Special Report
The 12 C’s of Climate Alarmism
Copenhagen won’t make the passing grade.
Today’s report about political developments surrounding the global warming issue is brought to you by the letter “C.”
1. C is for “carbon dioxide.” Environmental extremists and major news journalists call this gas that is exhaled by all animals, and that is food for plants, a dangerous pollutant. Yet we would all die without it. That makes me sad.
2. C is for “climate change.” It used to be called global warming, which many activists with a socialist bent warned would bring more catastrophic weather events, elevating seas, and economic ruin. They said because humans continue to produce greater amounts of carbon dioxide — a “greenhouse gas” — that they are causing global temperatures to rise. They mostly blame the humans’ burning of fossil fuels like coal and oil for increasing this dangerous CO2.
But now because the planet isn’t warming in conjunction with these CO2 increases, the activists call it “climate change” instead. That way they can still justify trying to make us stop using fossil fuels, without regard for what the weather does.
3. C is for “cool.” That’s how it feels outside lately. For all the histrionics of recent years over the coming warming, this summer saw extremely cool temperatures and now the media is rife with stories of early snowfall. But this still fits with the new all-encompassing terminology, even though scientists say they don’t get it.
4. C is for “cattle.” The wiggly warming advocates say we’re supposed to stop eating beef because they produce so much methane, which is an even stronger greenhouse gas than CO2.
5. C is for “condoms.” Besides going vegetarian, alarmists ultimately point to the climate change problem as one of overpopulation. They say the only way we can accomplish their goal is to limit, and even reduce, the number of people on the planet. Yet when you suggest that they be the first ones to go in support of their own cause, they get mad!
6. C is for “consensus.” A lot of concerned scientists say they all agree that global warming is happening, that it will lead to disaster, and that it is mostly humans’ fault for causing it. Except not all the scientists say they all agree — just some of them say they all agree.
Instead there’s conflict between the concerned scientists and, I guess, the “unconcerned” scientists. But the concerned scientists don’t even acknowledge there’s a debate because then that would undermine their “consensus” claim. They are pretending there’s no opposition, which has proven difficult, especially considering that public opinion polls show there are more people who believe global warming is not a problem than there are those who do believe it’s a problem.
7. C is for “cash.” The concerned scientists get lots of this, as do investors in “green” technology. The unconcerned scientists? Not so much — at least not for climate studies.
8. C is for “cap-and-trade.” That’s the preferred plan of politicians, bureaucrats, most environmentalists, and rent-seekers. They say by limiting (“capping”) industries’ ability to release CO2, and then selling (or giving away) permission slips to emit the gases, that it will create a “market” for this regulatory innovation. Imagine that: stifling a real market for an extremely valuable product (energy) by replacing it with a phony market that trades nothing of real worth.
9. C is for “corruption.” Some environmentalists who favor strict cutbacks for all emitting industries say cap-and-trade will lead to “another ‘sub-prime’ style financial crisis” and “that to date ‘cap-and-trade’ carbon markets have done almost nothing to reduce emissions but have been plagued by inefficiency and corruption that render them unfit for purpose.” This is how Enron liked to do business. And now we’ve had another discovery: One of the world’s top promoters of global warming alarmism, the University of East Anglia Climate Research Unit, has had documents and emails revealed (hacked?) that show they manipulated data and excluded scientists who opposed their cause. Much of the CRU’s work informed the UN IPCC reports, which is considered the measuring stick of proof that demands action to reduce greenhouse gases.
10. C is for “Copenhagen.” Next month there was supposed to be a big party where all the nations of the world were going to agree on a treaty that would bind each of them to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. Each would cede their sovereignty to an international body for the common good of preventing global warming (even though it would never accomplish that). It was supposed to be the sequel to the Kyoto Protocol, only this time the wealthy, developed countries like the United States were also supposed to also sign on. Except…
11. …C is for “collapse.” All the momentum driving towards a Copenhagen accord has stalled. The U.S. Congress announced last week that it would not have a cap-and-trade law passed this year. It’s hard to imagine it happening next year either, considering 2010 is a crucial election year in which several vulnerable Senators and House members are up for re-election — including Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada. Hope and change on the issue are dwindling, because everyone who wants a deal say it’s meaningless without America on board.
