Oh No! Arctic Scientist Under Investigation

Remember all that nonsense about polar bears disappearing, even though their numbers kept growing? Yeah, about that.

A federal wildlife biologist whose observation in 2004 of presumably drowned polar bears in the Arctic helped to galvanize the global warming movement has been placed on administrative leave and is being investigated for scientific misconduct, possibly over the veracity of that article.

Charles Monnett, an Anchorage-based scientist with the U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement, or BOEMRE, was told July 18 that he was being put on leave, pending results of an investigation into "integrity issues." But he has not yet been informed by the inspector general's office of specific charges or questions related to the scientific integrity of his work, said Jeff Ruch, executive director of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility.

H/T.

Another scam bites the dust.

In the peer-reviewed article, the researchers said they were reporting, to the best of their knowledge, the first observations of polar bears floating dead offshore and presumed drowned while apparently swimming long distances in open water. Polar bears are considered strong swimmers, they wrote, but long-distance swims may exact a greater metabolic toll than standing or walking on ice in better weather.

They said their observations suggested the bears drowned in rough seas and high winds and "suggest that drowning-related deaths of polar bears may increase in the future if the observed trend of regression of pack ice and/or longer open water periods continues."

The article and presentations drew national attention and helped make the polar bear something of a poster child for the global warming movement. Al Gore's mention of the polar bear in his documentary on climate change, "An Inconvenient Truth," came up during investigators' questioning of Gleason in January.

These people should be brought up on charges.

Climate Confusion: Global Warming Halted by Pollution

OK, so now they tell us there hasn't been any "global warming" since 1998. But it's due to pollution from Asia. So now once we clean up all that pollution--blammo!--then the promise the crazy climate change will kick in.

I love these holiday news dumps.

Smoke belching from Asia's rapidly growing economies is largely responsible for a halt in global warming in the decade after 1998 because of sulphur's cooling effect, even though greenhouse gas emissions soared, a U.S. study said on Monday.

The paper raised the prospect of more rapid, pent-up climate change when emerging economies eventually crack down on pollution.

World temperatures did not rise from 1998 to 2008, while manmade emissions of carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuel grew by nearly a third, various data show.

The researchers from Boston and Harvard Universities and Finland's University of Turku said pollution, and specifically sulphur emissions, from coal-fueled growth in Asia was responsible for the cooling effect.

Sulphur allows water drops or aerosols to form, creating hazy clouds which reflect sunlight back into space.

"Anthropogenic activities that warm and cool the planet largely cancel after 1998, which allows natural variables to play a more significant role," the paper said.

Natural cooling effects included a declining solar cycle after 2002, meaning the sun's output fell.

The study said that the halt in warming had fueled doubts about anthropogenic climate change, where scientists say manmade greenhouse gas emissions are heating the Earth.

"It has been unclear why global surface temperatures did not rise between 1998 and 2008," said the study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States.

Ironically, efforts at cleaning up pollution are also blamed for alleged warming since 1970.

"The post 1970 period of warming, which constitutes a significant portion of the increase in global surface temperature since the mid 20th century, is driven by efforts to reduce air pollution," it said.

So we can blame environmentalists for global warming now?

Charles Manson Speaks Out on Global Warming, Calls Obama an Idiot

Don't laugh. If he spouts enough nonsense about mythical global warming, he'll be guest lecturing at premier universities before long. Of course it'll be long-distance learning.

Crazed cult leader Charles Manson has broken a 20-year silence in a prison interview coinciding with the 40th anniversary of his conviction for the gruesome Sharon Tate murders - to speak out about global warming.

The infamous killer, who started championing environmental causes from behind bars, bemoaned the 'bad things' being done to environment in a rambling phone interview from his Californian jail cell.

'Everyone’s God and if we don’t wake up to that there’s going to be no weather because our polar caps are melting because we’re doing bad things to the atmosphere.

Wait, what? No weather at all?

