The ‘We’re Gonna Freeze to Death Because of Global Warming’ Headline of the Day; Updated
**Written by Doug Powers
By way of Newsbusters, here’s our global warming headline of the day, courtesy of Time Magazine:
The article itself discusses a few theories as to why the heat is causing the cold. Normally I don’t like my scientific facts to be so littered with the word “theory,” but I guess we can blame the ravages of global warming for the over-theorization of settled-science.
It seems like only yesterday that Time was parroting a different eco tune:
Update: Aw shucks, it’s been brought to my attention that the above is a Photoshopped cover from this 2007 issue of Time. However, Time did explore the “theory” of global cooling in the late 70′s.
Jeff Foxworthy could get a whole bit out of the “blizzards caused by global warming” insanity:
“If your copy of An Inconvenient Truth is frozen in a block of ice… you might be a victim of global warming.”
“If your pet penguin asks you to buy him a Snuggie… you might be a victim of global warming.”
“If you’re on stage in a Florida strip club and your tongue gets stuck to the pole… you might be a victim of global warming.”
The proper headline to the above Time column should have been, “Holiday Blizzard: More Signs of Winter,” but how many carbon credits would that sell?
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It’s so ridiculous that the first OJ jury members don’t even buy into it.
If your Heating bill goes up… you might be a victim of Global Warming…
Oh… wait… that one is true, because the warmists are driving up the cost of energy…
Doug, love the picture of Jack from ‘The Shining’! You are really funny suggesting the Foxworthy bit.
I don’t know when these gw idiots are going to give up, people don’t believe this crud.
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War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strength, Warm is Cold.
If all the girls in the Florida strip club refuse to take off their clothes. . . you are a victim of global warming.
If your package seems smaller than it was only a few years ago, you’re probably the victim of global warming. You see, global warming is causing excessively cold temperatures, which in turn, is causing excessive states of male shrinkage.
I dunno. But maybe we can ask all the folks in the NE how shoveling all that global warming is going?
If the NFL cancels a football game due to snow, you might be the victim of global warming…
…oh…nevermind!!!
At this point in the curve, there’s really no point in engaging the Global Waerming idiots.
Just a heartfelt “what Cheney said to Leahy” seems to suffice.
When? Never. They will just make up something else about which to be hysterical to drive their agenda.
Time to get out the black plastic to cover the polar caps. We need to heat up the earth or we can roast the environuts to produce more carbon.
If your eating a sno-cone because it’s 90+ outside… your are a victim of the coming Ice Age.
Fast Forward Thirty some years….
If you are skating on a frozen pond and fall… your are now a victim of
global warmingClimate Change.When the popular press uses the word “theory“, suggesting that there may be some scientific merit to them, when they should use something like “notion” or “excuse”, you might be a victim of institutional bamboozling.
Hey this happened to me! But only I wasn’t supposed to be on the stage, and my tongue was stuck to the girl not the pole, and I don’t remember much after the beating after that… and all this time I was blaming Bush!
Astrophysicist Piers Corbyn addressed the “evidence” of global warming in a funny interview.
The Left mocks this man as a “gadfly”, but this gadfly makes the Leftwing warming religionists look like monkeys.
“This just in:
Mainland visitor falls to death from ski lift on Mauna Loa. Film at eleven.”
Damn if I don’t like that man Cheney, wait I like the whole family, the wrong guy was president.
OMG!!!! That was YOU???
What is so funny is that if these activist scientists really believed that this extreme cold weather is evidence of global warming, they should have been able to forecast it or at least generally predict the possibility long ago. It would have made them look like geniuses and would have made their “theory” a lead-pipe cinch. We would be cap-and-traded to death by now. But they never did. I wonder why? Maybe it’s because (1) They haven’t the slightest idea what they are doing or (2) Their theory is rubbish/political adventurism. I lean towards both.
