Global Warming Hoax Weekly Round-Up, Nov. 5th 2009

Jon Stewart makes the hippies enemy list, there is ennui in the Anglosphere and light bulbs are getting a warning label.  Also, who is the biggest baddie, Al Gore or Auric Goldfinger?

All this and much more awaits you in this week’s round-up.  And yes, there is a hottie.

Part One: Al Gore & Friends

The great global warming profiteer has been all over the media this week to launch his next salvo in the great campaign to make himself the world’s first carbon billionaire.  It’s a sign of the changing times that Al has not been given the free ride he usually receives from AGW acolytes in the press, even the Gray Lady is asking awkward questions about the burgeoning Gore fortune.  Predictably, some excitable chumps at Kos are miffed at the NYT for daring to question the Goreacle.

Al has been busy blogging, but for the first real chortle of the day, have a look at this quote:

The fact that members of the House of Representatives went to the floor to vote on the climate bill with false information is unacceptable. As the Senate begins work on this issue, members should view communications from lobbying groups opposing climate and green jobs legislation with increased skepticism.

Yeah, Al wrote that under the title ‘Dishonest Lobbying‘.  I guess he’d know all about that.

Gore Lied has a video you should see, wherein a certain Mr. Gore is, well, skewered.

I say profit, you say prophet, let’s call the whole thing off.

Is Al Gore a Bond villain?

Al learned a valuable lesson about being careful what you wish for.  Al got a wish granted for lots of renewable energy, a giant new wind farm in Texas.  What a shame the green jobs he promised would rePower America are all in China.  Of course, when someone thinks up a way for the ‘climate crisis’ to be fixed, without wrecking the global economy, well Al can’t stand for that.

Proving his worth as a prophet, Al’s new book Our Choice, is ‘an admission that facts alone will not persuade Americans to act on global warming and that appealing to their spiritual side is the way forward.’  Sounds like a religion to me.  To folks in the UK, too.

Pop quiz: When is an African proverb not an African proverb?  When Al Gore uses it, that’s when.

Part Two: AGW Scaremongers

You know what drives a lot of climate fearmongers?  Yeah, me either, but there is a strong anti-human theme to some of the more despicable scaredy-cats, like Jonathon Porritt who longs for thousands of deaths in a major disaster so politicians will take the climate hoax seriously.  He’s no better than the folks who argue for population control because breeding is bad for the planet, unless you are dirt poor and living in African squalor, that is.  Let’s settle this, I’ll call the depopulation fetishist’s Paul Ehrlich and raise them Norman Borlaug.

If you were still under the misapprehension that the global warming movement was about anything other than communism 2.0, surprise!

Commies masquerading as carbon fetishists is not news, of course, but the mask is slipping.

The folks at DeSmogBlog have a book out, with a blurb by (gasp) Leo DiCaprio (swoon).  Caruba is unimpressed.

Levi Strauss, jean genie or climate bogeyman?

Oh noes, just as Prince Chuckles and his favorite horse arrive for a tour of Canada, a poll discovers he is… out to lunch out of touch.  In an effort to prove the poll wrong, Charles promoted solar powered garbage cans to save Canada from ecomagedddon.  Good come-back, Chuck.

Lord Stern, a man who is indeed quite cross about global warming, might have made the silliest statement about global warming evah.  It’s a tough category, the Round-Up will look out for more nominees.

In Canada, some alarmist moonbat students invaded parliament and made some noise.  One of them received a bloody nose, and then they all whined loudly about not being taken seriously by the media.  Call the whaaaambulance, stat.

After ten years of doom-saying and scare-mongering in which just about everything in the natural world was blamed on global warming, it suddenly occurred to some of the more egregious scaremongers that, hey- perhaps these wild claims don’t help.  Tom Nelson provides a look at the scare-mongering records of the recently clue-batted.

The UK’s Met office missed the memo about the unhelpfulness of exaggerated claims and released a map of a doomed world:

Even the Scientist magazine takes a critical look at the damage suffered by science in general when crazy claims are made to promote a political agenda.  And on the topic of  Joltin’ Joe Romm, the emo-moonbat gets taken to the woodshed in the comments at Wiki-warrior William Connolley’s blog.

In Australia, a scientist who asked awkward questions is told: ‘Shut Up‘.  This counts as debate for warmists.

Arch-hippie Friedgreen exults at what he sees as Jon Stewart getting, err, pwned.  Stewart’s crime was to suggest to Superfreakonomic author Levitt that the green movement was, in fact, like a religion.  Even hippies as misguided as Friedgreen must know the jig is up when Jon Stewart makes their enemies list.

Hey, sheeple, it’s wool’s time to save the planet.  That’s right, strap on your sheepskin coats to stay warm, no need to get fleeced by power firms for your pesky heat.

