Get It While It’s Cool-Ski Resorts Are Jumpin’

“Hey, Honey, isn’t that Al and Tipper?”

Good luck finding public transportation to these “hot spots.”

Buoyed by good snow, great national press, strong real estate sales, a wider variety of activities and more terrain, ski resorts are attracting bigger crowds and filling local cash registers.

At Downstairs at Eric’s, a popular 17-year-old pizza restaurant here, business is up more than 5 percent this past winter. March sales alone have equaled the restaurant’s total sales for the entire 1990-91 ski season.

“It’s insane,” Mamula said. “It’s another record-breaking year not only for us, but for the town too.”

A few blocks down at Crêpes à la Carte, owner LaMarca said the growing skier traffic is helping him finance a second stand he plans to open in Boulder this spring.

“I get busier every year,” LaMarca said. “I’m pretty much maxed out here now.”

Hahn, owner of 9-year-old Mary’s Mountain Cookies, agreed.

“Skier visits dictate our business,” she said. “We don’t have the space to accommodate all the people in here.”

All You Ever Wanted To Know About CO2 Science, And A Whole Lot More

Special Delivery-Hot Air Mail “You Need To Shut Up”

10-gallon-hat tip to Hot Air for this…

The only criticism I have with this video is its tongue-in-ckeek call for Gore to “shut up.” We don’t need to silence others for common sense to prevail. However, the lid to this Pandora’s Box is starting to unclasp.

The Debate Is Not Over.

Aussies To Copy France

 At least they won’t be able to see how silly they are:

Thousands of residents and hundreds of businesses and officials in Sydney have signed on to participate in what’s being called “Earth Hour.” If everything goes as planned, the Sydney Opera House, the harbor bridge and thousands of homes, businesses and skyscrapers will go dark next Saturday evening for one hour.

Benefits Of Global Warming-Miss USA 2006

Global Warming And The Iranian Problem

Prediction: Iran will start using heavy global warming rhetoric in an attempt to sway public opinion on their nuclear program.

I’ll bet you dollars to doughnuts.

The Iranian President may say something like this:

Ahmedinejad: “The Zionists would have us burning oil and coal, polluting Allah’s (PBUH) green Earth, instead of nuclear technology. They are ravaging the Earth, like Satan, while we peacefully look toward clean energy.  If they continue this blasphemy, they will burn in the very fires they helped to ignite.”

Buy This Tree Or I Will Kill It

A bizarre Ebay auction threatens herbicide:

This is simple, show your concern for global warming and your love of nature by paying to keep a tree alive. If a tree does not sell it dies, I will cut it down and burn it releasing all the carbon it has stored. So save a tree or help heat the world, your choice.
This auction is for healthy happy tree number 2. You ransom the tree and it gets to stay right where it is in its natural home. Otherwise it dies. Nothing to ship so no shipping charges.
Or, if you hate the world and hate trees, if you win you can ask me to cut and burn it so you don’t have to be a tree hugger to enjoy this auction.

Trees number 1 and 3 are dead. The Auctions ended and nobody cared enough to save a tree so now they are dead. When they dry out and their poor little leaves turn brown and start to fall off I will burn them adding all the carbon they had locked up in their brief lives to the atmosphere. I hope you are happy.
Also, as it costs money to list these trees if nobody bids on this tree I will kill it and trees 4 and 5. 5 is just a baby but I will kill it anyway, I will rip it up by the roots and let it die slowly in the sun. If somebody bids to save tree number 2 then I will list 4 and 5 so they will have a chance. It is up to you now.

This mean-spirited farce of an auction is actually a model of how some carbon offsets “work.”

“Global Warming Swindle” Director Shoots Back

 From The Telegraph (UK), hat tip The Skinner:

The remarkable thing is not that I was attacked. But that the attacks have been so feeble. The ice-core data was the jewel in the global-warming crown, cited again and again as evidence that carbon dioxide ‘drives’ the earth’s climate. In fact, as its advocates have been forced to admit, the ice-core data says the opposite. Temperature change always precedes changes in CO2 by several hundred years. Temperature drives CO2, not the other way round. The global-warmers do not deny this. They cannot.

