Move over Al Gore, NBC's Meredith Vieira and Natalie Morales have discovered the new face of global warming and it's a glacier. In the latest bit of goofy global warming nonsense Morales reported, on Thursday's "Today", that a photographer in Norway caught a picture of "what appears to be a face crying a river of tears as a glacier melts into the sea." To which "Today" co-host Vieira exclaimed, "That's gonna be the new image of global warming, right there." [audio available here]
The following exchange was aired on the September 3, "Today" show:
NATALIE MORALES: And in Norway take a look at this image a photographer caught of what appears to be a face crying a river of tears as a glacier melts into the sea. That particular glacier has been shrin
king as much as 160 feet a year for decades. That is truly a remarkable shot there. 7:10am right now. Back to Meredith, Lester and Stephanie Abrams.
MEREDITH VIEIRA: That's gonna be the new image of global warming, right there.
MORALES: Absolutely. Environmentalists are gonna be using that picture everywhere. Yeah.
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How about one of a crying
September 3, 2009 - 09:50 ET by Chris NormanHow about one of a crying viewer?
The "Mainstream" Media: By liberals. For liberals.
More new faces
September 3, 2009 - 09:52 ET by Mica the MagnificentI have a picture of my cat taking a crap in the backyard.
Can that be the new 'face' of Obamacare?
funny stuff
September 3, 2009 - 10:02 ET by jon_torlinYou know, that comment about cat taking a crap, and then this glacier thing, I got a better picture in mind based on a saying my dad likes to use every now and then to describe how busy he gets at his snowcone place he runs:
"We were busier than a cat trying to take a $h!t in a snowstorm."
Just picture that, I'd say that's better for climate change, but it sure makes me laugh to visualize!
-Jon
edit
September 3, 2009 - 10:38 ET by jon_torlindelete
nb going boom?
I'm callin some photoshop
September 3, 2009 - 09:56 ET by Cthulhu2012I'm callin some photoshop BS on this. The face is way too clear and perfect to be a natural formation.
Why choose the lesser of two evils?
Good point, Ct
September 3, 2009 - 13:04 ET by Mica the MagnificentLooking closely at the picture, it looks like a mime caught in an iceberg.
Much like Angelina
September 3, 2009 - 10:46 ET by Chris NormanMuch like Angelina Jolie's...
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The lips ARE freakishly
September 3, 2009 - 20:46 ET by Cthulhu2012The lips ARE freakishly huge....
Why choose the lesser of two evils?
Shopped
September 3, 2009 - 17:34 ET by Mithridate Ombud+1
Fake for sure
September 3, 2009 - 10:33 ET by BluegillTake a look at the list of growing glaciers at www.iceagenow.com
Still with the global
September 3, 2009 - 10:33 ET by taterStill with the global warming huh? Well I'm enjoying the 70s and 80s we've had for most of August and into Septemeber. When the normals should be into the 90s.
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Dammit...
September 3, 2009 - 10:35 ET by PA ConservativeI just ruined another keyboard. It exploded when I threw up on it. These SRM people don't even realize what total morons they sound like. Pathetic.
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That whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends,
it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to
institute new government...
very pathetic
September 3, 2009 - 10:42 ET by jon_torlinI'm not sure which is more pathetic, the SRM people as you say, or the people who believe them.
Like Ben Kenobi says in Episode 4 of Star Wars: Who's the more foolish, the fool or the people who follow him?
-Jon
I'm kinda glad icebergs
September 3, 2009 - 10:38 ET by mattmI'm kinda glad icebergs melt. Liquid water is far more useful than ice.
BTW - this has been one of the coldest summers in recent history.
I'm sorry.... this looks
September 3, 2009 - 10:41 ET by BuxomAnnieMcGreggorI'm sorry.... this looks more like Michael Jackson...on ice!
"I almost had a psychic boyfriend... but he dumped me before we ever met"
Stop submitting photo
September 3, 2009 - 10:45 ET by BuxomAnnieMcGreggorStop submitting photo shopped photos as news, SRM... and we'll stop with the $h!tty responses
"I almost had a psychic boyfriend... but he dumped me before we ever met"
Maybe...
September 3, 2009 - 12:06 ET by Meredith1966Maybe it's symbolic of the fact that Mikey has been dead for two months and they're just now burying him. Obviously, he's been on ice somewhere since June...
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I don't know when these
September 3, 2009 - 10:54 ET by DingoI don't know when these morons are going to realize that the icecaps melt significantly every year and then reform in the winter. Do we see flooding every year on the coasts when they melt? No we don't. I saw a piece on The Communist News Network (CNN) today saying that the melting is going to flood the coasts and we have to act now. It is widely understood that the melting of ice floating in the sea does not raise the sea level. Such floating ice displaces an amount of water equal to its own weight. Thus the water from the melting ice fits into the space occupied by the ice under the water level. Any idiot only needs to put ice in a glass of water to see that when it melts, the glass does not overflow. When is the world going to wake up and realize that these "environmentalists are merely the snake-oil dealers of the 21st Century
Vote Democrat, it's easier than working
I'll one up yeah, the
September 3, 2009 - 10:57 ET by taterI'll one up ya, the environmentalists are merely the communists of the 21st century.