'If we don’t change that as rapidly as I’m speaking to you now, if we don’t put the green back on the planet and put the trees back that we’ve butchered, if we don’t go to war against the problem...' he added, trailing off.

Crazed cult leader? Heck, he sounds like Al Gore. Come to think of it, Gore is a crazed cult leader.

Obviously his long incarceration has fried his brain.

Manson also sounds like he's riding the anti-Wall Street train so popular with the left.

Manson, whose new lawyer Giovanni Di Stefano recently asked Barack Obama to set him free, also had harsh words for the US President.

Describing him as a 'slave of Wall Street', Manson said: 'I think Obama is an idiot for doing what he’s doing. They’re playing with him.'

Latest Victim of Global Warming: Coffee

It's raining here in New Jersey today. Obviously, global warming is to blame. Later this year it'll warm up: Global warming, no doubt. Unions throwing an extended temper tantrum in Wisconsin? Global warming, silly.

And now, put down your coffee and brace yourselves. Your thirst for caffeine will now suffer from, you guessed it, global warming.

Profits of high-end coffee chains like Starbucks and Green Mountain have been eroded. Coffee futures of Arabica, the high-end bean that comes predominantly from Latin America, have risen more than 85 percent since last June, to $2.95 a pound, partly over concerns about supply, extreme weather and future quality, said George Kopp, an analyst at the International Futures Group in Chicago.

Yet as stockpiles of some of the best coffee beans shrink, global demand is soaring as the rising middle classes of emerging economies like Brazil, India and China develop the coffee habit.

“Coffee production is under threat from global warming, and the outlook for Arabica in particular is not good,” said Peter Baker, a coffee specialist with CABI, a research group in Britain that focuses on agriculture and the environment, noting that climate changes, including heavy rains and droughts, have harmed crops across many parts of Central and South America.

A top coffee scientist, he has rattled trade forums by warning, Cassandra-like, of the possibility of “peak coffee,” meaning that, like oil supplies, coffee supplies might be headed for an inexorable decline unless growers make more concerted efforts to expand production globally.

The Specialty Coffee Association of America warned this year, “It is not too far-fetched to begin questioning the very existence of specialty coffee.”

By the way, if you're not buying this global warming nonsense, it's because your brain is functioning irrationally.

What's the answer for environmentalists? Change the message and frame the issue in a way that doesn't trigger unconscious opposition among so many Americans. That can be a simple as using the right labels: a recent study by researchers at the University of Michigan found that Republicans are less skeptical of "climate change" than "global warming," possibly because climate change sounds less specific. Possibly too because so broad a term includes the severe snowfalls of the past winter that can be a paradoxical result of a generally warmer world. Greens should also pin their message on subjects that are less controversial, like public health or national security. Instead of issuing dire warnings about an apocalyptic future — which seems to make many Americans stop listening — better to talk about the present generation's responsibility to the future, to bequeath their children and grandchildren a safer and healthy planet.

Gee, the nonstop gloom and doom scenarios have people tuning out? Crazy how that is. Maybe if even a single dire prediction had ever come true people might listen to the scaremongers.

Bolivian Crackpot Morales: Failure to Take Action Against 'Global Warming' is 'Ecocide'

We have a choice. Help fund $600 billion annually or be accused of ecocide.

Bolivia's President Evo Morales says the Cancun climate conference will be committing "ecocide" if it fails to take decisive action to halt global warming.

The Bolivian leader spoke Thursday on the next-to-last day of an annual two-week U.N. negotiating session that will fail once again to achieve a sweeping, mandatory pact to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

In a passionate, 20-minute speech, Morales cited families deprived of water because of warming and drought, and islanders facing the loss of homes from seas rising from global warming. He said if governments move away from strong emissions reductions, "then we will be responsible for 'ecocide,' which is equivalent to genocide because this would be an affront to mankind as a whole."

He's coming for your wallet, folks.

