WHERE WAS THE POST ABOUT THE HEATWAVE IN EUROPE THAT KILLED 30+ PEOPLE?

Dang it all Del...

You had to remind me of that!

I was having so much fun too...

DEL,

Yes its winter there, but it is not the first winter there!  Read the years since the last snowfall:  1981 and 1968.  Those were both within a decade of the "Next Ice Age".  I realize of course, I may have missed sarcasm on your part.

Acadia. I hope you don't mind. But there were things in your link, I thought needed to be pointed out. Such sweet people and great fortune tellers.

Sorry. This is so long. But worthwhile.

On life

The right to have children should be a marketable commodity, bought and traded by individuals but absolutely limited by the state. —Kenneth Boulding, originator of the “Spaceship Earth”

We have wished, we ecofreaks, for a disaster or for a social change to come and bomb us into Stone Age, where we might live like Indians in our valley, with our localism, our appropriate technology, our gardens, our homemade religion—guilt-free at last! —Stewart Brand (writing in the Whole Earth Catalogue).

Free Enterprise really means rich people get richer. They have the freedom to exploit and psychologically rape their fellow human beings in the process…. Capitalism is destroying the earth. —Helen Caldicott, Union of Concerned Scientists

We must make this an insecure and inhospitable place for capitalists and their projects…. We must reclaim the roads and plowed land, halt dam construction, tear down existing dams, free shackled rivers and return to wilderness millions of tens of millions of acres of presently settled land. —David Foreman, Earth First!

What we’ve got to do in energy conservation is try to ride the global warming issue. Even if the theory of global warming is wrong, to have approached global warming as if it is real means energy conservation, so we will be doing the right thing anyway in terms of economic policy and environmental policy. —Timothy Wirth, former U.S. Senator (D-Colorado)

I suspect that eradicating smallpox was wrong. It played an important part in balancing ecosystems. —John Davis, editor of Earth First! Journal

Human beings, as a species, have no more value than slugs. —John Davis, editor of Earth First! Journal

The extinction of the human species may not only be inevitable but a good thing....This is not to say that the rise of human civilization is insignificant, but there is no way of showing that it will be much help to the world in the long run. —Economist editorial

We advocate biodiversity for biodiversity’s sake. It may take our extinction to set things straight. —David Foreman, Earth First!

Phasing out the human race will solve every problem on earth, social and environmental. —Dave Forman, Founder of Earth First!

Human happiness, and certainly human fecundity, is not as important as a wild and healthy planets…Some of us can only hope for the right virus to come along. —David Graber, biologist, National Park Service

If I were reincarnated, I would wish to be returned to Earth as a killer virus to lower human population levels. —Prince Phillip, World Wildlife Fund

We, in the green movement, aspire to a cultural model in which killing a forest will be considered more contemptible and more criminal than the sale of 6-year-old children to Asian brothels. —Carl Amery

Every time you turn on an electric light, you are making another brainless baby. —Helen Caldicott, Union of Concerned Scientists

To feed a starving child is to exacerbate the world population problem. —Lamont Cole

The only hope for the world is to make sure there is not another United States: We can’t let other countries have the same number of cars, the amount of industrialization, we have in the U.S. We have to stop these Third World countries right where they are. And it is important to the rest of the world to make sure that they don’t suffer economically by virtue of our stopping them. —Michael Oppenheimer, Environmental Defense Fund

On predictions.

The continued rapid cooling of the earth since WWII is in accord with the increase in global air pollution associated with industrialization, mechanization, urbanization and exploding population. —Reid Bryson, “Global Ecology; Readings towards a rational strategy for Man”, (1971)

The battle to feed humanity is over. In the 1970s, the world will undergo famines. Hundreds of millions of people are going to starve to death in spite of any crash programs embarked upon now. Population control is the only answer. —Paul Ehrlich, in The Population Bomb (1968)

I would take even money that England will not exist in the year 2000. —Paul Ehrlich in (1969)

In ten years all important animal life in the sea will be extinct. Large areas of coastline will have to be evacuated because of the stench of dead fish. —Paul Ehrlich, Earth Day (1970)

This [cooling] trend will reduce agricultural productivity for the rest of the century. —Peter Gwynne, Newsweek 1976

There are ominous signs that the earth’s weather patterns have begun to change dramatically and that these changes may portend a drastic decline in food production—with serious political implications for just about every nation on earth. The drop in food production could begin quite soon… The evidence in support of these predictions has now begun to accumulate so massively that meteorologist are hard-pressed to keep up with it. —Newsweek, April 28, (1975)

This cooling has already killed hundreds of thousands of people. If it continues and no strong action is taken, it will cause world famine, world chaos and world war, and this could all come about before the year 2000. —Lowell Ponte in “The Cooling”, 1976

If present trends continue, the world will be about four degrees colder for the global mean temperature in 1990, but eleven degrees colder by the year 2000. … This is about twice what it would take to put us in an ice age

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"The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.”   H.L. Mencken

I'm not Noel, but in a climate (pardon the pun) where every quirky bit of weather is cited as evidence of global warming, do global warming advocates have a right to complain about anecdotes like this?

When you put the clowns in charge, don't be surprised when a circus breaks out.

Steve,

It never ceases to amaze me how many times the obvious has to be explained to folks who hold themselves in such undeservedly high esteem, especially those who criticize highly-regarded scientists without having the decency of providing links to their bios or published papers to demonstrate their own credibility.

Regardless, for the umpteenth time, as we are a media analysis blog, we are regularly witnessing heat waves being tied to global warming. Have you witnessed this, Steve, or have you had your head buried in the sand the past three years?

Regardless, we here at NewsBusters like to point out extreme cold events -- which, of course, are rarely reported by the press unless they can be connected to human suffering somehow tied directly to corporate greed or fiscal irresponsibility -- to mock the stupidity inherent in using a heat wave to prove climate change.

In fact, I quite imagine, Steve, that when our nation goes through its first heat wave this summer, you'll be "bringing up statistical fluctuations like this" in order to help "your cause."

So, please take a step down from that high horse you like to put yourself on. It really isn't flattering, and none of us is buying into your disgraceful sense of self-importance.    ns

How about any number of heat waves in the past?  I bet that you NEVER, EVER tied them to global warming...

But you already showed your true colors.  To you, this is hardly about the science, and is ALL about your need to control, control, and control other people. 

MAKE WAY FOR THE SAN ANTONIO SPURS!!!  THE 1999, 2003, 2005, AND 2007 NBA CHAMPIONS!!!!

I believe that is exactly the reason that movie was made ... so the GW cultists could claim every weather event or non-event as proof of their dogma.