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Aïda Hammond-Gackett: Illustration for McArdle’s Adventures
in Wonderland
(1907)

Megan McArdle, The Atlantic:
More Snow in Copenhagen

  • No, but wherever you stand, you have to admit it’s kind of funny that, okay, Al Gore, because global warming with the snow. Hahahaha! [poop] Uh, liberals often soil themselves. [grabs gym bag, pedals chair backwards out of room]

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Notes:

1 Notice, O! comedians of the right, that there is no ‘win’ in it. In fact, try the “Duh, how can there be global warming when it’s snowing?” routine one more time, and we’ll stop by with some egg nopg and take turns admiring your crepche.

Yes, and one more time after that, and we’ll return your motorcycle hitchingpowderelmet and tub of Turtle Washoepolishx, and oh wait, your wife said she wanted to watch that VHS tape we borrowed of The Magnificent AmbuttblastersIXersons.

 

Comments: 170

 
 
 

I hate to say it, but Thers just laid down the Nuclear Option on ya.
.

 
 

It is somewhat bizarre that some of the most rational writing on this subject (and a few others, lately) is coming from Charles Johnson at LGF.

I mean, really, what the hell happened over there?

 
 

I’m so old now that I can remember a time when it was the right wing that was incapable of so much as even a grudging, wry grin at a bit of old-fashioned, actual, non-Alanis irony when it was at the expense of A Very Important Principle.

 
 

Mr. M:

The illustration credit (Aïda Hammond-Gackett: Illustration for McArdle’s Adventures in Wonderland (1907)) is not visible, yet appears in a feed somewhere.

Not sure if that’s a bug or feature.

 
 

Decided to untrust the shorter. Could have been worse, she could have misquoted Shakespeare re: rottenness, even as she misinterpreted Gore, who explains rather nicely why you can simultaneously have snow and global warming. .

 
 

Is it visible now?

 
 

I mean, really, what the hell happened over there?

I think Chuck was always not terribly religious, & pro-science. Indeed, his fear or whatever of the “Muslim menace” may have been based partially on his rationality.

It’s almost sad that it took him eight yrs. to realize that his friends in Cloud Cuckoo Land were as ignorant/nutty/dangerous as the average “Back to the eighth century!” Islamo-nihilist.

 
 

Sure is, and it looks great. Jesus, that blogspot with the 10,000 wacky cartoons anent “if the warming is global, why is there a snowman on my driveway” would be enough to ruin my night if the insomnia hadn’t beat it to it. I can remember laughing at that joke when Colm Meaney tells it in the Irish movie The Van, but that was, what, 20 years ago?

 
Freshly Squeezed Cynic
 

And if the joke hadn’t been said about 50 quadrillion times (and even used as a talking point by the slower denizens of the right-blogosphere), then it might actually still be a little amusing.

 
 

YUP!! Clear as Christmas Eve before the snow starts to fall.

 
 

Editorial Cartoonists suck.

 
 

Everyone finds it shocking that Copenhagen (city which is located on latitude 55 degrees. Or speaking relavively, about 200 km north of Edmonton, canada), has snow during winter.

What next? Santaclaus is riding in sled, so global worming is a myth?
Actually, that would be perfect wingnut reasoning. You can’t prove otherwise, because if you do you must hate christmas.

 
a concerned citizen
 

What next? Santaclaus is riding in sled, so global worming is a myth?
Actually, that would be perfect wingnut reasoning. You can’t prove otherwise, because if you do you must hate christmas.

Santa’s factories pollute. Therefore Al Gore doesn’t want us to celebrate Christmas anymore. However, America is a Christian nation. Therefore, Al Gore was not born in America.

 
 

I will leave the joke about “Omelette without the prints of Denmark” for someone else to make, for I am generous like that.

 
Just Alison, aka Snail Joust
 

What next? Santaclaus is riding in sled, so global worming is a myth?

Global worming is essential – global parasites threaten us all (boom boom).

 
The Tragically Flip
 

What really needs comment is that wingnuts can’t ever talk about global warming without constantly invoking Al Gore.

 
The Tragically Flip
 

What a shock too that McArdle is a climate change denier.

 
 

If Al Gore didn’t exist, global warming would not exist.
If Charles Darwin had never existed, evolution would not exist.

 
 

The Megan makin’ funny. She forgot to say that the high temperature was 0. The talk radio crowd didn’t. That’s like leaving out the real punch line but you have to say Celsius real quiet like.

 
 

Not to be missed… FYWP goes postal

 
 

Using the same logic, if feminism and equality were real then why is Megan McArdle such a silly, stupid, immature, untalented little girlie? Must be getting her MRS degree, eh boys? Nice to have a little tipsy chickadee like that fixing you breakfast, eh? Heh heh, time to go watch The Apartment and my Mad Men reruns again, heh heh

heh.