12. C is for “criminal.” Whereas once the environmentally conscious international community hailed President Obama as its climate hero, it now calls him a failure. Some even consider him a guilty of a felony for “stonewalling” an agreement at Copenhagen.
As for me and my fellow climate realists, all this presidential delay and half-heartedness is a treat that’s good enough for me. Sing along!
About the Author
Paul Chesser is executive director for the American Tradition Institute and a senior fellow for the Commonwealth Foundation for Public Policy Alternatives. The views he expresses do not necessarily reflect the views of these organizations.
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Robbins Mitchell| 11.23.09 @ 6:34AM
C is for crap....C is for cretinous,crying cassandras.
Sean Parnell| 11.23.09 @ 8:43AM
Umm... Casandra was right regarding her predictions of the future. It was her fate not to be believed, however.
CptWally| 11.24.09 @ 6:44PM
Cassandra was a fictional entity that dovetails perfectly into the fiction of the global warming 'science'.
hunter| 11.23.09 @ 7:57AM
C is for cesspool: These people along with the likes of Al Gore, the disgruntal looser, depressed ego manaic reside. These Bastards want us all to stop breathing because it might help the planet. Yes. The weather has changed. Yes it will continue to do so. Yes the weather has always changed. I wish someone would order some bi-polar medication for these poor, depressed, nothing to do people! PLEASE....
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Twitter Trackbacks for The American Spectator : The 12 C's of Climate Alarmism [spec links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:
Curly Smith| 11.23.09 @ 8:36AM
C is for "Cloward-Piven", a strategy that seeks to force political change through orchestrated crises.
C is for "Control" because that's what this is all about... controlling where you work, what you eat, and if you get to live.
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Jon Gosselin Brings Kate a Peace Offering at The Insider | Jon Gosselin Celebrity Mon links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:
Earl E| 11.23.09 @ 9:54AM
"C" is for Choir. The choir is in the comment section. No dissention. All singing this writer's song, how is it so?
Collusion: Individuals whose lifestyle is based upon the destruction of other places and the stealing of other's natural resources.
Crime leads to crime: When the Russian and japanese fishing fleets stripped the Somalia coast of all commercial fish, Somalians became Pirates.
Ye shall eat what ye shall breed. IE: "C" is for canabalism, the food source of the 21st century.
Continue your comical end-game Choirboys, it was fun for very few while it lasted.
Roy| 11.23.09 @ 12:39PM
C is for Earl E's crap. To moonbats, the world is a zero sum game. Someone gets ahead at the expense of another. There is no room in this twisted model of logic for economic growth.
fred| 11.23.09 @ 7:57PM
the world is a zero sum game
and because of stupid american spectators such as yourself, we are rather prematurely coming dangerously close to that zero
Duke927| 11.24.09 @ 12:17AM
Ah a Troll! World's going to end soon because of evil americans or are we talking about evil capitalist imperialism. Have fun comrade keep drinking that kool-ade.
Margie| 11.24.09 @ 12:32AM
Don't you worry there fred, Earl, God's got it all under control. He's a lot bigger than us american spectators. His earth isn't going anywhere till He's ready. Micah 1:4, 2 Peter 3:12.
Doug| 12.16.09 @ 9:28AM
I just ordered $400 worth of frozen steaks from the wonderful capitalist organization Omaha Steaks. Just thought I'd tell all you losers who buy into the now thoroughly-exposed-and-debunked global warming hoax. HA HA!
Ned| 11.23.09 @ 11:10AM
Here is a newstory I wrote supporting #5 and the hope that these green folks would be examples we can only hope for:
News Flash:
People who rally against climate change were broken hearted and at the same time exhilarated to hear a group of followers meeting in San Francisco might have went a little too far in their zeal to promote recognition of climate change.
