Posted by Kate at February 13, 2008 6:50 PM
Despite having hundreds of sonar contacts over the years, the trail has since gone cold and Rines believes that Nessie may be dead, a victim of global warming.
Stunning comment, in a breathtakingly stupid way...
Posted by: Bruce at February 13, 2008 7:13 PMSome enterprising reporter should get Dr. CBC Fruit Fly Guy on the record about this.
Posted by: Kate at February 13, 2008 7:18 PMHe may not be available, Kate...apparently he's jetting to the Caribbean to speak at some conference. Apparently he feels his carbon footprint isn't as gigantic as the Goreacle. He's suffering from "footprint envy"...
Posted by: Bruce at February 13, 2008 7:25 PMWell the science for each is equally as valid... ;)
Posted by: langmann at February 13, 2008 7:28 PMNot to worry; there are reports of similar 'lake monsters' in many of the lakes around the world. There's the Memphramagog Monster in the Eastern Townships of Quebec, there's one in Lake Champlain in Northern Vermont. Heck - they're all over the world.
Posted by: ET at February 13, 2008 7:32 PMET:
Your failure to mention the Ogopogo is noted. You are on my list...
Posted by: rabbit at February 13, 2008 7:40 PMKinda figures that a non-existent creature would be killed by a non-existent phenomenon.
Posted by: Zip at February 13, 2008 7:43 PMMayhaps just something called old age? Nah.Can't base a ponzi scheme on that.
Posted by: Justthinkin at February 13, 2008 7:44 PMYuppers, good old AGW is messin with all of our fairy tales.
The easter bunny's warren is like a sauna.
The tooth fairy has been cited for a heavy carbon footprint(all that flying, you know)
Santa is living in a swamp.
Quick, dr fruit fly and goreacle, save the tin man, pleeeeeeeeeeease!
Posted by: kingstonlad at February 13, 2008 7:52 PMWhat's next? Humpty Dumpty fell because of global warming?
And here I thought Dick Cheney pushed him.
Some greedy businessman should go to jail for ignoring global warming and killing poor Nessie.
Posted by: Shamrock at February 13, 2008 8:14 PMAny bets that on the eve of this years tourist season that the Scots will suddenly start reporting sightings..
Posted by: tom at February 13, 2008 8:14 PMThe Globe & Mail is all for global warming.
from their website:
"Canada under winter strangleholdComment186
Blizzards in West, wicked wind chill in North, record snowfall in central Canada and a major system bears down on Maritimes 11:57 AM"
Time to head to the beach me-thinks :)
Posted by: Fred at February 13, 2008 8:16 PMA mythical reason (using the mythical climate condition) for explaining the mythical disappearance of a mythical being. Wait until Suzuki gets this off to his GreenPeace ilk.
Bottom line, they really need to outlaw stupid pills. Way too many addicts out there.
Posted by: Mike T at February 13, 2008 8:23 PMAnnouncer: Nessie the Plesiosaur, now that you have been extincted by Global Warming, what are you gonna do?
Nessie the Plesiosaur: I'm going to Disneyland!
Posted by: Shere Khan at February 13, 2008 8:25 PMHeh... Nessie's off to the pub for a pint with the lads, is all....
(hey, if the Goracle, Dr Fruitfly and the lefty enviro-moobats can imagine AGW, I can imagine a friggin' dinosaur having a pint - fairytale is fairytale)
Posted by: Caveman at February 13, 2008 8:35 PMLooking forward to the Vancouver Sun reporting the same fate befell bigfoot. Darn, I was hoping to spot one sometime in my life time. I spent a few weeks in Scotland, and walked about a mile of Loch Ness shoreline, and asked a handful of Scots if they thought Nessie was real, and all I got was a bit of a wry smile, and a wink. Ah tourism -- it's all about casting a bit of intigue, and playing on it.
Posted by: gobi desert at February 13, 2008 8:42 PMIt is impossible to do satire on the Left anymore. Can't be done. No matter how completely ridiculous the satire is, the sons of biscuits will come along a week later and trump you.
Nessie killed by global warming. Gawd.
Posted by: The Phantom at February 13, 2008 8:42 PMAnd I always thought that a drunk Scotsman caught Nessie with a fishing pole one night, and made a slightly off-tasting haggis out it.
Oh well, one story is as good as another.
Posted by: rockyt at February 13, 2008 9:07 PMCheck out Number Watch:
A complete list of things caused by global warming:
http://www.numberwatch.co.uk/warmlist.htm
Posted by: LEDA at February 13, 2008 9:17 PMNessie's not dead. Why is Robert Rines ignoring the scientific evidence?!
1996-2005... http://www.lochness.co.uk/fan_club/thisyr.html
2006... http://www.cryptomundo.com/cryptozoo-news/lnm-2006/
He wasn’t killed by climate change. He was slaughtered by 30 years of this!
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This just in...breaking news...the sub-prime mortgage crisis in the US was caused by....Global Warming...
AlGore told me...
Posted by: Bruce at February 13, 2008 9:27 PMI'm for cutting the old guy a break. He's 85 and his monster is dead from Global Warming. How else are you going to end the story after you've wasted 37 years of your life because you failed to process the ramifications of the lack of an "s" at the end of Lock Ness Monster.
