Clouded thinking
There seems to be a disturbance in the farce. Peter J. Simmons uses the WUWT Submit Story link (making it fair game to publish) to send this fine example of climate delusion in action, complete with “you people” and big oil claims.
Further down we have a death threat style email from Marc Morano he shared today. I’m sure David Appell will get right on it.
Peter J. Simmons writes:
Story body: You’re too busy for this to be a hobby. So it’s your job unless you are independently wealthy. Are you paid by oil companies to spread disinformation? If you live on the East Coast you may have cause to start wondering if your career choice was sensible.
But any way, the environment will catch up with you people, as every day brings more ‘extreme’ weather events, records for rainfall broken repeatedly [the north of England and Scotland just had a month’s rain in 24 hours, in June, one of many records broken] and extreme weather is becoming the norm around the world.
Rather than spending your life copying and pasting this garbage [do you actually create any of it?] you would be advised to step outside occasionally into the real world and experience what is happening to the climate in real time, in reality, you know, on your skin. So much effort, energy and activity to deny reality, and your epitaph will be ‘He got it wrong’.
‘It don’t take a weatherman to tell which way the wind blows’.
Short summary: http://planetark.org/wen/65757
A couple of points.
1. I do get outside, for example- the head photo in this post is of clouds taken by me last night near my home, I found the mix of lower level cumulus constrained by the LCL juxtaposed with the higher patterned cirrus interesting.
2. I don’t get any funding from big oil, small oil, or coal companies or energy companies of any kind. Yes I’m busy, yes I write a lot of my own material, combined with guest posts and press releases. Your assertions are just talking points fabricated by the haters with no basis. If I was funded by “big oil” or independently wealthy, would I need to do things like this (yes, another outside excursion)?
3. As for my epitaph, I’ve already written it into my will to be inscribed on my tombstone, you’ll just have to wait.
Here’s Marc Morano’s hate mail today, equally entertaining. He writes:
I wonder if Australian media would be interested in hate/threatening mail i recieved today. Abc News? I would send a taunting email back, but it is most likely fake email return address.
From: Fuk Yu <fuckyou@fucktard.com>
Sent: Tue Jun 26 11:44:29 EDT 2012
To: morano@climatedepot.com
Subject: leave the scientists alone
I will have a nice long drive up to DC and have a very short and unpleasant conversation with your ass if you don”t stop harrassing scientists.
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Greens need higher quality trolls. – Anthony
UPDATE: It seems that there must be something in the air today…more examples from Tom Nelson:
Classy: Warmist Brad Johnson tweets using hashtag “#suckitdeniers”
Twitter / climatebrad: #climategate smackdown
#climategate smackdown: “Petitioners have not, as they assert, uncovered a ‘pattern’ of flawed science.” #suckitdeniers
Brad Johnson (climatebrad) on Twitter
Campaign Manager for Forecast the Facts (@ForecastFacts). Former ThinkProgress Green Editor at the Center for American Progress.
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Left-wing warmist Roger Ebert: “Global Warming Deniers shouting their denials through snorkels”
Twitter / ebertchicago: Sea level rising 3-4 times
Sea level rising 3-4 times faster on East Coast. Global Warming Deniers shouting their denials through snorkels.
Nature has a way of getting the last word. When does the ‘debate strategy’ of the global warming alarmists cease to work? When they lose popular support. Their support has been steadily falling to the point they’re pretty much out of the game. Pretense to authority and their petty liberal fascism seems to be about all they have left.
http://evilincandescentbulb.wordpress.com/2012/04/26/pretense-to-authority-and-petty-liberal-fascism-is-whats-left/
It’s a shame Mr Morano wasn’t using his spillchucker. ‘recieved’ Yuck!!!!
If Morano was an AGW promoter, that e-mail would be internatinal news and lead to much pontification about how wicked denialists are threatening poor AGW scientists.
Greens need higher quality trolls. – Anthony
Do they have any “higher quality trolls?” I very much doubt it, they are too full believing their own BS to develop any quality.
I’d assume most conversations with my ass would be very short; it is not nearly as eloquent as most of my other body parts. I can’t speak to the unpleasantness of such an exchange as I have neither had the desire nor the thought of trying one, although I assume there are those who talk to just about anyone, I’m trying not to judge. I fail to see the threat in that email and I give it an F for originality.
The first email was nothing but supposition after supposition. Not very scientific, not very academic, not very nice. But I’m sure he had a smacking good time writing it – and sending it. I would insert here one of the many adages which deals with fools and the words of fools, but I figure we know the tune. And the fool never knows his part. He’s too busy listening to himself.
Conclusive evidence that climate change lowers the IQ, moral standards and argumentative acumen of warmists and thus has to be prevented in the name of the future of the human race.
He said “talk with your ass” because that’s where you would exchange la merde, fumier etc
I will have a nice long drive up to DC…
…assuming he passes the road test for his learner’s permit and mom lets him borrow the car.
