Just imagine if George W. Bush had said this

Just close your eyes and imagine

Via Slate:

[A]s usual, and in keeping with the high-minded tone of his speech, there were few policy specifics. (The Washington Post’s Brad Plumer has  a good rundown of what might be feasible in the president’s second term.) What was interesting was how he framed the issue: not just as one of responsibility to future generations, but as one of responsibility to God. Here’s what he said:

“We, the people, still believe that our obligations as Americans are not just to ourselves, but to all posterity. We will respond to the threat of climate change, knowing that the failure to do so would betray our children and future generations. Some may still deny the overwhelming judgment of science, but none can avoid the devastating impact of raging fires, and crippling drought, and more powerful storms. The path towards sustainable energy sources will be long and sometimes difficult. But America cannot resist this transition; we must lead it. We cannot cede to other nations the technology that will power new jobs and new industries — we must claim its promise. That is how we will maintain our economic vitality and our national treasure — our forests and waterways; our croplands and snowcapped peaks. That is how we will preserve our planet, commanded to our care by God. That’s what will lend meaning to the creed our fathers once declared.”

If Bush, or any Republican had said that, the Leftists heads would be exploding. Odd how they do not mind when a fellow Leftist mentions God.

 

MSNBS strikes again blames Hurricane Sandy on you know what

Oh Good Freaking Grief! These mental midgets act like hurricanes are new

Oh no, here comes Rep Henry Waxman aka Nostrilsaurus Rex calling for hearings on Hurricanes and climate change.

The top Democrat on the House Energy and Commerce Committee is urging Republicans to hold a hearing in the lame-duck session on links between climate change and Hurricane Sandy.

Rep. Henry Waxman’s (D-Calif.) letter to the committee’s chairman, Rep. Fred Upton (R-Mich.), makes Waxman the latest of several Democrats to cite the massive storm when calling for tougher action to battle global warming.

Wednesday’s letter argues that regardless of what happens at the ballot box in November, “the election should be a time to return to fact-based policymaking.”

“Hurricane Sandy is exactly the type of extreme weather event that climate scientists have said will become more frequent and more severe if we fail to reduce our carbon pollution. That is why we are writing to request that you hold a hearing on the storm and its relation to climate change in the lame-duck session,” Waxman and Rep. Bobby Rush (D-Ill.), a top lieutenant on the committee, wrote.

All I can ask is what monetary stake does Rep Waxman have in pushing this BS?

 

New Study: No Proof of a link between Climate Change and Severe Weather

 

Alternate headline? Severe weather not caused by climate change, Al Gore hardest hit. William Teach has the scoop

(Washington Post) The study (abstract): “Monitoring and Understanding Trends in Extreme Storms: State of Knowledge”, to be published in a forthcoming issue of the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, states its objective plainly:

Due to the intense media coverage of and great public interest in the 2011 disasters, we suspect that many [meteorologists] have received inquiries or have a personal interest about the nature of these events in the context of long-term trends and potential climate change. This paper is meant to present a clear record that can be used by meteorological professionals about what is known and unknown and why.

What’d they find out?Summary: Good long-term records of thunderstorms don’t exist and there’s no clear physical reason why to expect they would have changed.

Summary: Records of past tropical storm and hurricane activity are likely incomplete. While the frequency of Atlantic storms has increased since 1970 when observations have been more reliable, the cause of this uptick is not agreed upon.

Summary: There’s indication big snowstorms have increased over the last 60 years but no clear explanation for the change. The increase in big snowstorms has occurred even while the number of years with very little snow has stayed the same or increased. And there’s no evidence of meaningful changes in ice storms.

Summary: Reliable data indicate heavy precipitation events are increasing and rising amounts of water vapor in the atmosphere due to human-caused warming offer a good, but not necessarily complete, explanation.

