Global Warming Weekly Round-Up, Dec. 10th, 2009

Has the Universe forsaken Al Gore? Why did the Nepalese cabinet climb the mountain and what’s the Sun been up to these days?

For Climategate news look here and here, and don’t miss your chance to vote in the Most Alarmist Alarmism by an Alarmist Awards.

Part One: Al Gore & Friends

Al Gore is a man of many talents, and now we can add poet to the list.  It’s not as bad as Vogon poetry, but it’s close. Unfortunately, getting facts straight is a talent that still eludes the global warming propheteer.

Earlier in the week, before he jetted off to Hopenchangen in Copenhagen, Al canceled the event at which wealthy lemmings would pay $1200 for a book and a handshake.  The Danes aren’t happy about it, and you don’t want the Danes mad at you, unless you like being pillaged.

The Universe has turned its back on the Goreacle, but did it moon him or was that Uranus?

You might remember that Saint Al of Gore was awarded an Oscar for his fictional documentary featuring stunning CGI.  Well, some folks want their golden boy back.

How has Al reacted to Climategate, the single biggest threat to his goal of becoming the world’s first carbon-billionaire?  Badly, actually.  He went on in later interviews to deny the deniers, which is just strange when you think about it.  Unfortunatelty, Al got his facts wrong in that interview too.  And he was nearly President… makes you wonder, no?

Big Al won the real thing, but Canada’s poor widdle David Suzuki has to make do with an ‘alternative’ Nobel Prize.  You know that just burns his hippies butt.

Between bad sign reading and canceling lucrative events, Al had time to blog and congratulate the Air Force on a large solar project.  Hopefully it won’t have the same bad economics as the Nellis AFB project:

President Obama traveled to Nellis AFB to celebrate their use of solar power.  Now for the inconvenient truth; the 72,000 solar panels cost $100 million and saves the Air Force $1.2 million annually.  So it’ll pay for itself in about 83 years.  What a shame the useful life of a solar panel is only 20 years.

Is it possible that Al Gore can bend time?  Or can he just not use a calendar?

Proving that he is unable to jump on any passing bandwagon, Al jumped on the Palin-bashing wagon and called Sarah Palin a global warming denier.  She responded, of course:

Vice President Gore, the Climategate scandal exists. You might even say that it’s sort of like gravity: you simply can’t deny it.

Ouch, that’s a 2-minute penalty for high-sticking-it-to-the-man for the hockey mom.

Part Two: AGW Scaremongers

We were warned this week (and in 2006, 2007, twice) that we only have 10 years to save the world.  Well, throw those optimistic timelines out the window, an Aussie scientist says we only have 5 years left.  Tom’s had enough.

The eco-terrorist group Greenpeace invaded the Canadian Houses of Parliament with another vacuous protest.  It’s time to give the dopes serious jail time in a cell next to Big Jacques, and let him show them how warming works.

An alarmist in the UK’s Independent (of thought, methinks) indulges in some wish-fulfilment fantasy.

You know what makes as much sense as holding a cabinet meeting underwater?  Holding one on Everest, that’s what.  As nations continue to up the ante in stupid stunts to get attention, can it be long before the first cabinet meeting in a volcano? Now that’d be a political move we could all support.

The Greens hate brown people.  The mask slipped in Copenhagen this week, and the despicable OPT is overt about it.

The Obama White House hates the environment, pictured at the link.

Alarmist geezers say that geysers are doomed by global warming.  You know what comes next, add it to the list.

The EPA turned its back on science in favor of politics and declared CO2 a hazardous substance.  Trees, plants hardest hit.

Don Surber lists 15 reasons why people fell for the global warming hoax.  Cut it out and ask your local dirty hippie which one applies to them, for fun results.  An excerpt:

1. The pseudo-intellectuals fell for it because none of them ever cracked a science book.
2. The policy wonks fell for it because it gave the government more control.
3. The bleeding hearts fell for it because they always want to save the Earth.
4. The communists fell for it because it portrayed capitalists as destroying the Earth to make money.
5. The capitalists fell for it because they saw a new way to make money.
6. The Hollywood crowd fell for it because it made their pampered lives seem to have a meaning and purpose.

Of course, pretty soon it will be hard to find anyone that will admit to belieiving in global warming.

Green on green, the recyclers vs. the hypocrites.

In Oz, a nasty little alarmist goes after a skeptics kids.  Because the science is so sound it speaks for itself.

In the US, NPR suggests skeptics need mental help.  Check out the story above and decide for yourself which side looks unhinged.

