This is classic. Some clown strung together about a dozen straw man arguments rebutting a whole host of things I never said. The low Arctic ice minimum seems to have these people very excited, and thinking that any random idea which pops into their head must be very important.
Another guy – MFKBoulder – has been frantically spamming the blog with dozens of comments reminding me that I lost the JAXA bet I made with him.
The religious icon of Arctic minimum extent is proving to be a very powerful one for the faithful.
See you same time next year – hope not !
Great boom in English wines – every British show I now see on TV shows Brits drinking Fosters Lager and Australian wines.
Heh. I posted a story about an Australian wine expert who had looked into AGW, and found it wanting. He was writing as to how the increased warmth would lead to better grapes in Australia-
Upon seeing that article, someone tried to claim I wanted people in England to drown.
You gotta wonder about the intelligence of the AGW crowd, when Australia becomes England….
Irrigating? Greenland? Barley is ‘not a crop’? I know – they couldn’t grow crops because they didn’t have combine harvesters. No-one drinks English wine because it’s cheaper to transport wine 12,000 miles across half the globe.
With this past cool, record wet summer, I doubt if English grapes did very well at all.
The Arctic sea ice min this year was a FLUKE and will soon be swept into the dustbin of history.
I think when he says he was ‘involved in the business’, that it was on the consumer side, recently, and quite heavy. 😉
And the Vikings “only managed” to bury their dead in ground that now takes jackhammers and dynamite to penetrate to any usable depth. Oh, wait, they used all of their available dried barley to melt the permafrost to accomplish this. Nevermind……
The Vikings did not scrape by. What a lie! They had plenty of crops! And they had fish from rivers that are now frozen. They wore stylish clothes and were healthy as football players. They stayed in Greenland for about 400 years. They stayed because it was a great place to live. If it really was as bad as all that in the stupid comment above they would have left sooner. They weren’t stupid people. Only stupid people today thin they were stupid.
Next they’ll be saying Vikings out of dumpsters.
opps, typo,
Next they’ll be saying Vikings out of dumpsters.
should be
Next they’ll be saying Vikings ate out of dumpsters.
“Hey, where’d all the dumpsters go?! Those damn Celts! Now we’ll have to go raid the English vermin for more — or just leave here for good, more likely! O-din-n!” (From one of the Least Eddas, by Snorri Sturluson’s son.) It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World.