Heh, what can you say? Read some of the glowing nominations at the links below. It’s pure self aggrandizement wrapped in a delusional comedy. I got the biggest chuckle from seeing skepticalscience.com listed as an “organization”. Mike Mann’s nomination letter #5 link in individual nominees is a hoot also. Lest some think this is some sort of sour grapes, it isn’t. It is simply humorous that only one type of communications apparently passes muster and the nominators are all part of the same club. Contrast that process to this one.
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Climate Change Communicator of the Year
Excellence deserves acknowledgment. Every year we honor one person and one organization for their excellence as climate change communicators. Honorees are identified through an open nomination and democratic voting process. Honorees and nominees from previous years can be found here: 2009 and 2010.
2011 Nominees: 4C Climate Change Communicator of the Year
We are delighted to announce twelve outstanding nominees – six each in the individual and organizational categories – for Climate Change Communicator of the Year 2011. Now we ask that you exercise your democratic right to vote by helping select the climate change communicators of the year. The polls close at midnight, April 15th.
To learn more about each of the nominees, click on their names. Then, cast your ballot: one vote each for an individual and an organization.
Individual Nominees:
1. Tom Crompton
2. Jay Gulledge
5. Joseph Romm
6. John Abraham/Scott Mandia/Ray Weymann
Organizational Nominees:
1. Alliance for Climate Education
2. Climate Change Media Partnership
5. The Earth Journalism Network
6. Union of Concerned Scientists
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Source: http://www.climatechangecommunication.org/award.cfm should anyone care to vote.
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They should add Maple Leaf a.k.a… you all know who… from Winnebago North
And if you go looking for Prof. Willimas, you’ll get no guy at all!
;pPpP
I voted by leaving the entries blank and putting my email address as: noneoftheabbove@bias.bs.
I got this response:
Thank you! Your vote has been recorded. We appreciate your participation in the Center for Climate Change Communication’s 2011 Climate Change Communicator of the Year awards. You can look forward to hearing about our winners soon after the polls close at midnight, April 15th.
Hegemony strikes again, the nominations are obviously rigged! There’s no place to write in Greg Craven!
Walter E. Williams is indeed a delight, as is his philosophical fellow traveler Thomas Sowell, who hangs his hat at Berzerkly. http://www.tsowell.com These two men are long-time friends and both are quite brilliant. They don’t make it in prime-time because both are conservative, by nature if not by political thought.
Once when he was filling in for Limbaugh, I heard Walter E. Williams express his “support for women’s rights”: ~”I allow my wife two hours on Saturdays to say anything she wants and she doesn’t even have to address me as ‘Professor’!”
Lucy Skywalker says:
April 13, 2011 at 11:34 am
Here OTOH is my delightful find yesterday…
Imagine that there is a new scientific theory that warns of an impending crisis, and points to a way out.
This theory quickly draws support from leading scientists, politicians and celebrities around the world. Research is funded by distinguished philanthropies, and carried out at prestigious universities. The crisis is reported frequently in the media. The science is taught in college and high school classrooms.
Not global warming??? Have a look
From the Wikipedia page for the patron saint of the greenhouse effect
Racial biology
Svante Arrhenius was one of several leading Swedish scientists actively engaged in the process leading to the creation in 1922 of The State Institute for Racial Biology in Uppsala, Sweden, which had originally been proposed as a Nobel Institute. Arrhenius was a member of the institute’s board, as he had been in The Swedish Society for Racial Hygiene (Eugenics), founded in 1909.[5]
Plus ce la change…
“”””” DonS says:
April 13, 2011 at 5:07 pm
Walter E. Williams is indeed a delight, as is his philosophical fellow traveler Thomas Sowell, who hangs his hat at Berzerkly. http://www.tsowell.com These two men are long-time friends and both are quite brilliant. They don’t make it in prime-time because both are conservative, by nature if not by political thought. “””””
Well thanks DonS, I’ve been trying to recall Thomas Sowell’s name all day. If I’m not mistaken, Sowell was WEW’s mentor, and yes a brilliant mind.
Are you sure he isn’t at the Hoover Institute at Stanford; rather than that; what did you say that other place was called ?
Darn; he’s Black too; must be something genetic. Sowell is a more sedate chap than Walter E. but then he’s more of an old Silver back too; so he can afford to be a little more introspective.
My local radio station is fortunate to be able to air both of those learned gentlemen regularly, although Dr Sowell less often, unfortunately.
“”””” Brian H says:
April 13, 2011 at 4:10 pm
George E. Smith says:
April 13, 2011 at 10:48 am
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Prof Willimas is one Cool Dude; and please don’t forget the (E.) or you’ll get the wrong guy.
And if you go looking for Prof. Willimas, you’ll get no guy at all! “””””
Well I didn’t want to inundate the chap with spam, so I used an old WW-II encryption code to hide his true identity. I never make misteaks, if that is what you were alluding to !
I think all WUWT readers should vote for Joe Romm, but publicize that we are voting for him because he, more than anybody, has done the best job making sure the public understands that AGW is a political scam perpetrated to promote socialism and is a complete and utter joke, but also that we are also only voting for him because Al Gore wasn’t nominated.
Bill Illis says:
April 13, 2011 at 12:49 pm
Re adaption and warm beer. In earlier days in western Queensland (Australia) when refrigeration was marginal a beer from South Australia was popular because, hot, it was rated the best. It was a very acquired taste cold IMO.
I just voted. I selected the “report abuse” button, then voted for “promotes hate…”
Are any of the candidates climatologists or comsologists/geologists?
My guess is not, and that they fall into the earth science “jack of all trades” category.
Joe Romm says thet GW causes both floods and droughts and any other weather event and says it all with a straight face, now that’s a communicator.
Smokey – Animal farm is an excellent book that for whatever reasons, most progressives have failed to read or understand. There are a lot of lessons in it. One of the easiest (and therefore most missed) to find is that in the end, only Napoleon ruled the yard. Snowball was gone.
So it will be with those who are not the dictators in your scenario. Once their usefulness is done, the revolution is over, they will be the first that are disappeared.
George Mason Economics Department has a superb reputation.
A friend’s son is a sophomore in George Mason studying “Environmental Science” (yes, I know). He recently assured me that man caused global warming was real and serious. I suggested he follow WUWT for some balance. He reacted with shock. He had apparently been warned to avoid your devious and subversive blog.
I have a (possibly too romantic) vision that at one time higher education in America was about the search for truth and knowledge.