Monday Mirthiness – dollars and sense

They should be using (sadly defunct) Zimbabwe dollars. Those give more impressive numbers.

Looks like a major LEGAL victory against UEA
http://bishophill.squarespace.com/blog/2012/1/23/a-major-foi-victory.html

Good one!, Josh.
The temperature trend has come unhinged from the CO2 trend. Not so with the $$. Increasing $$ mean increasing wealth and well being, when not meaning inflation. A wealthier population is much better off when a disaster does hit and recovers quickly, even though the “apparent cost” has gone up.
Example: Say you have a rusty old auto and a deer jumps from the side of the road and hits the front right headlight and right fender. You might lever the light socket back to forward, replace the lamp, repaint with a brush and house-paint. Cost: ~$30. The same repair to a new car with 3-layered satin/pearl paint: $2,000. And those “greedy” insurance folks pay almost all the cost. Greed is good.

“Billions and billions” comes straight from the old MacDonald’s signs: “Billions and billions served.” Sagan wasn’t all that original in using that phrase . . .

@ JPY:
The benefits of ‘climate change’ are measured in increased agricultural productivity (CO2 fertilization of crops, read “more food for everybody”) and fewer lives lost to hypothermia.
The purported benefits of “dealing with climate change” are spurious at best, since none of the proposed hyper-expensive measures are capable of affecting a measurable difference in the alleged anthropogenic climate change/disruption/inconvenience.
Any and all moneys spent for a net zero tangible benefit are wasted.

JPY says:
January 23, 2012 at 9:33 am

Umm… but haven’t you been arguing that the costs of dealing with climate change would outweigh the benefits? Isn’t that measuring climate change in dollars? And so why do think that estimating costs is “bizarre”?

Umm, . . . but haven’t you been arguing that the monetary costs of dealing with climate change are meaningless because the damage done would be nearly limitless? Isn’t that insisting that anything except money be used as a metric? And so why do [you] think that suddenly switching to dollars when literally nothing else* is panning out is correct?
*fewer strong tornadoes, fewer and weaker hurricanes, less drought, greater food productivity, fewer floods (& far less deadly too), more arctic wildlife, temperatures lower than the 1930s, etc.

You haven’t seen nothin” yet.
Australia’s ABC Radio is promoting (despite it being a Government broadcaster strictly forbidden to advertise) a new gardening book which according to the title and author will allow the reader to prepare their garden to deal with climate change – CAN YOU BELIEVE IT ???
No matter that the IPCC predictions relate to at least a hundred years in the future when all current gardeners will be fertilizing from below, or above if they choose cremation, not tending the gardens.
No matter that the range of IPCC predictions incluse everything from heat to cold, drought to extreme flooding, from severe storms to hurricanes drowning polar bears etc etc.
Don’t alarmists have any common sense ???
Prepare your garden for climate change – c’mon do they think we are as stupid as this notion or is this simply what they all seem to be good at – grabbing cash by any means ??

I disagree with the * footnote. I sure remember (though long ago) Carl saying ‘billions and billions’ during some of his visits to the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson, BEFORE Cosmos.

I don’t get it. Hasn’t climate alarmism ALWAYS been about the money? Of course climate “change” is measured in dollars and cents — specifically, how much money alarmists can steal from the rest of us.
Yes, it is raining money today. But not at your house or mine.

It’s Zillions now