Someday soon, when we all have to live in a dome, we must kill and eat the global-warming deniers. Otherwise, they will befoul the dome.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9PzArpdIqI

You mean the party is over?

Science be damned. Three people have told me within the last couple of weeks that the fires, rains, flooding, bad weather in general is a sign of end times.

And a damn good morning after that lead,

I think of the profit motive as a rabid response to anything by the republicans. Rabies consumes the host after the host passes on the rabid factor. To destroy the world for the last dollar is their wettest dream.

Good morning, pups. It’s Brooks and Nocera today. In “Smart Power Setback” Bobo says discouraging reports about aid in Afghanistan should drive us to consider the deeper forces underlying societal instability. Hint: It’s not always about the material stuff. Well, well, well… It’s dawned on Bobo that there are tribal considerations in Afghanistan. Mr. Nocera, in “Banking’s Moment of Truth,” explains why banks shouldn’t win the fight over capital requirements. But $100 says they will…

Here they are.

The coffee and tea are ready, the cold drinks are in the fridge, and I’ve got toasted Thomas’ English muffins with lots of butter and your favorite jam. The heat warnings have started. Yesterday they warned of the heat index going up to 105° or 110°. No shit — at 7 PM the temperature was 102.4° in the shade at my house. And it’s supposed to be worse today. Maybe I’ll go and add more cold drinks to the fridge… Have a great day.

Interesting..according to the report, the Commission they want to create will be able to basically regulate the high seas regardless of nations…they will be able to levy and fine…etc., plus it creates room for business to implement the Commission’s regulations and investigations.

1779, 1864 and every single summer.

Sorry folks, but it seems a minor ice age is in the offing. Sunspots and such. Now, should I believe global warmers or global coolers? Well, between admissions of collusion from East Anglia and laughable prognostications by the UN, I really don’t care anymore.
Meanwhile the great carbon crisis seems to revolve around the difference in CO2 as .000340 or .000360 of our atmosphere. Whoop-dee-doo. You people need to get a life and quit scaring the children.

I’ve noticed that exactly none of the same people who used the cold weather last winter to deny climate change are now using hot summer weather to accept that it’s happening. Not just wearing blinders but intellectually dishonest.

The U.S. public could care less about mass extinctions. They are a dim and witless lot.

Do you have a link for that or do you, like all conservatives and science deniers just come around and post bullshit that you’re unable to defend?

We are in the midst of a mass extinction that will soon rival the Quarternary extinction event. It’s happening and living with your head in the sand won’t save you or your children.

Excellent job of jamming multiple right-wing talking points into a short post. On a progressive blog. Thanks for playing.

They also assume that mass extinctions will happen to (a) creatures lower on the food chain and (b) furriners. Not us.

They think it’s “mass distinction”.

Margaret, I believe in the science and have no doubt mass extinctions loom on the horizon if they haven’t already started. My point was that much, if not a majority, of the U.S. public could give a rat’s ass. They have their heads so far up the right wing’s posterior they think they are living in Nirvana as they are continually reminded by politicians and the media. If the public cared about anything other than American Idol, professional sports and the smell of a powerful gasoline there would be a revolution on the streets. The planet is “sick” and the U.S. public is the cancer.

And fishin’….they like fishin’. That’s the ticket, no mo fishin’. Nevermind, BP spill didn’t change anything and the Japanese Nuke spill elephant in the Ocean has all but been forgotten…

I didn’t mean yourself when I said “you” and “your”, etc. It was more general. Sorry for being unclear.

Morning, happy summer. At Spiro Mounds, the sun will soon arc over the temple area, Green Mound, and strike Grave Mound One, which will remind the ether that once the sun was favorable toward the chief buried there.

Enjoy your solstice, and here the summer storms have come, it’s entering monsoon season which we’ve been longing for. Cool enough to turn off AC and hear morning birds.

Hey, the storms are already there? We have predictions for rain most of the rest of the week….And do we need it.

Good morning all.

I’ve concluded that rational facts just make them mad. It’s all about domination, and if they dominate a wasteland, it’s okay as long as they’re establishing rule of some sort, any sort.

It started out in the 60′s after a noisy night, and the air coming in the window feels cool and damp. Lovely. Hope it comes there soon.

Politicians and the corporate media are always singing the praises of the “wisdom” of the “public”. When the public is by and large ill-educated with barely an 8th grade reading level they begin to believe the pablum they are fed hence their ignorance and superstition are in fact signs they are geniuses.

The huge amounts the right pours into producing their own story line do pay off. And while we have a high court of wingnuts (who hate women) they’re free to buy the votes.

Samuel Clemens: Better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt.

