The carrier bags, which are designed to break down within three years, leave behind tiny plastic particles that could harm birds, insects and mammals. The report also warned the bags can litter the countryside for up to five years before they degrade, far longer than the supermarket claims.
It’s time greens got out of the way and let us carry our groceries home any way we choose, because everything they try ends up worse than before they interfered.
It might not be the Rolling Stone, but Al Gore made the cover of the Weekly Standard and he’s… naked. Pass the eye bleach. Methane is the latest deadly thing in the atmosphere, an ABC head accuses the media of groupthink on global warming and the Internet never forgets what warmist’s once said.
Part One: Al Gore & Friends
Al Gore, the spiritual leader of the AGW cult, has had another rough week. As some openly call for a replacement High Priest, others dare to question whether the old bone-caster’s refusal to walk the talk might be a bit of a credibility problem:
Several vessels in the Baltic failed to tune into the Gore effect forecast and spent an uncomfortable time stuck in ice. Remember, always check the whereabouts of the Goreacle before you travel.
The great man himself blogged that the world’s largest firms ’cause’ $2.2 trillion of ‘environmental damage’ every year. That’s a number from the UN, so make of it what you will. The only reason Al’s so excited is because he wants a slice. $2.2 trillion used to be a lot of money, but in Obamadollars it’s just a drop in the bucket.
A fellow called Greg Unruh has taken to filling in when organizations are too cheap to pay for Al to show up and preach to them. He calls himself the ‘cheap Al Gore’ but laments that the job is getting harder:
I have given some version of the presentation more than 100 times, mostly to MBA students, and the response has been what I would consider rational concern. But something has changed of late. Recently, in every group, there is an outspoken minority that belittles the scientific evidence and sidetracks the discussion with misinformation gleaned from the mass media. Don’t get me wrong. I am a scientist by training and I know that science only advances through skepticism and healthy debate. However, it is informed skepticism that improves our understanding. Informed scientific skepticism has driven huge advances in our knowledge of the climate system and the challenges we face. What I seem to be confronting now is popular skepticism. It’s in vogue.
I’m happy that no hippies came to talk to my MBA class, or I might be writing this from a cell.
Mega-merger of the week; the Alliance for Climate Protection and The Climate Project were rolled into one entity. Both are Gore-founded propaganda mills designed to keep the climate hoax front and center while Big Al rakes in the cash. Al touted an article by Alliance for Climate Protection CEO Maggie Fox:
Despite what the professional skeptics might claim, the overwhelming consensus on global warming remains unchanged. Less than a handful of small mistakes in a 4,000-page document do not undermine decades and volumes of important, careful scientific research, no matter what the paid pundits and pessimists try to spin.
Hey Maggie, remember this marketing of the IPCC report:
All those clever sciencytists, and they let Glaciergate slip by? I’d call that more than a typo.
Al became the cover model for Weekly Standard readers:
Al’s trip to Norway wasn’t just designed to trap boats in Baltic ice, that was a side-effect of his book promotion tour. While he was selling scares to Scandi’s he took a swipe at ‘organized skeptics‘, funded by Big Fossil. You see, when Al spends $300 million to frighten Americans about pleasant weather, it’s no problem even when he won’t disclose where the cash comes from. But if oil and gas companies spend money to counter the global warming propaganda, no fair.
Part Two: AGW Scaremongers
As the carbon dioxide scare fades under the harsh truth that it’s safe plant food that the planet needs, dyed-in-the-wool alarmists are trying to move the focus to… methane. Geoffrey Leans says something curious:
Vast amounts of methane – which is 25 times more effective at trapping heat than carbon dioxide – are stored in the permafrost and scientists have long warned that, if it escapes as temperatures rise, it could greatly accelerate global warming.
If methane is 25 times more ‘dangerous’ than CO2, why have greens spent 20 years focusing on the wrong gas? Are they not smart, or is it just harder to regulate and tax cow farts than power stations?
Global warming scientists are in an all out panic about the collapse of their funding models public support for the AGW hoax, but one fearless predictor is rushing to save them Paul Ehrlich, the worst scientist in the history of scientists, knows that getting things hopelessly wrong is no barrier to academic success and is ready to defend global warming… with advertising:
“Most of our colleagues don’t seem to grasp that we’re not in a gentlepersons’ debate, we’re in a street fight against well-funded, merciless enemies who play by entirely different rules,” Paul R. Ehrlich, a Stanford University researcher
Advertising and spin is all they’ve got, because their facts don’t support the global warming nonsense and the American public knows it.
The world would be a better place if pretty people would just stick to parroting words that were written for them instead of revealing the depths of their ignorance. Why yes, Lucy Lawless, I do mean you. Also, who decided it would be a good idea to have a fella called ‘Mads’ as a spokeshead for global warming?
