From Senator Inhofe’s office, more on the story about the melting street lamps in Oklahoma and follow up press release:
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Yesterday Inhofe revealed that a dumpster fire, not global warming, was the reason for streetlight lamps to melt in Oklahoma city, yet Yahoo has failed to correct the story. The headline remains: Oklahoma is so hot that street lamps are melting http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/technology-blog/oklahoma-hot-street-lamps-melting-203656312.html
Who wrote the story? Fox Van Allen – described on his Twitter account as: “LA-based freelance writer for Tecca and WoW Insider. Yahoo!, MSNBC, and USA Today syndicated. Editor and all-around creative. Egotistical monster. Gaymer.”
We have asked Fox Van Allen to correct the story on Twitter. His response? Via twitter:
“OH MY GOD YOU GUYS I PISSED SENATOR JIM INHOFE OFF this is turning out to be an amazing day”
Matt Dempsey
Communications Director
Senate Environment and Public Works Committee
Inhofe Staff
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Get a load of this, from Fox Van Allen‘s website. http://foxvanallen.com/
Writer. Editor. Perfectionist.
his FAQs section says a lot about him: http://foxvanallen.com/faq/
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Fox appears to have incredibly little understanding of common physics of radiative heat transfer and combustion.
Scientifically, his “perfectionist” label is laughable – is that perfection in fear mongering?
Or will he redeem himself by posting a correction?
http://youtu.be/Z5p5FzjWp_Y
Writer. Editor. Perfectionist. Unquestioning Parrot.
Did I miss anything?
No really! Seriously!
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokal_affair
Perfectionist.
Reminds me of a definition I heard ages ago:
“A perfectionist is one who takes great pains…and gives them to others.”
In Michael Crichton’s “State of Fear”, greenies conspired to create environmental disasters in order to further their agenda. Could the dumpster fire have been set for the purpose of melting the streetlights? How else this false PR?
His site allows comments. I just put up one “Any more streetlamps melting today?”
Gonna go back and see how many times I can. Join the fun!!!!
GlynnMhor says:
August 3, 2012 at 10:56 am
> Did he run for office in New Hampshire in 2008?
Not that I recall.
OTOH, and Oh, OT:
About that NO H8. My wife is responsible for getting “H8” banned from New Hampshire license plates. Our child protective service agency, DCYF, has some of the same imperious types I see in the warmist community, and my wife hates to see some of the things they do to push their agenda. (Their policy manual used to tell the supervisors to explain new legislation to the judges – “The various meetings recommended will help substantially to ease the burdens on the Division and to ensure the Court’s fullest cooperation.”)
New Hampshire is fond of vanity license plates, so my wife got “H8DCYF”. It took the state a year before DCYF got the DMV to send armed officers to our home to remove the plates. Long, long saga is at http://wermenh.com/h8dcyf.html .
Visit http://www4.egov.nh.gov/platecheck/platecheck.aspx and enter the chemical formula for propane.
Okay, if CAGW is real and that dumpster caught fire because of it, why did I freeze my assorted body parts off at Stonehenge, Hastings, Scarborough, etc. last month? I’m pretty sure England is in the northern hemisphere and it’s summer there just like it is here, but it was sure rainy and chilly (yes, even cold) much of the month I was there.
He can write a book called “Farenheit 115” where people, houses, and dumpsters spontaneously catch fire when the ambient temperature reaches 115, and a gritty team of plucky survivors are headed to Alaska…
Okay, more of a pamphlet.
Maybe a drunken late-night internet post.
It is easy to laugh at Fox Van Allen, but he does make a valid point. If we can quantify how many doublings of CO2 are required to see off the Polar bear, and how many will sink Tuvalu, it is our moral duty, as responsible human beings to work out what we have to do to save the street lamps
I see Fox is picking up the melting streetlights story…. This should be interesting.
Brian J BAKER says:
August 3, 2012 at 10:14 am
What a [snip]!!! Where the hell do you yanks get such trash!!
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From our Government
BrainwashingEducational Institutions.His picture shows he is still in the wet behind the ears, just our of school and still needs his Nanny stage. Unfortunately too many remain in that stage because of all the fail-safes in our civilization that keeps the Universe from whomping them upside the head with REALITY.
