Part of the whole Church of Global Warming movement is to demonize and our technology at every turn.  If it wasn’t for our machines, the earth wouldn’t ever warm.  It would stay nice and cool, at the same temperature forever.  And one of the greatest threats to mother Earth is not your car, but your Air Conditioner.

From the Washington Post:

Washington didn’t grind to a sweaty halt last week under triple-digit temperatures. People didn’t even slow down. Instead, the three-day, 100-plus-degree, record-shattering heat wave prompted Washingtonians to crank up their favorite humidity-reducing, electricity-bill-busting, fluorocarbon-filled appliance: the air conditioner.

This isn’t smart. In a country that’s among the world’s highest greenhouse-gas emitters, air conditioning is one of the worst power-guzzlers. The energy required to air-condition American homes and retail spaces has doubled since the early 1990s. Turning buildings into refrigerators burns fossil fuels, which emits greenhouse gases, which raises global temperatures, which creates a need for — you guessed it — more air-conditioning.

A.C.’s obvious public-health benefits during severe heat waves do not justify its lavish use in everyday life for months on end. Less than half a century ago, America thrived with only the spottiest use of air conditioning. It could again.

So, you’re doing it, you air conditioning using bastards.  I hope you’re happy with yourselves.

Actually, upon reading this article, my AC will remain at 66 for the next week.  Why would I do that?  To spite them?  Well, yes.  I would.  But more importantly, I am going to up my energy usage because of this other bit of news:

From the Telegraph.co.uk:

Alice Springs: coldest day on record

The Outback Australian town of Alice Spring is suffering what is likely to be its coldest day on record, with temperatures struggling to reach more than 42.8F (6C).

I know I know what you’re saying.  “But a record cold doesn’t mean anything” or “it’s the trend that matters.”

Well, it doesn’t matter, does it?  Because if the “Trend” mattered, then the current trend of downward temps over the last 12 years would matter right?  What about Temps?  If we shouldn’t be paying attention to the record “cooling” temps (because its not proof of cooling), then any heat-wave news or or all of the record heat wouldn’t matter because its not proof of Global Warming.

To say the “Cooling” isn’t proof of no AGW but the Warming is, is like saying a TV station title White Entertainment Television is raciest but Black Entertainment Television is not.

So, while the Eco-Hipsters are sweltering in the heat and reading this, I’d like them to read something else while they’re at it:

hy·poc·ri·sy? ?/h??p?kr?si/  Show Spelled[hi-pok-ruh-see]

–noun, plural -sies. 

  1. a pretense of having a virtuous character, moral or religious beliefs or principles, etc., that one does not really possess.
  2. a pretense of having some desirable or publicly approved attitude.
  3. an act or instance of hypocrisy.