With just two days left, delegates to the annual U.N. climate conference haggled and cajoled into the night in search of compromise on a raft of issues, including whether industrial nations should generate $100 billion a year, or up to $600 billion, to help poorer countries cope with global warming.

You know if Obama and the Democrats thought they could get away for it they'd pick up the whole tab.

This ecocide nonsense has taken root already, with the UN squarely behind it. It's a crime against peace or something.

The proposal for the United Nations to accept "ecocide" as a fifth "crime against peace", which could be tried at the International Criminal Court (ICC), is the brainchild of British lawyer-turned-campaigner Polly Higgins.

The radical idea would have a profound effect on industries blamed for widespread damage to the environment like fossil fuels, mining, agriculture, chemicals and forestry.

Supporters of a new ecocide law also believe it could be used to prosecute "climate deniers" who distort science and facts to discourage voters and politicians from taking action to tackle global warming and climate change.

"Ecocide is in essence the very antithesis of life," says Higgins. "It leads to resource depletion, and where there is escalation of resource depletion, war comes chasing behind. Where such destruction arises out of the actions of mankind, ecocide can be regarded as a crime against peace."

Cancun Climate Clowns: 'A Million Climate Change Deaths Each Year'

It's not all one big party down in Cancun. In between lavish soirees, the UN climate kooks are still also focusing on the business at hand: Namely making up wild claims about how may people will die if they don't do something soon and oh, by the way, it'll cost you a bundle.

BY 2030, climate change will indirectly cause nearly one million deaths a year and inflict $US157 billion ($161.21 billion) in damage in terms of today's economy, according to estimates presented at UN talks.

The biggest misery will be heaped on more than 50 of the world's poorest countries, but the United States will pay the highest economic bill, it said.

"In less than 20 years, almost all countries in the world will realise high vulnerability to climate impact as the planet heats up,'' the report warned.

The study, compiled by a humanitarian research organisation and climate-vulnerable countries, assessed how 184 nations will be affected in four areas: health, weather disasters, the loss of human habitat through desertification and rising seas, and economic stress.

Those facing "acute'' exposure are 54 poor or very poor countries, including India. They will suffer disproportionately to others, although they are least to blame for the man-made greenhouse gases that drive climate change, it said.

"Without corrective actions'' a press release accompanying the study said, the world is "headed for nearly one million deaths every single year by 2030.''

More than half of the $157 billion in economic losses will take place in industrialised countries, led by the United States, Japan and Germany

But the cost to their GDP will proportionately be far lower than for poor countries.

The peer-reviewed report was issued by DARA, a Madrid-based NGO, and by the Climate Vulnerable Forum, a coalition of island nations and other countries that are most exposed to climate change.

Saleemul Huq, a researcher at a London-based thinktank, the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), said the findings spelled out the need to start shoring up defences against climate change now, rather than later.

"We are now entering into a highly vulnerable phase of our planet's existence and humanity's existence,'' Huq told a press conference.

Don't worry, though. They're just getting warmed up. They'll be living it up until December 10, so expect more calamitous headlines and dire warnings.

Oh No! Mythical Global Warming 'Could' Kill Off Some Lizards

More hysteria disguised as science.

Lizards are in danger of dying out on a large scale as rising global temperatures force them to spend more time staying cool in the shade and less time tending to basic needs like eating and mating.

Of course temperatures aren't rising so this story is rendered meaningless in the first sentence. But we'll play along.

Scientists warn in a research paper published on Thursday that if the planet continues to heat up at current rates, 20 percent of all lizard species could go extinct by 2080.

So let's all alter our lives just in case a fifth of lizards could be extinct in 70 years. Hey, who isn't up for that?

"The numbers are actually pretty scary," said lead researcher Barry Sinervo from the University of California Santa Cruz. "We've got to try to limit climate change impacts right now or we are sending a whole bunch of species into oblivion."

A mass extinction of lizards, which eat insects and are eaten by birds, could have devastating effects up and down the food chain, but the extent is difficult to predict.

UC Santa Cruz?

