If in the midst of the deep freeze in the US if you can still hang on to your global warming beliefs without at least, maybe perhaps, thinking that, oh well, you never know, it might not really be true after all, then you are certainly a political moron. And thus, we give you Jon Stewart, moron extraordinaire.
THE Daily Show’s host Jon Stewart is back – and in his first taping for 2014 he dropped the F-bomb while attacking reporters for mocking global warming as the US faces a polar vortex.
Stewart was in his usual witty form after he began rolling a series of clips from news reports around the US, which describe the below-zero temperatures which have left some like Illinois in a state of emergency.
He then played a few excerpts from Fox News reports where they mocked the concept of global warming, saying it’s non-existent.
Stewart said that just because something is ‘your f*cking opinion’ doesn’t mean it’s just as valid as tested scientific fact.
What exactly are these valid as tested scientific facts? That average temperatures will rise by 3-4 degrees by the end of the century, that the oceans will rise and invade our shorelines over the next fifty years, that snow will almost completely disappear.
As I tell my students, there are no facts about the future. But we do have some facts about the present.
Global warming is just so 2013. Global warming is likely to turn out about as valid as just about everything else that has originated on the left.
Andrew Bolt’s most informative post has now shown up on Instapundit. Something’s cracking, and it’s not the ice around the warmists’ ship is about the single greatest practical demonstration in the entire global warming fraud that the people, these scientists, at the centre of this scam have almost no idea of anything to do with the real world or things like the actual weather. Although now rescued at great expense, both in terms of money and genuine scientific endeavours, the sentiments found in the opening of Andrew’s post should now adhere to the entire global warming enterprise from now until forever:
The expedition of warmists now on a Russian ship trapped in ice is called “Spirit of Mawson” in honor of explorer Douglas Mawson who, a century ago, spent two years on Antarctica during which he lost two colleagues on a trek. Mawson himself survived only by eating his huskies and trudging back on feet that had lost the skin of the soles.
Guardian journalist Laurence Topham on the ‘Spirit of Mawson’ now demonstrates how that spirit lives on in this ship of warmists, awaiting rescue by helicopter after a week trapped in ice they’d assumed was melting away:
It is quite stressful… I miss banana and peanut butter milkshakes… I’ve got this really thin, small bed… I’ve hurt my back… I jammed my leg in the door last night… And it’s only going to get worse… Stranded in ice. Oh, God I’m going mad.
I doubt there will be a commemorative expedition in a hundred years to remember this particular trip although there should be as a reminder of our own modern version of the Mississippi Bubble, tulip mania and the madness of crowds.
This is a crisis that we cannot let go to waste. At long last, a bunch of global warming cranks have put their money where their mouths were and went off to prove, in a practical way, just how much global warming has harmed the environment. And instead of finding the cove where Douglas Mawson had landed a century ago ice free and easy to navigate, they are now stuck in ice and with some luck may end up spending the next twelve months pondering their stupidity, half the time in total darkness.
This is a massive embarrassment for the global warming industry. This is an undeniable failure to use their scientific knowledge in a practical way. They have, instead, demonstrated that global warming is a fraud, with no useful insights into anything. They know nothing whatsoever about anything in relation to the actual climate on the planet earth. They have a single theory that has been tested and failed on one scale after another but on they persist, inflicting billions in costs upon the rest of us.
Chris Turney and his band of fools must become one of the major moments in the history of this debate. This is not an event that can be allowed to fade into the background, to disappear the moment these clowns are finally on dry land again. This has to become the great teaching moment where it is recognised that those who peddle global warming are idiots, absolute fools. Speaking on behalf of global warming should mark someone as naive and ignorant.
How to do this must be a major part of the thought processes that go into thinking these questions through. To christurney must become a verb meaning to believe global warming is true in a suicidal way.
UPDATE: My letter to Scott Johnson at Powerline. I sent him this post from Andrew Bolt which he put up on the Powerline Picks. I have now written to Scott again with the following note:
Dear Scott
I am very pleased to see you have put that up on your “picks” list because this is a story that needs to get around. My worry is that we here in Australia are too provincial to have an effect on any major part of the debate; if this had happened in relation to some Italian academic, say, it would have almost no impact here or I imagine anywhere else. We see it for what it is because we live here and understand our own turf quite well. Yet the great interest is that an actual climate sciences academic from one of our more important universities decided to demonstrate the impact of climate change, and has now done so but in a way that shows the opposite of what he intended to prove. We don’t often get such clear cut demonstrations of just how off the planet the global warming crowd is which is why this is a moment that should be seized on if we can.
