Posted on 06/24/2008 6:44:41 AM PDT by PJ-Comix
Remember all the propaganda we were fed about how Global Warming is a non-partisan issue? Well, it turns out it was all hogwash. No big surprise there. The Left is now enlisting Global Warming alarmism on a big scale to help get Barack Obama elected as you can see in this KOmmie THREAD titled, "Hansen on Global Warming: We have ONE year.. ONE election." Yes, me must elect Obama or it will be the END OF THE WORLD!!! It turns out that James Hansen has been making Global Warming alarmist WARNINGS for at least 20 years. In 1988 he predicted severe dought was coming to the midwest. Five years later, in 1993, the Midwest experienced extreme flooding. Also check out the current flooding in the Midwest to see just how accurate Hansen has been in his predictions. One might as well consult Jean Dixon in predicting climate change. However, the KOmmies turn to Hansen as some sort of prophet to help them elect their beloved Obama. So let us now watch the KOmmies play the Global Warming Alarmist card in Bolshevik Red while the commentary of your humble correspondent, noting that the weatherman is lucky if he can predict the weather correctly just 3 days in advance, is in the [barackets]:
Hansen on Global Warming: We have ONE year.. ONE election
[Or your KOmmie brains will fry.]
In 2006, the great climate scientist James Hansen famously said
[Something as "accurate" as his prediction about Midwest drought?]
"I think we have a very brief window of opportunity to deal with climate change ... no longer than a decade, at the most."
[He needs that same script for use in 2016.]
Since then, things have gotten much, much worse. The Arctic ice is melting faster than expected. CO2 emissions are accelerating. Global warming is accelerating.
[Don't forget about that drought in the Midwest.]
Hansen no longer stands by his estimate that we have one decade to turn things around. He now thinks that was too optimistic.
Today, James Hansen told congress that we have one year.
[Translation: Elect Barack Obama or we all DIE!!!]
We have one year. One election.
[Elect Obama. Elect Obama. ELECT OBAMA!!!]
And simply winning is not enough.. we will need radical changes in policy.
[TRANSLATION: We need Global Warming as an excuse to institute socialism.]
And if we lose...
[You will be joining the Heavens Gate cult aboard the Mother Ship. And now to the rest of the KOmmies...]
Most coverage has focussed on his statement that oil CEOs should be prosecuted. This is interesting, but I think misses the point of his testimony.
[Thanx for that confirmation that Hansen is indeed a leftwing loon.]
It's time to stop Climaticide and that means working for justice as well as having the right policies. Without justice there will be cynicism and cynicism plays into the hands of the denialists and the tactics of disinformation.
[LOL! "Climaticide." I definitely have to file that word away with "Freudenschade."]
The warming of the Arctic is beginning to look irreversible. There are positive feedbacks that are amplifying inputs. Sea ice melting is causing more warming and more warm Atlantic water flowing into the Arctic.
[Gee! Then how is it that we can still watch Ice Road Truckers who drive right over the frozen Arctic ocean?]
Republican ideology will block any meaningful. Climate related reform into the foreseeable future. We all might as well accept extinction because nothing will change in the USA in terms of politics. The only conceivable circumstance that might avoid extinction of humanity is if the oil economy suffers catastrophic and irreversible loss. Which, given Republican Rapturist ideology, is always possible via warmongering, most likely Iran. Even the complete melting of Greenland won't stop the greed and selfishness of Republicans.
[EVIL Republicans!!! It's all their fault! So much for that hype about Global Warming being a non-partisan issue.]
He seems to be mixing a bunch of stuff. One moment, it is "99% certain." The next he's saying there will be 2-meter sea level rise this century, which is certanly not in IPCC projections.
[Don't stop Hansen. He's on a roll.]
Considering that we will not take power for 7 more months - we have a little problem here.
[Which will pale in comparison to the HUGE mental problem you will have in 7 months if you do NOT take power.]
Hansen's superlative reputation makes his increasingly edgy statements deeply disturbing.
[Yeah. I found his statements about Midwest drought deeply disturbing.]
For a bunch of fear-based weenies, I don't understand why the deniers aren't more scared, really.
[I'm sooooo frightened about Hansen's incredibly accurate predictions about drought in the Midwest.]
When they try to argue that climate scientists are "bought off" by the environmental lobby. Like there's big, big money in environmentalism. These guys are geniuses.
[Al Gore seems to be making a pretty penny in selling Carbon Credit indulgences.]
