Scott Adams says through Dilbert what we have all been thinking lately…
Scott must read Climate Progress, where else would he get ideas like this?
h/t to WUWT reader Ian
The Sunday March 20th comic was also relevant:
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Dilbert seems to be a favorite topic of the blogs today! 🙂
Dilbert has a lot of truth to it. I find it funny when a CO2 alarmist says that Green Technology (that doesn’t even exist) is going to cost less and be better. How can that be? We don’t even know if it’s even possible.
Step 1: First develop the “Green Technology”.
Step 2: Decide if it costs less and is better!
Q. How many warmists does it take to change a lightbulb?
A. Change a what?
Q. How many warmists does it take to change a lightbulb?
A. due to Freedom of Information request.
Skepticism goes mainstream – YES!
How many warmists does it take to change a lightbulb? Depends what you’re changing it to. If you’re changing it to a CFL, then only a few. If you’re changing it to a luminescent wall panel powered by solar cells and unicorn farts, maybe a few more.
As for psychiatrists, it only takes one of them to change a light bulb… but the light bulb really has to want to change.
I’ve been following Dilbert since it started. Like everyone who has ever had their name on a cubicle, or worse, never even rated their own cubicle, I have personally seen almost everything he’s come up with. The raw greed, the idiot climbers, people getting promoted past their capability, fabrication of data, fabrication of books, the callous disregard for talented interns, the hypersensitive female employees that think “good morning” is sexual harassment, etc. etc.
Engineers are harder to fool. More physical science in their curriculum.
I’ve always loved Dilbert, this is reinforcement.
How many warmists does it take to change a light globe?
None. They use the combined data from the working globes in the house to claim the current globe is not just working but brighter than it has ever been.
How many climate skeptics does it take to change a light bulb?
Only one, but before changing the bulb they check the state of the on-off switch and power supply to verify that it actually needs to be changed.
“The first principle is that you must not fool yourself – and you are the easiest person to fool.”
— Richard P. Feynman
Roger Longstaff (7:32 am)
I recently had to change a light fitting for the mother-in-law, as the old one had burned out and exploded, after the insulation had melted on the wiring, caused by her buying Chinese 100W bulbs that were very dodgy quality, since she can no longer buy proper ones.
When will the first death occur due to banning 100W bulbs, I wonder? Perhaps it already has.
How many warmists does it take to change a light bulb?
A consensus of them, who also tell you the dark caused the light to go out.
How many warmists does it take to change a lightbulb?
One + the HAZMAT team to clean up the mercury from the dropped CFL bulb.
How many warmists does it take to change a lightbulb?
Dunno? But I know a good Hockey Team.
Bob Diaz says:
Step 1: First develop the “Green Technology”.
Step 2: Decide if it costs less and is better!
The way I hear it, it’s more like:
Step 1: Decide “Green Technology” costs less and is better
Step 2: Build it
Step 3: Ignore basic physics and economics and claim you were right.
How many war mists does it take to change a light bulb?
About 1000
5 to do the environmental impact assessment.
2 to approve the environmental impact assessment.
40 to mine the precious ores for the chinese Eco lightbulb.
6 workers on $3 per day to manufacture it.
32 to rig the sales on the Eco barge.
2 to drive the Nissan milk float from the dock taking 6 days to deliver because it needs a recharge every 100 miles.
1 to drive the rickshaw from the depot to the socket
1 electrician to replace the bulb after health and safety course
And the other 913 needed to go to an Eco conference in Bali paid by the ipcc to discuss the impact of the new bulb and the ways of offsetting the carbon released in it’s replacement
118 to deliver the lightbulb from the factory.
20 to rig the masts on the schooner delivering the bulb from china
EJ says:
March 29, 2011 at 7:01 am
The tide has definately turned. When people start mocking the greatest calamity to befall humanity.
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First, get some perspective. The greatest calamity to our species will be when our sun goes red giant and boils all the water off the earth.
Next, resuscitate your sense of humor. Try watching The Producers, a movie written by a Jew about Jews producing a musical comedy about Hitler. Or maybe see some Monty Python about the Black Death.
Then, meditate on other documented, death-dealing calamities. Industrialized warfare. Stalin. The 1916 Swine Flu. AIDS.
