Well, not any more. At least from where I'm sitting in lovely Old Town Alexandria. Darn global cooling!
Anyway, at the MRC's Business & Media Institute, we're on top of the media's hype of global warming like white on polar ice.
Here's my colleague Julia Seymour's latest newsletter article.
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From a 72-degree January day in Manhattan to "polar bears in peril," the media have done anything but chill about the weather lately.
"Never has good weather felt so bad. Never have flowers inspired so much fear. Never has the warm caress of a sunbeam seemed so ominous. The weather is sublime, it’s glorious, it’s the end of the world," wrote Joel Achenbach on the January 7 Washington Post Style section front.
The article said D.C. temperatures had reached 73 degrees a day earlier, but Weather.com reported that both Washington, D.C., and New York City reached a high of 70 degrees on January 6. The predominantly East Coast-based media were in a frenzy.
NBC’s Meredith Vieira wondered, "are we all gonna die?" The New York Times said people couldn’t enjoy wearing short sleeves because of "anxiety of environmental disaster."
The three broadcast networks have covered global warming 39 times since December 1, while newspapers have covered it even more.
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I love how everyone blames gl
January 10, 2007 - 19:21 ET by Nathan R MII love how everyone blames global warming on SUV's and factories. If only they would talk a look at history they would find that this type of this isn't all that uncommom. Although, yes, we do contribute to it, humans are not the primary source of global warming. The earth, like the seasons, is in a set cycle. Look at the ice ages in between the numorous ice ages there were periods of warmer times. At the height of the warm times many place far north and south of the equator had tropic like temperatures. I think these global warming freaks need to relax a little and study up on "earth history."
Are you allowed to be that fat and gay? - Random TV Quote
"The New York Times sa
January 10, 2007 - 19:27 ET by ckc1227"The New York Times said people couldn’t enjoy wearing short sleeves because of "anxiety of environmental disaster.""
If they are that stupid, they don't deserve to enjoy the warm weather.
Tell you what not only am I e
January 10, 2007 - 19:30 ET by Nathan R MITell you what not only am I enjoying short sleeves but I've also busted out my sandles and shorts.
Are you allowed to be that fat and gay? - Random TV Quote
Global warming is nothing mor
January 10, 2007 - 19:55 ET by rimskyGlobal warming is nothing more than a tool to gain political control. Whether it is Algore, or the UN, or the EU, or whoever. IMO none of these powers really believe the Globe is warming. They use the fear that they can spread about GW as a tactic to gain political power in the name of saving the Globe. Meanwhile, media idiots like 'are-we-all-gonna-die-Viera' harp on about it, blaming SUV owners, big business and, oh yeah, Bush.. I'm sure he's near the top of their GW list.
I totally enjoyed running my errands the other day, wearing jeans and a T. It was great!
Well, all I can say is, it
January 10, 2007 - 22:53 ET by slaphappyWell, all I can say is, it´s damn hot where I´m at...Where´s that "HOCKEY STICK " when I need it...
as usual, environmentalism is
January 10, 2007 - 20:19 ET byas usual, environmentalism is a dirty word with neocons and good oil boys! You will always be in a state of denial that we are destroying the planet. Who cares as long as the greedy oil companies control the world until we run out of oil...
the right wing's obsession with the world finding the truth coincides with a failing administration that will always be in denial of the truth that they continually twist so effectively!
Quiz time, folks. Which line
January 10, 2007 - 21:52 ET by Roger the ShrubberQuiz time, folks. Which line made less sense:
A: the main portion of Wombat's post
or
B: Wombat's signature
Bonus Question: what medication was Wombat under the influence of when this post was written?
Shrub,Haven't a clue.You stil
January 10, 2007 - 21:57 ET by BlondeShrub,
Haven't a clue.
You still owe me a buck from the quiz I answered correctly the last time (yellow peace signs).
damn, I was hoping you'd forg
January 10, 2007 - 22:48 ET by Roger the Shrubberdamn, I was hoping you'd forgot....
:p
Come on Rog,Women LOVE to be
January 10, 2007 - 22:56 ET by BlondeCome on Rog,
Women LOVE to be correct.....you know that.
Donate that dollar to your beer fund, okay?
Picking the correct picture was quite enough of a reward! LOL.
All hail greed!!!
January 10, 2007 - 22:07 ET by UnsaneGreed is GOOD, rhayes. Without greed, you wouldn't have a computer with which to whine.
