THE MORNING RANT: The Great Barrier Reef’s Coral Cover Keeps Setting Records, Despite the Prophecy of its Demise

One of the catastrophic predictions put forth as a “scientific fact” by the climate cult is that unless dramatic actions are taken to eliminate fossil fuels, the death of the Great Barrier Reef is assured. Unfortunately for the climatistas, the reef just isn’t cooperating, as it has achieved a record level of coverage for the third consecutive year.

A sacred cant of the climate cult is that global warming has caused “bleaching” of the Great Barrier Reef, resulting in decreased coral coverage, and setting the reef on the road to extinction. That is all nonsense, and it is being disproved by the reef itself as it continues to grow.

Before the current rebound, there was actually a tremendous decrease in the reef’s coverage about 15 years ago, but the cause was not water temperatures nor CO2 in the atmosphere, rather it was due to a powerful hurricane crossing directly over the reef, an event that is not uncommon in those tropical waters.

This Guardian story from a decade ago was clearly wrong, but it is also typical of what has been accepted as the scientific truth regarding the Great Barrier Reef.

Guardian Great Barrier reef Damage Irreversible.JPG

“Great Barrier Reef damage ‘irreversible’ unless radical action taken” [Guardian – 3/06/2014]

The Great Barrier Reef will suffer “irreversible” damage by 2030 unless radical action is taken to lower carbon emissions, a stark new report has warned.

But the truth about the reef has played out quite differently…

“After a trillion tons of CO2, the Great Barrier Reef hits record coral cover third year in a row” [Joanne Nova – CFACT – 6/30/2024]

After a trillion tons of CO2, the Great Barrier Reef hits record coral cover third year in a row. Sixty percent of all human CO2 emissions have been emitted since 1985, but today, the corals are healthier than ever.

Bjorn Lomborg has been doing some outstanding research using the official government records of the Australian Institute of Marine Science and he’s found that not only is the Great Barrier Reef not in peril, but that its expanse has set a new record, as it thrives and continues to grow. Using the Australian government’s own records, he has put together this graph, showing the reef’s coral coverage over the past four decades.

The red-dashed line was the doom scenario that had been promoted by the “97% consensus” of climate apocalysts, whereas the blue line is reality. As has been the case time and time again regarding the climate hoax, the prophecies of doom that were reported as scientific facts turned out to be nothing but junk science mixed with enviro-communism.

But what about that large drop off in coral cover that occurred before this recent growth spurt, causing “record low” cover around 2012?

At 2005 the Great Barrier Reef’s coral cover was just about the same as it had been 25 years earlier, with some upcycles and downcycles in coverage over the years. But for a few years starting in 2010 there was a pronounced decline in the reef’s cover. It had nothing to do with climate, and everything to do with a hurricane, which is known as a cyclone in those parts. Cyclone Hamish in 2009 didn’t strike Australia perpendicularly, rather it ran parallel to the coastline, scouring the Great Barrier Reef along the way, as shown in this map of its track.

“Research Reveals Cyclone’s Ravages on the Reef” [Australia Institute of Marine Science – 8/20/2009]

The Great Barrier Reef was severely buffeted by Severe Tropical Cyclone Hamish, which roared down a substantial part of the reef system, causing widespread though variable damage and in some places reducing coral cover from 70 per cent to 10 per cent.

How did the cyclone damage the reef?

Damage ranged from "exfoliation", where the reef matrix was removed along with all that grew on it, leaving bare limestone, to "scouring" that essentially stripped all living tissue from living corals, to coral breakage in which massive coral heads as well as more delicate branching corals broke off.

Under normal circumstances then, how long would it take the reef to recover from the damage of Cyclone Hamish? The answer is about a decade or so.

Based on past experience with similar reefs, the researchers estimate that coral should recover in eight to 15 years, if there are no further major disturbances such as cyclones or coral bleaching or declines in water quality which might reduce the resilience of these reefs.

Take a look at Bjorn Lomborg’s graph again. It’s now been 15 years and the Great Barrier Reef has fully recovered from Cyclone Hamish and is now setting records for coral cover.

All the hysteria about the death of the Great Barrier Reef due to carbon and bleaching was a massive lie in support of the climate hoax. Just like forests naturally recovering from wildfires, coral reefs naturally recover from hurricane scouring, and CO2 has nothing to with either.

But the propaganda press is unrelenting in its doomsday environmental prognostications. Despite the Great Barrier Reef currently being at a record level of coral coverage, and despite the reef defying decades of predictions of its demise, the NY Times ran yet another story about the death of the Great Barrier Reef just last week.

These climate carnival barkers have lost all credibility. They have consistently been wrong in their prior predictions about the Great Barrier Reef, yet they continue to roll out new prophecies of environmental doom.

[buck.throckmorton at protonmail dot com]

Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at 11:00 AM

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1 1st?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 12, 2024 11:00 AM (v6JzV)

2 st!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 12, 2024 11:00 AM (HnUIn)

3 Morning.

Posted by: Robert at August 12, 2024 11:01 AM (mO9HR)

4 It's reefer madness!

Posted by: Diogenes at August 12, 2024 11:01 AM (W/lyH)

5
These climate carnival barkers have lost all credibility.

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this is not important since they've seized all power.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Women pursuing older men must desire incestous father fantasies at August 12, 2024 11:02 AM (mIykB)

6 Commenting present

Posted by: Skip at August 12, 2024 11:02 AM (pIcE5)

7 The whole thing of Earth being fragile is such nonsense.

Earth sends hurricanes to murder us.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, riding the anarchy train with John Landis at August 12, 2024 11:02 AM (GBKbO)

8 Otter status: Culled

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 12, 2024 11:02 AM (v6JzV)

9 Mmmmmmmmmmaaahhh the French!

Posted by: BourbonChicken at August 12, 2024 11:02 AM (cf/0E)

10 It's Reefer Madness!!

Posted by: Oddbob at August 12, 2024 11:02 AM (/y8xj)

11 How 'bout them polar bears?

Posted by: BignJames at August 12, 2024 11:02 AM (AwYPR)

12 The Great Barrier Reef will suffer “irreversible” damage by 2030 unless radical action is taken to lower carbon emissions, a stark new report has warned.

this is about me, isn't it?

Posted by: tony stark at August 12, 2024 11:03 AM (oY6Yp)

13 Libs: We're all going to dieeee!
Also libs: Why are young people so depressed now?

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at August 12, 2024 11:03 AM (PiwSw)

14 One of the catastrophic predictions put forth as a “scientific fact” by the climate cult is that unless dramatic actions are taken to eliminate fossil fuels, the death of the Great Barrier Reef is assured. Unfortunately for the climatistas, the reef just isn’t cooperating, as it has achieved a record level of coverage for the third consecutive year.
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Literally since a child. An actual child, in elementary school, in the early 90s. It wasn't "climate change" then, but it was the same damn thing.

"Pollution means coral reefs are dying."
"Ships chop up cute dolphins with their nasty screws."
"Rainforests are vanishing! The cure for cancer could be in those rainforests!"
"Acid rain is slowly killing everyone!"

On and on and on and on. Different framing, but same shit.

Yet reefs are doing just fine. The rainforest is doing just fine. Ocean life is doing just fine, except in places where there are no controls on fishing and the tragedy of the commons reigns supreme - you know, the places run by communists.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 12, 2024 11:04 AM (HnUIn)

15 Well, see, climate change caused the cyclone, so....

Posted by: BignJames at August 12, 2024 11:04 AM (AwYPR)

16 Coral is made from CO2. The stupidity of these people is the only thing that is unprecedented.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 12, 2024 11:05 AM (Sdd2F)

17 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 12, 2024 11:05 AM (Zz0t1)

18 The Great Barrier Reef is growing too fast and will cover the Earth if we don't act now!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 12, 2024 11:05 AM (63Dwl)

19 "Hamish" is the least-frightening name for a storm ever.

Posted by: spindrift at August 12, 2024 11:05 AM (OguvZ)

20 As always, they will continue to shove it down your throat until you conform and believe, plebian.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 12, 2024 11:05 AM (Zz0t1)

21 13 Libs: We're all going to dieeee!
Also libs: Why are young people so depressed now?
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at August 12, 2024 11:03 AM (PiwSw)

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I have noticed a weird strain of nostalgia for the world of the past from the left, back when things were better.

But they can't advocate for any policy as it was (except high taxes). To do so is to automatically advocate for Jim Crow Laws.

The only solution is to keep doing what we've been doing by consolidating more power in the federal government.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, riding the anarchy train with John Landis at August 12, 2024 11:05 AM (GBKbO)

22 These climate carnival barkers have lost all credibility. They have consistently been wrong in their prior predictions about the Great Barrier Reef, yet they continue to roll out new prophecies of environmental doom.

I'd like to point out that the polar bear population on the Great Barrier Reef has plummeted to near zero, and yet you continue to stick your head in the sand.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 12, 2024 11:06 AM (xCA6C)

23 They'll never admit they were wrong.

When global WARMING didnt really happen, it became "climate change" which is what the climate is always doing.

Posted by: Blago at August 12, 2024 11:06 AM (wMRY8)

24 14 Yet reefs are doing just fine. The rainforest is doing just fine. Ocean life is doing just fine, except in places where there are no controls on fishing and the tragedy of the commons reigns supreme - you know, the places run by communists.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 12, 2024 11:04 AM (HnUIn)

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I love the argument for communism because it helps the Earth.

Because the long history of the USSR's treatment of its own natural resources apparently doesn't count.

They turned fascist, don't you know.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, riding the anarchy train with John Landis at August 12, 2024 11:07 AM (GBKbO)

25 I live in Florida and every June the news warns that “we’re expected to have a more active hurricane season than normal” and 9/10 times that’s not the case. And when any storm hits it’s because of global warming and those damn Republicans caused it because they didn’t tax pickup trucks enough

Posted by: weew at August 12, 2024 11:07 AM (4HMqD)

26 At 2005 the Great Barrier Reef’s coral cover was just about the same as it had been 25 years earlier, with some upcycles and downcycles in coverage over the years. But for a few years starting in 2010 there was a pronounced decline in the reef’s cover. It had nothing to do with climate, and everything to do with a hurricane, which is known as a cyclone in those parts. Cyclone Hamish in 2009 didn’t strike Australia perpendicularly, rather it ran parallel to the coastline, scouring the Great Barrier Reef along the way, as shown in this map of its track.
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Not to mention that punctuated equilibrium is a thing. It's in plain evidence all over the fossil record and in ice cores. Long periods of relative stability - a couple of percent here and there, but basically a flat line - followed by great eruptions of change like mass die-offs or massive spurts of new things happening.

Big systemic things are largely stable until you hit a jackpot, then everything changes pretty quickly and re-stabilizes until the next jackpot. That jackpot can be good or bad.

But things in nature aren't usually slow, predictable, grinding progress. They bounce around until the big one resets things.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 12, 2024 11:07 AM (HnUIn)

27 25 I live in Florida and every June the news warns that “we’re expected to have a more active hurricane season than normal” and 9/10 times that’s not the case. And when any storm hits it’s because of global warming and those damn Republicans caused it because they didn’t tax pickup trucks enough
Posted by: weew at August 12, 2024 11:07 AM (4HMqD)

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"Hurricanes didn't exist before the industrial revolution," is pretty much the standard take at this point.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, riding the anarchy train with John Landis at August 12, 2024 11:07 AM (GBKbO)

28 But the propaganda press is unrelenting in its doomsday environmental prognostications. Despite the Great Barrier Reef currently being at a record level of coral coverage, and despite the reef defying decades of predictions of its demise, the NY Times ran yet another story about the death of the Great Barrier Reef just last week.
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It has to be. The Dread Climate Change is the current - and more persistent than usual, thanks to the massive campaign around it over time - is the basis for the power grab at all levels, throughout the world. Gotta keep it going.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 12, 2024 11:08 AM (HnUIn)

29 All looming environmental damage can be mitigated entirely by importing penguins. It's the answer to every question asked, or unasked. There's a few select anti-penguites on this blog, but they should be ignored, have their increments frozen, and their franking privileges revoked.

Posted by: Penguin Defense Fund 501c3 at August 12, 2024 11:08 AM (CV8a5)

30 An actual child, in elementary school, in the early 90s.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

Good grief. I knew you were a young 'un, but not that young.

You may leave your girlie pics on my lawn prior to your getting off it.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 12, 2024 11:08 AM (v6JzV)

31 30 An actual child, in elementary school, in the early 90s.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

Good grief. I knew you were a young 'un, but not that young.

You may leave your girlie pics on my lawn prior to your getting off it.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 12, 2024 11:08 AM (v6JzV)

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Joe and I are right about the same age. I think BruceWayne is even younger.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, riding the anarchy train with John Landis at August 12, 2024 11:09 AM (GBKbO)

32 Going snorkeling there next month!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 12, 2024 11:09 AM (JvZF+)

33 "They lie, and we have to be generous with those who lie."

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Vote but also buy ammo at August 12, 2024 11:09 AM (xcxpd)

34 What's so bad about CO2?

Posted by: Plants love it? at August 12, 2024 11:09 AM (DobEs)

35 ‘Merde!’

