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ELEVEN DEGREES IS A LOT

November 30, 2009
by ALEX DUNBAR

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This shit keeps getting worse and worse. I can’t tell if we’re being fucked with by the scientific community or what, but the steady rise in predicted temperature elevation’s getting scarier everyday. The University of East Anglia along with the British Antarctic Survey now predict an 11 degree rise in the next hundred years. For those of you keeping score, that’s twice as hot as some of scariest projections presented in Al Gore’s movie. Over the last century, the Earth’s temperature rose a measly 1.3 degrees, but still we lost %25 of the Arctics Ice. As you’ve probably noticed, humankind has basically decided to take an extended fart break instead of actually addressing the most critical issue ever to face our species. Because, you know, what would happen to the economy if we stopped emitting CO2 and started actually pursuing alternative fuels, creating hundreds upon hundreds of thousands of jobs in the process? All those super-rich 1%ers might have to sell off their mega yachts, and then what kind of world are we living in? If we’re not going to mitigate, we’re forced to adapt, which (please believe me when I say) will suck ferociously.


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    Munnersby: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/copenhagen-climate-change-confe/6762640/Copenhagen-climate-summit-global-warming-caused-by-suns-radiation.html

    3 months ago

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    Munnersby: Here's another song, about me being an asshole! This one's for you, Dunnersby.

    3 months ago

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      Munnersby: http://www.myspace.com/smallwars

      3 months ago

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      Munnersby: "r.g.m.p." = Richard Gage Myspace Page :)

      3 months ago

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    dunbar: Whoa, Munnersby! Buddy! Calm down there. FIrst I'd like to suggest that in the future you'll seem more convincing if you turn the eagerness down a notch. As for your evidence, most of it's either cherry picked garbage or ad hominem attacks against members of the environmental bureaucracy. I especially enjoyed the story you linked about the glaciers totally melting 200 years later than expected. PHEW! Let's just not do anything about it then! Does it surprise me that government officials put in charge of managing this calamity tried to make money off it? Of course not. Does that discredit the overwhelming scientific consensus as researched by thousands of climate scientists, most of whom will never see a government dollar for their work? No, again. As for climategate, I'd guess the scientific community, frustrated by a mere %41 of Americans even believing in the existence of global warming, ramped up the drama to spark a conversation. It's hard to get most people excited about something three generations down the line, but clearly now is the time to start working on a response. It would appear as though that strategy back fired, but it would seem a well intentioned attempt to convince a world full of Munnersbys. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704107104574571613215771336.html

    3 months ago

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      Munnersby: Actually Dunbar...its the evidence provided by the IPCC / CRU that is cherry picked garbage....and in case you didnt notice, I'm well aware that I come across as obnoxious on here bud! The difference is...I'm not trying to be mister cool-guy fuck-face with an armload of bullshit to sell the next generation...Im putting up piles of evidence and context in the hopes that your journalism-malnourished readers might say "Munnersby is suck a fucking tool, lets check the link and see how stupid he is..." only to start discovering that it is you, Dun-fail, that is the idiot. Ta ta!

      3 months ago

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      Munnersby: And....once again.... if you actually believe that the same scumbuckets who pass the war funding, who are corrupted to their very core by conflict of interest and sick philosophy, are trying to "SAVE THE PLANET" with 1600 pages of unreadable legislation....then you dont know a thing about history, or geopolitics.

      3 months ago

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    Munnersby: I couldnt give less of a fuck about winning a popularity contest with you retards. I'm a researcher - doing my best to provide some truth in the face of WEAK FUCKING JOURNALISM.

    3 months ago

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      Munnersby: And if you are tired of coke-nonsense and hipster logic: http://realassetsfordummies.blogspot.com/

      3 months ago

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      Munnersby: Since I'm being an obnoxious fag on here anyway, here is a song I just wrote about all this (track 1) http://www.myspace.com/smallwars

      3 months ago

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    sbay33: We all know that Munnersby's a real dingus, but one thing he said was slightly interesting: "climategate" gets 31,000,000 hits on google but is no longer suggested when you start typing it.

