Climate Blues: How Environmentalists Chill Out in a Warming World

NBC News ^ | May 24, 2014 | BY MIGUEL LLANOS

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Studies warning of an Antarctic ice sheet collapse. A wildfire season that could shatter records. Shellfish eaten away by oceans turned more acidic due to greenhouse gases. U.N. and U.S. reports stating that climate change is advancing more quickly.

Everyone gets down about their work from time to time, but for environmentalists, they can sometimes quite literally be dealing with the end of the world as we know it.

“It’s hard to stay perky when scientists conclude that tragedy, such as the loss of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, is inevitable,” says Denis Hayes, a veteran activist who co-founded Earth Day in 1970.

“The scale of the mess we’re in, environmentally, is enough to push anyone to the edge of their sanity,” adds Dougald Hine, co-founder of The Dark Mountain Project, a group of activists fully expecting ecological, and social, collapse across the planet.

[MeshugeMikey]

The scale of the mess we’re in, environmentally, is enough to push anyone to the edge of their sanity,

NOW.....if the man had stated that “The scale of the mess we’re in, environmentally, is enough to push anyone to the edge of ..... sanity, Id roundly applaud this situation,,,,,

[Spok]

The eco-lunatics are getting more and more desperate, and so long as they get support from the media and the left, are likely to become more and more violent.

[Jack Hydrazine]

Global Sea Ice Skyrocketing
May 23, 2014
http://sunshinehours.wordpress.com/tag/global-sea-ice/
Global Sea Ice Extent is 913,000 sq km above the 1981-2010 mean and is well above the one standard deviation mark.

Good Morning Kirkwood(,CA)!
May 21, 2014
http://iceagenow.info/2014/05/good-morning-kirkwood/
We were greeted with fresh May snow this morning! Unofficially I’d say 3 to 4 inches on the ground when I arrived around 8am.

Kalte Sonne (Cold Sun) – Many scientists now forecast cooling, perhaps an ice age
http://iceagenow.info/2014/05/kalte-sonne-cold-sun-scientists-forecast-cooling-ice-age/

Antarctic Sea-Ice Coverage Continues Breaking Records
http://iceagenow.info/2014/05/antarctic-sea-ice-coverage-continues-breaking-records/

Vail, Colorado – Looks like middle January
May 18, 2014
http://iceagenow.info/2014/05/vail-colorado-middle-january/

Heavy snowfall in Serbia – In mid-May
May 18, 2014
http://iceagenow.info/2014/05/heavy-snowfall-serbia-mid-may/

Ice on Lake Superior now higher than anytime in past 40 years
May 18, 2014
http://iceagenow.info/2014/05/ice-lake-superior-higher-anytime-40-years/

Rockford, Illinois, breaks snowfall record
May 18, 2014
http://iceagenow.info/2014/05/rockford-illinois-breaks-snowfall-record/

Austin shatters record low temp by 8 degrees
May 17, 2014
http://iceagenow.info/2014/05/austin-shatters-record-temp-8-degrees/

Headed Into Grand Minimum, Says Solar Physicist
http://iceagenow.info/2014/05/headed-grand-minimum-solar-physicist/

Nisqually Glacier (Mt. Rainier, WA) Growing Thicker – Video
http://iceagenow.info/2014/05/nisqually-glacier-growing-thicker/

Piers Corbyn: The Reality of Long Range Weather and Climate Forecasting | EU2014
April 29, 2014
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6R26PXRrgds
Around the 41 minute mark you’ll see what he is predicting for the next 20 years - a drastic drop in global temperature.

[mylife]

Who knew that liberals were ever “Perky”?
They seem perpetually ticked off to me.

Always have a bee in their bonnet about something.

[Alberta's Child]

“It’s hard to stay perky when scientists conclude that tragedy, such as the loss of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, is inevitable,” says Denis Hayes, a veteran activist who co-founded Earth Day in 1970.

Herein lies the problem for the environmentalist these days, and this is likely to be one of several important factors in the demise of the whole movement. Once you convince people that something is "inevitable," you've effectively told them that it's a waste of time to even give a damn about it anymore. I suspect this is one reason why environmental issues are never important to most people.

[DJ MacWoW]

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[catnipman]

And for the rest of us who know that anthropogenic global warming is a massive scientific fraud (now renamed “climate change” since warming didn’t happen), the worry is not so much.

[PapaNew]

The issue is not “global warming”. The issue is the CAUSE of global warming. The flawed argument isn’t necessarily that there’s such a thing a “global warming” or that it may be happening now. The flawed argument is, “We have a global warming problem and, therefore, government must do whatever it has to do [more interference with individuals’ freedoms] to stop it.” It’s a flawed argument because it contains an unproven and flawed “stealth” presumption that man must be the cause of global warming.

The Left wants the debate kept at whether there’s global warming. We need to turn the debate away from that somewhat silly argument. The argument about scientific data and evidence of whether or not "global warming" exists can go on from now 'till Moses. (The Bible does indicate a warm-up and a rising sea in the last days.) It is really beside the point. The more the Right argues this wrong point, the sillier the Right potentially looks and the stronger this oft-unspoken presumption of man-made causes seems to get.

