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As always, global warming protests continue to be a very effective means of countering global warming:
The weather forecast for Saturday’s global warming rallies in Grand Rapids and Holland calls for snow and cold rain and temperatures in the 40s—about 10 degrees below normal.
For some, this might make global warming a tough sell.
“I’ve thought of that,” said Lisa Locke, associate director of the West Michigan Environmental Action Council ...
Sure you have, sister. Don’t forget your global warming mittens and desertification scarf. Great headline, by the way:
Snow won’t dampen global-warming rallies
(Via Andrew Bolt)
UPDATE. Thomas L. Friedman explains why global warming is now a mainstream issue:
People are seeing things they’ve never seen before in their own front yards.
I went to Moscow in February, and my friends told me they just celebrated the first Moscow Christmas in their memory with no snow. I stopped in London on the way home, and I didn’t need an overcoat.
Well, that proves it. Still, I’d like to see Friedman repeat his no-overcoat experiment in Michigan.
UPDATE II. Or maybe Friedman could head for the hills:
A nationwide day of demonstrations to call attention to global warming has kicked off in New York’s Adirondack Mountains ... Today’s protests come as the Northeast braces for an unusually late snowstorm that could dump six inches or more of snow ...
UPDATE III. Quote of the week (via Noel Sheppard) from Kansas global warming opponent Laura Krinock:
"I’d hate to cancel a rally on global warming because of snow."
UPDATE IV. All these global warming protests have spawned a monster Gor’easter:
"I think that’s an easy excuse, but if we’re really reasonable about it, we’re not talking about individual weather on individual days,” Locke said.
Katrina said what?
Wait till the first string of hot weather (up on this end) this summer and behold the avalanche of stories, all ending with some sort of allusion to this McScience.
they just celebrated the first Moscow Christmas in their memory with no snow.
And the Christmas before that they were experiencing record lows and people were dying. Will global climate change never stop!
Posted by Bruce Rheinstein on 2007 04 14 at 10:02 PM • permalinkGore’s addiction to jetting around the world has finally done it: we’ll be lucky the planet isn’t encased in ice by July.
It’s supposed to be warming up where I am now, but instead it’s cold, raining, dreary, and there are piles of hail on my deck. Even with all of that, the damn grass won’t quit growing. I am not a happy person.
OFF TOPIC - HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I deleted my blog the other day but someone seems to of hijacked the url:
http://www.monaro.blogspot.com/
Have I been hacked????
What are the security implications of this?
One positive about gerbil warning - it truly is the Religion of Peace. (Although a very low tech and poverty afflicted one.)
Posted by flying pigs over mecca on 2007 04 14 at 10:31 PM • permalinkOh sure, Monaro. Like those ads for porn and dubious pharmaceuticals aren’t really yours. ;)
Posted by Bruce Rheinstein on 2007 04 14 at 10:33 PM • permalinkI’m not as clever as some of the other posters (OK, not as clever as MOST of the others) but, to be serious for a sec, the reason this has become a mainstream issue is because giant corporations sense they can earn a buck from global warming. “buy our GW car”, “buy our GW light bulb”. the list will soon go on and on.
the true-believer gorebots will soon be frothing with outrage as CEOs drool over the booty. the rest of us will be paying big bucks.Posted by Jim,MtnViewCA,USA on 2007 04 14 at 10:36 PM • permalinkDitto #3 - one of the key attributes of global warmists is to selectively use data. Not only was it -25 in Moscow in mid-January last year (and -45 in Siberia), but I flew back from Moscow in mid-January this year. The day I flew, there was indeed no snow in Moscow - of course, there was snow on the ground in downtown Los Angeles (the first time since 1962, I believe). Which data point do you use?
Monaro,
You can report a blog in violation of Bloggers terms of service here. From the looks of it, the new material would fit the bill.
