Alert AlGore re: Solution to Global Warming

Finally – the answer to all our problems re:  Global Warming.  Alert AlGore; he’s no longer needed.

Proposed Solution To Global Warming

2006-10-15

It is almost universally accepted now that the Earth is getting warmer. Simply looking at the statistics will tell you this – people who would argue otherwise tend to be the kind of tinfoil hat people who also believe that imminent magnetic pole reversal will kill everybody on Earth in 2030-something and that comets don’t exist and so on and so forth. The real question that we should all be asking ourselves is not whether the Earth is getting warmer. The question is: how will this affect us?

Obviously there will be positive effects – for example, to delineate the new period of heat and sunshine, a new fourth season, provisionally titled "Sum-mer", may have to be introduced into the regular Spring-Autumn-Winter calendar in the United Kingdom, and the opportunity to consume ice cream all year round may also prove attractive. Also, who wouldn’t want to live on the sunny Swiss coast? But, like any change anybody ever made to anything ever, there will also be negative effects, which will most likely outweigh the positive. As the equatorial regions of our planet grow hotter, vital industries serving the Western world from that region may diminish in capacity and – to put it bluntly – life will not be so cushy. People will have to relocate in the wake of extreme weather conditions like floods and hurricanes, which will cost the global taxpayer a stunning amount of cash overall. Granted, it may be that the changes occur smoothly enough that very few people actually perish as the Earth grows warmer, but we will NOT enjoy the transition period and the brave new world WILL prove relatively expensive to adapt to.

Overall, then, the prevailing opinion among scientists (although this is by no means as universally agreed upon as the existence of global warming itself) is that global warming would be a bad thing. It is only upon agreement of this point that we move on to the third question, which is "Can we reduce global warming?", and the fourth question, by far the most contentious, "What is causing global warming in the first place?"

Now, some people take the highly controversial view that global warming is a wholly natural event – the Earth is well known to have gone through phases of being warm and being cold in the past. The implication they take from this is that global warming cannot, or should not, be fought – we have no choice but to put up with it! (Note that this isn’t actually a logically airtight argument. Mankind fights and generally wipes the floor with nature all the time.) Most of the people who put forward this point of view tend to be the kind of people whose corporations’ factories’ continously accelerating output of CO₂ and other greenhouse gases are what most sane observers believe is the actual reason behind global warming. (GLOBAL WARMING IS PEOPLE! PEEEEEEEOPLE!)

I take a third point of view. I’m of a more scientific bent – I am a mathematician, a logician, a rational reasoner. I say that reducing CO₂ output wouldn’t do the job – even if we reduced it to zero and planted trees to scoop up the excess – because that’s not the CAUSE of global warming. We need to cut straight to the source.

The Sun is the cause of global warming.

We need to turn off the Sun.

Don’t worry, I don’t mean permanently.

Proposal

The average surface temperature of Earth’s atmosphere is about 14°C or 287 Kelvins. This has been measured to increase by about 0.6 Kelvins over the last 200 years, or about 0.2% of its absolute temperature. Which means the Sun is giving out roughly 0.2% more energy than we need to keep it at the required temperature. Therefore, if we make it so the Sun gives out about 0.2% less energy, everything will be fine!

Thus I propose that we turn off the Sun for roughly 0.2% of each solar day, or two to four minutes every 24 hours.

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Go to the source to see how this is going to be accomplished:  http://qntm.org/?global

Wasn’t that simple?  The Brits have the answer to everything. 

Julia

Bear Hunting and the Pope

From a friend: 

Bear hunting and the Pope

     The Pope took a couple of days off to visit the rugged mountains of
Alaska for some sightseeing. He was cruising along the campground in the
Popemobile when there was a frantic commotion just at the edge of the woods.
A helpless Democrat, wearing sandals, shorts, a "Save the Whales" hat, and a
"To Hell with Bush" t-shirt, was screaming while struggling frantically, and
thrashing around trying to free himself from the grasp of a 10-foot grizzly.

     As the Pope watched in horror, a group of Republican loggers came
racing up. One quickly fired a 44 magnum into the bear’s chest. The other
two reached up and pulled the bleeding, semi-conscious Democrat from the
bear’s grasp. Then using long clubs, the three loggers finished off the bear
and two of them threw it onto the bed of their truck while the other
tenderly placed the injured Democrat in the back seat.

     As they prepared to leave, the Pope summoned them to come over. "I give
you my blessing for your brave actions!" he told them. "I heard there was a
bitter hatred between Republican loggers and Democratic Environmental
activists, but now I’ve seen with my own eyes that this is not true."

