are being ditched. But oddly we are doing better at saving the planet

Alice Thomson

Julie Burchill can’t stand them. According to her new book, Not in my Name: A Compendium of Modern Hypocrisy, she thinks all environmentalists are po-faced, unsexy, public school alumni who drivel on about the end of the world because they don’t want the working classes to have any fun, go on foreign holidays or buy cheap clothes.

Michael O’Leary, the chief executive of Ryanair, agrees. In an interview with Rachel Sylvester and me, he told us that the “nutbag ecologists” are the overindulged rich who have nothing better to do with their lives than talk about hot air and beans.

So the salad days are over; it’s the end of the greens. Where only a year ago the smart new eco-warriors were revered, wormeries and unbleached cashmere jeans are now seen as a middle-class indulgence.

But the problem for the green lobby isn’t that it has been overrun by “toffs”: it’s the chilly economic climate that has frozen the shoots of environmentalism. Espousing the green life, with its misshapen vegetables and non-disposable nappies, is increasingly being seen as a luxury by everyone.

Only a year ago, according to MORI, 15 per cent of those polled put the environment in their top three concerns. That figure has dropped by a third to 10 per cent this month. Now that people are fighting for their own survival rather than their grandchildren’s, they put crime, the economy and rising prices at the top of their list.

According to Andrew Cooper, director of the research company, Populus: “There is a direct correlation between how people perceive the economy and the importance they place on the environment. When times are tough people resent paying more to salve their conscience.” This means that fewer people are now buying organic chickens from smart supermarkets when they can pay £3.99 at Lidl. With all food prices rising, the organic market is being credit-crunched. Demand for it grew by 70 per cent from 2002 to 2007; now it has stalled, according to the consultancy Organic Monitor.

The vast new organic Whole Foods Store on Kensington High Street in London is so quiet you can hear the cheese breathe in the specially designed glass room. Meanwhile the demand for takeaway pizzas and McDonald’s has risen as people find the cheapest way to eat.

When David Cameron became leader of the Conservative Party he said that green issues were at the top of his agenda. His slogan for the local elections last year was “Vote Blue, Go Green”. But in the past few months he has realised that voters have lost the appetite for their greens.

He has only given one environmental speech since Christmas. Once he used to talk about putting a £3,000 windmill on top of his house. Now the message is not about conserving the planet but preserving his bank balance. He wears catalogue clothes, grows his own vegetables and holidays barefoot in Britain because it is less extravagant, not because he is trying to reduce his global footprint.

In fact, when the Tory leader’s bicycle was stolen a week ago, the message of the story was not how green he was for riding his bike, but how broken our society has become when a politician finds his bike nicked from under his nose.

Boris Johnson was the first to realise that the tolerance for green taxes may have peaked. When he became Mayor of London, he dropped plans to charge a £25 congestion fee on gas-guzzling cars.

The Tories have quietly been reviewing many of their green policies. A range of measures designed to penalise motoring and other polluting activities has been put on hold in case they alienate families struggling to pay their bills. A proposal to tax the highest emitting cars up to £500 more than the greenest vehicles has been quietly shelved, as has the plan to raise taxes on short-haul flights. Instead George Osborne, the Shadow Chancellor, has promised to cut tax on fuel when oil prices rise.

Gordon Brown has also stopped discussing his solar panels and compost heap in Scotland and is trying to dissociate himself from local council rubbish taxes – even though they have been driven by central government plans to put up landfill charges.

Both parties are looking at ways of rewarding people for being green rather than penalising them for throwing out their yoghurt pots with their teabags. Mr Osborne, in a speech last month, admitted: “When people are feeling the pinch, we need to make it pay to go green. Instead of being fined for not recycling, households should be paid for recycling.”

When Barack Obama first decided to run for the presidency, he embraced the green cause. Al Gore’s film, An Inconvenient Truth, about global warming had just become the biggest grossing documentary in history and Mr Gore had won the Nobel prize. But recently Mr Obama has been talking more about thrift than trees. Instead of showing off his recycling skills, he explains that his children don’t receive Christmas or birthday presents.

