SEE UPDATE below the “Continue reading” line.
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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Chico born.
Chico bred,
Strong in arm,
Thick in head.
Aw…. That’s really depressing…. Many of my fellow human beings are imbeciles.
…an’ I had such high hopes fer em. But instead they think Gaia has a temperature and has got the shakes like some sort of malaria sufferer…… Sigh:-(
This is a very serious problem. Global warming induced earthquakes could easily hasten the eventual tipping over of Guam. Someone needs to alert Hank Johnson before it’s too late!
Reply: I always liked the corollary. Dumber than a box of hair. ~ ctm
Or climate scientists as useful as a chocolate tea pot.
Chuckles says:
July 9, 2010 at 1:14 am
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!!
I don’t know Chuckles, the logic is flawed –
The global cooling is going to cause the earth to cool and to shrink and become crinkled, which makes it much more prone to earthquakes, as the bits get pressured until they slip on each other.
And the lava you see coming out the volcanoes is the stuff that’s already melted completely from the current warm. As it the earth shrinks, the pressure pushes it through the surface.
The evidence is there, if you will only see it.
We’re doomed I tell you!! I told you warm was good!!
LOL!
/ sarc
Well which way is it? Neither? Both? Either? Where the most grants are?
When I lived in California in the late 80s/early 90s a local paper ascribed a long run of dry weather to El Nino.
Subsequently the same paper interviewed an irate local resident listed in the phone book as Al Nino. He was fed up with receiving phone calls from fellow Californians demanding he stopped messing with the weather.
Anthony may have found one of Mr. Nino’s callers.
Hell.
He wasn’t even tryin’.
How about – The global mass of Termites is increasing because of the improved global temperatures increasing hive growth rates. This bio mass is digging ever downwards, as it passes through various strata, it displaces mega tonnes of soil, rock, clay, sand, and stuff. This displaced mass causes minor tremors, which synchronise due to the lunar cycle, to create a world spanning harmonic. When discordant waves interpenetrate, they can cause earthquakes, tsunami’s, fire storms, geomagnetic plasma pulses, neutron dense magma bubbles and diary cow flatuence.
If mankind carries on his reckless use of FOI’s, termites will end all life on earth – in ten years.
Now thats how you string stupidity together to get a Russell Muir pass.
“Can there still be any doubt…”
“Awake before it is too late!”
“Don’t doubt…”
–once in a while I still enjoy a good old fashioned pulpit-pounding, fire-and-brimstone sermon, but about faith, NOT about science.
The vocabulary of religion doesn’t belong anywhere near the subject of science.
Well Mike G
“It is very unfortunate but this guy probably votes religiously. I think that sums it all up in a “NUT” shell on why we really are all doomed.”
Well Gollly!
I suppose that as a Christian and a voter it is just as well that I left my brain at the front door. That’s right all us religious folk are just religious fools who can’t discern the difference between supposed bible truth and science.
I guess that as a long term poster to this forum and Christian I might as well give up because my religiosity will eventually lead to me becoming another stupid alarmist.
Thank goodness (or thank God) you pointed this out to me and all those others here who believe in a deity, that we didn’t waste our time questioning whether or not the theory of AGW was robust or not, as our religious inclinations would eventually lead us down the path of destruction.
Thank you Mike G for pointing out my fundamental flaw (‘fundamental’ in terms of my evangelicalism and ‘flaw’ in terms of my sin of not believing that there is no God).
You are a fool.
Kind regards
Michael Lynch
Mosman, Sydney, Australia.
PS.
Anthony I am so sick to death of these ignorant fools who believe that religious beliefs are anti-science.
I understand that an asteroid strike is also a disaster exacerbated by the ‘threat of Global Warming’ as well. After all, the last big one that did the Dinos occurred during a period of excessive global warmth, so don’t doubt global warming, Gaia is watching … and she is angry!!
This is hardly the first time I’ve heard/read that earthquakes and tsunamis are evidence of global warming. I get that, and worse, from my students (college), and the refrain of “wake up!” often accompanies it.
By the way, I won’t allow my students to write about global warming (a topic chosen by about 50% of them) unless they can tell me on the spot who Phil Jones, Michael Mann, and Steve McIntyre are, as well as what Climategate and the “hockey stick” graph are. So far, not a single student has been able to answer one of these questions.
But damn it — they sure do know that the planet is doomed through global warming, and that earthquakes and tsunamis are just two of the obvious signs.
Actually I think the guy is taking the piss, i.e. being sarcastic. The editor did not get it and accidently published the comment.
“c huckles says:
July 9, 2010 at 1:14 am
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!!”
It is much worse than we first thought! I read a “paper” from a geologist who claimed that global warming could prevent volcanic heat from escaping the earths crust. This could cause parts of the mantle to melt and fissionable materials to collect at fault lines. These nuclear materials would reach critical mass and cause a gigantic nuclear explosion, possibly ripping the Earth apart!
The whole world could just explode due to global warming.
http://sci-e-research.com/geophysics.html
“Consequences of global warming are far more serious than previously imagined.”
Michael in Sydney says:
July 9, 2010 at 3:44 am
Anthony I am so sick to death of these ignorant fools who believe that religious beliefs are anti-science.
On a very serious note Michael, don’t feel you are alone, I’ll second that.
To do something ‘religiously’ is an expression that generally means ‘frequently’ or ‘conscientiously’, and I’m quite sure that’s what Mike G intended. It does not mean ‘based on one’s religion’.
/Mr Lynn
Michael in Sydney
I think youhave the wrong end of the stick “voting religiously” just means that you vote at every election without fail.
Watch out, they may put a tax on Earthquakes.
Farmers around my area are pulling the apple trees as the government now wants them to be classed in the industry business and must have any helpers covered by Workmans Compensation, wear hardhats and safety boots.
Our government in Ontario has been trying to bring in new industry and business. Many people are on fixed incomes as the population ages.
Yet, as of July 1, they brought in a new tax(HST). They just increased the tax on electricity May 1 ,6% and are adding this HST to electricity and fuel. Jumped big into wind turbines with huge subsities. Talking of huge tolls on the roads now as well.
Bag of hammers…hmmmmm.
Oops…forgot.
They snuck in an ECO-Tax on products.
One of the definitions of religious, which Mike G was surely using, is this: “Extremely scrupulous or conscientious: religious devotion to duty.”
Maybe it’s the mysticism that is not science? Or perhaps the faith isn’t science? Or maybe supernatural forces aren’t actually science? Oh – I bet it’s zombies that aren’t science – or maybe parthenogenic humans or maybe ‘My Bowels will sound like a harp for Moab and Mine Inward Parts for Kirharesh’ (isaiah 11:10) is just the silliest way a god could blast a city off the face of the earth or something… One should be forgiven if he gets the impression that religions is not only unscientific but sort of flies in the face of reason every chance it gets.
Don’t forget that Al Gore has found the Earth’s interior to have risen to several million degrees. That surely must lead to increased seismic activity.
The 1906 San Francisco earthquake was much larger than any quakes since. Must have been the low CO2 levels.
The really really really scary part is that these bastards vote!
I’m sorry but I do not accept the apologists definition of ‘religiously’ when it is followed by… ‘NUT’ shell…
Let’s hear Mike G and Anthony who runs this show.
Kind Regards
Michael
I’m from Adelaide, Australia.. I visited your quaint and beautiful town in 2002 (because I was in California, and a band I knew were playing there), and stayed in an excellent B&B near the outskirts. There, and driving through the town, I noted the abundance of nuts.. Mind you, they were on the trees.
This one must have fallen off.