No one who has faced reality, like traveling in a third world country, or following the north end of a south facing mule plowing a rocky field, would agree to dismantling our civilization based on no real evidence… Well maybe they might if they were really really brain dead.
The ‘following the north end of a south facing mule plowing’ is the reason A Felon Won 41% In WV Democratic Presidential Primary Over Obama Much of West Virgina has to be farmed with mules or horses because a tractor will roll over and kill you. I have had a tractor roll on me and a neighbor was killed by a tractor roll on the hill where Johnny Appleseed was born. Coal is the other reason.
I refer, of course, to Fox Cable, not Van Allen.
Ric Werme says:
August 3, 2012 at 1:40 pm
Visit http://www4.egov.nh.gov/platecheck/platecheck.aspx and enter the chemical formula for propane.
NHDMV-nanny sez verboten — but RW4G0V is still available…
I used to see garbage can fires all the time in NY City. They almost exclusively happened in winter, often in areas inhabited by vagrants.
During summertime, however, apparently global warming got the potable water system boiling to the point that fire hydrants burst, because water would be shooting out of them.
“OH MY GOD YOU GUYS I PISSED SENATOR JIM INHOFE OFF this is turning out to be an amazing day”
We have seen the enemy, and he is a nine-year-old girl.
If there was any confusion left about the debate being if our CO2 was driving climate , or if instead it was just hysterical emotion driving thought processes, I think we’ve buttoned that one up…
DirkH says:
August 3, 2012 at 11:45 am
Fox Van Allen:
““OH MY GOD YOU GUYS I PISSED SENATOR JIM INHOFE OFF this is turning out to be an amazing day””
Not only is he a hater with NO H8 written on his face but he’s proud to have produced that crappy article. That’s quite an achievement. Where do they get these people? Remind me to sell my Yahoo shares. Oh, did that already in 2000. Fine.
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He reminds me of that that guy that verbally abused that girl at the Chick-Fil-A drivethrough. The poor guy didn’t even recognize that HE was the only one spewing “hate”.
Talk about reprobate minds …
(Or “minds void of sound judgement”, if that makes more sense to you.)
Laurie Bowen says:
August 3, 2012 at 1:19 pm
No really! Seriously!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokal_affair
I can see the headlines in 2015 now — “Al Gore to World: ‘AGW IS A Hoax! And You Guys Fell For It! Aaaah-hahahahahahaaaa!’ “
Yes, that would make sense as a classic CYA strategy. My favorite is: I’m wrong? Well, I was just testing you!
Perfectionist? I am seeing a lot of that from the progressive left. They claim to support diversity, but are against diversity of opinion. They are the new progressive/fascist statists.
@Don Searing, Ph.D. says August 3, 2012 at 9:32 am
Read the new story at Yahoo… contains gems like this:
“…. Still, that dumpster fire was caused and aggravated by the record heat and dryness….”
Ans the evidence for this is? sorry? where did you say it was? uh?…
Richard Muller on Science Friday… just saying.
http://sciencefriday.com/segment/08/03/2012/changing-views-about-a-changing-climate.html
Alvin says:
August 3, 2012 at 2:52 pm
“Perfectionist? I am seeing a lot of that from the progressive left. They claim to support diversity, but are against diversity of opinion. They are the new progressive/fascist statists.”
Never trust a hippy.
@ur momisugly Fox Van Allen
You ego requires you to read this thread. It’s your 15 minutes of fame. Now you look like a fool and for the world to see. Congratulations! Only I doubt that you pissed off Inhofe for even an instant but you will be seen as a fool for much longer than your 15 minutes twitter fame. I’ll bet we never here from you on Yahoo, CNN, MSNBC, or any other media again. Once again, congratulations on your 15 min fame.
Your redeeming factor — you showed what a fool the MSM can be.
“OH MY GOD YOU GUYS I PISSED SENATOR JIM INHOFE OFF this is turning out to be an amazing day”
Oh the juvenility! As pleased as toddler with a full potty.”Look what i did!”
Luckily this is the calibre of your opponents.