    3 months ago

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      Munnersby: http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&source=hp&q=climategate&btnG=Google+Search&meta=&aq=f&oq=

      3 months ago

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      Munnersby: It wasnt me who said it, genius - it was the Telegraph, and Watts' science blog.

      3 months ago

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      Munnersby: And thank you for at least opening your mind to look into this stuff - since VBS themselves cant be bothered.

      3 months ago

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      sbay33: oops, i made eye contact. no thanks, i don't want your pamphlet.

      3 months ago

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    Munnersby: Boundless hypocrisy: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/copenhagen-climate-change-confe/6736517/Copenhagen-climate-summit-1200-limos-140-private-planes-and-caviar-wedges.html?=no

    3 months ago

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    everlastinggobstopper: munnersby ftw

    3 months ago

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    Munnersby: ..and finally, the smoking-est of guns! http://www.anenglishmanscastle.com/archives/007998.html

    3 months ago

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      Munnersby: context: http://www.torontosun.com/comment/columnists/lorrie_goldstein/2009/11/29/11967916-sun.html

      3 months ago

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    Munnersby: once again, caught lying: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8387737.stm

    3 months ago

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    Munnersby: Good coverage from the CBC: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Am3-HpSnE9Y

    3 months ago

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    Munnersby: Wait Wait: I'm just into truth and facts, not bullshit. Contribute or beat it.

    3 months ago

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    Munnersby: more search engine censorship: http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/climategate_abc_filters_working_beautifully/

    3 months ago

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    Munnersby: You betcha: http://hotair.com/archives/2009/12/03/is-nasa-hiding-its-climate-data-too/

    3 months ago

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    Munnersby: And again, in 2008: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/11/19/nasa_giss_cockup_catalog/

    3 months ago

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    Munnersby: These clowns got busted in 2007: http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2007/08/17/tech-nasatemp070817.html?ref=rss

    3 months ago

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    Munnersby: Details and timeline of Climategate according to SPPI: http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/images/stories/papers/originals/Monckton-Caught%20Green-Handed%20Climategate%20Scandal.pdf

    3 months ago

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      Munnersby: The staff of SPPI: http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/personnel.html

      3 months ago

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      Munnersby: up to the minute: http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/climategate_mann_now_turns_on_jones

      3 months ago

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      Munnersby: more dissent from the scientific community: http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Files.View&FileStore_id=83947f5d-d84a-4a84-ad5d-6e2d71db52d9

      3 months ago

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    Munnersby: Looks like Gore is bailing on Copenhagen... and tickets to see him were only 6000 Danish Kroners! That included a handshake and a picture.... http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/12/03/gore-cancels-on-copenhagen-lecture-leaves-ticketholders-in-a-lurch/

    3 months ago

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      Munnersby: Always worth a relink: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/energy/6491195/Al-Gore-could-become-worlds-first-carbon-billionaire.html

      3 months ago

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    MasonAndersonsweet: Wow, even VBS isn't safe from the climate change media frenzy. All in all, it's december in canada and I don't have to shovel the drive. I'm ok with this.

    3 months ago

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    Munnersby: Ok Dunbar... If it's only the 'far-right' maniacs that see the issue with the CRU data, then why are Phil Jones and Michael Mann stepping down? http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article6941168.ece http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125970198500271683.html Why are 31000 scientists willing to publicly doubt the warming "science"? http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/2053842/Scientists-sign-petition-denying-man-made-global-warming.html I'm not trying to say pollution isn't a bad thing, obviously we need to reign some shit in - but carbon-taxing citizens and doing home checkups on your fucking lightbulbs isn't anything more than a cash-and-power grab. You honestly think Gore gives a fuck about the planet? http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/energy/6491195/Al-Gore-could-become-worlds-first-carbon-billionaire.html There is dirt all over the peeps associated with the Warming Consensus: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/local/Former-NASA-climate-scientist-pleads-guilty-to-contract-fraud-8613137-78268862.html Phil Jones grants since 1990: http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0Ah4XLQCleuUYdFIxMnhMNnlXb2JQcDZUendjUXpWWUE&hl=en Ruling against an Inconvenient Truth: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/7037671.stm And when facts fail, they turn to the Bible Thumping to justify what will inevitably be a reduction in living standards for the poor of this country, as usual. http://worldbbnews.com/2009/11/gores-spiritual-argument-on-climate/ No Lear jets will stop flying, no cargo ships full of useless garbage for sale will stop, no endlessly devastating / endlessly profitable (just like taxing carbon) War will stop - the blame is being placed on the populations who are just trying to survive and keep themselves fed.

