heh.
Posted by andgarden at January 29, 2008 10:47 AMThanks for all these great links and the cleverness, turkana.
I guess everyone sees these reports, notes them, maybe regrets them (if they aren't white male deniers), turns up the air conditioning, gets in their car (with a/c), drives wherever the hell they want whenever they want, and forgets about them.
Certainly that's what our political elites do.
Posted by euzoius at January 29, 2008 10:58 AMyou blog whore, you.
Posted by Jim DeRosa at January 29, 2008 11:04 AMGreat post, Turkana!
Posted by iamcoyote at January 29, 2008 11:09 AMLoved it Turkana! Clever
Posted by Judith at January 29, 2008 11:22 AMThe least you could have done was thrown in one link to some real boobies.
Is it asking to much?
Posted by snark at January 29, 2008 11:31 AMAll the while some 200,000 Chinese are trapped at a rail station and can't get home for the snow. Temps at record lows all across the globe. Snowfall in Buenos Aires, a rare event, and Johannesberg, S.A.. Denver has a 31 degree temp in June all the while Australia has it's coldest winter ever. Ottawa and Denver seeing record snowfalls, Des Moines having used up it's snow removal budget by December. Then there's Siberia, always cold, but seeing a -67 degree temp within the last two weeks to go with the sub zero temps in North America. More alarmist...
When Katrina and Rita happened several years ago, the alarmist were saying more and worse were coming because of man made global warming. Now, we read articles saying man made global warming is keeping more 'canes from hitting America. Two faced alarmist. Scientist have told Novesti that global cooling is coming our way, as soon as 2012. Cooling to the extent of another mini ice age by the 2040's.
And this talk of Anarctica, how does the volcanic activity figure in there? And Greenland, didn't the Vikings once live there? Wasn't the climate good for growing things once? Crops, trees, flora all were seen there once. The world once had ALL that water dispersed all around the world. Wasn't Hudson Bay and all the Great Lakes once glaciers? The Finger Lakes in NY too? What a crock...
peter,
given the consensus among scientists and, um, the sane and the honest, your denial is, hmm... quite charming.
Posted by Turkana at January 29, 2008 12:02 PM
Love the concept. Definite chuckle.
But linking to Gregg Easterbrook talking about science (again), a subject on which he is wrong almost as often as Bill Kristol is on every topic, is simple blogging malpractice.
Yes, the air and water are cleaner than they were thirty years ago, and have continued to improve despite the best efforts of Messrs Bush and Cheney to render impotent the Nixon-era laws that are the cause of this continuous improvement.
Posted by joel hanes at January 29, 2008 12:05 PMHey, I thought I was the gossip columnist around here.
Snark, I was introduced to Boobies by my son last year after he learned about them in school. I've been a big fan ever since.
And Turk, didn't you listen to the President's speech last night? He said America would continue to lead the way in confronting global climate change. That doesn't make you feel warm and fuzzy?
Posted by Jeff Dinelli at January 29, 2008 12:08 PMAw, isn't that cute - petey's trying comedy, too. Too bad wingnuts are humor-deficient. I mean, kindergardeners know better than to point to snow and say "So much for global warming!"
Posted by iamcoyote at January 29, 2008 12:16 PMhow refreshing - a TLC post without the words Hillary Clinton in it. Too bad its only a joke.
Posted by T2 at January 29, 2008 12:31 PMDorky.
Posted by MaskedVigilante at January 29, 2008 12:34 PMGood post, Turkana. Thanks.
Imagine if responsible adults were in control of the federal government.
We'd divert two thirds of our military spending to a real energy policy.
It'd fund serious efficiency, conservation and renewables programs.
Unemployment, global warming and international conflicts would diminish.
Of course, those profiting from misery, waste and war would lose out.
But (sniffle) you can't make an omelette without breaking a few eggs.
Somehow, the rest of us would find a way to get over that and move on.
Oh, god we've slid into Eschaton circa 2003 and straight into the boobs.
Which is not a bad thing to slide into . . it just makes me feel old, dammit.
Posted by idiosynchronic at January 29, 2008 01:06 PMProps to w00t. It was just too good of an opportunity to pass up.
I've always loved the w00t guy, myself.
Posted by iamcoyote at January 29, 2008 01:42 PMpeter, Global Warming is to noted for its extremes in all areas of weather.
Like rare, January tornados in Vancouver, WA. I think I heard of one in NY or Conn. One in Montana.
Extremes in cold and snow will be a common occurance as well.
A couple of years back we had 144 days of no rain, the old record... 92 days. That's not even coming close to a record, it's called shattering a record. So yes, I'd say that is extreme.