Paul Krugman, ANOTHER Leftist, wonders why we don't believe in 'their' AGW

Mr. Perry (and many Conservatives; a majority I would surmise) realize that the climate is changing. But what we deny is that it's caused solely by human activity.

Having the Left embrace the notion of human-caused (AGW) climate change didn't help convince us. The worst possible happenstance for nascent scientists was that failed left-wing politician Albert Gore embraced the notion of human-caused climate change after his bitter defeat in 2000.

Now, we have the Left pushing AGW as one of their weapons of ideological CHANGE: AGW used as a world-wide tool, used as a weapon by the haters on the Left, against free enterprise.

When you say that 'deniers' only do so because they are ill-informed, you should realize that many of those who are doing the informing are not considered by Conservatives to be of any use or value; and that the AGW believers, to have embraced these left-wing spokesmen, to help shove the notion of human-caused climate change down the world's throat, wasn't such a good idea.

Worse: there's an as-yet unspoken (but they are itching to speak it!) meme circulating around the Left's environmental movement that, given their belief that humans have caused this problem, the real solution is to force the human population down to 1/3 or so of it's current numbers. That's what these Al Gore sorts want: far fewer people on this planet. If there is a civilization-turning point, then these wackos may well celebrate the dying of billions of people, to avenge their 'Mother Earth'.

Look around you, ask yourself: is the Left's ideology served by supporting the notion of AGW climate change?  Do these ideological bedfellows 'fit' with you, for your own left-wing desires and purposes?

How far are you willing to go with this, Krugman?

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Al Gore, Tennessee's Most Famous Far-Left Failed Politician, Curses Americans for their Disbelief

Trending today in RealClearPolitics is this editorial by the Pittsburg Post-Gazette's Jack Kelly, "Chicken Little Gore goes on a tirade".

I suppose that when Al Gore said "The SCIENCE! is SETTLED!" he expected American children to stop arguing with him, bend the knee and give Him their full and expectant attention, and do exactly as He said to do. After all, He is the Goreacle, He Who Must Be Obeyed. Certainly he does not brook well any disrespectful children or tolerate their mouthy disbelief. At the Aspen Institute, Aug. 4, he unleashed on those who doubt HIM...

Former Vice President Al Gore went on a profanity-laced tirade at the Aspen Institute Aug. 4 against the rising number of Americans who are skeptical about man-made global warming.

According to a Harris poll in July, only 44 percent of us now believe carbon dioxide emissions are warming the Earth, down from 51 percent in 2009 and 71 percent in 2007.

Global temperatures peaked in 1998. People have noticed winters are getting colder.

When evidence emerged in 2009 that scientists affiliated with the Climate Research Unit of the University of East Anglia in Britain were "hiding the decline" by fudging data, few journalists paid much attention.

But a lot of Americans did, apparently. In a Rasmussen poll Aug. 3, 69 percent of respondents said it was at least somewhat likely scientists have falsified research data.

According to global warming theory, carbon dioxide emissions from burning fossil fuels are trapping heat in the upper atmosphere, inexorably warming the planet.

The theory ignored inconvenient facts:

• In the Medieval Warm Period (950-1250 AD), and the Roman Warm Period (250 BC-400 AD), there were no automobiles or factories, but temperatures were warmer than now.

• In geologic history, CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere were much higher, but temperatures often were lower. In the Late Ordovician Period, CO2 concentrations were 12 times higher than they are today. The Late Ordovician Period was an ice age.

• Vostok (Antarctica) ice core samples indicate temperature changes have preceded changes in CO2 concentrations by an average of 800 years. This couldn't happen if CO2 caused temperature changes.

• CO2 in the atmosphere has increased since 1998, but temperatures haven't.

Now a peer-reviewed study of NASA satellite data indicates the computer models warmists rely upon grossly exaggerate the amount of heat being trapped in the atmosphere.

Mr. Gore's alarmist predictions have proved false. Polar ice caps are larger. So is the polar bear population (and the scientist upon whom Mr. Gore relied for his claim that the polar bear is endangered is facing accusations of scientific misconduct). The rise in sea levels -- which has been going on since the end of the last ice age -- is slowing down.

Mr. Gore can respond only with curses, and ever more hysterical predictions of imminent doom. His credibility is in tatters. In the public mind, he's gone from Nobel Prize winner to Chicken Little.

"Chicken Little". Heh. If I had time, I'd work that one up. But all's I have is ManBearPigore.

Al Gore is a 'Failed Politician' you ask? Why you say so?

Al Gore is a failed politician. He could not win the Presidency in 2000 because he FAILED to win his freakin' HOME STATE! After having won several elections here in Tennessee, he FAILED to WIN his HOME STATE! That line should be imprinted on his tombstone.

Al Gore is a failed politician, period, end of story. He turned far-Left and paid the price for it. As should all these politicians who turn Left, and in doing so turn their backs on their country.