Also accept the fact that this century will see a human dieoff to the tune of about three billion excess deaths. The best we can do at this point is preserve accumulated knowledge and the values that go along with reducing rather than increasing violence over time. What we're headed for is a centuries-long dark age driven by the consequences of overshoot & collapse. There will be places that manage to preserve knowledge and an enlightened culture, but these will be relatively few and far between. You want to be in one of those places. Ideally a town with a small university, farming capabilities nearby, minimal risk of town-wrecking disasters such as tornados and earthquakes, and relative climate stability. Or sacrifice the "university" criterion and search based on the rest of those, looking for a healthy local economy with a mix of practical skills. Finding those places is difficult but that's what you need to do.
[I'm already picturing leftwing monks in small universities preserving our knowledge and culture on scrolls as, outside, rightwing yahoo redneck barbarians destroy civilization in their pickup trucks.]
If Obama loses the election say goodbye to Florida, NYC and any other coastal area.
[Bye-bye!]
I am sorting out what I think about Obama coming out today in support of corn ethanol. I was a little surprised, knowing that we have discussed here the disadvantages of using corn for fuel vs food.
[Just dump that contradiction down the Memory Hole.]
You might want to repeatedly view some Holocaust pics just for the exercise. To get you toughened up. Anybody under the age of 45 is going to see things before they die that will make them sorry they're not 75 today.
[Nobody is stopping you from entering the Mother Ship right now.]
I'm no skeptic. I'm a physicist trained in meteorology. I agree with much of what is written or quoted above but what Hansen has said and will say is mostly political rhetoric not scientific consensus.
[HERETIC!!!]
I've been beseeching my parents to stockpile food for the last year, but they're generally dismissive of my concerns. What are the rest of you doing?
[Stockpiling DiGiorno pizzas.]
Anybody Have a Ranch In Paraguay that they can sell me?
[No but I have a bridge in Brooklyn I can sell you.]
I'm just glad I don't have any kids, so I won't have to look them in the eye when it finally hits home to people just how screwed we are and they start looking at those of my age and older and ask. "You knew! You saw this coming, and you did nothing! Why?"
[WHEW! Thank God you didn't reproduce!]
Ranch in Paraguay, you say? You're in luck. I've recently inherited a ranch in Paraguay from the Prince of Nigeria. I've set up an escrow account to accomodate the transaction, you just need to e-mail me your banking information and we'll do business.
Haven’t had a chance yet. I’ll try to get on tonight (no streaming video here) and take a look. I’m very interested in how that thing works.
I mean, who else could they have blamed the melting of the many ice ages on?
WTF is this jerk talking about?
Their fevered little minds come up with the weirdest things...must be the drugs.....
I wonder what they will say when we shove this back in their faces in one year and ask why 3 billion people have not died off?
Do you think they will still be drinking Hansen’s koolaid?
Remember, everything started to get better when Obama won the nomination...
Where did you get the background data? (I can’t link to the url anymore). Can you get a thesis title or abstract?
It isn't going to happen, but if it did, the really BAD THING about it would be all the left-wing moonbats fleeing Manhattan Island for Manhattan, KS.
I really doubt that they would end up in Kansas. And there are some mootbats in Manhatten KS already but more cowboys and farmers.
Speaking generically. The downside is they would leave the coastal areas go and bother decent people.
true. there already are enough filtering into Kansas. For years its been a closely guarded secret. sigh.
Speaking generically. The downside is they would leave the coastal areas go and bother decent people.
BTW, if anyone was wondering why I used the butt end of a picnic instead of a regular pork butt, I went to the first grocery store and they wanted $5.56 a pound for pork butt. It was going to be $45 for what I wanted. I said "no, thanks" and went down the street to another store. They had the butt end of a picnic (essentially the same thing, just a little lower on the front leg of the pig) for $1.25, and performed every bit as well.
Pssst. They weren't "bought off." They are at the top of the pyramid scheme. You're at the bottom. Your little money funnels up to them. Small change to the millions of suckers at the bottom means big profits at the top.
Even better, when you can convince the suckers that anytime the temperature or frequency of severe weather being above or below the mean is caused by something humans can control, the more money you can get flowing up the pyramid.
A good rule of thumb: If someone tells you that something is above or below "average," ask what the standard deviation is. If they can't tell you, or their eyes glaze over, good chance they are lying to you with statistics.
(hat-tip to the great xDGx for the possum head and for creating the "Opossum" handle)
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