62 Replies to “Let Me Fix That Headline For You”

  2. Kate, I agree.;)
    We stopped our subscription about ten years ago when it became apparent to us that it had been taken over by eco-wackjobs.
    The last good article that I remember was an article about how there are more trees in North America now than there were before honky arrived on these fair shores.

  3. The global cooling caused by these high carbon clouds wouldn’t be as catastrophic as a superpower-versus-superpower nuclear winter,
    but “the effects would still be regarded as leading to unprecedented climate change.”

    Catastrophic Climate Change only gives us snow in Hollywood.
    Charlie Sheen needs to chill out anyway.
    But Nuclear Climate Change will suck the paint off your house and give your entire family an Orange Afro.
    –
    I prefer the Charlie Sheen scenario.

  4. “Bring back the African ladies with naked boobies”
    You mean, Janet Jackson showing one off at the super bowl?…;-)
    National Geographic has been hijacked by crazy New World Order proponents who say that the world needs a population reduction of several billion souls…Very many of whom are “African ladies with naked boobies”.
    We do live in insane times. May the life loving God be with us.

  5. The Mount St Helens eruption was equivalent to 500×15 KT Hiroshima bombs.
    Did it lead to a nuclear winter scenario?
    No.
    There is no Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warming.

  6. OZ

    There is no Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warming.

    President Obama-
    Our World Peace leader,
    and Nobel Peace Prize winner,
    told us that we are having Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warming.
    (Are you Racists?) heh

  7. Another formerly great American publication circles the bowl. Its like Liberals have the reverse-Midas Touch.
    Just one more example of Leftist imbeciles who milk the cow but never buy hay.

  8. NG starting heading off the cliff about 20 years ago (at least). I cancelled my subscription after I noticed that every issue had at least one photo of an impoverished young girl, with eyes so large that they must have been photoshopped, captioned with “the future of {third world country} can be seen in little Malwiki’s eyes.”
    The country name would change from issue to issue, but it sure seemed to me that the little girl’s name was always the same. I could be wrong on that detail, though.
    Certainly the photo was always posed the same: young girl, brown skin, enormous eyes with a look that could convey anything — determination? Fear? Uncertainty? Could have been anything, allowing any editorial use of the image — with her head tilted to the left in the classic head-tilt-of-sympathy pose. In the background, either bone-crushing urban poverty or a water logged rice paddy-like farm scene.
    Predictable, predictable, predicatable.

  9. National Geographic is being mocked in their own comments nicely.
    Do not click on the “Vote To Decide The Winner!” contest on the right; it’s just disgusting, to do what they’re doing, to little kids.

  10. It was bad enough when it was run by filthy rich doddering old fools
    with a fetish about being on the cutting edge of Kodak colour photography.
    Once the push came to get it into every classroom by meeting standards set by
    the marxist educational establishment things really went south.

  11. If you really want a nuclear war, start the rumor that living withing 500 miles of a nuclear detonation causes dramatic penis enlargement in men and breast enlargement in women … (to get them to go along with it).

  12. Small Nuclear War Could Reverse Global Warming for Years
    Regional warcould spark “unprecedented climate change,” experts predict.
    So, I wonder what region the computer models would predict as the most likely to resort to nuclear bombing? Which country is the most likely target in that regional war?
    Those NASA guys – geniuses. Wasn’t it just last year that NASA’s mission was changed from space exploration to Muslim outreach and terrestrial climate change? Now, timely given recent ME events and Iran’s ambitions, they produce a report combining regional nuclear war with potentially positive effects on AGW.
    “The difficult we do right away, The impossible, takes just a while longer.”
    /sarc

  13. Thinking back to all those above ground nuclear tests of the 50’s, I guess we escaped global climate catastrophe by the skin of our teeth.

  15. Ahh, you are dealing with Young Earth Warmers. The 1950’s, 1930’s, MWP and any other inconvenient real world observations are irrelevant. It’s all in the computer models, dammit, and you aren’t allowed to be question the computer models. If you do, the wrath of Gaia may fall upon you.

  16. Well I could go for the nuclear war so long as all the lefties were standing on ground zero when the flash bang thingy happened.

  17. Great title Kate!
    From the comments on the National Geographic site:
    “A better solution would be to strap a suitcase nuclear device onto Al Gore and drop both into a volcano in Vanuatu. The resulting explosion would put enough ash, dust & gas into the atmosphere that would cool down the Earth.”

  20. Congrats to The Phantom for the best line of the day: Liberals have the reverse-Midas Touch.

  21. Oh … and I don’t really care to see the African women demonstrating what a gravity and bra-less life will do to the length of a breast. I have never been a fan of the elongated neck, 12″ diameter ear lobe, nor a neck stretched to giraffe proportions. And who can forget those stretched out lips that make some of those africans look more like ducks than people. And finally there is the skin carved scar art and the mega piercings.
    Ya there’s a lot to miss there in that old National Geographic mag.

