Wonder if while he's waiting he'd club a few baby seals for me...

This proves just how devious the Bush/Cheney/Rove plan to destroy the planet really is. What will "happen naturally" next in order to fool us, 20 ft.snow drifts in the Yukon ? These evil old white men simply will not be satisfied until we are all either dead, or driven insane by their trickery.

Shame on them! Shame on them all!

What a tool

A "tool" you say ? Well, we'll see who the tool is when we're all being marched into the Haliburton reeducation camps and ingrained with our own indelible and very, very "Special Security Numbers".

Whom will be mocking whom then, huh Mr. Smartypants ?

It is a little amusing to contemplate that there may have been a Northwest Passage during the Medieval Warm Period.
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The bears are angry that the lions have been hogging all the Great Circle of Life action. They've been saying for years that if someone would just bring a little jungle up there they could show those pussies who's boss.
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Haliburton reeducation camps??? Pudge, your tin-foil hat is too tight. I'd be more worried about Hillary's Big Brother reeducation camps. She actually has a well-documented record of abuse of power that makes Richard Nixon look like Stuart Smalley.

Back on subject: If the idiot Mr. Flanigan had tried his passage 7,000 years ago he would have found most of the arctic was open water. Funny, the polar bears did just fine without their ice.

Is ee that ANTARCTICA is getting colder meaning that the PENGUINS and ARCTIC TERNS can enjoy their normal cold weather and tell AL GORE and GREENPEACE to STAY AWAY

This moron winds up being the equivalent of Dominoes Pizza to the polar bears!!

Hey...we deliver!!

As they lay around digesting this fool, the polar bears will no doubt wonder amongst themselves: "THIS species is the dominant species on Earth?"

Warning to the polar bears...liberals ARE tasty, but 30 minutes later you're hungry again!

But if he is right, then he is RIGHT, and the facts of the matter be damned! One can only hope the dumbass gets a little too aggressive waiting for the icebreakers (likely to be a long wait, that), and decides to go it alone... and gets his happy little ass stuck in an iceberg formed around his ship. Explain that to your little environmentalist buddies!

Amazing..

You just can't make this stuff up..

Freakin' dork..

Where are the idiot trolls like BarneyMoron, JFO, Herman coming to this idiot's defense with some idiotic reasoning?

Lemme get this straight. I'm assuming he's some sort of enviro tree hugger (as he's making the statement about global warming). I could be wrong, but I'll go with it anyway.

So this tree hugger, is wanting to enlist the aid of a Russian NUCLEAR POWERED ice breaker to make his point?!?!

I see at LEAST 3 levels of irony there.

He's a Darwin Award nominee on several levels.

So .. uh .. his ex-wife is his manager, and now he's tuck up in the Arctic surrounded by man eating polar bears?

Go figure.

I wonder how much of his China-made "The North Face" jacket will be left undigested by Polar Bear gastric juices? I guess it depends on the lead content, eh?

Global warming kooks sure have a knack for making themselves look like fools.

nuclear-powered icebreaker to break up the ice so he can show everyone how badly it is melting.

You put that excerpt in italics, so I figured it must emphasize something. But I can't figure out what. After all, an icebreaker breaks ice by pushing through it, not by melting it, so there's no irony there. And even if some ice melts from the energy expended, it's a localized effect surrounding the ship, not one that warms up the entire Northern Sea.

So was there some point there, or was this just another post based on nonsense, where you misrepresent your own sources and draw a conclusion that they don't support?

Add to that Casey's point that it's OK for polar bears to be killed off because they will attack people, and you have a candidate for Wizbang's Stupidest Post Ever.

Oh, and since you folks like to cite every story of cold weather out there as disproof of global warming, you might be interested in this one.

Brian, oddly enough that you don't understand a post is not evidence that it is the stupidest at Wizbang.

"you might be interested in this one."

Egads! It's HOT in Southern California?

No shit!?

MUST be a sign of global warming!

Well ..., unless you consider that in July of 1891, it was 109 degrees in LA.

Or, on September 17, 1910 it was 110 degrees in San Diego.

OR ..., it was 100 degrees, in December of 1938.

I'm not saying there isn't climate change (that's just so obvious to anyone - Ice Ages and recessions and the like - natural state of being and all), but that lame-ass link does nothing to prove anything to anyone.

I mean, if you like to site every spike in temperature as a sign of global warming, you might be interested in this (page 76,):

http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/sgx/document/weatherhistory.pdf

Well at least one idiot troll named Brian showed up. BarneyMoron, JFO, Herman where oh where are you?

Brian, oddly enough that you don't understand a post is not evidence that it is the stupidest at Wizbang.

So perhaps you can explain it to me, and how the mocking references to melting ice are germane to using an icebreaker.

Brian:

You put that excerpt in italics, so I figured it must emphasize something. But I can't figure out what.

Think brian, think. I mean really that brain cell fired up long enough to figure out how an ice breaker works. (using its weight to break thru the ice)

But it shut down short of the time for you to realize it's the ecco-wennies who have prevented nuc plants from being built in the U.S. and elsewhere.

You're right about one thing... it's the dumbest post ever.

By a commenter.

