Global warming’s deranged disciples

TheScotsman ^ | 1/12/2014 | Gerald Warner

[gorush]

Beware, expletives not deleted. Pretty funny, though.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8hGIF9FljM

[bunster]

Haven’t heard anything recently on the ships stuck in the antarctic — have they been freed?

[Steely Tom]

What is totally unamusing, however, is the harm these fanatics and complicit politicians have done, raping the landscape with their hideous wind turbines and imposing crippling taxes.

I don't think hyperventilated rhetoric of this type is any better when our side uses it than it is when it is used by our opponents.

Wind turbines are not "rape." The landscape cannot be "raped."

And I don't think wind turbines are hideous to look at. I think the economics of wind energy is dubious, but I happen to like them. I've liked propellers and fans since I was a toddler growing up in the late '50s, and I still like them today.

Granted, not everyone feels that way. But I for one think they're not that horrible.

[Zuben Elgenubi]

Dr Michael Mann, the inventor of the infamous hockey stick reasoning, is still employed by Penn State. Where should that hockey stick now be shoved?

[grumpygresh]

The climate hoaxers like to point out melting glaciers as conclusive evidence of AGW. So bogus. I recently watched an old travel series called “Travel Talks” from the 1930s-40s. On one episode, they went to Glacier National Park. The narrator said that scientists claimed the glacier was slowly melting and that over time it would completely disappear. This makes perfect sense. When there is heavy snow in the winter, in the northern US, some snow may persist on the ground and in the shade until May. But eventually it melts in the summer. Likewise, the glaciers are just left over remnants of the ice age, and we are simply experiencing global warming relative to the ice age.
But logic NEVER works on these AGW hoaxers.

[The_Media_never_lie]

Makes my blood boil when I think of how many coal plants have been shuttered in our state, only to reappear in India or China.

Economic suicide. Thank you, Obama.

[fso301]

Haven’t heard anything recently on the ships stuck in the antarctic — have they been freed?

Yes. A few days ago.

[Vision]

bm

[onedoug]

Anyone familiar with mathematics knows the frustration of solving equations with 2 or 3 variables. But we’re virtually “told” to believe these crackpots projecting God knows how many variables to which they claim to know the solutions to.

Man, is this country screwed-up.

[bill1952]

Rape can indeed be used in this context. Check your definitions. And your premise that huge towering turbines are aestheticly pleasing is nuttier than fruitcakes, mate.

[Steely Tom]

I guess I have just precisely as much right to my idea of what is aesthetically pleasing as you do, mate.

Who made you boss?

[GeronL]

An American Ice Breaker rescued them from the Antarctic summer

[slouper]

That must be why we haven’t heard any more about it.

[Western Phil]

Your tax money at work.

[GeronL]

Ballad of Eco-Nut Isle

Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale,
A tale of a fateful trip
That started from this frozen port
Aboard this Russian ship.

The mate was a mighty sailing man,
The skipper effeminate.
Fifty passengers set sail that day
For a three hour tour, a three hour tour.

The climate started getting rough,
The tiny ship was trapped,
If not for the courage of the fearless crew
The Akademik Shokalskiy would be lost, the Akademik Shokalskiy would be lost.

The ship set ground on top of this frozen Antarctic sea With Eco-Nuts
The Skipper too,
The millionaire and his husband,
The movie star
The eco-nut professor and a lesbee-an,
Here on Eco-Nut Isle.

[GeronL]

well... I thought it was kind of funny...

[az_gila]

Just as an aid to US readers. :^)

Use this line -

...and, increasingly, from scientists who have not taken the IPCC dollar...

- as a replacement for this reference to old UK money, not a reference to a “shill”

...and, increasingly, from scientists who have not taken the IPCC shilling...

A well said Scotsman article.

[ogen hal]

Are those who find bird-mincers (aka windmills) esthetically pleasing also strongly attracted to shiney objects?

[jmacusa]

I'd love to have the nerds and nebbishes who come up with phrases like ''polar vortex'' and my personal pet peeve ''moving forward'' found and dragged out into the light for making a wreck of the English language and sticking annoying sounding phrases in the collective ear.