I guess that holding the U.N. conference on man-made climate change (AKA the Global Warming Summit) in Cancun this time of year was at least good odds on having some nice beach-type weather, especially with all that anthropogenic warming of the Earth happening. Looks like ol’ Mother Gaia isn’t amused by their hubris.

The irony: As negotiators from nearly 200 countries met in Cancun to strategize ways to keep the planet from getting hotter, the temperature in the seaside Mexican city plunged to a 100-year record low of 54° F. Climate-change skeptics are gleefully calling Cancun’s weather the latest example of the “Gore Effect” — a plunge in temperature they say occurs wherever former Vice President Al Gore, now a Nobel Prize-winning environmental activist, makes a speech about the climate.

Of course one cold winter doesn’t make a trend, and the Climate change advocates keep insisting that the Earth’s temp is still on the rise . . . although it sure looks like maybe a small move toward a new Little Ice Age to this ol’ Okie instead of workin’ our way to bein’ the next Venus. Time will tell I suppose, and before anything bad will happen either temp direction I’ll be pushin’ up some fine daises somewhere.

That fact that these folks believe that we (mankind) have the power to have put the planet’s weather patterns into crisis mind boggles me. That they believe that we are mere years away from the tipping point and we can solve all this via a Carbon Credit Exchange is ridiculous. To insist that the world turn away from modernization and go back to a 1700s-1800s agrarian world economy is insanity made manifest.

The loopy Social-Progressives in the Western world might be crazy enough to buy into that one, but try to force the billions of Chinese and Indians to walk away from their leap from the farm to the post-information-age boom they are working on and voila! — you got yourself a white-hot World War III comin’ at ya. But hey, what’s a couple o’ hundred nukes launched off among friends?

Ya! That’s the ticket. Nuclear Winter to combat all that man-made Global Warming, with some population control thrown in to boot.

A Progressive’s wet dream right there. Oh, ya betcha!

Out here in the most western part of La La Land, they are all agog over Earth Day — with lots o’ Gaia lovin’ goin’ on and such.

SMC is also hosting an Earth Day Festival on Earth Day, April 22. There will be an open mic, performance art, vegetarian food and drinks, as well as educational activities. The educational activities will include a game show wheel, treasure hunt, eco-themed music, art, and a raffle for eco-prizes.

Poster contests, awards ceremonies . . . be still my fluttering heart — not! From a link over at Jammie Wearing Fool comes the story of how big business has jumped on the GREEN bandwagon and is particularly slick at fleecing these go-green fanatics of their filthy-hard-earned lucre:

Josephson’s gung-ho green attitude is echoed by millions of others willing to pay extra for everything from green coffee to eco-friendly coffins. Overall spending in the green marketplace is tough to measure because there are so many products and so many terms that fit the description. Yet, sales in the healthy product market, which includes green products as well as those promoting personal health or benefiting the environment, totaled $722 billion in 2009, up 41% from 2004, according to Mintel International Group. The market is expected to hit $992 billion by 2014.

More than half of consumers say they would pay more for a product if they knew it was better for the environment, according to a national poll conducted this month by ad agency Venables Bell & Partners.

Yet, some of the spending is misplaced: Overhyped and overpriced enviro-friendly impostors share shelves with the truly planet- and human-friendly products. Misleading claims are so rampant, there is actually a term for it: greenwashing.

Of course it just wouldn’t be Earth Day without the LA Times printing an eleventh-hour-wild-assertion-filled opinion piece about how Global Warming is going to kill us all:

According to the NASA data, we have just experienced the hottest 12-month period in more than 100 years, which means that the past 12 months have been the hottest in at least the past 1,000 years.

What does this mean? Well, if global temperatures continue to rise at the rate that they have risen for the past generation, then the world of 2100 will see a world 4.1 degrees Fahrenheit hotter than the world of the 1970s. New York will get the climate of Washington. Los Angeles will get the climate of Tijuana.

But global warming might accelerate, especially if China, India and other industrializing powers continue to increase the amount of carbon dioxide they pour out. Perhaps the world by 2100 will be 9 degrees hotter than the world of the 1970s. That would give Washington the climate of Miami and Los Angeles the climate of Cabo San Lucas.

So, what’s this U.C. Berkeley economics professor’s solution? Why, “a climate council made up of the seven governments that have the biggest power to influence the climate and the most at stake: the United States and the European Union, along with Japan, China, India, Indonesia and Brazil” of course.

He even acknowledges that this is essentially an impossibility:

Utopian? Yes. Impractical? Probably. But what is the practical and realistic alternative that it would be better to push for?

Uh . . . like, look at the overall climate record of this grand ol’ planet — glaciation, non-glaciation, over and over again and realize that we humans just don’t have all that much influence on global climate.

Then again, when you are talking a religion, not a science, faith trumps reason. That’s why these guys castigate any conflicting opinions and brand those that disagree as global-warming-denying heretics.