Douglas Mawson sailed there at the end of 1913. The intent a hundred years later was to demonstrate how much easier it would be this time because of all the warming that had gone on but instead, found it not only impossible, but they are now embedded in an ice floe that may keep them there for a year if things go really bad. But like with everything else about the news today, it’s not really a story until it is not just carried but harped on by the ABNBCBS. That, I’m afraid, is not going to happen. But we can but try.
First there’s this from someone who thinks the planet may be warming and Australia is therefore in need of a massive expenditure program:
Most of the big investment houses are wilfully ignoring the risks that climate change will soon pose to their beneficiaries, and the Abbott government is making the same short-sighted mistake.
And then there’s this, called “Is a Big Chill on the Way?”, in which the number of sun spots in the latest cycle is shown to be falling.
Here’s the text to go with the picture:
The monthly International Sunspot Number from the Solar Information Data Center (SIDC) of the Royal Observatory of Belgium was released December 1st. It fell to 77.6 spots/day.
Most newsworthy is that this is still the weakest solar max in over 200 years, well below NASA’s forecast. …
We may be witnessing the sun’s last dying gasps before entering into a long slumber. The impact of that slumber on Earth’s climate remains the subject of growing scientific speculation.
Global warming has never worried me but this does. You cannot take the global warming crowd seriously any more, but they will not go away until they are absolutely convinced that no more money will be placed in their begging bowls ever again.
Scientists are now beginning to rethink their climate change models and are seriously discussing the possibility the earth is entering into a period of global cooling.
Environmentalist Lawrence Solomon writing in the Financial Post cites the fact that solar activity is currently decreasing at one of the fastest rates as anytime the last 10,000 years. Because of this, he says many scientists are actually reverting from the mantra of global warming and are now subscribing to the possibility of global cooling as occurring.
When the shift finally comes from global warming to global cooling, the important thing will be to ensure that the anti-free-market types are prevented from using falling temperatures to attack the capitalist system. That’s all they were interested in anyway. Anyone who had publicly worried about global warming without a degree in climate science should be prohibited from commenting on any area of public policy for the next ten years.
This is the story from Drudge and I must say it is bizarrely startling. Over the past week the figures show:
Almost 1000 record low max temps vs 17 record high temps
Records in the last 7 days:
205 snowfall records.
969 Low Max. 203 Low temps.
17 High Temp.
61 High minimum.
What I don’t know, of course, is how unusual it is to be setting temperature records like this at this time of year, but my guess is that this is a very unusual result. Snow in Texas in November does not seem like the norm. Of course since the global warming crowd stopped worrying about global warming and have defined the problem as climate change, this fits right into their narrative but somehow I don’t think they will be pointing this out themselves.
AND JUST FOR GOOD MEASURE: Found this as well which underscores the above. If I read this right, there is more ice this year in the arctic than in any of the previous years, and even if my reading is not perfect, there certainly isn’t less.
US officials fear that international climate change talks will become focused on payouts for damage caused by extreme weather events exacerbated by global warming, such as the category 5 Typhoon Haiyan that hit the Philippines last week killing thousands of people and causing what is expected to be billions of pounds of damage. An official US briefing document obtained by the Guardian reveals that the country is worried the UN negotiations, currently under way in Warsaw, will ‘focus increasingly on blame and liability’ and poor nations will be ‘seeking redress for climate damages from sea level rise, droughts, powerful storms and other adverse impacts’.
You think there won’t be some judge who will buy into this. The potential for mischief making is unlimited, specially with the American left so colossally stupid.
Scientists say that solar activity is stranger than in a century or more, with the sun producing barely half the number of sunspots as expected and its magnetic poles oddly out of sync.
Mini-ice and the Maunder minimum on the way. But even if we might freeze for a century or two, the soot, grime and grit already in the atmosphere will get us in the end. See the whole story just in case you thought these climate fundamentalists were about to give up.
What do you do if you are a political leader and you think global warming is completely ridiculous and preposterous but most people think it’s a valid problem that needs immediate attention? Here’s one answer:
By late 2006 his government hit a ‘perfect storm’ with on-going drought, severe water restrictions, bushfires and the release of the Stern Review and Al Gore’s film An Inconvenient Truth.
‘To put it bluntly, “doing something” about global warming gathered strong political momentum in Australia,’ Mr Howard said in his written lecture. . . .
But six years on, Australia’s second-longest serving prime minister insists the high tide of public support for “over-zealous action” on global warming has passed.
‘I am very sceptical about the possibility of a global agreement ever being reached when you look at what happened in Copenhagen,’ he said, adding there was no real prospect of a deal between the major emitters Europe, the US and north Asia.
Mr Howard believes anti-global warming policies should never stand in the way of economic growth in developing countries.
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