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Global warming a religion? No way, writes Dave S.:

Nope, no religion here. Global Warming is pure science.

Thank Science someone is taking this threat seriously. I’m sick and sciencedamn tired of these skeptics. I mean, for Science’s sake, what will it take to convince them?

“Sciencedamn”. I’ll be stealing that.

Posted by Tim B. on 11/19/2006 at 11:00 AM
  1. Speaking of religion, Stone takes aim at the deadliest one

    Posted by burrah on 2006 11 19 at 11:51 AM • permalink

  2. Science bless you, Dave S., you’ve done it again.

    Posted by RebeccaH on 2006 11 19 at 12:01 PM • permalink

  3. I’ll be stealing that.

    PW and I are waaaaaaaaaaay ahead of you!

    Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2006 11 19 at 12:15 PM • permalink

  4. PS:  Science bless you, Dave! 

    Science bless this blog!  Science Bless Tim and Andrea!  And Science bless us, each and every one of us!

    Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2006 11 19 at 12:16 PM • permalink

  5. Do environmentalist dyslexics stay awake at night wondering whether there’s an ecneics?

    Posted by andycanuck on 2006 11 19 at 12:17 PM • permalink

  6. Science bless you, Dave S., you’ve done it again.

    No, I haven’t. I was referencing a recent episode of South Park. Eric Cartman freezes himself and wakes up in the future, where the enlightenined futurepeople have abandoned religion and its violence in favor of dispassionate, rational scientific atheism. And, of course, are constantly at war with other factions of rational scientific atheists who disagree with them on points of scientific atheist dogma. During their battles they yell things at each other like “Science damn you!”

    The whole thing reminded me of how we’ve discussed the religious nature of global warmists and other left-wing ideologues that pretend to be rational.

    So, I’ll take credit for porting it into our milieu.  ;-)

    Posted by Dave S. on 2006 11 19 at 12:22 PM • permalink

  7. BTW, there’s such an intersection of subjects between South Park and this blog that I seriously wonder if Parker and Stone are regular readers.

    Posted by Dave S. on 2006 11 19 at 12:28 PM • permalink

  8. I believe they also believe in the Doctrine of Unsubstantiation.

    Posted by andycanuck on 2006 11 19 at 12:59 PM • permalink

  9. Holy science, Batman!

    Posted by Steve Skubinna on 2006 11 19 at 01:39 PM • permalink

  10. Uh, those (general) lines are from the Southpark episode a few weeks ago, this guy Dan didn’t invent the gag.

    Posted by docweasel on 2006 11 19 at 02:02 PM • permalink

  11. Uh, docweasel, read before you comment, and his name isn’t Dan.

    Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2006 11 19 at 02:20 PM • permalink

  12. Andrea, not keeping names straight is something that happens to us all. I’m a lot better with names since I took that Sam Carnegie course.

    Posted by ErnieG on 2006 11 19 at 02:35 PM • permalink

  13. Science is dead! There is no science!

    Only those with primitive medieval minds can still believe this superstitious skyscience claptrap.

    Where are their heads at? Do they seriously think that in the last moments before oblivion science is going to come to rescue them?

    Still. You’ve got to admire them for their blind loyalty and innocent faith.

    Posted by geoff on 2006 11 19 at 02:42 PM • permalink

  14. Don’t forget to give credit to South Park.

    Posted by aaron_ on 2006 11 19 at 02:56 PM • permalink

  15. I wonder if aaron_ experienced a ‘doh!’ moment just after he posted?

    Posted by flying pigs over mecca on 2006 11 19 at 03:10 PM • permalink

  16. Restore the Vernier Calipate! And kill this infidel!

    Posted by Paul Zrimsek on 2006 11 19 at 03:15 PM • permalink

  17. I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer scientist than you do.

    Posted by joe bagadonuts on 2006 11 19 at 03:23 PM • permalink

  18. Otters of the Allied Atheist Allegiance unite!

    Posted by monkeyfan on 2006 11 19 at 04:00 PM • permalink

  19. It’s not a religion! You just gotta have faith!

    Posted by Jim Treacher on 2006 11 19 at 04:04 PM • permalink

  20. Hey, how about SBUH (Sc**nce Be Upon Him).

    Posted by Jim Treacher on 2006 11 19 at 04:05 PM • permalink

  21. Docweasel and aaron have angered me with their non-comment-reading, overenthusiastic accusations of ripoffery. I will crack their skulls open on my chest like clams.

