Maybe Joe’s head can be a new source of renewable energy. Just like a zombie, his head keeps coming back from the dead and exploding anew, seemingly every day.
All we need to power this is to write more annoying truths. C’mon everyone, get busy!
Andy Revkin of the NYT writes at Revkin.net:
Joe Romm @climateprogress sees “confusionist” influence in IPCC extremes report. I respond. His head explodes. Here’s my reply:
Joe, it sure looks like it’s you who’s conflating scientific judgment with personal judgment. Roger Pielke Jr.’s involvement as a reviewer of an IPCC report is all about his scientific judgment and long track record of peer-reviewed work. IPCC isn’t a popularity contest.
And I have to note that after months of attacking Richard Muller’s personal passions (which I, too, criticized), you were quick to embrace his peer-reviewed science when it fit your template.
Your complaints are with Pielke’s policy comments and blog posts. If you want to imply he’s been a poisonous force in IPCC, then find the holes in his peer-reviewed work.
Thanks Andy, for the chuckle.
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Romm has a big head, so there must a be lot of energy in each asplosion.
It took me a minute to realize that everything below “Andy Revkin of the NYT writes at Revkin.net:” was written by Mr. Revkin and not Anthony. I suggest block-quoting such quotes, to make authorship visually clearer.
/Mr Lynn
REPLY: Done, Anthony
Greenland was green when the vikings found it. They had to move when it got cold again.
The “SREX report”? Somehow I don’t think that’s a smart choice of name. It looks like a typo.
Richard Tol says:
November 18, 2011 at 8:13 am
Romm has a big head, so there must a be lot of energy in each asplosion.
No need to get personal. Judging by your facial hair one would expect that you are well prepared for a very cold winter (smiley face).
“Asplosion”?? A new contribution for the Oxford English Dictionary?
There is a 0 to 100 percent probability that his head will actually detonate and explode.
Hector: Something asplodes when it simultaneously implodes and explodes.
I think we need som gubmint grants to study how we can utilize these explosions as a source of Green Renewable energy!!
Joe Romm is a cult middle-manager.
As a cult leader, you are free in private to disbelieve your own nonsense because you’re at the top of the food chain, you can ask your underlings to do things for you that violate your own espoused beliefs because you’re the leader. Many cult leaders know they’re full of crap, but they’ve got a cult to run. So being a figurehead for other people’s imaginations until the weekend is a decent gig to pay the bills and get some free travel.
As a cult follower you are required to believe anything the leader says, despite any obvious conflicts, or you get kicked out. You usually have income outside of the cult though. So you can survive if you leave or get kicked out. It feels bad, but you can survive without it.
As a cult middle manager, you have to believe everything the leader says because your power is limited. You also can’t leave or do anything to get kicked out because you likely have nothing worthwhile to put on a resume for your efforts in the cult if you have to get another job.
Joe Romm is a cult middle-manager. That’s why his site is full of bile-filled rants of self-contradictory nonsense.
The SPM says;
“There is low confidence in any observed long-term (i.e., 40 years or more) increases in tropical cyclone activity (i.e., intensity, frequency, duration), after accounting for past changes in observing capabilities. It is likely that there has been a poleward shift in the main Northern and Southern Hemisphere extra-tropical storm tracks. There is low confidence in observed trends in small spatial-scale phenomena such as tornadoes and hail because of data inhomogeneities and inadequacies in monitoring systems.”
I can safely gather then that we dismiss the observed and rely on the models and projections based on them? Makes perfect sense.
Just not to me.
Ah, I thought ‘asplosion’ might have been related to where the head was stuck when it detonated… but then it would be missing an ‘s’.
I disagree completely. Romm’s head does not contain enough matter to explode. It would be extremely dangerous if it did.
No, what we are seeing is an implosion instead which is only dangerous for Romm. Children do NOT try this at home, but this is the result of stuffing one’s head with an imaginary paradigm.
Deny reality, all you want, but sooner or latter, your head will implode just like Joe Romm’s has.