If wearing wool isn’t your thing, fear not.  Rent your clothes, because owning stuff is so last year.

Part Three: Inconvenient Truths

Despite Big Green owning the media for almost a decade and skeptics getting the silent treatment, people still aren’t buying the global warming hoax.  There is ennui in the Anglosphere especially, the British don’t believe warming is a problem, Australians couldn’t give a koala’s left nut and Americans have figured out that cap and tax is not such a good idea.  Of course, the media manages to spin the news.

Can biofuels save the planet before biofuels destroy the planet?  Wait, what?

SUV uber-alles.

There is an ugly truth to wind power, a truth the Danes are just figuring out:

Wind power can be cheap — so cheap, in fact, that that at times the spot price of electricity has descended to zero. The problem is that, with their sunken costs, other suppliers of electricity are forced to lose money. Yet they cannot be shut down completely because they have to be there if the wind stops blowing. Wind’s off-and-on nature has caused so much disruption in the electricity market that this month Norpool, the Scandinavian power grid, introduced negative pricing. It will charge suppliers up to 200 Euros per megawatt for putting electricity on the gird in times of excess. The object is to discourage overproduction.

An American professor suggests that cap and trade might destroy the US economy.  Well, duh… that’s kinda the point.

Renewable energies might be the buzzword these days, but there is a fundamental problem with wind, solar and hydro.  It’s not a marketing issue, or a subsidies issue, but a physics problem.  Apparently some smarty-pants called Einstein had this theory and, inconveniently for renewables, it proves that they are, well, quite crap actually.  In case you were wondering, the link is this week’s must read.

When polls attack.  A Science Museum climate fear promotion gets a shellacking from skeptics.

Climate, or weather?  Whether the weather indeed.

Richard Lindzen deconstructs global warming.  Which is a relief, frankly, because I have plans this weekend.

Scaremongers have 350, but skeptics have 450.  450 peer reviewed papers showing that AGW is bunk, that is.

Don’t laugh, but laughing gas does more harm to the planet that CO2.  NO2 is the new baddest gas on the block, expect calls for anaesthetic-free surgeries soon.

Kiliminjaro softly with his song.  Again.

In case you forgot, it being a while since we’ve Rounded-Up together, It’s the Sun, stupid.

Part Four: AGW in the News

The BBC, known for its addiction to the AGW myth, asks a surprising question.  Hippies everywhere faint.

Number 147 on the list of signs your global warming hoax is over:

Due to the current weakness in the job market for environmental journalists, Columbia’s dual degree program in Earth & Environmental Science Journalism will not be accepting new students for the fall of 2010

An NBC/WSJ poll discovered that Americans don’t care much about global warming.  NBC quickly jumped to explain by calling Americans   insensitive, or something.

Arctic ice, or not.  That is the question the Met office is fumbling.

As the approaching Hopenchangen conference teeters on early disaster, it might be time for Plan B (unfortunately not the one from Outer Space).

Who put the mental in environmental?

Some genius at a Canadian bank decided it would be a great idea to commission a climate report from the David Suzuki Foundation and Pembina Institute, two hippie-riddled ecofreak outfits.  Oddly enough, their conclusions were somewhat dramatic:

It portends, TD’s chief economist told reporters, “the biggest fiscal shock in Canadian history.” The study shows “it can be done,” as long as we’re prepared for hard-line restrictions, including steep carbon taxes and the banning of any new buildings, homes, appliances and vehicles not meeting strict environmental standards.

As more science debunks the CO2 causes warming hoax, it’s only natural for warmists to look elsewhere for bogeymen chemicals.  Arise, methane and prepare to battle the noxious NO2 for the most blame for causing nicer summers and pleasant winters.

Experts say we need more experts.  Experts everywhere agree.

Big Green has killed off the incandescent light bulb, and as we prepare to enter the age of mercury toxic-bombs in our houses, the government has decided the new bulbs need labels to warn us of the danger they mandated we undertake.  Warning, contains Mercury:

Oregon no longer has as much cash as it used to have, thanks to green programs.  Is there anywhere on the Left Coast not in trouble?

Hyperbole alert, we have 40 days to save the Earth.

A Nobel railway fella gets cross with countries for putting their people and economies before his elaborate hoax.

Part Five: Global Hottie

Here’s a treat for you.  I’ve been away, so you’ve missed some hottie to spice up your week.  Today, I’m delighted to bring you a hottie with a perfect acting resume, if you’re nerdy like me.  She’s been in Firefly and Serenity and now she’s the face of the visitors in V.  Skeptics, she’s Brazilian and she’s here.  Twice, Enjoy.

That’s a wrap.  Thanks for reading, enjoy your weekend.