 
 

Aw, Megan couldn’t have couched her “zinger” more apologetically. It’s like she knew she had nothing that day and this would be the last time in her life she could pull off a gee-how-bad-could-global-warming-be-if-it’s-cold riff and expect to deserve her next paycheck. I applaud her willingness to get off the stage before doing further damage.

 
The Tragically Flip
 

I don’t know why it never occurred to me to wonder where glibertarians were on climate change. Probably because their stupid ideology is an irrelevant side show, but anyway, behold! So much for libertarians being the sane alternative to conservatives. Just as denialistic and nihilistic and every bit as unfunny and historically unaware.

 
 

I’m so old now that I can remember a time when it was the right wing that was incapable of so much as even a grudging, wry grin at a bit of old-fashioned, actual, non-Alanis irony when it was at the expense of A Very Important Principle.

It’s like snooo-eeeee-owwwww, on your global warming summit dayyyyy!

 
 

So much for libertarians being the sane alternative to conservatives.

Oh please. Like anyone ever thought that. Both are self-centered worshipers of Mammon, it’s just that libertarians are pot-smoking aspies to boot.

 
The Tragically Flip
 

Oh please. Like anyone ever thought that. Both are self-centered worshipers of Mammon, it’s just that libertarians are pot-smoking aspies to boot.

Ahem.

Not that I bought into this crap even back in 2006, but it did have some cache on the left.

 
 

The government has put in an infrastructure to support the region including, among many other things, roads, the Internet, government research grants, and the most important ingredient of all: education, from the lowliest kindergarten to the highest post-doc program. Such spending, while requiring a government bureaucracy that makes a traditional libertarian shudder, actually provides the tools that individuals need to succeed in today’s world. If our goal is to promote and champion individual liberty and the free market, we need government to help provide those tools to all Americans, not just a privileged few. This isn’t a question of equality, it’s one of opportunity. Some people will take advantage of those opportunities, and others will not. That will be up to each individual. But without opportunity, there is no freedom.

Methinks Brother Markos is a bit unclear on the concept.

 
TruculentandUnreliable
 
 

Re-reading McMegan’s schtick, she does come off as a passive-aggressive little bugger, doesn’t she? “Oh, gosh, if you point out that my lame joke is unfunny and clichéd, you’re just a BIG MEANIE! Who is religious about AL GORE!

 
 

You know, you can almost forgive the stupidity that equates “it’s snowing” with “therefore, there’s no such thing as global warming” because, well, there are a lot of dumb people out there.

But to equate “it’s snowing, in Scandanavia, some 500 miles from the north pole, in December” with “therefore, there’s no such thing as global warming” makes you king – or in this case queen – of the dumbasses.

 
 

Megan’s degree is in “I know you are, but what am I?”. Pee-Wee Hermeneutics is the formal title.

 
 

it’s snowing, in Scandanavia, some 500 miles from the north pole, in December

Thereby interfering with reindeer-based flight, proving that liberals are all part of the war on christmas.

 
 

Re-reading McMegan’s schtick, she does come off as a passive-aggressive little bugger, doesn’t she?

Bingo.

And as such, everything she writes (or argues) comes from a self-protective stance that forces her away from any fact-thingies that might contradict her little view of the world. Given that there are a fair number of free-range facts drifting around (and in organized herds, no less) she opts for the safety of the Disneyworld FactRide where such dangerous creatures can be observed at a safe distance.

And POOP. Lots of it.

 
Rusty Shackleford
 

Wait… Al Gore is fat?

 
The Tragically Flip
 

Alternative title: Al Gore is fat hahahahaha!!!!

On this one: What kind of fucking cartoonist is so astoundingly bad at drawing that they need to label “Al Gore” on a caricature of him?

2nd thought edit: This looks nothing like Gore either

 
 

Did I ever mention that I hate ME-gan McArdle?

OMFG! It’s all a snowing and wintery, blustery, stormy in teh Copenhagen. Like totally extreme weather that’s not warming at all. Sucks to be algore.</ME-gan>

 
TruculentandUnreliable
 

What kind of fucking cartoonist is so astoundingly bad at drawing that they need to label “Al Gore” on a caricature of him?

Right? Most of the cartoons have labels on him. It’s really bad.

BTW, not only did I not trust the shorter, I also read the comments. And yet again, I find myself throwing my hands up at the deniers’ comments and saying, “Fine, fuck it. Let the ice caps melt and the seas boil away. Let the Midwest become a fucking dustbowl. We obviously deserve it.”

So, yeah, I really should trust the shorter.

 
 

Sometimes I think humanity deserves its fate. The politicians won’t do anything until Miami washes away and Kansas is dust, then it will be far too late. I need a drink.

See y’all on The Road!

 
a second non-lester the giant ape
 

Am I the only one here that has started to spend three-quarters of his pornography-watching Internet time looking at real estate listings in Europe, instead? From fapping to mapping, and not well pleased with it.

