Must be Global Warming, 2010 Part V

I swear, the most gifted fiction writer in the world could never make up the abject bullshit that global warming "scientists" belch out on a daily basis.  Now we're supposed to all cower in fear because there is just not enough air pollution around anymore to keep the planet cool:


Why Cleaner Air Could Speed Global Warming

Seriously, does anybody actually believe anything these clowns have to say anymore?  Amazing.

Have a great Sunday.

Meanwhile, from our Peace-loving nancy-boys at Greenpeace...

...we have this declaration of war on global warming skeptics like yours truly:

http://weblog.greenpeace.org/climate/2010/04/will_the_real_climategate_plea_1.html

Emerging battle-bruised from the disaster zone of Copenhagen, but ever-hopeful, a rider on horseback brought news of darkness and light: "The politicians have failed. Now it's up to us. We must break the law to make the laws we need: laws that are supposed to protect society, and protect our future. Until our laws do that, screw being climate lobbyists. Screw being climate activists. It's not working. We need an army of climate outlaws."

The proper channels have failed. It's time for mass civil disobedience to cut off the financial oxygen from denial and skepticism.

If you're one of those who believe that this is not just necessary but also possible, speak to us. Let's talk about what that mass civil disobedience is going to look like.

If you're one of those who have spent their lives undermining progressive climate legislation, bankrolling junk science, fueling spurious debates around false solutions, and cattle-prodding democratically-elected governments into submission, then hear this:

We know who you are. We know where you live. We know where you work.

And we be many, but you be few.

Bring it on, Shirley.  I'll be happy to introduce you to my little friend, Mr. Sawed-off 16 Gauge.

Sheesh.

Some Stuff to Consider

First a disclaimer:  In my entire adult life, I have never engaged in a birthday party ticklefest with other full-grown men.  Just in case anybody was wondering.

Seriously, you almost have to feel sorry for Congressman Massa.  He is obviously a very confused individual who cannot bring himself to publicly admit to his sexual orientation.  His interview with Glenn Beck is one of the most skin-crawlingly uncomfortable episodes I can remember witnessing.  The reality that Mr. Massa actually thinks anyone believes a word he said is a very sad indicator of his utter lack of fitness for serving in congress.  Then again, being abjectly out of touch with reality appears to place him right in the mainstream of Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives.

But enough of that sad and sorry spectacle.  On to more important matters...

Professor Mark J. Perry, at his excellent Carpe Diem blog, contrasts the economic performance of California and Texas.  One state is heavily unionized and dominated in government by mindless leftist cretins.  The other is a right to work state dominated in government by low tax conservatives.

Guess which state has a vastly more healthy economy?  The only drawback to this is that many of the cretins fleeing California for greener pastures are coming to Texas, which is seeing more than 1,000 people move within its borders every day.  Shit, they've already ruined formerly wonderful places like Montana, New Mexico and Colorado - can't they leave the Lone Star State alone?

We have been saying for some time that this Administration and Democrat congressional leaders are attempting to transform America from a constitutional democracy to a strong-arm fascist form of government.  Nowhere has this reality been more starkly borne out than in this morning's report by Mark Tapscott at the Washington Examiner that San Fran Nan is now planning to create a "rule" that will allow her to "deem" the senate healthcare bill to have been "approved" by the House without first requiring the House members to actually take a vote on the bill!

This is an extraordinary perversion of the legislative process, even for a shameless creep like Pelosi, who has made a career out of perverting the process in the House.  These people - Pelosi, Obama, Reid, et al - are literally a threat to the very existence of this country.  Wake up, folks, before it's too late.

On the Great Climate Fraud front, it should come as a surprise to no one that the reliable fellow travelers in the tired, dying, dinosaur leftist news media are beginning to rally to one final push in defense of Pope Al Gore and his minions in the Church of Global Warming.  See this USA Today puff piece as today's prime case in point.

These people will not go down without a fight, and their bones will continue to rattle long after they are buried.

A Nation Recoiling From the Politics of Frivolity

Is America rinally recoiling from the politics of frivolity?


We’ve written a great deal about the Great Climate Fraud in recent months, as the cultish Church of Global Warming (CGW) has entered its inevitable decline in credibility with the scientific community, policymakers and the public at large. The revelation last fall of hundreds of emails detailing an organized commission of outright fraud by some of the leading fake “scientists” who have promoted the Warmist religion has had the same effect on the CGW as the revelation of emails detailing an organized effort to manipulate U.S. natural gas markets had on Enron a decade ago.

