it comes in pints?

Now, that is intersting. I for one do not believe in global warming. I think that we are in a cycle that is part of the natural flow of the earth.

But, but ... I didn't do shit.

Heh, I thought for a second that you'd posted on it and had drawn fire from moonbats. Ken, maybe we should just call her Heidi to distinguish?

And as you all know, there is no such thing as global warming. Chuck Norris was cold, so he turned up the sun.

(No, really - I'm only half-kidding. Increased solar radiation could quite probably be the explanation for some of the higher mean temps - completely normal and natural, entirely out of our control, and no big deal since it's happened before and will likely happen again in a few centuries.)

The problem isn't that Earth will get a little hotter and the sea will rise a foot; it's that for the first time in human history there are hundreds of millions of people with lots of materials goods living so close to the current shoreline that they'll have to move all their stuff.

Solar radiation - indeed. There is, apparently, some evidence of rising temps on Mars and Jupiter. I'd really like to see how this is explained by SUVs and cow farts.

Jeebus, these global warming people are like a fucking cult. Do these people HEAR themselves when they say things like this? Let's throw everyone who dares to question our dogma with SCIENCE into a gulag. Assholes.

Galileo is weeping somewhere.

Ken, isn't the answer obvious when it comes to Mars and Jupiter - we've caused so much global warming here on Earth that the heat is disapated through millions of miles of space to reach Mars and Jupiter and raise their temperatures.

I've actually heard recently that someone accused NASA of destroying life on Mars. Not a misprint. Microbes are people too, ya know.

(In fact, did I first read that article from a link here?)

The problem where I live is, most of the local "weathercasters" are such f-ing idiots anyhow, that if they tried to do anything more complex than point to a map with pretty pictures on it, they'd screw it up royally.

I don't know. I think it's chilling that this guy is calling for basically the silencing of people who are in dissent about a topic that hasn't been proven yet. It's not unlike the people who don't want evolution taught in science class because it conflicts with their religious worldview.

Oh, and about Weather Channel's "Shows" (like the global warming show, and the "look at this big-ass storm that happened back in 1983!" show, and the "ooooh scary scary bad thing that could happen" show), it's a real waste.

When I turn on the weather channel, it is because:

a. I want to know what the temperature is going to be for tomorrow.

b. I want to know if it is going to rain/sleet/snow/whatever.

c. I want to know what's going on in the weather at the moment.

I don't give a crap about some big-ass storm that happened in 1983. I don't give a crap about a hypothetical F-5 tornado that might hit Dallas. Tell me what is going on here and now, in the real world, so I can decide whether to take my umbrella with me to work.

(I'm rather bitter about this, I know. But I remember once when we were under the threat of a tornado - really bad serious weather - and the damn Weather Channel was showing some program on a big snowstorm in Maine back in the 70s. They should 'plex off another channel (like Discovery has, and like History has) and have THAT channel be "all weather onanism shows, all the time" but leave the rest of us with satellite views and ten-day forcasts, all the time, any time we need it.)

ricki, I think you should trademark "weather onanism shows", that's brilliant.

Heh, Ricki stole my thunder (no pun intended). I saw one of those "It Could Happen Tomorrow!" shows she's talking about (in this case, it was Chicago and not Dallas). Bad CGI of cars hurtling through the air, superimposed on a funnel with stock footage of the Sears Tower in the background, eighth-grade scaremongering Pferdkaese. I was going to give them a grand send-off tomorrow in the FFO.

And "weather onanism" is feckin' brilliant.

"...it's that for the first time in human history there are hundreds of millions of people with lots of materials goods living so close to the current shoreline that they'll have to move all their stuff."

Then these guys will make a pile of money!

That's what I really hate about the envirotards and their Mother Gaia™ cult -- they never see the silver lining in a cloud (pun intended).

ricki, I'm with you on the Weather Channel. I don't watch it anymore precisely because of their commericialism crap. They used to be the prime source of consolidated weather data for the United States. Not even the Weather Service had that capability. At one point, I relied on the Weather Channel exclusively for weather reports and data in my job.

Fortunately, the NWS has a vastly improved data network and excellent products (web and non-web), and that's where I go to for the latest.

The Weather Channel? A bunch of idiots pandering to envirotards.

Ken, isn't the answer obvious when it comes to Mars and Jupiter - we've caused so much global warming here on Earth that the heat is disapated through millions of miles of space to reach Mars and Jupiter and raise their temperatures.

Not only that, but the same molecules present in automobile soot have been found deep in interstellar space!

We're polluting the entire universe!

Global Warming show, huh? Only several orders of magnitude more boring than watching paint dry. If we ramp up GHG emmisions, we might even have noticable climate change in 100 years.

Like I said at econlog: One day, when I become nastalgic for the junior-high days of jerking-off to scrabled cable porn, I'll get excited of Global Warming.

Anti-AGW Activist are just jerking themelve off.