Swine Flu...throw it on top of Y2K, global warming, SARS, bird flu, and so on. A media-generated fear frenzy.
As the World Health Organization raised its infectious disease alert level Wednesday and health officials confirmed the first death linked to swine flu inside U.S. borders, scientists studying the virus are coming to the consensus that this hybrid strain of influenza -- at least in its current form -- isn't shaping up to be as fatal as the strains that caused some previous pandemics.
Just remember what the WHO said (see the article below) once this mild flu bug has run its course. Remember that the WHO is a subsidiary of the U.N., whose climate arms (i.e., IPCC) have proclaimed similar doomsday scenarios with regard to manmade global warming.
The regular seasonal flu kills ~500,000 worldwide every year, and there’s never really any news coverage of that. However, this “swine” flu seems bogus in terms of the threat advertised among the news media; confirmed deaths are currently a handful, not hundreds as implied due to “unconfirmed” status. Even if the deaths were in the hundreds, it still wouldn’t have risen to the mortality level of regular seasonal flu, at least yet.
It appears to be an overhyped flop. I personally know someone who just had it—an American molecular biologist—who has already recovered. Even the name “swine” is a media-invoked misnomer; the virus itself contains genetic elements of previously identified type A viruses from humans, swine, and aves.
Why belabor this swine flu business? What does it have to do with climate? Well, first it shows just what the media does with a story—they create news and editorialize by what they leave in and out of a story. Second, it demonstrates that the U.N. can’t be trusted over climate change. They have a socialist agenda that benefits from public fear; the more the public fears ANYTHING, the more they turn to the government to save them.
The World Health Organisation has warned that "all of humanity is under threat" from a potential swine flu pandemic and called for "global solidarity" to combat the virus.
Just in time for Christmas, the alarmist humbugs strike with a vengeance, lambasting carbon fuel used to power all those wonderful holiday lights. They never say global warming in the article, so you need to read between the lines: Carbon fuel burned equals CO2, which is the oft-implicated gas of global warming. More GASP! here and see Dr. Brignell's warmlist to read about everything that global warming 'causes.'
As alarmist scientists and their cohorts in the media continue blowing hot air (which they wouldn't do if they really cared about carbon emissions...ahem), Amtrak passengers were at the mercy of this awful winter weather we're having.
And in a flash to the recent past, remember when scientists told us that computing and our LCD monitors were also warming the planet? Let's face it...if we do everything these zealots want us to do, we'll all be living in the Stone Age again. WAKE UP AMERICA!!
SCIENTISTS have warned that Christmas lights are bad for the planet due to huge electricity waste and urged people to get energy efficient festive bulbs.
CSIRO researchers said householders should know that each bulb turned on in the name of Christmas will increase emissions of greenhouse gases.
Others were delayed for hours. The worst case – more than 600 passengers trying to get to the Pacific Northwest were stuck on the train and in cold waiting rooms for nearly a day. Some said they had little food and water.
"We kept getting updated notifications that the toilets were frozen, the switching lines were frozen," a passenger said. "No one really knew what was going on."
The train finally left Tuesday afternoon – 23 hours late – but would only go as far as St. Paul, Minnesota.
I wrote about this article at length the other day. Nice to see that some REAL scientists are standing up to be counted as critics of all this relentless fear-mongering and propaganda, still occurring in the face of overwhelming scientific and empirical data that dispels the myth of global warming.
Melting ice? Please read the last bits in the article below. Dr. O'Brien makes some excellent scientific points, which alarmists will promptly ignore.
Scientists skeptical of the assertion that climate change is the result of man's activites are criticizing a recent Associated Press report on global warming, calling it "irrational hysteria," "horrifically bad" and "incredibly biased."
They say the report, which was published on Monday, contained sweeping scientific errors and was a one-sided portrayal of a complicated issue.
"If the issues weren't so serious and the ramifications so profound, I would have to laugh at it," said David Deming, a geology professor at the University of Oklahoma who has been critical of media reporting on the climate change issue.
In the article, Obama Left with Little Time to Curb Global Warming, AP Science Writer Seth Borenstein wrote that global warming is "a ticking time bomb that President-elect Barack Obama can't avoid," and that "global warming is accelerating."
Deming, in an interview, took issue with Borenstein's characterization of a problem he says doesn't exist.
