Josh writes:
Dana said in a tweet that I don’t ‘put any intelligent thought’ in my cartoons, see screen shot below. I guess that means he thinks they are clever! I will take that as a compliment.
Worth repeating from this post.
The prominent climatologist Mike Hulme has slammed the Cook et al 97% “nonsensus” paper in a comment at the Nottingham University Making Science Public blog.
The blog post at Nottingham University and the subsequent comments are well worth reading.
Josh
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What with both Mike Hulme and our Gav starting to “deny” CAGW soon it will only be the pathetic camp followers who believe in the bullshit. Those who earn their living out of the scam will be long gone before the last of the tail enders leave the crease. (Sorry – cricket analogy..)
I wonder if he works with a conscience, or, has a conscience spending his pay-cheque?
I’ve just had the thought that maybe Mike (Hulme – not the other (self snipped ad hom…)) and our Gav would deny that they deny CAGW. Denial squared? Is that a double negative?
It’s not just the “Oil & Gas” division that TetraTech has – from their 2012 Annual Report comes this proud declaration of the work done by the “Engineering and Consulting Services (“ECS”)” division:
“Arctic Engineering: We provide consulting and construction services to owners of transportation, mining, energy and community infrastructure in the circumpolar region, which includes the Arctic and areas of permafrost around the globe. In this extreme environment where temperatures can drop below -50C (-58F), we provide adaptive engineering and scientific services that reach beyond traditional approaches. We are one of the few firms that are capable of providing full life cycle services for northern development. We offer these arctic engineering services during all project phases: exploration and project planning; feasibility studies, design and permitting; engineering, procurement and construction management (“EPCM”), and construction; and operation, decommissioning and reclamation.”
So this environmentalist works for a company that actively enables others to perform Arctic exploration and exploitation?
Payday over principles, methinks.
“We support oil and gas exploration and production, gathering pipelines, transmission pipelines, compressor/pumping stations, processing facilities, refineries, storage facilities (above ground and below ground), and rail, truck, and marine terminal import and export facilities.”
http://www.tetratech.com/markets/oil-a-gas.html#sthash.xqXPc8ah.dpuf
Simple fact is that he gets his check from this company.
O/T contender for Friday funny has to be man made, climate change creates cannibal lobsters http://io9.com/off-the-coast-of-maine-lobsters-are-becoming-cannibals-916343979
Let’s face it, Cook et al is such a load of horsefeathers that any scientist with the remotest sense of self-preservation would distance themselves from it. As for Dana, he is indulging in arm’s length exploitation of natural resources to pay the bills, justified in much the same way as Gore’s carbon footprint.
If you (Cook) are planning the media blitz and marketing of the 97% consensus project – WHILST you are analysing the papers. Just a tiny chance a bit of confirmation bias might slip in for the end result….(/sarc off)
“To achieve this goal, we mustn’t fall into the trap of spending too much time on analysis and too little time on promotion. As we do the analysis, would be good to have the marketing plan percolating along as well.” – John Cook
http://www.populartechnology.net/2013/06/cooks-97-consensus-study-game-plan.html
Ari Jokimaki responded to Cook,
“I have to say that I find this planning of huge marketing strategies somewhat strange when we don’t even have our results in and the research subject is not that revolutionary either (just summarizing existing research).” – Ari Jokimäki
Lol. The fact that you dont find a thought in something doesn’t mean it’s dumb. Around here we call that “watching the movie backwards”.
Diana’s right. It isn’t funny.
Margaret, now that ‘s funny!
Margaret Hardman says:
July 26, 2013 at 10:22 am
Diana’s right. It isn’t funny.
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Who’s Diana?
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Are you ripping on the gender ambiguity of Dana’s name while complaining about another joke to make your joke more subtle and ironic, or am I finding deep meaning in random tea leaves again? ‘Cause I do that sometimes…
Predictive texting I’m afraid. But it shows a machine can make a funnier comment than I can.
