World Still Ending, Environmentalists Warn
Mollie Hemingway, Ed. ·
May 23, 2011 at 7:47am
IowaHawk tweets this morning:
We now return you to our regularly scheduled apocalypse. Remember to buy carbon credits if you want to be with Gaia on Judgment Day!
Diff between Harold Camping and enviromentalists: 1. He pays for his own apocalyptic fantasies. 2. Camping doesn't get do-overs.
Seriously, if you read some environmentalist predictions about global warming, it makes Harold Camping sound downright sober. But there's another difference between Camping and "climate change" alarmists: one is supported by the government, media and Hollywood. The other, not so much.
In related news Chicago, the New York Times reports, is dramatically altering the city and its plants to "adapt" to "climate change" predictions for 100 years from now.
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Dec '10
Re: World Still Ending, Environmentalists Warn
As a fellow midwesterner, IowaHawk must have the same attitude I do: Global Warming? Great!
Feb '11
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You need to include the libertarians and their "singularity" in this group as well.
Sep '10
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The Chicago adaptation strategy story is utterly fascinating. Most of us in large corporate or public environs have dealt with economically dubious but politically powerful ideas that get out of control. Generally, after an interval, it is found out that the emperor has no clothes. We'll see here.
That being said, I think there is general agreement among climatologist (even skeptics) that North America was colder 300 years ago than it is today, and that there is a general warming trend. How much that has to do with man made emissions and how much is natural, and whether or not the changes will be net harmful are quite a different matter.
Good luck to Chicago, I hope they make it.
Dec '10
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That being said, I think there is general agreement among climatologist (even skeptics) that North America was colder 300 years ago than it is today,
It's still too cold.
Still too cold.
Dec '10
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I recently visited my 89-year-old mother in Ohio and did some grocery shopping for her. There, on the bottom shelf, was a small unobtrusive bag of Domino sugar with the following banner on the label:
NOW: Certified Carbon Free
By Carbonfund.org, no less.
I confess, I struggled to pass organic chemistry at The Ohio State University, but I remember carbon being a predominant atom in just about every... well, "carbon"-based life-form, of which, I assume, the sugar cane plant is one.
False advertising much?
I realize my story sounds fanciful and I couldn't bring myself to purchase the evidence of such absurdity, so just in case you need proof: Domino Sugar. Video included(!), but I didn't watch it for you. My BS meter was pegged at the store.
Dec '10
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Haha! They said "global warming" in the Domino video. It's Climate Change. You need your nonfalsifiable hypothesis to make this work.
Mar '11
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AmishDude: That being said, I think there is general agreement among climatologist (even skeptics) that North America was colder 300 years ago than it is today,
It's still too cold.
Still too cold. · May 23 at 8:58am
Where is Al Gore when we need him? I want my Global Warming Back!
Apr '11
Re: World Still Ending, Environmentalists Warn
Buck
AmishDude: That being said, I think there is general agreement among climatologist (even skeptics) that North America was colder 300 years ago than it is today,
It's still too cold.
Still too cold. · May 23 at 8:58am
Where is Al Gore when we need him? I want my Global Warming Back! · May 23 at 9:26am
Someone needs to relocate Mr. Gore to a small town in northern Vermont were they don't plow your driveway. I think it would be a great learning experience for him. Especially from October to April.
Aug '10
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I object to the idea that we must make sacrifices on behalf of our descendents a century in the future. When you consider how much technology has advanced in the last century, and also observe that the rate of change has accelerated dramatically, it's silly for us to worry about things that they'll be infinitely better equipped to deal with than we are. I'm not particularly disappointed that our ancestors didn't institute a conservation program on our behalf to avoid depleting the world supply of whale oil.
Let's worry about the things that are great great grandchildren will be no better at than we are, like preserving human liberty.