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April 12, 2007 By Fausta

Where’s my global warming?

After a much too brief respite from the cold weather we’ve been having, I’m waiting for the promised Global Warming to start.

As I wait, I’ve been wearing winter clothes under a winter coat in April, reminding people at dinner that this winter was so cold (how cold was it?) that young kids were contemplating skating on the canal all the way from West Windsor to Kingston (their mother put the kibosh on that idea), the Scouts are swearing never to go winter camping again, and the Weather Channel right now has some ugly pictures of blizzards in the Mid-West.

Which are heading East – it’s already snowing in upstate NY. Of course, it only stops snowing in upstate NY for three weeks, and then it starts again.

George Will, who I hope by now has recovered from his orange condition, points to the media hype

In a campaign without peacetime precedent, the media-entertainment-environmental complex is warning about global warming. Never, other than during the two world wars, has there been such a concerted effort by opinion-forming institutions to indoctrinate Americans, 83 percent of whom now call global warming a “serious problem.” Indoctrination is supposed to be a predicate for action commensurate with professions of seriousness.

As part of the indoctrination, the media’s doing its darnest to raise our awareness of global warming.

Then there are the concerts. (Will Pink Floyd get together again, and will they play uninterrupted by ads? But I digress.)

Tim Blair asks,

Apparently the point of these Gaiapalooza concerts is that they’ll raise awareness of global warming. You know, just in case you’ve never heard of it and require a seven-nation, 120-network Woodstock of warmening to bring you up to speed.

But if raising awareness is so crucial, why does Al Gore place restrictions on media coverage of his awareness-raising speeches?

Blind belief in Medieval Environmentalism will make you do that.

Of course, this was to be expected: Hugo Chavez: new icon of global warming cult. Aleksander Boyd of VCrisis fisks Derek Wall of Britain’s Green Party:

Venezuela lives in the real world, not in the make-believe world that some commenters create in order bash Chavez.

Chavez’s fiefdom, otherwise known as Venezuela, does not live in the real world. Instead the reputation of the country is in an ever decreasing curve thanks to the antics of its deranged militaristic president. Take for instance the issue with ethanol. Not long ago Chavez was all hyped and cheerful for he had signed 11 agreements with the Cuban dictator to develop the ethanol industry in Venezuela. He did the same with his other ‘partner’ Lula. Not a day had passed after the Texan offered trade and ethanol deals to the nations he visited, and we saw how the ‘green’ Chavez backpedaled in all his signed agreements and went as far as stating that he would make Lula reconsider Brazil’s position on the issue. The bearded pimp got out of his deathbed to lend a hand, all very… green should we say?

Over in Cuba, Fidel’s green… with ethanol envy!

While the Alaskan otters are suffering because an unbudging sheet of sea ice has blocked off the waters where the Alaska Peninsula’s sea otters forage, forcing the starving animals inland on a search for food and making them easy prey for wolves and humans, Ahnuld wants to make the environmental movement “hip and sexy””

Speaking at a conference in Washington, he urged campaigners to focus on the positives of cutting carbon emissions rather than making people feel guilty.

The movement must change its image just as he helped transform the “sketchy” reputation of bodybuilding, he said.

Ahnuld said,

Weight-lifting was once considered a pursuit for weirdos

Was once considered?

Obviously, I’m in denial.

But never mind that; I can’t wait for the day when I can start wearing my summer uniform,

Look at the bright side: by the time it’s warm enough to wear this, the blouse will probably be on sale.

Anyway, here are some otters enjoying happier times:

I bet they’re glad they’re not in Alaska freezing their little otter butts.

Let’s hope it doesn’t snow in two weeks when the Scouts go camping or the guys will come back groaning.

Update Camille Paglia is another Global Warming skeptic (via The Dumb Ox)
It’s snowing in Ann Arbor

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Filed Under: Al Gore, fashion, Global Warming, media, Pink Floyd

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  1. Dumb Ox says

    April 12, 2007 at 10:33 am

    Hi Fausta, The level of hype and inodctrination would be funny if it didn’t mean that all the politicos are going to follow the herd on it. So far this campaign for “Socialism by other means” is an unmitigated success!