- J. Cousteau

Posted by: Eromero at August 12, 2024 11:09 AM (LHPAg)

36 There are stories of (Asian?) fishermen throwing dynamite into reefs, then harvesting the stunned or dead fish. iirc from my salt water aquarium days there was concern about some of the aquarium fish coming from such practice.

Funny that we are so reliant on China making cheap stuff for us, but hardly a word of complaint about their excessive CO2 (the nonsense part of their pollution) or all the other filth they put in the air and water, and all their over fishing and disregard for the Almighty Environment which the warmists worship.

Posted by: illiniwek at August 12, 2024 11:10 AM (Cus5s)

37 Being on the Left means never having to say your sorry

Posted by: Skip at August 12, 2024 11:10 AM (pIcE5)

38 Not to mention that punctuated equilibrium is a thing.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 12, 2024 11:07 AM (HnUIn)

"Punctuated Equilibrium" is a theory of evolution postulated by Eldridge and Gould. Although...your extrapolation of it to general natural processes makes sense.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 12, 2024 11:10 AM (d9fT1)

39 massive spurts of new things happening.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 12, 2024 11:07 AM (HnUIn)

I got a massive spurt waiting just for you, buddy.

Posted by: Billy Jeff Clinton at August 12, 2024 11:11 AM (p0enn)

40 I love how the people that can’t even balance a budget think they can save the planet. Seriously overestimating their competence.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 12, 2024 11:11 AM (Sdd2F)

41 32 Going snorkeling there next month!
Posted by: San Franpsycho

Me, too!
See you there.

Posted by: Jimmy Carter at August 12, 2024 11:11 AM (DobEs)

42 I love the argument for communism because it helps the Earth.

Because the long history of the USSR's treatment of its own natural resources apparently doesn't count.

They turned fascist, don't you know.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, riding the anarchy train with John Landis at August 12, 2024 11:07 AM (GBKbO)
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Save the whales! Attack Japanese whalers! Forbid the use of whale oil for automatic transmission fluid!

Just never - ever - point out that the Soviets hunted whales nearly to extinction by the mid 70s for literally no reason at all. There was a whale oil quota. The quota increased over time because more is better. There was no use for the whale oil, but the quota was there. Since there was no use for the oil, the quota for whale oil was reduced but the quota for whales was not. Soviet fishing vessels would regularly cull entire pods of whales and then dump the corpses back into the sea to keep their numbers good for the commissar.

Those honorable, fair, intelligent and better-than-you communists when on a decades-long orgy of whale extermination for absolutely no reason because compliance is its own reward.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 12, 2024 11:11 AM (HnUIn)

43 I thought a cyclone was a tornado, I hath been wrongeth.

Why can’t we just be normal about this stuff? Be good stewards of the earth. Pick your trash up. Don’t dump chemicals that harm ocean critters into the ocean on purpose. Give a hoot, don’t pollute.

Not for the weather, but because we should not be trashy people.

Posted by: Piper at August 12, 2024 11:12 AM (p4NUW)

44 These climate carnival barkers have lost all credibility. They have consistently been wrong in their prior predictions about the Great Barrier Reef, yet they continue to roll out new prophecies of environmental doom.

I'd like to point out that the polar bear population on the Great Barrier Reef has plummeted to near zero, and yet you continue to stick your head in the sand.

And as if that weren't bad enough, the ENTIRE reef is now underwater. How do you sleep nights?

Posted by: Archimedes at August 12, 2024 11:12 AM (xCA6C)

45 25 I live in Florida and every June the news warns that “we’re expected to have a more active hurricane season than normal” and 9/10 times that’s not the case. And when any storm hits it’s because of global warming and those damn Republicans caused it because they didn’t tax pickup trucks enough
Posted by: weew at August 12, 2024 11:07 AM (4HMqD)

Had that very argument with my brother-in-law the other day (although he lives in Massachusetts). He seems to think DeSantis has his own weather machine hidden in the basement or sum'thin.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at August 12, 2024 11:12 AM (LxER7)

46 Good grief. I knew you were a young 'un, but not that young.

You may leave your girlie pics on my lawn prior to your getting off it.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 12, 2024 11:08 AM (v6JzV)
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I've never claimed to be anything but a Dread Millennial.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 12, 2024 11:12 AM (HnUIn)

47 Set your hair on fire, everyone. It's another Earth-destroying apocalypse.

*yawn*

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 12, 2024 11:12 AM (vYDwg)

48 Because the long history of the USSR's treatment of its own natural resources apparently doesn't count.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

The Aral Sea has entered the chat.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 12, 2024 11:12 AM (v6JzV)

49 San Franpsycho you luck bum, Have Fun

Whatever you do don't watch the movie Open Water

Posted by: Skip at August 12, 2024 11:12 AM (pIcE5)

50 45 Had that very argument with my brother-in-law the other day (although he lives in Massachusetts). He seems to think DeSantis has his own weather machine hidden in the basement or sum'thin.
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at August 12, 2024 11:12 AM (LxER7)

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If we had a cap and trade scheme, hurricanes would stop.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, riding the anarchy train with John Landis at August 12, 2024 11:12 AM (GBKbO)

51 The Great Barrier Reef will suffer “irreversible” damage by 2030 unless radical action is taken to lower carbon emissions, a stark new report has warned.

this is about me, isn't it?
Posted by: tony stark at August 12, 2024 11:03 AM (oY6Yp)

Not everything is about you. -- Ned Stark

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 12, 2024 11:12 AM (nR2nR)

52 Now picturing some environmentalists deciding to cause destruction because another one of their predictions failed.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 12, 2024 11:13 AM (BpO1e)

53 IIRC it was over 50 years the Jehovah's Witnesses shrieked the world would end in 1975.

Oops.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 12, 2024 11:13 AM (JvZF+)

54 31 30 An actual child, in elementary school, in the early 90s.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

Good grief. I knew you were a young 'un, but not that young.

You may leave your girlie pics on my lawn prior to your getting off it.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 12, 2024 11:08 AM (v6JzV)

Joe and I are right about the same age. I think BruceWayne is even younger.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, riding the anarchy train with John Landis at August 12, 2024 11:09 AM (GBKbO)

*Gets the diapers and warm bottles ready*

Posted by: Robert at August 12, 2024 11:13 AM (p0enn)

55 Paul Ehrlich said we'd all be dead by now.

So suck it, Paul.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 12, 2024 11:13 AM (vYDwg)

56 Going snorkeling there next month!
Posted by: San Franpsycho
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Enjoy! I snorkeled there off of Dunk Island. It was pretty amazing.

Posted by: scampydog at August 12, 2024 11:13 AM (2bFN5)

57 Funny that we are so reliant on China making cheap stuff for us, but hardly a word of complaint about their excessive CO2 (the nonsense part of their pollution) or all the other filth they put in the air and water, and all their over fishing and disregard for the Almighty Environment which the warmists worship.

Posted by: illiniwek

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Because Russia is our enemy, duh.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Women pursuing older men must desire incestous father fantasies at August 12, 2024 11:13 AM (mIykB)

58 This is mis- dis- mal-information. Everyone knows the reef is disappearing. It is only your ideological blinders that make you think otherwise.

I saw it on the internet, and on CNN, so it must be true.

Posted by: Eeyore at August 12, 2024 11:14 AM (1bNHn)

59 41 32 Going snorkeling there next month!
Posted by: San Franpsycho

Me, too!
See you there.
Posted by: Jimmy Carter at

Be careful! If you see a large eel with scary fangs, that's a moray!

Posted by: Hovercraft Sales and Service at August 12, 2024 11:14 AM (CV8a5)

60
Newsweek two years ago:

Global Weirding: Humans Have Caused Chaos on Earth

Humans have disturbed the climate to such a great extent that we have created chaos on Earth, scientists say.

https://t.ly/6JSiO

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 12, 2024 11:14 AM (63Dwl)

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27 25 I live in Florida and every June the news warns that “we’re expected to have a more active hurricane season than normal” and 9/10 times that’s not the case. And when any storm hits it’s because of global warming and those damn Republicans caused it because they didn’t tax pickup trucks enough
Posted by: weew at August 12, 2024 11:07 AM (4HMqD)

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"Hurricanes didn't exist before the industrial revolution," is pretty much the standard take at this point.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, riding the anarchy train with John Landis at August 12, 2024 11:07 AM (GBKbO)

If it won’t for hurricanes, the weather channel would have to rely on earthquakes, forest fires, and volcanos to create panic.

Posted by: Eromero at August 12, 2024 11:14 AM (LHPAg)

62 Wait. I thought the joos had the weather machine.

Posted by: But what do I know at August 12, 2024 11:14 AM (DobEs)

63 I never understood why anyone would be so concerned about the reef anyway. Not only did the leftist shitcocks create hysteria over the demise of the reef, they also created some fake deep caring about the reef in the first place.

I don't want to see the end of the reef or any specific scenic natural phenomena. But it's a fucking REEF -- actually a a thousand islands -- a billion miles away that very few people will ever see and probably 99% of people have no idea what it even is.

Who gives a shit whether the reef survives past our lifetimes?

Posted by: Doctor Elric Blade, Esq. at August 12, 2024 11:14 AM (iFTx/)

64 "Researchers" and their media whores knew they were lying back when the prediction was originally made

We are 10+ years out from the HADCRUT email leaks, there is no reason for ANYONE to fail to understand that these people are totally full of shit, and KNOW they are full of shit.

Just another bunch of watermelons.

"Not for the weather, but because we should not be trashy people.
Posted by: Piper at August 12, 2024 11:12 AM (p4NUW)"

Not being trashy is a luxury, so technically speaking the reason people can't is because they can't afford it. Ironically usually due to marxism.

Posted by: somedood at August 12, 2024 11:14 AM (Kw0ul)

65 "Hamish" is the least-frightening name for a storm ever.
Posted by: spindrift at August 12, 2024 11:05 AM (OguvZ)

Are you forgetting Ultra-Severe Tropical Death-Cyclone Boopsy?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 12, 2024 11:15 AM (nR2nR)

66 54 31 30 An actual child, in elementary school, in the early 90s.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!

I am crying. I graduated from high school in 89. I know there are people out there embracing aging and doing it with grace. I am not one of those people.

Posted by: Piper at August 12, 2024 11:15 AM (p4NUW)

67 It would be interesting to know who the oldest and youngest regular commenters on this site are.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 12, 2024 11:15 AM (v6JzV)

68 I'm featuring a special this week on carbon credits.

16X MATCH! Act now because you will never see this offer again.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 12, 2024 11:15 AM (vYDwg)

69 "Punctuated Equilibrium" is a theory of evolution postulated by Eldridge and Gould. Although...your extrapolation of it to general natural processes makes sense.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 12, 2024 11:10 AM (d9fT1)
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Yeah, and it came about through examining the fossil record in strata, IIRC. But it shows up other places, too. The world appears to like general stability (within a band of variance, of course) right up until it doesn't, all at once. It may be akin to the rolling stock problem railroads deal with. Little inefficiencies build up over time until eventually, you have to eat the cost and run empty trains to redistribute stranded rolling stock. All those little marginal problems and inefficiencies *eventually* have to be dealt with, one way or another.

Of course, the real problem is that it's hard to detect huge moves at the very beginning. Exponential moves look linear at the start.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 12, 2024 11:15 AM (HnUIn)

70 Morays don’t have fangs. All their teeth are huge.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 12, 2024 11:15 AM (Sdd2F)

71 61 If it won’t for hurricanes, the weather channel would have to rely on earthquakes, forest fires, and volcanos to create panic.
Posted by: Eromero at August 12, 2024 11:14 AM (LHPAg)

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The next time you see a Weather Channel promo, pay attention.

It's all about bad things. It's never about sunny days. They sell bad news.

That's pretty much all news. Sex doesn't sell. Bad news sells.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, riding the anarchy train with John Landis at August 12, 2024 11:15 AM (GBKbO)

72 Why can’t we just be normal about this stuff? Be good stewards of the earth. Pick your trash up. Don’t dump chemicals that harm ocean critters into the ocean on purpose. Give a hoot, don’t pollute.

Not for the weather, but because we should not be trashy people.
Posted by: Piper at August 12, 2024 11:12 AM (p4NUW)

This is good plain sensible thinking and that clearly makes you a Nazi.

HATER!!1!11!

Posted by: Robert at August 12, 2024 11:15 AM (p0enn)

73 63 I never understood why anyone would be so concerned about the reef anyway. Not only did the leftist shitcocks create hysteria over the demise of the reef, they also created some fake deep caring about the reef in the first place.

I don't want to see the end of the reef or any specific scenic natural phenomena. But it's a fucking REEF -- actually a a thousand islands -- a billion miles away that very few people will ever see and probably 99% of people have no idea what it even is.

Who gives a shit whether the reef survives past our lifetimes?
Posted by: Doctor Elric Blade, Esq. at August 12, 2024 11:14 AM (iFTx/)

How dare you!

