Inside the Asylum

Unusually severe winter weather continues to hammer New Zealand, with snow warnings being issued left/right/and center, with various roads closed. (see earlier post here.)

A Queenstown police spokeswoman said it was the first time in years she had heard of snow forcing the closure of the Kawarau Gorge.

Heck, I've driven that road ... it's not that high altitude. Of course, only unusually hot weather is a sign of global climate change ... unusually cold weather is just "misleading and inaccurate information about climate change" and anyway "'Scientists' say that any apparent cooling is due to natural changes and does not alter the long-term warming trend." See?

A brain-washed journalist at the Telegraph in England is shocked, I tell you, shocked, at the evil of the evil oil companies. He breathlessly writes:

ExxonMobil, the world’s largest oil company, is continuing to fund researchers who cast doubt on global warming, despite public promises to cut support for climate-change sceptics.

How dare they! Science is not about debating opposing hypotheses or vigorous intellectual debate, it is about consensus! Didn't Exxon get the memo from Al Gore? Included in their list of shocking sins, is the fact that Exxon gave money to the Heritage Foundation. Let's take a look at the proof of just how evil they are. Here's what they dare to say, mocking the mantra, and frankly, the should all just be burned at the stake:

The Heritage Foundation published note last year that said: “Growing scientific evidence casts doubt on whether global warming constitutes a threat, including the fact that 2008 is about to go into the books as a cooler year than 2007”.

You see! They admit it! They're evil!
Even more laughable is the follow up piece I saw in the Sydney Morning Herald, where another journalist manages to get even more breathless.

According to Bob Ward, policy and communications director at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics, the Heritage Foundation has published "misleading and inaccurate information about climate change".

Hmmm. The director at a climate change institute doesn't have any vested interest in this debate after all ... Oh yes, and that journalist posts a devastating rebuttal to the Heritage Foundation's fact that 2008 was cooler than 2007.

Scientists say that any apparent cooling is due to natural changes and does not alter the long-term warming trend.

Well, that really cut them down now didn't it! "Scientists" say it. Oh mortal blow! How will the Heritage Foundation ever recover from such dagger-like wit? That will really silence them from their evil ways.
I mean really ... when the only way Global Warming fanatics can bolster their case is through political lobbying to cut funding to anyone who dares question their creed, and through hopeless displays of lack of logic, how can anyone take their faith seriously?

Really. It improves sperm quality, and is especially recommended for couples trying to conceive (which you think would be a no brainer, but apparently some expert-morons had recommend against it!).

A study by David Greening, a specialist in reproductive endocrinology and infertility at Sydney IVF, has found that ejaculat ing daily substantially improves the genetic quality of sperm.

Well, this really deserves to be on the front page of every newspaper. Two words would suffice to make it the biggest headline of the century: FRENCH APOLOGIZE. Has such a thing ever been seen before? French Prime Minister Francois Fillon has written to New Zealand's leader to publicly apologize. What for? Committing an act of terrorism against a friendly power, including murder and sabotage, perhaps? Blackmailing New Zealand with the EU quota system, perhaps? Keeping New Zealand lamb out of France because French farmers can't sell lamb of equal quality and price in their own fricking country, perhaps? No ...

French rugby player Mathieu Bastareaud, 20, lied that he was set on from behind by up to five men following the second rugby test between France at the All Blacks, leaving him with a serious eye injury. Police investigated the incident for several days, before Bastareaud admitted his fabrication. He subsequently said he had drunk too much after France's loss and had hit his head on a table back at the hotel.

French PM Fillon also said,

Our two countries share the same rugby culture.

The history of French rugby is really pretty interesting, going back to the 1800s (in my limited understanding) but it was General De Gaulle who really kicked it into high gear with a huge injection of cash.