The ever present boogeyman that, in the media's eyes, is global warming, reared its ugly head again today. Reporting from England on the rising flood waters there, NBC's Keith Miller, on this morning's 'Today' show, offered the following observation:
Keith Miller: "The damage from the flood waters is already estimated to be more than $100 million. Roads are out, the electricity supply has failed and the water supply is now contaminated. The people of Britain are all asking the same question today, could this be global warming?"
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Yep sure is!!!
July 23, 2007 - 09:47 ET by OiznopIt's all attributed to us evil humans. We have to do something about globlal warming!!!!...NOW!!!!!!.....DO YOU HEAR ME????....If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there, does it make a sound???.....Blame it on Global Warming!!!!!
DENY DENY DENY THE GLOBAL WARMING LIE!!!!
Attibutions
July 23, 2007 - 09:52 ET by dagdaI love how people in Britain are asking about global warming. Most are probably too worried about where they are going to spend the night. Did he get anyone from Britain who was asking about global warming?
Our real problem, then, is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow. Dwight Eisenhower
Seems there was a recent
July 23, 2007 - 10:14 ET by danboSeems there was a recent poll of the British people that told us quite the opposite. And we were told those polls were meaningless.
Guess if there were truth in advertising in the newsroom, he would have written. People all over the newsroom are asking
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of truth and knowledge will be shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods. Albert Einstein
Actually, the Brits don't buy into AGW hype
July 23, 2007 - 11:03 ET by GalvanicYou're right, danbo. That poll indicated that a majority of Britons do not believe that man was a significant contributor to global warming.
(disregard)
July 23, 2007 - 11:02 ET by Galvanicduplicated info
You have to love the
July 23, 2007 - 09:52 ET by TEYou have to love the "science" of the "global warming" hoax/religious cult: if there is a drought it is "caused" by "global warming" and if there is flooding then the flooding too is "caused" by "global warming". Evidently, prior to George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Karl Rove, the internal combustion engine, SUVs, Fox News, Halliburton and the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, there were no droughts or flooding on earth. Interesting.
A partial list of
July 25, 2007 - 10:46 ET by MikeBA partial list of phenomena caused by global warming:
heat waves, cold snaps, sand storms, blizzards, drought, rain, neat gardens, crabgrass, athlete's foot, tsunamis, deforestation, forest growth, desertification, desert shrinkage, erectile dysfunction, poor gas mileage, low resale value of your home, species die-offs, species extinctions, discovery of new species, high interest rates, mental retardation, genius, meteor showers, earthquakes, ice mass increases in Antarctica and Greenland, glacial retreats, glacial advances, low interest rates, DOW highs, profit taking after DOW highs, socialism, free market capitalism, war, peace, War and Peace, alien invasions from outer space, alien invasions from Mexico, record harvests, and crop failures.
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You mean it's AGW's fault
July 23, 2007 - 09:56 ET by dscottYou mean it's AGW's fault just like during 2004/5 with all the huricanes? So why haven't we had all those huricanes since then? Maybe CO2 has gone down since then? NOT, it's gone up. So once again, it's not been hotter since 1998 but the temp trend is down ever since, but yet CO2 has increased. BTW- if the Gulf stream is slowing down, thus delivering less warm water to the Britian then where did all that moisture come from??? Maybe less solar wind directing cosmic rays away from the planet, causing more cloud formation?????
“The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane"
Getting caught
July 23, 2007 - 10:01 ET by dagdaBush got caught causing the hurricanes, so he stopped it. There will be no more hurricanes until after he is out of office. Maybe never again if the Democrats can get elected to President.
Our real problem, then, is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow. Dwight Eisenhower
Not to worry, just like
July 23, 2007 - 11:41 ET by dscottNot to worry, just like with huricanes, the AGW folks are also blaming the slow down of the Gulf Stream on global warming. http://www.guardian.co.uk/flash/0,5860,1656541,00.html It never ceases to amaze me that when someone doesn't understand the particular details of how something operates, they find a convenient boogey man to blame for the entire workings. Any research at all on the internet, you will find the Gulf Stream is driven by the winds from the equator going north (pressure differential between North Pole and Equator), thus any increase in heat causes more not less winds. In a warming world, heat is not distributed evenly nor does heat rise evenly. I find it interesting as well they keep focusing on the thermahaline and salinity to claim as though "ALL" the water sinks in the North Atlantic to go back to the equator when in fact, the Gulf Stream curves south from England down the coast of Spain back to the equator. The current splits and flows both on the surface and at the bottom back to the equator. This finese on the facts is how they are trying to convince people that Global Warming causes Global Cooling or temperature extremes to have it both ways.
