Josh writes:
James Delingpole writes about The Linear No Threshold Hypothesis.
It is a brilliant wheeze. By working out how many deaths are caused by a big amount
of toxin you can work backwards and predict how many deaths a tiny amount would cause. Simples.
Of course this could work for anything – like Green policies. Just work out how many people will die because of fuel poverty this winter due to green policies, and work back to
how many deaths there are per Green Politician (Watermelon cf Delingpole).
So really it is always time to harvest Watermelons…
The article in the American Thinker that inspired Delingpole and Josh is here. It is well worth the read, if not for the eye opening inside view of the political slimepit the Sierra Club has become, for the “deer in the headlights” photo of top SC brass getting an inconvenient question about windmills and bird kills at a conference.
DirkH says “In RR Kampen’s simple world, every lung cancer case is caused by smoking.”
Bit of a logic problem there, since RRK said no such thing. The comment by Vince Causey just after RRKs; and some later comments, get it right.
“or where, for example, a heat source like an airport has sprung up alongside a weather station”
http://www.economist.com/node/21533360
What about a Josh take on a Far Side theme?
Using RR Kampen’s logic:
Everybody who died was born.
Therefore being born kills.
The second-hand smoke that kills, is from heating and cooking, over a wood or dung fueled, open flame, like much of the non-developed countries still do.
If the watermelons are in control, that is where we are all headed, and only the party elites, will live long enough to die from statistically insignificant causes.
I personally think the Linear No Threshold Hypothesis describes the damage done by green activism quite well.
The damage done doesn’t reach zero until the number of green activists hits less than one.
There are three different types of lung cancer; squamous cell carcinoma, oat cell carcinoma and small cell carcinoma. The first two are only found in smokers, the latter is found in smokers and non smokers in equal numbers. The human lungs have a normal capacity where the air is changed by inhalation and exhalation near the bronchus (the tube leading into the lungs that splits into two, one for each lung) and the extra capacity near the periphery of the lungs which is used during exercise when the heart is beating faster and more O2/CO2 exchange is needed.
Squamous cell and oat cell carcinomas are found on the bronchus, so technically are bronchial carcinomas. Small cell carcinoma is found in the periphery of the lungs (where tobacco smoke never goes) so technically is lung cancer. The health fascists like the climate fascists like to bamboozle everyone and get their way by making profound statements which just aren’t true.
Has their been a study to compare death rates of bar staff before and after the various worldwide smoking bans? Of course there hasn’t, because the results would show that bar staff did not drop like flies every time someone lit up in their vicinity.
This is modern “science”, selectively using data to prove preconceived, politically correct ideology without a thought for any of the consequences.
The watermelons are green politicians who are really commies in disguise (red on the inside), right?
So is the guy with the machete inciting us to go out and kill green politicians?
Duncan says:
November 11, 2011 at 1:42 pm
“So is the guy with the machete inciting us to go out and kill green politicians?”
No. The watermelon is a metaphor for a green politician; the machete is the metaphor for taking them down. In the non-metaphorical world you usually do this via elections.
Exposing 1 person to water for 1000 seconds (slightly over 16 minutes) results in 1 death.
According to the The Linear No Threshold Hypothesis, exposing 1000 persons to water for 1 second each will result in 1 death as well.
I fully endorse the application of the Precautionary Principle, especially when applied to the….
Precautionary Principle
Bob Diaz says:
November 11, 2011 at 9:43 am
I’ve decided that’s something I can get behind 100% as long as all those Green Supporters go first and soon after I’ll follow.
Then shortly after they all go, I’ll just change my mind and the whole problem is pretty much resolved and we can get back to real environmental problems, not jousting at CO2 “windmills”.
(You really think they’d volunteer to go peacefully? Me neither… they’re all just a bunch of hot air.)
This cartoon looks threatening to the watermelons. It’s like those death videos the warmists put out. This is BAD. This is a mistake.
Russ R. says:
November 11, 2011 at 12:50 pm
The second-hand smoke that kills, is from heating and cooking, over a wood or dung fueled, open flame, like much of the non-developed countries still do.