Global warming kooks sure have a knack for making themselves look like fools.
That's because they believe their press releases.
The minor jump in temperatures over the last 100 years isn't causing the catastrophe they keep demanding it provide.
They see things like Lake Chad losing water and read, "The drop in water levels is blamed on bad irrigation plans and global warming." and all they get out of it is, "The drop in water levels is blamed on global warming."
They seem to have an automatic ellipses dowdification quote generator in their heads, they also ignore that the measly increase in temps isn't enough to cause everything they claim it does.

brian:

So perhaps you can explain it to me, and how the mocking references to melting ice are germane to using an icebreaker.

Note the ice breaker was breaking ice in that statement and the melting was a ref to what this idiot was attempting to prove (like global warming) with his "adventure."

nitwit.

but that lame-ass link does nothing to prove anything to anyone.

I didn't say it did. If you read my post, you'll see it was directed at those who cite stories about cold weather as disproof of global warming. I was simply wondering how they view stories about hot weather.

I'm glad to hear you share the view that such stories are proof of nothing. I look forward to seeing your equally enthusatic statement of such next time a cold weather story is posted.

the melting was a ref to what this idiot was attempting to prove

No, the post title is "I'll prove global warming, as soon as I melt this ?#@! ice". So the melting was a reference to what this idiot was attempting to do. Except that he wasn't.

Even a nitwit can see that.

figure out how an ice breaker works. (using its weight to break thru the ice)

Uh, yeah, I already posted that. But thanks for reinforcing my point that it doesn't melt the ice, thus refuting the the nonsense that Jim was stating.

Brian, are you really so slow as to not realize that links to cold weather are made, not because skeptics think that they disprove global warming, but specifically [b]because[/b] incidents of hot weather are used by AGW proponents to claim proof of the AGW hypothesis?

Yes, I guess you are that slow since you didn't understand the original posts point either.

The skeptics understand the difference between random weather variations and actual climate change. It is the simplistic, misleading and unscientific claims of the AGW proponents that are being satirized - all above your head. Jeff Norman on Debunkers' website has been following satellite imagery of the northwest passage for several years now to illustrate the very point made above.

The only thing novel about the Heat in Southern California is the state of their electrical infrastructure and their inability to supply the electrical needs for A/C thanks to their growing population.

The state of the electrical infrastructure has environmentalists to thank. And the growing population is in large part another issue dear to the liberal residents of So Cal.

Holy flying monkey turds, Brian!

This whole "Wizbang's Stupidest Post Ever" got old about 17 posts back. We know you hate everything Wizbang. Get over yourself, and move on already.

Of course, any person with half a brain would realize that a 6x6x6 (pick your unit) chunk of ice melts considerably slower than four 3x3x3 chunks. And guess which set ice breakers make more of? And guess which side of the "half a brain" fence that puts you on, Brian?

Apparently, irony is lost on you. Of course, so is humor in general. And plays on words. And situational comedy. And just plain stupidity (especially the last, considering how often you wield it as though it were Excalibur Itself). How is it that someone as dry, unhumorous, and just plain stupid as you has managed to live this long?

s/four/eight

And I even sat and thought about that for a minute or two. Damn.

Brian - putting new meaning in the term nitwit:

No, the post title is "I'll prove global warming, as soon as I melt this ?#@! ice". So the melting was a reference to what this idiot was attempting to do. Except that he wasn't.

No asshat, when caught in your original query about what was in itals. ("nuclear-powered icebreaker to break up the ice so he can show everyone how badly it is melting.")

Rather than quietly moving on or admit an error you prove to have something less than a PHD holder in reading comprehension 101 and you move the goal post to the title of the piece.

Congrats Brian, you've just been nominated into the barneyG2000 memorial "Nitwit Hall of Fame."

Of course, any person with half a brain would realize that a 6x6x6 (pick your unit) chunk of ice melts considerably slower than four 3x3x3 chunks. And guess which set ice breakers make more of?

OK, go to your freezer, take half of your ice cubes, break them into smaller pieces, and put them back in your freezer. Then tomorrow, come tell us which set of ice cubes has melted the most.

Apparently, science is lost on you.

*sigh* marc once again is using the "you didn't use the exact words I wanted you to use, therefore I don't have to defend what you've shown me to be wrong, and your entire point is invalid, and you're also an asshat" argument.

OK, let's begin.

No asshat, when caught in your original query about what was in itals.

Well, asshat, you were responding to my response to SPQR, which asked how "the mocking references to melting ice are germane to using an icebreaker". The title of the post is one of those mocking references.

I cited the title of the post because that more obviously demonstrated the incongruity between an ice breaker and melting, two things that Jim was ignorantly trying to conflate.

But fine, if you're going to insist on staying away from what so utterly skewers your attempted point, then let's go back to the original excerpt I cited:

("nuclear-powered icebreaker to break up the ice so he can show everyone how badly it is melting.")

In your response, you simply said that an ice breaker doesn't melt the ice. If that's the only point you have to make, then I thank you for agreeing with me.

Brian, you really are an idiot. The melting is what the referenced twit was trying to demonstrate but couldn't because the ice was in the way - hence the icebreaker. Your pedantry on this topic is really amazingly stupid.

But that's typical of AGW adherents who do anything they can to distract people f