For those on the other side, our eyes are a bit more open. There’s a Climate Change Believer descriptor for ya: Eyes wide shut! LOL!!!

Go out and love ya some Earth today in a very special way . . . ask for both paper AND plastic and watch a greenie’s head explode — I double-dog dare ya!

My category for these posts is “Global Warming B.S.”, but baloney is just as appropriate a term. There has been so much of it piling up for the last few decades that we could eat Global Warming sandwiches for eons and still not make a dent in it. However, if that be your culinary jones, better get as much as you can ’cause the Anthropogenic Global Warming movement is unraveling faster than an ol’ sweater left with a pack o’ cats — or somethin’ like that!

Yesterday, in Britain’s Mail Online we find out that Climate Scientist and Climategate-email-participant Professor Phil Jones is a really lousy records keeper, possibly if not probably has lost the original data records that were used for the infamous Hockey Stick graph, not to mention — but I’ll do that anyway — he concedes that there probably hasn’t been any statistically significant warming in the last decade and a half. What’s up with that?

Asked about whether he lost track of data, Professor Jones said: ‘There is some truth in that. We do have a trail of where the weather stations have come from but it’s probably not as good as it should be.

‘There’s a continual updating of the dataset. Keeping track of everything is difficult. Some countries will do lots of checking on their data then issue improved data, so it can be very difficult. We have improved but we have to improve more.’

He also agreed that there had been two periods which experienced similar warming, from 1910 to 1940 and from 1975 to 1998, but said these could be explained by natural phenomena whereas more recent warming could not.

He further admitted that in the last 15 years there had been no ‘statistically significant’ warming, although he argued this was a blip rather than the long-term trend.

And he said that the debate over whether the world could have been even warmer than now during the medieval period, when there is evidence of high temperatures in northern countries, was far from settled.

Don’t ya just LUV it when those that have been screaming for over a decade that the science of man-caused Global Warming is settled, that there is a scientific consensus devoid of rational dissent on the issue, that Global Warming deniers are as loony as Holocaust deniers finally have to pull their heads out of their asses, breath some real non-global-warmed air and admit that, well . . . maybe the science isn’t really settled after all. Hate to break it to them poor, misunderstood Global Warming Hysterics, but when you find yourself caught in a shit storm, the stuff just keeps flyin’ at ya! Like this for instance:

“The temperature records cannot be relied on as indicators of global change,” said John Christy, professor of atmospheric science at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, a former lead author on the IPCC.
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The doubts of Christy and a number of other researchers focus on the thousands of weather stations around the world, which have been used to collect temperature data over the past 150 years.

These stations, they believe, have been seriously compromised by factors such as urbanisation, changes in land use and, in many cases, being moved from site to site.

Christy has published research papers looking at these effects in three different regions: east Africa, and the American states of California and Alabama.

“The story is the same for each one,” he said. “The popular data sets show a lot of warming but the apparent temperature rise was actually caused by local factors affecting the weather stations, such as land development.”

Uh, yeah! Let’s keep the weather stations where we collect temperature data to support our religion theory of man-caused Global Warming next to heat sources and on heat-generating land fills. That’ll teach them pesky deniers to doubt that Gaia’s having a big-time mankind-caused hot flash! Over at Hot Air Ed Morrissey comments:

These revelations come on top of a series of embarrassing disclosures about the IPCC report. Another research team at Loughborough University may expose even more. Terry Wills will publish a paper in Climatic Change that will argue that the IPCC misread its data, and that the temperature fluctuations it saw are just as likely to be random weather than any systemic trend, whether caused by greenhouse gases or not.

The struts have begun to collapse under AGW hysteria.

Michelle Malkin has a great roundup of information and sources and ends her post with this, “Eco-hysteria doesn’t deliver world peace. It threatens it.” The Anchoress has needs, and a request that I totally agree with:

I want me freaking incandescent bulbs back, and I want them now. And I want the space program refunded with all this global warming hoo-hah money.

Stop the man-caused Global Warming nonsense NOW! Can we do that”

Yes, we can!

Did I really just write that?

Sheesh!

Walter Russell Mead at The American Interest Online site writes in The Death Of Global Warming:

The global warming movement as we have known it is dead. Its health had been in steady decline during the last year as the once robust hopes for a strong and legally binding treaty to be agreed upon at the Copenhagen Summit faded away. By the time that summit opened, campaigners were reduced to hoping for a ‘politically binding’ agreement to be agreed that would set the stage for the rapid adoption of the legally binding treaty. After the failure of the summit to agree to even that much, the movement went into a rapid decline.

The movement died from two causes: bad science and bad politics.

