There’s a famous cartoon by XKCD titled “Duty calls“, where someone is obsessing over something they’ve seen “wrong on the Internet”. This Josh cartoon is a bit like that, in that much of the perceived “wrongness” of global warming, aka “climate change”, is seen only through the eyes of activists on the Internet reading the latest doomsday scenario from Climate Progress, Huffington Post, The Guardian, and a whole host of other alarmist media outlets.
It’s a virtual online maelstrom of badness, all timed for Paris COP21 as recent news items reveal.
Lest you think this is a joke, you can see just how many things have been claimed to be the fault of global warming, aka “climate change” by reading John Brignell’s Numberwatch warm list.
Truly, there’s not a facet of life or the planet untouched.
Image by Josh www.cartoonsbyjosh.com
UPDATE: Alan Watt notes this footnote added to the UK warm list –
Footnote (September 2015) Why the list stopped growing.
The time it takes to process a new entry increases approximately with the square of the list length, after checking for duplications, spoofs etc. Starting it was based on the naïve assumption that the rate of appearances would decline as opposing evidence accumulated, but the reverse happened. That’s the difference between science and religion. It was taking over my life, which I did not want to end as a garbage collector. There have since been hundreds more claims of an increasingly ludicrous nature.
Climate change caused good things which is a bad thing because they are good.
John
It made most of the Marxists forget economics. How totally dreadful.
The real problem of CC is wrong expln of its cause. GHG idea is fake, imaginary, metaphorical… .. GHE due to gases is impossible, because gases can’t form green house.
Human stupidity causes Climate “Change”, not ‘tother way around.
A variable Climate, on the other hand, causes human “smarterness” – necessity being the Mother of Invention dontchaknow?
Stupidity is winning.
I would like to nominate John Brignell to the Skeptical Hall of Fame. Other nominations are doubtlessly due. But John has done sterling work in other areas of numerology as well. He has written two books that are very readable and instructive; buy them.
All the satellites are falling out of the sky because the atmosphere is expanding from human destruction of the balance of nature. BTW, notice how many news agencies now have global warming or climate change as a menu item in the navigation bars? Seems like that would change the balance of web searches in the direction of climate lunacy.
Which came first, the global warming chicken or the Internet egg?
Chicken methane farts ????
If Josh is right about climate change/global warming being responsible for my mortgage, then I demand a refund for all of my mortgage payments from Big Oil. If Bernie Sanders is right, then I should be provided with all my basic needs by government for free, including housing. They didn’t though, so climate change must be responsible for my having to take out a mortgage.
It’s called climate justice, and I demand it now /sarc.
The guy down the street gives his wife a real beating. What’s his best defence? Climate change made him do it.
A crook shoots dead a cop trying to arrest him. What’s his best defence? Climate change made him do it.
An Islamic State terrorist murders 200 people in the subway? What’s his best defence? Yep, you guessed it… climate change!
And they’ll have as their witnesses some eminent authorities to prove it … Barack Obama, John Kerry, Bernie Saunders etc etc etc
test
You failed
C-
Indeed – he should be at http://wattsupwiththat.com/test/
Many a greedy profiteer is willing to play the fool for money.
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Heard on the evening news that France, as part of its “emergency” measures to fight Islamic terror, can now ban/restrict internet sites that “incite terror.”
So. Now we know why the Enviroprofiteers’ politicians-for-hire are out there making donkeys of themselves on TV by claiming that “climate change causes terror.”
Follow the money:
1. Enviroprofiteers (Big Wind, Solar, “Sustainability” products/services) will lose a lot of money if the taxpayers refuse to continue to fund (via taxes and via power rate surcharges) their permanently-negative-ROI “investments.”
2. Science truth websites such as Pierre Gosselin’s (sp?) educate the public about the fr@ud the Enviroprofiteers are foisting on the public (using l1es about human CO2) making these sites a threat to profits.
3. Pass an “emergency” (presumably suspending Constitutional liberties such as freedom of the press and freedom of speech) law banning internet sites that “incite terrorism.”
4. Claim that “climate change” causes terrorism.
5. Label any website that says that climate change is not even a real problem, much less a cause of terrorism, a “site that incites terrorism” BECAUSE the site’s telling the public the truth about CO2 will prevent the public from stopping climate change, thus, not stop terror.
