Snapped Shot

Last year, 2007, some really smart galacticly inspired British "scientist" said that if we kept breathing out CO2, we would kill half of all species on Earth. And, they predicted that it would not take much of an increase at that. We were on the precipice of DOOM! DOOM I tell ya!

When CO2 levels rise and the planet heats up, species die out; when CO2 levels fall and the planet cools down, life flourishes once more. That's how nature's worked for the last half-billion years, say British scientists -- and to make it worse, predicted future temperatures are comparable to those associated with global mass extinctions.

"The first clear evidence that global climate may explain substantial variation in the fossil record in a simple and consistent manner," said University of York ecologist Peter Mayhew, a co-author of the Proceedings of the Royal Society B study. "If our results hold for current warming - the magnitude of which is comparable with the long-term fluctuations in Earth climate - they suggest that extinctions will increase.”

Even us publicly schooled drop-outs know that when the world gets covered in ice hundreds of feet thick during world-wide ice ages, species flourish. Cause, what species doesn't like living off of nothing but cold and ice.
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Al Gore. Just one of the little people.

Al Gore. A simple, common man who just can't catch a break. He even has to mend his own suits.



... while riding in his 100 foot yacht.

Poor, poor man. But, hey, at least he vacations locally !

The DNC Convention in Denver this year was hailed as being the "Greenest" convention in history, regardless of the fact that attendees arrived in gas guzzling SUVs and private jets.

Of course, one way in which Democrats continue to claim to be "green" whilst polluting the environment like we evil Republicans is to purchase "carbon credits," the universal pennance of Enviro-sin.

So, when it was announced that the DNC convention would be referring people to a carbon-offset reseller, one would've thought that the über–chic crowds who Vote Green! would be quick to take advantage. And, after all was said and done, it seems that they have, as this reseller has raised a grand total of:

$18.34

... from the entire convention!

Way to go, greenies. You've reduced an entire 0.9 ton of carbon from the atmosphere!

You know, if even your average rank-and-file Democrat can see through the bull that is carbon offsetting, shouldn't the rest of the world see it?

I know I do—which is why I always recommend that you buy carbon debits instead.

Thanks to IV,D for the story!

Why do I always get a sickening feeling in my stomach when I see new trends pop up in Old England?

The threat of global warming is so great that campaigners were justified in causing more than £35,000 worth of damage to a coal-fired power station, a jury decided yesterday. In a verdict that will have shocked ministers and energy companies the jury at Maidstone Crown Court cleared six Greenpeace activists of criminal damage.

Jurors accepted defence arguments that the six had a "lawful excuse" to damage property at Kingsnorth power station in Kent to prevent even greater damage caused by climate change. The defence of "lawful excuse" under the Criminal Damage Act 1971 allows damage to be caused to property to prevent even greater damage - such as breaking down the door of a burning house to tackle a fire.

I don't personally see what the problem is here. Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go and round up all of my bank robber friends and get them to agree to sit on a jury if, by some odd coincidence, I get held up for, I dunno, robbing a bank or something.

(h/t CRC via FR)

Crud! It figures that the Jawas found this story first. Curse those dastardly production build schedules!

Never content to take away your freedoms regarding the way you drive or the cars you buy, the nimroots that believe man is the fault of ever single event on Earth, have decided there is an even more insidious, disastrous, inhuman, unconstitutional, US separationsistic device that needs to be dealt with. And NOW!!

This device is something that some people use on a weekly basis. Some people even make a living using these devices. This is a device that has made our lives much more easier and safer. It has even led to increased property values. And, I will accede that this device is also the bane of people who enjoy their sleep.

Can you guess what it is before you click below the fold???
No? Ok. Go ahead and click away.
(Oh yeah, and I know you can guess who wrote the story)
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For some reason, whenever I hear news or weather broadcasts of the now Hurricane Gustav (Russian hurricane?), my mind keeps being told that this is either just like Katrina or will be another Katrina attack on New Orleans.

I am beginning to suspect that it is the media reports themselves. (Ed: can you guess from who?)

Gustav became a hurricane again on Friday and moved through the Cayman Islands, the start of a buildup that could take it to the U.S. Gulf Coast as a fearsome Category-3 storm three years after Hurricane Katrina.

It has also been 13 years after Hurricane Luis. And three years after Hurricane Maria, Nate, Ophelia, Philippe, Stan and Rita. Or, it has been 49 years since Hurricane Cindy.

Why focus this storm story, WHICH IS NOT EVEN WITHIN THE GULF COAST YET, upon the memory of Hurricane Katrina?
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Recall, how the Dems\Libs\Commies\Socialists\Marxists demanded that this year's "Democrat" convention was going to be carbon neutral?

Well, not so much!

It would seem that good intentions of being green are always just that for the party of symbolism and talk.

And then from LGF, comes this filed report from Zombie on his trip to Invesco Field the Mount of Ascension. You know you really have to be "true believer" in order to stand in a line that goes on for miles just for a chance to find a seat in the nose-bleed section.

This was also known as the day Liberty was skewered.

And, may I just say this. THE messiah made fun of McCain being in Congress for 26 years. But, wasn't Biden there longer than that?!?!?