Remember – PLAY SAFELY! GK
Let us not forget this is the guy who, after denying that there was an urban heat effect on local temperature measure, recently claimed that it was a cooling effect that caused the rise in global warming to be underestimated.
Darn dyslexia. I read that as Joe Romm is a cult middle-finger. It’s been a long week…
Go to You tube, use this posting –
watch?v=HY-03vYYAjA
Similar to 10:10 ads, but not caused by evil AWGer’s…
Max
Martin457 says:
November 18, 2011 at 8:15 am
Greenland was green when the vikings found it. They had to move when it got cold again.
No! I was authoritatively informed at an “Academic” online journal that Eric the Red only settled Greenland out of personal pique because of some kind of interpersonal tif or something, and that all that warming was only in a fiord or two anyway. So I asked the academic how the small stands of Sierra bristlecone pines and one tree in Yamal compared to those puny fiords, but without mentioning the problem of how the Vikings even got there to begin with while awaiting his response, which strangely never materialized, darn it. Oddly, Wikipedia was his source.
Another academic even denied that McIntyre was an IPCC Reviewer as his whole rebuttal to a post I’d put up about Steve’s investigations even as one. So at that point I could only ask him if he’d recently suffered some kind of personal trauma himself, like Santa not getting him his presents last Christmas?
“For the heads they are exploding…”
@Jeremy
Love it. Sounds like you have experience.
I liked how Romm claimed Pielke was debunked by the “science blogosphere” and among his great references he listed an article written by himself.
Quoting himself to prove a claim? I think we should upgrade him to “climate scientist.”
One of the things that annoys me the most about these people is that they confuse a “response” with a “rebuttal” – and then refuse to consider any counter-counter-points.
Jeremy says:
November 18, 2011 at 8:50 am
“As a cult middle manager, you have to believe everything the leader says because your power is limited. You also can’t leave or do anything to get kicked out because you likely have nothing worthwhile to put on a resume for your efforts in the cult if you have to get another job.”
Joe Romm could get his own show on MSNBC tomorrow (or even today, while it’s still “Green Week” at NBC).
Or at least on Al Gore’s rumored TV network, whatever it is.
Romm is a gas bag, so he is bound to blow every now and then!
“Richard Tol says: November 18, 2011 at 8:43 am
Hector: Something asplodes when it simultaneously implodes and explodes.”
and here I thought you had just missed an “S”, silly me 🙂
From the IPCC….Flash floods in informal settlements in Nairobi, Kenya…(you’re gonna love this one!)..REGIONAL
OBSERVED: Low confidence regarding trends in heavy precipitation in East Africa, because of INSUFFICIENT EVIDENCE (emphasis mine)
PROJECTED: Likely increase in heavy precipitation indicators in East Africa.
Yeah, that’s the way I gamble. I’ve been feeding quarters into this slot machine for a year now, so my observed confidence is low that it’ll pay off big.
But my projection is that it’ll pay off big time. Based on my computer model.
Jeremy love the cult analogy. I have had to deal with two well-known cults in my life,
One involved a old Girlfriend who went hook,line and sinker,for this particular cult,
and, a business associate who is currently involved with the AGW cult.
“Ah the warm is cold today and the cold warm, praise the profit of Gaia!”
I think he is going to be harder to deprogram than the old Girlfriend was…
Newsflash: Humanity not as bad as previously thought.
The Hula painted frog of northern Israel has returned. Back in the 1950’s and ’60’s Lake Hula and surrounding marshes were drained to fight malaria. The frog, of which there had only been five specimens previously collected, couldn’t be found. It was declared extinct in 1996, just one more crime by humanity against Mother Gaia.
Except it isn’t extinct. Another one, a female, has been discovered.
Hopefully this time researchers themselves won’t be causing the deaths of the frogs, and Joe Romm won’t be blaming their deaths on global warming.
Although it would be interesting if someone would link their return to global warming, citing warmer and more favorable living conditions, with the extra CO2 increasing plant growth thus more available food further up the food chain…