A New Strain of Fundamentalism:
Let's start today with a little fan mail courtesy of my favorite spamblogging left wing cliche spouting, self appointed arbiter of all that is right and (in my case) wrong, Sewergate, who claims to be Jesus or writing as Jesus or claims to know how Jesus wrote, because you see ladies and gentlemen, Jesus was a liberal and I'm glad we have people like Sewergate around to set us straight, otherwise guys like me would go around thinking that maybe Jesus didn't have a political agenda based on today's two party system. But then again, maybe 1,000 years ago Greenland was green, a gigantic grassland, and man caused global warming turned it into a giant ice sheet in the 20th Century because I drive a car....
Hope you don't have kids. Sometimes, ya know, just after we lefties are suddenly concerned by something you folks have known about for some time, like the threat of terrorism, which, frankly I hadn't even heard of till the Democratic response to the SOTU address the other night, we read fairy tales about stuff that irrefutably shows how fucked up the climate changes have been over the past twenty years, but then we fall asleep soundly after being reminded by brilliant folks like you who say it's all foolishness. And the rationale is so reassuring as well... "critics say...." "some pundit's claim..." "Al Gore said it so we know it's false"
As I said... Hope you people don't breed.
Just for fun, look at some sat photos of Antarctica from, say, twenty years ago, ten, five and last year... Ask Rush to explain it. He'll say, "Many scientists don't believe it's a problem.... Then he'll quote non-scientists who've written articles about the subject using HIM or folks just like him as a "source."
A hundred and ten years ago, you'd have been in the camp who knew for a fact that automobiles would never catch on, and forty years ago, you'd have made jokes about the idea of people having computers in their homes... after all, there were EXACTLY the same kind of articles and derisive tripe you post about these new subjects, and from the same sort of shortsighted goof-balls. (Go back and look at some old publications - they're full of sarcastic opinion articles like you post... Easy to find.) Thankfully, like them, your lack of thinking become largely irrelevant. You'd have been one who thought Eisenhower's huge Federal Highway program was tantamount to totalitarianism and would wreck the country. "Cant have the fed's involved... blah, blah, blah."
Your sort doesn't really DO anything do you? It's all poorly written self- referencing shit you copy and post from one web-site to the next then use each other as "proof" of your own "right" thinking.
Keep thinking that I'll come here just once and see something well thought out and thoughtfully presented.
Maybe someday.
Naw, I wouldn't want to disappoint you. If people such as yourself ran the world "you people" like me wouldn't be allowed to breed? Do you realize how stupid you sound?
Sewergate my little cupcake, here are some examples of just how far around the horn we've been with the issue of Climate Change in a mere110-120 years. And yes, the Earth is just a smidgen older than 110- 120 years: (HT James P. Hogan )
THOSE OLD, FAMILIAR TUNES
GLOBAL COOLING: 1890s-1930s
The Times, February 24, 1895
"Geologists Think the World May Be Frozen Up Again"
Fears of a "second glacial period" brought on by increases in northern glaciers and the severity of Scandinavia's climate.
New York Times, October 7, 1912
"Prof. Schmidt Warns Us of an Encroaching Ice Age"
Los Angeles Times, June 28, 1923
"The possibility of another Ice Age already having started ... is admitted by men of first rank in the scientific world, men specially qualified to speak."
Chicago Tribune, August 9, 1923
"Scientist says Arctic ice will wipe out Canada."
Time Magazine, September 10, 1923
"The discoveries of changes in the sun's heat and the southward advance of glaciers in recent years have given rise to conjectures of the possible advent of a new ice age."
New York Times, September 18, 1924
"MacMillan Reports Signs of New Ice Age"
GLOBAL WARMING: 1930s-1960s
New York Times, March 27, 1933
"America in Longest Warm Spell Since 1776; Temperature Line Records a 25-Year Rise"
Time Magazine, January 2, 1939
"Gaffers who claim that winters were harder when they were boys are quite right.... weather men have no doubt that the world at least for the time being is growing warmer."
Time Magazine, 1951
Noted that permafrost in Russia was receding northward at 100 yards per year.
