Two comments:
1. You have to see this to understand some mind sets regarding “global warming”.
2. I didn’t know trains still ran on time at the end of the world.
(h/t to Paul Biggs of Celestial Junk)
Two comments:
1. You have to see this to understand some mind sets regarding “global warming”.
2. I didn’t know trains still ran on time at the end of the world.
(h/t to Paul Biggs of Celestial Junk)
I think if the moderators want to keep some form of credability they should ensure that any Nazi references are removed asap.
Reply: Godwin’s Law aside, in my opinion, which may be overruled by Anthony, the comparison of use of propaganda to mold populations’ opinion is an appropriate comparison and worthy of discussion. I would appreciate it if the references and arguments about body counts, DDT etc. stop, no matter how relevant the posters feel they are. ~ charles the moderator.
Now this is alarmism that I could get behind: We have not eliminated the threat of killer asteroids or the sun going nova or a black hole mysteriously appearing in near-earth space.
Our Friend the Polar Bear
I don’t think the seal thought the polar bear was very cuddly.
And from sunny Southern California: click
No propaganda, just data. Record lows are falling in the Pacific and Inland Northwest, and since 1928 in some places. I would wager that California has a few records as well. Record snows are also falling. I know where that polar bear is swimming to. Off the coast of Oregon. Maybe we can recruit them to eat a few sea lions.
http://www.weather.gov/climate/index.php?wfo=pdt
DAMNED global warming! It’s getting so warm my refrigerator quit making ice. Why? Cause it didn’t need to!!!!!
Hunter: “When AGW true believers cannot engage past ‘denier’, it is clear evidence one is not dealing with a thought-driven person.”
Or when “deniers” can’t engage past “AGW true believers”. Or, for that matter: “…brainwashed (and brain-dead)…climate brownshirts…AGW Cult…hysteria… insane… paranoia, delusion and mass hysteria.”
So which one of these epithets is clear evidence of a thought-driven person?
Reply: Valid points, everybody try and reign in the insults and defamatory characterizations please. ~ charles the moderator.
Novoburgo: “As bad as the Third Reich was, it will be a mere footnote in history if this monolith of self loathing, anti-capitalism is not stopped.”
Sounds alarming, although the anti-capitalist claim is not shared by other sceptics: “Pretending to be a liberal activist is a truly excellent way to make money these days, in a capitalistic manner. Ask multimillionaires Moore and Gore, the leading role models.”
So is AGW a get-rich capitalist scheme or a get-poor socialist scheme?
current temperature: -24 deg C
historical average: -9 deg C
And its still 15 deg C warmer now, than a few days ago!
Dear Anthony and all,
Here in Portugal we’ve been seeing this crap for some time, as Rui above says… It makes me ashamed of being Portuguese. The best part of the video is that these guys of Quercus don’t appear in it, so I guess they’re not going to make it till the end. Or maybe they will, in some green shelter…
Saying this, it’s more of an incentive to keep on maintaining a skeptical blog in Portuguese. Get the correct message out there. Loud and clear.
Ecotretas
About that “brutally hot” year 2008 in eastern Siberia. According to the map the maximum anomaly was 3,7 degrees centigrade in Yakutia. That would mean for example the following annual averages in:
Yakutsk 20 F (-6 C)
Verchoyansk 10 F (-11 C)
Oymyakon 8 F (-13 C)
I don’t think either the people or the environment suffered too badly.
I live in Bellevue WA, just East of Seattle. Having been given a repreive from all the snow North and South of us for the last week, it finally dumped 8 inches of natures beauty on us last night. Needing BEER, I “de-snowed” my new 4×4 Crew Cab truck and went to the store without incedent. While going and coming I pasted several vehicles that were going “no where”. It must have been Mother Nature’s way of giving Al Gore and the Greenie’s the finger!
I refrained myself.