Citizens in the United States, Great Britain and across the free world have begun recoiling at the idea that they’ve been had by a bunch of two-bit charlatans. Ok, make that a bunch of trillion dollar charlatans, but charlatans they are. In the most recent Pew survey on public attitudes towards major issues, the percentage of Americans who believe human activity is the cause of climate change fell to an all-time low 34 percent. Climate change ranked 21st out of 21 issues surveyed in terms of public concern, with just 28 percent still laboring under the belief the matter is cause for major congressional action.

Politicians with those kinds of numbers keep themselves busy looking for other lines of work. Public policy issues with that low level of public concern seldom become the subject of successful legislation to address them. Thus we have simultaneously seen over the last few months the collapse of leftist efforts to enact cap and trade legislation targeting carbon dioxide, as well as growing bipartisan congressional opposition to efforts by the Environmental Protection Agency to severely hamstring the economy by implementing command and control regulation over carbon dioxide and other so-called “greenhouse gases”.

What is happening here is that the public is beginning the process of rejecting the politics of frivolity. And frivolity is exactly what the CGW and really environmentalism in general have become.

Over the past 30 to 40 years in America, many good and positive things have been accomplished in the name of environmentalism, since the implementation of major pieces of legislation like the Clean Air Act, the Safe Drinking Water Act and the Endangered Species Act. Automobiles no longer belch out plumes of black smoke as they run down the road; the emissions from coal-fired power plants have been dramatically reduced, although they are still the dirtiest things around; emissions from oil refineries have been cut by a factor of 9 and more; cities no longer are allowed to flow their sewage into the nation’s waterways; important and significant animal species like the Whooping Crane and the Bald Eagle have been brought back from the brink of extinction. All of these and more were good and worthy goals that were worth taking on, and the nation is a much cleaner and safer place as a result.

But, with the fall of the Soviet Union and the resulting de-legitimizing of world socialism, the worthiness of the environmental movement in general began to change, as leftist activists of all stripes came to the conclusion that the best way to advance their radical agenda was under the guise of “environmentalism”. Suddenly, beginning in the early 1990s, proposals for listing species under the Endangered Species Act (ESA) moved away from species, like the Whooping Crane, whose very existence was truly threatened, to animals like the Sage Grouse native to Wyoming and Colorado, which literally exist in the millions (and even have an open hunting season dedicated to them), but whose listing under the ESA on the grounds of decreasing habitat would result in massive economic and societal disruption.

Environmentalist activities under the Clean Air Act (CAA), the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA), and the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) began to take on a similar profile of proposing “solutions” designed to cause maximum cost and economic disruption possible. Under NEPA, the EPA can require the conduct of hugely costly environmental impact studies whenever a citizen raises concerns about almost any potential environmental impact that could allegedly result from some economic activity. Such studies typically cost millions of dollars and can take years to complete. These NEPA provisions have been systematically used by radicals around the country to delay and increase the cost of all manner of infrastructure projects. In Texas these tactics have been used to dramatically increase the time and cost of major highway project on I-35 north of Waco and I-45 north of Houston. One seven mile stretch of road on I-35 has now taken more than 14 years to reconstruct, and is still unfinished.

Examples of this sort of abuse of the provisions of these major federal acts are legion, and the public invariably becomes incensed once the abuses are revealed, despite the best efforts of the leftist news media to cover them up. This has never been more true than the last two years, as a nation mired in a major recession begins to realize that it can no longer afford to tolerate such mindless frivolity in the name of “environmentalism”.

Of course, there has never been a more frivolous environmental policy proposal than the current efforts by congress and the EPA to either legislate or regulate control of carbon dioxide emissions. To understand exactly how frivolous such proposals are, all you really need to know is that carbon dioxide makes up only about 4% of all so-called “greenhouse gas” emissions. Of that 4%, human-based emissions amount to around 3.4%, meaning that, in the now-failed Waxman-Markey legislation, congress proposed to cost the U.S. economy more than $2 trillion over 8 years to attempt to marginally reduce what currently amounts to around 13/100ths of 1% of greenhouse gas emissions. Now that the Waxman-Markey bill has failed, the EPA now proposes to cost the economy even more than that under its heavy-handed, Soviet-style regulatory system.

This is rank frivolity that a nation mired with trillion dollar-plus annual budget deficits as far as the eye can see simply cannot afford or tolerate. The recent polling data indicate that most citizens outside of the hard-core radical left have come to that realization. You can expect that shift in attitudes to show up in a big way in this November’s congressional elections.

