Note: This letter to WUWT from Sherri Quammen was received today at at 1:47 PM PST and titled as: A “do it yourself” home global warming test. I present it in entirety, unedited, with appropriate citations for spelling and the original story. See follow up here. – Anthony
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When I suggested (WUWT May 22nd, 2007) that Mr. Watts park his gas guzzler in the garage, close all the doors and leave his engine running, it was a humourous [sic] yet effective attempt to make a point to all the ney [sic] sayers that man has drastically affected this planet’s climate as well as it’s [sic] very fragile, life supporting eco-systems.
I merely suggested that he try a little experiment at home comparing the effects from the exaust [sic] of just one running vehicle on his health as well as the probable increase of temperature in his garage. He obviously knows that many folks have commited [sic] suicide doing this or he wouldn’t have avoided the real issue and instead call me a vitral [sic] filled leftist or what ever he said at the time. If one car in an enclosed area ( like the Earth’s atmosphere) can kill someone, then imagine what six billion running cars can do.
In just the short time that the government insued [sic] a no fly rule after 9-11 where no planes were allowed in US skies, there was over a one degree cooling of the atmosphere’s temperature or something like that. Can you see where I’m going with this, or am I just another tree hugging earth lover with my head in the polluted clouds? I’m pretty sure this won’t be printed. We can expect as much from a man paid by the corporations to be a weapon of mass deception.
Sherri Quammen
Concow, CA
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Bob says:
March 22, 2012 at 2:47 pm
Sherri, I don’t’ whether to laugh or cry for you. The depth of your naivete is truly breathtaking. Your comment about earth cooling 1 degree or something after the 9-11 no fly rule is so sophomoric, so juvenile, so utterly ignorant of anything past 2nd grade science as to leave even the least intelligent of the warmista nonplussed. Come clean Anthony, this is an early April’s fools joke.
REPLY: No, this is a letter from a real person, here she is below on YouTube – Anthony
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Just saw the You Tube Video.
Time to change the oil in that hair Sherri……..
When I was a young lad many years ago, I watched the Disney movie “Bambi.” This is where I learned Thumper’s law: “If you can’t say something nice, don’t say nothing [sic] at all.” It’s in this spirit that I note the often misused word pair: effect/affect, have been used correctly in this diatribe. And following Thumper’s law, that’s about all I can say.
Jim
Perhaps she will take up this cause stop DHMO polution.
Dihydrogen Monoxide (DHMO) is a colorless and odorless chemical compound, also referred to by some as Dihydrogen Oxide, Hydrogen Hydroxide, Hydronium Hydroxide, or simply Hydric acid. Its basis is the highly reactive hydroxyl radical, a species shown to mutate DNA, denature proteins, disrupt cell membranes, and chemically alter critical neurotransmitters. The atomic components of DHMO are found in a number of caustic, explosive and poisonous compounds such as Sulfuric Acid, Nitroglycerine and Ethyl Alcohol.
http://www.dhmo.org/
@ur momisugly Murray Grainger, Mar 22, 4:14PM.
“Why is it always a “very fraglie, life supporting eco-system?”
Because you can’t get grant money to save a robust life supporting eco-system.
The bad news is she’s (she is) ‘most likely’ (that’s a CAGW scientific term) NOT among the bottom tier in California.
She ‘could be’ (there’s another CAGW scientific term) in the middle.
See, I can talk science, too.
jonjermey says:
March 22, 2012 at 2:21 pm
‘dioxide’, ‘monoxide’ — it’s an easy mistake to make.
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Yeah, that dioxide has to be twice as bad as the monoxide. Right?
Lets read another letter from Sherri
“Re “Bagging restrictions” (Newslines, by Tom Gascoyne, March 8): I have read comments questioning the Chico City Council’s proposed ban on single-use plastic bags. Many people insist that using these bags is a matter of personal choice and believe the best way to curb this wasteful habit is not by banning their use, but through education.
The question is, how do you teach people to behave more sustainably who believe that all these environmental protections and regulations inhibit their freedoms? Answer: You try to appeal to their sensibility.
