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CHILLING SPREE CONTINUES

The Gore Effect hits Hollywood!

UPDATE. Mark Steyn recalls a rustic warmening proverb:

If ‘tis warm in December
It be global warming you must remember
But if it be cold in Jan
That means even more products we must ban
And if in Feb it’s just 53 and partly sunny with occasional showers
That means ye Earth will only survive a few more hours.

Posted by Tim B. on 01/17/2007 at 08:28 PM
  1. Who wants a BHP gas pipeline now, Hollywood bitches!

    Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 01 17 at 09:49 PM • permalink

  2. The main instapundit page will do the trick.

    Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 01 17 at 10:00 PM • permalink

  3. BHP: It’s a Gas!

    Posted by AlburyShifton on 2007 01 17 at 10:01 PM • permalink

  4. Ha! 1000 points for “chilling spree”, Tim.

    Posted by blandwagon on 2007 01 17 at 10:03 PM • permalink

  5. I fixed the link, Tim and commenters.

    Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2007 01 17 at 10:06 PM • permalink

  6. Thanks Andrea.

    Here’s Gore on a recent stopover in Hawaii.

    Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 01 17 at 10:10 PM • permalink

  7. The Gore Effect hits Hollywood!
    In light of the new climate in Southern California, the big studios are currently remaking the following movies:
    Ice Station Zebra
    The Big Chill
    In Cold Blood
    Cold Mountain
    Cool Hand Luke
    The Spy Who Came in From the Cold
    Ice Age 3 is also on the drawing board

    However, Chill Wills will be unable to star in any of them due to the fact he is dead.

    Posted by Bonmot on 2007 01 17 at 10:11 PM • permalink

  8. Sorry, this way OT but too funny to miss.... Over on All Men Are Liars is a post about men who throw tantrums containing some speculation as to the cause of this behaviour.  The very first post in response blames John Howard.  Amazingly, gangsta rap is also John Howards fault.

    Posted by bondo on 2007 01 17 at 10:44 PM • permalink

  9. PIMF - this is way OT…

    Posted by bondo on 2007 01 17 at 10:45 PM • permalink

  10. #1: A who’s who of celebrities, including Tom Hanks, Charlize Theron, Barbra Streisand and Cher . . .

    Er, that’s a pretty outdated edition of “Who’s Who”, isn’t it? Given today’s demographics, they belong in “Who’s You?”

    Posted by paco on 2007 01 17 at 10:59 PM • permalink

  11. #8 Bondo - The very first post in response blames John Howard.

    The guy was joking - he could have been one of us here who blame Bush for everything.

    Posted by Bonmot on 2007 01 17 at 11:07 PM • permalink

  12. O/T, but regular commenter, philosopher, philanthropist and connoisseur of feminine pulchritude, Swinish Capitalist, arranged to have one of Gina Elise’s calendars sent to Private Paco, Jr. It arrived today, and it is magnificent! Since Paco Jr. is currently in Richmond visiting his brother, and since I won’t be able to get the calendar to him until this Sunday, I will have time to study every month in great detail. Get out there and get one. It’s for a good cause, and Gina is gorgeous.

    Posted by paco on 2007 01 17 at 11:17 PM • permalink

  13. #7: However, Chill Wills will be unable to star in any of them due to the fact he is dead.

    That’s true, but Chilly Willy’s available.

    Posted by paco on 2007 01 17 at 11:20 PM • permalink

  14. Paco, Chilly Willy has one hell of a compassionate head tilt going on there!

    That’s not a kheffiya on his head is it?

    Posted by Penguin on 2007 01 17 at 11:59 PM • permalink

  15. #14: I thought it was Chilly Willy. Oh, NO! It’s not . . . Lowenstein?!?

    Posted by paco on 2007 01 18 at 12:01 AM • permalink

  16. Maybe Algore should arrange for a glacier to move into Hollywood, to offset global goreming, y’know?

    Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 01 18 at 12:04 AM • permalink


  17. Snow Falls In West LA, Malibu

    Is that some sort of Hollywood-Code-Speak, for, “Someone spilled the cocaine on the carpet.”?