  22. Abe
    Those ‘styles’ you speak of are popular with the youth. You’ll notice the giant hole in the earlobe style that’s popular today. As a parent I’m trying to mitigate the damage with a minor lip-ring.
    as far as gravity goes, see my ‘flap-jacks’ comment@ 9:32. mmmmmmm tasty:P

  24. Abe – ear-lobe “flesh tunnels” are now quite popular even with middle class kids, and creepy things they are, too. How long before we see the giraffe neck and the Amazonian plate-lip hanging around Starbucks?
    Skull moulding presents some ethical problems as you need to start with a baby (not sure about the neck thing).

  25. Oh, I see Indy beat me to it. Anyone notice how you see neck tattoos these days? How daring!
    (Indy – have you considered saying “no piercings! If you still want one when you’re 21 then knock yourself out.”? My guess is there’s a good chance your girls would be secretly relieved. Those holes never go away.)

  26. After 20+ years of subscribing, I too gave Nat Geo the heave ho a decade ago. In it’s day it was the bible of (travel & adventure)photography along with Life magazine. Once it became hijacked by the Birkenstock-with-a-cause bunch, it was the end.
    Just a side note: In all the years reading Nat Geo the one thing that struck me was a photo of the a fore mentioned ladies dancing with a female explorer who “went native” and joined the square dance. Strangely, her mammary glands had the infamous black censor bars while the rest of the troupe did not. I wondered at the time what they would have done if the explorer was “African-American?”
    p.s. Curious’ link to the explosion map is interesting to say the least.

  27. I recall the multiple tests done in the early 60’s and how cold it seemed in Regina, Sask, during those times… so this sounds like a viable solution to our impending doom.
    Could it be, that Iran is on our side after all, and their insane desire to bomb Israel off the face of the planet is what will ultimately save us all?
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nuclear_tests … There were more than 2000 tests done, in the early years most were done above ground, and the largest group of them were air dropped, not under the Nevada desert.
    As for National Geographic, I always thought those Brasilian amazon tribes were the way to go if one wanted to see the female of the species in her natural environment.

  28. Don’t really much care. Stopped subscribing to NG about 20 years ago. Still have not got around to throwing out the old collection… figure I’ll burn them as fuel now.

  29. “This is an awesome idea! Next time there is one of those UN IPCC “Global Warming Summits” let’s NUKE IT!!!!
    Kill lots of birds with one nuke!”
    From the “comments” at NG,by “Chupacabra”.

  30. Yes Mamba I have.
    We allowed our 15 yr old to get a lip-ring as a form of mitigation. We use the parenting philosophy to grant enough rope so that the child doesn’t inevitably break that rope. This is why I usually answer “What time would you like to come home tonight” when she asks me “What time must I be home dad”. This is a classic negotiating tactic to ensure I don’t get taken to the cleaners.
    Back to the lip-ring. IMview, it’s no different than an earring. We dictated where the ring was to go so that it wouldn’t leave a visible mark. We wouldn’t allow the “Monroe” for example. Time will tell if our methods are successful. To date, I claim ‘victory’ on the parenting front.
    Thanks for asking Mamba. Reading your comments lately, I’ve come to the opinion that you and my best half would get along like peas in a pod. Great minds think alike me thinks.

  31. Good point at 10:41 Kate.
    A quick search shows that the US/USSR total for 1958 surface bursts was 98 weapons and 119 weapons for 1962.
    Surely those two years alone should have killed the planet off? The total yield was north of 230,000 kilo tonnes.
    Why is we still here?

  32. Well it looks like they’ll need a bigger nuclear war . . . turns out Barry’s fitness requirements require 50,000 lbs of GhG’s to import his favorite personal trainer.
    “With a schedule as hectic as President Obama’s it must be hard to stick to a training regimen without help — but why does he insist on having his old trainer fly out from Chicago to D.C. regularly when Obama and his wife exhort the rest of us to drive less? And in a recession? According to Ashley Parker at the New York Times, Obama’s fitness czar Cornell McClellan comes out to D.C. every week”
    http://tinyurl.com/4gqxl89
    ”

  33. I still some nostalgia for the NG. As a kid, there was very little to do during long prairie winters (CBC and CTV were both boring). If it was too cold to go outside, I read. I read every NG magazine from 1981 to the mid 1990’s. Once and awhile I read my parent’s NG but the magazine is not of the same quality. The final straw was the oilsands hit-piece.
    The new NG nags and lectures. The old NG just let you glimpse strange people,places and animals without the guilt-trip. For me, the worst part is that I have not found anything comparable to the old NG to introduce kids to science and other cultures.
    Re:tattoos
    IMO, only those with the appropriate look and lifestyle should have them. Last year on the beach I noticed that everyone from teenyboppers to grannies sporting one. At this point, having a tattoo (or face piercing, for that matter)is as radical as owning a Honda Civic.

