Lucia sums up the preparations as:
It’s happy hour. I say pour yourself a beer and toast St. Barbara as you admire this most recent barrage of artillery launched by MT, the climate communications cannoneer that just can’t stop launching bombs!
Here is her post link below, bringing it all to attention. Caution, f-word rich environment.
This might be the moment, Earth Day, April 22nd, 2011 when it was conclusively demonstrated by one very angry man, that climate alarmists have lost their argument when one of their team members resorted to this sort of tirade when Steven Mosher drove him off the edge. See:
http://rankexploits.com/musings/2011/record-for-f-words-in-climate-blog-post/
Also in today’s category for humor:
Failed Mirth Earth Day predictions
UPDATE: Apparently I missed out in search rankings by not quoting Lucia’s phrase ““pusillanimous chickenshit”. So there it is. I don’t think it will matter much, because I also have another unique searchable term: “f-word fusillade”
http://www.google.com/search?q=”f-word+fusillade”
But as we’ve suspected, Google has a bias against WUWT, and we don’t show up in that search, but other linkers and aggregators do.
Wade says:
April 22, 2011 at 5:07 pm
Good one, Wade! Hey, this is fun. Let’s apply the Tobis technique to spice up some of Jim Hansen’s latest work:
Abstract:
Improving [freaking] observations of [freaking] ocean temperature confirm that Earth is [freaking] absorbing more energy from the [freaking] sun than it is [freaking] radiating to space as [freaking] heat, even during the [freaking] recent solar minimum.
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In fact, I say we make Mr. Tobis the editor in chief of the next IPCC report! The spicy scientific sentences would lend the necessary emphasis and tone to the critical work of our [freaking] climate elites…
Who is Michael Tobis anyway?
Best 4 letter word rant I heard was from one of my old bosses when I was a tree planter in Scotland 30 years ago. He managed to construct a 6 word sentence using the ‘f’ word (and 3 of its derivatives) 4 times and a single use of the ‘c’ word. The other word was ‘tree’…
Speaking of Friday Funny and Earth Day, did you see that an Earth Day founder is in prison for get this – composting his ex-girlfriend? On second thought, maybe it’s not that funny. Also, stuffing her body into a trunk and hiding it in a closet really isn’t composting, is it?
http://iowahawk.typepad.com/iowahawk/2011/04/the-2011-iowahawk-earth-week-cruise-in.html
For so candid and and astute a fellow, he seems far too charitable.
F-word?
And there was me looking for ‘fraud’.
Another nutter upset over the fact that the climate isn’t doing anything helpful to advance the climate alarmist
screechmessage. They need a new, simpler message. One not embarrassingly tied to a fickle natural condition. How about “Stop what you are doing, what ever it is, because it is harmful to something!” Strong, 100% right, and the science is truly settled. How can you go wrong with that?I could swear this character was paraphrasing but I guess not.
A lot of people are pissed off at Mosher because he wrote a book about Climategate and then (as per them) ‘supports’ the greenhouse hypothesis. They think he is playing ‘both sides’.
REPLY: as a self described “lukewarmer” I would expect exactly that. – Anthony
We won, dear gentlemen, we won. Through us did flow forth the divine swords of rigor, of calling that which is good good, and that which is weak and watery, bad. Now is a time of therapy for some whose heart was in the right place at the wrong time to believe in a false god, a mere guru or two or three, but mainly time to rebuild magnanimous pride in ourselves now that we are no longer marginalized in an objective sense.
“I have no patience with “so-called” common sense (a spurious article, unutterably different from the genuine one) one is told to use, and which they say one does not use as soon as one deviates from the ordinary course and takes a risk. I repeat, I have no patience with it. I have no patience with it for the very reason that my own common sense, if I reflect, leads me to wholly different results than the conclusion of narrow-minded worldly wisdom and prudent, half-hearted righteousness. Oh, that dawdling, oh, those hesitations, oh, that not believing that good is good, that black is black, that white is white.” – Vincent van Gogh (letter to Theo van Gogh, 1883)
“The experts said the speed of the Learjet was exorbitant and overkill for the small corporate customer.” – William Lear of Learjet
It’s time to rejoice that psychopaths no longer command armies of youth, at least not this generation, at least not effectively, at least not this season: http://oi52.tinypic.com/rt10rd.jpg
http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/columnists/Rendering+sanity+unto+Earth+goddess/4626055/story.html
“It is Orwellian, in that it would summon into being something called the Ministry of the Earth, which will provide our planet with an ombudsman, “whose job is to hear nature’s complaints as voiced by activist and other groups, including the state.”