Srsly, as the kids say. I’m looking at farmsteads in the more clement regions of France, and I’m finding (even with the debased US dollar) habitable digs in the $120k range with things like views, streams, and forests attached to them. I see these places, I remember mankind survived the last hot period (and the last ice age) in exactly the same region, and by gum, the only thing standing between me and living overseas is…

…Ah. Money.

I’ve still got a job at the moment, but among the costly consumer excesses of the last 20 years is my ex-wife. So I’m in a bind until junior is well out of the maternal household. That I have a job at all is miraculous. Nipping over to surrender-frog territory will put the old kibosh on said employment, and great will be the lamentation and gnashing of dentition.

So I’m still here.

 
 

Megan sez: “Obviously, not totally surprising in Denmark, and no bearing on the arguments for or against climate change. Just a little amusing, that’s all.”

So she’s basically just giving a weather report? “Nothing surprising here and I won’t stick my neck out by venturing an opinion either way, but it’s totally teh funnies that it’s snowing in Copenhagen in the middle of December.”

She’g got to be the biggest idiot currently being paid for her writing.

 
 

Two things:

1) The funniest part is that MM claims to believe in global warming.

2) Denmark doesn’t usually get snow this early, despite its northern location. The ocean warms it a bit or something. I dunno.

 
 

The problem with the term “global warming” is that it’s misleading. In the short term, a mean increase in global temperature might very well mean regional cooling in some parts of the world as oceanic convection currents are disrupted or altered. This may well mean that the vast farming regions of the Russian steppes, which are at roughly the same latitude as central Canada, would no longer be able to sustain the intensive agriculture that feeds 2 billion people. It may also mean that Rome, which is at about the same latitude as NYC, might become as frigid as Denver in January.

Over the longer term, say a few centuries, continuting to add heat to the global system has a very good chance of turning the whole planet into another Venus, so that villa in Provence? not so nice when it’s warm enough to melt lead, even in winter.

 
Trilateral Chairman
 

So she’s basically just giving a weather report? “Nothing surprising here and I won’t stick my neck out by venturing an opinion either way, but it’s totally teh funnies that it’s snowing in Copenhagen in the middle of December.”

She’g got to be the biggest idiot currently being paid for her writing.

Nah. Jonah Goldberg is making an entire CAREER out of this. The classic Jonah statement goes something as follows:

“I don’t know anything about this, and I don’t have time to look because the dog ate my homework, and whenever I say this I get emails from angry liberals explaining to me that I’m wrong, and I already KNOW that, it’s just a joke, but anyway, it’s absolutely freezing and Al Gore is so well insulated that he doesn’t realize that global warming is a sham. Heh heh heh.”

 
 

By February we’ll be paying a hefty price for Danish grapefruits.

Was it someone’s cunning plan to hold the climate conference in Copenhagen in December, knowing deniers would be unable to resist a public frenzy of stupid once the inevitable Scandinavian snow fell?

 
The Tragically Flip
 

Global warming also means more snow in some locales. Snow doesn’t tend to fall in extremely cold conditions, there’s too little evaporation/clouds etc, so if you warm things a few degrees, you get more moisture and humidity, and if it’s hovering around 0c, more snow.

Wingnuts equate snow with cold, but snow is a feature of a band of temperature, and moving more of the colder parts of the planet into that band means more snow, temporarily.

 
 

Re-reading McMegan’s schtick, she does come off as a passive-aggressive little bugger, doesn’t she?

Always and forever.

 
 

Over the longer term, say a few centuries, continuting to add heat to the global system has a very good chance of turning the whole planet into another Venus…

Isn’t it more likely to kick off another ice age, as decreasing ocean salinity disrupts the ocean convection belts?

And then we’ll have these giant reverse tornado/hurricanes that suck super cold air from the upper atmosphere down here to ground level, and will experience an immediate deep-freeze, as though the planet had been sprayed with liquid nitrogen. Just like in that movie. Also.

 
 

Re-reading McMegan’s schtick, she does come off as a passive-aggressive little bugger, doesn’t she?

McMegan is deeply insecure of her own highly self-promoted intelligence.

As well she should be.

 
 

Isn’t it more likely to kick off another ice age

Sounds good to me. I’m dying for this weekend’s snow to get here.

 
 

“Global warming also means more snow in some locales. Snow doesn’t tend to fall in extremely cold conditions, there’s too little evaporation/clouds etc, so if you warm things a few degrees, you get more moisture and humidity, and if it’s hovering around 0c, more snow”

There you go using facts and things again. That is not how you win arguments in today’s America. How many times do we have to go over this? You win arguments by shouting loudest. QED.

