This is hardly a huge victory against the Global Warmerists, but I think it's a sign that Climategate has had an impact:

The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) ruled that the adverts – which were based on the children's poems Jack and Jill and Rub-A-Dub-Dub – made exaggerated claims about the threat to Britain from global warming.

In definitely asserting that climate change would cause flooding and drought the adverts went beyond mainstream scientific consensus, the watchdog said.

It noted that predictions about the potential global impact of global warming made by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) "involved uncertainties" that the adverts failed to reflect.

The article states that the rebuke came in part from public complaints.

I'm far from certain, but it sounds to me like the Climategate scandal has opened the door to stuff like this. I mean, can you imagine something like this happening, say, a couple of years ago?

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This comment from McGoo over at Soylent Green ultimately led me to this priceless quote from one of the big AGW enablers. as fewer and fewer people buy into their bullshit.

Ecologist Paul Ehrlich at Stanford University in California says that his climate colleagues are at a loss about how to counter the attacks. “Everyone is scared shitless, but they don't know what to do,” he says.

Yeah, well, guess what (UPDATE INCLUDED BELOW)?

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Man, you goofs are are so screwed now.

And in marginally related Green Goofiness, it appears as though "fucking that chicken" will now have a whole new meaning in Switzerland.

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Oh, for fuck's sake.

"Now we see NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) and the administration planning the future of recreational fishing access in America based on a similar agenda of these same groups and other Big Green anti-use organizations, through an Executive Order by the President. The current U.S. direction with fishing is a direct parallel to what happened in Canada with hunting: The negative economic impacts on hard working American families and small businesses are being ignored.

"In spite of what we hear daily in the press about the President's concern for jobs and the economy and contrary to what he stated in the June order creating this process, we have seen no evidence from NOAA or the task force that recreational fishing and related jobs are receiving any priority."

Consequently, unless anglers speak up and convince their Congressional representatives to stop this bureaucratic freight train, it appears that the task force will issue a final report for "marine spatial planning" by late March, with President Barack Obama then issuing an Executive Order to implement its recommendations — whatever they may be.

Led by NOAA's Jane Lubchenco, the task force has shown no overt dislike of recreational angling, but its indifference to the economic, social and biological value of the sport has been deafening.

Additionally, Lubchenco and others in the administration have close ties to environmental groups who would like nothing better than to ban recreational angling. And evidence suggests that these organizations have been the engine behind the task force since before Obama issued a memo creating it last June.

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A name like "American Businesses for Clean Energy" trips my BS detector somethin' fierce.  "Clean energy" in reference to current-generation technology is pretty much antithetical to economic growth.

I found out about this organization from a co-blogger from another site who was approached about spreading the word about this wonderful group.  Obviously the green evangelist didn't realize my co-blogger dude does a lot of business with oil companies and makes frequent trips to Alaska. 

First stop is a WhoIs search -- turns out the domain is registered to a group called the Natural Resources Defense Council, which is funded by all the usual lefty suspects such as Soros' Open Society Institute, Ted Turner's foundation, the New York Times Company Foundation, the Heinz Family Foundation, etc.  Robert Redford and Leonardo DiCaprio happen to be on the NRDC board of trustees.

I guess this is where I'd go "gotcha", but as I indicated in the title, this is pretty much a "dog bites man" story. 

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Wow. It looks as though a Soros group is tied to a bunch of wind initiatives.

The 900 pages of emails, obtained by the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s Christopher C. Horner, show staff members from the DoE’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and the EPA developing a response to the report. They also show them coordinating the response with the Center for American Progress, plus the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) and the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) — two wind industry lobbyist groups.

What the emails show runs contrary to statements made to Congress by the Assistant Secretary of Energy Cathy Zoi — the Obama administration response to the Spanish report was in fact instigated at the request of the AWEA. It was then written with the close cooperation of the AWEA, the Center for American Progress, and the Union of Concerned Scientists.

The emails concentrate on the political implications of the Spanish study — and how to discredit it.

There also appears to have been significant pressure to publish an internal report from the NREL as a DoE report — bypassing the internal review and publication procedures — and to do so quickly.

The emails suggest that wind industry lobbyists and political organizations have significant behind-the-scenes influence on scientific reports from the Obama administration. This contradicts Obama’s insistence that his administration would get the politics out of science. It also calls into question the objectivity and quality of the information they provided to Congress.

