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Talk about buying into the global warming hysteria. Ever since FNC offered up Robert Kennedy as a “special correspondent” on its much ballyhooed global warming report, Fox has become a sucker for the gaiaist apocalyptic syndrome. Yesterday’s report on Lohachara Island was an another example of junk science gone wild.
The Fox story began with this bold headline:
An inhabited island has been wiped off the face of the Earth due to global warming, Britain’s The Independent newspaper reported on Sunday.
Remote Lohachara Island was in the Indian part of the Sundarbans , a vast mangrove delta where the Ganges empties into the Bay of Bengal on the Indian-Bangladeshi border.
Rising sea levels have swallowed the island whole, according to the report. It was once home to 10,000 people.
Lohachara’s disappearance wasn’t easy to discover. Satellites monitored it until it finally disappeared.
As Aaron noted at Free Will, “Odd. You’d think the inhabitants would’ve noticed it before the satellites did. Or, they might not:
As Tim Blair notes, this “shocking news“ actually took place 22 years ago.”
None of that matters to the Independent’s environmental editor Geoffrey Lean,
who evidently believes all weather change is due to Meddling Humans. And that’s all change, whether towards cold or heat. In 2004, Lean reported that “Britain is likely to be plunged into an ice age within our lifetime by global warming”. Two years later, he asked: “So where has all the snow gone?”
I’m not at all surprised that the report originated in the UK Independent. This is the same newspaper that calls the idiot Robert Fisk, the “eminent Middle East scholar” of our time. Fox News has been flirting with the global warming crowd for several months. They should know better.
h/t Sarah D, GCP
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Comment posted by mcclaud
at 1/3/2007 7:37:41 PM
vimto1 -
I’m in Omaha, Nebraska in the US. I work nights from 7 pm to 5 am as a Systems Administrator for a financial transaction company called First Data. I actually work with many European data centers, so I’m awake during your early morning/noon time.
Comment posted by nuke
at 1/3/2007 7:00:15 AM
well mcclaud, from the housekeeping section: “Comments are invited.
They are both open and unmoderated, and may not reflect the views of Nn&v.”
If you choose not to comment here, fine. But don’t pull some silly reason out of your ass like not “wanting to stir up the readers”. You’re not that important.
Come again if you like. If not, fine.
Comment posted by vimto1
at 1/3/2007 6:28:36 AM
Hey Mcclud, I don’t think there is much here - I think that your blog and Nukes have different functions and that accounts for the choices made.
I will check you blog out. I may or may not agree with it but I think it’s good you have taken the time to put it into the public domain.
BTW - Where in the world are you - I’m in the UK and not many people are awake when I post!
regards.
Comment posted by mcclaud
at 1/3/2007 4:24:10 AM
Well, it could be. I don’t understand the point, but that’s just me.
I’m just letting other people know who responded to my pingback that if they want me to see their response, they’ll have to respond to my blog. Because after tonight, I’ll probably be too busy to check this entry again. It may escape my memory or something, as well.
When I said “courageous,” I was actually being serious. If you turn it on, and a lot of people comment/link about your blog, you are going to get a LOT of comments. I personally don’t allow comments in my blog, but that’s because that’s not what my blog’s for. I’d like to have no comments because then I wouldn’t have to sift through them and decide what stays and what goes. I write in my blog at work, often multitasking.
Comment posted by vimto1
at 1/3/2007 4:01:31 AM
mcclaud, I’m a bit foggy on this one but could it be to enable communications? Seems reasonable to me. Nuke’s made a judgement call. That’s all.
Comment posted by mcclaud
at 1/3/2007 2:46:21 AM
I’m not saying that it takes less courage to turn it on. I’m just clarifying that you pingbacked me, and in no way did I actively troll your comment section, as no2liberal seemed to imply. I have only read one other entry on your blog about the Counterterrorist blog. I have chosen not to directly comment on your blog, to avoid stirring up your readers.
Also, if someone wants to respond to my blog, they should do so in my blog, so I can see it. Only by clicking on the referral notice in my dashboard did I know you ping-backed me, and then I saw the other responses. Swampwoman’s comment would have been totally lost on me had I not checked. I don’t normally allow comments to show through, though. But at least I see them.
You do what you will. I’m not sure what the intention is to pingbacking other than generating more comments to your blog, but you have your reasons, I’m sure.
Comment posted by nuke
at 1/2/2007 8:46:00 PM
Hey mcclaud. The ping-backs are automatic. In my humble opinion, it takes more courage to leave them on rather than to turn them off. You linked my article. WordPress picked up the link and generated the pingback. Get over yourself. Now go away, until you learn some manners.
Comment posted by mcclaud
at 1/2/2007 7:54:06 PM
#49 (Swampwoman and no2liberals) -
Except I didn’t post that, the courageous owner of this hilarious blog ping-backed my blog entry.
Comment posted by no2liberals
at 12/29/2006 12:13:12 AM
It ain’t just the blackeyed peas, it’s the sauce.
As for fried jackalope, as long as it comes with a side of Snipes, it’s alrighty.
Makes Mr. Hanky happy.
Comment posted by nuke
at 12/28/2006 11:16:40 PM
I wonder what ol’ emcee has against jackalopes. Bet a good deep fried jackalope with some hawsraddish sauce would be pretty good, specilly with n2l’s blackeyed peas
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