If you want to go live in a cave due to your overwhelming guilt, by all means, do so. But could you PLEASE leave me out of it? In the meantime, I will work hard to get the state government here to look very closely at expanding facilities at Comanche Park and the STNP. (Why not? Nukes do provide France 78.5% of its electricity needs!)
"HAV3 TH3 BRIDG3S OF INSANITY B33N CROSS3D AND FOR3V3R R3TRACT3D???." - Meshuggah, "3ntrapm3nt", from Catch Thirty Thr33 (2005)
Thank you Gordon Gecko! (Ki
January 10, 2007 - 22:21 ET by BlondeThank you Gordon Gecko! (Kidding)
On Mr. Gecko
January 10, 2007 - 22:42 ET by UnsaneWhen I saw that scene in my high school economics class, my teacher was not amused by my yelling "YES!!!" at the end of each sentence.
Again, somehow I made it out of grade school with my philosophies intact.
:-)
"HAV3 TH3 BRIDG3S OF INSANITY B33N CROSS3D AND FOR3V3R R3TRACT3D???." - Meshuggah, "3ntrapm3nt", from Catch Thirty Thr33 (2005)
we are destroying the planet
January 10, 2007 - 22:38 ET by taznarNo we're not. We could set off every nuclear bomb in the world or burn every ounce of fossil fuels, and the earth would still be here. We may not, in any currently recognizable form, but the earth would be.
I guess I just don't have the fear of climate change some people have. Climate change has been a fact since the earth began. It has also been one of the major driving forces behind evolution. Were it not for climate change, humans may not even be here (based on the theory of evolution). As I've often stated, one has to wonder at the hubris necessary to state that the climate of, say 100 years ago, is the best climate for humans, much less all life on the planet. Not to mention the implausibility of halting climate change or controlling the climate. We could stop burning fossil fuels tomorrow, and the climate would still change. It may take a slightly different path, but it would still change.
RHayes says conservatives are
January 10, 2007 - 23:01 ET by NL207RHayes says conservatives are God! proof: RHayes claims that conservatives are destroying the planet. Since onlyy God can destroy the planet, it follows logically that conservatives must be God! Perfect logic, according to the postulates of RHayes. Since the conclusion, conservatives are God, is absurd, the postulate must be false. Therefore, conservatives are NOT destroying the planet.
Get out much rhayes ?
January 11, 2007 - 05:13 ET by SportPoliticsI don't think you libs ever get out much. Aren't you supposed to be outside enjoying the great outdoors ? Funny how the conservatives and republicans are the big rural people( see the county election maps), and the whining liberal crybaby gasbags are corralled in some skum inner city ghetto area or it's take government services by the barrel equivalent, where 10,000 vehicles blow unburned carbon chunks at them all day long.
Heck, you liberals should be required to walk outside under your own wobbly kneed spindles, out past the city limits, for 20 miles at least once a year, to remind you how vast and often uninhabited the continental USA actually still is.
Liberal crybabies drive cars and suvs and all the rest, sucking down the government cheese that arrives on diesel belching semitrailer 18 wheelers, but you won't find them whining when they're shoving that oil company assisted delivery turkey tofu down their malformed yapper. I wonder how the libs would get along without the big oil companies. I suspect they'ed die of starvation, within months.
As usual, the ungrateful foul mouthed liberal hasn't a clue as to what they're complaining about, only that some other left wing idiot passed along the stupidity.
Big Oil = calories down the throat of a chunking, babbling, liberal fool.
Actually it's you and socia
January 11, 2007 - 07:08 ET by Jack BauerActually it's you and socialisturds like you, Groundkeeper Willy, who are destroying the planet.
Wherever leftists metastasize there's poverty, penury and human devestation.
Socialists and their commie cousins never met a people they couldn't destroy within a generation. Socialism is a cancer.that destroys norrnal humans.
Africa in particular is a shining example of their wanton destruction brought about by insane leftist ideologies.
The biggest polluters on the planet have always been governments with socialist/commie agendas.
Proud member of the all-powerful and vast militarist/industrialist/capitalist/zionist-bagelist complex
As usual, there are still bra
January 10, 2007 - 22:28 ET byAs usual, there are still brainwashed neocons believing there is no such thing as pollution!
"No one can terrorize a whole nation, unless we all are accomplices."
E. Murrow
As usual, rhayes has nothing
January 10, 2007 - 22:33 ET by BlondeAs usual, rhayes has nothing constructive to add.
