More thought-barf from HuffPo, natch.
All the Dead Teddy attention in Massachusetts must have the two time winner of “Who Wants To Marry A Multi-Millionaire” in a mood for some attention-getting antics.
The truth is that the threat we face is not an abstract concern for the future. It is already upon us and its effects are being felt worldwide, right now. Scientists project that the Arctic will be ice-free in the summer of 2013. Not in 2050, but four years from now.
“Danger, Will Robinson! Floaty the Polar Bear will be here in four years!”
The “scientists” have been off by double digits when predicting the temperature here the past five days, I’ll hold off on panicking at any climate change predictions they have for four years from now.
Make no mistake: catastrophic climate change represents a threat to human security, global stability, and — yes — even to American national security.
This is why the hysteria mongers were so brilliant changing the battle cry to “climate change” after spending more than a decade screaming about “global warming”. This summer kicked off and has remained one of the coolest on recent record. Phoenix experienced its longest streak of sub-100 degree days in June in almost a century. The data from this summer are loaded with inconvenient truths in the face of any warming alarmist rhetoric.
So “climate change” it is. If you really need some validation it’s “catastrophic climate change”.
(One perplexing aside here. When it was called “global warming” we were constantly told that there was scientific consensus about the warming. If we’re supposed to believe in the “change” theory that accounts for both warming and cooling does that mean the warming-only scientists were wrong? And aren’t they the same “Consensus!” chorus we have now?)
More from the talking hair:
Climate change injects a major new source of chaos, tension, and human insecurity into an already volatile world. It threatens to bring more famine and drought, worse pandemics, more natural disasters, more resource scarcity, and human displacement on a staggering scale. We risk fanning the flames of failed-statism, and offering glaring opportunities to the worst actors in our international system. In an interconnected world, that endangers all of us.
So could an intergalactic alien invasion, the rise of the antichrist or any number of fictional maybes. But we might as well let Kerry hang himself.
The individual data points may sometimes be murky. But the pattern they create is irrefutably clear: We don’t know if Hurricane Katrina was caused by climate change, but we do know that we are rapidly heading for a world where climate change causes worse Katrinas. We don’t know with certainty whether climate change pushed Darfur over the edge, but we do know that it will cause more tension just like we’ve seen in Darfur.
Translation: we have no way of applying what’s actually happened to support this argument but we can irrefutably predict the future.
It takes a special sort of delusional ideologue to extrapolate a clear picture of what’s to come from data he admits is “murky”.
Kerry goes on to quote the various military types who have unequivocally stated that there are some problems on the horizon. All of their concerns, of course, are based on the alleged “consensus”.
The “consensus” folk brought us global cooling. That had to be changed to global warming. That had to be modified and became “catastrophic climate change”.
Let’s just call it what it is:
“Any crap that might happen which we can use to scare you and pass far-reaching but short-sighted, onerous legislation.”
Yeah, it may be the truth but it lacks marketing pop.
The “Consensus!” chorus has been wrong before.
That’s all I’m saying.
If you had at least some resemblance of a brain, you’d actually be dangerous.
1. Here in Texas, we have record setting heat wave that even oldtimers cannot stand
2. The drought across the world is staggering
3. Global warming causes melting of the ice caps and glaciers, which in turn inject cold water in into the oceans, which will effect major, weather controlling patterns like Gulfstream (not the jet your buddy flies on, the actual Gulfstream), which in turn will create the most bizzare weather patterns, like rain and cool temperatures in the NE US.
If you paid attention in school, or at any time during the last 10 years, you’d know that.
Oh, and by the way, if Kerry validates voter decision of 2004, how does your voter record look in the face of the shithole this country finds itself in, that your buddy created?
Where, oh where, would you lefties be without your stereotypes (all people on the right are rich and huge fans of GWB) or your knee-jerk cries of “You’re stupid!” whenever anyone disagrees with you?
Oh, my brainless head would like to offer the correct spelling of the word “bizarre” for your future use in any misbegotten attempts to assert your intellectual superiority .
Good luck with that.
A 1st Amendment that everyone uses is a real bitch, isn’t it?
That’s it? You’ve discovered a fat finger syndrome and hung your reply on that?
