‘Global Warming’
The news religion of global warming and climate change
SAYS AL Gore, leader of the Al Goreans to the peoples of Ohio: “The planet has a fever.
“If your baby has a fever, you go to the doctor. If the doctor says you need to intervene here, you don’t say, ‘well, I read a science fiction novel that tells me it’s not a problem.’ ”
The Wall Street Journal’s readers hear the words, and respond:
Fevers can be a symptom of either a bacterial or viral issue. A doctor can attempt a solution to a bacterial issue, but not a viral one. A virus has to run its course while the body fights it–and a fever is a sign of the struggle to eliminate the virus. Let’s see a scientific consensus that the Earth’s fever is bacteria-related.
And:Â
Overreacting is common among parents. I remember one morning when my first child was still an infant. Imagine my horror when I discovered that her temperature had risen to 99.5 degrees, almost a whole degree in just under 12 hours. Naturally, I immediately sat down and built a computer model, which clearly projected that by age 30, her temperature was going to be a staggering 19,710 degrees!
Says Gore: “I am Al Gore. I used to be the next president of the United States of America.
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IN “Snowdon ‘to lose its snowcap by 2020′, says study”, Telegraph readers learnt that “Measurements taken at the University of Wales in Bangor show that snow levels have decreased by about 35 per cent over the past 10 years.”
That was back in December 2004.
Simon Bareham, the senior pollution and climate change adviser for the Countryside Council for Wales, which is also involved in the study, said the changing climate pattern could mean snow will disappear from Snowdon as soon as the 2020s.
We recall how Welsh environment minister Jane Davidson saw picures of Snowdown taken ten years apart and lamented:
“I was shocked when I saw these two photographs. It has been suggested Snowdon may have to be renamed but like other parts of the world it stands as a reminder of what is happening to our planet.” She went on to tell the launch: “We must act now to reduce the emissions of the greenhouse gases that cause climate change and respond to the impacts of the changes already underway as a result of previous emissions.”
Now the BBC reports: “Snow hampers Snowdon cafe build.”
Work on the Snowdon summit building is being hampered by snow, says the Snowdonia National Park Authority.
Workers on the project have had to dig snow off the railway track just to get to work every day.
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SAYS Windsor Mann on Styropolitics:
In the last two years, one city after another has rediscovered a common pariah in the form of polystyrene foam, commonly known as Styrofoam. More than 100 cities including Portland, Oakland and San Francisco have banned it from restaurants and supermarkets …
Because it is not biodegradable, Styrofoam is a nuisance to dispose of. Each year people throw away 25 million Styrofoam cups, which then make their way into landfills where they linger but do not decay. “Even 500 years from now, the foam coffee cup you used this morning will be sitting in a landfill,” reports the Environmental Protection Agency. Styrofoam is waste that doesn’t waste away.
This fact upsets environmentalists, who, though willing to give fossils and ancient artifacts a pass, abhor foam’s apparent immortality. An oped in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer last year proclaimed Styrofoam to be “an environmental evil” that needs to be eradicated.
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A LOOK at the top ten climatology bestsellers at amazon.com:
- Roy Spencer, realist (#116)
- Bjorn Lomborg, realist (#959)
- Fred Singer, realist (#1324)
- Brian Fagan, neutral (#6156), a book about the little ice age
- James Lovelock, Gaia priest (#8706)
- Wallace Broeckner, alarmist (#9202)
- Mark Lynas, alarmist loon (#10308)
- Patrick Michaels, realist (#12027)
- Tim Flannery, alarmist loon (#16135)
- Henrik Svensmark, realist (#16309)
- Dennis Avery and Fred Singer, realists (#19266)
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AND then a vengeful Gaia did make it rain on the Al Goreans Earth Day.
Reports the Washington Post: “The Earth Day Festival, a free concert on the National Mall, was suspended just before 2:30 p.m. today when the skies cracked open with a rainstorm.”
When it rains you should cut the power, lest someone get electrocuted. Fortunately:
“I’m little, and it’s hard to see over everybody’s umbrella, but it’s fun,” 7-year-old Maya Friedson said as she tried to watch former American Idol finalist Blake Lewis sing a beat-box version of “America the Beautiful.” Maya and her family came from New York City for the festivities.
And there is always stuff to buy:
Perhaps the busiest booth promoted a product called Blade, a device that attaches to the tailpipe of a car or light truck and, its developers said, will reduce the emission of greenhouse gases while increasing fuel efficiency.
No, not a hose to kill the carbon exhalers inside the car. At least we think not.Â
Happily:
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