Not satisfied with demanding we cease to eat perfectly good animals, radical greens now want us to give up our soft toilet paper.  Bog off, says I.

Radical leftard George ‘Moonbat’ Monbiot thinks that skeptics are winning by duping the dullard public.  Projection, much?  But, why is George taking money from Big Oil?

A journalist writes a column asking questions about global warming orthodoxy and immediately reaps the whirlwind of warmist hate:

After the initial shock at seeing my picture by-line below and a claim that ‘I had laid bare my utter contempt for environmentalism’ I came to the conclusion that the journalists who work on the Guardian environment desk do my job for me. The people who flock to its web site to ‘hunt down the unbeliever’ make its cause look even less credible.  They claim to argue from a scientific viewpoint but reject anything that conflicts with this regardless of its value.  They are a vicious bunch that like nothing better than a good punch up. But what they hate with a passion is a journalist, like myself, entering the fray. How dare I.

The alarmist bullies at DeSmogBlog are, err, alarmed about a new skeptic tool, Climategate TV.  They demand to know where the funding comes from.  How about Al Gore trained lemming Dick Littlemore tells us where Al got his $300 million first?  Also, DeSmog gets DeSogged.  Heh.

Part Three: Inconvenient Truths

Here’s a good question, bet you can’t guess what climate scientists would do:

Let’s say you had two compasses to help you find north, but the compasses are reading incorrectly. After some investigation, you find that one of the compasses is located next to a strong magnet, which you have good reason to believe is strongly biasing that compass’s readings. In response, would you

Average the results of the two compasses and use this mean to guide you, or

Ignore the output of the poorly sited compass and rely solely on the other unbiased compass?

The Sun: it’s quiet, too quiet.

Ethanol and its unintended consequences just won’t go away.

Has Climategate really killed Al Gore’s golden goose?  Let’s hope so.

Forbes has a look at why climatologists got it wrong.

Klockarman nominated CO2 for a Nobel Peace prize.  Personally, I think the Chemistry prize might be more appropriate, but let’s face it, CO2 is at least as qualified as President Naif, right?

Recycle your garbage and save the planet.  Oh, wait, nevermind.

An inconvenient fruit and Marxists.

Data corruption was not limited to UEA’s CRU, as Watts reports.  Expect lots more of this discovery type stuff as people are no longer afraid to voice their concerns about the fast and loose approach of the politicized ‘scientists’ on a grant-seeking binge.

Here’s a cold hard look at the global warming debate, in this week’s must read:

Climategate is a glimpse into the hidden inner workings of an extraordinarily powerful, self-organized, global socio-political phenomenon. Those who are part of it see themselves as superheroes, while the sceptics are seen as their evil comic book foes who, depending on the talking point, either don’t exist or are numerous, well-organized, well-funded, villains standing in the way of “action.”

The truth about global warming is that there is only one thing in charge, nature.

Oh, and.. It’s the Sun, stupid.

Sense and Sensenbrennerability: End the ‘scientific fascism’.

President Obama might be worried about his sinking poll numbers.  Time for a climate scientist to get the numbers!

Global warming will melt the Himalayan glaciers.  Oh, wait, nerevdimn, I’m jsut dlyesxic.

For those that are interested in shaping world opinion to suit their own agenda, here’s a handy guide of how to form a scientific consensus.

Climate science not so scientific, akshually.

Part Four: AGW in the News

The founder of Plane Stupid (an apt name if ever there was one) calls half of the UK right-wing extremists.

Say hello, wave goodbye.  Or not, as it turns out.

California must have scads of cash washing around, right? How else to explain their green-lighting a new solar project, in space?

56 newspapers around the world printed the same editorial for the opening of Hopenchangen in Copenhagen.  Couldn’t they think of anything original to say?

Oh noes, a giant iceberg is about to attack Australia.  Funny how it managed to get so far in the boiling acidic seas, innit?

Saving the planet, when you’re dead.  Eww.

Moron More on the EPA’s beclowning itself over a trace gas.

A journalist pushes back on the grocery store greenwashing policy of charging for plastic bags.

Canadians want everything for nothing. What’s your point?

CNN finally jumped on board the Climategate train, and then went crazy and did actual reporting.  Yeah, I know:
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Part Five: Global Hottie

With all the news about Climategate, in may be that some crimatologists climatologists may need legal representation.  Let’s hope they do better than Cousin Vinny, although his assistant may be a welcome distraction in court.  With that tortured introduction, welcome Marissa Tomei to the Round-Up.

Thanks for reading, enjoy your weekend.