By Another global warming myth shattered once again:
HOW embarrassing. Global warming worriers have gone from warning Tuvalu will drown to wishing it damn well had.
But look at it now. Not drowning, but waving. And, er … growing too?
You remember Tuvalu, of course, even if you’ve never figured quite where it was.
For years this glittering string of atolls has been shoved in your face as the poster islands of the global warming faith – this Eden we were killing with our Western sin.
How often we were told it could be the first Pacific nation to be swallowed by the rising seas caused by our evil gases.
In fact, warned Al Gore in his An Inconvenient Truth, so dire was this danger that “the citizens of these Pacific nations have all had to evacuate to New Zealand”.
Of course, this claim was as phony as so many Gore made in a film that was honoured with an Oscar, endorsed as accurate by the CSIRO and shown with reverence in every school in the country.
As a British judge later ruled, there was no evidence of climate refugees from the Pacific having to be evacuated to New Zealand or anywhere else to escape rising seas.
But truth has counted for dangerously little in this debate, and warmists told one Tuvaluan tale after another of an endangered Polynesian paradise that grew steadily more mythical.
I don’t just mean that the scare was exploded to preposterous proportions, as in this newspaper report just last year: “More than 75 million people living on Pacific islands will have to relocate by 2050 because of the effects of climate change, Oxfam has warned.”
I mean also that warmists felt entitled to invent complete fantasies for the cause. [Andrew Bolt]
Read the rest from Andrew Bolt about the global warming alarmists lies in regards to Tuvalu and how the islands are not sinking but in fact growing according to a new scientific study that was recently published.
9:56 am on June 5th, 2010 1
Perhaps Tipper couldn't live the lie anymore? Maybe he was caught with some Eco-groupies? Very inconvenient indeed.
1:06 pm on June 5th, 2010 2
Maybe she can spend her new free time bringing the PMRC back to life.
1:10 pm on June 5th, 2010 3
More and more this story shows that people drinking the kool-aid are willing to believe anything if it sounds good. Fight global warming, health care for all, take from the rich give to the poor. It all sounds good, and it might have a few more fans if the supporters weren't so intent on lying to get more attention.
I wonder how much longer before people get it? Greece, California, and so many other places are now broke on their way to the 'utopia of fairness'.
I know of a couple of very real examples of business either moving out of states or getting rid of workers over tax increases. If you've never owned a business it's hard for you to understand, but a business owner doesn't just pay a tax increase, he will subtract employees until he brings the balance back to where it was. Cut his taxes? He'll add employees and expand to try and make more money. I know, I know, capitalism sucks that way. Unfortunately NO other form of government works, if it did, wouldn't all these people move somewhere other than the U.S.? If it's so much better in Europe, Canada, why can't all of the people that love it so much move there? Or is it just a lie, like the lies of global warming and universal health care that can provide for everyone?
1:50 pm on June 5th, 2010 4
Perhaps she found Al's secret stash of Frank Zappa albums. Weasels ripped my flesh, rizzzz!
On a positive note, it may be that Tipper is a bonafide three holer and she's now looking to make up for lost time.
Maybe Al just wanted to decrease his carbon footprint?
4:11 pm on June 5th, 2010 5
News flash: Europe and Canada have millions of immigrants.
4:57 pm on June 5th, 2010 6
"News flash: Europe and Canada have millions of immigrants."
News flash: Europe and Canada have millions of immigrants from places that are so sucky that Europe and Canada are paradises… oh, yeah, and the public assistance is good, too.
On the other hand, when the taxes get unreasonably high, the people who can, flee.
http://www.stopsmilingonline.com/story_detail.php…
5:08 pm on June 5th, 2010 7
Greenville, South Carolina (July 2, 2003)–KEMET Corporation (NYSE:KEM) "Commodity manufacturing currently in the United States will be relocated to our lower cost manufacturing facilities in Mexico and China." -of course the headquarters remains in Greenville, SC
taxes?
7:19 pm on June 5th, 2010 8
"Business" is too expansive a word. I think everyone agrees small business should be nurtured. But we have also seen, over the past few years, what happens when business grows too large and out of control. They can start to control us (our politicians) and we socialize their screw ups.
They don't necessarily create more jobs for Americans in America and they don't necessarily return more taxes to America.
11:00 pm on June 5th, 2010 9
Lemmy…
An unintended consequence of globalization is the globalization of labor.
…not so good for unskilled workers expecting full-size American wages.
JoeC…
Exactly.
11:54 pm on June 5th, 2010 10
"If it’s so much better in Europe, Canada, why can’t all of the people that love it so much move there?"
Right, just like Thomas Jefferson et al. should have moved to England?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Declar…
No, of course not. But, a true patriot should survey the world for inspiration.