***UPDATE - YAHOO MISLEADS WITH KATRINA HEADLINE, LINKING TO OLD STORY TO PUSH GLOBAL WARMING AGENDA. SCROLL FOR DETAILS***

I never tire of mocking the global warmists. This time scientists discover evidence of catastrophic "global warming" 12 to 14 million years ago, yet somehow don't find the time to ask "wait, then why are we blaming today's warming on humans?" Idiots.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. - A 30-mile maze canyons in Antarctica was carved out of bedrock by the catastrophic draining of subglacial lakes during global warming between 12 million and 14 million years ago, according to university researchers who warn a similar event today could have serious environmental consequences.

Although scientists have previously theorized that the Labyrinth region in southern Victoria Land was created by water released from lakes that had formed under glaciers, researchers at Syracuse University and Boston University say they found geological evidence to bracket the timing of the last major flooding and link it to a global warming trend at the time.

Read the rest...

This comes on the heels of a days old story about "global warming" actually causing some glaciers to grow! As I said in that previous post:

As if the discoveries that plants are a cause of "global warming", that the dino era Atlantic Ocean was a hot tub, and that Greenland's glaciers have naturally been melting for over 100 years weren't embarassing enough for global warmists, they've had to deal with a below average hurricane season after everyone predicted a busy storm year, which the global warmists prematurely blamed on warmer waters caused by "global warming". Now, in addition to the countless studies of other growing glacier scientists have been studying growing glaciers in Asia. Of course the religion of "global warming" prevents any "scientist" from questioning the whole theory, but it's always interesting to see reporting on growing glaciers, when all we ever hear is that they're all shrinking, and it's your fault if you drive an SUV.

Seriously though, we need to send some environmentalists back in time to talk to the dinosaurs about all those greenhouse gas emissions. We need some oversight over t-rex pollution credits and convince those little bastard velociraptors to stop driving the big suvs and drive a hip new Toyota Prehistoricus.

Anyway, while I don't buy the "millions of years" crap, I just enjoy stories that make global warmists look like fools. Contradictory evidence, always completely ignored. What I don't enjoy is the lack of publicity these stories get. It seems like the warming community is dealt embarassing blows almost daily lately, yet hardly anyone no one knows it.

***UPDATE***
I actually meant to screen cap this earlier when it was the larger featured item on the Yahoo! home page, but I still got it while it's up there as a smaller featured item:

At first I was excited, thinking finally someone is pointing out that it was a very weak storm that hit New Orleans, and the damage wasn't the result of "Katrina ravaging" anything. Sadly I was simply taken to the "Full Coverage: Climate Change" page at Yahoo! featuring a giant headline, "Global warming affects hurricane intensity: study". I think to call the headline on the home page misleading is an understatement. What does this general page have to do with Katrina?

Well, I figured I'd click that top headline, the one in large font at the top of the page and see if maybe the Katrina debate would be mentioned, even though the "global warming" headline has nothing to do with "Katrina's intensity sparks heated debate" which was what I clicked through on the home page, and intended to read about. I was hoping that the debate I was promised might be burried in yet another global warming propaganda article. I was let down when I found that the only mention of Katrina was YET ANOTHER example of misleading:

Four of the hurricanes were Category 5, the strongest on the five-step Saffir-Simpson scale. One of those, Wilma, was the most intense Atlantic hurricane ever recorded.

The season also produced Katrina, which killed more than 1,300 people and caused about $80 billion in damage when it swamped New Orleans and other parts of the U.S. Gulf coast.

Again, pushing the myth that Katrina was a category 5, which as I've repeatedly stated is bogus. It was a category 3 and New Orleans only experienced category 1 to 2 conditions. End. Of. Story. Well, not end of story if you're a consumer of MSM news, but if you live in the real world that case has long sense been closed.

Worse than the obnoxious misleading, I realized that this article seemed very familiar to me, like I had read it recently and laughed at it's "global warming is bringing mad hurricanes yo" premise. Then I realized I had.. On August 15 when it was written! Why are they rerunning 2 week old articles global warming propaganda as top stories? Oh yeah, because they're hoping their lies will catch on even though they've been disappointed so far this season. They know the hurricane season is a long one and they can keep marching this stuff out and hopefully it hits at the right time. But couldn't they at least change the words around a bit and change the date to try to fool us? Come on, you guys aren't even trying anymore.

 

Like Kieth Olberman and Al Franken's obsession with Bill O'Reilly, Al Gore can't get enough of President George W. Bush (you like the sound of that don't you Al? "PRESIDENT George W. Not Gore Bush"!).

First, concerning the Iraq war Gore said of the President, "He betrayed this country!", then more recently he claimed that the after 9/11, under President Bush, Arabs were "indiscriminately rounded up" and held in "unforgivable" conditions , (of course he was in Saudi Arabia and offered no evidence). You should all remember that this wasn't long after Bill Clinton went to Dubay to proclaim that the Iraq war was a mistake. Why is it these shameful pukes had to go to Arab countries to say this stuff, and won't say it here?