In it for the money, not the planet, climate doom-peddlers get €66 million. So much for non-governmental organizations.
If methane is the new elemental bad guy, it makes sense to put cattle inside, right? What will the hippies think of next…
Perennial moonbat Monbiot rues the loss of his life’s work. Expect more wails of agony in the future as the dupes slowly awaken to the fact that there’s nothing wrong with the planet.
He believes scientists will be killed over this. ”I’m not going to let it worry me… but you know it’s going to happen,” said Schneider, one of the most respected climate scientists in the world. ”They shoot abortion doctors here.”
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”I’m pretty damn angry that media companies are putting profits ahead of truth. The media are deeply broken… That’s a real threat to democracy,” Schneider said.
“On the one hand, as scientists we are ethically bound to the scientific method, in effect promising to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but – which means that we must include all the doubts, the caveats, the ifs, ands, and buts. On the other hand, we are not just scientists but human beings as well. And like most people we’d like to see the world a better place, which in this context translates into our working to reduce the risk of potentially disastrous climatic change. To do that we need to get some broadbased support, to capture the public’s imagination. That, of course, entails getting loads of media coverage. So we have to offer up scary scenarios, make simplified, dramatic statements, and make little mention of any doubts we might have…“
Eco-terrorist group Greenpeace is eating its own as the devout fight the mere believers over an internal appointment. The popcorn, please pass it.
Ever since Rachel Carson decided to enlist her talents in the service of an activist agenda, an unholy alliance has existed among scientists on the one side and politicians, bureaucratic institutions, investigative journalists, and partisan non-profit agencies on the other. Working together, they have advanced the anti-growth agenda of environmental regulation, but they have done so at the expense of scientific truth.
Wind power is more hot air than useful alternative energy. It’s noisy too. But the White House recruited die-hard activists to bury the inconvenient truth, because.. umm… transparencyism!
The hits to global warming claims continue, now we learn that Alaskan glacial melt was wildly overestimated.
716 million years ago, the ice that extended to the equator was melted by factories spewing CO2 ‘pollution’ and soccer mons in SUV’s. Wait, what?
We’re familiar with the report by Dr Gabriel Calzada Alvarez of the Rey Juan Carlos University in Spain which shows that for every “green job” that is created another 2.2 jobs are LOST in the real economy.
The green equivalent of the old chicken/egg conundrum: does the solar power plant need the gas generators, or vice-versa. Redundancy much?
The US Government has had to implement a waiver in the ‘buy American’ rules so that projects can buy energy efficient light bulbs. The same bulbs that the US Government mandated that everyone must buy, even though NONE are made in America:
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Warmists like to dismiss the Medieval Warming Period as not meaningful because it only affected the Northern hemisphere. And the Andes. Wait, what?
Alberta tar sands giant Syncrude is still fighting in the courts over some dead ducks. Here’s a question for the hippies, are you willing to pay the same amount that Syncrude is fined for every dead bird giant wind farms claim?
An Australian newsman accused the media of groupthink when it comes to global warming. ABC journalists considered this doubleplusungood crimethink and committed it to the memory hole as soon as they left the room.
A scientist bemoans the damage that global warming ’scientists’ have done to the reputation of all science:
So it was painful to watch the trust of the public in science, already dented, taking another crushing blow when the emails stolen from the University of East Anglia were revealed. We’ll probably never know exactly what the emails meant, but we can say that the matter was handled very badly indeed. Phil Jones, head of the Climatic Research Unit, should have been immediately on every TV station, explaining what he meant. By going to ground, and by denying Freedom of Information Act requests, the university gave the impression of guilt, quite regardless of whether there is really anything to hide. That brings the university into disrepute: it is a matter for resignations.
The UK faces a very real and imminent power shortage, caused in large part by over-zealous green activism and political cowardice. Unfortunately, no one has a plan to fix the problem.
Mads Mikkelson is afraid of the weather, which is lame for a Bond bad guy, so to compensate, we’ll rely on Bond girl Olga Kurylenko to reset the balance.
George Monbiot has an epiphany about the collapse of the global warming hoax:
Perhaps we have to accept that there is no simple solution to public disbelief in science. The battle over climate change suggests that the more clearly you spell the problem out, the more you turn people away. If they don’t [...]
Green activists, the hard-core hippies who love to hate evil concepts like capitalism, technology and soap are finding that their numbers are dwindling, fast.
The article on the rapidly shrinking Green Party in California ponders potential reasons for membership loss:
The ‘Obama effect’ that ‘lured’ people to the Democrat ticket
Greens that ‘defected’ to vote for Dennis Kucinich
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