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Four newly discovered causes of global warming:

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In comments for You can’t make this up!, Jae suggested the search ‘sex + Global Warming’. I explained that I had found a post describing how squirrels cause global warming. Inspired, I decided to run a blog search on ‘sex + “cause of global warming”‘.

I found these four novel theories among the top twenty blog results:

  1. Root Cause of Global Warming: Carbon Dioxide Filling Bright Eyes with Sex and Scare

    This blog tells us that CO2 is the cause of global warming. However, the authors explain the true cause; I think this is the heart of the matter:

    Humanity has turned into a cancerous organ in the body of the planet.

    Since it couldn’t release its sexual urge creatively, it released a lot of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

    Every action has an equal and opposite reaction. The nature has recoiled and is ready to sting us with its teeth of fatal warming.

    I think the overall argument advocates free love as the antidote.

  2. Is Obama’s Hot Bod the Cause of Global Warming?

    Here’s the connection between our Commander In Chief to Be’s bod and Global warming:

    With his seriously hot bod, which had been covered in suits for almost two years now, it is fitting to name him as the culprate behind global warming. Everything within a three mile radius of him begins to melt. And without the protection of business-like attire, the results are damaging.

  3. A post with the title, ” Is eco-sex the cause of Global Warming?”
    I didn’t even know there was such a thing as eco-sex. No. I’m not going to post the link. No, I’m not going post a juicy quote. Note to parents: you might want to be sure your child safe filters block that. It’s not “XXX”, but it does contain nude photos and “R” language.
  4. GLOBAL WARMING AND ASTROLOGY

    Global warming has much to do with population and pollution that created by rahu and ketu, now we have to thing about Sani, who plays roll as court and police to mankind. Sani gives pain and sorrow for bad deeds. Sani is also powerful in kaliyuga that wrote our rishis.

    ….
    The gas co2 and such other gases, which make pollution, are representing sani, rahu and ketu again…. these are the main cause of global warming. The layer of environment is called DIVYA RAKSHA KAVACH by our rishis is breaking and it represents good effects of moon, Jupiter and sun to earth. We know that sun, Jupiter and moon are enemies of sani, rahu and ketu. So the global warming is the fight of good planets to bad planets. And it comes on surface as there is sani n ketu will be together soon in Leo the firy sign.

    I have written my basic thinking on global warming and astrology here,

As this blog post was motivated by Desmosblog’s “analysis” of the increase in blog posts about ‘ “global warming” + hoax” in 2008 vs 2007, I filtered blog search results by year. The search term ”sex + “cause of global warming”‘ returned 1,254 posts in 2008 but only 177 in 2007.

What can this huge increase mean?!

Maybe we should ask the analysts as Desmosblog!

When you read their answer, remember: There is indeed a lot of junk on the internet. Be careful out there.

12 thoughts on “Four newly discovered causes of global warming:”

  1. it does contain nude photos and “R” language.

    Natasha thought I was spending too much time reading about global warming before!

  2. it does contain … “R” language.

    This would definitely be offensive to Fortran-speaking climate scientists.

    But not to worry. GISS (under Hansen) has developed and deployed a filter that blocks “R language” – which they endearingly call “Agent R”. Concerned parents might ask GISS about this tool.

  3. I’ve just thought of another one. There’s a team studying the effects of bacterial surfactant on the formation of clouds (Barbara Nozière of Stockholm University, Sweden — I hope Doctor Noziere is checking to see if the surfactants found on droplets also include synthetic types), which implies, presumably, that the sea surface is covered with surfactant. Smoother sea, lower albedo, warms during the day; smoother at night reduces emmissivity, cools less.

    Bacteria use surfactants when attacking iron. More agricultural dust, more iron, more surfactant, less rain, lower albedo, more heat.

    There you go. If Exxon/Shell/Mobil would like to send the cheques quickly then I’d be grateful — it’s damn cold here and I need more coal.

    JF

  4. Oops — that should read ‘less cloud’, not ‘less rain’. The study (hidden behind a pay wall for me) says more rain.

    JF
    And, of course, it’s ’emissivity’. My brain is cold with all this AGW.

  5. SteveM

    This would definitely be offensive to Fortran-speaking climate scientists.

    Maybe that’s why I didn’t link!!!!

  7. Rich–
    Clearly on topic on this thread. That’s Daily Kos article is hilarious.

    Here the author marvels about why the “coca cola theory of global warming” is not discussed in the media:

    Why is it that this never gets mention as a possible cause or contributor to Global Warming? It doesn’t. It is easy to blame big oil and coal It puts me in an unciomfortable position– defending these companies.

    It is my opinion that Exxon and the other energy companies are victims of bad publicity. And the thing is, no one knows it. Should we let energy companies off the hook for pollution? Hell no. Do I think carbon being released into the atmosphere causes climate change? Yes. It is a cooling effect. Smoke diffuses sunlight. So does water. Think. As cloud cover, as a gas. It absorbs sunlight and heat in waterways.

    Like I said, it is easy to connect the dots. I just wish someone would. Coke cauese global warming. I said it. I’ll keep saying it.

  8. Julian Flood (Comment#8894) January 17th, 2009 at 1:39 am ,

    If you want smoother seas, then you don’t want surfactants present. Surfactants lower surface tension and encourage foam formation. Oil, OTOH, is a defoaming agent. Try to whip egg whites with even the slightest trace of egg yolk or oil present. Egg yolk is a great emulsifying agent though, especially when you add a little acid like vinegar or lemon juice, see mayonnaise, hollandaise, bernaise, etc.

  9. Re DeWitt Payne

    Yes, it surprised me too when I started to look into this. My source — well it was a couple of years ago. I’ll hunt around, but you’ll find it quicker than me: the whole world has better google-fu than I.

    BTW, can you excuse my not presenting here the Kriegesmarine hypothesis? I’m sure you’re heard it often enough! It’s North Slope oil spill that’s doing the smoothing = warming… rave froth etc.

    One day I’ll be acclaimed…

    There’s a recent article in the Observer (uk) about censorship, the forces against liberty etc which claims that the greens are leading the fight against it. One of my major worries about this whole affair is that, having nailed their flag to the AGW mast, the green message of conservation, re-afforestation, etc, in other words the good bits the greens are preaching, will be lost in the tide of negative feeling against science.

    Ah… http://repositories.cdlib.org/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1019&context=ucmarine/ceqi That came up fairly easily. A surfactant spill can even be detected from space.

    JF

  11. The Daily Kos article is truly hilarious. I doubt the author got anything right. Drougth being the cause of the genocide in Sudan, and drougth in this country and others like Mali being caused of — Coca Cola Inc shipping bottled water to the US 😉

    One wonders if it is ironical.

    …

    The R-language must be what motivates Steve McIntyre behind all his efforts then. Sigmund Freud would have been proud 🙂

  12. DeWitt,

    Have you checked? I’d be interested in your opinion as to the smoothing effect of surfactant. Oil’s smoothing needs no thought, of course — we all remember Ben Franklin’s experiment.

    JF

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