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Hundreds Protest Global Warming

Posted by Eric in Global Warming, Humor on December 15, 2009

hundredsgather

Found this on the ‘net…I think it’s been widely shared by now! :D

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Copenhagen negotiations ’suspended’

Posted by Eric in Science on December 14, 2009

Looks like all the developing countries have ganged up on the developed countries in Copenhagen:

Negotiations at the UN climate summit have been suspended after developing countries withdrew their co-operation.

Delegations were angry at what they saw as moves by the Danish host government to sideline talks on more emission cuts under the Kyoto Protocol.

While it’s not exactly what I was hoping would de-rail the summit, at least something is stopping – at least temporarily – the insanity that is global warming talks.  Apparently the Danish government drafted some papers that are actually benefiting the developed countries over the developing.

I hope the disagreements and dysfunction at the “summit” continue.  We do not need to enter into a meaningless agreement that will end up taking more of our sovereignty away and giving it to the U.N.  If you’re not familiar with what I’m talking about, go watch this.

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An Historical Take on Global Warming

Posted by Eric in Science on December 9, 2009

"It's not a lie, I tell you!"

"It's not a lie, I tell you!"

Al Gore recently broke his silence on “ClimateGate” (seriously media – do we really have to suffix every scandal with “-gate”?)  Here’s what Mr. Gore-leone said about the hacked e-mails:

What we’re seeing is a set of changes worldwide that just make this discussion over 10-year-old e-mails kind of silly. The entire North Polar ice cap is disappearing before our very eyes. It’s been the size of the continental United States for the last 3 million years and now 40 percent is gone and the rest of it is going. The mountain glaciers are going. We’ve had record storms, droughts, fires, and floods. There is an air of unreality in debating these arcane points when the world is changing in such dramatic ways right in front of our eyes because of global warming.

Nice spin, Big Al.  Now here’s a little bit of an historical take on the “truth” of global warming:

Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it.  — Adolf Hitler

Apparently Hitler was right.  This “inconvenient truth” of global warming has been told for so long and so loud, that everyone is buying into the lie instead of doing their own research.

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Facts are the Air – Update: CRU Director Steps Down

Posted by Eric in Politics, Science on December 1, 2009

I stumbled across this quote, and I love it.  It fits the whole “ClimateGate” issue going on.  Read it, understand it:

Perfect as the wing of a bird may be, it will never enable the bird to fly if unsupported by the air. Facts are the air of science. Without them a man of science can never rise.

– Ivan Pavlov, Russian physiologist (1849-1936)

UPDATE (2:51 P.M.):  Just saw on Fox News that Phil Jones, the Director of the Climatic Research Unit in the U.K. that was involved with the leaked e-mails, is stepping down pending an investigation that he overstated the case for man-made climate change.  Well, how about that?

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