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Drudge headline:
HOUSE HEARING ON ‘WARMING OF THE PLANET’ CANCELED AFTER ICE STORM
Naturally, Washington DC is on Al Gore’s list of doomed cities, along with London, Shanghai, Rio de Janeiro, Cape Town and Kyoto. The Effect seems more potent this year; ripples of it are even turning up in New South Wales, where the launch by Premier Morris Iemma of a drought-beating desalination plant an immediate Effect-like response:
Right on cue, the skies opened. Over the past week, Sydney’s catchments have had their best rainfall in more than a year.
Al gave Tipper the cold shoulder last night. Poor dear lost her arm to frostbite.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 02 14 at 06:08 AM • permalinkO/T But too often some of us at this blog may have been guilty of highlighting the worst of journalism and ignoring the body of good work that journalists do.
I have just been reading one of my favourite columns by a fearless reporter called Mike Hudson who writes for a paper I’m sure you’ve all heard of - the Niagara Reporter.
The column ends thus:
I don’t know how they do things back in Indiana, where Lowman’s from, but this is New York. And we New Yorkers don’t like being taken advantage of.
Or being lied to.
Good on you Mr Hudson - I like the cut of your jib. It’s about time someone stood up to the frauds and liars from out of state, and seems to me, you’re the man for the job.
Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 02 14 at 06:33 AM • permalink#7 Cos it takes one to know one, dickwad.
Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 02 14 at 06:41 AM • permalinkI have a great proposal for this challenge:
It involves:
1. Grow plants. They take CO2 from the atmosphere to make their bulk.
2. Harvest Them.
3. Mash them up.
4. Bury them.
5. Grow new plants where the old ones were.
6. Repeat.Its a great way to undertake carbon sequestration. And, since landfill is an ok way to bury the plants, we can convert the mashed up plants into useful products on the way there. These can replace products produced by other means in the economy, thereby saving energy and reducing the greenhouse effect even further.
I call my idea, “let’s stop recycling paper”.
Al must’ve flown over NW Ohio last night. Got a foot of snow sitting on my back porch.
Maybe we should just refer to him as Johnny Snowflake? The dirty SOB.
Posted by Tex Lovera on 2007 02 14 at 07:54 AM • permalinkHehe, you can’t make this stuff up. We’re having a nice sleety ice storm in Manhattan right now.
Posted by Mr. Bingley on 2007 02 14 at 09:01 AM • permalinkYou lucky, lucky bastards!!
You dont know when youve got it good. Its 34 degrees here at 10.30 at night, it was 42 today, and due to my being a tightarse I dont use the air con either (dont worry I burn tyres to make the baby Gaia cry).Couldnt you chop bits off gore and spread the effect out a bit?
Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2007 02 14 at 09:28 AM • permalinkDon’t know about how we might “scrub” the environment clean of Co2 emissions, as billionaire airline tycoon Dickie Branson calls for in his $25 million challenge. Perhaps he and Al “My carbon footprint as Vice President, alone, would dwarf that of several farming communities in Iowa” Gore could get with the Dyson guy and create a big non-cloggable vacuum cleaner for the sky or something.
But it seems to me, if these Gaia-worshipers actually believe that global warming is caused by humans, as they claim, then the choice is obvious. Want to reduce global warming by 30%? Simply kill off 30% of the world’s population. You know, kinda like the little “experiment” they tried with banning the use of DDT in malaria-ridden places in Africa. That worked out pretty well for the pro-environment, human herd thinners. Though a pile of dead or sickened Africans wouldn’t look so good on a big ol’ rainbow colored Earth Day flyer, now would it?
Oh, well. Maybe if they find a cute fuzzy animal to better market that pile of corpses. Perhaps a little meerkat saying in a crisp English accent, “Sorry, blokes! But at least my little dirt hill is safe.”
So, there you have it. Problem solved. Hey Dickie, hey Al, so where do we start? And when do I get my $25 million?
Desperate times call for desperate measures. Cull the human herd, save a polar bear (Because THEY’RE cute!)
I hope the good guys make some noise in these hearings. One of the reason the pubbies are out on their ass is that they were too namby pamby PC on issues like this. I have no faith that they will either.
They held one hearing which pretty much obliterated, despite all spin to the contrary, the hockey stick graph. A lot of this ‘science’ is long overdue for an under oath and critical examination. If it is so strong, it should withstand the scrutiny easily. What will we get? An endless parade of ‘what if’ scenarios based on incomplete models spun to be as accurate and reliable as the predictions of future planetary positions.
#23 BethB,
A visiting scientist here in Australia (can’t recall his name) actually proposed last month that it would be suitable to exterminate 50% of the earth’s human population in order to preserve the planet. No mention of exterminating 50% of the animal or plant population, or 50% of his own DNA. He should get the prize because 50% is such a good round figure.
a drought-beating desalination plant
Are you sure it wasn’t a rain manufacturing plant instead? Look for the PACO label…
Posted by Major John on 2007 02 14 at 10:31 AM • permalinkWell, I’m just going out now to shovel all of the ‘global warming’ (that’s still falling and supposed to do so for the rest of the day). Don’t laugh, Wimpy Canadian, Ottawa’s next. And you’re lucky you’re in the Far East and not in Montreal for the next 3 days, or so, Jack. (And not to be offensive, but happy Tet!)