     As the Pope drove off, one of the loggers asked his buddies "Who was
that guy?" "It was the Pope," another replied. "He’s in direct contact with
Heaven and has access to all wisdom." "Well," the logger said, "he may have
access to all wisdom but he doesn’t know squat about bear hunting! By the
way, is the bait holding up, or do we need to go back to Massachusetts and
get another one?"

Julia

Call the Wambulance

So, the US finally agreed to the "consensus" at Bali after this blubbering idiot cried about how the world is coming to an end.  Call the wambulance.  If they think that CO2 is such a problem, maybe they should not have flown half way around the world to Bali.  They put out more CO2 that the City of St. Louis does in a year to get all the attendees there.  What hypocrisy.  All this to cut CO2 admissions, which CO2 is the giver of life to us.  Without CO2, we would not feed the world and we would not be able to live on Earth. 
And what of this "consensus"???   Every day we have more and more real climatologists saying that man has nothing to do with Manbearpig.  The Earth has cycles of war and cold climates, and it has a lot ot do with that big Fireball in the sky we call the Sun.  And scientists have discovered that most of the warming and cooling has to do with Sunsopts, Solar Flares and the angle of the Earth compared to the Sun.  But we got the Goracle deriding the US because we don’t drink the cool-aid of the New Church of Manbearpig.  I am sick and tired of the UN and the rest of the beuaroweenies taking over our sovereignty.  If the EU and the rest of the world wants to tax themselves into  ruination, let them, just leave the US alone and let us live the way we want to.  We are a sovereign country,  not the United Nations of America.    We should never let any body take over our sovereignty, that is why we had the Boston tea Party.  I think that the UN should be booted out of the US and let them reside in EU and then let them control the EU economy and fall off to the wayside.  The UN is nothing more than a platform for all the 3rd world Dictators to blather on about how bad the US and Israel are, not looking at their own countries faults. 
Thanks to our great leaders we are now going to have to accept this overtaking of our sovereign country to the Beauroweenies at the UN.  When is enough enough????  when are we going to take bakc our country from these Beauroweenies and bring our country back to what it was before the UN became the Shadow Government.??? 

And the Goracle is still looking for Manbearpig.  If you see him give the Goracle a call.

Bali Conference not a High for Algore

Bali didn’t turn out too badly for the US.  Here’s a final report from the First Things blog:

The Bali Conference Is Over (Whew!)

Posted by Thomas Sieger Derr on December 16, 2007, 4:07 PM

After pulling a dramatic all-nighter, delegates at the U.N. conference on climate change left beautiful, lush Bali for the real world with an agreed text on their laptops. Those of us who follow these matters were not the least bit surprised at the result: U.N. officials and others who wanted an international consensus for greenhouse-gas emissions spoke glowingly of success. All delegations signed on, and the text looks forward to eventual deep emissions cuts.

But the realists and the environmentalists (including Al Gore, who flew in to denounce the U.S., to wild applause) were bitterly disappointed, saying that nothing really had changed. Why? Because their hope was for agreement on specific targets, a 25–40 percent cut. They fought and nearly bled for that to get into the final text, but the United States held out against naming specific targets and won. Its delegate was roundly booed until she agreed to sign a consensus statement and theoretically join “the process”— but without targets.

The U.S. carried the burden of the villain but was actually backed by Canada and Japan, as I reported in my Daily Article on this website a few days ago. Australia, trying to find its identity under its new government, also apparently does not want targets. And there’s a report, unconfirmed, that Russia worked behind the scenes to scuttle any agreement on targets, apparently enjoying its role keeping Europe dependent on Russian energy supplies and thus politically weakened.

Furthermore, the really “inconvenient truth” is that the U.S. is doing better at controlling its own emissions than are the Europeans, and that no country is really willing to take on the economic damage that an emissions-restriction regime would cause. A whiff of hypocrisy is in the verbal wind. It is convenient for them to blame the U.S. for their own failings.

So what next? The Bush government has called a conference of the major emitting nations for Hawaii next month to work on flexible and voluntary targets, tailored to different nations’ needs. The E.U. at Bali threatened to boycott the Hawaii meeting unless the U.S. agreed at Bali to targets. That blackmail failed, and now we’ll see whether the E.U. people will show up in Hawaii or risk being left out of this process, parallel to the U.N. track, which may produce some important agreements.