The frivolity of the liberal zoo has fallen into a state of unrecoverable ill repute.

Al Gore: The Ken Lay of Global Warming

Predictably, the NY Times has today ceded 1/4th of its op/ed page to a guest opinion piece by Al Gore, Pope of the Church of Global Warming.  It's title?  "We Can't Wish Away Climate Change".

[sigh]

The first paragraph is a thing of climate-hysteric beauty:  "It would be an enormous relief if the recent attacks on the science of global warming actually indicated that we do not face an unimaginable calamity requiring large-scale, preventive measures to protect human civilization as we know it."

You have to love the chutzpah, coming from a guy whose every pronouncement of impending doom to mankind made over the last 20 years has been demonstrated false in just the last few months.  Since last November, we learned that a) hurricanes are not becoming either stronger or more numerous than in the past, b) the Himalyan glaciers are not melting, c) the Amazon rain forests are not endangered by global warming, d) arctic sea ice is not disappearing, e) antarctic sea ice is actually expanding, f) Greenland is not melting, g) polar bears are not in any way an endangered species, h) sea levels are not rising, period, i) crop production in Africa is not decreasing, j) global warming is not a threat to water resources to 3/4ths of the globe, and k) there has been no global warming at all since 1995.

But it gets even better, as Pope Al continues talking himself into a corner:  "...what a burden would be lifted! We would no longer have to worry that our grandchildren would one day look back on us as a criminal generation that had selfishly and blithely ignored clear warnings that their fate was in our hands. We could instead celebrate the naysayers who had doggedly persisted in proving that every major National Academy of Sciences report on climate change had simply made a huge mistake."

The irony of Pope Al pointing fingers at anyone else and accusing them of criminal behavior is stunning in light of what we know today about the utter and complete fraud he has attempted to perpetrate on the world community.  This is a man who was given a Nobel Peace Prize and an Academy Award for the production of a fake documentary - An Inconvenient Truth -  every element of whose narrative was designed to convince the people of the world to spend trillions of dollars in establishing a global carbon trading scheme.  At the same time, Gore was secretly setting himself up in the carbon credit trading business, massively enriching himself in the process.

Now we know that every element of the narrative to An Inconvenient Truth is a lie, the foundation of the most expensive fraud ever perpetrated on mankind.  And we know that Pope Al has been one of the main beneficiaries of that fraud. 

When similar fraud-based houses of cards come tumbling down in the corporate world, as happened with Enron, Arthur Anderson and others, the United States Justice Department conducts formal investigations and people go to jail.  The proper analogy here is to think of Pope Al as the Ken Lay of the Global Warming fraud.

But it doesn't end with Pope Al - you also have to consider the fake "scientists" who have since November been revealed to have intentionally falsified their data in order to produce fake "science" in support of the global warming fraud scheme.  Again, when corporate emails revealing systematic fraudulent behavior are made public, the U.S. Justice Department conducts formal investigations, issues indictments, and throws people in jail.  Given that the emails revealed since last November reveal exactly such fraudulent intent, similar investigations from U.S. and European law enforcement officials are in order.

If future generations want to find criminal behavior in the current generation, they need look no further than Mr. Gore himself, and the fake scientists who dummied up the data to support his criminal endeavor.

Pope Al sums up his op/ed piece with the following breathtaking assertion:  "We have overcome existential threats before. Winston Churchill is widely quoted as having said, “Sometimes doing your best is not good enough. Sometimes, you must do what is required.” Now is that time. Public officials must rise to this challenge by doing what is required; and the public must demand that they do so — or must replace them."

This is the one true thing he writes in the entire piece, and I fully agree.  It is time for public officials at the U.S. Justice Department and law enforcement agencies around the world to rise to the challenge and do what is required here:  Investigate and prosecute Pope Al, the fake scientists who dummied up the data, the officials at the United Nations International Panel on Climate Change, and anyone else who has had a knowing hand in the perpetration of this massive, unprecedented fraud against humanity.

If these public officials fail to perform their obvious duty in this case, then the public must replace them.  It was probably not Pope Al's intent, but in this piece he has made the best possible argument for returning both houses of congress to Republican control this November.  We know the Obama Administration will never act to correct this fraud so long as they are able to avoid it.  Congressional pressure from a new majority will be the only way to force it, and if that fails, then the President himself must be replaced in 2012.

Pope Al had better make all the millions he can as quickly as he can.  Time is growing short, and the editorial board at the NY Times will not be able to provide him cover forever.