At a meeting with about 150 people, tragedy struck when a particularly passionate speaker pointed out that with each breath taken by the individuals present more carbon dioxide is released into the air.
Upon hearing, and being fervently reminded of this often forgotten production mechanism of carbon dioxide, all of the devoted participants immediately stopped breathing. All 150 died, laying their lives on the green alter of ultimate sacrifice, before EMTs could arrive and resuscitate them.
The most passionate leaders of the climate change awareness movement solemnly stated “This is an example of pure devotion for all of us to follow.” They plan to lead believers in a world wide breathe-out demonstration next Saturday.
Non-believers of man made climate change say “For once we are in total agreement with these highly intelligent impassioned folks and urge all believers of man made climate change to participate.”
Perhaps we should plant speakers at all of the green gatherings to suggest such action.
Craig| 11.23.09 @ 6:57PM
I'm laughing too hard to write! Hilarious thought. Hilarious because it illustrates these people's absurdity so elegantly.
Margie| 11.23.09 @ 11:58PM
A world wide Breathe-Out! Ha!
But now you've just given Algore an idea.
Gill O’Teen ✝✡| 11.23.09 @ 11:15AM
C is for Crust. As fabled scientist and environmental hero to the clueless, Al “Big Bore” Gore recently instructed Conan O’Brien on television so it must be true, “but two kilometers or so down in most places there are these incredibly hot rocks, cause the interior of the earth is extremely hot, several million degrees, and the crust of the earth is hot …” But gee, Al, that’s even hotter than the surface of the sun which is a trifling 5500 °C (9,932 °F). Doesn’t lava melt any where in a temperature range of 700 - 1,200 °C (1,292 - 2,192 °F)? So if your science is valid, Al, wouldn’t the surface of the Earth be melting like cheese in a fondu pot? Couldn’t that be an other possible explanation for your global warming climate change? Or maybe carbon emissions are heating the interior of the planet? Sorry if these truths are inconvenient, professor, but you sure have some crust.
Shame on you, Ned. I laughed so hard that I alone am responsible for the deaths of 98,453 polar bear cubs this morning.
Gill O’Teen ✝✡
gill.Oteen07041776@gmail.com
Proudly pro innocent life and I vote.
Don’t Tread on Me!!
Margie| 11.24.09 @ 12:01AM
"Fabled Scientist and environmental hero to the clueless."
You guys are too funny.
Anthony| 11.23.09 @ 12:13PM
C is for Can't wait for the Revolution to start.
Dagny Taggert| 11.23.09 @ 12:15PM
C is for Causation. C is also for Correlation. Global warming/climate change chicken little's have a hard time discerning the two. Whereas there may be a long-term correlation between CO2 and temperature, that certainly doesn't prove that increased CO2 causes higher temperatures, does it? What if all those ice core samples that we've heard about ad-nauseum actually show that temperature increases cause CO2 increases? What if something, say cycles of the sun's radiation represented by sun spot activity, are actually the CAUSE of temperature fluctuations on Earth? And what if those increases in the Earth's temperature CAUSE increased CO2? We'd have a very close correlation, but not the causation this whole charade is based on.....
Margie| 11.24.09 @ 12:05AM
Not to mention the volcanoes under the sea.
Did you know that's in the Bible? Old Testament. Just think. If Algore read his Bible, he could have claimed he knew something nobody else knows. Like how he did with the internet being his doing.
Northern Rebel| 11.23.09 @ 12:28PM
W is for watermelon:
Green on the outside, red on the inside.
Kevin| 11.23.09 @ 12:58PM
C is for Consequences
As in, the consequences of creating hysteria means that no one will believe if and when the sky actually IS falling down
Tim| 11.23.09 @ 12:59PM
"C" is for CCCP... meet the new boss...
Gill O’Teen ✝✡| 11.23.09 @ 1:34PM
Kevin, I agree, but too many people might not be aware that the C in your comment is the Cyrillic 'S' and the 'P' is their 'R'. Thus in English CCCP translates to SSSR, the Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik, the old Soviet Union.