 
The Goddamn Batman Is Still Working On His Christmas Special; He's Thinking, Single Mom Who Has To Steal To Feed Her Kids, Greedy Landlord Guilty Only Of White Collar Crimes; Injustice Inherent In "Justice" System--Oh Crap, We Did That Last Year...
 

Come, now. We can’t expect MegMac to actually have to work on something this close to Giftmas, can we? I mean, working on or near a holiday is for the proles, not the self-imagined lead in Ayn Rand Superstar! Silly geese!

Besides, she’s all excited about having “found” (via weeks of assiduous wallet-rummaging) the receipt for the present that she only had to drop, like, about a zillion hints on her fiance to get: purple salt harvested from the methane seas of Titan! (By remote-controlled worker-bots created by the true creators in society, some of which she is mildly acquainted with via the internet–wait until they go all Galt on your asses, liberal-drones!) All the other trust-fund logical positivists will shit themselves thrice and die when she holds her very selective salt-tasting on New Years Eve, thinking they’re so special with their salt harvested from the tears of orphans who didn’t get a single present this year! Put that on your popcorn, bitches!

Anyway, enough of that silliness. The Goddamn Batman is going to put on his Santa suit and give out free gifts to the kiddies, and by “gifts” he means “fully-functioning utility belt paraphernalia”, with each child getting at least three Batarangs. See, kids these days, they spend so much time playing with the goddamn Xbox, you have to get them started early to get them in shape so that they can take over whenever the latest Robin makes the mistake of trying to solo the Joker. Joyeux Noël, crimefighters!

 
 

Tragically Flip, that is exactly right. Here in MN we get snow when its +20, not -20 (F). Since warm air can hold more water vapor we have been seeing more extreme dumps of rain and snow. Last April we got a three foot dump of snow that was so heavy regular pick-up plows couldn’t budge it and our local construction guys had to dig people out with loaders. I know anecdotes are not data, but I am expecting more events like this in the future.

At least until the feedbacks really kick in. Then it’s long pig for everyone!

 
...And The Year Before That, And The Year Before THAT...
 

Oh, in case anyone didn’t get the salt reference: courtesy of tha T-Bogg.

 
 

Was it someone’s cunning plan to hold the climate conference in Copenhagen in December, knowing deniers would be unable to resist a public frenzy of stupid once the inevitable Scandinavian snow fell?

Like the Spanish Inquisition, nobody expected snow before Christmas. We haven’t had a white christmas in years.

O.T.: The heart and soul (and checking account) of the Democratic Party.

 
 

We really need to start calling her Jane Salt

 
 

I hope I can say this without bringing down the wrath of the environmentalists on my head…

Nah. After you hear “It’s cold out so what global warming hurrr” the first few hundred times, the best you can do is a weary shrug.

 
The Goddamn Batman Tips His Cowl To You
 

Well-spotted, N.O.T., well-spotted!

 
 

Shouldn’t Megan McGargle be wrioting for Glamour Mag? You know, those unique stories like “Sarah Jessica Parker’s Fave Jeans!!!” or “What he really wants in bed!” or some such? Isn’t that where she belongs or am I insulting Glamour Mag?

 
 

What’s so endearing about the Giant Elf’s report is that it could just as easily support an argument for global climate change.

OTOH, looking for actual facts would impede her journey to Galt’s Gulch, where it’s totally perfect weather all the time.

I’m pretty sure Meggy just got all confused by the statement from the Danish government concerning the environment:

For udover ændringerne i vores design i foråret 2009, benyttede vi lejligheden til at flytte lidt rundt på vores indhold. Forhåbentlig til glæde for dig og vores andre brugere – når I lige lærer den nye struktur at kende.

 
 

At least until the feedbacks really kick in. Then it’s long pig for everyone!

thus begins the zombocalypse.

ZOM NOM NOM NOM.

 
 

Or “writing”. You may chooƒe.

 
 

One of the things that I noticed reading the comments to Megan’s post was that many of the commentors say that out of spite. Example “those who believe in AGW never mention it during heat waves, hurricanes, and freak storms” (said sarcastically).

In other words it isn’t simple stupidity that leads them to ask “if AGW is real why is it cold”. They see liberals making the claim that such and such freak storm is the result of global warming. They either don’t understand or don’t accept that but it gives them permission to turn around and use “how come it’s cold”. Not so much because they actually believe that is a good argument but simply to spite liberals.

It’s like your little brother whom you’ve beat up in the past. He looks up to you but at the same time he hates you.

 
 

Is a “long pig” like a dachshund? ‘Cause that would be really cute.

 
 

Looch,
Megan’s “writing” is an insult to any magazine, no matter how frivilous its contents may be.

 
TruculentandUnreliable
 

Oh, in case anyone didn’t get the salt reference: courtesy of tha T-Bogg.

Jesus Christ, what a fucking pretentious douche.

 
 

Is a “long pig” like a dachshund?

I hope not; we’ll need them to protect us from vicious badgers once society crumbles.

