Jon Stewart Mocks: ‘Poor Al Gore. Global warming completely debunked via the very Internet you invented!’
I recall seeing a recent poll or news story where many of the under 25 crowd don’t pay much attention to TV news, but they watch Jon Stewart’s Daily Show. Should be interesting to see how this plays out.
[update, here is the link on the The Daily Show’s site, ~ charles the moderator]
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UNKNOWN FOX NEWS ANNOUNCER): The scientists say they kept something called “value added data”.
Green hoax gases.
This is beyond parody
http://www.uea.ac.uk/mac/comm/media/press/2009/dec/homepagenews/carbonmbalondon
Alleged president claims that alleged global warming is real:
Gibbs: Despite research dispute, ‘climate change is happening’
By Tony Romm – 11/30/09 03:21 PM ET
The White House on Monday made exceptionally clear that it wants nothing to do with the furor over documents that global warming skeptics say prove the phenomenon is not a threat.
Despite the incident, which rocked international headlines last week, climate science is sound, Press Secretary Robert Gibbs stressed this afternoon, and the White House nonetheless believes “climate change is happening.”
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http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/69797-gibbs-despite-research-dispute-climate-change-is-happening
There’s been a very noticeable shift in the run-up to Copenhagen.
The media have run the arguments of ‘realists’, ‘skeptics’, call them what you will. Not as much as the warmist brigade. But more than the zero that was being run before. Even the BBC have been obliged to do a bit of it, although it’s quite clear that the Green Party don’t have any recruitment challenges there……
What’s more surprising is that Piers Corbyn of Weather Action plc made some spot-on predictions of extreme weather in the UK and elsewhere (I think 83% accuracy of many predictions), 100 days ahead to within 24 hours. And he thinks carbon dioxide-based warming is total unadulterated BS. He uses some technique called SWT, based on analysis of the wider atmosphere/earthly magnetic field parameters….
Where I think this has to go now is to set up a series of ‘challenges’ where the different protagonists are required to make predictions about a variety of things. These must be highlighted across the media, interest must be maintained and the results must be announced.
Clearly, this is like an election. And we all know about ballot box stuffing, suborning of officials, all the usual Western Democracy ways of cheating the popular will.
But it seems to me that the next decade must be independent arbiters setting the rules for the challenges for the two sides and God/Nature/The Weather delivering the verdict.
Not CRU or GISS. Not NCDC or the BBC. Not Weather Action or the Heartland Institute.
THE WEATHER. And the Earth’s climate systems.
Now is that less likely to happen that professional soccer ridding itself of professional gambling syndicates??
And how many protagonists will secretly be starting geoengineering projects to influence the debate in their favour eh?
You think some lefties would be wacko enough to deliberately RAISE temperatures to win the argument??
Surely not…..
I continue to hold Jon Stewart in high regard. One of the few people out there willing to tell it like it is on a show with a large following.
It’s about time Gangster Gore was publicly mocked in this fashion.
When you’ve lost the “Beavis & Butthead” demographic…
Cool. Internet has outdated peer review as we know it. Future peer review will, in important matters, be peer reviewed by the internet. The dark ages of dishonest peer review is history.
Finally! The BBC’s even got an even handed story, only reviewing what others have said though: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8390982.stm
Can CLIMATEGATE be a sort of a spring in the debate in climate science?
Things are changing!! Real debate arises.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8355837.stm
More humor here: Top 100 Thinkers, 5. Rajendra Pachauri
Looks like someone hacked Foreign Policy magazine too.
This is the equivalent of LBJ realizing that if he lost Walter Cronkite that he had lost the ‘Mercan people. Folks, that thing disappearing in the rear view mirror was that oft mentioned tipping point……………..
Huh? Sounds like a bowling alley in here. Oh, that’s just all those heads rolling.
From Raymond’s comment: “Press Secretary Robert Gibbs stressed this afternoon, and the White House nonetheless believes “climate change is happening.””
That’s not the point at all, is it?
In the language of real folks, here is what he said:
We need the taxes to support our grand and not-so-grand plans. We are sure the Sun will rise in the East for another few years and as long as it does – you pay.
They are afraid to use the word TAX – thus we have all this scheming and gooblygook, and bought science. Then comes the criminal fraud:
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/12/01/new-from-copenhagen-denmark-rife-with-co2-fraud/
Argghh. I published a comment in British press not to look for MSM or “jon Stewart – US comic” to use the leaks, because they’re on the alarmist payroll. Do I feel rotten? No. Jon’s been hacking at “deniers” for a long, long time. It is nice to see Jon’s writers acknowledge one of the biggest stories in the news. Kinda hard to ignore the ratings numbers Anthony has been getting. Which is in part how comedy writers gauge their material will get laughs.