After years in which global warming activists had lectured everyone about the overwhelming nature of the scientific evidence, it turned out that the most prestigious agencies in the global warming movement were breaking laws, hiding data, and making inflated, bogus claims resting on, in some cases, no scientific basis at all. {,,,}

Mead isn’t a denier, in fact he seems to strongly believed in AGW, but is facing the reality that Al Gore and the Holy Order Of Global Warming Hysteria blew it big time. “Bad science and bad politics” indeed. Mead follows up that one with one today about the Liberal Media’s total lack of coverage of the collapse of AGW due to all that bad data, manipulated data, false data and cover-ups galore.

Readers of The New York Times have no idea that any of this is happening (although this story in today’s paper hints that President Obama is retreating from the goal of a comprehensive climate bill). Those who get their news from the three old news networks haven’t heard about it. It’s likely that even key members of the Obama administration haven’t realized the full dimensions of the problem they face.

The word here is denial: there’s too much intellectual, political and moral energy invested in the climate change movement for liberals to pay attention to the dots, much less to connect up the whole dismaying picture. It looks very much as if reporters or (more likely) editors were so invested in climate change that they assumed that the initial charges were less consequential than they have turned out to be. They therefore failed to understand the effect of the cascading charges and revelations on American politics. Skeptics up, Obama down, cap-and-trade dead. Since they couldn’t see that, they failed to think through the consequences of cap and trade’s death for the global climate change process.

One lesson from this: the secret weapon of American conservatives is the liberal media. Had American liberals known what was coming, they could have taken some steps to limit the damage. But they didn’t see it coming because the media they rely on lacks the insight and the instincts to recognize a major story in time.

It’s fun when even the Looney Left is starting to “get it”! To all you AGW hysterics out there — Anthropogenic Global Warming Is DEAD! Crap & Tax is a FARCE.

Deal with it . . .

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This broke yesterday, just in case you missed it. Seems like those dire “Scientific” predictions that the Himalayan glaciers are all gonna melt away due to Global Warming were a bit less than scientific, in fact, this bombshell that has fueled the Global Warming hysteria for years was based upon a short phone call to an obscure Indian scientist who was speculating out his ass because there had been NO formal research done to back up said speculation!

Say what? From the UK’s Times Online:

A WARNING that climate change will melt most of the Himalayan glaciers by 2035 is likely to be retracted after a series of scientific blunders by the United Nations body that issued it.

Two years ago the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) issued a benchmark report that was claimed to incorporate the latest and most detailed research into the impact of global warming. A central claim was the world’s glaciers were melting so fast that those in the Himalayas could vanish by 2035.

In the past few days the scientists behind the warning have admitted that it was based on a news story in the New Scientist, a popular science journal, published eight years before the IPCC’s 2007 report.

It has also emerged that the New Scientist report was itself based on a short telephone interview with Syed Hasnain, a little-known Indian scientist then based at Jawaharlal Nehru University in Delhi.
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Hasnain has since admitted that the claim was “speculation” and was not supported by any formal research. If confirmed it would be one of the most serious failures yet seen in climate research. The IPCC was set up precisely to ensure that world leaders had the best possible scientific advice on climate change.

Professor Murari Lal, who oversaw the chapter on glaciers in the IPCC report, said he would recommend that the claim about glaciers be dropped:

Go read it all. Ain’t it grand that our Obamessiah and his HarryPelosi lawmakers want to followup Obamacare with Cap & trade Crap & Tax legislation to tax the livin’ bejeesus out of all of us to stop the Global Warming that ALL, most, some, a few, well, maybe one or two, real-live-actual climate scientists actually, really, well maybe just a little bit believe.

Mostly they are just trying to keep that Global Warming grant money rolling in. Ol’ Big Al Gore just wants you to buy his Carbon Offsets so that he can light up that big ol’ mansion of his.

BTW — it’s balls off the brass monkey freezin’ in Boston. That won’t stop the Brown voters! Maybe we’re gonna get a pass on both Obamacare and Crap & Tax?

Go Scott Brown!

I’ve taken some time off from blogging to do a slew of dinners, including roasting two ducks and last night preparing an abbreviated version of Thanksgiving dinner — call me dog tired!!! I’m also enjoying Glenn Beck’s book, Arguing With Idiots plus trying to catch up on work — now, that’s something to be thankful for — Oh, ya betcha!

Our Obamessiah, er, uh President, is back from Hawaii, reluctantly it seems, so with him getting back to work making our lives more complicated and expensive, I might as well get back to this.

On the Global Warming front, it’s being estimated that this winter might be the worst in a quarter of a century, over in Iowa the field of dreams might need some diggin’ out as they are having temps 30 degrees below normal, ice is slowing energy production at a New Jersey nuclear power plant, good ol’ Miami, Florida is having their coldest winter in a decade.

It’s not just in this hemisphere either. Seoul, Korea is having the most snow they’ve seen in 70 years, while China shivering like they havent’ for the past 40 years.

Must be all that Global Warming, huh Al?

OK — well, at least it’s a start . . . wishing all a wonderful 2010!