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And, correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't the photo on the right remind you of someone, in a self-satisfied Al-Gorish just-nailed-a-big-money-deal kind of way?
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Showing posts with label AGW. Show all posts
Wednesday, March 06, 2013
Giant Mutant Arctic Camel Latest Result Of Global Warming !!!!!!!
And, correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't the photo on the right remind you of someone, in a self-satisfied Al-Gorish just-nailed-a-big-money-deal kind of way?
Friday, August 31, 2012
Have I Been Bannned By Michael Mann?
Michael Mann is sparring with Mark Steyn over his hockey schtick. Steyn suggested the schtick has a non-regulation curve; Mann threatened to hip-check Steyn out of the rink, legally speaking. Steyn, in response to the threat of litigation, has said he'll need to inspect Mann's "climategate" emails jockstrap -- a jockstrap that Mann has been holding close to his scientific, er, vest.
Now, as regular readers of the Ball Bounces know, I'm a HUGE fan of Michael Mann. I thought I would give him a bit of encouragement, so I posted something along the following lines to his Adore-Me Facebook page.
"Why not preemptively release those emails now; that'll show 'em!".
Encouraging, right? Good advice, right?
Yet, shortly after I posted, my post was "disappeared", and there is no longer a prompt for me to post a new comment. I felt like I'd been "offed", encased in concrete, and thrown in the Penn State river.
Does this mean that I've been Banned By The Mann? Does this mean I didn't show sufficient reverence to the Great One? Does this mean that michael mann Himself read my post, thought about it, then pressed mannly finger to climate-heated keyboard and... bounced the Ball from the Mannoverse... forever?!
Has Mann given me the cosmic finger?! On the one hand, this means we are now cosmically connected -- I have had my own brush with The Great One. We are close! However, being banned leaves me feeling emotionally empty. It's a barren feeling, being banned is. It's like the Mannoverse I once inhabited and cavorted in, is now a sterile, dead wasteland of a burned out, lifeless universe. Ghost town city. I'm suffering. I feel sad, empty...
Can I sue?!
And that's the way the Ball got bounced.
Now, as regular readers of the Ball Bounces know, I'm a HUGE fan of Michael Mann. I thought I would give him a bit of encouragement, so I posted something along the following lines to his Adore-Me Facebook page.
"Why not preemptively release those emails now; that'll show 'em!".
Encouraging, right? Good advice, right?
Yet, shortly after I posted, my post was "disappeared", and there is no longer a prompt for me to post a new comment. I felt like I'd been "offed", encased in concrete, and thrown in the Penn State river.
Does this mean that I've been Banned By The Mann? Does this mean I didn't show sufficient reverence to the Great One? Does this mean that michael mann Himself read my post, thought about it, then pressed mannly finger to climate-heated keyboard and... bounced the Ball from the Mannoverse... forever?!
Has Mann given me the cosmic finger?! On the one hand, this means we are now cosmically connected -- I have had my own brush with The Great One. We are close! However, being banned leaves me feeling emotionally empty. It's a barren feeling, being banned is. It's like the Mannoverse I once inhabited and cavorted in, is now a sterile, dead wasteland of a burned out, lifeless universe. Ghost town city. I'm suffering. I feel sad, empty...
Can I sue?!
And that's the way the Ball got bounced.
Monday, September 26, 2011
Carbon Credits: Plant A Tree, Starve A Human
Image via WikipediaThe New Forests Company is a UK-based sustainable and socially responsible forestry company with established, rapidly growing plantations and the prospect of a diversified product base for local and regional export markets which will deliver both attractive returns to investors and significant social and environmental benefits.From InfoWars.Com:
Armed troops acting on behalf of a British carbon trading company backed by the World Bank burned houses to the ground and killed children to evict Ugandans from their homes in the name of seizing land to protect against “global warming,” a shocking illustration of how the climate change con is a barbarian form of neo-colonialism.
The evictions were ordered by New Forests Company, an outfit that seizes land in Africa to grow trees then sells the “carbon credits” on to transnational corporations. The company is backed by the World Bank and HSBC. Its Board of Directors includes HSBC Managing Director Sajjad Sabur, as well as other former Goldman Sachs investment bankers.
The company claims residents of Kicucula left in a “peaceful” and “voluntary” manner, and yet the people tell a story of terror and bloodshed.
Villagers told of how armed “security forces” stormed their village and torched houses, burning an eight-year-child to death as they threatened to murder anyone who resisted while beating others.
“We were in church,” recalled Jean-Marie Tushabe, 26, a father of two. “I heard bullets being shot into the air.”
