Image from WUWT reader “Boudu”
One thing you can say about AGW alarmists, they are passionate. But passion doesn’t usually equate to factual discourse, as demonstrated so well on Joe Romm’s Climate Progress blog this week by guest blogger Kyle Gracey:
In 2050, I’ll be 77, and given the pace of the climate talks in Bonn these two weeks, I’ll likely spend most of my retirement either under water or on fire.
Sillier words may never have been written.
Of course, if you can’t dazzle ’em with prose, doing a rap music gig for climate delegates is always sure to beat out factual discourse any day of the week and twice on Sundays.
We rapped and rhymed about the threatened survival of nations and developed countries’ weak financing proposals.
I just wonder how well the “negotiators” take to being adopted?
http://adoptanegotiator.org/2009/06/12/rap-how-old-will-you-be-in-2050/
Of course this isn’t the first time rap music has been used to make a point about climate. It happened earlier this year when Dr. James Hansen of NASA Goddard Institute of Space Studies (GISS) opened for a rap trio at the capital climate action protest that (ahem) according to their own claims “closed down” the coal fired power plant in Washington D.C.
Dr. Jim Hansen gets ready to deliver his message at the protest. Dressed like that, I’m not sure what the message is.
The hemp hat trio sings for the crowd right after Hansen’s address.
I wonder if Jimbo will start his own record label to help the climate rap effort?
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It’s just weather?
Is he in doubt whether he will be cremated or buried at sea after his retirement?
I’ll be 87 in 2050. I was a wee bit more mature at 36 than our Chicken Little friend Kyle, and I was a late bloomer, just ask my wife or mother!~ LOL
Poor Kyle, all those extra years at school getting all those multiple degrees, only to suffer such a fate in 2050. What a waste!
If the climate change tax and spenders get their way, I doubt there will be anyone with the ability to “retire”. Most of us will be required to work until death do us part, except of course, those that are running the scam.
“We are all equal except some are more equal than others”
Dr. Jim Hansen gets ready to deliver his message at the protest. Dressed like that, I’m not sure what the message is.
Columbo meets Jed Clampet?
😀
I’ll be 110 in 2050 – any sugestions for a fireproof yet floatable material for the manufacture of coffins?
John,Paul,George and Ringo inspires me:
“When I get older losing my hair,
Many years from now.
Will you still be sending me a valentine
Birthday greetings bottle of wine.
If I’d been out till quarter to three
Would you lock the door,
Will you still need me, will you still feed me,
When I’m a hundred and four.
You’ll be older too,
And if you say the word,
I could stay with you.
I could be handy, mending a fuse
When your lights have gone.
You can knit a sweater by the fireside
Sunday mornings go for a ride.
Doing the garden, digging the weeds,
Who could ask for more.
Will you still need me, will you still feed me,
When I’m a hundred and four.
Every summer we can rent a cottage,
In the Isle of Wight, if it’s not too dear
We shall scrimp and save
Grandchildren on your knee
Vera, Chuck & Dave
Send me a postcard, drop me a line,
Stating point of view
Indicate precisely what you mean to say
Yours sincerely, wasting away
Give me your answer, fill in a form
Mine for evermore
Will you still need me, will you still feed me,
When I’m a hundred and four. “
I keep on wondering how it is possible that people with a scientific degree establish a total lack of common sense.
It must be very hard to look back at your life and your career to find out that you have spend it to promote a non excisting problem.
No money in the world can compensate that. (that is my personal opinion)
Global Warming > Climate Change > Reduce Emissions …
They just keep getting wronger all the time 😀
Wishin, the emission, been dissin’ …..
Oddly enough, Monty Python explored the link between burning and drowning, as well:
I will NEVER get tired of looking at James Hansen’s african safari costume. Thank you for posting his picture again, that made me laugh all over again!
Well, its good to see that the unshaven man in the green jacket and funny hat saw fit to wear a tie to such a serious meeting of the minds.
In the year 2525 … oops, wrong song.
Nope, in the year 2050 I’ll either be 99 or the proverbial six feet under.
But I have NO expectation that my kids and grandkids will be either submerged or aflame. Poor, maybe, via cap-and-raid, but otherwise A-OK. Now if I could just convince that daughter of mine …
They should’ve done the protest when the first Bermuda high was bringing early warm temps. to the DC area, the pictures would look more serious then.
Also, I can’t seem to be able to check AMSU temps because the site is down, the red line on the Ice Extent link on this site also seemed to stopped moving. Harder to keep track of global temps. and the state of the Arctic because of that.
Oh, we’re not offering enough money to buy nations? Well, I’d buy that for a dollar!
If the cap and trade tax goes through the least of his worries will be water or heat in retirement. There will be no retirement because there will be no viabl western economies to support retirements. Better start having kids to support him in his old age, as was usual some hundreds of years ago.
I laugh when I remember when that Che Guevara fanboi in the hemp hat introduced Hansen as a scientologist.
In 2050 I will be 76 and better off than I am today. My electricity will be derived from third generation fusion power. I will have highly nutritious food tailor made using the most advanced genetic engineering technologies instead of being derived from intensive farming, breeding and hunting. I will see a world full of exotic smart materials that can assemble and disassemble themselves into various products with little help. I will have a home entertainment system that will use my brain to create true immersive environments. I will see several million humans a day travel to and from space as international travel utilizes outer space to cut journey times. I will see a world that will be virtually free from disease as babies are born resistant to AIDS, infections and cancer. I will see the beginnings of a post-humanist future as man and machine begin to merge. I will see far less government than we do today as technology empowers humanity to become less dependent on political powers. I will live in a world where citizens are able to monitor politicians instead of the other way around. As for the planet itself, it will be virtually identical to how it is today unless we learn how to terraform deserts into pastures.
Sophisms, pseudo truths, when repeated, take a life of its own, and finally become a dogma for the fool.
Sometimes it originates in a swindle, like the “Man of Piltdown”, which fired the evolutionism and the believe that man descended from ape.
The more innocent types of sophisms are those considerated as “urban myths”
Scientific method should prevent us for being so naively credulous.
My pity is for the people in the photo-op who really believe thier songs are going to save the planet 41 years from now.
If they can’t save it from cap & trade, there won’t be a lifestyle or an economy left to save.
Green in, cap on and power down.
The brighter side: Your kids will grow up seeing the night sky again, and will re-discover the world outside of computer models.
My late grandfather’s advice seems appropriate: Before you spend your life scrambling up the ladder of success, make sure it is leaning against the correct wall.
I didn’t have the stomach to watch the videos. Is Hansen a better DJ/MC than he is a scientist?
Aron (12:52:11) :
Aeron, you are a true visionair and an optimist.
Romm’s predictions are a joke. May be he should quit his day job and be a comedian.
Argentine glacier advances despite global warming
“We’re not sure why this happens,” said Andres Rivera, a glacialist with the Center for Scientific Studies in Valdivia, Chile. “But not all glaciers respond equally to climate change.”
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090614/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/lt_argentina_glacier