1. It is estimated that 500 billion to 1 trillion plastic bags are used annually, world-wide. Of those about 90 percent go into the landfill and 1-3 percent (approx. 1.5 billion bags) end up in the environment.
2. Once in the environment, plastic bags take months to hundreds of years to decompose, breaking down into tiny, carcinogenic (cancer causing) and endocrine-disrupting HDPE (high-density polyethylene) particles that end up in our soil, waterways and oceans.
3. Two hundred million barrels of oil a year are diverted to manufacture these 500 billion plastic bags. (ABC News)
4. California spends more than $25 million annually to manage plastic-bag pollution and more than $303 million on litter-abatement services.
If this information still doesn’t convince the people who oppose this ban, then that’s why a ban needs to be imposed upon them. It saves dollars, saves oil, saves lives and just makes sense.
Sherri Quammen
Concow
Kozlowski says:
From that short letter, one can conclude:
1) She has a middle school level writing skill
2) Limited critical thinking skills
3) Does not bother to think, or fact check, before typing
4) Accepts dogma and propaganda hook, line, and blinkers
In other words, she is a typical American.
There’s the thread-winner!
Err, say what?
I think you meant typical Leftist. or Liberal or Democrat or Progressive or Socialist or Ecotard or Greenie or Libtard or Eco-Nazi or Watermellon or …
Charlie H says:
March 23, 2012 at 8:54 am
Lets read another letter from Sherri
Sherri wrote, “If this information still doesn’t convince the people who oppose this ban, then that’s why a ban needs to be imposed upon them.”
That’s the excuse for every lefty policy being imposed. Their inability to persuade the public is their justification for impose their beliefs.
How convenient. Either agree with us or you’ll be subjected to our decisions.
This report in the San Jose Mercury News gives California Schools low grades especially for low income minorities.
http://www.mercurynews.com/education/ci_20234203/report-gives-cs-ds-schools-educating-poor-minority
Palo Alto Unified School District, teaching some of the best and brightest in the USA, was rated next to last with a 1.0, a D grade.
Blade says:
Err, say what?
I think you meant typical Leftist. or Liberal or Democrat or Progressive or Socialist or Ecotard or Greenie or Libtard or Eco-Nazi or Watermellon or …
No, I meant typical American. Uneducated (in the real sense as opposed to possessing a piece of paper SAYING they are educated), unable or unwilling to think for themselves, believes what they are spoon-fed by their chosen information source (TV news, newspaper, blogs, TV comedy shows, church, Food Network, teachers & professors, or Jersey Shore) uncritically, and thinks that anyone who doesn’t agree is evil and has an underhanded agenda. IMO, It applies to conservatives as well as liberals – people simply unwilling and unable to take off their ideological blinders and actually THINK about anything.
Hmm – posted a response to Blade but it seems to have disappeared. Didn’t get the usual “Waiting for moderation” response. Did it fall into a hole somewhere?
[Reply: Rescued & posted. Anything with the word “Nazi” in it automatically goes into the spam folder. ~dbs, mod.]
I suppose, when you don’t have a life….you can create one
…by acting really really involved in some cause
“Looks like climate change is playing havoc on the functionality of her keyboard or spell check software.”
No. There’s a new app available; it takes BS and turns it into bad English.
It may very well be that Miss Quammen is educated and quite intelligent. The problem is, people judge your intelligence on the facts before them. Consistently bad spelling, unfair as it may be, is a sign that you are a lazy inconsiderate dolt.
Life is not fair. If you want people to take you seriously, then for starters, spell correctly. In this day and age, there is ***no*** excuse for poor spelling. When someone is reading your screed, every time there is a misspelling, it’s a mental glottal stop inflicted on your poor reader, who has to stop reading, guess at the supposed correct word, insert it into the information flow, and then attempt to resync to the thought train. At some point, your reader gives up, because any unique information or perspective you may have, is not worth the mental effort and their time to figure it out.
You’re lazy and inconsiderate because you don’t want to do the hard work to make your writings easy to read. And you’re a dolt because you haven’t figured out that when you misspell, your writings are ineffective.
