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‘Twas the week before Christmas, when all through the news,
There were reports of record cold, so many were confused.
Told global warming is why we should care,
And that the point of no return would soon be here.
The children were bombarded with tales of dread,
While visions of climate disasters were stuck in each little head.
And mamma in her Prius, and I on my bike,
To save the planet, got rid of the cars that we like.
When suddenly in the data there arose such a clatter,
The earth was not warming, what could be the matter?
The warming stopped, as quick as a flash,
Leaving proponents in sack-cloth, bathing in ash.
For far too common was new-fallen snow,
More than forecasted, temperatures 0 or below.
And, what to my wondering eye there appears,
But an uptick in sea ice, and even more polar bears.
With a little old driver, called the PDO,
I knew in a moment it had to be so.
Howling like beagles fearing the shame,
AGW pushers called skeptics many a name!
“Now, Denier! now, madman! now neanderthal, you’re lying!
You’re an idiot! you’re stupid, know nothing, we’re frying!
To the top of the chart! breaking through the temperature wall!
The warmings out of control, it’s frying us all!”
As dry leaves that before the wild hurricane fly,
This is the worst drought ever, global warming is why.
So up to the IPCC the climate pushers flew,
With a gravy train of grants, and politics too.
Make economies pay, we need no proof,
Just keep saying temperatures are going through the roof.
With the media complicit, my head was turning around,
To see the global temperature level off and then come down.
The warming had stopped, in their mouth was their foot,
Exposing the scam, and making off with the loot.
Readjusting temperatures, from many years back,
Peddling disinformation to the media pack.
At conferences they would drink and make merry!
While the deceit grew in a way, that made it quite scary!
For the tide it had turned, there was cold that would show,
You can’t say it’s warmer, if there’s too much snow.
The cold that was showing led to chattering of teeth,
As the cycle came full circle, not unlike a wreath.
The face of global warming had become a subject smelly,
Their position as “solid,” as a bowlful of jelly!
Hockey sticks broken, sea ice on the increase,
I laughed when I heard their excuses not cease.
Events we all knew were something ahead,
Were twisted into worst ever, something to dread.
How dare mother nature destroy AGW’s life’s work,
These deniers are as nasty as a Miley Cyrus Twerk.
But the data is there and everyone knows,
The temperatures leveled off while CO2 rose!
So when in the wire, you hear the cold wind whistle,
The AGW agenda is ready for dismissal.
So let me exclaim, as this fades out of sight,
“Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good-night!”
Apologies to Clement Clark Moore
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@ur momisugly Joe Bastardi (re: 2PM today) — Those who are not congenital denigrators are just jealous. Seriously.
GREAT HUMOR and cleverly done.
Just focus on the positive comments and especially on those whose opinions matter, your family and friends.
Janice
P.S. I realize you’ve learned to cope with jerks, but even the best among us can use a little encouragement, huh?
P.P.S. Oh, and re: my correcting the capital “T” and my joking about “Mer… er… Happy…” — Just want you to know that I realized at the time that you must have written it in poetic form and that Moore’s poem said “Happy”.
Beagles sing on the chase and normally don’t howl, Joe, them be coonhounds that howl. But that’s just a minor thing, overall pretty good! Merry Christmas to all! I have an announcement to make, I probably won’t be around to bug you as much because I’m going to be even busier than now (if that’s possible) and going to be getting married it appears.