But, the Warmists will still tell us that the science is settled

 

DaleyGator DaleyBabe Tori Praver leads us on a Rule 5 Journey

Some others Rule fiving it this week

The Other McCain had their Rule 5 Sunday, on Monday last week

Bob Belvedere appreciates the adorable Rashida Jones

Donald Douglas links this video of US soccer star Alex Morgan posing in body paint

William each has his Sunday Pin-Up going on

Of course, that in no way atones for Donald posting links to a video of the talentless she-beast Lady Gaga When asked the age old question of “would ya?” about Lady Gaga, I answer HELL NO!

Pirates Cove has another “If all you see…” post up, mocking members of Al Gore’s Church Cult of Global Warming Climate Change that features the Dutch women’s field hockey team. I must admit, I did not think of climate change looking at said photo. But, I have decided that if I were overwhelmed and kidnapped by the Dutch women’s filed hockey team, I would be cool with that!

Speaking of hot Dutch women, check out Rio Norte!

As usual Theo has lots of Totty

Fritz likes the tax policies of one Laetitia Casta

I’m 41 likes Croatian basketball? Or This hot Croatian basketball player

NeoSexist wishes Angie Harmon a happy birthday

Pitsnipes has a hottie with an “assault weapon”

POH celebrates beach volleyball

American Perspective likes Duchess Kate

Classic Liberal enjoys Amy Smart

The Eye is on Sofia Vergara

Proof Positive wonders if a woman named Elisabetta Canalis can be anything but hot

Guns and Bikinis seems to endorse same sex couples, as long as it is two hot women

Hookers and Booze has, well about what you might expect from a blog called Hookers and Booze

Randy has his Thursday Tart

Reaganite Republican has yet another Fox News Babe

Zions Trumpet has some pretty faces to admire

TeresAmerica has Jenna Jameson

The Chive has hot girls, in the middle of nowhere

More updates later

Those Damned Dirty Dinosaurs!

Flatulent bastards! 

Go ahead! Pull My Finger!

(Daily Mail) — Dinosaurs may be partly to blame for a change in climate because they created so much flatulence, according to leading scientists.

Professor Graeme Ruxton of St Andrews University, Scotland, said the giant animals spent 150 years emitting the potent global warming gas, methane.

Large plant-eating sauropods would have been the main culprits because of the huge amounts of greenery they consumed.

The team calculated the animals would have collectively produced more than 520m tons of methane a year — more than all today’s modern sources put together.

It is thought these huge amounts could easily have been enough to warm the planet.

It is even possible that the climate change was so catastrophic that it caused the dinosaurs eventual demise.

One of the animals, a 90-ton argentinosaurus, which measured 140ft in length, would have consumed at least half a ton of food in one day.

After breaking down in the animal’s stomach it would have produced thousands of litres of the greenhouse gas compared with a modern cow which only produces 200 litres of methane daily.

Methane is up to 20 times more effective in trapping heat in the atmosphere than carbon dioxide (CO2).

It is created from a variety of natural and human-influenced sources which include landfills, natural gas, petroleum sources and agricultural activities.

Scientists claim humans have pushed levels of the gas up 2.5 times higher than they should be and estimate this is responsible for 20 per cent of modern global warming.

Cows and other livestock currently only emit about 100m tons of methane a year.

According to Professor Ruxton and his co-researcher David Wilkinson, of Liverpool John Moores University, this is only a fifth of what was produced when Dinosaurs walked the Earth.

‘In fact, our calculations suggest these dinosaurs may have produced more methane than all the modern sources, natural and human, put together,’ said Mr Wilkinson to the Sunday Times.

Yep! It is now official, EVERYTHING, except Al Gore of course, did cause, will cause, or is causing global warming, climate change, global cooling, or whatever they are calling it this week!