“Cars were coming with police,” Mr. Tushabe said, sitting among the ruins of his old home. “They headed straight to the houses. They took our plates, cups, mattresses, bed, pillows. Then we saw them getting a matchbox out of their pockets.”
“But in this case, the government and the company said the settlers were illegal and evicted for a good cause: to protect the environment and help fight global warming,” reports the New York Times.Another leftist initiative gone horribly bad. When it comes to green, the poorest of the poor don't count, because, when it comes to leftist initiatives toward the third world, it's not about them, it's about us. Always.
Monday, September 19, 2011
How To Kill An Economy, and, Carbon Dioxide Is Not A "Pollutant"
Image via WikipediaBritish Airways faces a bill of nearly €50m, the highest of any airline, when carriers around the world are brought into the European Union’s carbon emissions trading scheme next year....
The airline industry’s total bill is expected to be €1.1bn ($1.5bn) at today’s carbon prices, the study says. The whole sector may only make a $4bn profit this year, the International Air Transport Association has forecast....
The findings come amid a fierce row over the EU’s move to make any airline flying into and within the bloc pay for pollution.Memo to the EU and Financial Times: Carbon dioxide is not a pollutant.
Costs will be passed on to customers, because corporations do not pay taxes -- consumers do. This will harm the struggling world economy and put yet more money in big-government hands. The world takes another notch downward, thanks to the statist left.
Read the whole article here.
Friday, June 10, 2011
Hide The Decline: The Climate Empire Strikes Back
They don't call 'em the dirty thirties for nothin'.
Surely this chart must reflect the nefarious machinations of oil-in-the-family climate deniers, desperately seeking to "hide the rise".
Otherwise, it's a good thing weather has nothing -- nothing -- to do with climate.
h/t Climate Depot.
Wednesday, June 08, 2011
"Carbon Farming": Kill A Camel, Save The Planet (AND Get Carbon Credits!!!)
Image via WikipediaThe camel culling plan is one of the first to arise under the Australian government’s new “carbon farming initiative”, a scheme that lets farmers or investors claim carbon credits if they can show they have cut greenhouse gas emissions....
More than 1m camels are now believed to be roaming across the Australian outback – one of the biggest camel populations in the world – and each emits methane, a greenhouse gas significantly more potent than carbon dioxide....
Apart from their methane emissions, camels are also menacing remote Aboriginal populations, he said.
“If everyone knew what they were doing, people would be more concerned,” said Dr Moore, “especially when they start coming into town and kicking down your toilet.”If there's anything I hate it's coming home to find a camel kicking down my toilet, so, yes, the Ball Bounces approves.
Here's a real green tourism opportunity. Fly to Australia, head to the outback, kill sufficient camels to offset your carbon emissions, and, then, hey!, crank up the Barbie -- it's camel steak time!
It's win-win!!
(Unless, of course, you're the camel.)
Please join me as we sing, to the tune of "Where Have All The Flowers Gone?":
Where have all the camels gone, long time passing?
Where have all the camels gone, long time ago?
Where have all the camels gone?
Gone for credits everyone.
Oh, when will they ever learn?
Oh, when will they ever learn?
And that's the way the one-lump-or-two? Ball bounces.
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Saturday, June 04, 2011
Ending Slavery, Child Labor, and Al Gore's Houseboat
Image via WikipediaMemo to Al Gore: you go first, dude.
Friday, May 27, 2011
At Last: Clear Scientific Evidence Of Global Warming
Image via WikipediaFinally. Scientists have come up with real, data-based evidence of world-wide global warming at the turn of the millennium. Ha ha ha. Deniers, we mock you! If Al Gore knew this, he would be dancing in his grave. Wait a minute. He's not dead yet. Al Gore is dancing in his mansion and his houseboat.
Well, there might be one tiny problem. The global warming took place at the end of the first millennium rather than at the end of the second. And it was a lot hotter than now.
Lawrence Solomon has another solid article on the controversy.
Monday, April 18, 2011
I'm One Of The UN's 50 Million Climate Change Refugees
Image via WikipediaWell, it's happening.
I'm one of them. I'm down here in Phoenix AZ right now because of climate, specifically global colding, which has been occurring in Canada since, oh, about November. Right now, I understand there's a bit of a warming trend happening. We'll be heading north Friday to check it out.
I'm one of the UN's 50 million persons on this planet displaced by climate, and the UN has so far given me squat. Not even a courtesy call from Al Gore. Will you, dear reader of the Ball Bounces, help? You can do your part by sending $5 to the Ball Bounces Climate Refugee Fund, UN, NY, NY, USA.
