Flatlanders…

Don’t even get me started on her alluding to having oxygen only the really lame Japanese tourists take oxygen with them and everyone else snickers at them, if she is climbing taking some hits of oxygen when the cameras are off she is totally cheating.

The glaciers are melting because Kili and the Iceland area where Al is are ACTIVE volcanoes so the heat is coming from inside the earth due to natural geothermal energy there for thousands of years not some man-made reason. That is why they have the hot springs like the blue lagoon in Iceland.

Meredith is in Sydney. Bet that in covering the drought there she’ll forget to mention that such severe droughts are a recurring event in Australia and that the current drought is felt more because of a failure to develop additional infrastructure with which they could better cope.

Matt is in Belize scuba diving to hit on the deaths of coral reefs — the oceans are getting hot and killing all the reefs, don’t you know.

Ann, of course, we already know is trekking up Kilimanjaro. Doubt she’ll ever say anything about how the decreasing ice is more a result of man’s impact on the microclimate through deforestation and has nothing to do with AGW.

And Al is reporting from Iceland – fire and ice. Bet he’ll be covering geothermal energy. Perhaps a word or two about melting glaciers will get fit in as well.

And all the while this week we’ll be getting the green bird from GE. They’ll probably be another company to queue up to Washington for some of that bail-out money.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/11/081112113708.htm

I see the ‘Blogosphere’ is starting to get all the ‘excuses’ ready as they watch global temperatures start their rise again, good old conspiracy theories always find their way out.
Kim, despite your insistance of a La Nina developing because all the signs you want to see say it will, it isn’t happening. All the signs are suggesting an El Nino developing later next year, kind of scuppers your PDO -ive causing global cooling doesn’t it?

I’m 56, and should probably have recognized Evan’s reference, since I am ready enough to be appalled at other people’s ignorance of WW II and other history. Thanks for the refresher. I also appreciated Cordell Hull’s “diplomacy” in response to the waiting Japanese Ambassadors (who were unaware of the attack) on the Pearl Harbor attack. From Wiki:

‘In all my fifty years of public service,’ he told the astonished diplomats, ‘I have never seen such a document that was more crowded with infamous falsehood and distortion.’ Nomura and Kurusu, who had not been told of the attack, bowed themselves out in an embarrassed fluster. A department official overheard Hull muttering under his breath as the door closed, ‘Scoundrels and piss-ants

@Bill P
Sorry, I’m a good 4 hour bus ride south of Kili and can’t see it. I’ve only been to Moshi a half dozen times in the two years I’ve lived in Tanzania and seen the mountain maybe 3 times due to clouds. I will note that this year was considerably cooler than last year and the coolness lasted longer (thank God! I thought I would die last year!). Of course, I don’t have even a cheapo thermometer so I can’t report actual temps, just how I felt.

A couple more interesting links:
Earth would freeze without AGW:
http://www.physorg.com/news145725882.html

Doubt about AGW caused amphibian die-off:
http://www.physorg.com/news145707986.html