    Thanks for a hilarious post!

    http://thomistic.blogspot.com/2007/04/gore-bal-warming-hype-imploding.html

  2. Fausta says

    April 12, 2007 at 10:36 am

    the Emperor (penguin) has no clothes
    You are so right!

  3. Ivy says

    April 12, 2007 at 3:00 pm

    I am so glad that the moron is in the White House. He is so slow to follow the latest hypes. He has saved so many women from making embryos for researches; he has saved the world economies until the world cools down.

  4. c.a. Marks says

    April 12, 2007 at 5:03 pm

    Cute outfit. I have discovered I like EVERYTHING by An Taylor – oy, I’m in trouble! LOL

  5. Fausta says

    April 12, 2007 at 5:43 pm

    CA, I also love this one, too

  6. Pyrthroes says

    April 12, 2007 at 7:32 pm

    Absent the hype, Global Warming is a cyclical not a linear phenomenon. At .0095% of atmospheric constituents, CO2 is a product of volcanic emissions– since 1990, Mounts Saint Helens and Pinatubo alone have blasted more “greenhouse gas” skyward in twenty minutes than has all industrial civilization in 200 years.

    Historically, when CO2 exceeds 300 parts per million (PPM), not warming but an ice age invariably follows. Over the last decade, Earth’s levels have risen to 306 PPM, virtually none of it due to human action. Button up your overcoats!

    For 10-million years, due to plate-tectonic configurations that wall off Eastern from Western hemispheres (North and South America separate the Atlantic from Pacific), recurrent ice ages have averaged 11,000 years between. We are now 12,500 years from the Younger Dryas, overdue for a 120,000 year climatic shift.

    Since the 1850s, worldwide deep-ocean volcanism has warmed surface temperatures while emitting copious amounts of magma-generated CO2. As warm surface layers condense, they rise to evaporate in a process akin to air-conditioning. Cold northern currents then sweep south beneath them, resulting in heavy overland precipitation: Floods in summer, heavy snows in winter.

    What we are seeing in 2007 is exactly this: Warm ocean-surface layers rise as they evaporate, paradoxically aggravated by volcanic CO2 whose warming lifts them higher; cold currents sweep underneath, precipitating rain and snow. Such is basic meteorology, in context with geophysical and intra-solar circumstance.

    Ocean warming, global atmospheric cooling are neither addressed in any way by climatologists’ academic models, which necessarily omit both crucial factors. Selective data, statistically invalid sample-sizes, artificial extrapolations such as Al Gore’s notoriously fraudulent “hockey stick” graph (definitively exposed in 2003) have become ideologically-driven scaremongers’ stock-in-trade.

    A projection, based on amplitude and frequency of warming/cooling phases from the end of the 550-year Little Ice Age that ended in the 1880s: Beginning 2010 – 2012, Earth will experience a self-evident 20-year cooling phase similar to the 40-year period from 1940 – 1979. From 2030, the global “thermostat” will flucuate at ever shorter frequencies and high-amplitude extremes. By 2113 if not before, our current Interglacial will have ended, and what will Cock Robin do then, poor thing?

    Basic meteorology combined with a short-term (800-year) intra-solar cycle plus long-term (10-million year) geophysical patterns render this projection a valid, falsifiable, scientific hypothesis. In contrast, “Global Warming” via human CO2 emissions is a documented fraud, akin to Ehrlich’s “Population Bomb” (1969), a work so egregiously, 180-degrees wrong that only Dan Rather could take it seriously (par for CBS, of course).

    Unfortunately, after the contemptible Al Gore becomes a laughing stock on Ehrlich’s level, we do indeed face catastrophic climate change. Mayhap our grandchildren will lead a mass teleportation off-planet, excreting barbarous mullah-dullahs from their body politic as hazardous to every civilized amenity. That too would be the Will of Allah, would it not?

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