 
 

Not that I bought into this crap even back in 2006, but it did have some cache on the left.

Hey, it’s not entirely a myth. I happen to be one of those “libertarian Democrats.” Born in ’86, raised as a conservative Republican, but after Bush Junior, well, yeah. And unlike so many small-government types, there’s no way in Hell I’ll come crawling back to the GOP just because a Scary Black Man is in the Oval Office.

Anyway, back on topic. Eh… I got nothing. Other than “Good God, McArdle’s an idiot,” but that goes without saying.

 
TruculentandUnreliable
 

Thanks, guys. Now I’m reading McArdle’s “recipes.” My hatred just grows and grows and grows…

 
 

“It may also mean that Rome, which is at about the same latitude as NYC, might become as frigid as Denver in January.”

Actually, Rome is at the same latitude as Boston. It has mild winters because of warm Ocean currents going into the mediterranian.

 
 

Her latest entry called “Personal Finance” actually contains the following sentence:

“I don’t think I’d describe act just like people people a ‘slapdown'”

I’m not making that up.

 
 

I can’t believe MM missed the opportunity to discuss Denmark’s national effort to deal with climate change by focusing on sustainability.

Checking out the nice map you can see the that Denmark is way ahead of the rest of the world. Why? Because they are using Dong energy:

DONG Energy is synonymous with a reliable supply of energy and conscientious utilization of our natural resources.”

 
 

Actually, Rome is at the same latitude as Boston. It has mild winters because of warm Ocean currents going into the mediterranian.

I look forward to being able to grow lemons and olives in my yard here in Mass.

 
 

“Pee-Wee Hermeneutics”

LittlePig FTW.

 
 

Reading the comments to MM’s stale mucilage makes me very eager to give Darwin a little helping hand.

Even though I know it’s gauche as fuck to use one’s personal experience to filter this sort of thing, ah, what the smeg …………. at this time last year I was up to my knackers in snow, & freezing the poor little guys off to boot (say, from -9 down to -15 or so [centigrade]). Right now it’s rainy & +7, & there’s not one ferschlugginer flake of snow in sight. The forecast into next week is more of the same.

Expect a LOT more snow in the winters to come – & rainier times the rest of the year. Can’t avoid it when you keep pumping ever-more gigawatts of energy into a relatively closed climate-system that has as much water as ours, & simultaneously boost its energy-ceiling with CO2 & methane to boot. Too bad all that cloud-juice isn’t necessarily going to land where it’s needed or wanted.

I’m a lot more worried about all the CO2 buggering up the Ph-balance of the oceans: a lot of our oxygen & food comes from there.

Much as I love to savor a good well-chilled snifter of premium-vintage schadenfreude, this is one case where I’d much rather be dead-wrong – but I get the feeling all these “Climategate, ROFL” types are setting themselves up for a major dose of Sugar-Frosted Fugly-Flakes when our collective paybacks truly sink in some years hence … & I almost feel sorry for them.

Almost.

 
Faustian Bargain Bin
 

Maybe it’s ’cause I grew up in a microclimate (which means the landscape/average temperature/feel of the place changes when you go further than about 45 minutes’ drive in any direction) but I’ve always found that “weather = climate” thing really, really annoying. I’ve actually noticed climate change hereabouts — the common patterns I observed and learned to anticipate for the first 25 years or so of my life just don’t seem to apply anymore. (That’s also one of the reasons I hate the term “global warming.” Yeah, the broad phenomenon is that the global mean temperature is rising, but “climate change” is a lot easier to explain to the average moron you run into in the street, mostly by the “Remember how it used to…and notice how it doesn’t anymore?” tactic.)

Of course, even that’s too nuanced for a shit-for-brains like Megan McArdle.

Remind me again why these people have high-paying writing gigs and I and every other fact-based writer I know makes fuck-all? (Oh, and Jonah Goldberg, if I ever meet you, I’m going to apply a gold brick with a lemon slice wrapped around it to your smug mug, and then I’m going to roll you for that million-dollar advance you just got for your latest piece of shit passing for a book, and then I’m going to disburse that million bucks to struggling writers who should be making major bank. Just call me Writin’ Hood.)

 
 

Isn’t it more likely to kick off another ice age, as decreasing ocean salinity disrupts the ocean convection belts?

Bingo. Notably the Gulf stream which accounts for northern Europe’s generally mild climate. Some entomologist found damn convincing evidence that the stream has shut down several times coinciding with mini-ice ages in England and environs. I don’t recall the details.

But “Al Gore is fat” is far more persuasive.

 
 

There’s a commenter over there spewing the old ‘DDT hoax’ line. Someone sic Tim Lambert on that guy.

Oh, speaking of Deltoid, he’s been beating up on my least favorite person in the world, Eric Scott Raymond, recently. Everyone should check it out.

