A few weeks ago, the good folks at Citizen Link published a video mocking Nobel Laureate Al Gore's $300 million ad campaign "to change the way you think about global warming" (embedded at right, h/t Joe D'Aleo):
To school-aged children all over the country, he'll shortly be as famous as that bear in the ranger hat who likes to put out forest fires.
The video then marvelously pictured what future transportation will look like in America if Gore and his sycophant climate alarmists get their way:
And now, introducing, the 2023 Mustang (video of horse and carriage). Zero to five in 4.3 seconds. Room for four. And a climate changing ONE HORSEPOWER!
Yet, maybe most important, the video asked a seemingly obvious question media won't dare:
Is it better to spend $300 million to convince people to give the government communistic control over your car, your thermostat, and your job in a futile attempt to regulate the temperature of an entire planet? Or, would it be better to spend $300 million to help people adapt to slightly warmer temperatures until the planet begins to cool down again?
Remember: Only you can prevent dumb ideas from catching fire!
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The left should not play with matches
April 16, 2008 - 10:55 ET by dboIt's going to be hard to put out "forest fires" when the eco freaks are constantly starting new ones. Their mis-information campaign is wide spread and full of fiction. Their latest: http://www.nationalp...
What A Nutjob
April 16, 2008 - 12:38 ET by stratmanThe totalitarian Leftist editor of the Wikipedia entry for AGW activist Naomi Oreskes shows her true colors:
Umm, Kim, the actual primary source trumps a third party in this case. Irrelevance is your state of mind.
RRAM Tough!
where did we hear that same thing?
April 16, 2008 - 15:38 ET by wizardjrI mean about the person who origianlly said something is irrelevant. We're going with some twit who says he said something different..!!! Good grief! How arrogant.
The appologist for Oreskes
April 16, 2008 - 17:40 ET by danboThe appologist for Oreskes haven't a clue. Fact is her entire thesis was a claim that there was no disagreement in science. Every scientist that comes forward and disagrees, and every article anyone of us finds is proof that she was wrong.
"There is a clear attempt to establish truth not by scientific methods but by perpetual repetition."
- Richard S. Lindzen, Ph.D. Professor of Meteorology, MIT
Wikipedia is a useless irrelevant site
April 16, 2008 - 17:01 ET by PopularTechOnly idiots would use Wikipedia as a resource of anything since it can be edited by a 5-year old. dbo, Good article by the National Post.
The Faith-Based Encyclopedia (Robert McHenry, Former Editor in Chief, the Encyclopedia Britannica)
A false Wikipedia 'biography' (USA Today)
A History Department Bans Citing Wikipedia as a Research Source (The New York Times)
Wikipedia "broken beyond repair", co-founder says (The Inquirer)
Wikipedia founder admits to serious quality problems (The Register)
Wikipedia - I have the power (Penny Arcade)
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I had run into the same
April 16, 2008 - 17:35 ET by danboI had run into the same thing on Benny elsewhere. But never saw where he said what the Climate alarmist claimed. He was still saying the same thing on his website. Warmers don't care if what they say is truthful.
As for Wiki. A few years ago some of the skeptical scientist were trying to start a Wiki page on the Skeptical scientist. There was so much rewriting that they gave up. Who knows what garbage is in the garbage can called wiki.
Sadly Wiki can only be trusted if you already know the answer and just want a quick back up or addendum. You'll know when wiki is lying and can look elsewhere.
"There is a clear attempt to establish truth not by scientific methods but by perpetual repetition."
- Richard S. Lindzen, Ph.D. Professor of Meteorology, MIT
Maybe the sky isn't falling
April 16, 2008 - 17:47 ET by dboPT, Have you seen this yet?
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,23542557-661,00.html
Great addition for your coral reef file.
Coral Reefs can survive Nuclear Attacks
April 17, 2008 - 19:14 ET by PopularTechdbo, yes this is hillarious - coral reefs can survive a direct nuclear attack but are going to be wiped out by a 0.6 increase in temperature over 100 years! Surely Al Gore jests. I've added it:
Coral Reefs - Bikini Corals Recover From Atomic Blast (Science Daily)
Coral Reefs - Corals Can Reestablish Symbiosis With Algae From Their Environments After Bleaching (Science Daily)
Coral Reefs - Coral Reefs May Be More Resilient Than Expected (Science Daily)
Coral Reefs - Coral Reefs May Be Protected By Natural Ocean Thermostat (Science Daily)
Coral Reefs - Global warming good news for coral reefs: research (University of New South Wales, Australia)
Coral Reefs - Study Says Bleaching Could Be A Hidden Strength For Corals (Science Daily)
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I've wondered this, too...
April 16, 2008 - 10:58 ET by Alabama"Or, would it be better to spend $300 million to help people adapt to slightly warmer temperatures until the planet begins to cool down again?"
If climate change is as inevitable as liberals would have us believe, and if implementation of their plans will cause as negligable an effect as research has shown, why are they still plowing forward with their "let's prevent it" plan? Why aren't they developing a "let's adapt" plan?
