Enviro-statist alarmists claim that all of the following have been (or will be) caused by global warming.


Agricultural land increase, Africa devastated, African aid threatened, air pressure changes, Alaska reshaped, allergies increase, Alps melting, Amazon a desert, American dream end, amphibians breeding earlier (or not), ancient forests dramatically changed, Antarctic grass flourishes, anxiety, algal blooms, Arctic bogs melt, Asthma, atmospheric defiance, atmospheric circulation modified, avalanches reduced, avalanches increased, bananas destroyed, bananas grow, better beer, big melt faster, billion dollar research projects, billions of deaths, bird distributions change, birds return early, blackbirds stop singing, blizzards, blue mussels return, boredom, Britain Siberian, British gardens change, bubonic plague, budget increases, building season extension, bushfires, business opportunities, business risks, butterflies move north.

Cardiac arrest, caterpillar biomass shift, challenges and opportunities, Cholera, civil unrest, cloud increase, cloud stripping, cod go south, cold climate creatures survive, cold spells (Australia), computer models, conferences, coral bleaching, coral reefs dying, coral reefs grow, coral reefs shrink , cold spells, cost of trillions, crumbling roads, buildings and sewage systems, cyclones (Australia), damages equivalent to $200 billion, Dengue hemorrhagic fever, dermatitis, desert advance, desert life threatened, desert retreat, destruction of the environment, diarrhoea, disappearance of coastal cities, diseases move north, Dolomites collapse, drought, drowning people, ducks and geese decline, dust bowl in the corn belt.

Early spring, earlier pollen season, Earth biodiversity crisis, Earth dying, Earth even hotter, Earth light dimming, Earth lopsided, Earth melting, Earth morbid fever, Earth on fast track, Earth past point of no return, Earth slowing down, Earth spinning out of control, Earth to explode, earth upside down, Earth wobbling, earthquakes, El NiZo intensification, erosion, emerging infections, encephalitis, Europe simultaneously baking and freezing, evolution accelerating, expansion of university climate groups, extinctions (human, civilisation, logic, Inuit, smallest butterfly, cod, ladybirds, bats, pandas, pikas, polar bears, pigmy possums, gorillas, koalas, walrus, whales, frogs, toads, turtles, orang-utan, elephants, tigers, plants, salmon, trout, wild flowers, woodlice, penguins, a million species, half of all animal and plant species, less, not polar bears), experts muzzled, extreme changes to California.

Famine, farmers go under, figurehead sacked, fish catches drop, fish catches rise, fish stocks decline, five million illnesses, floods, Florida economic decline, food poisoning, food prices rise, food security threat (SA), footpath erosion, forest decline, forest expansion, frosts, fungi invasion, Garden of Eden wilts, genetic diversity decline, gene pools slashed, glacial retreat, glacial growth, glacier wrapped, global cooling, global dimming, glowing clouds, Gore omnipresence, grandstanding, grasslands wetter, Great Barrier Reef 95% dead, Great Lakes drop, greening of the North, Gulf Stream failure, habitat loss, Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome, harvest increase, harvest shrinkage, hay fever epidemic, hazardous waste sites breached, heat waves, hibernation ends too soon, hibernation ends too late, high court debates, human fertility reduced, human health improvement, human health risk, hurricanes, hydropower problems, hyperthermia deaths.

Ice sheet growth, ice sheet shrinkage, inclement weather, infrastructure failure (Canada), Inuit displacement, Inuit poisoned, Inuit suing, industry threatened, infectious diseases, insurance premium rises, invasion of midges, island disappears, islands sinking, itchier poison ivy, jellyfish explosion, Kew Gardens taxed, krill decline, lake and stream productivity decline, landslides, landslides of ice at 140 mph, lawsuits increase, lawsuit successful, lawyers’ income increased (surprise, surprise!), lightning related insurance claims, little response in the atmosphere, Lyme disease.

Malaria, malnutrition, Maple syrup shortage, marine diseases, marine food chain decimated, marine dead zone, Meaching (end of the world), megacryometeors, Melanoma, methane emissions from plants, methane burps, melting permafrost, Middle Kingdom convulses, migration, migration difficult (birds), microbes to decompose soil carbon more rapidly, more bad air days, more research needed, mountain (Everest) shrinking, mountains break up, mountains taller, mudslides, next ice age, Nile delta damaged, no effect in India, nuclear plants bloom, oaks move north, ocean acidification, outdoor hockey threatened, oyster diseases, ozone loss, ozone repair slowed, ozone rise.

Pacific dead zone, personal carbon rationing, pest outbreaks, pests increase, phenology shifts, plankton blooms, plankton destabilised, plankton loss, plant viruses, plants march north, polar bears aggressive, polar bears cannibalistic, polar bears drowning, polar bears starve, polar tours scrapped, psychosocial disturbances, railroad tracks deformed, rainfall increase, rainfall reduction, refugees, reindeer larger, release of ancient frozen viruses, resorts disappear, rice yields crash, rift on Capitol Hill, rioting and nuclear war, rivers raised, rivers dry up, rockfalls, rocky peaks crack apart, roof of the world a desert, Ross river disease.

