(Hysterical Lib Alert): Global Warming Is Just the Tip of the Iceberg

www.washingtonpost.com ^ | January 4, 2009 | James R. Lee

[Zuben Elgenubi]

(Hysterical Lib Alert): Global Warming Is Just the Tip of the Iceberg

What iceberg? You've already said they all have melted.

[Vaquero]

I got yer tip right here, enviro-wackos.

[palmer]

The second cause of the coming climate wars is the flip side of scarcity: the problems of an increase in abundance. Suppose that global warming makes a precious resource easier to get at -- say, rising temperatures in northern Canada, Alaska and Siberia make it easier to get at oil and gas resources in regions that had previously been too bone-chilling to tap. (A few degrees of change in temperature can transform a previously inhospitable climate.) But what happens if some tempting new field pops up in international waters contested by two great powers? Or if smaller countries with murky borders start arguing over newly arable land?

The problem this writer has is an abundance of keys on his keyboard, but a scarcity of brain cells.

[sobieski]

the problems of an increase in abundance

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It’s good for Lee but not for thee...

[expatpat]

WaPo still publishing bull-feathers, I see.

[steelyourfaith]

 

Beam me to Planet Gore !

[Flycatcher]

Admittedly, it'd take a lot of tension for this to turn into a military conflict, but anyone convinced that the United States and Canada could never come to blows has forgotten the War of 1812.

Global warming will lead to war with Canada.

Who knew?

[SteamShovel]

But global warming may shape the patterns of global conflict for much longer than that -- and help spark clashes that will be, in every sense of the word, hot wars.

Hot wars......Yes.....but the reason is not what this idiot thinks.

War to preserve Freedom will be the result. It will happen all over the world. Once people are squeezed too far and find out the reason was a hoax, lookout!

[marlon]

"Living in Washington, I may respond to global warming by buying a Prius, planting a tree or lowering my thermostat"

Living in CT I will do none of the above. I'm freezing my ass off and was just getting use to the winters with little snow and along comes the colder weather again. BBGW now!

[tlj18]

Some global warming, huh? There hasn't been a single sunspot in almost 25 days now, and hardly any in the last year plus. Sunspots directly correlate with the amount of solar radiation output; the more sunspots, generally the warmer Earth will be. In the last several decades, solar activity has supposedly been the highest since 8,000 years ago. Thus the reason why 2008 was a cooler year.

[ASOC]

Ya, and 20M is deal almost all day long as well.

[max americana]

>>”Living in Washington, I may respond to global warming by buying a Prius, planting a tree or lowering my thermostat”

Just arrived from British Columbia, Canada with the worst winter storm in 40 years and in L.A., the temp is 50 degrees.

Give me the Prius so I could burn it...oh wait, there’s a lot of them here with the obama stickers on them.

[stevem]

What iceberg? You've already said they all have melted.

We are living kind of a brutal winter in my neighborhood. I hope to G_d it's the whole iceberg. I hate to see what will happen if it's just the tip.

[HardStarboard]

Galaleo was the first to tie sunspot activity to weather patterns. The Farmers Almanac has been forecasting whether for over 200 years using, to a large degree, sunspot activity.

Solar flares from sunspots, which are magnetic storms on the suns surface, can have flares as high as 400,000 miles. They send a huge stream of radiation that interacts with the earths magnetosphere to affect weather patterns.

And yet Al Gore and the warmists largely ignore the suns output - thinking mankind's CO2 production is the predominate effect on climate.

Idiocy!

[Donald Rumsfeld Fan]

[ApplegateRanch]

Global warming will lead to war with Canada.

That's the price we pay for building a high speed corridor from Mexico to Canada, I guess.

But if it funnels the illegals to the balmy, sunny climes of the newly unfrozen Far North, just to do those jobs Canadians don't want to do, then it isn't all bad.

We can not ask them for documents, while selling them the food, gas, and motel rooms along their route. No more just settling for putting free jugs of water in the desert, since they'll just be passing through instead of coming to stay.

[neverdem]

Don’t be shy. Opinion pieces, commentary, masthead editorials without bylines, etc. need to be checked off for the editorial sidebar, IMHO.

[RedMonqey]

Let’s see:

“political unrest in numerous badly hit countries.... then perhaps to outright bloodshed......battle”

So Global Warming is going to upset the Nirvanna we have today? Right?

Same old, same old.

[FastCoyote]

“Living in Washington, I may respond to global warming by buying a Prius, planting a tree or lowering my thermostat”

If the writer lowers his body temperature to ambient that will reduce energy needs even more.