Enough said.

It's Come to This: Report Says Global Warming May Cause Cancer and Mental Illness

Actually, I think it's a mental illness if you believe in the global warming scam.

A new government report says global warming could lead to an increase in both cancer and mental illness worldwide, and it calls for more federally funded research to determine how that might happen.

The report, A Human Health Perspective on Climate Change, was published by the Interagency Working Group on Climate Change and Health – a combination of scientists from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, NIH, State Department, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Agriculture, the EPA, and the Department of Health and Human Services.

Oh yeah, let's dump more money down the government research rathole trying to justify this massive hoax.

So how can this cause mental illness? By driving people nuts with endless stories about this hoax? Driving them insane when they realize they've been had by the warmers?

The possible mental health conditions that could be caused by global warming range from irritability to Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, sexual dysfunction, and drug abuse.

“The most common mental health conditions associated with extreme events range from acute traumatic stress to more chronic stress-related conditions such as post-traumatic stress disorder, complicated grief, depression, anxiety disorders, somatic complaints, poor concentration, sleep difficulties, sexual dysfunction, social avoidance, irritability, and drug or alcohol abuse,” reads the report.

It's official. Global warming is responsible for everything.

H/T FFF.

Irony Meter Explodes: Global Warming Activist Freezes to Death in Antarctica; Update: It's a Spoof

I really shouldn't laugh about this, but the irony is just too much.

Famed global warming activist James Schneider and a journalist friend were both found frozen to death on Saturday, about 90 miles from South Pole Station, by the pilot of a ski plane practicing emergency evacuation procedures.

"I couldn't believe what I was seeing", recounted the pilot, Jimmy Dolittle. "There were two snowmobiles with cargo sleds, a tent, and a bright orange rope that had been laid out on the ice, forming the words, 'HELP-COLD'".

One friend of Prof. Schneider told ecoEnquirer that he had been planning a trip to an ice sheet to film the devastation brought on by global warming. His wife, Linda, said that she had heard him discussing the trip with his environmental activist friends, but she assumed that he was talking about the Greenland ice sheet, a much smaller ice sheet than Antarctica.

"He kept talking about when they 'get down to chili', and I thought they were talking about the order in which they would consume their food supplies", Mrs. Schneider recounted. "I had no idea they were talking about Chile, the country from which you usually fly or sail in order to reach Antarctica".

Update: Apparently this was from a spoof site. My bad. Someone in the comments mentioned there's a link over at Watts Up With That but I can't locate it over there.

Global Warming as Peacemaker

Who said mythical global warming did nothing but harm? This pile of rocks with some trees on it apparently has been the source of a long-running feud between India and Bangladesh, but thanks to "rising sea levels" of a fifth of an inch a year, this land mass, known as New Moore Island, is now mostly submerged.

At last there will be peace in our time. We can now officially rename it No More Island. Requisite Al Gore hysteria sure to follow.

For nearly 30 years, India and Bangladesh have argued over control of a tiny rock island in the Bay of Bengal.

Now rising sea levels have resolved the dispute for them: the island's gone.

New Moore Island in the Sunderbans has been completely submerged, said oceanographer Sugata Hazra, a professor at Jadavpur University in Calcutta.

Its disappearance has been confirmed by satellite imagery and sea patrols, he said. "What these two countries could not achieve from years of talking, has been resolved by global warming," said Hazra.

Scientists at the School of Oceanographic Studies at the university have noted an alarming increase in the rate at which sea levels have risen over the past decade in the Bay of Bengal.

Until 2000, the sea levels rose about 3 millimeters (0.12 inches) a year, but over the last decade they have been rising about 5 millimeters (0.2 inches) annually, he said.

Another nearby island, Lohachara, was submerged in 1996, forcing its inhabitants to move to the mainland, while almost half the land of Ghoramara island was underwater, he said.

At least 10 other islands in the area were at risk as well, Hazra said.

