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Re Hansen in the Washington Post today (see my post above at August 4, 2012 at 12:14 pm), I am serious: It is way past time for Climate Realists to respond forcefully to every bit of CAGW nonsense that the likes of James Hansen can get published by just picking up the phone. Everything that Hansen said can be refuted, with chapter and verse, but it has to be someone with credentials (like Lindzen, or Christy) or it will get ignored. Time to stop letting these arrant falsehoods go unanswered.
/Mr Lynn
Because we waste so much money and energy on climate junk science and the charlatans that profit from our need to feel terrified by weather fakery we’re missing opportunities like this to create miracles that mend lives and fix broken hearts. This is the invention of the year – probably the decade. These people deserve Al Gore’s Nobel money.
http://io9.com/5931615/this-toddler-and-her-tiny-exoskeleton-will-melt-your-heart?tag=thisisawesome
Millions for a hocky stick – how much for a little girl’s smile? Priceless.
Charley
Thx, Smokey @ur momisugly 04/08 12.45pm.
No 7 ‘I said HORSE !! Send in the Trojan HORSE !!!’ Lol.
No 15 ‘How people in science see each other’ )
No 16 – Yep.
Smokey
#9 is really hit something deep. Jesse Owens running in front of Hitler, right in front of his sight, is the most important moment in the history of the Olympics. It was so profound. Today would that not have been seen because the Olympic committee would have been so politically correct they wouldn’t have allowed that location?
Smokey
I don’t get why 12 is funny. The others are mostly very funny. DDT wallpaper probably did work and it’s very safe for humans and their babies. DDT is not toxic to humans.
dT
Smokey,
What a list! Made my day.
But 18 is the capper. Did anyone else notice that there’s TWO belly laughs on that page. Sure, the prediction of the ice age is hilarious, but….
In smaller print, top centre, it says….
“After detente; Why we can’t beat the Soviets”
ROFLMAO
Katrina less than advertised
AAIM
Thanks for the tune. I clicked on another from the same collection (Adele- Someone like you) for yet another great instrumental. Made my evening.
Mods; an off the wall idea — Embed instrumental music link to threads for relaxing audio while viewing comments. Serious if plausible idea. WUWT is already a ground breaking experience, audio would be even a greater experience!
I will now go back to the selections per AAIM for another instrumental experience. Thanks again!
Liberal profs discriminate.
I’m surprised they admit it.
I so totally agree with this…
http://www.paulnathan.biz/commentaries/132-mid-year-review-2012.html
Economically the road back to health is clear. The following steps should be taken.
Tax Reform
We need a complete overhaul of our tax system. Reduce rates to something like a dual rate of 10 and 25% and eliminate all deductions. If done correctly we could end up with a revenue neutral tax that is simple and understandable for everyone. There would be greater incentives to produce and earn money resulting in increased revenue and growth. The mere act of simplifying the tax code would save billions in unnecessary preparation charges and work hours wasted. The elimination of deductions, loop holes, subsidies, and corporate welfare is estimated to increase collections in excess of a trillion dollars a year! Just this change alone would do wonders to get America back on sound fiscal footing.
Budget Cuts
Cutting government waste and duplication is imperative. There are agencies, especially regulatory agencies, which overlap and even conflict with one another. These counter-productive redundancies must be eliminated. In addition, government wages and benefits should be in line with those in the private sector. Many bureaucrats are paid 50 to100% more than what they’d get for doing the same job in the private sector. And many of those jobs can be trimmed or reduced. We don’t have to “fire policemen, teachers, and firefighters.” We simply need to streamline government. Massive budget cuts aren’t even necessary, just reasonable ones.
The best way to accomplish this is to provide block grants to the states for health, education, welfare, safety concerns, etc. These tasks should not be the province of the federal government. States have proved to be much more efficient at providing such essential services (and balancing their budgets) than the federal government has. Block grants to states would mean a smaller, less expensive federal government, with smaller deficits.
