BURN: Anthropomorphic Global StayTheSame

As has become apparent to anyone with a functioning brain, among the religion of the Anti-Enlightenment whatever happens in our climate proves that people are ruining the environment.

When the Collectivist's religion ran headlong into reality...repeatedly...it altered its AGW (Anthropomorphic Global Warming) BS to AGC (Anthropomorphic Global Climate change)...an all-inclusive huckster's tour d'force if ever there was one.

It has the dual virtues of giving the misanthropic Neo-Malthusians and Luddites the ability to say...regardless of the weather story dejure...

1. "AH-HA, see...we TOLD you there would be days like this".  When, in fact, they told us the very opposite...or nothing at all...in many instances; AND,

2. that when climate DOES change...as we know it must and will...it is all because of the awful predations of Enlightenment Man.

Hence, we arrive at Anthropomorphic Global StayTheSame; the place where...regardless of what is happening or its actual causation...the religion of the Collective can claim its miracle and demand its sacrifices.  Like the Druids and witch-doctors of old, they can point to the equal of an eclipse as proof of their priest-craft...and with exactly the same scientific underpinnings.

Its priests and cardinals are anti-science.  We see that they do not blush...much less recant...when they are caught red-handed intentionally corrupting data.  We see that they are cheerfully capable of burning heretics at the figurative stake of character assassination and professional destruction.  They will energetically enforce their dogma.  And we are treated to the gob-stopping spectacle of lengthy apologia showing how warming is causing record-setting "colding".

Enlightenment Man developed the "scientific method"...a rational framework for understanding reality, and using it to benefit our species.  One hallmark of science is that it must be testable.  It HAS to be demonstrated.  A "consensus" of so-called scientists is absolutely irrelevant.  But the religion of the Collective CANNOT be questioned, as everyone involved knows it cannot withstand the requirement that it be demonstrated.  No, indeed, we must act immediately as a matter of faith.

And we must act to crush the Enlightenment.  People must be made less free.  We must live less comfortable, darker, less traveled, more ignorant, shorter lives.  Our wealth must be "spread around".  That is, we prols must live that way.  Our witch-doctors and their approved elite are exempt.

CRASH: Gorebal Warming And "White Christmas"

White Christmas was released in 1954, and has become a fixture in American Christmas celebrations, as families gather around to watch the story so many of us have seen so many times before.

Few of us associate the plot with Gorebal Warming, which is a good thing I suppose.  Yet, right there as an essential plot element is this; it hasn't snowed in Vermont since Thanksgiving.  When Bing Crosby and Danny Kay and the the ladies get off the train, it is balmy.  The guy at the station says it was 68 degrees yesterday.  The General's ski lodge is going broke...

And nobody gets panicked.  Nobody flies off to shut down the (terribly polluting steam-locomotive powered) train, or goes around unscrewing light bulbs.

Because it is WEATHER.  Weather is fickle, and it changes.  People don't make the weather or the climate.  People in 1954 knew that.

We can still learn from our elders.

Merry Christmas everybody! (as George Bailey would say).

BURN: Anti-Science George Moonbat Gets Pawnd

In a piece in which climate witch-doctor George Monbiot explains away the laws of thermodynamics, and ATTEMPTS to explain the record cold effecting BOTH the Northern and Southern Hemispheres, we get this lurid crap--

The global temperature maps published by Nasa present a striking picture. Last month's shows a deep blue splodge over Iceland, Spitsbergen, Scandanavia and the UK, and another over the western US and eastern Pacific. Temperatures in these regions were between 0.5C and 4C colder than the November average from 1951 and 1980. But on either side of these cool blue pools are raging fires of orange, red and maroon: the temperatures in western Greenland, northern Canada and Siberia were between 2C and 10C higher than usual.

Well, the maps show that IF you cook the maps, George.  See, it is kinda a matter of SCALE...

This is the map Moonbat would like you to see, with those "raging fires of orange, red and maroon" covering whole bunches of territory.  It uses a 1200 km "smoothing" of the data.

But if you use a 250 km "smoothing" scale, this is what the map looks like--

Funny...  Those appear to show very different realities.  Those "raging fires" become isolated data points, instead of huge swaths of territory.

For a complete pawning of the Moonbat Monbiot, read this excellent piece at Watts Up With That.  It points out that the "Nuuk" data point is very likely the result of the weather station at Nuuk showing false data, and just why.

It ALSO reports on the record cold sweeping Australia, which most of us have not heard anything about.  This is SUMMER in Australia...

CRASH: Shaping Up To Be A Very Hot Summer

The Mid-East is showing every sign of heating up this summer to the point of war.  The region could get very deadly, very fast.

American and Israeli warships are transiting the Suez Canal, en route to apparently be ready to meet new attempts to break Israel's Gaza blockade.  Some of the blockade runners are openly talking of "martyrdom", which is impossible unless they intend the kind of murderous counter-attack seen in the "Love Boat" flotilla incident.

Europe has turned its back on Israel, consistent with a neo-judenhass currently all the vogue among European collectivists.

Meanwhile, virtually every neighboring state BESIDES Egypt has heightened its threat levels against Israel, some of them very appreciably.  

Iran has gone unchecked in its nuclear ambition.  There is little doubt that they have, or will have shortly, a nuclear bomb.  Not long thereafter, they will have a delivery system, and few thinking people doubt their capacity to use both.

Barack Hussain Obama has projected two things that virtually assure war: weakness and ambivalence.  Cause will beget effect.  "Soft power" will kill.

BURN: Chinese Apologize For Human Rights Abuses

Actually, no.  They did not.  The Obami apologized...on your and my behalf...for American human rights abuses.  Some toady little puke named Michael Posner actually brought up the new Arizona immigration law (bet he hasn't read it, either) in the context of American human rights abuses.  Michelle has it covered fully, completely and in disgusting techno-color.

See the Chinese, world renowned for their stellar human rights record, are concerned about crime, poverty, and race relations in the U.S.  So, since the Obami want the ChiComs to throw in with us on things that don't exist (like Gorebal Warming), and things that do, but Obama is too gutless to deal with (like Iranian nukes), we are assuming the posture for the Chinese.  The break-over posture.

In a blurb in City Journal on a Soviet-era archive that nobody will adopt after people risked their necks to secure it, I read over the week-end an anecdote about Gorbachev getting a heads-up on Tiananmen Square (i.e., the massacre suppressing the popular Chinese democratic up-rising).  Gorbachev, KGB laureate that he IS, is told the Chinese slaughtered about 3000 people.  No big deal was Gorbi's response.   

I wonder what Chinese immigration law reads like?  Maybe it should be our pattern, human rights-wise?

Nice people, these communists.  Oh yeah, we should be backing up to them on human rights.  Every day, I ask how the Obami could put us in greater peril.  Every day, they find new and inventive ways.