Whoo boy. Maybe he just better stick to bottled water ranting, because he’s now 0-2 for climate and political commentary. Cue the America’s Dumbest Criminals theme intro.
Here’s the tweet the link to the image (image link – which he has already deleted):
Irony? Coincidence? When I downloaded the NYTimes Eastwood convention story, the ad on the page was about dementia. http://twitter.com/PeterGleick/status/241601815081259009/photo/1pic.twitter.com/rANnHafU
Gleick thinks he’s pretty smart, in that Wile E. Coyote sort of way…until Lucia Liljegren comes along with a line worthy of Eastwood himself:
Lucia, you just made my day!
h/t to Tom Nelson
Priceless
Ha! It may my day too. Brilliant retort from Lucia!
Delicious, Gleick is a nugget alright and a priceless one at that.
The man is obviously a total [snip], dementia is not something to be mocked; it is a cruel, terminal, illness that is incurable.
Brilliant! Like so many narcissistic people, Ol’ Gleick is blissfully unaware of how vainglorious he actually is. Haughty indifference reigns.
Lucia and Anthony stop making fun of somebody feeble of mind!
Made my day.
great retort
100% agree with Mr Harding. Gleick should be ashamed of that tweet. True colours shining through at last.
Gleick is currently winning the vote for ‘Climate Prat of the Year’ on Pointman’s site. I would say this probably clinches it!
Well done Lucia – oh to be that quick witted myself!
Gleick forgets that when you point a finger at someone and look down at your hand you have three pointing back at yourself. It works just the same for mockery as it does for blame.
Stand on the worlds stage and you make yourself a target – Clint Eastwood, a veteran performer – knows this and is prepared to be mocked for his cause. Gleick is happy to dish it out but can’t take it and has to remove the comment lest all the world sees it (as he intended).
Gleick will get a prize this year for his contribution to climate science:
And the contenders for greatest contribution to Climate Science this year are
Peter Gleick …. for showing the true nature of climate science.
and
Svensmark, Martin Enghoff and Jens Olaf Pedersen for their paper: “Response of Cloud Condensation Nuclei (> 50 nm) to changes in ion-nucleation“
…
And the prize for worst contribution … there’s only one contender. Who could that possibly be?
http://scef.org.uk/opinion/john-harrison-award
[link editted ~ac]
On the heels of Gleickgate, a lot of people think Gleick is probably an idiot. Why does he feel the urgent need to remove all doubt of it?
andrewmharding says:
September 1, 2012 at 12:57
I totally agree with Mr Harding.
Gleick is not just a thief and a fraudster he now shows himself to be a nasty vicious, spiteful [snip]. My father, who WAS a genius, died after ten years of dementia.
Ivor Ward
Gleick really is a sorry piece of work — and those who decided to support his lying to the Heartland Institute go into the same can, as far as I am concerned.
These people serially display a total lack of integrity, and then act surprised when nobody believes their alarmist pronouncements on climate.
What a fantastic retort – certainly made my Sat morning! :0)
I care for my mother 24*7. She is 98 and has advanced dementia. She needs a lot of help.
But she is still less sick in her mind than Peter Gleick.
Pardon my French, but: Absolutely f'<X!¬g PERFECT response! And so much more intelligent than Gleick's crass remark. Go Lucia!
more humour in the East Anglia news:
1 Sept: East Anglia Daily Times: Matt Hunter: Eye: Wind Turbines rejected over bat concerns
Mid Suffolk District Council officers had recommended the application for the wind turbines in Kings Farm, Cranley Road, Eye for approval.
But the chairman of the planning referrals committee, councillor Stuart Gemmill said the council had decided to change the application’s recommendation to refusal, after there were concerns that an ecological survey had not been carried out and there were worries about the effect the turbines could have on a bat colony. The joint owner of Kings Farm, Sheila Havers, said she only found out about the council’s change of position when she arrived at the meeting.
She said: “I think it’s bad that something is going for recommendation and then I find out it is going to be refused – they can change their minds like that.”
Mrs Havers said she thought the plans had gone to the referrals committee because of concerns, which were later quashed, that noise from the turbines could affect dogs at the boarding kennels business at the farm.
“They were going to discuss the kennels but by the time I had got there it was the bat issue. I have never been to a council meeting before and I can understand why.”…
But Mrs Havers said that although there had been a colony of bats on the 250-acre farm a few years ago they had now disappeared…
http://www.eadt.co.uk/news/eye_wind_turbines_rejected_over_bat_concerns_1_1501450
It just proves that education does not always equate to wisdom, Gleick comes over as a rather foolish and bitter person. A common trait amongst Warmists…
more battiness:
31 Aug: GazetteXtra: AP: Federal effort focuses on bats, Wisconsin wind turbines
MADISON—Federal wildlife officials are asking the public to weigh in on ways to protect birds and bats from wind turbines in Wisconsin and elsewhere…
Department spokeswoman Georgia Parham says one solution could be to have wind-energy companies change how they operate turbines. That could include slowing the turbines when bats are near or birds are in a migration pattern.
Another solution could be not to locate wind-energy projects in areas frequented by endangered birds and bats…
http://gazettextra.com/weblogs/latest-news/2012/aug/31/federal-effort-focuses-bats-wisconsin-wind-turbine/
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Hey Gleick [snip], want to know how a true human being acts.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Pratchett
Then again your just a spiteful little man. Learn something [snip].
http://alzheimers.org.uk/site/scripts/news_article.php?newsID=1025
I wish I’d thought of that.
Excellent!
Seen this before
http://world.topnewstoday.org/world/article/2923771/
“Prezza’s ’embarrassing own goal’: Former deputy PM accuses Tory of advertising Thai Brides… but MP points out adverts are based on visitors’ previous browser use”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthcomment/3324135/John-Prescott-environment-heavyweight.html
“Climate Prat of the Year” — thx for the ref. A Lovell! Great stuff.
Could you send a pointman link?
Maybe another word would be better for some, as “prat” is not widely used in N. America.
Anthony could highlight the contest, with the top ten announced on 31 December 2012.
Kurt in Switzerland