At WUWT, one thing we pride ourselves in is helping visitors learn about the issues and the science, even if those visitors should already know what these things mean. Take for example, Michael Tobis proprietor of “Only In it for the Gold” and “Planet3.0”, both heavily pro-warming sites. Readers may remember Mr. Tobis from his famous F-word Fusillade.
Mike came to WUWT to ask a simple question, and of course, we are always happy to help him out.
Original comment asking to define “CAGW” here.
Honestly, I thought most everyone (especially the bloggers) in this debate knew this term, but apparently not. So, this post will make sure everyone does now.
CAGW is an abbreviation for Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warming
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Chicanery Achieved Global Warming
Jason @ur momisugly 6.08 –
“The entire case for CO2 control is a stool that balances on four legs. If even one of those legs fails, then the entire case for controlling CO2 falls apart”.
an appropriate analogy, perhaps improved with a 3 legged stool.
taking the 3 legged idea further, cagw might rely on 1 corrupt scientists 2 corrupt governments 3 corrupt media. get rid of one and the rest falls. are there legs (a 4th leg) I’ve missed ?
I’m looking forward to a day when computer assisted government warmists cop it !
Can Al Gore Win?
Did you have any further questions? : -)
Michael Tobis : CAGW
See: George Carlin: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BB0aFPXr4n4&feature=related
Here is a fine quote of the week.
America is still great because of people like this, not climate charlatans like Michael Mann, Michael Tobis, and the climate catastrophe promoters.
Climate Alarmism Generates Wealth!
William Martin says:
January 31, 2012 at 8:58 pm
Yet when milking cows, one uses a one-legged stool (your two legs serve as the other two). That means we’ll have to knock out the last remaining wooden leg and let the CAGW proponent fall on his butt before he realizes what’s wrong.
Beautiful responses. Though the first 3 are the grabbers….
Colin says:
January 31, 2012 at 4:49 pm
Thats just plain wrong, those of us on the right side of this argument know that it stands for Cash And Grants Weekly
Beesaman says:
January 31, 2012 at 4:56 pm
So it doesn’t stand for
Crazy Al Gore’s Weather?
Garacka says:
January 31, 2012 at 4:58 pm
Alternatively, “CAGW” could be an abbreviation for Collectivist Army of Global Winghuts
But, I would be remiss if I didn’t acknowledge Willis’ contribution….Willis Eschenbach says:
January 31, 2012 at 6:43 pm
I always figured it stood for “Computer Assisted Global Warming” …
Beautiful.
Jason, of course, nails it!
Jason Calley says:
January 31, 2012 at 6:08 pm
Calling All Geeky Wankers
Climate Activists Get Women
Copenhagen Abruptly Got White
Cosmic Activity Giving Willies
Carbon Assets Giant Wipeout
Creepy Al Galavants Worldwide
Convinced Always Getting Worse
Dang, I thought it was a nod to Steve McIntyre and stood for Climate Audit is Getting Wise.
The Team is really starting to panic over the Come And Go Warming.
Corrupted Algorerhythm Gets Worse
Constantly Adjusted Glowball Warming
Continuously Adjusted Glowball Warming
Corruptly Adjusted Glowball Warming
Copiously Adjusted Glowball Warming
Catastrophically Assumed Glowball Warming
CAGW = CO2 Climate Doomsday Rapture.
Someone who promotes CAGW = CO2 Climate Doomsday Rapture Soothsayers.
Really what difference between a CO2 Climate Doomsday Rapture Soothsayers and Harold Camping? Nothing since no independently verifiable evidence/experiments to back up their wild claims.
Their entire premise for stealing trillions from the people and causing countless deaths in the process…base upon…COULD ALWAYS GET WARMER….
…apologies it that was already tossed into the ring…no time to read everything…busy releasing some carbon into the atmosphere…exercising my First Amendment rights…protesting CAGW…by burning my storm damage. If one can burn the flag…I can sure as hell burn some twigs…and if the fire department comes by…I got stuff for S’more’s!
Crazy Asholts Grabbing Wampum
Tobis isn’t familiar with the CAGW acronym. He thinks it’s FCAGFW.
Corrupt
Armageddon
Gaming
War
or
Computer
Armageddon
Gaming
War
Now
Corny
Armageddon
Gaming
Wishwash.
I know what the letters stand for. I do not know what the proposition I am supposedly defending actually is. This first crossed my field of vision about eight years ago, and I said I neither believe nor disbelieve “it”, because it is not coherently expressed as a hypothesis. To my knowledge it is not used by actual climate scientists in any context.
I find it interesting that nobody has actually come up with a definition as yet. I would like something in the form “advocates of CAGW believe that … “. Please be specific. Then I can tell you whether I am or am not a CAGW advocate.
CAWG…
Causes All (or Any) Goofy Weather
Condemning All Global Wealth
Caused by Abundant Gaia Worship
Committee Against Good Weather
Constrained to Al Gore’s World-view
CO2 Attributed Global Wretchedness
This is a spectacularly inane post. It must have been completely obvious that the question was “define what you mean by catastrophic in this context” and not “what does the C stand for?”. I suppose you thought you were being funny; well, no, it wasn’t funny, it was a tiresome, boring “joke” of the same standard as “What’s on TV? A plant and a picture frame” and that kind of thing.
@ur momisugly Jennifer
Poking a little fun as some folks that have been caught lying and faking results for their own personal gain are now free from public mocking? Or did I misconstrue your comments? (It’s entirely possible, what do I know anyway)
I say get the tomatoes and lets meet at the town square…metaphorically, that is!
Computer Analyses, Generally Wrong
Continually Annoying Greedy Watermelons
Cash And Grab Wamistas
One important omission from the acronyms list link
TLA = Three Letter Acronym
Tobis,
You’ve said that “The only way to simplify ourselves out of the present mess is by cutting our population 80%, unfortunately.”
Which you’ve later explained as meaning that the type of de-industrialisation being set in motion by you and your swivel-eyed eugenicist cohort will necessarily kill billions of people.
My country has signed up to 80% GHG emission cuts by 2050. That’s not enough to run our agricultural production even if every human in the country dropped dead. So I believe you might not be exaggerating for once in your wasted life.
Now you’re saying that this ongoing mother of all genocides isn’t even being carried out to prevent a catastrophe?
I cordially invite you to get your tiny twisted mind checked out by a mental health professional you foul-mouthed imbecile. You’re a menace.
“advocates of CAGW believe that … “.
..by promoting a coming global disaster, that only a world government can deal with, they can concentrate power into an omnipotent governing elite. It is essentially a socialist ideal. CAGW is purely a political construct. It is also an attempt by these people to save their ideology from oblivion after the failure of the socialist and communist states in the former east block.