AGW Today: Orympics, Titles, Higher Energy Prices

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AGW Today: Orympics, Titles, Higher Energy Prices

Written By : William Teach

Ret’s start with some right hearted sirriness, sharr we? (yeah, I know, it’s mean writing it that way)

Tokyo governor Shintaro Ishihara warned on Wednesday the 2016 Olympics could be the last Games, with global warming an immediate threat to mankind.

“It could be that the 2016 Games are the last Olympics in the history of mankind,” Ishihara told reporters at a Tokyo 2016 press event ahead of the vote.

“Global warming is getting worse. We have to come up with measures without which Olympic Games could not last long.

“Scientists have said we have passed the point of no return,” said Ishihara.

Is Chicken Little Syndrome contagious? Can they come up with a shot for it? Or, perhaps, a smack with ye olde cluebat? Meanwhile, even the NY Times notices something missing from the Kerry-Boxer AGW bill

Senate leaders, in unveiling their long-expected climate bill today, followed the lead of their colleagues in the House: the word “climate” is not mentioned in the bill’s title. How far things have come, or retreated, since the Climate Stewardship Act of 2003, the Safe Climate Act of 2007 or even the Climate Security Act of 2008.

The avoidance of the C word in the bill’s title, “ Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act,” seems at odds with the urgent arguments put forward by backers of the legislation that emissions are climbing and climate is changing more drastically than previously predicted.

As the Times points out, it could have something to do with the fact that people place climate change WAAAAAAAY down on the lists of things people care about. Down at the bottom of the article, we also see more phrase changing. It’s almost like Boxer and Kerry are afraid to tell the truth.

Over to higher energy prices

President Barack Obama’s administration put the brakes on 79 applications for surface coal mining permits in four states Wednesday, saying they would violate the Clean Water Act.

Without the coal, energy prices will go up. Law of supply and demand. It’s what Obama said he wanted to do, and he was speaking specifically about coal fired plants. Oh, and let’s not forget about the job and health insurance losses that will come with this. Obama’s Porkulus in reverse.

In other AGW news

Mike_M

"Gloabl warming" is getting worse. That's why I had to chip ice off my car this morning, right?
http://PatriotPost.US bthewolf

Posted by Mike_M

2009-10-01 09:50:59

And why the midwest had less than 10 90+ degree days from 5/1 to 9/30!!!
tblrk2006

yeah yeah yeah…..heard all this back in the 70's and 80's. Nothin has changed and we are still here.
http://conservativebootcamp.com martinhale

Don't you wish just one of the reporters at Mr. Ishihara's presser had the huevos to ask him to cite facts which supported his contention? More people need to call these fools out for the bald-faced liars they are.
aharris

Climate change is why the neighborhood trees were starting to change colors at the end of August.
William Teach

I noticed the same thing on some trees here in Raleigh on the drive to work last week, too, aharris. It was rather strange.
BIG

I wonder what President Obama's carbon footprint is for his few hour trip to Denmark? How come lefties never consider the energy wasted by those championing AGW?
Ralph_Gizzip

Well, don't get your panties in a twist over this. Mr. Ishihara just has a different slant on AGW.
http://Kingfisher Kingfisher

Isn't 'climate change' a normal evolutionary process? Hasn't the climate been changing for millions of years?

I guess this means that any AGW-supporter is a creationist. LOL!
aharris

Posted by Kingfisher

2009-10-01 12:48:58

I've used that argument several times, King. When they get their panties in a bunch over changing climate, I've pointed out that the need to adapt to changing climates is one of the main drivers of evolution. Then I ask them if they think it's wise to try to stall earth's climate where it is rather than allowing the process of evolution-driving change to continue.

Personally, I think the only people who really buy into Global Warming are those who live in urban environments where they see nothing but a man-controlled environment. For example, one rabid MMGW person my husband argued with literally thought there was no wildlife living in the cities beyond maybe rats and cockroaches.
CoolCzech

"It could be that the 2016 Games are the last Olympics in the history of mankind,”

One can only HOPE.

What an insult to human idealism the hyper-politicized, drug-ridden, money-centered, ego-driven travesty we call the “Olympiad” the games have become over the years. The ancient Greek Olympians must be rolling over atop Mt. Olympus.
William Teach

I'm going to have to try that creationist one with some of the folks I argue with about AGW :)
Rickvid_in_Seattle

Saw a show on the History/Learning/Discover Channel about evolution of humans. They contended that the greatest leaps in evolution occured specifically as a result of the pressures on local populations due to ice ages. The glaciation isolated pockets of hominids for some thousands of years who then expanded as the ice retreated but as slightly different being than before. Interesting idea. And not a single SUV has ever been found from back then, either!
http://Kingfisher Kingfisher

I'm going to have to try that creationist one with some of the folks I argue with about AGW :)

Posted by William Teach

2009-10-01 14:53:41

I've been pretty successful with that argument against AGW supporters. To note however, the supporters I've talked to are reasonable, meaning they don't go into rampages. I can't wait to try it against a moonbat.

For example, I've asked people if Antarctica was the same a billion years ago as it is now. Obviously, they say no which then I respond by saying that the land mass will change in the future as it has changed in the past.