Global warming scientists caught in ice that has already melted…
One of my favorite articles of all time was titled: Icebreaker Irony. It began:
You’ve heard of the ship stuck in the Antarctic–the MV Akademik Schokalskiy–and the unsuccessful attempts of Chinese and French icebreakers to reach her? What a tragedy…but hey, what was that ship doing so far out in the Antarctic this time of year anyway? Are you ready for this? Sit down…
The ship is full of climate scientists and assorted supportive greenies on a mission to prove global warming due to melting Antarctic ice. I’m not kidding. Surprising that the media hasn’t mentioned that…
That’s right: greenies and global warming Nazis seeking melting polar ice caps are stuck in polar ice that is unusually robust and thick. Shouldn’t that be added to all dictionary definitions of ‘irony?
I still chuckle whenever I think about that ship of fools stuck in the ice that wasn’t supposed to exist, and the other ships that came to rescue them, also stuck in the non-existent ice. Time to chuckle again, this time via CBC News:
A carefully planned, 115-day scientific expedition on board the floating research vessel, the CCGS Amundsen, has been derailed as the icebreaker was called to help resupply ships navigate heavy ice in Hudson Bay.
‘Obviously it has a large impact on us,’ says Martin Fortier, executive director of ArcticNet, which coordinates research on the vessel. ‘It’s a frustrating situation.’ [skip]
Johnny Leclair, assistant commissioner for the Coast Guard, said Tuesday conditions in the area are the worst he’s seen in 20 years.
And what were the derailed scientists planning to study? C’mon. You can guess…that’s right! Global Warming! More global warming science derailed by inconvenient ice that isn’t supposed to exist, because global warming!
Heh-heh.
Unsuspecting spokespersons hijacked into supporting power companies’s agenda and non-scientist need not bother.
I suppose people are still unaware that the Southern Power Co. started this whole (actually non-existent) skeptical Conservative doubt idea. No, I can see many supporters of the idea the skeptical Conservatives are wiser, better equipped “scientists” than the actual scientists themselves are just ignoring this fact.
Southern Power Co. hired the same advertising company which the cigarette companies used for years to support their “smoking hazards are a myth” campaign and then SPC got together with other “deregulation solves all problems” (except for when they enable economy-wrecking recessions) power, petroleum and transportation corporations to form the “Climate Committee” anti-global warming lobby group. Since then, they’ve managed to bribe a handful of actual scientists who are paid to “agree” with the notion that climate change doesn’t exist.
Now anyone who believes those corporations have presented an honest, objective picture of what’s happening to global climate, raise your hands. Some conservatives, like me, know a corrupt scam when we see it.
Good people, smart people, competent people and even invincible Conservative people can be deceived & duped, into “honestly believing” any number of myths under any given ideological umbrella.
The “too much ice” incident described here is answered by asking: Then were are the billions of tons of ice which have melted over the past 20 years or so? That amount of ice is gone and it’s documented six ways to Sunday School. And it’s much, much more ice than the amount currently trapping that scientific expedition.
Of course climate change exists. “Change” is the very definition of climate. There have been cycles of warming and cooling throughout Earth’s geological history, and will be until the sun begins to die. Will there be warming? Yes. Will there be cooling? Of course. The question ought to be, which would you prefer to experience? Global warming has been decried as an unprecedented crisis, despite the FACT that temperatures on Earth have been significantly higher numerous times, and life did not die out. Increasing temperatures would, in fact, increase the area of arable land available, while those who claim that the rising seas from melting polar ice would inundate the coastlines to some ridiculous depth have failed to do the math.
Perhaps you would prefer an ice age? No? Too bad, because, inevitably, we’re going to get one, so long as there are humans left to experience it when it comes around. Either way, the notion that anthropogenic CO2 has any significant impact on the whole process is fatuous nonsense. The fact that those who claim the science is “settled” (which, in and of itself, is an entirely unscientific position to hold) have been caught in all manner of fudging and data suppression in order to support the “science” behind the hysteria-mongering of climate change should be enough for thinking people to examine their motives.
Al Gore warned us years ago that, unchecked, climate change would destroy us… In a few years. That deadline has passed, with little to show for it. What we have seen is that those who pimp the Church of Climate Change, for example Mr. Gore and the limousine liberal crowd, are happy to tell you and me how we must change our ways if we are to do our part in the fight against this existential threat- All the while living lives which belie any apparent concern on their part about “carbon footprints.”