    Posted by Dave S. on 2006 11 19 at 05:48 PM • permalink

  22. Or should I say, “danweasel”?

    In either case, suck my balls, Kyle.

    Posted by Dave S. on 2006 11 19 at 05:50 PM • permalink

  23. Dave S, we should sacrifice them to our science.

    Posted by The Prez on 2006 11 19 at 06:07 PM • permalink

  24. Shenanigans!!!!!!!!

    Posted by Dan Lewis on 2006 11 19 at 06:18 PM • permalink

  25. Ahhh. The easy faith of the simple minded is touching to behold.

    Like docweasel and aaron_. Who among many other things seem to believe that South Park episodes are broadcast around the world at the same time they are in the United States.

    Posted by geoff on 2006 11 19 at 06:49 PM • permalink

  26. #10: is that you, Kim Beazley?

    Posted by Henry boy on 2006 11 19 at 06:55 PM • permalink

  27. Like docweasel and aaron_. Who among many other things seem to believe that South Park episodes are broadcast around the world at the same time they are in the United States.

    But—but aren’t you one of our states? Oh wait… (checks map). Never mind, that’s Canada.

    Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2006 11 19 at 07:14 PM • permalink

  28. Like docweasel and aaron_. Who among many other things seem to believe that South Park episodes are broadcast around the world at the same time they are in the United States.

    Docweasel and aaron_ are right.

    I get my South Park from bittorrent.

    Posted by Dogz on 2006 11 19 at 07:20 PM • permalink

  29. But—but aren’t you one of our states? Oh wait… (checks map). Never mind, that’s Canada.

    Canada’s not a state; Congress hasn’t granted that to them yet. They’re a possession.

    Posted by Rob Crawford on 2006 11 19 at 07:22 PM • permalink

  30. Canada, territorial chattel.

    Posted by kae on 2006 11 19 at 07:54 PM • permalink

  31. I wish to register a complaint. It offends my religion to use the term s*****e and any representation of it by anyone is punishable by the removal of the offender’s head from their body. Please give in to the equality of my culture.

    Posted by Jack Lacton on 2006 11 19 at 08:45 PM • permalink

  32. I represent the Church of Nuclear Winter.  We still believe, as we did in the 1980’s, that the world is faced with catastrophic cooling.

    Our solution to global warming is simple - bring on a nuclear winter by turning North Korea and another annoying middle eastern countries into glass until the temperature drops to an acceptable level.  We keep on nuking until I can turn off the air conditioner.

    To believe anything else is blasphemy.  And those splitters who believed in the Earth getting colder in the 1980’s that have jumped ship - they are heretics.  They are going to be tied to a stake and then cooked by concentrated solar mirrors.

    Posted by mr creosote on 2006 11 19 at 09:13 PM • permalink

  33. 1.618 :) and pythagoras

    I’ve got some bad news Tim, Fairfax’s The Sun Herald is now a pro Islamic newspaper. Re this issue.

    Talk about Islamic reporting! Check out the Islamic stories. eg. sheik gigi jipo and then the use of no burqa in image story, then educational images of scarves….  etc

    This seems to run throughout the fairfax group (community news) with simulated multicultural life saving images and stories endorsed which is endorsed and funded by the NSW government and is manipulated to suit the current simululated lefty agenda or to appease them. This is not news reporting it’s simulating news with propaganda….
    Fairfax has an Islamic journalist (female) seen on 9, who looks like a convert.

    Posted by 1.618 on 2006 11 19 at 09:22 PM • permalink

  34. #21: Sciencespeed to you, Dave, in your efforts to chastise these fellows.

