Storms! Floods! Riots! Looting! Blackouts! These are all the things that Laurie David is back to warning us about in her latest Huffington Post blog, "This is the Face of Global Warming":
As severe storms and the resultant flooding continue to batter the Midwest with deadly results, the media is filled with scary stories of the destruction and misery being inflicted. We see headlines about 300,000 Chicagoans without power, state of emergency declarations across four other states, dozens killed by storms from Texas to Minnesota, flooded interstates, and thousands of flooded homes and businesses. It's now commonplace to see news footage of people being rescued off their rooftops, many saying goodbye to their homes for good.
Yeah, like we never saw footage of extreme climatic events before. Going way back, we can even read of weather catastrophes in the Bible. Ever hear of Noah and the Great Flood, Laurie? Or was that another example of Global Warming? Now Laurie David seems a bit upset that EVERY unusual weather event is not immediately ascribed to Global Warming:
But no news outlet has had the courage to state the obvious: This is the face of global warming. This is it. While no single weather event can be directly pinned to global warming, these are the predictions of the world's best scientist come to terrifying life. Scientists are certain that these deadly events will only become more common -- and more extreme -- as the earth continues to heat up. More intense rainfall, more extreme flooding, more crippled infrastructure and unsanitary conditions, more homes and businesses lost. More, more, more...
More, more, more... Cluck! Cluck! The sky is falling because not every news outlet is buying into Laurie David's Global Warming fantasy. Ms. David then takes which are weather events that have been happening for centuries and works herself into a Global Warming alarmist lather while simultaneously engaging in her obsession about Karl Rove:
These glimpses from storm-ravaged Middle America ought to be a wake-up call. How many more American lives must be lost and property destroyed for this administration to take action?
What will the next pictures look like? Blackouts? Looting? Riots?
Will it have to reach the level of Southeast Asia, where the worst floods in recent memory have affected an estimated 28 million people? In Bangladesh at least 678 are dead and over 50,000 are suffering from flood-related diseases -- millions more now find themselves homeless.
What's it going to take for this White House to act? I hope not that.
Karl Rove should do one last thing before he heads back to Texas to spend more time with his family, bailing out his own flooded basement: he should have the courage to demand that the administration face this problem and DO SOMETHING.
Yes, Laurie. I'll DO SOMETHING. I plan to watch again that hilarious South Park episode, Two Days Before the Day After Tomorrow, which accurately satirizes Global Warming alarmists such as yourself.
—P.J. Gladnick is a freelance writer and creator of the DUmmie FUnnies blog.
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Gee Laurie, what caused all
Mon, 08/27/2007 - 07:52 ET by motherbeltGee Laurie, what caused all the storms and floods, hurricanes and tornadoes back in the 30's, 40's and 50's?
I can't wait for the next installment of the Global Warming Diaries: all of those were caused by Global Warming too...we just didn't realize it. In fact, global warming, or "climate change" as they like to call it, has been occurring since the beginning of time. Whatever the climate changes to is caused by "climate change." How convenient is that!?
There you go, Laurie!!
I believe this is the same
Mon, 08/27/2007 - 08:20 ET by danboI believe this is the same science genius that told us a few malaria cases in Houston were the cause of AGW. So much for her scientific abilities.
Did she ever remove her CO2 producing BBQ she erected on protected wet lands? I guess action to protect the environment doesn't apply to her or her husband.
"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
More and more people are
Mon, 08/27/2007 - 09:55 ET by USA4freedomMore and more people are seeing problems every where because
of global warming!!!!
Dr. Peter Venkman
: Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together - mass hysteria!!!!!
Dorothy: Lions tigers and bears..oh my!!!!
New types of grass showing up, International grass
specialist:
Carl Spackler: “This is a hybrid. This is a cross, ah, of
Bluegrass, Kentucky Bluegrass, Featherbed Bent, and Northern California
Sensemilia. The amazing stuff about this is, that you can play 36 holes on it
in the afternoon, take it home and just get stoned to the bejeezus-belt that
night on this stuff.
Then over heard in a bar:
Rick: My health. I came to Casablanca for the waters.
Captain Renault: The waters? What waters?
We're in the desert......I told
you Rick, it global warming!
These are the boys of Pointe du Hoc.
Ronald Reagan- 40th Anniversary of D-Day
I guess I'm stating the
Mon, 08/27/2007 - 08:04 ET by bobthemanI guess I'm stating the obvious, but GB has been in the WH for a infetesimal slice of geographic time, and yet, he is the boogey man for the global warming chicken littles. I could go on... and on... but why.... oh nevermind, sigh...
Long time lurker, first
Mon, 08/27/2007 - 08:26 ET by dream onLong time lurker, first time poster here...
I recall reading about Ms. David's split from her husband recently, and his comment was that he was going to go home and "turn on all the lights." Guess she wasn't able to brainwash or, I mean convince him.
Welcome dream
Mon, 08/27/2007 - 09:53 ET by USA4freedomWelcome dream on
These are the boys of Pointe du Hoc.