Earth's climate has not been constant, ever. IF it is changing again, we at least have an advantage over our last ice age ancestors: we know it's coming. Why not put plans in place to feed people who will be affected by the sweeping famines, or relocate people who will lose their homes in the massive floods... you know, just in case the whole prevention thing doesn't pan out? Or is Gore really that arrogant as to believe that the whole country will simply hand over their personal liberty to him??
"If climate change is as
April 16, 2008 - 17:15 ET by zf"If climate change is as inevitable as liberals would have us believe, and if implementation of their plans will cause as negligable an effect as research has shown, why are they still plowing forward with their "let's prevent it" plan?
Because Global Warming is really about expanding government control, higher taxes, establishing global governments and "leveling the playing field" so Europe's socialist crippled corporations and countries economies can "compete" with ours and *not* about "climate change."
Unfortunately, Noel...
April 16, 2008 - 11:01 ET by Missouri Conservative...it looks as if Bush is poised to throw conservatives under the bus in his speech today.
http://corner.nation...
"women and minorities hardest hit"
MC
April 16, 2008 - 11:08 ET by Noel SheppardMC,
Yeah, I've seen this. Let's hope Iain is wrong. ns
Lock
April 16, 2008 - 11:16 ET by voodoodaddyand Load!
Why can they not read and research for themselves the absolute proof that AGW is a hoax and is NOT PROVEN.
Assclowns...all of them.
Saw this one on Human
April 16, 2008 - 11:33 ET by mattmSaw this one on Human Events.
What gets me is that, like a true RINO, W is caving on an issue which can easily be shown to be a politically motivated hoax, the environmental part of which is merely a ruse.
I can't understand why Libs hate him so much.
Good point, but...
April 16, 2008 - 11:37 ET by sarcasmoI can't understand why conservatives are surprised at this point. Maybe he thinks it'll help McCain, but IMO that's not likely. Republicans aren't ever very good when they try to out-Democrat Democrats.
JMR
The tax & spend drug war looks racist in the real world.
I'm not surprised. Since
April 16, 2008 - 11:46 ET by mattmI'm not surprised. Since the 2000 campaign it has been known that Bush is not really much of a conservative.
What I'm surprised at is that Democrats don't love the guy, and that the GOP establishment never learns that when they try to be a less radical version of the Democrats, they end up losing and the country gets more socialistic.
Sarc, i am a conservative
April 16, 2008 - 17:21 ET by futbolisgreat1Sarc,
i am a conservative and I have never thought of President Bush as a Conservative.
To me, he is a lot more in middle than anyone is willing to admit, right or left. He has he left leanings and his right leanings.
I believe that President Bush's policies, domestic and foreign, mirror more the policies of President Kennedy than that of Ronald Reagan.
While I would chose the current President Bush over any Democrat who is currently or in the past 30 years ran for the Presidential office, Bush is no full blown Conservative.
On the other hand, I am no fan of Michael Savage and Pat Bucchanans extreme Conservatism. While I agree with SOME of the things Savage and Bucchanan say, they are way too nutty and extreme for me.
Although, I am rooting all the way for Savage to win the law suit he put against the terrorist organization CAIR. And I love it when Savage goes after the crazed out San Francisco values left wing nuts. But sometimes, he goes way, way too much to the right for me.
Exactly.
April 16, 2008 - 11:51 ET by Missouri ConservativeGlobal warming is a purely emotionally driven, religion-based issue that can easily be refuted and discredited if the GOP had the stones to do it.
No policy is going to come out of this speech, and even if what Bush proposes is world's better than Obama or Hillary, it doesn't matter, because now apparently Bush has accepted their premise. Now the debate is simply "how much socialism is needed".
"women and minorities hardest hit"
"Global warming is a purely
April 16, 2008 - 12:12 ET by JohnM"Global warming is a purely emotionally driven, religion-based issue that can easily be refuted and discredited if the GOP had the stones to do it."
Well said!!
I wish that was on a bilboard facing the White House! And on one facing the houses of Congress, too!!!
"It's not nice to fool Mother Nature."
April 16, 2008 - 11:37 ET by BacchusYogi Bear says...
"Boo Boo, give that nice man a pic-a-nic basket."
--
AlGore v. Mother Nature - Ultimate Fighting Gone Wild
A golden oldie tune...
April 16, 2008 - 12:00 ET by JohnM"They asked me how I knew
Climate plight was true...
I of course replied
'When your brain's on fire
Smoke gets in your eyes' ..."
Christians and "global warming"
April 16, 2008 - 12:12 ET by sentforth5If anyone knows a professed Christian who has been taken in by this climate hooey, you can help them by reminding him/her what God said to St. Noah in Genesis ch.8 v. 22 just after the flood:
While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest,and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.
One cannot be a faithful Christian and believe algore at the same time. It's so simple..who ya gonna believe..algore or God Almighty??