Amazing – the gorebal warming fanatics had their cover blown when those Norwich Univ. emails were made public. But the fanatics are carrying on like they still think everyone is with them.
Global Warming = whatever Liberals need to gain political and personal financial power.
Racism = whatever Liberals need to gain political and personal financial power.
Opposition to the Iraq War (circa 2004-2008) = whatever Liberals need to gain political and personal financial power.
Two thoughts…
1. Did anyone read the other headline on the 1977 Time Magazine cover above: “Why We Can’t Beat the Soviets”
and…
Can you imagine the field day the MSM would have if the issue of American Gun Rights was as riddled with inconsistency as “Global Warming” is?
If you’re hunting polar bears in Texas, you’re a victim of global warming.
If you’re cruising Route 66 on a dog sled, you’re a victim of global warming.
If you drive your car to Hawaii over the frozen Pacific Ocean, you’re a victim of global warming.
If Santa Clause starts visiting in July instead of December, you’re a victim of global warming.
In Texas, Suh, we jest flock a buncha’ black bears. Jest like Crissmas Trees.
So Katrina was a big storm which hit New Orleans, and the liberal city and state gubmint totally fubarred the response, and Bush got blamed because he didn’t over rule the bozos in charge and send in the military until later. Now, the storm that started in California and sent snow into New York City found the same bozos in charge, and Obama is playing golf in Hawaii and no body is criticising his AWOL status. Christie is being blamed for being on vacation, but not Obama. AND PEOPLE WONDER WHY CONSERVATIVES THINK THERE IS BIAS IN THE MEDIA COVERAGE OF CONSERVATIVES VS LIBERALS.
Rogue – I think I caught your act on YouTube – weren’t you wearing a thong with the icicles? Not that you have to justify anything to me……
Reminds me of the old joke:
His Holiness the Pope and George W. are fishing in a boat in Texas. A strong gust of wind comes and blows off the Pope’s fishing hat.
George W. steps out of the boat, and to the Pope’s amazement, walks on water over to the Pope’s hat, and then walks on water back to the boat, handing the Pope his hat. The Pope makes the sign of the cross, declaring the event a miracle.
Headline on the New York Times:
BUSH CAN’T SWIM
Yes it was. Hey did I ever thank you for the dollars bills you and your friends were throwing at me?
Tell us again about Tailhook, Rogue.
Could be, they always run the AC to keeps things cool and nipply as opposed to hot and hootery.
RogueCheddar: If you act that way at strip clubs and want to avoid the resultant beating that takes place in your country, come to Canada. When I was 16 and used to frequent those types of places, you couldn’t touch the dancers at all, but now, you can can get more interactive with them than you could with a Nintendo Wii and a box full of games.
Good observation.
People on the left, including all of today’s Democrats, lack the ability to learn anything about the world that conflicts with their preconceived notions about it unless the misunderstanding will impact them personally in some immediate way.
They are insane. Unfortunately, because the form of insanity doesn’t damage them personally, in the short run, it is generally not recognized as insanity even though the disconnection from reality is glaringly obvious to anyone who doesn’t share the madness.
Left unchecked their insanity will eventually destroy the society.
This just in: Al Gore still looking for the caveman SUV that ended the last Ice Age.
In my house we are just slightly behind the times so in an attempt to modernize we tried to cook a turkey in the fridge and keep the ice cream cold in the oven. It didn’t work for us so we are going to order time magazine.
Nothing says “I am a MORON!!” better than a copy of Time Magazine in your hand.
My Mom used to say that when I had a copy of “MAD” magazine in my hand!
I just laugh at this insanity now. Even the regressives give sheepish grins when talking about this. Most of them don’t believe their own talking points.
Off topic…my “liberal” son-in-law who voted for Obama and Al Franken (!) dropped a bombshell on Christmas. He said, and I quote, “I have been doing a lot of thinking and I believe I am a republican”! For him to even admit such a possibility is Huge! He said he just doesn’t know who to vote for any more. He is his parent’s democrat who never took the time to ponder what it all meant. He now is taking the time. There is hope out there, folks!!!