What’s going on is Jon has begun to tap the incredibly deep well of comedic material the whole “global war-ming-the-unmerciful” represents. And the huge young audience anxious to see authoritarians caught with their collective hand in the cookie jar.
The Climate Scandal Has Diverted Attention From the Climate Scandal
By Dr. Tim Ball Wednesday, December 2, 2009
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/17438
There is another bizarre twist in the release of damning files from the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia known as ‘climategate’. It is the biggest deception in history but the story and arguments of how the material was obtained, its credibility and significance have diverted attention from the real scientific issue.
Several scientists have known for years the science was wrong and the CRU with a few others were doing things beyond normal scientific techniques to mislead the public. We couldn’t compete with the deliberate media misinformation, personal attacks and frightening orchestration disclosed in the hacked emails. Now we have the weapon but it is an atomic bomb ignored by the mainstream media and the politicians.
Global Warming and not even Climate Change is needed for Copenhagen, just a green agenda. None could disagree on a cleaner environment and that will be the win-win agenda, that for sure, they have just chosen after “Climategate”.
It explains this comedian’s behaviour. Anyway, big Al is the big loser now.
PBS continues to disappoint me. On the day the story broke, they reported “greenhouse gas highest ever” It would have been news if they weren’t.
When the Aussies voted down their bill, and Phil jones stepped down, they ran a special on how AWG had directly put many farmers in Austalia out of business. It will be interesting how long they stonewall.
“To many businesses and organisations this creates both significant risks to their current operations as well as opportunities for new products and services. By bringing this programme to London – the world’s carbon capital – we are maximising the opportunity for organisations to meet these challenges and to ensure that future business leaders are equipped with a robust business knowledge and a holistic knowledge about climate change.”
Holistic indeed
Mirriam-Webster:
“relating to or concerned with wholes or with complete systems rather than with the analysis of, treatment of, or dissection into parts“
Colbert Report bit on it was interesting too (first segment – link is to full episode):
http://www.comedycentral.com/colbertreport/full-episodes/index.jhtml?episodeId=256574
Of all the places I ran across this link through the DailyKos (a.k.a. the Democratic Party’s Pravda)
Piers Corbyn predicts more Gore Effect:
*Climate summit [Copenhagen] to be hit by blustery deluges, probably turning to snow or blizzards and icy blasts in the region at times – especially heavy when President Obama visits* * *
Science has been hijacked by socialists masquerading as politicians.
How much money will now be spent to formulate the real answer that can withstand a true balanced peer review? Is all the money that has been spent now wasted on a lie? What about the Cabon trading credits that have been traded in Europe? Should they be given back? This is a huge mess that will likely make the lawyers boatloads of money suing each other.
My! How time flies. Climate-Gate is already a “dead-horse.”
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More Climategate email denial on the ABC
John Styles | December 2 2009
http://australianconservative.com/main-site/2009/12/more-cimategate-email-denial-on-the-abc/
There has been another instance on Melbourne ABC radio of a program presenter dismissing the CRU email revelations.
Jeff Richardson, one of the Coodabeen Champions, presented last Monday’s edition of 774 ABC Melbourne’s evening program. He appeared to be in denial over the importance of the hacked or leaked emails.
Richardson joins Jon Faine who last week denied the significance of the emails and admitted that he had deliberately censored coverage of the issue on his program.
Taking talkback on Monday night, Richardson told “Joseph of Port Melbourne” that he was “flogging a bit of a dead horse” when the caller referred to the Climategate scandal.
Joseph asked Richardson if he had looked into the CRU emails.
“That’s been covered extensively in the mainstream media, Joseph, so I think you’re flogging a bit of a dead horse there,” Richardson said before immediately moving on to the next caller.
Apart from his obvious reluctance to engage and discuss the issue, it was interesting, from the way he referred to it, that Richardson didn’t seem to consider the ABC to be part of the “mainstream media”. Thankfully, millions of Australians don’t either.
That’s weird: did we watch the same video? In the one I just watched, John Stewart said scientists shouldn’t be making it any easier for climate change doubters like Inhofe to peddle their nonsense. John Stewart making a joke doesn’t = John Stewart mocking global warming.
I searched for ‘climategate’ on YouTube and got 1740 results! Not bad after a week and a bit.
Actually quite rational. If there’s going to be a two trillion dollar market in carbon credits, we want London to be the place where the trading happens. Imagine a 5% cut on all of those deals? It would be enough to buy ALL of our soldiers Kevlar body armour… and more! Remember, it’s no more of a scam than derivatives and other such impenetrable financial instruments are. If the con is on, we’re going to tax it.