Posted by: The Greta at August 12, 2024 11:15 AM (KbCG3)

74 A hurricane wipes out a bunch of invertebrates. Can we steer one up the Potomac?

Posted by: DaveA at August 12, 2024 11:15 AM (FhXTo)

75 Muldoon's Corollary: Predicting future status of complex biologic systems by looking at short term past trends is like trying to drive on a winding mountain road solely by watching your rearview mirror.

(or geologic, or atmospheric, or human)

Posted by: Muldoon at August 12, 2024 11:15 AM (uCfKO)

76 Al Gore said we'd be dead by now.

Greta Thundershart said we'd be dead by now.

Liberals living on the coast said we'd be a smaller land mass in the US by now.

None of this has happened.

What gives?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 12, 2024 11:15 AM (Zz0t1)

77 Those honorable, fair, intelligent and better-than-you communists when on a decades-long orgy of whale extermination for absolutely no reason because compliance is its own reward.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 12, 2024 11:11 AM (HnUIn)

And the Chinese are worse.

Nature's best protection is a market economy.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 12, 2024 11:16 AM (d9fT1)

78 I'd like to point out that the polar bear population on the Great Barrier Reef has plummeted to near zero, and yet you continue to stick your head in the sand.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 12, 2024 11:06 AM (xCA6C)

Yes, that was climate change, remember that. -- Big Penguin

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 12, 2024 11:16 AM (nR2nR)

79 No one under sixty should be allowed to post without adult supervision.

Posted by: Old Fossil at August 12, 2024 11:16 AM (CV8a5)

80 Maybe if we dumped some more paint on something valuable we could avert this looming catastrophe.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 12, 2024 11:16 AM (vYDwg)

81 I've never claimed to be anything but a Dread Millennial.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 12, 2024 11:12 AM (HnUIn)
====

When I worked on Wall Street the boss warned me, "don't tell anyone your real age."

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 12, 2024 11:16 AM (JvZF+)

82 Morays don’t have fangs. All their teeth are huge.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 12, 2024 11:15 AM (Sdd2F)

And that's the Moray of that story...

Posted by: Boswell at August 12, 2024 11:16 AM (K+UlC)

83 76 Al Gore said we'd be dead by now.

Greta Thundershart said we'd be dead by now.

Liberals living on the coast said we'd be a smaller land mass in the US by now.

None of this has happened.

What gives?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 12, 2024 11:15 AM (Zz0t1)

Better check your facts. Obama's chef was alive and well until they moved to the coast...

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at August 12, 2024 11:16 AM (KbCG3)

84 While we are at it,

While changes in the amount of CO2, water vapor, and dozen of other things in the atmosphere can have *lively* effects on climate - see the added water vapor now from that volcano a while back - a Big Lie that hasn't been fully addressed is Venus.

There is no "runaway greenhouse effect" on Venus; the high temps are a combination of the level of the orbit and the chemical make up of the atmosphere there. This is some basic chemistry shit and it's disgusting that the lie has remained intact for this long.

Posted by: somedood at August 12, 2024 11:17 AM (Kw0ul)

85 Who gives a shit whether the reef survives past our lifetimes?

Posted by: Doctor Elric Blade, Esq. at August 12, 2024 11:14 AM (iFTx/)

I think the health of the reefs is linked to the health of many commercial fisheries.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 12, 2024 11:17 AM (d9fT1)

86 Who gives a s*** whether the reef survives past our lifetimes?

I do. For all I know, it's a critical incubator site for the rest of the ocean's fish (not saying it is). However, I do still insist on scientific rigor if you're going to shriek that the end of the world is nigh. These people wouldn't know rigor if it bit them in the butt.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 12, 2024 11:17 AM (xCA6C)

87 >IIRC it was over 50 years the Jehovah's Witnesses shrieked the world would end in 1975.

If I knew the world was ending, I would keep it to myself.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at August 12, 2024 11:18 AM (cf/0E)

88 Good news. I'm so rereefed!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 12, 2024 11:18 AM (E3oJ+)

89 >>> 7 The whole thing of Earth being fragile is such nonsense.

Earth sends hurricanes to murder us.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, riding the anarchy train with John Landis at August 12, 2024 11:02 AM (GBKbO)

Not just hurricanes.

"Outside is trying to kill us." -- AtC

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 12, 2024 11:18 AM (FnneF)

90 "63 I never understood why anyone would be so concerned about the reef anyway. Not only did the leftist shitcocks create hysteria over the demise of the reef, they also created some fake deep caring about the reef in the first place.

I don't want to see the end of the reef or any specific scenic natural phenomena. But it's a fucking REEF -- actually a a thousand islands -- a billion miles away that very few people will ever see and probably 99% of people have no idea what it even is.

Who gives a shit whether the reef survives past our lifetimes?
Posted by: Doctor Elric Blade, Esq. at August 12, 2024 11:14 AM (iFTx/)"

Seen a lot of mentions recently of the studies showing moonbats are far more concerned with rocks, trees, and animals then their friends, family, and neighbors. That's why, basically. They're fucking psychos.

Posted by: somedood at August 12, 2024 11:18 AM (Kw0ul)

91 Why can’t we just be normal about this stuff? Be good stewards of the earth. Pick your trash up. Don’t dump chemicals that harm ocean critters into the ocean on purpose. Give a hoot, don’t pollute.

Not for the weather, but because we should not be trashy people.
Posted by: Piper at August 12, 2024 11:12 AM (p4NUW)
++++
What you're describing is now long-dead concept of "conservationism." The conservationists more or less took this tack. "Do what you need to do, but don't be unnecessarily abusive and be careful and sensible and think to the future."

The environmentalists destroyed the concept of "conservation." It stopped being relative - the whole "do what you need to do" part - and became absolute - "thou shall not harm Earth Mother in any way whatsoever, oh and by the way, we define harm" - as a means to power.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 12, 2024 11:18 AM (HnUIn)

92 Nature's best protection is a market economy.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 12, 2024 11:16 AM (d9fT1)
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Well, private property.

But one implies the other.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 12, 2024 11:19 AM (HnUIn)

93 Why can’t we just be normal about this stuff? Be good stewards of the earth. Pick your trash up. Don’t dump chemicals that harm ocean critters into the ocean on purpose. Give a hoot, don’t pollute.

Not for the weather, but because we should not be trashy people.
Posted by: Piper

-

This sounds extremely Southern White Christian Nationalist.

I've never thought about it before, but I bet that's part of why the urban types are so religiously wacky about the environment they rarely visit. They travel to shrines in the form of monuments and parks to see trees, while we walk around in it and clean it up most every day.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Women pursuing older men must desire incestous father fantasies at August 12, 2024 11:19 AM (mIykB)

94 Greta Thundershart said we'd be dead by now.

If you can't trust a 16 year-old borderline personality Aspergers retard, then who can you trust?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 12, 2024 11:19 AM (vYDwg)

95 If I knew the world was ending, I would keep it to myself.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at August 12, 2024 11:18 AM (cf/0E)

I'd take out a bunch of loans.

Posted by: spindrift at August 12, 2024 11:19 AM (OguvZ)

96 >>> 76 Al Gore said we'd be dead by now.

Greta Thundershart said we'd be dead by now.

Liberals living on the coast said we'd be a smaller land mass in the US by now.

None of this has happened.

What gives?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 12, 2024 11:15 AM (Zz0t1)

They are full of shit?

Meanwhile, I am disappointed that Al Gore and Scoldilocks are still alive.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 12, 2024 11:20 AM (FnneF)

97 I know there are people out there embracing aging and doing it with grace. I am not one of those people.
Posted by: Piper

When I was a kid, I looked forward to being an old person, because I thought I could just do what I wanted and tell everyone else to get lost.

Now that I'm a wee bit past 29 (a few years older than you), and having health issues, I wish I were young again. Because it turns out, I can't just do what I want anymore anyway.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 12, 2024 11:20 AM (v6JzV)

98 If you can't trust a 16 year-old borderline personality Aspergers retard, then who can you trust?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 12, 2024 11:19 AM (vYDwg)

Cartman's Assburgers > Greta's Asperger's

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 12, 2024 11:20 AM (Zz0t1)

99 Does New Zealand have as many icky bugs/animals as Oz?

Posted by: BignJames at August 12, 2024 11:20 AM (AwYPR)

100 If I knew the world was ending, I would keep it to myself.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at August 12, 2024 11:18 AM (cf/0E)
++++
There's no reason not to. After all, you cannot win a bet on the end of the world. You're either right and the world ends and so you can't collect, or you're wrong and the world doesn't end and you lose the bet anyway.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 12, 2024 11:20 AM (HnUIn)

101 But the glaciers--giant chunks of ice that destroy all life--are melting!

that one is one of the stupidest to me. We've been maybe measuring glaciers for, what, a few decades?
Not even a measurable amount of time on a geological scale.
And the hysteria is even worse when we know, absolutely know, that glaciers can grow fast enough that we've found tools placed with care in obvious anticipation of return in the spring exposed centuries later when the snow finally melts.

But what I hate the most about the climate cultists is this: Hundreds of millions of people live along the equator, the hottest parts of the Earth.
But the colder it gets, the less people live there.
Global warming will never be a problem.
But, almost all life goes extinct in global cooling.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 12, 2024 11:20 AM (l3206)

102 The environmentalists destroyed the concept of "conservation." It stopped being relative - the whole "do what you need to do" part - and became absolute - "thou shall not harm Earth Mother in any way whatsoever, oh and by the way, we define harm" - as a means to power.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

-

See also: Vegetarianism

Because they realized 50-80% of elderly people are primarily vegetarians, and that's not cool. Gotta make it more extreme and awesome.

Now you pretty much never hear about anyone being a vegetarian.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Women pursuing older men must desire incestous father fantasies at August 12, 2024 11:21 AM (mIykB)

103 27
‘ Hurricanes didn't exist before the industrial revolution," is pretty much the standard take at this point’

And those hurricanes kicked off practically on day 1 of the Industrial Revolution too.
The hurricane of 1780 was one of the worst ever.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at August 12, 2024 11:21 AM (jbnUc)

104 Two millennia to stop the spread.

Posted by: Wear a reef mask! at August 12, 2024 11:21 AM (DobEs)

105 But I thought the end of the Mayan Calendar was supposed to kill us all.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 12, 2024 11:21 AM (Zz0t1)

106 Who is killing the great chefs of Nantucket?

Posted by: Forensic Files at August 12, 2024 11:21 AM (CV8a5)

107 O/T but I was away on vacation last week. Any juicy gossip about how the Horde comported itself? Bannings? Barellings? Shotgun weddings?

Inquiring minds want to know....

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at August 12, 2024 11:22 AM (LxER7)

108 Who gives a shit whether the reef survives past our lifetimes?

Posted by: Doctor Elric Blade, Esq. at August 12, 2024 11:14 AM (iFTx/)

I think the health of the reefs is linked to the health of many commercial fisheries.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 12, 2024 11:17 AM (d9fT1)
________

Even if true, commercial fishing has been (intentionally) killed in many parts of the world, including the USA. So what if another commercial zone bites the dust? I certainly feel more for American fisherman put out of work than any potential Aussies.

Again: I don't want to see the death of the reef or any more commercial fishing interests. But of all the things to worry about, the reef and Australian fishing interests seem way down on the list -- below my "Don't Give A Shit" line.

Posted by: Doctor Elric Blade, Esq. at August 12, 2024 11:22 AM (iFTx/)

109 ... Not even a measurable amount of time on a geological scale. ...
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 12, 2024 11:20 AM (l3206)
++++
This was one of my dad's smartass comments when he wanted to teach me to go find the answer my damn self.

"How long ago was 'X'?"
"In geologic time, it wasn't even yesterday."
"That's not helpful"
"Go look it up, then."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 12, 2024 11:22 AM (HnUIn)

110 107 O/T but I was away on vacation last week. Any juicy gossip about how the Horde comported itself? Bannings? Barellings? Shotgun weddings?

Inquiring minds want to know....
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at August 12, 2024 11:22 AM (LxER7)

=======

Cat Ass Trophy...

You missed some shit.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, riding the anarchy train with John Landis at August 12, 2024 11:22 AM (GBKbO)

111 Polar bears hardest hit ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Cat Ladies for Trump & Vance! at August 12, 2024 11:22 AM (BeeaF)

112 95 If I knew the world was ending, I would keep it to myself.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at August 12, 2024 11:18 AM (cf/0E)

I'd take out a bunch of loans.
Posted by: spindrift at August 12, 2024 11:19 AM (OguvZ)

Funny scene from The Sopranos. One of the guys finds out that a dude is set to get whacked. He finds the guy and takes out a $10G loan.

The guy does get taken out. Cut to a scene where some others are discussing the guy dying. Guy says, "Man, wish I had taken out some money with him."

Dude who took the loan sits in the background smiling.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at August 12, 2024 11:22 AM (KbCG3)

113 We adopted the girl spawn from China. Beijing is terrible. The air is filthy! There is a haze of pollution over the city. There's trash and soot on every street.