Ronald Reagan- 40th Anniversary of D-Day
Worst Floods before Cable
Mon, 08/27/2007 - 08:53 ET by NortonPete1887, September-October Hwang Ho (Yellow) River, China Over 900,000
1939 North China 500,000
1642 Kaifeng, Honan Province, China Over 300,000
1099 England and the Netherlands 100,000
1287, December 14 The Netherlands 50,000
1824 Russia 10,000
1421, November 18 The Netherlands 10,000
1964, November-December Mekong Delta, South Vietnam 5,000
1951, August 6-7 Manchuria 4,800 1948, June Foochow, China 3,500
Lookin' Up
Mon, 08/27/2007 - 09:09 ET by BuxomAnnieMcGreggorHey Norton... Are the figures at the end of each line the recorded
death toll for that particular tragedy? ....if so.... then I guess the
argument could be made that historically speaking....THINGS ARE LOOKIN'
UP!
OK...I see now
Mon, 08/27/2007 - 09:52 ET by BuxomAnnieMcGreggorOK... I see that your stats refer to area of land flooded..... still, things are LOOKIN' UP!
Those were deaths.
Mon, 08/27/2007 - 10:14 ET by danboThose were deaths. Here.
"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
Closer to home. I'll add in
Mon, 08/27/2007 - 09:28 ET by danboCloser to home. I'll add in the Great Mississippi River flood of 1927. Flooded 27,000 square miles of 7 states. To a depth of 30 feet. Killing 246 people. Source and film
Being mother nature isn't capable of doing these things. She's so benign. The 27 flood was obviously was caused by the model T.
"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
Laurie learned well from
Mon, 08/27/2007 - 09:02 ET by AlgerHissLaurie learned well from her husband, George Costanza:
It's not a lie, if you believe it.
Rochester, Minnesota: A Fem_Leftist City!
Cheap Divorce
Mon, 08/27/2007 - 09:33 ET by CaringwhiteguyNo matter how much the divorce from Laurie David costs Larry David, he'll be much the better for it.
http://www.showbuzz.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/07/20/people_milestones/main3079229.shtml
Commonality
Mon, 08/27/2007 - 09:38 ET by TruthMattersScientists are certain that these deadly events will only become more common...
How can something become "more common"? It is either common or uncommon.
I've started blaming
Mon, 08/27/2007 - 09:49 ET by Free ThinkerI've started blaming everything on global warming. Ticked off the wife - global warming, dropped the ball at work - that darn global warming, missed a three foot putt - I hate global warming. Being green makes life so much easier!
Maybe she should put more
Mon, 08/27/2007 - 09:49 ET by rustyf1Maybe she should put more attention into saving her own family than saving the world.
Natural disasters before
Mon, 08/27/2007 - 09:59 ET by USA4freedomNatural disasters before global
warming..
Japan, 1181: famine (100,000 dead)
Holland, 1228: sea flood (100,000 dead)
Europe and Asia, 1346-52: Bubonic
plague or “black death” (one third of the European population dead plus
millions in Asia and North Africa for a total of 25 million)
Bengal, India, 1769: famine (10 million
dead)
India, 1775: Tsunami (60,000 dead)
Northamerica, 1775-82: Smallpox
(130,000 dead)
Caribbeans, 1780: Hurricane (22,000
dead)
Japan, 1826: Tsunami (27,000 dead)
Ireland, 1845: famine (one million
dead)
India, 1864: Cyclone (70,000 dead)
India, 1875-78: Famine (10 million
dead)
Bangladesh, 1876: Cyclone (200,000
dead)
China, 1876-78: Drought (9 million
dead)
China, 1881: Typhoon (300,000 dead)
Indonesia, 1883: Tsunami (36,000 dead)
Huayan Kou, China, 1887: Yang-tse Kiang
flooding (one million dead)
Sanriku, Japan, 1896: Tsunami (27,000
dead)
Galveston, 1900: Hurricane (8,000 dead)
China, 1907: famine (20 million dead)
Hebei, China, 1920-21: famine (500,000
dead)
Ukraine, 1921: Famine (5 million dead)
China, 1928: Famine (3 million dead)
Florida, USA, 1928: Hurricane (1800
dead)
China, 1931: Flooding (3.7 million
dead)
Ukraine and Russia, 1932: Famine (5
million dead)
China, 1936: Famine (5 million dead)
New York, USA, 1938: Rains (600 dead)
China, 1941: Famine (3 million dead)
Bengal, India, 1943: famine (3.5
million dead)
Holland, 1953: Sea flood (1,794 dead)
Iran, 1953: Rain flood (10,000 dead)
Louisiana, USA, 1957: Hurricane (400
dead)
Japan, 1958: Typhoon (5,000 dead)
China, 1958-61: Famine (38 million
dead)
India, 1965: Famine (1.5 million dead)
China, 1969: Famine (20 million dead)
Bangladesh, 1970: Sea flood
(200-500,000 dead)
Vietnam, 1971: Red River flood (100,000
dead)
Bangladesh, 1974: floods (28,000 dead)
Ethiopia, 1974: famine (200,000 dead)
Andhra Pradesh, India, 1977: cyclone
(10,000 dead)
Caribbeans, 1979: Hurricane (2,000
dead)
Bangladesh, 1991: tsunami (138,000
dead)
All I can say is, think how much worse
it would have been with
GLOBAL Warming!!