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Look, I have no idea what the UK's perjury laws are, especially in front of Parliament. But whatever they are, Phil Jones may have indeed perjured himself.

Dr. Jones asserted that the weather services of several countries, including Sweden, Canada and Poland, had refused to allow their data to be released, to explain his reluctance to comply with Freedom of Information requests.

This statement is false and misleading in regards to the Swedish data.

All Swedish climate data are available in the public domain. As is demonstrated in the attached correspondence between SMHI (Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute), the UK Met Office and Dr. Jones (the last correspondence dated yesterday March 4), this has been clearly explained to Dr. Jones. What is also clear is that SMHI is reluctant to be connected to data that has undergone “processing” {heh. What's Scandi for "fucking shredding as we fucking speak"?-ed}by the East Anglia research unit.

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1 "But it's just one mistake..."

Posted by: Al Gore at March 06, 2010 01:11 PM (AipKT)

2 Rats. Sinking Ship.
Some disassembly required. 

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3
I am SO buying this shirt.

Posted by: Alice H at March 06, 2010 11:14 PM (qJHYy)

4 Oh, I like that!  Hahahahaaaa

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Fuck you. Fuck you with Algore's used sweatrags. Fuck your "process". Fuck the scams you have pushed with your fucked up "process". Fuck your arrogance. Fuck the polar bears, carbon credits, Cap & Trade, glaciers, and anything else you or your whoresons of fucking fuckity fuck and luxuriously icegilded mountain goatse have going for you. And just fuck you and your hoy hoy sweep of vanity in general.

You want a "process"? You fucking want to do it right? Why not follow this memo, oh sucker of syrup from the skyfucked treecock of fuck? Or, is the fear of being proven wrong too much for you and your cockringed cabal of climate coddled kleptocracy, who have helped force punitive and burdensome restrictions and penalties on people and businesses because of the shit you pushed?

Fuck you, Phil Jones. Fuck you for what you have done to the world, science, and everything because of your work. Now go away, and fuck off while you are at it.

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Did I say that? I meant enviro wackos who took Manbearpig's works to heart and were inspired to kill themselves and their children. Thankfully, the baby daughter survived.

But their unnamed daughter cheated death after the bullet from her dad's handgun missed her vital organs.

Paramedics rushed her to hospital covered in blood when police alerted by worried neighbours discovered the massacre three days later.

The youngster is recovering in hospital in the town of Goya in the northern Argentine province of Corrientes, where doctors say she is out of danger.

Her parents said they feared the effects of global warming in a suicide note discovered by police.

Shockingly, this story has not been covered in the American press.

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Apparently, if you have doubts about the validity of the AGW theory, you might as well believe that O.J. Simpson didn't murder anyone.  No, really.

That's what this guy says, anyway. Note that the word "scientist" doesn't seem to be mentioned anywhere in his bio. Funny, that.

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You know, I don't begrudge anybody who makes a shitload of money...as long as they do it in a way that's legit:

The latest blow to those urging action against global warming came last week, when Yvo de Boer said he would step down as United Nations climate chief, two months after 193 countries meeting in Copenhagen failed to reach a binding agreement on curbing greenhouse gases.

[...]

The resignation may reduce the possibility that a worldwide market aimed at reducing carbon emissions is within reach, said Trevor Sikorski, an emissions analyst for Barclays Capital in London.

“It’s a sad day for the carbon market, and we’ll be lucky to get somebody with Yvo’s dedication and hard work as a successor,” Sikorski said.

UN carbon credits have fallen 13 percent on the European Climate Exchange in London since the start of the Copenhagen meeting, which was aiming to set limits for emissions after 2012. The NEX index tracking shares of 86 companies involved in clean energy has tumbled 12 percent since the talks.

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If you're in PA, I'm sure you're well aware of Fast Eddie Rendell's push for "green" energy in PA and "green jobs", in particular, a big push for windmills.  Of course you're all aware that green power facilities usually require massive subsidies just to get built.  cbullitt notes that Fast Eddie's going around to different cities and pimping Porkulus and green jobs, and the crock it is.  And I'm not totally shitting on windmills as energy sources, there's no doubt that there are places where there's good steady wind, and putting up a windmill is actually a clever way to produce some energy.  But that's not what this is, most of this is feelgood stuff, stealing from Peter to pay Paul, and an excuse to grow government and suppress enterprise, and it'll take a looooong time to even break even on the investment, if you even do break even.  It really is neat technology, but it just has limited application in the broader energy grid.