It’s not just the economic downturn that has harmed the green order. People have become wary of environmental causes that can turn out to do more harm than good. They don’t want wind turbines marching across Britain’s moors when nuclear power stations can do more to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. They worry that washing and bleaching all those non-disposable nappies may be damaging the ozone layer, that the massive incentives for biofuels have distorted the world food market, and that green taxes are actually stealth taxes.

But paradoxically, just as Britain is turning its back on the environment, the country is finally becoming greener. Fewer people are moving house so they are buying fewer new white goods such as washing machines and fridges. They may not be queueing up for £9 organic Poilâne bread, but for the first time in a decade they are discarding less food. They buy less impulsively and think more carefully before their weekly shop. Children are wearing hand-me-down uniforms rather than new ones made in sweatshops.

Bottled water sales have fallen. Garden centres have reported a 10 per cent rise in the sales of vegetable seeds in the past 12 months. People are saving money by growing their own potatoes and carrots. They are turning off their central heating for a few more months of the year and ditching their second car rather than buying an electric runaround. And instead of carbon-offsetting their holidays, they are simply going on fewer of them.

It’s the downturn that has made greenery look unappetising – but it may yet prove to do more than anything to save the planet.

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Source:  http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/guest_contributors/article4474202.ece

Julia

The Envoronmentalists are coming

Yes,they are coming to my home town for a Forum on Manbearpig (Global Warming). You can go and get badgered by a bunch of so-called experts on Climate tell you we are all going to die in 10 years again. I am sorry that I do not believe in this crap that has been foisted on us. All of the “Computer Models” done by any of these so-called experts have been completely wrong, and with the temperatures holding steady for the past 10 years, why are we even having these forums. Every day now we hear of more and more scientists that do not drink the cup of Mambearpig and do not think we are all going to die a fiery death due to the mythical creature.

Maybe I would start believing them if they can tell me what the temperature and precipitation is going to be next week or the Disciples of the Goracle and the Goracle himself would actually do what they preach.

Forums in metro-east address global warming

BELLEVILLE —

A free public forum on
global warming is scheduled for 6 to 7:30 p.m. Aug. 27 at the Southwestern
Illinois College PSOP Building, 201 N. Church St.

The town hall meeting will be part of the summer statewide Illinois
Environmental Council-sponsored series that aims to convene local residents,
elected officials and community groups to discuss how soaring gas prices, asthma
rates and shifting gardening zones are related to climate change.

Another free public forum is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. Aug. 12 at the National
Great Rivers Museum, 2 Lock and Dam Way in Alton.

“We face a host of problems related to global warming, but most people
haven’t made the connection,” said Jonathan Goldman, executive director of the
environmental council. “These public forums will help everyone better understand
the links and how we can begin to change things with good legislation and
prudent, long-term solutions.”

Aur J. Beck, an energy efficiency and renewable energy installer, will speak
at the Belleville meeting. He operates Advanced Energy Solutions in Carbondale
and helped create the Illinois Renewable Energy Association and the Southern
Illinois Center for a Sustainable Future.

Belleville News Democrat

The Goracle

Got to love the Onion

Al Gore Places Infant Son In Rocket To Escape Dying Planet

The Wheels on the Manbearpig bus are coming apart

More from the "deniers" of Manbearpig.   Roy Spencer’s great testimony to the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee.  The Models and conclusions from Manbearpig theorists do not add up to actual observations.   

Testimony of Roy W. Spencer before the
Senate Environment and Public Works Committee on 22 July 2008

A  printable PDF of this testimony can be found here

I would like to thank Senator Boxer and and members of the Committee for allowing me to discuss my experiences as a NASA employee engaged in global warming research, as well as to provide my current views on the state of the science of global warming and climate change.