"He says global warming is accelerating. Not only is it continuing, it's accelerating, and whether it's continuing that was completely beyond the evidence," Deming told FOXNews.com.
"The mean global temperature, at least as measured by satellite, is now the same as it was in the year 1980. In the last couple of years sea level has stopped rising. Hurricane and cyclone activity in the northern hemisphere is at a 24-year low and sea ice globally is also the same as it was in 1980."
Deming said the article is further evidence of the media's decision to talk about global warming as fact, despite what he says is a lack of evidence.
"Reporters, as I understand reporters, are supposed to report facts,"Deming said. "What he's doing here is he's writing a polemic and reporting it as fact, and that's not right. It's not reporting. It's propaganda.
"This reads like a press release for an environmental advocacy group like Greenpeace. It's not fair and balanced."
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He took issue with the AP article's assertion that melting Arctic ice will cause global sea levels to rise.
"When the Arctic Ocean ice melts, it never raises sea level because floating ice is floating ice, because it's displacing water," O'Brien said. "When the ice melts, sea level actually goes down.
"I call it a fourth grade science experiment. Take a glass, put some ice in it. Put water in it. Mark level where water is. Let it melt. After the ice melts, the sea level didn't go up in your glass of water. It's called the Archimedes Principle."
He called sea level changes a "major scare tactic used by the global warming people."
Forecasters said the same thing about last year's record cold winter (i.e., it was only going to be briefly cold--ahem, WRONG!).
Review the posts here, here, and here (among others talking about last year's winter). We were also told, insanely, that the cold weather we were seeing was caused by global warming! Then La Nina and El Nino were used as excuses to explain away the record-setting cold we've seen, which runs empirically counter to the entire global warming theory. Again and again, climate predictions--from higher temperatures to increased hurricanes--have continually refused to materialize. Can you expect this prediction to be any different than the others? I PREDICT NO!
Clearly, it's uncomfortable for the believers and alarmists in the media to keep seeing these low temperatures that cast doubt on all the brainwashing in which they've engaged.
Weather forecasters are predicting a colder-than-normal start to winter in the eastern part of the United States.
The season overall will be warmer than normal in the Southwest, South and parts of the Midwest, according to independent forecasters.
"It's going to be an aggressive start," said Ken Reeves, director of forecasting at Accuweather.com.
"What's really going to stand out for a lot of people is the immediate slap in the face of what will be a rather cold December, especially in the eastern third of the nation," Reeves said.
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Despite the early cold, Ed O'Lenic, a senior meteorologist and chief of the climate operations branch at the Climate Prediction Center, said he believes this winter will be warmer than the average over the past 30 years.
Anthony Barnston, director of forecasting at Columbia University's International Research Institute in New York, said a lessening of La Niña could result in a warmer winter.
FOR YEARS David Bellamy was one of the best known faces on TV.
A respected botanist and the author of 35 books, he had presented around 400 programmes over the years and was appreciated by audiences for his boundless enthusiasm.
Yet for more than 10 years he has been out of the limelight, shunned by bosses at the BBC where he made his name, as well as fellow scientists and environmentalists.
His crime? Bellamy says he doesn’t believe in man-made global warming.
Here he reveals why – and the price he has paid for not toeing the orthodox line on climate change.
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I am a scientist and I have to follow the directions of science but when I see that the truth is being covered up I have to voice my opinions.
According to official data, in every year since 1998 world temperatures have been getting colder, and in 2002 Arctic ice actually increased. Why, then, do we not hear about that?
The sad fact is that since I said I didn’t believe human beings caused global warming I’ve not been allowed to make a TV programme.
The environmental fruitcakes are oozing from the cracks and crevices of society. Don’t forget what they diagnose in Australia, and please review the previous post on eco-therapy. A lot of these episodes are rooted in fear, propagated by media stories that delineate bogus, politically-tinged studies (i.e., junk science), which have no basis in reality whatsoever.
Enjoy your global warming corn flakes, you bunch of dimwits (on second thought--don't--we need the corn for biofuel). Move to the mountains and live in bubbles; make Darwin right.
Some doctors question whether environmental illness is a genuine physical disorder and suggest it is psychological. Feudale-Bowles says she was diagnosed by Dr. William Rea of Texas, who has been accused by the Texas Medical Board of promoting "pseudoscience." He vigorously disputes the charge and continues to see patients.
