Saturday, July 14, 2007

Aussie Fears Global 'Coldening'

"LAST month Australians endured our coldest June since 1950. Imagine that; all those trillions of tonnes of evil carbon we've horked up into the atmosphere over six decades of rampant industrialisation, and we're still getting the same icy weather we got during the Cold War.

Not that June should be presented as evidence that global warming isn't happening, or that we're causing it. Relying on such a tiny sample would be unscientific and wrong, even if it involves an entire freakin' continent's weather patterns throughout the course of a whole month, for Christ's sake.

No such foolishness will be indulged in here.

Sadly, those who believe in global warming - and who would compel us also to believe - aren't similarly constrained. A few hot days are all they ever need to get the global warming bandwagon rolling; evidently it's solar powered. Here, for example, is an Australian Associated Press report on May's weather, which in places was a little warmer than usual:

"Climate change gave much of Australia's drought-stricken east coast its warmest May on record, weather experts say.

"Global warming and an absence of significant cold changes had driven temperatures well above the monthly average, said meteorologist Matt Pearce.

According to Mr Pearce, May's temperatures were "yet another sign of the widespread climate change that we are seeing unfold across the globe."

If that's the case, shouldn't June's cold weather - coldest since 1950, remember - be a sign that widespread climate change isn't unfolding across the globe? We're using the same data here; one month's weather. And, in fact, the June sample is Australia-wide while May only highlights the east coast. Fear the dawn of a great "coldening"!"

Shhh. Really now, trying to add a touch of common sense to the tree-hugging, sky-is-falling premise that we are evil, we've destroyed the planet, therefore we must repent, is in fact going toe to toe with a religion, and don't we have enough religious wars going on?

When they tried the GLOBAL COOLING nonsense we didn't pay attention and it soon went away. True, this time around the soccer mom's are being listened to and there DOES seem to be more of them infesting the woodwork, but taking up arms against these idiots is akin to declaring war upon 4 year-olds.

Women, and men who think like women, will do this every time. They see UFO's...even get abducted and probed by them..., talk to the dead via ghost-hunters, and are fearful of inanimate objects such as firearms. OF COURSE they believe poor mother-earth is in trouble.

It's what they do best. Make invisible friends. Back when everyone knew the real deal we tsk-tsk'd and said HOW HORRIBLE!, then went about our business and they soon went on to something else. Every kid needs attention. The more we fight against a thing, the more they'll believe in it.

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