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Tim Blair recently posted this list of things that the media have trumpeted as being the “first casualties of climate change”. I thought it would be an interesting exercise to check the veracity of each story – but what I was not expecting is that every story up until 2010 (after which some of the claims are too recent to verify one way or another) has either been completely debunked, or has since had some serious doubts placed on it. So the following examples have not been cherry picked – it’s a quick analysis of every claim made about “the...

For about 300 years Jupiter's banded atmosphere has shown a remarkable feature to telescopic viewers, a large swirling storm system known as The Great Red Spot. In 2006, another red storm system appeared, actually seen to form as smaller whitish oval-shaped storms merged and then developed the curious reddish hue. Now, Jupiter has a third red spot, again produced from a smaller whitish storm. All three are seen in this image made from data recorded on May 9 and 10 with the Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2. ... Jupiter's recent outbreak of red spots is likely...

Well, not really. But according to this post from NASA, cliamte change is occuring on Jupiter. The planet is getting warmer, so there must be SUVs, or power plants, or factories, or all of them somewhere on Jupiter...and they're almost certainly man-made. After all, since Al Gore says natural cliamte change is patently impossible here on Earth, there's no way it couls be happening naturally on Jupiter. Or Mars, since global warming was cited there, too, last year. We evil humans! Exporting our environmental devastation to the rest of the solar system. We must be stopped!

While the former vice president is leading the charge for drastically changing the way humans do business in a bid to avert catastrophic, man-made global warming, scientists reported today there is noticeable climate change taking place on Jupiter, too. The news follows reports as far back as three years ago that ice caps on Mars are also retreating much as some of the ice in the Earth's Artic circle. Three's one striking difference between Earth and the other two planets' however. Neither Jupiter or Mars has any people - and no artificial activity creating so-called "greenhouses gases" like carbon dioxide...

As Newsbusters reported here, here and here, there are huge dollars to be made from global warming alarmism. However, conceivably no one is better positioned to financially benefit from this scam than Dr. Global Warming himself...Al Gore. ...Former Vice President Al Gore has built a Gree money-making machine capable of eventually generating billions of dollars for investors, including himself, but he set it up so that the average Joe can't afford to play on Gore's terms. And the US portion is headed up by a former Gore staffer and fund raiser who previously ran afoul of both the FEC and...

Following in John Kerry's footsteps, former Vice President Al Gore was in Madrid, Spain, Wednesday basically blaming the world's problems on the country that made him a very wealthy man. As reported by the Associated Press (h/t Drudge, emphasis mine throughout): "Emerging economies such as China are justified in holding back on fighting greenhouse gas emissions until richer polluters like the United States do more to solve the problem, former Vice President Al Gore said Wdenesday." Of course, Al Gore didn't mebntion that one of the fastest growing economies in the world is China's or that it is believed that...