All I can picture is this guy kneeling behind Morano, red-faced, yelling, “And another thing…”
Morano has a donkey?
“more ‘extreme’ weather events, records for rainfall broken repeatedly [the north of England and Scotland just had a month’s rain in 24 hours, in June, one of many records broken]”
Wasn’t the predication for the UK that it would get warmer and dryer?
…as every day brings more ‘extreme’ weather events, records for rainfall broken repeatedly [the north of England and Scotland just had a month’s rain in 24 hours, in June, one of many records broken]
Wrong! It’s getting hotter and dryer! All the models say so!
For a decade or more, we’ve been regularly told that the summers will get hotter and dryer, to the point that TV gardening programmes advocated growing mediterranean gardens. There’s a big county show every year here, in the middle of summer. Haven’t been since the 1980s, but I recall being amused by the stand from the local water company, with posters advocating the usual drought resistant plants to cope with the heat and aridity. What amused me was that the stand was on turf, rendered a sea of mud by the heavy rain. After a couple of years of this, I didn’t notice the water company stand any more. Cognitive dissonance is a wonderful thing, when you’re standing ankle deep in mud handing out leaflets about drought.
Here’s the sort of model-based nonsense we regularly get:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthnews/3326777/English-countryside-could-be-changed-forever.html
http://www.climatechangeandme.net/
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1547917/Things-far-from-rosy-as-climate-change-hits-traditional-British-gardens.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/wildlife/3304541/Garden-of-the-future.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1492056/How-many-kinds-of-flowers-wilt-in-an-English-country-garden.html
Ah yes, our rainfall. This is following on from the Met Office’s forecast, of April, May & June being “Drier than average”?
Dangerous talk…could get PJS and FY some serious quiet time….maybe even getting kicked out of mommies basement.
Of course, to understand the science behind climate change requires an IQ of at least saaayyyyy……….um… 80. So one would have to feel sorry for this troll, what’s his name again, Simons, Simmon, oh what the hell. Who cares anyway!
Speaking of the UK rainfall, didn’t the Met Office say that April would be the driest of the three months – just before the deluge started? At the time some wags said “wait for May and June” and so far this seems likely!
Since the UK is so variable (for a relatively small island) I am sure we can find somewhere where May and June rainfall is greater than April – anyone got the time to look and save the Met Office blushes?
Awww bless. Isn’t he nice to be thinking of us Brits and our unusually wet summers, especially after the dry winters we’ve been having? Of course the models said it would be the other way round.
What always amazes me is how people on the Left, ordinarily very skeptical, esp towards ‘Big’ Whatever, are so willing to blindly accept whatever Big Government shovels down our throats. I realize the mentality involved, and should you wonder in stunned amazement yourselves, give Dr Sanity’s blog a go. It’s a blogspot.com, IIRC. Well explained for the layman (as much is here, Thanks Anthony, Willis, and all!), and lots of things will begin to make sense. Anthony, I truly hope they don’t start going down the #BrettKimberlain road on you, SWATing and all. Given he tactic becoming more common, it might behoove you to have a peremptory chat with your local LEOs. One blogger on your side of the country could well have been shot by the police, given the tactics used.
The English have a long tradition of entertaining epitaphs on their gravestones until such things were suppressed by the moralists about a hundred years ago. Still they sometimes slip through even today and one of the wittiest modern ones was the late Spike Milligan’s.
“I told you I was ill.”
As for the level of invective it is very puerile. The best example I have ever met was by a noted chess player and written to a lady friend, alas no longer with us. It is a quite superb mixture of insult, invective and abuse. I have the original letter and when the gentleman dies I shall publish it as an exemplar of the art.
Kindest Regards
Was beer involved by any chance, seems likely to me.
you would be advised to step outside occasionally into the real world and experience what is happening to the climate in real time
Actually, this is very good advice. When Texas was undergoing its drought last year, it was interesting watching how nature dealt with it. It was also interesting watching how nature bounced right back after the drought ended. It was almost as if all the plants and animals were capable of dealing with the situation, like maybe they had had to deal with similar situations thousands or even millions of times before in the past.
This is a big reason why I think global warming is a bunch of hooey.
Yah, I saw the clouds too. Here in Chico I was trying to get my equatorial mount aligned and the sky didn’t cooperate.
It’s pretty amazing how these shrill people think that the only reason we don’t agree is because we don’t know what they do. Sigh.
The “record” rainfall in the North of England and Scotland is only a record if one ignores any “record” more than 30 years old.
As for the trolls – what a pity stupidty, even this terminal, takes so long to eradicate them from the gene pool.
Kaboom says:
June 26, 2012 at 11:19 am
I’d assume most conversations with my ass would be very short….
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My conversations with my ass are more intelligent than with some of the CAGW brethren. She looks like this BTW: PHOTO (Note the intelligent expression)