“The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane"
While I believe the jury is
July 23, 2007 - 10:23 ET by mvfreemanWhile I believe the jury is still out on the nature of global warming this is yet again speculation masquerading as reporting. The news is full of it these days. Rhetorical questions have no business being in a news report. The media feels like they have to explain the news they report and that is not part of the job.
The people are not asking,
July 23, 2007 - 10:34 ET by bassndudeThe people are not asking, its only keith miller asking the question. He may be the only one in England that thinks rain is caused by global warming. Everyone else knows it is just clouds falling...
Save a SeAL, club a liberal!!
Clouds falling water dripping
July 23, 2007 - 10:36 ET by dagdaI think that should be the sky is falling bassndude.
Our real problem, then, is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow. Dwight Eisenhower
Why doesn't Miller know for certain?
July 23, 2007 - 16:46 ET by GalvanicAnd Miller should be answering his own rhetorical question, or at least going to an AGW expert like Prince Albert Gore. Afterall, Gore has repeated many times that "The science on GW is in" and "There is consensus in the scientific community" and "There's no time for further debate -- only action." Surely Gore must be able to explain how AGW is creating the rains that are flooding the UK (and mainland Western Europe as well), so that Miller can explaikn it to us.
So, don't ask us, Miller. We don't know. Ask Gore.
The people of Britain are
July 23, 2007 - 10:37 ET by RackieThe people of Britain are all asking the same question today, could this be global warming?"
Well, no, it's not Global Warming but it's still George Bush's fault.
Of course it's caused by
July 23, 2007 - 10:45 ET by djvangOf course it's caused by global warming. We all know there were no floods before the Industrial Age. Wait, maybe Noah drove an SUV.
It must be b/c everyone
July 23, 2007 - 10:54 ET by Ten7sIt must be b/c everyone knows that it didn't rain in Britain until people started heating the planet.
What's the #1 post card from England?
July 23, 2007 - 18:43 ET by ThisnThatYou guessed it -- the one with the tourist in a raincoat, holding an umbrella, stepping through puddles saying "Wish you were here". You can find these in every convenience and card store throughout Great Britain.
So it does rain there every
July 23, 2007 - 20:15 ET by Ten7sSo it does rain there every once in a while? LOL
BTW, for all you Liberals ("Progressives" too) and any other "scientifically challenged" people out there, I was only kidding about people heating the planet. That's the Sun's job (just think of it as Union Rules).
Global Warming is a 'can't
July 23, 2007 - 11:10 ET by KevroyGlobal Warming is a 'can't lose' scenario for the Left and they know it. Expect the phrase 'climate change' to completely replace 'global warming'in the very near future since it gives them even more outs.
The Alarmists can't lose with this scam. If temps cool down over the next decade due to the natural climate cycles of the planet, they will say, "See, we are making a difference" and pound away for even more asinine restrictions and regulations.
Exactly..
July 23, 2007 - 11:54 ET by NforceNot long ago the Global Walarmist Cult was saying that the lack of hurricanes last year was due to global warming. It was something to the effect that cooler than normal upper air flows from easterly trade winds were shearing off low pressure development of tropical waves. This cooler air was due to global warming. We are now well into the hurricane season this year and yet there has been little to no tropical activity in either the Eastern or Western hemisphere. How convenient! Hell it's 78 degrees at noon in Charlotte NC in the middle of July. That's about 10 degrees below normal for this time of year. Global Warming! Idiots.
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Global Dumbing strikes again
July 23, 2007 - 11:48 ET by Jack BauerIf manmade global warming is causing EXCESSIVE RAIN in the form of pouring FRESHWATER, then obviously we need more manmade global warming.
However, and as a MATTER OF FACT, it was only a couple of years ago that the LACK OF RAIN in the British summer was blamed on... oh you guessed it, manmade global warming.
So just to make this simple.
Wow... That's the sort of science that would have been perfectly at home during the Salem Witch Trials!
Monty Python witch trial
July 23, 2007 - 11:52 ET by dagdaSounds more like the witch trial in Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
Our real problem, then, is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow. Dwight Eisenhower
Or the stoning in the Life
July 23, 2007 - 11:57 ET by Jack BauerOr the stoning in the Life of Brian!
No matter what the transgresor said he got pelted with rocks.
Follow the shoe, follow the
July 23, 2007 - 12:00 ET by dagdaFollow the shoe, follow the shoe!!!!!
