Back when MIT showcased this hi-tech wonder, few thought it could be improved upon.
They were wrong.
Kudos to Les Clay for this effort, and thanks for the chuckles.
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If this were Facebook, I’d type ROTFLMAO (so consider it typed). And they do so *hate being made fun of, don’t they. Brilliant.
Have you realised yet that you missed the point of that “wheel of climate”? You said “The only media visual they could have chosen that would send a worse message of forecast certainty was a dart board”. A message of forecast certainty was exactly the opposite of what they wanted to convey.
Climate predictions cover a range of possibilities. However, you should have noticed that the chunk of the wheel showing a temperature rise of less than 3°C is very small.
Glad to see that the MIT prototype has been developed further… I just hope MIT are receiving some hefty patent royalties so they can continue their earth shattering research…
Ha. While Boxer would be re-energized by this latest “climate disruption” development, it appears many of her cohorts and ex-cohorts are having second thoughts!
love the ending!
Excellent!
Brilliant – ROTFLMAO? Splitting my sides as well.
Greenstrifes dream world a la Fred Flintstone!
They believe they are improving upon it all the time and are pushing the “Educated Idiot” system rather than reseaching and correcting their mistakes.
What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries of serious arguments, and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the ringing death-knell of a laugh! ~Agnes Repplier
A bit off topic,
Quake Britain: UK overdue a massive tremor that could kill scores of people at any moment, warn experts
Britain is overdue a killer earthquake that could see up to 100 people crushed to death, a leading geologist has warned.
Dr Roger Musson of the British Geological Survey believes a fracture in the earth’s crust beneath the English Channel could slip at any time, sending a tremor rippling across the south east.
The same fault was to blame for one of Britain’s biggest earthquakes in the last 500 years – a magnitude 6 quake that killed TWO children in London in 1580.
This earthquake could certainly happen again because even the earthquake of 1580 itself was a repeat of a previous earthquake that occurred in 1382 with almost the same epicentre, almost the same size and almost the same results.
Did they use tree rings as a proxi for magnitude.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1312608/UK-overdue-earthquake-kill-scores-people-moment.html#ixzz0zmuJMtUl
Just look at the serious expressions on those faces. These are the best and the brightest we have to offer and they mean BUSINESS!
OT: But, I’ve noticed my Google Earth now has a layer called “Global Awareness”. Is this new? It links to Greenpeace, WWF, UNEP and so on. I know Google has a lot of money invested in global warming but is this sort of advocacy in a geography tool really necessary?
Actually these guys are ‘closet sceptics’, they need their grants for doing ‘hush hush’ secret research into ‘proper science’ of the natural climatic oscillations. Occasionally they need to come up with something to please AGW lobby, hence these incredible temperature rise projections that only fool would take seriously.
Grand work boys!
Les Clay thunked that one up real good. Not sure that coconut shell telephones are truly zero carbon foot-print though.
Please excuse the ill manners of copying an OT comment from Tips & Notes here.
However, it certainly warrants consideration for a Friday Funny.
Keith Battye found
http://www.alternet.org/story/148183/how_to_have_sex_that%27s_good_for_you_and_the_planet
For example, coconut oil and other GMO-free and sustainably harvested sources are a natural antibacterial that is good to your skin and can be used as lotion or as lube. As for your vibrator, see if it runs on batteries that are rechargeable? Or consider a solar powered one or a glass wand that gets the job done with a resounding, more carbon-neutral, “Yes!”
I never knew there was a solar powered vibrator. Daytime, outdoor use only.
Very very funny, but the current administration is currently following the AGW plan. The droughts, floods, ice melting, CO2 rising, energy price skyrocketing and hand ringing that its all your fault and we are in charge continues. Certainly a tax increase and some regulation will fix everything. In fact “NOAA understands and predicts changes in the Earth’s environment, from the depths of the oceans to surface of the sun, and conserves and manages our coastal and marine resources.” with all of that knowledge and with Lisa Jackson’s EPA and Holdren’s de-development how could they miss!
