Eh, even when I try to get away from it on weekends it follows me via email.
But, I decided I’d take a moment to post this comment from Joe Romm’s Climate Progress somebody sent me that popped up on my phone. I got a huge belly laugh out of it. I startled Kenji when I laughed so hard:
Meet Mike Roddy, whose picture has previously appeared here.
[Update: Image from Mike’s movie PR: http://northwardho.blogspot.com/2008/09/polar-cities-go-hollywood-2112-hopes-to.html ]
Mike has always been a class act at Climate Progress, as you can see below:
It stems from this piece Roddy wrote about me, see the “corrections” at the end, which he apparently agrees with:
http://www.webcitation.org/5x0pgZdgl
Heh. Quite something that Mike Roddy, but I’m not sure what.
But, see here’s the thing, kicking and bestiality aside, in science, replication is King, and if other scientists can’t replicate a paper’s work, well then it often doesn’t get to pass peer review when peer review works correctly and isn’t “pal” review.
That might be a minor detail with BEST, since they to put PR before peer review in a media blitzkrieg. Even so, there are many things I do agree with in their other papers. The one on quality of station siting, not so much.
But, as Steve McIntyre demonstrates, the BEST work with my station siting quality isn’t replicable. The devil is in the details. He says boldly:
I have looked at some details of the [BEST] Station Quality paper using a spreadsheet of station classification sent to me by Anthony in August 2011 and cannot replicate their results at all.
Gosh, I feel pretty good after all that kicking. Kinda reminds me of this:
BEST is at the starting line in the cartoon above. Will they survive?
[snip – yeah thats a bit over the top -Anthony]
Heard Richard Muller, himself, on the BBC shamelessly plugging his shoddy product. So they found a new way to slice baloney and now they call it prime rib. Just as expected – he was imperious and arrogant. The current mantra seems to be that if you don’t abjectly “Believe, Conform, Obey” you must be a “conspiracy theorist”. No, it doesn’t take a warmist conspiracy, just a herd mentality. This at a time when institutions and authorities throughout the world are crumbling before a liberating spirit of questioning and critical thinking among the populace.
Occasionally I see a comment that’s snipped that says [snip – you can’t use the “D-word” here]. Because it’s always snipped I don’t actually know for certain what the “D word” is but if it is what I believe it to be, Mike Roddy is definitely the “D-word”.
Roddy:
“About the movie script that he is working on day and night, Roddy had plenty to
say: “The working title is ‘2112’, the year the movie takes place.”
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/vine/showthread.php?t=649630
Did I miss it? Or is it scheduled for the Christmas season?
Roddy on the same page:
“”Now I am self-employed as a housing developer, […]”
My condolences.
In my country, what serves as congress, who is mostly made up of even green socialists, at the time, voted against making bestiality illegal.
To this date, there’s still a rational argument lacking for why even the green eco-loon socialists think bestiality is ok.
>> “Even so, there are many things I do agree with in their other papers. The one on quality of station siting, not so much.”
From this article:
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/03/06/briggs-on-berkeleys-best-plus-my-thoughts-from-my-visit-there/
>> “And, I’m prepared to accept whatever result they produce, even if it proves my premise wrong.”
I guess the issues with the BEST methodology (30 versus 60 years) and the paper pre-release have soured the results?
[Note: otter, you are right at the threadjacking line. ~dbs, mod.]
Why not put an action cam on poor little Kenji connected to internet, via google ad, or some such, supported (by stoopid people) live feed? et voila, very rich dog supporting an ever richer owner. Just think about it, with todays’ technology you could even hook up Kenji to a temperature/CO2 recorder getting the real deal at ground level even. :p
Robyn from Aus says:
October 22, 2011 at 3:43 pm
Hi Anthony,
I don’t know if you have seen this
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From truth comes comedy.
Hadn’t seen it ……………Loved it.
Joe Romm does not miss a beat covering ” the well known smearers of climate scientists, Judith Curry and Richard Muller.”
Besides it is old news: “Climate Progress actually broke this story back in March — ……….based on an email Climatologist Ken Caldeira sent me after seeing their preliminary results …”
Anthony, Roddy says he will miss you:
“Mike Roddy says:
October 20, 2011 at 9:33 pm
Muller and I have mutual friends at Berkeley-he is an opportunist, and was once Nobelist Louis Alvarez’ lap dog. He has become a little weird, but is still a smart scientist.
I think Muller was gaming Koch and Watts the whole time. He knew about the NOAA study, of course, and all of the suspense about postponing the BEST results until “all the data are in” was just a way to milk the Kochs out of more money, which amounted to a lot compared to a professor’s salary.
In this case, the charge that climate scientists were “after grant money” was correct, but the results verified what has become obvious. Only a complete idiot would claim otherwise.
As for Watts, the whole notion that scientists were conspiring to use faulty temperature stations to exaggerate climate change was never anything more than a joke. Even Curry and Muller figured that one out.
