Too funny! Even Joe Romm's bosses don't think climate is an issue worth mentioning for 2013

McKibben was too kind. “Criminals” is a much more appropriate term than “outlaws”. The fossil fuel companies are knowingly baking the planet, and are killing people every day. This site just proves the WC Fields adage: “There’s a sucker born every minute!”

Romm will have a hard time with climate not beeing on that list, but I think nr.12 will make him go hyper-thermo-nuclear 🙂
12. Invest in infrastructure.
Our roads and bridges are literally crumbling, and analysts say the nation will need to make $2 trillion in immediate investments to update infrastructure. Hurricane Sandy underlined the problem, when 8.1 million people -– in homes, businesses, and hospitals — lost power.

Mike Roddy says: ‘McKibben was too kind. “Criminals” is a much more appropriate term than “outlaws”.
Yep Mike, gotta identify, form a possy and round up all them “criminals” before its too late hey. Better get working on them re-education camps, no time to lose, because there’s murderers running amok all around us. Now take those meds and calm down, everythings fine.

@ur momisugly Matt Skaggs
No, progress toward expansion off this planet is the moral imperative. Otherwise all of Earth’s ecology will be extinguished eventually. To this end we need the driving force that is population increase. So from my POV all you low entropy, sustainable, low population advocates are being short sided and endangering all known life in the long run.

My daughter just mentioned – I had completely forgotten – that in our New Jersey winters we always used to have huge icicles all around the roofline of the house. When the kids were little and they were outside playing in the snow, they used to break them off like they were giant popsicles. I haven’t seen them in years. You really don’t need a physicist to tell you that the world is warming, and that the weather has become terrifyingly violent. It’s obvious. Somebody up in the thread toasted CO2 as the giver of green life. Indeed it is – it traps heat from the sun, otherwise, we’d be as cold as the moon. But just like water is essential to life, too much will drown you. Excessive CO2 such as we are adding by burning fuel, and the earth will become too hot to be habitable – by people, and a lot of what we like to eat.

Instead of answering in Climate Progress on the new year’s resolution in regard to climate change I’ll put it in here.
My resolution is to burn more gasoline without the ethanol additive so that there would be more corn available for cows and pigs as a feedstock as well as food for people. Got to keep the BBQing culture alive.
Expel more natural CO2 (i.e more exercising) from my own body into the surrounding air.
Recognize the fact that those who use the term “deniers” are people who think ad hominems make valid arguments. And that’s red flag on their own knowledge of the subject.
Tell global warmists to talk less so as not to expel dangerous CO2 gas into the surrounding air.

http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2013/01/01/1381111/new-year-open-thread-whats-your-climate-resolution/
What a bunch of luddites this lot are, if our ancestors accepted the proposition that when you identify problems with technology you abandon technology, full nutrition etc we wouldn’t be where we are today.
Human endeavour will find solutions to whatever challenges we face through innovation and adaptation. Not by abandoning that which allows our society to function.

Mike Roddy says: January 1, 2013 at 8:15 am ‘
Better yet Mike, give us a sneak preview of the new world order you and your ilk have envisioned for us. You know the one where everybody works in a perpetual state of euphoria making everything from fairy dust using only sun beams and happy thoughts, sorta like the Bakers biscuit factory, or in your case the “sucker factory” where you’ve figured out perpetual motion and can summon objects into existence, like a bad/or good 60’s acid trip. Wow, into the Hollywood climate movie business then, Mike? Remember though if you make it big, no grand exits from the Limo, no bright lights, no expansive sound stages, and no tearful homage to Gaia – Ah well, too bad, small sacrifice for the planet hey? Come on Mike, there’s a lot of smart folks figuring out how to come up with workable solutions, even most of your “criminals”. And you want to put them all away, because that’s what you do to “criminals” don’t you Mike?

TRM said:
January 1, 2013 at 10:04 am
Ah the rude rock of reality that the bad ship CAGW has run into …..
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Rude rock? Intransigent iceberg! 🙂

Meanwhile..the grass keeps growing, the sun still rises every day and the animals are quite happy frolicking in the paddocks and life continues.
It does appear that those people who have wished the worst, fail to comprehend the obvious and prefer their own generated hysterics and assumptions to reality. These same culprits will unfortunately never admit they were wrong as former communist members in the USSR have demonstrated with their remembrance of that last anniversary, wishing for the “Good Ole Days”. They only look at the changing situations and circumstance and say they lost, in reality, they were just completely wrong but their ego would suffer way too much by that confession.
Happy New Year.