Merry Obamacare too, heh, that which would have been Merry Newtcare from 1993. Or Mittcare had the election had a different outcome. 🙂
http://www.forbes.com/sites/theapothecary/2012/02/07/the-tortuous-conservative-history-of-the-individual-mandate/
http://www.newrepublic.com/article/politics/magazine/98554/individual-mandate-affordable-care-act?page=0,0
…
THE INDIVIDUAL MANDATE was not always embraced by liberals. Indeed, the idea originated on the right. In 1989, Stuart Butler of the Heritage Foundation proposed an individual mandate as part of a plan for “assuring affordable health care for all Americans”; two years later, the economist Mark Pauly put forward the idea as part of another health care proposal. Those plans in turn formed the basis of a bill introduced in 1993 by Republican Senator John Chafee of Rhode Island and co-sponsored by then-GOP Minority Leader Bob Dole. At the time, the media often characterized the individual mandate as the conservative alternative to the Democrats’ proposed mandate on employers to pay for a share of health insurance. The Republican proposal was thought to represent a more individualistic, market-friendly approach…
So all your whining is about healthcare that you once championed! There’s plenty of global warming crap you championed too!
http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2002/02/clearskies.html
http://www.columbiaenvironmentallaw.org/articles/preventing-national-electricity-water-crisis-areas-in-the-united-states
I’ll see your Stephen King book there William Astley, and raise you….. how about Conservatives stop sending our jobs to China, stop cutting the pay in half for the jobs they can’t send to China, stop cutting billionaires’ taxes while ours go up, then CALLING US LAZY! Stop punishing innocent poor people for their circumstances so that you can feel good about your own bad choices. Even ancient civilizations knew enough to hire surplus labor to build infrastructure, boosting the economy. Any robo Rushbot who thinks that the poor have it too good should be forced to live on that income. The b.s. will evaporate with the hunger. Stop getting us into costly wars and creating so much debt while earning obscene interest off it.
Keep ’em comming, that was great!
Seasons greetings, Joe, and Happy Christmas.
Well, it made me smile.
The inclusion of so many “in” things
— (The temperatures leveled off while CO2 rose!)
… makes for fun reading. Thanks.
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It did not make me laugh and my eyes water as did the Obamacare Password Saga.
There is an R-rated version on the Dec. 1 politicsandfinance blogspot.
Ed Mertin says:
December 18, 2013 at 8:05 pm
“There’s plenty of global warming crap you championed too.”
You have the audacity to make that claim, and then provide two links that do absolutely nothing to back up your statement! The first link has to do with the “Clear Skies” proposal from the Bush administration. That proposal had nothing to do with controlling GHGs, but rather, was focused on actual air pollutants (SO2, NOx, mercury). If you even read the material at your link you would know this.
It is a mystery how your second link is even remotely relevant to your claim.
http://english.cntv.cn/program/china24/20131217/105142.shtml
Another poet steps forth! What’s not to like!
Eugene WR Gallun
Ed Mertin says:
“THE INDIVIDUAL MANDATE was not always embraced by liberals. Indeed, the idea originated on the right.”
Leave it to the “Progressives” to take a bad idea and make it worse, eh?
Ed Mertin says:
December 18, 2013 at 8:05 pm
Oh, please, Ed–why don’t you listen to Rush for a month and come back with ONE thing he’s said that’s wrong.
And in return I’ll listen to the Lyin’ Prez for an hour and give you a list of at least a dozen pinocchios.
Fair and square?
I think so.
There’s nothing worse than someone that’s brainwashed in climate, economics, and politics.
[snip – off topic – mod]
So glad I caught this post, I’m in the UK to spend Christmas with kids and grand kids so I’m not often able to log in. Thank you Joe, and davidmhoffer that was priceless!!
Laughter works better than anything else.
Thanks for such a thorough response, bobl.
I don’t think that the erroneous practices that have adjusted historical temperatures downward were conspiratorial. I don’t think anyone conspired to do it. I think they all acted independently.
Over-regulation is the cause of jobs being sent to China. Environmental regulations are part of that.
Good one, Joe.
But don’t send any ice to Kansas this weekend.
Lighten up, Francis.
Blue Sky says:
December 18, 2013 at 1:34 pm
In the Philadelphia area, Accuweather was the King. Channel six which had like 50% of the Market or KWY news radio. Elliot Abrams, Joel Meyers and the younger superstar Joe Bastardi. We still get Elliot!
Like a scolding parent I carp against those that I love. And Joe I know you think your being clever, but your not……..