Comments on: Quote of the Week #10 – the future of underwater flaming http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/06/14/quote-of-the-week-10-the-future-of-underwater-flaming/ The world's most viewed site on global warming and climate change Tue, 14 Feb 2012 12:52:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Telboy http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/06/14/quote-of-the-week-10-the-future-of-underwater-flaming/#comment-145373 Wed, 17 Jun 2009 12:02:27 +0000 http://wattsupwiththat.com/?p=8495#comment-145373 Thank you Isabel for putting us straight – we obviously lack your refined sense of humour and completely missed the point. I realise now how funny Kyle Gracey’s blog is. Bottoms up!

]]> By: Isabel Bottoms http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/06/14/quote-of-the-week-10-the-future-of-underwater-flaming/#comment-144941 Tue, 16 Jun 2009 16:16:04 +0000 http://wattsupwiththat.com/?p=8495#comment-144941 You misunderstand his opening sentence. He is not writing literally. He is saying the predominant science shows droughts, heat waves, and sea level rise will be worse in 2050, but trying to be humorous in how he says it.

]]> By: OceanTwo http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/06/14/quote-of-the-week-10-the-future-of-underwater-flaming/#comment-144857 Tue, 16 Jun 2009 12:29:58 +0000 http://wattsupwiththat.com/?p=8495#comment-144857 Smart people who lack common sense? Reminds me of the Far Side cartoon:

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/83/229551714_a5b4f7bc43.jpg

(Best link I could find, perhaps there is better).

]]> By: Keith Minto http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/06/14/quote-of-the-week-10-the-future-of-underwater-flaming/#comment-144742 Tue, 16 Jun 2009 03:39:02 +0000 http://wattsupwiththat.com/?p=8495#comment-144742 It pays to watch the markets for trends in temperature up or down. The Australian ABC
reported that share prices for fertiliser companies retreated by 10% overnight due to late sowing of wheat in the Northern Hemisphere due to cold soil.

]]> By: bikermailman http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/06/14/quote-of-the-week-10-the-future-of-underwater-flaming/#comment-144739 Tue, 16 Jun 2009 03:35:47 +0000 http://wattsupwiththat.com/?p=8495#comment-144739 Mr Galt, you’re much more forgiving than your namesake would be… :)

]]> By: Pat http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/06/14/quote-of-the-week-10-the-future-of-underwater-flaming/#comment-144734 Tue, 16 Jun 2009 03:23:41 +0000 http://wattsupwiththat.com/?p=8495#comment-144734 This is quite early snow, down to 200-400m, lower north island.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/2505467/Snow-closes-SH2-over-Rimutakas

The summit is 550m, at one of the 220 corners along a 13km section of road. It’s bad enough when dry, quite interesting wet, or wet with diesel oil/livestock transport effluent on it, but snow, would be interesting to see with 48tonne logging trucks trecking over the hill.

]]> By: Just The Facts http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/06/14/quote-of-the-week-10-the-future-of-underwater-flaming/#comment-144702 Tue, 16 Jun 2009 01:10:41 +0000 http://wattsupwiththat.com/?p=8495#comment-144702 This article is from Anorak News, a bit of an offbeat satire news site in the UK.
http://www.anorak.co.uk/media/213435.html
The article offers another good example of effectively communicating skepticism to a mass audience and their reference to WUWT is indicative of the widening influence of this blog.

]]> By: DaveE http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/06/14/quote-of-the-week-10-the-future-of-underwater-flaming/#comment-144620 Mon, 15 Jun 2009 19:48:03 +0000 http://wattsupwiththat.com/?p=8495#comment-144620 Nasif Nahle (20:14:19) :

Even so, I’m not worried… The Sun is spotless anyway. ;)

OK, OWN UP! WHO WASHED THE SUN?

DaveE.

]]> By: DaveE http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/06/14/quote-of-the-week-10-the-future-of-underwater-flaming/#comment-144607 Mon, 15 Jun 2009 19:12:36 +0000 http://wattsupwiththat.com/?p=8495#comment-144607 Robert Wood (13:52:49) :

Hansen a Scientologist!! I like that.

I thought he was an astronomer but I’m equally sure it’s misspelt, surely there’s a ‘g’ & an ‘l’ in there someplace :-D

DaveE

]]> By: Mark Bowlin http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/06/14/quote-of-the-week-10-the-future-of-underwater-flaming/#comment-144556 Mon, 15 Jun 2009 16:01:47 +0000 http://wattsupwiththat.com/?p=8495#comment-144556 Graeme Rodaughan (20:31:20) :

Hmmm… I see an upswing in the market by 2050 for,

[1] Tin Foil Hats to keep out the boiling Solar rays…

Kind of like the radiant barrier we want for our house….as noted above, Texas in summertime is HOT – even in the perfect climate years of gore, er, yore.

]]> By: John Galt http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/06/14/quote-of-the-week-10-the-future-of-underwater-flaming/#comment-144549 Mon, 15 Jun 2009 15:47:26 +0000 http://wattsupwiththat.com/?p=8495#comment-144549 Let’s give ol’ Kyle a bit of a break, OK?

Imagine you had spent your entire life being fed nothing but propaganda and junk science. All opposing view points and all opposing scientific studies are squashed, ridiculed and/or never published in the mainstream media. Anything skeptical of the party line dismissed without even a thought. Any deviance from ideological purity not tolerated by one’s peers.

What would your world view be in that case?

]]> By: P Walker http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/06/14/quote-of-the-week-10-the-future-of-underwater-flaming/#comment-144537 Mon, 15 Jun 2009 14:57:42 +0000 http://wattsupwiththat.com/?p=8495#comment-144537 Actually , smoked mullet is mighty fine .

]]> By: Adolfo Giurfa http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/06/14/quote-of-the-week-10-the-future-of-underwater-flaming/#comment-144530 Mon, 15 Jun 2009 14:28:07 +0000 http://wattsupwiththat.com/?p=8495#comment-144530 FerdinandAkin (03:31:17) : In 2050, I’ll be 77, and given the pace of the climate talks in Bonn these two weeks, I’ll likely spend most of my retirement either under water or on fire
You are young enough to witness the next “turn of the screw”, and, as always, it won’t fulfill the expectations of those who think they can manage the world… The world, instead, manages them. It is the guess of many (among others Timo Niroma:
http://personal.inet.fi/tiede/tilmari/sunspot5.html#some200 )
that along with each minimum, with each sun induced climate change, there is also a social/history change. A kind of y=sin x law, a real “turn of the screw”…so enjoy it!

]]> By: John W. http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/06/14/quote-of-the-week-10-the-future-of-underwater-flaming/#comment-144515 Mon, 15 Jun 2009 13:45:57 +0000 http://wattsupwiththat.com/?p=8495#comment-144515 Johnnyb (21:36:48) :

“He only employs his passion who can make no use of reason”-Cicero

Here’s another from Cicero (paraphrased): If the facts support you, attack your opponent’s facts. If the facts oppose you, attack your opponent.

Sound familiar?

]]> By: wws http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/06/14/quote-of-the-week-10-the-future-of-underwater-flaming/#comment-144493 Mon, 15 Jun 2009 12:23:07 +0000 http://wattsupwiththat.com/?p=8495#comment-144493 just fyi, dhogaza is a notorious troll on several sites.

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