tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1776456473941522431.post7845999333325467300..comments2024-03-05T19:50:31.497-08:00Comments on World O' Crap: Believe Me, You Idiots Are Really Gullible!Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02798340582589737829noreply@blogger.comBlogger21125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1776456473941522431.post-56715196372512689332014-05-11T09:09:32.373-07:002014-05-11T09:09:32.373-07:00Doc Logan writes: Remember "Soylent Green&quo...Doc Logan writes: <i>Remember "Soylent Green"? The desolate state of the Earth in that film was a result of the greenhouse effect.</i><br /><br />That and the other concern-trollings of the sixties and seventies: pollution, overpopulation, depleted resources, etc.<br /><br />Which moved me to pull Silent Running (1972) off the shelf, wondering "what was hillbilly hippie Bruce Dern out in space with the last remaining forests and bunny rabbits in geodesic domes for again?"<br /><br />It's a little vague, but much the same sort of thing-- essentially the pollution/ overpopulation/ depleted resources thing, but no mention of global warming-- or cooling for that matter.<br /><br />At one point, Dern's character Lowell Freeman lectures his fellow astronauts, who really could give fuck-all, that "on Earth, everywhere you go, the temperature is 75 degrees. Everything is the same; all the people are exactly the same. Now what kind of life is that?"<br /><br />So not really one or the other, but definitely one of a number of films and books both fiction and nonfiction of that era, that pointed out with alarm that we're carelessly fouling the planet we live on, that our custodianship of our little mudball is found wanting, and for God's sake we'd better start getting it right.<br /><br />I like to think that we're improving, but maybe that's just the Pollyanna in me.Chris Vosburgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1776456473941522431.post-31851025603554664052014-05-10T18:40:24.690-07:002014-05-10T18:40:24.690-07:00I remember the "global cooling" stuff an...I remember the "global cooling" stuff and fear of nuclear winter, but that was during a period when we had a surplus of atomic and hydrogen weapons and a brain-dead president with his hand on the switch. <br /><br />Going further back to the 70s (when we could afford a subscription to <i>Scientific American</i>), there was the occasional article about the expansion of the desert in sub-Saharan Africa and its effect on agriculture in that region. My first encounter with climate change. "Desertification" was the first term used to describe the warming phenomenon. Because it was only Africa (Africa -- is it a country?) it didn't gain much traction outside of a small cadre of academic researchers.<br /><br />I'm surprised <i>WSJ</i> actually ran with this article, 'tho. It's stupid and agonizing to read. <br /><br />Keithnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1776456473941522431.post-79474531458255233672014-05-10T17:26:23.833-07:002014-05-10T17:26:23.833-07:00Remember "Soylent Green"? The desolate s...Remember "Soylent Green"? The desolate state of the Earth in that film was a result of the greenhouse effect.<br /><br />There was debate in the 1960s over whether pollution would cause the Earth to grow warmer or cooler, but by the 70s consensus began to build on the warming side.<br /><br />Now that Miami Beach regularly floods at high tide, even on sunny days, the debate is over.<br /><br />It's a shame George Carlin didn't live a few years longer, he may have achieved his wish of seeing the would end.Doc Logannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1776456473941522431.post-81678134719719459352014-05-10T12:15:24.699-07:002014-05-10T12:15:24.699-07:00I'm with Chris Vosburg. The first I remember h...I'm with Chris Vosburg. The first I remember hearing about climate change was when global *warming* was being discussed on Pacifica in the '80s. The Great Global Cooling flap of the '70s passed me right by. <br />I'm guessing the fact that *cooling* wasn't accepted by mainstream climate science is the main reason Mychal and his ilk latched onto it. They just naturally root for the underdog...Meanie-meanie, tickle a personhttp://www.fakeassurl.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1776456473941522431.post-39127644009683264552014-05-10T09:48:52.705-07:002014-05-10T09:48:52.705-07:00Thanks, Chris.
