Disappointments on Climate

New York Times ^ | 12/17/07 | Editors

[denydenydeny]

There was so much clucking in this editorial, I wanted to order a 12-piece bucket.

[PhilipFreneau]

>>>50% of all statistics are made up.<<<

Reminds me of a quote on a postcard I saw several decades ago:

“According to government figures, forty percent (40%) of all statistics are totally worthless”.

[The Electrician]

We need to (pretend to) have compassion for the editorial writers at the NY Times. After all, lately they've been taking it on the chin from all sides.

First, despite wresting control of Congress from the Republicans, their fellow-traveler Democrat buddies in the House and Senate have been miserable failures at advancing their dreams of World Socialism.

Then, despite the Times' heroic efforts to support the enemy, both by exposing classified information and by attempting to derail the use of the most effective anti-terrorist tools by the US through baldfaced half-truths and propagandizing, the Bush administration has triumphed again and again over their obstruction of the WOT.

Also, in a turn of events that must be unbearable to the Times' defeat-mongers, the tide has turned in Iraq, and people are even starting to use the "V" word to describe the war and its aftermath.

To add insult to injury, it was their very own comrade Nancy Pelosi who personally drove the stake into the heart of the "impeach Vice President Cheney" movement.

On top of all that, even after digesting this tear-jerker of a climate-change-foot-dragging-we're-all-doomed editorial, it's difficult for even the most perceptive reader to fully fathom the depth and extent of the hand-wringing, wailing, despair, alarm and sheer, gut-wrenching terror they must be feeling at the Times due to the latest success of the Bush administration's efforts in Bali to destroy life on the planet Earth as we know it.

Oh, and the recent humiliation delivered to Chavez and his goons must have put a decided chill into the Times' revolutionary fervor.

Just about the only things going in their direction these days are their hope that Iran will finally be able to develop their nuclear weapons without any interference by the West, and the prospect that Putin may be rebuilding the Soviet Union and resurrecting the Russian Communist Party, but even that joyful news (for the Times) must be tempered by realistic views of the enormity of the difficult task ahead for Putin and his old KGB buddies.

So let's all shed a cynical tear or two as the world's smallest violin wails its somber notes while the NYT's editorial board doubles up on their antidepressant meds...

[tlb]

Global warming pact set for 2009 after US backs down (Pres Bush caves to PC crowd again)

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1939938/posts

U.S. Accepts U.N. Climate Change Compromise Proposal (Barf alert)

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1939847/posts

Agreement Reached at Bali Climate Conference

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1939820/posts

Most here were unable to grasp what a setback for the Kyoto crowd this was. Maybe the NY Times spelling it out will help.

[CPOSharky]

Wait until some defeatocrat whacko global warming policy bites the newspaper industry in general and the NYT specifically and watch them cry.

(”The moratorium on logging has prevented newspapers from printing enough papers to make a profit!”)

[COBOL2Java]

A few years ago, there was a terrific political cartoon about Kyoto. It showed a couple of rural fellows sitting in chairs, huddled around a nice warm pot-bellied stove. Behind them were stacks of rolled-up documents. One fellow said to the other: “The fire’s dying down. Throw another one of them Kyoto Global Warming documents into the stove.”

[randita]

For the record, there’s a frickin glacier covering my place in Wisconsin right now.

Same here in PA.

But not to worry, whatever the climate is - warmer than usual, colder than usual, drier than usual, wetter than usual, more hurricanes, less hurricanes - it's ALL blamed on global warming.

[Adder]

I disagree...

I think they should have gone and done more to “drag their feet” including keeping their “NO” vote rather than appearing to have “backed down”.

This just allows the communists to say that they can bully us to their position. That was a mistake, imho...but it was not a mistake to try to derail the talks if thats what could have happened.

We weren’t going to “win” no matter what we did....unless we fully capitulated and groveled for forgivness[like we will if the dumbles win the presidency].

[Chi-townChief]

“In Washington, caving to pressures from the White House ...”

Geez, last week it was the White House who caved.

[singfreedom]

Actually, I have to disagree. This is just Oklahoma weather the way it has always been—diverse, perverse, and ever changing. It caused Will Rogers to remark: If you don’t like the weather (in Oklahoma) just wait 5 minutes (paraphrased).

So, nothing’s really changed here, its just the same old unpredictable weather we’ve always had!

[ricks_place]

So, nothing’s really changed here, its just the same old unpredictable weather we’ve always had!

While Global Warming implies increasing temperatures; Climate Change includes both increasing and decreasing temperatures! Heads I win tails you lose! /sarc/

[singfreedom]

Really. If what you claim is true, nobody is a winner. I thought that was the point of the global warming/climate change hysteria?

[ricks_place]

I thought that was the point of the global warming/climate change hysteria?

Climate Change also encompasses drought, floods, hurricanes, and other "extreme" weather. The point of Global Warming is to gain a steady revenue stream for the United Nations. That revenue stream gains the UN independence from US funding and is a step toward one world governance.

[steelyourfaith]

~~Anthropogenic Global Warming ™ ping~~