Yeah... About That Global Warming Thing...

From the Washington Examiner:

A leaked report by the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says that the world is not warming but actually cooling, and will continue to get colder until the middle of the century.

Yeah. That's right. Been sayin' it for years.

And there's this, from the UK Guardian:

If correct, it would contradict computer forecasts of imminent catastrophic warming. The news comes several years after the BBC predicted that the arctic would be ice-free by 2013.

What I want to know is... are these the same people that told us in the '80s  and early '90sthat there would be no more rainforest left by the year 2000?

And more importantly, why do we keep listening to these "experts?"

Climate Change Kills

From the Austrailian:

A NEW study has vindicated Aboriginal people over the extinction of Australia's megafauna, finding wild climate fluctuations killed off most of the giant species well before humans arrived.

Climate change is gonna kill us all! We're all gonna die!!!! The humpback whales! The rainforests! Rising oceans!!!!!!

Wait.... climate change was happening and affecting the the environment thousands and thousands of years ago before humans could have possibly caused it?

Well, golly. I wonder if that could still happen today?  

Probably not. I'm sure we'd know about it if the climate was cyclical and changed on its own due to natural forces, right? The news and the politicians and the trusted environmentalists surely would've told us about something like that, right?

Right?

Stupid, Stupid Kids.

Maybe Dinosaurs Are The Real Problem

From Discovery News:

A sudden change in the Atlantic Gulf Stream, which new research has linked to the mass extinction of dinosaurs, may happen again, many scientists fear.

Wait. Hold the phone. All of my adult life, I've been told that a meteor hitting the Earth caused the dinosaurs to die out. They even found the place in the Gulf of Mexico where the meteor hit!

A popular theory concerning the extinction of dinosaurs is that a sudden, external event, such as an asteroid hit or volcano eruption, led to the dino demise. But new research, published in Nature Geoscience and the journal Geology, argues climate was more to blame. The research determined that the greenhouse climate of the Cretaceous period experienced a sudden drop in global temperatures.

Oh, okay. Wait. So global cooling caused the dinosaurs to die out?

Hold the phone. I'm confused. So the Earth was really crazy hot millions of years ago? It's probably because of all the Dinosaurs using incandescent lightbulbs and driving around in SUVs. So then they all got Priuses and started being concerned about their carbon footprint and the Earth cooled, killing them all? Bummer.

It's estimated that the first big Cretaceous temperature drop occurred 137 million years ago and caused ocean temperatures to plummet to as low as 4 degrees centigrade. It is hard to imagine such a dramatic ocean cooling now, given global warming, but climate change is believed to cause extreme shifts of all kinds, from harsher than normal storms to this type of major ocean temperature shift.

Sure. It's hard to imagine now, given global warming... Wait. So then the Earth wasn't crazy hot when the dinosaurs lived? Like, hotter then it is now so that the whole Earth was like one big jungle? Or maybe it was just normal hot, kinda like a refreshing spring day,and then BOOM! it got cooler and the dinosaurs all died? I'm confused. Even if it wasn't CRAZY hot - even if it was just NORMAL hot like it is now - the Earth still cooled somehow enough to kill off all the dinosaurs, right? So Even if it was normal hot, then it's completely possible, right? And if it was crazy hot - like hotter then it is now - and it happened and killed off all the dinosaurs, then even with "global warming" it would still be possible, right? I mean, if it happened, it happened. And the very first paragraph of the story said scientists are afraid it might happen again, right? So what's all this nonsense about "...given global warming..."?

Price said, "At certain times in the geological past, the world has been dominated by greenhouse conditions with elevated CO2 levels and warm Polar Regions, and hence, these are seen as analogues of future global climate."

“But this research suggests that for short periods of time, the Earth plunged back to colder temperatures, which not only poses interesting questions in terms of how the dinosaurs might have coped, but also over the nature of climate change itself.”

So climate change happened by itself without humans millions of years ago? Several times? Wow. The way everybody is freaking out, you'd think it was brand new and never happened before. Ever.

One thing that I've noticed:warming seems to be tied somehow to dinosaurs. I mean, it was really warm when dinosaurs lived. Now we use dinosaur bones and such to fuel all kinds of things and make petroleum and plastics and whatnot, right? So maybe dinosaurs just naturally make things warm.

Stupid, confusing dinosaurs.

Thanks to Melissa B. for passing this along.

January was the Hottest Ever

From the UK Express:

Climate scientists yesterday stunned Britons suffering the coldest winter for 30 years by claiming last month was the hottest January the world has ever seen.

The remarkable claim, based on global satellite data, follows Arctic temperatures that brought snow, ice and travel chaos to millions in the UK.

