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In my town we have a contingent of crazies, just like most towns. I didn’t realize just how crazy some are until I read this letter to the editor in the Chico Enterprise Record.
This is what we are up against. I kid you not, this guy says earthquakes are a “real and genuine menace” related to global warming.
Source here
We have a t-shirt you can buy here at the museum store that speaks to our local agricultural base of orchards that says; Chico, where the nuts come from.
I may have to move.
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UPDATE: My local newspaper editor writes to me to say that Mr. Campbell was invoking sarcasm, and cites a couple of other similar letters to the editor Mr. Campbell has written in the past. He also says “I agree that sarcasm is hard to detect in print. A common mistake.”
I thought about that possibility of it being sarcasm, so I read it several times before posting on this. I could not detect a hint of sarcasm. Maybe my sarcasm sniffer is busted from reading so many outlandish claims about AGW effects. One only has to peruse the master MSM referenced warmlist here to see what I’m talking about. Note that earthquakes, earthquakes redux are on that list. Apologies to Mr. Campbell, but also forgive me, because I’ve seen even more outlandish things (like bridge collapse due to AGW, debunked here) that I can count in my tenure as a blogger on AGW.
That’s the problem with sarcasm, it is not always obvious to the reader. Learning from experience I make sarcasm obvious now with either a blog post tag or the “sarc off” /sarc at the end of a sentence.
When we have dubious claims being posted daily about global warming effects and linkages in science journals and in the MSM, it’s hard to tell what is real and what is sarcasm anymore. Either way, this episode makes me laugh, and I hope readers get a chuckle out of it too. – Anthony
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Shouldn’t that headline read “Fake and Bake”?
This Campbell induhvidual reminds me of some old yankee aphorisms about certain people being dumber than a bag of hammers.
When you start seeing these sort of idiotic statements I start wondering if it it isn’t really a doubter who is intentionally posting completely inane associations like this in order to discredit the perceived intelligence of warmists. But then I usually wind up running into some irrational watermelon who actually thinks this way…
Reply: I always liked the corollary. Dumber than a box of hair. ~ ctm
I don’t know Anthony, the logic is flawless –
The global warming is causing the earth warm up and to soften and become unstable, which makes it much more prone to earthquakes, as the bits can’t stick together any more.
And the lava you see coming out the volcanoes is the stuff that’s already melted completely. As it heats up, it expands and pushes it’s way through the surface.
The evidence is there, if you will only see it.
We’re doomed I tell you!!
He needs some soothing words from the Sir Muir Russell report team guy who doesn’t think any of it is worth getting worked up about.
Gee, I wonder what he thinks when it thunders and lightenings?
Crazies are everywhere. A few months ago I saw a comment on an Australian web site, claiming that carbon pollution is another tool of male oppression, because women suffer more from Tsunamis. I’m not making that up.
Here in Portugal, Media have claimed that the highest temperature in Portugal has been broken, looking at the drugstore’s outside thermometer, in the hottest portuguese town! The story went viral, and one reporter couldn’t even understand why the car thermometer was displaying 42, while the drugstore’s thermometer was reading 50ºC… BTW, the Meteorological Institute registered that the highest temperature for the day at the town, Amareleja, was indeed 42ºC. Makes us wonder that car thermometers are good at the job!
For those of the readers that understand Portuguese, you can see these silly-season pieces at the following links:
http://ecotretas.blogspot.com/2010/07/termometros-da-farmacia.html
http://ecotretas.blogspot.com/2010/07/farmacia-portugal.html
http://ecotretas.blogspot.com/2010/07/50c-na-sic.html
Ecotretas
I bet you sent that letter yourself to discredit climate scientists :=)
If it’s earthquakes that are the problem, and global warming somehow causes their expression, then it stands to reason there must be a subterrainian mechanism in play. A lubricant perhaps. Something which becomes more viscuos when subjected to a half a degree of extra warmth.
I can only think of one thing like that. Oil.
In order to save Chico from the anthropogenic earthquake we have to extract the lubricant.
There’s no time to waste.
Come, come Anthony. Are you saying that the recent spate of earthquakes is just part of natural variation in activity? Next thing you’ll being saying the same about the recent teperature record. But wait, you are – and so you should.
I bet that this earthquake theory is ‘peer’-reviewed and in a few weeks time will find itself quoted in some Pachauri report. Then it will be debunked and later we will have a committee or four whitewashing Pachauri’s report, or CRU or EAU or some other warmist pump action machine.
Where I live, one chap ( or was it a woman?) wrote a letter to the editor asking our authorities to ban farmers’ greenhouses so as to avoid global warming. I assure you that this is true.
The mechanism seems quite straightforward. As the earth heats up, it expands, so there isn’t enough, er, earth to go around, so holes develop allowing earthquakes to happen. Can I have some IPCC funding, please?
