QOTD

QOTD--Steve Goddard

QOTD on Weepy Bill Exiting As Chair At 350.org

"Bill--we shall always remember you as the guy who helped us to understand that environmental activism is what people do when they can't figure out a plausible way to pose as a member of a persecuted minority." -- Eric Worrall

Thermageddon QOTD

 "The climate is just like it always was. Hot in the summer, cold in the winter and brainless in Washington." -- Steve Goddard

He was referring to His Wholly Reluctance God/King Obama's new !!!!We'reGonnaDie!!! climate report, which made the following assertion....

AGW Mockery QOTD

Why does it take a political body (the IPCC) to tell us what scientists "believe"? And when did scientists' "beliefs" translate into proof? And when was scientific truth determined by a vote...especially when those allowed to vote are from the Global Warming Believers Party? -- Dr. Roy Spencer

Comment Of The Day

In response to the story at JWF on the IRS going after Hollywood conservatives by asking for the member names of the Friends of Abe group seeking tax-exempt status, commenter Brisco County penned this gem:

 Could they get away with handing over a list of names that included people like Sean Penn, Susan Sarandon and Matt Damon? Would some underling IRS drone know they're really flaming Commies? Could be fun.

QOTD

"Nelson Mandela is a leader Barack Obama should try to emulate. He should start by spending 27 years in prison." -- Don Imus

27 years...? Don's getting a little soft in his old age, don't you think?
(Stolen from Vilmar)

AGW Assclown & QOTD Winner: Chris Mooney

There is an argument that says he could be the winner every week, but hey, an English major who convinced guilty, rich Libtards to pay him as a "climate expert...?" It's remarkable how profitable a lack of scruples can be, but I digress. Here's what he wrote in (of course) Mother Jones:

"Fracking and global warming are different in one key respect: On fracking, the science is murkier and more contested."

Mooney's asstarded statement is inserted out of the blue amid his presentation of a thesis by a Yale researcher, which posits that "egalitarian communities"--the sophisticated, worldly Left--believe fracking is evil and will poison all our water, just like they believe AGW will bring about Thermageddon and roast us to Venusian cinders. Alternatively, "hierarchical communities"--the reactionary, troglodyte Right--think nothing of the kind. The paper's conclusion is the two groups have mirrored opinions on the two unrelated issues only because they are diametrically opposed to those of their political, ideological opponents, and the divergence, it claims, increases with the level of scientific literacy.

So let's look at Mooney's egalitarian, sophisticated scientific literacy--in just the above sentence. Anything further would require a tome of Proustian proportions.
1. Fracking science is murkier than global warming science. Bwuhahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha! Yes, the murky water activist farmers carry in mason jars claiming it was damaged by fracking--if contaminated at all--is fouled by animal waste (Per Penn State and EPA reports) because the majority of water wells do not have sanitary caps or lining. Curiously, here in PA multiple safety linings are required in shale wells. The technique has been in use throughout Texas, Oklahoma, even Colorado for 50 years.
2. Global warming, by comparison, was only cooked up by Maurice Strong in the late 1970s as a means to justify a global UN carbon tax. Based entirely on divergent and contradictory computer models, AGW theory posits that increased CO2 levels will drive up global temperatures by as much as 6 deg. Celsius, causing untold calamity.This theory will be proven by a tropospheric hot spot appearing above the tropics about five years ago. Oh, and the Arctic will be ice-free as of last year.
Well, while CO2 concentrations have increased in the last decade, temps have not. They have cooled for more than a decade. The hot spot has not appeared. Neither have the poles melted, sea levels risen 50 feet, nor have the tropical rain forests been charred into desiccated husks.
Clear as day.

H/T Tom Nelson

QOTD

"Never accuse a liberal of hypocrisy, because they have no actual principles to violate." -- Robert Stacy McCain

AGW Assclown Of The Week and Thermageddon Monger QOTD

This is so stunningly stupid, John Ashton deserves to win both awards, especially when you consider that he said it in a speech to the MET office:

"The consequences of (CO2-driven) climate change could still be catastrophic if climate sensitivity were zero."

So, even if GHGs had no effect on the atmosphere, they could still cause thermageddon. Why would anyone say something this weapons-grade stupid to a room full of supposed weather experts? Well, it might have something to do with the fact that he was the UK Special Envoy For Climate Change until 2012. 
Apparently there aren't a lot of those cushy gigs around since some people noticed there has been no Global Warming in 16 years. Regardless, this is...

H?T Tom Nelson