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Well, here we go again with this “Fire” crap. Don’t you Alarmists know that “fire” has been discredited?
* there IS NO FIRE
* fires have occurred in the past
* it’s not a man-made fire
* fire creates JOBS!
* fighting fire costs too much
* the neighbors don’t seem to mind the fire
* explain why other houses are on fire!
* YOU are on fire; I AM fine
So much for this “Fire” religion. Morons!
DNFTF
Amazing so much internal contradiction in one little comment.
There is no fire yet a the same time it creates jobs. How does that work
It is not man made yet it creates jobs. Huh
And you calll us morons. Go figure
“Shaka, when the walls fell.”
Two Polish physicists (Heimlich and Manoeuvre) have recently convincingly demonstrated that “runaway oxidation”, sometimes called “fire” is a physical impossibility, prevented by the second law of thermodynamics. The heat and smoke in the kitchen is an entirely natural process which will approach equilibrium long before it burns the house down…
Galloleo was sent to the Gallows for his sun-centric Heresy. I’m no scientist, but i have calculated that 1.21 GiggleWatts of Insultation hits the Earth every picosecond. By comparison, a house fire produces 6.02×10^23 less heat. Get it now? IT’S THE SUN!
Galloleo was probably a poor sucker that had his gallstones removed by the torturing inquisitors I would think while his close namesake “Galileo”, the one with the telescope, survived (just)…
The one they burned for his (scientifically correct and far reaching views) was Giordano Bruno, who thought Galileo’s theory to its natural conclusion (stars are suns with planets around them and perhaps people there… ) which was too much indeed for the papal bullies….
After reading Oreskes book I feel like having a little inquisition panel myself, grilling Singer, Seitz and co for their grand treason and misdemeanors against science and the prospect of a hospitable planet 2100….
Holy ‘I’ word, ThatMan – Will the doughty Thomas’ proposal to grill those gall-stones incur the wrathy wrath of Wrathall? Stay tuned…
With pleasure indeed….
you may write the long ‘bill’ of indictment!
Oh and Fox news boss Bill Sammon had his email hacked and hence delivered himself including the evidence to prove it to a prime spot on our inquisition bill Bill!
See here: http://mediamatters.org/blog/201012150004
Technically I don’t believe it was hacked, it was redistributed by a recipient from inside the Fox empire. This may be important as there’s some bizarre ‘climategate equivalence’ meme doing the rounds.
They don’t call it the Antipo(d)es for nothing.
I run a small farm near Waikato, and I am a first time poster. Green house grasses are good for my sheep, so bugger off!
That’s enough sick poppets, thanks…
“Sokath, his eyes uncovered!”
I got it: Lets shrink wrap Lamb’s sheep and Mooh’s cows. This will retain their methane flatulence and keep them warm in winter. In summer it would pre-cook the meat, saving on bbq charcoal too!
Oh dear I see Telecom have finally rolled out dial-up to small farms near Waikato.
Ok Shaun! The games up! Bitza let you onto the computer….
Back to your Riverdance!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8DFwb3zlDk
Even better…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=woEhMs71sjs&feature=related
Ha ha! More likely “The Song that Never Ends“
Oh NO! anything but that one!
Well, Lamb Chop is the most famous Sock Puppet in the World… a very appropriate song for the Climate Cranks that post the same tired memes here over and over. Maybe this can be their song!
And the king really did have cloths on you know. And the earth really is flat.
And shuffling the chairs on the decks of the Titanic would have averted the disaster. Its all a matter of perception you see (or not).
Non so blind than those who do not wish to see.
So Waikato farmer, man of the land so in touch with nature, tell me greenhouse gasses are good for your sheep when they are eating dirt after a couple of months on drought.
As for artful dodger your comments are more akin to a Shakespearean tragedy than your pseudonym would suggest.
eltoro
The sarcasm by artful dodger flew over you like a pig heading north for the winter.
Also Gareth, wasn’t Heimlich American?
Perhaps, but his Manoeuvre was Polish.
(You try finding a synonym for Tscheuschner, or whatever his name is…)
Not sarcasm, but Parody… inspired not by Shakespeare, but Greenfyre!
Or perhaps even Satire
Actually Lamb Chop said green house grasses, not gases. When I worked at Ruakura Research Station I looked after green house grasses. I weeded them with tweezers. Gases would have been more interesting.
Really. Well thats your opinion.
this will all go
__________
some heads
…We will all go together when we go,
All suffused with an incandescent glow….. (Tom Lehrer) ?
Ah, Tom, the man who announced his retirement from public life upon Henry Kissinger winning the Nobel Peace Prize, declaring ‘satire is redundant!’
speaking of which – what a great resource the web can be!
Great! This could be HT’s theme song! Gareth could put it up on the home page.
While we have (so far) avoided the “incandescent glow” of the nuclear annihilation Lehrer sang about, we will struggle to avoid the slow boiler of AGW, like the frog in the pot over the fire, as we bask “all together as we go” under the “infrared glow” from our self made CO2 warming blanket….
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