The Day the Climate Stood Still

There is a great deal of buzz over an upcoming literary release.  In fact, the excitement level has surpassed even that of 14 year old girls over the publication of the last Twilight book.  Yes, devoted readers, that's right... I am referring to the soon to be New York Times best seller, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's Fifth Assessment Report, or AR5 to its friends. (Wait, isn't that an assault rifle?)

Don't worry, I won't spoil the cliff-hanger ending for you.  Well, OK.  If you insist.

*****SPOILER ALERT!******

• The earth might be getting a lot warmer, a little warmer, or maybe cooling slightly.  (Cue the three bears...)
• The sea levels might rise a little or a lot.

Regardless of what happens, it's our fault.  Which brings us to a new entry on Sahib's List of Questions Liberals Refuse to Answer:  What is the ultimate goal of the apocalyptic climate change hand-wringers?  I know the answer for the more cynical of us.  Liberals want control AND they want to make money.  How much has Algore made off his "green initiatives"?  But I believe that there are truly people out there that believe the earth's entire polar bear population will soon be stranded on small patches of melting ice.  This seems to upset them.  It is for these people I pose the question:  If I could give you god-like power to do whatever you wished with the earth's climate, what would you do?  Initiate climate stasis?  The earth has been warming and cooling since its creation.  In the timeline of the earth's history, how can you take a sample size of 150 years and extrapolate a trend?  So please tell me, what is the global climate goal?

Which begs another question... Are global coastal populations going into cryogenic stasis for the next 100 or so years?  The big scare that the AGW people like to use is the earth warms, land ice melts, and then sea levels rise thus drowning billions of people.  Worst case scenarios have sea levels rising five feet by 2100.  Apparently, between midnight on December 31, 2099, and 12:01 on January 1, 2100, sea levels are going to instantly jump five feet. (maybe)

Hold on... the crack SACSTW climate staff is informing me that the sea level rise will NOT happen over night.  So I guess people living on the coasts will have to move their deck chairs back 6 inches a year.  Oh, the humanity!

Oh, and anyone curious about the #1 entry on Sahib's List of Questions Liberals Refuse to Answer?  I've posted it before.  The first commenter to post it wins a free copy of AR5.

Make Mine an Eagle Salad Sandwich!

Pre-Ginsu Blade Wind Turbine Golden Eagle

Post-Ginsu Eagles

Wow!  The law of unintended liberal consequences strikes again.  Apparently, the killing of protected birds is okie dokie as long as it is in the pursuit of "green" energy.  Seems like red splattered energy to me.  Why haven't we seen Greenpeace protesters strapping themselves to turbine blades?  Oh, that's right!  Wind-power is one of the darlings of the left.  According to the People's Republic of California officials, one (that's uno for you bi-lingual education proponents) state-approved wind farm kills 4,700 birds yearly.  This includes 1,300 raptors of which approximately 70 are golden eagles.

But wait!  There's more!  According to a MSNBC article, the federal government is proposing a "first of its kind" permit to allow wind farm developers to legally kill golden eagles.  The screaming from lefty-bunny-huggers must be deafening.  Hmmmm, maybe I need to turn up my hearing-aid.  All I hear is crickets.

I know, devoted readers, that I should no longer be surprised by the hypocrisy of the left.  Anything is permissible to them as long as it forwards their agendas.  I just wonder about the outrage we would be experiencing if say, a nuclear reactor was zapping these regal creatures from the sky.  Aging actresses and Disney tween-queens would be hanging on the fences sobbing.

Far be it for your humble author to get all weepy about environmental issues.  I am a card-carrying member of PETA (People for the Eating of Tasty Animals) and have one apron that says "Kill It and Grill It" and another that says "Choke It and Smoke It".  I am for exploring all energy options that can make us less dependent on oil controlled by South American dictators and the mad mullahs of the gulf.  However; don't get all preachy with me about "saving Mother Nature" and conveniently ignore the environmental impact of your "green" initiatives.

Oh well, I guess I'll just pull on my baby-seal-skin boots and head out to the local reservoir to catch me a mess of fish for a nice snail-darter sandwich.  This time of year the bald eagles are thick out there.  I promise that I won't tell them their cousins are being julienned out on the left-coast so Californians can feel good about being "green".