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.
The guy is a rank amateur when it come to swearing.. only seems to know one swear work, pretty pathetic really. Really needs to widen his vocab.
I’ve heard way more intellectual bouts of sustained swearing from 10 year olds !!
If they, the alarmists, ignore the science and resort to this kind of ill informed tirade then their argument has failed.
Lucy – put it in inverted commas and it appears on page 2 of a Google search. Interestingly it doesn’t appear at all on Alta Vista.
Mosher
You don’t know that something bad will not happen due to the greenhouse gases, as much as the alarmists like Tobis know that something bad will happen.
In other words, once you accept the CAGW bedrock, i.e., the accelerated greenhouse effect hypothesis a.k.a the ecologist-perspective on feedbacks, how much worry and fretting one should entertain is not a question of science at all, but that of worldview, that of attitude and outlook.
A Bing search for “f-word fusillade” returns WUWT in second spot (right after Kevin Rudd, ex-PM of Oz) from a UK IP address – third, to two mentions of Rudd, from a German IP.
That’s why I switched search engines immediately after Google (crosses himself) started discriminating against us deniers 😉
Poor MT – this sounds just like a rant written at 1AM after way tee many martoonies. When the cops stop you for a DUI, they sometimes try to provoke you into making a verbal or physical assault – the dividing line between “impaired” and “drunk.” Make this kind of a verbal assault to a cop and see how long your driving privileges last.
OTOH, reading his exchange with Pielke, it seems to be a permanent condition…
I wonder if temper tantrums cause global warming.
Global Warming causes Tourettes. It’s worse than we thought.
Googling for “wuwt f-word fusillade” yields an interesting result.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=wuwt+f-word+fusillade
Hit “Show more results from wattsupwiththat.com”, then “all results”…
Google is right now picking up the WUWT pages with “F-word fusillade” on them, except this one. If it’s currently showing, as in the “Recent Posts” list, Google is aware of the page and it’ll show up, except for this one.
Did someone at Google hit the Big Red “Censor It!” Button, and decide to specifically blot out this page only from their search results?
You know what? I think that’s exactly what they did. I just searched for the exact title for this page:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=Friday+Funny%3A+F-word+Fusillade+by+Michael+Tobis
This page does not show up! Google is ignoring this exact page!
Back in the days of my early years of Aerial Firefighting there was a Captain named
Ray Ornbaum (I will wager someone out there if once to meet Ray you will remember him.) Ray had shall we say a colorful command of the language. He used it strategically.
One of the greatest fears of any Tanker Pilot is the arrival of “Action News ” at the Pliot’s shack.- NBC’s Ann Curry and I go way back there at Medford Or.- This was at Meford some years back in the 80’s . A news crew shows up at the loading ramp and proceeds to get in everyone’s road. They make the mistake of interviewing Ray as he is trying to get the Aircraft oiled (depending on the model a DC-6/7 could take up to 10 gallons at a time, before you had to really be worried.)
“Tell me sir how’s the fire going?” Ray:” IT is one over-the-hill,(Blankety Blank,
Blank,) and we’re not gettin’ any where with that (Blankety Blank, Blank) until
we get more(Blankety Blank, Blank) help! Now leave me alone you(Blankety Blank, Blank.)”..
They did… Ray was one of our Heroes…
Somehow that didn’t make the 5’o clock news…
It would have been nice to know what Mosh said that caused this explosion. And surely it is sarcasm to identify MT as a communications specialist.
It sounds like someone’s considerable investments in so called “green” technologies, hasn’t worked out too well. It’s not that the investment was illogical… it is the fault of skeptics, for the poor performance of environmental investments.
It is not the end of the planet he is worried about. It is about the planet continuing to thrive while he himself, is merely, a poor church-mouse on it. Damn those F-ing skeptics! I recommend he invest in tulips to recoup losses. GK
Michael, you are cordially invited to come live in Wallowa County. Apparently global warming is not affecting us here. We have plenty of snow and terrifically cold nights and cool days, as well as normal to above normal river flows. Freeze warnings have been all over the place as farmers deal with winter wheat destruction. I can only assume we have little to no CO2 in the air in which to cause the non-existent greenhouse affect, given that warmers place all warming blame on such a gas.
Besides, you could bring your energy over here and join our small group of environmentalists working hard to bring non-native wolves to our county. As an added incentive you could try to convince our benevolent trackers who killed the last wolf they collared, to try to catch them without tranquilizer guns, you know, just run after them and catch one. We will even pray you will not become wolf scat.
A side benefit, since we are missing OUR heat, a heated potty-mouth blow hard could actually save our fields from frost-kill.
