THE OPPENHEIMERS OF 'CLIMATE CHANGE'

-- "Some researchers who have long studied the technology are deeply troubled that the company, 'Make Sunsets', appears to have moved forward with launches from a site in Mexico without any public engagement or scientific scrutiny. It’s already attempting to sell 'cooling credits' for future balloon flights that could carry larger payloads." --

And here's the punch line...

-- 'We joke slash not joke that this is partly a company and partly a cult,' Luke Iseman, the cofounder and CEO of Make Sunsets says." --

"Field of Folk" finally decide...

...they're as 'woke' as they wanna be...

"Angry Londoners furious at having their lives disrupted dragged ‘Extinction Rebellion’ climate change protesters from the roof of a train this morning."

You really want to save the world?Target these eco-criminals...

The study, published in the journal Environmental Science & Technology, said that by cutting plastic pollution in the Yangtze River — the third-longest in the world and located in China — and the Ganges River, located in India, ocean pollution could be reduced by half.

FROM THE COMMENTS:

Hit me with your journo-stick!!!

"I can imagine that some genes make it harder for me to resist doing something harmful, and some make it easier. So what? I still don't get to torture kittens, no matter what my genetic makeup is. Maybe the problem is the idea that we should never be expected to do anything that isn't easy? Because that would explain a lot."

Just something to consider the next time some bloviating media moron trots out St Al Gore and the Church of Global Warming.

Lemme see... it only took four bloody weeks

And... oh yeah... the combined moral authority of Hillary Clinton and the Arab League... to shame him into it...Hey, Barry... whatever happened to the progressive, socialist mantra of... "If it only saves one life", huh?

More to the point, what exactly does it say about the character of the presumptive "Leader of the Free World"... that he had to be dragged kicking & screaming into the fray...

The alternative for Barack Obama, and the West in general, is disgrace and the appearance of weakness.

If we cannot even rouse ourselves to confront a tinpot dictator such as Gaddafi, what credibility do we have in regards to an emerging regional power such as Iran?

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THE COMPASSIONATE INTELLECTUAL LEFT REPLIES:

"'Barry' even got the UN onside in that 4 weeks, that's probably a world record. Compare with how it took the UN two years to create Israel after 6 million got killed. dunce."
Posted by liberal supporter to halls of macadamia at 6:07 PM, March 18, 2011

Good grief, libby... do you actually believe any of the happy horseshit that plops outta yer fuzzy-bunny piehole?

And here's some free advice... read slower...

"The timing of Hillary's remarks to CNN on Wednesday has raised eyebrows, coming at a critical moment in her fierce internal battle to push President Barack Obama to join the fight to liberate Libya from Muammar Qadhafi."

What part of... "this guy even makes Mrs Slick Willie look like Mother Theresa"... are you just not getting here? C'mon libby... how about you spark up another spliff and tell us how your idol... President McDreamy... is saving Yemen too?

-- SANA, Yemen -- Yemen’s pro-democracy protests exploded into violence on Friday, as government supporters opened fire on demonstrators in the capital, killing at least 45 people and wounding more than 200.

The violence began almost immediately after the protesters’ noon prayers, conducted en masse in the street. As they rose from prayer, government supporters in plain clothes opened fire from rooftops and windows at the southern end of the protest.

Before Friday, at least 40 protesters had been killed in weeks of demonstrations across the country. Most of those deaths occurred in the restive southern port city of Aden.

And he's back... with Friday troll #14...

Either I've got a more or less permanent lease on that large empty space between your ears, nonny... or your "Obromance" is more serious than I previously suspected.

Night, night nonny-puss.

It's good enough for Romania...

...I say we start holding television weather-shamans to the same exacting standard...

-- BUCHAREST -- A month after Romanian authorities began taxing them for their trade, the country's soothsayers and fortune tellers are cursing a new bill that threatens fines or even prison if their predictions don't come true.

If I'd known it was gonna be...

...the last Christmas ever... I'd have sprung for a fancier tree.

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Oh my gawd... global warming...

...we're all gonna die!!!

“In a nutshell we went from a 20-centimetre base to over 100 centimetres now,” Mr. Rideout said. “That perked everybody up because there wasn't much snow around.”

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Oh my gawd, please...