Climate Change Nazis looking to silence dissent

Soylent Green has the story, and links. Go check it out then ask yourself this. How long until our FCC tries to take a similar approach

I saw this first at Ozclimatesense, but the link is to Simon at ACM because he has created a new site to allow Aussies to fight this–while they still can…

They will have the power to impose a “code of ethics”, force you to print views you don’t agree with as part of a ‘right of reply’, take you to court, and even make you take pieces down! Even personal blogs that get only 40 hits a day will be covered! To make matters worse, the SuperRegulator “would not have to give reasons for its decisions” and the decisions “would not be subject to appeal.” Even climate change websites in other countries like Watt’s Up With That will be covered by this!

So, understand, this is threatening Australians now, and not just larger blogs either, but pretty much any blog that dares express views that Leftists disagree with. So, how soon does the FCC take this up? How soon would Obama,with a new term in office, seek such a law? And understand this,he might even seek to bypass Congress on this. Recall that Congress shot down Cap and Trade,and Obama just went to the EPA to bypass them. Do not think he would not attempt the same strategy with the FCC.

I had a steak last night, Al Gore hardest hit

The angriest Envirocrat is back,and he wants you to stop eating meat

Al Gore wants society to ditch meat-heavy diets and go organic to combat global warming.

“Industrial agriculture is a part of the problem,” Gore said Friday during an interview with FearLess Revolution founder Alex Bogusky. “The shift toward a more meat-intensive diet,” the clearing of forest areas in many parts of the world in order to raise more cattle and the reliance on synthetic nitrogen for fertilizer are also problems, he added.

Blah, blah, blah, am I the only one tired of these talking points? I bet not, and I doubt I will be the only one PO’ed that Gore is now playing The Race Card

The former vice president also criticized climate change skeptics, urging those who support curbs to greenhouse gases to “win the conversation” when it comes to global warming. He compared the struggle against climate skeptics to the fight against racism during the civil rights movement.

When racist comments would come up in the course of conversations, “There came a time when people said, ‘Hey man, why do you talk that way? That’s wrong, I don’t go for that, so don’t talk that way around me. I just don’t believe that.’

Is there any smear the Left will not use to get their way? Is there any point where they look in the mirror and think “you know if I have to lie, or use smear tactics to win the debate, maybe I am wrong on the issues” When do Leftists reach that point? Sadly, never it seems.

Hurricane hysteria gives way to global-warming hype:

Was Hurricane Irene caused by global warming?
– Politico

How Global Warming Is Making Hurricane Irene Worse
– Thnk Progress

Global Warming’s Heavy Cost
– The Daily Beast

And if you don’t buy into the hype, you’re anti-science.

As I already said, these people really need some new BS to spew.

Goverment idiocy exemplified!

In just on word, ETHANOL! Milton Wolf sums it up very well

One day historians will be truly baffled why 21st-century Americans burned their food supply in their gas tanks which artificially inflated both food and gas prices and caused food shortages for third-world nations all in the name of preventing the fictitious man-made global warming.

As Wolf points out, ethanol cannot support itself, it has to be supported by subsidies, and mandates. Yet, despite it failures, our government continues to pour our money into this farce! Frankly, it is pretty simple, or it should be anyway, that any industry that cannot support itself should never receive subsidies. Come to think, why should the government subsidize any industry? If government really wanted to help, it would stay out of the way!

Paging George Orwell

What might he say about this?

The global warming true believer crowd is losing the climate change argument. Their back up plan is to silence the other half of the argument and censor anthropogenic climate change skeptics.
(MailOnline)- Opponents of global warming should be given less coverage by the BBC than the climate change lobby, the corporation will rule.

The BBC is set to publish a report tomorrow on its science output announcing changes to rules on impartiality.

Following the overhaul, programme makers and broadcasters will be compelled to give less prominence to those who oppose the scientific community’s majority view.

I suppose some views are MORE equal than others?

Your Marxist Moron of the Day is…………

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Eleni Towns at  partisan hack and uber alarmist Joe Romm’s website

Many of the GOP presidential candidates are seeking the votes of church-goers and religious conservatives by presenting themselves as strong defenders of their faith.