Instead, the Right needs to steer the debate to where the real point is: THE CAUSE. As there may be some debate about whether there’s global warming, there’s no real true, scientific debate that “man is causing global warming”. Arguments need to be advanced to first get this somewhat stealth presumption "out" into the open and then to defeat this Leftist excuse for more government tyranny over our lives. It should be fairly easy to win the debate over this really silly presumed notion.

[oh8eleven]

They seem perpetually ticked off to me.
And that's before you refute their inane, asinine ideas with facts.

[Jack Hydrazine]

'The issue is the CAUSE of global warming.'
Hmmm... Now which one could it be? Hmmm...
It's so difficult to figure out!

[Izzy Dunne]

now renamed “climate change”

Oooo, you're not keeping up.

Now it's called "climate disruption" to increase the fear factor.

[Twotone]

“When Reagan swiftly abandoned the solar goal, ‘trimmed’ my budget by 80 percent, fired most of my staff and all of my contractors — two of whom went on later to win Nobel prizes — I was absolutely crushed,”...

I sure do miss Ronald Reagan!

[Morpheus2009]

Pretty much sums it up. That’s also the problem too, saying, like my professor was willing to say, that “it’s a manageable issue” makes a world of difference.

[Excellence]

You can add this to the pile:
http://www.weatherbell.com/saturday-summary-may-24-2014

And this:
http://patriotpost.us/opinion/25957

[PapaNew]

Hey Jack, could you send that post to as many Enviro-Nazis and Leftist Congressmen as you can?

[QT3.14]

NORTH POLE

SOUTH POLE

Green is ice present in 2013, which was not present in 1992. Red shows the opposite.

HISTORY OF THE SUBJECT

• January 10, 1871: Pall Mall Gazette – “Imaginary Change of Climate”
  “…a plentiful crop of speculation from weather prophets and projectors, and half-
  instructed meteorologists…We have often noticed…every season is sure to be
  ‘extraordinary,’ almost every month one of the driest or wettest, or windiest, coldest
  or hottest ever known. Much observation, which ought to correct a tendency to
  exaggerate, seems in some minds to have rather a tendency to increase it.”

• 1902: Los Angeles Times
  Glaciers are undergoing ‘their final annihilation’ due to warming.

• 1923: Chicago Tribune (Front page)
  “Scientist says Arctic ice will wipe out Canada”

• May 15, 1932: New York Times (Special supplement May)
  Continuing end of the last ice age, not human activity cause of warming trend.
  Melting Polar Ice Caps to Raise the Level of Seas and Flood the Continents

• May 23, 1969: New York Times
  “Worrying About a New Ice Age.”

• April 22, 1970 (Lenin’s birthday): First Earth Day event presentation
  George Wald, Harvard Biologist –
  “Civilization will end within 15 or 30 years unless immediate action is taken against
  problems facing mankind.”

• 1970’s: Science, Science Digest, Newsweek, etc.
  Global cooling – ice age.

• June 24, 1974: Time
  “Another Ice Age?”

• June 30, 1989: San Jose Mercury News
  Noel Brown, senior UN environment official –
  Entire nations could be wiped off the face of the earth by rising sea levels if
  global warming is not reversed by 2000.

• 1997:
  U.S. Senate voted 95-0 that the U.S. should not sign on to the Kyoto protocols.

• 2006:
  Al Gore [alleged climate expert and Grand Klimatologist of the Klimate Klux Klan] –
  10 years to solve the global-warming problem.

• 2007:
  Chief of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) –
  “If there’s no action before 2012, that’s too late.”

• December 2008:
  Al Gore [alleged climate expert and Grand Klimatologist of the Klimate Klux Klan] tells German audience –
  “…the entire North ‘polarized’ cap will disappear in 5 years.”

• January 19, 2009:
  James Hansen, [alleged] climate expert and past head of NASA’s Goddard Institute of Space Studies –
  President Obama has only four years to save the Earth.

• December 2009:
  Al Gore [alleged climate expert and Grand Klimatologist of the Klimate Klux Klan] @ Copenhagen UN climate summit –
  75% chance Arctic Ocean ice-free in several years.

• November 10, 2013: Mother Jones article –
  “Climate deniers like to point to the so-called global warming ‘hiatus’ [17 years without warming].”
  Note: In the article below, the IPCC omits this fact!

• April 13, 2014:USA Today
  (IPCC states), “…global emissions of heat-trapping greenhouse gases have accelerated to unprecedented levels…”

The [news media] is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant
and the crazy crazier.

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed
by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them
imaginary.

== H. L. Mencken (1880 – 1956), Journalist – magazine editor

[Jack Hydrazine]

Sure! Why not? It’ll p.o. them, but I don’t mind a bit.

[Jack Hydrazine]

Sea Ice News Volume 5 #2 – NOAA forecasts above normal Arctic ice extent for summer 2014
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/05/23/sea-ice-news-volume-5-2-noaa-forecasts-above-normal-arctic-ice-extent-for-summer/

Joe Bastardi was saying that when the Arctic sea ice comes back in the Fall combined with the Antarctic sea ice extent it will possibly break the global sea ice extent record.

[spokeshave]

“The scale of the mess we’re in, environmentally, is enough to push anyone to the edge of their sanity,” adds Dougald Hine, co-founder of The Dark Mountain Project, a group of activists fully expecting ecological, and social, collapse across the planet.

Yeah...as the Sun continues to produce less sunspots...plunging the Earth into another Maunder Minimum and grain production plunges 23%