Why can’t the old hag, Mother Earth I mean, get her own ombudsman? And shouldn’t that really be, in this context, ombudsperson? I notice, too, how the Earth’s “complaints” are to be those voiced by activists and the state, an always convenient ventriloquism.”
Tobis fits the description…
“self-satisfied mischief and disrespect for authority”
Mosh you win the Calvin and Hobbes award for drawing the most foul response possible. Any bets or pools going on when MT will burst and aneurysm? I’ll put a ten spot on the next time Mosh talks to him.
I’ve had more intelligent rants from an eight year old not wanting to do homework! I’m still laughing. What on God’s green earth (thanks to CO2) did Mosh do? Pee in his Wheeties? I think MT is now officially head of the verbal fornication incorporation movement (formerly known as CAGW).
Sigh. Imagine trying to discuss the issue with these types?
eh, its a great week for the “F” word apparently….
a few days ago Univ. of Iowa professor Ellen Lewin fired off an email that said “F#%K YOU, REPUBLICANS” in response to a recruiting email by the UI College Republicans….
Well, it isn’t so much anymore if there is extraordinary warming or not, it is if people *believe* there is.
The real crime is that children are being taught this as if it is fact. I really wish people would start to bring schools up on charges for teaching this.
The rant might not be so bad if he weren’t so F@ur momisugly%*ing wrong.
Gosh! When I read this I thought that it was a ‘spoof’ – but reading the comments here it seems that it was ‘for real’ could this really be serious? – Blimey – are there really people as unhinged as this floating around the blogosphere?
Douglas
The 5th stage approaches. The rant of a genuine and self recognised loser. This is the speach of a man who likes not what he sees in the mirror. Naturally this will be reported in MSM as the proper way to discuss AWG/CC/CCD or whatever the name is this week, Irritable Climate Syndrome for sure.
At least MT didn’t call for the arrest and imprisonment of SM like some self righteous warmists, and even avoided making any threats.
I wonder what undeniable truth SM put forth that so frustrated MT.
A quick read of some of the comments on MT’s blog indicates his readers are mainly socialists, which is not surprising.
Is MT the authority that SM has failed to obey?
Real skeptics must render MT apoplectic.
That’s funny. Funny as in “hahaha” and funny as in ironic. Don’t get me wrong, I like Mosh. He’s fun and very challenging to engage. Sadly, specific to climate discussions, I typically engage with people I disagree. Mosh is one of them. Oddly, I find myself understanding what Tobis is saying. You’ve no idea which way Mosh is going to punt the ball. That in itself isn’t bad. You are your own captain. Draw your own course. Again, don’t get me wrong, while Mosh has been useful to the skeptic camp, he doesn’t consider things in the manner as most skeptics. A useful idiot? Nope. Useful, yes. Idiot, no. He’s nowhere close to being a “lukewarmer” as I perceive the meaning. He is an enemy of my enemy. Mosh has his own agenda and he’s not sharing it with the rest of us.
Steve, in this particular case….. good on you.
James
Talk like that in public and he’ll be lucky if all he gets is tasered.
“If you can’t be right, be wrong at the top of your voice.”
Lucy Van Pelt (Charles Schulz)
“disrespect for authority”
Says it all really! We are all bad people for thinking the teacher is wrong! Bad, Bad Mosher! Tsk!
I am now off to bleach my eyeballs!
When theory is on your side pound on theory;
When the facts are on your side pound on the facts;
When neither is on your side, pound on the table.
“Jamesian-Kuhnian irrationalist with regard to science who should be on the English faculty at Duke?
Richard Rorty would have been a better description. A conservative version of Rorty.
That’s better
” disrespect for authority” ? What authority?
Fraudulent science , machiavellian manoeuvring to suppress proper scientific debate, what is there to respect ? Where is the authority ?
Science was generally respected , climate scientists blew that respect , they no longer have any authority.
I somehow doubt that a drunken fit will regain anyone much of either.
I’ve taken a screencap of Google’s stealth removal (unexplainable absence) of WUWT using “f-word fusillade” as search.
I have to be grateful to Michael Tobis. An earlier exchange with him alerted me to an interesting picture of the South Pole which was the start of my grasping the recently-developed scientific ploy of Warming By Paintwork.
@Lucy Skywalker
Your “Warming by Paintwork” is excellent. Well done!