Gill O’Teen ✝✡
gill.Oteen07041776@gmail.com
Proudly pro innocent life and I vote.
Don’t Tread on Me!!
Earl E| 11.23.09 @ 1:54PM
I didn't realize this was the American Spectator! That is why there is such harmony from the choir.
America has become the land of spectators, the rest of the world are the ones actually doing the work.
When you have outsourced all of your manufacturing, all you have left are insurance salesmen and bankers.(people who skim money while doing nothing)
This is the America your children get to inherit, a 1st world nation on the brink of becoming a 3rd world.
I hope your kids put you in a state run home for spectators without ethics...
And I get a kick out of all the comments, so detailed in covering each talking point... yet over 50% of the public agree that man contributes to all kinds of disasters... yet on this site 100% are in denial. Sounds like your minority likes to talk among themselves...
Gill O’Teen ✝✡| 11.23.09 @ 2:10PM
Right now, over 50% of Americans disapprove of the liar-in-chief and his health care scheme. If anything will bankrupt this country beyond all hope of recovery, it is his lack of fiscal common sense. Last November, we had proof positive that just because a majority expressed a certain opinion, does not mean that the opinion is correct. If you don't buy my last statement, consider that in 2004 THE EVIL BUSH received almost 51% of the vote, and look how well that turned out. Instead of attacking us by admitting that you didn’t even know what link you clicked, why don’t you attempt making a coherent and factual argument in support of your opinion?
Gill O’Teen ✝✡
gill.Oteen07041776@gmail.com
Proudly pro innocent life and I vote.
Don’t Tread on Me!!
Natasha | 11.23.09 @ 4:28PM
You have to be either totally blind and naive or corrupt yourself to not be sickened and outraged by the AGW scam that's been perpetrated on us, with one main item on their agenda -- global control of every aspect of our lives, all in the name of "saving the environment."
Why don't you try reading this comment from a research assistant, who is absolutely horrified at the damage that these quack scientists and crooks have done to the scientific community as a whole: http://mooseandsquirrel.ca/200.....mment-1817
T. Corcoran| 11.24.09 @ 10:53AM
Earl
0.038% of earth's atmosphere is carbon dioxide.
Please provide one proven cost effective technique to reduce carbon dioxide by .0001%
bubba | 11.23.09 @ 2:10PM
Poor little Earlie......he's not dealing to well with the collapse of the ongoing fraud known as the "scientific consensus on global warming", is he?
Anthony| 11.23.09 @ 2:15PM
Thank you Earl E, you've proven what a complete imbecile you and your fellow leftists are!! Earl tell us that 50% of our moronic public "agrees that "man contributes to all kinds of disasters". Really Earl? A bit of a broad statement, don't you think? Under your defination, TAS contributes to disasters by allowing buffoons like you to post on this site.
Earl, the only disasters currently harming mankind are leftists.
Earl E. C is for CLUELESS
Tom Yulsman | 11.23.09 @ 2:44PM
One of your links leads to a blog post I wrote about Rush Limbaugh telling Andrew Revkin, the New York Times reporter — and a good friend of mine — to "go kill yourself." You use my post to make the point the environmentalists get mad when people question their arguments about overpopulation.
Just for the record, I am not an environmentalist. And I said nothing about overpopulation in my post. (Also, btw, I had delicious Colorado steak for dinner last night.) I took Limbaugh to task for telling a friend and a fine reporter to commit suicide — and to compare Andy to an Islamist Jihadist on the very day that his son was inducted in to the Israeli Army.
If you really wanted a valid example of anger, you should have linked to the Youtube video of Limbaugh yelling about Andy being the equivalent of a terrorist.
Philosopher | 11.23.09 @ 2:59PM
So many wonderful, earth-saving ideas from our concerned environmental friends! Here's the utopia that would occur if you put all of these 'good intentions' together:
http://pracphilosblog.wordpres.....al-utopia/
Earl E| 11.23.09 @ 3:12PM
No need for facts on a spectator site.
If you want specifics, 100% of the fishermen whom lost their livelyhoods due to the oil spill of the Exxon Valdez believe manking contributed to the loss of their ecosystem.
