Global Gobbledygook
The transition from "global warming" to "climate change" wasn't a matter of shifting weather patterns; it was merely shifting terminology. Global warming skeptics were gaining ground, particularly given the lack of global warming. Climate change made more sense, because it would be awfully tough to argue that the climate doesn't change. (Earthling to extraterrestrial tourist: "Hey. if you don't like the climate here on Earth, just stick around for a few minutes.")
Now the White House science advisor (what, no Science Czar?) is suggesting we move to a new, even more alarming phrase: Global Climate Disruption. As Count Floyd used to say on SCTV's Monster Chiller Horror Theater, "Ooooooooo, that's scary, boys and girls!" Still you wonder if this neologism is sufficient to galvanize public support for a massive government takeover of...well, anything that's left to be taken over. "Disruption" might be too weenie a word. How about "Climate Death" or "World Climate Obliteration"? Whatever they finally decide to call it, I hope they can figure it out soon. My New Age neighbor is tired of changing bumper stickers on his Smart Car.
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May '10
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I came home one day and the wife told me to see the boy. (Don't you love that Jack Webb Talk?) It seems the boy got in trouble in school that day for making an unwelcome remark in science class.
Me: What did you say?
The Boy: I mumbled something when she started talking about global warming and she asked me if I wanted to "share" it.
Me: And?
The Boy: I told her I had to shovel 15 1/2" of her global warming out of the driveway on Saturday.
Much to the dismay of the wife, the boy and I high-fived and that was the end of it.
May '10
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The scary thing is, it doesn't matter what the White House calls it at this point: all the left has to do is threaten to send Al Gore back on the road with a new PowerPoint presentation. Faced with that possibility, what choice does the opposition have??
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EJHill: The Boy: I told her I had to shovel 15 1/2" of her global warming out of the driveway on Saturday.
Much to the dismay of the wife, the boy and I high-fived and that was the end of it. · Sep 18 at 2:31pm
My hat's off to the young Mr. Hill.
May '10
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He was 13 then. Now 15, his goal is a career in the USMC. Got a letter from the USN Academy the other day. He wrote them to find out what he need to do. The first week of school he sat down with his HS counselor to map out his "plan of attack."
He is a great joy.
Edited on Sep 18, 2010 at 2:57pmMay '10
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Whatever the problem's now called, I understand Al Gore intends to pitch the Flatulent Animal Reduction Treaty (F.A.R.T) to address the matter.
Jun '10
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It's kind of like when liberals switch from calling themselves "Progressive" to "Liberal” depending on which one is out of style or offensive to the majority of Americans at the time. Same old junk, different wrapper.
On another note, Pat, I'm afraid our Sox have gone the way of their north side brethren and we'll have to 'get em next year.'
Cursed Twins....
Jun '10
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I sometimes get criticized by my school's science department for addressing "global warming" in my geography curriculum. I illustrate the alleged problem using a 100 foot tape measure as a timeline with one foot equalling a hundred years. At one foot from the starting point we see New Mexico becoming a state. At the five foot mark we witness the Spanish invasion of the Americas. At the 110 foot mark we find artifacts from the Clovis culture. I then ask the kids to calculate the distance back to T. Rex when New Mexico was covered by a rain forest. The answer as it turns out would require a tape measure stretching from Santa Fe, New Mexico to Phoenix, Arizona, a distance of some 400 miles. Now that's Climate Change You Can Believe In!
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It makes me nervous, Pat, when they start getting less specific. I mean, if you call something Global Warming it's either getting warmer or not. But when they start getting more weasel-wordy -- "disruption" can mean a lot of different things; snow in winter "disrupts" the autumn, after all -- it reminds me of all of the studio contracts you and I have signed before, with words like "net profit" suddenly becoming "adjusted net profit" and "modified adjusted net profit."
Keep an eye on your wallet.
May '10
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In order to save the planet the EPA has announced that breathing will be now be allowed only on alternate days....
May '10
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Perhaps the strongest evidence for global climate disruption is that my beloved Twins have played an entire season of outdoor baseball in Minnesota and had only one rainout!
May '10
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EJHill: I came home one day and the wife told me to see the boy. (Don't you love that Jack Webb Talk?) It seems the boy got in trouble in school that day for making an unwelcome remark in science class.
Me: What did you say?
The Boy: I mumbled something when she started talking about global warming and she asked me if I wanted to "share" it.
Me: And?
The Boy: I told her I had to shovel 15 1/2" of her global warming out of the driveway on Saturday.
Much to the dismay of the wife, the boy and I high-fived and that was the end of it. · Sep 18 at 2:31pm
While this topic is ripe for mockery at the statists' expense, it is important to make sure we don't only reply with cheap jokes. Just as we've been arguing for years, hot weather is not evidence for global warming and neither is a snow storm evidence against.
May '10
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(continued) There are documented trends in some metrics of climate that should not be denied without actually conducting rigorous scientific studies to show otherwise. It definitely is legitimate to question the methods of gathering data (poorly located temperature stations), the validity of historical proxies (tree rings), the relevance of artificial metrics (global average temperature), and especially the manipulation of data (hiding the decline, or the hockey stick graph). But let's just make sure we aren't so jocular that people don't think we're capable of addressing the actual scientific problems.
Jun '10
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Mark Wilson
Perhaps the strongest evidence for global climate disruption is that my beloved Twins have played an entire season of outdoor baseball in Minnesota and had only one rainout! · Sep 18 at 4:05pm
Is there a way we can test how global climate impending doom affects Joe Mauer's bat?
Edited on Sep 18, 2010 at 4:54pmMay '10
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Samwise Gamgee
Mark Wilson
Perhaps the strongest evidence for global climate disruption is that my beloved Twins have played an entire season of outdoor baseball in Minnesota and had only one rainout! · Sep 18 at 4:05pm
Is there a way we can test how global climate impending doom affects Joe Mauer's bat? · Sep 18 at 4:53pm
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Joe Mauer's batting average is so high that no matter you compare it to, it shows a positive correlation.
Edited on Sep 18, 2010 at 4:57pmJul '10
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How can We have "global warming" AND an "American obesity epidemic" simultaneously?
Jun '10
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Mark Wilson
Joe Mauer's batting average is so high that no matter you compare it to, it shows a positive correlation. · Sep 18 at 4:56pm
Edited on Sep 18 at 04:57 pm
Haha, so as the level of carbon in the atmosphere increases so does Joe Mauer's Avg? No wonder y'all built that stadium outdoors....but as to why you elected that clownbag Franken, I have no answer....
I guess the real question is how will the tropical rains produced by all of those cars and business will affect Joe's knees....
May '10
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Wasn't a joke. That's the way young men think. (I swear on my mother's grave it's a true story.)
Look, if you want ammo against the argument, go to Anthony Watt's site. As Watts points out it's not what the data shows, it's whether or not the data is trustworthy to begin with. Look at the chart on this page and see how many US weather stations over-report temperatures by 4 degrees c or higher.
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Priceless
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Pat, don't get all science-y about this. We all know that climate change is a religion, not a science. Take a look -- if you can bear it -- at the White House PowerPoint announcing this momentous change (here's a link ). It has the distinct sound of a Talmudic scholar trying to argue his way out of a tough theological spot.
As I read it, the argument goes like this: even if the earth isn't getting warmer, it really is, and even if it isn't (but it really, really is) there will be untold damage because warmer temperatures cause huge problems, and the earth is getting hotter even if it isn't.
May '10
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In the words of Twisted Sister, "we're not gonna take it!"