Comments on: Quote of the week http://wattsupwiththat.com/2008/09/30/quote-of-the-week/ The world's most viewed site on global warming and climate change Tue, 14 Feb 2012 10:34:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Eating cat food and global warming « An Honest Climate Debate http://wattsupwiththat.com/2008/09/30/quote-of-the-week/#comment-46993 Thu, 09 Oct 2008 04:09:46 +0000 http://wattsupwiththat.wordpress.com/?p=3369#comment-46993 [...] the economic crisis hitting hard and most people worried about having to eat cat food during their retirement, what does Lord Stern tell us? The credit crisis is time to act on climate change. Lord Stern is [...]

]]> By: Andrea Smith http://wattsupwiththat.com/2008/09/30/quote-of-the-week/#comment-45919 Sun, 05 Oct 2008 23:31:25 +0000 http://wattsupwiththat.wordpress.com/?p=3369#comment-45919 Anthony
this is a recent article worth reading:
http://nzclimatescience.net/index.php
UK ANAYSIS OF CLIMATE CHANGE POLICIES
Policy

(sorry to put this comment here; didn’t know where to find site for sending you information.) :)

]]> By: Thomas J. Arnold. http://wattsupwiththat.com/2008/09/30/quote-of-the-week/#comment-45592 Sat, 04 Oct 2008 15:08:06 +0000 http://wattsupwiththat.wordpress.com/?p=3369#comment-45592 I am born and bred English, I respect my American cousins who should remember their roots but hey! I would have shoved the tea in the drink as well! and not many of us read the rag known as the Guardian.
Guardian readers who cares a fig what they think!- however the majority of the working class ie ‘the Mirror/Sun reader’ has a much better grasp of the agw scam. They have to live in the real world.
God bless real thinking people all over the world!-I hope we are not too late to save it from loonys like Al and his mates.

]]> By: GJ M http://wattsupwiththat.com/2008/09/30/quote-of-the-week/#comment-45036 Thu, 02 Oct 2008 13:49:41 +0000 http://wattsupwiththat.wordpress.com/?p=3369#comment-45036 This link is from an Irish paper – climate change lobby jumping on the financial crisis – just in case they were beginning to feel marginalised – or that they didnt feel like discussing facts about climate – a report released by the state Met service on the same day showed that September in Ireland was the coldest since 1994 and that temparatures during the month had failed to breach 20 degrees Celsius at time for the first time in 34 years…

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/opinion/2008/1002/1222815457097.html

]]> By: old construstion worker http://wattsupwiththat.com/2008/09/30/quote-of-the-week/#comment-44961 Thu, 02 Oct 2008 05:56:31 +0000 http://wattsupwiththat.wordpress.com/?p=3369#comment-44961 ‘to keep things in perspective, from Watts up With That: “Is anyone even paying attention to these Wing Nut AGW people? With 1/2 of America worried about [...]‘

Unfortunately yes the…..EPA

]]> By: Smokey http://wattsupwiththat.com/2008/09/30/quote-of-the-week/#comment-44932 Thu, 02 Oct 2008 04:06:16 +0000 http://wattsupwiththat.wordpress.com/?p=3369#comment-44932 Klaus B, you’ll like this video of the causes of the subprime mess: click

For sure, you’ll enjoy the music!

Crank it up, and sit back, and enjoy!

]]> By: Quote of the Day http://wattsupwiththat.com/2008/09/30/quote-of-the-week/#comment-44884 Wed, 01 Oct 2008 22:11:51 +0000 http://wattsupwiththat.wordpress.com/?p=3369#comment-44884 [...] to keep things in perspective, from Watts up With That: “Is anyone even paying attention to these Wing Nut AGW people? With 1/2 of America worried about [...]

]]> By: Jeff http://wattsupwiththat.com/2008/09/30/quote-of-the-week/#comment-44775 Wed, 01 Oct 2008 13:50:12 +0000 http://wattsupwiththat.wordpress.com/?p=3369#comment-44775 Wow!! Never thought my comment would turn into a real post.

Up here in Canada we are having an election as well. Our main Left Wing party is pitching a “Green Shift”. As the economy looks darker and darker, this is becoming less appetising (kind of like cat food); and less urgent. I am looking for a Right Wing (Conservative Party of Canada) majority win. If anyone can keep Canada from sliding into the Black Hole that is the American Credit Bubble, it is Mr. Harper (the Conservative Leader).

]]> By: philw1776 http://wattsupwiththat.com/2008/09/30/quote-of-the-week/#comment-44758 Wed, 01 Oct 2008 12:50:11 +0000 http://wattsupwiththat.wordpress.com/?p=3369#comment-44758 Continuing off topic on the Financial Hysteria, folks might benefit from reading Nicolas Nassim Taleb’s “The Black Swan” about how those mathematical folks called ‘quants’ make complex financial computer models based on economics PhD papers that he (a math guy, but a pariah) said were un-understandable crap that greatly mis-assessed real risks. Written a couple years ago. Google Taleb and read his essay from a couple weeks ago online.

Taleb made a nice nest egg as a treader in the 90s and is now an engineering professor who enjoys dissing economists mis-use of statistics and use of inappropriate mathematical models.

