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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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.
The audience’s laughter did seem a bit subdued.
Keep working the Fortran Computer Code. This is where the real story is. Plug in the known data sets and publish a comparison “graph blinker”superimposed over the previous ones. This will show the deception where the common man can understand.
NickB. (10:44:29) :
Read my post above yours.
We have to go and find old newspapers and historical citations for when temp. records began at stations. Then we know what’s missing, and dig/demand for it.
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The people watching TDS are the same ones watching David Letterman when AL Gore is on there, cheering when he says his tripe.
THis is just entertainment, nothing more nor less.
Ron de Haan (09:42:24): This is not a “contribution” to our case.
Sure it is. I think this is a case study in witty and powerful rhetoric, in order to convince the audience you have to take one step at a time…
Here is another comment from the Internet
But even more important than that, “The Daily Show” addressing this subject is a clear indication that ClimateGate is not going away any time soon.
All we need now is for “Saturday Night Live” to start mocking Al Gore along with this entire pathetic scam, and we can say goodbye to cap and trade.
Keep your fingers crossed.
Bravo, Jon. Bravo.
“”” 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.” “””
Duh !
Hey the date on the calendar is also changing; in case you haven’t noticed.
If any climate scientist out there; heck, I’ll open it up to non-climate scientists as well; well if you’re a non-scientist feel free to join in; anybody at all, who has any peer reviewed observational data, or maybe just a wikipedia citation; hey I’ll take a plausible rumor citing any two times (or more even) in the entire 4.5 billion or so years of earth history; recorded or not, when it is known that the earth’s climate was exactly the same. Hey I’ll even take weather as a proxy for climate for a short time.
If you have data of two instances completely lacking in climate/weather change between them (anywhere on earth); let’s hear about it. I’d prefer that the two instances didn’t occur on the same day; let’s say no closer than 30 days between them.
The world is awaiting revelation of a time when climate didn’t change.
re: JonesII (09:42:42) :
http://www.weathernewengland.com/forecast-discussion/interesting-new-finding-from-nasa-on-climate-change/1005768.html
“New data show that the balance between the airborne and the absorbed fraction of carbon dioxide has stayed approximately constant since 1850, despite emissions of carbon dioxide having risen from about 2 billion tons a year in 1850 to 35 billion tons a year now.”
I think this was touched on here at Watts a week or so ago.
All the discussion has been about natural sinks such as vegetation and the oceans but I think there’s also another factor that would correlate the addition of CO2 to the amount that is removed from the atmosphere to help keep the ratio fairly steady.
Rain.
Of course this would have to be measured and quantified, but CO2 dissolves in raindrops and if rain increases with increased CO2 then so would the amount of CO2 removed from the atmosphere.
Worth some thought?
UK TV media is finally opening discussion on the climate change. Both BBC–SE and Channel 4, within the last hour, had live confrontation between representatives of both camps.
Mann on Mann.
>>> “Climategate is an attack on man-made global warming scientists.(sic)”.
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“Climategate Used to Settle ‘Vendetta,’ Says Mann
Michael Mann, Penn State University meteorology professor, said Climategate is an attack on man-made global warming scientists.
“I think it is unfortunate that some scientists out there are using this situation to settle personal scores, to settle a vendetta,” Mann said, in an exclusive interview with AccuWeather.com’s Katie Fehlinger.
Mann said that the e-mail leak happened just in time for the Dec. 7, 2009, United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, where world leaders, including President Obama, hope to come to an agreement on a framework for future international climate change mitigation.
“It is not a coincidence… that this event happened in the weeks leading up to the summit in Copenhagen,” said Mann. “They’ve taken scientists’ words and phrases and quoted them out of context, completely misrepresenting what they were saying.”
Despite skepticism, Mann insisted that global warming is real.
“My main interest right now is to make sure that this manufactured controversy does not distract policy makers,” said Mann.”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2398670/posts
Mann needs to step down. And somebody should call for him to do so, while Penn State investigates.
Nobody manufactured those emails or data, except CRU.
He’s implicated on 1/4 of them, just for starters.
I talked to my freind at work and said, “Oh, Hey!! Jon Sewart talked about climategate on his show! Now the kids will look into it. It’s on U-Tube.”
My friend replied, ” Yes, I saw it on wattsupwiththat.”
“You go to wattsupwiththat?”
‘Yeah, it’s better written than tthe other site you sent me to.”
My friend took my web-site recommendation! Snifff! I got somebody to visit here. Snifff… Sorry. I think I have something in my eye.
Why has the counter for numer of views on the Stewart video stopped?
It’s been showing 305 for a long time now….
Jon Stewart is a satirist and his humor will come from any news source. It’s palpable that the MSM media like CNN are painfully picking up a story which was broken here and a few other blogs more than a week ago.
I like Jon Stewart’s satire. He makes liberals and conservatives uncomfortable and laugh at themselves.
Looks like Mann has become a conspiracy theorist.
Climategate Used to Settle ‘Vendetta,’ says Mann
State College, PA 12/02/2009 08:41 PM GMT (TransWorldNews – Top Story)
http://www.transworldnews.com/NewsStory.aspx?id=144816&cat=11
Michael Mann, Penn State University meteorology professor, said Climategate is an attack on man-made global warming scientists.
“I think it is unfortunate that some scientists out there are using this situation to settle personal scores, to settle a vendetta,” Mann said, in an exclusive interview with AccuWeather.com’s Katie Fehlinger.
