Looking at “Denialists’ Deck of Cards“, how many cards have been played by global warming denialists?

I count 34. Which is good news I guess. As soon as all the cards are played, then we’ll be done hearing their complaints.

First, read Answers to Questions the Drudge Report poses to Al Gore, including one from Climate Progress.

Then, read the comments - pay particular attention to those by “Tom Hughes”. I’m not really sure if he’s trying to be funny, if he’s clueless, or if he actually believes what he writes. In any case, it makes a great case for pre-moderation. The original text is italicized, my comments are not.

When you have the understanding of how your earth actually works,you would be knowledgeable in the fact that our cymatic grid provides the gases on the planet ,including of course oxygen.
What’s a “cymatic grid” you wonder? Well, so do I. Wikipedia has an article on Cymatics though. If you skip to the end, there is the following: “[The] term was later adopted by some Holistic healing practitioners, who believe that sound waves transmitted through the human body can normalize imbalances and synchronize the cells’ frequencies back to their natural, healthy state of vibrational resonance.” Oh goodie. Holistic healing is just another name for Woo. So in this case, I guess we’re dealing with extraterrestrial woo. That makes it a little more exciting at least. Note that “Tom Hughes” has been slowly spreading the Woo around the Internets - google search - “cymatic grid”.
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This is so cool, I needed to point it out. Courtesy of Dr. Roger Peilke Sr.’s weblog.

A Fingerprint Of Human Effects On Weather And Climate: Literally! by Jos de Laat

The weather here in the Netherlands during the last week or so has been stable, with high pressure dominating Western Europe. In this time of year that means quiet weather and cold nights with frequent formation of fog during night. During morning the fog starts to disappear because of solar insolation, and although this may take quite some time, most of the time it results in a sunny afternoon.

On the second satellite picture below, the location of major urban areas in the western part of the country have been added. Clearly the cities of The Hague, Leiden, Haarlem, Amsterdam an Utrecht (close to where I live) are located at the most southern parts of the cloud-free bands, and there is just the slightest wind from the southwest (indicated by the red arrow). These are also the major urban regions in this area (look here for a geographical map of the Netherlands). A coincidence? Not likely.

Thank goodness, eh?

Of course, here in Tucson it’s been “spring” for a while now. We’ve had 14 straight days with high temperatures above 80 F - with 3 days above 90 F. Keep in mind that the average temperature for this time of year is about 74 F. Whew. It’s been hot.

Anyway, if I hear the words “egg”, “stand”, and “equinox” in the same sentence today, I’m going to hit her/him with a large, hard object.