Posted by Bruce Rheinstein on 2007 04 14 at 10:46 PM • permalinkI wonder if the Gore effect is spreading too. I remember, back whe Kurt Vonnegut was interesting, he wrote a story about “Ice 9”, it was a crystaline form of water that froze at a temp of about 70 degrees. Once this crystal was unleashed on the world, well, you can imagine the rest. I wonder if the Gore effect, scientific name Algor Terrenis, or in English “Earthly Cooling”, has been unleased in a similar way.
Here is the snow forcast for mid April in the US.
Of itself, and April snowstorm is not unusual. What is unusual is that I am still looking at some of the same snow in my yard that fell in January.
I like snow, but this is ridiculous.
Does it seem to anybody else as though Glowball Warbling now resembles a stock market bubble that has attracted even the most idiotic investors and is due for a big-time correction? We’re used to seeing academics and politicians blather about it, but the share of bored housewifes, retirees and other people whose only qualification for yapping about AGW is that they’ve heard about it on the nightly news a few times too often seems to be sharply on the rise of late.
Ice jams and near-record snowpacks bring flood concerns in Western Canada
In the Rockies, which has seen one of the heaviest snowpacks in the past 35 years, the run-off could be significant.
“Because you have a near-record snowpack in the mountains, there is a potential for big flooding this year, depending on how the spring plays out,” said Brad White, a public safety specialist with the Banff, Kootenay and Yoho National Parks.
BTW, a local TV station had a filler piece tonight about how the cold weather is seeing the skiing season in Southern Ontario extended into at least next week. These were the same guys running stories about how the skiing industry in Ontario was being [going to be?] wiped out by GW because of the very mild January we had. (Followed by a well-below-average February that extended into March and, now, April.)
Posted by andycanuck on 2007 04 14 at 11:42 PM • permalinkLet’s see. The left shrieked like stuck pigs when oil company profits went up, and they accused TEH EVOL Halliburton et al of engineering the whole thing for increased profits. Now a new dubious assertion has prompted a rise in the manufacture and sale of global-warming-friendly products (and fantasies--Preliminary Associated Carbon Offset co., I’m lookin’ at you) and profit margins are doubtless rising accordingly. Are the lefties going to react in similar fury?
Well?
Anybody?
Jesse? Al? Nancy? Rosie?
*crickets*
Posted by Tungsten Monk on 2007 04 14 at 11:56 PM • permalink#18 Tungsten, I’ve heard rumours that the PACO line of global warming friendly products are made in the only factory in Australia to be wholly responsible for a full 60% of Australia’s carbon emissions. Apparently there’s a giant Labor conspiracy to close down the factory…
But I didn’t tell you, ok? It’s just a rumour.
#19 Ash_
I’ve heard rumours that the PACO line of global warming friendly products...
Oh, I see! Is that what he’s been up to the couple of months he’s been absent? I imagine the factory tool-up would keep him rather busy…
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2007 04 15 at 12:36 AM • permalinkIt’s april we still have some snow, I wish it would get warm!
Posted by hollingshead on 2007 04 15 at 01:34 AM • permalinkI wonder if there’s some way of tweaking this effect. Suppose I was to stage a protest against being underpaid and deprived of nookie - ?
Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2007 04 15 at 02:40 AM • permalinkthe reason this has become a mainstream issue is because giant corporations sense they can earn a buck from global warming. “buy our GW car”, “buy our GW light bulb”. the list will soon go on and on.
I am so sick of hearing this meme. Giant evil corporations aren’t manipulating dimwitted consumers. It’s the other way round. Dimwitted consumers (and dimwitted activists who hijack legislative agendas) are demanding this crap from corporations who don’t care what people want as long as it’s legal and they can make a profit.
Company Z: If you want candy striped banana shaped lightbulbs, have we got the product for you.
2 of us protesting? Well, that would almost double the turnout for the Free David Hicks marches.