Watch Interview with Michael Mann
Interesting response to my earlier post on realclimate. Another commenter pointed out that Gavin’s dismissive response to my post (Gavin 2: “Feel free to ignore anything I have to say on the subject then.”), was to what he says now (Gavin 2), or what he said in the past (Gavin 1: “My information is that it was a hack into their backup mailserver.”).
So I’ve continued the conversation on realclimate as follows
Gavin 1: You stated “My information is that it was a hack into their backup mailserver.” Can you reveal the source of your information? Have you been interviewed yet in the investigation? Have you revealed the source’s name to the police investigators or are you witholding evidence that would help solve this heinous crime that has the “alarmists” up in arms?
Gavin 2: Regarding “Feel free to ignore anything I have to say on the subject then.” Should we then infer that Gavin 1 is just repeating what he’d read on WUWT or CA and promulgating a false meme to stoke the “alarmist”?
Gavin 3: Given these concerns with Gavin 1 & 2, shouldn’t you be directing Gavin 2’s statement to the “alarmist” to advise them to ignore anything Gavin 1 said regarding the “stolen” meme?
One natural archive of weather data are the microfilm records from major newspapers. Most of them had a weather feature every day that reported the official national weather service high and low, along with in many cases mid town temperatures. That is an archive that is untouchable by folks that like to manipulate data, and verifiable by anyone who has access to a large library.
A few hundred volunteers could assemble a data set from these records. For reliability have 2 or more individuals (unknown to each other) assemble data for each location, then compare their input to verify accurate transcription.
This would work for the major cities and parts of the world that have been served by long lived newspapers. I am sure there are other similar temperature records that could be assembled as well.
Larry
and the results are in 🙂 Snipped of Gavin 2 & Gavin 3
Gavin 1: You stated “My information is that it was a hack into their backup mailserver.” Can you reveal the source of your information? Have you been interviewed yet in the investigation? Have you revealed the source’s name to the police investigators or are you witholding evidence that would help solve this heinous crime that has the “alarmists” up in arms?
[edit]
[Response: The police are indeed involved, and that would imply they have prima facie suspicion of some criminal act. I’m not going to comment further on this. – gavin]
“It is not a coincidence… that this event happened in the weeks leading up to the summit in Copenhagen,” said Mann.
Nope, it sure isn’t, and paybacks are like revenge, they make thier own motive-gravy.
How many people did CRU put the screws to?
Now, Copenhagen must go down in transparency. We already know who knew what and when.
Someone is fiddling with YouTube’s numbers of the viewing of Jon Stewart’s take on Climategate.
There no change in the number viewing when I go back after a half hour. Still only 305 but …140 viewers rated the video and 155 made comments.
One popular past video of Stewart had 158K viewing and 2.4 K ratings. Other checks show that only 1 or 2 % who view, rate the video and few, very few leave comments.
If they can hold down the viewing numbers, it won’t be listed as a popular viewed video.
Does Phil Jones or Al Gore have a seat on the Board of YouTube?
For those of you who know how to do it, please get multiple copies on before it goes down the “memory hole.”
Reply: Google owns YouTube, so yes, Al does sit on the board, however, this material is probably a copyright violation and will likely be taken down. Its legitimate home is here. ~ charles the moderator
Pondering Gavin’s response “The police are indeed involved, and that would imply they have prima facie suspicion of some criminal act.”, I conclude that Gavin had no information other than what he read on the internet. So I hypothesize
1) Gavin read on the internet (WUWT or CA?) “The police are indeed involved”
2) Gavin concludes if the police are involved then “that would imply they have prima facie suspicion of some criminal act”
3) The only crime that Gavin can entertain is that of “denialist hackers” stealing data from CRU — oblivious to other possible crimes that the police might be investigating at CRU.
4) Gavin uses realclimate to promulgate the meme of files “stolen” by “hacker” to set the “alarmist” hounds on the “skeptic” foxes 🙂
Update from Resumes 4 Disgraced Scientists:
Due to the heavy volume of responses, we are no longer accepting collect calls.
BBC TV News
Climate Gate 3rd item (after Afghanistan and Iran events) on the main 10 o’clock news. Earlier Ch4 news too.
RE: tallbloke (13:01:38) :
He was a conspiracy theorist before. If I recall (this was referenced in an article or blog somewhere recently that I can’t seem to find the link for – might have been in the comments here somewhere) some time back, a user posted a comment on RC alleging what has been confirmed by the CRU Leak (i.e. splicing temperature data into the Briffa tree ring proxy record and representing it as a continuous record… to which Mann replied saying this was a specious denier talking point that is untrue and constantly parroted by people connected to Big Oil
hotrod (13:17:59) :
I had been brainstorming recently on ways to independently verify the data from problem sites identified in the SurfaceStations.org project (BTW, great work to all involved there!). My idea – using near surface temperature measurements as a contrary measurement method since they correlate with the average surface temperature for a given location – was essentially a non-starter…but your idea seems, to me at least, to have great legs (hubba hubba 😉
I think it would be very interesting to gather this type of data for problem locations identified by SurfaceStations – at least as a start
Government officials defend warming.
The science is settled and Climate Change won’t effect the consensus.
May I have a big, big laugh at this laughable statement.
They are going to swallow every word they have said!!!!!!!!!
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9CBCN6G0&show_article=1