Global warming “Go Figure” fact of the day

February 20th, 2009, 2:06 pm · 7 Comments · posted by Mark Landsbaum

We’ll call these items our Global Warming Go Figure Facts of the Day, which we found at Pirate’s Cove:

On May 4th 2008 there was this headline: Surge in fatal shark attacks blamed on global warming
On September 15 2008: Sharks don’t much like colder northern and southern waters but global warming may yet extend the range of these inadvertent man-eaters.
But on February 19 2009 there was this headline: Shark Attacks Dip To Five Year Low In 2008.

Hm. As the bucaneeer at Pirate’s Cove opined:

“It used to be that when it was hot, it was global warming, when it was cold, it was weather. Then they changed it to when it is hot, it is global warming, when it is cold, it is because of global warming. So, when shark attacks surge, it is global warming, when they dip . . .”

How did they miss the opportunity to blame global warming for the decline in shark attacks? Go figure.

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OC Dem says:

February 20, 2009 at 2:24 pm

Poor Mark.

Continues his grasping at straws while continuing to aid the decline of a once proud publication.

In service for the people…

OC Dem

rlh says:

February 20, 2009 at 2:28 pm

This is sad, really. When all you have to rely in is the Pirate’s Cove blog . . . Might as well direct link to the Weekly World News for support. Mr. Landsbaum’s next source: Bat Boy.

Someday, intelligent discussion of this issue will prevail over this sort of thumb-in-the-eye mockery of journalism.

Not here, though.

Professor W says:

February 21, 2009 at 1:54 pm

Maybe his subscription to Ranger Rick expired…

smallbusowner says:

February 21, 2009 at 3:07 pm

Very substantive arguments against the writer’s point.

February 21, 2009 at 4:31 pm

Small, this guy is citing to a blogger from North Carolina who calls himself pirate’s cove. Am I supposed to take “the writer’s point” here seriously???? Go to the Pirate’s Cove blog site and nose around a bit - especially at the things that bother him. He has, well, an unhealthy fixation on encountering tampons wherever he turns, for one thing. Do that, and then tell me I, or you, or anyone, should regard that (or Mr. Landsbaum, who cites him) as anything other than a pathetic joke.

I’ll be waiting.

muck says:

February 22, 2009 at 5:52 pm

What we know for sure: Global warming “science” has jumped the shark. It’s now a political and emotional belief. I suppose that’s what it has been from the beginning.

But at least Al Gore is making tens of millions off the hysteria! For every hysteria, there is a mastermind who knows how to milk it for all it’s worth!

Marc960 says:

February 23, 2009 at 11:43 am

muck,

You guessed it! Al Gore brought “Global Warming” to America and all the enviro-nuts saw this as a fool proof plan to dominate the lifestyles of all humanity. Recycling made sense and employed lots of new taxpayers but it was getting to be old news. Something dramatic was needed.

I mean how can you not support some cure that will SAVE THE WORLD?

Humanity was just darn lucky the Al Gore wasn’t elected President. He would never had time to protect our climate while also building a business of selling “Carbon Credits” to the most gullible on the planet.

And Gore timed it perfectly. His previous invention, the Internet, had matured enough so the word would spread worldwide in just days.

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