Marc Morano writes:
CBS This Morning featured a futurist who promotes paranormal phenomena like ‘telepathy, telekinesis and mind reading’ as climate expert during its February 13 broadcast. CBS only identified physicist Michio Kaku as a New York City College professor, with no mention of his special abilities. See: CBS Blames Global Warming for Harsh Winter Weather: Prof. Michio Kaku: ‘Excess heat generated by all this warm water is destabilizing this gigantic bucket of cold air….So that’s the irony, that heating could cause gigantic storms of historic proportions’
Kaku’s website (http://mkaku.org/home/) promotes his book: “THE FUTURE OF THE MIND: The scientific quest to understand, enhance, and empower the mind.” And his quest to promote: “Telepathy. Telekinesis. Mind reading. Photographing a dream. Uploading memories. Mentally controlled robots.”
Kaku claims all of “these feats” have already been achieved. “These feats, once considered science fiction, have now been achieved in the laboratory, as documented in THE FUTURE OF THE MIND,” Kaku’s website declares.
Kaku notes that his “book goes even further, analyzing when one day we might have a complete map of the brain, or a back up Brain 2.0, which may allow scientists to send consciousness throughout the universe.”
Kaku’s global warming comments were not well received by the scientific community:
Meteorologist Dr. Ryan Maue of Weather Bell tweeted on Kaku: He’s ‘like a festering wound on field of meteorology, Michio Kaku says ‘we think’ harsh winter is due to global warming,” Maue wrote.
“Kaku has no effing clue what he is talking about – ‘unstable jet stream’ — huh? How could someone supposedly so learned sound so doltish?,” Maue asked on Feburary 13, 2014.
“Must apologize to Bill Nye — he is now number 2 most egregious butcher of meteorology and climate science. New rankings come out weekly,” Maue quipped.
Houston Chronicle climate reporter Eric Berger joined in the Kaku bashing, noting Kaku is “a physicist (and not a well-regarded one among his peers) not an atmospheric scientist.”
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Dear Anthony,
did you notice this?
http://notrickszone.com/2014/02/14/the-real-motivation-behind-prp-journal-shutdown-exposed-it-challenged-ipcc-science/
Kaku’s kookoo is kaka…krazy…
Now that the MSM is hitting the walls, the nuts and kooks are out….
I guess mind control that he mentions is about right – the greens and melons want to control our minds so we’ll pay for their folly, but as I noted above, I think the MSM might actually be starting to slow down….can only hope….
I saw the interview….and laughed!
Lolz…someone should point him towards James Randi…
Kaku is hardly cuckoo. He built a particle accelerator is his mom’s basement as a young lad, and is one of the co-authors of superstring theory.
I have a few of his books and his ability to communicate the principles and theories of quantum mechanics is excellent.
The issue is that he is a great THEORETICIAN, not meteorologist or geologist.
REPLY: I built a 15 Mev cyclotron in 1975 (powered by my dad’s welder) and went to the National Science Fair with it, but I don’t espouse mind control or telekinetics. I stay rooted in real things. – Anthony
Steve, that you are clever is no protection against being crazy. Kaku is clever and crazy.
Coming soon, a new paper by Cook, Kaku and Lewandowsky – “Thinking skeptically causes CO2 emissions”.
““THE FUTURE OF THE MIND: The scientific quest to understand, enhance, and empower the mind.” And his quest to promote: “Telepathy. Telekinesis. Mind reading. Photographing a dream. Uploading memories.”
That way we will not need to use complete sentences any more.
And we will not need to bother with any kind of rationality, objectivity, or replicability. Everyone will just know.
Let me try this –
A new paradigm. Lots of hits on Youtube. Physicist with long hair. A guru. Visionary, hypnotic art in background. Empowered. Scientific.
I said to Ryan on Twitter that I like Michio Kaku. And I do. I think he thinks like I think people ought to think. He has a great mind. He has interesting ideas and foresight. He appears a clueless clown when it comes to climate and that’s a shame. I don’t know it that’s to do with revenue or ideology but it does not fit with a man who is usually so damn intelligent.
I’m disturbed about WUWT though. Recently there seems to be too much “playing the man and not the ball ”
And to Nicola Scafetta: Jesus man, give it a rest. dead horses don’t usually try to get up and ask for another flogging.
Get rid of him quickly, up here in Canada we let a flake like this guy get away with spouting BS for decades. He bolstered his PhD in fruit fly sex into being consulted for every science question the MSM needs a “watermelon” answer to. He recently gave an “off the cuff” suggestion that the entire west coast of North America may need to be evacuated because of Fukishima. If America needs a David Suzuki, please take ours, we don’t need or want him anymore.
He seems like a typical warmist to me.
I read his mind, but it was just a “short story”.
When his lips were saying “Mind controlled robot”, his subconscious thought was “Find loopholes for not hot”.
kaku is a regular on broadcast news shows. That does not detract from his ‘credentials’, but does indicate why he was on there regardless of those ‘credentials’.
Funny, isn’t it, that the warmists will grab any sort of “wackjob” ideas by who they describe as a “denier” (see: Nils-Axel Mörner) to smear the whole movement.
Wonder if we’ll see any such attacks here?
steve says:
February 14, 2014 at 11:09 am
…..and is one of the co-authors of superstring theory.
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Note standard model folks spewing coffee and soda at screens….
Among Dr. Cuckoo’s articles are
Here he the climate expert on Hurricane Sandy
Dr. Kack is the cuckoo on steroids.
This is the character who, when the Cassini probe was making a gravity assist pass by the earth in order to get up speed to go to Saturn, wanted it to be thrown into the sun because there was a one-in-a-million chance the probe might accidentally enter our atmosphere and a further one-in-a-billion chance its plutonium power source might crack open.
steve says:
February 14, 2014 at 11:09 am
I’m pretty sure the members of Insane Clown Posse have authored some pretty important theories themselves. I mean, you can build a particle accelerator with some magnets, right?
If CO2 causes weird weather, but not global warming, that’s not nearly enough on its own to justify CO2’s mitigation. That’s because weird (randomly variable and more extreme) weather won’t extinguish species, melt the polar icecaps, increase forest fires, accelerate sea level rise, or cause long-term droughts or flooding.
Why doesn’t he just control the climate and stop storms with his mind?
I too worry at the play the man comments here. Like the other side has been doing for years.
‘unstable jet stream’ Is it my words?
Kaku is an actor, who promotes his Sci-fi books, he’s not a scientist.
No need to say more.
Telekinesis????
…he did it!
helen says:
February 14, 2014 at 11:43 am
When someone uses their moral/scientific/intellectual credentials to create an air of authority for their (stupid) statements it is perfectly reasonable to point out their personal/pseudo-scientific/wacko failings as a rebuttal. If Kaku wants to provide numbers & evidence, he’s welcome to do so, but as he’s simply tossing out submoronic babble & calling himself a scientist, there is nothing at all unseemly about pointing & lauging at the drooling chickenhead for doing so.