Thursday, March 11th, 2010

I’m sure Al Gore will be proud of the way some people decided to reduce their carbon footprint:
A seven-month-old baby girl survived three days alone with a bullet in her chest beside the bodies of her parents and toddler brother.
Argentines Francisco Lotero, 56, and Miriam Coletti, 23, shot their children before killing themselves after making [...]

Maybe they should have performed at the Super Bowl instead:

Ht: The Mug Rack

Whenever a conservative cracks a joke about global warming in the middle of a blizzard, some humorless liberal will inevitably pipe up, “One weather event does not equal climate.” Meanwhile Al Gore’s motorcade gets stuck in a snow bank.
However, when a weather event works in the global warming alarmists’ favor, then its a sign [...]

Pluto is getting warmer.
The photos show a mottled world with a yellow-orange hut, but astronomers say it is 20 per cent more red than it used to be. At the same time its illuminated northern hemisphere is getting brighter, while the southern hemisphere has darkened.
Changing face: Scientists are baffled after new images of [...]

Time once again to look back at the predictions of last January.  Robert Heinlein’s character Lazarus Long said that Cassandra did not get nearly the kicking she deserved.  Well, I hope I deserve better.
My predictions, 29 for 2009, are below, and the results are in italics.
1. Beer and alcohol prices will increase substantially due to [...]

Before you let your child play on the Build-A-Bear website, you need to be aware the company would like to ruin Christmas. One part of the site lets your child take a journey to the North Pole. There your child will learn that Christmas is about to be cancelled due to global warming.

Girl [...]

Governor Jim Doyle has declared all 72 counties in Wisconsin in a state of emergency*. It turns out the state of emergency has nothing to do with the destruction to Wisconsin’s economy inflicted by the Democrats, but has everything to do with the snowfall.
I blame global warming.
(*Okay, I originally wrote, “disaster area.” I [...]

Here’s a video that debuted yesterday at the Copenhagen conference. I just love the little stuffed polar bear in peril. Nice touch. (Ht: The Foundry)
The moral of the story is that you shouldn’t let environmentalists around your children or they will be convinced that there are monsters underneath the bed trying to [...]

Screenwriter Roger L. Simon, a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and an Oscar nominee, have called on the Academy to rescind former Vice President Gore’s Oscar for An Inconvenient Truth. Filmmaker Lionel Chetwynd, also a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and an Oscar nominee, [...]

Climategate has impact on Wisconsin
UW grad challenges global warming orthodoxy
   (James Wigderson is a blogger publishing at http://www.wigderson.com and a Waukesha resident. His column runs Thursdays in The Freeman.) 
   Who is Patrick Michaels? Michaels is a scientist at the center of the global warming controversy and the target of many e-mails revealed in the Climategate [...]