Yeah I noticed that other headline too. “Why we can’t beat the Soviets”
You have to give them credit for being consistent. Consistently wrong.
When I was younger, I used to read Time because I thought it was worthwhile. I remember an issue in 1979 devoted to why the Soviets were going to have more trouble holding on to eastern Europe because of the Polish shipyard workers strike. So in two years they went from the US can’t be the Sovs to the Sovs are in deep doo-doo.
I guess no one was supposed to remember the 1977 article. Now you know why I stopped reading Time.
“O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!”
He chortled in his joy.
If Jimmy Carter had been re-elected in 1980, as was the expectation in 1977, we probably would not have beaten the Soviets. There must be a lesson in there somewhere.
well good, let’s expand the backwards/upsidedown arguments of these lying eco-authoritarian jackwads…. THE PROBLEM WITH POOR PEOPLE IS THEY HAVE TOO MUCH MONEY. IF THEY JUST DIDN’T HAVE SO MUCH MONEY, THEY WOULDN’T BE POOR.
shove that back in their face whenever you hear that kind of garbage about “global warming” from those frauds. makes just as much sense.
Buying Carbon Credits will put a stop to global warming. Just wait a few years, and you’ll see…just keep those payments coming, a’ight?
You can trust the environmentalists on this one…for instance: recycling paper will reduce costs; compact fluorescent light bulbs are better for the environment/removes mercury from landfills; planting more trees and shrubs will reduce carbon dioxide gases; etc. All these things were true, right?
Well, okay…only the last one is true.
I’ll bet the GW crowd is really mad or irritated they started with the words, “Global Warming” and not “Climate Change”. Now they’re stuck, but still won’t give up.
I understand that the fact source for the Time article was the screen play from “The Day After Tomorrow”.
http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1808417410/info
No, see, it makes good sense. It snows more ’cause the polar ice is melting and all the snow reflects the sunlight, so it’s colder ’cause it’s warmer!
Huh. Actually I guess Rogue’s story is more plausable. Rumor has it the rogue dancer in question was Arianna HuffPo, in between her gigs marrying rich conservative dudes. A girl’s gotta make a living.
Oh……. it was a Donkey show……!
Uh…you know….Donkey….Democrat.
Help me, Rogue!
Eeyore: Oh Bother!
Snowfalls are now just a thing of the past
By Charles Onians
Monday, 20 March 2000
Britain’s winter ends tomorrow with further indications of a striking environmental change: snow is starting to disappear from our lives.
Sledges, snowmen, snowballs and the excitement of waking to find that the stuff has settled outside are all a rapidly diminishing part of Britain’s culture, as warmer winters – which scientists are attributing to global climate change – produce not only fewer white Christmases, but fewer white Januaries and Februaries.
[snip]
According to Dr David Viner, a senior research scientist at the climatic research unit (CRU) of the University of East Anglia,within a few years winter snowfall will become “a very rare and exciting event”.
“Children just aren’t going to know what snow is,” he said.
http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/snowfalls-are-now-just-a-thing-...
Say, isn’t Viner one of the holy priests of global warming…er climate change? I wonder if it hurts when you turn yourself into pretzel shapes trying to explain the effects of whatever it is that they are calling it these days.
Hmm… winter began on December 21. Then it snowed. Sounds like global warming to me!
Next they’ll be complaining that it gets hot in July!
¡una demostración fabulosa del burro con todas las campanas y silbidos!
No, Spaceycakes…not fair using a foreign language. I tried to interpret it: A donkey demonstrating a fabulous pole dancing routine that Rogue tried to emulate. Am I right? heh.
I simply tried to put it in a language that would remind me of Tijuana. Ah. Good times.
