Climate Schlock: Joe Romm goes for the Herb Tarleck pitch

Yes, but if you throw it from a helicopter.. will it fly?

Which English town is it which is alleged to have been inundated by “sea level rise”? If he’s referring to somewhere in Somerset then the failure of government is to blame in abandoning river dredging, resulting in floods caused by rain (from above, you know) not the sea (lower down, big wet thing). Just wanted to make the point. Conclusion – he’s an idiot. Thank you.

Gotta love the “only 0.06%” of annual growth. By 2100, that’s “only” about 5% of the global economy. Didn’t WGII say that the high end of negative impacts was only in the range of 2%?

“And for a limited time, if you act right away, you can save the planet TWICE!. That’s right – we are including a second opportunity to save the planet AT NO EXTRA CHARGE! Just pay separate shipping and handling.
Offer void where prohibited. Only 97% of respondents will receive this DOUBLE OFFER, so act now!”

As the used car salesmen climate scientists wind-up to a fevered pitch trying to save their cushy jobs, Al Gore has cashed in and left ‘Greentown’ to join in financing the natural gas pipelines. (I wonder if his kiddies protesting Keystone know that.)
Al Gore Walks Away From Green Energy

As the used care salesmen climate scientists disparately try to save their jobs. Al Gore has already abandoned Green Energy for natural gas pipelines. I wonder if his keystone-kiddies know that.

@Mark and two cats, me too…:)

50% off on all Hockey Sticks and Climate Models.
Lost Our Hold On Public Opinion. Everything must go.
Science NOT Settled. Going out of Business Sale!

Well at least it’s out in the open now.
I’ve been saying for some time in comments that all this “we must act now” crap is just basic sales technique: create urgency.
It’s even more urgent because the longer pause continues and the more the models diverge from reality the less credible the whole game becomes.
So thanks to Joe Romm for making it even clearer what a bunch used car salesmen they all are.

So then. Who plays Les Nessman doing the Climate Report?

Careful of trashing Herb Tarleck! He is almost single-handedly responsible for adding “No Problemo” into the American vernacular…

Those buyers who bought in early to the act now on this limited time urgent ‘save the earth’ offer advertised in the ‘exaggerationist’ CAGW assessments of the IPCC now have some buyer’s remorse.
The early urgent buyer’s remorse is possibly worse than they might think.
/sarc on
Sorry, early urgent buyers of the IPCC CAGW promotional get no refunds and all guarantees are void except if you have the pen ultimately highest level of elite greenie status. (If you aren’t on the short list of drinking buddies with people like Holdren or Stern then you aren’t on the special greenie list for refunds and guarantees.)
The IPCC will not be responsible for any legal fees of any early urgent buyers resulting from people suing such buyers for: property confiscation / redistribution; developing nation fatal impoverishment; and developed nation energy poverty deaths.
But WAIT!!! There is good news too. See our next special very urgent limited time offer. That’s right; please look for the IPCC’s next recursive sensationalist promotion coming soon to formally respected science journals near you. Look for Global Cooling (redux & deja vu all over again)
{sorry Yogi}
/sarc off
Well, maybe not all of it is sarcasm.
John

The issue with Sandy in New York and Katrina in New Orleans were not that they were unexpectedly large. They were within the realm of climate events that were to be expected and should have been prepared for. The disasters experienced were caused by short term thinking and the refusal to take responsibility.
Much of CAGW alarm is pure hype and can be discounted. On the other hand, the refusal to make the necessary public investments to deal with completely expectable climatic events is unacceptable.

This is a limited time offer… (probably because the world hasn’t warmed in 17 years)

But wait, there’s more!! Buy a carbon credit now and get one free!!

Yes it’s BOGO on Carbon Credits.
Don’t wait!
Get yours today.
cn

Harry Passfield says:

I was struck by the screen-cap showing the ‘hybrid electric trains’ – which I take it refers to some fantastically modern facility that will allow trains to run in a more environmentally-friendly way.
Hmmm….In the 1960s we called them diesel-electrics. Delta or Deltic class, if (UK) memory serves.

Agree the ref to ‘hybrid electric trains’ was confused. Re diesel-electrics: almost every “diesel” you ever see on a modern railway is actually a diesel-electric: the diesel engine generates power that drives electric motors on the locomotive’s axles. Alternatives such as diesel-hydraulic or diesel-mechanical have almost fallen into history due to their inefficiency or impracticality. I think you are remembering something called an “electro-diesel”, which was a standard electric loco with a diesel backup for when it had to run without the electric wires. They were rare (locos E6001-E6006 were AFAIK the only ones running in Britain in 1964). Deltic wasn’t one of them, it was a first-generation ordinary diesel-electric. But the “Westerns” were a prominent diesel-hydraulic.

