Posts filed under 'global warming'
July 18th, 2008
Regular readers of Applesauce might recall a couple of recent posts (THIS ONE covers both of them) in which we dissed conservative scribbler Jonah Goldberg for his laughable pinheadedness.
Well, golly, young Jonah has gone and done it again. This time he excitedly reports on his blog that a reputable scientific organization has renounced its previous claim that human activities are contributing to global warming.
Yeah, that’ll put that Al Gore guy in his place, right?
But notice, please, that Jonah boy has had to APPEND a correction to his post. Turns out he was wrong about that scientific organization. The group stands by its earlier declaration concerning global warming.
I’ll bet that Jonah’s mom, Lucianne Goldberg of Clinton-Lewinsky FAME, is not exactly beaming with pride these days.
POSTSCRIPT: If the Goldberg post to which I’ve linked is gone by the time you read this, I’m sure you’ll understand Jonah’s eagerness to put this episode behind him.
July 12th, 2008
To hear some people tell it, belief in global warming is a KIND OF RELIGION, one to be shunned as demonic and antithetical of all that is good in our world — like Hummers and snowmobiles.
If so, this weird denomination has an unlikely new member: Pope Benedict XVI.
The pontiff DECLARED today that he wants to “wake up consciences” about the challenges that climate change pose to humankind.
Said Benedict: “We have to give impulse to rediscovering our responsibility and to finding an ethical way to change our way of life.”
One wonders how the global-warming deniers will respond to this apostasy by the pope.
Will they seek to measure his carbon footprint and then mock him for it?
Will they renounce him as a tree-hugging enemy of free enterprise?
Will they tell him to stick to Catholicism and leave matters of climatology to the experts, like Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter?
July 10th, 2008
THIS is so boorish.
And THIS is so typical (including the misspelled headline).
June 27th, 2008
I wonder what the global-warming deniers will have to say about THIS.
Here are a few guesses:
”Yeah, well Al Gore didn’t invent the Internet, y’know. And he uses a lot more energy at his house than I do at mine.”
“I know a TV weatherman who says this stuff is a big hoax perpetrated by socialists and other girlymen who want to take away our Hummers and make us ride bicycles.”
“I noticed that it was kind of cool around here this past spring. So much for global warming.”
“We don’t need polar bears, anyway. I mean, what good are they?”
“Helloooo! I get my ice from the fridge, not from the North Pole. Don’t you?”
“This is just a cyclical thing. We’ll have another Ice Age any day now.”
June 25th, 2008
I don’t know why John McCain’s campaign people think this ad is going to help them.
It’s only going to alienate the Republican base without any likely corresponding gain among independents (at least as I see it).
June 21st, 2008
Of course, the global-warming deniers are going to be upset about THIS and probably will resort to a new round of bashing Al Gore.
June 13th, 2008
This is kind of fun, if you have a while to plow through these arguments.
First, we have THIS SPEECH by John Coleman, founder of the Weather Channel and a leading global-warming denier.
Then we have THIS STUFF from climate scientist Gavin Schmidt. (Granted, a lot of the material at this site is complicated scientific data, and there are more than 400 comments attached. But even a layman can derive some useful impressions if you go through it all.)
March 7th, 2008
Of course, he’s right about THIS.
February 23rd, 2008
Republicans like Matalin are strangely inclined to COME UNGLUED at any suggestion that humans are causing global warming — no matter that most scientists hold that view.
POSTSCRIPT: But then, most Republicans also REJECT any theory of evolution. Let’s face it: The GOP is the party of make-believe (global warming is unscientific, but creationism is science; John Kerry is not a war hero, but George W. Bush is; John Wayne was a man’s man because that’s what he was in the movies; Ronald Reagan reduced the size of the federal government, despite his record to the contrary; military people and their families support the war in Iraq, no matter the evidence that many of them don’t; etc., etc.) It’s a faith-based party, not a reality-based party.
January 31st, 2008
It’s one thing for campaign partisans to misquote or otherwise misrepresent a rival, but it’s especially outrageous when a so-called respectable news shop does it.
Take the case of ABC News, which has quoted Bill Clinton out of context to make it appear that he favors a slow-down of the U.S. economy to help fight global warming.
Steve Benen has details HERE.