...please, please... gimme some of that global warming right now...

"Extreme wind chill values between -45 C and -50 C are expected across many parts of southern Manitoba tonight and Sunday," said a weather warning posted on the Environment Canada website Saturday.

There are similar warnings for Alberta and Saskatchewan.

On Saturday evening, Calgary, Winnipeg, Edmonton and Saskatoon were all experiencing temperatures below -20 C.

According to Environment Canada, the temperatures in Calgary should be -1 C at this time of year.

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I guess global warming...

...isn't at the top of everybody's list...

A collection of bullet-proof clothing by Colombian designer Miguel Caballero has been launched in South Africa.

South African businessman Ari Ben David has opened a showroom for the fashion label and intends to open a shop. He told the BBC he was drawn to the collection because of the "serious crime situation in South Africa".

Mr Caballero's label was founded in 1992 in Colombia's capital, Bogota - notorious for violent kidnapping and murder. The business has since expanded to 16 countries, with South Africa being the most recent.

Or maybe... if you're living in a war zone... you could think about changing postal codes.

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To the pigheaded, go the spoils

Wikipedia's "War on Truth"...

As I'm writing this column for the Financial Post, I am simultaneously editing a page on Wikipedia. I am confident that just about everything I write for my column will be available for you to read.

I am equally confident that you will be able to read just about nothing that I write for the page on Wikipedia.

Meet "Tabletop"... eco-warrior par excellence...

Tabletop, it turns out, has another name: Kim Dabelstein Petersen. She (or he?) is an editor at Wikipedia. What does she edit? Reams and reams of global warming pages. I started checking them. In every instance I checked, she defended those warning of catastrophe and deprecated those who believe the science is not settled.

Now... nobody is gonna try make an argument that Wikipedia is anything more than a loosey-goosey online approximation of Readers Digest... but still, it pops up when you do any sort of online search on any topic.

And if we've learned anything from commercials on TV... it's that bombarding people with information, of any kind, or calibre, works...

While I've been writing this column, the Naomi Oreskes page has changed 10 times. Since I first tried to correct the distortions on the page, it has changed 28 times. If you have read a climate change article on Wikipedia -- or on any controversial subject that may have its own Kim Dabelstein Petersen -- beware.

Wikipedia is in the hands of the zealots.

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FROM THE COMMENTS:

One specific NDP supporting gay activist basically ensures that CBC and Canada culture pages are sanitized of criticism.

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Why not just name this thing...

The Marathon for Everlasting Peace... I mean... if Steffi can solve global warming by renaming his dog Y2Kyoto...

China has reaffirmed its commitment to take the Olympic torch through Tibet despite strong international pressure.

Tibet's Chinese-backed governor said he would take personal responsibility for the torch's safety and "severely punish" all who tried to obstruct it.

Well... there's a "Made in China" solution.

Just bear in mind also... with that "punishment" thing... there's usually a point of diminishing returns.

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Where the hell...

Is all that global warming the enviro-fascists have been promising?

He says snowfall amounts will be “somewhere in the 20-30 centimetre range for Toronto” and area.

But as you go east, says Mr. Merideth, “upwards of 30-50 centimetres is possible.”

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RELATED: Yeah, I know... off with my head

Stoogeleft and 300baud think I'm a heretic... but I'm afraid it isn't just me.

The theory was developed by another Hungarian scientist, Ferenc Miskolczi, an atmospheric physicist with 30 years of experience and a former researcher with NASA's Ames Research Center.

After studying it, Zágoni stopped calling global warming a crisis, and has instead focused on presenting the new theory to other climatologists. The data fit extremely well. "I fell in love," he stated at the International Climate Change Conference this week.

And it's more than just a couple of guys labouring anonymously, off in the scientific wilderness...

The conclusions are supported by research published in the Journal of Geophysical Research last year from Steven Schwartz of Brookhaven National Labs, who gave statistical evidence that the Earth's response to carbon dioxide was grossly overstated.

It also helps to explain why current global climate models continually predict more warming than actually measured.

But, for heavens sake, don't tell that to Pope Algore the first, or St. David Suzuki.

We don't wanna start another Inquisition.

