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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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Hugh G. Campbell, who received his Ph.D. from UCLA, was on the history faculty at California State University, Chico, from 1967 to 1998.
http://news.csuchico.edu/2010/04/30/special-luncheon-pays-tribute-to-outstanding-emeritus-and-retired-faculty/
That means that he would be getting on in years. Having some fear of earthquakes in California is a reasonable thing, and attributing such events to something that could potentially be controlled by human beings is understandable. Very, very wrong, but understandable.
Anthony,
We’ve got “nuts” in Australia as well, as you may have seen during your recent visit.
But it’s as easy to disprove as a trip to Wikipedia will show:-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_earthquakes
Shows earthquakes of note since ~2400 years BP
The “nuts” can’t read historic records.
Anthony,
I can’t believe you’re making fun of this guy. Typical of a Denier.
Solar Cycle 24 has been far less active than anything we’ve seen in the past. Obviously this is due to the decreased reflectance of light from the Earth’s surface making its way back to the due to increased atmospheric and oceanic warming from Climate Change.
I’ve got models that say at this rate, the sun will give 75% less energy in 100 years. And by then all the ice caps will have melted!
That’s real science!
Now if you don’t mind, I have some tea leaves to read.
Wow!! Can I use that in the novel I’m writing? Seriously, who let’s these people out of the funny farm?
I don’t recall any of this information when I researched tectonic plates and volcanoes for a research paper I wrote in 11th grade. (I know that was a million years ago before Al Gore invented the internet, but still, you would have thought those scientific papers I read back then would have mentioned this as a cause of earthquakes? And here I thought the reason I got a B- on the paper was due to being a couple days late on turning the paper in. I should have realized I missed this information.)
In the search for truth and science, one thing that remains a mystery for me is the big-bang. Or to be more exact, the nothingness that existed prior to this big, immense, explosion of infinite energy. My question has always been: can a nothingness exist? And can it be contained in something? Now my question has been answered. Yes. A nothingness can exist and it is found in a warmists cranial cavity.
There are nutters everywhere!
How about this one. Deserves some serious research i’d say.
“Women who wear revealing clothing and behave promiscuously are to blame for earthquakes, an Iranian cleric says.”
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/8631775.stm
Anthony, nothing could multiply the numbers of skeptics as good as this kind of over-the-top alarmism. Soon every thinking human will be a skeptic. And the Alarmists can have the others. (I don’t think Mr. Campbell was being sarcastic; he probably read about the AGW-earthquake connection somewhere else and blindly believed it.)
We should all do our science religiously.
(Without error; without prejudice; without fail.)
mikelorrey says:
July 9, 2010 at 1:09 am
….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. ~
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I keep comparing them to my flock of sheep and find my sheep are smarter. At least my sheep can figure out how to run a maze to get to the grain. Unfortunately a large percentage of people can not follow the money in the global warming scam as well as my sheep can follow the smell of grain.
Michael from Sydney is being a tad oversensitive about his religion, whatever it is. The fact that many Warmists’ behaviour and utterances demonstrate that their belief in warming is a religion to them, whether they realise it or not (i.e. a matter of faith ) and that many sceptics see the whackier pronouncements of the Warmist faithful as funny/peculiar/sad/misguided/nonsense is NOT a smack at religions of the world per se. I have known a few scientists who were good Christians of some variety or other and I have known some scientists who were agnostic, some who were atheist and some who thought their views on religion were nobody else’s business but their own.
I have also known Christian zealots who were totally nasty and very judgemental about and to persons of faiths different from their own, very similar to many Warmists on countless blogs.
Sorry, mate, but in my humble opinion you have been too ready to take offence where none was meant.
Obviously he’s seen the movie 2012.
Neutrinos, AGW, whatever….
