Quiz of the day.
Global warming is:
a) the most serious issue of our times, dooming us to certain death any time now, so use paper bags and crappy lightbulbs, you peons!
b) a great excuse for rich people to fly over to Spain for the Climate Change & Wine Conference, to listen to Al Gore speak while enjoying a fine, robust red.
c) obviously a complete load of crap and a total hoax and scam, based on the discordance between a) and b), a disconnect obvious to you and me, but not to our moral and intellectual superiors on the elite Left.
Who is that? Is that really Al Bore? Man that picture must have been taken long before any global warming taking place! Big Al has eaten some serious grits since that pic was taken. How much global warming did all that eating cost I’m wondering.
Obviously he has given up exercise as it causes increased CO2 production.
C
Al Gore is the very model of conspicuous consumption.
http://www.globalissues.org/TradeRelated/Consumption/Rise.asp
Maybe the Spaniards are hoping for ice wine crops in the future. That must be a circa 2000 picture of Gore. He’s 200 lbs heavier and a lot grayer now.
do you twits have any idea how much the global wine industry is worth annually? do you have any idea how much climate impacts the success or failure of any given year’s crop?
think about it and then maybe you’ll understand why wine makers are concerned about climate change.
afterwards, finish your KFC and swallow the remaining dregs of your piss warm budwieser, wash your faces and get to bed.
hey shaidle, a fine robust red might improve your pissy attitude towards the world..and possibly clear up the spots on your ass….
Say Jeff, tone down the bark there! You’re starting to sound like my neighbour’s chihuahua!
The actual issue here is the duplicity of Al’s mission; big Al creates more greenhouse gases while jetting about to the various conferences -like a celebrity – rather than say, teleconferencing. The very hypocrisy of his position is nauseating.
As the old saying goes; I will believe its a crisis when people who tell me its a crisis start acting like its a crisis. Big Al ain’t. Pure and simple.
By the way, are you an example of the forward thinking liberal or the kind at Rabble? Because your comments are rather immature.
Jeff has had too much wine already, and it’s only the morning! Wish you could make a bigger carbon footprint by flying over there yourself, Jeff?
I wonder how much all those flights over to Spain are contributing to ‘global warming’. Email conference, people! It’s a sacrifice, but we all have to do our part . . .
“Ice-wine. . .” tee-hee. Good one, Greg.
My Budwieser is nice and cold thanks to that energy sucking fridge in my basement……
My, my. Jeffy has his knickers in a knot. Actually, global warming would be good for the wine industry. During the Medieval Warm Period, when it was actually warmer than what the AGW-mongers are predicting, there was a thriving wine industry in England.
I guess if I were to go to Jeffy’s photo blog, I’d find a whole raft of pictures of the inside surface of the lens cap, eh?
Low was -33 this am high 22-23 so like if that goes up a degree al sez the ice will melt,
C:
If it was real the sea levels would be rising everywhere. They are not.
Thats why they say in 100 yrs it WILL go uo 20 feet.
Not:
Since the dawn of massive industrialization in the late 30’s sea level has gone up 1,2, 10 feet because it has not. Some places have gone up others down.
jeffy boy doesn’t seem to recall that they used to grow wine grapes in England.
Little jeffy probably doesn’t get that England used to be much warmer than it is now.
As to wineries: I had the pleasure of working this past Harvest season at the second-largest winery in Canada.
load up on this, jeffy: that ONE winery has the carbon footprint of a small city. When the 75,000 to 185,000 litre tanks are fermenting, you can SEE the carbon dioxide pouring out of the tops of them. A person can barely breath up on the catwalks when they are going.
Fresh water is used by the thousands of litres daily- and a great deal of it goes right down the drain.
And the electricity usage!
While you are cheering for that bloated gasbag gore, jeffy, the fine wine he is drinking is directly contributing to the faux problem he is trying to ram down our throats.
Reminds me- I think I’ll have a nice glass of wine tonight, as well.
What would High Park Jeffie know about “robust reds?” He’s a white wine spritzer kind of guy.
“think about it and then maybe you’ll understand why wine makers are concerned about climate change.”
Jeff D.
Notice Jeff was careful to use their newer name: “Climate change” instead of global warming knowing that a warmer season would probably mean a good, plentiful batch of vino…
Soon the leftards new moniker will be: “inconvenient Weather” as more and more people are realizing it’s just that; it’s the weather, stupid.
Especially the ones who paid attention to grandpa at christmas when he said in the 1930’s he remembers how hot and dry it was with no snow for most of that decade.
