The American Spectator

Eric Cartman| 2.11.10 @ 10:34AM

My parakeet won't even use the NYT anymore. Poor thing! He weighs 20 pounds. I should really change his paper.

Tim| 2.11.10 @ 11:00AM

Rush is the Snow Miser?

Christmas Carols Snow Miser Song Lyrics: (sort of)

I'm Mister White Christmas
I'm Mister Snow
I'm Mister climate denier
I'm Mister Ten Below
Friends call me Snow Miser
What ever I touch
Turns to snow in my clutch
I'm too much!

[Chorus:]
He's Mister White Christmas
He's Mister Snow ...

Jim Hlavac| 2.11.10 @ 11:36AM

It is of course Bush's fault. Such will be the emotion in just a day or so from now. I just await the reasoning, so that I might giggle all the more in wild fuming denying hysteria as the snow falls once again on my shattered palms of subtropic gardens past. I did write on my other, human, palm: "buy snow shovel." Right here in South Louisiana, as global warmth spreads its embrace.

glenny| 2.11.10 @ 12:55PM

Jim, don't know where you are but I'm in Baton Rouge, looking forward to some SNOW tonight. Wonder what the Global Cooling Deniers are gonna say now. BTW, Geaux Saints! Who Dat! glenny

Bob| 2.11.10 @ 1:45PM

And here we are with Vancouver and practically no snow. Let me ask you Chris, do you still believe the earth is flat or that it was created in 6 days and is only 6,000 years old? When's the last time you rode a dinosaur?

As I've said before, you guys make comments without looking at the data. There is a long term warming trend, so saying otherwise just makes you look like a fool. But the issue that is not settled is how much is do to nature and how much to man. I've looked at that data as well and it is not clear than man is the problem here.

The global weather patterns have, indeed, changed. For example, average global temperatures in January were the warmest in history.

http://www.drroyspencer.com/20.....-72-deg-c/

Then again, who at AmSpec actually looks at charts and data? Certainly not with climate, nor even with the economy. Yes, AmSpec is a data free zone just like Palin.

BOB| 2.11.10 @ 5:44PM

TOOOT! YOU HAVE ANGERED ME, BOB "HOCKEY STICK" MATHEMATICA! SUPER MATHEMATICIAN, CEO OF 176.3 FORTUNE 175 COMPANIES (THAT'S RIGHT, I ACTUALLY RAN 1.3 MORE COMPANIES THAN FORTUNE RECOGNIZES! GOT A PROBLEM WITH THAT?!) TRANSLATOR OF OBSCURE LANGUAGES, WAR HERO, HAVARD EDUCATED MBA WHO DABBLES IN ASTRO-PHYSICS, LIGHT MECHANICS, ELECTROMAGNATISM AND THE GRAND UNIFIED THEORY (WHICH I FIGURED OUT LAST NIGHT, BUT WON'T TELL YOU OUT OF SPITE!) WHILE BUILDING BRAINS IN MY SPARE TIME! DO NOT STARE AT THE FUNNEL ATOP MY HEAD THAT TOOTS AND BLOWS STEAM! HOW DARE YOU PUSILLANIMOUS PALIN PUSHERS DISTURB ME WITH YOUR RUBE-ISH RUBBISH! TOOOOT!

YOU WEATHER-INFIDELS TOOOOT CAN NOT UNDERSTAND OUR GREATNESS TOOOOT! AS THAT LOVELY, LOVELY MAN KIETH "THE DREAM" OLBERMANN (OR AS I LIKE TO CALL HIM, McDREAMY) HAS POINTED OUT MANY TMIES, GLOBAL WARMING IS FACT! TOOOOOT! YOU AND YOUR NARROW VIEWS CANNOT POSSIBLY UNDERSTAND THAT WHEN THE WEATHER IS COLD IT'S GLOBAL WARMING AND WHEN IT'S WARM IT'S GLOBAL WARMING TOOOOT! YOU UNEDUCATED DOCTORS, PILOTS, METEOROLOGISTS AND STATE UNIVERSITY EDUCATED MBAS CANNOT FATHOM THE KNOWLEDGE AND THOUGHT PROCESSES IT TAKES TO UNDERSTAND THIS COMPLEX INTERDEPENDENCE OF WEATHER AND ISOBARIC THERMODYNAMICS! BOO! BIG WORDS! (HEH HEH HEH, I KILL ME!) TOOOTY TOOT TOOT!