New York Times, 1952
Reported global warming studies citing the "trump card" as melting glaciers. All the great ice sheets stated to be in retreat.
U.S. News and World Report, January 18, 1954
"[W]inters are getting milder, summers drier. Glaciers are receding, deserts growing."
GLOBAL COOLING: 1970s
Time Magazine, June 24, 1974
"Climatological Cassandras are becoming increasingly apprehensive, for the weather aberrations they are studying may be the harbinger of another ice age."
Christian Science Monitor, August 27, 1974
"Warning: Earth's Climate is Changing Faster than Even Experts Expect"
Reported that "glaciers have begun to advance"; "growing seasons in England and Scandinavia are getting shorter"; and "the North Atlantic is cooling down about as fast as an ocean can cool".
Science News, March 1, 1975
"The cooling since 1940 has been large enough and consistent enough that it will not soon be reversed, and we are unlikely to quickly regain the 'very extraordinary period of warmth' that preceded it."
International Wildlife, July-August, 1975
"But the sense of the discoveries is that there is no reason why the ice age should not start in earnest in our lifetime."
New York Times, May 21, 1975
"Scientists Ponder Why World's Climate is Changing; A Major Cooling Widely Considered to Be Inevitable"
GLOBAL WARMING: 1990s-?
Earth in the Balance, Al Gore, 1992
"About 10 million residents of Bangladesh will lose their homes and means of systenance because of the rising sea level due to global warming, in the next few decades."
Time Magazine, April 19, 2001
"[S]cientists no longer doubt that global warming is happening, and almost nobody questions the fact that humans are at least partly responsible."
New York Times, December 27, 2005
"Past Hot Times Hold Few Reasons to Relax About New Warming"
And my personal favorite:
The Daily Telegraph, February 2, 2006
"Billions will die, says Lovelock, who tells us that he is not usually a gloomy type. Human civilization will be reduced to a'broken rabble ruled by brutal warlords,' and the plague-ridden remainder of the species will flee the cracked and broken earth to the Arctic, the last temperate spot where a few breeding couples will survive."
Nothing like a little drama. If one were to "flee the cracked and broken earth to the Arctic" wouldn't one still be on earth? Climate is what we want, weather is what we get. Anyway, come back anytime Sewergate, I love hearing from you.
Nanci Pelosi and Jack (Abscam) Murtha do Baghdad:
Pelosi, a key player in the Democratic takeover of Congress, has helped lead opposition in Washington to Bush's retooled Iraq strategy which envisages sending 21,500 reinforcements to help quell raging sectarian violence, especially in Baghdad.She has accused Bush, a long-time foe, of playing politics with soldiers' lives and said after his State of the Union address to Congress this week that he had ignored the concerns of the American public over the unpopular war.A U.S. embassy official said Pelosi, the first woman speaker of the House, had arrived in Iraq at the head of a six-member congressional delegation for meetings with Iraqi and U.S. officials but did not plan any public appearances.
She's also heading up a governmental panel to save us from Climate Change, she can do it all...she doesn't even need to go there, she just needs to say we're stretched too thin, we're in it for the oil and Saddam was never a threat and we're losing. Nanci, we need you here, back home, to save us from Climate Change not gallavanting around the globe cataloging HitlerBurton's wreckless military adventurism. I finally got something right didn't I? Global Warming pounds NYC:
RECORD EVENT REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE UPTON NY
0718 AM EST FRI JAN 26 2007
...RECORD LOW TEMPERATURE SET AT KENNEDY...
A RECORD LOW TEMPERATURE OF 9 DEGREES WAS SET AT KENNEDY TODAY AT
647 AM. THIS TIES THE OLD RECORD OF 9 SET IN 1994.
New Yorker in denial, sports a down jacket to seek
relief from searing tempratures
Carter apologizes for stupid book passage, in which he calls for the annihilation of Israel...just kidding, calm down. And then there's this:
The shortcut involved sewing the colon to the rectum but did not heal properly and broke apart, releasing gastric fluid with feces that caused serious infection, El Pais said on its Web site.
Don't worry, according to Chavez, he's jogging now.....
