Monday Meltdown: March 22nd 2010

Here is your Monday recap of things that happened while you weren’t looking that you will pretend to read while you scroll down just to get to the hottie. You’re so shallow.

Global Warming Causes Everything

Sandstorms in China are blamed on a global warming ‘enviromental meltdown‘ says Peter Foster, a ‘journalist’:

The dust blowing in from the western deserts of Xinjiang is the product of over-grazing, deforestation and urban sprawl which, despite the efforts of the Chinese government to invest and regulate, continues to get worse. Whether or not you believe climate change to be the result of human causes, the simple truth is that countries like China are now experiencing the direct, physical consequences of increasingly unstable weather patterns.

Foster cites three good reasons why the sandstorms are bad, then blames global warming anyway. I’m cranky this morning, so let’s just call Foster a tool and move on.

Global warming causes government inefficiency. No, really:

…climate change has begun to affect the ability of government agencies to fulfill their missions, reports the White House Interagency Climate Change Adaptation Task Force.

Green Spin Cycles

In Montana, a judge has forced the state to suspend drilling licences until the effects of the developments on the ‘climate’ can be assessed. Utah however is ready to take all the projects Montana doesn’t want and start its own oilsands operations. That popping noise you hear is hippie heads exploding.

The EPA is going to need more lawyers to defend its ‘CO2 is a dangerous pollutant’ decision.

The only reason that fewer Americans believe global warming is a threat is because they don’t know enough about it. If that is true, then the global warmers like Al Gore, and the mainstream media must be the worst hoax promoters in the history of hoax promoting.

Grist tries to spin the inconvenient poll results and manages to tie itself in knots as it tries to blame the poll designers, bloggers, the public and scientists when all the poll shows is that people aren’t as dumb as grist would like them to be.

Island Life

Louise Gray, the Telegraph’s resident global warming cheerleader writes:

Every car on the road will need to be electric and there will be solar panels on every home, 10,000 wind turbines onshore and 40 new nuclear power stations if the Government is to stand a chance of meeting strict climate change targets

Unfortunately for the UK, wind farms don’t work. All that money, all those spoiled views and all those dead birds later, the obvious conclusion is that wind was a green pipe dream:

The first detailed study of Britain’s onshore wind farms suggests some treasured landscapes may have been blighted for only small gains in green energy. The analysis reveals that more than 20 wind farms produce less than a fifth of their potential maximum power output. One site, at Blyth Harbour in Northumberland, is thought to be the worst in Britain, operating at just 7.9% of its maximum capacity. Another at Chelker reservoir in North Yorkshire operates at only 8.7% of capacity.

There is hope, one old wind farm may soon be demolished to make way for a new nuclear power station.

The Windsors

Jolly Prince Chuckles supports green initiatives and another hippie favorite, alternative medicine. Since both of his hippie hobby horses have recently been discredited, poor Chuck looks even more foolish than normal. His charity is under investigation for pursuing a vendetta against a scientist who criticized Chuck for his homeopathic nonsense. So, business as usual for the greens, threaten those who would expose you.

The British government, apparently anxious to save the Clown Prince from himself might soon ban reporting about his interventions.

It’s the Money, Stupid

The WWF, the ‘environmental’ agency that likes to use 9/11 imagery to frighten people into donating cash, stands to make $60 billion from an investment in rainforests, but with no positive effect whatsoever on the environment:

…a hidden agenda of the scheme to preserve this chunk of the forest was to allow the WWF and its partners to share the selling of carbon credits worth $60 billion, to enable firms in the industrial world to carry on emitting CO2 just as before, more than a few eyebrows might be raised. The idea is that credits representing the CO2 locked into this particular area of jungle – so remote that it is not under any threat – should be sold on the international market, allowing thousands of companies in the developed world to buy their way out of having to restrict their carbon emissions. The net effect would simply be to make the WWF and its partners much richer while making no contribution to lowering overall CO2 emissions.

Delingpole has more.

Monday Hottie

Last week I challenged the Interwebs to find out who she was, only to be rewarded with epic snark. I applaud your Fail, but we’re going to keep doing this until either an answer is found or I run out of pictures of corset chick. Which will be next week, so hurry up.

Thanks for reading.