While we wait for Nick Stokes and David Appell to work up excuses for their embracing the “climate scientists get death threats” fiasco, I thought I’d share this spinoff of this short passage I wrote yesterday:
Likewise, blogger/scientist Nick Stokes, who fancies himself as being cool and methodical, was completely taken in, and like Appell, seems unable to come to terms with his own quik-set epoxy position that seems to be a product of the tribalism he and Appell share.
Inspired, Benjamin D. Hillicoss has coined this new branch of post normal science, with a hat tip to climate science.
Benjamin D. Hillicoss writes:
epoxology: the science of sticking (permanently) to an untenable position
So many applications, so little time. In this case, I think we can say “the science is set”.
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UPDATE: Via slashdot, here is something that Appell and Stokes really should be worried about, as should we all:
quoting Nature: “A loose coalition of eco-anarchist groups is increasingly launching violent attacks on scientists. A group calling itself the Olga Cell of the Informal Anarchist Federation International Revolutionary Front has claimed responsibility for the non-fatal shooting of a nuclear-engineering executive on 7 May in Genoa. The same group sent a letter bomb to a Swiss pro-nuclear lobby group in 2011; attempted to bomb IBM’s nanotechnology laboratory in Switzerland in 2010; and has ties with a group responsible for at least four bomb attacks on nanotechnology facilities in Mexico. Another branch of the group attacked railway signals in Bristol, UK, last week in an attempt to disrupt employees of nearby defense technology firms (no word on whether anyone noticed the difference between an anarchist attack and a normal Wednesday on the UK’s railways). A report by Swiss intelligence says such loosely affiliated groups are increasingly working together.”
http://www.nature.com/news/anarchists-attack-science-1.10729
[snip – I don’t wish to broach this subject here, lest some angry people get ideas – Anthony]
Climate scientists -sick of trying to nail a jelly to the ceiling ? try new epoxolological methods, guaranteed to make anything stick
‘Epoxology’ – another word (idiomatic) for the study of ‘sticking it to you’ ! Love it.
Thus, having been epoxologised by Government green policies, by the 300B tied up in carbon exchange, by the banks, by the IPCC, hockey sticks et al. all in the name of ‘Save the Planet’ we have in fact the unintended consequence of demonstrating that the supporting MSM, the bureaucrats, policy makers and ruling class are welded to the idea of ‘control by taxation’. Expressed eruditely by AE: “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the the universe.”
paddylol says:
May 29, 2012 at 1:18 pm
Cute. witty and I did laugh but…
Let’s not be mean to the Yankees.
They like their heroes.
They are welcome to their heroes.
And this is their home, after all.
I would argue that these guys do not practise the science of ‘Epoxology’, instead worshipping the Goddess, Araldite. Clearly a religion not a science.
Heh! Even a non-fatal shooting is kinda more serious act than an actual death threat, is not it? Not to mention an imaginary one…
Nick and Appell – com’on it only hurts for a little while, and acceptance is readily yours at WUWT-were not on the synod of hockey team bishops. If you insist on sticking to your guns, epox on your heads.
Gary Pearse: Are you kidding – have you ever tried to rip set epoxy off your skin? I takes layers with it. PAINFUL!
When you practice expoxology, you get stuck to a tree’s resin.
When you get stuck to a tree’s resin, you get stuck to the Hockey Stick made from that tree.
When you get stuck to the Hockey Stick, you resent the team that made it.
When you resent the team that made it, you resent the Mann leading the team.
When you resent the Mann leading the team, you become an anarchist.
When you become an anarchist, you get stuck in a group calling itself “Olga Cell of the Informal Anarchist Federation International Revolutionary Front”.
Don’t get stuck in a group calling itself “Olga Cell of the Informal Anarchist Federation International Revolutionary Front”.
I don’t see the relationship between the intellectual luddites and the update about technological luddites.
Olga Cell of the Informal Anarchist Federation International Revolutionary Front
As distinct from the Popular Anarchist Federation International Revolutionary Front, and the Peoples Anarchist Federation International Revolutionary Front, and the Popular, Peoples Anarchist Federation International Revolutionary Front….
