Only a Liberal…

Here in America, citizens and journalists truly take their freedom for granted. We have so much freedom that we have shows like Law and Order that shine a light on the ways that criminals in this country exploit it to get away with crimes.

In a breath-taking display of America-centric ignorance, Euna Lee and Laura Ling, reporters at Al Gore’s Current TV, decided they would go to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, which is a complicated propagandistic way of saying dictatorship, to apparently investigate humanitarian crimes in North Korea. After being convicted and sentenced to over 10 years of hard labor, Bill Clinton went to North Korea and negotiated their release. It has been popular in the news to celebrate the return of these two reporters. I will not join the blind hype.

Noble my ass

These two idealists thought it was noble of them to sneak into a authoritarian nation and try to exercise their press freedoms in a country that does not recognize such freedoms. They could have gotten themselves killed, and certainly didn’t help the relations between North Korea and the U.S. If any executives at Current TV knew of this trip, they should be fired immediately.

The second part of this story that should make everyone angry is the former President Bill Clinton using valuable political capital to persuade Kim Jong Il to release these journalists. If you think there’s a chance in hell that Bill Clinton would have made this trip for Fox News journalists, you might need someone to handle your affairs for the rest of your life. He went there solely because of liberal media pressure, pressure from his former V.P Al Gore, and any friends and peers of these two idiots.

I hope that at the very least, their short-lived sentences are enough of a deterrent to other idealist journalists who think it is noble to pull nonsense like this. I doubt these two morons will use the opportunity to warn others, but I look forward to praising them if they do.

Let this be a lesson to all of you who think America is a criminal in the eyes of the world or according to some vague impression of humanitarianism. You don’t have a clue how great you have it here. The notion of a prisoner having more power than the guards is almost entirely unique to America.

These two were lucky they were employed by Al Gore. Otherwise, they’d be pounding rocks in North Korean shithole for the next decade. DON’T go to countries like North Korea and Iran because you think its the right thing to do. You may never come back.

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Al Gore’s standard speaking contract bans people with press badges from his public speaking events.

That’s right, the former Columbia journalism professor bans journalists from listening in. The so-called “consensus” science prophet seems only interested in perceived so-called consensus that advances what he wants to be advanced.

This is the same press that generally supports the theory of substantial man-made global warming. Why would Gore not allow them in to report on his inconvenient truth? So Gore dislikes the media, but the media love Gore. A commenter at Hotair.com astutely referred to this as battered-wife syndrome.

As you read the passage below from Al Gore’s blog remember this; Al Gore makes an insane amount of money from his work with global warming, and not one penny of it is legitimate. It’s all nonsense… every last bit of it. You’ve seen “We can solve it” commercials… that’s Gore. He and those commercials say the phrase “climate crisis” as though its a real thing. We certainly have a climate, but there is no crisis. None… but if Al Gore and his supporters say the phrase climate crisis over and over and over enough times they think the world will buy it, and a large percentage has.

A new study suggests the Mayan civilization might have collapsed due to environmental disasters:

“‘These models suggest that as ecosystems were destroyed by mismanagement or were transformed by global climatic shifts, the depletion of agricultural and wild foods eventually contributed to the failure of the Maya sociopolitical system,’ writes environmental archaeologist Kitty Emery of the Florida Museum of Natural History in the current Human Ecology journal.”

As we move towards solving the climate crisis, we need to remember the consequences to civilizations that refused to take environmental concerns seriously.

If you haven’t read already read it, take a look at Jared Diamond’s book, Collapse.

I need you all to focus now on what he just said. Read it again, carefully. I will make two arguments: one rejecting his ridiculous premise and one accepting it.

Mayan Civilization as an identifiable entity ceased to exist a little over 1000 years ago. I have no idea what Gore is implying the Mayans were doing to destroy their civilization, but they certainly didn’t have internal combustion engines. He just vaguely says the Mayan Civilization would have survived if they had just paid attention to climate concerns. Therefore, we Americans should “pay attention” to him.

There is no debate on whether the Mayan Civilization disappeared. There is also no debate that Mayan cities continued to thrive after the collapse. Rome didn’t cease to exist when the Roman empire fell, and neither did “Mayans” or the places they lived. Gore portrays this history as though Mayans went extinct due to their lack of concern for the climate. This is preposterous, and the worst part is it doesn’t take a climatologist to point that out. So Mayan civilization disappeared; plenty of other civilizations survived. Humans are still here.

Lets accept Gore’s premise. What is his solution? How could the Mayans have averted their civilizations collapse? Mr. Gore, what steps could they have taken to avoid their fate? He provides none, because he has none. There were no cars or light bulbs back then. What did the Mayans do that they could have avoided doing to save themselves? Nothing.

Not to mention if there was such a precipitous climate-related problem for the Mayans, why do people still occupy the Mayan regions? They are now known as eastern Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, and western Honduras. Nothing wrong with the region or the climate.
Mr. Gore, your premise is absurd, and you have become absurd. Anyone reading this needs to do their part to stop their friends DEAD in their tracks when they speak of Gore or the climate crisis as though they are legitimate. If you accept the premise, the myth lives on. This nonsense must cease.

