Dr. Heidi Cullen of Weather Channel fame but now CEO of Climate Central outfit is publishing a new book on August 3, so far #138,256 on Amazon’s bestsellers but sure to rocket up the listings when the book publicity tour begins.
From the Entertainment section of ABCnews.com: Climatologist Sees Disastrous Weather in Future … Cullen predictably delves into the global warming alarmism and whips up several very “Day After Tomorrow” scenarios:
The itinerary includes imaginary “weather reports” for a series of future years. The one for New York dated “August 2050” is the most optimistic, though it envisions the Atlantic as warming to “bathtub” temperature. It concludes:
“In 2050, when Hurricane Xavier — a category 4 monster, which sprang up from the bathtub that the Atlantic had become finally arrived — people sat back and watched it like the World Series. We knew we had a home team advantage, just like the Yankees.”
FLASHBACK: “The Weather Channel’s most prominent climatologist is advocating that broadcast meteorologists be stripped of their scientific certification if they express skepticism about predictions of manmade catastrophic global warming. This latest call to silence skeptics follows a year (2006) in which skeptics were compared to “Holocaust Deniers” and Nuremberg-style war crimes trials were advocated by several climate alarmists….
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These are the sort of things we will see increasing rapidly during the failing hysteria phase of the death spiral of global warming. Desperation breeds tracts of this kind just at the edge of failure. It is a ‘sauve qui peut’ (save what you can) period when it is clear that all is lost. Hey the public is already leaving the theatre for gosh sakes – 58% don’t believe and a good chunk of the rest will follow before the lights go out.
jpfife hints that the second dash should follow the word “become.” The second dash, where it is now located, should be replaced by the word “and.” Whooaa! This book is going to be one fine read.
“In 2050, when Hurricane Xavier — a category 4 monster, which sprang up from the bathtub that the Atlantic had become finally arrived — people sat back and watched it like the World Series. We knew we had a home team advantage, just like the Yankees.”
Dr. Cullen may want to watch the hysteria. You never know if someone might take her seriously, start hoarding ammunition and then go to her house to take what they can; because Darwin was right. Maybe she should remember an old quote from the Ole West; “God created all men. Sam Colt made them equal.”
I am not promoting this……I am just saying that there are other Doomsday predictions.
Al Gore’s Holy Hologram writes:
“L. Ron Hubbard could not beat this shit.”
Your timing, rhythm, everything is impeccable. I laughed until I cried.
Evidently Miz Cullen’s book is not a novel, but a ‘non-fiction’ attempt to pass off trite and by-now hackneyed alarmist forecasts of the dangers of ‘climate change’. Expect to see it remaindered well before Christmas.
So it puzzles me why the discussion veered off into SF writers, except that they are vastly more interesting than promulgators of pseudo-science masquerading as fact.
Isaac Asimov was an engaging and jovial fellow, a biochemist turned profligate author. In my opinion his fiction (especially the first three ‘Foundation’ novels, and some of the lesser-known ones, like Pebble in the Sky) were much more compelling than his non-fiction work. They usually concerned a very distant future, unlike Heinlein’s ‘Future History’ stories, which related the politics of an era only a few decades hence. Asimov was, as someone said, an establishment figure as far as science went, a popularizer rather than a thinker. How the iconoclastic Robert A. Heinlein might have regarded the AGW cult is hard to say, but he was an engineer, and suspicious of all ideologies and ideologues.
No one has mentioned my favorite SF writer, whose remarkable literary inventions still intrigue and entertain with every re-reading: Jack Vance. Science plays little direct role in his work (aside from the Intersplit, which enabled FTL interstellar travel and the settlement of much of the Galaxy). Most of it has to do with the million and one quirks and peculiarities of which humanity and human culture may be—and is—capable. From a Vanceian point of view the prospect of a great civilization intent on reducing itself to poverty out of misguided and insane idealism might be perfectly understandable.
/Mr Lynn
According to Wikipedia, this is one of her publications:
Glantz, Michael H.; Cullen, Heidi (1 January 2003), “Zimbabwe’s Food Crisis”, Environment, Issue 45(1): 9–11, retrieved 10 December 200
She didn’t blame Zimbabwe’s food crises on global warming instead of Mugabe, did she? Anyone know?
Smokey says:
August 2, 2010 at 10:02 am
Phil. says:
“That would be unfair since Heidi is rather pettite [sic], a 5km race sounds more appropriate where my money would be on Heidi.”
No tenured academic can be forced to take a remedial spelling class, which is one more reason to get rid of the dysfunctional tenure system. Coasting through life on the backs of honest working people brings to mind this situation:
Wow Smokey this is poor even for you, a typo and you make unfounded personal slurs! Too much to expect that the mods would remove your insults, some of us are fair game I guess.
I’m late to this party…and haven’t read all the comments so might be reapeating this stuff, but the Weather Channel (note “weather” in its name) in general and Dr. Cullen specifically, always generate four words in my mind: Jeff Immelt / General Electric.