Affirms a belief: when your ego or self-image are threatened, you respond with anger and violence. When your ego or self-image is challenged but not threatened, you respond with puzzlement or amusement.
Let them scream and hurl invectives. When you know your position is safe and good, there is no response needed other than amazement at the self-delusion of others.
I’m more than a little embarrassed to admit that I had no f’ing idea who Tobis is. I had to look him up. Ahhh…all the pieces fell into place. One seldom hears this kind of profanity blurted by native Texans. No surprises – this dolt “earned” a Ph.D. in eco-sandbox from the University of Wisconsin in Madison in 1996. Think union thugs for a moment. Anyway…then he lands in Austin, Texas. You can scour the entire US and only find a handful of cities as mindlessly liberal as Madison, WI. Among them are, of course, San Francisco, Detroit, Baltimore, Seattle, Santa Fe and…Austin, Texas.
This explains a lot. His command of vocabulary is obviously limited and I expect his command of the science is similarly limited. But, by golly, his “beliefs” are strong…
From Dr. Dave on April 23, 2011 at 11:07 am:
Ah come on, you’d only have call to be embarrassed if there was a good reason to know who he was in the first place. The evidence says that reason doesn’t f’ing exist. 😉
Interesting results on google – searching for f-word fusillade does indeed bring up results from WUWT but not this page. When expanding “more results from wattsupwiththat.com”, this page *does* appear, but marked with a “cached” link. This suggests google is aware of the page, but for some reason doesn’t think the page is currently available and seems to be marking it down for some reason.
Oddly, clicking the cached link fails to pull up a document, but directly clicking the link works. Something certainly has gone awry at google, but I wouldn’t be too quick to call foul play. It could be some genuine screw up somewhere.
Postscript to last comment:
Good to see the moshpit still touching raw nerves. Reel ’em in Mosh!
Shub,
technically I know nothing. What we have are warrants for the beliefs we hold.
MT appears to be a cultist mouthpiece. He is an honored communicator in the ideological environmental movement’s eyes. I do not see MT convincing non-cult members. He has marginalized his own impact.
For me the key issue of the climate science discussion is can reasonable people seeking objective knowledge of our earth system and its external energy inputs (over past, present and future timeframes) fundamentally disagree about AGW by CO2?
I say they cannot if they are both objective in their fundamental starting premises. To me this means that the IPCC supporting scientists and the independent scientists (aka skeptics) do not share a common fundamental starting premise. Therefore, if that is the case, even when there is occasionally some agreement in final conclusions it would be spurious.
John
Mosher,
I am only trying to figure out why the Tobis-Realclimate-Tamato commentariat (Stalinist Football Team) is so angry at you (and Fuller).
It basically seems to boil down to this: “climate scientists are already under attack,…how can you attack them further placing data requests and by judging them for it? Said climate scientists being powerless weaklings and all that.”
Reading the Tobis’ thread, again, it seems to come down to an-always unmentioned worldview that forever hangs in the back. ‘Fossil-fuel interests, business interests are seen as the vast powerful machine, climate scientists and the IPCC as the emerging weakling opposition to this machine, struggling against odds to gently shackle this out-of-control beast called human materialist industry-aided consumption, in order to save the ‘fucking planet’.
You, on the other hand, are kicking the underdog scientists when they are down (which they apparently always are) by requesting data openness.
It is a fascinating thread: it shows why the Stalinist Football Team is unhapy with data availability and openness.
From Spence_UK on April 23, 2011 at 3:35 pm:
Currently this page is the first result. And the only page from here on the first page of results, there is no “more pages from” option. Google has apparently found many pages from 2010 that say”‘F-word’ fusillade in Tevez, Mancini heated Man City dressing-room …” are now more relevant, and is tossing up many results with the same title. It takes the “wuwt f-word fusillade” search to bring up more results from here.
Interesting how the Google algorithm machine previously managed to notice the preceding and following posts, but took so long to specifically notice this particular one.
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kadaka, quite right, and I did follow your link above to get to that point.
I note several of the wuwt pages are now marked “cached” from google, suggesting google thinks they might not currently be available; although there are still pages that are not marked in this way.
The google spider has got itself a bit confused about wattsupwiththat. I wonder why? Speculating, but sometimes these things are related to DNS servers getting out of sync. They usually sort themselves out in around 24-48 hours. Could be a number of things though (including some screw up at google itself).
…..and they wonder why their house of cards is crumbling in on itself when they have buffoons like this promoting their ’cause’.
I’ve been saying (well, thinking, actually – I mostly lurk) for years that Tobis & Romm are two of the blogosphere’s best antidotes to Warmism. Long may they bloviate!
All it takes is the light & occasional poke to set either of them off, and there is no better poker than Mosher.