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Bad Science: NASA Says Sun Can Make Climate Hot

hand-of-godBAD Science is not always about securing a research grant or explaining to the Dean what you’ve been up to all year. Bad science is about licking a finger, sticking it in the air and noting that it gets dry when it’s not raining, and wet when it is.

A study from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland looking at climate data over the past century has concluded that solar variation has made a significant impact on the Earth’s climate. The report concludes that evidence for climate changes based on solar radiation can be traced back as far as the Industrial Revolution.

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Posted: 6th, June 2009 | In: Reviews | Comment


Marcus Brigstocke Is Beyond Parody

twatMARCUS Bigstocke is beyond parody. Tim Blair looks at the sit-down eco-comic bragging about his bicycle and his eco-pod before we get to see his solar-powered mobile home.

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Posted: 3rd, June 2009 | In: Reviews | Comment (1)


The World Ends On December 2 2016

end-of-worldTHE World will end on December 2, 2016. We know this because Andrew Simms says so in the Guardian:

Ten months have passed since pointing out that we have, at best, 100 left before a new, far more dangerous phase of global warming begins…

Now, with at best 90 months left on our clock, we have a challenge that will be a bit like the first time a child jumps from the top diving board into the swimming pool.

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Posted: 1st, June 2009 | In: Reviews | Comments (3)


Obama’s White Supremacists Say Vote Green

stephen-chuSTEPHEN Chu, Obama’s energy secretary, has made it to the symposium on climate change at St James’s Palace.

Hosted by Prince Charles – who in the last year has made trips Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, the Galapagos Islands, Germany, Italy, Japan, Indonesia, France, Brunei and the US – the Green Shirts are huddled around a guttering flame behind three-inch thick walls:

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Posted: 1st, June 2009 | In: Reviews | Comment


Laurie David’s Inconvenient Tennis Court

laurie-and-larry-davidLEAD Al Gorean Laurie David – ex-wife of Curb Your Enthusiasm star Larry David and self-proclaimed “global warming activist” – would be expected to have a robust sense of humour. Laurie meet Larry. It turns out that she does and is an expert in irony:

SELF-proclaimed environmentalist Laurie David is once again paving over protected wetlands in Martha’s Vineyard to make improvements to her Chilmark estate.

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Posted: 30th, May 2009 | In: Celebrities | Comment


Sex And Porn Speeds Up Global Warming

green-sexHAVING arrived availed themselves of the “occasional use of private aviation fuel”, Green Shirts at the World Business Summit Climate Conference in Copenhagen, are dimming the lights and, like all good armies, stimulating the local prostitution economy:

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Posted: 28th, May 2009 | In: Reviews | Comment (1)


Prince Charles Farts In His Duvet

prince-charles-aston-martinIN London, the Telegraph’s Louise Gray, Environment Correspondent, watches Prince Charles and other climate watchers – hullo clouds, hullo sky –  gather:

In a meeting in London hosted by the Prince of Wales, the world’s greatest minds will discuss the “urgency” of doing more to curb global warming.

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Posted: 26th, May 2009 | In: Reviews | Comment


Termites Cause Global Warming

termite-castleHOW many termites does it take to produce the same methne volume as one adult cow? Anorak took that to the reseach fund council and – dash! – found that the gig has already been taken:

The Australian Government’s effort to comprehensively account for all greenhouse gas emissions has now turned its attention to the tiniest of creatures – termites.

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Posted: 26th, May 2009 | In: Reviews | Comment


Cate Blanchett Is Gaia’s Roving Ambassador

cate-blanchett2WHEN the film of Environmental Angel Trudi Styler is made, Cate Blanchette is a shoo-in for the lead role as the jet-setting Green Shirt.

To the World Business Summit on Climate Change, an event, “graced by actress Cate Blanchett and former US vice-president Al Gore”.