But I thought I'd note too, right now we're producing a traditional source of energy in PA, and no, it's not coal, though certainly we still have coal mining in the state.  It's been discovered that are major deposits of natural gas in PA, in particular in Northcentral PA.  We've seen a lot of people locally working natural gas extraction, or supporting, supplying or advising, this is energy producers themselves, contractors, subcontractors, and probably consultants too.  The Texas accent is usually a dead giveaway.  In fact, saw a Halliburton (ZOMGTEHEVUL!!!1!1eleventy!1) truck a few days ago.  And let me tell you, if you let these guys set up shop on your property, they compensate you very well, and from what I'm hearing, most, if not all agree to take on costs of environmental damage on your property in their contracts.  There's no doubt that the gas producers probably see something for setting up shop here, but I doubt there seeing what Fast Eddie's windmill producers are seeing.

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So far Global Warmmongering has killed at least 4 people in Australia.

The Aussie PM decided to save Gaia by subsidizing foil insulation in people's houses.
So little known fact, foil insulation can electrocute people.
Well, little known to Aussie PMs.
Electricians formally warned Environment Minister Peter Garrett that metal roof insulation could cost lives months before he banned it.

Oh, so maybe it wasn't little known. Well, now that people are dying and there's an uproar,
Mandatory training starts on Friday - almost a year after the program began, despite a string of warnings that untrained installers were dangerous and reports of homes catching fire because of poorly installed pink batts.

Yay! I mean, it's not his fault. Just because he was warned and stuff.
After all, he's a lefty. His biggest problem is that he cares too much.

What's a few dead installers between friends? Bah. Working class drudges. There's plenty more where they came from. Too many if you ask your average global warmmonger.

Via Tim Blair, who's been covering this for a couple weeks. I've been expecting it to be covered here but nobody's touching it.
I guess all the revelations about global worming "science" has been good for at least one person.

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Are you wondering what to give up for Lent?  Actually, I rather hope you're not wondering what to give up for Lent.  You should know that by now.  But, in case you're way behind in deciding what to cut back on this year, the Catholic Church in the UK has a great suggestion for you:

Carbon fasting!  (Typing that phrase was literally, actually painful.  Part of my brain may have actually ceased to function.)

Seriously. 

The Bishop of London, Richard Chartres, and the Bishop of Liverpool, James Jones, are among those calling for a carbon fast for Lent -- a period ahead of Easter which Christians traditionally consider a time of penance and reflection -- which begins on Wednesday.

As well as spending a day without using technology such as mobile phones or iPods, the 46 daily suggestions also include eating by candlelight, cutting meat and vegetables thinner so they cook faster and flushing the toilet less often.

"Instead of giving up chocolate for Lent, why not fast for justice ... to help those suffering from the effects of climate change," said Jones.

So, uh, don't flush the toilet for Jesus!  Or something.

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There's a lot more to going green than just separating your glass, plastic, and paper waste from the rest of it.  You've got to buy fancy lightbulbs, and insulate your house, and maybe install some solar panels, and you definitely need to get some sort of green car.  (Unless you're Al Gore or Prince Charles.  Then, you should fly private jets all over the world and waste tons of electricity.  It's good for the planet.  Shut up.)

And, as we all know, Teh Won is pretty damn sure that the way to fix the economy is green jobs.  After all, it's the way of the future, those evil oil companies are run by fat-cat capitalist assholes, and you need to have some sort of a political agenda to push when your "stimulus bill" has stimulated us straight to double-digit unemployment. 

How could going green possibly go wrong?

Well ... a couple of ways, actually.  (All emphasis, naturally is mine.)

Now rare earth elements with exotic names such as europium and tantalum hold the key to hybrid cars, wind turbines and crystal-clear TV displays - that is, if a looming supply shortage doesn't stop innovation in its tracks.

Rare earth elements, called "rare earths" by those who use and study them, often prove irreplaceable in green technologies and high-tech consumer products. Yet the world's production of rare minerals relies mainly upon China, and the Chinese government warned last year that its own rising demand will soon force it to stop exporting the precious elements.

