I think the light bulb may have gone on with this guy. From TalkingPointsMemo:
In addition to being mocked for its breathless coverage of Flight 370, CNN has also been under fire for the way it has covered climate change. Zucker on Monday defended the network’s approach to the issue.
“Climate change is one of those stories that deserves more attention, that we all talk about,” he said, “but we haven’t figured out how to engage the audience in that story in a meaningful way. When we do do those stories, there does tend to be a tremendous amount of lack of interest on the audience’s part.”
Translation: Nobody cares. ZZZZzzzz.
In other news…
Game show host Pat Sajak caused a major uproar in social media circles on Tuesday, writing on Twitter Monday night that “global warming alarmists are unpatriotic racists knowingly misleading for their own ends.”
http://twitter.com/patsajak/statuses/468581395237842945
That’s unfortunate. A number of global warming alarmists I know are in fact patriotic and not racists, but they are severely misguided in their belief system.
But, I laughed at this one from Sajak:
http://twitter.com/patsajak/statuses/465296637519097856
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Pat is nobody’s fool…
Wow.
What, 40% of Americans are unpatriotic racists misleading others for their own ends?
Those who live in ivory towers think the world is a very small place: their tower and the moat below it.
I doubt warmest scientists are 40% of the population…
If they are 40% of the population, gee, they are very well educated country. Or their standards for scholarly achievement is very low.
Who is Pat Sajak?
Doug Proctor: That’s going into my list of GREAT email sig lines!
I hope this doesn’t end Sajak’s career. Leftists are killing the careers of those who disagree with them like crazy right now.
Vanna’s almost certainly responsible for more global warming than is CO2.
Pamela Gray: Pat Sajak is one of that rare breed; Hollyweird people who are nevertheless quite conservative. He’s the host of “Wheel of Fortune”.
Presumably he was being facetious in his “unpatriotic” tweet, responding in effect to some alarmist who’d made that claim.
philincalifornia says:
May 20, 2014 at 9:29 pm
Vanna’s almost certainly responsible for more global warming than is CO2.
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Good 1
He is over 30 (never trust . . .) and part of the 1 %. Likely he will be trashed.
However, I’ll raise a glass to him.
While dropping the race card here is rather foolish (and has nothing to do with alarmism, really), his comment of the lefties being un-patriotic is not unreasonable. If patriotism is measured by a love of one for their nation, then I would agree. How many times have we heard the filth in the green camp rave about how great it would be if we were run by a dictator to fix everything? How superior socialist countries are? How America is run by greed, its people needing to be punished for their sins to Gaia? The blind, unsubstantiated patriotism at the other end of the spectrum isn’t any better, but that doesn’t invalidate Mr. Sajak’s point.
… a tremendous amount of lack of interest…
That is entirely consistent with the alarming lack of a rising sea level and the catastrophic lack of increasing global temperature.
“My God, don’t you know the seas are rising? They’ve been rising for more than a century and a half!”
“Really? That’s terrible. How much did they rise?”
“In a century and a half? About seven inches.”
“Seven inches?”
“Yes.”
“Oh.”
“Indeed.”
“Did you watch the game last night?”
Mann complained on Twitter about Sajak behaving like a 8 year old. Perhaps he thought he had the monopoly on that.
In the International Express an English paper for Australian ex pats. There was an article written about the effect on the climate using those low watt globes. At the time they didn’t work on dimmer light systems. But bio fuels were more heavily taxed than normal petrol and were dearer to buy. But the comment I liked most and made me laugh, was ‘Low watt bulbs will do nothing to change the climate, it is like tossing a sugar cube into Loch Ness, hoping to make the water sweeter.’ About sums it up and that was 10 years ago.
Avid leftism is a near universal trait of the alarmist majority of supercomputer climate model enthusiasts and these self same people also call for anti-Asian racist quotas for the central defining career advancement event of our era, college admissions, and that’s not just verbal “racism” but actual discrimination. They *are* racists, quite objectively. They can’t shut up about it, or at least they quite firmly support those who turn nearly every issue into a anti-white and anti-Asian racial one, preposterously and hypocritically.
Piltdown “Hide the Decline” Mann is still making public statements?
Anyone who even partially agrees with Sajak obviously marched against civil rights, advocates the arming of all grammar school students with assault rifles, hates poor people, animals, the elderly and foreigners, shuns science and technology, tortures insects for fun and wants a world full of filthy air and water for our children to slog through. “Strength through Pollution” could be our motto!
No wonder the lefties hate us.
“Palmenoil Macht Frei” more likely…
oh for one Sajak at “our” ABC in Australia, which has been studiously playing down or not even reporting this continuing saga:
21 May: Australian: Leo Shanahan: Faulty solar part ‘caused office blaze’
A FAULTY circuit breaker of a type installed in more than 25,000 rooftop solar panels in NSW and Queensland was responsible for a fire at an office block in Sydney that forced the evacuation of 20 people.
