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January 12, 2008

Moonbat Media Spins Baghdad Snow

Despite the global warming that allegedly imperils the world, it snowed in Baghdad yesterday for the first time in generations. As some have already noticed, the brief warming trend we experienced in the 1990s is over, forcing the moonbat media to descend into self-parody in an attempt to spin its way out of reality.

Here's how Roto-Reuters reports on the Baghdad snow:

Climate change is still nudging up temperatures in the long term even though the warmest year was back in 1998 and 2008 has begun with unusual weather such as a cool Pacific and Baghdad's first snow in memory, experts said.

Once again we're reminded that all unusual weather is caused by global warming, which in turn is "blamed mainly on human emissions of greenhouse gases from burning fossil fuels." This includes cold weather. Surprisingly, the report isn't accompanied by an invitation to buy carbon credits.

AFP also established its journalistic credentials by managing to dig up someone brazen enough to tell us that global warming causes snow. The Iraqi director of the meteorology department dutifully chirps:

These snowfalls are linked to the climate change that is happening everywhere.

So that's what happened to Baghdad Bob.

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Global warming hits Baghdad.

On tips from Mandy, Lyle, Cheetah and Mega. Hat tip: NewsBusters.

Posted by Van Helsing at January 12, 2008 12:26 PM

Comments

2+2=5

Posted by: forest at January 12, 2008 12:39 PM

Hell freezing over = global warming?

Well blow me down. Who knew?

Algorian nitwits see the naked king but won't admit it.

Posted by: Jimbo at January 12, 2008 1:04 PM

the warmest year was back in 1998

That statement is a provable lie, why would they put such an obvious lie in their "news" story?

Posted by: WZ at January 12, 2008 1:47 PM

First, global warming, as put forward by the Goracle and his minions, is a hoax. It is not the result of human activity but, in fact, the result of the sun’s activity.

It was reported last year that the other planets in our solar system are experiencing the same warming trend. Obviously, it would be a monumental stretch to say that earth’s human activity is causing that too, but there are those GW zealots who believe just that.

The source of earths global warming is primary due to an increase in atmospheric water vapor coming from the evaporation occurring in the earths oceans due to the sun’s activity.

Ice and snow normally occurs when a cold front comes in contact with the water vapor in the atmosphere. If, then, the water vapor is greater than normal, higher volumes of ice and snow on the ground are the result.

With this increase in atmospheric water vapor, the unusual ice and snow we are now experiencing could, then, be caused by global warming.

Posted by: pocomoco at January 12, 2008 2:03 PM

ROTO-REUTER'S!

bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahahahaha!

i prefer:

HEMHOR-REUTER'S!

Posted by: nanc at January 12, 2008 2:49 PM

WZ, 98 was the warmest year in the last 20, so taking that timescale they're technically correct...

Anything can be proven if you fiddle with the end-points enough.

Posted by: Archonix at January 12, 2008 5:30 PM

It's almost anticlimactic to write jokes to mock and ridicule these people any more. Reading the actual news reports are funny enough.

Posted by: Ed at January 12, 2008 5:43 PM

Starting yesterday, today is the hottest day in History. I predict over the next six months the temperature will rise 50 degrees in Northern regions.

Posted by: Jimbo at January 12, 2008 6:51 PM

Posted by: White Cane at January 12, 2008 7:10 PM

Jimbo, I hope you're correct since I Used more power to heat my house last month (not only cost wise, but power wise with the thermostat lowered 4 degrees lower than usual) than anytime in the past twenty years. It was never that cold, just cold all the time.

Posted by: Scrapiron at January 12, 2008 8:33 PM

CBN, White Cane? The Pat Robertson people?

Yes, obviously, you cannot go around handing out Bibles on public property, in a public school.

What do you think the Jews will do?


"First, global warming, as put forward by the Goracle and his minions, is a hoax. It is not the result of human activity but, in fact, the result of the sun’s activity."