Posted by: penny at February 13, 2008 9:36 PMYou've got to be kidding?! This guy should be bumping into walls at the old folks home trying to pinch nurse's bums.
Aye , but I got a wee nessie nestled under ma kilt
http://www.snopes.com/photos/risque/queen.asp
Posted by: cal2 at February 13, 2008 9:43 PMSomeone's gonna pay for this dammit ......
Posted by: Bill D. Cat at February 13, 2008 10:01 PMNessie killed by global warming.
Someone in front of an HRC would have to prove that AGW did not kill Nessie.
Posted by: Brent Weston at February 13, 2008 10:07 PMI can't believe all you deniers. The debate is over. There is a scientific consensus that Nessie was killed by Climate Change. Anybody that says otherwise should be jailed.
Posted by: CanuckInMI at February 13, 2008 10:42 PMFor whatever it's worth, this picture was shown a lot until someone pointed out that the waves in Loch Ness are only about 2 inches.
So that would make the object in the picture, what, maybe 4 or 5 inches?
The general opinion is that the object may be some kind of duck with its head under water and its tail sticking up.
Posted by: Greg in Dallas at February 13, 2008 11:06 PM*
now that you mention it... i haven't seen spiderman, or
the fantastic 4... lately either.
that dastardly global warming must be stopped before
it's too late.
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Posted by: neo at February 13, 2008 11:46 PMOnce upon a time there was three little pigs.The first little piggy studied real hard and became an expert on friut flys. The second little piggy became Vice President of the United States. The third little piggy became leader of the Green Party.
I wonder how Jack and his beanstalk are doing
Posted by: Keith at February 14, 2008 12:22 AMGreg in Dallas:
It makes little or no difference whether the photo is genuine or not; the photo has a truthiness about it, and is useful in supporting the narrative being advanced.
Just like Al Gore's forlorn, dazed and confused polar bears.
Or the CBC's Photoshopped picture of Toronto smokestacks.
Or the faked Lebanon war photos.
Or the leftie who got to keep her Pulitzer for an autobiography that turned out to be fraudulent.
Posted by: Richard Ball at February 14, 2008 12:39 AMZip - Ya give me a chuckle ... great realism.
Posted by: ural at February 14, 2008 12:52 AMIf I didn't know better I'd swear that picture was of a llama swimming in the loch.
With what appears to be its wool coat on.
No doubt its cold in that deep water and a llama/monster would need a warm coat.
See;my scientific consensus says it can't be global warming cause the llama says so.
After all,its in there swimming...and wearing the coat so it should know.
Nessie is not dead, Elvis told me she was being held at area 51 along with a few "Samsquash" (That's how Bubbles in the Trailer Park Boys calls them)
She will be soon taken away to another planet by those Aliens who have since taken over the US since they crash landed in 1942
And 9/11 a terrorist attack? Don't make me laugh! It was Bush, Cheney and Powell who planted dynamite during the night when everybody was asleep...I know, Quebecois Separatist told me.
Rosie for President!
Posted by: Grind a Grit at February 14, 2008 9:48 AMSo there side has the fruit-fly fascist and the guy who thinks the loch ness monster is real and we have logic.
Boy, that'll make me change sides.
Posted by: Warwick at February 14, 2008 11:01 AMNessie did NOT die. She is on stage in Texas this morning, running for POTUS.
Evidence? Well, have you EVER seen any proof that the Hill has legs instead of *flips*?
Posted by: Yoop at February 14, 2008 11:26 AMOgopogo, a no show here also :)
How is it, that obvious Myths/Hoaxes can have such long lives ?
Simple. The Media Dumbs-Down everything -- even the news, in the quest for a "good" story.
That a species, with a population of one, could survive for eons is possible ? Leave that part out. aka, Dumb-it-down.
Big Foot ? Smarter than the Down-Dumbers.
Alien Crop Circles ? Ignore the Candy Wrapper in the middle.
Kyoto ? Don't talk about the broken hockey stick.
Thousands and thousands of examples.
That the Media has caused mankind grief for centuries is a given. Perhaps Kate The Great's triumph over an admitted Spin Doctor is the Turning Point of the Age.
Posted by: ron in kelowna at February 14, 2008 2:04 PMEvidently the Medieval Climactic Optimum didn't kill the Nessies, but Globular Enwarmament did.
Who knew?
Posted by: Sigivald at February 14, 2008 5:29 PMGlobal warming IS real. I used to doubt it, but not since David Suzuki kicked my door in and him and his taser explained it to me 50,000 volts at a time.
I also take my movies back to Blockbuster on time now.
Hey I need more dinosaur-juice to run my new Ford 4x4 truck...Squeeeeze that thang!!
Posted by: DirtCrashr at February 14, 2008 6:33 PMSquawk squawk Im going to get violent if i hear someone call me a glorified reptile IM NO DAMN REPTILE IM A BIRD SQUAWK SQUAWK SQUAWK
Posted by: spurwing plover at February 14, 2008 10:59 PM