Bad Idea: Hotlinking Image From Your Blog. Even Worse Idea: Hotlinking to Earthfirst.com From Your Blog
July 19, 2008 · Print This Article
Everyone can relax. It turns out that Global Warming is a big hoax. We can all calm down and get back to our normal lives of driving Hummers and leaving the front door open in the winter.
I was a little worried there for a bit after hearing that the worlds scientific community had come to consensus on the fact that our world was heating up due to the massive amounts of CO2 and other nasties that we’ve been pumping into the air in earnest for the last few hundred years or two.
Imagine how relieved I was to read that Myck Kilcup, a homeschooled teenager who wants to be a history professor when he grows up, has figured out that Global Warming is a bunch of ‘hot air’. He knows because he’s been a ‘fierce fighter against the theory of “global warming”‘ and has written “lots of papers” about the subject. Plus, his dad thinks he is a “great thinker”, and you know that dads are never wrong.
Myck doesn’t let verifiable fact get in his way and has figured out that the planet has gone through this all warming before in the High Middle Ages when all of a sudden there was a lot more food to go around.
Isn’t that awesome news! Instead of looking at the possibly destruction of our world (at least the parts that allow us to live comfy lives) due to our shortsighted use of fossil fuels, we’re looking at a booming harvest (and maybe an Inquisition or two)! Kick ass! Bring on the High Middle Ages Redux!
Thank the Great Flying Spaghetti Monster that the world has mental giants like Myck Kilcup to think for us, otherwise we’d all end up as slaves to Al Gore and his army of Carbon Trading Evil Doer Greenies.
(Lesson to be learned here: Don’t hotlink to EarthFirst.com photos, especially if you’re some asshat teen with a stupid theory on Global Warming. See Myck’s blog and the hotlinked photo while it’s up. If Myck gets around to taking the photo down you can see a full sized screenie by clicking the thumbnail there on the left)
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Myck should think twice about becoming a professor of anything, I’d like to see some of the “papers” he’s written - he’s obviously just started blogging (3 posts and counting).
I say give the kid a chance - teach him a lesson or two and maybe tell him that just because he’s from Phoenix, he doesn’t need to hate Al Gore.
tee hee
I’m sure i read somewhere that global temperatures have been dropping since 1998 - maybe the kid may be onto something after all?
@Lee has “read somewhere that global temperatures have been dropping since 1998″. Case closed, Myck must be right if Lee “read somewhere”.
I love the scientific rigor of the ‘other side’ of this thing. They are dependent on history studying teens and guys who “read it somewhere” to tell their story. How again aren’t we rolling right over them?
Oh yeah, the rest of the country is also a bunch of dumbasses. It’s a lot easier to lie to dumbasses than to ‘learn ‘em up good’ on facts. Ayuh.
Lee since Shea is too smug and pretentious to answer your question, I will.
In 1998 there was an El Nino event to the west of south america which creates a climate coupling effect and raises the temperature of the entire planet. Thus there was a spike in that year. The temperature since then on a long term average basis has risen a bit, leveled, and now we’re starting to see a bit of a decrease. I believe this year is so far significiantly cooler than than the last few decades. The official explanation is that “man-made global warming” is taking a break for a few years because natural factors are overwhelming it. Which is of course exactly what the global warming “deniers” have been saying all along, that natural factors are far more important that human CO2 emissions.
You know, what I really and truly don’t get about you people who are so up in arms about the idea of global warming and environmentalists trying to prevent it is - what is the harm of trying to do better? What’s the harm in trying to produce less trash, decrease pollution so that we have healthier air to breathe and water to drink, and use clean renewable energy? The way that we’re currently living (as a culture) is unsustainable. We can’t keep going the way we are without doing serious damage to the environment and every single thing that lives on this planet.
Environmentalists are trying to make sure that your grandchildren have a healthy place to live, so they don’t all have to walk around wearing gas masks amidst mountains of refuse. Even if global warming turned out not to be caused by men (which I don’t believe will happen for a second), why not clean up the earth? It just doesn’t jive that so many people are against that.
