Aussie warming denier Andrew Bolt points out a few inconvenient truths here.
The bastard.
In other global warming news, Australia's Prime Minister Kevin Rudd (who slew the evil Bushitler crony and warming denier deathbeast John Howard) has announced that Australia's goal will be to cut carbon emissions by 5% (baseline: Year 2000) by 2020. The problem? While running against the denier Howard, Rudd promised cuts of between 25% and 40%. Evidently things look different from the inside.
The bastard.
Other Aussie warming denier Tim Blair reports on the outrage, which from all appearances seems to involve literally dozens.
The bastard.
But we don't have to worry here, we've got Obama! Right?
The bas.. er, uh,
Never mind!
Update: More unbelieving ... and he isn't even with Fox News!
The bastard.
I think John Quiggen's opinion on Bolt is spot on"
"Fortunately, in the case of global warming, anyone with access to the Internet can easily check the facts, so the only people deluded by Bolt on this topic are those complicit in their own delusion, believing an implausible story because it suits their ideological or cultural/tribal prejudices."
As for Tim Blair, I always get the Aussie Tim's confused. Tim Lambert is the sane one, but you had me going for a second.
Posted by: elliottg | December 19, 2008 at 01:15 AM
As for your Obama omment. You really are an idiot since you forgot about steven Chu.
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/hotstories/6166749.html
Posted by: elliottg | December 19, 2008 at 01:18 AM
So, after criticizing others for citing Al Gore instead of scientists, you turn around and cite . . . a newspaper editor with no scientific background. And a history of demonstrable ignorance.
You're just digging deeper at this point, Dennis. Now might be a good time to change the subject.
Posted by: D Johnston | December 19, 2008 at 01:52 AM
Let's change the subject to Kevin Rudd. I notice no-one's commenting on him here.
Wonder why he did that? What with all the consensus and all.
Posted by: Dennis The Peasant | December 19, 2008 at 02:36 AM
Elliott-
Actually, Josh Marshall was the one who forgot about Dr. Chu, not me. I picked that one up from a post at TPM. You can draw your own conclusion as to why Josh would decide it was worth mentioning. I found it interesting that he did.
Posted by: Dennis The Peasant | December 19, 2008 at 02:43 AM
What, you weren't getting enough vitriol from Amanda fans and felt you had to branch out ? Well, good luck with that. Just remember that pseudo-scientific zealots are harder to deal with than adherents of a complete whack job. I advise regular visits to McKintyre and Watt's websites for new, hard fact rocks to throw.
Posted by: Mike C. | December 19, 2008 at 05:50 AM
I gave up after reading Andrew Bolt cite a bunch of reservoir levels (the glass is half full!) because a wise man once said "financial professionals look at trends. Over time. Not snapshots.". All Bolt has is snapshots.
Here's another clue for you all, the walrus was...wait a minute, I'm getting sidetracked. I read somewhere that sunspot activity is predicted to drop next decade. For those who don't factor it in this may give the impression that global warming is leveling off or receding a bit on it's own. It's not. It may also give the impression that our efforts to ameliorate it's affects are working more quickly than we'd hoped. That would also be a wrong conclusion.
Posted by: markg8 | December 19, 2008 at 01:05 PM
Wow, Dennis, I didn't know you were into debunking fundamentalist religious cults.
Posted by: Uncle Fester | December 19, 2008 at 06:32 PM