Anyway, Gore has let loose once again...

Via the New York Daily News (article excerpts)

But that hasn't stopped him from writing a gasket-blowing polemic arguing that by refusing to face up to the threat of global warming, Bush is just like the disgraced British prime minister who appeased the Nazis before World War II.

(see previous post for more on "global warming", or is it "global cooling".... maybe it's just the weather!?)

Bush "was warned on Aug. 6, 2001, of an attack by Al Qaeda. 'Bin Laden Determined to Strike in US,' said the intelligence community in a message so important that it was the headline of the President's daily briefing that day, five weeks before the attacks," Gore seethes.

"Didn't he see that clear warning?" asks Gore. "Why were no questions asked, meetings called, evidence marshaled, clarifications sought?"

First of all, these type of warnings were not uncommon and there was no actionable intelligence. It's not like the President got some warning that said "they are going to fly planes in to building on 9/11 and we can stop it Mr. President if you just give us the word". And does Gore really want to get started on which administration ignored terrorism? Do we really want to talk about all the unanswered terrorist attacks on American targets during the Clinton administration? Or how about Able Danger? Or about passing on Bin Laden numerous times?

You didn't win and you'll never be President so give it up dude. On second thought, keep it up Al, you're only hurting your own party by running around the world crying like a baby. Well, not so much running around as flying to make your alarmist speeches and burning 439,500 pounds of fuel at a cost of $131,000 in one trip, when you could have used your invention, the Internet, to video conference in your speech. Don't hang around for questions though, just hit the road in that Cadillac Escalade.

 

Ah, yet another story to rub in the face of the global warming alarmists. If you hadn't already heard, global warming is the ridiculous myth that we're all brainwashed with in school, newspapers, television... anywhere you look. They have really managed get people to buy in to the bogus theory that us evil humans, through driving all these SUVs and recklessly cutting down trees, are destroying the planet. They say that the greenhouse gases that we cause, are trapping heat in the atmosphere causing the planet to heat up, thus the term "global warming". I've got to ask though, what caused this (via LiveScience):

Hot tub sales would have been dismal back in the dinosaur era, when the steaming ocean provided a free alternative.

In fact, in some places it was too hot to dip a toe.

A new study of ancient sediments and fossils indicates tropical Atlantic water ranged from 91 to 107 degrees Fahrenheit between 100 million and 84 million years ago. The same region today is typically 75 to 82 degrees.

Hot tubs get very uncomfortable for most people above about 104 degrees.

"These temperatures are off the charts from what we've seen before," said Karen Bice, a paleoclimatologist at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.

The atmosphere had more heat-trapping carbon dioxide back then.

Bice reported the findings today at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in St. Louis. The work will be detailed in the journal Paleoceanography.

Scientists don't know what might have caused ocean temperatures to get so high. Climate models that consider increases in carbon dioxide can't account for it, Bice said.

Jumping back for a minute, let's get one recent story out there incase you hadn't heard. Plants are a huge cause of the effects that global warmists are blaming on people!!! This is a total 180 on what we've been told. Don't expect that to be too highly publicized because that makes a lot of governments, groups, the UN, etc. question the billions of dollars they spend lining the pockets of the groups and politicians who push this crap.

Sadly virtually all politicians are almost forced to accept "global warming" on some level, because so many of the voters have been brainwashed in to believing in it, despite the lack of evidence. That's why they start out in elementary school, because those kids don't have any questions or even the ability to recognize the holes in the stupid theory.

But setting aside that our green friends are contributing to the supposed "global warming", consider one other thing - the fear in the 1970s (before I was born) was that we would fall victim to the hands of "Global Cooling", and this was even the subject of the cover story of Newsweek's April 1975 issue. Global Cooling!!! Run for your lives!!! Forget about all that and ask the more important huge questions these people don't like you to ask:

(my words) Hello "scientist", I was curious: what caused the supposed ice ages? Assuming they were real and the way you describe them (a big assumption), what caused the extreme climate changes necessary to bring on and end ice ages? I mean, you can whine about these little slight temperature changes over 100 years, but that's not the same as what would have been necessary to cause sheets of ice, many miles thick to come down over land that is now comfortably inhabited by humans.

Even if that extreme cold and the ice ages did occur, how did you get the ridiculously rapid and drastic heating up that caused these miles thick ice sheets to melt? Did the Tyrannosaurus Rex drive a Hummer? Did the Brontosaurus run a factory with big smokestacks? I mean, if we're the evil cause of this "global warming", then what caused global warming/cooling in the "ancient" time you place your own ridiculous dates on, when we supposedly didn't exist?