Posted by andycanuck on 2007 02 14 at 10:36 AM • permalinkthefrollickingmole,
This morning I walked out to my SUV to warm it up. I couldn’t find it so I had to drive a big rectangular ice cube instead.
It’s 13 degrees F which I believe is - 11 degrees Kelvin or Celsius. Whatever Australia uses.
So we have snow, ice, freezing rain, and low low temperatures. I blame Bush for not signing the Kyoto Treaty, which would have made this all go away.
Posted by wronwright on 2007 02 14 at 10:46 AM • permalinkwronwright,
If Bush etc had signed Kyoto you seppos would have sent your weather to Australia under the free trade agreement, and we wouldn’t have liked that at all, because we enjoy sailing and fishing and surfing and coal mining and all the good things we do here in our summer. We only like snow in winter. Be warned, if we get it at any other time of year we will send it back to you with extra tonnage from glowball warmeinge.
Hang in there Greenies! I had a lefty friend sitting under the Chicago glacier remind me last night that global warming causes cold—it’s been proved!
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 02 14 at 11:00 AM • permalinkI don’t know how they do things back in Indiana, where Lowman’s from, but this is New York. And we New Yorkers don’t like being taken advantage of.
I know Niagra’s not the big city, but is anyone else struck by the “New Yorkers taken advantage of by Indiana hayseed” irony?
Posted by Rob Crawford on 2007 02 14 at 11:08 AM • permalinkSome places in which I’m glad I’m not this winter: Chicago, Denver, up-state New York. Sunny and low 60’s today in NoCA. Which is odd considering Algork owns a home a mere hop, skip, jump from mine. How’s the weather been in Nashville (TN), Carthage (TN) and Arlington (VA) (other GoreManse locales—no, no carbon footprinter he)? Maybe it’s some kind of Gore Effect in reverse.
Love that Gore Effect (#1) in the Urban Dictionary has a “geek” tag.
Posted by Kyda Sylvester on 2007 02 14 at 12:07 PM • permalinkYou folks are forgetting your Newtonian Physics: “For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction”
The more the politicians and entertainers go on about global warmering the colder the Earth gets.
The science is beyond dispute.
Posted by Mr. Bingley on 2007 02 14 at 12:29 PM • permalinkWhat I still don’t get is how global warming supposedly causes cold weather. If greenhouse gases are building up, then the heat is trapped in the earth’s atmosphere and the planet gets warmer, right? So why are all my lefty acquaintances saying “See? We’re getting more extreme temperatures! THAT PROVES IT!”?
Posted by Tungsten Monk on 2007 02 14 at 01:09 PM • permalink#39:
It just does, alright. Don’t question the elite.
Posted by ThinAndBritish on 2007 02 14 at 01:56 PM • permalink#32 mareeS - If Bush etc had signed Kyoto you seppos would have sent your weather to Australia under the free trade agreement ...
It wasn’t until 6 months after I started reading this blog that I realized “seppos” wasn’t the same thing as sapphos. Every time an Aussie called me that, I would say “WTF?”
Maree - Be warned, if we get it at any other time of year we will send it back to you with extra tonnage from glowball warmeinge.
Maree, only an Australian could get away with warning an American. For anyone else, I would naturally climb to my roof with a large American flag in hand, wave it around, and yell out “bring it on, bring it on”.
(Please note that I no longer do this with the flag of my alumni, Ohio State University).
Posted by wronwright on 2007 02 14 at 02:55 PM • permalink“... I would naturally climb to my roof with a large American flag in hand, wave it around, and yell out “bring it on, bring it on”.
Well, we did just that and now you’re complaining about a little cold. Come July, you’ll no doubt be pointing out that the giant air conditioner to the North is again failing to meet expectations.
Oh, and what happened to Ohio State University? Something bad?
Cheers
Posted by J.M. Heinrichs on 2007 02 14 at 03:41 PM • permalink(Duplicate post because the first one vanished mysteriously?!?)
“I don’t know how they do things back in Indiana, where Lowman’s from, but this is New York. And we New Yorkers don’t like being taken advantage of.”
...which certainly explains why New Yorkers jumped at the chance to vote for Hillary!
...
As for me, I just made to work, after shoveling off enough of the 11-some inches of globall worming accumulated on my driveway to get the car out.
Had to do it today, because tomorrow’s high temp is supposed to be 16° (-9°C) with 10-20 mph winds. Don’t-cha love frostbite?
Posted by Old Grouch on 2007 02 14 at 04:21 PM • permalinkHeinrichs,
You people must try harder to keep that Canadian cold air up there! There’s a reason Ohio put those lakes between us and youse all.
And I’d just as soon not mention the Ohio State Blackeyes if you don’t mind.
Posted by wronwright on 2007 02 14 at 05:14 PM • permalink#45, 46
Being nice polite Canadians, we revel in sharing with you the gifts of the Mother.So, OSU will be fielding a cricket team next year?
Cheers
Posted by J.M. Heinrichs on 2007 02 15 at 02:42 PM • permalink
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The power of the Gore effect is growing stronger all the time. Here in Chicago the winter has been terrible, and Gore hasn’t been here for a long time.
Or are we experiencing the dreaded Obama corollary to Gore’s law?