Perhaps the stupidest article I've ever seen

Hmm, not as bad as “Half of American Babies are below Average Weight!” but bad enough.

Why is watching stupidity so fascinating?
To Mark Lynas: The peak of the Eemian interglacial was almost 6°C warmer than now. It just so happened that at that time archaeologists find the very first possibilities of human culture. Ice ages didn’t evolve culture; extremely warm interglacials did.
To Fagan: The Little Ice Age killed off a third of the entire European population due to famine. During the 1990s “warmest decade” cited by so many alarmists, more people were born and survived the decade than died during the two plus centuries at the depth of the Little Ice Age.

Where do they go from here? Extinct in 25 years?

Swarm – The War on Global Warming
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/video/2010/jun/21/copenhagen-climate-change
Coalition of the Willing: Post-Copenhagen animation
Where do we go after last year’s failed Copenhagen climate change conference?
Coalition of the Willing is an animated film that attempts to answer that question, and the Guardian can exclusively show the video prior to its official launch tomorrow. The film was made by Knife Party Productions, a 24-person animation global collective helmed by Simon Robson.
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Biggest load of cobblers I’ve ever read!
Even the most rabid CAGW proponent must be squirming with embarrassment that this drivel has been published. The religion of man-made climate warming is even nuttier than I thought – cargo cult science at its best… :-))

tallbloke said on June 29, 2010 at 6:58 am:

Edward Greisch is an expert on tobacco toxicology too…
Smoking tobacco causes cancer because the radioactive gas radon seeps out of the ground and sticks to tobacco leaves. This radon gets into the lungs with the tobacco smoke. The radiation from radon causes cancer. [There has always been background radiation. All rocks contain uranium, usually a few parts per million. The radioactive decay of uranium produces radon.]

Well that’s just stupid. Everyone knows it’s the Polonium-210 in tobacco that’s the real problem.
NY Times
Scinece Magazine
Mayo Clinic paper
Just Google for “polonium in cigarettes” which is also a “frequently searched for” Google suggestion.
As read about on this helpful scientific site:

Polonium -210 is the only component of cigarette smoke that has produced cancer by itself in laboratory animals by inhalation – tumors appeared already at a polonium level five times lower than those of a normal heavy smoker.
Lung cancer rates among men kept climbing from a rarity in 1930 (4/100,000 per year) to the No. 1 cancer killer in 1980 (72/100,000) in spite of an almost 20 percent reduction in smoking. But during the same period, the level of polonium -210 in American tobacco had tripled. This coincided with the increase in the use of phosphate fertilizers by tobacco growers – calcium phosphate ore accumulates uranium and slowly releases radon gas.
As radon decays, its electrically charged daughter products attach themselves to dust particles, which adhere to the sticky hairs on the underside of tobacco leaves. This leaves a deposit of radioactive polonium and lead on the leaves. Then, the intense localized heat in the burning tip of a cigarette volatilizes the radioactive metals. While cigarette filters can trap chemical carcinogens, they are ineffective against radioactive vapors.
The lungs of a chronic smoker end up with a radioactive lining in a concentration much higher than from residential radon. These particles emit radiation. Smoking two packs of cigarettes a day imparts a radiation dose by alpha particles of about 1,300 millirem per year. For comparison, the annual radiation dose to the average American from inhaled radon is 200 mrem. However, the radiation dose at the radon “action level” of 4 pCi/L is roughly equivalent to smoking 10 cigarettes a day.
In addition, polunium-210 is soluble and is circulated through the body to every tissue and cell in levels much higher than from residential radon. The proof is that it can be found in the blood and urine of smokers. The circulating polonium -210 causes genetic damage and early death from diseases reminiscent of early radiological pioneers: liver and bladder cancer, stomach ulcer, leukemia, cirrhosis of liver, and cardiovascular diseases.
The Surgeon General C. Everett Koop stated that radioactivity, rather than tar, accounts for at least 90% of all smoking-related lung cancers. The Center for Disease Control concluded “Americans are exposed to far more radiation from tobacco smoke than from any other source.”

Hmm, I wonder if one can get “organic” tobacco grown without these dangerous phosphate fertilizers.
The “rebuttal” is found in the Independent’s (UK) reporting of the Mayo paper in 2008:

A spokeswoman for British American Tobacco said it was not known which constituents of cigarette smoke caused cancer and argued that polonium 210 is also present in food.
“It’s fairly common knowledge polonium 210 is in cigarette smoke because it’s present in all such plant types, including strawberries,” she said. “There was a 1977 study that found, of the daily intake of the polonium 210 in a smoker, 77.3 per cent came from food and 17 per cent from tobacco. The World Health Organisation is trying to determine which constituents of tobacco smoke are most important in diseases including lung cancer, but as yet have not concluded polonium 210 is a priority constituent.”

Would that be strawberries that were grown with those dangerous phosphate fertilizers?
Algae blooms, water contamination, and now radiation poisoning… Who knew phosphate fertilizers could be this deadly? Why, get rid of them and practically no one will die from cigarette smoke-related cancers. Just imagine how many other cancers we could practically eliminate!
Paging Gail Combs et al…

Gail Combs says:
June 29, 2010 at 5:53 am
Ric Werme says:
June 29, 2010 at 5:11 am
My 100th birthday will be in October 2050. Hope they mean the end of the year, I’d hate to miss my party. I’ll see if can age quicker to have the party a few years earlier.
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Maybe we can have that birthday party together. mine is the tail end of September.
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Perhaps we should go for a year long party, mine’s in August.

The difference between min and max in Ipswich outside Brisbane was 20 degrees Celsius today….. They all must be dead then!

“Can we please move on from apocalyptic doomsday scenarios? These conversations never go anywhere and everyone is very clear about how you feel on this issue. – gavin”
Quote of the week?

I’m betting in all their approaches to compensate for “global warming”, they’ll eventually execute something that tips the earth into the next Ice Age. Then we’ll all be cooling our heels without benefit of CO2-producing heat sources. It will demonstrate what happens with zealous adherence to an illogical cult and will make their hysterical claims of total human annihilation come true. What complete and absolute jerks!

Day of the Triffids was a very good science fiction book although they totally trashed the story in the movie attempt.
Perhaps the author of this could get some practice at breathing with higher amounts of CO2 by putting a paper bag over his head, like they make you do when hyper-ventalating. This would solve a couple of problems for us here: It would calm the guy down by getting his CO2 levels adjusted (does he know he exhales CO2?) and we would not have to worry about actually seeing what he may look like.