Off the coast of the pacific northwest, the polluted shellfish that native Americans eat are dwindling, but not as fast as the salmon.
The cape cod area, no longer has any cod, rather great White sharks have moved in this summer for the balmy waters and the fresh white meat of rich American Spectator swimmers.
The dead zones in the Guld Of mexico, which eleiminated the livelyhood of commercial fisheries, and all up the east coast, is without argument, pollution caused death and disease.
I could go on, but to say Obama will bankrupt a country already bankrupted by imperialistic oil-theft at gunpoint for the past 60 years is exactly what I expect from a Spectator.
Your position, on the sidelines, is out of touch with what has already transpired, and your life of denialism as shallow as your ethics.
Let me repeat, therte is no dissention in the readership because you are a shrinking mono-culture of caustic and deadly animals.
You guys are the top predator on the planet, yet act like the plague of plagues each day you fill your gas-tank and drive to the unemployment office with your support your troops bumper sticker.
I suppose if you ever road shotgun escorting oil tankers out of the Persian Gulf while being shot at by Chinese Silkworm missiles, or watched your shipmates die like on the USS Stark, or the USS Cole, or you lost a son or daughter in the military invading oil nations for oil, you might have more respect not only for gasoline, the military, and your freedom, but more respect for people and the planet in general.
But you are as weak as your addictions. Please re-read all of the empty comments above and enjoy the superficiality of your group, it will be getting smaller each and every day.
Margie| 11.24.09 @ 12:13AM
You have entered~
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzlG28B-R8Y
Jim | 11.23.09 @ 3:58PM
Earl hurt my feelings.
Also I'm not quite sure how he's linking climate change skepticism to skepticism on pollution and its effects. I don't doubt, and I don't think anyone here else would either, that pouring tens of thousands of gallons of oil into the ocean will effect that part of the ocean for a period of time.
I don't doubt sucking on the end of an exhaust pipe will be bad for me either. Lucky for me that's not what this is about. This is about people claiming the world, for humankind, will actually come to an end if we don't do exactly as they say.
And by the way, how many times now, over the past twenty five years or so, have they told us we need to do something within the next five years or we're doomed? How many false ultimatums have we been given? Silly really.
Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans is a great example of emotional response that has absolutely nothing to do with the problem. New Orleans flooded because of a human failure sure, but not because the hurricane was unusually strong due to global warming. What failed in New Orleans was a poorly maintained levee in a poor section of the city. Don't tell alarmists this though, to them all the bad is happening because you eat too much meat or drove a few extra miles in your non-hybrid vehicle.
Anthony| 11.23.09 @ 4:35PM
Wow Earl, did you forget to take your meds today? Exxon Valdez, what 20 years ago!! I hope you haven't driven a car since then, aferall, it would be rank hyprocrisy if you did.
Hey Earl, given your fevered rant, I would think it's about time you did the decent thing and put an end to your carbon footprint completely. It must be hell for you knowing that every breath of yours expels dangerous CO2 levels that are affecting the polar bear population. I gather further from your incoherent polemic, that you do net eat meat or fish, at least I hope so because your hypocrisy would be world class if you did.
Earl, as one of the top predators on the planet, I order you to eliminate your carbon footprint post haste.
Earl E| 11.23.09 @ 5:46PM
Jim,
Thanks for the substantive response. I wasn't aware that science has concluded that a warmer ocean will NOT contribute to more powerful hurricanes.
And thanks for the Katrina mention. Those silly scientists exactly 1 year prior staged a perfect pre-run to the actual event. Told the town of Cajun and Class that the levies will not hold(the sky is falling) and one year later the levies failed.
And Anthony, the chorus wouldn't be complete without you asking me to drop dead. Seems that's the default free market solution to any conflict resolution and a favorite Psalm from the Bible of Denial.
Anthony| 11.23.09 @ 7:35PM
Well Earl, I guess you don't really care about those melting ice floes and those drowning polar bears afterall. See, you really are a rank leftist hypocrite.