  34. That not subscribing to the NG seems to have happened to quite a few of us about the same time.

  35. It seems that the idea of nuclear war or sudden dips in world temperature are less offensive than the background assumption of AGW.
    National Geographic has always been about the pictures; it has also been careful for the most part to stay within the mainstream. Reading old copies during the viet nam war, it was mainly maps & pictures without any real indication of political controversy until nearly the end.
    And it is the same now. NG are simply accepting the assumptions of the military & government advisors, who are busily preparing strategies for the effects of global warming.
    So NASA [always unofficially part of the military] does a “nuclear climate”study. And it is presented to the AAAS.
    Like National Geographic, the American military is all over the globe; they can’t but take a global perspective. Sorry about the cognitive dissonance.
    Mt St Helens blew a lot of ash into the air, but unlike Pinatubo, it didn’t send huge amounts of SO2 up there [The blast went sideways]. SO2 caused the cooling effect & this study wanted to estimate the effects of black carbon.
    It’s really about Geo-Engineering, which is a popular approach to offsetting the warming trend.

  36. “…and I don’t really care to see the African women demonstrating what a gravity and bra-less life will do to the length of a breast. I have never been a fan of the elongated neck, 12″ diameter ear lobe, nor a neck stretched to giraffe proportions…” Abe Froman at 2/28 11:41AM.
    Well, Abe, the NG made up for that with their articles about the Pacific Islanders, with the body-art-free t*pless women, wearing only a smile and a sarong. 🙂

  37. @ Phantom
    “another once pround american magazine circles the bowl”
    Don’t ask me why but that made me snort my pop out my nose i was laughing so hard lol.
    I often wonder why we don’t even meet all of us like minded people , and just get to know each other i realize geography is one factor and creepyness is another but you sound like some good folks who i could really learn and laugh with.
    Have a great day all commenters on sda even troll’s .

  38. It’s really about Geo-Engineering, which is a popular approach to offsetting the warming trend.
    There is no warming trend.

  40. National Catastrophic. Canadian Catastrophic is even worse.
    Soothers for hand-wringers and bed-wetters.

  42. This is why I usually answer “What time would you like to come home tonight” when she asks me “What time must I be home dad”. This is a classic negotiating tactic to ensure I don’t get taken to the cleaners.
    Too late.

  44. rita,
    Did you know they still hand out polar bear hunting licenses. Yes a number of them are shot each year for whatever reason. I suspect the Inuit or Eskimo’s poach a few each year as well.
    Don’t tell Al. He thinks they are protected.

  45. Carl Sagan rejected his own nuclear winter theory in his last book “Demon Haunted Universe” because of a set of coincidences required for it that were unlikely to occur. It’s amusing that National Geographic hasn’t kept up with the science over the past 10 years.

  46. I guess those who warn about the twin perils of overpopulation and global warming have found their one-button solution.

  47. This is the same magazine that declared the citizens of India and Brazil the “Greenest”…with this great analysis:
    “Housing factors included dwelling size; energy use for heating, cooling, and appliances; and water needs. Brazilians topped this category because they typically have smaller homes, rarely use air conditioning or heating, and rely heavily on on-demand, tankless water-heating systems.
    Transportation behaviors measured included ownership rates and average usage of motorized vehicles, length of daily commutes, and utilization of public transport. Chinese scored highest on transportation, because, at least for now, most rely on bicycles or walking and drive few motorized vehicles per capita. ”

  48. Indy @1:03 – “Reading your comments lately, I’ve come to the opinion that you and my best half would get along like peas in a pod.”
    I’m going to take that as a compliment, Indy, ’cause I know you love the missus.
    (Look, I have a tattoo. Ewwwwww, right? Well, I agree. It’s small, unobtrusive, invisible unless I’m nude, and really just decorative [not a skull or writing or anything – actually it’s a little flower], but I hate the d*mn thing and I will have it burned off with lazers soon God willing [which ain’t cheap]. If my parents had cared enough to say “no way” when I was 17 I never would have gotten the horrible thing which I never genuinely wanted in the first place. So that’s why I said something about your girls and piercings, after you brought the subject up. And no more off-topic from me on this.)

  49. From NatGeo link: “The main message from our work,” NASA’s Oman said, “would be that even a regional nuclear conflict would have global consequences.”
    Right oh, brilliant then. Clearly this Oman dude must be a (drum roll please)rocket scientist.

  50. Abe Froman (Did you know they still hand out polar bear hunting licenses. Yes a number of them are shot each year…Don’t tell Al. He thinks they are protected).
    On TV I saw the polar bears falling out of the sky, (smashing down like the turkeys distributed in the classic WKRP episode) and the heartbreak on the children’s faces haunts me to this very day. I would support nukes if they would give those bears a soft landing and children could smile again.
    One of my favorite comments on the NG site was “every mushroom cloud has a silver lining”.

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