Try some philosophical comparison shopping. Which was worse, the Fall from Grace or the Death of God?
There’s lots to consider; you can’t just merrily toss out an epithet such as, “the greatest calamity to befall humanity.”
Oops should read
How many warmists does it take to change a light bulb?
About 1000
5 to do the environmental impact assessment.
2 to approve the environmental impact assessment.
40 to mine the precious ores for the chinese Eco lightbulb.
6 workers on $3 per day to manufacture it.
32 to rig the sales on the Eco barge.
2 to drive the Nissan milk float from the dock taking 6 days to deliver because it needs a recharge every 100 miles.
1 to drive the rickshaw from the depot to the socket
1 electrician to replace the bulb after health and safety course
And the other 913 needed to go to an Eco conference in Bali paid by the ipcc to discuss the impact of the new bulb and the ways of offsetting the carbon released in it’s replacement
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thanks for reminding me how much I love Dilbert.
Burch beat me to the sceptic…
How many warmists does it take to change a light bulb?
Pretty soon none, light bulbs will have been banned. You can only chage LED’s and CFL tubes. (look up the definition, most all say a “bulb” is incandesant or heated wire or the glass surrounding it, since the name originated because of its similar shape to the bulb of a plant).
How many skeptics does it take to change a lightbulb?
None. In spite of millions of dollars worth of super-computers modelling that the lightbulb has burned out, politicians eager to tax us to death because the bulb will burn out unless we radically change our lifestyles, and regardless of a cabal of lightbulb scientists (worried that their phony-baloney jobs are in jeopardy) that are urging us that the bulb is about to hit a tipping point causing bulbs everywhere to go out (but, mysteriously, they won’t divulge their data or methods, thus causing everyone to remain “in the dark”), the skeptics prefer to use their eyes and see that the bulb is still burning brightly.
TonyG says:
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The way I hear it, it’s more like:
Step 1: Decide “Green Technology” costs less and is better
Step 2: Build it
Step 3: Ignore basic physics and economics and claim you were right.
Note quite right either… It is actually 2 phases together.
Greens
Step 1: Know that “Green Technology” is for the best regardless of whatever it may cost, but know other people are less enlightened than you so you lie and say it is cheap and will create jobs.
Step 2: Pursuade the government to make conventional technology cost more and give subsidies to invest in “Green Technology”
Step 3: Pressure companies to build it
Step 4: Realize that even with subsidies and increased cost of conventional tech, Green tech still costs more money so convice government to ban or severly restrict conventional technology by telling everyone that the loss in jobs in conventional tech will be replaced by those of Green jobs.
Step 5: Be smug in the fact that even if the green technology is found to be a poor replacement for the conventional tech, you know that it is very unlikely for the conventional tech to come back because that was the goal to begin with. You dont care if it costs more or people lost their job because it was the earth you are saving.
Companies
Step 1: Resist changing conventional tech that makes money
Step 2: With higher cost of conventional tech and subsidies, you invest lots of money into green tech
Step 3: Though not quite ready for production, be pressured to convert some of your manufacturing to building it at a high cost. Make claims that are only true in a labratory setting.
Step 4: With most of your plants off-line and not making money, you can either retrofit your existing plants or you look at setting up a new factory to produce the new items at the cheapest cost. The cheapest solution is to build a new factory in China.
Step 5: Even though people hate your new product, you pressure the government to not change the law back to what it was because all of the money you invested would have been waisted and you no longer have the capability to make the older product you once had (so to switch back would cost even more money and could put you out of business).
No graphic of Dilbert or anything else appeared on my screen – just an empty rectangle.
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Retraction – just a computer glitch. I see them now!
How many warmists does it take to change a light bulb?
I think we need an international panel of scientists that only we choose that have like minds to study the problem(If any dissent, we’ll throw them out). After we spend billions of dollars on computer modeling and data fudging, we will get a consensus that we like and brow beat everyone else who doesn’t agree with us. We’ll get a sensationalistic media to report that if we don’t change the bulb we’re all doomed. Lastly, we’ll declare that the only way to change the bulb without dooming ourselves is to put up a windmill to power it. I just hope no birds get killed in the process, but progress is progress.