I’m saying you’re making fun of the way someone talks. But you’re perfect, right? So you get to criticize.

Carry on.

Ah, but maybe we do.

The alternative is the current good ol’ boy system, which has got us into this mess. And keep in mind that accents are difficult to change. Governor Palin speaks the way everyone else speaks in Nebraska, where she grew up.

Also keep in mind that it’s bad form to make fun of someone because of their regional accent.

Saying “nucyuler” has nothing to do with regional accent. I’ve heard people from all over say it that way, and people from all over say it the correct way. Or are you saying the regional accents in Nebraska and Texas are the same?

“And she says “nucyuler”. We don’t need another elected functional illiterate.”

Ah, but maybe we do.

The alternative is the current good ol’ boy system, which has got us into this mess. And keep in mind that accents are difficult to change. Governor Palin speaks the way everyone else speaks in Nebraska, where she grew up.

Also keep in mind that it’s bad form to make fun of someone because of their regional accent.

Please remember that Sir Winston Churchill spoke with a lisp. That would be more objectionable to you, I’m sure. You could have really made fun of him!

Immediately after taking office he removed the solar elecricity rebate scheme brought in by the previous govt. A measure which proably would have had the biggest impact on reducing CO2 if continued and expanded. This demonstrates his true belief on AGW.

As George Orwell quotes
“Power Corrupts, and Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely….”

How much money will Kevin (et al) make from all this false propoganda. And how long will the (farting) sheep follow….?

” This pattern also seems to have occurred quite a few times back in the LIA – extreme swings from bitterly cold winters to summer heatwaves. Interesting.”

There does seem to be a coincidence of warm or hot summers and cold, harsh winters.

The only reason I can think of offhand is “increased meridional flow,” but there’s probably much more too it than that. Over most of the US this summer we had very persistent subtropical high pressure – new record for consecutive 90 degree days in the Denver area.

The 70s were notorious for cold winters, but there were also hot summers. Anyone in the UK old enough to remember the summer of ‘76 will never forget it – bubbles forming in the hot asphalt…

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1976_United_Kingdom_heat_wave

Some Greens might see these last items as Global Warming benefits – fewer pesky humans due to tiger predation, and another meat item off the menu.

BTW, re famous winters of the recent past, I recommend a book called Frozen In Time, by Ian McCaskill and Paul Hudson – basically a fascinating and sobering account of the impact of the winters of 1947, 1963 and 1979 in the UK.

Incidentally, following the great snow of 1947, and the floods caused by the thaw, there was “one of the hottest and most prolonged drought summers on record”. This pattern also seems to have occurred quite a few times back in the LIA – extreme swings from bitterly cold winters to summer heatwaves. Interesting.

http://www.numberwatch.co.uk/warmlist.htm

has been updated to include Deaf Polar Bears

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2008/09/30/bs-alert-polar-bear-hearing-affected-to-due-global-warming/

general health risks, a surge in legionnaires disease, an increase in tigers eating people, and, worst of all, a threat to Haggis

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/highlands_and_islands/7648481.stm

That’s right, there might not be enough sheep’s lung to make Haggis, because of global warming.

“Though disapproved of by many, pronunciations ending in \\-kyə-lər\\ have been found in widespread use among educated speakers including scientists, lawyers, professors, congressmen, United States cabinet members, and at least two United States presidents and one vice president. While most common in the United States, these pronunciations have also been heard from British and Canadian speakers.”

It is most common away from the US East coast. In part, this is probably because it was the version actually taught in private schools through the 1980s on the Pacific coast.

Conform if you so desire. But it is hardly a sign of “Functional Illiteracy.”

I see Jeff Albert is this blog’s resident [snip]. So pronouncing a word differently from the way that you may pronounce it is being functionally illiterate, and more damning for you, than saying, no pronouncing, that an incredibly complicated system such as climate change is all man made? Yikes. Or maybe you were being sarcastic? Please say you were.

Wow, you put a lot of words into my mouth. I made zero comment on either VP candidate’s AGW leanings. I merely said she can’t pronounce “nuclear”, which is a very simple word to pronounce, yet so many people seem to have a problem with it. It’s not a matter of it being different from the way I “may pronounce it”, but from the way the word is spelled and the legitimate pronunciation, either in UK or American English.

FYI, my last name is Alberts, not Albert. If you can’t figure that out, just call me Jeff. Meanwhile, I’ll think up some really cool things for the letters “RFN”.

Note: It seems this is the first time you have posted here, so this is a friendly FYI that ad hominem attacks at fellow commentators are unwelcome. – Anne

I laughed like a drain.

It really is ironical! For a change, the headline is almost spot on. But alas! not for the reasons that I imagine the author had in mind when s/he penned the line.
Climate change WILL haunt humanity forever….and ever….and ever….and…
Get used to it! As I have read somewhere or other – you might just as well try to stop the clouds from scudding across the sky as ’stop climate’.

Of course, this brings to mind the old Halloween song:

“I was working in my lab, late one night;
When my eyes beheld an eerie sight…”

Two ways to contact your representives and let them know you do not support the additions to the bailout bill. Its about time we educated some of our lawmakers, dont ya think? I cant watch either of the house or senate feeds without hearing someone use the term ‘global warming’ I guess no one told them its been changed to climate change…

Don’t get me started on the goddamn Stern goddamn Review . . .

(The best thing I can say about it is that I’m getting paid to rip it to shreds.)

We don’t need another elected functional illiterate…

As an expatriate exile of the “ivy-league intellectual class” (Columbia U., MA in Ashamed of American History) I would FAR rather have mostly correct policies from a sensible, reasonably intelligent man who splits his infinitives than a whacked-out Plato’s Republic vision of a hI-Q boob with intellectual pretensions. What we don’t need is a 180-IQ genius like Carter.

Oh my goodness gracious me. I am listening to the debate between Governor Palin and Senator Biden. The latter has just said climate change is “all man-made”, “we know the cause”, “all man-made”.

And she says “nucyuler”. We don’t need another elected functional illiterate…

Remind me never to get on your bad side. I would, no doubt, fold like a cheap card table.

And evanjones : “As for Australia, if its polity can sell out to AGW with the record of SH cooling . . .”

Yes, interesting that nobody talks about that half of the world.