Global Warming Hysteria (cooled)

The Swiss branch of the environment group Greenpeace is recruiting hundreds of volunteers to pose naked on a glacier to draw attention to global warming. The group has commissioned photographer Spencer Tunick to take the photographs next month.

The campaign is aimed at drawing attention to melting Alpine glaciers. Volunteers are being promised that they will not be naked for very long. Tunick is known for his photos of people in the nude, with his latest taken just last month in Amsterdam, where some 2,000 volunteers stripped down for the shoot. Tunick is known for his photos of people in the nude, with his latest taken just last month in Amsterdam, where some 2,000 volunteers stripped down for the shoot.

Ed.  Does this mean that Greenpeace (Swiss Branch) 'male members' will be known as Bluepiece in the future?  As for Tunick, well he clearly has unresolved issues.

Now that has to chafe...With strategically placed helmets and slogans painted on bare skin, scores of people shed their clothes and rode through this seaside resort on their bicycles Saturday to promote cycling as an environmentally friendly mode of transport.

“It is time more motorists stripped off their armor plating and moved around more gently on this earth,” said Duncan Blinkhorn, 45, one of the event’s organizers. More than 200 cyclists in various stages of undress took part in the World Naked Bike Ride in Brighton and Hove, sister cities on the southern coast of England, to promote cycling.

Source: MNSBC   Ed. Brighton is the gay capital of the UK, so many locals will strip off for pretty much any reason of course! However, it was all the more surprising on Saturday as the early June weather has been just as cool as May's (which was cooler than January!) in the UK.

The Daily Show's 'Back In Black' is back - and hitting the Earth Day glitterati moralist 'intellectuals' where it really hurts - in their hip-ocrisy.

This is a must see video....enjoy!

It was really just a question of time before the real nutjobs surfaced on GW (no Greenpeace has not cornered the market on nutjobbery).  Here's the real bottom line for a new book by Gregory Flood  (in the genealogy of Noah perhaps?) and this article by author Harris Brio: Christianity (responsible of course for all the world's ills) is the real cause of global warming.

Here's just a taster from Brio's piece (to save you the trouble of bothering to read it - life's just too short).

"Christianity’s rules are very simple. There aren't any rules, but only for the Christians, Native Americans had to turn the other cheek. While the Horse Calvary slaughtered their fellow Christians, who just happened to look different, so it was the right thing. But who could question it, the calvary is named after Mount Calvary where God the junior who died for their sins, actually died."

Is it just me, or is Brio speaking a form of obscure English largely unknown today? Apparently, Brio would have come forward earlier with this theory - but he's been away with the Easter bunny.

There have been an increasing number of reports about how angst-ridden the media hype global warming  has made our kids.  Here's an excerpt from  The (Portland) Oregonian that gives a flavor of it:

Leslie Carlson remembers fallout shelters and school drills that sent kids diving under their desks. In college, worries about nuclear catastrophe kept her up at night.

But today Carlson, 42, has global warming anxiety.  "I worry about the quality of my children's lives and the connection to nature I love so much," says Carlson, a mother of three and a Portland public relations manager. Recently she was skiing with her children, she says, and surveyed the mountain landscape. "I wondered, 'Are they even going to be able to do this when they grow up?' "

 Ed.  Why? Is Portland thinking of banning skiing up there? Alternatively, (and probably more useful) the city council could try sacking Carlson from her PR job and issuing a restraining order preventing her from bothering kids with her own irrational fears. 

At some stage Al Gore is going to want to cash in on his resurrected fame career and, according to one close friend, Gore may be about throw his hat into the 2008 presidential ring. That's okay. Just so long as he doesn't climb in after it.

Still, you have to admire a man who has staked his entire reputation on global warming being man-made. I didn't even know Gore had a reputation.  But if he does become president I understand he'll be fine on any trips he might have to make to Iraq. (I here he's been buying car-bomb offsets.)  

Latest Mars probe photo: I can't quite make it out...can you see something...?The National Review Online has posted an 'Editor's choice' excerpt and radio link giving  Fred Thompson's (actor and former senator from Gore's home state of Tennessee - and a man, according to Fox TV News today, may well be throwing his hat in the presidential ring shortly) take on the warming on Mars and Pluto et al. Thompson says this:

"...has led some people, not necessarily scientists, to wonder if Mars and Jupiter, non signatories to the Kyoto Treaty, are actually inhabited by alien SUV-driving industrialists who run their air-conditioning at 60 degrees and refuse to recycle.

Silly, I know, but I wonder what all those planets, dwarf planets and moons in our SOLAR system have in common. Hmmmm. SOLAR system. Hmmmm. Solar? I wonder. Nah, I guess we shouldn’t even be talking about this. The science is absolutely decided. There’s a consensus.

Ask Galileo."

Ed. he gets my vote. And don't you just love it whenever science 'consensus' gets mentioned?  I thought that was the whole point of brilliant science - that someone actually gets past the 'consensus' theory to the Truth. It is amazing these days how theory has, somehow, become truth. Have you noticed that science prediction is a like a swarm of bees? One day, butter, wine, chocolate and carbon emissions are bad for you, the next...

Allah Gore receives revelation - while the real GW culprit skulks in the backgroundAustralian health experts are claiming that the current obesity epidemic is as big a social issue as climate change.  But I can think of something even worse: Fat sorry, 'Pleasantly plump' eco-alarmists who tip off the Enviro-police to start litigation when we emit beyond prescribed limits.

And the EU has suggested the need for speed limits on German autobahns to stop drivers over-emitting, too. So the worst of all emitters then would be a Fat German speedster?