They did’nt blame the Ford with rumble seat back then, they were much closer and atuned to nature.
So Jeff get out of the house, out of mama’s basement and go for a hike in a provincial park, you might just see some info like:
“These huge boulders where slowly pushed by glaciers during last ice age” or “This valley was formed by a once mighty river”
Grind a Grit
“do you have any idea how much climate impacts the success or failure of any given year’s crop?”
Er…none at all?
I think you are talking about weather, not climate.
But most of you lefty climate freaks tend to make that mistake. Just remember: Climate is what we expect. Weather is what we get.
Definately “C”…..and I might add:
… that the core driving force for this AGW/Kyoto scare were the UN globalist elites who look for any excuse to further UN agenda 21.
The end result being central control of natural resources, food production and land use by a central, easily corruptable non elected “committee”.
Does it now make sense why super rich elites like David [Lord] Rothschild, Marxist carpetbaggers (Moe Strong and Gore) and globalist profiteers (George Soros) would would jump on the Al Gore AGW bandwagon?
Global resource rationing, tax-atrophied lifestyle and population control systens for the peons but jet set wine and cheese parties for the global elites who want to run our lives after they collapse our democratic systems and free market economies.
Jeff the sophist scolds:
“think about it and then maybe you’ll understand why wine makers are concerned about climate change.”
Then we move grape production to the warm fertile places they used to grow grapes before all this mini ice-age happened…say Greenland, Newfoundland, Norway and Britain…how about some Athabasca Cabernet?
Jeff I see you still have the same choking hubris which allows you to accept everything you’re told at face value and call those who engage in critical thinking to be some sort of deficient intellect which cannot be conditioned as easily as the programmed leftbot…sad really.
I think these people can sell their services as Global Warmist’s(?) just call them if you need warm weather for a special ocasion and ‘voila’ the Hot Aired Wind Bags show up and that area of the globe is taken care of.
Someone sent this via email, don’t know if the birth year for all the people is correct but have a gander-
“July 8, 1947 Many of you will recall that on July 8, 1947, almost exactly
60 years ago, Witnesses claim that an unidentified flying object (UFO)
with five aliens aboard Crashed onto a sheep and cattle ranch just outside
Roswell, New Mexico. This is A well-known incident that many say has long
been covered up by the U.S. Air Force and other federal organizations and
Agencies. However, what you may NOT know is that in 1948, within nine
months to a year After that historic day, the following people were born:
Albert A. Gore, Jr.Hillary Rodham John F. Kerry William J. Clinton Howard
Dean Nancy Pelosi Dianne Feinstein Charles E. Schumer Barbara Boxer” See what
happens when aliens breed with sheep? I certainly hope this bit of
information clears up a lot of things for you. It Did for me.
or
d) the latest example of Chicken Little hyperventilating in his coop with a whole brigade of TV reporters on hand to record every spluttering wheeze.
I will allow jeffy one small grace: yes, SOME wine growers may be worried about changing climate.
But as Mr. Mackenzie notes, growing grapes will just be moved elsewhere.
In the meantime, DIFFERENT crops that can use those temps, will replace the grapes.
See, jeffy? All it requires is a little Thought.
GLOBAL WARMING HISTORIES BIGGIST FRUAD EVER aNd AL GORE THE WORLDS BIGGIST LIAR AND SNAKE OIL SALESMAN
folks, algore has changed his name
since he went McDonalds and supersized
he now goes by Allgore
jeff, watch your step.
Someone here just might file a compliant with the HRC for hate speech.
You think I’m kidding?
Sort of on the topic.
Someone with the talent, software, and time-on-their-hands could do a short video of the following.
Call it “Al Gore Rhythm” (Algorithm-get it?). First, put down a track of rhythm for rap music.
Then take little sound bytes of his voice, and synchronize them repetitively with the beat of the music. Then little pictures of his talking head (Monty-Python style). I will leave all the rest to whoever wants to do this.
Its B! It’s got to be B! Spanish wine is really good and if I could create a giant global scam that would mean that I and my friends could go to Spain to drink it and hang out and talk about all the people we mutually hate, all paid for by the UN?
hell!
I WOULD! TOTALLY!
(Oh, and Kathy? it’s “a disconnect obvious to you and me…”, HJW)
“jeffy boy doesn’t seem to recall that they used to grow wine grapes in England.”
Used to?
They still do.
http://www.englishwineproducers.com
Oh dear. I see it’s time for me to “get drunk/laid/raped” again…
Funny how often, in forums like this, my (male) opponents (not always leftists, either) declare that some uppity female like me needs an “attitude adjustment”, involving the application of booze and/or pricks.