Blonde
January 11, 2007 - 05:16 ET by SportPoliticsIt seems to me rhayes is on site pollution.
And you couldn't be more wron
January 10, 2007 - 22:44 ET by UnsaneAnd you couldn't be more wrong. I know there's pollution. That is why I am in favor of a power source that provides France 78.5% of its juice. If Leftist and Socialists like you are so wrapped around the axle about pollution, why aren't you guys the BIGGEST pro-nuke guys around?
"HAV3 TH3 BRIDG3S OF INSANITY B33N CROSS3D AND FOR3V3R R3TRACT3D???." - Meshuggah, "3ntrapm3nt", from Catch Thirty Thr33 (2005)
rhayes, you said we are destroying the planet, huh?
January 10, 2007 - 22:46 ET by acaiguanaryhayes, you said we are destroying the planet, huh?
Here's how to destroy the planet. And I'm for it.
ACA
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Acaiguana says: "Which city is next?"
Hey rhayes, I believe your b
January 10, 2007 - 22:57 ET by slaphappyHey rhayes, I believe your braid just fell out and your Jimmy Diamond specs are on the ground....
Just sayin´.....cheers
Sure there's pollution. The
January 10, 2007 - 22:57 ET by NL207Sure there's pollution. There is lots of pollution. Why there is a metric s***load of intellectual pollution every time you open your trap on this board.
As long as you are around there will be...
January 11, 2007 - 08:05 ET by Guy Arthur Thomasrhayes, as long as you are around there won't be any doubt in anyone's mind that pollution exists so wrap a new diaper around your silly a$$, put the bottle back in your mouth and go to sleep.
If you claim to be a conservative, please don't disgrace yourself and conservatism by thinking and arguing like a liberal.
Meanwhile, the so-called Holl
January 11, 2007 - 01:06 ET by jdhawkMeanwhile, the so-called Hollyweird elite are supposedly doing the Golden Globes "green" this year. See the article for detailes here: http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=domesticNews&storyid=2007-01-10T231956Z_01_N10324386_RTRUKOC_0_US-GOLDENGLOBES-GREEN.xml&src=rss&rpc=22 .
Of course, what do you want to bet that they fly private jets to the occasion and then are wisked to the event in a limo! Yeah, their "green" alright!
Meanwhile, the "chattering crowd" will conveniently forget to report the above.
It was minus 45 F in Alaska
January 11, 2007 - 05:02 ET by SportPoliticsIt was minus 45 F in the southern part of Alaska yesterday.
Yet the irony-impaired-one
January 11, 2007 - 08:22 ET by sarcasmoYet the irony-impaired-one claims I'd want to live there, for some hallucinated reason...
JMR
Check it out sometime
January 11, 2007 - 10:41 ET by UnsaneYou should! Many people there are as overwhelmingly obsessed with drugs as you are. Apparently you are obsessed with me as well (to the point of stalking), if you have to come along on an unrelated topic and mention me.
"HAV3 TH3 BRIDG3S OF INSANITY B33N CROSS3D AND FOR3V3R R3TRACT3D???." - Meshuggah, "3ntrapm3nt", from Catch Thirty Thr33 (2005)
It's not obsession. You hav
January 11, 2007 - 11:06 ET by sarcasmoIt's not obsession. You have a first amendment right to make stupid comments, I have a first amendment right to make you sound stupid to everyone else whenever you make 'em. Deal with it.
JMR
Man, that 2 degrees makes a difference, huh?
January 11, 2007 - 11:02 ET by acaiguanaMan, that 2 degrees makes a difference, huh?
ACA
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Acaiguana says: "Which city is next?"
Here's how to shut a Greenie
January 11, 2007 - 17:08 ET by KalihiwaiBeachHere's how to shut a Greenie Liberal up. Whenever they say anything about spewing carbon dioxide into the atmosphere being a BAD thing - remind them that all green plants and algaes on the Earth need carbon dioxide to make their own food - photosynthesis - and the by-product is what? - that's right - oxygen. Therefore denying carbon dioxide to plants is surely going to deprive the plants and kill them. Also tell them that if we werent supplying these plants the carbon dioxide they need, Mother Nature would balance the needs of the plants by creating a volcano in hopefully some urban area. IF that wont shut the Greenie Libs up - well they arent listening in the 1st place now are they?
Mark
Kauai