The author of Jurassic Park passed away last Tuesday. He is most famous for writing Jurassic Park, Twister, Sphere, and even the show E.R., but he has also contributed greatly to the war against the myth of man-made global warming. State of Fear is a 2004 techno-thriller novel by Michael Crichton concerning eco-terrorists who attempt mass murder to support their views. I’d like to show you some passages from a speech he gave in 2003 that illustrate the absurdity of Al Gore’s quest. The wonderful, and appalling, part about this whole “climate crisis” is you don’t have to be a climatologist to debunk this stuff. Just know that the title is satirical…

ALIENS CAUSE
GLOBAL WARMING

California Institute of Technology (1/17/03)

(link to entire speech)
In 1960,a young astrophysicist named Frank Drake runs a two-week project called Ozma, to search for extraterrestrial signals. A signal is received, to great excitement. It turns out to be false, but the excitement remains. In 1960, Drake organizes the first SETI conference, and came up with the now-famous Drake equation: N=N*fp ne fl fi fc fL

This serious-looking equation gave SETI a serious footing as a legitimate intellectual inquiry. The problem, of course, is that none of the terms can be known, and most cannot even be estimated. The only way to work the equation is to fill in with guesses. And guesses - just so we’re clear - are merely expressions of prejudice.

The fact that the Drake equation was not greeted with screams of outrage — similar to the screams of outrage that greet each Creationist new claim, for example — meant that now there was a crack in the door, a loosening of the definition of what constituted legitimate scientific procedure. And soon enough, pernicious garbage began to squeeze through the cracks…

I want to pause here and talk about this notion of consensus, and the rise of what has been called consensus science. I regard consensus science as an extremely pernicious development that ought to be stopped cold in its tracks. Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled. Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you’re being had.

Let’s be clear: The work of science has nothing whatever to do with consensus. Consensus is the business of politics. Science, on the contrary, requires only one investigator who happens to be right, which means that he or she has results that are verifiable by reference to the real world. In science consensus is irrelevant. What is relevant is reproducible results. The greatest scientists in history are great precisely because they broke with the consensus.

There is no such thing as consensus science. If it’s consensus, it isn’t science. If it’s science, it isn’t consensus. Period…

I would remind you to notice where the claim of consensus is invoked. Consensus is invoked only in situations where the science is not solid enough. Nobody says the consensus of scientists agrees that E=mc2. Nobody says the consensus is that the sun is 93 million miles away. It would never occur to anyone to speak that way.

Nobody believes a weather prediction twelve hours ahead. Now we’re asked to believe a prediction that goes out 100 years into the future? And make financial investments based on that prediction? Has everybody lost their minds?

So the next time you see a “We can solve it” commercial, change the channel. The earth doesn’t have a fever anymore; it actually has a cold. The earth has cooled since 1998. Besides, the temperature on earth is correlated more closely to sunspot activity than carbon dioxide (see my post).
Before anyone who believes in this climate crisis nonsense comments on this post, please re-read the passage on consensus. I do not care how many climatologists you quote, or papers you send me proving man-made global warming is real. I can send you just as many that say its not. The fact that they use the word consensus is the proof that its not science.
CRISIS AVERTED.

Here’s another very well written speech where he talks about how he wanted to write a realistic disaster book, one that was totally credible, and that’s how he came to his conclusions. He was unable to find a credible disaster storyline, even from the consensus of climate “crisis.”

The Earth’s atmosphere is around 5×10^18 metric tons, or 5E18, give or take water vapor. The industrial output of the US in 2008 could be estimated to be around 8 billions tons. Let’s call it 10 billion. I saw another figure that the U.S. is responsible for 17% of all emissions worldwide. Lets call it 15%. So the total worldwide output of greenhouse gases is around 58.8 billion tons. Lets call it 60 billion.

60 billions tons of greenhouse gases amount to 1/83millionth of the atmosphere (5E18/6E10). To visualize this a little better, an Olympic swimming pool is 660,000 gallons. Our contribution to the “swimming pool” is 1.01 ounces per year. Despite my global-warming-alarmist-friendly numbers, rounding up every number along the way in their favor, we are contributing 1 ounce to an Olympic swimming pool (most community swimming pools are about 1/6th the size of an Olympic pool). What a joke. Al, your propaganda days are growing shorter.

Admittedly not previously posted, I have been hoping that Al Gore would run at the last second and steal the nomination from Hillary/Barack, because then the fence-sitting republicans would be FORCED to take out the Global Warming Crisis issue. They choose their battles, and as of right now they’re not willing to put forth the political capital to bury the issue. They WILL be willing to if it means an easy route to the White House in ‘08. Gore’s global warming swindle would be ended by rational debate, and he would be a laughing stock for centuries. Rush Limbaugh pointed out today that Gore will NOT run because it would force him to debate the issue, and he refuses to. His arguments can’t stand up to debate, and he won’t risk his “manbearpig” being laughed at.

**Image from Wikipedia-Manbearpig of an image from the TV show, South Park.