Fire and Rescue NSW has confirmed that a fire at a Parramatta office block late last year, during which a solar PV system caught alight, was caused by the same Avanco-branded DC isolator that is the subject of recall orders by NSW and Queensland.
Originating in the switch room for the solar PV system, the Parramatta fire triggered an automatic fire alarm about noon on December 13, and led to the evacuation of at least 20 people. There were no injuries…
Commissioner Robert Vellar said up to 3740 isolators were sold to 19 distributors in NSW.
“Testing has revealed the switch’s enclosure is not adequate as it allows in moisture that may cause sparks and in some cases fire,” he said.
“Although NSW Fire and Rescue has responded to only one incident linked to the faulty switches, 57 similar incidents have been reported in Queensland.”…
Mr Vellar said that while Fair Trading issued a warning that the isolator should be turned off following the Queensland recall of 27,000 of the isolators on May 12, an official recall could allow customers to pursue legal rights.
He said consumers should not attempt to replace the switches themselves.
“If you think you have a faulty isolator switch on your solar panel system, contact your installer and arrange for an inspection,” he said…
Mr Hungerford (Advancetech/TRO Pacific Holdings) has not returned requests for comment.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/state-politics/faulty-solar-part-causedoffice-blaze/story-e6frgczx-1226924558495
20 May: SMH: Beau Donelly: Rise in consumer complaints over solar power
Complaints about rooftop solar panels have jumped markedly as more Victorians have taken up cheap offers in the ***booming green energy market.
The number of people contacting the state’s consumer watchdog about solar electricity systems increased from five a month in 2007 to 183 a month this year.
Largely about faulty units, poor installation, service delays and difficulty in cancelling contacts, the complaints have pushed solar power systems into the top five products reported to Consumer Affairs Victoria, alongside furniture, white goods and clothing.
The more serious complaints have been made over sales of defective equipment and failure to honour contracts – allegations that led the watchdog last week to issue a warning about Melbourne supplier Sunburst Solar…
It follows prosecutions of two solar companies earlier this year, one of which was fined $60,000 for consumer law breaches.
The increase in complaints has come as the popularity of solar systems has surged. Driven by government incentives, the falling costs of solar panels and rising electricity prices, more than 126,000 systems were sold in two boom years.
(SO BUSINESS IS NOT BOOMING) Sales fell in 2013 as government incentives were wound back. But calls to the watchdog remain as high as they did during the peak, with more than 2000 a year.,,
Ms Noone said consumers reported difficulties connecting their system to the grid and alleged the company provided faulty panels and inverters, failed to reimburse shortfalls in feed-in tariff incentive payments and could not be reached for warranty claims…
Sunburst issued a statement through its lawyers saying it was committed to addressing any complaints. ”Sunburst Solar is not aware of any client with an outstanding complaint or issue relating to any installation or agreement … and would encourage any client with such a grievance to contact the company, at which point a solution and rectification will be forthcoming,” it said.
ASIC records show that Sunburst chief executive Robin Grainger is a director or shareholder in a series of other solar or energy companies. There is no suggestion any of the other businesses have acted inappropriately.
The Consumer Affairs warning follows legal action against two solar companies earlier this year.
Solareco Pty Ltd was fined $60,000 last month for making false representations and Ballarat-based Bailey Designed Engineering was forced to close after losing a series of legal battles over faulty equipment.
Ms Noone said solar suppliers flooding the market in recent years led to some aggressive marketing tactics, misleading practices and substandard products, but was not a reflection of the whole industry. ”We’re not saying it isn’t a reputable industry, but certainly it’s relatively new,” she said.
http://www.smh.com.au/national/rise-in-consumer-complaints-over-solar-power-20140519-38k8b.html
but is ever so concerned about this, which gets the full treatment, with AUDIO! LOL.
20 May: ABC Rural: Matt Brann: Carbon credits from culling feral animals hits the dust
Plans to cull feral animals in exchange for carbon credits has been gunned down by the latest policy change to Australia’s struggling carbon market.
Dr Tim Moore from NetPositive has spent years working on a methodology for culling feral camels in exchange for credits under the Federal Government’s Carbon Farming Initiative (CFI).
He says when in Opposition, Environment Minister Greg Hunt was supportive of the proposal, but that support appears to have been lost.
“The Federal Government has released amendments to the Carbon Credits Act, which in small print at the back, says the Federal Government no longer believes that removing feral animals for an emissions reduction purpose is viable or important to Australia’s international commitments,” he said.
