We all know how the warmists like to avoid debating at all costs. In this case, the easily agitated to effervescence – blow your top Romm was aptly represented at a “Drinks and Debate” in Washington, DC by the perfect debate proxy stand in.
Myron Ebell of globalwarming.org explains in his post:
I and several of my CEI colleagues were looking forward to an informal debate late Friday afternoon on energy policy sponsored by McKinsey and Company, the global consulting firm. As part of their “Drinks and Debate” series, McKinsey’s Washington, DC office invited David Kreutzer of the Heritage Foundation and Joe Romm of the Center for American Progress’s Climate Progress blog to make some remarks and then take questions from an audience of around 40 people representing all shades of the political spectrum.
It sounded like a lot of fun because Romm often seems enraged and slightly deranged in his frequent blog posts, but unfortunately Romm cancelled at the last minute. Our host explained that Romm had pulled out without giving a reason and that his side of the debate would be represented by a bottle of Corona Light.
It was still fun: David Kreutzer gave an engaging and stimulating presentation, as he always does, and the bottle of Corona Light proved to be more rational and less misleading than Romm.
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Romm was invited.
Romm chose to take the piss.
Replacement was a bottle of Corona Light.
Sounds about right.
So what was was the bottle’s reaction when you asked it what it was doing to control its own carbon dioxide emissions? Did it froth up, or quiet down and go flat?
Corona is a fitting stand in for Romm as both improve in taste with added lemon.
Excellent choice of stand in.
Here in the UK we have a panel programme called “Have I got News for you” with selected guests answering questions on the news – some years ago an overweight politician dropped out at the last min – and they replaced him with a tub of Lard (animal fat for cooking)
(not sure if “lard” crosses the pond?? – forgive me if it does)
Romm and Cola?
Corona Lite.
Possibly the worst beer in the world.
Romm represented by the worlds worst beer. About right.
Beer typically has a good head on top. Romm… ????
The idea of replying to questions always seems to scare off the warmists.
Romm skipped out on yet another debate? Guess the planet does not need saving today, 😉
A bottle of kronenberg 1664 might have also worked.
One occasionally meets someone who looks 64 but has the mentality of a sixteen year old
pity they didn’t use Coors as well to represent Romm:
COORS + BEER = CO2 + ER-ER + BS
According to ratebeer.com, Olde English 800 3.2 is the worst beer.
Carbonated Drinks science
http://foodscienceproductdevelopment.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/beverage-graph.jpg
appears to be more technically advanced to the
Carbonated Atmosphere science
http://icestories.exploratorium.edu/dispatches/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/measuring_co2_1.jpg
sad to report i heard Corona was all froth and no substance…ah yes a fitting stand in:-)
Seems fair. Doesn’t Romm favor bottle cap & trade? Carbon dioxide sequestration?
Lard crosses the pond, Doug. Only some of us old folks have used it and even older folks have rendered it from the animal (pig).
This should at least make them think …
Just as the derivative f'(x) and second derivative f”(x)can tell you what’s happening with the principal function f(x) so too we can learn from plots of the gradient of the temperature and the trend of that gradient as shown in the yellow line in the plot at the foot of my Home page at http://climate-change-theory.com
There we see an apparent long-term trend which is decreasing slightly in its rate of increase, This fits with the concept of a cyclic pattern with maximum in the 12th century, minimum in the 17th century and future maximum in the 22nd century, minimum in 27th century, roughly anyway.
The plot also shows a very clear shorter cyclic pattern which has obviously been the cause of all the debate. Just take a look at it all and draw your own conclusions. Remember, the plot is not a plot of temperatures but instead it is a plot of the gradients of moving 30 year trend lines.
Fitting since had Romm showed it would have barley made a difference. Kreutzer would have had a slam dunk over Romm because Romm just doesn’t have the hops.
…I’m sorry.
They have obvioulsy never drank Koch’s Golden Anniversary beer.
Isn’t it ridiculous to make a 3.2 malt liqour? The only reason to drink the stuff is to get hammered quickly and cheaply.
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According to ratebeer.com, Olde English 800 3.2 is the worst beer.
Doug UK says:
February 10, 2012 at 1:27 am
I’m afraid it does, apology accepted. We know what haggis is too, but
generally use it in “haggis throw” competitions before Scottish festivals.
Mark Smith says:
February 10, 2012 at 3:03 am
How about “Olde Frothingslosh, the Pale Ale for the Pale Stale Male?” It started as a long-running joke from Pittsburgh radio jockey Regis Cordic about a beer brand “so light, the foam’s on the bottom”. One of the selling points was that it was brewed from hippity-hops on the banks of the Upper Crudney in Lower Slobbovia.”
Iron City beer started canning some of their beer as Olde Frothingslosh during the Christmas season.
Yes, Olde Frothingslosh.
http://www.rustycans.com/HISTORY/oldfroth.html
Sad to report i heard Corona was all froth and no substance We know what haggis is too, but
generally use it in “haggis throw” competitions before Scottish festivals.
“Iron City beer started canning some of their beer as Olde Frothingslosh during the Christmas season.”
Can’t drink any more due to the relization that I have too much Cherokee in the
McCoy woodpile, but an old friend gave me a sixpack of Iron City once never
forgot that…
It is quite extraordinary that from what can be gauged that 99% climate scientist refuse any debates on the issue. I think MOnckton was one of the few to debate a climate scientist once in Australia. LOL
It got me thinking… we need a new beer drinking game, “global warming bingo”. Every time an alarmist is speaking in defense of CAGW and uses a word or phrase commonly associated with perpetuating/defending the hoax you have to take a gulp and circle it on your bingo card. When you get bingo you have to declare it and buy the next round.
We need to start building a list. I’ll start it off with:
** CONSENSUS
** POSITIVE FEEDBACK
** UNPRECEDENTED
** JAMES HANSEN
** TREE RING
** EXTINCTION
** 97%
** DENIER
** EXTREME
** ACIDIFICATION
** CAP AND TRADE
** KOCH BROTHERS
** EXXON
** TOBACCO
** MARSHALL INSTITUTE
** POLLUTION
…..
Good thing he didn’t use a real beer, with cahoonas, such as theakston’s old peculiar he may have stood up rigorous debate.