These are the boys of Pointe du Hoc.
Ronald Reagan- 40th Anniversary of D-Day
you forgot at least two
Mon, 08/27/2007 - 11:45 ET by seekerThis list must have taken quite a bit of time to put togther! Did you forget two ? Those would be the drowning of Pharoh's men and of course the Great flood of Noah fame. Where was global warming then?
Your right! There
Mon, 08/27/2007 - 12:41 ET by USA4freedomYour right!
There were more on that list as well but I just got tired..
These are the boys of Pointe du Hoc.
Ronald Reagan- 40th Anniversary of D-Day
Warming? Sure.
Mon, 08/27/2007 - 10:19 ET by landsharkWhere was Laurie yesterday when I was officiating a game and got blasted by rain and a freezing north wind? I could have used a little global warming.
what an a$$hat
I lived in Chicago during
Mon, 08/27/2007 - 10:26 ET by moonjohnI lived in Chicago during the 1950’s.
Flooding wasn’t uncommon then.
In fact, most houses had stand pipes they would bolt to the drain in the basement during expected heavy rains.
This would keep the basements dry as long as the water level didn’t get too high.
I remember walking in the basement up to my knees in water.
I also remember the Des Plaines river overflowing and flooding entire neighborhoods.
I remember when the community of Hickory Hills (Chicago Suburb) only method of transportation between houses was by boat.
But I guess this flooding is worse because it’s caused by Global Warming - Not.
Laurie - Pop some more
Mon, 08/27/2007 - 10:28 ET by drillanwrLaurie -
Pop some more anti-depressants and just go shopping on Rodeo Drive, hun.
NO ONE is buying the idea that you give two flying leaps at a rolling donut about folks in the Midwest or Middle-America, AKA, "Red States".
Instead of Chicken Little, how about being The Little Red Hen and asking the throngs of folks in this country who stretch out their strong and capable hands for federal charity, "Who will ...?" basically pitch in and help themselves and stop sitting back waiting for the government to cradle and feed them ... on everybody else's hard earned money.
Nikita's fault
Mon, 08/27/2007 - 10:31 ET by Mica the MagnificentGlobal warming began when Nikita Kruschev banged his shoe at the U.N. in the early 1960's screaming 'we will bury you.'
That action caused the 'butterfly effect' that took all this time to melt the glaciers.
Damn commie!
Or, Laurie...
Mon, 08/27/2007 - 11:03 ET by The Mavit could be this:
http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=651643
you're free to believe what you want, just don't claim it to be factual.
Mav -
Mon, 08/27/2007 - 11:13 ET by drillanwrNaw ... Can't be THAT ... It's the several squares of TP you used this a.m., the cow you ate last night, and your cell phone charger, not to mention your involuntary breathing.
Drillanwr
Mon, 08/27/2007 - 11:31 ET by The MavThat's what it is! Well, I promise that tonight, I will throw out my cell phone, not go to the bathroom, and hold my breath until I die. That way, I have a small carbon footprint!
Not so fast, Mav
Mon, 08/27/2007 - 11:48 ET by Mica the MagnificentNot so fast, Mav. You'd better do something about the gasses your lifeless decomposing body will give off.
Better plant a tree or two before you croak.
oh, by the way...
Mon, 08/27/2007 - 11:41 ET by The MavIt's pouring here in Berkley East (Madison, WI). Which has caused the farmers to start looting and rioting. It's mayhem. I guess the Democratic leadership didn't pass the "Anti-rain" legislation in time...
I can't believe nobody
Mon, 08/27/2007 - 11:43 ET by pbanks7I can't believe nobody beat me to it:
But no news outlet has had the courage to state the obvious: This is the face of [the apocalypse]. This is it. While no single weather event can be directly pinned to [the apocalypse], these are the predictions of the world's best [theologians] come to terrifying life. Scientists are certain that these deadly events will only become more common -- and more extreme -- as the [the apocalypse] continues to heat up.
Ignorance is bliss. It's easier to repeat a mindless slogan than to do some actual research.
Storms! Floods! Riots!
Mon, 08/27/2007 - 12:32 ET by RackieStorms! Floods! Riots! Looting! Blackouts!
I think she was describing sex with Bill Clinton.
South Park
Mon, 08/27/2007 - 18:20 ET by wiwfSouth Park FTW
"Congressmen who willfully take actions during wartime that damage
morale and undermine the military are saboteurs and should be arrested,
exiled, or hanged." -Abraham Lincoln
There was a time
Mon, 08/27/2007 - 19:11 ET by pbthinkerThere was a time when scientists spoke about issues, there was a debate, and the truth eventually came out. Now, we have scientists who make statements, Hollyweird Liberals pick them up, determine they're true, and start espounding on them like they know what they're talking about.
If I'm one of these rich slobs out there, I'm sponsoring my favorite scientist and letting him answer the "Great Global Warming Challenge" in the hopes of actually settling this.
Never argue with an idiot. They'll drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.