]]> By: alexjc38 http://wattsupwiththat.com/2008/09/30/quote-of-the-week/#comment-44732 Wed, 01 Oct 2008 11:21:45 +0000 http://wattsupwiththat.wordpress.com/?p=3369#comment-44732 David Segesta Said:
“This is from a British paper. Its making it much easier to understand why our founders kicked the Brits out of our country.”

If Tara Garnett and her trendy academic friends have their way and take away our alcohol and chocolate, I’ll be on the next boat over, mate.

Mind you, we’ve never had a War of Independence of our own, over here. Perhaps we will, before too long!

]]> By: brazil84 http://wattsupwiththat.com/2008/09/30/quote-of-the-week/#comment-44722 Wed, 01 Oct 2008 09:56:26 +0000 http://wattsupwiththat.wordpress.com/?p=3369#comment-44722 I would guess that there is a big correllation between (1) people who buy into the CAGW hysteria (so they can hate big evil corporations and greedy rich people); and (2) people who blame the financial crisis on big evil corporations and greedy rich people.

Most people here know that the case for CAGW is shockingly flimsy. I would submit that part of the reason CAGW has gained so much traction (notwithstanding the lack of evidentiary support) is that it confirms the worldview of people who hate big corporations, wealth, the USA, etc.

]]> By: KlausB http://wattsupwiththat.com/2008/09/30/quote-of-the-week/#comment-44701 Wed, 01 Oct 2008 06:30:25 +0000 http://wattsupwiththat.wordpress.com/?p=3369#comment-44701 Bailout: Main Street’s message to Wall Street & Washington…

We don’t believe you.

Not a single word you say.

Why?

Do the words “read my lips – no new taxes” ring a bell?

We didn’t believe you when you said – “the credit crisis is well contained.”

We didn’t believe you when you said – “the worst is now behind us.”

We didn’t believe you when you told us the bill would be – “$150 billion.”

We didn’t believe you then and we don’t believe you now.

How dare you trot out a bumbling, stumbling, stuttering, slickster like the former CEO of Goldman Sachs who personally profited to the tune of a $700 Million Dollar personal fortune by sending our jobs to China so some fat cat Wall Street CEO could double the value of his stock options, grab some lobbyist created tax credits, and drop .09 cents to his bottom line.

Not to mention that he, his former firm, and his ilk, were the ones who created and profited from dumping all this toxic Wall Street paper on Main Street in the first place!

Any coincidence that Paulson tried to “bum rush” us into a bailout, right after Goldman Sachs started to collapse?

Bear Stearns – no problem.
Fannie & Freddie – no problem.
Lehman Brothers – no problem.
Merrill Lynch – no problem.
WAMU – no problem.
Goldman? – problem.

We all know there are no coincidences on Wall Street.

And now you want to keep your $40 million dollar apartment in Manhattan, your $10 million dollar vacation home in the Hampton’s, and the windfall profits you sucked out of America, just before you collapse it?

You want us to bail you out of bankruptcy, right before you send us (and America) into it?

You want bankruptcy reform for you – after you locked us into serfdom with the bankruptcy reform act of 2005 – right at the peak of the credit, and housing bubble?

You want a bailout – AFTER you locked us, our children, and America into debtors prison?

Relief, reform, and a bailout for you… and the bill & debtors prison for us?

You must really think we’re a bunch of chumps.

Well guess what Wall Street & Washington, while “this sucka may go down” this time YOU’RE going down with us.

Sincerely,
Main Street

]]> By: old construstion worker http://wattsupwiththat.com/2008/09/30/quote-of-the-week/#comment-44679 Wed, 01 Oct 2008 04:59:06 +0000 http://wattsupwiththat.wordpress.com/?p=3369#comment-44679 derivatives – There are two sides of a trade. Somebody made a boatload of money.

Lehman Bros. got passed over for bailout – No body wanted Lehman Bros – They were on the wrong side of the market (maybe the carbon market) and didn’t have the capital to make good their gamble.

BTW Their computer model told them they couldn’t LOOSE.

]]> By: David Segesta http://wattsupwiththat.com/2008/09/30/quote-of-the-week/#comment-44593 Wed, 01 Oct 2008 00:13:38 +0000 http://wattsupwiththat.wordpress.com/?p=3369#comment-44593 “Paul (12:16:11) :

David Segesta Said:
This is from a British paper. Its making it much easier to understand why our founders kicked the Brits out of our country.

Any room for a Brit who’s a little tired of Brittain over there? :)”

That would be fine by me. :)

]]> By: David Segesta http://wattsupwiththat.com/2008/09/30/quote-of-the-week/#comment-44587 Wed, 01 Oct 2008 00:01:12 +0000 http://wattsupwiththat.wordpress.com/?p=3369#comment-44587 “Ed Scott (14:58:59) :

David Segesta (11:12:48) :

What is your suggestion for ridding ourselves of Algore and the UN?”

Most of the American people are asleep at the switch. As long as that is the case no solution is possible. However, given enough time Al Gore and the UN will succeed in shutting down the country. When that happens people may wake up… maybe.

Until then don’t vote for the Rs or the Ds.

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