Oh, and Al Gore continued his FAIL after his failed political career because he did seek out and embrace, and become the lead face for, the theory of Global Warmalism. That embracing by a far-Left politician cratered any chance the theory had to become popular (cratered, rightfully, except in the minds of those far-Left whack jobs who would bend the knee and assume the position for anyone, especially if they come in on the political charts to the left of Hugo Chavez; look to Chavez' left, you'll find Al Gore).

Seriously, who could look at Al Gore, failed far-Left politician, and see little more than a failed far-Left politician trying to push a possibly fake (but the Science! is SETTLED!) theory? He did those scientists and their theory no favors by taking the lead, really.

The worst mistake climate scientists ever made was to embrace Al Gore as their titular leader.

Gore should have stayed on that little island he went to after his 2000 loss, continued to eat cheeseburgers until he was as fat as Marlon Brando, start wearing a Moo Moo, and fer chrissakes stayed out of SCIENCE!. Any other reasonable person, chosen at random, would have presented the theory of Global Warmalism better than failed far-Left politician Albert (HUGE ELECTRIC BILLS!) Gore.

Winging around on his jets, with that huge electric bill, proves he is also a hypocrite, a jerk, and an @sshole.

That is all.

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NASA: Space Aliens May Destroy Humanity to Save... Space Aliens.

Let me get this straight: instead of NASA taking us farther out into space, preparing science and technology to help humanity leave this little stinking mudball, they are now taking us farther out into speculative territory once inhabited only by Hollywood.

Let's look at the time line...

• 1951: "The Day the Earth Stood Still", a most excellent movie, is released.


• 1969: The United States puts a man on the moon and returns him safely to Earth.


• 2000: Al Gore, failed politician, seeks a new 'job title'; begins to tout 'Global Warming'.


• 2008: Barack Obama, a known Socialist, is elected President of the USA.


• 2008: Shitty remake of "The Day the Earth Stood Still", with Keanu Reeves playing a space alien who threatens to destroy humanity because of Global Warming.


• 2009: Barack Obama, in order to fund more dirty socialisms, zeros the Space Shuttle.


• 2010: Barack Hussein Obama kills NASA's planned moon-return mission; tells NASA  it's mission is to help Muslims 'feel better' about themselves.


• 2011: Space Shuttle Atlantis makes the final Space Shuttle mission. Barack Obama zeros out the Space Shuttle and any future manned space missions during his watch; killing the US's ambitions and 10,000 NASA jobs.


• 2011: NASA goes bugfuck crazy; NASA scientists accept this 'SCIENCE!' that strongly resembles 2008's The Day the Earth Stood Still ...

Aliens may destroy humanity to protect other civilisations, say scientists

Rising greenhouse emissions could tip off aliens that we are a rapidly expanding threat, warns a report for Nasa

It may not rank as the most compelling reason to curb greenhouse gases, but reducing our emissions might just save humanity from a pre-emptive alien attack, scientists claim.

Watching from afar, extraterrestrial beings might view changes in Earth's atmosphere as symptomatic of a civilisation growing out of control – and take drastic action to keep us from becoming a more serious threat, the researchers explain.

This highly speculative scenario is one of several described by scientists at Nasa and Pennsylvania State University that, while considered unlikely, they say could play out were humans and alien life to make contact at some point in the future.

I strongly believe we here in the USA peaked in July of 1969, with the landing of a human on the moon and returning him safely to Earth.



Since, we've had various societal peaks and valleys, but mostly we have collectively declined (thanks!, collectivism). This decline is now apparently noticeable even from Sirius, if we are being 'watched' by NASA's 'space aliens'.

Why would space aliens have to worry about us poor little humans here in the failed USA? How could we be a danger to other space alien races, since we now lack the basic technology to reach even our own satellite ?

The original "The Day the Earth Stood Still" was remade in 2008, and featured this very same plot structure: we, humans, need be destroyed to save 'Mother Earth', a rare gem indeed. Utter insipid bullshit, playing to the 'global warming' fearmongering promoted by mostly Left-leaning Democrats and social Leftists planet-wide.

Today, once-proud NASA, instead of preparing to help us get us off this little planet, is now directed to make Muslims 'feel better' about themselves and to promote half-baked theorems supporting speculative science; nice 'collective' science that exists and is supported by LeftLibProggs for to attack our Capitalist successes and our way of life.

Yes, friends and neighbors, we are definitely now in a steep economic, moral and professional decline.

SCIENCE!

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UPDATE

Paul Krugman, today... (h/t LMC)

Paul Krugman: Think about World War II, right? That was actually negative for social product spending, and yet it brought us out. I mean, partly because you want to put these things together, if we say, "Look, we could use some inflation." Ken and I are both saying that, which is of course anathema to a lot of people in Washington, but is in fact what the basic logic says.

It's very hard to get inflation in a depressed economy. But if you have a program of government spending plus an expansionary policy by the Fed, you could get that. So if you think about using all of these things together, you could accomplish a great deal.

If we discovered that space aliens were planning to attack and we needed a massive buildup to counter the space alien threat - and really inflation and budget deficits took secondary place to that - this slump would be over in 18 months. And then if we discovered, oops, we made a mistake there aren't actually any space aliens.

This might get interesting. ;D

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