My lovely wife pointed this out to me tonight while I was writing the post on the DMSP/SSMI sea ice sensor issue. It spoke to me, not only because it was hilarious, but because I immediately saw a comparison in it to how I feel (as well as many others) about the “rush” to save the planet. We keep hearing these pronouncements that we only have “X number of years left” to act, that we’ll reach “tipping points”, or “points of no return” if we don’t pass the Copenhagen Treaty.
But while the warmers are driving in the fast lane to Copenhagen, us annoying old skeptics (which is how many warmers view us) keep plodding along with facts (they are stubborn things you know) with occasional whacks to the climate science fast track like McIntyre’s recent revelations about the majority of the hockey stick being based on a few tree cores in Yamal and the use of Wikipedia graphs in United Nations official climate reports.
But warmers don’t like it when we do this, they simply want us to “get out of the way”:
BTW that’s not Joe Romm driving.
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Funny video! What a [snip ~ E]! Was he laughing too?
The video is a gem but that’s not how air bags really work.
Ahhh I can’t help chuckling about that video!
Yes a real air bag would have knocked him back and broke his glasses.
A few years ago I saw a girl lose control of her car on an icy road, she slid of the side into a chain link fence at about 5 mph, but the front suspension hit a bowling ball sized rock just as she hit the fence and triggered her air bag. Her arm was across the steering wheel due to her attempts to steer into the skid and the air bag slapped her across the nose with her own forearm and broke her wrist on her face. She was pretty loopy when I got to the car like she had taken a punch from a mugger.
With out the air bag it would have been a minor incident with a few scratches on the paint work and a lesson learned about driving in the snow, instead it was an expensive accident with several hundred dollars to replace a triggered air bag, a tow charge to recover her vehicle and an ambulance ride to check her out for a concussion and treat her broken wrist.
Larry
Frederick: you’re such a skeptic.
I absolutly loved that video and called for my wife to see this one.
But yes, air bags do not work that way!
Hillarious!
Might be the skateboarders and/or cameraman who were doing the laughing, they did all turn to watch.
Another scam
Laugh out loud…
The BBC are still reporting that “the arctic could be ice free and open to shipping during the summer in less than ten years according to [experts]”.
Note the use of the word experts instead of scientists? Now I wonder why that change was made? What is an ‘expert’ and whats the difference between an expert and a scientist I wonder?
Can someone help me with an abusive AGW poster at ti.org/antiplanner ? His user name is “Dan”. The help would be most appreciated.
Maybe the lil old lady was carrying a cement block in her goody bag. It was something heavy, that’s for sure.
Hilarious in any case….
Chris
Norfolk, VA, USA
Cassandra King (21:10:48) :
It really looks like that the left hand of the BBC does not know what its right hand is doing. Maybe confusing the people is their new strategy.
I remember seeing that on Thomas Beckers’ expense report…
LOL but I am skeptical too (just as I am skeptical to AGW)… can the airbag be triggered by such a small impact?
Frank (21:14:17) :
Dan is rather interesting, but is not saying anything too troubling. Honest questions should receive honest answers.
I tried to reply, but could not figure out how to register on your blog. Perhaps I am rather stupid, but it was not obvious.
Frederick Michael (19:56:14) : “The video is a gem but that’s not how air bags really work.”
I saw this video a year ago and it seemed phony–the camera and the kids seemed to be just going through the motions during the first sequence, and they turned a little too fast from my point of view.
Airbags normally give off quite a bit of white powder when they deploy, or so I’m told.
Cassandra King (21:10:48) :
Perhaps the discovery that those making the models (that the BBC is reporting on) are not scientists at all. Just computer programmers. Better to call them “Experts” than to risk having another batch of egg on face.
Cassandra King (21:10:48) :
The BBC are still reporting that “the arctic could be ice free and open to shipping during the summer in less than ten years according to [experts]“.
Presume you are talking about this: It is total BS, well-covered earlier on wattsup.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8307272.stm
The Arctic Ocean could be largely ice-free and open to shipping during the summer in as little as ten years’ time, a top polar specialist has said.
“It’s like man is taking the lid off the northern part of the planet,” said Professor Peter Wadhams, from the University of Cambridge.
Professor Wadhams has been studying the Arctic ice since the 1960s.
He was speaking in central London at the launch of the findings of the Catlin Arctic Survey.
The expedition trekked across 435km of ice earlier this year.
Led by explorer Pen Hadow, the team’s measurements found that the ice-floes were on average 1.8m thick – typical of so-called “first year” ice formed during the past winter and most vulnerable to melting.
My father used to complain about the dangerous drivers in Switzerland; his plan was to carry around some big heavy piece of metal, perhaps a 5cm nut, and throw it in the air when they nearly ran him over so it would scratch their paint.
On the other hand, one of his colleagues sued a pedestrian for damage to his car when he ran the poor guy over.
Cassandra King (21:10:48) :
The BBC are still reporting that “the arctic could be ice free and open to shipping during the summer in less than ten years according to [experts]“.
Note the use of the word experts instead of scientists? Now I wonder why that change was made? What is an ‘expert’ and whats the difference between an expert and a scientist I wonder?
I heard an ‘expert’ on the radio this morning. It was Hadow. He was “shocked” at what he found during his expedition.
I think this video might help shed some light on the urgency with which some scientists pursue their work:
Gotta figure out where that next research grant is coming from…
Thanks. I needed that laugh.
Cassandra King (21:10:48) :
The BBC are still reporting that “the arctic could be ice free and open to shipping during the summer in less than ten years according to [experts]“.
Presume you are talking about this: It is total BS, well-covered earlier on wattsup.
See:
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/05/17/catlin-artic-ice-survey-an-annie-hall-moment/
Heh flashbacks to when I was run over in Tucson IRL… luckily the guy had fat tyres (sorry, tires) on his ute (truck). The tread marks on my stomach were quite the talking point for a few months … I used to call myself speedbump, but that’s another story for another day 😀
So, back OT – if I am interpreting this youtube vid correctly… we have big, bad industrial yuppie man puffing CO2 out of his big car ignoring the warnings and mother earth (who is looking a bit worse for wear – presumably all the pollution she is dealing with). Mother Earth reaches her tipping point and the environment smacks yuppie in the face. Is that about right?
Let’s hope it wasn’t an old style air bag releasing NOx fumes… oh noes:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airbag
Explanation of the “white dust” lubricant there too.