March 23, 2013 – 11:47 am
Get ready for the 6th great extinction because you refuse to give up your fossil fueled vehicle These 5 Ancient Monsters Couldn’t Survive Climate Change, So How Can We? So we have Gigantopithecus, which “ruled the trees till 100,000 years ago, when climate changes wiped out their food supplies”.. Yeah, that was during an ice […]
March 23, 2013 – 7:00 am
A largely symbolic hour where Climate Astrologers get to feel good about turning their lights out for one hour while being big “carbon hogs” for the rest of the year….um, wait, this “spreading awareness” and feel-good campaign is actually worse? (Forbes) On March 23, millions of people around the world will be asked again to […]
March 21, 2013 – 7:58 am
Prick a Warmist and you’ll find a fascist. Here’s Warmist Helen Camakaris at Shaping Tomorrow’s World (via Tom Nelson) Don’t trust your Stone Age brain: it’s unsustainable Cognitive dissonance is that uncomfortable feeling we have when we know we should invest in solar panels but the 46″ wide screen TV wins out; we know we […]
March 20, 2013 – 2:57 pm
I’d guess because it is primarily natural and that the climate has always changed, and it has been much warmer during several warm periods during the Holocene. Silly me. Here’s Commander William Riker* David Roberts at Grist One reason for the widespread misunderstanding is that climate change has been culturally coded as an “environmental problem.†[…]
March 19, 2013 – 11:46 am
I was wondering when some climate astrologer would go down this road after the sinkhole in Florida that swallowed that man (via Quark Soup) (Discover) Increasing carbon dioxide in the atmosphere leads to rainwater containing higher levels of carbon dioxide, otherwise known as acid rain. When carbon dioxide in water is given a carbonate ion, […]
March 16, 2013 – 6:38 pm
Nope, not the Islamic jihadis, climate change, because a desert nation that’s been a desert nation for a long, long, long time is threatened with become a ….. desert nation (and it obviuosly has nothing whatsoever to do with nature, plate tectonics, etc) (Toronto Star) When dictator Moammar Gadhafi was killed in October 2011, months […]
March 14, 2013 – 6:01 pm
Yeah, that would be the one in South Africa (CBS NY) A summit of city mayors will convene in February of next year in Johannesburg, to discuss ways to fight global climate change. Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who serves as chairman of the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group, announced plans Tuesday along with Johannesburg Mayor Parks […]
March 13, 2013 – 5:26 pm
They’re so amusing at that age (The Hill) House Democrats will make a series of speeches on the House floor in the coming weeks to call for a congressional response to climate change. “There are a number of us who plan on speaking every day on the House floor on the need for Congress to […]
March 12, 2013 – 3:25 pm
Why, because only 3/5ths of the money goes back to the people. The article actually provides a pretty good explanation of how the Boxer/Sanders legislation would work (I’ve got it somewhere back in the archives, too), then we get (Socialist Worker) But Boxer and Sanders undercut the “fee-and-dividend” plan in a crucial respect: Their legislation […]
March 11, 2013 – 10:10 am
We’re fast approaching yet another Earth Hour, where climate astrologers turn their lights out for a whopping 60 minutes (out of 525,949 a year), on March 23rd. These tend to be the same people who were freaking out over enforced earth hours after storms like Superstorm Sandy, the Derecho, and others. One would think they […]