    Posted by paco on 2006 11 19 at 09:26 PM • permalink

  35. Science forgive them, they don’t know what they do.

    Posted by geoff on 2006 11 19 at 09:29 PM • permalink

  36. Sun heralad is pro islamic in reporting

    Posted by 1.618 on 2006 11 19 at 09:29 PM • permalink

  37. #29 territorial possession
    #30 Canada, territorial chattel.
    We prefer the term “trade bitch”, if you don’t mind, Rob and kae. And sure, blame Canada, Andrea.

    Posted by andycanuck on 2006 11 19 at 10:23 PM • permalink

  38. Dave S-You need to stop using that crank prank time phone to dial up the internet from the future and make posts.  Remember-the crank prank time phone is for making prank phone calls only, anything else may endanger the time line.

    Posted by 68W40 on 2006 11 19 at 10:26 PM • permalink

  39. Marx really said: “Science is the opiate of the people.”

    Posted by rinardman on 2006 11 19 at 10:28 PM • permalink

  40. Canada’s not a state; Congress hasn’t granted that to them yet.

    Why would we want that scienceforsaken place? All it ever produced was cold fronts, hockey, and Sciernceon Lightfoot.

    Posted by Dave S. on 2006 11 19 at 10:30 PM • permalink

  41. And sure, blame Canada, Andrea.

    Always!

    Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2006 11 19 at 10:32 PM • permalink

  42. Why would we want that scienceforsaken place? All it ever produced was cold fronts, hockey, and Sciernceon Lightfoot.

    Yeah, but on the other hand there’s Captain Tractor.

    Posted by Rob Crawford on 2006 11 19 at 10:33 PM • permalink

  43. Then again, maybe I mean Mexico. Is this map upside down?

    Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2006 11 19 at 10:33 PM • permalink

  44. #21 Dave S.

    Wow! You’ve got a chest like clams? And here I was davening to SC-ENCE for a chest like scallops!

    Who knew?

    Posted by MentalFloss on 2006 11 19 at 10:38 PM • permalink

  45. and still on “religion”, Bono’s devotees at $150 a ticket, were told to “fix world poverty by shining the light from their mobile phones into the sky” -at his Austrayan concerts..The Oz.
    and o/t Clare Martin N.T. Chief and ex ABC Newsreader prior to her appointment was discovered by The Australian newspaper to have known 18 MONTHS before she instituted an inquiry-
    that young indigenous girls were prostituting for petrol (sniffing you presume). She is the Indigenous Affairs Minister as well.

    Posted by crash on 2006 11 19 at 10:42 PM • permalink

  46. “All your clam fields are belong to us.”

    Posted by monkeyfan on 2006 11 19 at 10:46 PM • permalink

  47. #45

    INTERVIEWER: And how much of that $150 price tag for the ticket goes to world poverty?

    BONO: Well, you know, we have to hire the venue, teamsters, lighting effects. Those limos out the back, they’re not cheap you know. Plus there are my various houses and my sunglass fetish, airfares, motel rooms.

    INTERVIEWER: So much to starving children?

    BONO: Science only knows, at least 15 or 20 cents, I’m sure.

    Posted by The Prez on 2006 11 19 at 10:52 PM • permalink

  48. I’ve noticed a tendency for this blog to get rather silly. Now I do my best to keep things moving along, but I’m not having things getting silly. This thread is getting very silly indeed. Now, nobody likes a good laugh more than I do. Except perhaps my wife. And some of her friends. Oh yes, and Captain Johnson… Come to think of it, most people like a good laugh more than I do, but that’s beside the point! Now! Let’s have a good clean healthy Plastic Turkey thread…

    (the above comment is wholly original and owes nothing to any oft-referenced pop culture source, up to and including South Park, The Simpsons, Star Trek, or any British sketch comedy show featuring uptight Colonels. Any accusations that this is unoriginal material being passed off as my own by declaration or omission shall be punished with soft pillows and a comfy chair, sciencedammit.)

    Right! That’s silly again! Cut to the next comment in three… two… wait for it! ... one…

    Posted by Dave S. on 2006 11 19 at 10:56 PM • permalink

  49. Hey Tim, congratulations on the new job! (link)

    Posted by Ian Deans on 2006 11 19 at 10:56 PM • permalink

  50. #49 Oh! I say, good show, Tim! Opinion Editor!