However, while candidates mostly agree with their respective churches on issues like abortion and same-sex marriage, they are mostly silent when it comes to environmental issues. Why? Perhaps because their stances directly conflict with the positions of their churches.

A number of leading candidates have embraced an extremist anti-environment platform, in which they deny climate change science, call for the elimination of the Environmental Protection Agency, and support the deregulation of the oil and coal industries.

Your weekend dose of climate change fear mongering

The Al Gore Church/Cult of Climate Change preaches that pretty much everything is caused by, or causes global warming these days, earthquakes, hurricanes, tornadoes, the inability of fish to smell, and apparently to hear, tsunamis, wildfires, beaches are all caused, or at least worsened by the much dreaded, feared, and largely concocted “climate change”. Likewise, the Cult of Gore preaches that everything causes this climate change. William Teach has done an excellent job of chronicling the fear mongering of the Cult of Gore. Here are a few of the things, according to the Gorists, that are dooming us, especially Chicago  which will be turned into Baton Rouge soon if the climate change menace is not halted apparently. And really, what would be so bad if that happened? Chicago would actually get to see some quality SEC football instead of that Big Ten stuff. Anyway, here are some of the things causing our impending demise

Your DVR

Your cat, especially, I would suppose, if your cat uses your DVR

Your smart phone

Angry Birds

Your Ice Maker

Your kids, well actually anyone’s kids

People who are pro-life

Rivers!

Finally, I leave you with this  Cult of Gore theory, drinking booze and or cooking will kill us all!

You said you wanted more hysteria, here you go

In the next decade, the effects of a rapidly warming climate could kill 5 million people—as many as live in Singapore or Finland. More than 99 percent of those deaths will likely occur in developing countries, and almost four-fifths are expected to happen in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. There could be as many as a million climate-related deaths each year by 2030 if nations don’t significantly cut planet-warming emissions, according to a report released Friday.

That was your crystal ball moment. Now for your eating moment

But you might want to pause before blaming climate change on tomato-hauling tractors and methane-belching cattle: Your kitchen is the single greatest contributor to carbon dioxide emissions in the food chain. By some estimates, cooking accounts for 37 percent of the greenhouse gases generated in a potato’s life cycle, almost twice as much as shipping them to market.

OK, climate alarmists, time to stop cooking your food. Please take pictures of you eating only raw meals, and send them in….what, you refuse? Bad climate alarmists, no biscuit! Unshockingly, this Washington Post story doesn’t allow comments. Make sure you ask Brian Palmer, the writer, if he has stopped cooking at ask.the.lantern@gmail.com. Now your drinking moment

Murder in Detroit, overworked immigration judges, bruisers-for-hire on Indian reservations: If you’ve been reading Mother Jones lately, you’re probably ready for a stiff drink. Not so fast! In terms of greenhouse-gas emissions, US booze manufacturers release the annual equivalent of 1.9 million households. How’s that for a buzzkill? The good news is that you have choices. Here are a few tips for drowning your sorrows sustainably.

Well, great! I guess we are all pretty much f***ed, so I am going to go cook a steak, do a couple of shots, program my DVR, and then, my cat and I will just wait for the tornadoes, hurricanes, wildfires, tsunamis, or maybe those deaf and blind fish to kill us all!

Your Marxist Moron of the Day is……….

Brought to us via William Teach, who discovers a real  devotee of climate change “science”

Imagine my surprise, and delight, to find a post at Think Progress that combines globull warming insanity and Palin Derangement Syndrome, all written by a bat guano crazy progressive (h/t to Tom Nelson, who pulled out the relevant quotes) In Her Own Words: My Imaginary Interview with Sarah Palin

Our guest blogger is long-time commenter Richard Brenne. He teaches a NASA-sponsored on-line Global Climate Change class and serves on the American Meteorological Society’s Committee to Improve Climate Change Communication.