Tuesday: This is Funny, Funny Stuff

Hitler weighs in on the climate scandals here. Close the door to your office if you don't want your co-workers to wonder what in the hell you're laughing out loud about.

The Sunday Morning Sensation

Well, Professor Phil Jones has apparently finally decided to begin weaving some level of actual truth into his global warming fantasy tales.  His admissions this week that a) the earth may well have really been warmer during the medieval warming period than it has been over the last 20 years, and b) there has been no global warming since at least 1995 amount to a concession that his infamous "hockey stick" chart was in fact a fraud - as it has repeatedly been demonstrated to be over the last 5 years - rendering the entire foundation for global warming theory suspect at best, more likely the complete and utter sham we've long suspected it to be.

Gawd, it's great being right.

Meanwhile, Howard Dean continues to be the raving lunatic we've all come to know and love, and Al Gore, the Pope of the Church of Global Warming, remains sequestered away from the public eye, as he has been since the abject failure of his Copenhagen global warming confab back in December.

But the complete collapse of the Church of Global Warming fairy tale and its full reporting in the European and Asian news media has done nothing to stop the leftist parrots in the American news media from robotically blubbering its talking points.  Reliable liberals Ceci Connoly and Juan Williams dutifully repeated the CGW-approved lines on the Fox News Sunday roundtable, even as host Chris Wallace and the other roundtable participants no doubt had to strain to hide their snickering.  The whole Climategate scandal has yet be really reported in any meaningful way on any of the major network news broadcasts, or in reliably leftist newspapers like the NY Times.

Of course, the radical leftist government employee James Hansen , continuing his unfettered violation of several federal statutes with apparent impunity, continues to spew his fright scenarios, although this week he likely had to do it from his living room given that the record snowfall in Washington DC likely had him shut in.

And nothing, short of congressional action or a court order, can stop the Environmental Protection Agency from making every effort to destroy what little is left of the U.S. economy by continuing to pursue its mad goal of regulating carbon dioxide, one of the key staples of life on earth, under the Clean Air Act.   While all the attention of the public and the media has been focused on the Obama Administration's efforts to destroy the U.S. economy through massive new socialist legislative proposals, little attention has thus far been paid to the backdoor efforts to accomplish the same goal via soviet-style command and control regulation of every aspect of our daily lives.

Now that the voters have stopped the Obama legislative agenda dead in its tracks, we'll see more attention paid to the administration's regulatory agenda.  One can only hope the courts will come to their senses before it's too late and the EPA has been allowed to go too far down this road.

The nine months left until the November mid-term elections are possibly the most critical nine months in this nation's history.  We must somehow survive the belligerent Obama surge until the voters get their next opportunity to continuing to correct the horrible error they made in 2008.

The Friday Fix

After November, there will be one less chronic drug abuser in the House of Representatives.  Patrick Kennedy has announced he will not seek re-election.  The fewer Kennedys around abusing everything and everyone in sight, the better.

John Mayer, after bragging in an interview with Playboy Magazine about his "racist penis", and using the vaunted "n-word" in the process, obviously decided a simple apology was not enough , and that crying was in fact required here.  I have to admit I had no idea until this morning that it was even possible for a penis to possess racist thought. Go figure.

The erstwhile liberals over at the Politico assure us that, all the mountain of evidence to the contrary aside, the leftists in the mainstream media love Sarah Palin, they really, really do.  Whew.

As if the poor folks in Haiti didn't have it bad enough, this morning they must frantically hide their women, children and wallets, because Nancy Pelosi is coming to town along with a contingent of her fellow leftist thieves.  God help Haiti.

You know it's getting bad for President Obama when even the fake polls conducted by CBS and the NY Times feel the need to accurately show his public approval rating diving below 50% into the mid-40s.  They dummied it up just enough to keep the 46% approval hovering 1 percentage point above the 45% disapproval, but nobody's really buying that nonsense anymore.  This guy is on a free fall into the high 30s by summer.

Finally, I leave you today with a link to the the coolest of all the cool webites in the Internet: this site chronicles everything that was ever blamed on "global warming".  It's well worth taking a little time to browse through some of the most absurd claims.  Of course, we now know that most of those claims were thrown into the IPCC report without any fact-checking at all.

Have a great Friday, folks.

Global Warming: The Great Unravelling

The unravelling of the greatest, most massive fraud in the history of mankind is beginning to happen now at an increasingly rapid pace. New revelations of data manipulation, falsifying of findings, and the serial baselessness for the spectacular fright claims contained in the UN IPCC report and the messaging of Pope Al Gore are now flying at us on almost a daily basis. I've long predicted this would all come about, and that Pope Al would ultiimately go down in history as the P.T. Barnum of the 21st century, but it is now happening at a pace I never envisioned.