    If you ever want my opinion, well…call me, eh?

    Posted by MentalFloss on 2006 11 19 at 11:03 PM • permalink

  51. Part of the aforementioned South Park episode here. The Buck Rogers references are hilarious.

    Posted by Art Vandelay on 2006 11 19 at 11:14 PM • permalink

  52. Congrats, Tim!

    Opinion Editor, huh? Cool. So when I see an opinion I don’t like, you can edit it to match mine, right?

    Posted by Dave S. on 2006 11 19 at 11:17 PM • permalink

  53. With Science as my witness, I’ll never eat plastic turkey for Thanksgiving again…

    Posted by Adriane on 2006 11 19 at 11:18 PM • permalink

  54. Blair said he didn’t have a position title as such – “in-house vigilante” will morph into something more “job-friendly” over coming weeks – but would be writing a column for the paper. 

    Hey! What’s wrong with “in-house vigilante”?

    Posted by Spiny Norman on 2006 11 19 at 11:22 PM • permalink

  55. Gotta be better than “outhouse vigilante”. Phew!

    Posted by MentalFloss on 2006 11 19 at 11:39 PM • permalink

  56. Congrats on the new job, Tim.

    Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2006 11 19 at 11:51 PM • permalink

  57. Knew you were up to something, Tim, letting us all hang out here without supervision.  (Well, Andrea is here, so I guess we are  herded beaten supervised.)  Congrats on the job!

    If you ever need opinions, we’ve got a million of ‘em.  (They will let you keep blogging, won’t they?)

    Posted by RebeccaH on 2006 11 20 at 12:02 AM • permalink

  58. Congratulations Tim!

    btw, the South Park episode linked in #51 is the second part. The first is here.

    Posted by Art Vandelay on 2006 11 20 at 12:04 AM • permalink

  59. Part of the aforementioned South Park episode here. The Buck Rogers references are hilarious.

    #51 I take my hate off, ArtVandelay.

    The episode continues
    here.

    Posted by geoff on 2006 11 20 at 12:04 AM • permalink

  60. Thanks geoff!

    btw, the episode linked in #58 is definitely not safe for work.

    Posted by Art Vandelay on 2006 11 20 at 12:14 AM • permalink

  61. The whole episode is here.

    Posted by geoff on 2006 11 20 at 12:22 AM • permalink

  62. yeah, not work safe

    Posted by geoff on 2006 11 20 at 12:23 AM • permalink

  63. “Put it in my monkeyhole, Richard Dawkins!”

    I believe that scarred me for life.

    Posted by Dave S. on 2006 11 20 at 12:46 AM • permalink

  64. Does this mean the Beatles are bigger than Chemistry ?

    Posted by Rachel Corrie's Flatmate on 2006 11 20 at 01:06 AM • permalink

  65. Dang! Even the military has caught this warming science thingy. I contracted it off this link supplied by Tim.

    In the Summer of 1962, two U.S. nuclear subs surfaced at the north pole. All of this arctic activity was to prove that nuclear subs could operate up there, and that ballistic missile subs could launch their missiles there as well. American, and Russian, subs have been operating up there ever since. They have also used their sonar to measure the ice thickness and report that the ice has lost 40 percent of its thickness in the last 20 years. This has caused problems for the polar bears, who feed on seals that surface near offshore ice flows or through breathing holes in pack ice. Some bears are forced to come ashore earlier because of the longer warm season. This is caused by a combination of global warming and the normal fluctuation of Arctic ice thickness.

    And if Greenland is getting cooler on top, then that’s radiative cooling for you. Or cosmic rays. Or sunspots…but angry Gia it ain’t.

    Posted by exit ramp on 2006 11 20 at 01:56 AM • permalink

  66. This is caused by a combination of global warming and the normal fluctuation of Arctic ice thickness.

    ...in a ratio of 1%/99%.

    Posted by Dave S. on 2006 11 20 at 02:11 AM • permalink

  67. On Friday, Al Gore’s, Billy Graham style, evirongalism tour concluded in Perth. It’s estimated he spoke to 1000’s of followers, a couple of whom stayed awake.