    NPR told me, so I know it to be true, that if temps are exceptionaly cold, it’s due to “Global-Warming”. And if temps are exceptionaly warm, it too, is due to “Global-Warming”.

    Nothing to see here people...let’s all just move along.

    Posted by Thomas on 2007 01 18 at 12:46 AM • permalink

  18. Can’t you guys send Vice President Puffy to Melbourne?  Those poor tennis players are sweltering!

    Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 01 18 at 01:08 AM • permalink

  19. In other Global Somethinging news, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists have reset the Doomsday Clock, and one of their very smartest guys, Physicist Lawrence Krauss of Case Western Reserve, has declared that the climate has been constant for the last 500,000 years. All that glaciation stuff, all those eskers and drumlins? The fact that all of Scotland looks like one big golf course? Never happened! All in your imagination! That’s quite a step forward from memory-holing the medieval warm period and the “little ice age”. What’ll they un-think of next?

    And you’re required to believe this clown, because he’s a Scientist, or something.

    Via 4 Mile Creek.

    Posted by Don't Bogart that Midget, Comrade! on 2007 01 18 at 01:23 AM • permalink

  20. 12 - Any excuse to dodge the lawn mowing, fella!

    Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2007 01 18 at 02:43 AM • permalink

  21. In fact there’s an old German nonsense proverb that could well be the motto of the Global Warming crowd:
    When the cock crows on the dunghill
    The weather will either change or be the same

    Posted by cuckoo on 2007 01 18 at 03:09 AM • permalink

  22. Meteorological Stalinism:

    Weather Channel Climate Expert Calls for Decertifying Global Warming Skeptics

    The Weather Channel’s most prominent climatologist is advocating that broadcast meteorologists be stripped of their scientific certification if they express skepticism about predictions of manmade catastrophic global warming. This latest call to silence skeptics follows a year (2006) in which skeptics were compared to “Holocaust Deniers” and Nuremberg-style war crimes trials were advocated by several climate alarmists.

    The Weather Channel’s (TWC) Heidi Cullen, who hosts the weekly global warming program “The Climate Code,” is advocating that the American Meteorological Society (AMS) revoke their “Seal of Approval” for any television weatherman who expresses skepticism that human activity is creating a climate catastrophe.

    “If a meteorologist can’t speak to the fundamental science of climate change, then maybe the AMS shouldn’t give them a Seal of Approval. Clearly, the AMS doesn’t agree that global warming can be blamed on cyclical weather patterns,”

    ::CRASH::

    Nobody expects the Glowball Warmening Inquisistion!!!

    Posted by Spiny Norman on 2007 01 18 at 03:14 AM • permalink

  23. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times… it depends on whether you prefer cocktails by the pool or shovelling snow.

    The full Dickens quote is so relevant today its scary.

    Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 01 18 at 03:18 AM • permalink

  24. Global warming = Y2K = Oh Yeah!

    Posted by Howzat on 2007 01 18 at 03:18 AM • permalink

  25. Much excitement elsewhere about the news/coredata poll that finds Australians far more worried about climate change than terrorism. Apart from the obvious impact of water restrictions on citizens moods, I am curious about the claim that 75% have made personal changes like “walking or using more efficient electrical devices to reduce energy consumption” Very odd. As white goods now come with energy ratings plasted on the front of them it is hard to imagine who would say, even though the stove promised to cost me a fortune to run or the dishwasher promised to double my water bill, I chose it over a energy and water efficient item. Or that walking instead of driving, say to work, was a choice of the factory worker with the late shift and kms from his home. However the inner city living CBD worker who is worried about his/her weight is a different matter. Or breathalysers.

    Anyone able to direct to the poll itself. Coredata uses a number of methods including face to face, paid and e-polling. News I think relies on reader polls.

