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Mark your calendar, Dear Reader, and place your bets: FOX News has promised that the global climate will be back to normal this year. Joe Bastardi, FOX store-bought weatherman, swears to it. Yeah? Whatcha wanna bet?
Most of you have been trying to figure out how to make a buck without hurting yourself. Mature Landscaping has heard you and we respond. Call your paleocon acquaintances today, show them this video (side bet: they've seen it) and hustle yourself some wagers.
And there you have it. We are obviously experiencing a bout of Democrat Weather; Republican Weather is normal.
If this video isn't quite enough to coax those tea-sers to lay down a bet that FOX's version of Planet Earth's climate future tops those scamming scientists' version, you can quote Rush's response to Al Gore's response to Bill O'Reilly's challenge. (Does it get any sillier than this?)
O'Reilly asked on his show why southern New York state has turned into a tundra. He said he had a call into Al Gore.
Gore responded on his blog that he appreciated the question.
Gore then wrote in his blog:
"As it turns out, the scientific community has been addressing this particular question for some time now and they say that increased heavy snowfalls are completely consistent with what they have been predicting as a consequence of man-made global warming:
“In fact, scientists have been warning for at least two decades that global warming could make snowstorms more severe. Snow has two simple ingredients: cold and moisture. Warmer air collects moisture like a sponge until it hits a patch of cold air. When temperatures dip below freezing, a lot of moisture creates a lot of snow.
“A rise in global temperature can create all sorts of havoc, ranging from hotter dry spells to colder winters, along with increasingly violent storms, flooding, forest fires and loss of endangered species.”
Bet on it. Come Ground Hog Day 2012, your retirement portfolio will thank you.Limbaugh blasted that response, telling listeners that those who believe in global warming only came up with that explanation after the recent unusually cold and snowy winters. Limbaugh quoted scientists "in the forefront of the global warming hoax" who said that snow would soon become a very rare event. (The Examiner. Where else?)
P.S. Wonder if Bastardi can predict the outcome of widespread revolution in the Middle East?
I love this more than the article today saying a giant meteorite could possibly hit the earth and destroy it on April 13 2036..... :}
ReplyDeleteLet's just all bury our heads in the sand, shall we?
ReplyDeleteAt church this week, the sermon was about warning signs. The example the pastor used was the Indonesian Tsunami a couple of years back. When the tide suddenly receded way back, there were a lot of fish left just laying there in shallow pools or just on the sand. There were two schools of thought on this, some people ran out to collect the fish(what an easy way to get a meal, right?). The others saw the sudden drop in the tide for what it was and went to high ground. All the easy fishermen died.
It irritates me that there are so many people that would rather live with the status quo, and get an easy supper than look at what is happening around us and say "Somethings got to change." It's like pulling teeth to even get people to make small changes...
Hope all is well in SC, Nance. I live in a news black-hole, so I'm not sure if this storm made it that far. We got a light hit here at the homestead, but Amy's still been out of work all week. Thank goodness for salaried teaching positions!
Thank you for sharing this infomation. I'm at the office and I needed a good laugh. May I say that Rush Limbaugh is a blithering fool? Nance, how would you like to join me in doing an intervention for Rush? I think that he needs to confront his failings and admit that his head is only useful as a hat rack.
ReplyDeleteOh, gr-oooo-an. What would we do without these clowns giving us something to laugh about? And I'm still laughing.
ReplyDeleteEntre,
ReplyDeleteOkay, for real money, now: You take the giant comet scenario and I'll take the likelihood that a gigantic Wall Street scam will cause an "unprecedented" economic recession in 2036 and everybody will be taken by surprise. Wanna bet?
Jeff,
" All the easy fishermen died."
There's a warning if I ever heard one!
We're still just damp and chilly here. On the weather maps, we're always about an eigth of an inch south of the big blue and white swath, which makes for some gray and lowering days, but no snow days off for the kids.
Hug those cute babies for me!
Sheria,
You're reading blogs at work?! You wild thing!
Yes, you and me, an intervention for Rush so he can confront his failings, admit his transgressions, and make amends. Broadcasted. He doesn't stand a chance.
tnlib,
Wouldn't you love to write scripts for these guys? We couldn't make them look crazier if we tried.
Are you guys snowed in?
The surest sign of global warming is all the brain cell loss that's occured amongst these folks!
ReplyDeleteJoe who? This might be worth pooling my pennies for. I'm going for a trifecta.
ReplyDeleteglobal warming is an undeniable fact. the only question is if it a natural climate cycle or a man made event. i'm 99% certain that it's a man made event but even if it's a natural climatic cycle our frenzy to consume all the fossil fuel in our planet is poisoning us and driving untold species to extinction.
ReplyDeletei have to wonder if the naysayers are that stupid or just in it for a buck.
Their stupidity gives me an instant headache...