Seriously, this trendy fad—which, I might add, isn't backed by an ounce of credible science—can't come to an end soon enough:

"It's not just the economic downturn that has harmed the green order. People have become wary of environmental causes that can turn out to do more harm than good. They don't want wind turbines marching across Britain's moors when nuclear power stations can do more to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. They worry that washing and bleaching all those non-disposable nappies may be damaging the ozone layer, that the massive incentives for biofuels have distorted the world food market, and that green taxes are actually stealth taxes."

"Green" living is so utterly impractical that even Mr. Inconvenient Truth himself can't seem to hack it.

Isn't any wonder that everyone else is starting to notice?

Incidentally, the rabid left crucified Jimmy Swaggart for such hypocrisy, and we on the right made no excuses on his behalf at the time. You've just got to love how "different" things are now that our roles are reversed.

On May 2, Chile's Chaiten Volcano released a gigantic cloud of emissions composed of ash, steam, smoke, and various oddball gases whose estimated amount equals to one trillion cow farts, a UN-sponsored climate change study revealed. "In just one day, this volcano set the Kyoto Protocol back 15 years, obliterating the otherwise outstanding success of our multi-billion dollar efforts to curb the release of cow farts into the atmosphere," complained Chairman of Intergovernmental Panel on Cow Farts (IPCF) Rajendra K. Pachauri at an emergency conference at Grand Plaza Hotel in New York yesterday. "Therefore, we demand that this eruption be considered unscientific and thus disqualified from inclusion into climate change models. Need I mention that it wasn't sanctioned by the the United Nations?"

Good to know that man is responsible for this as well. By the way, yesterday's record high temperature for Oklahoma was 120 degrees. Can you guess what year?

(H/T: People's Cube)

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I'm guessing that whatever it is, it's a conspiracy, maaaaan!



Ah, the science behind "Global Warming." Powered by moonbeams, unicorns, and now? Rainbows.

Prodominatly, even!

(h/t Rooster)

Wow, who would've guessed that fearmongering global warming advocates would have to stoop to using Photoshopped flood images in order to provide "evidence" to support their cause?



As Anthony Watts points out, this photo is available for licensing from iStockPhoto (and for the record, I did pay for the photo you see above), complete with the following disclaimer:

Photo of house under several feet of graphically-rendered flood waters.

Why bother investigating things "scientifically," when you can just whip the public into a fear-induced green frenzy?

I'll echo what Mr. Watts said (emphasis and links mine):

But the real question is, with so many different photos of real flooded houses available, why did they choose one that was not real? Surely they know such a report will be highly scrutinized?

...if principal National Climatic Data Center authors Dr.’s Thomas Karl and Peterson can’t even bother to check if the photos they use are real or not, or even spot such obvious fakes, it makes one wonder just how much fact checking went into the other parts of the report.

Noel Sheppard over at NewsBusters has a transcript up of Nancy Pelosi on George Steppinalloverus', err, mean Stephanopoulos, show "This Week" this past Sunday.

Reading the transcript, it becomes very apparent that Rep Pelosi has truly lost all connection to reality. Even despite asking the "Why won't you allow an up or down vote?" question numerous times, she continued to spew her illogical mislogic. Let me show you a few items:

GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS, HOST: You've been getting a lot of heat for not allowing a straight up or down vote expanding drilling off the coasts of the United States. Why won't you permit a straight up or down vote?

NANCY PELOSI, SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE: What we have presented are options that will really make a difference at the pump. Free our oil, Mr. President. We're sitting on 700 million barrels of oil. That would have an immediate effect in ten days.

Now, what she is referring to is the oil that is stored in the National Strategic Petroleum Reserve. This is oil that is stored for NATIONAL EMERGENCIES like times of war or oil embargos. To allow her to drain the oil out of the National Reserve in order to just have her show that she cares for the little people now would be tantamount to treason. Allowing her to drain away our nation's backup oil supply DURING A WAR on terror would be similar in my opinion to giving away state's secrets to our enemies.
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A while back I presented information that I found over various places regarding the blue-green algae problem that China has been experiencing over the last few years around Beijing region. While no one has really put much interest in the stories before, now that China is trying to show itself as environmentally conscious during the Olympics, only heightens the international awareness of what is really going on over there.

Now, perusing Fox News website, I found another article from (no name) that highlights the results China has attained after closing down nearly the whole of Beijing's regional economy.

The Chinese capital was shrouded in a thick, gray haze of pollution Sunday, just 12 days before the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympic Games. One expert warned that drastic measures enacted to cut vehicle and factory emissions in the city were no guarantee skies would be clear during competitions. The pollution (image) was among the worst seen in Beijing in the past month...

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The state of fruits and nuts has finally codified the obvious into law:

More than six months after two Santa Clara residents were convicted under a state nuisance law for letting their redwoods cast shade on a neighbor’s solar panels, the governor signed into law a bill that gives trees the right to grow as they please — as long as they predate any solar panels they might be shading.

Gee, who would've thought that young redwood trees would eventually grow up to be really, really tall?

Idiocy, thy name is Sacramento.

(h/t Prairie Pundit, who has some awesome commentary on this brilliance, too.)