Jimmy Akin has an excellent post today.  It starts with a video of a guy who apparently thinks he’s some sort of superior intellect; he presents a semi-plausible argument for taking some sort of large-scale action to fix allegedly man made global warming.  Jimmy then expertly dismantles the argument, and his commenters have some great stuff to say too.  Check it out!

After our posting yesterday about those 2 ignorant pre-teens and their “I’ve been indoctrinated” song  let’s lighten the mood a bit with this piece of news:

Snow, heavy rain and strong wind caused travel problems in parts of Wyoming today.

Up to 8 inches of snow fell in the Big Horn Mountains in northern Wyoming and forced highway officials to close a section of U.S. 14A between Burgess Junction and Lovell.

Byline on this story is June 7, 2007. We must stop Bush from making snowstorms happen to distract attention from Global Warming (R).

I normally don’t blog at this time of day…but this is something you need to check out -

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wo8wNleZjzo

Try not to laugh…the girl things she’s doing something useful.

So now “W” is flip-flopping on “GW.”

George W. Bush on Thursday unveiled a striking about-face on global warming, calling on the world’s leading economies to join the US in agreeing a global target to reduce carbon dioxide emissions before the end of his term in office.

The US president was speaking just ahead of a G8 summit at which climate change was expected to be high on the agenda of European governments. He explained that his apparent conversion – which follows almost seven years of having rejected precisely the road he outlined – was prompted by new scientific findings.

But Mr Bush made no pledge on the size of emissions cuts that the US would be prepared to sign up to and gave no indication of a timeframe. The White House also ruled out carbon trading as the way to cutting emissions.

Please give us a real right-winger on the Republican ticket!!

More here. 

Drudge was a goldmine for Global Warming stuff today.

First, having a big family is bad for the environment.   “Big” means more than 2 kids.

HAVING large families should be frowned upon as an environmental misdemeanour in the same way as frequent long-haul flights, driving a big car and failing to reuse plastic bags, says a report to be published today by a green think tank.

The paper by the Optimum Population Trust will say that if couples had two children instead of three they could cut their family’s carbon dioxide output by the equivalent of 620 return flights a year between London and New York.

“The greatest thing anyone in Britain could do to help the future of the planet would be to have one less child.”

Sounds good to me.  All the enviro-nuts should definitely avoid generating children – after all, it would be irresponsible to bring them into a world that has somewhere on the order of a decade left.  Give us 20 years or so, and they’ll all be dead.  Then we can go on living normally.

In another story, and environut says it’s time to get our population down below 1 billion.

Apparently, saving the whales is more important than saving 5.5 billion people. Paul Watson, founder and president of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society and famous for militant intervention to stop whalers, now warns mankind is “acting like a virus” and is harming Mother Earth.

 

Watson’s May 4 editorial asked the question “The Beginning of the End for Life as We Know it on Planet Earth?” Then he left no doubt about the answer. “We are killing our host the planet Earth,” he claimed and called for a population drop to less than 1 billion.

Ellingham now says travelling is so environmentally destructive that there is no such thing as a genuinely ethical holiday. He wants the industry to educate travellers about the damage their holidays do to the environment. The development he regrets most is the public’s appetite for what he calls ‘binge-flying’.

“It’s in part a spiritual crisis,” Gore told the crowd in the Convention Center at the American Institute of Architects national convention. “It’s a crisis of our own self-definition — who we are. Are we creatures destined to destroy our own species? Clearly not.”

Admittedly, my headline may be a bit hyperbolic. But take a look at this article courtesy of Al-Reuters. In part, it tells us:

He said China’s one-child per couple policy introduced in the early 1980s, for instance, had a side-effect of braking global warming by limiting the population to 1.3 billion against a projected 1.6 billion without the policy.
“This has reduced greenhouse gas emissions,” he told a conference in Oslo last month. China is the number two emitter of greenhouse gases, mainly from burning fossil fuels, behind the United States and ahead of Russia.

Now I shouldn’t be surprised with something like this coming out of the UN. But this is one of the clearest examples of what many folks have been saying for a while – that at the root of the environmental movement is the same old evil calling for population control and this bunk about how our overpopulation of the planet is going to destroy it.

Here we have a situation where airtime is being given to a country who says, “Look at us, we reduced greenhouse emissions and all we had to do was kill off 300 million babies via our one-child per family policy.” Dare I use the word eugenics to loosely describe such?

On another note, the Gaia Napa Valley Hotel in southern California is taking out the Gideon Bibles and replacing them with Algore’s book.  Seeing as it’s in the nightstand, all I can figure is that perhaps the guests will use it to help them get to sleep.  Get more on this story.

Humorist Sheryl Crow recommended a couple of days ago on her blog that we all ought to drop back to one square of TP per sitting (three when absolutely necessary.)  Now she claims it was a joke (hmm…ever heard of a lib talking about a “botched joke before?”)

The Curt Jester has an outstanding sendup of Crow’s comments about TP and also about “virgin wood.”  (And yes, your mind is in the gutter.)

Courtesy of CNS, we have this story on the various churches of London who are being truly ecumenical – they are incorporating the religion of GW into their own religions.

The guidebook, which was created by Catholic, Anglican, Methodist, Orthodox and evangelical churches in the British capital, provides advice on how Christians can contribute to stopping climate change. It also contains tips on reducing heating bills, for example, fitting insulation and installing energy-efficient lighting.

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I think he has a couple of good ideas

“Environmentalism should belong in the social sciences,” much like the idea of communism or other “-isms” such as feminism, Klaus said, adding that “environmentalism is a religion” that seeks to reorganize the world order as well as social behavior and value systems worldwide

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Did you hear? Our output of carbon dioxide is so bad that there’s ice melting on Mars. Or, maybe there’s some other cause for the so-called global warming problem that we’re hearing so much about.

Habibullo Abdussamatov, head of the St. Petersburg’s Pulkovo Astronomical Observatory in Russia, says the Mars data is evidence that the current global warming on Earth is being caused by changes in the sun.

“The long-term increase in solar irradiance is heating both Earth and Mars,” he said.

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This article is from National Geographic, so it’s no surprise that there is a continuous undercurrent of statements about how “most scientists” believe in global warming, and the article pretty much skewers this dissenter.

Think I am going to go out and run my car on idle for a while.