Feudale-Bowes says fabric softener, nail polish, perfume, new sneakers, upholstery and many other items can make her body go haywire. She says she has suffered from a range of chronic ailments, including migraines, joint pain, bladder inflammation, seizures and temporary paralysis. Her insides, she says, have sometimes felt like "fire with ground glass in it."
Time to sound the BS alarm. LOL! Here's some more fear fodder for you. Seems that the alarmists aren't too happy that the economy is tanking, because that means there's less of your fear for their BS myth.
There is NO manmade climate change...NONE! There never has been. If you're a crack-smoking believer then it's time to pass the pipe! There is an entire contingent of folks who have built their reputations, careers, and livelihoods on the shaky, stupid foundation that is anthropogenic global warming (ahem...climate change).
Since this article is FULL of silly, ridiculous predictions (many from "climate experts" that we've already seen FAIL), we'll just throw this prediction on the stinky pile with the rest of them and check it in a few years for accuracy (and enhanced pungency).
Who wants to bet with me that NONE OF THE CRAP mentioned below will have transpired? Need more fear? Read the GASP! series and the warmlist.
OSLO (Reuters) - Refugees are moving to Antarctica by 2030, the Olympics are held only in cyberspace and central Australia has been abandoned as too dry, according to exotic scenarios for climate change on Monday.
British-based Forum for the Future, a charitable think-tank, and researchers from Hewlett-Packard Labs, said they wanted to stir debate about how to avert the worst effects of global warming by presenting a radical set of possible futures.
"Climate change will affect the economy at least as much as the 'credit crunch'," their 76-page report study said.
The scenarios range from a shift to greater energy efficiency, where desalination plants run on solar power help turn the Sahara green, to one where refugees are moving to Antarctica because of rising temperatures.
Penn and Teller say it like it is once again. Don't watch liberal fear victims, if you can't handle reality or if you don't want your anxiety alleviated.
[NOTE: Adult language. Don't watch if you're easily offended.]
When a hysterical media has no firm scientific (or even empirical) footing on which to stand anymore, all that's left for it to do is misrepresent the other side to continue spreading propaganda like a faithful cultist. More on Monckton here in a previous blog post.
The BBC is being investigated by television watchdogs after a leading climate change sceptic claimed his views were deliberately misrepresented.
Lord Monckton, a former adviser to Margaret Thatcher, says he was made to look like a ‘potty peer’ on a TV programme that ‘was a one-sided polemic for the new religion of global warming’.
Earth: The Climate Wars, which was broadcast on BBC 2, was billed as a definitive guide to the history of global warming, including arguments for and against.
During the series, Dr Iain Stewart, a geologist, interviewed leading climate change sceptics, including Lord Monckton. But the peer complained to Ofcom that the broadcast had been unfairly edited.
The threat of global warming is so great that campaigners were justified in causing more than £35,000 worth of damage to a coal-fired power station, a jury decided yesterday. In a verdict that will have shocked ministers and energy companies the jury at Maidstone Crown Court cleared six Greenpeace activists of criminal damage.
Jurors accepted defence arguments that the six had a "lawful excuse" to damage property at Kingsnorth power station in Kent to prevent even greater damage caused by climate change. The defence of "lawful excuse" under the Criminal Damage Act 1971 allows damage to be caused to property to prevent even greater damage – such as breaking down the door of a burning house to tackle a fire.
The not-guilty verdict, delivered after two days and greeted with cheers in the courtroom, raises the stakes for the most pressing issue on Britain's green agenda and could encourage further direct action.
The BS scare tactics and propaganda aimed squarely at indoctrinating the zombies in our society are unceasing. This study was brought to you by the same fanatics who brought you such memorable fear treatises as:
My prediction? The Pyrenees glaciers will not be gone by 2050. Let’s look at other failed predictions of alarmists, and don’t forget the predictions of doom yet to come—from Prince Charles’ portent of doom to Al Gore’s to the Nobel Dodo’s. We’re all going to be just fine. You’ll see...
The crisp, white glaciers of the Pyrenees, the mountain range along the border between France and Spain, have substantially receded in the past 15 years and could disappear by 2050 due to global warming, a new study suggests.
The retreat of glaciers in Greenland and areas like Glacier National Park have been well-documented, but less well-studied are the situations of alpine glaciers around the world.