ONLY PEOPLE LIKE ME UNDERSTAND THE GRAPHS AND CHARTS AND DATA AND KNOW . . . WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING AT? YES I DID CALL HIM McDREAMY. SO? YOU DON'T THINK OLBERMANN IS A BEAUTIFUL MAN? HE HAS SUCH DELICATE FEATURES AND . . . NO! I AM NOT GAY, AND I WOULD APPRECIATE IT IF YOU WOULD NOT INFER SUCH THINGS! NO! THERE'S NOTHING WRONG WITH IT! AND LET ME TELL YOU, WE WOULD BE BETTER OFF IF THE ENTIRE NAVY WAS GAY, OKAY! WHY ARE YOU LOOKING AT ME THAT WAY? YES, I AM WEARING A DRESS AND GIRDLE. HOW WOULD IT LOOK IF I HAD A BELLY? NOT, GOOD I TELL YOU. JUST BECAUSE A MAN WEARS A DRESS, STOCKINGS, GIRDLE AND SPIKES DOES NOT MEAN HE'S GAY! I CAN APPRECIATE MANLY BEAUTY LIKE OLBERMANNS IN MY DINNER ATTIRE WITHOUT BEING GAY, YA KNOW! WHAT? IT ONLY LOOKS THAT WAY TO YOU, RACIST, HOMOPHOBE PALIN AND RUSH SUPPORTERS! TOOOOOWEEEET! UH OH! I BETTER CALM DOWN! MY FUNNEL IS TWEETING AGAIN!

SEE, ITS JUST LIKE GLOBAL WARMING, TOOOOT! YOU SEE RECORD COLD WEATHER ALL OVER THE NORTHERN HEMISPHERE AND ASSUME THAT CLIMATE CHANGE HAS BEEN A BIG HOAX! TOOOOOOTWEET! WELL, IT'S A 104 IN RIO, YOU CLOWNS! TOOOT! ACCOUNT FOR THAT! TOOOOT TWEESSSSS! YOU IGNORE THE SCIENCE! TWEEEDLE! JUST LIKE YOU SEE ME IN A DRESS AND HEELS AND ASSUME I'M GAY! TOOWEETOOOT! YOU INBRED, IDIOTIC IMBECILES HAVE GOTTEN ME MAD AGAIN! TWWWEEEET! MY FUNNLE IS TWEETING INSTEAD OF TOOTING! TWEEEEET! TWEEEEEET! I HAVE HAD IT WITH YOU FOLLISH PEOPLE! GO LISTEN TO RUSH SOME MORE! TWEEEEEEEEET! I HATE YOU ALLLLLLL! TWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEET!

Missy| 2.11.10 @ 7:09PM

Damn. LMAO!!

Troll Watch| 2.11.10 @ 7:17PM

You're the man.

Nick| 2.11.10 @ 11:16PM

Reading BOB THE TOOOOOTER!'s posts is addictive!

Even if you try to avert your eyes, you can't. You have to finish it, all the way to the end!

Sguild| 2.11.10 @ 11:59PM

Isn't Olberdork "undead". I mean what's with the dressing up like Count Chocula every evening.

Sguild| 2.11.10 @ 2:05PM

Hey Baghdad Bob,

The hockey stick graph was thoroughly debunked years ago. Fact is, the planet is actually cooling. No amount of data tampering by the IPCC is going to change that.

Bob| 2.11.10 @ 2:34PM

Hey Sguild -- Do you even understand the hockey stick issue? The progenitors of this THEORY said they could reproduce the hockey stick effect through the use of random data. This didn't have anything to do with the fact that the globe is warming. In fact, they would agree that the globe is warming. The issue is how fast is it warming. This is an important issue because if it isn't increasing rapidly, it is highly unlikely that this was caused by man -- AND THAT IS THE ISSUE.

There is always variability in the data. Recently, we've had decade long cooling in the early 1900's and the mid-1900's before increases resumed. Get it, about once every 50 years we have a decade of cooling. This is happening again now. There is no scientific reason to believe that this is a change in the long term trend, only a continuation of prior historical short term cooling trends.

Personally, having been trained in mathematics, I think the hockey stick effect may be somewhat overstated. But that does not change the fact that we have a long term global warming effect.

Like I said before, AmSpec -- and Palin conservatives -- are a data free and fact free zone devoid of intellectual capabilities.

Sguild| 2.11.10 @ 11:52PM

Ok...so...if we don't know how rapidly it is "warming" or how much humans are contributing to this "warming", maybe we shouldn't be signing onto any global agreements to redistribute TRILLIONS of dollars of wealth. Especially since several of the pro-AGW scientists at the heart of the AGW data have been "hiding the decline"...so to speak. Not to mention the wild exaggerations by the IPCC that have been coming to light in recent weeks.

SoCon| 2.11.10 @ 2:38PM

According to 'charts and graphs' Bob, the Harvard educated King of irony, freezing blizzards mean man-made global warming and double digit unemployment and trillions in debt mean a healthy economy.