When you consider what's at st...Thanks, Chris.<br /><br />When you consider what's at stake, whoever faked that cover deserves a special place in Hell. And George Will needs to have it tattooed on his ass -- with a very blunt, very rusty needle.grouchomarxistnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1776456473941522431.post-80398618314296115982014-05-10T07:58:40.731-07:002014-05-10T07:58:40.731-07:00Carl writes: But there was a TIME Magazine cover s...Carl writes: <i>But there was a TIME Magazine cover story!</i><br /><br />Wasn't <a href="http://science.time.com/2013/06/06/sorry-a-time-magazine-cover-did-not-predict-a-coming-ice-age/" rel="nofollow">this one</a>, was it? Chris Vosburgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1776456473941522431.post-35408629673043401622014-05-10T00:43:28.185-07:002014-05-10T00:43:28.185-07:00Perfect Sleeper reference. Even -- I might go so f...Perfect <i>Sleeper</i> reference. Even -- I might go so far as to say -- a Serta Perfect <i>Sleeper</i> reference.Scotthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02798340582589737829noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1776456473941522431.post-74618573673430933122014-05-09T22:25:59.567-07:002014-05-09T22:25:59.567-07:00Dr. Melik: This morning for breakfast he requested...Dr. Melik: This morning for breakfast he requested something called "wheat germ, organic honey and tiger's milk." <br /><br />Dr. Aragon: [chuckling] Oh, yes. Those are the charmed substances that some years ago were thought to contain life-preserving properties. <br /><br />Dr. Melik: You mean there was no deep fat? No steak or cream pies or... hot fudge? <br /><br />Dr. Aragon: Those were thought to be unhealthy... precisely the opposite of what we now know to be true. <br /><br />Dr. Melik: Incredible. <br />grouchomarxistnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1776456473941522431.post-34914169851666300402014-05-09T12:56:54.731-07:002014-05-09T12:56:54.731-07:00But there was a TIME Magazine cover story! Back wh...But there was a TIME Magazine cover story! Back when TIME covered the news! <br /><br />I didn't say it was the general consensus, just that there was a significant portion of the scientific community that believed in it.Carlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03664920037425489644noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1776456473941522431.post-28090672653576653042014-05-09T08:18:26.757-07:002014-05-09T08:18:26.757-07:00I'll be damned, it was a thing, after all. Tha...I'll be damned, it was a thing, after all. Thanks for the link, Carl, but it's right there in the first paragraph of the Wikipedia entry:<br /><br /><i>Global cooling was a conjecture during the 1970s of imminent cooling of the Earth's surface and atmosphere culminating in a period of extensive glaciation. This hypothesis had little support in the scientific community, but gained temporary popular attention due to a combination of a slight downward trend of temperatures from the 1940s to the early 1970s and press reports that did not accurately reflect the full scope of the scientific climate literature, i.e., a larger and faster-growing body of literature projecting future warming due to greenhouse gas emissions.</i><br /><br />So I'm not quite sure how you arrived at the conclusion that this was a "consensus."<br /><br />As for myself, this wrinkle passed completely unnoticed, but then again, I was far too busy with sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll, to my credit.<br /><br />Chris Vosburgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1776456473941522431.post-18716831107641390942014-05-08T13:08:07.987-07:002014-05-08T13:08:07.987-07:00No, Mychal's correct, actually
In a reversal ...<i>No, Mychal's correct, actually</i><br /><br />In a reversal most sportswriters and rhetoricians didn't expect, Mychal has just pulled even with the blind squirrel!Scotthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02798340582589737829noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1776456473941522431.post-18555390533807593142014-05-08T12:44:45.459-07:002014-05-08T12:44:45.459-07:00My best guess is that he is referring to the hypot...<i>My best guess is that he is referring to the hypothetical threat of "nuclear winter" presented by setting off an exchange of dozens of nuclear weapons</i><br /><br />No, Mychal's correct, actually. The consensus of opinion was that we were about due for another glaciation, based on some bloody average period between Ice Ages or some such nonsense. <br /><br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_cooling<br /><br />We know better now.Carlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03664920037425489644noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1776456473941522431.post-5504897927662326092014-05-07T18:44:46.348-07:002014-05-07T18:44:46.348-07:00Or use the new product: "Bugger me ... it IS ...<i> Or use the new product: "Bugger me ... it IS butter!" </i><br /><br />Just look for Maria Schneider's face on the label.Doc Logannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1776456473941522431.post-776495090378445092014-05-07T13:33:55.254-07:002014-05-07T13:33:55.254-07:00"Pearl Cream!" How could one resist afte..."Pearl Cream!" How could one resist after the enthusiastic endorsements from such lovely ladies as Mary Jean H., Sybil K, and Janet M. (from La Jolla, Kansas City, MO and Midland, MI, respectively). Tried it at home and broke out with facial shingles about a week later. Nancy Kwan, I hate you!Keithnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1776456473941522431.post-58023795987811389352014-05-07T10:53:29.344-07:002014-05-07T10:53:29.344-07:00The Applesauce Holocaust is real, lieberals.
