It's become amusing reading all the absurd claims being made by the supporters of the new Inquisition, also known as global warming and/or climate change ( the backup argument used for when it actually gets colder instead) so I have decided to make a thread for all the ridiculousness that makes its way into the media and will add to it as they pop up.

Starting with today's latest claim. We're all going to get kidney stones.

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Sam

Global warming caused Katrina, because we all know there were no such things as really bad hurricanes until 2005, and caused Black Hawk Dawn because there were no such things as droughts until 1993 and there was no sitting President in the White House to make an asinine decision to not give these soldiers appropriate back up when requested.

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Sam

This was from last year. The new U.N. Secretary General claimed that global warming is responsible for the Darfur crises.

Ban Ki Moon - A Climate Culprit In Darfur - washingtonpost.com

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Sam

Al Gore reminds us that we're all going to die while he jets around the world polluting more than most human beings on the planet.

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Sam

Global Climate Change doesn't need anyone's permission to be... not yours, not mine, not anybody's...

and it doesn't matter how many stories you find that may say ridiculous things about it... it's here, it's happening and unless something is done to either turn it around or prepare for what will eventually come, our future on the planet looks bleak...

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My Pep Talk For Lefties and Lurkers

Sam's been reading too much Michael Chriton.

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A ridiculous story about some smuck saying this or that about it does not validate the entire theory. That is just a sad fallacy.

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Set your destination with your heart, get there with your mind.

"The wisest men follow their own direction." - Euripides

The real fallacy is in assuming that climate change is a bad thing and that we absolutely must do something about it.

Talk to me about climate change when Al Gore and his cult followers are all living exactly the kind of green lifestyle they propose to force on everyone else!

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A panda walks into a cafe. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun and fires two shots in the air.

"Why?" asks the confused waiter, as the panda makes toward the exit. The panda produces a badly punctuated wildlife manual and tosses it over his shoulder.

"I'm a panda," he says at the door. "Look it up."

The waiter turns to the relevant entry and, sure enough, finds an explanation.

"Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves."

So because Al Gore is a hypocritic, that discredits everything else?

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Set your destination with your heart, get there with your mind.

"The wisest men follow their own direction." - Euripides

It goes to credibility. Besides, it has not been proven that climate change is necessarily a bad thing or that there have not been periods of warming and cooling in the past. Why do we assume that just because we're arguably the dominant species on the planet that we should be exempt from having to adapt to changes in the environment instead of trying to force the environment to adapt to us?

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A panda walks into a cafe. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun and fires two shots in the air.

"Why?" asks the confused waiter, as the panda makes toward the exit. The panda produces a badly punctuated wildlife manual and tosses it over his shoulder.

"I'm a panda," he says at the door. "Look it up."

The waiter turns to the relevant entry and, sure enough, finds an explanation.

"Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves."