Two fine items for the WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE FROM GLOBAL WARMING!!!™ file today. I’ll start with the one that makes me happy, followed by the one that makes me really happy.
The first is from SFGate.com’s City Insider:
This week, the City Insider spotted an almost empty case of bottled water in the back of Mayor Gavin Newsom’s hybrid sport utility vehicle as it was parked in front of City Hall. At least one full bottle of Crystal Geyser Alpine Spring Water remained under the plastic covering.
This from the mayor who in June 2007 issued an executive order directing city government to no longer purchase bottled water, saying the containers clog landfills while the city owns a pristine reservoir in the Sierra Nevada that produces some of the country’s best-rated tap water…
The mayor occassionally slips, said his spokesman, Nathan Ballard. But in this case, the bottled water belonged to the mayor’s security detail and wasn’t purchased with city funds, Ballard said.
“The mayor will be the first to admit that he occassionally indulges in bottled water,” Ballard said. “It’s not something he’s proud of.”
When the mayor has to apologize for doing something absolutely normal, you know you’re in San Francisco.
And here’s the really good one, from the NYT’s Dot Earth blog:
Former Vice President Al Gore is pulling a dramatic slide from his ever-evolving global warming presentation. When Mr. Gore addressed a packed, cheering hall at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Chicago earlier this month, his climate slide show contained a startling graph showing a ceiling-high spike in disasters in recent years…
The graph, which was added to his talk last year, came just after a sequence of images of people from Iowa to South Australia struggling with drought, wildfire, flooding and other weather-related calamities. Mr. Gore described the pattern as a manifestation of human-driven climate change. “This is creating weather-related disasters that are completely unprecedented,” he said…
Two days after the talk, Mr. Gore was sharply criticized for using the data to make a point about global warming by Roger A. Pielke, Jr., a political scientist focused on disaster trends and climate policy at the University of Colorado. Mr. Pielke noted that the Center for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters stressed in reports that a host of factors unrelated to climate caused the enormous rise in reported disasters…
Dr. Pielke quoted the Belgian center: “Indeed, justifying the upward trend in hydro-meteorological disaster occurrence and impacts essentially through climate change would be misleading. Climate change is probably an actor in this increase but not the major one — even if its impact on the figures will likely become more evident in the future.”
So Gore has pulled that slide from his presentation. Hey wait, I thought Science had reached a consensus that Al Gore is right about everything all the time and we’d better do what he says right now omigod omigod. Why you bein’ such a climate-tease, Science? Hot and cold, baby, hot and cold…
(One hat tip each to Deceiver readers Jonathan and Pastafarian.)
Update: From Cracked.com, of all places, check out 5 Ways People Are Trying to Save the World (That Don’t Work).
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But, but, but Lord High Al is always right, always. Oh, what is the world coming to? Who’ll save us now? Pasta, are you up for the job?
I want to buy a billboard on a hill right out side of San Fran. On it it will be a sign asking “terrorists attack here” with with an arrow pointing towards S.F. and Berkley.
ocassionaly INDULGES in bottled water, eh? what a scum of the earth! let’s hope he doesn’t treat himself to rides in non-hybrid vehicles…or that he doesn’t spoil himself rotten by using non-recycled toilet paper…luxuriating his body while we are struggling to protect and preserve the environment here!
Someday it will be discovered that windmill farms cause global warming and drought. The enviro-anal- mental-retentive-ists will not bother absolving themselves of any responsibilty. They will simply ignore their past role. Sobran is right; Liberalism isn’t a doctrine, it’s an attitude, a sneer.
You really just have to laugh at these idiots.
Trust me bigmama. You do not want to give me the power over life, and death. I would crush all of you like…
I mean Sure!!
I am telling y’all: The one basic tenet of their little religion is this: The sacrifices are for the little people to make, and I’m not referring to the family with dwarfism on TLC (or whichever channel it is). Hardship of any kind is for the flyovers. Which means us.
This is kind of like the fact that it’s patriotic to pay your taxes unless you have a D behind your name.
ah.. i go to school in good ol san francisco. good article though!
should’ve written “luxuriating his booty”…damn! too bad you can’t edit your own posts here…or i’d just give in to my OCD and be at it all day…posting…editing…posting
I hope he didn’t get that bottle out of Richard Gere’s r…..efrigerator.
