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Wednesday, May 15. 2013

NGC Update: The horror revealed


As you've no doubt heard, despite mankind's best efforts to fight off the peril of Natural Global Colding, at this point the relentless advance of ice continues:




Here's the latest on this impending horror:



BISMARCK, ND (AP)  Mrs. Emma Dodson of Flatbush simply doesn't understand.  "I gave to them Greenpeace folks over and over agin' and they said they'd take care of ever'thin'!," she exclaimed.


Despite such claims, the impending menace of global colding is right now happening in our own back yard as the relentless wall of ice advances.  Below is a video as the Schwartz family of Flatbush gives their beloved home a final farewell.  "I just can't believe it," said Mr. Schwartz.  "I gave a buncha money to them Sierra Club folks and they promised me they'd fix the dang thing!"


Despite such claims, the video evidence simply cannot be refuted.  Viewer discretion is advised.



Here, now, is the peril that you, too, will one day face.


It's not for the squeamish.




Well, it was nice while it lasted.

Posted by Dr. Mercury in Hot News & Misc. Short Subjects at 10:00 | Comments (22) | Trackbacks (0)

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I hope Nicki can help!! This is serious!
Do you think the fire department will be able to help? Maybe they can start a fire!
#1 mudbug on 2013-05-15 10:25 (Reply)
Please don't chum the z-elf.
#2 BillH on 2013-05-15 10:25 (Reply)
What a delightful way of saying, "Please don't feed the trolls". :)

Well -- check me if I'm wrong on this -- but about a week ago BD had some AGW link up and suddenly the Z character was claiming that the science wasn't settled, at which point I noted his hypocrisy and suggested he take a nice long vacation. At this point, I'd say his credibility is shot.
    #2.1 Dr. Mercury (Link) on 2013-05-15 10:44 (Reply)
    Un-friggin'-believeable. I'm now a Believer, doc, as I've now witnessed the awesome destructive power of global colding with my own two eyes.

    Such is the power of the truth.

    Fun post, doc.
    #3 Don on 2013-05-15 10:32 (Reply)
    I agree with Don, fun post. I also liked the way the link to your 'source' was done. It's funny how a link just kind of has that 'air of authenticity' to it. "Well, if he linked to it, then it must be true."

    Well, I'd like to chat more, but my compost heap needs to be bled of methane gas which I'll then pump into my weather balloons. Anything to save the planet!
    #4 Katharine on 2013-05-15 10:39 (Reply)
    What they should have done was throw a party. Everybody know, if you throw a party, you always run out of ice.
    #5 JKB on 2013-05-15 10:47 (Reply)
    did you see this? snow in the uk.

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2324803/UK-weather-Snow-falls-amid-65mph-winds-town-gets-month-rain-just-24-hours.html
    #6 feeblemind on 2013-05-15 11:24 (Reply)
    You make a good point. Perhaps it's better to just start the eternal snowfall and get it over with, rather than the pain of having to wait for the actual ice floe to arrive as in the video. Tough call, indeed.
      #6.1 Dr. Mercury (Link) on 2013-05-15 11:28 (Reply)
      Who made the video?
      #7 Gringo on 2013-05-15 11:48 (Reply)
      Mrs. Schwartz. You can see their lovely daughter Annabel innocently frolicking around, and a few quick shots of Betty. Mr. Schwartz perished last night as he was staying at his club's lodge which is a few miles north.

      Or maybe it was this. One or the other.
        #7.1 Dr. Mercury (Link) on 2013-05-15 12:49 (Reply)
        So it wasn't photoshopped, but an actual incident. Interesting. My initial conclusion, before your answer, was that it was a photoshop. So much for initial conclusions.

        A neighbor's father lives in Minnesota, so I had heard about the snow and ice in recent days.
        #7.1.1 Gringo on 2013-05-15 14:24 (Reply)
        Help us, Obi-Wan-Zachriel! You're our only hope!
        #8 Sam L. on 2013-05-15 11:52 (Reply)
        ROFL!
        #8.1 feeblemind on 2013-05-15 12:53 (Reply)
        Unfortunately, the Z-man claimed the other day that the science wasn't settled, so I'm afraid he's just not the go-to guy we once knew and counted on.

        Oh well.
          #8.2 Dr. Mercury (Link) on 2013-05-15 12:54 (Reply)
          I didn't catch the thread where the Z-man admitted the science wasn't settled. I did notice that he seems to have shifted gears to maintaining the unmaintainable in the context of Scandalgate.
          #9 Texan99 on 2013-05-15 18:47 (Reply)
          --that reminds me, was Sredni Vashtar the ferret, or was he the kid who worshipped the ferret?
          #9.1 buddy larsen on 2013-05-15 19:18 (Reply)
          What about snow blowers, couldn't they have used them to beat back to advancing ice. Plus, call 911, they will not do anything. That is what they are there for. Oh, I forgot, this was not about getting all the food at the local Mickie D's.
          #10 Heltau on 2013-05-15 20:48 (Reply)
          We should just rename the month Maybe.
          #11 Jewel (Link) on 2013-05-16 00:21 (Reply)
          The ice comes
          on little cat feet.

          It sits looking
          over lawn and patio
          on silent haunches
          and then moves on.
          #12 Agent Cooper on 2013-05-16 03:14 (Reply)
          haHaHaHa

          Glad to you posting, Doc.
          #13 Shutterbug on 2013-05-16 12:21 (Reply)
          I believe that the "settled science" discussion with the Z-Team that Dr. Mercury referred to is here.
          Regarding what was actually said, and the interpretation of same, I leave to other readers. After dealing with the verbiage from the Z-Team at Bookworm Room- which tired of the verbiage and banned the Z-Team- I am not going to bother with commenting on what the Z-Team says. I leave it with others to clean out the Augean stables of the Z-Team's verbiage.

          Why do I say Z-Team?"We We We." Listen to what the Z-Team says. Moreover, the rapidity of some comment strings from the Z-Team could only come from an collective, not from an individual.
          #14 Gringo on 2013-05-16 12:34 (Reply)
          Just for the record, here's Z's quote:

          QUOTE:
          Because that's how science works: It draws the basic outline, then fills in more and more of the details. Climate science is an active field of study.

          So, suddenly, according to Zach, the science isn't settled.

          This, after spending more than a year telling us that it is.

          Uh-huh.
            #14.1 Dr. Mercury (Link) on 2013-05-17 08:50 (Reply)

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