Global warming deniers mocked in great "Denial Tango" song

Rational arguments and solid science only go so far when it comes to pointing out the ridiculousness of global warming deniers.

For true mockery, it takes an Australian band, "Men With Day Jobs." (Reportedly the jobs are Insecurity Guard, Impersonal Trainer, and Communications Impediment.) 

I learned about their Denial Tango on the Climate Progress blog. It's well worth a look/listen. My favorite lyric: 

I'm in denial.
Deep denial.
And as the waters rise about me
I'll just hold my breath and say
"It isn't so."

 

On a more serious note, there's good news on the global warming front. President Obama has put the Keystone tar sands pipeline on hold until after the November 2012 election. This is a big win for environmentalists.

Also pleasing: Rand Paul and his Senate Republican cronies failed to weaken air quality standards that will prevent up to 34,000 premature deaths a year. So much for the "party of life" -- which doesn't consider saving many thousands of lives to be more important than fossil fuel industry campaign contributions.

Comments

[DJ]

Even the most ardent believer in man-made global warming should easily be able to see that halting the Keystone pipeline is not a victory for them. But it is a loss for the US and victory for Saudi Arabia & China.

The tar sands will be fully developed and the oil consumed regardless whether the pipeline gets built. The question is, who will benefit when that oil flows? At a time when the left is screaming to “grow jobs” by spending borrowed public money on infrastructure projects (high speed rail, etc) they block privately funded infrastructure investment in the form of a pipeline that is a key job creator and vital to reducing oil imports that fund US enemies abroad.

China will gladly refine and consume this oil if the US doesn’t want it. And it will arrive at their ports after a CO2 intensive trip on an oil tanker. How that helps the cause of the man-made global warming true believer is beyond me. Just another example of politically driven left wing feel good environmentalism disguised as science.