Margaret Hardman says:
July 26, 2013 at 10:55 am
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🙂 My phone has caused me to accidentally text some real doozies too.
I thought lobsters were cannibals before climate change made the news.
Dana has stronger ties to big oil than Anthony does. He shouldn’t expect those catcalls to go away anytime soon.
The TREEHUT BOYS, lol, excellent cartoon, as usual, Josh. Love how little Purple Boy (with pink shoes, lol, that’s the Nut for sure) and Green Shirt Lad have mismatched their socks in exactly the same way and are trudging in lock step for the door, comrades to the end… .
LOL, dolts like Dana Diana, fo-fanna banana —- Daaay-naaah! wouldn’t recognize an “intelligent thought” if it walked up and handed them a check for $2,000 (half the big D’s likely monthly pay). They’d say dreamily, “Thanks, whoever you are, from a faraway land, I’ll take it!”
Yes, Josh, get your facts straight, will you? He works for a company a BRANCH of which works in oil and gas, with which he has nothing to do with. Because that makes all the difference in the world. Lol. Methinks he doth protesteth too much.
Considering how “they” go out of their way to tar anyone who ever made a phone call to, or got a small grant from a corporation as in the pay of big oil, it is certainly fair to say he works in that industry.
Hulme not happy with the 97% propaganda.
Wants propaganda that is better constructed.
“[Josh’s] eye begets occasion for his wit,
For every object that the one doth catch
The other turns to a mirth-moving jest.”
[William Shakespeare, Rosaline, in Love’s Labor’s Lost, act 2, sc. 1, l. 69-71]
“We should take care not to make the [bare] intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.”
Albert Einstein [Out of My Later Life, chapter 51 (1950)]
And, of course, it takes wit to appreciate wit.
DirkH says at July 26, 2013 at 12:07 pm
Just highlighting a very pertinent observation.
Kudos. Spot on.
I was waiting for the hiker to see a wind farm..vermont and maine have gone nuts.sad but true. Go to maine wind site and sign a partition against this…..15% capacity, nuts…
Great, Josh!!
I Noticed the knuckles of the one on the left. “Knuckledragger” comes to mind.
For Dana to say they only have a branch that’s involved in gas & oil is well……some might say it’s a stretch of the truth. I, on the other hand, would call it a bald face lie.
Let’s take a look at what Tetra themselves say they do.
http://www.tetratec.com/
“Since 1981, TETRA Technologies, Inc. has been supplying high quality products and services to the oil and gas industry. We offer a comprehensive range of products and services that span the life of a well—from drilling and completion related offerings, through workovers and well ehnancement services, to plugging and abandoning wells and decommissioning platforms.
TETRA is a leading worldwide supplier of calcium chloride, not only to the oil and gas industry, but to other markets for applications in agriculture, deicing, dust control, food production, manufacturing, redi-mix concrete, road stabilization and water purification. Because we manufacture the base components—calcium chloride, as well as calcium bromide, sodium bromide, and zinc bromide—we have extensive product knowledge about these clear brine fluids and their wide variety of applications.”
In case you believe that second paragraph is Dana’s way out, you should look at how Tetra defines their Fluids & Filtration business segment.
“Fluids and Filtration
TETRA Technologies, Inc. was a pioneer in the use of clear brine fluids for well completions, workovers, and drilling operations, and the Company has continued to be an innovator in the industry. Since 1981, TETRA has worked to develop new and more technically advanced products to meet the ever changing needs of our customers. All segments of our fluids operation—from manufacturing the base products to technical planning and support—work in concert to provide an integrated solution for our energy industry customers.”
It goes on from there. I find nothing in Tetra’s description of it’s products and services that make it look like they are anything but a company that supports the pretrochemical industry as their mainstay.
Dana has now taken to censoring my comments, which on topic, non-inflammatory, but disagreed with dana’s latest article http://tinyurl.com/peu3r9s i have a screen cap