Pay no attention to the icebergs in Miami

With a relatively neutered Iggy of late, I decided to take an opportunity to point out how Americans are viewed as morons by leftist elitists. A couple of years ago, "global warming" magically became "climate change". Keeping in mind that in a political context, "global warming" means "man-made planetary warming caused by evil American capitalists", the scam artists who created and perpetrated this lie realized that the mean global temperature had not risen since 1998. In fact, global temperatures began to drop in 2007.

Faced with some very uncomfortable facts, their solution was typically liberal; when you lose an argument, change the argument! So, global warming became climate change; voila! If its 104 degrees in Miami in August, its because you drive an SUV you capitalist, American pig. If its -37 in International Falls in January, its because you want to keep your house at 70 degrees, imperialist swine! No matter what happens, the solution is to subvert America's prosperity and sovereignty - and those idiot Americans won't be able to see the truth through their tears over dying polar bears - just as long as they don't find out that the polar bear population is actually on the rise.

It now seems that the planet, without any help from us, has already entered a cooling period. As one of the leading climate change frauds, it must have really pained Professor Mojib Latif to report this as such. My guess is that the recent Climategate scandal forced his hand.

"Latif, a professor at the Leibniz Institute at Germany's Kiel University and an author of the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report, believes the lengthy cold weather is merely a pause -- a 30-years-long blip -- in the larger cycle of global warming, which postulates that temperatures will rise rapidly over the coming years.

At a U.N. conference in September, Latif said that changes in ocean currents known as the North Atlantic Oscillation could dominate over manmade global warming for the next few decades. Latif said the fluctuations in these currents could also be responsible for much of the rise in global temperatures seen over the past 30 years.

So let me get this straight. The decrease in temperatures projected over the next 30 years is unrelated to humans, being caused by ocean currents. It will only be a temporary blip on the way to future, man-made, higher temperatures - even though the the same currents may have caused the rise in temperatures over the past 30 years. As Kevin Kline would say; "What was that middle part again?"

For other, more committed frauds, apparently circular logic is not enough!

"Has ocean variability contributed to variations in surface temperature? Absolutely, no one's denying that," said Mark Serreze, senior research scientist with NSIDC. But the Center disagrees with Latif's conclusions, instead arguing that the cold snap is still another sign of global warming.

"We are indeed starting to see the effects of the rise in greenhouse gases," he said.

Just like a socialist who claims that socialism has never worked anywhere its been tried because the "right people" were not in charge, not only can Serreze not admit defeat, he goes on the offensive. Our greenhouse gas emissions are causing . . . global cooling! Such a statement would have been totally ridiculed; before global warming became climate change.

Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain . . . you stupid iggyots.


Bob, RI

Ceterum , exsisto quietis Iggy