Poco, you don't KNOW that, any more than Gore KNOWS his theory is true. Obviously, further research is still required, you are certainly permitted to throw your theory into the ring, but until we KNOW, only the Man Upstairs knows for sure...


"Once again we're reminded that all unusual weather is caused by global warming..."

If you simply replace the definitive "global warming" with the more generalized "climate change", I don't see what's so unbelievable about that concept.

Have you never witnessed a thunderstorm? A tornado? Icicles falling off a roof gutter or a tall building on a sunny day?

Either all the fanatics on both sides of this debate are completely seized by yet more manufactured "terra" regarding an issue that obviously no one has the final word on, yet...

Or maybe you're all brainwashed by oil lobbyist propaganda, and you can't admit you've been taken in.

Posted by: hashfanatic at January 12, 2008 11:09 PM

Well, it's confirmed by the Daily Telegraph:

Eco Warriors are the Worst Polluters

Posted by: Panday at January 13, 2008 3:03 AM

Stand back, liberal whackos...I have a woodstove and I know how to use it.

Posted by: JamesJ at January 13, 2008 6:23 AM

Isn't it amazing how the Libs, no matter how their lies pay out, they try to find a way to get onto both sides so that no matter what happens...it is still because of their first assumption. Like Global Warming. Everytime I hear this kind of thing, I remember the line that I always got when younger. When you assume, you make an ass out of you and me. Isn't that the same thing the Liberals are doing? And everyone else who believes in global Warming when it hasn't been proved?

Posted by: Robert at January 13, 2008 11:03 AM

Notice how the AGW fanatics have all but dropped "global warming" as the crisis, and now call it "climate change"? As the climate changes all the damn time, ANYTHING can now be blamed on those nasty Americans and their lifestyles.

Sorry, hashfanatic, but the whole thing is a gigantic hoax, intended to enrich algore and his close associates by removing money from the pockets of the gullible (and it appears he's having enormous success at it . . . for the time being; even the gullible wise up at some point), and putting into his and his friends'.

"Oil lobbyist propaganda"? Are you suggesting we use ethanol in our furnaces (convert even more food into fuel)? Perhaps go back to wood-burning stoves (nice little carbon-producers that they are)? Oil (and natural gas) are going to be around for a long, long time, my friend, and we could have all of both we would ever need, in perpetuity, if we'd just go out and get them . . .

Posted by: jc14 at January 13, 2008 7:22 PM

"As the climate changes all the damn time, ANYTHING can now be blamed on those nasty Americans and their lifestyles."

Not really, jc14. I think the change in terminology actually represents the growing awareness that any man-made or even natural
volatility in weather could have a detrimental effect on even our futures in this lifetime, and I believe that to be true, even though I believe further research is required.


"Sorry, hashfanatic, but the whole thing is a gigantic hoax, intended to enrich algore and his close associates by removing money from the pockets of the gullible (and it appears he's having enormous success at it . . . for the time being; even the gullible wise up at some point), and putting into his and his friends'."

Oh, you may well be right. Al Gore is not a scientist, and I absolutely agree that elements of his platform and their spawn (particularly the concept of carbon offsets) are fraudulent to the point of idiocy. What we have here is nothing less than another "Islamofascist" bogeyman, and we are not to be governed by a spirit of fear in anything we do. IMHO, he is essentially trying to corporatize the nation's survival, using a fashionable, of-the-moment set of marketing tools to do it, and I believe he has discredited himself and much of the laudable environmental work he has done for several decades through it.

So? Denounce Al Gore for POLITICIZING climate change, or its prospects for our nation's future.

Why espouse a different, equally meaningless political creed just because it's part of the opposition's politically-driven, thoroughly corrupted propaganda blitz?

Don't throw the baby out with the bath water, when it's clear that worthy, learned scientists were studying climate change and weather patterns before Gore was even a glint in his mother's eye!