M White says:
July 9, 2010 at 2:16 am
“Germany targets switch to 100% renewables for its electricity by 2050″
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/jul/07/germany-renewable-energy-electricity
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That goes well with the article EU banned heated family houses built from 2020
That puts us to being equivalent to humans before the discovery of fire. After all fire in its many forms is what generates CO2 and that is the level of civilization the Greenies are aiming for. I hope you like eating your food raw.
Hugh Campbell is a well known conservative who contributes letters on a regular basis. It appears he has “punked” two editors.
Don’t feel too bad Anthony, and if you need help moving . . . : )
A few talking points on the Lebron James leaving Cleveland and the elements that we all need to consider as the behind-the-scenes issues unfold.
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I’m sorry but I do not accept the apologists definition of ‘religiously’ when it is followed by… ‘NUT’ shell…
I too, read it to mean “votes in every single election” and was very surprised to see your interpretation. Maybe it’s an American thing. Just sayin’
When I lived in Scotland I learned that they had a saying:-
There are three things that are problems in Scotland
1) The rain
2) The midges (a very small fly that breed in the damp areas)
3) The clan Campbell.
It looks as if the correspondant is upholding the last one :o)
Michael in Sydney says:
July 9, 2010 at 4:32 am
“I’m sorry but I do not accept the apologists definition of ‘religiously’ when it is followed by… ‘NUT’ shell…”
Michael, you need to lighten up. It is not justifiable to label someone who offers a reasonable and well-founded definition of the term “religiously” an apologist when he quotes a dictionary.
The misinterpretation of “religiously” that a number of people kindly tried to set straight is nothing more than that, a misinterpretation.
Focus your criticism were it should be made to count, at the practice of passing off the religion of AGW alarmism under the guise of science.
Michael in Sydney,
I, too, am a Christian and tire easily of the comments about being so stupid and naive to believe the bible version of creation and all the other grossly inaccurate statements with regards to not understanding science. That being said, I see nothing in the words “voting religiously” that should offend in any way shape or form. I don’t know if you have the expression down under, but here in the States doing something “religiously” means you are very devoted to it. Period. The reference to “NUT” was simply to say that this guy was, without a doubt, crazy.
Now, if he had said “This guy is just another example of a typical Christian (aka complete nutjob)”, then I’d have a problem. But that’s not the case.
Sorry, had no coffee yet. “were it should be made to count” should have read “where it should be made to count”.
“Germany targets switch to 100% renewables for its electricity by 2050″
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That goes well with the article EU banned heated family houses built from 2020
That puts us to being equivalent to humans before the discovery of fire…
Take that a step further. No Mannmade CO2 means no fire (combustion) no smelting of ores (it takes heat) no products made from smelted ores and therefore no solar panels or windmills, AND NO beer or wine OR BIOFUELS from fermentation.
So the logical conclusion is we must become a civilization with no means of generating energy except by our muscles or from animals muscles.
Well,, let’s see- Debbie Stabenow said: ” I can feel it when I fly”
John Holdren (W/H Science CZAR) wrote in “Ecoscience”: for example, Holdren said the United States must set an example for the world by undergoing “dedevelopment,” and that wealth must be redistributed “with and among nations.”
We’ve got Capsizing Islands… mostly because of too many people standing on them, but this will be worse when seas rise 80M according to the USGS: http://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/fs2-00/
I don’t know where you can go to find sanity, Anthony. Maybe China?
but it was just a ‘rotten’ Earthquake….
Well if Global Warming causing everything…what does Global Cooling cause? Oh, its just a fake word…
There is no refuge from mythical global warming triggered earthquakes for CAGW faithful like Hugh Cambell…
“Global warming creates volatility. I feel it when I’m flying”
-Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-MI)
Dave Springer says: “Obviously a product of public school social promotions. Bush’s “No One Left Behind” program came along too late for him except maybe in the form of a job opportunity to be a poster child for it.”
You’re thinking of the “No Taxpayer’s Behind Left” program.
Be grateful he’s not your Congressman.