Brenne:…Is there anything you do that doesn’t involve making sure peak oil and climate change cripple civilization and kill billions in all future generations?

Palin: No! I love that smell of the emissions!

Brenne: Does ingesting all those emissions give you any digestive tract issues?

Palin: I think my problem is that I do have the fire in my belly.

Brenne: I can tell. (Cough. Cough.) Could we open a window?

Palin: Oh it would be a blast if they were all this loud and if they smelled this good!

So, Palin wants to cripple civilization? And kill billions? Hmmm, why would a true worshipper at the Cult of Gore mind those things? After all is not a significant portion of the climate change crowd convinced that there are too many people on the planet? And crippling civilization? What does Mr Brenne think will happen if the draconian demands of the Cult of Climate Change are fully met?

Hardball: Global warming debate heats up

Via Weasel Zippers. It is hard to believe that even Matthews believes his own rhetoric. He has degenerated into a nutcase that spews out the most inane statements anyone could imagine.

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Batshit Crazy Virus Strikes, Sigourney Weaver Hardest Hit

Via The Pirates Cove where William Teach exposes an ugly truth about the Sigourney Weavers of the world

Isn’t it funny how the methods to deal with anthropogenic global warming always seem to revolve around Someone Else Doing Something? Ms. Weaver, a wonderful actress, is over at the Huffington Post giving us A Secret Weapon for Fighting Climate Change: Empowering Women

Over the past month, I have been speaking to women in Canada and the American Midwest about a powerful force that discriminates against us. I am not talking about the glass ceiling or sexists bosses, although we all know those still exist. I am talking about climate change.

Ah, so Climate Change is sexist now? It is actively seeking to discriminate against women? Is that what Ms Weaver believes? Or is she simply being over dramatic to get people to believe her spiel? More importantly, can she get any nuttier in her claims?

If you ask people the tools we need to stop climate change, most talk about wind and solar energy, fuel efficient cars, and biofuels. But there is another solution that is not so widely known: empowering women.

Empowering women you say Sigourney? William Teach likes the sound of that, but points put that when nuts like Sigourney, and don’t you have to be a nut to be named Sigourney, talk about “empowering women” they actually mean kill babies.

Empowering women sounds like a good idea, especially since they are treated like 2nd class citizens in so many of the 3rd world sh*t holes, er, developing nations, around the world. Especially in the Muslim dominated ones. Sometimes, women are worth less than the farm animals, so, raising their stature, treating them as equals, like in the developed world, would be fantastic…..what’s that? That’s not what Sigourney is talking about?

Most women and girls want more control over how and when they build their families, and most development organizations support that aim. Now researchers also recognize that what is good for women is also good for the planet.

Two groundbreaking studies, one from the U.S. National Center for Atmospheric Research and one from the Futures Group, found that simply by meeting women’s existing needs for voluntary family planning, we could reduce carbon emissions by between 8 and 15 percent.

That is the equivalent of stopping all deforestation today.

And there you go, Sigourney Weaver is so deranged that she thinks killing unborn babies will reduce the sexist effects of non-existent global warming, I mean climate change. Good freaking grief!

MSNBS guest: Global warming skeptics are pathological

Via Weasel Zippers. More personal attacks, demonization and Alinskyisms from the Kooky Far Left! 

MSNBS guest: Global warming skeptics are pathol…, posted with vodpod

Isn’t it odd that when Leftists talk of “granting rights to………….

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Animals, or Mother Earth, they are actually aiming to strip humans of their liberty! Case in point!

(Fox News) — Van Jones, the Obama administration’s controversial former “green jobs czar,” has found a new calling: helping to push for a new, global architecture of environmental law that would give Mother Nature the same rights status as humans.

The new movement is almost certain to be showcased at a U.N.-sponsored global summit on “sustainable development” to take place in Rio de Janeiro in May 2012, when similar issues of “global environmental governance” are a major focus of attention.