What we need is a catchy name that rolls off the tongue. ‘Global Warming’ has a resonance when you say it, even though the concept itself is a total wank. What about, ‘Unrewarded Celibacy’? Hey, I could blast the world with the Swinish Effect! ’Protests against Unrewarded Celibacy were cancelled all over the nation as workers were bombarded with pay rises. In related news the drought came to a blissful end for thousands who hadn’t got it away in years...’Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2007 04 15 at 03:17 AM • permalinkSemi-ontopic, it’s probably cranial explosion time over on the left aisle again:
Finance chiefs from the G7 industrialised countries have endorsed nuclear energy, an increasingly attractive power source as governments confront global warming and over-dependence on fossil fuels.
The Group of Seven, following a meeting on Friday, described energy diversification as an important priority for both rich and poor nations.
“Diversification can include advanced energy technologies such as renewable, nuclear and clean coal,” said the ministers and central bank governors from Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the United States.
Ash_
I can confidently predict if it works he wont be going anywhere for quite a while....
Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2007 04 15 at 03:33 AM • permalinkkae
First you should have a large meeting on it, some sort of debate perhaps???
You know one of those mass rally type things?Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2007 04 15 at 03:35 AM • permalinkThefrollickingmole, you have a point. If the effect works, he’ll be beating them off with a stick.
Kae… I probably couldn’t even say that I’m underpaid, considering I’m 21 and get over $80k. But compared to Bill Gates, I’m majorly underpaid and believe we all need more money.
But that doesn’t mean I don’t think the Swinish effect should be spread around!
#38, It’s called the Law of Unintended Consequences. Governments would love the increased power of more and more regulations, but don’t really want to quite kill the geese (that’s us) laying golden eggs, so they are now pushing nuclear power as an alternative to the evil fossil fuels. The viros are pushing for poverty all around, but those in government would just as soon keep the gravy-train rolling.
And you should all pardon my gross abuse of metaphor. Unless you happen to be a goose riding a gravy-train. HEY. It’s late here.
I wander off to read Bulgakov for an hour, and when I get back…
Amazing! The effect is spreading already. Damn, I should have put one of those little c in a circle symbols beside it.Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2007 04 15 at 04:06 AM • permalinkMore likely bits would freeze off and celibacy wouldnt be optional anymore.
God only knows what it would do to the Polar bear population given how “extinct” they are getting due to gerbil worming now…
Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2007 04 15 at 04:21 AM • permalinkOf course, the Swinish Effect can’t just be about good things coming (so to speak) to those who deserve them. Some people somewhere would have to suffer, and suffer greatly.
The tenured twits of academia and their ever-rutting affluent-lefty students had better look out!Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2007 04 15 at 04:31 AM • permalinkBe fair kae, I was putting my mind to good use. It’s not as if I was watching Pregnant Nuns In Bondage Part 3 again.
Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2007 04 15 at 05:03 AM • permalinkhow many times would that be, exactly?
Exactly? I’ll have to take my shoes and socks off for that one.Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2007 04 15 at 05:22 AM • permalink60 Minutes tonight:
LIZ HAYES: Have you ever lied as a politician?
KEVIN RUDD: Certainly not knowingly.
LIZ HAYES: You’ve never lied to save your skin?
KEVIN RUDD: No.
LIZ HAYES: You’ve never lied because it was convenient?
KEVIN RUDD: No. Am I some sort of Mother Theresa saint in public political life in Australia? No. Do I get stuck into the other mob when they need getting stuck in to? Yes. Am I some sort of paragon of political virtue? No. I still think you have to level with people.
LIZ HAYES: So you would never lie?
KEVIN RUDD: I would never knowingly lie.
LIZ HAYES: You throw in ‘knowingly’ because you can accidentally lie?
KEVIN RUDD: I’m just saying that’s the way in which I see it.
Liz Hayes hit the nail on the head. You can’t accidentally lie. Imagine if George Washington had said: I can’t knowingly tell a lie, Pa; you know I can’t knowingly tell a lie. I did cut it with my hatchet.
The man is a fraud and the Australian electorate will work this out soon enough—hopefully before the election.
