612° in the shade « Don Surber

O’Sullivan is calling it Satellitegate.

I call it more BS from the government.

Agencies start refocusing on climate change [hoax]  - FederalTimes.com

Starting this year, top Forest Service managers are encountering an added yardstick in their performance evaluations: how well they are meeting benchmarks for confronting the effects of climate change in the national forests?

The standards will apply to some 80 Senior Executive Service members, said David Cleaves, the forest service's climate change adviser.

In addition, forest managers will be expected to monitor for the effects of climate change on watersheds and wildlife, set targets for reducing adverse environmental impacts from their operations, and have at least one employee serving as a point person for climate change issues, according to a scorecard released last month.
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From a medical standpoint, global warming poses "the single biggest threat to public health in the 21st century," Dr. George Luber, associate director for climate change at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, told the audience at the Pew workshop.

C3: Brutal Facts: 58.8 Million Deaths Globally, Only 32,000 From Severe Weather - Climate Change Has Been Overblown By The Left

For the period of 2000 to 2008, deaths from all causes averaged 58 million per year, and those from severe weather events, 32,000 per year. This was a during a period when global climate change was supposedly dramatic and unprecedented, causing untold extreme death and destruction.

Yet, as a contrast, severe weather deaths averaged 485,000 per year during the 1920's, over 10 times higher than the present.

Dizzy Thinks: You're all in denial!

If someone ever asked me to describe irony in words I'd be hard pushed, but spotting it is so much easier. Thus it is that we now have two opposing political positions casually throwing the word "denier" around, and the side that started it is trying to use the same argument to dispute the term that it had previously errrr denied was valid.

Spotting these sort of hilarious contradictions in politics, rhetoric and argument really do make my day. It tickles me.