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End Of The World Tonight

September 9th, 2008 · 5 Comments

From FOX News: The clock is ticking. At 12:30 a.m. EDT Wednesday, scientists on the Franco-Swiss border will flip the switch on the Large Hadron Collider, a 17-mile underground ring where subatomic particles will be accelerated to astonishing speeds and then smashed into each other. It’ll be months before any usable data comes out from [...]

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Tags: Science · Technology

The Global Warming Crisis

August 4th, 2008 · Comments Off

Due to the ever-increasing temperature of the world’s oceans, from the Global Warming caused by Evil Conservatives™ in the USA driving their eco-angry SUVs, many gentle and pacifist sea creatures are venturing inward towards the cooler temperatures of this nation’s major rivers. Global WarmingSpread The Word:

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Tags: Global Warming · Strange/Funny

Clean Air Creates Global Warming?

August 2nd, 2008 · Comments Off

From NewScientist.com: Goodbye air pollution and smoky chimneys, hello brighter days. That’s been the trend in Europe for the past three decades – but unfortunately cleaning up the skies has allowed more of the sun’s rays to pierce the atmosphere, contributing to at least half the warming that has occurred. Since 1980, average air temperatures [...]

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Tags: Global Warming · Health · Science

Non-relevant Ted Turner Barks At The Moon Once Again

April 2nd, 2008 · Comments Off

From Charlie Rose’s PBS show on April 1, 2008: TED TURNER: Not doing it [not addressing global warming immediately] will be catastrophic. We’ll be eight degrees hottest in ten, not ten but 30 or 40 years and basically none of the crops will grow. Most of the people will have died and the rest of [...]

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Tags: Absurd · Global Warming · Socialism · The Left

The Insane Proxy Of Gaia

March 30th, 2008 · Comments Off

From CBS News: Self-avowed “P.R. agent for the planet” Al Gore says those who still doubt that global warming is caused by man – among them, Vice President Dick Cheney – are acting like the fringe groups who think the 1969 moon landing never really happened, or who once believed the world is flat. The [...]

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Tags: Global Warming · Government · The Left · World

Husband Carrying/Delivering Child For Wife?

March 28th, 2008 · Comments Off

From The Advocate: To our neighbors, my wife, Nancy, and I don’t appear in the least unusual. To those in the quiet Oregon community where we live, we are viewed just as we are — a happy couple deeply in love. Our desire to work hard, buy our first home, and start a family was [...]

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Tags: Health · Science · Technology · The US

Tornado Season In Georgia

March 9th, 2008 · 3 Comments

Ahhh, the daffodils are blooming, the birds are singing, the pollen is flying … … and here come the Georgia tornadoes. Tornadoes form where warm moist air is trapped underneath a layer of cold, dry air. This instability is upset when the warm bottom layer gets pushed up – either by heating near the ground, [...]

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Tags: Georgia · Science

Gore’s Global Warming Is Cooling

February 28th, 2008 · 8 Comments

Global warming fear-monger and Nobel Prize winner for saving the known universe, Al Gore, has often ranted how humans – especially those nefarious ones living in the US – are causing the planet to cook like a burned meatloaf. Anyone that has had the courage to publicly disagree with him have found themselves shut out [...]

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Tags: Global Warming · The Left · World

The Debate Isn’t Really Over?

December 21st, 2007 · Comments Off

From The Washington Times: More than 400 scientists challenge claims by former Vice President Al Gore and the United Nations about the threat of man-made global warming, a new Senate minority report says. The scientists — many of whom are current or former members of the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) that shares [...]

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Tags: Absurd · Global Warming · Government · Socialism · Taxes · World

What Global Warming?

December 11th, 2007 · Comments Off

From Long Range Weather and Harris-Mann Climatology: Climatologist Cliff Harris has been often rated as one of the top ten climatologists in the world for nearly 4 decades. Cliff Harris’ long-range weather forecasts have been used by high-ranking government officials and quoted in USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, New York Times, The Wall Street [...]

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Tags: Global Warming · The Left · World

Global Warming Causes …

December 3rd, 2007 · Comments Off

From the American Thinker: Dr. John Brignell, a British engineering professor, runs a website called numberwatch. He has compiled what has to be the most complete collection of links to media stories ascribing the cause of everything under the sun to global warming. He has already posted more than six-hundred links. The site’s stated mission [...]

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Tags: Absurd · Global Warming · Media

The Hot Topic Of Global Warming/Cooling

October 23rd, 2007 · Comments Off

From the Business & Media Institute, which aims to help the media do their essential job as well as possible and to monitor their performance: U.S. Funds Nearly $4 Billion in Climate-Change Research Global warming is a good business to be in for government funding. More than 99.5 percent of American climate change funding comes [...]

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Tags: Global Warming · Government · The Left · The US

The Hot Topic Of Global Warming/Cooling

October 16th, 2007 · 1 Comment

From the Business & Media Institute, which aims to help the media do their essential job as well as possible and to monitor their performance: Climate Change: Unpredictable Results Date Publication Prediction (All exact quotes) Outcome Oct. 7, 1912 New York Times Prof. Schmidt Warns Us of an Encroaching Ice Age Still encroaching… June 28, [...]

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Tags: Global Warming · Media · The Left

Blog Action Day

October 15th, 2007 · Comments Off

Hat tip to ALa at blonde sagacity: As being promoted by Blogger: On October 15th, bloggers around the web will unite to put a single important issue on everyone’s mind – the environment. Every blogger will post about the environment in their own way and relating to their own topic. Our aim is to get [...]

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Tags: Global Warming · The Left

The Goracle vs. The Truth

October 13th, 2007 · Comments Off

From the Evening Standard: A controversial documentary on climate change which has been sent to thousands of schools has been criticised by a High Court judge for being ‘alarmist’ and ‘exaggerated’. Mr Justice Burton said former US vice-president Al Gore‘s film, An Inconvenient Truth, was ‘one-sided’ and would breach education rules unless accompanied by a [...]

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Tags: Absurd · Global Warming · The Left · World