“Awake before it is too late.”
A refrain I have heard many times before.
I have a stock answer but it would be snipped. 🙂
Oh don’t laugh. After the rain, out comes the slugs – and sure enough today there is a crop of “global warming could …. ” articles.
Fortunately, following climategate, the climate for global warming hysteria is now very hostile and I suspect the nut-case papers that run these stories will be met with a mix of indignant boredom and downright hostility from readers who now know they are being take for a ride.
And this earthquake science is surely settled while surley there must be a consensus and the government will be imposing another tax on CO2 to avoid earthquakes and tsunamis.
Really, if it wasn’t for the great economic and social harm that this big lie is causing, it would be sooooooooooo funny.
Always makes me chuckle when such pundits tell “us” to wake up when just having read something that is the work of the comatose. 🙂
Mick.
Chuckles,
there’s a well known desert phenomena that sound like rifle shots in the evening, actually caused by the surface of rocks cooling and shrinking faster than the internal parts, and cracking under the strain.
So earthquakes are more like a sign that the earth is cooling!
“Germany targets switch to 100% renewables for its electricity by 2050”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/jul/07/germany-renewable-energy-electricity
tips & notes causing me problems
Surely Mr Campbell is being ironic.
Surely, “only in America”?
OT, attended the local Church Choir end of term party last night. Got talking to my Met Office co bass singer, he tells me that the BBC have renewed their weather forecasting contract, which is hardly surprising as the same type who run the Met Office run the BBC! AND it’s all funded by the taxpayer. Apparently there are moves to reduce pensions/salaries somewhere but I doubt it will happen somehow. The fellow, & a dear chap he really is, was also involved in research on the Icelandic volcano eruption flying around Britain, he once told me how amazing it was to watch the model projection of dust-cloud behaviour compared to reality! However, Willy Walsh of BA among many others was not as convinced as they found little dust in the engines & no damage at all!
I am certain that there are those among us who secretly welcome/desire some sort of biblical proportion catastrophe. I believe it serves to validate some deep seated belief that man is wicked and deserving of “the wrath of God”. Of course in their fantasy, they are miraculously “spared” as further proof of their devotion and a lesson to others. If it weren’t for the fact that a lot of folk are equally gullible, or in need of some “meaning” they would be for the most part – harmless. Perhaps a serious reality check, followed up by regular visits to the shrink could help, but hey, a plague or meteor strike sure helps fill an otherwise dull existence.
“Lachlan says:
July 9, 2010 at 1:20 am
Crazies are everywhere. A few months ago I saw a comment on an Australian web site, claiming that carbon pollution is another tool of male oppression, because women suffer more from Tsunamis. I’m not making that up.”
I’ve taught a bit of environmental ethics and a basic tenet that crops up a lot is that ‘mother’ earth is being ‘raped’ by man. Very definitely a male female thing. look up ‘Ecofeminism’.
cheers David
Just another doom and gloom clobal warming wacko and belongs in the brain dead file
Delving deeper into the troubling story one came across the comments page and a posting by “Robert Rhodes” who agrees totally with the original post and who then links to this site where he claims to have made the predictions:
http://sciencedude.ocregister.com/2010/06/11/bogus-quake-forecast-goes-wild-on-youtube/101553/#comment-51131
and I quote…”Ozonator….June 16, 2010 at 9:25 pm
I made the following AGW volcano predictions in this blog: “June 13, 2010 at 12:20 am … “1). Indonesia – PNG – Hawaii – Guatemala – Ecuador – Chile; 2). Alaska – Iceland – Italy; 3). Kenya – Reunion Island – Heard Island – New Zealand”. Making 4 (31%) correct out of 13, as of 6/16/10 under the 6/13 – 19/10 period, the 1st reporting by volcano.si.edu/reports/usgs (that may take up to 4 weeks for all to be reported): SAKURA-JIMA Kyushu; ULAWUN New Britain, PNG; BATU TARA Komba Island, Indonesia; BAGANA Bougainville, Solomon Islands, Melanesia; TUNGURAHUA Ecuador; and KILAUEA Hawaii….”
the rant (and if you visit the link you will see how he regularly goes off on one) continues.
Happenstance is that he chooses some of the most seismically active areas/volcanoes on the planet and links them to a successful predictive sequence.
I sigh in the thought that our purportedly 1st world education system is allowing adults (I make that presumption here) to enter the big wide world without the basic grounding of common sense or abstract questioning of our environment.
http://peebles.podomatic.com/player/web/2007-06-01T05_26_50-07_00
And don’t believe those stories from the anti-science brigade saying much bigger earthquakes have happened in the past. They’re funded by Big Magma!
(sad, that I have to say “/sarc”, isn’t it?)
Best,
Frank