And Al, if you're reading this, you can send me 10. Otherwise, the evil coal and oil companies that fuel our cars and keep us warm in winter will have won.
And that's the way the sunny-sun sun-loving Ball bounces.
Update: click here for 50 mil map, now expunged from UN websites. h/t Solomon National Post
Friday, April 08, 2011
Hide The Decline: "The Carbon Gravy Train"
Image via WikipediaThe above phrase, used in the article, tells you just about all you need to know about global warming alarmism.
An Aussie scientist 'fesses up.
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Thursday, March 31, 2011
"Hide The Decline": The Al Gore Post-Snow Global Warming Apocalypse
Image via WikipediaWell, it's happening!!!
The headlines tell the tale of apocalyptic woe.
Now do you believe??!!
[Hide-the-decline editting by The Ball Bounces, in the interests of
Thursday, March 10, 2011
Whatever Happened to Global Warming?™
Image by Getty Images via @daylifeHaven't heard a peep from them since ClimateGate. Not a single comment.
One of the Big Guns of Global Warming™ predicted “2 to 4″ degrees warming from 2001-2010.
Let's see how that turned out.
He who sits in the heavens laughs.
Have a good day, fellow fools.
h/t ClimateDepot.
Sunday, January 30, 2011
Great Moments In Global Warming
Image via Wikipedia"Dupre and Larsen hope to raise awareness of the growing threat of global climate change, which affects the entire planet but has particular impact on the Earth's delicate Polar regions."
2011:
Warmist Lonnie Dupre attempts Mount McKinley in winter; gets really cold; quits.
In fairness to the guy, I think what he did was brave and takes an endurance that I don't have; it's just the global warming bit...
h/t Tom Nelson, via Climate Depot
Sunday, December 19, 2010
There's No Business Like No-Snow Business
Image via WikipediaDrudge reminds us of the predicted no-snow apocalypse via this, circa 2000:
Britain's winter ends tomorrow with further indications of a striking environmental change: snow is starting to disappear from our lives....
... According to Dr David Viner, a senior research scientist at the climatic research unit (CRU) of the University of East Anglia,within a few years winter snowfall will become "a very rare and exciting event".
"Children just aren't going to know what snow is," he said.Fast-forward to 2010, and the photo of a single, solitary
In the Bible, Christ says that a good God makes his sun to shine on the just and the unjust. He also apparently makes his snow fall on global warming deniers and believers alike.
Merry Christmas!
Wednesday, November 24, 2010
Quote of the Day: "Once Climate's in the Weather, It’s There For Good
Image via WikipediaAnd the urgency is that the longer we wait, the further down the pipeline climate travels and works its way into weather, and once it’s in the weather, it’s there for good. -- Heidi Cullen, explaining to the US Congress why we have to act NOW to avoid climate catastropheI thought climate catastrophism had sunk into the sea along with Atlantis, but, I guess it is still with us.
Friday, November 05, 2010
Flying Continental Toronto - Phoenix
Image by Getty Images via @daylifeHere's the BallBounces unsolicited advice: before you sign up for the dating services, get those teeth fixed!!!!
The BallBounces: solving your biggest social needs, one need at a time.
(*) These inflight magazines add a lot of weight to a flight, and are mostly unnecessary. If airlines were really serious about CO2, wouldn't they ditch them?
Sunday, October 17, 2010
Quote of the Day: “Everyone Will Disappear In A Cloud Of Blue Steam”
Image via WikipediaNot with a bang but a whimper
T.S. Eliot was so wrong!
Environmental pontificator and all-round scary guy Paul Ehrlich tells us the world is ending in a cloud of blue steam, and the pink steam crowd are simply wrong, wrong, wrong!
The great thing about climate catastrophism is, you don't ever have to be right. "Well, we dodged a bullet this time; new incoming bullet, catast! catast! catastrophe!!!!
Climate catastrophism. Limos. Private jets. Houseboats. Mansions. Book deals. Ever-expanding carbon footprints, neat-o PowerPoint slides...
It's a great gig, if you can get it.
h/t Climate Depot.
Saturday, August 28, 2010
Thursday, October 30, 2008
Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow!
This just in from Switzerland: The Swiss lowlands have received the most snow for any October since records began.
Zurich received 20cm, beating a record of 14cm set in 1939.
That shatters the previous record by almost 50%.
Remember: when it's cold, it's weather, when it's warm, it's climate.
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