Credo
"Sign on, young man, and sail with me. The stature of our homeland is no more than the measure of ourselves. Our job is to keep her free. Our will is to keep the torch of freedom burning for all. To this solemn purpose we call on the young, the brave, the strong, and the free. Heed my call, Come to the sea. Come Sail with me." -- John Paul Jones
"Pardon him, Theodotus; he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature" --George Bernard Shaw, "Caesar and Cleopatra"
"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music."--Friedrich Nietzsche
"A kind Providence has placed in our breasts a hatred of the unjust and cruel, in order that we may preserve ourselves from cruelty and injustice. They who bear cruelty, are accomplices in it. The pretended gentleness which excludes that charitable rancour, produces an indifference which is half an approbation. They never will love where they ought to love, who do not hate where they ought to hate."--Edmund Burke
“You say that it is your custom to burn widows. Very well. We also have a custom: when men burn a woman alive, we tie a rope around their necks and we hang them. Build your funeral pyre; beside it, my carpenters will build a gallows. You may follow your custom. And then we will follow ours.”--General Sir Charles Napier
"Μολὼν λαβέ" -- Leonidas
"Blogito Ergo Sum" -- Neptunus Lex
So Godwin’s Rule is in effect. All discussions sooner or later end up with the Nazis. And not without a bit of hyperbole on Al’s part either. So in accordance with custom on Al Gore’s Internet, Godwin’s Rule is now in effect and no further useful discussion of climate change is likely.
As my mother used to say, everyone “smells themselves out sooner or later.” Al Gore and his cronies are, indeed, the Climate Change Nazis!
I don’t think that Algore is using that reference in the way that WE would use that reference. To my mind, he’s got the Nazis on the wrong side of this issue.
Algore is, after all, the Reichsfuhrer for Climate Change.
Just sayin’…
In one sense it is correct:
Hitler always loved to use the “Big Lie” form of propaganda.
So does Al Gore…
Al Gore retreated to his basement to sulk after losing the election, according to his wife Tipper, pawed around among his college essays and found one which seemed to say that global warming increases with the growth of human manufacturing activity. “Whoopie,” he thought. “With this idea I can get back into the Great Game and people will love me again.” So he found a scientist who needed a big grant, James Hansen, who agreed to join in the Big Con and devise a computer program which seemed to support this rediculous claim in exchange for some major cash. And — voila! The Great Climate Con was born. It reminds me of that excellent film The Sting. Most of us grown ups, who have seen many Cons rise and fall, were content to wait for the accumulating body of evidence against manmade global warming to rise up and drown out his pitiful cries.
Unfortunately for us, it hasn’t worked out that way. The evidence against his “theory” keeps mounting up.But Congress is well on its way to imposing the biggest tax evah on our cringing pocketbooks.
We should have stopped him at “hello.”
Marianne
Al-FatAl is the problem. No Nazzzies around here.
There’s no real data, no real science, except, it gets warm in Summer time someplaces. Only then does Al-FatAl turns up his harp. Just wondering how much he’ll make when he passes his hat.
Michael Yon had a fantastic line in his dispatch from Mindanao yesterday, called “Jungle Law” — If you want to stay poor, go into business. If you want to get rich, go into government.
Al Gore just figured it out. Like Tom Daschle (“Tom Daschle would suck off a corpse for a cheeseburger”), Billy Tauzin, Charlie Rangel — and on and on and on. Guess we all just went in the wrong branch of government.
The Big Money people (e.g., Goldman-Sachs)are the ones who, over the years have created and profited hugely from the various “bubbles” (oil, high-tech, subprime mortgages). They are now positioned to exploit the warmist-created bubble that will result from “Cap-and-Trade.” Will the Senate resist the efforts of Big Money, or succumb like the House? IMHO, the probability is near zero.
I wonder how Alan Harkin would describe his boss at the EPA after after speaking out against climate change. Mr. Harkin – a 35 year EPA employee who holds a Ph.D. in physics – and a colleague released a 98 page paper on the potential faults with the underlying analysis and science regarding glowbull warming. Mr. Harkin’s treatment from his boss:
That Administrator? Obama Administration nominee Lisa Jackson.
So much for science no longer taking a backseat to politics.
butch/
You don’t EVEN understand. It DOESN’T–not when its “political science” Obama-style….
If AGW skeptics are Nazis, it does make it easier to justify “by any means necessary.”
And …it will take a load off the medical care coming crisis. With all of us “bad guys” being done away with (for the sake of the really big Mother (Earth)), they’ll have less of us to treat…PROBLEM SOLVED! Hey…who’s gonna pay those taxes???? (oh, short sightedness…destroys a crappy plan every time!)
xformed/
Yeah, another “good idea” of theirs that won’t work. The Goose tasted good, but…but…but …but ..where izz we gonna git them thar golden eggs from now on??
Al Gore…who knew? The Sham Wow guy of the climate set…
Thank you for that moment of moral clarity. Such moments are becoming more necessary on a daily basis. I’ve spent the day trying to pretend that the media isn’t going ga-ga over the funeral of a has-been celebrity, probable pedophile, definite weirdo. As a neocon, I kind of miss the old Clinton days when I was an unthinking liberal, comfortably wrapped up in the media’s all-encompassing “everything is good under a liberal president” blanket. Thinking is hard!
Does that mean you escaped the Borg, or became one. Explain your answer in multiple parts.