Now that was worth the 30 min download.
I also like the WUWT plug.
The funniest part was when the reporter asked him to explain the apparent contradiction in the two predictions, and the scientists trotted out the familiar “I could explain it but only an intelligent climate scientist like myself could understand. . . ”
Not sure I agree with the part about them having zero carbon footprints though – like all elititists they will seek to deny others before denying themselves.
My seaweed tells a different story.
While we’re on a lighter note…
The climate’s changing, heating fast,
the science settled now at last,
so heed our science warning-
just how much can a polar bear?
It’s dreaded global warming!
And then we hear it’s all a sham
from sceptics far and wide,
it could be caused by sunspots;
but they are just a guide.
Cosmic rays are something else
to factor in, of course.
And then there’s clouds and moisture
and the axis changing course.
But they persist a CO2 event is coming near,
it really is a poisonous gas
not plant food – and it’s clear
that the best way to control the mass
is good old fashioned fear.
There’s money to be made
and power to be had,
if they convince the populace
that sceptics are all mad.
Tim
Maybe this also belongs here. I don’t understand the basics well enough but it sounds unreasonable to me.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/sep/16/david-wendell-foam-earth-awards
Ya’ll see what can be done without a government grant? Now that’s AGW/CAGW/CACC/Anthropogenic Climate Disruption communication at its finest. AAAS should take note.
Brilliant!
Great stuff! Made me laugh anyway.
I see the BBC South-West (Cornwall/Devon/Somerset/Dorset) is running a “Wild Weather”, by respected presenter & Meteorologist David Brayne (not sure I’ve spelt his name right). I don’t know if this is repeated similarly throughout the BBC regional broadcasts, but is does have some interesting information, but of course they have to put CC in there somewhere, starting with historic CC moving on to AGW! At least DB does say that although evidence is overwhelming that the world is warming, the most contentious issue is whether man is responsible. Enter a Paleoclimatolost who states, standing in front of cliffs 93 million years old, that there was evidence of vegetation growing near the north pole, atmoshperic CO2 was 7 times todays level, & that sea levels were some 400m above where they stood, & we’ve been buring fossil fuels for 100 years! No mention of the break up of Pangea in full swing. No mention that the sedimentary rock face behind were at a jaunty angle possibly as the result of lifting of the crust from below. No mention that ice-ages occurred during the last half-billion years despite higher CO2 levels. I thought we’d been buring “fossil” fuels for 250 years!I could go on. Despite the obvious (IMHO) effort to keep AGW/CC to the fore linked in with weather facts, would viewers not pick upon the higher sea-levels & warmer temperatures in the geological past? Trust the BBC to bang on about negative effects of Global Warming, in fact I can honestly say that I have never heard anybody from Auntie Beeb say things like, “of course more CO2 will encourage better plant growth, reduce the need for extensive irrigation, provide a longer growing season to produce food for a growing population, reduce the need for artificial warmth in some regions”! They should stick to their pints of beer, champagne, sparkling wine, diet cokes, soda, Fanta, 7-up, etc., & forget all about CO2!
Any further developments on recent revelations elsewhere that Oil may not in fact be a fossil fuel, according to Russian researchers, but is in fact a mineral based fuel, or was it posted on 1st April? If it was true that’s a whole new ball game! I have read some years ago that oil can be synthesised, suggesting that one didn’t need to wait for tens of millions of years for decaying creatures to turn into oil!
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It’d be a helluva lot funnier if it didn’t so thoroughly reproduce precisely what I’ve been seeing on every lamestream media channel on television for the past ten years.
Anybody else spend their college years stepping carefully over the drunken inert bodies of Journalism majors scattered across the dormitory floors?
I mean, what the hell else were we entitled to expect of these guys once they’d gotten themselves jobs?
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Hey You There!
What do you think about this article?: Say Goodbye to Sunspots?
http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2010/09/say-goodbye-to-sunspots.html