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FROM THE COMMENTS:

"I'm asking the question that if Al Gore knows that CO2 forcing, that is, carbon dioxide in the atmosphere from our fossil fuels, is not causing global warming, isn't he committing financial fraud when he sells carbon credits to people to offset their use of fossil fuels and putting carbon dioxide in the atmosphere?"

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GLOBAL WARMING RIGHT NOW!!!

I may have been a lttle too quick off the mark with my previous post... I find myself, for the moment... more than a little humbled by the weather gods.

Anybody else see the television commercial where the SUV effortlessly zips UP the snowy mountainside with light glinting off the windows, while some nonsensical jingle plays in the background.

Well, take it from me... IT'S A LIE... courtesy of Industrial Light & Magic.

I just spent the better part of two hours serially digging, driving, reversing... diiiging, driiiiving reeeversing... well, you get the idea... to retrieve my ever faithful Jeep Cherokee from the back forty... where, yes, I had foolishly tempted the fates by attempting to reach my backwoods woodpile.

It was a do or die thing because I'd managed to make it to the third field... where even a veteran tow truck driver would have feared to tread. With the storm coming in, and more snow expected Monday... I was worried she was gonna be buried until spring thaw. So I huffed and I puffed... and sonuvabitch... I actually made it out.

It took about a dozen attempts to climb that last rise to the house, where I found Mrs. Neo, who, apparently not satisfied with previously verbally slapping me silly... "I mean, what on earth made you think you were actually going to pull that stupid shit off?" -- (I'm paraphrasing here, Mrs. Neo does not, as a general rule, use profanity) -- was busily constructing a photographic record of my ignominious folly.

-- (note: Mrs N, for some reason, also ungenerously feels it is important to point out that some unnamed spouse could have easily made this little excursion yesterday, prior to the, uh... spot of weather rolling in.) --

Needless to say, I am feeling completely worn out... and more than a little sheepish.

So anyway... this Global Warming shit... when exactly is that gonna happen?

'Cos I want it in writing... right now.

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Frankenfish

While Steffi freaks out about global warming half a world away... there are real problems surfacing here at home...

Fish farming as it's currently practised in Canada is destroying wild salmon stocks and threatens to completely wipe them out within four years in one area of British Columbia, according to new research.

“If there are only a couple of farms, only a couple hundred thousand fish in the water, we probably wouldn't have a problem at all. But now we've just got millions and millions of salmon in net pens that aren't supposed to be there and it's really changing the dynamics of disease.

Apart from the massive environmental impact, this enterprise is also gonna scar a lot of peoples lives.

A 2002 report from B.C.'s auditor general found that wild salmon are worth more than $600 million to the provincial economy. Recreational and commercial wild salmon fisheries provided nearly 4,600 jobs.

Now... back to your global warming booga-booga.

U.N. explodes into action...

On climate change.

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon told reporters... "it may be too ambitious" to set targets for greenhouse-gas emissions in the draft text of an agreement aimed at replacing the Kyoto Protocol to stop global warming.

Now, how could that be possible? The United Nations has such a stellar record of solving all the world's ills.

Delegates from about 190 nations, now holding high-level meetings, are split over whether targets should be set now or later. Mr. Ban recognizes the divisions.

"Frankly speaking, realistically, it may be too ambitious if delegates would expect to be able to agree on target of greenhouse gas emission reduction," he said.

"But, as I told you, some time down the road we will have to agree on that."

I don't know... it sounds as though Steffi may have got to him.

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NEWSFLASH: "Act Right Now or Die" warns Moon.

Apparently Ban Ki-Moon has an evil twin...

"We are at a crossroads: one path leads to a comprehensive climate change agreement, the other one to oblivion."

I'm so confused.

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As many a Palestinian has discovered...

You fire a bullet straight up into the air... at some point the physical laws of the universe step in and take over...

If Al Gore is a decent man, thirty years from now, having finally admitted he was wrong about global warming, he will endow a new prize, to be presented annually to a man or woman who tried to undo the incalculable damage done by An Inconvenient Truth.

Surely we must be near the apogee of this politically correct environmental jiggery-pokery.

The average US household consumes 10,656 kilowatt-hours of electricity. In 2006, the Gores wolfed down nearly 221,000 kWh.

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RELATED: Show me the science

In the wake of a British court ruling that the "documentary" contains material errors of fact, a "call to return Inconvenient Truth Oscar".

