We all know how the warmists like to avoid debating at all costs. In this case, the easily agitated to effervescence – blow your top Romm was aptly represented at a “Drinks and Debate” in Washington, DC by the perfect debate proxy stand in.
Myron Ebell of globalwarming.org explains in his post:
I and several of my CEI colleagues were looking forward to an informal debate late Friday afternoon on energy policy sponsored by McKinsey and Company, the global consulting firm. As part of their “Drinks and Debate” series, McKinsey’s Washington, DC office invited David Kreutzer of the Heritage Foundation and Joe Romm of the Center for American Progress’s Climate Progress blog to make some remarks and then take questions from an audience of around 40 people representing all shades of the political spectrum.
It sounded like a lot of fun because Romm often seems enraged and slightly deranged in his frequent blog posts, but unfortunately Romm cancelled at the last minute. Our host explained that Romm had pulled out without giving a reason and that his side of the debate would be represented by a bottle of Corona Light.
It was still fun: David Kreutzer gave an engaging and stimulating presentation, as he always does, and the bottle of Corona Light proved to be more rational and less misleading than Romm.
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@MikeM and others.
How can you overlook “ROBUST”
Worst beers in the world? Back in the 70’s the Navy Exchange in Taiwan sold a Hawaiian beer that came in a larger can and had a greenish tinge when poured in a glass. None of the haole would drink the stuff. I don’t drink T’sing Dao (Ching Dao) because it has a sweet under-taste that I’m pretty sure is attributable to the fact(?) that it is brewed from the water of a river that flows through some of the most populous provinces in China. Taiwan Beer is definitiely an acquired taste… it was rumored to be made with 25% rice and had a rather high formaldehyde content.
The best beer was San Miguel brewed in Hong Kong, of all places.
Why is Corona Light like making love in a canoe?
It’s f***ing near water!
Fin du Monde
I didn’t know that. The collateral enlightenment I glean from this site is simply astounding!
I wonder how many know that the correct pronunciation of Dick Cheney’s last name is ‘Chee-nee’ not ‘Chay-nee’ as LSM misled everyone into pronouncing it?
I want a beer,
Just like the beer,
That BURIED dear old dad…
The lager industry promoted beers as ‘cold filtered’ and increased sales. The climate industry filtered cold and increased warming. It’s all just marketing. What I don’t understand is if CO2 is so deadly, why haven’t artificially carbonated drinks been banned or taxed into oblivion?
Real, proper ale?
Who here has tried that gloriously ruby hued brew, Old Peculier, made by the Theakston brewery?
It would have been a stalwart adversary!
@ur momisugly Robert E. Phelan
Why did Hong Kong’s San Mig taste so good? Their wells went down 5,000 feet to the sweetest water you could imagine!
I went on a number of Police ‘inspections’ of that brewery when it was located in Shum Cheng where the wells were. The brewery re-located to Siu Lek Yuen and the quality of the beer suffered accordingly.
As far as I know, San Mig is the only bottler of beer to print the date of bottling on each label, using the advertising theme that it’s the ‘freshest beer you can buy’.
It still tastes GREAT though!
George Monbiot pulled out of a debate with Prof Ian Plimer in 2009 at Church House Westminster (UK) with 600 people in the audience, Andrew Neill in the chair. We were well entertained by Plimer. Monbiot had claimed Plimer hadn’t answered certain questions Monbiot had put to him by email beforehand. So if these questions were so devastating why not ask them before 600 people and win the argument? Because he knew he couldn’t.
Doug UK says:
February 10, 2012 at 1:27 am
(not sure if “lard” crosses the pond?? – forgive me if it does)
Only if the wind or currents are going in the right direction. 🙂
grayman says:
February 10, 2012 at 10:01 am
For those of us old enough to remember and tried it, THE worst beer ever made is Billy Beer !!!
Wasn’t going to chime in, but looks like I had a very misspent youth. Unfortunately, I’ve (at least) tried all of the winners so far: Old English 800, IC, Billy Beer, and the gawdawfull Hopingator (so bad I don’t care if it’s spelled right). I have one more nomination. A local beer from Pennsylvania called Horseshoe Curve beer (after the famous railroad curve). We called it Horsep*ss beer. It sucked.
One HUGE problem with the bottle, however. If it represents Romm, it should be EMPTY. Cap off; suds gone, nothing but potential recyclability come the next election.
It would also help if the bottle were on it’s side, the cap next to it, and a burp heard in the distance.
That would be Romm.
Ric Werme says:
February 10, 2012 at 5:29 am
How about “Olde Frothingslosh, . . .
There’s a bunch of old folks reading here!
Mostly, we drank Schmidt’s of Philadelphia (now gone) in 16 ounce bottles. But Christmas always included cans of Olde Frothingslosh.
Rege Cordic died in 1999.
http://www.post-gazette.com/regionstate/19990418cordic9.asp
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Mike M says:
February 10, 2012 at 6:18 am
It got me thinking… we need a new beer drinking game . . .
How about a song – here’s a start: “Good Luck to the Barley Mow”
http://www.chivalry.com/cantaria/lyrics/barleymow.html
Mow (sounds like cow) is a storage (barn) for hay, usually.
“Koch” I’ve heard owners of that name pronounce the name as Cook and also sometimes Kotch.
I believe the German pronunciation of “Koch” would be a softer “ch”, not a hard “k” at the end. Kind of like the verb, wochen. I could be wrong though.
And just to set the record straight, all beer is horrible.
😉
Sorry, mean wochen as a noun, meaning “weeks”
Alarmists (such as Romm) lard their arguments with many hops (regardless of preferred beer brand), skips (all honest debate) and jumps (to on message conclusions).
Any “beer” with the word Light in the title should be avoided at all costs. To this English palate they all taste the same, i.e. of nothing at all. You Americans do lots of things very well, it’s just that brewing isn’t really one of them, although I’ll make an honourable exception in the case of Anchor Steam bitter, my beer of choice when I’m in the Bay Area.
For Stephen Brown, I agree about Old Peculier and would make a case for Robinson’s Old Tom too. Nowadays, being more of a cider drinker, I go for Weston’s Old Rosie, which has a consistency which veers from light and clear to looking not unlike industrial effluent (but still tasting like proper scrumpy).
I guess as I get older I appreciate more ‘Old’ things. Maybe I dislike ‘Light’ things as I’m not so light these days.
Actually Corona Lite was originally an interesting flavored and surprisingly strong beer, but that was long ago. Maybe six years ago I bought a twelve pack and quickly drank the whole thing with a girlfriend and we both looked at each other, stoned sober and said, what is wrong with this swill?
They ruined the recipe.
Why the lemon slice with Corona?
I’ve always heard it is done to keep the flies away from the beer, but after tasting Corona, I decided the flies could have it.
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20060825070315AAeGFwX
the beer has more value ounce for ounce than what it stood in for.
and Doug UK says:
February 10, 2012 at 1:27 am
yes some of us still use it here because it is more healthy for you than most other fats that can be used. I use it every day.