Bookworm – welcome to the world of thinking people. I say this with great respect – speaking as a recovering liberal myself I know only too well the effort it takes to rid ourselves of the mental shackles and actually – gasp – have our own thoughts and opinions.
Hang in there – it gets better. Trust me – I’m trapped in the liberal wasteland of New England so I know whereof I speak.
What?! You can’t see that those guys are suffering from the heat and have taken off their designer clothes in order to beat the heat?
Algore. Was a buffoon; is a buffoon; will always be a buffoon.
I realise that I am far from the first to ask this, but why has no one in the media ever asked Qui Bono?, who benefits from this. It is common knowlege that Al Gore’s personal wealth went from around $1,000,000 to $100,000,000 in the last 8 years. Why don’t they care?
Mr. Gore refuses to debate the subject. If science is so heavily in his favor, he should leap at the chance to debate. The evidence against him is so obvious, but it gets ignored.
At times I feel like John Adams, in the musical 1776, crying out, ” Is anybody there? Does anybody care? Doesanybody see, what I see?”
There are three things that tell me the Global Warming crowd is full of shinola.
1) We live next to a variable-strength star, a huge fusion furnace that powers this planet via solar energy. If you want to talk about global warming, in roughly 5.4 billion years the sun will run out of hydrogen. It will start the transformation into a Red Giant, expanding to half again its current size. Mercury will be engulfed in the solar corona, Venus will lose everything that isn’t rock, our oceans will boil off and if we still exist as a species we’re on another planet or living deep underground. Yet I keep hearing about a 1-degree rise in global temps being a catastrophe, when we’ve had Ice Ages and Warming Periods that existed for millenia already and the planet survived. Mastadons used to range as far south as Arizona, and dinosaurs walked the earth in North Dakota, but we have the hubris to think one degree is a catastrophe? What is the ideal temperature of the planet, anyway? Anybody care to ask the dinosaurs? Or the ferns they used to flourish in Canada? How about the Mammoths that ranged ahead of the ice sheets into Kansas? Bet they’d give differing opinions, and the fact they’re extinct might just be a hint that the planet and the life on it is capable of handling these changes. Beachfront property, maybe not so much, but I thought we were going for a global solution here.
2) Carbon Dioxide is the evil greenhouse gas that will kill the planet. Yet what was the atmosphere on earth during its creation? Mostly carbon dioxide. Which blue-green algae, the first life on this planet, turned into oxygen. Plant life formed, turning more carbon dioxide into oxygen. Once enough of this poison to plants had been made, reptiles and mammals and such came about, breathing that toxic oxygen that the plants emitted as waste and turning it back into CO2. So what happens if CO2 levels go up a bit? We get more plants. Better crop yields. All of them consuming CO2 and belching Oxygen. Funny how I never hear about that in the debate. It’s also interesting to note that not two hundred years ago vast herds of bison used to fart and belch their way across the plains (though not as their means of propulsion, of course), a single herd taking a couple of days to walk past. All was eaten before them, and methane clouds filled the skies. We killed them off. Shouldn’t we get some kind of credit for that? Retroactively, I mean? If we’re talking about a few thousand dairy cows being a problem, surely killing millions of buffalo more than makes up for it.
3) Still no nukes. The same people telling us we have to stop burning coal and natural gas won’t let us dam up rivers or build new reactors. Worried about the waste. Well, we can reprocess that waste, which is the ultimate in recycling and being green, and given there were a few piles of U-235 in western Africa that assembled themselves a couple billion years ago, went critical, produced a hundred Kw of power for a couple million years, and shut themselves down, I’m thinking nukes are about as natural a power source as you can get! Fission on the planet, fusion on the sun! Yea nature!
In 6.5 billion years the sun will be a Red Giant, roughly 170 times larger than it is now, over 40 times brighter. Earth will be only a chunk of superheated rock. The only record left of our existence, barring the colonization of other solar systems, will be Voyager and Pioneer spacecraft drifting beyond our solar system.
And I’m supposed to be worried about a little CO2 in the atmosphere and a temperature change of 1 degree? I’m supposed to smile and watch my electric rates go up 20% and think I’m helping the planet?
The planet is going to kill us anyway — it did the dinosaurs, the sabre-tooth tigers, the mammoths and the mastadons and the three-toed sloths. What makes us think we’re so special that we can control the weather on a planet, let alone the sun?
There’s a reason Al Gore will not debate — he’d be out of his depth anywhere the sidewalk was wet, let alone against anybody with an understanding of physics or a basic knowledge of history.
– Max
I only need one indicator: it’s an issue split along partisan lines. That’s all the evidence that I ever need to determine whether any “crisis” is real or manufactured.
MaxDamage … I like the way you think, and the knowledge you have. May I add one item to your store of knowledge on this subject? You may know this already, but it seems important. CO2 is not a pollutant, as you pointed out, but it is an essential gas, like oxygen. It is an essential fertilizer for every living plant on earth — trees, foodstocks, grasses and flowers all require it. Remove it all, and we’ll be living in a sandbox — for the very short time we have left.
I have grown orchids in a greenhouse for many years, and most all growers of any plants know that CO2 is the Mr. Goodbar of helpful elements. You want to increase your plants’ flowering cycles, add CO2, along with your regular fertilizers and watch your plants greatly increase their flowers. And what a joy that is to see.
Marianne