We left Beijing for Guong Zhou and could literally see the pollution cloud outside the plane window. Guong Zhou wasn't any better. Coming into the city, the airport was a clean modern place that's a few miles outside of the city. Driving in to guong Zhou, through what the tour guide called the suburbs was a hellscape that we would call a slum. Buildings that are falling in but people live there. Giant piles of trash everywhere.

When the climate hysterics tell China to clean up their country or face severe sanctions, I will pretend to take them seriously. Until then, I'm not even gonna pretend.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at August 12, 2024 11:22 AM (4XwPj)

114 In New York State the wise state government has mandated that fossil fuels need to be eliminated soon. Over 60 industry and government groups have sent a letter to the governor and state government that their 'by 2035-2045' all use of fossil fuels must cease to save us all from dying. They say the state has no plans to increase the output of electricity, just shut down what they have. And upgrade the grid, which isn't even on the agenda. Our beloved governor Hochul has a plan but she keeps it a secret...which means she has none. Nuclear power is a no,no.

Posted by: Colin at August 12, 2024 11:22 AM (nC2FH)

115 The Great Barrier Reef is asshoe.
-- Capt. James Cook

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 12, 2024 11:23 AM (v6JzV)

116 They demand vegetarianism, yet want to stop CO2 production, which is want plants that grow the vegetables need.

Conclusion: The elite trash want to kill everyone off.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 12, 2024 11:23 AM (Zz0t1)

117 105 But I thought the end of the Mayan Calendar was supposed to kill us all.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 12, 2024 11:21 AM (Zz0t1)

Well it certainly ended the Mayans.

That and the rampant human sacrifice.

Posted by: Robert at August 12, 2024 11:23 AM (R0Hvq)

118 Natural selection is how the universe began and what made the world super awesome and also shut up, they explained.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Women pursuing older men must desire incestous father fantasies at August 12, 2024 11:23 AM (mIykB)

119
don't want to see the end of the reef or any specific scenic natural phenomena. But it's a fucking REEF -- actually a a thousand islands

If you lose the thousand islands what will put put on your salad?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 12, 2024 11:23 AM (63Dwl)

120 I don't want to see the end of the reef or any specific scenic natural phenomena. But it's a fucking REEF -- actually a a thousand islands -- a billion miles away that very few people will ever see and probably 99% of people have no idea what it even is.

Who gives a shit whether the reef survives past our lifetimes?
Posted by: Doctor Elric Blade, Esq. at August 12, 2024 11:14 AM (iFTx/)"

Seen a lot of mentions recently of the studies showing moonbats are far more concerned with rocks, trees, and animals then their friends, family, and neighbors. That's why, basically. They're fucking psychos.
Posted by: somedood at August 12, 2024 11:18 AM (Kw0ul)
_________

Bingo!

Posted by: Doctor Elric Blade, Esq. at August 12, 2024 11:23 AM (iFTx/)

121 If it won’t for hurricanes, the weather channel would have to rely on earthquakes, forest fires, and volcanos to create panic.
Posted by: Eromero at August 12, 2024 11:14 AM (LHPAg)

We've renamed mild breezes as Ultra Super Dangerous Potentially Catastrophic Wind and started naming them. We're gonna get a grant from the fed over it. -- TWC

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 12, 2024 11:23 AM (nR2nR)

122 When a fish takes a bite
Out of your thigh just for spite
thats a Moray

Posted by: Skip at August 12, 2024 11:23 AM (pIcE5)

123 The fear mongering is to control the sheeple. Too bad many seem to be conned by it.

The world is quickly devolving into two species of humans. One species is quickly demonstrating that it is unfit to survive.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 12, 2024 11:24 AM (Q4IgG)

124 121 We've renamed mild breezes as Ultra Super Dangerous Potentially Catastrophic Wind and started naming them. We're gonna get a grant from the fed over it. -- TWC
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 12, 2024 11:23 AM (nR2nR)

=======

"This light breeze is forcing me pull the trigger on this gun pointed at the dog! Tune in, or I shoot the dog!"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, riding the anarchy train with John Landis at August 12, 2024 11:24 AM (GBKbO)

125 You can go the rest of your life without breathing.

Posted by: Here. I'll show you at August 12, 2024 11:24 AM (DobEs)

126 OOH soore, blame the wee hurricane!

Posted by: Hurricane Hamisch at August 12, 2024 11:24 AM (wGerL)

127 The Great Barrier Reef is asshoe.
-- Capt. James Cook

Nonetheless, he persisted...like a BOSS!

Posted by: Archimedes at August 12, 2024 11:24 AM (xCA6C)

128 We've renamed mild breezes as Ultra Super Dangerous Potentially Catastrophic Wind and started naming them. We're gonna get a grant from the fed over it. -- TWC
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 12, 2024 11:23 AM (nR2nR)

Only start to worry if you see Jim Cantore in your AO.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at August 12, 2024 11:25 AM (PiwSw)

129
The world is quickly devolving into two species of humans. One species is quickly demonstrating that it is unfit to survive.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 12, 2024 11:24 AM (Q4IgG)

GO AWAY!!! 'BATIN!!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 12, 2024 11:25 AM (Zz0t1)

130
Natural selection is how the universe began and what made the world super awesome and also shut up, they explained.
Posted by: Moron Robbie

But humans (especially Western humans) aren't natural.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 12, 2024 11:25 AM (63Dwl)

131 Does New Zealand have as many icky bugs/animals as Oz?
Posted by: BignJames at August 12, 2024 11:20 AM

-----------------

No. Completely different biome.

Posted by: Bigsmith at August 12, 2024 11:26 AM (1Au9i)

132 there are varying ways to find untruth:

Lies, statistics and structuring research projects to attain further funding

Posted by: Kindltot at August 12, 2024 11:26 AM (D7oie)

133 But I thought the end of the Mayan Calendar was supposed to kill us all.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 12, 2024 11:21 AM

Net Neutrality beat it to the punch.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 12, 2024 11:26 AM (ZANHd)

134 Sex doesn't sell. Bad news sells.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

***********

Sex rents.

Posted by: Muldoon at August 12, 2024 11:27 AM (uCfKO)

135 Now I've got to go buy a new wax ring......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 12, 2024 11:27 AM (Zz0t1)

136 Does New Zealand have as many icky bugs/animals as Oz?
Posted by: BignJames at August 12, 2024 11:20 AM

-----------------

No. Completely different biome.
Posted by: Bigsmith

They do have wetas, really big grasshoppers. Harmless, but really big.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 12, 2024 11:27 AM (v6JzV)

137 116 Conclusion: The elite trash want to kill everyone off.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 12, 2024 11:23 AM (Zz0t1)

Pretty much. That's why novels like The Stand were considered erotica to them.

Remember the scientist who announced that we should develop an airborne version of ebola to reduce the population to more manageable levels? The fact he was applauded instead of being stuffed into a wood chipper tells you what you need to know about them.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 12, 2024 11:27 AM (BpO1e)

138 Nuclear power is a no,no.

Posted by: Colin at August 12, 2024 11:22 AM (nC2FH)

Shoreham closed before it went on line. Indian Point is closed.

NY is f*cked.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 12, 2024 11:27 AM (d9fT1)

139 The Mayans were pimps. They could never have outfought the Toltecs.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 12, 2024 11:27 AM (jdHxK)

140 Now that I'm a wee bit past 29 (a few years older than you), and having health issues, I wish I were young again. Because it turns out, I can't just do what I want anymore anyway.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

I am a big fan of denial. If I am not feeling old, I am not getting old. I truly do not feel my age, but I definitely wish I could turn back time and make some changes to me when I was younger.

I am sorry you are having health issues. I hope all manageable.

Posted by: Piper at August 12, 2024 11:28 AM (p4NUW)

141 134 Sex doesn't sell. Bad news sells.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Sex rents.
Posted by: Muldoon at August 12, 2024 11:27 AM (uCfKO)

*Gets an idea*

Posted by: Robert at August 12, 2024 11:28 AM (k9dtX)

142 "These climate carnival barkers have lost all credibility. They have consistently been wrong in their prior predictions about the Great Barrier Reef"

well, they're weather scientists so are we REALLY shocked they're wrong most of the time...

Posted by: SturmToddler at August 12, 2024 11:28 AM (v6XNT)

143 Jacinda Arden is a very icky bug/animal. Dangerous.

Posted by: Voice of Terror at August 12, 2024 11:28 AM (CV8a5)

144
Sex rents.
Posted by: Muldoon at August 12, 2024 11:27 AM (uCfKO)

$20, same as in town.

And your hash is *you can f*ck off.*

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 12, 2024 11:28 AM (Zz0t1)

145 Walz "misspoke" about his service record. Apparently, he also "misprinted" on his Congressional Challenge coin.

https://tinyurl.com/3sx6shdc

Posted by: Archimedes at August 12, 2024 11:28 AM (xCA6C)

146 Greta Thundershart said we'd be dead by now.

If you can't trust a 16 year-old borderline personality Aspergers retard, then who can you trust?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 12, 2024 11:19 AM (vYDwg)

She's 21. She's no smarter than she was at 16 but I bet she's richer.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 12, 2024 11:28 AM (nR2nR)

147 In Hartford, Hereford, and Hampshire Hurricane Hamisch hardly happens.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 12, 2024 11:29 AM (63Dwl)

148 *Gets an idea*
Posted by: Robert at August 12, 2024 11:28 AM (k9dtX)
++++
Guilty! Six months in County and 2,000 hours community service.

Posted by: Judge at August 12, 2024 11:29 AM (HnUIn)

149
Shoreham closed before it went on line. Indian Point is closed.

NY is f*cked.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 12, 2024 11:27 AM (d9fT1)

They're bringing TMI back online soon along with one other in northern NYS.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 12, 2024 11:29 AM (Zz0t1)

150 Greetings. Here is what is puzzling me.
I have this mini-PC (pixy recommended) I run during the day. At night I disconnect the wifi and power it off and then also power off the surge protector thingy. So it is powered off x 2.
I get up in the morning, power it up, and before I log on to wifi, I have widgets that tell me the temperature outside, the stock market tallies, the local traffic conditions, etc.
Before I log on to the internet.
Things that make me go "hmm".

Posted by: gourmand du jour at August 12, 2024 11:29 AM (MeG8a)

151 We've renamed mild breezes as Ultra Super Dangerous Potentially Catastrophic Wind and started naming them. We're gonna get a grant from the fed over it. -- TWC
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 12, 2024 11:23 AM (nR2nR)

=======

"This light breeze is forcing me pull the trigger on this gun pointed at the dog! Tune in, or I shoot the dog!"
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, riding the anarchy train with John Landis at August 12, 2024 11:24 AM (GBKbO)
____

I think what's happened is that historically we didn't track or name hurricanes that were so far out in the ocean they had little to no chance of making landfall. Maritime interests obviously tracked them, but mainstream news and meteorological interests didn't bother.

But now we do name these storms -- even though they have almost no chance of hitting land -- because we want to intentionally juice up the number of storms every year. Plus, storms are generally much stronger over water than land. So screeching about C5 and C4 storms 2500 miles away makes for better hysteria.

Posted by: Doctor Elric Blade, Esq. at August 12, 2024 11:30 AM (iFTx/)

152 Greta Thundershart said we'd be dead by now.

If you can't trust a 16 year-old borderline personality Aspergers retard, then who can you trust?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 12, 2024 11:19 AM (vYDwg)

She's 21. She's no smarter than she was at 16 but I bet she's richer.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 12, 2024 11:28 AM (nR2nR)

Correction: Her parents are richer.

Posted by: Robert at August 12, 2024 11:30 AM (k9dtX)

153 Christopher Steele, a former British spy and creator of the notorious anti-Trump Steele dossier, has surfaced to try his hand at creating a new narrative of Russia having been behind the week of England riots all along.

Britain’s foreign intelligence agency MI6 will look “very carefully” at Reform UK leader, Brexit boss, and Member of Parliament Nigel Farage after he challenged the government on the official narrative around the Southport stabbings, a former top spy has said.

Posted by: SMOD at August 12, 2024 11:30 AM (RHGPo)

154 And I keep saying, if one--just one--climate model from the start of this massive fraud in the 90s was right, we'd never hear the end of it.

That is, not one, not one single one (except to the 3rd or 4th derivation; essentially zero change) accurately predicted today's temps.

Instead, every year, they come out with a new model like a shitty car manufacturer, except they are advertising to government grants.

But, it's only going to get worse. Embarrassingly, pathetically, stupidly worse--the "new and improved" models are going to have AI and ChatGPT and a half-dozen other glitzy buzz words!

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 12, 2024 11:30 AM (l3206)

155 They need to stop smoking Great Barrier Reefer.

Posted by: ... at August 12, 2024 11:30 AM (7HLJ6)

156 "Hurricanes didn't exist before the industrial revolution," is pretty much the standard take at this point.

