Welcome to your weekly skeptics smorgasbord of inconvenient links and incoherent lefties. We’re all going to die of something, and it might as well be while we’re having fun with denial; so grab a beverage and belly up to the bar, we’re going in…
As soon as the US election was over, the Al Gore was back on the trail, promoting his manufactured ‘climate crisis’ and his favorite topic, himself. Gore, the Great Profit, sees an opportunity to extend his great fortune with a Democrat in the Whitehouse and is already giving the President-elect advice:
Al might not have been able to win his own election, but he’s man enough to tell Barack Obama what to do with his win.
Oscar glory, A Nobel Peace prize and still the awards keep coming Al’s way. This time the NAACP are honoring Big Al, presumably for being a person of green color.
Not all things are going so well for Al however. His TV enterprise, Current Media, is in trouble just one day after grabbing Canadian taxpayer cash in a partnership deal with the CBC. Current laid off 60 staff and has not launched its long delayed IPO. Al has made no statement yet, but expect one soon that fingers global warming as the cause of this catastrophe.
Earth is now so hot that Al had cut the sleeves off his sweaterDon’t forget to get your weekly Gored but not Forgotten fix, and while you’re over there at Skeptics Global Warming, check out his rebuttal of Al’s NYT column. He takes Al behind the rhetorical woodshed and knocks the green out of him.
This weeks must-read post is all about the carbon trade swindle behind Al Gore. If ever the Goreacle goes to jail, this will be the reason, the cynical and dishonest trade of essentially value-less carbon credits.
Global warming muppet Jim Hansen got caught in an embarrassing lie this week after substituting faulty October data with Septembers numbers, making October 2008 look increbily warm. Corrections have been made, but this debacle goes to Hansen’s faded credibility and highlights the central problem with climate models; garbage in, garbage out.
David Suzuki was scheduled to speak in Palm Springs this week, which means that once again I am greener than the totalitarian hippy because I didn’t fly to Palm springs. Offset that, hippy!
Old religion meets the new religion, can the inquisition be far behind? Perhaps not.
Finally, a scaremonger event that even I can get behind (NSFW).
The NYT held a drawing contest for moonbats and came up with some first-rate insights into the miniscule minds of lefties.
a moonbat cannot tell nuclear waste from nuclear generationAlan Colmes, aka ‘Skeletor’ of Fox News, introduced skeptic author Chris Horner as a climate criminal. Meanwhile ABC News is sending a reporter to Kilimanjaro for some balanced reporting on how the earth is about to explode into a zillion pieces, or something.
Roy Spencer is censored by two scientific publications, because science is about politics and fundraising, not facts and learned debate, dammit.
Buying offsets is hard, how is a university to know which bogus scheme to sign on with?
Wisconsin kills a new coal power plant, the blue state may be black sooner that they expect.
Copyright means nothing if alarmists can indoctrinate you faster, and there’s nothing like indoctrinated kids to warm a believers heart.
More bad news for green politicians
as New Zealand throws out die-hard green Prime Minister Helen Clark.
She can add her failed career to Canada’s Stephane Dion’s on the
unwanted pile of useless scaremongering politicans. Elizabeth May,
leader of the greens in Canada, is resisting the inevitable and blames everyone but herself for not gaining a seat.
Who needs facts when even the head of the IPCC can just make stuff up? More here.
Greenpeace, the comedic gift that just keeps giving:
Wind Farms. Greenpeace is not clear on the concept, apparentlyThe UK Times waits about 5 seconds after Michael Crichton’s death before celebrating that his voice is gone from the climate debate, so we can all be free to be green without uppity writers challenging our beliefs.
Eco-terrorism, approved by Al Gore.
A skeptic needs a hug… it can be lonely out on the sane fringes.
Data, what data? Scientist refuses to share data with a skeptic, making everyone wonder what he’s hiding. Nice play, Shakespeare.
AGW, how we know it’s bunk, by those Power Line guys.
What’s green and full of hot air? No, not Al Gore, the green bubble. Green projects are failing all over the place, and there’s more to come.
Global warming is killing amphibians. No, it’s not. Is it just me or does there seem to be a trend towards debunking things that global warming was causing? Perhaps some scientists are looking to grab a modicum of credibility back before the backlash starts.
President-elect Obama has a detailed climate plan. Oh, wait, nevermind.
Did you know that alternative warming theory is valid? The Coloradoan does.
Biofuels were never a good idea, burning food for fuel is immoral in today’s world. Now the problems with ethanol are acknowledged.
BP quits green projects in the UK, leaving the government in the lurch. Heh.
That crashing economy you hear? No, the other one, the carbon crash. The real economy is laready killing the green revolution.
Germany needs power, coal to the rescue, activists go under the bus along with EU climate goals.
If a picture is worth a thousand words:
(source)Green opportunist T Boone Pickens delays his wind farms, he’s having a bad week.
The U.S. Department of Energy pulls the plug on a global warming project, and the scientists are upset. Clearly this is unfair, the scientists have adhered to all the rules of modern science by linking their research to global warming, yet they still lost funding. I can hear the trembling across campuses all over the world.
global warming, I love itThe UK government passed a global warming bill while snow lay on the ground in early October for the first time in 85 years.
Change we can believe in. Oh, wait. Here’s more on what the new guy might do with climate policy.
Will America’s new President buy oil from Canada?
What happens if you hold a climate conference and no one shows up?
While I’m tooling around town laughing at prius drivers from my SUV, it seems some of the micro-car drivers are regretting their leap.
A Hummer with its pilot fish in a natural setting
More on that NASA error in the GISS data from September and the attempt by NASA to blame skeptics for their embarrassment.
Is the Sun waking up? Maybe, slowly.
Bjorn Lomborg takes time off from his hit show Mamma Mia and offers good advice to the President-elect.
Ahem. It’s the Sun, stupid.
Climate control is a futile quest. Resistance is also futile, but what has that got to with anything?
Climate change knows three realities: science reality, which is what working scientists deal with every day; virtual reality, which is the wholly imaginary world inside computer climate models; and public reality, which is the socio-political system within which politicians, business people and the general citizenry work.
An embarrassingly large hole will open in the ozone layer this year, almost exactly 12 months after scientists celebrated 20 years of banning CFC’s. Oops. Don’t forget that many of the geniuses that missed the effect of cosmic rays on the ozone layer today claim to know what’s ‘wrong’ with the climate.
Hole-y cow, it’s a biggieHmm, I don’t think I mentioned that it’s the Sun, stupid. Or did I?
(yes, I do know she’s out of uniform)