Hmm... Anyway, look quickly at the Arctic. You know, that ice on top of the globe? Do you worry about that raising sea levels and causing floods, etc.? Then I've got a little project for you - Take an empty glass, put in 2 or 3 ice cubes, and fill with water to the very top. Fill it up as high as you can possibly go without it overflowing. Set it on your counter and let the ice melt. What!?!?!? It didn't change the water level!?!?!? It didn't overflow!?!?!? We can argue about Greenland and Antarctica another time, but the fact is you ask the average person and they've forgotten that junior high school science, and they believe that the Arctic melting will raise water levels, because that is the agenda you push on them

So back to today's development. The Atlantic was like a hot tub! How's that for global warming?! Not that your "millions of years" are accurate, but if this Atlantic hot tub idea is true then it deals a huge blow to your human caused "global warming" bs.

In closing I'd like to mention how annoying I find it that these people have now managed to get the public to believe that extreme cold and warmth are a result of this "global warming." When it's an extremely hot week in the summer "global warming" they scream! When there's an extreme cold week "effects of global warming" they scream. Wow, where I come from (Earth) we call it THE WEATHER!!!

 

This is obviously not the "story of the day", but when I saw the story of these toads wreaking havoc in Australia, I was immediately reminded of a Simpson's episode... Remember that? No? Well, this is still a weird/interesting story...

 

Michelle Malkin has the full story on Al Gore's latest "global warming" alarmist festival. I don't have the energy to rant about the BS that is global warming right now... But I would like to, as always, ask all global warmists to explain something:

What caused the (supposed) ice ages, and then caused them to melt? It wasn't any slight temperature changes melting ice sheets that are miles thick. It would have to be extreme climate changes that would bring on and end (supposed) ice ages. So tell me, who was driving around the hummers all those (chuckle) millions of years ago? What ancestors of the evil Bush/Saudi alliance were lining their pockets with oil money while someone drove around prehistoric SUVs?

By the way, death to plants.

 

Just a couple weird stories of whales turning up in odd places this week.

First we have a mother and baby briefly visiting Corpus Christi, TX:
via Reuters:

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas (Reuters) - Researchers were surprised this week by the sudden appearance -- and quick disappearance -- of two rare Northern right whales in the busy industrial port of Corpus Christi Bay.

"It's a most extraordinary event," said oceanographer Tony Amos of the University of Texas Marine Science Institute in Port Aransas.

"They're almost unknown in the Gulf of Mexico. Why they would come into the bay, I don't really know."

Amos said a 50-foot (15-meter), 60-ton adult female and her 15-foot (5-meter) baby calf apparently became lost and popped up on Monday in the bay, which is protected from the Gulf of Mexico by a narrow barrier island.

Then today a whale gave the people of London a show... The BBC has video.
Via BBC:

A whale has made its way up the River Thames to central London, where it is being watched by riverside crowds.

The northern bottle-nosed whale, which is 16-18ft long and is usually found in deep sea waters, has passed Parliament and is moving upstream.

 

Don't expect this to make to many headlines after the Global Warminist community has spent so many years indoctrinating us... but their buddies the plants are turning on them.

According to three articles published in Nature, scientists are all "shocked" and "baffled" to find "right under their noses" the fact that plants are contributing a huge amount of methane, which they believe is causing "global warming." I put that in quotes purposely because I'm not convinced "global warming" is real, but have always maintained that there isn't evidence to prove that it's human caused even if it does exist. These new findings support my beliefs, along with many others who've been annoyed with the dogmatic "global warming" movement.

Plants appear to be contributing as much as 30% of the methane in the atmosphere. This is leaving all these people scratching their heads, and I believe placing global warmists on the defensive. I've always been annoyed by one thing about the whole "global warming" movement. For starters, it was only a few decades ago that they were screaming "global cooling", but beyond that I would like to know:
What caused the ice ages they believe happened in the past? If we didn't have smokestacks and hummers all those years ago, what do they say caused the drastic climate change that brought the numerous ice ages they believe occured, and then what caused the drastic climate change that brought ends to those ice ages?

There are a number of write ups on this if you can google, but here's an excerpt from a Reuters article, via Yahoo!:

But the study also poses questions, such as how such a potentially large source of methane could have been overlooked and how plants produced it.

"There will be a lively scramble among researchers for the answers to these and other questions," Lowe added.

Yeah, how could it have been overlooked? Maybe because of the "create theory, blame humans, get paid" mentality from this global warming cabal (which may or may not be related to the UN/NWO conspiracy many believe exists... I'm on the fence still.)

Anyway, like I said, I'd like an answer to the ice age questions I posed above before I get concerned about stopping "global warming", which every day seems less likely to be caused by man if it even exists.

More:
Creation - Evolution News has some interest comments
The Black Kettle wants to raze the Amazon
Daily Musings seems to fear the attack of the plants
Hilariously, The WV Rebel realizes that this one really is the fault of "bush". (I should have thought of that)
Chip Mathis sees no hope
Mike's Noise says "Plant a tree today, destroy the planet tomorrow"
TigerHawk is also annoyed by the global warming community