Global Warming Hoax Weekly Round-Up, Mar.17th 2011
It’s a question whispered by climate scientists and pondered by environmental activists: why don’t they believe us? When the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released its fourth assessment on climate science in 2007the one that called evidence of warming temperatures “unequivocal” — it seemed as if the scientific debate over global warming was essentially over. There would be disputes over how best to lower carbon emissions, how much money should be devoted to adaptation and just how severe future warming might be. But surely, we were done arguing about whether man-made carbon emissions were making the planet hotter. Apparently we’re not.
Fortunately for Time, William Teach provides a few clues, like try getting Al Gore to walk the talk before telling the little people how to live.
New York’s Mayor found another meaningless scare to throw money at, because New York needed to find ways to spend its budget surpluses, or something.
Global Armageddon is boring. Who knew?
Jim Hansen, NASA’s own global warming muppet, disassembled with his own words and predictions. Damn the intertubes and its elephantine memory.
Weepy Bill McKibben has harsh words for the Koch Brothers, the hippies current in-vogue boogie men. Bill points to a New Yorker piece from last year which reveals that the Koch’s donated around $100 million to ‘right-wing’ causes over the last decade. Which begs the question – how is it the Koch’s got more bang for their buck than Al Gore who spent $300 million in just three years? Tom Nelson has more inconvenient math for those who think only right-wing money corrupts.
Blue is the new Green. No, really:
The blue movement broadens the scope of the green movement. It is about human awareness, including world peace, human rights, social and economic justice and a sustainable lifestyle, according to the movement’s website, thebluemovement.org. In essence, people are the focus of the blue movement.
I blame James Cameron.
na'vi blue is the new green
The Hollywood disaster movie ‘The Core’ was criticized for execrable use of science, but the same basic ideas are good enough for NASA. What are they smoking over at the space center? Oh wait, nevermind.
Grist (them again) wants to tear up freeways for the new bicycle economy. Good luck getting that to work in winter, or is this a clever plot to further depopulate the globe?