From Yahoo News Feed
Earth Day: We are now told that obesity causes global warming. Maybe that’s why belief in human-caused climate change is at an all-time low. That and the fact that Antarctic ice is growing, not melting.
Over the past decade, as the earth cooled, the sun grew quiet and snow fell in Malibu, the disconnect between the computer models of Al Gore and the warm-mongers grew more apparent than ever. So much so that they started talking about “climate change” instead of “global warming.”
That way, everything from drought to floods was covered, even record cold winters and snowfalls.
Even that’s not working on an ever more skeptical public, according to a recent Rasmussen Reports national survey showing that just one of three voters — a new low — now believe that global warming is caused by human activity.
Nearly half (48%) believe the cause is naturally occurring planetary trends. Just a year ago, only 34% said warming was a natural phenomenon, while 47% said human activity was placing the planet at risk of disastrous climate change. That’s a huge shift.
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Interestingly, a growing number of Americans (58%) say we need to build more nuclear power plants, with 63% saying that finding additional sources of energy is more important than reducing the amount of energy Americans currently consume. They recognize that a growing economy requires more energy, not less, and that nukes are a pollution-free way of getting it.
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Overweight people eat more steaks and burgers, we are told, and that means more cows and more barnyard emissions. They walk less and drive more, usually to fast-food emporiums, where every additional condiment brings us closer to planetary doom. The answer presumably would be fewer people, or at least more vegetarians.
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Australian Antarctic Division glaciology program head Ian Allison says sea ice losses in West Antarctica over the past 30 years have been more than offset by increases in the Ross Sea region, just one sector of East Antarctica. “Sea ice conditions have remained stable in Antarctica generally,” Allison says.
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So enjoy your burger and fries, and chill out. It’s the warm-mongers who are endangering us with their whoppers. And Happy Earth Day.
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Consider these three little factoids:
1. Most large animals are herbivores. Becoming a vegan is no guarantee of anything except lower blood iron levels.
2. A vegan also needs to eat more volume of food to meet protein and calcium requirements. It is increased protein and calcium intake, as well as sanitation, that has increased life spans considerably, the consequences of which are lower birth and death rates.
3. Those beloved polar bears and whales eat more meat than most carnivores. Should we force them to become vegan and have them pay some kind of penalty?
This is just another argument for universal health care and more control of our lives. If they can “prove” obesity contributes to AGW then they can claim the authority to keep everyone healthy, not for the individuals sake, but to save the world from AGW. Perhaps Demoliton Man was not just a fun movie afterall.
Great post!
Just another related article:
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article2387203.ece
Here where I work in NorCal we are celebrating ED (no, not THAT ED!) by having a huge BBQ where we will not only consume mass quantities of food but also expel mass quantities of CO2 in a variety of ways such as from the BBQ, opening cans of soda, people driving their vehicles from the parking lot up the hill to where the BBQ will be held and yakkity-yakkin’ with our fellow workers as well as having a couple of speakers yammer on about whatever it is they will yammer on about – all of us exhaling CO2 in the process. Should be fun….it is a nice day for it.
But vegetarians do fart more and contribute disproportionally to that other darling of the HGW mongers, methane.
Today I read for the first time in a leading UK newspaper about sea ice at Antartica:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/antarctica/5200229/Antarctic-ice-cover-increasing-due-to-hole-in-ozone-layer.html
Guess what: it has been growing for at least 3 decades, but that was due to the ozone hole. When that’s closed GW will catch up and all the ice will disappear. According to the pundits, that. It’s becoming increasingly funny to see them contorting in all kind of bends to still be able to warn about the coming doomsday.
Sometimes I wonder: will they have enough hats to eat on the day when even they will recognize how daft they are?
Tom in Florida — Perhaps Demoliton Man was not just a fun movie afterall.
Indeed. It was half of a Nostradamus-like glimpse into the future, with the other half being “Idiocracy.” Have a Joy-Joy day.
A bit offtopic, but I registered on Facebook a few weeks ago, and I’m only member of the “Not Evil Just Wrong”-group. The film!
I’ve got a mail this morning about a screening in Washington tonight (where the film makers will appear). It’s 6.30 PM and there’s a mail address where those Facebook members (tip: sign up!) who wants to go and see the movie for free can get a ticket.
I should not give further details about it. Sign up the facebook group “NOT EVIL JUST WRONG – The True cost of Global Warming Hysteria”.
I mean anyone can be member in that Faebook group so I hope it’s okay to reveal this.
I have provided a link to a pdf of page 64 of Newsweek’s first Earth Day issue dated April 28, 1975. Its title is “The Cooling World.”
http://soslies.blogspot.com/2009/04/earth-day-giggles-and-grins.html
AGW will eventually go the way of the pet rock and the Macarena. And just like those fads, not fast enough to suit me.
The tide has been turning in the press alright but we have the national w. service buying up old household thermometers and giving out new ones probably graduated in 100’s of a degree F and Al Gore pressing to get rid of the Celsius scale to make the numbers bigger – all signs of a “sauve qui peut” (save what (who) you can) mentality. Anyway we will probably see articles like the following popping up everywhere:
http://lifestyle.sympatico.msn.ca/Years+of+Drought/Living/GivingBack/WV_years_of_drought.htm?isfa=1
I’ve worked in both East and West Africa over the years and when its the dry season in savannah country it looks like it was never green and when the rains come, it greens overnight. The first picture of a Kenyan village has greenery that tells me they weren’t “dry” when the picture was taken. The warmers didn’t choose their season very well for this shot. It looks like a normal remote village.