"We will have ever larger numbers of people displaced from the Sunderbans as more island areas come under water," he said.

Bangladesh, a low-lying delta nation of 150 million people, is one of the countries worst-affected by global warming.

Bangladesh has been affected by a lot more than just global warming, but if these jokers wants to blame decades of misery on the climate, have at it. Maybe it's time for another benefit concert.

Officials estimate 18 percent of Bangladesh's coastal area will be underwater and 20 million people will be displaced if sea levels rise 1 meter (3.3 feet) by 2050 as projected by some climate models.

Oh yeah, climate models. We all know how reliable they've turned out to be.

As to what's purported to be New Moore Island in the photo above, I saw scenes similar to that in North Jersey after heavy rains a couple of weeks ago, and somehow we managed to overcome that long weekend of climate change.

Global Warming Idiocy of the Day: Flowers Losing Scent or Something

Maybe people just have colds due to the months of freezing weather.

A rose may stop smelling like a rose.

This is the concern of environmentalists as flowers are losing their scent due to climate change and air pollution. And their fragrance may be lost forever.

Science and Technology Professor Emeritus at Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Dr Abdul Latif Mohamad, said genetically modified flowers might be the way out.

Climate change is also the reason Kuala Lumpur City Hall is increasingly turning to shady trees, because flowers which previously formed the centrepiece of its beautification programme have been wilting fast.

I noticed long ago certain flowers wilt in the direct sun during hot summer months. They just figured this out?

Datuk Bandar Datuk Ahmad Fuad Ismail said City Hall used to spend RM1.5 million ($635,100) a month to plant and maintain flowers in the city, but the contractor's services were terminated in March last year.

City Hall has taken over the planting, opting for bou-gainvillea and the tropical shrubs, Ixora, for their durability and cheaper cost.

Under the previous arrangement, some of the small flowers cost RM3.50 per seedling.

"It was getting too costly to beautify the city. Flowers were dying fast," he said, adding that City Hall would continue to plant shady trees more suited for soaking up the increasing pollution and coping with global warming.

More Than Ever Believe Global Warming is Nonsense

ManBearPig hardest hit.

Gallup's annual update on Americans' attitudes toward the environment shows a public that over the last two years has become less worried about the threat of global warming, less convinced that its effects are already happening, and more likely to believe that scientists themselves are uncertain about its occurrence. In response to one key question, 48% of Americans now believe that the seriousness of global warming is generally exaggerated, up from 41% in 2009 and 31% in 1997, when Gallup first asked the question.

This tends to happen when the constant gloom and doom scenarios never come to fruition. I guess the Warmers will just have to become more hysterical now.

The Murder-Suicide Victims of 'Global Warming'

Somehow I doubt anyone will ask junk scientist Al Gore about this.

Francisco Lotero, 56, and Miriam Coletti, 23, shot their daughter and her toddler brother before killing themselves.

Their son Francisco, two, died instantly after being hit in the back.

However, their unnamed daughter cheated death after the bullet from her father's handgun missed her vital organs.

Police were alerted by worried neighbours who discovered the massacre three days after the shooting and the girl was taken to hospital.

The youngster is recovering in hospital in the town of Goya in the northern Argentine province of Corrientes, where doctors say she is out of danger.

Her parents said they feared the effects of global warming in a suicide note discovered by police.

The parents and a two-year-old are dead and a child left an orphan, all becasue of global warming hysteria.

I hope Gore sleeps well in his mansion at night. The blood is on his hands.

Ha Ha Ha: 'Warming to Bring Stronger Hurricanes'

This was the claim after Katrina and since that time we've seen nothing approaching the effects of that devastating hurricane. But that's not stopping the warmer alarmists from just making things up as they go along.

Top researchers now agree that the world is likely to get stronger but fewer hurricanes in the future because of global warming, seeming to settle a scientific debate on the subject. But they say there's not enough evidence yet to tell whether that effect has already begun.