 
 

Although the Goddamn Batman’s post ranks as his–one assumes he’s a “he”–all-time best. Tears of mirth coursed down my leathery cheeks, etc.

 
 

Shouldn’t Megan McGargle be wrioting for Glamour Mag?

Quiet Wriot, y’all!
~

 
 

So, who is that guy in the beginning of the video?

 
 

Is a “long pig” like a dachshund?

I hope not; we’ll need them to protect us from vicious badgers once society crumbles.

On top of which, the fuching pelicans would get ’em in one gulp.

 
 

the salt thing is courtesy of me!

Wooooooo.

“Teh snark is strong with this one, Obi-Wan.”

Don’t anyone tell her, but the joke’s on Megan: all the jagged-edge Extreme-Hipsterz are already breaking out their Hale-Bopp Comet Salt (cured in a coelacanth’s stomache, naturellement) & laughing up their designer-label vat-meat sleeves at her quaint attempt to Fit In With The Kewl Croud!

 
 

Is a “long pig” like a dachshund?
I hope not; we’ll need them to protect us from vicious badgers once society crumbles.
On top of which, the fuching pelicans would get ‘em in one gulp.

CAGE MATCH: Man-bear-pig Versus Longpig-badger-pelican

 
 

hey, I think you all are being a bit hard on the denier crowd, ’cause I am TOTALLY sure that they will come around next spring when it starts warming up, right?

 
 

“crud” + “crowd” = “croud” ?

 
 

2nd thought edit: This looks nothing like Gore either

It does, however, put me in mind of certain grotesque anti-Semetic cariactures, which is interesting for several reasons.

 
 

Hey did you guys hear that Algore is fat ??

 
 

When the planet-cooling snow hits your eye
Like a giant frostcone from the sky
That’s Algore!
~

 
 

DONG Energy

I’m afraid to find out what DONG Energy does in terms of Flue and Waste Gas cleaning. Even more so – their interest in Heat Pumps.

 
Knights in Black Satin
 

Yes, it is a pity the Summit wasn’t held in an equatorial country, like Somalia or Indonesia.

 
 

Time, time, time
See what’s become of ME(-gan)
She looks around
For complete inanities.
While missing DONG Energy,
But look around, p00p is brown
And ME-gan’s post
Is a hazy shade of winger.

 
 

Here’s the thing…

1) The interaction of infrared radiation with CO2 is pretty well understood. It has been explained to grade school kids and viewers of popular science TV programs for the past couple decades as part of the greenhouse effect.
2) Human activity generates many billions of tons of CO2.
3) Said CO2 does not magically disappear.

Now, the global climate is complex and stuff, but you really can’t ignore these basic facts. Everything is just about as obvious as the breakdown of ozone catalyzed by CFCs, which was pretty successfully agreed upon and dealt with.

And yet, the denialist response almost always goes like this:
1) Dur hur libruls splurt.
2) It’s a natural change.
3) It was cold today.
4) I love polluting industries.

My head hurts.

 
 

DONG Energy – Because PENIS Energy would be juvenile

 
 

In the interest of fairness I must state that Al Gore is not fat.

 
 

Isn’t juvenile penis like illegal or somethin’.

 
 

But AGW wants to take away my freedumz and stuff.

 
 

“Even more so – their interest in Heat Pumps.”

I tried Heat Pumps but I kept rolling my ankles so I switched back to Army Mules.

Besides, everybody kept stepping on my toes with their Wingnut Tips.

 
 

O the weather outside is frightful
And McArdle’s dumb and spiteful
Is it impossible to be this slow?
Sadly no, sadly no, sadly no

 
 

And Al Gore flies in a plane. So Global Warming is a hoax.

 
 

Well, I for one hope that DONG energy uses WANG computers exclusively.

 
 

Well, if you’re going to make an argument against government, you’ve gotta look at the government that produced Megan McArdle.

 
TruculentandUnreliable
 

So, how exactly does one provide energy using DONGS? Every scenario I’m considering sounds terribly unpleasant.

 
 

I wonder how DING Energy and DILLY Energy feel about being left out.

 
 

So, how exactly does one provide energy using DONGS?

Not just energy, but free energy! Villard de Honnecourt’s perpetual motion machine:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Perpetuum_mobile_villard_de_honnecourt.jpg

 
 

PeeJ, that giant energy penis is either the most hilarious or horrifying thing that I’ve ever seen. Possibly both.

 
 

HAHAHAHA For me, the money quote: “”Mr. McArdle also disputed the need for a new investigative agency. ”We don’t need more people tripping over each other in search of glory, facts or whatever,” he said.”

Oh yeah, she’s daddy’s girl alright.

 
Enraged Bull Limpet
 

You’re entitled to your own opinion but you can’t have your own, like, whatever.

 
 

Big floppy donkey dick.