And the libtard calls Palin dumb!

Bob| 2.11.10 @ 2:50PM

So, SoCon, because your front yard is flat, the world must be flat as well. How do "freezing blizzards" in the U.S. explain the lack of snow and warm temperatures in Vancouver?

It's no wonder you like Palin, you both lack triple digit IQ's.

SoCon| 2.11.10 @ 3:56PM

How does 'man made' global warming explain either, bonehead?

I'm sure you've got a chart secreted in your pocket that will elucidate me.

Troll Watch| 2.11.10 @ 4:36PM

Who started using weather anecdotes to prove theories? It was the media and mindless Democratic politicians. We're just having fun with these same types when the weather is inconvenient. The critiques of man made global warming as a theory are based on their data analysis and well documented funny business. The well know Aramaic scholar has quoted a climate skeptic by the way. Check out Roy Spencer.

http://www.drroyspencer.com/20.....ge-debate/

Here is an excerpt:

But as the Climategate e-mails have now exposed (and what many scientists already knew), we skeptics of human-caused climate change have “peers” out there who have taken it upon themselves to block our research from being published whenever possible.

Dumb Bob managed to quote somebody that he doesn't even agree with.

Troll Watch| 2.11.10 @ 5:41PM

Looks like an interesting book.

“Climate Confusion”
How Global Warming Hysteria Leads to Bad Science, Pandering Politicians and Misguided Policies That Hurt the Poor

by Roy W. Spencer, Ph. D.

Nick| 2.11.10 @ 9:25PM

Troll Watch,

3/5 Bob and Toddard constantly get burned using google and wiki to search for things to prove their inane points.

Thanks for busting 3/5 Bob.

Troll Watch| 2.12.10 @ 12:33AM

It was my pleasure. It is hard to believe that these trolls think that they are doing some kind of good for their cause by their antics. Thanks for the information below.

ACynic| 2.11.10 @ 3:23PM

The earth has experienced numerous ice ages and periods of global warming. There have been warming periods - well before the industrial revolution - that were warmer than today's climate and exhibited higher levels of CO2. . Each of these warming periods ended in an ice age.
Every ice age has ended in global warming.
Why did this happen?
No one knows.
Science is not able to explain the historical climate, much less model it.
If you cannot explain the historical climate, there is no way one can predict the future climate.
The best evidence seems to be that the activity of the sun, the earths orbit and earths precession as it rotates, seem to coincide - rather robustly - to major climatic shifts on earth.
If earth is now in a warming trend, it is just one of the hundreds that have preceded this one.
By the way, scientific consensus is politics, not science.
Also, when any group states that "the debate is over," you know that the "fix is in," because the purpose of this is to shut down debate.

ncatty| 2.11.10 @ 5:34PM

Well done. No one can explain how humans caused the Medieval Warming Period, when temperatures were much warmer than now. Until that explanation is given, forgive me for saying that the debate over AGW is "over."

Troll Watch| 2.11.10 @ 7:23PM

If you check out Bob's reference, you'll find that Dr. Roy Spencer, climatologist agrees with ACynic and not with Bob. Bob wasn't very careful with his web search and picked out a skeptical scientist to try and make his point. Bob never ceases to amaze me. I wish we could get a more capable troll. This one doesn't keep us very sharp.

Nick| 2.11.10 @ 9:17PM

Other great sites are:

http://www.michaelcrichton.net/

http://wattsupwiththat.com/

The last website (Watts) shows why the data used by the AGW hoaxers, and 3/5 Bob, is seriously flawed.

Enjoy!

Nick| 2.11.10 @ 9:20PM

Also try these sites:

http://www.junkscience.com/index.html

http://www.numberwatch.co.uk/

Nick| 2.11.10 @ 9:21PM

This one really shows how flawed the data is in the U.S.:

http://www.surfacestations.org/

Nick| 2.12.10 @ 1:01AM

This one's for you 3/5 Bob.

From Part 3 of the Pro-Global Warming Hoax UK Gaurdian's 12 part series on ClimatGate, a key graph:

"Three hours after receiving Folland's response, Briffa sent a long and passionate email demanding caution over the use of Mann's hockey stick. 'It should not be taken as read that Mike's series is THE CORRECT ONE,' he warned. 'I know there is pressure to present a nice tidy story as regards "apparent unprecedented warming in a thousand years or more in the proxy data", but in reality the situation is not quite so simple... For the record, I believe that the recent warmth was probably matched about 1000 years ago... and that there is strong evidence for major changes in climate over the Holocene that require explanation and that could represent part of the current or future background variability of our climate.' This last point is important. Briffa was saying not only that the hockey stick might not be right, but that any graph of the last thousand years could not be taken to represent the limits of natural variability."