So there's not enough evidence, yet it seems to settle the debate? What debate? Anyone who disagrees with the warmers is called a denier and a crank. A debate would actually involve these people presenting concrete evidence, not some half-baked theories they use to perpetuate this hoax.

Since just before Hurricane Katrina hit Louisiana and Mississippi in 2005, dueling scientific papers have clashed about whether global warming is worsening hurricanes and will do so in the future. The new study seems to split the difference. A special World Meteorological Organization panel of 10 experts in both hurricanes and climate change — including leading scientists from both sides — came up with a consensus, which is published online Sunday in the journal Nature Geoscience.

Oh, so this is published in Nature Geoscience?

Well, well, well, isn't the timing of that impeccable? That's the same journal that had a paper on alleged sea level rise withdrawn. So let's forget about that and move on to another hoax. This report, naturally, omits that relevant fact.

Update: Via Gateway Pundit, here's video of Obama pushing the rising sea level hoax. Somehow I get the feeling Obama won't be retracting this nonsense.

The Return of 'Frozen Gore'

Considering most of the planet is suffering through one of the coldest winters in decades, I notice global warming hoaxer Al Gore has been keeping an unusually low profile the last couple of weeks after the Copenhagen debacle. Probably safely ensconced in one of his mansions building up his massive carbon footprint by blasting the heat. Even a scammer like Gore likes to stay warm.

So we notice today that "Frozen Al Gore" has made a triumphant return up in Alaska.

In what might become an annual tradition, an ice sculpture of former Vice President Al Gore has taken its place in front of Thrifty Liquor along Airport Way.

The two-ton “Frozen Gore” sculpture isn’t exactly a tribute. It’s a tongue-in-cheek critique of Gore’s vocal belief in man-made climate change, complete with hot air pouring out of his mouth.

Local businessmen Craig Compeau and Rudy Gavora contracted the piece from award-winning sculptor Steve Dean and say they’ll keep erecting one each winter until Gore accepts an invitation to discuss the global warming issue in Fairbanks.

“We do want to invite debate,” Compeau said. “We don’t agree with his theories — we’re suspicious of the financial motivation behind them.”

This year’s version includes special effects, thanks to a system that pipes the exhaust from a Ford F-350 out of Gore’s open mouth. Compeau will fire up the truck periodically this winter to create the “hot air” effect.

With temperatures in the single digits, a crowd of about 10 people laughed as smoke poured out of the sculpture as it was unveiled Tuesday morning. An excerpt of a recent Gore speech on climate change played over a loudspeaker.

Compeau said the sculpture is inspiring a contest, in which the winner will receive winter gear and an Al Gore bobblehead doll.

He’s asking people to guess how long an F-350 would need to run to match the emissions of a Lear jet flight from Gore’s home in Tennessee to Copenhagen, the site of a recent international climate change summit.

In an e-mail, a Gore spokeswoman said the former vice president doesn’t own a Lear jet and flew to and from Copenhagen aboard commercial flights.

Compeau said he’ll change the wording so his Web site doesn’t claim Gore took a private jet but said the contest will remain the same. He said Gore has been guilty of hypocrisy in the past on the climate change issue.

“I know he’s gone out of his way to be seen flying commercial, but in the past, he’s flown on a Lear jet,” he said.

When All Else Fails, Invoke the Holocaust

These global warmers are quite the amusing bunch, although I'd laugh a lot more if they weren't so dangerous to our economic health. A while back we had the respected armchair climatologist Ellen Goodman comparing those who question the climate change junk science with Holocaust deniers.

Today the Holocaust analogy again rears its ugly head, this time coming from a Sudanese official ironically enough, considering what's happened in Darfur over the years.

Behold the latest idiocy.

A NEGOTIATOR from Sudan has likened industrial powers' plans to fight climate change to the Holocaust as passions flared over a deal in Copenhagen.

Sudanese official Lumumba Stanislas Dia-ping, who chairs the Group of 77 and China bloc of 130 poor nations, angrily denounced a US-led draft agreement on climate change during an all-night session.