Salinity reduction, salinity increase, Salmonella, salmon stronger, sea level rise, sea level rise faster, sex change, sharks booming, shrinking ponds, ski resorts threatened, slow death, smog, snowfall increase, snowfall reduction, societal collapse, songbirds change eating habits, sour grapes, spiders invade Scotland, squid population explosion, squirrels reproduce earlier, spectacular orchids, stormwater drains stressed.

Taxes, tectonic plate movement, terrorism, ticks move northward (Sweden), tides rise, tourism increase, trade winds weakened, tree beetle attacks, tree foliage increase (UK), tree growth slowed, trees could return to Antarctic, trees less colourful, trees more colourful, tropics expansion, tropopause raised, tsunamis, turtles lay earlier, UK Katrina, Venice flooded, volcanic eruptions.

Walrus pups orphaned, war, wars over water, water bills double, water supply unreliability, water scarcity (20% of increase), water stress, weather out of its mind, weather patterns awry, weeds, Western aid cancelled out, West Nile fever, whales move north, wheat yields crushed in Australia, white Christmas dream ends, wildfires, wind shift, wind reduced, wine - harm to Australian industry, wine industry damage (California), wine industry disaster (US), wine - more English, wine -German boon, wine - no more French , winters in Britain colder, wolves eat more moose, wolves eat less, workers laid off, World bankruptcy, World in crisis, Yellow fever.

That 'expert' is so full of shit... even if it was meteor, sparks falling from it would not be responsible for the wildfires in Cuzco.

The living conditions in these places, and the utter disregard for basic human rights and a working healthy democracy, are obviously at the root of all these protests we're seeing, and I do hope start spreading like wildfire into neighbouring countries where the same problems exist.
The conditions are the motive.
But I do believe that the internet/social networks/wiki leaks/television are the tools that are helping these revolutions take place. Go new media/information transparency.

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Actual LOL from me while in the office! You bastard.

In reply to this comment by Payback:
>> ^Kevlar:

Payback, let's say you've got kids and are about to feed your new baby some formula but for some reason it sprouts demon wings and is now circling the bedroom ceiling, its head turned sideways, shouting the chants of gods long dead. Do you shrug your shoulders, grab a stepladder and immediately shove the spoon into one of its 5 new mouths? Or do you stand back in stupefied wonder before coming up with a plan that may or may not involve a butterfly net and pruning shears?
My reading of your comment is that that people should not hesitate before aiming a hose at a tornado. I love your comments, but in this case I'd argue that the situation is truly and perversely fucked enough (and outside the realm of their normal experience) to make a slow response a little more understandable.


Oranges to apples. If one of YOUR imaginary kids suddenly proclaimed they were a demon and grabbed a pair of scissors and said their sister/brother must die. Would you go grab the camera or try to disarm them?

Any firefighter will have at least a passing knowledge of -albeit rare, but not undocumented- "fire whirls" which are observed mostly during wildfires.

I haven't found much on Google about Spontaneous Infant Demonification.

>> ^Kevlar:

Payback, let's say you've got kids and are about to feed your new baby some formula but for some reason it sprouts demon wings and is now circling the bedroom ceiling, its head turned sideways, shouting the chants of gods long dead. Do you shrug your shoulders, grab a stepladder and immediately shove the spoon into one of its 5 new mouths? Or do you stand back in stupefied wonder before coming up with a plan that may or may not involve a butterfly net and pruning shears?
My reading of your comment is that that people should not hesitate before aiming a hose at a tornado. I love your comments, but in this case I'd argue that the situation is truly and perversely fucked enough (and outside the realm of their normal experience) to make a slow response a little more understandable.


Oranges to apples. If one of YOUR imaginary kids suddenly proclaimed they were a demon and grabbed a pair of scissors and said their sister/brother must die. Would you go grab the camera or try to disarm them?

Any firefighter will have at least a passing knowledge of -albeit rare, but not undocumented- "fire whirls" which are observed mostly during wildfires.

I haven't found much on Google about Spontaneous Infant Demonification.

No. You can prove they pissed in your water. That's ample. If someone is dumping pollutants into that water, you could also prove that and seek damages. Same with pollutants in the air. You always have to mitigate damages. Let's be reasonable, please.

Then why can't I say "all carbon emissions beyond a certain amount cause damage", and then set up a system of permits for emissions that are sold at auction (and tradeable thereafter), and then charge people who emit more carbon than they have permits for with theft (or vandalism or reckless endangerment, etc.)?

That's cap & trade in a nutshell.

Speculation. A cost-effective way to discredit environmental movements is to pick on Gore? And, is it just insidious right-wing political groups? Maybe draw a dastardly twisty mustache on these shadowy groups while you're at it. The founder of the weather channel is evil! Kill him with fire!

