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Climate Change, Dilbert
Category Archive 'Climate Change'
09 Aug 2017
Right!Climate Change, Global Warming, Junk Science, Utter NonsenseNYT:
Is that so? How very, very odd. All over America, ordinary people think that the weather varies dramatically by region, that we’ve all seen warmer summmers years ago than any recently, and that the weather in recent years has been different from year to year but in no way strikingly unusual. I guess you have to be a Climate Scientist, a New York Times editor, or a community of fashion member of the Establishment to be equipped with the kinds of privileged insights and hyper-sensitive sensory organs that can detect those effects of climate change, along with extraordinary educational training enabling you to predict dramatic weather effects far off in the misty future. The rest of us, even the ordinary people meteorologists, can only imperfectly predict the weather a week or two in advance. Myself, I guess I must have been not paying attention at Yale, because I find myself completely at a loss when I attempt to sit down and try to define exactly at what point we find ourselves today along the Interglacial Cycle. I must have slept in the morning when they explained what exactly causes Glaciation and the whole cycle of earth’s warming and cooling and how you can tell just where on the cycle we should be and exactly what proper normal climate conditions would be like. Isn’t it wonderful that there are all these people so much smarter than the rest of us, who know all these things, and who are able to define precisely what the earth’s normal climate would look like and who can measure accurately the negative impact of mankind’s pernicious productive activities and, on top of all that, predict for us all their terrible, terrible consequences? Me, I’m a bit uncertain at what point later this afternoon a thunderstorm is likely to arrive, and I’m as likely as not to get rained on when I go out to pick up the mail. 04 Dec 2010
UN Delegates Invoke Mayan Jaguar GoddessClimate Change, Global Warming, Ixchel, Mayans, United Nations
Doug Powers responds to the same image: “If Helen Thomas and Code Pink had a love child…” After putting a serious dent in the free drinks and buffet provided by tax dollars, principally from the United States, forwarded on to the United Nations, those illuminated savants representing 193 countries and meeting to decide the planet’s future in Cancun got right down to the business of science. Naturally, they began by invoking the assistance of a pagan jaguar goddess associated with cannibalism and human sacrifice.
“An entwined serpent serves as Ixchel’s headdress, crossed bones may adorn her skirt, and instead of human hands and feet, she sometimes has claws. … in particular, the jaguar goddess Ixchel could be conceived as a female warrior, with a gaping mouth suggestive of cannibalism, thus showing her affinity with Cihuacoatl Yaocihuatl ‘War Woman’. This manifestation of Cihuacoatl was always hungry for new victims, just as her midwife manifestation helped to produce new babies viewed as captives.” What the delegates obviously regard as a quaint and poetic allusion to non-Western spiritual traditions, as it happens, could hardly be more appropriate. Just as the ignorant Mayans cut out the hearts of human victims with flint knives and sacrificed their own infants to appease the insatiable thirst for human blood of savage, half-animalistic gods, our modern solons want to sacrifice trillions of dollars and butcher some of the basic technologies underlying modern industrial civilization to appease equally imaginary and unworthy absurdities. I just think it is a pity that there is today no stout Cortez ready to appear on the scene, sword in hand, with 500 conquistadors, 13 horses, and some cannons to put a permanent end to the reign of this cult and priesthood in the name of Christianity and Western Civilization.
08 Jul 2010
One Striking Disproof of Anthropogenic Climate ChangeClimate Change, Climategate, Global Warming, Junk Science, Popular Delusions, University of East Anglia CRUThe scholar who knows himself to be in possession of the facts does not lose sleep at night over the threat of the public being persuaded by the inferior reasoning and bad scholarship of rivals who have embraced error. On the contrary, the happy researcher who knows that he is right will smile with condescending pity at his adversaries’ folly, knowing perfectly well that the validity of his own position will inevitably ultimately be confirmed and his rivals’ errors toppled to lie discarded in the dust. What he does not do is try to block the publication of opposing opinions or disseminate lists of adversaries or argue that he has more people with better credentials on his side. But the “there are more of us, and we’re bigger cheeses” argument has actually been advanced in all seriousness by (Stanford graduate student) William R. L. Anderegg, (University of Toronto Senior Systems Programmer) James W. Prall, Jacob Harold (grant officer at William and Flora Hewlett Foundation), and (prominent warmist) Stephen H. Schneider in an article published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, no less. Frank J. Tipler expresses some satisfaction at finding himself in distinguished company on the Warmist Enemies List, and notes a certain correlation between the firmly established (by leaked East Anglian Climate Unit emails) Warmist policies of removing less-than-completely-loyal journal editors and blocking publication of opposing papers and Warmist pointing to quantity of published papers as evidence of an established scientific consensus.