The pact "is a solution based on values, the very same values in our opinion that funnelled six million people in Europe into furnaces," Dia-ping said.

Dia-ping is known for strong statements and declared the draft deal the worst in the history of climate negotiations.

The draft "asked Africa to sign a suicide pact, an incineration pact, in order to maintain the economic dominance of a few countries," he said.

Delegates from a number of Western countries quickly took to the floor to denounce the Sudanese delegate's references as offensive.

Ed Miliband, Britain's climate minister, condemned the "disgusting comparison" which he said "should offend people across this conference whatever background they come from".

I must say msot of those "across this conference" offend me considering their refusal to even listen to opposing viewpoints. Be that as it may, invoking the Holocaust no matter what side of the debate you're on only trivializes the actual Holocaust itself and offers nothing to the current debate.

The great global warming hoaxer of our time isn't exactly beneath the Holocaust analogy, either.

If you question the severity of the climate threat, or argue that how humanity should handle it is up for debate, you are likely to be called a ‘climate change denier’. One green went so far as to advocate Nuremberg-style war crimes trials for those who question anthropogenic climate change. Another commentator wrote: ‘I would like to say we’re at a point where global warming is impossible to deny. Let’s just say that global warming deniers are now on a par with Holocaust deniers, though one denies the past and the other denies the present and future.’

So, contesting the irrefutable evidence that six million Jews were murdered by the Nazis is put on a par with questioning events that have not even happened yet. To demand that policies which affect our everyday lives should be put up for critical inquiry and debate is likened to falsifying history.

In his Oxford speech, Gore admitted that it is difficult to persuade the public that the threat from climate change is as urgent as the threat from Hitler was in the 1930s. Yes, that’s because the majority of sensible people can tell the difference between the manageable challenges posed by changes to the environment and the global havoc wreaked by the Second World War, the rise of fascism, and the Nazis’ attempt to annihilate the Jews.

'It Could Be That the 2016 Games Are the Last Olympics in the History of Mankind'

What better reason could there be to award the 2016 O-lympics to the corrupt Chicago machine? Oh, you mean this quote isn't some scare tactic from Obama and friends? Well, no, it's not. It seems global warming hysteria has also infected the brains of some in Japan.

How pathetic.

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

Tokyo is bidding to host the 2016 summer Olympics with Chicago, Rio de Janeiro and Madrid also in the running. The International Olympic Committee will elect the winning candidate during its session on Oct. 2 in the Danish capital.

"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.

Plenty of scientists have also said this is nonsense. I prefer to side with the sane and rational, not the hysterical.

Although if Chicago indeed does get the games, I hope President Palin is kind enough to invite the Obamas to join her for the opening cermonies.

Liberal Climate Change Icon Discredits Her Own Findings

Strolling around some of the liberal web sites, just trying to see what has their panties in knot today, I found some references to a new report released by a professor who appears to be some sort of icon to the global warming/climate change crowd. She is Bette Otto-Bliesner and her whole claim to fame seems to be that for years she has been warning the world about the melting ice at the poles and how it will cause sea levels to rise.

Well, having never heard of this woman I went searching [ed-I use the Ask search engine instead of that other one] and found some interesting articles.

Like I said, she is a one-hit wonder, but in one report I found when the conclusions of a computer model didn't match her conclusions she went back and changed the parameters until they did. In other words, she had a predetermined outcome already decided upon and then built a program to quantify that outcome. This report was used back in 2006 as one of the key themes of a certain former vice president in making a propaganda film designed to scare all of us into driving soy-powered vehicles freeing up much needed aviation fuel for his private jet so that he could continue flying around and telling us how we are destroying the planet.

Well, Ms. Otto-Bliesner has once again reiterated her claim and once again it is all the buzz except that of course she is now moving up her Armageddon time table, no doubt in part because of the Energy/Economic team that Obama has constituted has a much more sympathetic, albeit gullible ear for this sort of thing.

