Australian Fires Climate or Arson???

Australia's horrific wildfires have destroyed whole towns and killed, by now, at least 200 people. Eager to blame somebody - or something - for the catastrophe, The Church of Global Warming is trying to convince us that climate change is the cause of the fires. By extension, the same lunatic adherents to the Church of Global Warming would have to say that brush fires in California - or anywhere else - are also caused by climate change. That's lunacy. Here's why. We know that many brush fires are the work of arsonists. Some of those arsonists are "fire bugs" who have a sick fascination with fire. Some arsonists do it for insurance money; some of their fires go out of control and become bigger than they intended. Some arsonists are eco-terrorists bent of exacting revenge on the human race in order to avenge the displacement of gophers and scorpions. Still others, it turns out, may be Islamo-terrorists. Not of those arsonists were driven to their criminal acts by climate change. The lunatic eagerness to blame Global Warming/Climate Change for everything evil reaches a crescendo in article such as the one at RedOrbit.com: The latest series of wildfires to hit Australia appeared to be intensified due to climate change, scientists reported on Monday. Australia is prone to massive wildfires due to its dry climate and naturally combustible vegetation, including oil-rich eucalyptus forests, according to the nation’s Bureau of Meteorology. However, the wildfires that struck Victoria over the weekend were the nation's deadliest on record, and scientists believe climate change is to blame. "Scientists believe climate change is to blame." Meanwhile, experts in arson investigation are certain that human beings set the blazes in Australia. Correct me if I'm wrong here, but the meteorologists are not on the fire scenes poking around for evidence of criminal activity. It's quite a stretch of faith to believe that climate change is to blame for "naturally combustible vegetation, including oil-rich eucalyptus forests." RedOrbit continues: "Climate change, weather and drought are altering the nature, ferocity and duration of bushfires," Gary Morgan, head of the government-backed Bushfire Cooperative Research Center, told the AFP." Really? And how, please, does one actually prove that theory? Oh! It's windy! Must be climate change! It hasn't rained in weeks! Must be climate change! Somebody put a torch to that tree! It's climate change! Again, from RedOrbit: Climate Change Minister Penny Wong said the record heat is yet another sign of global climate change scientists have forecasted. "Eleven of the hottest years in history have been in the last 12, and we also note, particularly in the southern part of Australia, we're seeing less rainfall," said Wong. Well, isn't that fascinating? Imagine, "eleven of the hottest years in history." In history! All 200 years of the history of Australian records of temperatures? Notice that Wong did not say, "The eleven hottest years in history." She said, "Eleven of the hottest years..." That's important, because if there were, say, a dozen even hotter years 150 years ago, her statement is still correct. It's Orwellian to state it the way she did. It is misleading, and she probably knows it. The ravings of The Church of Global Warming see things in the same way that some folks see the image of Christ in a stain on a highway overpass wall. They really, really want it to be there, and their minds - not their eyes - are fooling them into "seeing" it. If you believe deeply enough, you will "see" whatever your faith demands. The Church of Global Warming demands that you see climate change in everything bad. An excellent article at Slate.com today examines how a wildfire is investigated. How do you investigate a wildfire for signs of arson? First, figure out where it got started. The place where firefighters first engaged with the blaze is a good place to begin, as are spots where eyewitnesses say they first saw flames or charred ground. Once they're in the ballpark, a careful study of burn patterns can guide investigators to the fire's point of origin. None of the forensic methods described involve any of the theories of The Church of Global Warming. They focus instead on humans using matches for all the wrong reasons. The Toronto Sun reports today that "Police declared incinerated towns crime scenes Monday, and the prime minister spoke of 'mass murder' after investigators said arsonists may have set some of Australia’s worst wildfires in history." Humans misbehaving, not global warming or climate change, is squarely blamed by forensic experts for the Australian infernos. The Sun article, from AP, further notes that "Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, visibly upset during a television interview, reflected the country’s disgust at the idea that arsonists may have set some of the 400 fires that devastated Victoria state, or helped them jump containment lines." The eagerness to blame disasters on "climate change" or "global warming" is a blind faith delusion. We might as well start blaming higher crime rates on climate change. After all, if last summer hadn't been "one of the hottest on record," perhaps some of those criminals might not have been willing to go outdoors and snatch purses. Then again, if last summer had been "one of the rainiest in history," would The Church of Global Warming hail climate change for reducing the number of stolen purses? Post Script - On 2/9/09, a commenter wrote: Wow, great article! I too am tired of the misleading AGW/CC speak. Billions of dollars are at stake, to say nothing of [the] devastating ripple that is sure to propagate through the third world! All the best, Dave Nevada City, California RELATED: Firebugs may be charged with murder Arsonist fires devastate parched Australia Police closing in on Victoria arsonists Australia's Wildfires: Climate Change or Crime? Why are the fires in Australia so bad? Australian fire zone considered crime scene Michigan State University Eco-Terrorist Sentenced in Arson Case ELF Press Office Condemns FBI Hunt for Environmental Defenders YouTube - Eco-Terrorism Ecoterrorism Suspected in House Fires in Seattle Suburb - New York ... CNB RSS Feed