~The Applesauce Holocaust is real, lieberals.<br />~ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®©https://www.blogger.com/profile/06252371815131259831noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1776456473941522431.post-33432073252427564742014-05-07T10:24:26.594-07:002014-05-07T10:24:26.594-07:00I remember people in the late 70s screeching that ...I remember people in the late 70s screeching that there was going to be another ice-age <i>any minute now!</i> They were mostly conservatives, such as Jerry Pournelle and his chums.Kathyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03176801494652946278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1776456473941522431.post-55164050738467737912014-05-07T09:47:48.878-07:002014-05-07T09:47:48.878-07:00Mychal (MITCHELL!) writes: I remember vividly the ...Mychal (MITCHELL!) writes: <i>I remember vividly the lies in the late 1970s and early 1980s which claimed that, due to global cooling, by 1990 we would witness environmental catastrophes of “biblical proportions.”</i><br /><br />How bizarre. My best guess is that he is referring to the hypothetical threat of "nuclear winter" presented by setting off an exchange of dozens of nuclear weapons, which would result in hundreds of firestorms in cities, which would presumably release so much soot and ash into the atmosphere that sunlight would be obscured, thus having a global cooling effect.<br /><br />Not that anybody'd be around to notice, having all died of radiation poisoning.<br /><br />But nevertheless, it hasn't happened because we nuclear powers are keeping all our missiles in our silos, thank you very much, not because the science proved to be incorrect.<br /><br />What a dumbass.Chris Vosburgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1776456473941522431.post-23056186560660487052014-05-07T09:10:10.393-07:002014-05-07T09:10:10.393-07:00People are gullible
Which I guess explains how My...<i>People are gullible</i><br /><br />Which I guess explains how Mychal a) got his job at WND¹ and b) believes somehow that spells the same name as Michael.<br /><br />¹ Unless of course it was an affirmative action hire. Was it, Myk?Carlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03664920037425489644noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1776456473941522431.post-80703484592473918112014-05-07T09:07:03.248-07:002014-05-07T09:07:03.248-07:00We were told people were going to die, crops would...<i>We were told people were going to die, crops would fail to grow and food shortages would be rampant. Time magazine and other so-called respected publications ran major features that supported the lies. Suffice it to say, catastrophes never happened.</i><br /><br />♪ Do they know it's Christmas time at all? ♫<br /><br />Remember that, moron?Carlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03664920037425489644noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1776456473941522431.post-43217211839071505322014-05-07T05:31:47.407-07:002014-05-07T05:31:47.407-07:00I remember the Huntley-Brinkley Report but our fam...I remember the Huntley-Brinkley Report but our family were CBS News people and so we watched Walter Crankcase. Also, H-B kind of reminded me of the Odd Couple: you had Marlboro Man along side of Mr. Intellectual Brinkley's weird slightly staccato delivery - short phrases delivered in an arch style that was completely different from Huntley's straightforward Montana rumble. Still it was just news though our local Pittsburgh news often did remind me a bit of "Anchorman".<br />World Net Daily is way too easy pickings for your excellent skewerings. C'mon, you need to give us better meat than this clown.Jimbohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13891331049535299222noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1776456473941522431.post-35113337898733531292014-05-07T00:54:05.425-07:002014-05-07T00:54:05.425-07:00Or use the new product: "Bugger me ... it IS...Or use the new product: "Bugger me ... it IS butter!"Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com