With the true data, not the enhanced manipulated data, they can’t reproduce the hockey stick graph that doomed us all to burning up in 10 years. So without manipulating the data, they can’t support that 1.there is global warming and 2.that it is man made.
As a wise man once said: Figures don’t lie but liars often figure.
Probably because the little darlings will be inside playing Wii and XBox Kinect. Wouldn’t want them to get their tootsies too cold, uh, … too warm from global…., uh, which is it?!?!
If the local exhibitionists just describe themselves, you may be a victim of global warming.
Sorry I have been a bit out of the loop of late, folks. Business has kept me away.
I love these stupid idiots and their foolishness. If you want to discredit the whole global warming scam, all you have to do is play their own words back to them. I got a lot of mileage out of Bil Clinton’s assertion that the Blizzard of ’96 was caused by global warming (not as a blogger – that quote predates my blog significantly). Can you imagine asking an enviro-wack to explain that one??
HAHAHAHAHHAHA
Keep pounding away at this. Between this stuff and ClimateGate, there isn’t much more ammo we need to prove our case.
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
PS … Merry CLIFFmas, Happy HALLADAYs, and ROY to the World … but be sure and bundle up – it’s COLE outside!
Welcome Home, Cliff!
Again …
Welcome home Cliff!
Sorry to be so OT, but it’s great to be a Philadelphia baseball fan these days …
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
My wonderful daughter was wiling to do it!
She’s the best!
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
Hopefully it will continue to be along the lines of “global warming causes snowstorms”. If this is the best they can do, everything is going to be just fine.
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
HAHAHA
Bush, huh?
HAHAHAH
Sorry I just had to.
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
Two words …
Jimmy Carter
‘Nuff said.
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
Welcome back, rightwingrocker.
BUT, you should NOT be laughing. After all, Global Warming — GW — has the same letters as Bush’s first 2 initials — GW — SEE, it IS Bush’s fault!
No no, that’s just rain you feel on your back. Really!
1) A left-liberal is never wrong.
2) You observe/deduce that in fact a left-liberal has indeed erred.
3) See Rule #1. Carry on with your life.
It will. Count on it.
I have a theory that if I flap my arms vigorously enough I can fly like a bird.
It’s my theory and you must believe my theory. My theory is true.
As long as I don’t have to prove my theory, it stands.
(Just don’t ask me to prove my theory by flying off the San Fran Bay Bridge…)
The news(?) media, and the schools are not going to educate anyone on why global warming is a hoax. They are going to push the agenda that the government tells them to.
It is up to the individual to arm themselves with info and talk to people they meet about the global warming farce.
To many people will just take whatever the media feeds them and believe it as truth.
In order for the human race to survive, they need someone else to come in and show them that it’s a bunch of political crap.
Belief in global warming is a global disease, one rivaled only by Entitlement Syndrome.
Scientific facts come from theory. For example, the theory of gravity. Some things, like global warming caused blizzards, require more than a once over glance and calling respected scientists “idiots”.
Facts do not come from theory. Facts are the truth and exist whether any theory about them exists or not. Theory is nothing more than speculation regarding what governs or affects such facts. The only way a theory can successfully be regarded as a fact is when it can be repeatedly PROVEN to represent the fact.
To date there is ZERO proof that the puny amount of extra CO2 that human activity adds to the atmosphere has any measurable affect on climate – ZERO.
Revelations from Greenland ice core samples are among the most damning of evidence counter to this AGW fantasy. Nothing in AGW theory can explain HOW those past periods were soooo much warmer than now without triggering their precious ‘tipping point’ that is supposed to cause a run-away positive water vapor feedback scenario from which we are not supposed to be able to recover.
LET’S SEE YOU EXPLAIN THIS WITH YOUR FRIGGIN ‘MODELS’ JAMES HANSEN?