As for the “main track” U.N. process, it goes on, of course: next stop Copenhagen 2009.

P.S. to my blog post on the Pope’s World Day of Peace address: Papal statements are known for careful nuance and balance, and this one was no exception. The Daily Mail report stressed only one side. Benedict did acknowledge the climate problem and call for addressing it. But he also made, more importantlin my judgment, the points I stressed: that hyperbolic alarmism is dangerous, that ideology should not override science, and that environmental decisions should not override real human need.

P.S. #2, on reading statistics with a viewpoint: The World Meteorological Organization reports that 2007 was one of the ten hottest years on record, most of those ten years being in the last decade. But it also seems that 2007 is on track to be the coldest year since 1998, the year of the large El Niño surge. And those who watch the sun’s behavior report a quiescent period with no sun spots, possibly presaging the return of a cooler earth – even, heaven forbid, a period like the “little ice age” of the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries. Naturally, no mention of this happened at Bali.

Source:  http://www.firstthings.com/blog/

Julia

Benedict the Science Guy Challenges ManBearPig

From the Cranmer blog in the UK, which is usually very snarky about Popes and such.

Sunday, December 16, 2007

Pope: Global warming assessment must be based on ‘science not dogma’

It is something of a topsy-turvy world when a pope tells us to base our thinking on ‘science, not dogma’, and doubtless an aggrieved Galileo may feel somewhat vindicated, but here is a man on the world stage who is prepared express doubts about the ‘Green’ movement which is just as dogmatic in its assumptions as any religion. This declaration from the Pope is consistent with the man’s propensity to favour the virtues of rationalism, which he has already applied to interfaith dialogue between Christians and Muslims.

The Roman Catholic Church is not anti-scientific. While its treatment of Galileo may have been acknowledged to have been ‘an error’, Copernicus dedicated his famous heliocentric work, ‘On the Revolution of the Celestial Orbs’, to Pope Paul III. Copernicus then bequeathed this work to Andreas Osiander, a Lutheran clergyman who knew that Protestant reaction to it would be negative, since Luther himself was not favourable to the new theory. And Kepler also found opposition among his fellow Protestants for his heliocentric views, yet found a welcome reception among a group of Jesuits who were noted for their astronomical interests.

And it is the Pope of Rome who is now challenging the orthodoxy of the political aspects of the global warming movement around the world. That, of course, is true acknowledgement of the scientific method: a world apart from the hysteria surrounding the half-baked theories of pseudo-scientists and ignoramuses like Al Gore. Here we have a pope who is defending the protestants of postmodernity, confronting head-on the climate change ‘prophets of doom’ with the warning that any solutions to global warming ‘must be based on firm evidence and not on dubious ideology’.

He dismisses talk of man-made emissions melting the ice caps as ‘scare-mongering’, and demands that assessment ‘be carried out prudently, in dialogue with experts and people of wisdom, uninhibited by ideological pressure to draw hasty conclusions, and above all with the aim of reaching agreement on a model of sustainable development capable of ensuring the well-being of all while respecting environmental balances’.

And now there has been a ‘breakthrough’ in Bali, with the administration of President Bush apparently conceding on the matter and now joined by Australia’s new Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, there is an inexorable spiritual drive to inculcate the population of the world with the worship of Mother Earth, to indoctrinate with the dogma of Gaia, against which the Pope alone declares: ‘Here I stand. I can do no other. God help me.’

posted by Cranmer at 12:10 PM

Source:  http://archbishop-cranmer.blogspot.com/2007/12/it-is-something-of-topsy-turvy-world.html

Smart guy, that Benedict.

Julia

Reality-Based Scientists Have Their Say in Bali

Skeptical Scientists Urge World To ‘Have the Courage to Do Nothing’ At UN Conference

December 11, 2007

From Senator Inohe’s Website – some reality-based scientific info for the Bali meeting.

Posted By Marc Morano – Marc_Morano@EPW.Senate.Gov – 7:45 AM ET

Skeptical Scientists Urge World To ‘Have the Courage to Do Nothing’ At UN Conference

BALI, Indonesia – An international team of scientists skeptical of man-made climate fears promoted by the UN and former Vice President Al Gore, descended on Bali this week to urge the world to "have the courage to do nothing" in response to UN demands.   

Lord Christopher Monckton, a UK climate researcher, had a blunt message for UN climate conference participants on Monday.

"Climate change is a non-problem. The right answer to a non problem is to have the courage to do nothing," Monckton told participants. 