And your logical inconsistencies are understandable. But as I am feeling kinda generous this afternoon, I’ll educate you.
1. I could care less if you’re rich, and more power to you if you are. If you’re implying that my reference to your buddy’s Gulfstream is my attempt to paint you as being rich, you’re stretching – if anything, it was your buddy who’s rich. If I was implying that you were rich, I would have said “your Gulfstream” – finer points of arguing that escape hysterics.
2. Your post is titled “John Kerry Continues To Validate Voters’ 2004 Decision” which means you fully support him (Kerry) not being elected and Bush being elected. You said it, not me. In your mind, that decision was the right one. And now you’re going to say what? I would have voted for Ron Paul if he ran in ’04?
Where would right wings be without hysteria…
Um, I think the senator has a lot more experience on Global Warming than you do. He has actually been concerned about this issue since the 1070′s. In all that time he has spoken with many, many experts, read many articles and done quite a lot of research on the matter. I think this makes him not just a little, but a lot more informed on the issue.
Really, why would he been concerned if there wasn’t any need to be?
This isn’t just a game for him, it is real life and Global Warming threatens our way of life and our security.
Frankly, I have to wonder why you aren’t more upset? Aren’t you the least bit concerned about the world you are leaving for your children and grandchilden?
Val-As to the finer points of arguing: your “Gulfstream” line was obviously a knee-jerk attempt to paint me as wealthy through guilt by association. If, as you claim, it was just a snotty remark about some imagined buddy of mine then you must be so terribly desperate for people to be mad at that you have to invent them .
You were half right on the second point. The title does indicate that I fully support Kerry having not been elected. Anything beyond that is merely an inference based on an implication that may or may not exist.
I find it mildly amusing that you’re arguing in defense of an alarmist cry based on, as Kerry admits, data that doesn’t quite do what he wants it to but saying that I wouldn’t be anywhere without hysteria.
Nutron-Since the 70′s? You mean the “global cooling” era? So Kerry has actually just moved from point to point with the experts and never questioned “cooling-warming-change” focus-shifting?
One more thing, Val. I wouldn’t have pointed out the “fat finger syndrome” had you not started off your comment with the weak attack on my intelligence. It’s become the lefty troll standard, sadly. Rather than make room for differing opinions (the American way), you immediately cast aspersions upon the intelligence of whomever disagrees with you. It just indicates that you’re more comfortable with an emotional confrontation than a rational discussion. And that you truly are the hysterical one.
So, the next time you want to lead with “You’re stupid!” you might want to make sure that what follows is free from anything that could boomerang. Or you might want to try a real debate for a change.
Stephen,
But you are stupid. I am sorry, but you wrote a half assed op-ed, published it on the Internet, promoted it through Twitter, and it has holes in both your logic and knowledge the size of the Empire State building.
What you could boomerang to me was the typo. That was it. You couldn’t counter-point, you couldn’t use data to disprove, you could just use personal attacks against Kerry to drum up some excitement amongst your fellow neocons.
Here’s a kicker, Stephen – I voted for Bush. Twice. I am pretty far from being a liberal, being an active participant in C4L, and in Dr. Paul’s last campaign.
One group I hate as much as liberals, are neocons. Essentially because you’re all the same, and instead of actually paying attention to real issues, combating real problems (like global warming, which,, for the record, was changed to climate change so that narrow-minded bloggers who cannot keep their attention centered on one thing or the other for more than 30 seconds can better wrap their minds around it), focus on stupid stuff, like irrelevant John Kerry, 04 election, and use the moronic “it’s been raining here the whole summer” logic as a proof against climate change and global warming.
Here is a prescription for successful blogging (and participation in US’ pressing issues):
1. Research the issue – know what you spew. Don’t regurgitate what your neocon buddies tell you. Read some literature. Even if it comes from liberals, it doesn’t mean it’s wrong. Make your own damn conclusions.
2. Write pieces that make sense – we have a lot of issues in this country that need to be brought to the surface and support from everywhere. The world will not end with healthcare – it is, as always, a distraction from a cluster f#$k of other issues we’re faced with. But they have nothing to do with Kerry.
Good luck with whatever you do, though. Just be smart about it.