December 21, 2005
Greg Nickels, Call your office

Not to throw cold water on Mayor Nickels' campaign to save the planet from progress, or anything, but breaking news reminds us that global warming predates George W. Bush's opposition to the Kyoto Protocol: "Ice Age Footprints Said Found in Outback". The footprints were found in a former lake that dried up thousands of years ago after non-SUV-related global warming ended the last Ice Age.

We still expect Mayor Nickels will remain popular in certain high-density zones.

Posted by Stefan Sharkansky at December 21, 2005 08:47 PM | Email This
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1. As many geologists will tell you. The environment of the earth has never seen statis.

Though we know that we have had a noticeable impact on the environment in some manners, a reasonable study has yet to be conducted with consideration to all variables.

Oddly enough, pollution levels are likely to be much higher in blue, dense, and densly blue precints.

Posted by: grog on December 21, 2005 09:34 PM
2. Greg Nichels has his head up his A big time. Like the rest of the State Democrats, they cannot rob enough money from the people for their cadillac projects. I am sure everything is an emergency for them, and my money is an emergency for me.

Posted by: GS on December 21, 2005 09:41 PM
3. Come on Stefan, Greg is a NICE guy, don't fault him for being a lousy liberal mayor with his head up his flabby a$$. Politics is not chex-treats.

Posted by: Amused by liberals on December 22, 2005 12:29 AM
4. Don't forget that Puget Sound was covered by a several thousand foot thick ice sheet only 14-15 thousand years ago. A blink of the eye in geologic time. The question is: why there were 4 episodes of glacial advance (= global cooling?) in such a short time--about a million years--during the Pleistocene?
Too short a time to blame continental drift and disruption of ocean circulation.

The phony computer models were adjusted to give the anti-SUV nuts the results they wanted.

Posted by: jcub on December 22, 2005 04:40 AM
5. Graet editorial in this morning's WSJ on the dodorail fiasco

Posted by: JDH on December 22, 2005 08:06 AM
6. How many thousands of years old do the scientists estimate the footprints to be? This could conflict with the conservative Biblical interpretation of how old the world is. I just don't want your readership to think you are disrespecting their religion in an attempt to win an ecological argument.

Posted by: Winston Smith on December 22, 2005 08:30 AM
7. Winston, they are finding bones 25k years ago. How old does that make it?

Megadittores on the request by JDH to have a discussion on the dodorail.

Posted by: swatter on December 22, 2005 08:37 AM
8. Over the ages, the earth has gone through warm and cold periods. But now, it's politically correct to assume that our activities have caused global warming. All this might be true, to some extent, but the earth does what it does without any direction from us.

Should we try to cut down on the use of fossil fuels? Yes, in my opinion. I'm all for having cars that use less gas. I'm for a fusion reactor to provide electricity rather that coal-fired plants. I'm for all the good stuff that advanced technlogy offers, but I want it all to be market-driven and not implemented by government edict.

Posted by: Libertarian on December 22, 2005 09:02 AM
9. swatter, Here's the link and an excerpt

http://www.opinionjournal.com/cc/?id=110007712

'Emerald City in "The Wizard of Oz," there is a dark side. Local governance has come to resemble that in those old movie Westerns--the ones where the powerful get what they want, public officials eat at their trough, and townsfolk eat dust and pay the bills.'

Posted by: JDH on December 22, 2005 09:20 AM
10. I just don't want your readership to think you are disrespecting their religion in an attempt to win an ecological argument.

Winston, you're an idiot. There are very few conservative Christians that actually interperet the Bible that way.

Posted by: Mike H on December 22, 2005 09:29 AM
11. The Global Warmists cover all bases by claiming that Global Warming will eventually bring on the next ice age:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/11/1130_051130_ice_age.html

Evidence that human activities have only a miniscule effect on climate change continues to mount, counter to the belief system of the Global Warmist cult, which maintains that human activities are the sole source of warming.

http://www.junkscience.com/

http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2000/ast20oct_1.htm

So I just don't buy into the Kyoto equation:

Earth + Warming = USA Pays

What if the earth cools? Do we get money back?

Posted by: starboardhelm on December 22, 2005 09:30 AM
12. JDH, I was hoping Stefan would post it; and maybe he will a little later.

Posted by: swatter on December 22, 2005 09:47 AM
13. Starboardhelm: Do you wear a seatbelt. It's been proven they don't save lives by the same "scientists" that feed you the swill that you want to hear about global warming. Off shore oil wells don't pollute beaches either. It's all a scam.

Forget about modern medicine , too. Scientists have proven that praying is just as effective --- in the long run. It's a statistical fact, Sparky!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Winston Smith on December 22, 2005 09:49 AM
14. Mike H: You're the idiot. You say and fervently believe whatever you momentarily feel will win your argument du jour. You are a professional practitioner of doublethink.

Posted by: Winston Smith on December 22, 2005 09:53 AM
15. Here's a good article:

http://www.whoi.edu/institutes/occi/currenttopics/abruptclimate_joyce_keigwin.html

Ignore the Winston troll. His faith in the tenets of the Global Warmists has blinded him. He's probably too young to recall Jimmy Carter's prediction of a new ice-age coming, and how that fell out.

The Global Warmists are fudging on their predictions even now -- next they'll probably change their name to the more flexible "Climate Changeists". Motto: "I believed the Earth was warming before I believed the Earth was cooling because it was warming."

Posted by: starboardhelm on December 22, 2005 09:55 AM
16. Starboardpoopdeck: Could you work in the phrase, "liberal mantra" in your next senseless rant? I'd be ever so thrilled, really I would!!!!!!!! Just put it anywhere. None of your stuff makes any sense anyway.

Posted by: Winston Smith on December 22, 2005 11:50 AM
17. Unfortunately Winston can't make sense of any of this because:
"They are darkened in their understanding and separated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardening of their hearts" Ephesians 4:18.
I would urge you, Winston to start at the book of John and find out what is available to you. It's truth has no political, social or psychological boundaries. It is for all of us and will give you peace that you've never known.

Posted by: Nancy on December 22, 2005 12:26 PM
18. Winston posts here, then runs over to HA to get his pats on the back. Very impressive (not). Please spare us...you're embarrassing yourself. Really.

Posted by: KDA on December 22, 2005 12:39 PM
19. A new search engine... Ask Winston.. He is....smart? The Kyoto Accord is a joke rejected by the then Democrat controlled senate 98 to zip. Why...? Because they realized that our country would be punished the most because we are the most productive. Hey...wait...lets adopt Kyoto and let the rest of the world starve because the good old US feeds the world. Swish...three points.....nothing but net....go to commercial...an Archer Daniels Midlands sponsor.

Posted by: Shmoe on December 22, 2005 05:45 PM
20. Winston,

What noted scientific organization certifies Al Gore's theory that the internal combustion engine causes global warming?

Posted by: Amused by liberals on December 22, 2005 05:55 PM
21. There y'all go asking headlice (AKA winston) those hard questions again.

Let's start with the basics: headlice, do you walk to school or carry your lunch?

Posted by: alphabet soup on December 22, 2005 07:05 PM
22. There y'all go asking headlice (AKA winston) those hard questions again.

Let's start with the basics: headlice, do you walk to school or carry your lunch?

Posted by: alphabet soup on December 22, 2005 07:06 PM
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