Personally, I believe the Aussie-Muslim cleric who blames the current drought on a lack of faith in Allah. Does he mean Allah Gore??

I think so. I sometimes am mortified by my own lack of empathy with the intellectual ability of GW alarmists. So I am very pleased here to be able to offer space for a list of their most pressing and valid arguments based in  the science, the economics and from intellectual reason:

Thankyou...and now let's hear what the weather's going to do today...

The no 1 planetary issue this weekend is surely: Will Al Gore carry off the Oscar for the most expensive PowerPoint presentation in human history? Al is thrilled to have produced a Hollywood blockbuster in the same mould, and out of the same stable, that gave us Plan 9 From Outer Space, Rabid Grannies and Howard the Duck.

Though no polar bears were just during the filming of 'An Inconvenient Truth'  (they'd seen it all before and hid from the cameras) it seems that humans viewing the film have not been  so fortunate. A Toronto Star article this week felt obliged to ask whether Al Gore is helping to develop Ecophobia and wondered whether: Is Al Gore bad for your mental health? Apparently, thousands of Stephen King readers who have attended Gore symposiums ended up sobbing in the aisles, distraught, rageful (at government) and generally (including children) not sleeping at nights. Here's a taster: " One mother, unable to get tickets to the show, called U of T and lamented that her daughter, a high-school student, has been unable to sleep since seeing Gore's 'An Inconvenient Truth' and hoped seeing him live would make her feel better." Funny, the sight of Gore always has the opposite, even soporific, affect on me.

Not quite in the right spirit of Ecophobia however were observation on the Gore film from the excellent Patrick J. Michael (see Books page). In this National Review article Patrick wonders whether Gore  would take the highest accolade the Hollywood myth-makers have to offer. Describing Gore's film as a "riveting work of fiction" he points out how lacking it is in science support, inconveniently pointing out that "the film exaggerates the (water post melting. ed) rise by about 2,000 percent".  Michaels shows how the latest IPCC report already makes Gore's assertions hype-history and that Science has recently published a paper revealing the acceleration of Greenland's ice loss from its huge glaciers "has suddenly reversed".

So will Al Gore reverse his former loser status at this weekend's luvvie Oscar bash (and subsequently at the Nobel Peace Prize self-aggrandizement party)? Well, to quote another Hollywood leg-end: "Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn."  

The Sydney Harbour Bridge, circa 2070?"Within less than the span of a lifetime, Sydney could resemble a desert town like Alice Springs, or even the apocalyptic landscape from Cormac McCarthy's new novel, The Road.  Scorched by temperatures five degrees higher than today, lacking drinking water and yet battered by rising seas and ravaged by bush fires of the ferocity that last month blackened huge areas of Victoria and Tasmania, one of the world's most spectacular cities could be virtually uninhabitable.So suggests a scientific report on climate change commissioned by the New South Wales government."

So runs a report in the online British news mag The First Post, Feb. 1st, 2007. The report went on to warn of a 40% drop in rainfall.  Australia has been suffering a drought for over a year. The fact is that droughts happen. But the hysteria has gripped Australia much like most TV and radio programmes can't help mentioning the weather and climate change in the same breath. It can be said a thousand times that "climate is constantly changing and always has" but, alas, hysteria has a mindset and momentum of its own.

For the record I have been to Australia. I do not wish to be rude (I like the country) but, as far as I remember, large portions of it are uninhabitable now.  Of course, by 2070 not many of us anti-hystericals will be around to stand among the crowds on Sydney Harbour Bridge and holler "I told you so!"  It is always a safe bet to predict apocalypse beyond present lifespans.  Just ask the BBC and The New York Times.

My attention has been drawn to an online post from Dave Roberts here at Gristmill (I believe) an alarmist on climate change. It seems his big concern is the 'new defeatism' on the issue of climate change being urged on us by  the 'Beltway' (that's Washington-New York) leading print media columnists.  It seems Mr Roberts and other enviros are worried that the 'end is nigh'-ism may have gone a tad far inducing many of us to give up saving the planet altogether, put on a bandana and smoke a last illicit cuban (human rights note: that's a cigar, not a person. I don't want the UN IPCC ringing me up to complain.).

There's just no pleasing these alarmists it seems. They want to scare us to death and to reduce our carbon footprints to nil and then induce the corpse to get up start building giant 'free' renewable windmills (costing  millions) so we can tilt at them. Confusing, isn't it?

The Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality hearing scheduled for Wednesday, February 14, 2007, at 10:00 a.m. in room 2123 Rayburn House Office Building has been postponed due to inclement weather. The hearing is entitled “Climate Change: Are Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Human Activities Contributing to a Warming of the Planet?” The hearing will be rescheduled to a date and time to be announced later.

DC WEATHER REPORT:
Wednesday: Freezing rain in the morning. Total ice accumulation between one half to three quarters of an inch. Brisk with highs in the mid 30s. North winds 10 to 15 mph...increasing to northwest 20 to 25 mph in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation near 100 percent.

Supplied by Mitch Persaud, Toronto.

 Ed. The fact is, as Fox TV News revealed yesterday, that the north-east of America (like may parts of the world) is growing  increasingly cold with an extra one inch of snow year on year on average at present.  This fact having been pointed out by presenter Neil Cavuto the invited 'Enviro-scientist' immediately put this down to a consequence of global warming. 

For the record, I see no reason why we should not also have fun in these pages at the expense of the Green Terrorists This is a serious subject. But sometimes the depth of that seriousness can only be gotten across by injecting humour. Sound okay?