Here is a terrific piece by British Professor Philip Stott describing the breathtaking disintigration of the grand narrative.  A few key exerpts:

Moreover, the collapse has been quicker than any might have predicted. The humiliating exclusion of Britain and the EU at the end of the Copenhagen débâcle was partially to be expected, but it was brutal in its final execution. The swing of power to the BASIC group of countries (Brazil, South Africa, India, China) had likewise been signified for some time, but, again, it came with precipitate ease, leaving even the American President, Barack Obama, with no doubts as to where the political agenda on climate change was now heading, namely to the developing world, but especially to the East, and to the Pacific Rim. The dirigiste tropes of ‘Old Europe’, with its love of meaningless targets and carbon capping, will no longer carry weight, while Obama himself has been straitjacketed by the voters of Massachusetts, by the rust-belt Democrats, by a truculent Congress, by an increasingly-sceptical and disillusioned American public, but, above all, by the financial crisis. Nothing will now be effected that for a single moment curbs economic development, from China to Connecticut, from Africa to Alaska.

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I have long predicted, and in public too, that the Copenhagen Conference could prove to be the beginning of the end for the Global Warming Grand Narrative. It appears that I may well have been right, and, indeed, I may have considerably underestimated the speed, and the dramatic nature, of the demise.

You and me both, Professor, you and me both.

The Saturday Situation

I swear, this presidency just becomes more and more absurd with each passing day.  Wait, did I say "passing"?  That's a football term, right?  How appropo, as they say in all the right cocktail parties in the nation's capital.

The big news this morning is that your President, Barack (the Hussein is silent) Obama, has his Justice Department studying ways to tinker with major college football's means of determining a national champion. That's right:  In the middle of the Great Recession, with a 10% rate of unemployment and a 17% rate of underemployment, with foreign policiy crises popping up all over the world and Islamic terrorists bringing incendiary devices onto our jetliners in their underpants, your President continues to have a laser-like focus on the trivial and the absurd.  This guy is quickly making me long for the days of the Carter Administration.

In Church of Global Warming news, it now turns out that the head of the UN's IPCC knew the information regarding melting Himalayan glaciers contained in his organization's "scholarly" report was false before December's climate summit in Copenhagen, but chose to wait two months before releasing the information.  Golly, a Global Warmist is a liar?  Man, that is shocking.

Wednesday Morning Roundup

Posting this from Austin, my favorite city in the world...

Bob Herbert, who works for a newspaper, the NY Times, which never once bothered to ask who Barack Obama really was during the 2008 presidential campaign, this morning is asking who is Barack Obama, really?  And (sniff) he's so goshdarn (sniff, sniff) disappointed in his hero, the President (sniff).  Of course, had the NY Times bothered to actually report on who Barack Obama really is back in 2007 and 2008, we would probably have avoided this feckless, incompetent and utterly disastrous presidency.

All of which leads me to the conclusion that Bob Herbert and everyone else at the near-bankrupt NY Times can go (bleep) themselves.

You won't see much reporting on this in our hopelessly dishonest mainstream, leftist news media, but this is a big deal. Terrance Corcoran is one of the lead authors of the original IPCC report, and a long-time high-visibility proponent of man-made global warming theory.  When guys like this start calling for investigations and resignations, you know the whole house of cards is getting ready to come tumbling down.  Yay.

Politico this morning has an excellent piece on how the leaders in the neo-Fascist Democrat Party are beginning to eat one another.   This is so ugly, it's beeeyutyful.

The Church of Global Warming Meltdown Continues

The fraud-based bust-up of the Church of Global Warming continued apace last week, even as Scott Brown’s senate election in Massachusetts was grabbing all of the big news headlines.


Early last week, the United Nations’ International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was forced to admit that its longstanding contention that the Himalayan glaciers would be melted away by 2035 was not, as previously claimed, based on a peer-reviewed scientific study. Rather, it was based solely on a single published article, the author of which admitted that his theory was entirely speculative in nature, and which did not in fact include any sort of date by when the glaciers would disappear.

Several months after this outright fraudulent claim was brought to its attention by a group of real climate scientists, the head of the IPCC, Raj Pachauri, in making his admission, claimed that the IPCC did not know the flimsy nature of this information when the decision was made to include it in its own “authoritative” report.

But wait, the story gets better.