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10, 20, when??
September 3, 2009 - 12:26 ET by jon_torlinHasn't Algore been saying that the world's going to end in 10 years for the last 20 years?
Or was that the Dead Dancing(say it outloud, rhymes with....) fellow from Cheers?
I guess someone forgot to tell these idiots that 90%(give or take) of the world's glaciers are in the Antarctic and the other 10% is everywhere else.
-Jon
The global warming cultists
September 3, 2009 - 10:55 ET by MrSnugglesThe global warming cultists have finally found their counterpart to the Jesus potato chips, virgin mary toast, et al.
That is, if it isnt a photoshop, which it probably is.
Here is the death mask of global warming.
September 3, 2009 - 11:02 ET by JWFIt was always about the sun. Sorry eco-idiots. Biggest bunch of losers evah.
Sincerely,
a Veteran of a 1000 psychic wars.
I don't think its photoshop
September 3, 2009 - 11:13 ET by katainkentbut I don't think the left has any room to call the practice of any religion any names ever again. The Green movement is a religion. It's a Mother Earth worshipping religion.
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Wicca is the fastest
September 3, 2009 - 11:23 ET by DingoWicca is the fastest growing religion. Has anyone ever asked how many environmentalists are Wiccan?
Vote Democrat, it's easier than working
"Wicca is the fastest
September 3, 2009 - 20:52 ET by Cthulhu2012"Wicca is the fastest growing religion. Has anyone ever asked how many environmentalists are Wiccan?"
I don't know. Has anyone ever asked any modern new-age Wiccans if they know what Wicca actually is?
Why choose the lesser of two evils?
Image
September 3, 2009 - 11:40 ET by justbob223Yes. And I saw the face of Jesus in my grilled cheese sandwich last night, too.
Oh, For Pete's Sake
September 3, 2009 - 11:48 ET by BondPlainBondWhat's gonna be next? Seeing this "image" in grilled cheese sandwiches, potato chips, tortillas, pancakes, in windows, in shadows, and on the sides of buildings?
Environmentalism IS a RELIGION and they have FINALLY found the face of their "god"!
P.S. I'm with the "It's Photoshopped" crowd. The left have, over the past eight years, used faked and doctored photos too often to push their agenda. This is just another desperate attempt, propped up by yet another fraud, to achieve/push/advertise their radical and irrational agenda.
How may days until the "photographer" admits fraud? We can place bets at the failed, government-run OTB place. *L*
I vote one week. Vote
September 3, 2009 - 11:51 ET by DingoI vote one week.
Vote Democrat, it's easier than working
~My money
September 3, 2009 - 11:54 ET by choselife3xIs on three days. Tops.
Dissent: It's not just for liberals anymore.-kudzupolitics, USA Today
The Actual Photo
September 3, 2009 - 12:41 ET by BondPlainBondPhoto from the Daily Mail
Story from the Daily Mail
I agree!
September 3, 2009 - 12:02 ET by Meredith1966That was my immediate impression, too, that it looks like someone has superimposed Michael Jackson's face onto the glacier. If so, then obviously someone (let's just assume on the political left, shall we?) is trying to use MJ's image to make a point about so-called global warming. 'Oh, look, Michael is gone but he cries for our planet.' Blechhh...
OH, and here in the Dallas area we just went through what for us is a very mild August. I don't think we went over 100 degrees in the month, or if we did it was only a day or two. In fact, June was hotter than August, and that is very unusual.
"The words of a President have an enormous weight and ought not to be used indiscriminately." - Calvin Coolidge
But I Thought Global Warming Was So Last Year
September 3, 2009 - 12:08 ET by V the KI thought they were saying 'Climate Change' now, because after two years of record cooling, nobody was buying it.
how to look at it
September 3, 2009 - 12:27 ET by jon_torlinAt this point, it doesn't matter what you call it, it's time to panic and something has to be done!
Whatever.
-Jon
It's getting colder.
September 3, 2009 - 13:04 ET by danboMy understanding is this photo was taken in the Svalbard Islands.
I checked. Nasa only has their records back to 1977. Over the last 3 years the average temp has gone from -2degC to about -4.5deg C.
Maybe he's crying because the nice warm weather is over?
Nearby Bjornoya has records that go back to 1949. Over the last 3 years the mean temp has gone from a toasty +1 degC to under 0. Which puts the temperture where it was in the 50's.
Limited Disclosure: I used to belong to the Sierra Club untill they went crazier. Worse of all, I was bribed by Exxon with free New Orleans Saints glasses with fill ups in the 70's.
There you go
September 3, 2009 - 14:20 ET by IgnatzJFahrquarCluttering up the fiction with facts.
"You should always tell the truth, because if you tell the truth you make it the other person's problem." Sean Connery
Sorry. Not really.