    On Sunday 300,000 heretics risked eternal damnation to the bowels of Physics 101 by cramming the Perth foreshore to worship the internal combustion engine at the Red Bull Air Race.

    The debate is now over.

    Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2006 11 20 at 02:45 AM • permalink

  68. o/t

    Bolt has a story about the arrest on the Gold Coast of one Mohammed Islam, who was caught at the Surfer’s Paradise bus station with $120K in a suitcase and a mobile phone wedged in his rectum.

    WTF!?

    Posted by murph on 2006 11 20 at 04:21 AM • permalink

  69. a mobile phone wedged in his rectum.

    That would have been quite tricky in the early 90’s. Luckily technology has miniaturised most electronics.

    Mohmammad Islam: Just asking for trouble with that name.

    Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2006 11 20 at 04:38 AM • permalink

  70. Mohammad Islam aka Bin Partying.

    Was the phone set to silent?

    Posted by kae on 2006 11 20 at 05:08 AM • permalink

  71. I’m with #48 in decrying how this thread has gotten too silly.
    First we should wreck the US economy. Then we should wait a decade or two (or maybe more, say, a century) to see if global warming has been fixed/improved.

    Posted by Jim,MtnViewCA,USA on 2006 11 20 at 05:08 AM • permalink

  72. Nono, we wreck EVERY economy and move into a glorious future of agrarian collectives.

    Posted by wreckage on 2006 11 20 at 05:46 AM • permalink

  73. #68 murph

    a mobile phone wedged in his rectum

    Love the headline for that article: Terror link probed. lol

    Posted by flying pigs over mecca on 2006 11 20 at 06:28 AM • permalink

  74. another o/t

    6 men of unknown appearance, belonging to an organisation with unknown motives have been arrested in Germany for planning to blow up aircraft

    Posted by murph on 2006 11 20 at 06:40 AM • permalink

  75. Psuedoscience is the opium of the masses.

    Posted by Paulm on 2006 11 20 at 06:44 AM • permalink

  76. Hey Dan, quit ripping off Southpark dude! I mean like that TOTALLY was on a recent episode already and shit.

    /docweeeezel

    What Science hath given, Science can taketh away.

    ..and on the seventh day, Science rested.

    The Science of Abraham

    The Science, The Son of Science and The Science Ghost. The Holy Trigonometry.

    All creatures of our Science and King

    ok, thats enough of THAT.

    If Science is God, what does that make Satan?  You are all soooooo going to Art…

    Posted by Texas Bob on 2006 11 20 at 06:50 AM • permalink

  77. #66 Murph: Bolt has a story about the arrest on the Gold Coast of one Mohammed Islam, who was caught at the Surfer’s Paradise bus station with $120K in a suitcase and a mobile phone wedged in his rectum.

    WTF!?

    It’s simple. He wanted to talk to the prophet in his native tongue. And do you have ANY idea how much a cell phone call to the afterlife costs??? $120K will get you about 3 minutes.

    Posted by Texas Bob on 2006 11 20 at 06:55 AM • permalink

  78. At Junk Science read all the latest Junk Science news.

    Posted by stackja1945 on 2006 11 20 at 06:56 AM • permalink

  79. a mobile phone wedged in his rectum.
    Suggested ring tones:
    Up Where You Belong (Buffy Sainte- Marie)
    Ring! Ring! Why don’t you give me a call..(Abba)
    Please Release Me (Englebert Humperdink)
    Too Dark In There (Chuck Berry)

    Posted by blogstrop on 2006 11 20 at 06:56 AM • permalink

  80. He will, no doubt, be the subject of smear and inyourendo.

    Posted by blogstrop on 2006 11 20 at 07:10 AM • permalink

  81. #79

    Ring of Fire.

    silly.

    Posted by kae on 2006 11 20 at 07:11 AM • permalink

  82. Was it set to Vibrate?

    Posted by Dave S. on 2006 11 20 at 08:00 AM • permalink

  83. For the record, Canada is suburb of Detroit.

    Posted by aaron_ on 2006 11 20 at 08:21 AM • permalink

  84. It was a protest for good english use complaining that on a mobile phone there was no :

    Posted by Rob Read on 2006 11 20 at 08:38 AM • permalink

  85. #48,71…Welcome to the Ministry of Silly Talks..