"The UN conference is a complete waste of our time and your money and we should no longer pay the slightest attention to the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change,)" Monckton added. (LINK)

Monckton also noted that the UN has not been overly welcoming to the group of skeptical scientists.   

"UN organizers refused my credentials and appeared desperate that I should not come to this conference. They have also made several attempts to interfere with our public meetings," Monckton explained.

"It is a circus here," agreed Australian scientist Dr. David Evans. Evans is making scientific presentations to delegates and journalists at the conference revealing the latest peer-reviewed studies that refute the UN’s climate claims.

"This is the most lavish conference I have ever been to, but I am only a scientist and I actually only go to the science conferences," Evans said, noting the luxury of the tropical resort. (Note: An analysis by  Bloomberg News on December 6 found:  "Government officials and activists flying to Bali, Indonesia, for the United Nations meeting on climate change will cause as much pollution as 20,000 cars in a year." – LINK)

Evans, a mathematician who did carbon accounting for the Australian government, recently converted to a skeptical scientist about man-made global warming after reviewing the new scientific studies. (LINK)

"We now have quite a lot of evidence that carbon emissions definitely don’t cause global warming.  We have the missing [human] signature [in the atmosphere], we have the IPCC models being wrong and we have the lack of a temperature going up the last 5 years," Evans said in an interview with the Inhofe EPW Press Blog.  Evans authored a November 28 2007 paper "Carbon Emissions Don’t Cause Global Warming." (LINK)

Evans touted a new peer-reviewed study by a team of scientists appearing in the December 2007 issue of the International Journal of Climatology of the Royal Meteorological Society which found "Warming is naturally caused and shows no human influence." (LINK)

"Most of the people here have jobs that are very well paid and they depend on the idea that carbon emissions cause global warming. They are not going to be very receptive to the idea that well actually the science has gone off in a different direction," Evans explained.   

[Inhofe EPW Press Blog Note: Several other recent peer-reviewed studies have cast considerable doubt about man-made global warming fears. For most recent sampling see: New Peer-Reviewed Study finds ‘Solar changes significantly alter climate’ (11-3-07) (LINK) & "New Peer-Reviewed Study Halves the Global Average Surface Temperature Trend 1980 – 2002" (LINK)  & New Study finds Medieval Warm Period ‘0.3C Warmer than 20th Century’ (LINK) For a more comprehensive sampling of peer-reviewed studies earlier in 2007 see "New Peer-Reviewed Scientific Studies Chill Global Warming Fears" LINK ]

‘IPCC is unsound’

UN IPCC reviewer and climate researcher Dr. Vincent Gray of New Zealand, an expert reviewer on every single draft of the IPCC reports since its inception going back to 1990, had a clear message to UN participants.

"There is no evidence that carbon dioxide increases are having any effect whatsoever on the climate," Gray, who shares in the Nobel Prize awarded to the UN IPCC, explained. (LINK)

"All the science of the IPCC is unsound. I have come to this conclusion after a very long time.  If you examine every single proposition of the IPCC thoroughly, you find that the science somewhere fails," Gray, who wrote the book "The Greenhouse Delusion: A Critique of "Climate Change 2001," said.

"It fails not only from the data, but it fails in the statistics, and the mathematics," he added.

‘Dangerous time for science’

Evans, who believes the UN has heavily politicized science, warned there is going to be a "dangerous time for science" ahead.

"We have a split here. Official science driven by politics, money and power, goes in one direction. Unofficial science, which is more determined by what is actually happening with the [climate] data, has now started to move off in a different direction" away from fears of a man-made climate crisis, Evans explained.

"The two are splitting. This is always a dangerous time for science and a dangerous time for politics. Historically science always wins these battles but there can be a lot of causalities and a lot of time in between," he concluded.

Carbon trading ‘fraud?’

New Zealander Bryan Leland of the International Climate Science Coalition warned participants that all the UN promoted discussions of "carbon trading" should be viewed with suspicion.

"I am an energy engineer and I know something about electricity trading and I know enough about carbon trading and the inaccuracies of carbon trading to know that carbon trading is more about fraud than it is about anything else," Leland said. 

"We should probably ask why we have 10,000 people here [in Bali] in a futile attempt to ‘solve’ a [climate] problem that probably does not exist," Leland added.

‘Simply not work’

Owen McShane, the head of the International Climate Science Coalition, also worried that a UN promoted global approach to economics would mean financial ruin for many nations.