    Posted by Ros on 2007 01 18 at 03:33 AM • permalink

  26. Spiny Norman:

    Our two chief weapons are fear and surprise.

    Fear, surprise, and a windbag ex-US-Vice-President.

    Our THREE chief weapons are fear surprise, Al Gore, and a fanatic devotion to Gaia.

    Our FOUR chief weapons…

    Posted by Nicholas on 2007 01 18 at 03:38 AM • permalink

  27. Amongst our weaponry are such elements as…

    Fear, ahh…

    Stop. Stop there! Stop. Our chief weapon is surprise, blah, blah, blah, blah. Cardinal Lambert, read the charges.

    Posted by Spiny Norman on 2007 01 18 at 03:48 AM • permalink

  28. "now is the winter of our discontent”.. Sheikspeare will tell me I’ve quoted it completely out of context, but Richard the Third would ask me to pass his fur coat as it’s bloody freezing and bugger the greens.

    Posted by mareeS on 2007 01 18 at 04:03 AM • permalink

  29. The Weather Channel’s (TWC) Heidi Cullen, who hosts the weekly global warming program “The Climate Code,”

    This bint is a certified wild-eyed zealot. I caught her act once - every study or stat she reported that supported globular warmerizing was presented as fact. When forced to report inconveniently contrary studies that made the news, she cautioned that the studies were “preliminary” and more research was needed.

    Try watching this show just once and count the number of times she says something that makes you want to hurl a brick through the screen.

    Posted by Dave S. on 2007 01 18 at 04:22 AM • permalink

  30. I’ve seen her once or twice. I like the historical stuff TWC runs, like Storm Stories, but it’s usually no more than 4 or 5 minutes into her sermon before I say “fuck this” and change the channel.

    :^þ

    Posted by Spiny Norman on 2007 01 18 at 04:26 AM • permalink

  31. Sticking with the off-topic topic - I got mine today, too. Three Gina calendars, oh, YEAHHH!!!
    I bought two to give away to friends, but hell, as soon as I opened the package their names flew straight out of my head. Maybe they’ll be luckier next year.
    GO GINA!

    Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2007 01 18 at 05:25 AM • permalink

  32. I have that ‘throw a brick’ inclination whenever Cock and Mel inadvertently show up on my screen.

    Posted by Srekwah on 2007 01 18 at 05:36 AM • permalink

  33. Mmmm… Gina.

    Haven’t got mine yet; I only ordered it Monday.

    Posted by Spiny Norman on 2007 01 18 at 05:39 AM • permalink

  34. Such a treat coming your way, Spiny.

    Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2007 01 18 at 05:48 AM • permalink

  35. This proposed liquefied natural gas terminal is part of a globalised assault taking place on our earth

    I, for one, welcome our new alien overlords…

    Posted by murph on 2007 01 18 at 06:20 AM • permalink

  36. Just sent an email to a leftoid mate in LA:-

    Good to see the weather is obeying Californian law.  It must be afraid of being a ripped a new a-hole by Schwarzenegger.

    Posted by murph on 2007 01 18 at 06:22 AM • permalink

  37. Science Help us!

    Posted by Rob Read on 2007 01 18 at 08:36 AM • permalink

  38. ot - kekka’s done another australia day lamb ad

    Posted by KK on 2007 01 18 at 09:19 AM • permalink

  39. A dark sky at night, it’s the warmening-take fright

    A Blue sky in morning, it’s gotta be global warming

    Posted by eeniemeenie on 2007 01 18 at 09:21 AM • permalink

  40. #40 eenieMeenie: Don’t sailors have some kind of saying like that? I think it runs thusly:

    Red sky in morning, Look Out! Global warming;
    Red sky at night, carbon footprint is light.

    Posted by paco on 2007 01 18 at 09:26 AM • permalink

  41. that ancient folk wisdom can’t be denied paco- here’s an old fishermans saying that has stood the test of time

    When the wind is blowing in the North
    The warmening is coming forth,
    When the wind is blowing in the East,
    The warmening kills man and beast,
    When the wind is blowing in the South
    the world’s devoured in warmenings mouth,
    When the wind is blowing in the West,
    By warmening we are all opressed!