    Posted by crash on 2006 11 20 at 09:34 AM • permalink

  86. #79 “I look at life from both sides now.”
    “can you guess where I’m calling from..”

    Posted by crash on 2006 11 20 at 09:38 AM • permalink

  87. 82.  Was it set to Vibrate?

    He may have been apprehended at a pay phone, repeatedly dialing himself.

    Posted by ErnieG on 2006 11 20 at 09:58 AM • permalink

  88. Thank science you guys are on a roll this morning.  It global warmed all over my front yard last night, and I was feeling blue.

    Posted by RebeccaH on 2006 11 20 at 10:16 AM • permalink

  89. If you find that conventional science isn’t giving you the answers you need in your life, why not take a tip from Tom Cruise, John Travolta, and countless other celebrities and give Religiontology a try?

    Posted by Paul Zrimsek on 2006 11 20 at 10:31 AM • permalink

  90. In the Sweet Pi and Pi
    The Old Rugged Slide Rule

    I gotta million of em! Yuk yuk!

    Posted by Texas Bob on 2006 11 20 at 10:37 AM • permalink

  91. Bill Nye the Godly Guy has been canceled.

    Posted by Some0Seppo on 2006 11 20 at 10:41 AM • permalink

  92. Oh what a friend we have in Physics.

    Posted by andycanuck on 2006 11 20 at 10:47 AM • permalink


  93. Absurdly wasteful display will become less popular once people comprehend its origins in sexual selection, and its pathetic unreliability as a signal of individual merit or virtue

    Except that conspicuous consumption is a particularly good indicator of access to material wealth, which, by providing access to better medical care and educational opportunities, improves the success of your offspring.

    Somehow I think this supposed scientist got a bit of Marx in his Darwin.

    Posted by Rob Crawford on 2006 11 20 at 12:14 PM • permalink

  94. Evo-psych can explain why we’re they way we are. Therefore, we’re not the way we are.

    With science like this, who needs religion?

    Posted by Paul Zrimsek on 2006 11 20 at 12:51 PM • permalink

  95. “Science is wheeled on just as God was once wheeled on, as corroborating evidence (from a superior source) for something upon which
    the voice of moral reproof wanted to insist anyway.”—Matthew Parris

    Posted by Paul Zrimsek on 2006 11 20 at 01:00 PM • permalink

  96. I look forward to the extinction of the peacock by self-persuasion.

    Posted by Rob Read on 2006 11 20 at 01:09 PM • permalink

  97. #94 Robert Crawford

    Somehow I think this supposed scientist got a bit of Marx in his Darwin.

    Spiked his own socio-economic theoretical punch, eh?

    ::gulp:: ::spit:: That’s f*cking vodka, man!
    /Tommy Chong

    Posted by Spiny Norman on 2006 11 20 at 02:08 PM • permalink

  98. #4 May SCIENCE be upon you, nay may it be with you, nay, nay, may it be right through you. May you be kept in natural ignorance for the sake of science.

    Behold! Science is upon us and we must reject our evil ways! Reject our technology that science tells us is destroying our mother! Yea!! repent thee!, that knows’t not what ye do.

    Bow down and throw away your tools of destruction, throw up! Even unto including language! For our science has told us so! We must follow the path of the hunter gatherer, but silently! Avoiding the ways of the devil knowledge.

    Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2006 11 20 at 09:06 PM • permalink

  99. #29 #30 And I suppose you are expecting to get a rise out of the supine Canadians, eh??

    Well, remember that South Park is an area of Carleton Place, a town just outside Ottawa. You see, we are taking you over, slowly but surely, without you guys noticing.

    Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2006 11 20 at 09:14 PM • permalink

  100. Oh, mannnnnnn… scientific facts are like sooooooo arbitrary and sooooo judgmental….why can’t we set policy on science we feel is correct…?

    Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 11 20 at 09:22 PM • permalink

  101. #101,
    Precisely!

    Posted by Lloyd Flack on 2006 11 21 at 05:06 AM • permalink

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