"I don’t think this conference can actually achieve anything because it seems to be saying that we are going to draw up one protocol for every country in the world to follow," McShane said. (LINK)

"Now these countries and these economies are so diverse that trying to presume you can put all of these feet into one shoe will simply not work," McShane explained.   

"Having the same set of rules apply to everybody will blow some economies apart totally while others will be unscathed and I wouldn’t be surprised if the ones who remain unscathed are the ones who write the rules," he added.

‘Nothing happening at this conference’

Professor Dr. William Alexander, emeritus of the University of Pretoria in South Africa and a former member of the United Nations Scientific and Technical Committee on Natural Disasters, warned poor nations and their residents that the UN policies could mean more poverty and thus more death.

"My message is specifically for the poor people of Africa. And there is nothing happening at this conference that can help them one little bit but there is the potential that they could be damaged," Alexander said. (LINK)

"The government and people of Africa will have their attention drawn to reducing climate change instead of reducing poverty," Alexander added.

Related Links:

New UN Children’s Book Promotes Global Warming Fears to Kids (11-13-2006)

Scientists Counter AP Article Promoting Computer Model Climate Fears

New Peer-Reviewed Scientific Studies Chill Global Warming Fears

Newsweek Editor Calls Mag’s Global Warming ‘Deniers’ Article ‘Highly Contrived’

Newsweek’s Climate Editorial Screed Violates Basic Standards of Journalism

Latest Scientific Studies Refute Fears of Greenland Melt

EPA to Probe E-mail Threatening to ‘Destroy’ Career of Climate Skeptic

Prominent Scientists Reverse Belief in Man-made Global Warming – Now Skeptics

Senator Inhofe declares climate momentum shifting away from Gore (The Politico op ed)

Scientific Smackdown: Skeptics Voted The Clear Winners Against Global Warming Believers in Heated NYC Debate

Global Warming on Mars & Cosmic Ray Research Are Shattering Media Driven "Consensus’

Global Warming: The Momentum has Shifted to Climate Skeptics

Prominent French Scientist Reverses Belief in Global Warming – Now a Skeptic

Top Israeli Astrophysicist Recants His Belief in Manmade Global Warming – Now Says Sun Biggest Factor in Warming

Warming On Jupiter, Mars, Pluto, Neptune’s Moon & Earth Linked to Increased Solar Activity, Scientists Say

Panel of Broadcast Meteorologists Reject Man-Made Global Warming Fears- Claim 95% of Weathermen Skeptical

MIT Climate Scientist Calls Fears of Global Warming ‘Silly’ – Equates Concerns to ‘Little Kids’ Attempting to "Scare Each Other"

Weather Channel TV Host Goes ‘Political’- Stars in Global Warming Film Accusing U.S. Government of ‘Criminal Neglect’

Weather Channel Climate Expert Calls for Decertifying Global Warming Skeptics

ABC-TV Meteorologist: I Don’t Know A Single Weatherman Who Believes ‘Man-Made Global Warming Hype’

The Weather Channel Climate Expert Refuses to Retract Call for Decertification for Global Warming Skeptics

Senator Inhofe Announces Public Release Of "Skeptic’s Guide To Debunking Global Warming"

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Julia

More from the Environmentalist Wackos

On Saturday a bunch of environmenatlist wackos protested at Peabody Coal’s Headquarters in downtown St. Louis.   They are protesting a power plant that will be developed in Washington County, Illinois.  The Power plat will be state of the art and will have %80 less emissions that most of the other power plants in the country using coal.  The technology for coal power plants have steadily been getting more a more  clean, but these people want to stop the progress of the economy.  They want clean power, but will not let people use Nuclear Power plant, and the new coal powre plants that are very clean. 

Protesters fight Peabody’s coal plant plans

Peabody says their criticism is overblown

BY SCOTT WUERZ

News-Democrat

       

 

ST. LOUIS —

  —

A
group of about 50 protesters organized by the Sierra Club chanted and
waved signs in the shadow of Peabody Energy’s headquarters in downtown
St. Louis on Saturday.

They were protesting plans for Peabody’s
Prairie State Energy Campus, a coal-fired power plant to be built near
Lively Grove in Washington County that environmentalists argue will
pollute the air and water in Southern Illinois.

But Peabody
representatives say the criticism is overblown and that the plant is
part of a new generation of power stations that are more
environmentally friendly. They said it will release 80 percent less
emissions — including 15 percent less carbon dioxide — into the
atmosphere than older plants.