I’ve been getting the no-snow-on-Christmas argument from people at work. It’s ridiculous—Christmas is one day out of the year. As if the weather always has to act like our picture-postcard memories. Growing up in Miami I learned that I couldn’t always expect what I called “real Christmas weather” (nice crisp, cool weather—temps in the forties and fifties) every year. Some years it would be really hot, some years nice and cold. (Or what I called “cold.")
I have no doubt that the globe is warming slightly, due to normal cyclical changes in sun activity. I also have no doubt that far from being catastrophic, this will be good for people, as winters will start later in the year and be of shorter duration. We’ll be able to grow more food, and we’ll use less fuel in heating our homes. Up north they use tons of fossil fuels for winter heating—how come I never hear how the warming trend making that less necessary is a good thing?
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2007 04 15 at 07:27 AM • permalinkRe. the carbon credit division of PACO™ and the unfounded accusations being made in this comments section, (#18-21 etc.) I have been authorized by the Head Office to issue the following statement.
To our newfound, anti-Green critics of Preliminary Associated Carbon Offset™ and its associated products (like Polar Bear Sunblock Whale Blubber Oil), it takes carbon to make carbon credits. So, of course, we’re going to be the biggest consumer of carbon in the Pacific Region. And if PACO™ produced by Paco Multinational, Australia, Inc. are slightly higher than government suggested (and Paco emphasizes that “suggested") carbon emissions, it’s all being done to save Gaia. Gaia and the polar bears.
Furthermore, Paco will not tolerate this sort of anti-environmental accusation meant to attack the earthy goodness of carbon credits. At Paco, where we have always put the mental in environmental, as part of our own, in-house Carbon Highs Antipodes Offsetting Scheme we’ve hired Al Gore as
spokesblimpspokesmanspokesperson to lower local temperatures wherever a Paco industrial site is located. Out of CHAOS comes order. Google it.
--30--Posted by andycanuck on 2007 04 15 at 09:40 AM • permalinkNo! You FOOLS! Don’t you SEE! The Arctic is heating up so fast all the ice and snow is fleeing south to survive, leaving the abandoned polar bears and penguins to fight over the remaining stranded baby seals!
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 04 15 at 11:00 AM • permalinkRe #38: PW, I wondered what that noise was! It woke me up from a sound sleep. Thanks!
Too bad the sound of leftie cranial explosions isn’t an alarm clock option......that would be cool, even better than waking up to your favorite CD!
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 04 15 at 11:11 AM • permalinkHmmmm.
UPDATE IV. All these global warming protests have spawned a monster Gor’easter:
Son of a b***h!
It’s cold, wet, raining, windy and an all around bad day to go out. I want to hit the club and spend some time in the sauna, but I’m not really willing to go out in this weather.
So I’m here in a really pissy mood and wondering whether or not to play some xbox or make a gin & tonic. Or just go back to bed.
Really. I wish these damn global warming idiots would just go away.
Posted by memomachine on 2007 04 15 at 11:38 AM • permalinkAsh—you don’t need actual science, just a ‘consensus’...
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 04 15 at 11:48 AM • permalink"No one could complain about that.”
To quote dear old Grandpa: “He would complain if he were hung with a new rope.”Cheers
Posted by J.M. Heinrichs on 2007 04 15 at 12:55 PM • permalinkI’d better warn you folks that the Swinish Effect is highly unpredictable. Saturday, two days ago, I was telling a former neighbour about the trouble I was having with the sprinkler system. The lease is up for renewal soon and I said I’d be having words with the landlords about getting it fixed properly.
Yesterday we must have had about 10mm of rain.Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2007 04 15 at 05:25 PM • permalinkExcuse me - make that about 40mm of rain, acccording to the Bureau of Meteorolodgy.
Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2007 04 15 at 05:49 PM • permalink#77 Ash—It is too working! It is! It is! It is! *stamp*stamp*stamp*
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 04 15 at 07:42 PM • permalink
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And yet The Gore was no where around.
The effect is spreading.