Huh. Her rant related here is pretty well written an actually right on target.
Go figure.
[snip . . this blog is about science . . rephrase your points in scientific terms rather than emotion and give it another go . . kbmod]
Sherri – what about addressing the factual errors of yours that have also been pointed out?
sherriq says:
March 23, 2012 at 12:24 pm
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Sherry you should be really angry at all the money channeled into CO2….that does not cause any of the problems you listed
Wouldn’t you rather see that money go to help solve real pollution problems….
sherriq,
No thanks to Anthony for publishing your letter? How ungrateful. And you still need a proof reader.
This isn’t a medical blog, but I should point out that because of technology, cheap fossil fuels, and a free market, your children are most likely to live far longer and healthier lives than your grandparents.
Finally, did you call us”whores” because of your assumption that we are all working for corporations? I think if you eliminated from your life everything made by a corporation, you would be living in a goatskin yurt and cutting your own fire wood. Besides that being bad for the environment, keep in mind that hospitals and almost all doctors are corporations. I think I detect more than a little hypocrisy in your rant.
TonyG says:
[Reply: Rescued & posted. Anything with the word “Nazi” in it automatically goes into the spam folder. ~dbs, mod.]
Ok, I see that now – a point to remember, even when quoting someone else! I didn’t even notice it in the quoted text. Thanks!
[Moderator’s Note: This one had to rescued, too. -REP]
Please, do NOT tell Sherrri about dihydrogen monoxide.
Smokey says:
March 22, 2012 at 4:39 pm
Yep, works for me, understood every word, just took a few seconds longer to read. 😉
DaveE.
It’s fairly predictable that the majority of comments regarding my letter are filled with venom and hatred. It is what I’ve come to expect from the folks on the right.
I misspell a few words and that negates the message that I’m trying to convey. Global warming is not the real issue here, people. The important thing is to remember that we have only one planet a to live on and that it is this great big beautiful planet that supports our lives, the lives of our children and of their children and all other living things. What we do to this planet, we do to ourselves. Let me put it in a way that you folks might understand, one should not shit in their own bed. When government agencies placed there to protect the interest of th
e citizens of this country get in bed, so to speak with the corporations they are supposed to regulate, then we end up with billion dollar bail outs, outragious gas prices and environmental degradation. Global warming is but the tip of the
(melting) iceburg. What worries me is all the damage that fracking is wrecking on this nation’s ground water. When a person who has had one of these wells on their property can turn on their faucet and set fire to the water coming out of it, that is not a good thing.
By the way, do you know how difficult it is to type a comment via cell phone on this website? If my love of the planet and distain for all who would mindlessly and short sightedly harm makes me your enemy then so be it. You can malign me all you,d like. At least I’m speaking out for what I believe to be true. Do you want to see the proliferation of cancers and other pollution related diseases? Carcenogens are found in so many products including Round Up through glyphosates, plastics, air fresheners, household cleaners. Have you ever had someone you love die of cancer? My mother died last June, my nephew was born withtumors covering his body. Only one planet folks and humans aren’t the only life forms, though we arrogantly act like it. I hope this gets posted because my other one did not.
[Reply: All of your comments have been posted. We do not censor different points of view, no matter how unusual. And we thank you for adding to our site traffic. ~dbs, mod.]
Sherriq,
sorry about your mother, and your nephew. We all want a healthier planet, however I suspect many people here would disagree with you what the real threats are. Most folks find it hard to understand risks and what we should really fear, so we tend to fear what we don’t really understand.
It is easy to begin to think of all pesticides as bad and all manmade chemcials as bad and yet natural chemicals can be very harmful and something as natural as milk is officially considered to be pollution if you spill a tanker of it into a river.
You mentioned the herbicide Round Up, and glyphosate its active ingredient – these are not considered carcinogenic at all – after a lot of testing. http://environmentalcommons.org/glyphosate.pdf
The ‘worst’ effect is from the surfactant – it has the same effect as concentrated washing up liquid if someone were to drink it – strips the protective lining from your gut.