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More April Fool’s fun

Posted by: Aqua Blog Maven on April 2, 2009 at 5:18 am

Yesterday, power was out at Aquafornia headquarters for most of the day, so I missed these other fun articles for April Fool’s Day. From The Bright Green Blog:

In an unprecedented move Wednesday, the Norwegian Nobel Committee rescinded the Peace Prize it awarded in 2007 to former US vice president Al Gore and the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, amid overwhelming evidence that global warming is an elaborate hoax cooked up by Mr. Gore.

A press release from the committee quotes a chagrined Rajendra Pachauri, the UN climate panel’s chair, who claims that he was the victim of a “cunning deception spanning decades”:

“I am deeply ashamed for having unwittingly perpetuated such a massive fraud on the governments of the world,” said Mr. Pachauri.

“It turns out that all that data from satellites and radiosondes, surface temperature readings, borehole analysis, measurements of rising sea levels, melting glaciers and permafrost, phenological data, and proxy reconstructions of paleoclimatic conditions were all fabricated out of thin air by my former friend, Al Gore. Now that I think about it, I suppose that we should have instituting some sort of peer-review process before publishing such alarming conclusions. Once again, I’m very sorry.”

After revoking the 2007 prize from Gore and the IPCC, the Nobel committee retroactively awarded it to the more than 31,000 people who signed the Oregon Petition – an appeal challenging the notion that there exists a scientific consensus regarding global warming – “for their efforts to pursue pure, objective science that is free from the influence of any special interest group.”

And from Dan Bacher at IndyBay.org:

In an epic conversion like that of Saint Paul of Tarsus, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger this morning apologized to the public for his role in the destruction of California’s fish populations during a hastily assembled press conference at the State Capitol in Sacramento. Central Valley chinook salmon, steelhead, green sturgeon, delta smelt, longfin smelt and other fish populations are in an unprecedented state of collapse, due to massive water exports out of the California Delta and declining water quality – and Schwarzenegger vowed to do everything in his power to reverse the decline.

“I greatly apologize to recreational anglers, commercial fishermen, California Indian Tribes, environmentalists and the public for the damage that my administration’s policies have caused to California fish populations,” said Schwarzenegger, with tears streaming down his face. “Starting today, I will begin a new initiative to make the restoration of California’s rivers, the Delta and coastal waters the number one priority of this administration.”

He announced a number of immediate measures that will go in effect today. These include:

• imposing a ban on suction dredge mining on California rivers until new restrictions are developed by the DFG

• instructing the Central Valley Regional Water Control Board to adopt tough new water quality standards for agricultural dischargers

• setting up a meeting with President Obama and Warren Buffett, owner of the PacifiCorp’s dams, to immediately begin dam removal on the Klamath River.

• rescinding the layoff notices of 98 Department of Fish and Game wardens and cadets

In a stunning break with his previous positions, Schwarzenegger said that his plan to construct a peripheral canal around the Delta and Temperance Flat and Sites reservoirs was ill advised and “wrong.”

Read more from IndyBay.org by clicking here.

April 2, 2009 · Filed Under Weird & Wacky Water News

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