 
 

Salt snobs remind me of those oeoeoeoenophiles who claim to be able to distinguish the frothy yearnings and unmistakeable chi of $200 wine vs. $1000 wine. (But only when the label is still on.)

Yes! Let me pay MORE for mineral impurities in my NaCl! I’m so discerning!

(I could make a mint with “salmonella salt”–salt with killed salmonella bacteria, for gastro-intestinal health. Someone would buy it, too.)

Me, I buy 69c (usta be 29c) “vaults” of iodine-free. I eat seafood, so no sense in sporting extra acne.

 
 

Heh. I thought about doing that one earlier, DKW, but I figured I’d leave it you and actor;s mom.

 
 

Thanks PeeJ. It’s true that actor’s mom has a little “down there” armor – but those callouses make the experience that much more exciting.

 
 

(I could make a mint with “salmonella salt”–salt with killed salmonella bacteria, for gastro-intestinal health. Someone would buy it, too.)

Sir, I wish to invest in your business opportunity. I can provide money and salt; the bacteria you’ll have to find on your own.

 
 

Back when I ate meat there was a place we would go that brought out a salt tray with your meal. You could taste the differences if you had one after the other, but those differences were too subtle to pay through the nose for this salt over that one. Except for the smoked salt, which totally rocked my world.

 
 

I like her “I got mine, fuck you” posts even more than her passive-aggressive or concern troll posts. The slurping sounds on her investment banker posts are kinda annoying, though.

 
 

I read the comments on that post, too. It’s odd that people actually believe that there is a sinister, global cabal of climate scientists that is either crushing all dissent from other climate scientists, or is total—all climate scientists are in on it. How would such a thing even happen? They don’t have monetary power as a group like bankers do, and they’re not an ideological group with political power like neocons. Weird.

 
 

ALL UR CLIMAT DATAZ BELONG TO US

 
 

wiley you need to get up-to-date on your talking points, because the answer is simple: they’re in it for the grant money.

And…Al Gore flies in a jet plane.

 
 

I heard a story on BBC World Service News Hour this morning and they interviewed Sen. Inhofe who said something to the effect of, “the IPCC science has been debunked” by the stolen emails. He then goes on to say that he is going to Copenhagen to tell the delegates that any promise that Obama makes to reduce greenhouse gases is a lie.

I believe the actual quote is
BBC: When the President says cut 17% by 2020, what’s the simple message?

INHOFE: We’re not going to, in the United States, expose ourselves to a $300 billion dollar tax increase that doesn’t accomplish anything. So I think it’s a message of honesty. I want to make sure everyone in Copenhagen understands what’s going to happen in America.

BBC: You’re saying the President is deceiving them?

INHOFE: er, he’s not…he’s…um, deceiving? Yeah, that’s a good word.

Stupid BBC insists on using their own way of streaming. You can find the stream at http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/p005cbwn , minutes 8:40-9:07.

Politics, waters edge, T-T-T-T-TREASONNNN. I’m sure someone will be demanding to slap him in the face with their cock because shut up, that’s why.

 
 

stryx, I’ll try to find the link where the reporter from Der Spiegel laughs at him.

 
 

Stryx, you see, Obama is an Islamofascist Kenyan usurper to the office of the presidency, ergo, anything one does to thwart him is by definition the height of patriotism. Wolverines!

 
 

Infixes!

Booyah!

Infixes!

 
The Tragically Flip
 

What would a fucking German know about cabals plotting to take over the world by manipulating public opinion?

 
 

From Stryx’s link.

“A reporter asked: “If there’s a hoax, then who’s putting on this hoax, and what’s the motive?”

“It started in the United Nations,” Inhofe said, “and the ones in the United States who really grab ahold of this is the Hollywood elite.”

One reporter asked Inhofe if he was referring to California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. Another reporter — this one from Der Spiegel — told the senator: “You’re ridiculous.”

How can I get in on this Scientists/Hollywood cash cow. I assume that big money is being doled out by the Global Warming Gestapo otherwise the only other explanation is that Inhofe is an asshat and I find it hard to beleive that America (God shed his grace on thee) would ever elect an asshat to the senate.

 
 

I really wish Inhofe a long life – like 150 years. That way he can see and experience the wonderful ecosystem he helped create.

 
 

“I really wish Inhofe a long life – like 150 years”

I really hope he spent a lot of money on a beach house in south Florida.

 
 

It takes a special class of politician to travel the world, advising other countries not to sign treaties with the current US government because a future US government will only abrogate it.
——————————————-
they’re in it for the grant money.

(1) Refuse to accept first results from climate scientists; demand more rigorous research.
(2) Scientists sigh; apply for grants to collect more data and repeat simulations with larger computers.
(3) Ha ha, we can ignore climate scientists because they want to retain their cushy grant-driven jobs by delivering AGW results.

 
 

(4) PROFIT!