Funny too how, for folks who envision themselves as all enlightened and highly evolved, progressives so often reveal their main concern to be the satisfaction of transitory base appetites, which they view to be the cure all for every societal ailment.
Witness their knee jerk response to critics of multiculturalism: ‘But what about all the great restaurants?’
Or their insistence on sex ed for very young kids.
And their frankly hysterical reaction when anyone (the Pope, say) dares to suggest that the satisfaction of one’s passing urges isn’t the be all and end all of life.
They don’t just politely disagree. Like Jeff, they blow fuses.
The expression “touched a nerve” always comes to mind.
Personally, I enjoy these glimpses into the dark recesses of the leftist mind. One should always know one’s enemies.
You know, to me it just goes to show (by the amount of money the Goracle has made ) that there is a sucker born every minute, and the sky(which is falling) is the limit on how much money you can take from stupid people. A old guy once told me that stupid people can’t feel it when they are slapped with their own wallet!!!
(OT, but what the hell, I’m sure he keeps checking back, so he will see this hint.)
Jeff,
Here’s a hint from a successful amature photog with growing sales:
To get a good image of that elusive “Green-eyed Monster” (jealously, envy) you need to do the following:
Set camera on tripod, facing mirror. Stand behind camera. Take correct exposure of image exhibited in mirror. Print.
You will now possess photographic proof of the personification of envy.
Jeff,
You’re a special type of stupid.
You, as usual, miss the point.
If wine growers are interested Kyoto, perhaps their method to address the situation should not be to F’ing ADD TO IT YOU BELLIGERENT RETARD!!!
But, as usual in condescending and foolish leftards, they miss the logic.
Funny though, a perceived attack on your favourite beverage is enough to turn yourself into a capitalist… for a brief second. And skip the KFC and Bud crap, it’s NDP voting factory workers who are on YOUR side that consume that garbage. It’s right-wing Bay Street investment bankers who swill Chateau Margaux.
Oh, and the other posters are correct, Britain used to be one of the world’s largest producers of wine at a time when it was too hot in France. That was the middle ages when Eric the Red was in FACT farming on Greenland’s lush and fertile land. I guess those 100 years war era Chevy Suburbans really messed things up…
Oh, and all of France’s vines come from California after some disastrous aphids ruined France’s and laid waste to the French wine industry in the mid-19th century.
It’s annoying enough having to tolerate stupid people. It would at least be a consolation if stupid people would recognise their lack of intellect and shut up and leave the rest of us alone.
Shouldn’t the name of the conference be “Wining about Conference Change”?
Lol jeffy thats not her bum with spots thats your face ya libtard.
This quote from the site linked it the post says it all.
“The Climate Change of Al Gore Presented in Marbella”
And Kathy, I love it when you talk like that.
Jeff must be masochistic.
Wine-sipping elites can worry about their over-priced grape juice, I don’t care for the stuff myself.
As I recall from the history books,(the ones printed prior to “Political Correctness Gone Mad”) the area where Eric the Red landed was named by him “VINELAND” — Now why do you suppose that was? Could it be there were grapevines growing there?
Idiot boy advises a “fine robust red” – in wine terms, this is usually code for over priced, pretentious crap with a French label. It’s the kind of plonk jeffy would brandish about at a dinner party while his friends nod approvingly.
And now for something more disturbing; yesterday he was defending an affection for anal sex, today he’s accusing people of having spots on their bottoms. it’s pungent and sweaty in jeffy land…
Newsweek;
[Al Gore just won a Nobel Prize for teaching the world to think green, but he’s also showing he knows a thing or two about another kind of green: money. Since 2000, according to published reports, the former veep has transformed himself from a public servant with around $1 million in the bank to a sparkling private consultant with a net worth estimated to be north of $100 million. He’s a senior adviser to Google, a board member at Apple and now a newly minted general partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, the Silicon Valley venture-capital firm that made billions investing early in Netscape, Amazon and Google.]
That Al Gore is a fraud, is not in doubt. But have you ever see anyone, even a Kinsella, defend him ?
Ever seen a point by point argument on why the UK judge was wrong, in ruling there are many incorrect claims in Al Gore’s “Work” ? Telling.
The interesting part will be how any Fraud Charges play out the next ten years. And who might be implicated as advisers to Prime Ministers and Presidents. Hang on ! It will be a Hell-Of-A-Ride !
jeffy-poo, jeffy-poo, if you did not have your head so far up your rectum, you could see soemthing other than your own fecal matter.