TRIBUNE CO. FILES BANKRUPTCY

The Tribune Company, parent of the Chicago Cubs, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Tribune, eight other daily papers and 23 television stations, today filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy papers. It's little posts like this from little bloggers like me that have contributed to the demise of newspaper circulation. Ecologists should cheer this news. Unlike newspapers, web sites to not kill trees, consume no fossil fuels to process the paper, transport the paper from the mill to the printing plant, print the papers at the plant, deliver the papers to the readers, and then recycle the papers. Bloggers leave miniscule carbon footprints. Media conglomerate Tribune Co., smothered by $13 billion in debt and a drop-off in advertising, on Monday became the first major newspaper publisher to seek bankruptcy protection since the Internet sent the industry into a tailspin. Most of the company's debt comes from the complex transaction in which the company was taken private, with employee ownership, by real estate mogul Sam Zell last year. Although Tribune's next major debt payment isn't due until June, the company has been in danger of missing financial targets set by its lenders. More from ABC7 Chicago with video...

LEFT IN THE DARK

MILLIONS OF IDIOTS will turn their lights out tonight for one hour. These pitiful morons will do so because they have been commanded to, and believe that they will save the planet by doing so. The event is called "Earth Hour," and it is 60 minutes of pure stupidity.

Sunset in Chicago will occur at 7:12 tonight. 48 minutes later, hundreds of thousands of useful idiots and secular mystics will turn off their lights. By doing so, they believe, the planet will be made better. Many of those useful idiots, of course, will leave their televisions on, and their computers, radios, and appliances. Some will turn out their lights and go for a drive in their cars. Some will light candles, which produce greenhouse gases. All will continue to breath, and every breath exhaled will contain carbon dioxide. Geez.

Tonight at 8:15, look at the overcast sky. You'll notice that the clouds are illuminated, even though your idiot neighbor has turned off his lights. So, why is the sky orange? Because most of the light reflected from the clouds is coming from street lights. Gee, maybe we should turn off the street lights, too? Sure, and how about the traffic signals?

The pitiful fools who believe that Earth Hour is a good idea think they are making some grand gesture. They are not, and they are certainly not sacrificing anything. If these goofs turned off their lights and did not use electricity, or benefit in any way from electricity, I might be impressed. I might think they are serious. But they won't, and I don't.

For the truly stupid, you still have time to get instructions. Yes, instructions to help you turn out the lights in your home. "Add your name to the Earth Hour list to receive useful tools and tips," says the EarthHourUS web site. Here, you will also learn that "On March 29, 2008 at 8 p.m., join millions of people around the world in making a statement about climate change by turning off your lights for Earth Hour, an event created by the World Wildlife Fund."

Every paragraph on the web site, actually, is written for brain dead morons. Another excerpt: "We invite everyone throughout North America and around the world to turn off the lights for an hour starting at 8 p.m. (your own local time)–whether at home or at work, with friends and family or solo, in a big city or a small town."

We're "invited?" Huh? More like urged. Commanded, really, by the Leftist EcoNutbag Squad. Will you follow their command like a good little soldier? Don't be surprised if one day soon the Liberal Fascists pass laws that force you to turn your lights out at 8:00 p.m., every night, all year long.

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Ethanol Facts and Fiction

Complicated problems rarely have simple solutions. Our energy problems are no exception, and the simple-minded school of thought that holds ethanol up as a cure-all is only fooling itself - and many of us. John Stossel has a great piece titled, "The Many Myths of Ethanol," and it is must-reading. (Hat tip to Backyard Conservative.) The claim that using ethanol will save energy is another myth. Studies show that the amount of energy ethanol produces and the amount needed to make it are roughly the same. "It takes a lot of fossil fuels to make the fertilizer, to run the tractor, to build the silo, to get that corn to a processing plant, to run the processing plant," Taylor says. And because ethanol degrades, it can't be moved in pipelines the way that gasoline is. So many more big, polluting trucks will be needed to haul it. More bad news: The increased push for ethanol has already led to a sharp increase in corn growing -- which means much more land must be plowed. That means much more fertilizer, more water used on farms and more pesticides. FULL ARTICLE... For more information see Eco Rebuttal

George Bush, Planet Buster

Isn't is obvious???

"The...bizarre weather conditions seen on Mars and other planets are undeniable proof that the ecological destruction Bush has wrought on our own world is spreading like a virus..." Full Story...