Month: October 2008

Welcome to the Halloween edition of the weekly round-up, wherein I will scare you with the awfulness of my puns as well as your usual doses of global warming alarmists, scaremongers and bogeymen.

I have a lot of linky goodness and a super-hot hottie, so let’s get to it.

Is Al Gore an extortionist? Only if by extortion you mean the attempt to gain money by the vague but disturbing issuance of threats. So yeah, he is.

Al Gore compares himself to Ghandi. Really. I had never heard of ‘supersize-me-Ghandi’, but I can’t know everything. Maybe he’s bizarro world Ghandi.

Another week, another ‘toon: Gored but not Forgotten

The profit speaks, about geothermal energy, and makes it sound boring.

Sing along now: M.I.C.K.E.Y. A.P.O.C.A.L.Y.P.S.E.

The National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis is honoring Al with an award. I bet he’d prefer the headline to read ‘Civil Rights Museum to honor King Gore’.

Al has an inconvenient diet. I could argue that ‘diet’ is the wrong word in any context regarding ‘Big Al’, see above.

Canadian activist and totalitarian hippy, David Suzuki says he tries to do his bit by picking up one piece of garbage every day. I issue a challenge to readers to see if you can offset that effort.

Global warming muppet Jim Hansen is a fanatic, and his efforts just resulted in even more activism.

Tom Nelson wonders why the oceans aren’t a foot higher.

I’m embarrassing, it says so right here.

Don’t ever call greenies intolerant totalitarian bullies. Even if they are.

Alicia Silverstone is pretty. She’s a sandwich or two short of a full picnic, but pretty.

acSilverstone. Not this week’s hottie.

Cate Blanchette, decent Elizabeth I but not a rocket scientist.

Climate smart (whatever that is) is just so, like, yesterday.

Global activists and erstwhile wrestling outfit the WWF in no way uses alarmist language:

Henry David Thoreau, climate scientist?

Why should we worry about global warming when the scaremongers can’t even keep the hoax timeline straight.

This may be the best ever thing that causes global warming: Helmet hair. Please, add it to the list.

Andrew Bolt is a menace, and greens act more like brownshirts every week.

Holland is a strange and mystical place that was once saved from doom when a small boy poked a lesbian with his finger, or something. Now it is overwhelmed by scaremongers. In clogs. OK, so sue me, I made that clogs bit up.

Green is a new religion. Remember the days when it was just a color you should never wear with blue?

Did I mention that greens can be thugs and totalitarians? Did I?

Read this, but try not to let your head explode:

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A Time journo thinks that if MIT students cannot understand the science of global warming, no one can. Of course, we could ask another MIT guy.

Green bullies at work, say it ain’t so. If you have one of these in your workplace, park your Hummer on top of their Prius, that’ll show ’em.

Green deceit? You betcha!

Eco terrorists profit from the Canadian government. Sink it.

The New Scientist prints a completely non-alarmist article: How Our Economy is Killing the Earth.

Icecaps melt in winter, not happening.

The Methane time bomb, also not happening.

Global warming causes bridges to collapse? Nope.

Global warming kills frogs. Wrong.

Hybrid buses are great, right up to the point when they’re not great and need to be replaced.

If methane isn’t scary enough, try Nitrogen Trifluoride

Solar panels are a favorite of the green alternate energy brigade. Too bad the manufacturing of solar panels kills the planet then.

When its too cold to protest global warming.

Carbon offsets, you know they (don’t) make sense.

Global warming may desalinate the oceans. Wrong.

Dr. Tim Ball on politicized science, this week’s must-read.

Scientists are 400% wrong about the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere, oops.

China demands that the wealthy west pay for climate change measures. Or they’ll put melamine in our milk and eggs. Oh, wait.

Ford provides eco-friendly consumers with an ivy league dashboard.

The Syndey Morning Herald loses it. So does the Economist.

Say hello, wave goodbye.

Another Oregon story, what’s going on out West?

Offset your NY commute. Because everyone has more money than sense.

Will Barack Obama outlaw tree food?

Oregon governor will catch flak from skeptics. That’s a headline I could stand to see more of.

Carbon taxes for people who hate carbon taxes?

Residents of WASP-12b regret that they didn’t listen to their profit prophet Alg-ore.

Welcome all, to the weekly skeptical smorgasbord of links that debunk, mock and otherwise upset global warming profiteers and hoaxers and dirty hippies that would prefer to have you live in fear of pious Prius drivers and Al Gore. Well, perhaps you should be afraid of Al, if he fell on you it would leave a mark.

Here in Canada the leaves are pretty much all fallen and some parts of the country have already been brushed with the first snows of winter. So, let me just throw another polar bear on the fire and let’s get to business.

Al is still on the campaign trail, lending his weight (heh!) to the hopes of Democratic candidates that desperately hope not to repeat Al’s own electoral performance. I mention this because while Al’s campaigning he is not the usual rich (heh!) vein of comedy we’ve come to know and love.

Al is appearing at Harvard to talk about the ‘climate crisis’, and true to form the weather turned mighty cold, making him even more buffoonish. It’s the Gore Effect, apparently.

Have you ever asked yourself this question:

Meanwhile, in the long lost land of Hoxa Hoxa, a witchdoctor is found.

Have you seen the latest Gored But Not Forgotten yet? Go look at it now, I’ll wait.

David Suzuki, despite being named after a noisy carbon spewing Japanese scootercycle, still takes the environment seriously. Very seriously. He’s quite miffed at Canadians for having the collective gall to reject the Gaul that liked the Green Shift at the recent election.

Bizarro world Suzuki, however, has decided that a after lifetime of dire warnings about the climate crisis being right here, right now that he will not see the effects of it at all. Thanks to Tom Nelson for spotting that Suzuki made time machines as well as bad bikes.

Green on green fighting, it’s a Suzuki v Green Party cagematch. No doubt the contenders are bulking up on tofu and mint tea for the riotous slapfest. Usually I would hesistate before typing ‘hippy on hippy’, but in this context it all good.

The Gore effect strikes cyclists in Utica. It sounds worse than it is.

Alarmists can often be cartoonlike in their dire warnings. Oh, wait.

Environmentalists should have changed their ‘no nukes’ chant to ‘no nudes’ if they wanted to sell calendars in a museum. An aside, who buys a calendar at a museum? Not even my mother could find a gift that boring.

Will AGC replace AGW?

Hold on to your hats, I’m linking a sustainable development site next, because they ask the question about AGW and advise readers to get informed. Unfortunately they choose to do this in the world’s hardest ro read font ever, but give it a look.

Nothing says totalitarian like dragging kids along as political props.

An eco-nut finds out that actions have consequences, and whines like a little girl about it. Who knew that blocking access to a vital facility would get labeled ‘suspected terrorists’. Not him, clearly.

We’re all going to die of horrible water-borne diseases. Luckily, we can avoid this fate by drinking clean bottled water. Oh, wait.

I wish I had thought of this label for the extreme alarmists: Carborexics.

They still sound like dirty hippies to me.

Helena Christensen is pretty. Dumb as a bag of hammers, but pretty. No, she’s not this week’s hottie.

Tom Nelson finds a smoking eco-idiot. Being born and raised in England, I can let readers into the little know secret that any girl sporting a name like ‘Tamsin’ is likely to be a 4th generation in-bred, uppercrust halfwit.

The common seal, isn’t. According to the Telegraph.