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Posted: 26th, May 2009 | In: Celebrities | Comment (1)


Trudi Styler’s “Occasional Use Of Private Aviation Fuel”

trudi-stylerMRS Sting, Trudi Styler, tells the Guardian that she is angered and saddened about stories on her “occasional use of private aviation fuel”:

Given the Guardian’s reputation for a positive stance on the environment, I was angered and saddened by the cheap and scathing tone of your “Lost in showbiz” article about me.

It sought to demolish my credibility as an environmental campaigner by laying charges of hypocrisy against my readily admitted occasional use of private aviation fuel as well as many (less reported) flights on scheduled commercial flights.

The piece is headlined:

It is not hypocritical to fly if I’m campaigning for the environment

And teaches us:

Each year I fly thousands of miles to campaign for environmental change. It would have been inconceivable to raise tens of millions of pounds for the Rainforest Foundation – which protects the forests and their indigenous people and of which I was a joint founder 21 years ago – on horseback. It would have been similarly impracticable to have served as a global Unicef ambassador on a bicycle.

Help Truly Trudi change the environment by taking her message to the beaches of Spain, Italy, Florida and Greece this summer…

Posted: 23rd, May 2009 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comments (2)


Wind Turbines Torture Goats To Death

turbine-goatWIND Turbines will one day kill us all. In Taiwan, they are starting with the goats:

A large number of goats in Taiwan may have died of exhaustion because of noise from a wind farm.

A farmer on an outlying island told the BBC he had lost more than 400 animals after eight giant wind turbines were installed close to his grazing land.

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Posted: 21st, May 2009 | In: Reviews | Comment (1)


Antarctic Ice Reaches Amazon

ice-meltingGLOBAL warming will melt the ice, sea lels will rise drowning milions of acres of land us a soup of polar bear fur, slush and oh-so-fresh water. Or not:

WHILE a collapse of the West Antarctic ice sheet will have devastating impacts on global sea levels, a study has found the anticipated impact has been seriously overestimated. Using new measures of the ice sheet’s geometry, British and Dutch researchers predict its collapse would cause sea levels to rise by 3.2m, rather than previous estimates of five to seven metres.

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Posted: 15th, May 2009 | In: Reviews | Comment


Jesus Kills A Polar Bear: Video

ANORAK’S Polar Bear Watch brings you news that Jesus would kill a polar bear. The religion of Christianity versus the religion of global warming – there can be only one winner:

Spotter: Jim Downey

Posted: 14th, May 2009 | In: Reviews | Comment


The Earth Day Poetry Slam

earth-day-rainTHE Earth Day Poetry Slam in Washington, DC is slammin’ global warmin’ – tribute to how the heat will come and with it lots of, er, flood water:

I am earth…
In tune with her Nature
From achy knees on rainy days to
Mesopotamian clay colored hue
Marking spring with swollen eyes and stuffed nose
I am earth…

From Untitled, by “2Deep the Poetess

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Posted: 10th, May 2009 | In: Reviews | Comment


The Swine Flu, 9/11, Global Warming Colouring Book: In Pictures

9-11-colouring-book1YOU’VE seen the TV pictures. You’ve read the news. Now enjoy the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s children’s colouring book, featuring drawings of the September 11 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center and YOUR response to any media scare story that’s scaring you shitless.

Choose from:

Terror
Paedos
Ebola
Swine Flu
Global Warming
Ends Days
“Them”

… And lots more horrific things you’ve yet to read about!

Only two colours needed: blood red and eternal darkness black.

The following images are from a book, entitled ‘A Scary Thing Happened‘, which aims to help the little loves “cope with disasters”.

It is the work of the Freeborn County Crisis Response Team and illustrated by Marlys Jentoft, a 68-year-old grandmother of 10.

What’s your best pic? (The book has been removed from FEMA’s website.)

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Posted: 1st, May 2009 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comments (7)


Recycle This: We Didn’t Start The Landfill

WE didn’t start the landfill – sing along, kids:

Posted: 28th, April 2009 | In: Reviews | Comment (1)


Whale Potection Boat Collides With Whale

whaleTO highlight the dangers facing whales, a research vessel of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration – a “federal agency charged with protecting the endangered right whale” – has collided with one of its charges.