    3 months ago

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      Munnersby: Sorry, lousy formatting :)

      3 months ago

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      Munnersby: And doing research on dissenting opinions doesn't make me a dummy or an idiot, Dun-dick, it makes me a fucking JOURNALIST BUD. Might wanna do some reading before you publish your junior-high rants.

      3 months ago

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      Munnersby: Aussie politicians quit over the emissions trading scam: http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/11/26/2754654.htm

      3 months ago

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      Munnersby: yawn.... before I go smoke this reefer I thought you might like this - google and Bing are both censoring 'climategate' from their autosuggest...do a story on that ya lazy fucks: <br /> http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/12/02/google-trends-on-climategate-show-public-interest-increasing-but-troubling-questions-loom/ <br /> html in effect sons

      3 months ago

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      Munnersby: failing at code, succeeding in irritating weak journalists

      3 months ago

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      waitwait: succeeding in looking like an asshole, certainly.

      3 months ago

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    Jono: 11 degrees hotter? Yes, please!

    3 months ago

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    Munnersby: Jesus Christ, does no one here read the news? Every hand-jobbed piece of data to come out of East Anglia is skewed - Climategate, bitches. Stay up. Y'all spend too much time doing your hair and/or cocaine Vice, why are you printing this wack shit? Dunbar - do some research bud.

    3 months ago

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      Munnersby: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2009/11/30/EDV01ASHN5.DTL

      3 months ago

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      Munnersby: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703939404574566124250205490.html

      3 months ago

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      Munnersby: Motive = cash money son http://online.wsj.com/article/SB20001424052748704500604574481812686144826.html

      3 months ago

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      Munnersby: http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100018263/climategate-googlegate/

      3 months ago

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      TowJam: I find solace knowing you spend the better part of an hour finding links.

      3 months ago

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      dunbar: In case anyone unfamiliar with the latest breed of global warming skeptics reads Mr. Munnersby's response to my post above, please read this: "Climategate" refers to a conspiracy theory propagated by dummies who believe climate scientists across the world are corroborating to exaggerate the severity of global warming, thereby ensuring more funding for their research. The University of East Anglia became a target for global warming deniers when the school's servers were hacked by skeptics and hundreds of emails sent between climatologists where parsed for lines that backed up the skeptic's story line. Basically, the shit was taken completely out of context and arch-conservative pundits (see Mr. Munnersby's links) had a field day making up fake-news stories to support their totally unscientific positions on global warming. Cliff Notes Version: Mr.Munnersby's an idiot. http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/cif-green/2009/nov/23/leaked-email-climate-change

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    Rominel: It's funny how, after countless warnings, the governments of the world won't get together and face the problem as one instead of all this war/peace/terrorism talk.

    3 months ago

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    samiam: i can't remember what the conclusion in gore's flick was but just how much of the earth will remain above water? are we all going to be camping on everest together?

    3 months ago

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    bummerdude: time to get on the horn with all this mars exploration.

    3 months ago

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    daddywheresmybourbon: i dont care too much about 100 years from now. just make my city warmer for now please.

    3 months ago

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      WartsNAll: It's time to institute the sweater rule if you haven't yet.

      3 months ago

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    tabriz: really wish i studied material engineering rather than creative writing in school. thus i'd feel useful in trying to figure out alternative energy sources...

    3 months ago

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    tallywacker: it's so not fair. the guys mostly responsible for the melting ice caps are all going to have their own noah's arks to float away on while we will all be dealing with katrina is super slo-mo.

    3 months ago

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