Expat Texan

An increase in gun crime in Calgary?  A 30% increase?  But what about gun control and that fancy new (overbudget) firearms registry?

“We can look at numbers on a page, but the data translates to increased public safety concerns and increased officer safety concerns,” he said.

“We should all … be concerned about this change and condemn it.”

 It always surprises gun control advocates to learn that criminals really don’t care about gun control laws, and aren’t too keen on registering their firearms, either.  Maybe Calgary needs to implement more draconian gun control measures.  I mean, look what they’ve done for Washington, DC.

You Sujck at Photoshop.

No, srsly - you do.

Pure insanity.

Thanks, Google, for doing your part for Earth Hour.  It must be working, because it’s snowed 2 out of the last 3 days here in Calgary, and we have flurries now.

Just as an aside - anyone know how many people will die if global cooling were to happen to any extent? 

UPDATE.

Heh.

Why let the data stand in the way of perfectly good (and profitable) climate change dogma?

Confronted by Stahl with the fact some prominent people, including the nation’s vice president, are not convinced that global warming is manmade, Gore responds: “You’re talking about Dick Cheney. I think that those people are in such a tiny, tiny minority now with their point of view, they’re almost like the ones who still believe that the moon landing was staged in a movie lot in Arizona and those who believe the world is flat,” says Gore. “That demeans them a little bit, but it’s not that far off,” he tells Stahl.

Got that?  If you don’t believe in AGW, despite the paucity of evidence supporting it and new data eroding its basic tenets - well, you’re no better than a conspiracy theorist or moron who still believes the Earth is flat.  Just because Al Gore says so.

Memo to Gore - the belief that the world was flat was once accepted as fact.  Then observational data suggested otherwise, and the belief changed.  Perhaps you should use the same mechanism to evaluate your beliefs where AGW is concerned.  Calling people idiots because they don’t accept your views is not a particularly cogent or winning argument.

I would say Frankie Housley provides a pretty good definition.

In all, there are, alive today, six children, eight grandchildren, and five great-grandchildren in the Chesapeake Bay area who wouldn’t be here today if not for the young stewardess who died trying to save one more.

Slowly but surely, the rest of the world discovers what Texans have always known - paradise!

BAM!

 AGW gets another bloody nose as hard data trumps hysterics and “feelings”.

The high-profile collapse of some Antarctica’s ice shelves is likely the result of natural current fluctuations, not global warming, says a leading British expert on polar climates.

This surprising finding is supported by analysis of data from the European Space Agency’s ERS-1 satellite, according to Duncan Wingham, Professor of Climate Physics at University College London. The data, measuring changes in ice thickness across the Antarctic ice sheet using the polar orbiting satellite, show areas of growth from snowfall are as common as areas of decline.

If you don’t like that satellite data, how about that being generated by Nasa’a Aqua satellite?

Last Monday - on ABC Radio National, of all places - there was a tipping point of a different kind in the debate on climate change. It was a remarkable interview involving the co-host of Counterpoint, Michael Duffy and Jennifer Marohasy, a biologist and senior fellow of Melbourne-based think tank the Institute of Public Affairs. Anyone in public life who takes a position on the greenhouse gas hypothesis will ignore it at their peril.

Duffy asked Marohasy: “Is the Earth stillwarming?”

She replied: “No, actually, there has been cooling, if you take 1998 as your point of reference. If you take 2002 as your point of reference, then temperatures have plateaued. This is certainly not what you’d expect if carbon dioxide is driving temperature because carbon dioxide levels have been increasing but temperatures have actually been coming down over the last 10 years.”

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Duffy: “Can you tell us about NASA’s Aqua satellite, because I understand some of the data we’re now getting is quite important in our understanding of how climate works?”

Marohasy: “That’s right. The satellite was only launched in 2002 and it enabled the collection of data, not just on temperature but also on cloud formation and water vapour. What all the climate models suggest is that, when you’ve got warming from additional carbon dioxide, this will result in increased water vapour, so you’re going to get a positive feedback. That’s what the models have been indicating. What this great data from the NASA Aqua satellite … (is) actually showing is just the opposite, that with a little bit of warming, weather processes are compensating, so they’re actually limiting the greenhouse effect and you’re getting a negative rather than a positive feedback.”

Hmmmmm, a negative feedback mechanism damping any CO2 effect.  Where have we heard that before?

The truth will out.  It’ll just take time to overcome the resistance generated by the financial incentive of AGW being an indisputable truth.

Get slapped.

 Stifling debate about AGW is NOT going to silence the critics, especially as new data comes to light - most notably from the NASA Aquos Satellite.

Many excellent suggestions on ways to counteract the “Earth Hour” - when everyone is supposed to leave their lights and appliances off from 8pm on March 29th.  Since it’s not clear to me which 8pm we are supposed to use (local?  Australian, Greenwich?) - I recommend turning everything on and just letting it run from 5pm Friday until Monday morning some time.  That should be more than adequate to counter this bit of global warming hysterical nonsense.  Best suggestion given to those sincerely wanting to make the maximum effort to help the Earth through darkness (in this case, eternal):

Instead of taking a hot shower, try dying.

Brilliant.  Absolutely brilliant, and so environmentally friendly that none could argue with your methods.  A real Canadian (not us crappy transplant types) also offers suggestions.