…and yet we had typhoons, but those are somehow different

Posted by: weew at August 12, 2024 11:30 AM (4HMqD)

157 New Zealand has dragons and Dwarves who live under the mountains

Posted by: Skip at August 12, 2024 11:30 AM (pIcE5)

158 Weather Nation is pretty good. They, get this, you guys, report on weather events and forecasts. No named winter storms, no scary words and phrases like bomb cyclone or atmospheric river. They do not do any kind of editorializing (HOTTEST SUMMER EVAR!!!) their channel is on PlutoTV and prolly some other venues.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Icky Weirdo at August 12, 2024 11:30 AM (xPJvm)

159 But of all the things to worry about, the reef and Australian fishing interests seem way down on the list -- below my "Don't Give A Shit" line.

Posted by: Doctor Elric Blade, Esq. at August 12, 2024 11:22 AM (iFTx/)

I think we should be good stewards of the earth, and preserve and protect nature within reason, with the long-term view that nature is for our use!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 12, 2024 11:30 AM (d9fT1)

160 Scientific concensus, babeeee.

Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker at August 12, 2024 11:30 AM (Rbu5d)

161 146 She's 21. She's no smarter than she was at 16 but I bet she's richer.

Before she's 25, she'll come out as trans in order to become valid again.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 12, 2024 11:30 AM (BpO1e)

162 I was told that earthquakes are caused by climate change...by "scientists". Climate change causes everything-"scientists"...oh you mean the change in weather as the earth revolves around the sun?

I can't wait for "Earth Day" 2025, my annual burn all the yard waste in my fire pit, rain or shine!

Posted by: Ganowicz Commie Exterminators, LTD. at August 12, 2024 11:31 AM (K861k)

163 I've never thought about it before, but I bet that's part of why the urban types are so religiously wacky about the environment they rarely visit. They travel to shrines in the form of monuments and parks to see trees, while we walk around in it and clean it up most every day.
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'They took all the trees and put 'em in a tree museum / and charged the people a dollar and a half just to see 'em / Don't it always seem to go that you don't know what you've got 'til it's gone.' Joni Mitchell

70s were a lot of fun in some ways.

Posted by: mustbequantum at August 12, 2024 11:31 AM (WCgT6)

164
OUT: Climate Cargo Cult.
IN: Climate Car-No-For-You Cult.

Posted by: ShainS -- Cat Ladies for Trump & Vance! at August 12, 2024 11:31 AM (haUyw)

165 To be fair, the last month was pretty warm.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 12, 2024 11:31 AM (WBQfF)

166 165 To be fair, the last month was pretty warm.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August

Like summer?

Posted by: Piper at August 12, 2024 11:32 AM (p4NUW)

167 To be fair, the last month was pretty warm.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 12, 2024 11:31 AM (WBQfF)

During summer?

No way......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 12, 2024 11:32 AM (Zz0t1)

168 Acid Rain kilt me 50 years ago

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at August 12, 2024 11:32 AM (1FWWQ)

169 But I thought the end of the Mayan Calendar was supposed to kill us all.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 12, 2024 11:21 AM (Zz0t1)

I read an interview with some "Mayan" chief or priest or whatever... he said that he found the whole thing amusing as no one ever talked about the fact that there was another calendar waiting to start when the old one ended. Just like the kitten calendar on your wall.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 12, 2024 11:32 AM (nR2nR)

170 Christopher Steele, a former British spy and creator of the notorious anti-Trump Steele dossier, has surfaced to try his hand at creating a new narrative of Russia having been behind the week of England riots all along.

Britain’s foreign intelligence agency MI6 will look “very carefully” at Reform UK leader, Brexit boss, and Member of Parliament Nigel Farage after he challenged the government on the official narrative around the Southport stabbings, a former top spy has said.

Good. They have to degenerate from ridiculous to farce and active threat before people wake up to what's happening. Admittedly, that's a best case scenario, but it's what I expect to happen. I'm an optimist.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 12, 2024 11:32 AM (xCA6C)

171 Why does everybody ignore me.

Posted by: Chicken Little at August 12, 2024 11:33 AM (xcIvR)

172 They call the wind Maria.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 12, 2024 11:33 AM (63Dwl)

173 To be fair, the last month was pretty warm.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 12, 2024 11:31 AM (WBQfF)

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It was warm in July? We're all gonna die, I guess.

Posted by: Jordan61 at August 12, 2024 11:33 AM (DRSnL)

174 A subset of this is that there are no consequences for people in the government/science/media sectors that make mistakes.

That "97% consensus" that they argued we needed to spend trillions and our freedoms to prevent that was not reached should not just have led to mass firings, but people being shunned in their former industry.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 12, 2024 11:33 AM (oZhjI)

175 Greta Thundershart said we'd be dead by now.

If you can't trust a 16 year-old borderline personality Aspergers retard, then who can you trust?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 12, 2024 11:19 AM (vYDwg)

She's 21. She's no smarter than she was at 16 but I bet she's richer.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 12, 2024 11:28 AM (nR2nR)

Correction: Her parents are richer.
Posted by: Robert at August 12, 2024 11:30 AM (k9dtX)
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Yea. Greta is a mentally-ill True Believer. Her parents are just commie grifters and shitmongers. May all of them die a horrible, painful death. Then get revived only to die a second horrible, painful death.

Posted by: Doctor Elric Blade, Esq. at August 12, 2024 11:33 AM (iFTx/)

176 On and on and on and on. Different framing, but same shit.

Yet reefs are doing just fine. The rainforest is doing just fine. Ocean life is doing just fine, except in places where there are no controls on fishing and the tragedy of the commons reigns supreme - you know, the places run by communists.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 12, 2024 11:04 AM (HnUIn)

someone here recently asked why Millennials were always so mad.

The answer is "we had our future taken from us"
Nuclear war
Nulcear winter
Global Cooling
Peak Oil
Global warming
Islamic Terror
offshoring jobs
onshoring cheap labor
bank collapses
Fentanyl
all to the marching sound of inflation, taxation and economic destruction

we went from retraining from extractive industries, to retraining when the factories went overeas, to having to learn to code, to teaching our H1B replacements how to do our jobs.
Honestly, Covid was just the most recent iteration.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 12, 2024 11:33 AM (D7oie)

177 171 Why does everybody ignore me.
Posted by: Chicken Little at August 12, 2024 11:33 AM (xcIvR

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I'm not ignoring you.

I just put you in the oven for 55 minutes.

I'll be back in a bit.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, riding the anarchy train with John Landis at August 12, 2024 11:33 AM (GBKbO)

178 To be fair, the last month was pretty warm.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 12, 2024 11:31 AM (WBQfF)

Holy crap! Looks at calendar, oh it was July. Summer in the northern hemisphere.

Posted by: Ganowicz Commie Exterminators, LTD. at August 12, 2024 11:33 AM (K861k)

179 Speaking of health, I am off to the doctor for my appointment after annual blood work. Should be boring, my cholesterol is fine, vit d is low (what’s new), but I am anemic so we shall see!

Have a good morning.

Posted by: Piper at August 12, 2024 11:34 AM (p4NUW)

180 Christopher Steele, a former British spy and creator of the notorious anti-Trump Steele dossier, has surfaced to try his hand at creating a new narrative of Russia having been behind the week of England riots all along.

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If you are going to keep using our plot, we want some residuals dammit!

Posted by: Kevin Costner and the cast of No Way Out at August 12, 2024 11:34 AM (BMtnd)

181 To be fair, the last month was pretty warm.

It was. And this week, the nighttime temp minima are largely in the low 60s. COME ON, FALL!

Posted by: Archimedes at August 12, 2024 11:34 AM (xCA6C)

182 124 121 We've renamed mild breezes as Ultra Super Dangerous Potentially Catastrophic Wind and started naming them. We're gonna get a grant from the fed over it. -- TWC
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 12, 2024 11:23 AM (nR2nR)

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"This light breeze is forcing me pull the trigger on this gun pointed at the dog! Tune in, or I shoot the dog!"
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, riding the anarchy train with John Landis at August 12, 2024 11:24 AM (GBKbO)

The National Lampoon was always over-rated.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Vote but also buy ammo at August 12, 2024 11:34 AM (xcxpd)

183 I am sorry you are having health issues. I hope all manageable.
Posted by: Piper

Thanks. Just the usual stuff -- Type II, high blood pressure, aches and pains. Also depression, but I struggled with that even when I was young.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 12, 2024 11:34 AM (v6JzV)

184 It's supposed to be in the 100's all this week in NTX.

That never happens.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 12, 2024 11:34 AM (Zz0t1)

185 Oh and as a fun note, a recent study found massive support for every enviro initiative under the sun but then when the participants were asked how much they would spend to avert these catastrophe the average was...$3.

No one actually believes this enviro dooming but everyone seems to believe they have to echo it...

Posted by: 18-1 at August 12, 2024 11:34 AM (oZhjI)

186 182 The National Lampoon was always over-rated.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Vote but also buy ammo at August 12, 2024 11:34 AM (xcxpd)

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But, it produced Ivan Reitman who produced Ghostbusters.

Check and mate.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, riding the anarchy train with John Landis at August 12, 2024 11:34 AM (GBKbO)

187 They're bringing TMI back online soon along with one other in northern NYS.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 12, 2024 11:29 AM (Zz0t1)

I doubt that. TMI closed several years ago, and the owners have discussed reopening, but no decision has been made.

And...what plant in NY?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 12, 2024 11:35 AM (d9fT1)

188 171 Why does everybody ignore me.
Posted by: Chicken Little at August 12, 2024 11:33 AM (xcIvR

Gonna smoke you with some nice cherry wood for a few hours.

Posted by: Ganowicz Commie Exterminators, LTD. at August 12, 2024 11:35 AM (K861k)

189 175 Greta Thundershart said we'd be dead by now.

If you can't trust a 16 year-old borderline personality Aspergers retard, then who can you trust?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 12, 2024 11:19 AM (vYDwg)

Yea. Greta is a mentally-ill True Believer. Her parents are just commie grifters and shitmongers. May all of them die a horrible, painful death. Then get revived only to die a second horrible, painful death.
Posted by: Doctor Elric Blade, Esq

I'd hit it. (Hic!)

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at August 12, 2024 11:35 AM (JCZqz)

190 Christopher Steele, a former British spy and creator of the notorious anti-Trump Steele dossier, has surfaced to try his hand at creating a new narrative of Russia having been behind the week of England riots all along.

Of course it takes the hand of a foreign nation to make your people protest when you bring in aliens to murder them. I mean everyone knows that.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 12, 2024 11:35 AM (oZhjI)

191 ... I've never thought about it before, but I bet that's part of why the urban types are so religiously wacky about the environment they rarely visit. They travel to shrines in the form of monuments and parks to see trees, while we walk around in it and clean it up most every day.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Women pursuing older men must desire incestous father fantasies at August 12, 2024 11:19 AM (mIykB)
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The world as envisioned in Soylent Green, where every patch of nature has been paved over and seethes with teeming masses of humanity.

They do no math, and have no ability to assess scale. There are 8.2 billion people on this blue jewel of a planet. If you packed them all into a Texas-sized space, each person would have about 1,000 square feet to himself. And the rest of the planet would be empty of people.

Now that kind of density is of course unmanageable and everyone would die if you tried it, but the "soylent green" situation is not real, and major urban population density is not general across the system.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 12, 2024 11:35 AM (HnUIn)

192 Trump's coming to Asheville this Wednesday. Debating whether or not to put up with all the mess downtown to go see him.

Posted by: AshevilleRobert at August 12, 2024 11:35 AM (fv27Y)

193 Good luck with your checkup, Piper.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 12, 2024 11:35 AM (v6JzV)

194 Weather Nation is pretty good. They, get this, you guys, report on weather events and forecasts. No named winter storms, no scary words and phrases like bomb cyclone or atmospheric river. They do not do any kind of editorializing (HOTTEST SUMMER EVAR!!!) their channel is on PlutoTV and prolly some other venues.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Icky Weirdo at August 12, 2024 11:30 AM (xPJvm)

Weathernationtv.com

Let's check the temperatures back home.

Lessee...hot...hot...hotter...Jesus Christ...Fucking doomed...

Typical August day.

Posted by: Robert at August 12, 2024 11:36 AM (AzIhE)

195 All the best wishes for your wife, Sponge.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 12, 2024 11:36 AM (PDf99)

196 I doubt that. TMI closed several years ago, and the owners have discussed reopening, but no decision has been made.

And...what plant in NY?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 12, 2024 11:35 AM (d9fT1)

They're already upgrading TMI. It will likely come online next year.

I'll have to ask SpongeBro on which other plant is coming back up.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 12, 2024 11:36 AM (Zz0t1)

197 All the best wishes for your wife, Sponge.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 12, 2024 11:36 AM (PDf99)

Thank you.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 12, 2024 11:36 AM (Zz0t1)

198 This chilly blonde is decided skeptical of all the climate alarmism:
http://tiny.cc/6fqfzz

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 12, 2024 11:36 AM (HnUIn)

199 Actually it has been fairly cool for Kentucky in August the past few days.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 12, 2024 11:37 AM (PDf99)

200 186 182 The National Lampoon was always over-rated.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Vote but also buy ammo at August 12, 2024 11:34 AM (xcxpd)

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But, it produced Ivan Reitman who produced Ghostbusters.

