First it killed adorable polar bears and caused Darfur; now the Loch Ness Monster! (h/t Ace)
A February 13 article in the UK's Daily Mail reporting the retirement of legendary American Nessie hunter Robert Rines, alerted the world to yet another example of the growing devastation of global warming.
The 85-year-old WWII veteran said after 40 years, he is “running out of age” but will try one more time to see Nessie and her "25ft-long hump," but he isn't holding out much hope.
Rines now fears global warming has struck down the magnificent Nessie:
Despite having hundreds of sonar contacts over the years, the trail has since gone cold and Rines believes that Nessie may be dead, a victim of global warming (bold mine).
He still wants to check almost 100 contacts on the floor of the loch, believing one may be the monster's remains.
It's just so amazing that global warming can be responsible for both early snowfall and a late snowstorm. Drought and flooding. Increased ocean salinity and decreased ocean salinity. How interesting that global warming is so...flexible. Now it's involved in cryptozoology.
Global warming really does get around. It killed Nessie, caused tornadoes, made it snow in India, wiped out the dinosaurs and eliminated Neanderthal Man.
Could the Yeti be next? I'm sure by now Anderson Cooper and Jeff Corwin have their sherpas booked.
Lynn is a contributor at NewsBusters and can be reached at tvisgoodforyou2—a t--yahoo--d o t-com
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You can't make up anything
February 14, 2008 - 03:53 ET by Gary P JacksonYou can't make up anything as good as these morons bring us daily.
You can't make up anything
February 14, 2008 - 03:53 ET by Gary P JacksonYou can't make up anything as good as these morons bring us daily.
Bigfoot your next!
February 14, 2008 - 05:52 ET by taterBigfoot you're next!
From now on any problem I have...it's global warming's fault. I have a cold because of it, my pay is too low because of it, and I'm pretty sure I'm single on Valentine's Day because of it.
Do you realize how much it costs to run for office? More than any honest man could afford. -Montgomery Burns
Globalwarmingtology : Just Another Eco-militant Religion
February 14, 2008 - 06:31 ET by thoridflyGlobal warming is a lie, myth, and indeed, a religion.
"Globalwarmingtology" is a pseudo-science of fact-mining and data-sifting to create misinformation and fear about regional, seasonal, and historical temperature variations. It's Bigfoot, Area 51, and the Loch Ness Monster all wrapped up into a nice little doom's day scenario that the MSM can market to the masses.
For a good laugh on the varying insanities of global warming watch these South Park episodes :
http://mrtwig.net/ep/1006.html
http://www.southparkx.net/episodes/1006-manbearpig
http://mrtwig.net/ep/1002.html
http://www.southparkx.net/episodes/1002-smug-alert
http://mrtwig.net/ep/908.html
http://www.southparkx.net/episodes/908-two-days-before-the-day-after-tomorrow
And get a bit torrent client here : http://www.bittorrent.com/download.html
And a Real Player here (to play the .ram files) : http://www.real.com/
Be sure to download the (RM) torrent and not the (AVI) ... it can take 30 minutes or more to get the .avi file (even though it will play in Windows Media Player).
Note : The VLC media player can play .rm files, too : http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-windows.html
Manbearpig
February 14, 2008 - 06:42 ET by thoridflyYou can also stream episodes from several sites, including http://www.southparkx.net and http://www.southparkzone.com/ .
I know where Nessie went....
February 14, 2008 - 06:42 ET by old croYou know that feeling Chrissy boy was having up his leg?
"Given the amount of
February 14, 2008 - 08:19 ET by Ruths husband Ben"Given the amount of vegetation that Nessie consumed, and the resultant methane production, he contributed to his own death. I, for one, am not sorry to see that oversized carbon flipper-print dead!" - Al Gore
More victims please!
February 14, 2008 - 08:29 ET by ArchConservativeNow only if so-called-man-made-global-warming would knock off senate liberals and Islamofacists, it would be a perfect day!
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Catch me if you can
February 14, 2008 - 08:42 ET by DontFeedTheTrollsNow I understand why I haven't been able to catch a unicorn.
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OMG!!!!
February 14, 2008 - 09:05 ET by c5thenNow Nessie has been extinctified by global warming. Next it will be Sasquatch, then the Yeti....if this keeps up the Phoenix may not rise from it's ashes and the space aliens might leave never to be seen again.
The day that "politician" became a career choice is the day we started losing the Republic. Let's get it back! Alan Keyes '08.
Put the Yeti on a global endangered species list!
February 14, 2008 - 16:23 ET by Lynn DavidsonWhere will this madness stop? Something must be done to save the beautiful mountain Yeti from the serious global threat of climate change. Perhaps a benefit concert? I bet Sting would get involved. That will solve the problem.
Hucksterism
February 14, 2008 - 09:14 ET by planetrepublicanGlobal Warming???!!! I live up here in NH and this is the coldest, snowiest, worst winter I have ever lived through. This is mass hyteria at it's worst and it's getting weird. I wish we had some global warming right about now. Gore & Co. are hucksters in the old fashioned sense of the word.
AH, that's why the name was switched to "climate change"
February 14, 2008 - 16:30 ET by Lynn DavidsonPeople kept asking, "how can global warming be happening when we're having record cold spells?" So, the name became climate change, and now both an early snow and a late snow indicate climate change. Same with more rain than usual and less rain than usual.
I don't think as many people would be as skeptical if the theory didn't keep changing to fit different circumstances.
Don't forget about normal
February 14, 2008 - 18:15 ET by masslibertarianDon't forget about normal amounts and timing of rain and snow, those are signs of global wa ... er, climate change, too.
ManBearPig
February 14, 2008 - 11:05 ET by P.J. GladnickA couple of years ago I spotted three manatees in a canal down here in Florida. I named them Man, Bear, and Pig. Collectively called "ManBearPig."
incontrovertible evidence
February 14, 2008 - 11:09 ET by lunaticcringeradioto date we have more spotted owls, more tattoo parlors, more american bald eagles, more birkenstock shoes, more polar bear, and more dreadlocks than at any time in the last 100 years. this is absolute proof that they are all responsible for global warming and must be destroyed.
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Wait, if Global Warming
February 14, 2008 - 12:04 ET by wiwfWait, if Global Warming could wipe out the cockroaches, wouldn't that be an incentive to keep doing what you're doing?
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