Our real problem, then, is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow. Dwight Eisenhower
So, if George Bush weighs
July 23, 2007 - 12:08 ET by Roger the ShrubberSo, if George Bush weighs as much as a duck?
It's All Rove's Fault !
July 23, 2007 - 14:31 ET by Free StinkerSpeaking of George Bush, I thought Cheney had scheduled "the coup" for yesterday (during the operation)
What happened? ;-)
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Damn! I knew I forgot to
July 23, 2007 - 18:37 ET by dahliatraversDamn! I knew I forgot to do something yesterday ...
Dick Cheney
The people of Britain
July 23, 2007 - 13:34 ET by annoyedmanI would say it is more the case of global wetting. Here in north Texas, we know all about it lately. Funny thing is, at this time of year here, the temperatures are normally averaging over 100º every day. This year, temps are running in the high 80s to low 90s, and everything is flooded out. NOBODY within reach of their right mind here is attributing the rain and the cooler temperatures to global warming.
My son and I went to the shooting range on Saturday, and we had to get the hell out as a flash flood was coming through. I saw the water rise a foot in the space of a minute.
The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left. ~~ Ecclesiastes 10:1-2
I heard on the news a
July 23, 2007 - 14:01 ET by danboI heard on the news a little while ago that these are England's worse floods in 47 years. I assume all the people of England are wondering what SUV caused the worse floods 47 years ago.
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of truth and knowledge will be shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods. Albert Einstein
So that's why mini skirts
July 23, 2007 - 14:24 ET by dscottSo that's why mini skirts were popular in the early 60's in Britian. Who would have thought there was a practical response to high water in fashion???
“The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane"
AND miniskirts are green
July 23, 2007 - 14:35 ET by MightyMouthAND miniskirts are green too:
Less skirt = less material.
Less material= less energy to produce.
Less energy = more green!
(ignore stats on more miniskirts causing more traffic accidents. But wait that works too! More accidents = less cars and less energy consumed. Miniskirts have NO downside!)
"There are two types of people in this country; those who provide freedom and those who enjoy it." MM says...
But MM Ya gotta use up all
July 23, 2007 - 15:46 ET by danboBut MM Ya gotta use up all that carbon. (Sounds good to me.) To replace the cars you smash up looking at the minis.
I suspect most of the AGW crowd only knows about minis from the history books. When they took those dead white guys out of the history books they had to stuff the books with something interesting.
Weren't mins mid-late 60's?
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of truth and knowledge will be shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods. Albert Einstein
"Weren't mins mid-late
July 23, 2007 - 15:56 ET by MightyMouth"Weren't mins mid-late 60's?"
Yeah, but I have been waiting patiently for them to come back. With My luck I will die in a car wreck the first time I see a suitable example!
"There are two types of people in this country; those who provide freedom and those who enjoy it." MM says...
Are you near Ft. Hood?
July 23, 2007 - 14:20 ET by ricklailAre you near Ft. Hood? The last time I was there in '77 I saw a lot of rain. The ground is too rocky for it to soak in so it runs off and causes flash floods.
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Fort Hood?
July 23, 2007 - 18:55 ET by annoyedmanWe live in Grapevine, about 22 miles NW of Dallas. We had 32 inches of rain in June alone this year. The DFW area averages about 35 inches PER YEAR. We are well on track to a record setting year. The Trinity River has been over its banks for about 2 months now. All the regional lakes are full to capacity. It's a wet one alright.
The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left. ~~ Ecclesiastes 10:1-2
Open for an offer?
July 23, 2007 - 18:59 ET by dagdaAlthough our monsoon just started (this weekend) we are shy several inches of rainfall for the last seven years. We would love your excess. Write to Water Control Board, Maricopa County, Arizona. I am sure they would be willing to work a deal.
Our real problem, then, is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow. Dwight Eisenhower
Interesting times article
July 24, 2007 - 10:53 ET by dscottInteresting times article statements:
...Farther back still were the sodden summers of 1845 to 1850, when jungle-like humidity and relentless rains triggered the potato blight outbreak that led to the great Irish potato famine, in which a million people died and another million emigrated from Ireland. ...
...The prize for the most diabolical summer of rain and cold should be awarded to that of 1816. Not for nothing was it called “the year without summer” – this time of great storms, massive rains and appalling cold led to the crops rotting, the price of bread soaring and food riots breaking out. Some 200,000 people died of famine across Europe, which was then followed by a typhus epidemic.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/guest_contributors/article2120684.ece
You mean Briton gets wet from time to time???? Was AGW the cause of the potato famine?
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