I'm just sayin' is all............
What I Want To Know
April 16, 2008 - 12:22 ET by geoff.galeI'd like to know what's going to happen to algore and his buddies when the truth comes out that AGW was really only a ten-year blip. Are the press going to attack him like they attack SUV drivers? Are the talking heads going to fly to the ends of the earth to highlight the "problem" of water freezing? Are the academics from all levels of the "indoctrination" system going to come clean about brainwashing millions of kids? Are the politicians going to give us back the money they swindled under false pretences? Are the scientists who yelled the loudest to have AGW skeptic's funding and careers cut short going to suffer the same treatment?
I, for one, hope so, but also know better.
"All that is necessary for the trimuph of evil is that good men do nothing."
- Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797)
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Here's your answer
April 16, 2008 - 12:31 ET by SemperrightThe next president will commit the US to fighting AGW using the info that was givin to him by AlGore et al. He will bankrupt the country and then the dems will hammer him for ruining the country by making a decision with the faulty info they gave him. They will chant "Bush lied about WMDS" wait no that's not right. McCain lied about global warming, McCain lied, my plants died"
"Some people spend an entire lifetime wondering if they made a difference.
The MARINES don't have that problem."
President Ronald Reagan - 1985
I Know, I Know
April 16, 2008 - 14:05 ET by geoff.galeWhile I know in my heart that this AGW fiasco won't blow over because there's money to be made and power to be wielded, I still hope for a vindictive and vengeful God to descend upon the evil that is hyping AGW and strike those guilty of the big AGW deception with a pox, or a plague, or some other nasty surprise.
Kind of like Algore having his sonny arrested for speeding in his Prius with a bag full of drugs - only much, much worse.
"All that is necessary for the trimuph of evil is that good men do nothing."
- Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797)
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Double post
April 16, 2008 - 17:11 ET by danboDouble post. Sorry.
What will happen? They
April 16, 2008 - 17:08 ET by danboWhat will happen? They should be ridiciled. Or worse.
But the track record. Rachael Carson's half baked science killed over 90 million people. They still love her. And ignore the people she killed.
When it was shown that Rigoberta Menchu was lying. And that she was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for that lie. People only got angry at those who showed she was lying. And her work of fiction is still used in universities as fact. And the Un-Nobles wouldn't take the prize back.
Sadly. The left isn't worried if it's a lie.
"There is a clear attempt to establish truth not by scientific methods but by perpetual repetition."
- Richard S. Lindzen, Ph.D. Professor of Meteorology, MIT
brain washing children
April 16, 2008 - 15:44 ET by wizardjrMy granddaughters just got their obligatory brain washing from the school on global warming. They are sending money to the local zoo people to help save the Polar Bears from dying because of global warming. I told them it was a lie and gave them a very short version of natural cycles. I hope they don't become True Believers.
Proud Papa momment
April 16, 2008 - 20:24 ET by red_dragon311It's funny you should mention Polar Bears
Pop Tech I was just going to send you a "Thank you" letter from my son who used your Polar Bear section to do some of his report
I was very proud of me 9 year old son
At school he had to do a report on an animal. He's a Chicago Bears fan so he wanted to do a bear. Polar Bears were the only bears left he told me this, and I was a little worried that he would get his info from wiki, or some other school "recomended" site . The report was, where they live, what they eat, ect ect.
well part of the report was to say whether the animal is endangered.
MY BOY WROTE IN HIS REPORT,
"Polar Bears are not endangered. Some peeple think that they are endangered because of global warming, but only 4 have died because of global warming"
Not really the way I would have put it, but hey he's only 9.
I am still waiting to see what kind of grade he gets.
"As a news consumer, however, the word of an MSM journalist isn't good enough." - Dabird
There is hope for the future
April 17, 2008 - 22:14 ET by PopularTechRed, that is good to hear I had only wished he had phrased it that "the 4 polar bears found dead were due to a storm and there has been no link established between the storm and man-made CO2". But it is a start!
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THE BIG LIE OF GLOBAL WARMING
April 17, 2008 - 06:10 ET by BritcomFrom greenedia:
April 17, 2008 - 07:33 ET by AgnosticAn inspirational kickoff from David Suzuki
4 Apr 08
In search of Al Gore: First comes a speech from his disciple.
A room, bursting with 250 Inconvenient Truth trainees gathered in Montreal Friday afternoon for the opening of the first Canadian (and the first bilingual) Al Gore Bootcamp.
And if they weren’t already excited by the prospect – and convinced of the necessity – of learning how to engage Canadians in a climate change conversation (and plainly there were), David Suzuki would have made all the difference.
--Sounds like the enviromentalist, having attended 'bootcamp' and received their marching orders, are getting ready to invade.
Al Gore's Green Army
April 17, 2008 - 19:21 ET by PopularTechI am actually getting more concerned with these nuts as they "mobilize"
Gore to recruit 10m-strong green army (The Guardian, UK)
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