Global warming, global cooling, climate change…. These stories are like how the media treats BHO. Take the subject and make the narrative support the story. Just spin until the story compliments the subject. Even if it is completely ridiculous, there are enough dupes to buy it. If not, we’ll make sure to legislate it so it happens.
You missed the innuendo. I was trying not to offend HappyScrapper hahaha.
BUSH ….
BUSH …
What do you think I was referring to.
It’s ALL because of BUSH!
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
Indeed.
The expression of fact originates in theory, but until proven, that expression doesn’t mean SQUAT.
Fact, as expressed as a result of a proven theory, carries significant weight.
A theory that has not been proven in fact means nothing, and this whole GW thing is proof of THAT fact!
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
By the way …
I do indeed know that rightwingrocker.com does not work. It’s a signature that I have always used, and will continue to use. Here’s the skinny on it.
When I last renewed my domain registration, I did not renew the forwarding that goes with it. It took nearly a year for my registrar to figure it out and take action, so …
I will take care of it when my domain registration comes up for its next renewal in February. In the meantime, the working link is http://rightwingrocker.blogspot.com.
Thanks for your understanding!
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
Nothing makes fools of more people than trying to predict the weather.
The coming ice age headline isn’t the only one on that cover that was wrong and showed Time’s leanings way back then.
I noticed the one that said, “Why we can’t beat the Soviets”.
Time has been run by Marxists for decades.
Jimmy Carter and Barack Obama have many things in common. Just one of which is Zbigniew Brzezinski, who was Carter’s National Security Advisor (!) and was and is an “advisor” (handler!) of Obama.
Yes, Marxists have held the U.S. Presidency… more than once.
Thank God for Ronald Reagan. And thank God that a new Republican House can at least provide some amount of check against the current Marxist’s agenda. But look for Obama to start pushing the “unitary excutive” and abusing power in the ways that the left feared that “W” would.
Doug,
Just a “heads up,” but a contributor over at Newsbusters is claiming that the Time/penguin cover mentioned above is actually an altered Time “Global Warming” cover from 2007, and not a “coming Ice Age” cover from 1977:
I also mention this because I couldn’t find an “April 8, 1977″ edition in Time’s archive yesterday.
Is this right?
Noticed another tidbit on Time cover: “Defense, Why we can’t beat the Soviets.”
Sure glad Reagan didn’t read that.
Newsweek did, too.
See either of the following links, which both include a link to a PDF of the original Newsweek story.
http://www.climategate.com/the-cooling-world-newsweek-1975
http://sweetness-light.com/archive/newsweeks-1975-article-about-the-coming-ice-age
So, someone is sowing disinformation with this photoshopped Time cover, but the truth is that the green alarmists a generation ago were up in arms that we were all going to freeze.
That didn’t further their socialist agenda much, so they switched to anthropogenic global warming, and have had much more success in “punishing” the industrialized world and trying to redistribute its wealth to other countries.
Oops,
Doug it seems you were caught in the same error as CBS News’ when they put up a goofy image of GW’s book: insufficient fact checking.
Although I am willing to believe that yours was unintentional, and theirs may have been snarky.
I invite any Gorbal Warming enthusiast to Google the Great New York Blizzard of 1888 (58″ of snow, days of subfreezing temperatures, 400 dead, 1.2 Billion 2010 dollars in loss), compare it to the rather Minor New York Blizzard of 2010, and explain which blizzard reflects man-made Gorbal Warming–the one from 132 years ago or last week. Or was the earlier one a clear sign of Gorbal Cooling? Did we miss an Ice Age in the 30′s? I thought that was dust. . .
The photoshopped cover is fake but accurate.
On December 30th, 2010 at 9:38 pm, beenthere said:
Indeed! Hey, that was good enough for Dan Rather and CBS, right?
Can you imagine how cold it would be without global warming.
Up is down. Right is wrong, In is out. Truth is falsehood. Black is white. Good is bad. Red is Green… Ad infinitum, ad nauseum. Such is the leftist worldview.