Jones is taking up the challenge as one of the newest board members of an obscure San Francisco New Age-style organization known as the Pachamama Alliance, which has been creating a global movement to make human rights for Mother Nature an international reality — complete with enforceable laws — by 2014. The Rio summit will create an important midpoint for that campaign.

Jones joined the alliance’s board last December, shortly after the organization announced creation of the Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature to carry the concept around the world—and install it not only in international law but in the statutes of communities and municipalities across the U.S.

Again, the Marxist Left seeks nothing less than what Lennin, Stalin, and Mao sought. That is complete and total control of you, and everything you have. Your property, how you raise your kids, your wealth, and of course your liberty. They are evil, never forget that. Sure they promise “social justice” economic justice”, “environmental justice”, and on and on. But these “justices” are nothing but slavery, slavery to the State!

YES!!! Now even ice causes global warming!

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Just add ice cubes to the long list of things that cause you know what!

Today, according to Time Magazine, the Church of Global Warming Moonbats have picked their next target – Mixed Drinks. They have declared that making ice cubes causes global warming. Not all ice cubes, but those made by your refrigerator’s automatic ice maker.

According to the Department of Energy, the standard fridge sucks up about 8% of the electricity used by all homes – a pretty big share given the dozens of big and small appliances and electronics that are also drawing juice.

That energy gluttony has always made refrigerators prime targets for design improvements and most of the big manufacturers have made real progress in squeezing every last bit of efficiency out of their machines – especially since they know that cash-strapped consumers are paying closer attention than ever to energy-consumption ratings before making their purchasing decisions. The problem is, those ratings are not always terribly precise. In general, refrigerators will simply get a gross energy-use score, without anyone examining just which components in the overall machine are driving the numbers up or down. Ice makers have thus long gotten a pass, but analysts at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) recently decided to give them a closer look – and they got a surprise when they did.

According to the just-released findings, the average ice maker in the average fridge increases energy consumption by 12% to 20% – a whole lot of juice for an appliance that is in operation 24 hours a day from the moment you first plug it in till the moment you replace it a decade or more later. The reason that number was so unexpected was that the large majority of refrigerators are refrigerator-freezer combinations anyway – which means they’re freezing water and making ice no matter what. So why should the simple business of automating the process be so energetically expensive?

The answer, it turns out, is the tiny motor inside the freezing system that’s used to release the bits of ice from the mold and dump them into a tray. A motor that is designed to operate in so cold a setting needs an internal heater to keep it from freezing up, and heating elements require a lot of power – in this case, roughly three fourths of the total additional energy the ice maker uses.

Now how can global warming con artists con us if the Antarctic ice won’t freaking melt?

It is hard out there for climate change pimps according to Yid With Lid

Its time to put the Global Warming Moonbats on a suicide watch.  The elaborate hoax they are perpetuating on the world for the express purpose of worldwide redistribution crumbles just a little more every day. The latest news comes from the National Snow and Ice Center (appropriately located in Colorado). It seems that the ice in Antarctica cannot read, because it is not melting the way it is supposed to. Worse yet, this year it reached its second highest level ever since satellite measurement began over 30 years ago.

A heartwarming story isn’t it? Go figure that GOOD news for the planet is BAD news for those who tell us theyare all about saving the planet! If a televangelist and a used car salesman had a baby, it would be a climate change hoaxster, like say, Al Gore!

 

No, not ALL Spendocrats have a D by their name!

As Sister Toldjah tells us, even Republicans can be PORKERS!

The latest winner of Reason.TV‘s “Porker of the Month” Award is Congressman Hal Rogers (R-KY). Wonder why?

Conservation or nepotism? Since 2007 Rogers has been promoting a bill which would provide federal grants to overseas wildlife protection for lions and cheetahs. Surprise! Rogers’ daughter is the grants administrator for the Namibia-based Cheetah Conservation Fund, and has been since—you guessed it—2007.