Splitters…
One may surmise that violent eco-anarchists obtain a good part of their rationale from the extreme statements of certain eco-activist scientists. These scientists will have to accept moral responsibility for what the anarcho-folks do. Someone’s “death-train” rhetoric may well come back to haunt him.
‘Olga Cell of the Informal Anarchist Federation International Revolutionary Front’ ? Splitters !
Signed ‘The Peoples Front for the Informal Anarchist Federation of International Revolutionaries’
“A loose coalition of eco-anarchist groups is increasingly launching violent attacks on scientists.”
Scientists? Then I guess Hansen, Mann, Schmidt, Briffa, Jones, etc. have nothing to worry about.
@paddylol
“On October 29, 1941, United Kingdom (Great Britain) Prime Minister Winston Churchill visited Harrow School to to hear the traditional songs he had sung there as a youth, as well as to speak to the students. This became one of his most quoted speeches, due to distortions that evolved about what he actually said.
The myth is that Churchill stood before the students and said, “Never, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, give in. Never give in. Never give in. Never give in.” Then he sat down. In reality, he made a complete speech that included words similar to what are often quoted. Also, some believe he said, “Never give up.” That too is incorrect.”
http://www.school-for-champions.com/speeches/churchill_never_give_in.htm
Anthony posted the YouTube video of the speech on the Christmas Tread…
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/12/24/merry-christmas-open-thread/
But yeah…your point is well taken. Gallipoli was an over reach. I do recall reading somewhere…he was undermined by the Navy during the invasion. Don’t forget his quote about history being kind to him…no doubt my opinion of his exploits are biased.
I believe in the context of this thread…the quote works.
Perhaps Nick Stokes and David Appell are channeling the Pre Gallipoli Churchill…
Churchill was only 40 at the time, he paid the price and gained some wisdom…I think.
Epoxology, explains the settled science meme, it’s epoxilogical.
All that’s left now for the Epoxologists to determine is, thru such gooey modeling: what extreme temperature allows this resin to ‘cure’ to full strength?…better increase their funding…
Ever since I felt a bomb go off in London thirty odd years ago (I was in a shop basement). I realised then that if it wasn’t one bunch of nutters it would be another. I grew fond of long net curtains on the windows for a while. Later! it seemed the bombs would only get bigger and the nutters more extreme.
Gunga Din says:
May 29, 2012 at 2:14 pm
When you practice expoxology, you get stuck to a tree’s resin.
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Since the phrase was coined here, will I go down in history as the first person to misspell it?
But LOL…
“..in areas that receive a lot of sunlight, where it can become brittle, yellow, and start to peel after only a year or two. Epoxologists also have to work on ways to keep people from picking at it like a peeling scab.” http://www.thetoque.com/human-interest/contractors-are-starting-to-stick-to-rubber-cement/
“Proctocranialology” has a suitably biomedical air about it.
Gallipoli: wasn’t that the campaign where the recalled retired Crimean war generals decided to camp on the beach and give the Turks time to set their defenses rather than doing the called for amphibious landing and immediate assault to take the cliffs and drive in far enough to protect the beach head? Taking tea on the beach got an awful lot of good men killed. Of course the First Lord of the Admiralty should take the blame for the incompetence of some geezer field generals who should have been at the gentleman’s club in London regaling all about with stories of their past daring-do.
Of course I may be being too harsh on the leadership, but history shows they waited long enough for the light garrison to be reinforced, assuring their defeat. It would have been a bloody campaign in any regards.
Sorry mods for taking this way off topic.
Epoxology – and then when that’s not enough, try out what keeps (kept?)
the hockey stick together – Crazy Glue
boodledug says:
May 29, 2012 at 2:32 pm
‘Olga Cell of the Informal Anarchist Federation International Revolutionary Front’ ? Splitters !
Signed ‘The Peoples Front for the Informal Anarchist Federation of International Revolutionaries’
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Member AFL-CIO?
Worrisome development. Shades of the Unabomber (eco-terrorists?).Not too anarchistic to organize:
The “Informal Anarchist Federation International Revolutionary Front”;
.” . . talk of a “blossoming” of a more organized eco-anarchist movement.”
With the addition of ‘eco-‘ this is the language of the radical left in the 1930s. I wonder where their money is coming from. . .
/Mr Lynn