I have a PhD in Meteorology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and have been involved in global warming research for close to twenty years. I have numerous peer reviewed scientific articles dealing with the measurement and interpretation of climate variability and climate change. I am also the U.S. Science Team Leader for the AMSR-E instrument flying on NASA’s Aqua satellite.

Read the whole testimony in the pdf.

Americans for Prosperity Crashes Al Gore’s Speech

Do as I say not as I do.   Hypocrisy is the Goracle.

The return of the Goracle

AlGore wants to get us cereal about Manbearpig again.  Even after about a decade of Global Cooling and gas prices rising because of the past 30 years or so of negilgence by CONgress not to get a handle on Energy Independence and the ingorance of not building more oil refineries. 

But have no fear, the Goracle is back and spouting out the same nonsense he always has done in the past.    He is gong to “press the reset button on how people are looking at the energy crisis and the climate crisis,” .  Well isn’t that special.   He is going to rehash all the same BS he has said before.   I wonder is it going to be 10 years until we are doomed, or is it going to be some other arbitrary number???

At least some Republicans are talking agains thet Goracle, not our esteemed nominee McCain "I believe in GlobalWarming amd taxing the hell outofeveryone for it" McCain.

“Mr. Gore will yet again call attention to the policies called for by radical environmentalists that would result in even higher gas prices,” said Michael Steel, spokesman for House Republican Leader John Boehner (Ohio).—The Hill

Come on Republicans, get your heads on straight and use the energy crisis as a tool to win back the CONgress.   It is an issue that more people will be behind and the Republicans should use it for their advantage.   

Global Warming Derangement

It has come to this.   The Doom and Gloom perveyors of Man Made Global Warming have made a teenager go insane in Australia.  Way you go AlGore, scaring littel kids and driving them nuts.  He thinks that he can not drink water because it will be scarce in the future and has dilusions of the apocolyps.   This is what happens when you try and scare people with dilusional images of Doom and Gloom to little children and say it is science.  This is getting out of hand.  The data does not validate the so-called experts oon Climatology’s models of Man Made Global Warming.   the Antarctic has had the most amount of ice gain on record, the Arctic Ice has recovered and has gained in area since last year.  The temperatures have been steadily cooling since 1998.  Stop all of the Doom and Gloom, it is getting sickening to hear how the growing Ice in Montana is because of Global Warming.   I guess all the ice in the Antarctic is also because of Global Warming.

Doomed to a fatal delusion over climate change

PSYCHIATRISTS have detected the first case of "climate change delusion" – and they haven’t even yet got to Kevin Rudd and his global warming guru.

Writing in the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, Joshua Wolf and Robert Salo of our Royal Children’s Hospital say this delusion was a "previously unreported phenomenon".

"A 17-year-old man was referred to the inpatient psychiatric unit at Royal Children’s Hospital Melbourne with an eight-month history of depressed mood . . . He also . . . had visions of apocalyptic events."

(So have Alarmist of the Year Tim Flannery, Profit of Doom Al Gore and Sir Richard Brazen, but I digress.)

"The patient had also developed the belief that, due to climate change, his own water consumption could lead within days to the deaths of millions of people through exhaustion of water supplies."

But never mind the poor boy, who became too terrified even to drink. What’s scarier is that people in charge of our Government seem to suffer from this "climate change delusion", too.

Here is Prime Minister Kevin Rudd yesterday, with his own apocalyptic vision: "If we do not begin reducing the nation’s levels of carbon pollution, Australia’s economy will face more frequent and severe droughts, less water, reduced food production and devastation of areas such as the Great Barrier Reef and Kakadu wetlands."

And here is a senior Sydney Morning Herald journalist aghast at the horrors described in the report on global warming released on Friday by Rudd’s guru, Professor Ross Garnaut: "Australians must pay more for petrol, food and energy or ultimately face a rising death toll . . ."

Wow. Pay more for food or die. Is that Rudd’s next campaign slogan? —Herald Sun