Global cooling was a conjecture during the 1970s of imminent cooling of the Earth’s surface and atmosphere along with a posited commencement of glaciation. This hypothesis had mixed support in the scientific community, but gained temporary popular attention due to a combination of a slight downward trend of temperatures from the 1940s to the early 1970s and press reports that did not accurately reflect the scientific understanding of ice age cycles. In contrast to the global cooling conjecture, the current scientific opinion on climate change is that the Earth has not durably cooled, but undergone global warming throughout the twentieth century.

Currently there are some concerns about the possible cooling effects of a slowdown or shutdown of thermohaline circulation, which might be provoked by an increase of fresh water mixing into the North Atlantic due to glacial melting. The probability of this occurring is generally considered to be very low, and the IPCC notes, “even in models where the THC weakens, there is still a warming over Europe. For example, in all AOGCM integrations where the radiative forcing is increasing, the sign of the temperature change over north-west Europe is positive.”

The idea that ice ages cycles were predictable appears to have become conflated with the idea that another one was due “soon” – perhaps because much of this study was done by geologists, who are accustomed to dealing with very long time scales and use “soon” to refer to periods of thousands of years. A strict application of the Milankovitch theory does not allow the prediction of a “rapid” ice age onset (i.e., less than a century or two) since the fastest orbital period is about 20,000 years.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_cooling

Unless and until the problem of human overpopulation is confronted nothing we do will really make a difference.

Overpopulation is when the number of people can not be permanently maintained without depleting resources and without degrading the environment and the people’s standard of living. Because we are rapidly using up resources around the world, virtually all nations are overpopulated. This applies even more so to the rich nations. As we use up the resources, the earth’s carrying capacity continues to decrease.

Nature is a balance of existence. In order to coincide with nature, we must balance the number of lives which we produce with the saving and extending of lives. We mustn’t use resources any faster than they can be reproduced. We need to respect ourselves by learning to respect the environment which we rely upon for our own existence. If not, we will cease to exist.

http://www.cosmosmith.com/human_population_crisis.htm

40% of Americans believe Jesus will return in their lifetime. With such forward thinking leaders like this: “History, we’ll all be dead.” Bush sneered to Woodward.

As a species, we’re screwed…just not in my lifetime…so (shrug) why should I care (snark).

And we entrusted our country to the W for 8 years…Molly Ivins tried to tell us….

I always have a link.
New Little Ice Age in store?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/8578014/New-Little-Ice-Age-in-store.html

And of the contestants at the Miss USA pageant only two admitted to believing in evolution. A nation of American idiots.

Too bad there wasn’t a Molly Ivins warning the country about the current fraud in the WH.

Yes, but it’s preaching to the choir, which has shrunk a bit. . .

The problem remains too many bad things happened over several months around Copenhagen. The public isn’t listening to this now, nor is a critical mass of politicians. I don’t know how that would change with an election cycle coming up. Proving this and disproving that isn’t likely to do much of anything.

Thanks for that link:

Three studies, presented at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society’s solar physics division, all point towards declining sunspot activity into the next decade.

But Joanna Haigh professor of atmospheric physics at Imperial College London, said global warming could override any cooling effect on the Earth’s climate.

She said: “This work suggests that the sun’s activity might be entering a longer period of change – a Grand Minimum, similar to that of the late 17th century.”

However, she cautioned: “Even if the predictions are correct, the effect of global warming will outstrip the sun’s ability to cool even in the coldest scenario.

“And in any case, the cooling effect is only ever temporary. When the sun’s activity returns to normal, the greenhouse gases won’t have gone away.”

the Telegraph.

one of the publications that actually publicly apologized for its coverage of this issue.

Dr Pachauri – Apology
On 20 December 2009 we published an article about Dr Pachauri and his business interests. It was not intended to suggest that Dr Pachauri was corrupt or abusing his position as head of the IPCC and we accept KPMG found Dr Pachauri had not made “millions of dollars” in recent years. We apologise to Dr Pachauri for any embarrassment caused.

and referring the the Telegraph, Joe Romm wrote:

Yes, the original article was build on a tissue of nothingness, but it was still cited in a follow-up article “Questions over business deals of UN climate change guru Dr Rajendra Pachauri” as ome sort of example of a questionable business dealing by Pachauri.
Bottom Line: The Telegraph ran a falsehood- and innuendo-filled smear that had no basis in fact.

but for people like you, that’s not a problem, since you still go there for your information.

It’s all “Greek” to the U.S. public. They just want to know the ball scores and results of America Idol.

the oil and coal companies and the oil kingdoms must employ an army of people to sit around thinking up and promoting these idiotic ideas.

Then there are the unpaid morons that believe the drivel.

Just one more thing – What Mother Nature Thinks of Us.
http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2011/06/what_mother_nature_thinks_of_u.php