GE owns NBC which now owns the Weather Channel. Jeff (of GE) likes windmills. They make lots of money for GE…which owns NBC…which owns Weather Channel…which would like to see widespread panic for all to buy windmills. Dr. (sic)Cullen knows on which side her bread is buttered.
Talk about a “news” source masquerading as true, vetted information? Want more? Ask the sawed-off Jim Cantore at the Weather Channel. Science is totally foreign to him. But the chicks love him.
(If only they could see him in person….)
I have just run across one statement on the internet that might be the source of this type of alarming story. It says that at the end of September 2009, a ‘renowned climatologist,’ Stephan Rahmstorf, speaking to an international climate change conference in Oxford, England made the ‘startling announcement’ that a rise of at least 2 meters in the world’s sea levels had become virtually “unstoppable.”
RE: Spector: (August 2, 2010 at 10:34 pm )
Correction: for Stephan Rahmstorf, please read Stefan Rahmstorf…
The Happy Inifidel : August 2, 2010 at 8:53 pm
According to Wikipedia, this is one of her publications:
Glantz, Michael H.; Cullen, Heidi (1 January 2003), “Zimbabwe’s Food Crisis”, Environment, Issue 45(1): 9–11
She didn’t blame Zimbabwe’s food crises on global warming instead of Mugabe, did she? Anyone know?
She and Michael Glantz have co-authored a number of articles, all of which were climate-related. Their article is cited as a reference in “Coping With A Changing Climate: Considerations for Adaptation and Mitigation in Agriculture” — as is Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth.”
http://www.fao.org/docrep/012/i1315e/i1315e07.pdf
My guess, based on that and Glantz’s previous papers (“On Assessing Winners and Losers in the Context of Global Warming”, among others) — they gave Mugabe a pass.
Hah. I spoke a bit too soon — here’s an article in Geotimes from 2002:
“Glantz and Cullen explain the situation as a “drought+ factor.” Politics have played a large role, Glantz says, citing the example of Zimbabwe. Previously known, along with South Africa, as one of Southern Africa’s chief food exporters, Zimbabwe has suffered from policies framed by its new government. Redistributing large tracts of white-owned farm lands to small-scale subsistence farmers without providing training or infrastructure has badly hurt and weakened the economy. Poor planning and mismanagement plague all governments in the region. Decisions by international donors such as the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund to cut agriculture subsidies and have Southern Africa compete in world markets has also had adverse effects, Glantz explains.”
Further down:
“It’s only in the last couple of decades that drought is being looked at as a multidisciplinary problem,” Cullen says.
http://www.geotimes.org/sept02/geophen.html
So, Glantz made a passing slap at Mugabe, but both he and Mizz Cullen lay the primary blame on drought.
I love the Internet…
RE: Stefan Rahmstorf’s “unstoppable” sea level rise…
After reviewing a number of internet articles, it looks like Dr. Stefan Rahmstorf of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany (who appears to be relatively unknown in the U.S) may be Germany’s equivalent of Dr. Michael Mann, Dr. Phil Jones, and perhaps, former Vice President Gore. Some articles appear to credit him for helping formulate the current AGW policies of the German government.
Well, warmists write books and so do sceptics. I have just published yesterday my book in Spanish called “Clima Feroz”. (“Ferocious Climate”) with 9 chapters and an Epilogue. The longest part is the last chapter “Kioto Policies” and it is already having good acceptance among Spanish readers. It will go soon on Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble.
http://www.lulu.com/product/tapa-blanda/clima-feroz/12053175
Phil. says at 9:22 pm:
“Wow Smokey this is poor even for you, a typo and you make unfounded personal slurs!”
Hey, you left out the funny part of my post! And anyway, pointing out your factual spelling deficiency is not ‘unfounded.’ Is it?
You want to see a real personal slur against a 70 year old retired Physicist? Looky here…
[Phil wrote this about anna v in another thread yesterday]:
“It appears in addition to your ignorance of the physics that you can’t read!”
See, my ‘slurs’ are factual, Phil. That means they’re not slurs; truth is a great defense.
Your slurs are just baseless ad-homs. That means you’ve already lost the argument with anna v. And of course, this one with me.☺
Funny how the one thing conservatives don’t want to do is … conserve …
SnpCrkPopRC,
Wherever did you get that deluded notion?
Spector says:
August 3, 2010 at 1:28 pm
“RE: Stefan Rahmstorf’s “unstoppable” sea level rise…
After reviewing a number of internet articles, it looks like Dr. Stefan Rahmstorf of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany (who appears to be relatively unknown in the U.S) may be Germany’s equivalent of Dr. Michael Mann, Dr. Phil Jones, and perhaps, former Vice President Gore. Some articles appear to credit him for helping formulate the current AGW policies of the German government.”
Yes. He and his fellow Schellnhuber are the German IPCC Bigwigs and Merkel is under their influence – that is, Merkel now avoids climate change like the plague; it’s political poison since the Western leaders tasted the Chinese medicine at COP15.