Mainly because carbon dioxide is not only not a pollutant, but actually very beneficial to the environment. The solutions being offered to deal with “pollution” by environmentalists (and by the way a lot of their campaigns are flat out misguided and emotionally motivated nonsense) are generally statist and collectivist in nature, involving the sacrifice of individual liberty and prosperity for what they perceive is a greater good. You should always treat people like that with extreme caution as it is essentially Marxist in character. I’d be more sympathetic to environmentalist goals if they advocated the only real way to deal with damage to the human environment - property rights and courts. Then at least I would know that the the costs of prevention would be justified by the benefits and that the facts would be determined in a court room.
“The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding.”
- Brandeis
“Mainly because carbon dioxide is not only not a pollutant, but actually very beneficial to the environment. ”
That’s rather misleading, making it sound as though The more CO2 you waste the more of an environmentalist you are. Point is there’s a balance. It’s not like the more you put in the better it is for the evironment. With everything, there is a balance. The goal is to keep it that way.
Sooner or later people will view our time as a bunch of ignorant people who lived beyond their means all in the name of greed. Living with less is better morally, spiritually and physically. So yes, I would call on all Americans to Sacrifice their physical prosperity for the sake of others and themselves. There’s nothing wrong with sacrifice. Perhaps it may even lead to an education system.
That’s selfish and absurd, and completely ignores the complexities of how modern civilization is harming the earth.
Selfish and absurd? Care to substantiate that, or… ?
And about the complexities, I completely disagree. Only by using the court system and allocating property rights for things such as the sea and air can you even remotely approach a suitable solution for each unique case. Using government coercion in an attempt to solve problems is not only far more blunt, but almost always leds to unintended consequences.
Warren,
Not saying we should “waste” CO2, I’m just saying we should not be worrying about it.
If you like a minimalist lifestyle and feel it’s more spiritually and morally fulfilling, then that’s fine! Value is entirely subjective, without that we would not have exchange. However, it is not your place to tell others to live like you. As long as they are doing you and your property no harm, it’s really none of your business how others decide to exchange their productive efforts.
@Edward I didn’t answer Lee because I don’t answer stupid questions. I don’t argue with people who think the world is flat, nor do I try to convince folks who think Dinosaurs lived 10,000 years ago that they are wrong. I don’t waste time on Holocaust deniers, and I won’t spend time on people questioning Global Warming.
The world is round, Dinosaurs lived millions of years ago, the Nazis almost completely killed off Europe’s Jews in WW2, and the world is heating up due to the CO2 we’ve been pumping in the air.
Yes, smug and pretentious, I know.
FYI, citing a list of completely unrelated topics doesn’t make you right. I’ll look up the latin name of the logical fallacy if you are interested, the Romans smelt that bullshit 2000 years ago. I mean, you can think that it does if it makes you comfortable, but it doesn’t convince anyone with half a brain call and is simply intellectual sloth to be honest. Puts you on par with people who claim the debate is over on global warming, which is pretty much a statement of ignorance on the scientific method and the continuous discourse on which the health of science entirely lies.
I’m glad you found our blog Edward.
:p Well dissent makes it interesting and alive lol
You said it brother.
Edward, I’d love to hear what you think of this:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rebekah-and-stephen-hren/solving-energy-crisis-wit_b_113812.html
Well as you can imagine I really don’t agree with the article at all. Energy consumption is inextricably linked to quality of life, where quality of life means your health, productivity, comfort, etc. That statement is backed the empirical proof of the entire history of the human race.
Our aim should be for cheap and abundant energy, where the price of it fully reflects the costs. If that is not our aim our species is destined for a mediocre existence.
Many people have quite deep misconceptions about energy, such as confusing efficiency with production, or assuming that efficiency will lead to lower consumption, etc. I suggest the book “The Bottomless Well” (can’t remember the authors off hand), for a really pragmatic look at energy. At its most basic, energy enables us to manipulate matter for our benefit. The more the better.
Here it is:
http://tinyurl.com/5dr7tp (Publisher’s Note: you don’t mind if I slap on our affiliate code, right? :D)
Great book