Freezing Finn (11:39:11) :
… and after a few drinks they turned into the man-bear-roo…
Lol! Excellent! I knew someone would be able to give a punchline!
Brendan: your
So is AGW a get-rich capitalist scheme or a get-poor socialist scheme?
The correct answer is “YES”.
Peden and Douglas,
With the three of us on the blog, that means that there must be what, 10 people watching TV and the other 10 in the tavern drinking beer in Wallowa County. Which is what I will be doing if I can make it there by Friday night. By the way Peden, if you want you can drive by the old house. On the way from the Lake to Lostine, turn right on Jim Town road (named after my g-grandfather) then drive one mile and turn left on Clark Lane (named after my grandfather). The big house and barn is where I live during the weekends, vacation days, and summers. I live in the house, not the barn. Barn owls live there. And a few marmots I haven’t killed yet. And some pigeons that have escaped the local boys’ BB guns and 22’s. The bigger structures were built in 1883 and stood in Lostine. After a railroad argument, my g-grandfather moved 6 buildings out of town to where the railroad depot was located and then added on to the house and barn. The blacksmith shop by the road (that is about ready to fall down) was one of the original shops in Lostine. I have the fire billows (a very large thing that I can hardly lift let alone work).
As for snow at Wallowa Lake, a lot of the structures you see now were built during the warmer period this last century. If snow, cold, and glaciers are making a comeback, there will be an Exodus out of Wallowa County. Peden, the lake moraine is not the only one in Wallowa County. Do you know where the other one is?
We got a shovel load of snow today! I was supposed to go to Walla Walla but they got even more snow than we did so I stayed home this afternoon. Pendleton District stayed open today (dumb, dumb, dumb) while every other district around us closed for the day. I am betting we will be closed tomorrow. This is more snow than I even remember as a child in Pendleton.
Here I thought it was a Coke commercial!
Personally, I found the video hilarious, as sort of a mini “The Day After Tomorrow”. I’m hoping the eco-preachy “The Day the Earth Stood Still” is as (unintentionally) funny, and that South Park will come up with another side-splitting parody.
Honestly, I am concerned about evanjones.
“um abraço especial para todos que usam o código secreto chamado língua portuguesa.”
de nada
FYI
Vou estar no Rio durante três semanas, a partir de 9 de janeiro.
Welcome: Jeez
many brahmas
you have my e-mail … we are the orders.
FM
George E. Smith
“Well we have ourselves a whole bunch of new clowns to entertain us. When everybody you know and associate with is either a crook, or a terrorist, or an America hating racist; and suddenly you need to hire some gofers to help you change the world; well you have nobody to turn to but the same old Clinton bunch of hoodlums we already got used to.
Yep change we already got used to.”
The incoming circus will have the most expensive clowns, ever. It is billed as a sequel to Back To The Future, called Back To The Clintons. The plot is based on the politics of Chicago in the environs of the Beltway with the resulting national and international convoluted intrigues.
Ridiculous video foisted upon the uneducated masses.
Fernando, you are in Sao Paolo yes? I don’t think I’ll make it that far, unless you promise to put me up for a couple of days.
Ed Scott said
“Wayne
Don’t blame the OWS weather guy. Blame his computer.”
Whos blaming, he called this event back on Dec. 8th and I was waiting for it, the prediction was pretty accurate.
Kudos to the site, Anthony. I enjoy the candor and your passion for the details that most “scientists” seem to overlook. By the way, you have a good last name, too.
I also saw this http://green.msn.com/Home/Global-Warming-Mythbusters/?gt1=45002 pop up on the msn home page earlier today. I checked again to post it here in the comments, as it seems highly relevant (more propagandist nonsense), but I wasn’t able to find it. Did one of you naughty “skeptics” (in my mind read: “people with functional pre-frontal cortices”) scare folks at msn into taking it down? Bravo, if you did!
Jezz; Ok
[snip, I have your email ~ charles the moderator aka jeez]