“So those opportunities have been removed from the legislation and I think that’s a bad decision to be completely honest
Audio: Troubles in the carbon market(ABC Rural)
“The Federal Government knows feral animals create methane and emit methane, but they don’t think the emissions reduction fund, is a way to use markets to solve the problem of feral animal management in Australia.”
Without a financial incentive to cull, Dr Moore believes feral camel populations will explode***…
“One of the problems the carbon market is facing is the uncertainty created by constant changing of government policy positions.
“It’s making it very difficult to make long term investment decisions,” he said…
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-05-20/feral-animal-carbon-credits-hit-the-dust/5462872
***given the topic “explode” is surely a poor choice of words.
“That’s unfortunate. A number of global warming alarmists I know are in fact patriotic and not racists, but they are severely misguided in their belief system.”
Define patriotism? Is being patriotic loving your land area, people, government or culture? Governments will call you unpatriotic if you hate them but is the government the country. People with different political or different socioeconomic backgrounds will have different definitions of patriotism. Marxists define patriotism differently from conservatives. In other words you can be using the same words but mean totally different things and therefore talking about different values without realizing it. For me as an Australian, the USA is defined by the constitution. Freedom of speech and property and the right to bear arms to defend those rights. Yet you Americans let the constitution get trashed by judges who toe the government party line.
States are constitutionally allowed to split from the union. How will patriotism be defined when that happens?
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The definition Guy says:
May 20, 2014 at 11:36 pm
Anyone who even partially agrees with Sajak obviously marched against civil rights, advocates the arming of all grammar school students with assault rifles, hates poor people, animals, the elderly and foreigners, shuns science and technology, tortures insects for fun and wants a world full of filthy air and water for our children to slog through. “Strength through Pollution” could be our motto!
No wonder the lefties hate us.””
You are full of crap mate. The most polluted country in the world is China (I lived there for 12 years so I know what I am talking about) and they are left wing. They also hate poor people, mentally disabled, science and technology is copied from America etc etc. Lefties hate conservatives because they view conservatives as rich and themselves as the downtrodden masses. Ask a Leftie to share his/her wealth – won’t happen.
***UBS’s “tea-party” quote is surely a contender for quote of the week!
21 May: Business Spectator: Reuters: UBS slashes EU carbon price forecast
Swiss investment bank UBS slashed its year-end EU carbon price forecast by 23 per cent due to the weaker-than-expected market impact of the bloc’s plan to cut the supply of carbon permits…
Analysts at the bank now predict front-year EU Allowance (EUA) prices will end the year at around 10 euros per tonne, down from a previous forecast of 13 euros.
With prices at around 4.70 euros on Tuesday, the updated view still represents a more-than 100 per cent premium on current levels…
Under the EU plan, dubbed ‘backloading’, the bloc will this year withdraw 400 million carbon permits from its market in a bid to lift prices back towards double digits.
A total 900 million units are scheduled to be withheld from government sales in 2014-2016 and released at the end of the decade.
UBS said EUA prices remain subdued due to several factors including a mild European winter, lower-than-expected emissions under the scheme in 2013, and reduced hedging of forward power sales by utilities…
UBS said that the crisis in Ukraine has also shifted EU politicians’ focus away from reforming the European carbon market…
He added that success by Eurosceptic parties at this week’s European Parliament elections was unlikely to cause delays to proposed reforms.
***”The likely rise of the ‘tea parties’ is not a significant threat to EU carbon policy in our view, thanks to a solid majority of established parties close to the political centre,” he said, referring to the politically conservative Tea Party movement in the United States
http://www.businessspectator.com.au/news/2014/5/21/carbon-markets/ubs-slashes-eu-carbon-price-forecast
21 May: South China Morning Post: Cheung Chi-fai: Sun sets on joint Hong Kong-Shenzhen solar project
The first-ever collaborative project between Hong Kong and Shenzhen to create solar cells for power generation will come to an end this year after a subsidiary of American chemical giant DuPont pulled out.
The project’s end came with the announcement from DuPont’s local subsidiary, DuPont Apollo, that it was stopping production in the region of silicon thin-film modules, which are used in solar cells.
That dealt a blow to cross-border efforts to establish the region as a hub for the research, development and production of solar power technology…
DuPont Apollo had aspired to become one of the world’s top three providers of thin-film photovoltaic modules by next year…
DuPont Apollo chairman Chuck Xu Chengzeng cited a flagging market for the decision to pull the plug on the project.
“The state of the silicon thin-film solar module market segment has changed dramatically in recent years and market conditions for this segment continue to deteriorate,” he said…
About 100 scientists and engineers would be transferred within the group or paid to leave, a person with knowledge of the operation said.
The production facility in Shenzhen, which came into full operation in 2010, will be suspended but the person believed the factory might be modified for new uses.
http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1516775/sun-sets-joint-hong-kong-shenzhen-solar-project