Swede, I heard an interview with a woman living in San Francisco shortly after 911. She is a conservative living among the Marin county liberals. One of the moms at her child’s school told the children at the bus stop that a terrorist attack would never happen in Marin county because they are ‘nice people living there’. Apparently the people in New York were not nice and deserved it. I’ll help you pay for that sign.
Remember gang, it is all about “Do as I say, not as I do.” You would think that Gore would be a skinny minnie if he actually rode a bike everywhere versus taking his limo.
Recycled toilet paper would be more marketable if they stopped calling it ‘Seventh Generation’ toilet paper. Just a thought.
*wahh* Everybody’s stolen all the good comments. Um . . . Al Gore is . . . no, wait. Um, here’s one: San Francisco . . . No, no. Er, um. Green is stupid!
So Gore pulls the CRED graph but leaves the hockey stick?
Hah. Whatever it was that happened to Al Gore, it was not Jenny Craig.
That whole “Climate Change” thing is turning into a religion with Al Gore as the bloody pope. The day that swine will stop preaching and start applying his demagogy to himself, I will take him seriously.
This means that I want to see his fat-ass on a bicycle for a year. It will do him good.
As a card carrying Green Party member, I just want to say that Al is a fraud.
And if Al hadn’t taken those votes away from Ralph Nader, we wouldn’t be in this fiscal mess we’re in right now, because corporate greed and deregulation were exactly what Ralph’s campaign was about.
Oh shame on that Mayor Newsome! He’ll get his 99 lashes at the next Folsom Street Fair to pay for his crimes against Gaia.
35 documented Al Gore lies from moonbattery.com (aptly named). The 9 lies in the body of the page are cited by the British court. You can link to the remaining lies at the Science and Public Policy’s site. What an a$$hat this man is.
http://www.moonbattery.com/archives/2007/10/al_gore_and_his.html
Delphi, recycled toilet paper would also be more marketable if it didn’t feel like steel wool against people’s sensitive bits. Just a thought.
I wouldn’t know, MC Mom…I don’t buy the stuff. It certainly looks like 25 grit sandpaper and, um…well, there’s the branding. ‘Scratchy’ and ‘recycled’ are two adjectives I don’t want anywhere near my ‘bits’.
I would rather used recycled paper than use Sheryl Crow’s suggestion of just using one square. I would hate to shake her hand.
On the subject of recycled TP, the NY Times blog has an interesting debate going on this morning:
http://roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/02/25/toilet-paper-and-other-moral-choices/?th&emc=th
My favorite quote is from Jacob Sullum:
“But carbon dioxide reductions may prove to be so expensive or ineffective that it makes more sense to invest in measures aimed at ameliorating the impact of climate change, as opposed to retarding or preventing it. Either way, recycled toilet paper will not be a significant part of the solution, although it may soothe people’s consciences as it abrades their behinds.”
Good Garsh MC, how far the NY Times has fallen now that they’re hosting debates about TP.
And I’d like to smack contributor #3 who hinted about riding bikes (unless you’re pregnant or need to get the kid to daycare). Took some time for me to find that she’s located in Seattle, but I knew it had to be someone from the urban west coast.
Yes, all of us in flyover country should give up our cars and ride bikes. Yep, today it’s 36 degrees outside and I’ve got 5-6 inches of snow slowly melting in the front yard. This morning we had something fun called “Freezing Fog” which delayed school by 2 hours.
But hey, it’s a perfect day for a bike ride!
I’d like to shove my carbon footprint right up someone’s ass…
I will give up my every earthly comfort the day that the Kennedys give up theirs. Yes, the moment I see them tooling around (and “tooling” IS the operative word there) in an oxcart, or at least a fleet of Priuses (Prii?), I will look into reusing/recycling elderly relatives. Frankly, I do believe we gots us a long wait ahead.
Minnow, I hear you about the bike thing, especially in the winter. We have several inches of melting snow that freezes over every night. And I’m out of ice-melt. Even in the good weather, here in the Boston exurbs we take our lives in our hands riding bikes around the local roads.
And having been to warmer cities like L.A., I’m having a hard time envisioning riding my bike along the 12-lane freeways.