"Are you suggesting we use ethanol in our furnaces (convert even more food into fuel)?"

No, actually I'm a big nuclear power advocate, on the grounds that, if God hadn't meant for us to use it, he wouldn't have had us discover it in the first place.

Posted by: hashfanatic at January 13, 2008 9:35 PM

"As the climate changes all the damn time, ANYTHING can now be blamed on those nasty Americans and their lifestyles."

Not really, jc14. I think the change in terminology actually represents the growing awareness that any man-made or even natural
volatility in weather could have a detrimental effect on even our futures in this lifetime, and I believe that to be true, even though I believe further research is required.


"Sorry, hashfanatic, but the whole thing is a gigantic hoax, intended to enrich algore and his close associates by removing money from the pockets of the gullible (and it appears he's having enormous success at it . . . for the time being; even the gullible wise up at some point), and putting into his and his friends'."

Oh, you may well be right. Al Gore is not a scientist, and I absolutely agree that elements of his platform and their spawn (particularly the concept of carbon offsets) are fraudulent to the point of idiocy. What we have here is nothing less than another "Islamofascist" bogeyman, and we are not to be governed by a spirit of fear in anything we do. IMHO, he is essentially trying to corporatize the nation's survival, using a fashionable, of-the-moment set of marketing tools to do it, and I believe he has discredited himself and much of the laudable environmental work he has done for several decades through it.

So? Denounce Al Gore for POLITICIZING climate change, or its prospects for our nation's future.

Why espouse a different, equally meaningless political creed just because it's part of the opposition's politically-driven, thoroughly corrupted propaganda blitz?

Don't throw the baby out with the bath water, when it's clear that worthy, learned scientists were studying climate change and weather patterns before Gore was even a glint in his mother's eye!


"Are you suggesting we use ethanol in our furnaces (convert even more food into fuel)?"

No, actually I'm a big nuclear power advocate, on the grounds that, if God hadn't meant for us to use it, he wouldn't have had us discover it in the first place.

Posted by: hashfanatic at January 13, 2008 9:35 PM

It seems as though global warming has been blamed for just about every conceivable blip in our weather patterns. Every tornado, hurricane, forest fire and earthquake seems to have been converted into advertisements for global warming enthusiasts who want to make sure you feel guilty for using that 2nd square of toilet paper.

During a particularly eventful year of hurricanes, we are bombarded with threats that our shores will be increasingly terrorized by storms as the world spins out of of control. It always strikes me as humorous when the next two years are virtually free of hurricane activity, despite the repeated threats of impending doom.

Environmentalists often push the issue hardest during the summer months, hoping to press their case when it's hot outside - so their message is more likely to stick (pun intended). Winter has usually been a nice reprieve from the war drums of impending doom, as the message looses steam (pun intended again) when folks are chiseling ice off of their windshields.

Would environmentalists be brash enough - or desperate enough - to suggest that freezing temperatures and snowfall at one of the hottest places on earth is proof of global warming? Well they are now.

Now you can truly take comfort in knowing that every weather pattern or instance of nature (including freezing temperatures) is now considered iron clad proof that our world is about to explode into a fireball.

The VICE is of the opinion that caring for our environment is a responsibility that everyone can share a part in. But taking the issue to such an extreme level that even a historic snowfall in the desert can no longer be enjoyed, will only hurt the effort.

Blustering hysteria every time anything happens (even a snowfall) will do nothing for the cause but wear people out on the issue and diminish it's credibility to folks who might otherwise be receptive to the message.

The Weekly Vice has stated before and continues to suggest that politicising global warming has bled the goodwill out of the effort and replaced it with political rancor. In times like these, it would be nice if the talking heads could put a sock in it and let the rest of us just enjoy the miracle of snow in the desert. It may be another 100 years before global warming allows us to enjoy it again.

Danny Vice
The Weekly Vice
http://weeklyvice.blogspot.com

Posted by: Danny Vice at January 14, 2008 12:09 AM