"Countries and companies that have or plan to develop industries that need rare earth minerals to make products are concerned about China's growing consumption, which they fear will eliminate China's exports of rare earths," said W. David Menzie, chief of the international minerals section at the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).

China has also encouraged companies that use rare earths to locate their manufacturing facilities in China, Menzie told TechNewsDaily. But some companies fear moving because of concerns about intellectual property protection, he added.

Deposits of rare earth elements exist in the United States, Canada and other countries. But only China's government supports the mining and refining industries capable of processing the resources from start to finish.

Brilliant.  Fucking brilliant.  So, not only does China own our goddamn debt, they also have, essentially, a world-wide monopoly on mining and refining the very elements that are essential to our essential green jobs push?  Are you fucking kidding me? 

I have a few choice words on this subject.

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You know, something tells me that the whole IPCC dataset is a bit mistaken. But that's just me.

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Now some people think I'm being harsh on global warmmongers who, finally, sort of admit that maybe they've been wrong.
I'm of the opinion that they deserve far more abuse than I'll give them.
Case in point.

Bolt and Blair were right all along. The whole AGW enterprise was a political movement, and was rotten to the core.

The "Blair" in there is Tim Blair. Ausse maker fun of Global Warmmongers extraordinaire. He's like an Aussie Ace.
So the response?
Perhaps, but if so they were so thru prejudice and not observation.

How can you be polite to people like that?
Why be polite to people like that?

H/T Veeshir

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Fuck you, vegetarians. Fuck you and your smug self righteousness with a soy block soaked in bacon drippings. Fuck you for lecturing me that eating meat was bad for me. Fuck you for trying to push that "healthy lifestyle" fuckhelmet of fucking fuckitudinally fucked up fuckheadedness upon us. And fuck you for killing jobs and raping your beloved Gaia more than us knuckle dragging meat eaters ever will do.

The Cranfield University study found that switching from British-bred beef and lamb to meat substitutes imported from abroad such as tofu and Quorn would increase the amount of land cultivated, raising the risk of forests being destroyed for fields.

Production methods can be energy intensive and the final products tend to be highly processed, the report, which was commissioned by the environmental group WWF, found.

The researchers concluded: 'A switch from beef and milk to highly refined livestock product analogues such as tofu could actually increase the quantity of arable land needed to supply the UK.'

They also warned that a significant increase in the number of vegetarians in Britain from the current total of 3.7million could cause  the collapse of the country's livestock industry and result in meat production moving to countries with few regulations to protect uncultivated land {since when did weenies care about jobs?-ed}.

Donal Murphy-Bokern, one of the report's authors and a former farming and food science coordinator at the Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs, told The Times: 'For some people, tofu and other meat substitutes symbolise environmental friendliness but they are not necessarily the badge of merit {and absolution from affluence guilt so many weenies have today-ed}that people claim.

HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAH!1!1!11!!!

*GOUGH*

HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAA!11!!!

Stupid fucking hippies.

Now, I do not wish to include in my mockery those who are required by health issues to eat a certain diet. But the rest of you vegetarians can go choke on a syphillis soaked sack of senile sausage for all I care

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1 I have no problem with people being vegetarian, but don't try and force it on the rest of us.

Posted by: doubleplusundead at February 12, 2010 11:58 AM (GcfAO)

2 I have no problem with vegetarians either.  Vegans, though, can DIAF.

Posted by: leoncaruthers at February 12, 2010 12:06 PM (PH0UW)

3

I have a friend who went vegan. It made me laugh my ass off.

She lived in upstate NY and spent the first winter really, really sick all the time.

Her doctor told her it was the no meat thing, her unbalanced diet was hurting her.

Now? She eats eggs and cheese with her  veggies.

She puts a lot of cheese on most stuff she eats.

So naturally, she went from pretty darn cute to about 60 lbs overweight.

Posted by: Veeshir at February 12, 2010 12:57 PM (9u9oT)

4 I am going to eat some bacon wrapped bacon in celebration of this story.

Posted by: alexthechick at February 12, 2010 01:09 PM (8WZWv)

5 Well the ecoweenie answer to this is that we have too many people and thus need to cull the herd. Naturally, they and their fellow travellers are excluded from the culling.