September 3, 2009 - 14:45 ET by danboSorry.
Not really. LOL
Limited Disclosure: I used to belong to the Sierra Club untill they went crazier. Worse of all, I was bribed by Exxon with free New Orleans Saints glasses with fill ups in the 70's.
glacier crying?
September 3, 2009 - 13:05 ET by Patriot IIActually, the glacier is crying because it can't believe the global warming alarmist are so stupid! LOL
ahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!
September 3, 2009 - 13:10 ET by pwozahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!
Kerry speaks dolphin
September 3, 2009 - 13:16 ET by jon_torlinHey, does anyone remember one campaign stop that John Kerry did in Florida and I think it was supposed to be about global warming, near some marina or something when a dolphin caught everyone's attention and was making happy noises or something? And Kerry turns around and acts like he's talking to the dolphin saying "we hear you, we're trying to save you" or something like that.
I can't find that anywhere, I remember Rush brought that up on one of his shows poking fun at him(no great effort).
Anyone know about this? This was about as bizarre as matrixing a crying face out of this glacier or seeing Jesus on the side of a fridge.
-Jon
The Church of the Blessed Warm Mongers
September 3, 2009 - 13:12 ET by Jack BauerEvery religion has liturgy.
This is the equivalent of some Soth American peasant seeing the face of the Virgin Mary in a slice of toast or a knarled spud.
Look at the bright side
September 3, 2009 - 14:23 ET by IgnatzJFahrquarMaybe that stupid stranded polar bear pic will be pushed into the garbage.
"You should always tell the truth, because if you tell the truth you make it the other person's problem." Sean Connery
Fake But Accurate?
September 3, 2009 - 15:43 ET by slickwillie2001I don't believe this. Someone needs to run this through software that can detect photo fakes. Too much to ask the old media to do it I suppose.
Does Dan Rather know about
September 3, 2009 - 18:20 ET by nolotrippenDoes Dan Rather know about this?
nolo... He's waiting for
September 3, 2009 - 18:24 ET by bigtimernolo...
He's waiting for Mary Mapes to give him a call with the info.
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I always laugh when a lib
September 3, 2009 - 21:35 ET by CooltomI always laugh when a lib says that a video of a glacier calfing into the ocean is a sign of global warming making glaciers recede. If so, how did the glacier get to the coast in the first place. Perhaps because there's a BIG HONKING GLACIER behind it pushing it into the sea?
As to sea levels rising how come we've had the Medeival Warm Period and the Little Ice Age and the maps from 1000 AD to the present show little change in the coastlines aside from more accuracy?
Global Warming Debate
September 5, 2009 - 03:02 ET by tarunkjuyalSOME species of Australian birds are shrinking and the trend will likely continue because of global warming, a scientist said.
Janet Gardner, an Australian National University biologist, led a team of scientists who measured museum specimens to plot the decline in size of eight species of Australian birds over the past century.
The research, published last week in the British journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, found the birds in Australia’s southeast had become between 2 per cent to 4 per cent smaller.
Over the same century, Australia’s average daily temperature rose 1.3 degrees Fahrenheit (0.7 deg C), with the sharpest increase since the 1950s.
Source:- http://lifeofearth.o...
What does this have to do with the price of gas in Australia?
September 5, 2009 - 05:25 ET by JWFIt does not take a biologist to know that there could be 7000 factors in why a species of birds get smaller.
Why is it a search of the Gardner scientist turns up nothing but this one study she did that concluded, oh dear god there can be nothing else, that the culprit lies squarely with teh warmings globals.
You know what, I don't like you. I don't like your new friend Janet jump to conclusions Gardner.
Oh by the way pinhead -
Over the same century, Australia’s average daily temperature rose 1.3 degrees Fahrenheit (0.7 deg C), with the sharpest increase since the 1950s.
The average temperature of the earth has fallen by 1 deg in the last year, negating the rise of the last 100. You global warming pinheads never remember that little factoid of a nugget of truth, now do you?
One final thing before you are dismissed pinhead - Who wrote that gawdawful lifeofearth.org website you linked to. That is the most horrendous website ever -
1. you can't read anything because the background is too dark.
2. The scripting is horrendous. objects overlay each other and it just look pitiful.
3. IT LOCKED UP MY BROWSER!
Let me guess - you, pinhead, are the author.
Sincerely,
a Veteran of a 1000 psychic wars.
Janet Gardner: Bird Brain
September 5, 2009 - 06:10 ET by Jack BauerThis is so easy to debunk, it's hardly worth the effort.
I'd like Janet Gardner to PROVE that the century old stuffed birds are the same size as when they lived. Please go ahead.
Gardner is indulging in NON-SCIENCE passing itself off as science.
Oh --- and even IF we accept her bird size claim on face value, (which I don't) the lady is also indulging in the logical fallacy cum hoc ergo propter hoc:
That is: asserting that occurence implies causation. As in:
1. Birds were larger 100 years ago.
2. The planet is hotter than 100 years ago, therefore:
3. Birds are smaller because the planet is hotter.