At the height of the big freeze, the entire country was blanketed in snow. But Australian weather expert Professor Neville Nicholls, of Monash University in Melbourne, said yesterday: “January, according to satellite data, was the hottest January we’ve ever seen.
“Last November was the hottest November we’ve ever seen. November-January as a whole is the hottest November-January the world has seen.” Veteran climatologist Professor Nicholls was speaking at an online climate change briefing, added: “It’s not warming the same everywhere but it is really quite challenging to find places that haven’t warmed in the past 50 years.”

This is why fewer and fewer people are believing "climate scientists" regarding global warming - because we all know that, at least in the United States, we've had one of the coldest, most harsh winters ever. And we're still going through it.

My heating bill also tells me otherwise.

Tit and Tat on Global Warming

Interesting back and forth side-by-side comparison of the Global Warming debate.

Canada's Solution: Killing Your Kids is the Answer

The Canadians seem to have all the answers, don't they?

This, from the Financial Post:

A planetary law, such as China's one-child policy, is the only way to reverse the disastrous global birthrate currently, which is one million births every four days.

Yeah, that one-child law has really worked for China, hasn't it? It leads the world in population with 1.3 billion people. The U.S. is third on the list with only 308 million. Once again, some socialist is telling us we need to emulate a failed (and immoral) system in order to save the world. Canada could help out the world population in a couple of generations to the tune of 34 million people if they simply quit reproducing. No kids killed in that instance- just none born.

This is exactly why we neither listen to socialists or Canada, kids.

Climategate

I won't rehash this piece from the UK Telegraph, but it's definitely worth a read. It pretty well sums up the problem that the Global Warming crowd is having right now since it was exposed by a hacker last week that even they know that their data doesn't support global warming theories. A tale of data suppression and data manipulation...

The sky is not falling, but the nuts are.

Do Your Part For Climate Change

As part of Blog Action Day, I'd like to officially encourage you to do some things you're probably not doing already:
• recycle
• pick up your trash
• get outside more
• ride your bike or go for a walk
• be a good neighbor
• meet your neighbor
• help the elderly
• be patriotic
• use a trash can instead of the sidewalk or my front lawn
• hug your kids and spend a little time with them
• turn off the TV
• eat real honest-to-God sugar instead of high fructose corn syrup
• read a book

and, perhaps most importantly,

• get involved in your own life.

Most of those things are things that any good Boy Scout knows to do. Basically, unplug yourself and be a part of the world around you. Live the way your grandparents lived. Live a more simple life.

Forget the propaganda about global warming. It's crap and junk science. The kind of climate change I'm talking about is the climate around you - your family, your friends, your kids, your neighbors, your community and yourself. You want to make a difference in the world? That's the way to do it. Make your own personal ecosystem better.

Every town could be Mayberry if only the people who live there expect more of themselves and their neighbors. Hold each other accountable, and don't be afraid to take someone to task for something they do wrong. Have pride in yourself and your community. Be respectful. Be tolerant. No one is perfect, but giving up and refusing to even try to be a decent person is unacceptable. It's also, unfortunately, widely accepted in today's world. The "who am I to criticize what they're doing" mentality that has crept into our society in the past forty years or so is a prime culprit for what suddenly went wrong with our culture and our society. When people didn't allow just anything to go in their communities there was less crime, less pollution and more community.

And be aware. Be aware of what's being shoved down your throat every day. The prime culprit is the government, whether it be local municipalities, the civic association, the state legislative body, or the federal government. Every day, we're being told that we can't do this or we're being told exactly how we have to do that. Our liberties and our rights are being stripped from us in tiny bites. We swallow each bite and are force-fed the next bit. We look back twenty years and realize we've eaten half an elephant. Before we know it, it will be the whole thing.

So on this Blog Action Day, don't try to cram some agenda down someone's throat (and don't swallow someone else's agenda, either). Quit trying to force people to be or do things they aren't. Instead, look in the mirror and try to make the world a better, cleaner place. People are basically good, and I believe that most people want to be good, decent people. Don't try to change the whole world all at once. Start with your world and lead by being a role model and a positive example. It doesn't take long to make a real difference in the local, national and world climate that way.







Now, give me my damn Nobel peace prize.

Happy Blog Action Day

It's Blog Action Day.

According to the Blog Action Day website:

"Blog Action Day is an annual event held every October 15 that unites the world’s bloggers in posting about the same issue on the same day with the aim of sparking discussion around an issue of global importance. Blog Action Day 2009 will be one of the largest-ever social change events on the web."

So I'm going to be posting about global warming a little later on today. Start popping the popcorn now.

Arctic now warmest in 2000 years, researchers say

Bullshit.

Another recent headline:

"New Reports Show Global Cooling Trend"

Which is it? I'm so weary of the global warming hysteria. It's a scare tactic to control behavior and push an agenda. Plain and simple.

Remember twenty years ago when people were freaking out and claiming that all the rain forests would be gone within five or ten years? Yeah. According to Google Earth, they're still there.