Neo| 11.23.09 @ 6:07PM
"M" is for Methane
Gore returns with the regualrity of an unwanted season
http://worldbbnews.com/2009/11.....n-climate/
"Those conversations led Gore to politically inconvenient conclusions in this new book. In his conversations with Schmidt and other colleagues at the beginning of the year, Gore explored new studies – published only last week – that show methane and black carbon or soot had a far greater impact on global warming than previously thought. Carbon dioxide – while the focus of the politics of climate change – produces around 40% of the actual warming.
Gore acknowledged to Newsweek that the findings could complicate efforts to build a political consensus around the need to limit carbon emissions.
Earl E| 11.23.09 @ 6:32PM
Neo,
Saw the video myself. It is about time. I never thought it was just one particular emmission, nor did I think a tax would solve the pollution problem.
Climate change occurs at many levels. Damming a river causes the newly submerged to die, and that climate change is unrecoverable.
The increase in glacial runoff due to accelerating melting allows for salmon to get back to old breeding cycles, that is, until the glacier disappears and the river becomes uninhabitable to them.
To suggest reducing auto emmissions can stop the melting of the West Antarctic Ice Shelf is pure fantasy, but every little bit will do something.
How much?
Don't care.
It's about not being a spectator, about being a participant, taking a small step, rather than sitting in a pew and repeating after me:
It has cooled since 1998.
The sun is cooling...
Gore flies in planes...
I'm a ref. Half the field wishes I didn't make that call, and half is happy.
It's the guys who know I'm right that but are on the wrong side of the decision that I hope to gain confidence in by being as consistant as I can be.
If it adds to a carbon footprint, how can we get rid of it and get along?
I can stop the Iraq war in a second, bring all our troops home, and if the world doesn't end, I've just saved 10 trillion tons of CO2, 400 tons of depleted uranium tipped shells, and thousands of lives and I haven't spent one dime of the taxpayers money.
Not to mention the desertification through carpet bombing and the particulate pollution from a 25,000 pound Daisy Cutter.
We should leave mountaintop removal to the coal companies using trucks the size of a Somali Refuge Camps.
Gregson| 11.23.09 @ 7:43PM
C is for the Climatic Research Unit CRU at the University of East Anglia who had over 61mb of e-mails, research and data exposed to scrutiny over the weekend. Apart from the institution being a major supplier and research arm of the United Nation's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change IPCC, it is now apparent that some of the most influential scientific voices on record for advocating and researching AGW, are themselves responsible for what can now indeed be called 'man-made" global warming. The documents demonstrate a penchant for manipulating data, massaging research and cherry-picking observations in addition to what can only be called the stifling of objective debate and opinions through their influence with such an esteemed and august body as the United Nations IPCC.
So what will be the fall-out from the leaked CRU files? What happens when politically connected scientists manipulate data to buttress a flawed correlation that increasing CO2 concentrations drive increases in global temperatures. As expected, the narrative now becomes an exercise in the dissembling of culpability and the inevitable claims of victimhood by the principles.
There should be no quarter spared in aggressively pursuing the perpetrators at every level and calling attention to all who have participated in the conspiracy to fraudulently access public funding based on the manipulation of data and research. The outright falsification of the scientific method, the craven self-interest demonstrated by the those who would foist the ultimate hoax onto an unsuspecting world for political and monetary gain; the politicians blindly signing onto invasive regulations, editors of peer-reviewed journals willfully discounting dissenting opinion in favor of sensational headlines and the banishment of objective experts and opinions to the scientific equivalent of Botany Bay is unforgivable.
The virtue of scientific endeavor and therefore the entire community must be held to the highest of standards. There can be absolutely no compromise on the manipulation of data, research techniques or scientific method - and for those who breech the protocols and endeavor to manufacture results - justice must be swift and uncompromising. To do anything other than to issue a 'scarlet letter' to those who would perpetrate fraud on a scale such as this would border on criminal itself.