With a little more digging I found that the very causes of her nightmare scenario she debunked years earlier. She asserts that man, particularly since the beginning of the industrial age, is the cause of global warming and therefore the melting ice packs, although there is plenty of evidence to the contrary. If her assertions of today are true how does she reconcile them with her findings from a few years ago?

The last time so much ice was lost from the poles -- in a period between ice ages 129,000 years ago -- global sea levels rose between 4m and 6m.

That's right (shocka!), the ice packs have melted before.

The last time I checked 129,000 years ago there were no SUV's, man was just barely walking upright, and we were coming out of an ice age.

This is what has always chapped me about the global warming alarmists. How do they know what the temperature of the planet is supposed to be? Our planet has always gone through climate changes but they have somehow managed to invent some sort of mythical number and said that is what the thermostat should be set at.

Coincidentally, that 4 to 6 meter rise in sea levels is exactly what she is predicting will happen at the current rate of change happening today. Except that she had to tweak her computer models to reach those conclusions, and in our planets past those sort of levels were the norm.

BTW, in the picture above Ms Otto-Bliesner is second from left, holding that contraption with a champagne glass on top during some sort of relay race held by the organization she works for--The University Corporation for Atmospheric Research.

Heartless Obama Hates Polar Bears

Recall the hysteria when the Bush administration didn't cave in to the global warming nuts and declare polar bears an endangered species, despite the fact their numbers are greater than ever. Well, it will be curious to see how heartless and cruel Barack Obama is portrayed now that another promise and constituency is thrown under the bus.

The Associated Press has learned that the Interior Department is letting stand a Bush administration regulation that limits protection of polar bears from global warming.

People familiar with the decision say Interior Secretary Ken Salazar will announce late Friday morning that he will not rescind the Bush rule, although Congress gave him authority to do so. The people spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to pre-empt the secretary's announcement.

A year ago, the iconic polar bear was declared a threatened species because global warming is causing a severe decline in Arctic sea ice, the bear's habitat. But the Bush administration rules limit protection, saying no action outside the Arctic region could be considered a threat to the bear under the law.

Check out this part from the first incarnation of the story.

A U.S. decision involving the iconic polar bear could determine whether protecting endangered species might also help save the earth from global warming.

Sheesh. A little advocacy journalism, anyone?

Update: Sure to further enrage to kook left: Sarah Palin declares victory.

“This is a clear victory for Alaska,” Governor Palin said. “We all want to preserve and protect the polar bear using the best possible tools, but there is absolutely no need to change the 4(d) rule to accomplish this purpose. I want to thank Secretary Salazar for his careful review of the science and the administrative record that led to this decision.”

Today's Global Warming Hysteria: Mass Migrations and War

Heck, we already have war and mass migration. Can't see what some mythical global warming is going to do to change that.

If we don't deal with climate change decisively, "what we're talking about then is extended world war," the eminent economist said.

His audience Saturday, small and elite, had been stranded here by bad weather and were talking climate. They couldn't do much about the one, but the other was squarely in their hands. And so, Lord Nicholas Stern was telling them, was the potential for mass migrations setting off mass conflict.

"Somehow we have to explain to people just how worrying that is," the British economic thinker said.

Stern, author of a major British government report detailing the cost of climate change, was one of a select group of two dozen — environment ministers, climate negotiators and experts from 16 nations — scheduled to fly to Antarctica to learn firsthand how global warming might melt its ice into the sea, raising ocean levels worldwide.

Their midnight flight was scrubbed on Friday and Saturday because of high winds on the southernmost continent, 3,000 miles from here. While waiting at their Cape Town hotel for the gusts to ease down south, chief sponsor Erik Solheim, Norway's environment minister, improvised with group exchanges over coffee and wine about the future of the planet.

"International diplomacy is all about personal relations," Solheim said. "The more people know each other, the less likely there will be misunderstandings."

Some really deep thinking there. Where would we be without such experts?