Dude, you're the one who brought up Al Gore's legal situation into a conversation about the environment. Clearly you thought that was germane somehow. I don't, but it's a totally standard political tactic to engage in ad hominem attacks like that.

It's such a well-worn tactic that it's become running gag on left-wing blogs to title any link to a news story about the effects of global warming "Al Gore is Fat."

Oh, and before I forget, here's another lawsuit I would expect a libertarian to endorse: the Pakistani people filing a class-action lawsuit against every major energy company for the damages caused by their recent flooding.

Another: Russia does a class-action lawsuit against every major energy company for the damages caused by their outbreak of wildfires.

A final thought, all the wildlife killed by the BP oil spill, who's got standing to sue for damages for them? For that matter, what's the settlement value for a Brown Pelican or a sea turtle? What if some species was made extinct by it?

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Ha! Let's face it real buttons are better.

But I've finally caved and got an HTC Wildfire. Very nice but the major problem is I'm scared about losing or dropping it. My old Nokia was just a tool that got the job done and fitted in my jeans. This new thing with it's lovely screen - well screen protectors and a case are on the way. I wonder if it will be more trouble than it's worth.

The idea of economic degrowth has taken off like wildfire of late, spurred by multiple contemporary crises. This is one of a number of degrowth films in production or recently produced.

See also:
http://growthbusters.org/
http://steadystate.org
http://thetyee.ca/Life/2010/05/05/Degrowth/

*promote

Awww man, Uranus is so fucking sweet! 27 moons and fulla methane, smooth as glass like a handsome bald head, can't think of a better place to strike a match and start a wildfire!

....that chick that reminds us of Urinuss' orbit around the sun, needs more sun.

WP: Never in the history of this country has there been a "limited government" GOP. Never. Not once. They never "abandoned" the idea, because they never cared for it in the first place. In fact, they have not only believed in the opposite, but their policies have always been the exact opposite. In my lifetime, government grows like wildfire every time there's a GOP preznit. Defecits blow up, more and bigger government intrudes on our lives, and bits of the constitution are erased.

I do not understand where this fantasy GOP party you crave for, exists. It has never happened before, so where does this dream come from?

Sorry to be redundant, but it's hard to overstate how brilliant a marketing move this was. Cost = 1 car, and then the video sharing networks will spread this like wildfire. And not to be completely cynical, it's also simply a nice gesture to this poor guy.

I've always enjoyed your stuff. These are just a few of my favorites:

http://www.videosift.com/video/The-Walk-of-Death-El-Caminito-del-Rey
http://www.videosift.com/video/Driving-into-a-MONSTER-dust-storm-in-Australia
http://www.videosift.com/video/Stealth-Cat
http://www.videosift.com/video/Timelapse-of-California-wildfires-as-night-falls
http://www.videosift.com/video/The-Darvanza-flaming-crater-burning-since-the-1950s

Winstonfield, when you're the head of an organization, any disaster is ultimately your fault.

Bush wasn't President of New Orleans. Local disaster preparedness is not the responsibility of the federal government. That falls primarily at the state and local level, with the federal government doing 'advise and consent' stuff (when requested).

But let's use your logic for a second. California. According to your logic, the current wildfires taking place are Obama's fault. All the property damage is Obama's fault... Any people that die were personally killed by Obama... Blah blah blah - it's a ridiculous way of thinking and I don't ascribe to it. The fact that New Orleans wasn't prepared for a hurricane of Katrina's scope wasn't Bush's 'fault' - and it isn't Obama's 'fault' that Los Angeles isn't prepared for a wildfire of the current scope.

The repair and maintainance of the levees was the responsibility Ray Nagin. It was also his job to evacuate the thousands and thousands who were still there when the storm hit (he was too busy commandeering rescue vehicles to clear out his personal belongings). The requests for federal relief and administration of said relief was the responsibility of governor Blanco. The only thing FEMA does is roll in with a big pile of trucks full of supplies and materiel. It was Bush's fault that the first initial relief was too small, but it was Nagin and Blanco who set the table and created the dynamic which made the initial supplies insufficient.

No other FEMA effort in a long time needed even a tenth of what New Orleans needed. How could FEMA have possibly projected the scope of the need until it was already happening? The relief order was signed on the 28th. Katrina hit on the 29th. The damage and scope of the need wasn't apparent until August 30 and the beginning of September. As I said... There's a lot of blame to go around, but to pretend this was all "Bush's" fault is nothing more than neolib quackery.

1. The Metro - System of a Down
2. Rakade Ogonbryn Skall Det Vara - Slagsmålsklubben
3. Burger - NanowaR
4. Project Wildfire - Binärpilot
5. Super 16 (excerpt) - NEU! [from Kill Bill Soundtrack]
6. The Seeker - The Who
The Metro - System of a Down (again but I'm not counting it)
7. Nigire Tsutsu!! - Maximum the Hormone
8. Stealing Society - System of a Down
9. Big Bad World One - Jonathan Coulton
10. The Unforgiven III - Metallica