"Peabody claims the Prairie State
Energy Campus will be cheaper and more efficient," said Kathy Andria of
the American Bottoms Conservancy. "It’s cheaper for them, but what is
the cost for the environment?"

Andria said that the Prairie State
campus will use massive amounts of water a year from the already low
Kaskaskia River and that it is expected to release 280 pounds of
mercury into the atmosphere a year when a quarter-teaspoon is enough to
contaminate an entire lake. She said the plant will produce a 15-story
tall pile a hazardous waste.

Peabody spokeswoman Beth Sutton said
environmentalists have turned to protests after efforts to stop the
plant through the courts failed.

"The project’s state-of-the-art
environmental controls are affirmed through a recent unanimous decision
by the U.S. 7th (Circuit) Court (of Appeals) and confirmed by the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency and the Illinois Environmental
Protection Agency following an extensive public review process," Sutton
said. "The vast majority of local residents are Prairie State
advocates, and more than 800 supporters celebrated the project’s
groundbreaking in October."

Sutton said construction on the plant
is already under way and that it is expected to be in operation by
2012. It is expected to employ up to 2,300 during construction and
about 500 when it opens.

Neighbors Virginia Wojtkowski and Mike
Murphy spoke against the plant at the rally. They accused Peabody of
hiding the true impact of the energy campus from neighbors and said
they worry about their children growing up near the plant and drinking
the water from their tap.

"We can’t give up just because they’re bigger than us," Wojtkowski said.

The
protesters said coal is a major contributor to global warming and that
no more coal-fired power plants should be allowed to be built.

But
Sutton said that’s not practical because demands for electricity are at
an all-time high. She said Peabody is committed to continuing to make
coal power plants cleaner for the future.

Contact reporter Scott Wuerz at swuerz@bnd.com or 239-2626.      

Crossposted at Grizzly Goundswell

We are all going to die part 13,223,345

The world is dying, at least that is what some of the environmentalists wackos are saying.  The Seas are changing and it is our fault and a third of all the species that are alive today are going to go extinct. Also the seas are going to rise and flood people all over the world and disease and starvation is going to occur.  You got to love the scare tactics of these people, makes you think that they may even believe in this stuff.

Still if AlGore can just find Manbearpig, we can live in peace ant tranquility

UN Panel Gives Dire Warming Forecast
Nov 17, 11:11 PM (ET)

By ARTHUR MAX

VALENCIA, Spain (AP) – Global warming is "unequivocal" and carbon
dioxide already in the atmosphere commits the world to an eventual rise
in sea levels of up to 4.6 feet, the world’s top climate experts warned
Saturday in their most authoritative report to date.

"Only urgent, global action will do," said U.N. Secretary-General Ban
Ki-moon, calling on the United States and China – the world’s two
biggest polluters – to do more to slow global climate change.

"I look forward to seeing the U.S. and China playing a more
constructive role," Ban told reporters. "Both countries can lead in
their own way."

Ban, however, advised against assigning blame.

Climate
change imperils "the most precious treasures of our planet," he said,
and the effects are "so severe and so sweeping that only urgent global
action will do. We are all in this together. We must work together."

According to the U.N. panel of scientists, whose latest report is a
synthesis of three previous ones, enough carbon dioxide already has
built up that it imperils islands, coastlines and a fifth to two-thirds
of the world’s species.

As early as 2020, 75 million to 250 million people in Africa will
suffer water shortages, residents of Asia’s large cities will be at
great risk of river and coastal flooding, according to the report.

Europeans can expect extensive species loss, and North Americans will
experience longer and hotter heat waves and greater competition for
water, says the report from the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change, which shared the Nobel Prize with Al Gore this year.— My Way News

California Wildfires and Hurricanes

Sometimes Camille Paglia of Slate on-line magazine is right-on.  Here she is about the wildfires in California that famous people are using to promote Man-Bear-Pig:

The recent horrific wildfires in California set off a gratuitous series of maunderings (from Jamie Lee Curtis to Thomas Friedman) about human culpability in global warming, the new liberal theology. Man is evil! Natural disasters are escalating! The world is coming to an end!

Good lord, were all these people in a coma through the gigantic storms like Hurricane Camille in 1969? The destruction wrought by that Category 5 storm is chronicled in Philip D. Hearn’s book, "Hurricane Camille: Monster Storm of the Gulf Coast," published three years ago. With winds of 200 miles per hour, Camille devastated 26 miles of Mississippi’s coastline and killed 170 people. The tidal surge reached 35 feet, while the barometric pressure approached an all-time low. One of my prized possessions is a poster torn from a London newsstand (I was traveling as a grad student in Europe): "HURRICANE CAMILLE WREAKS HAVOC!"

