I’m not sure I would say that people are figuring out that global warming is a bunch of hooey. Maybe they’ve just figured out the next big scare: global cooling.
Sun Oddly Quiet — Hints at Next “Little Ice Age”?
A prolonged lull in solar activity has astrophysicists glued to their telescopes waiting to see what the sun will do next-and how Earth’s climate might respond.
The sun is the least active it’s been in decades and the dimmest in a hundred years. The lull is causing some scientists to recall the Little Ice Age, an unusual cold spell in Europe and North America, which lasted from about 1300 to 1850.
The coldest period of the Little Ice Age, between 1645 and 1715, has been linked to a deep dip in solar storms known as the Maunder Minimum.
During that time, access to Greenland was largely cut off by ice, and canals in Holland routinely froze solid. Glaciers in the Alps engulfed whole villages, and sea ice increased so much that no open water flowed around Iceland in the year 1695.
But researchers are on guard against their concerns about a new cold snap being misinterpreted.
“[Global warming] skeptics tend to leap forward,” said Mike Lockwood, a solar terrestrial physicist at the University of Southampton in the U.K. He and other researchers are therefore engaged in what they call “preemptive denial” of a solar minimum leading to global cooling.
Ah, I thought not. Never let a major period of global cooling get in the way of global warming.
(HT: Those ‘solar impact preemptive deniers’ at National Geographic: It’s a Crisis if We Say It’s a Crisis.)
Tags: global cooling, global warming, global warming hysteria, global whining, preemptive denial
Mmmm, that's some good river kitten!
PETA has long been the domain of the “intellectually challenged”, but this is so weird it defies logic. PETA’s latest campaign? Save the Sea Kittens. What are sea kittens, you ask? We normal people call them what they are – fish. This is from their own ‘sea kitten’ web page:
[We're] going to start by retiring the old name for good. When your name can also be used as a verb that means driving a hook through your head, it’s time for a serious image makeover. And who could possibly want to put a hook through a sea kitten?
Some sea kittens tend well-kept gardens. They encourage the growth of tasty algae and weed out the types that they don’t like. It is particularly tragic when people eat these sea kittens, as their precious little gardens become wild and overgrown in their absence.
They can call them sea kittens or water puppies or whatever they want, but fish are still fish, and I like mine broiled in butter with a little lemon. Or with rice and seaweed as sushi. My real concern, as a resident of the great state of Colorado, is what they’re going to call non-oceanic sea kittens – river kittens? Lake kittens? And how do you distinguish between species? Rainbow river kittens? Walleye kittens?
(HT: Pursuing Holiness)
Tags: lunacy, PETA, river kittens, sea kittens
How stupid is this? Unfortunately, this is what passes for logic and ‘science’ among the global whining crowd. Because it’s colder, this is proof of global warming. I did notice that the climate panic crowd now uses “climate change” instead of “global warming”. Same nonsense, different name.
Tags: bad science, global whining
