I’ve decided to step away from WUWT this weekend. Both my wife and I are sick with a cold. I’m very tired, and I need to do something else for awhile besides moderate squabbles; like work on my paper which keeps getting time taken away from it by the attention this blog requires.
If you have something worth posting on the front page, flag a moderator. Those that want to do guest posts are welcome to do so also. Again, flag a moderator for attention. Those that have author permission already, go for it.
I’ll resume posting if I feel up to it Sunday night.
In the meantime, talk quietly and politely amongst yourselves. Don’t make me come back here.
– Anthony
Steve in SC (08:04:56) wrote :
Anthony,
Chicken soup! All those Jewish mothers are right!
1 chicken (5-7 lbs)
12-15 cups water
10 cloves garlic minced.
Skin the chicken
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Skin the chicken?! What a travesty!
Anthony, I sincerely wish you and your wife a very speedy recovery. But you must REJECT such a “post-normal” recipe!
As the daughter of a Jewish mother, I offer the following traditional recipe:
In a very large pot place:
1 Chicken (the largest available), washed, but definitely NOT skinned, along with its neck and other giblets [Note: you could remove some of the surface fat if desired … when rendered, it’s a crucial ingredient of chopped liver; although it has yet to be demonstrated whether chopped liver has either a positive or negative forcing feedback on the common cold]
2 peeled carrots
2 medium-to-large onions (peeled)
3 or more whole garlic cloves (peeled but not minced)
1 thorougly washed white part of leek (optional)
Add cold water to cover (do not place lid on pot yet), and bring to boil.
Skim off “scum” that rises to top … keep boiling and skimming “scum”. When no more “scum” can be skimmed, add:
12 or more (unground!) black peppercorns
1 tblspoon salt (preferably “kosher” or sea salt) … more can be added later, to taste
Cover pot and reduce heat to simmer (cauldron should bubble, but cause no trouble)
After 1.5 hours, taste … add more salt if desired/required
Keep simmering (and tasting occasionally) for about another 1/2 hour
Remove chicken, neck, giblets, veggies, garlic and peppercorns. Cover, let cool, then place in fridge overnight. The next day …
Carefully remove fat that has solidified on surface. [Either discard, or use for creation of matzoh balls … failproof recipe available on request!]
Gently reheat soup [you may, if you choose, add some of the chicken – with or without skin] and enjoy!
Anthony et al,
Various popular treatments for cold symptoms:
1. Russian – take a hammer (any type or size will do) and bang a big toe with it. You immediately will no longer notice your cold symptoms. Supplement with large quantities of vodka. Repeat as necessary on other toes or body parts. Optionally, don’t do the hammer thing, just the vodka thing.
2. Zen – meditate and become one with nothingness, in nothing there is no suffering of this mortal body
3. German (traditional Prussian) – do nothing, what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. If you are bored, go out and duel someone.
4. American – turn on Delilah or Oprah shows. The pitiable tearjerker stories you hear will make you feel happy that you only have a cold. Supplement with reruns of the Bullwinkle the Moose & Rocky the Flying Squirrel shows.
5. Saudi Arabian – unannounced, double the price of oil. Watching the dependent western nations squirm always make you feel better.
6. CAGWers – cold? There is no cold . . . just warm. Immediately go to RC for purchase of Dr Schmidt’s fast acting ‘nasal’ relief and for a limited time only get a free hockey stick.
7. ??
8. ??
etc, etc, etc
John
get some real vitamin C, no substitute or synthetic
http://www.qncstore.com/CGI-BIN/LANSAWEB?WEBEVENT+L22328446926381005E8403H+M37+ENG
Sharon (17:04:20) :
Ok, it’s got Vikings, but does it have Brett Favre! ONE MORE YEAR!!
Steve Goddard (06:00:54) :
Moderator: DMI Arctic ice extent is at it’s highest level on record.
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Where is that disappearing in 5 years, in a ‘death spiral’, Arctic ice?
Arctic ice is very active this month:
http://ocean.dmi.dk/arctic/icecover.uk.php
aMINO aCIDS iN mETEORITES (20:44:52) :
get some real vitamin C, no substitute or synthetic
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link not work,
click around to find catalog for real vitamin C
http://healthline.cc/
For what it is worth, for many years, I fight off colds by vitamin C. 1000mg late release or chewable. If a bad cold up to 7 a day. Still alive and turning 70 next month.
gtrip (15:46:11) :
The Wall but in a different direction.
Make that Supper’s Ready.
Anthony,
Rx: 8oz. glass, 2oz. Kahlua, 4oz. milk. PRN
Doesn’t help the cold one d*mn bit, but it sure tastes good.