 
 

wiley you need to get up-to-date on your talking points, because the answer is simple: they’re in it for the grant money.

The argument is much more nuanced. Only some grant money taints research. Grant money from supposedly “independent” research agencies like NSF is obviously corrupt and part of the conspiracy.

On the other hand, grant money from Exxon-Mobil is clearly disinterested and only used to promote rigorous scholarship with no conflicts of interest.

Also, grant committees make their decisions in unholy Sabbaths where they drink the blood of Christian children.

 
 

The graphic is amazing. Who did it?

 
 

Also, grant committees make their decisions in unholy Sabbaths where they drink the blood of Christian children.

You’re right. That was a glaring ommision on my part. Schade.

 
 

The graphic is amazing. Who did it?

Photoshop maestro Brad Reed.

 
 

Thanks, McGravitas. That McAlice is a work of art.

If anyone’s curious about what the SadlyNo Hamsters do for $, here’s evidence.

 
 

Also, grant committees make their decisions in unholy Sabbaths where they drink the blood of Christian children.

That would be the grain of truth that gives the lie credibility.

 
 

Who’s Brad Reed? Was he on Up with People?

 
 

So, where the fuck is everyone?

 
 

Shopping?

 
 

I buy 69c (usta be 29c) “vaults” of iodine-free.

Won’t someone think of the goiters?

 
 

I finished my “shopping” by signing up my sister & her family for a Netflix subscription.

Working in a Hallmark right before Christmas is a unique window into the human condition, however. Or maybe not. I kinda had it figured out a few years ago when I saw people buying Mr. Hankie dolls in a store. Yes, at Christmas time in America, people will actually buy a toy depicting a piece of shit if it’s wearing a Santa hat.

Oh before I forget – egregious outrage against good taste of the day: we got in this figurine of Santa bending over baby Jesus in his manger. Not only did that come in – it came in for re-stocking. The one(s) we had before had already sold.

 
 

Enforced consumption, X-mess cheer, parties.

In my crowd the big party’s tomorrow, ’cause old people are too pooped to pop on a Friday night.

Was in an office bldg. today, a sign on one of the offices said it was closed “at 12 noon for an ‘off-site meeting’.” Unless they were letting everyone go & doing it somewhere surrounded w/ private security if things got ugly, I’d have to think they were at least eating a lot somewhere, if not hitting the bottle.

 
 

The Santa and Baby Jesus figure, while glurgy, hasn’t got a patch on this e-card.

 
 

American Jesus. Except the soccer player. He’s Eurotrash Jesus.

 
 

“Santa + Jesus figurine” only returns 103,000 Google images.

 
 

Ya know, ’cause of my recent move and starting work, I’m probably not going to be able to make it home for Christmas. Furthermore, since I’ve been in New Orleans less than three weeks and neither of my jobs employ enough people to throw a decent party, I won’t be going to any office parties. I’m cool with that, actually.

 
 

Sweet christ, MB, I’m pretty sure our hideous kneeling Santa was pictured in that collection. About halfway down, on the right, with the two lambs. You know, the one that’s obviously made of that tacky resin stuff.

 
 

The will work for food American Jesus kind of blows it. The rest of them make a crown of thorns look FUN.

 
 

I wonder if the Baby Jesus would have liked Harlem Shakes, cuz right now I sure am.

 
 

The party is over. Damn.

 
 

That’s a rather blond haired caucasian looking Jesus in that Santa with baby Jesus collection.

 
 

I find it interesting that the omnipotent Football Jesus needs a wrist band with the plays written on it. I also don’t think a guy who can feed 5000 people with 5 loaves and 2 fishes would really need to work for food. Soccer jesus has no choice but to bicycle kick, if tries to head the ball – instant puncture. And why arethey all wearing a lab coat? Is Jesus in on the global warming grant money scam too?

 
 

Jesus may ride a Harley, but it’s a well known fact that god drives a Plymouth.

He drove Adam and Eve from the garden in a Fury.

 
 

Jesus may ride a Harley,

but in the winter he Drives A Dodge

 
 

The poor angels have to car share a Honda. It says in the Bible “and the angels were of one Accord”

 
 

we got in this figurine of Santa bending over baby Jesus in his manger.

I hope you don’t mean what I think you mean……!

 
mmeetoilenoir lurktastique
 

You know, for a hot five seconds, I thought that the title of this post was “A Hazy Shade of Terl”. That made me sad, because it would mean talking about That Awful Scieno Movie.

I’m spending Christmas alone. My family and I hate each other, and my friends are all “in LoVe!!11!” and have SOs, so that’s that. NYE will be the same deal. I’m starting to grow increasingly bitter over holidays.

 
 

The fact is, any increase in marginal tax rates whatsoever, especially for the productive classes in typical demonrat classwar fashion, is objectively worse than what Hitler did to the Jews. If you disagree with me you are a hippy socilest.

 
 

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