Check and mate.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, riding the anarchy train with John Landis at August 12, 2024 11:34 AM (GBKbO)

Contra, Ivan Reitman would have found success without a bunch of Ivy League assholes.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Vote but also buy ammo at August 12, 2024 11:37 AM (xcxpd)

201 But it could have happened!!

Will the environmentals take this as a win? OH HELL NO!

Will the environmentals perhaps rethink their "science since it has been proved wrong? OH HELL NO!

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at August 12, 2024 11:37 AM (17s+e)

202 This chilly blonde is decided skeptical of all the climate alarmism:

Blond hair and brown eyes? Fake!

Posted by: Archimedes at August 12, 2024 11:37 AM (xCA6C)

203 To be fair, the last month was pretty warm.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 12, 2024 11:31 AM (WBQfF)

During summer?

No way......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 12, 2024 11:32 AM (Zz0t1)
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It was not even that hot by July standards. Only a few days over 95 and none over 100. Most of the time it was between 87 and 92. This is in NYC. There have been MUCH hotter months. I hate the heat and am particularly attuned to how hot the weather is.

I think two things made it seem hotter than normal. One: It was quite humid, which I think increased the perceived heat. Two: the early summer was so mild that there was almost no build-up to the heat. It was cool one week and then hot the next.

Posted by: Doctor Elric Blade, Esq. at August 12, 2024 11:38 AM (iFTx/)

204 They do no math, and have no ability to assess scale.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 12, 2024 11:35 AM (HnUIn)

And they have even less capacity to assess relative risk.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 12, 2024 11:38 AM (d9fT1)

205 Just like forests naturally recovering from wildfires, coral reefs naturally recover from hurricane scouring, and CO2 has nothing to with either.

Fill the atmosphere with plant food, and the forests should recover faster, no?

Burn oil! For a green Earth!

Posted by: mikeski at August 12, 2024 11:38 AM (eQTQ/)

206 198 This chilly blonde is decided skeptical of all the climate alarmism:
http://tiny.cc/6fqfzz
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 12, 2024 11:36 AM (HnUIn)

Nipples.
Nice belly too

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Vote but also buy ammo at August 12, 2024 11:38 AM (xcxpd)

207 And they have even less capacity to assess relative risk.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 12, 2024 11:38 AM (d9fT1)
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Yup. They also catastrophize a lot. *Everything* becomes a catastrophe, so everything is equally important.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 12, 2024 11:38 AM (HnUIn)

208 The world as envisioned in Soylent Green, where every patch of nature has been paved over and seethes with teeming masses of humanity.

They do no math, and have no ability to assess scale. There are 8.2 billion people on this blue jewel of a planet. If you packed them all into a Texas-sized space, each person would have about 1,000 square feet to himself. And the rest of the planet would be empty of people.

Now that kind of density is of course unmanageable and everyone would die if you tried it, but the "soylent green" situation is not real, and major urban population density is not general across the system.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 12, 2024 11:35 AM (HnUIn)
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They're out of Soylent Yellow!

*knocks over sales counter*

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 12, 2024 11:39 AM (JvZF+)

209 They're already upgrading TMI. It will likely come online next year.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 12, 2024 11:36 AM (Zz0t1)

The last article I read (last month) was that they have looked into the engineering demands but have made no decisions.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 12, 2024 11:39 AM (d9fT1)

210 186 182 The National Lampoon was always over-rated.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Vote but also buy ammo at August 12, 2024 11:34 AM (xcxpd)

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Selected pieces were hilarious. The story that was the basis of the dreadful National Lampoon Vacation movie was so funny I could barely finish it I was choking so hard. (It ended with an attempt on Walt Disney's life.)

I wonder how it would hold up if I re-read it today.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 12, 2024 11:39 AM (WBQfF)

211 This chilly blonde is decided skeptical of all the climate alarmism:
http://tiny.cc/6fqfzz
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 12, 2024 11:36 AM (HnUIn)

I love it when they're chilly.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 12, 2024 11:39 AM (Zz0t1)

212 Where does Greta fall on the Hot-Crazy matrix?

Posted by: It's subjective at August 12, 2024 11:39 AM (DobEs)

213 207 And they have even less capacity to assess relative risk.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 12, 2024 11:38 AM (d9fT1)

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Yup. They also catastrophize a lot. *Everything* becomes a catastrophe, so everything is equally important.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 12, 2024 11:38 AM (HnUIn)

The best part is that their calls to action are the exact definition of every email your company's IT department tells you not to open.

They're walking, talking phishing scams. Except they really believe what they're selling.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at August 12, 2024 11:40 AM (KbCG3)

214 212 Where does Greta fall on the Hot-Crazy matrix?
Posted by: It's subjective at August 12, 2024 11:39 AM (DobEs)

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Through the bottom.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, riding the anarchy train with John Landis at August 12, 2024 11:40 AM (GBKbO)

215 The answer is "we had our future taken from us"
Nuclear war
Nulcear winter
Global Cooling
Peak Oil
Global warming
Islamic Terror
offshoring jobs
onshoring cheap labor
bank collapses
Fentanyl
all to the marching sound of inflation, taxation and economic destructithe

60's and 70's would like a word.

Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker at August 12, 2024 11:40 AM (Rbu5d)

216 The National Lampoon was always over-rated.

National Lampoon's Doon and Bored of the Rings are very funny.

Doon is IMO the best thing to spin out of the original novel, followed closely by the computer game Dune II. (Dune 2000 is good, but a bit complex for my tastes.)

Posted by: Lance McCormick, still giggling over the Schlepper's Guild at August 12, 2024 11:40 AM (1Idb6)

217 212 Where does Greta fall on the Hot-Crazy matrix?

Posted by: It's subjective at August 12, 2024 11:39 AM (DobEs)

Right next to asshole experiencing explosive diarrhea.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at August 12, 2024 11:40 AM (KbCG3)

218
It was not even that hot by July standards. Only a few days over 95 and none over 100. Most of the time it was between 87 and 92. This is in NYC. There have been MUCH hotter months. I hate the heat and am particularly attuned to how hot the weather is.

I know a bunch of leftist LIVs that moved from the north to the south that tell me the summers are hotter then when they were young.

And...Ms Chicago to Phoenix I mean...the summers are hotter for you now but that's not because of climate change...

Posted by: 18-1 at August 12, 2024 11:40 AM (oZhjI)

219 170
‘ Christopher Steele, a former British spy and creator of the notorious anti-Trump Steele dossier’

There’s someone with a serious lead deficiency.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at August 12, 2024 11:41 AM (jbnUc)

220 The best part is that their calls to action are the exact definition of every email your company's IT department tells you not to open.

They're walking, talking phishing scams. Except they really believe what they're selling.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at August 12, 2024 11:40 AM (KbCG3)
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LOL. What a great description.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 12, 2024 11:41 AM (HnUIn)

221 http://tiny.cc/6fqfzz
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 12, 2024 11:36 AM (HnUIn)

I think her navel needs a good licking.

Posted by: Robert at August 12, 2024 11:41 AM (NHGHh)

222 Where does Greta fall on the Hot-Crazy matrix?
Posted by: It's subjective at August 12, 2024 11:39 AM (DobEs)

Eleventy for cray-cray. Zero for hotness. Definite case of coyote arm. Most likely plays for the other team.

Posted by: Ganowicz Commie Exterminators, LTD. at August 12, 2024 11:41 AM (K861k)

223 I think two things made it seem hotter than normal. One: It was quite humid, which I think increased the perceived heat. Two: the early summer was so mild that there was almost no build-up to the heat. It was cool one week and then hot the next.

Posted by: Doctor Elric Blade, Esq. at August 12, 2024 11:38 AM (iFTx/)

Exactly.

We have had some miserably humid days with what would have felt like a pleasant summer day had the humidity been lower.

And because people are stupid, they conflate how hot it FEELS with how hot is IS!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 12, 2024 11:41 AM (d9fT1)

224 We were discussing carbon steel skillets yesterday on the Food Thread. For those who can't get enough on this topic, here's a new post.

https://www.youtube.com/watch
?v=EHPLt5sjjdw

Posted by: Archimedes at August 12, 2024 11:41 AM (xCA6C)

225 Miss me yet?

Posted by: Whale oil at August 12, 2024 11:41 AM (DobEs)

226 Where does Greta fall on the Hot-Crazy matrix?
Posted by: It's subjective at August 12, 2024 11:39 AM (DobEs)

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Through the bottom.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, riding the anarchy train with John Landis at August 12, 2024 11:40 AM (GBKbO)

Right next to asshole experiencing explosive diarrhea.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at August 12, 2024 11:40 AM (KbCG3)

Same difference.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 12, 2024 11:42 AM (Zz0t1)

227 Humans have disturbed the climate to such a great extent that we have created chaos on Earth, scientists say.

Translation: All our predictions have turned to sh*t and it's YOUR FAULT!

Posted by: Oddbob at August 12, 2024 11:42 AM (/y8xj)

228 They will just blame the cyclone on climate change and keep ruining people's lives

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at August 12, 2024 11:42 AM (wvBjc)

229 Could things get worse for J.D.? Yes: New viral photo of him in drag at Yale. https://tinyurl.com/4wufyx4f

Vance has been one of the most vile Republicans bashing the LGBTQ+ community. I would love to see how MAGA spins this. This is the last thing his candidacy needs right now, and I wouldn’t want to be a ketchup bottle at Mar-a-Lago tonight.

If J.D. wants to put on makeup and wear a dress, I say let him. There’s nothing wrong with that. But it’s going to be a hard sell when he tries to say that other men who do the same are somehow a threat.

He better not have been reading stories to children!!

This isn't drag. I live in SF. To me, drag is much more than a guy putting on women’s clothes; there’s a lot more effort and creativity that goes into drag. Drag queens are fun; I wouldn’t talk to this guy even if he was standing right next to the keg.

A friend of mine would dress as a woman every Halloween. A few years later, she transitioned.

Posted by: Intercepted Daily Kos Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at August 12, 2024 11:42 AM (JCZqz)

230 Thx Buck , good post. Every prediction which has been made about climate change has been wrong. Then the "climate scientists" say those predictions were made by politicians, celebs or the media, not experts. Of course where do the politicians , celebs and media get their info ? The "experts". The goal posts are then moved

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 12, 2024 11:42 AM (oqWMC)

231 Where does Greta fall on the Hot-Crazy matrix?
Posted by: It's subjective at August 12, 2024 11:39 AM (DobEs)

https://youtu.be/NI-JkMw4i3g

Posted by: Kindltot at August 12, 2024 11:43 AM (D7oie)

232 I take comfort in the sure knowledge that the snail darters have been saved.

Posted by: Muldoon at August 12, 2024 11:43 AM (uCfKO)

233 The last article I read (last month) was that they have looked into the engineering demands but have made no decisions.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 12, 2024 11:39 AM (d9fT1)

Scuttlebutt in the industry is they're bringing nukes back online that have been mothballed because of the Owebama "kill coal" initiative.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 12, 2024 11:43 AM (Zz0t1)

234 we went from retraining from extractive industries, to retraining when the factories went overeas, to having to learn to code, to teaching our H1B replacements how to do our jobs.
Honestly, Covid was just the most recent iteration.
Posted by: Kindltot

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The globalists figured it out. What they couldn't outsource to unskilled labor elswhere they insourced to unskilled labor here via illegals.

And Americans were left high and dry.

You have to admire it in its own way.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Women pursuing older men must desire incestous father fantasies at August 12, 2024 11:44 AM (mIykB)

235 222 Where does Greta fall on the Hot-Crazy matrix?
Posted by: It's subjective at August 12, 2024 11:39 AM (DobEs)

Eleventy for cray-cray. Zero for hotness. Definite case of coyote arm. Most likely plays for the other team.

Every so often there are suggestions that she has Fetal Alcohol Syndrome or Down's or some other condition.

Honestly, it's just sad how her parents/handlers have been using her.

Posted by: Lance McCormick at August 12, 2024 11:44 AM (1Idb6)

236 It is almost as if global warming and/or climate change don't exist the way Greta tells me it exists

Posted by: jeff at August 12, 2024 11:44 AM (8qMs2)

237 Trump is back on X.

Posted by: IrishEi at August 12, 2024 11:45 AM (3ImbR)

238 Could things get worse for J.D.? Yes: New viral photo of him in drag at Yale. https://tinyurl.com/4wufyx4f

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This could be awesome.

Make them explain how he's not a woman.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Women pursuing older men must desire incestous father fantasies at August 12, 2024 11:45 AM (mIykB)

239 60's and 70's would like a word.
Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker at August 12, 2024 11:40 AM (Rbu5d)

sorry, I meant GenX

No breakfast yet allows my inner idiot to surface

Posted by: Kindltot at August 12, 2024 11:45 AM (D7oie)

240 Here's his first post:

https://x.com/realDonaldTrump/status/
1823016427680358790

Posted by: IrishEi at August 12, 2024 11:45 AM (3ImbR)

241 Scuttlebutt in the industry is they're bringing nukes back online that have been mothballed because of the Owebama "kill coal" initiative.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 12, 2024 11:43 AM (Zz0t1)

Maybe. it's NY after all.