Off the Massachusetts coast, the vessel, The Auk, cut into the animal’s left tail fluke with its propeller.

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Posted: 24th, April 2009 | In: Photojournalism, Reviews | Comment


Richard Branson Hires Environmentalist To Advise On Space Flights

richard-bransonRICHARD Branson Hires Environmentalist To Advise On Space Flights. Did you read that? Take it in? It is beyond parody:

Australia’s most famous environmentalist, Tim Flannery, has lent his name to a scheme by the world’s most infamous self-publicist, Richard Branson, to burn untold tonnes of greenhouse gases so rich people can become space tourists.

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Posted: 23rd, April 2009 | In: Money | Comments (5)


Obama Celebrates Earth Day By Maintaining Air Pollution

obama-planeWHAT did you do for Earth Day, daddy? Well, says Barack Obama, I celebrated Earth Day by flying in Air Force One to Iowa. I gave:

Cleaning up skies choked with smog and soot would sharply curtail the capacity of plants to absorb carbon dioxide and blunt global warming, according to a study released on Wednesday …

Common sense would suggest that air pollution in the form of microscopic particles that obstruct the Sun’s rays – a phenomenon called “global dimming” – would hamper this process, but the new study shows the opposite is true.

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Posted: 23rd, April 2009 | In: Politicians | Comment


F1 To Race Grand Prix On Snow

ski-dubai-f1OLD Mr Anorak’s kindred spirit Iowahawk is celebrating Earth Week by celebrating what Earth has to give us by way of fuels and precious ores.

“Let the carbonating begin!”

And first a video word from our sponsors at the F1 grid at Ski Dubai, Dubai, The Desert:

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Posted: 21st, April 2009 | In: Sports | Comment


Fat People Create Man-Made Global Warming

fatbuttFAT people are to blame for global warming. It turns out that they DON’T block out the sun but magnify it through their bottles of fizzy drinks and sweat glands.

You can’t argue with the science. Says the Sun:

Scientists warned that the increase in big-eaters means more food production — a major cause of CO2 gas emissions warming the planet.

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Posted: 21st, April 2009 | In: Reviews | Comment


Obama Declares War On Air

OBAMA declares war on air. First they came for the carbon dioxide:

The US Environmental Protection Agency has shifted course and deemed carbon dioxide a health risk, in a turnabout important to global warming-related regulation.

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Posted: 18th, April 2009 | In: Politicians | Comment


Greens: Budget Flying Is Committing Murder

NEWS that Caroline Lucas, leader of the Green Party, says “binge flying” is murder:

When asked if flying to Spain was as bad as knifing a person in the street, Ms Lucas said: ‘Yes – because they are dying from climate change.’

Everytime you take off, you knifing Gaia in the ribs. She turns her back and you cut her.

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Posted: 17th, April 2009 | In: Politicians | Comment


Man-Made Global Warming Began 121,000 Years Ago

MAN-made global warming began 121,000 years ago. STOP THE PRESSES!

Evidence from fossil coral reefs in Mexico underlines the potential for a sudden jump in sea levels because of global warming, scientists report in a new study.

The study, published in the journal Nature, suggests that a sudden rise of 6.5 feet to 10 feet occurred within a span of 50 to 100 years about 121,000 years ago, at the end of the last warm interval between ice ages.

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Posted: 16th, April 2009 | In: Reviews | Comment


Polar Bear Attacks Woman In Berlin (Video)

WHEN Anorak learnt that a polar bear had attacked a woman in Berlin, we thought of Knut stood atop the Brandenburg Gate, roaring with triumph as he stuck Lily Allen’s hair on his head

When we read that Knut was meeting with his therapist at the time, we thought of another nut – the woman who dived into the polar bear enclosure at Berlin Zoo.

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Posted: 11th, April 2009 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comments (18)