16 Feb 2010
Klimatedammerung in the Bunker"Der Untergang" (2004), Climate Change, Climategate, Global Warming, Phil Jones, SatireHow many times will Bruno Ganz’s Hitler in Oliver Hirschbiegal’s “Der Untergang†(2004) be re-subtitled for satiric purposes? Who knows? However often they use it, it always seems to work pretty well. This time the Fuehrer is getting the bad news about Climategate 3: 50 Hitler On Climate Change From Viral Footage via RightWing News. 12 Feb 2010
Warmer Weather and Colder Weather Both Prove Global WarmingClimate Change, Global Warming, Media Bias, New York Times, The Mainstream Media, Time MagazineMona Charen, too, admires the double-standard at work in establishment media weather event reporting.
Read the whole thing. 10 Feb 2010
Exactly How Stupid Do You Think Your Readers Are, Bryan?Climate Change, Global Warming, Time MagazineBryan Walsh, in Time Magazine, delivers a classic example of the MSM defense of junk science.
Ah, yes. Some evidence! An alternative of “some authorities contend…” that if we have warm weather, it must be because of Anthropogenic Global Warming. And if we have cold weather, it must be because of AGW. If we have mild weather, voila, AGW. If we have extreme weather, it’s AGW, too. The fatal role of human naughtiness in producing things, driving, heating their homes, and converting physical substances into energy is evidenced, according to liberals generally, simply by “climate change,” which all inclusive concept is really an artful comedown from Global Warming. Climate change is delightfully non-specific and basically 100% reliable. Change being, in fact, precisely what climate always does. The earth’s climate operates in cycles. Cycles are patterns of change. World climate, in fact, is undeniably at any given moment in time changing, either growing warmer or growing colder. Clever warmists have the situation perfectly under control. It no longer matters if the models they propose to use as a basis to tax, regulate, and control the world’s economy can actually ever predict anything. They simply need to point to a record snowfall here or an exceptional storm there, a hot day in New York or cool weather in Miami. Change of any kind proves there is a problem. And, let’s face it, the weather is always changing. Their models and theories enjoy absolute immunity from testing or verification. Whatever happens proves they are right. Heads they win, tails we lose. 17 Jan 2010
Sunday, January 17, 2010Climate Change, Climategate, Global Warming, Health Care Reform, Himalaya Glaciers, IPCC, Junk Science, Martha Coakley, Massachusetts, Politics, Satire, Scott BrownMartha Coakley’s increasingly desperate negative campaign ads are provoking satire. This example is from Boston radio 96.9 WTKK. 0:52 video. —————————————————– The Left is getting seriously worried about what will happen on Tuesday in Massachsetts. Josh Marshall writes:
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Himalayan Glaciers not vanishing. No science was ever behind IPCC report‘s assertion that they were. How embarrassing! London Times. —————————————————– Lucianne describes last minute democrat health care desperation: Like trying to put an oyster into a slot machine, Nelson tries to give back his bribe. Associated news agency story. 18 Dec 2009
Climate Change Is NormalClimate Change, Global Warming, Popular Delusions, ScienceIn Thursday’s Wall Street Journal, Howard Bloom puts the AGW silliness into perspective.
27 Nov 2009
Another Scientific ScandalClimate Change, Climategate, Fraud, Global Warming, National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA), New Zealand, Scandal, Scandals
Uh oh! Another of those world famous climate research institutes renowned for issuing dire proclamations blaming human economic activity for terribly harmful patterns of warming weather is in trouble. This time it is New Zealand’s National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA). The New Zealand Climate Science Coalition just published a paper which took NIWA’s data and made their own graph comparing it to NIWA’s published graph, and what do you know? An ordinary graph of the actual data showed remarkably consistent climate patterns over the last century and a half. Goodbye, Global Warming! It looks like more climate scientists are going to have some explaining to do. Hat tip to Watt’s Up With That?
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