We can’t afford more of the same timid politics when the future of our planet is at stake. We are already breaking records with the intensity of our storms, the number of forest fires, and the periods of drought. By 2050, famine could force more than 250 million from their homes. And if we do nothing, sea levels will rise high enough to swallow large portions of every coastal city and town.
As this study shows, sea levels are predicted to rise 2-6 inches per century. Not the 20+ feet that the Goracle and now apparently his minion, Barack Obama, believe.
A good 9 minute video by Warren Meyer delves into the sea rising hysteria. It’s part six of a six part series which can be found here.
The Cap and Trade Global Warming Legislation before the Senate needs to die a swift and ugly death. Just for openers . . .
This is the legislation that would increase the Federal gasoline tax from its current 18.2 cents a gallon to 53 cents by 2030.
So in their arrogant attempt to keep the temperature of the EARTH where it is right now, an impossibility, they start by charging you more money for your gas.
But Cap-and-Trade is also an economy-killing boondoggle. Some details from The Heritage Foundation’s analysis of the bill. Read the rest of this entry »
Let’s look at historical data on the price of a barrel of crude and the average
price of regular gasoline. Since April 2004, the price of a barrel of U.S. light
sweet crude has gone up by more than $70, which is more than a 300 percent
increase. In this same period, the average U.S. nationwide price of regular
gasoline at the pump went up 100 percent. Looking just at the last 12
months, the price of a barrel has increased $60, or more than 100 percent.
The price of regular gasoline has gone up 20 percent.
Well, that does it. I guess we all need to fall to our knees to the Goracle seeing as how Prince Charles has weighed in on the subject and given us 18 months until catastrophe:
The Prince of Wales has warned that the world faces a series of natural disasters within 18 months unless urgent action is taken to save the rainforests.
In one of his most out-spoken interventions in the climate change debate, he said a £15 billion annual programme was required to halt deforestation or the world would have to live with the dire consequences. Read the rest of this entry »
Antarctica hasn’t warmed as much over the last century as climate models had originally predicted, a new study finds.
Climate change’s effects on Antarctica are of particular interest because of the substantial amount of water locked up in its ice sheets. Should that water begin to melt, sea levels around the globe could rise and inundate low-lying coastal areas. Read the rest of this entry »
Understanding the ocean’s effect on climate took a quantum leap forward in 2003 when the first of 3,000 new automated ocean buoys were deployed, a significant improvement over earlier buoys that took their measurements mostly at the ocean’s surface.
The new buoys, known as Argos, drift along the world’s oceans at a depth of about 6,000 feet constantly monitoring the temperature, salinity, and speed of ocean currents. Every 10 days or so a bladder inflates, bringing them to the surface as they take their readings at various depths. Read the rest of this entry »
Average temperatures in areas such as California and France may drop over the next 10 years, influenced by colder flows in the North Atlantic, said a report today by the institution based in Kiel, Germany. Temperatures worldwide may stabilize in the period.
The study was based on sea-surface temperatures of currents that move heat around the world, and vary from decade to decade. This regional cooling effect may temporarily neutralize the long- term warming phenomenon caused by heat-trapping greenhouse gases building up around the earth, said Richard Wood, a research scientist at the Met Office Hadley Centre, a U.K. provider of environmental and weather-related services… Read the rest of this entry »
Classic interview by John Stossel of Arianna Huffington which shows just how out of touch those on the left really are….and what hypocrites. You can skip the first 5 minutes, just some background on the lady. The good stuff starts after 5 minutes on:
I love it. She complains about welfare reform but John shows her what welfare reform really did. Eight million left the rolls and the income of low-income families are higher while unemployment is down. Yup, how terrible. Read the rest of this entry »
I heard on the news the other day, that some Marines are pissed and that the Time Magazine editor sees nothing wrong on the evocative Joe Rosenthal image photo-shopping, hijacking the symbolic heroism that is burned in the psyche of every red-blooded American.
“It’s an absolute disgrace. Whoever did it is going to hell. That’s a mortal sin. God forbid he runs into a Marine that was an Iwo Jima survivor.”-Donald Mates, 3rd Marine Division veteran of Iwo Jima
“That global warming is the biggest joke I’ve ever known. [W]e’ll stick a dadgum tree up somebody’s rear if they want that and think that’s going to cure something.” - Lt. John Keith Wells, leader of the platoon that raised the flags on Mt. Suribachi and co-author of “Give Me Fifty Marines Not Afraid to Die: Iwo Jima”
I think a Flopping Aces photo-shop contest is in order…
Can anyone think of any other iconoclastic images that is worthy of photo-shop in the spirit of the Time Magazine cover, to point out how ridiculous and offensive the comparative symbolism is? Curt is offering the contest winner an item from the FA store.
If you are not good at photoshopping, perhaps offer image ideas for others to try out.
Excellent article by Kenneth Green about the fact that those who disagree with the Goracles take on global warming are called deniers:
Once upon a time, the media believed in the open exchange of opinions regarding public policy. People who had doubts about one or another claim put forward by activists and crusaders could express those thoughts without fear of censure or ridicule. And, to be fair, that is still the case in many areas of social policy.
But there’s one hot-button issue on which virtually no dissent is allowed: climate change. In a style reminiscent of the old Soviet Union, people disagreeing with any element of the agenda pursued by Al Gore and his climate catastrophists have been derided as “deniers,” a term clearly intended to equate dissent with mental illness, if not post hoc complicity in atrocities (as in “Holocaust denier”). “Fifteen per cent of the people believe the moon landing was staged on some movie lot and a somewhat smaller number still believe the Earth is flat,” Gore says. “They all get together on a Saturday night and party with the global-warming deniers.” Read the rest of this entry »
Envirozealots aren’t very subtle about their attempt to influence the ongoing debate!
When the BBC reported that the UN’s World Meteorological Organization confirmed that global temperature increases have been stalled since 1998, the envirozealots had a cow!
How dare the BBC report the news accurately without spinning it to insist that even though this information is true, global warming is real and man is to blame!
One envirozealot took it upon herself to educate the reporter and via email, repeatedly “demanded” a change in the story. And guess what? After first insisting they wouldn’t change the story, the BBC folded and made the changes demanded by the envirozealot.
Jennifer Marohasy, the global warming skeptic whose views we featured in a post two weeks ago got ahold of the email exchange between the BBC reporter and the envirozealot. Read the rest of this entry »
America is sitting on top of a super massive 200 billion barrel Oil Field that could potentially make America Energy Independent and until now has largely gone unnoticed. Thanks to new technology the Bakken Formation in North Dakota could boost America’s Oil reserves by an incredible 10 times, giving western economies the trump card against OPEC’s short squeeze on oil supply and making Iranian and Venezuelan threats of disrupted supply irrelevant.
I am absolutely astounded that someone who refuses to publicly debate anyone on this matter and has no training in the field narrated a movie where frames of nuclear explosions were interspersed in a subliminal way in scenes of droughts and flood, among other major gaffes, can say these things and then have them accepted… by anyone.
The list of degreed meteorologists, climatologists, scientists, that signed the Manhatten declaration stating their disagreement with Mssr. Gore’s premises grows by the day.
What gets me most is he goes on unchallenged one-on-one on this. Never in all my years of competition have I seen someone elevated to a level that he is, in any thing, without any face-to-face competition to establish credibility. Read the rest of this entry »
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