Hurricanes in the early 20th century were numerous and hugely destructive: For example, the 1926 Miami hurricane may have killed 800 people; the 1935 Florida Keys hurricane, a Category 5, killed more than 400 and was dramatized in the Humphrey Bogart film "Key Largo"; the Great New England hurricane of 1938 killed 600. The latter storm hit Long Island and the New England coastline with a 12- to 16-foot storm surge and catastrophically flooded downtown Providence, R.I. Among the large beachfront homes completely swept away was Katharine Hepburn’s family house in Old Saybrook, Conn. Hepburn barely escaped with her life. All that was left was the bathtub and some family silver buried in the sand.

This facile attribution of climate change to human agency is an act of hubris. Good stewardship of the environment is an ethical imperative for every nation. But breast-beating hysteria merely betrays impious tunnel vision. Thousands of factors, minute and grand, are at work in cyclic climate change, whose long-term outcomes we cannot possibly predict. Nature should inspire us with awe, not pity.

Meanwhile, here’s someone with my mystic view of nature’s stormy operations: It’s the phenomenal guitar wizard Stevie Ray Vaughan (who tragically died in a helicopter crash in 1990), performing in Melbourne, Australia. Try to ignore the bumptious host and his pink pal, and listen to the dialogue between Vaughan’s fractured, fibrous, undulating guitar line and his tormented lyrics, with their ominous imagery of rolling clouds: "It’s flooding down in Texas/ All the telephone lines are down…" 

Source:  http://www.salon.com/opinion/paglia/2007/11/14/hillary/index1.html

Julia 

A new villian for the Nutroots

So we have hear that Global Warning is to blame for the fires in California, and partly to blame for Bush because of all the equipment and National Guard in Iraq and Afghanistan.  But the real culpret is Blackwater.  See they wanted to build a training facility in San Diego, so of course to show the people in California who is boss, they set the fire close to where they want to build their center.   Ok , now to get the Tinfoils hats out and listen to the DUmmies talk amongst themselves about how Blackwater is taking over the country.  And I am sure that Darth Rove, Dick Cheney and The Chimp in Chief have got to have something to do with this also.

Crossposted at Grizzly Groundswell

Rhodes "Scholars" Discuss Blackwater & California Fires

In yesterday’s DUFU EDITION
we saw how Randi Rhodes suggested that Blackwater started the
California fires. Today we shall read how Randi’s fans, the Rhodes
"Scholars" on her official message board, agree with their Bloody Mary
guzzling heroine. Their tinfoil hat rantings can be seen in this THREAD
titled, "Blackwater trying to set up in California." So let us now
watch the Rhodes "Scholars" fall face down on the sidewalk with their
conspiracy theories in Bolshevik Red while the commentary of your
humble correspondent, wondering if guzzling down 14 Bloody Marys will
make it into the Guinness Book of Records, is in the [brackets]:

Blackwater trying to set up in California,

[Randi trying to sit up on the pavement,]

Blackwater
USA, the private right-wing mercenary army that has spiraled out of
control in Iraq, is trying to set up a para-military base right here in
California, populated by 360 staff and "students." They want to acquire
824 acres of land in a sleepy rural corner of San Diego County to build
a mercenary training facility, consisting of 15 firing ranges, a
helipad, and a heavy vehicle operator’s course covering the equivalent
of 10 football fields….

[And don’t forget the Olympic size waterboarding pool.]

Did the rep say the fires started in Potrero?

[Case closed…GUILTY!!!]

Yes and either at or NEAR the facility Blackwater is trying to set up their training facility:

[GUILTY! GUILTY! GUILTY!]

I thought blackwater was involved in this. I called it a couple of days ago.

[You’re so clever that you even beat Randi to the fortified punch.]

Does anyone know the names of the "scary" books that Randi mentioned on the show today? One was about Blackwater.

[The other was Grimm’s Fairy Tales.]

Respectfully
I would wait for more information. You also thought Randi was the
victim of a right-wing hate attack and well … you know how that went.

[Randi Rhodes was the victim of 14 angry right-wing Bloody Marys.]

We don’t need to continue pushing conspiracy theories. There is NO evidence right now to support that at this time.

[Too bad Randi isn’t taking your advice. However, she will take your Bloody Mary mix recipe.]

wow…. this is getting weirder and weirder. It’s like someone has waged war on us.