Watts is not going to be headlining any Heartland conferences for a while. I’ll miss the humor opportunities, but good riddance.”
Roddy is in the business of selling steel (produced using coke, maybe even Koch coke?) framed structures, claiming they have a smaller carbon footprint because they reduce logging. http://rpsonline.com.sg/proceedings/9789810862183/html/978-981-08-6218-3_SUS-Th033.html
This article from Mike Roddy shows that he’s a full-on catastrophist – what do you expect from a guy hawking a script for a disaster movie. We need people like him to discredit the CAGW movement.
http://climatechangepsychology.blogspot.com/2010/06/mike-roddy-on-climate-progress-what.html
[snip – over the top, while I don’t have much respect for Mr. Roddy, I’m not going to allow people to make such innuendo, even if funny – Anthony]
Roddy is the poster child for all that is wrong with the True Believers of CAGW. He used to whine incessantly about how the media was to blame for his religion never obtaining a foothold in polite society. Heh. He never thinks to look in the mirror. Blind bigotry and hatred is never a way to sell something, Mikey.
Thanks for not posting my info, and for showing a sense of humor here, Anthony. Global warming is so serious an issue that we all need to have fun once in a while.
My offer to have a beer next time I’m in your neighborhood remains open. You remain a fascinating character to me, and I want more.
BTW, Muller and I were at Berkeley around the same time, and had friends in common (my roommate was a Physics PhD student). And I accused Muller of grant seeking on CP, since the answer he came up with was pretty obvious to most of us, and I think he was milking the Kochs.
And yeah, that means I’m an old white man, even worse than the photo, which is about 6 years old.
I’ll sell my screenplay cheap, too. Maybe the Kochs are interested.
No hard feelings-
Mike
Roddy clearly drinks the kool-aid of AGW. His list you link to is sophomoric at best….
Note that richard got it right: carborundum, not corrundum.
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Mike R.;
A fine demonstration of disingenuous cluelessness. Classic.
Mike Roddy says:
October 22, 2011 at 6:28 pm
I don’t have any. I don’t have time to not ignore you.
For non-Australian readers further to post by Robyn from Aus @3.43pm
and the link to that (most) excellent cartoon by Pickering
http://lpickering.net/short-biography
Jo Nova also follows up on this
http://joannenova.com.au/2011/10/pickering-climate-scare-ripe-for-mocking/#more-18355
And scanning the beast website they seem to have a unusual attraction to deviant sexual behavior. Who are these weirdo’s?
And they expect to be taken seriously? Really???
Mike, I saw your movie. It was called “Mad Max, Parts 1, 2, and 3”.
Mike Roddy once posted a comment at Climate Audit linking to a porn video – a granny porn video. Such misconduct is extremely rare among commenters. Other than Josh Halpern/Eli Rabett’s inappropriate comments about a teenage girl a few years ago, I can’t think of any similar non-spam incidents.
So Roddy is a troll or flake and he’s just having fun so no hard feelings, buy you beer ?
I suspect he just realized he is in a legally precarious position. He should have consulted an attorney before commenting further because that confirms his not quite connected to social norms.
otter17 says:
October 22, 2011 at 5:40 pm
“I guess the issues with the BEST methodology (30 versus 60 years) and the paper pre-release have soured the results?”
You are almost right. It means there are no results. Anthony expected them to use his 30 years of data since 1979 because there is siting information for that 30 years. Anthony was excited that they were going to use their new techniques on his station siting data. In switching to a 60 year period, they pulled a Bait and Switch on Anthony. Their results are worthless because they used a period that contains 30 years without siting information.
The paper pre-release, the media grandstanding by Muller, the Bait and Switch on Anthony have so soured the moral standing of the entire BEST team that each and every one of them has earned the label Loose Cannon on Deck. Muller has trashed his own dream of corporate interest in his geo-engineering firm. Corporate types have written off Muller entirely.
Mike Roddy says:
October 22, 2011 at 6:28 pm
Thanks for not posting my info, and for showing a sense of humor here, Anthony. Global warming is so serious an issue that we all need to have fun once in a while.
No hard feelings-
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Ric Werme says:
October 22, 2011 at 7:22 pm
I don’t have any. I don’t have time to not ignore you.
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Touché Ric, this Roddy bloke is somewhat of a pussy … needs therapy for his obsession with abnormal sexuality.
Two things are happening in the pants of the proponents of global warming. Number one and number two.
Mike Roddy says:
October 22, 2011 at 6:28 pm
“Thanks for not posting my info, and for showing a sense of humor here,”
I for one do not find you funny at all Roddy. Infantile is a better description for your disgusting accusations. Ask yourself what Anthony’s wife and family must go through when people like you come out with filth like that!
I suspect Cecil Coupe is right with his comment…..
October 22, 2011 at 9:03 pm
“So Roddy is a troll or flake and he’s just having fun so no hard feelings, buy you beer ?
I suspect he just realized he is in a legally precarious position.”