Do you have any idea fo how stupid you make yourself look? Your fecal matter is REALLY stupid.
You’re right that it isn’t always lefties who can get stupid and rude. I cringe everytime a fellow conservative goes there. I will say though that the left is much worse. I can get coarse when I’m in the mood, but I can’t believe what I’ve read on leftie blogs. It’s the anger and insults that get tossed around too. For supposedly tolerant folk, they really don’t want to hear an opinion other than their own and can get pretty nasty in saying so.
Sorry Kathy, last post was supposed to be addressed to you. Oops.
“load up on this, jeffy: that ONE winery has the carbon footprint of a small city. When the 75,000 to 185,000 litre tanks are fermenting, you can SEE the carbon dioxide pouring out of the tops of them. A person can barely breath up on the catwalks when they are going.”
Since we’re being all accurate and stuff, note that the fermentation process is just re-releasing carbon dioxide that was absorbed by the vines earlier in the season. So averaged out over the year, there’s no gigantic carbon footprint.
I stare out my window and look at billions and billions of tonnes of carbon locked up in dolomites and limestones, all of which was in the atmosphere at one time.
the ego of the ecofreaks to think we make one iota of a difference in the grand scheme of things is astounding.
In a couple of million years the fossil record of this human era will be about 1mm of sediment with a slight iron content and some stable plastic hydrocarbons.
“See Spot”
and to this day, jeff can’t let his first set of instructions go.
leave jeffy alone
he’s just practicing getting “STUPID” right:P
Hillary Clinton states she wants to fight Global Warming; she wants to fight something that doesn’t even exist.
Wow Jeff, one degree warmer and the grape crops are going to turn into raisins instead of wine? Actually, warm weather only ripens the fruit faster….yah, that could be a big challenge.
http://www.leelanaunews.com/blog/2007/11/05/warmth-helps-grape-crops-quality/
““They’re in the tank and were already starting to rack some,” Simpson said. “We’re done about a week early because of this summer’s warm temperatures.”
Unseasonably warm and dry weather over the summer hastened the development of all county fruit crops, including cherries, apples and grapes. And while drought conditions had a negative effect on grape size, quality was reported to be good to excellent.
“Quality is unparalleled this year. The grape crop is high in sugar and just the right acid balance,” he said. “It makes for lazy wine making because you don’t have to add anything to them. Just smash them and let them do their thing.””
The wine industry will survive in spite of Big Fat Phony Al’s rhetoric. It would take a lot more than a glass to listen to or dine with that Shamster.
We have all experienced good and bad growing seasons, it has been so everywhere around the world since recorded history.
As for the screwy light bulbs, well, they’re screwy which brings up all sorts of connotations.
Come on, feel sorry for algore. He needs lots of wine to recover from the shock of losing a UN award to George Clooney. (Drudge)
First the election, now an award, what a loser.
Personal attacks on Gore seem like an easy way to rack up some hits but don’t really refute his argument in any way. The constant noise about him flying everywhere and “look-how-much-jet fuel-he-uses” is just ad hominem.
Also complaining about the fact that he is making money? Strange call on a right-wing site.
As I have stated before….
Al Gore flying around the world telling others to reduce their carbon footprints is NO different than an alcoholic driving drunk from AA meeting to AA meeting demanding everyone there quit drinking.
This was all so terribly interesting the first time we read about it way back there in Animal Farm.
Gray, ad hominen (*sniff*) attacks?
As was stated previously, Al’s science is porous, he creates more greenhouse gas emissions than most 3rd world countries while proclaiming to awaken the uneducated masses. And he is getting paid handsomely for this.
The man is hypocrisy embodied. He won’t actually meet with say, Dr. Tim Ball in a public debate, but he will scuttle about with an entourage billing (something like 25k$? can’t remember) for a 2 hour presentation that has NO science in it. There is something else in the mans agenda.
GW enthusiasts say that Dr. Ball is paid off by “Big Oil” and that’s OK, but to suggest that Big Al is paid off by CO2 credits is ad hominem? Puullleease.
Say this real slow; “I’ll believe its a crisis when those who are telling me its a crisis start acting like its a crisis”. This is a little thing I like to say to help separate bovine excrement from reality when reading global warming documents.
Oh, BTW, making money is not a sin nor is it a political perspective (there are even wealthy liberals – those that got money honestly – but they are few). Making money is a fact of life. But, just as I choose to ignore used car salespersons, i also choose to ignore Al Gore as I don’t like the sales pitch.
Anyway, buh bye now. And thanks for stinking the place up.