Researchers at the University of Cantabria, the Autonomous University of Madrid and the University of Valladolid compiled data from current and historic studies of the glaciers in the high mountain regions of the Iberian Peninsula to gauge how climate change has affected these icy behemoths.
"High mountains are particularly sensitive areas to climate and environmental changes, and how glaciers evolve there in response to climate change is one of the most effective indicators of current global warming," said study leader Juan José González Trueba.
Japan is planning to label consumer goods to show their carbon footprints in a bid to raise public awareness about global warming, an official said Tuesday.
Under the plan, a select range of products from beverages to detergent will carry markings on the carbon footprint -- or how much gas responsible for global warming has been emitted through production and delivery.
Okay, let me beat them to the punch! Remember, you heard it here first...Tropical Storm (likely soon-to-be hurricane) Fay is being driven by evil poot gases that result from humankind's love for Western capitalism. Our own greedy transgressions are punishing us! Now the lefties can relax; I put out the press release first.
Hyperbole? Hysteria? Not if you're a invective-carrying environmental alarmist. Need more hysteria to help you through your week? Go to the warmlist and dose up on an unending list of dire news stories (all the bad stuff global warming causes), and then make certain you read through our GASP! series here. Then maybe you'll get some clarity and put all this nonsense into perspective.
I'm making a prediction (and we've seen how accurate the predictions of these alarmists are). Since the global mean temperatures fell nearly a single degree in one year (2007-08) and scientists now predict AGW is being "masked by cooling," global mean temperatures will come NOWHERE NEAR a 4 degree rise--except for maybe when the sun turns into a red giant a few billions years from now.
And remember...this is a British paper, and 70% of Britons believe global warming is malarky (so no wonder the propaganda machine is really pumping out the theatrics over there).
We need to get prepared for four degrees of global warming, Bob Watson told the Guardian last week. At first sight this looks like wise counsel from the climate science adviser to Defra. But the idea that we could adapt to a 4C rise is absurd and dangerous. Global warming on this scale would be a catastrophe that would mean, in the immortal words that Chief Seattle probably never spoke, "the end of living and the beginning of survival" for humankind. Or perhaps the beginning of our extinction.
The collapse of the polar ice caps would become inevitable, bringing long-term sea level rises of 70-80 metres. All the world's coastal plains would be lost, complete with ports, cities, transport and industrial infrastructure, and much of the world's most productive farmland. The world's geography would be transformed much as it was at the end of the last ice age, when sea levels rose by about 120 metres to create the Channel, the North Sea and Cardigan Bay out of dry land. Weather would become extreme and unpredictable, with more frequent and severe droughts, floods and hurricanes. The Earth's carrying capacity would be hugely reduced. Billions would undoubtedly die.
Senator Barbara Boxer (who has no scientific credentials whatsoever) challenges a leading climate scientist (formerly with NASA), AGW skeptic, and IPCC member with a political zinger and thinks that this debunks anything technical he just said? She just verified that she's a huge moron, which I already knew. This sham is so audaciously transparent!
These alarmists never debate based on scientific findings, counter-theories, fundamental climatology, or raw data such as presented in Dr. Spencer's testimony; it's always "you're in bed with big oil," "you're Rush Limbaugh's chosen climate expert," "but the consensus says...", "the IPCC says...", "you're a denier," "you're a flat-earther," or "you're an outlier." Stop name-calling and insults as your only retort to real knowledge in some lame attempt to discredit an antithetical view; to do so means you're just a zealot--arguing so that your belief isn't shaken.
Here's news for you alarmists...Roy Spencer, just like climate expert Dr. Richard Lindzen of MIT, is part of the UN's IPCC, even though they disagreed with what was put in those IPCC reports that made bold, questionable proclamations about man's role in the climate. They're in that group of scientists conveniently portrayed by political hacks like Boxer, Cullen, Reid, Gore, Nye, and so on as part of the "consensus," when nothing could be further from the truth! When these "consensus" scientists stand up and scream, "I didn't say that!" the political hacks are quick to jump on them with irrelevant banter in an attempt discredit and silence them. Dr. Spencer, don't you know you're just supposed to shut up and take it? That's how alarmists work.