During the post-war economic boom, while industrial emissions of CO2 went up, the temperature went down (hence the great global-cooling scare in the 1970s). Why? They say maybe the cooling was caused by SO2 (sulphur dioxide) produced by industry. But they say it mumbling under their breath, because they know it makes no sense. Thanks to China and the rest, SO2 levels are far, far higher now than they were back then. Why isn’t it perishing cold?

Too many journalists and scientists have built their careers on the global-warming alarm. Certain newspapers have staked their reputation on it. The death of this theory will be painful and ugly. But it will die. Because it is wrong, wrong, wrong.

Hypocrisy Watch

From the Daily Mail (UK):

John Ashton, whose role is to persuade other countries to reduce CO2 emissions, has made so many foreign trips by air in his job that his carbon footprint is already 30 times bigger than the UK average.

Figures obtained under Freedom of Information legislation show he has flown more than 80,000 miles since his appointment last June.

If he continues at this pace, he will clock up an annual mileage equivalent to flying five times round the globe.

The 50-year-old former diplomat’s travels have taken him to climate-change conferences in Moscow, Stockholm, Beijing, Washington, Chicago, Berlin, Houston, Amsterdam, Tokyo, Bombay, Delhi, Nairobi and Copenhagen.

On five of his trips he accompanied Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett, who was responsible for his appointment.

By the end of his first year in office, Mr Ashton’s travel schedule will have added 22.3 tons to his personal carbon footprint, compared with the average Briton’s 0.7 tons.

For Globular Warmingists, what’s good for the goose isn’t good enough for the gander.

The Changing Times

Your Economy Or Your Life

Dirtcrashr at Anthroblogogy has something to say:

Much like the cargo-cult Scientism that drapes the shroud of Globulistical Warmillusion, the clever but economically ignorant True Green-Believers have created ecoCargonomics. It’s a kind of freelance, pyramidical, undocumented, laissez-faire off-shoot of accounting.
Following religious doctrine and now available for purchase are Carbon-Offset Eco-Credits. Greendulgent Carbon Offsets are new financial instruments, purchasable through Generation Investment Management, a purveyor of fine-feelings and smug assurances for the Eco-Faithful who must not be overly inconvenienced in their Eco-Buying Power.
This is an instrument of Faith as well as (pseudo)Science and (pseudo)Economics – it is an investment in the Future. Do it for the Children.
The Leadership leads the flock to prayer and to shearing – the insturment is a pair of scissors. Al Gore not only uses 20 times more power than the average American household at his 20-room, eight-bathroom home in Nashville, to offset his gargantuan carbon footprint he also buys his massive offsets from Generation Investment Management. Conveniently and as the popular financial strategy goes, “Pay Yourself First,” to prove his Faith he is not only a consumer of this specially Eco-tailored line of investment instruments, he is also the Chairman of Generation Investment Management. It is, as Al Gore himself says, “a remarkable area of innovation“…

Fred Thompson On Global Warming

Quoted on the radio:

Some people think that our planet is suffering from a fever. Now scientists are telling us that Mars is experiencing its own planetary warming: Martian warming. It seems scientists have noticed recently that quite a few planets in our solar system seem to be heating up a bit, including Pluto.

NASA says the Martian South Pole’s “ice cap” has been shrinking for three summers in a row. Maybe Mars got its fever from earth. If so, I guess Jupiter’s caught the same cold, because it’s warming up too, like Pluto.

This has led some people, not necessarily scientists, to wonder if Mars and Jupiter, non signatories to the Kyoto Treaty, are actually inhabited by alien SUV-driving industrialists who run their air-conditioning at 60 degrees and refuse to recycle.

Silly, I know, but I wonder what all those planets, dwarf planets and moons in our SOLAR system have in common. Hmmmm. SOLAR system. Hmmmm. Solar? I wonder. Nah, I guess we shouldn’t even be talking about this. The science is absolutely decided. There’s a consensus.

Ask Galileo.

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Sun May Have An Effect On Climate

The Sun Is Getting Hotter