Oh...There are some big chip manufacturing plants being built upstate whose power demands are going to be huge. I want Hochul to square that circle!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 12, 2024 11:45 AM (d9fT1)

242 Honestly, it's just sad how her parents/handlers have been using her.
Posted by: Lance McCormick

It could be worse...

Posted by: Ashley Biden at August 12, 2024 11:45 AM (JCZqz)

243 102...Because they realized 50-80% of elderly people are primarily vegetarians,

What?
On what planet.

Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker at August 12, 2024 11:46 AM (Rbu5d)

244 And this month so far hasn't been warm at all.

Ahhhh! It's an ice age!!, we are all going to die!!!

Posted by: Black JEM at August 12, 2024 11:46 AM (GZYu7)

245 240 Here's his first post:

https://x.com/realDonaldTrump/status/
1823016427680358790
Posted by: IrishEi at August 12, 2024 11:45 AM (3ImbR)

======

Over 3 million views in less than half an hour.

That seems like a lot.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, riding the anarchy train with John Landis at August 12, 2024 11:46 AM (GBKbO)

246 Newsweek still owes me an ice age.

Posted by: From 1975 at August 12, 2024 11:46 AM (DobEs)

247 "Hamish" is the least-frightening name for a storm ever.
Posted by: spindrift at August 12, 2024 11:05 AM

I beg to differ.

Posted by: Hurricane Debby at August 12, 2024 11:46 AM (tBmO2)

248 Could things get worse for J.D.? Yes: New viral photo of him in drag at Yale. https://tinyurl.com/4wufyx4f

So? Justin Trudeau was in blackface MULTIPLE times. It's no big thing. Right?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 12, 2024 11:46 AM (Zz0t1)

249 Where does Greta fall on the Hot-Crazy matrix?

Posted by: It's subjective at August 12, 2024 11:39 AM (DobEs)

Right next to asshole experiencing explosive diarrhea.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at August 12, 2024 11:40 AM (KbCG3)

I don't need to be reminded of my upcoming colonoscopy, thankyewveddymoosh.

Posted by: Robert at August 12, 2024 11:46 AM (cpvqm)

250 Blond hair and brown eyes? Fake!
Posted by: Archimedes at August 12, 2024 11:37 AM (xCA6C)

It's not impossible. My sister was a brown eyed blond as a youth. Her hair darkened over the years.

Also, I was a brown eyed blond too. I became a balding American.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Icky Weirdo at August 12, 2024 11:46 AM (xPJvm)

251 246 Newsweek still owes me an ice age.
Posted by: From 1975 at August 12, 2024 11:46 AM (DobEs)

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It's called the Medieval Period.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, riding the anarchy train with John Landis at August 12, 2024 11:46 AM (GBKbO)

252 248 Could things get worse for J.D.? Yes: New viral photo of him in drag at Yale. https://tinyurl.com/4wufyx4f

So? Justin Trudeau was in blackface MULTIPLE times. It's no big thing. Right?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 12, 2024 11:46 AM (Zz0t1)

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College age kid does college age kid things.

More at 11.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, riding the anarchy train with John Landis at August 12, 2024 11:47 AM (GBKbO)

253 JD in a dress? I'm guessing AI. Just like the "crowds" at a Harris rally.
Also...
For years the Mariner's would have the rookies on the team wear dresses during a set of road games. Probably still do.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 12, 2024 11:47 AM (W/lyH)

254 If a tropical cyclone (hurricane or typhoon) forms south of the equator and moves into the Northern Hemisphere does its direction of rotation reverse?

Posted by: Muldoon at August 12, 2024 11:47 AM (uCfKO)

255 There is no "runaway greenhouse effect" on Venus; the high temps are a combination of the level of the orbit and the chemical make up of the atmosphere there. This is some basic chemistry shit and it's disgusting that the lie has remained intact for this long.
Posted by: somedood at August 12, 2024 11:17 AM (Kw0ul)

Also the fact that the atmosphere of that planet is about 20 times denser than Greta Thundershart's brains.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 12, 2024 11:47 AM (GuRu/)

256 Could things get worse for J.D.? Yes: New viral photo of him in drag at Yale. https://tinyurl.com/4wufyx4f

Vance has been one of the most vile Republicans bashing the LGBTQ+ community. I would love to see how MAGA spins this.

Sweet! Since my lily white ass put on a sombrero and a serape, I'm Mexican! Where's my f'n EBT card? Muy pronto!

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at August 12, 2024 11:47 AM (1LRsz)

257 And...Ms Chicago to Phoenix I mean...the summers are hotter for you now but that's not because of climate change...
Posted by: 18-1

Well, back in Cheecaago, summers weren’t that hot.

Then, go the fuck back there.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 12, 2024 11:48 AM (3aXL2)

258 She's 21. She's no smarter than she was at 16 but I bet she's richer.
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Before she's 25, she'll come out as trans in order to become valid again.
Posted by: NR Pax at August 12, 2024 11:30 AM (BpO1e)

OnlyFans. Her schtick can be to prance around saying it's getting hotter as she takes off her clothes. Someone will pay for it.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 12, 2024 11:48 AM (nR2nR)

259 I'm sure Miss Boobette will have a hot time in her senior year of high school. That will warm her up

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 12, 2024 11:48 AM (L/Hpm)

260 OnlyFans. Her schtick can be to prance around saying it's getting hotter as she takes off her clothes. Someone will pay for it.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 12, 2024 11:48 AM (nR2nR)
++++
:: hurls ::

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 12, 2024 11:49 AM (HnUIn)

261 245 240 Here's his first post:

https://x.com/realDonaldTrump/status/
1823016427680358790
Posted by: IrishEi at August 12, 2024 11:45 AM (3ImbR)

======

Over 3 million views in less than half an hour.

That seems like a lot.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, riding the anarchy train with John Landis at August 12, 2024 11:46 AM (GBKbO)

The cut where Trump's talking about the people who want to destroy the country with Pelosi tearing up the SOTU speech is one of the best cuts in any political ad ever.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at August 12, 2024 11:49 AM (KbCG3)

262 Because they realized 50-80% of elderly people are primarily vegetarians,

What?
On what planet.
Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker

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I don't mean putting bumper stickers on their cars or joining PETA. I mean just mainly eating vegetables for health reasons and watching / limiting their meat intake vs just eating the heck out of everything like us 29 year olds.

Go to a church function and spend some time with elderly folks at the suppers.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Women pursuing older men must desire incestous father fantasies at August 12, 2024 11:49 AM (mIykB)

263 Global Warming will soon destroy our economy, and then kill us all.

I mean, not the actual warming, but the control and power attained from the AGW hoax, by some maniacal billionaires.

Posted by: illiniwek at August 12, 2024 11:49 AM (Cus5s)

264 260 OnlyFans. Her schtick can be to prance around saying it's getting hotter as she takes off her clothes. Someone will pay for it.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 12, 2024 11:48 AM (nR2nR)
++++
:: hurls ::
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 12, 2024 11:49 AM (HnUIn)

========

South Park did a special on OnlyFans.

Big warning at the beginning that there's adult content and nudity. More prominent than normal.

It's Randy Marsh's flaccid dick for like a third of the episode.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, riding the anarchy train with John Landis at August 12, 2024 11:50 AM (GBKbO)

265 128...Only start to worry if you see Jim Cantore in your AO.
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at August 12, 2024 11:25 AM (PiwSw)

I'd be more concerned if I saw Reed Timmer or Pecos Hank...

Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker at August 12, 2024 11:50 AM (Rbu5d)

266 This is all your fault because you wouldn't buy an electric car.

Posted by: These Fish Sticks Are Hard As Tits at August 12, 2024 11:50 AM (vfWKI)

267 For years the Mariner's would have the rookies on the team wear dresses during a set of road games. Probably still do.
Posted by: Diogenes

They wouldn't dare. Hell, we'll probably make the MVP of the year wear a dress to be more inclusive as a reward or something, now that you mention it...

Posted by: Woke MLB at August 12, 2024 11:51 AM (JCZqz)

268 No one actually believes this enviro dooming but everyone seems to believe they have to echo it...
Posted by: 18-1 at August 12, 2024 11:34 AM (oZhjI)

Just like every other leftist thing. NTTAWWT

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 12, 2024 11:51 AM (nR2nR)

269 What is really irritating is that Paul Ehrlich is still alive instead of getting rogered by the barbed cock of satan, which he so richly deserves.

Posted by: Bonecrusher at August 12, 2024 11:51 AM (JNTt1)

270 Miss me yet?
Posted by: Whale oil at August 12, 2024 11:41 AM (DobEs)

Not since camphene and burning fluid my friend.

whale oil started getting scarce about the beginning of the 1800s, and it was being replaced with coal oil which was only competitive when whale oil prices were high, but a cheaper alternative was a mix of white pine turpentine and alcohol, which burns a bit yellow and was an explosive risk in a whale oil lamp, but was much cheaper. When petroleum was drilled and cracked into kerosene it made life much easier, but a lot of the tech on lamps had been roughed out with the camphene burners.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 12, 2024 11:51 AM (D7oie)

271 This is all your fault because you wouldn't buy an electric car.
Posted by: These Fish Sticks Are Hard As Tits at August 12, 2024 11:50 AM (vfWKI)
++++
Will nobody think of the children (who work in Congolese lithium mines)?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 12, 2024 11:52 AM (HnUIn)

272 Addendum:

Probably financial reasons more and more now, too.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Women pursuing older men must desire incestous father fantasies at August 12, 2024 11:52 AM (mIykB)

273 It's called the Medieval Period.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, riding the anarchy train with John Landis at August 12, 2024 11:46 AM (GBKbO)

Or 1816.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 12, 2024 11:52 AM (d9fT1)

274 Liars and godless commies gotta lie to push their evil agenda.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at August 12, 2024 11:53 AM (ufFY8)

275 Miss me yet?
Posted by: Whale oil at August 12, 2024 11:41 AM (DobEs)

Not since camphene and burning fluid my friend.
Posted by: Kindltot

Man, I've leaked burning fluid many times in my life. Usually a little antibiotics cleared it up, though.

Posted by: Bill Clinton at August 12, 2024 11:53 AM (JCZqz)

276 I eat vegetables that were processed into the meat of the animals I eat.

Posted by: Archer at August 12, 2024 11:54 AM (IDphi)

277 Ehrlich doesn’t care. His fucking book of lies made for a comfy existence.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 12, 2024 11:54 AM (3aXL2)

278 OnlyFans. Her schtick can be to prance around saying it's getting hotter as she takes off her clothes. Someone will pay for it.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 12, 2024 11:48 AM (nR2nR)

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OK, I'm not a guy, but yuck.

Posted by: Jordan61 at August 12, 2024 11:55 AM (DRSnL)

279 Could things get worse for J.D.? Yes: New viral photo of him in drag at Yale. https://tinyurl.com/4wufyx4f

Looks better than we we did the girl group for the dorms "talent show"

Posted by: Kindltot at August 12, 2024 11:55 AM (D7oie)

280 278 OnlyFans. Her schtick can be to prance around saying it's getting hotter as she takes off her clothes. Someone will pay for it.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 12, 2024 11:48 AM (nR2nR)

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OK, I'm not a guy, but yuck.
Posted by: Jordan61 at August 12, 2024 11:55 AM (DRSnL)

I'm a guy. Yuck.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at August 12, 2024 11:55 AM (KbCG3)

281 128...Only start to worry if you see Jim Cantore in your AO.
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes,

I would rather see Stephanie Abrams, if she is still around, soaking wet in a tight T-shirt.

Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at August 12, 2024 11:56 AM (ufFY8)

282 The cut where Trump's talking about the people who want to destroy the country with Pelosi tearing up the SOTU speech is one of the best cuts in any political ad ever.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at August 12, 2024 11:49 AM (KbCG3)
~~~~~

Impactful. The whole piece is excellent.

Posted by: IrishEi at August 12, 2024 11:56 AM (3ImbR)

283 These climate carnival barkers have lost all credibility. They have consistently been wrong in their prior predictions about the Great Barrier Reef, yet they continue to roll out new prophecies of environmental doom.

[buck.throckmorton at protonmail dot com]

Close it up

Posted by Buck Throckmorton at 11:00 AM Comment

They're not wrong, they are liars. It's as simple as that.
Guessing at what may happen in the future can make one wrong, but continuing to deny the past while still making the same wrong predictions is just lying.
The only thing some "scientists" are good at is lying for money.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at August 12, 2024 11:56 AM (FCbAQ)

284
I would rather see Stephanie Abrams, if she is still around, soaking wet in a tight T-shirt.
Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at August 12, 2024 11:56 AM (ufFY

You misspelled tent.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 12, 2024 11:56 AM (Zz0t1)

285 284
I would rather see Stephanie Abrams, if she is still around, soaking wet in a tight T-shirt.
Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at August 12, 2024 11:56 AM (ufFY

You misspelled tent.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 12, 2024 11:56 AM (Zz0t1)

I believe the T is for tent.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at August 12, 2024 11:57 AM (KbCG3)

286 Climate change is causing the Great Barrier Rees to grow out of control, like a giant cancer, and it will cover the whole earth in 10 years if we don't act now to ban fossil fuels.

Posted by: Ripley at August 12, 2024 11:57 AM (GUOwU)

287 I believe the T is for tent.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at August 12, 2024 11:57 AM (KbCG3)

You might have something there.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 12, 2024 11:57 AM (Zz0t1)

288 I eat vegetables that were processed into the meat of the animals I eat.
Posted by: Archer

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I will acknowledge that I live somewhere where vegetables taste good when they're prepared and that could lend itself towards their consumption. Other places' near-raw or steaming or unseasoned or other techniques might not have the ability to make food taste particularly good and the tendencies could probably be adjusted accordingly.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Women pursuing older men must desire incestous father fantasies at August 12, 2024 11:57 AM (mIykB)

289
Oh...There are some big chip manufacturing plants being built upstate whose power demands are going to be huge. I want Hochul to square that circle!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

Get the juice from Canada.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 12, 2024 11:57 AM (63Dwl)

290 Nice to see Bundaberg is one of those maps. A great place.

Posted by: scottst at August 12, 2024 11:58 AM (yjKqP)

291 OT - discussion here recently about how dietary calories are actually kilo-calories. A bacon double cheeseburger is about a kilowatt-hour.

Posted by: These Fish Sticks Are Hard As Tits at August 12, 2024 11:58 AM (vfWKI)

292 271
‘ Will nobody think of the children (who work in Congolese lithium mines)?’

I will!
Thanks for the batteries, kids. Now, get back to work, you little dickens.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at August 12, 2024 11:58 AM (jbnUc)

293 Again, no one ever explains how our rounding error of CO2 emissions causes all of these catastrophes and calamities.

Also, there's this thing called the carbon cycle and the inconvenient fact that the earth is a closed system, so all of the CO2 that is possible to generate is already here.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 12, 2024 11:59 AM (XV/Pl)

294 OnlyFans. Her schtick can be to prance around saying it's getting hotter as she takes off her clothes. Someone will pay for it.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 12, 2024 11:48 AM (nR2nR)

=====

OK, I'm not a guy, but yuck.
Posted by: Jordan61 at August 12, 2024 11:55 AM (DRSnL)

I'm a guy. Yuck.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at August 12, 2024 11:55 AM (KbCG3)
____________

DOUBLE YUCK. I have no interest in OF as it is, even with normal THOTs shaking their shit. But the idea of watching some stunted, mentally-ill weirdo who looks about 14 years old?? Hard pass.

Posted by: Doctor Elric Blade, Esq. at August 12, 2024 11:59 AM (iFTx/)

295 Climate change is causing the Great Barrier Rees to grow out of control, like a giant cancer, and it will cover the whole earth in 10 years if we don't act now to ban fossil fuels.
Posted by: Ripley at August 12, 2024 11:57 AM (GUOwU)
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LOL. Close to the mark, yeah.

Hotter? Anthropogenic Climate Change
Colder? Anthropogenic Climate Change
Species extinction? Anthropogenic Climate Change
New species being discovered? Anthropogenic Climate Change
More storms? Anthropogenic Climate Change
Fewer storms? Anthropogenic Climate Change
Falling crop yield? Anthropogenic Climate Change
Rising crop yield? Anthropogenic Climate Change

It's the all-purpose tool.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 12, 2024 11:59 AM (HnUIn)

296 292 271
‘ Will nobody think of the children (who work in Congolese lithium mines)?’

I will!
Thanks for the batteries, kids. Now, get back to work, you little dickens.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at August 12, 2024 11:58 AM (jbnUc)

I think about children all the time!

Posted by: Tim Walz at August 12, 2024 11:59 AM (KbCG3)

297 290 Nice to see Bundaberg is one of those maps. A great place.
Posted by: scottst at August 12, 2024 11:58 AM (yjKqP)

One of my kids did a semester in Brisbane and got to get up to Cairns. Really liked it a lot.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at August 12, 2024 11:59 AM (LxER7)

298 "Could things get worse for J.D.? Yes: New viral photo of him in drag at Yale."

Yes; I bet all the people planning on voting for Vance are horrified!!! to learn men in college (is this from college or grad school?) sometimes dress up as women. This is a known thing at Princeton, for instance, and it's been going on probably since the 1920's when they didn't think men and women could change their gender. if they weren't already dead (?) maybe we could arrest the male actors in "Some Like It Hot" too

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 12, 2024 11:59 AM (dTTBf)

299 All the ladies at Weather Channel try too hard to be me.

Posted by: Jen Carfagno at August 12, 2024 12:00 PM (Y1sOo)

300 WSJ:

Inside Elon Musk’s Hands-On Push to Win 800,000 Voters for Trump

Then, less than three months after launching the effort, Musk signed off on firing most of the vendors, only for the super PAC to rehire one of them after the resulting chaos. He also replaced the Texas-based advisers who helped him get the group off the ground with veterans of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s failed presidential bid.

Posted by: SMOD at August 12, 2024 12:00 PM (RHGPo)

301 JD Vance in drag in college with no context whatsoever.

Yes. Lets shun him and not vote for Trump because of it.......

GEEZ they've ruined everything......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 12, 2024 12:00 PM (Zz0t1)

302 Climate change is causing the Great Barrier Rees to grow out of control, like a giant cancer, and it will cover the whole earth in 10 years if we don't act now to ban fossil fuels.

Aaaahhhhhhh, what's all this coral doing in my yard?

Posted by: The good citizens of Denver at August 12, 2024 12:01 PM (xCA6C)

303 There be a nood.

Posted by: fly gal at August 12, 2024 12:01 PM (BYsEi)

304 293 Again, no one ever explains how our rounding error of CO2 emissions causes all of these catastrophes and calamities.

Also, there's this thing called the carbon cycle and the inconvenient fact that the earth is a closed system, so all of the CO2 that is possible to generate is already here.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 12, 2024 11:59 AM (XV/Pl)

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If I remember, the connection is that CO2 leads to increased water vapor which increases temperature. Except no one can prove the causal relationship from CO2 to water vapor.

Also, any volcano eruption puts out more water vapor in a day than the world's industry is supposed to increase through CO2 in a decade.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, riding the anarchy train with John Landis at August 12, 2024 12:01 PM (GBKbO)

305 "It's Already Too Late"

https://cei.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/1_2.png

From 1967

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 12, 2024 12:01 PM (XeU6L)

306 Again, no one ever explains how our rounding error of CO2 emissions causes all of these catastrophes and calamities.

Roughly doubling the CO2 concentration is not a rounding error.

Posted by: The good citizens of Denver at August 12, 2024 12:02 PM (xCA6C)

307 All the ladies at Weather Channel try too hard to be me.
Posted by: Jen Carfagno at August 12, 2024 12:00 PM (Y1sOo)

I find that a slightly unfortunate name.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 12, 2024 12:02 PM (Zz0t1)

308 67 It would be interesting to know who the oldest and youngest regular commenters on this site are.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 12, 2024 11:15 AM (v6JzV
I just woke up in the middle of my 76th year.

Posted by: Eromero at August 12, 2024 12:02 PM (LHPAg)

309 All the ladies at Weather Channel try too hard to be me.
Posted by: Jen Carfagno at August 12, 2024 12:00 PM (Y1sOo)

Up yours, ho.

Posted by: Christina Abernathy at August 12, 2024 12:02 PM (ufFY8)

310 Could things get worse for J.D.? Yes: New viral photo of him in drag at Yale.

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They will say it is proof that he's a bottom, "just like TIMMY!" *swoon*

Posted by: BunkerintheBurbs at August 12, 2024 12:02 PM (MIaMI)

311 Fenelon, remember that Tootsie and Mrs Doubtfire are now documentaries about the struggle of trans women against the patriarchy and bigotry of the 1980's

reeeeee.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 12, 2024 12:02 PM (D7oie)

312 262...Go to a church function and spend some time with elderly folks at the suppers.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Women pursuing older men must desire incestous father fantasies at August 12, 2024 11:49 AM (mIykB)

I do and I do. None of us are anything near vegetarian.

Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker at August 12, 2024 12:03 PM (Rbu5d)

313 150 - When you say "you disconnect the wifi", if all you're doing is removing the antenna from the mini-PC, then you're not actually disconnecting the wifi. It can still pick up signals, even without the antenna attached albeit with less signal strength. That's probably why everything is connecting to the internet when you start up the computer.

The only sure-fire way is to actually disabling the computer from connecting to the internet automatically on that connection (there should be a checkbox when you pull up the list of connections in Windows from the Task Bar), or turning off your router.

Posted by: Gaff at August 12, 2024 12:05 PM (jPS2y)

314 I laughed, Kindltot. Thx.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 12, 2024 12:07 PM (4asBI)

315 Roughly doubling the CO2 concentration is not a rounding error.
Posted by: The good citizens of Denver at August 12, 2024 12:02 PM (xCA6C)

I love the nullschool earth weather maps. They have layers for winds at various heights, pressure, clouds, and there are layers for chemicals and dust.
Nothing puts out CO2, CO, Sulfur like a forest fire in the west.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 12, 2024 12:07 PM (D7oie)

316 They do have wetas, really big grasshoppers. Harmless, but really big.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 12, 2024 11:27 AM

I'm picturing a six-foot long grasshopper hoppiing onto the road right in front of my car as if it's a deer.

Posted by: JuJuBee, fact checker hammered by events at August 12, 2024 12:08 PM (tBmO2)

317 I'm picturing a six-foot long grasshopper hoppiing onto the road right in front of my car as if it's a deer.
Posted by: JuJuBee, fact checker hammered by events at August 12, 2024 12:08 PM (tBmO2)

I saw this movie, Beginning of the End. Peter Graves headlining.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 12, 2024 12:10 PM (D7oie)

318 I saw this movie, Beginning of the End. Peter Graves headlining.
Posted by: Kindltot

They showed that on MST.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 12, 2024 12:11 PM (v6JzV)

319 NYC recently closed the Indian Point reactor that produced 25% of the city's power. What have they done to replace that loss?

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at August 12, 2024 12:13 PM (hKoQL)

320 NOOD.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 12, 2024 12:14 PM (v6JzV)

321 Could things get worse for J.D.? Yes: New viral photo of him in drag at Yale. https://tinyurl.com/4wufyx4f

Meh. Probably Halloween.

That pictures so blurry, it's a super close-up. Probably other people in costumes if the whole picture is shown.

Posted by: naturalfake at August 12, 2024 12:16 PM (eDfFs)

322 "...it has achieved a record level of coverage for the third consecutive year."

OH MY GOD! IT'S TAKING OVER!
At this rate, children born in Australia today will be able to walk to New Zealand. Which might be a bad thing, like, you don't even know.

Posted by: MLCross at August 12, 2024 12:24 PM (Q2MxE)

323 Go to a church function and spend some time with elderly folks at the suppers.
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I do and I do. None of us are anything near vegetarian.
Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker

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See 288

Don't dox yourself, but regionally whereabouts are you if I may ask?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Women pursuing older men must desire incestous father fantasies at August 12, 2024 12:28 PM (mIykB)

324 Walz "misspoke" about his service record. Apparently, he also "misprinted" on his Congressional Challenge coin.

https://tinyurl.com/3sx6shdc
Posted by: Archimedes at August 12, 2024 11:28 AM (xCA6C)

146 Greta Thundershart said we'd be dead by now.
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If we just pay more tax and surrender more of our freedom, all this shit will go away, they say with a straight face, and think that we actually believe them. Lying, scumbag, Demoshiteaters the lot of them.

Posted by: Bonecrusher at August 12, 2024 12:41 PM (JNTt1)

325 Climate change is meant for morons.

Posted by: Jane at August 12, 2024 01:07 PM (bXvrr)

326 This can't be true! I haven't heard anything about it!

Posted by: red speck at August 12, 2024 01:13 PM (0Id0S)

327 What's so great about the barrier reef?

Posted by: Old 97"s at August 12, 2024 02:23 PM (jJNeR)

328 I am crying. I graduated from high school in 89. I know there are people out there embracing aging and doing it with grace. I am not one of those people.
Posted by: Piper at August 12, 2024 11:15 AM (p4NUW)

Pfft. Try 1966.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at August 12, 2024 02:32 PM (iODuv)

329 Are you afraid yet?

Posted by: The Organic Church or the Carbon Apocalypse at August 12, 2024 03:15 PM (oxDA9)

330 There is more to this story. A scientist who published that the true level of coral reef, was fired for going against the narrative He sued, but didn't win. Not remembering names but I think it was Peter Webster and University Queensland or New South Wales.

Posted by: MikeN at August 12, 2024 03:43 PM (HVZOH)

331 The Fragile Earth and Delicate Balance of Nature are the biggest Lies by the Eco-Freaks along with Global Warming/Climate Change

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at August 12, 2024 04:22 PM (wGqjj)

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