Ozzie| 11.23.09 @ 8:47PM
C is for contrarian fossils. I love seeing their pathetic sycophantic squirming. Even if there were some doubt about the rate of change and the precise mechanisms, you will lose because the logic is clear to most people. Humans have become so adept at planetary engineering that we must allow our survival instinct to reign it in and control runaway free market fundamentalism. If you rabbit on about the evils of socialism, SUCKED IN. What it happen before your eyes losers.
Neo| 11.24.09 @ 12:36AM
To suggest reducing auto emmissions can stop the melting of the West Antarctic Ice Shelf is pure fantasy
Isn't there an underwater volcano around there ?
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Hamish vettice| 11.24.09 @ 4:07PM
The article implies there is some sort of conspiracy occuring, but strangely doesn't invoke this C? I wonder if this is a deliberate attempt not too appear as a conspiracy theorist?
Tim| 11.24.09 @ 8:41PM
C is indeed for crap. As this article is. The planet is warming, and we are causing it. Check out the latest summary of the peer-reviewed science here: http://www.ccrc.unsw.edu.au/Co.....s_LOW.pdf. We believed the scientists when they warned us about the ozone hole, we believe them when it comes to our health, why do some people leave rationality at the door when it comes to climate change? There is no conspiracy, and the truth will out soon enough, as we unleash forces too powerful for humanity to resist, or reverse.
Liberty or Death| 11.24.09 @ 8:57PM
Earl... HAHAHAHAHA. You're a douche dude.
Here's a question I'd like to pose to all my fellow American Spectators out there: Why and the hell are all the crazy, nut-job, Earls running our country right now?
Let's thank Earl for being the poster child of why the serious Americans need to take this country back in 2010. Let's leave him huddled under his hemp blanket, watching reruns of "Captain Planet," and dreaming of the good ol'days, when the wool was momentarily pulled over the Nations' eyes.
Gotta love that score of emails, busting this whole piece of crap wide open, eh? WE TOLD YOU SO, Earl.
Liberty or Death| 11.24.09 @ 9:00PM
C is for Condemnation.
Condemnation of the entire Obama regime, the Dim-wit-crat Party, Al Snore, and the phony scientists who thought they got away with it all.
Uriel| 11.24.09 @ 11:35PM
To Earl E.,
Your father is not here. Rebel against sanity and reason elsewhere.
Or, you could grow out of your eternal adolescence and scorn for anything you consider "traditional" whether it be moral, ethical, legal, or scientific. I know that doing so makes you feel superior to the rest of us simpletons. You feel that if you reject the "accepted", then you must be "Special" and better than just about everybody. This is the source of elitism.
You are NOT special. You will live an unremarkable life and then you will die. A few friends and family will briefly mourn and then you will be forgotten by history like the Billions of unremarkable people before you. You live in terror of this.
By the way, how's being part of the ELITE working out for you, now that you're the MAJORITY?
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The Daily Bayonet » Global Warming Hoax Weekly Round-Up, Nov.25 2009 links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:
stas peterson| 11.25.09 @ 5:32PM
C is for " Charlatans". For all the Charlatan "Scientists" who turned out to be "Crooks".
Phil Jones, Michael Mann, Raymond Bradley, Malcolm Hughes, Casper
Ammann, Rasmus Benestad, Gavin Schmidt and Kevin Trendbert deserve to go down in Science history along with the fake Doctor of Embryonic Stem Cell phony research, the infamous Dr. Hoo Suk.
They all lined their pockets with encomiums, ill-gotten wealth, research grants, public acclaim, speaking fees, while they "Cooked" the books on "Climate Change".
Yes, "C" is for "Charlatan", and "Crook" and "Climate Change" . And for the International Panel on "Climate Change" and the "Consequent" " Cluster**Ck at "Copenhagen".
electronic | 11.30.09 @ 4:21AM
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Mark Oregon| 12.15.09 @ 4:24PM
Earl, keep telling the big lie. We are not believing you.
“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.”
The_Craven Joseph Goebbels
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Jim Karter | 11.2.10 @ 2:18PM
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America has become the land of spectators, the rest of the world are the ones actually doing the work.
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