Lies, lies and more lies.

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LAST WORD: If I had to choose between...

Doris Lessing and dynamite... it wouldn't take 2 seconds

She left home when she was 15, and in 1937 she moved to Salisbury (now Harare) in Southern Rhodesia, where she took jobs as a telephone operator and nursemaid. She married at 19 and had two children.

A few years later, feeling imprisoned, she abandoned her family.

She later married Gottfried Lessing, a central member of the left-wing Left Book Club, and they had a son. When she divorced Mr. Lessing, she and her young son, Peter, moved to London, where she began her literary career.

Let's just rename this the "Pinko Prize" and move on.

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Somebody had better stop...

Those eco-warriors... before they kill us all.

-- BEIJING, Sept 27 (Reuters) -- Most crops grown in the United States and Europe to make "green" transport fuels actually speed up global warming because of industrial farming methods, says a report by Nobel prize winning chemist Paul J. Crutzen.

The findings could spell particular concern for alternative fuels derived from rapeseed, used in Europe, which the study concluded could produce up to 70 percent more planet-warming greenhouse gases than conventional diesel.

This is a prime example of "The Law of Unintended Consequences."

There was a wonderful example of this type of thing in the book "Freakononics" where a daycare decided to institute a late fee for the few parents who were consistently late picking up their children at the end of the day.

The intent of the charge was to decrease the instance of people who were tardy... but what resulted instead, was a significant increase... now that parents felt they were justified in coming late, as long as they paid the "fine."

The obvious lesson here is... listen to the science... not Al Gore.

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A load of crap indeed

Everybody brace yourself... here comes a Jurassic fart.

-- DUVANNY YAR, Russia -- Sergei Zimov bends down, picks up a handful of syrup-like mud and holds it to his nose. It smells like a cow pat, but he knows better.

"It smells like mammoth dung," he said.

This is more than just another symptom of global warming.

Yeah, you go ahead and focus on the dino shit... I'm a glass half full kinda guy myself.

A sea level rise of just 50 feet would give us a Conservative majority up here, and put the Republicans back in charge of Congress down there, while guaranteeing that neither Hillary nor Chelsea Clinton ever becomes President.

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It makes as much sense...

As the rest of that Gore sponsored "enviro-malarkey".

Nearly 600 men and women volunteers have stripped naked to pose for US photographer Spencer Tunick on the slope of a melting Swiss glacier.

The photo shoot on the Aletsch glacier was commissioned by environmental group Greenpeace as part of a campaign to raise awareness about global warming.

I've always said there's nothing like naked, weathered ex-flower child ass... to raise the collective consciousness.

Somebody get me a drink.

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Diversity is good... right?

I mean, everybody says so... hell, it's all over tv, it's a political no-brainer, it's even embedded in our kids' school curriculum...

And, now, along comes Robert Putnam, an influential social scientist from Harvard who has done the biggest study yet on diversity and its impact.

Mr. Putnam isn't all that thrilled with what he's found. He checked and cross-checked his data for years before publishing his findings. By inclination, he is liberal-minded, and he knows his work will be used by racists and nativists to prove they were right all along.

Unfortunately, unlike Al Gore and the "Global Sky is Warming" crowd... Putnam isn't willing to skew his data to arrive at some warm fuzzy-bunny conclusion.

This is awkward stuff. Mr. Putnam's work is a sharp rebuke to the brand of feel-good multiculturalism that has ruled Canada for decades - the sunny belief that says diversity is good for its own sake and that, if we all hold hands and teach our children the right lessons about celebrating difference, all will be well. Better than well, in fact.

The official version is that difference makes us stronger. We have no idea what to do if the opposite turns out to be the case.

In any case, there's no putting the genie back in the bottle at this stage of the game.

Hang on, it should be an interesting ride.

(via Daimnation)

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RELATED: "An Inconvenient Correction"

While we're on the topic of hard science...

In his enviro-propaganda flick, An Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore claims nine of the 10 hottest years on record have occurred in the last decade.

That's been a common refrain for environmentalists, too, and one of the centrepieces of global warming hysteria: It's been really hot lately -- abnormally hot -- so we all need to be afraid, very afraid.

The trouble is, it's no longer true.

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