ReplyDeleteAnd you know what? I don't even need climate change to justify polluting less!!! (And I do believe in climate change.) I learned these lessons as a kid in the 1970s. What the hell is wrong with people?
;)
I guess pointing out that it's "climate change" -- sigh. Thanks for posting this, it's the first time I've heard a "Republican" weather report.
ReplyDeleteAs I say, according to Republicans, the Titanic didn't sink, it's really a submarine and should be popping up to the surface any day now.
ReplyDeleteWhen I see stuff like this, and the recent O'Reilly "how did the moon get here" rant, I am reminded of a quote I saw once (and use often): "Never argue with an idiot, they will bring you down to their level and then beat you with experience."
intelliwench,
ReplyDeleteDo you think the brain cell-robbing effects of global warming are politically selective? 'Cause, I mean, I haven't been feeling quite right, myself.
Jayne,
I know, don't you love that name? Never in my entire life have I heard a weather forecast wrapped in political propaganda. But, hey, why not? They've got their own America, their own founding fathers, their own history, their own version of the state of healthcare (best in the world!).
Who says they can't have their own climate and weather? Small government, big politics.
billy pilgrim,
"i have to wonder if the naysayers are that stupid or just in it for a buck."
Does it have to be one or the other? And, if it's just the money, do you have to be smart to be venal? I mean, stupid and venal--that works, right?
Knatolee,
I've wondered where Republican politicians were in the seventies (the ones who were born, that is).
In the seventies, Newt Gingrich was running two losing congressional campaigns in Georgia, so he was NOT listening to what Jimmy Carter was teaching the rest of us.
Mitch McConnell was interning and assisting to Republican senators, which means he was living inside the beltway and doing important work for national leaders and didn't have to wait in line for gas.
George Bush was partying at Yale, John Kyl was a lobbyist, Reince Priebus was being potty trained and learning to read, and Sarah Palin was playing flute in the Wasilla, AK, junior high band--where they weren't having oil issues.
In other words, Republican leaders weren't learning the same lessons the rest of us were learning, which explains everything.
Donna,
"I guess pointing out that it's 'climate change'..."
Nope. Pointing out is strictly prohibited. Stand by for Republican Astronomy.
Ouch. I hurt in so many places and now I have to add my brain to the list.
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I remember doing a speech on "ecology" in grade three and making it to the school's public-speaking finals. That was in 1973. I was always aware of this stuff.. it's frustrating that morons are still sticking their heads in the sand, decades later.
ReplyDeleteAnd I have quite the image of a flute-playing Sarah in my head! :P
Robert the S.,
ReplyDelete"Never argue with an idiot, they will bring you down to their level and then beat you with experience."
I've searched and searched on this author, to unrelieved availessness. Lots of really astute and noble people quote it, however--henceforth, including me.
a/b,
Oh, no! I will immediately post an analgesic!
Knatolee,
ReplyDeleteIn 1973, I was spending a lot of time in lines at gas stations around Cary and Chapel Hill, NC. I was turning my thermostat to 75 degrees in summer and 65 degrees in winter. Still do.
I owned an SUV for about 3-4 months in 2004. It was my Dad's brand new baby, bought when dementia was well-established and my mother newly dead. He called his favorite car dealership and said he was coming by. They had this bells-and-whistles gas guzzler's OnStar system pre-programmed to greet him by name when he pushed a certain button. Under the circumstances, that seems criminal to me.
Shortly thereafter, we had to place him in assisted living and he voluntarily gave up his keys. He gave the car to me to pick him up in when I took him out. It gave me headaches and cost a fortune to drive. After a few months, I overcame my guilt about disappointing him in favor of my guilt about driving more car than anyone needed: I begged to be allowed to get something with better gas mileage and he graciously acceded.
I think I get it, don't you?
For what it's worth, after a long search just now I have found the "Never argue with a [fool/idiot]" line ascribed variously to Mark Twain (wrong), Woody Allen (probably wrong), and somebody named Greg King (???).
ReplyDeleteYou may have seen this piece in The Onion, that glorious Internet resource. More alarmingly (and seriously), here's a review of a new book, slated to appear in tomorrow's NYT Book Review. I don't know if it's "good" news, exactly, but one little sparkle of grim light in all this is the certainty of the right wing's comeuppance. One just wishes everything didn't have to go off in that damned handbasket first.
You and I should probably consider relocating our respective loved ones to higher ground sooner rather than later.
Maybe I am imaging things but "An Inconvenient Truth" already mentioned AND explained the prediction (now facts) that some part of the worlds will become colder and get lots of snow because of global warming.
ReplyDeleteNow, I know you are all level-headed and cool and calm and collected, I am ashamed of wanting to show you this video. It made me feel SO MUCH BETTER! NOW say it with me: Climate is different than weather!
"How to Deal With Climate Change Deniers'"
http://youtu.be/U5nNbPWYHOA
Unfortunately, it will be future generations who suffer because climate change deniers are sticking their heads in the sand now.
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