Wake up before these charlatans scam you for all you're worth! Please check out Dr. Spencer's site, read, and be educated. Buy his book and learn.
Don't believe that alarmists only shout, name-call, insult, or anything else except debate based on the actual scientific knowledge? Watch this video and see for yourself (warning: ADULT LANGUAGE!). This is the sort of baloney we're up against--thoughtless minors who've been brainwashed by the media, politicians, and overzealous professors. He keeps spouting "science" throughout this diatribe, but I'm still waiting to hear his "conclusive science":
Awww...he cares so much; what a sensitive man he is!
Robert Redford (as well as other celebrities) continue to show what utter dimwits they are when it comes to the climate (they're mostly stupid and insular about any political issue). Hey Bob, why not stick your poetry in your ear and, instead, throw some of your considerable liberal, elitist wealth into the fight?
Redford spoke with Lauren Whitehead, associate director of Youth Speaks, and Simone Crew, slam poet and participant in "Brave New Voices: Youth Speaks! 11th International Youth Poetry Slam," on Talk of the Nation about his latest project and getting young people involved in the fight against global warming.
Ha ha ha...this is so funny and cool (literally and figuratively) that I can hardly stand it! Alaska is experiencing a DARN COLD SUMMER, and the people there are bummed: They want the warm '04 and '05 summer again. LOL!
I call this media reversal a cover story; it's climate revisionism, designed to hold on to the AGW pipe dream until the temperatures go back up again. Then they can continue the scare campaign (which they've never abandoned). LOL! How can they abandon it? If they go back now and admit the truth, what's left of their reputations will be completely in the toilet.
Let's not forget how we've actually had these lunatics claim that the harsh, cooler weather is caused by warming. Yes, that's why they now favor the term "manmade climate change" over the once ubiquitous "manmade global warming."
This is empirical evidence, of course, but the alarmists have no problem pointing out record warmth (and anything else weird in the weather) as proof of global warming. However, this AK summer weather is NORMAL, so it's tough to call it a troubling climate signal. We realists are just giving them a taste of their own stupid medicine.
By MONIQUE NEWTON
mnewton@adn.com
Published: July 15th, 2008 12:01 AM
Last Modified: July 15th, 2008 05:47 PM
People are exchanging their flip-flops and shorts for close-toed shoes and fleece more than usual this summer.
The cool, gloomy weather is almost as hot a topic in town as steep gas prices.
But forecasters and climatologists say that while temperatures are below average, they aren't reaching any notable extremes. Problem is, the gray skies over Southcentral this year are following several years of pretty nice weather.
"I think there's a perception thing because there's been a lot of cloud cover this summer," said Sam Albanese, a forecaster with the National Weather Service in Anchorage.
"Really what's happening this year is nothing extraordinary. ... It's just that '04 and '05 were so (warm and sunny) ... and it's so fresh in people's memories that people think, 'Wow, this is so cold.' "
I almost can't type this because of laughter. Yes, once again...review the warmlist to get a feel for all the scare stories--ALL THE THINGS THE MEDIA TELLS US GLOBAL WARMING CAUSES. After that, read the GASP! series here. You'll learn how silly all this has become. If you can read all these "RESULTS" of global warming and still not laugh, you deserve some nice Kool-Aid to help ease the heat from all the warming and nail biting.
More Americans are likely to suffer from kidney stones in the coming years as a result of global warming, according to researchers at the University of Texas.
Kidney stones, which are formed from dissolved minerals in the urine and can be extremely painful, are often caused by caused by dehydration, either by not drinking enough liquid or losing too much due to high heat conditions.
If global warming trends continue as projected by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in 2007, the United States can expect as much as a 30 percent growth in kidney stone disease in some of its driest areas, said the findings published in Monday's Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
The increased incidence of disease would represent between 1.6 million and 2.2 million cases by 2050, costing the US economy as much as one billion dollars in treatment costs.
The Cooling World
Sounds a lot like the climate alarmism today, except that it was the other way around--a mini ice age was coming and we were all going to starve, GASP!
Time to sound the BS alarm. LOL! Here's some more fear fodder for you. Seems that the alarmists aren't too happy that the economy is tanking, because that means there's less of your fear for their BS myth.
Ha ha ha...this is so funny and cool (literally and figuratively) that I can hardly stand it! Alaska is experiencing a DARN COLD SUMMER, and the 