Face it: It’s all about political power, control, and money, money, money, along with punitive policies calculated to make developed nations pay for the right to be developed, with the proceeds going toward all the downtrodden third world nations, while complicit governments take their cut, of course.
Rule of thumb: Whenever someone says there’s a crisis and it needs YOU to do something THEY aren’t doing, RIGHT NOW… It’s a scam. ='[.]’=
Here again, a non-scientist who’s more eager to establish the credibility of his ideology than in examining the documented activities and motives of those who started conservatives on “debunking” climate change with limited knowledge of what they think they’re discussing.
And of course: no good conservative soldier can mention climate change without mentioning the enemy liberals and their equally corrupt political figureheads. Just because Gore decided to try co-opting climate science so that liberals can take credit for “saving the world” (like the conservatives do at every chance), doesn’t mean the science isn’t sound.
“It’s all about political power, control, and money, money, money, …” from there you get lost on your own treadmill, opposing the enemy liberal ideology when you should realize that the first 10 words of your sentence is the most accurate if applied to BOTH political parties. You choose to favor one over the other and they both get exactly what they want – another trooper to fight one side of the purposely endless “debate.”
Who started this faux debate? Southern Power Company did – after they got around 200 labor and environmental violations piled on them. Profit motive plain and simple. Protect their illegally obtained profits. Simpler than twisting already twisted motives of the other side, isn’t it?
Why waste your obvious intelligence in service to one of the twin puppeteers? Why not apply it to some independent thought and understand that the talking points you’ve picked up from the right don’t disprove that manmade carbon emissions plus natural carbon emissions means POSSIBLE runaway greenhouse on Earth.
Gore is a liberal crook, so’s Obama and the rest (like the Pants Suit Lady) but look what the Republicans have to offset them: an equal number of incompetent, corrupt clowns. There is NO FUNCTIONAL DIFFERENCE because their sameness is in their proven ability to hoodwink groups they want to join their membership. Do you dislike homosexuals and lesbians? The Republican Party of for you! Do you want to destroy Planned Parenthood? The Republican Party is for you! Etceteras.
Both parties really want 1. Power & wealth for the top people and 2. to maintain their hold on the leashes they’ve managed to put on independent thought. They just pick and choose the issues and let us fight with each other over them.
Whatever, it’s up to you and you can continue your endless run on the right side of the treadmill as easily as someone can continue to run on the left side. Meanwhile though, our fate depends on those who break away from the phony “battling ideologies” and solve some real problems with real solutions which have the best results for the majority of Americans.
So, I can’t have an (informed, as I have done plenty of research on the subject) opinion if I don’t have a degree to back it up? Appeal to authority is a stock dismissive tactic, but it doesn’t wash. So, for that matter, are the ad hominem and strawman tactics you apply by lumping me in with those who dislike homesexuals and lesbians. Why not ask if I’m a racist, too?
I’m not particularly happy with the GOP, as it stands, but there is no mistaking that the Left is the primary and overwhelming constituency of the neo-cult of AGW. If it were the Right, I’d find the whole “Chicken Little” approach to this faux crisis just as ridiculous.
CO2 is NOT going to destroy the earth. And, despite the fact that I am not so deeply steeped in the science that I am able to quote in perfect detail all the evidence against AGW “theory” (here’s a long video detailing the arguments against it, featuring a man whose credentials you may attack as you wish, if you feel they are inferior to your own: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppQl6KYyMqA), you cannot simply use that as an excuse to belittle my position.
Bad science is bad science, and AGW is just that, in service of bad politics and bad business. ='[.]’=
@ Raycheeta: I have not “belittled you.” I did put you in with the majority of conservative fans because you 1. didn’t mention you’ve actually studied this and 2. because your initial statement was so much like that of any conservative fanboy.
So you now say you’ve looked into this and found verifiable evidence that the Global Warming Theory is incorrect. That’s monumental, so I hope you’re right and it follows that I support you in bringing that to light.
And – you still have not addressed the fact that the whole “debunking thing” was started and funded by Southern Power Co. et al, and they even used the same ad company which the cigarette companies used to “disprove” the hazards of smoking.
THAT is the typical tactic of dishonest businesses over the last 30 years, so you might understand why I point it out and “belittle it” and not you.
Also please bear in mind: both political parties have undermined intellectual honesty and integrity to the degree that neither you nor I can point to any untainted source w/o being accused of favoring one party over the other. That’s been the purpose of their manipulations of fact all along. It’s really just an effort to cover up their own criminality. That either one claims “patriotism” is a real value in their eyes is a joke, a sick joke.
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