Posted by: Nicole at February 12, 2010 01:32 PM (Lgaa+)

6 I knew this Hindu vegetarian guy in college.  Everybody who knew him knew why he wasn't eating meat, and nobody really gave a crap.  Then he started experimenting with a little chicken, and all of a sudden people were taking notice.  The experiment lasted a few weeks as I recall, and he eventually stopped again.  Not sure whether if he stopped because of the social attention or just that he didn't feel right doing it.

Of course, a Hindu diet still contains dairy, and the guy seemed pretty healthy, unlike most of the vegans I've met.

Posted by: JoeCollins at February 12, 2010 01:32 PM (jtJig)

7 this is why I'm a meatatarian

Posted by: mrfixit at February 12, 2010 01:32 PM (Bsm1s)

8 meatatarian

Only meat, or high meat?  I used to joke about it, but I've more-or-less been eating only meat since mid-january, and there's a tiny subculture of zero-carbers doing the same.

Posted by: leoncaruthers at February 12, 2010 01:40 PM (PH0UW)

9 You of course realize that this will not phase them at all.  It will simply shift them from "don't eat meat" into the "zero population" camp.  The logical conclusion for these wackos is that there is no ecofriendly way for us to be on the planet, thus we need to all die (or at least, those of us who aren't as enlightened as they are).

Posted by: MikeD at February 12, 2010 02:16 PM (FkL60)

10 Fuck them with this, eddie

Posted by: cbullitt at February 12, 2010 06:35 PM (gwh5D)

11 ok, I don't ONLY eat meat, I am an omnivore, as man was meant to be. However, given a choice between a 1lb porterhouse and the saladbar, I'll take the steak (medium rare please). I'll hit the saladbar if there is room left after the steak and loaded baked potato. When we go out to breakfast (my fave is Cracker Barrel), it's the heart attack special for me. Fried eggs, country fried steak with sausage gravy, potatos fried in bacon grease with onion, bacon, and rye toast smothered in butter. (of course, I'm usually not hungry after that for the rest of the day). Oh, and a BIG glass of orange or grapefruit juice, and coffee. (the juice is so I don't get the scurvy...lol)

Posted by: mrfixit at February 13, 2010 01:08 PM (Bsm1s)

12 Speaking of stupid vegans and stupid agendas ... how to dangerously malnourish your pets while feeding your stupid hippy agenda!

Posted by: Ember at February 13, 2010 01:14 PM (LdRAG)

13 To quote that eminent philosopher, Red Forman,
"That's not food, that's what food eats."

Posted by: Veeshir at February 13, 2010 02:25 PM (foWRP)

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The hits keep on coming for the IPCC and their reliance on flimsy evidence for catastrophic claims.
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TREES will not uproot themselves and embark on blood-soaked killing sprees by 2035, global warming experts have admitted.
...snip...
"It appears the claim was not based on new data or field research but on that bit with the angry, talking trees in Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers.
...snip...
There is a supplementary source, and yes it is that bit with the angry, talking trees in The Wizard of Oz.

Surprisingly enough, they're standing by their prediction that trees will mate with little people bringing forth a new, super-race of Gaians. (note: Link not safe for work.... or sanity, or stomach. Contains graphic depictions of hobbits fucking a tree).

First link via Tim Blair, second link via some blog nobody reads (thank goodness).

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Okay, so DC had a freaking blizzard (pics below the fold of the view out of my window 3 days later) and the Federal Gov't has been closed for two days.
Yes, they closed yesterday and today. Yesterday I agreed with, too many people didn't have power and the roads were really, really bad.
Today? It would just be a pain in the neck. Although, the buses still aren't running regularly and most streets are still just packed snow. But that's another shitload of money down the chute.
But that's not the point.
Another blizzard is on the way. Possibly another 10-20 inches.
And why? Why are we the target of every snow cloud out there?
MoFo global warmmongering bastids!
The blizzard (s) is delaying their pronouncement
“More and more, Americans are witnessing the impacts of climate change in their own backyards, including sea-level rise, longer growing seasons, changes in river flows, increases in heavy downpours, earlier snowmelt and extended ice-free seasons in our waters. People are searching for relevant and timely information about these changes to inform decision-making about virtually all aspects of their lives,” the release says.

Fuck you. You know? Fuck you.
Global worming pics below the fold.
more...

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