Enjoy the rest and get well soon.
http://scienceblogs.com/deltoid/2010/03/tamino_calls_out_anthony_watts.php
Dang. Meant to provide the direct link:
http://tamino.wordpress.com/2010/03/05/message-to-anthony-watts/
Interested to hear thoughts about this.
!!! An Open Thread Day !!! – HERE WE GO.
On the Origin [Birth] of Science – Western science did not spring fully formed from the forehead of scientists. ( for this allusion I give my apologies to you serious students of ancient Greece )
If it was not born from the minds of scientists, then where did the tradition science in western civilization come from?
Does it even matter whether we, in the early part of the 21st century, understand what had to necessarily occur in Western civilization before our current tradition of science could be born or develop?
My short answer is, it important to understand only if you want to keep the inherited tradition of science alive.
You might doubt that there are any serious numbers of mainstream highly educated people in modern western civilization who would purposely advocate to distrupt or kill science. I unfortunately need to say there are.
This is the only fundamental crisis of our age.
Any takers?
NOTE: I will be online and offline randomly quite a bit in next day, but I can not pass up an open thread day.
John
Large band of clouds currently heading for Europe. This moisture is coming right from the record warm area of the Carribean near Puerto Rico. Europe could be in for some very rough weather in the next few days. Best way to see this moisture, and where it is streaming from, is to go to Google Earth and turn on weather, park yourself out over the N. Atlantic at about 5000 mi. eye altitude and enjoy the view!
Tamino is really calling Anthony out on his blog. Is Anthony going to address this?
Reply: Anthony is taking the weekend off. ~ ctm
R. Gates (22:38:29) :
Large band of clouds currently heading for Europe. This moisture is coming right from the record warm area of the Carribean near Puerto Rico. Europe could be in for some very rough weather in the next few days.
It’s forecast to hit Spain.
http://www.stormsurfing.com/cgi/display_alt.cgi?a=natla_250
City chaos as hailstones, rain pummel Melbourne
http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/city-chaos-as-hailstones-rain-pummel-melbourne-20100306-pptd.html
Hailstones the size of grapefruit pummel Melbourne – 7 Mar 10 – (Excerpts) Bloodied festival-goers, spooked racehorses, smashed windows and torrential rain inside major buildings were just some of the surreal scenes unfolding across Melbourne in one of the most intense storms in years.
The Bureau of Meteorology reported severe wind gusts and hailstones up to 10cm wide (the size of a grapefruit).
“I DON’T usually scream during storms – yesterday was different.
What else is there to do when being battered from on high by chunks of ice and unable to move in any direction?”
Here’s an interesting post on the peer review process:
http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/8227/
h/t : http://klimazwiebel.blogspot.com/2010/03/frank-furedi-turning-peer-review-into.html
I wouldn’t even respond to Tamino. We’ve seen the mountains of fraud they’ve put out under the “peer-review” process. We’ve seen the IPCC report. We’ve seen their phoney alarmist claims, we’ve seen the Climategate e-mails. We’ve seen the hockey sticks. We’ve also seen the winter we have had in North America and in Europe.
We all know what these fraudsters are all about.
R. Gates (22:38:29) :
“….is to go to Google Earth and turn on weather, park yourself out over the N. Atlantic at about 5000 mi. eye altitude and enjoy the view!…”
Is Google operating in real-time now? That would be a sensation!
If the 20th century was dominated by anthropogenic climate changes, why hasn’t the Köppen Climate Classification Map changed in any significant way?
Anthony,
I hope you and your wife are feeling better. As you know, I have no love for you and nor you for I but I would never wish sickness on anybody. Having said that, you could really shore up your name with “the other side” if you addressed Tamino’s (and many others) proof that you and D’Aleo were way off-base with your latest SPPI publication. It is OK to admit you are wrong – I have done it here a few times.
Scott A. Mandia, Meteorologist & Concerned Citizen
Re: Bernard J. (Mar 6 22:07),
I went to the link you provided. I am sorry, but there are no links to the supposedly devastating confirmations of “Tamino” claims.
I do not ask for peer review, but I do need a link to a paper claiming to do this that and the other and the confirmations confirmations, in such a polemic piece.
I cannot take him seriously but as a way to increase the hits on his blog.
This just in –
“Researchers at Iowa State University have concluded that global climate change will make potholes on Iowa’s roads even worse.”
Details here:
http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20100307/DMWEATHER/3070344/1007/news05/Think-potholes-are-bad-now?-Just-wait-a-bit
Is there no end to this madness?
So the change in the number of stations in the GHCN does not cause a warming trend after all. It seems that allegation implied by the Watts/D’Aleo/Smith claim below does not hold water:
When we will we see the correction?
[Reply: you haven’t even seen the paper. ~dbs, mod.]