[14 Bloody Marys should calm you down all the way to the sidewalk.]

I have to admit, when I heard about the fire starting in Potrero I thought, "Hmm. How convenient."

[Spaketh the Wildfire Truther.]

Last
night Mike Malloy mentioned that he has a suspicion that these fires
were set and he said that sounds conspiratorial but after all the years
under bushco, truth is scarce and at a premium these days. Mike Malloy
also said the wildfires can be used as a great distraction…but this
story puts a whole new twist on it.

[All Air America radio hosts come equipped with heavy duty tinfoil hats.]

You
know, we might be wrong to suspect Blackwater, but that is how crimes
are solved, although in this present day Bizarro world, bushco would
have us believe we are crazy for thinking such a thing. That’s exactly
how they want it, but all crimes have SUSPECTS and LEADS and INFORMANTS
and HUNCHES!!! So we should not feel guilty for one milisecond about
suspecting Blackwater.

[And all you have to go on are SUPECTS and HUNCHES since there are no LEADS and INFORMANTS.]

It’s
called "brainstorming". Let the hunches flow, then start connecting the
dots. Sometimes the most bizarre hunch is the one that unlocks the
door!

[I have a bizarre hunch that your brain is covered with lots of disconnecting dots.]

Before
we go declaring all sorts of sinister motivations and plots, lets take
a lesson from Ms. Rhodes’ recent injuries and wait for an announcement.
It would be a little embarrasing to go through it all again just to
find that some poor soul just picked the wrong time and wrong place to
decide to try and smoke a Marlboro Cigarette.

[No. Let’s take a lesson from Ms. Rhodes’ who claimed in an e-mail to Air America that she was MUGGED.]

also
there are apparently some blackwater on governor terminatior"s
staff…has the gov decided that the black shirts are the ss of
amerikas future?? and he wants to be the photo op symbol of their
muscle…no no that would just be too much self absorption…wouldnt it
rush …arnold after all smokes 10,000$ worth of havana cigars a
month…hes one of us!!! yay yey…look whio we hang out with
BLACKWATER AND THE TERMINATOR…SEIG HEIL!!!

[Working on Bloody Mary #15?]

So
it makes one wonder if it wasn’t Blackwater who had this done (I’m sure
they’ll be able to keep their hands clean – hired someone. Wouldn’t
even be surprised if they hired someone who will soon be found dead. Or
maybe is dead already – killed in the fire don’t you know).

[They
hired the same team that set the demolition charges on the Twin Towers
(and WTC7). That group knows how to keep their mouths shut.]

Of
course Blackwater (or those that have a vested interest in Blackwater)
set the fires. How many "convenient coincidences" like this will it
take for Americans to finally wake up an realize that it has been an
"inside job" before (and including) 911 all along. How many civil
liberties must we loose before we pull our heads out of the sand and
realize that we are under siege by the powers that be in our
government? And more importantly, what is "before it is too late" –
what the hell are we going to do about it?! Anything we do in an
attempt to protect this country and restore our civil liberties will be
construed as "terrorism" and then Blackwater will simply do what their
being paid for and kill us.

[How long before Alex Jones starts hawking "Cali Wildfires Was An Inside Job" T-shirts?]

With
everything we’ve seen in the last few years would it really surprise
anyone that Blackwater hired someone to set fires to get what they
want? After all, for Prince, it’s not just money – he’s on a mission
from God. People’s homes and the deaths of a few mean nothing in the
larger realm of things. If they get what they want, it means that they
can build their new facility, grow their private army and achieve their
dream of a private navy and air force as well. The will become the
world’s largest private Mercenary force and can help those who are now
trying to take over the world (BushCo, Carlyle, et al) in their quest.
They will have no need of borders or governments. Sure, sounds like
some sort of thriller novel but, as they say, truth is ALLways stranger
than fiction.

[And the way
David Baldacci has been buying into loony left conspiracy theories, it
wouldn’t surprise me a bit if his next novel is based on this theme. I
hope they serve Bloody Marys at his book party.]

As
a trained arson investigator, I would like to point out that, if it
determined that the fire is arson, you look for suspects who have
motive, means and opportunity. Unless they find a ranting lunatic fire
bug, Black Water is the top of the list. That they are such an
unethical bunch of dirtbags does not say anything to rule them out,
either.

[Based on NO evidence, I say "GUITY!!!"]

Who are these investigators? Who decides and hires them?

[Blackwater of course. Hee! Hee!]

DUmmies FUnnies

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