Anthony :
perhaps a post topic would be timely on the IPY. Why haven’t we been getting triumphant news from the IPY about the end of the world. If we had had a couple of warm arctic winters we would never have heard the end of them.
Sorry, Anthony, I don’t know how to get this to you except by comment. Interesting article on Universe Today:
http://www.universetoday.com/2009/04/21/despite-global-warming-wildfires-do-not-increase/
Go ahead and delete this comment once you have the link, since it’s not germane to this thread.
We are being told that green is universal.I don’t know about the rest of you but I was NEVER asked if I believe in the green movement .How did planting A garden become going green.My father in law has had one for at least 22 years,and he only has one lung due to cancer,and he’s never said anything about going green.We just enjoy home growm food and if it is universal why haven’t all of the other countries jumped on the bandwagon. Again as I have said before this nothing more than socialism and this id just the beginning.
Random thought,
Not only do fat people contribute more than their share of CO2 to climate change but so do people that live in cooler climates. A typical house in Phoenix contributes ~900lbs of CO2 per year vs. ~1300lbs for a house in the Northeast.
http://www.wired.com/science/planetearth/magazine/16-06/ff_heresies_02ac
Clearly, people in northern climes should be paying a greater share of the tax burden needed to “fix” the planet. Obese people in northern cities even more taxes!
Now, Detroit is widely regarded as the fattest city in America.
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/5137.php
And, everyone knows that the automobiles produced by Detroit are wrecking the ecosystem. Connect the dots! How much CO2 could be prevented from entering the atmosphere by simply abandoning Detroit?
Mr. Gore where are you on this important initiative?
On the subject of the goofy research concluding that obesity contributes to AGW, I think that as the brighter researchers in the AGW party start to have doubts, the field will more and more be left up to science clowns.
Personally, I refer to this as “hypocrite day”. I get to mock people who are completely clueless, just like “earth hour” participants.
On a tangentially related note, I STILL mock those who buy brand new vehicles and tell me my 22 year old car is harmful to the environment. Apparently these people believe cars are grown in a sustainable way in mountain meadows. Perhaps they don’t realize the massive emissions involved in actually building a vehicle, any vehicle, and certainly can’t comprehend that a 22 year old car can be properly maintained, getting excellent mileage with low emissions.
Nope, I get to watch the parade of SUVs going to the local parks to celebrate how “other people” need to clean up their impact on the planet. It’s always someone else, right?
again….doom sells…good news doesnt. I still like the link to the site that was on here a while ago with links to all the different articles about stuf caused by global warming….there were a couple hundred articles on there…good stuff.
Washington people. Here’s a web page with all information on this free great Earth Day movie:
http://www.washingtonpolicy.org/pressroom/pressreleases/EarthDayMovie09.html
Wish I were there.
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BTW. An inspiring Yahoo text! Hopefully the sleepy sun provide fairly cold temperatures, enough to change the common opinon on AGW and force our politiians to take a few steps back.
Ed beat me to it. I was just reading this Reuters article: “Growing Antarctic sea ice linked to damaged ozone” — “An expansion of sea ice around Antarctica is linked to a hole in the ozone layer high in the atmosphere, according to a study on Tuesday that helps clear up a mystery about global warming.” Amazing how even cooling supports warming, as long as it can be attributed to bad Westerners. Do they even care about credibility any more? Are they just willing to say anything for the cameras?
There are computer models of Al Gore? Are they like Pocket God on my iTouch? 😉
Great article.
I like animals, they are delicious.
I expect that AGW’ers will keep on bleating about runaway global warming until they are finally proved right. When the Sun becomes a Red Giant.
I don’t have problems with recycling and keeping the environment clean and liveable. However all this CO2 is a pollutant and the cause of global warming has me really annoyed -to put it mildly-. I was watching a nice show on a public channel about the future of motor cars and, would you believe it, global warming is mentioned. That sort of thing just makes me want to go out and buy a Challenger R/T with a 5Liter V8 Hemi.
There is also an incessant AGW message on the Daily Planet science show on the Discovery Channel. I used to like that show in the past too. I hate it now. Any wonder that our kids are becoming paranoid about the future? Think of the children and let them enjoy their childhood while they still can.
Let’s rewrite that 1970s song “Short People”.
“Fat people ain’t got no reason to live!”
But remember. It’s always darkest before dawn.
The Global Warmers have really jumped the shark.
I hate to say it but it doesn’t matter a whit as to what the facts are or what half the people think; the administration and their appointees are going to shove this agenda down our throats or up some other orifice.
Slightly OT but the whole obesity/health/cost-to-society drive is falling apart. The excellent Junk Food Science blog recently had this essay concerning obesity vs. health problems: http://junkfoodscience.blogspot.com/2009/04/does-it-really-matter-how-your-numbers.html (Hmmm. don’t know how to make that “click and go”).
Gradually the environmentalists are being proved wrong about everything (have they ever been right?) and shown to be simply another group of leftists power-grabbers.