If the watermelons are in control, that is where we are all headed, and only the party elites, will live long enough to die from statistically insignificant causes.
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Exactly. SHS was just a test run to see if they’d get people to buy into such idiocy. Once they got people believing SHS was worse than the norm, they could be people to believe anything……… like a harmless molecule being the thermostat of the earth.
For those that don’t understand this……. there is nothing magical about burning tobacco. For non-smokers, burning your leaves that you raked during the fall will pollute your lungs more than hanging with a smoker. Or having a fireplace, or a wood burning stove or campfires or ……. fire, its a tricky thing…. 😐 Maybe we should ban the greatest leap mankind ever took…..would solve all of that.
EPA bans chromated copper arsenate (CCA) used to make pressure treated wood because it contains arsenic. Replaced with other much more expensive chemicals, the joke is it is the copper than does the killing. Copper however is not viewed as dangerous because it has other uses and the copper oxide coating renders copper safe. EPA quality science would ban sodium chloride because sodium is highly reactive and chlorine highly toxic. Watermelons only like science when they get the results they want.
This cartoon looks threatening to the watermelons. It’s like those death videos the warmists put out. This is BAD. This is a mistake.
I assume you left off the ‘/sarc’ tag, but to play along- I don’t think the happy machete-wielding farmer wants to slaughter the poor watermelons. He wants to cut them off their vines: the taxpayer-funding for pseudoscience.
Not just birds that are killed by “renewables”.
I read (*) that insects which lay their eggs on the surface of water are easily confused by PV solar arrays, depositing their eggs on the glass surface where they get nicely fried when the sun shines brightly. Sunny side up, I suspect.
(*) Sorry, too much reading. I can’t easily identify the source.
Something else funny:
http://www.freep.com/article/20111111/BUSINESS0101/111111039/Chevrolet-Volt-catches-fire-weeks-after-crash-prompting-closer-look-safety
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) did a side-impact crash test of a Chevy Volt, gave it a five-star rating. The lithium-ion battery had been punctured. More than three weeks later it caught fire. Government Motors said it was because NHTSA hadn’t drained down the battery’s energy post-crash, as GM recommends. Which the GM spokescreature said they hadn’t told NHTSA.
Oops.
I’ve long known about disconnecting a car battery as soon as possible after a crash, there’s a lot of energy stored in them that can produce significant hot sparks (says the guy who’s changed batteries with standard bare metal wrenches). Simple procedure, remove a terminal lug from the battery post, or cut through a battery cable with a bolt cutter to do it quick. What’s the procedure for quickly disconnecting and perhaps removing a Volt’s Li-ion battery pack?
Anyone here notice the massive GM educational campaign that’s letting all emergency responders know about draining down the battery? Using what equipment, that apparently emergency crews (even volunteer departments) are already supposed to have? That’s safe enough for crews to use on a punctured battery? That will take however-long to drain a battery with enough energy to move the vehicle over 30+ miles? I don’t think that campaign exists. They didn’t even tell NHTSA and GM knew they were crashing the vehicle.
Fireman: Wow, that’s a bad crash. We have to get those people out quick!
Chief: Sorry, can’t do it. Might be one of those electric vehicles. They have special procedures.
F: It’s too smashed up to tell the model. How can we know?
C: I’m checking on that, one sec. (talks on the radio) Okay, they found the rear bumper, has Greenpeace and WWF stickers on it.
F: The driver likes wrestling?
C: Great. Now what do we do?
F: Call the company? We got cell phones.
C: Got their number?
F: The makers should have sent us a list with all of them. Where can we get them now?
C: Is there an app for that?
F: Nevermind, it wouldn’t work anyway.
C: Why not?
F: It’s 10 o’clock Saturday night. We’ll just get the customer service message to call back Monday morning.
C: Wow. Save the planet and get screwed for it. Sucks to be Green.
F: Least they won’t feel guilty about wasting fossil fuels with a fast trip to the hospital.
i see your deaths and I raise you greens.