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.
“Joe Romm is a cult middle-manager”
To quote Dorothy Parker, “There but for a typographical error…”
Hector M. says:
November 18, 2011 at 8:32 am
“Asplosion”?? A new contribution for the Oxford English Dictionary?
This is compatible with Ms Gillard’s not-so-new “Oh no”….Ocean Assification.
Romm should be ignored since that is all his hot air is worth. There are many who I disagree with but who have earned my respect. Romm has earned only my questioning of why any rational person would even give him the time of day.
I’m trying to imagine how we could harness asploding heads as an energy source.
I’ve got this image of Romm strapped to a chair surrounded by instrumentation with his head glowing cherry-red, two guys in a control room:
“Should we go for supercritical?”
“He might melt.”
“We’ll never know if he’s got the required energy densitty if we don’t.”
“Good point. Roll the video of the empty seats in the Waxman-Markey hearing. Let’s see what happens…”
CITIES IN GREENLAND MIGHT NEED TO MOVE
Reporting on the IPPC report, lead autor Mr van Aalst added: “… Greenland cities might need to move because of weather extremes and sea level rise from man-made warming.”
Mr van Aalst descibes Greenland as a “developed northern region”.
http://www.talktalk.co.uk/news/article/39get-ready39-for-extreme-weather/27716/?lpos=tat-links-2-world&lid=tat-links-2-39getready39forextremeweather
I just looked at Romm’s post, heaven knows why, it’s worse than RC, SS & Open Mind combined!
Why anyone believes what comes out of climate models, let alone what comes out for 2060-69, is beyond my comprehension.
The unfortunate Joe Romm.
Re Richard Tol: “Romm has a big head, so there must a be lot of energy in each asplosion.”
Thanks so much for the laugh! And 10 extra points for using an urban dictionary term.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=asplode
Hehehehe – Romm: DO NOT LOOK AT THAT MAN BEHIND THE CURTAIN!!!!
part of the problem with alarmists is they want to be looked at as gods – unquestioningly and lovingly. But man has outgrown false gods.
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.
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It is (just barely) possible today to farm the areas that the Vikings colonized See http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/1001/p01s02-wogn.html. But we have some difficulty envisioning how farmers with tenth century plant strains and technology would have gone about settling the area or surviving for five centuries. It’s not like Eric the Red could call in a food drop in a bad year or an evacuation chopper if things got really bad. Either they were very clever folk who knew how to do a lot without much to work with, or things were a bit warmer back then.
PhilJoyrdan –
You mean like this?
“Michael Tobis Says:
November 18th, 2011 at 2:00 pm
Being a scientist means, among other things, having the expertise to winnow positions that cannot be correct, and focusing attention on positions that have some chance of being correct. This is not commonly understood; this skill is widely taken as “arrogance”.”
http://www.collide-a-scape.com/2011/11/18/games-people-play/#comments
The next IPCC report will say “NEVER MIND…” (For those who remember Rosanna Danna Danna of SNL). The Apocalypse is has been called off.
@gofer – Roseanne Rosannadanna. But it is Emily Latella you are thinking of (Why are we BUSTING School children!)
Watch Wikipedia asplode
“Romm has a big head, so there must a be lot of energy in each asplosion.”
It’s really more of an implosion.
Apparently, there are some few, probably doped up, crazed taliban bloggers out there having more reader than panzer pants Romm. So if the readers of those taliban bloggers are extremists, including the intelligence community folks, doesn’t that mean that the even punier number that is Romm’s reader collective kind of become even the worst type of fundamentalists, i.e. the ones derived of intelligence community folks altogether?
I’d like to see Joe Romm add a graph showing the “Distribution of professional opinion on Einstein’s theory of special relativity” circa 1906 and see how that popularity contest worked out ‘relative’ to today.
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.”
My understanding is that at least some of them did not move, or could not move, when the local climate got colder at the beginning of the LIA. In the end, they even ate their dogs, before they starved to death. These Vikings might have survived if they had befriended their Inuit neighbors, and learned a thing or two about the gastronomic potential of local marine mammals. Seal blubber on the barbie. Yum!
MSM presentations warrant some consideration as they DO have some influence on public views.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/post/weather-disasters-to-increase-report-warns-climate-change-signal-slow-to-emerge-for-some-extremes/2011/11/17/gIQATSIIYN_blog.html?wpisrc=nl_buzz
Yesterday, Watts is upset about people who “regularly write denigrating and juvenile things”
Today, Watts writes denigrating and juvenile things, as he does almost every day, about someone else.
He’s really just a child in a playground.
REPLY: Think whatever you want, be as upset as you wish but the post is labeled humor and satire. At least I have the courage and integrity to put my name to my words, and to accept the hits that may generate. You don’t, showing you have no courage nor integrity, and hide behind the comfort on anonymity while hurling insults. Same goes for the guy in Toronto, but you seem perfectly OK with that too, some ethics you have. – Anthony Watts
Doing a little checking of our database, it turns out that “stevo” is just the repackaged “RW” of the City College of London, who has been previously banned from WUWT.
He’s violated site rules (again) by changing his screen name and email to get around that.
So, Roger, let me make this really clear, really simple. Next time you do this it will be full disclosure.
You have been banned from WUWT previously, that means get out, stay out. You aren’t welcome here and I don’t have to put up with your shape shifting shenanigans, kid.
– Anthony Watts
Geez Anthony, I was just content to regard him as the benign but essential Village Idiot, and not really worth responding too.
Still fair enough in the circumstances.
@KenB, Regarding Stevo/RW – he has a long history here, and he’s such a flaming hypocrite to boot. While telling us all about how stupid we are for not worrying about CO2, on his personal web page he boasts about “I’ve traveled [over 256,000] miles on planes…” and he offers route maps to prove it. That’s some carbon footprint, maybe even more than Bill McKibben.
And he’s a scientist working at a prominent observatory, so he “should” know better, but maybe he’s suffering from on the job altitude hypoxia and that is what makes him so obnoxious. Either way, I’ve had my tolerance limit met. – Anthony
Stevo (the Village Idiot !! – all villages have one!!) that is, just in case this gets out of context
Anthony Watts says:
November 18, 2011 at 9:13 pm
” …..he’s a scientist working at a prominent observatory….”
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Smokey is still correct, George E. Smith has forgot more than this “Village idiot” will ever know and good manners are the least of it.
Thanks Anthony. I noted Stevo’s snarky comments on the Birthday thread, makes you wonder what makes them tick and implode, an unstable gene? Inferiority? Losing the plot? I guess we are better off not knowing.
Hope we are not paying for his stupidity!
Romm?
How can you not use the words ‘Romm’ and ‘pseudo-intellectual’ in the same sentence?
John