    Posted by eeniemeenie on 2007 01 18 at 09:50 AM • permalink

  42. #42: So, whenever the wind blows, we’re screwed. Bummer.

    Posted by paco on 2007 01 18 at 10:06 AM • permalink

  43. Wedded in snow white
    Sailors’ delight

    Posted by andycanuck on 2007 01 18 at 10:10 AM • permalink

  44. It’s snowing in Texas.

    http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070118/ap_on_re_us/winter_blast

    And you know who used to be governor of Texas?  And that the oil companies control the state.

    Posted by Room 237 on 2007 01 18 at 10:20 AM • permalink

  45. And from Small Dead Animals blog, Y2Kyoto:
    http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/archives/005305.html

    Headline updated, h/t commentor Rob, who may have just coined the new word of the year;

    Your search -Y2Kyoto - did not match any documents.

    Posted by andycanuck on 2007 01 18 at 10:28 AM • permalink

  46. Wedded in global warming,
    Sailors take warning.

    Posted by andycanuck on 2007 01 18 at 10:29 AM • permalink

  47. The good news is that Paco Geothermal Industries is currently negotiating with Al Gore to procure and duplicate his DNA. Under carefully-controlled, laboratory conditions, we believe that Politician-Assisted Cold Output can be generated from the DNA molecules, bottled, and sold as a cheap substitute for freon, thus revolutionizing the refrigeration industry. Soon, we’ll all be using GoreFrost.

    Posted by paco on 2007 01 18 at 10:30 AM • permalink

  48. Speaking of Global Warmmongering, some of the Faithful have found a new method of argument.

    Posted by Ken Summers on 2007 01 18 at 10:31 AM • permalink

  49. #49: Very interesting story, Ken. Who ever would have thought that the Weather Channel would become controversial? Or that it would wind up with a jackbooted weather chick? As has been said many times, “ideas have consequences”, and just because they’re wacky doesn’t mean they aren’t potentially dangerous to our liberty.

    Posted by paco on 2007 01 18 at 10:43 AM • permalink

  50. #49 Just out of interest exactly how does she think the skeptics would be “be stripped of their scientific certification”. Neither she nor any of the professional bodies have that power and even the Universities that granted the degrees and doctorates could only rescind them in the event of something like fraud during the actual research the degree was awarded for being demonstrated.

    Also Someone should tell her that a seal of approval isn’t a scientific certification. Besides which, what would the AMS do if they rescinded one of these and the station simply told them to get stuffed. It’s not as if they are going to be able to stop them broadcasting weather reports.

    Of course she’s simply barking mad, but it would be nice if these people occasionally stopped to think before speaking.

    Posted by Burbank on 2007 01 18 at 11:33 AM • permalink

  51. Apparently, the AMS has some form of <a href="http://www.ametsoc.org/amscert/">certification for weatherpeople.

    Posted by Ken Summers on 2007 01 18 at 11:46 AM • permalink

  52. #49, thanks for that link, Ken Summers.  I left a comment:  What happens in a few years when nothing much happens, and the weather is as unpredictable as ever?  The grant money dries up?

    Posted by RebeccaH on 2007 01 18 at 11:47 AM • permalink

  53. #53: The grant money dries up?

    Oh, no, my dear! That swamp will never be drained. That’s why there’s still plenty of time for us to figure out a way to siphon off our fair share.

    Posted by paco on 2007 01 18 at 12:17 PM • permalink

  54. #49 Ken Summers

    See my #23.

    ;^)

    Posted by Spiny Norman on 2007 01 18 at 02:48 PM • permalink

  55. Damn, Spiny, you scooped me! I breezed right past it and missed your comment completely!

    Posted by Ken Summers on 2007 01 18 at 09:33 PM • permalink

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