Follow the money.
Another, related thought:
In the early 1970’s, Obama mentor, Bill Ayers’s group, The Weathermen, stated that its goal was to “bomb the United States into a police state” creating the need for martial law with The Weathermen and their ilk being the martials.
2015: same strategy, except that now they enable (via immigration policies, grossly inappropriate rules of engagement for the U.S. Armed Forces, and other acts or failures to act which promote more Jihadis entering the West) Islamic terrorists to do the “bombing” into a police state.
Yes, of course the rabid jihadi hyenas would*, in the end, turn on their handlers…. the neo-Weathermen’s {B. Hussein, et. al.} vision is, however, too clouded by hubris to recognize this inevitability: they are in control!
(mirthless laugh)
*I used “would” for I do not believe this Islam-terror-police state strategy will work. America (and the rest of the free West) IS. Truth WILL triumph and good WILL prevail. It always has.
In the end, truth wins.
Every time.
“presumably suspending Constitutional liberties such as freedom of the press ”
The 12 days state of emergency has been extended to 3 months. This allows the control of the press. Already.
Anyway, the idea of the French government wanting to control the press is hilarious, given the fact that 90 % of journalists vote left (according to polls), that most of those who don’t are as much socialist as the PS (socialist party), that 97 % of journalists are ecoloons (I just made that up, might be a lot more).
It becomes increasingly clear that the root cause of this travesty is United Nations misconception of the scientific method – United Nations premature endorsement of a pre-scientific theory as science.
Karl Popper, the master mind behind our modern scientific method has a great piece on such theories in his lecture Science as Falsification
“These theories appear to be able to explain practically everything that happened within the fields to which they referred. The study of any of them seemed to have the effect of an intellectual conversion or revelation, open your eyes to a new truth hidden from those not yet initiated. Once your eyes were thus opened you saw confirmed instances everywhere: the world was full of verifications of the theory. Whatever happened always confirmed it. Thus its truth appeared manifest; and unbelievers were clearly people who did not want to see the manifest truth; who refuse to see it …”
Everything is allowed by United Nations global warming theory: More rain and less rain, more ice and less ice, higher temperatures and lower temperatures!, more wind and less wind – the sea level is rising anyhow – this theory prohibits nothing – nothing its believers would accept as a falsifying experience.
Here is a Youtube version for those who prefer listening to the lecture:
https://youtu.be/ztmvtKLuR7I
By United Nations endorsement of pre-scientific theory United Nations has become a kind of cultural problem is was put up to achieve international co-operation in solving by its charter (Article 1 – 3 . “To achieve international co-operation in solving international problems of an economic, social, cultural, or humanitarian character.” Have mercy with us.
Under curriculum change I half expected to discover that Global Warming was to blame for the cancellation of all course studies in Logic.
It appears that since the advent of Global Warming there has been a marked drop in the intellect and intelligence of certaln Polititians,after all they blame it for almost every problem known to man!
Blame it on AGW? Well, according to the ‘singer’, Charlotte Church and her new bessie mate, Russell Brand (who, according to the Guardian, is a cult), the war in Syria is all down to GW.
That will be Assad’s defense when he is in front of the Hague court. ” It was climate change your honor!”
Sounds like a ‘Church’ related perspective to me.
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Speaking of changing climate, the intense cold in Greenland was broken 48 hours ago by a warm flow of surface wind, which has it’s roots starting around 30N latitude. This has led to increased precipitation in Greenland and the DMI shows the results of that today…http://beta.dmi.dk/en/groenland/maalinger/greenland-ice-sheet-surface-mass-budget/
Greenland temps shot up around 20F from the bitter cold of the preceding 30+ days. This surface wind has then exited eastward from Greenland and then drops due south. This is carrying it right into Europe centered on France. This has resulted in a break in the above average warmth of the last 5 weeks, as this surface wind is carrying the cold from Greenland to the south. With any luck and God willing, this will continue for some time. The 10 day forecast for Paris has undergone quite a change in the last 24 hours…http://www.intellicast.com/Local/ObservationsSummary.aspx?location=FRXX0076
Multi Gratis for the greenland link.