The details:

A powerful winter storm that unleashed a thick blanket of mountain snow, heavy rain and at least one tornado pounded Southern California for a fifth straight day Friday.

Odd that the reporter did not seek an expert on this possibly being caused by global warming. Why do some news related items have reporters seeking experts and others not so much?

A documentary arguing against global warming. Its an hour long but I highly recommend you take a look at it.

Link: sevenload.com

When will we learn?

Snow fell on Baghdad on Friday for the first time in memory, and delighted residents declared it an omen of peace.

“It is the first time we’ve seen snow in Baghdad,” said 60-year-old Hassan Zahar. “We’ve seen sleet before, but never snow. I looked at the faces of all the people, they were astonished,” he said.

I feel there is a much truth to this characterization.

Environmentalism has become the political lifeboat into which the survivors of the socialist shipwreck have crammed themselves. The need to “manage the climate” became the new foundation on which to base regulatory structures, impositions, and taxes which were formerly justified by the imperative to manage the “commanding heights of the economy.” Kyoto was the highest expression of the program to “manage the climate” and provided the same new basis for socialistic policies that Marxism once did. As such, Kyoto was too politically useful to discard. But like its socialist predecessor it suffered from the problem that it wouldn’t work. That weakness would be artfully concealed by superseding it with a successor agreement to be drafted in Bali. But delegates who came to Indonesia already knew that Kyoto’s key weakness was mandating “carbon emission” reductions. Reducing “carbon emissions” really meant reducing economic output in a world where poverty is a major problem.

A Russian scientist has this to say:

Astrophysics knows two solar activity cycles, of 11 and 200 years. Both are caused by changes in the radius and area of the irradiating solar surface. The latest data, obtained by Habibullah Abdusamatov, head of the Pulkovo Observatory space research laboratory, say that Earth has passed the peak of its warmer period, and a fairly cold spell will set in quite soon, by 2012. Real cold will come when solar activity reaches its minimum, by 2041, and will last for 50-60 years or even longer.

Sorry its science. It has to be true. We need to increase our industry to get more CO2 in the environment in hopes of staving this impending cold period. Legislators should pass laws making it mandatory that cars expel as much CO2 as possible. Developing alternative energy sources should be forbidden. Its the only way to stop global cooling.

It turns out that China’s economy is not nearly as large as previously thought.

China’s economy, said the bank, is smaller than it thought.

About 40% smaller.

China, it turns out, isn’t a $10-trillion economy on the brink of catching up with the United States. It is a $6-trillion economy, less than half our size. For the foreseeable future, China will have far less money to spend on its military and will face much deeper social and economic problems at home than experts previously believed.

This is noteworthy for a variety of reasons but I call attention to it as a means of showing how fickle the ‘truth’ can be. Like global warming, there has been a variety of coverage on the growth of China. Like global warming there has been a great many experts advising based on the massive growth of China. Like global warming there has been policy recommendations. And with one single report based off solid data everything changes. One can only think the same thing is bound to happen with global warming.

How many of you think Dave Lindorff’s global warming exists?

The area that will by completely inundated by the rising ocean—and not in a century but in the lifetime of my two cats—are the American southeast, including the most populated area of Texas, almost all of Florida, most of Louisiana, and half of Alabama and Mississippi, as well as goodly portions of eastern Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina. While the northeast will also see some coastal flooding, its geography is such that that aside from a few projecting sandbars like Long Island and Cape Cod, the land rises fairly quickly to well above sea level. Sure, Boston, New York and Philadelphia will be threatened, but these are geographically confined areas that could lend themselves to protection by Dutch-style dikes. The West Coast too tends to rise rapidly to well above sea level in most places. Only down in Southern California towards the San Diego area is the ground closer to sea level.

So certain of this outcome he goes on to argue:

So what we see is that huge swaths of conservative America are set to face a biblical deluge in a few more presidential cycles.

And that the liberal response should be:

The important thing is that we, on the higher ground both actually and figuratively, need to remember that, when they begin their historic migration from their doomed regions, we not give them the keys to the city. They certainly should be offered assistance in their time of need, but we need to keep a firm grip on our political systems, making sure that these guilty throngs who allowed the world to go to hell are gerrymandered into political impotence in their new homes.

There will be much work to be done to help the earth and its residents—human and non-human—survive this man-made catastrophe, and we can’t have these future refugee troglodytes, should their personal disasters still fail to make them recognize reality, mucking things up again.

I wonder how many of you would say his idea of global warming is true or deny his doomsday predictions. Seems to me that his hatred of the conservative view point seems to harm his credibility on global warming. Given that he is a liberal investigative journalist I’m willing to bet he has made a long career out of shaping stories to fit his bias. No doubt his coverage of global warming will suffer as well.

Instapundit Rules.

GEORGE W. BUSH, CLIMATE-CHANGE HERO:

The Kyoto treaty was agreed upon in late 1997 and countries started signing and ratifying it in 1998. A list of countries and their carbon dioxide emissions due to consumption of fossil fuels is available from the U.S. government. If we look at that data and compare 2004 (latest year for which data is available) to 1997 (last year before the Kyoto treaty was signed), we find the following.

* Emissions worldwide increased 18.0%.
* Emissions from countries that signed the treaty increased 21.1%.

* Emissions from non-signers increased 10.0%.
* Emissions from the U.S. increased 6.6%.

In fact, emissions from the U.S. grew slower than those of over 75% of the countries that signed Kyoto.

They told me that if George W. Bush were elected, the United States would lag behind the rest of the world on greenhouse gases And they were right!

This absurdly funny diagram details all the way global warming will kill people. The best part? The sources are the Lancet and the Proceedings of National Academy of Science. How much you want to bet PNAS article was approved through the buddy system review process. (Correct me if I got that wrong Jamie). The Lancet last year published a study estimating the death toll in Iraq to be at least 600,000. That was true just like mass death by global warming will be.

Anyway since people are absolutely sure to die of global warming the state has the right to tell people how to live their lives. Go using global warming to violate citizen rights.

America is so good at kicking ass it doesn’t even have to try and it wins. To bad so many of you hate this awesome country.

Lest you think the above are “extremists,” consider how deeply invested the “mainstream” is in a total fiction. At the recent climate jamboree in Bali, the Rev. Al Gore told the assembled faithful: “My own country, the United States, is principally responsible for obstructing progress here.” Really? The American Thinker’s Web site ran the numbers. In the seven years between the signing of Kyoto in 1997 and 2004, here’s what happened:

•Emissions worldwide increased 18.0 percent;

•Emissions from countries that signed the treaty increased 21.1 percent;

•Emissions from nonsigners increased 10.0 percent; and

•Emissions from the United States increased 6.6 percent.

It’s hard not to conclude a form of mental illness has gripped the world’s elites. If you’re one of that dwindling band of Westerners who’ll be celebrating the birth of a child, “homeless” or otherwise, next week, make the most of it. A year or two on, and the eco-professors will propose banning Nativity scenes because they set a bad example.