Thanks for the +1, Anthony. 🙂 It’s funny, I can remember lines from TV shows I watched in the 1970’s, and yet sometimes I have trouble remembering what day it is. A mystery, to be sure.

As for car salesmen I was hooked from the very moment my car salesman on very first meeting him said, without artifice, that I should look at all the other dealerships in town before buying a car from him……Honest, he really did say this….He also had no idea whatsoever that I was able to buy any car he had in the showroom. I was dressed like a down and out at the time but he treated me like I could have bought anything he had.
A most potent sales technique in my view…”Go to the opposition before deciding”….
I’ve only just bought my fourth new car from him. My wife has also bought a new car from him.
Also a friend with another pending for one of his higher range models…..
Sorry to be defending car salesmen but some of them are actually decent human beings…..
Ah well…..

LoL.
That’s the funniest thing I have heard or seen since January 1st this year and I’m a news hound.
” Even after they told me and reminded me repeatedly, James Hansen’s green house gas warming models, didn’t have the atmosphere obey Ideal Gas Law, falsely weighting temperature according to composition of gas mix.
And even after I realized all of Aeronautics, Meteorology, and N.A.S.A. had always, treated the atmosphere as an Ideal Gas mix in every single science predating their modern capability, back to World War II and before,
And even when I saw and heard recordings of James Hansen being predicted to be found a criminal by his fellow employees over this very issue,
And even after I saw them try to float that ridiculously out of balance Kiehl-Trenberth cartoon,
battle flag of the “hotter vs colder” challenged,
And even after I saw Michael Mann close associate of Hansen, caught in computer modeling fake research,
And even after I saw all their names – Hansen, Trenberth, Jones, Mann, – on the now famous “Its a Travesty” Email
where Trenberth exclaimed how amid their combined expertise, “we don’t have the slightest clue what the climatic thermostat is doing,”
I thought it would fly! I thought the basic science, was sound!! I did! I really did!
I thought it was real, science weighting the atmosphere’s temperature according to a minute couple percent of volume, was real gas thermodynamics!
Honest I did!
And all those honest men
who I
defamed,
scourged,
mocked,
lied about,
libeled,
slandered,
and ridiculed,
they can’t hold it against me!
Because I believed!
I thought it would fly!
Like an eagle!”
——-
Yeah: well, the eagle, has landed.
The cowbird of fake science, says thanks for raising it’s young,
into full adulthood.
Couldn’t have done it without their help.
——-
PaulH says:
April 13, 2014 at 9:51 am
“As God is my witness, I thought CAGW could fly.”
😉

Les Nessman = Bill Nye

Joe Romm:
“What’s it going to take to get you into this Climate Change, TODAY?”

Ron House says:
April 13, 2014 at 5:25 pm
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A rail bore writes:-
Yes, you’re referring to the British Rail classes 73 and 74 which were designed to operate on the Southern Region’s 750v DC third-rail system, or elsewhere using the 600 hp (the cl. 74 was slightly more powerful at 650 hp) diesel engine. The cl. 74 was withdrawn and scrapped in the 1970s and early 80s; afaik there are still a few cl. 73s running about (well, actually parked up as they are generally only used as rescue locos if/when the power goes off).
Mr Romm’s “hybrid” trains seem just like normal locomotives to me.
Meanwhile, the UK government is investing billions of pounds in a new generation of trains, some of which are to be known as “bi-mode” which will, strictly speaking, be an uprated version of the good old cl. 73. This one will be designed to operate under the 25kV AC system. THe reason for this slightly bizarre policy is that it is claimed that inventing a snazzy new train like this will be cheaper than electrifying the whole of the ‘Inter-City’ network. It runs electrically to (say) Plymouth and then drops its pantographs and uses the diesel to get to Penzance and back. Time will tell whether or not this is actually sensible; the trouble is that if it proves to be a turkey, that’s a lot of money down the drain.
Still, as Henry Hazlitt once said:-

“The proposal is frequently made that the government ought to assume the risks that are ‘too great for private industry’. This means that bureaucrats should be permitted to take risks with the taxpayers’ money that no-one is willing to take with his own.”

Whatever the end result, those responsible will take their massively generous government (i.e. taxpayer) funded pensions and go off, whistling, into the sunset, probably with a knighthood or similar to prove how ‘useful’ they were.

I look forward to the day the theory of CAGW will be like Herb’s suits; “only available at a pro shop in Kentucky”. Oh, and put me down as a Bailey Quarters fan too.

PT Barnum would be proud of these boys…

The reason the scream about acting now is because they are fully aware that decades long cooling would end the gravy train.