Posted on 01/19/2019 11:01:58 PM PST by House Atreides
Before Christmas, we asked GWPF readers to send us nominations for our search to find the tallest climate tale of 2018. It’s fair to say that there was a lot of competition, with the catastrophe mongers across the media clearly working hard to ensure that they were in the running for this much sought-after accolade.
We particularly enjoyed L. Robertson’s ‘Climate change, weather and road deaths’, a paper in the journal Injury Prevention, which declared that rising concentrations of greenhouse gases was going to cause a rising death toll on the roads unless governments put in ‘major mitigating countermeasure’.
We also liked the story from the Daily Mail, which alleged that a small rise in global temperatures would make people more likely to wet the bed and might also trigger plagues of ticks, snakes and…erm…voles.
... However, the unanimous decision of the judges was that the tallest climate tale of the year was Mark Prigg’s bizarre suggestion, for Mail Online, that ‘Climate change is causing blue whales to sing louder as they struggle to be heard over breaking sea ice”. The judges felt this deserved particular kudos because it was not only daft, but could also be shown to be daft at the time of writing. More circumspect journos like to conjure up catastrophes far into the future. Tall-tale telling of this quality is therefore not something you come across every day....
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...the unanimous decision of the judges was that the tallest climate tale of the year was Mark Prigg’s bizarre suggestion, for Mail Online, that ‘Climate change is causing blue whales to sing louder as they struggle to be heard over breaking sea ice”. The judges felt this deserved particular kudos because it was not only daft, but could also be shown to be daft at the time of writing. More circumspect journos like to conjure up catastrophes far into the future.
Thanks House Atreides.
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The sea has risen about as much as it will. Been rising for hundreds of years. Most of the ice from last ice age has melted.
I was reading a letter to a conservation magazine in Minnesota. The guy was from Texas.
“Is global warming the reason we didn’t see hardly any birds on our deer hunting trip in Minnesota this year?”
I’m glad the magazine set them straight. “Deer hunting season runs from mid-November and into December in Minnesota. Most of the birds have flown south for the winter.” I was pretty amazed that a deer hunter didn’t know more about the seasonal changes in ALL of nature.
The poster is announcing the coming shows of the Ringling Brothers P. T.Barnum & Bailey Underwater Circus featuring Sea Elephants, Waterbears, Kevin Costner, Aquaman and a School of Sea Serpents.
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What a beautiful vista. Do you mind sharing what area of the world that is from? It does not look like anywhere in the continental US states.
Re the swimming elephant:
Rather cool image, even if the motivation is stupid. Is that gray and white mass above him an iceberg? Liberals often mix up a meme salad in making their propaganda art.
Hard to believe a North Woods hunter wouldn’t know about birds going south for the winter...
Almunecar, Spain.
I have no idea what the mass is supposed to be. I lifted the image and the artist’s description from one of our local Facebook forums.
Looks Med to me. Greece or further west. Very nice. Parts of the original 1600’s US Jamestown fort are underwater. Yep, there were climate change deniers even back then. lol.
The guy was from Texas, so perhaps it was his first time up north? I was in Colorado with a guy from Texas (we were both 15 at the time). It started snowing. He was amazed - he thought snow came up from the ground! I thought he was joking, but he claimed he wasn’t - and he sure did sound truly amazed. Hard to believe though - so perhaps he was just putting on an act.
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