Reform Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security
We need to means test social security and raise the retirement age. Healthcare should be returned to the private sector, where competition and individual choice rule rather than special interests and government. Low cost efficiencies have totally disappeared over the years as healthcare has moved out of the free market and into government bureaucracies. We need insurance that is individually based and determined, instead of by employers or government. Today, losing your job means losing your healthcare. That is a national disgrace, and needs to be one of the first things healthcare reform remedies.
Defense Spending
We should reduce troops overseas. End our subsidies to the rest of the world by handing them back the responsibility of defending themselves. This includes eliminating subsidies to the IMF, World Bank, and United Nations; which yield the American citizen almost nothing.
Monetary Policy
The best thing either Obama or Romney could do after winning the Presidency, is to announce the reappointment of Ben Bernanke to the Fed. This would go a long way in creating certainty and continuity which is badly needed in today’s world. I know of no one better to bring consistency to monetary policy or to employ his exit strategy when the time comes – and it will come. No matter what you think of Mr. Bernanke, the dollar is stable and inflation is low.
A year ago, when Bernanke was being accused of creating inflation and trashing the dollar, I went on the record as saying he was not inflating; and that if inflation (which was running at 4% rates at that time) came down to 2% in the next year as predicted by the Chairman, then he would be owed an apology from those who accused him of irresponsibly causing massive inflation. Bernanke’s assessment that the inflation would be “transitory” was correct. Those that predicted runaway inflation, higher interest rates, and a falling dollar were dead wrong. Instead of the inflationary inferno he was accused of creating, Bernanke has made the world a safer place. He was instrumental in preventing a depression in this country and possibly even monetary collapse.
Today the dollar is strong and inflation is under control and it worries me greatly who the next Fed Chairman will be given the poor judgment of conservatives regarding monetary policy. Had we followed their advice of tight money America would look a lot like Europe today. The EU has imposed exactly the kind of rigid monetary policies many conservatives are calling for here in the US. It is the wrong prescription.
And I want to be considered for Pamela’s VP choice when she runs.
Came across that recently, and it does in fact look fun! Having had recent surgery and big bills to pay, I’m going to have to let this one wait til next year. The $30 fly gun looks extrememly satisfying, but my $.99 flyswatter will have to suffice. It does make me think about some old cartoon, maybe Popeye, where he’s trying to nap, the fly won’t leave him alone, and he winds up so frustrated he uses the shotgun. Doesn’t kill the fly of course, but his house is in shambles. Have felt that frustrated many times myself.
Goldie says:
August 4, 2012 at 4:40 pm
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Check The Reference Frame (blog by Luboš Motl)
I just love youtube! It was in fact a Popeye cartoon.
NFNYC @ur momisugly 12:30
You don’t need a Lehrer, Mon, to tell which way the lies blow.
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@Smokey
Thanks for the clicks.
I vote #2 for bricks short of a full load; #5 for creative police reports, & #6 for irony.
I’ve been looking to the RealClimate responses to the Watts et al 2012. In essence they say that the work of amateurs fails to take account of important details in the nature of “raw” data that have been well understood by the professionals, and adjusted appropriately. What the responders fail to understand – and perhaps I am wrong also? – that what the work says is that irrespective of other variables (micro-climate, altitude, level of urbanization etc.) siting quality by itself generates a 2-fold difference in warming trends, with the worst sited stations having the greatest trends. The argument posed by RC et al is that individual corrections fix these things, but if siting is the largest contributor of error, it would be reasonable to say that without a siting error adjustment, the siting error will remain.
I suggest this analogy: the job is given to only 4 people to collect all the temperature data. Following the submission of their reports, one discovers that he can identify who took the measurements simply by analyzing the trends in the data presented. What, then, to do? Which to trust? You would like to redo the study, but you cannot, so what you could do is determine which is legally blind, for example, and which is anal-retentive with the sight of an eagle. The AD eagle-eye is considered the “normal” and adjustments made to the ones with the while cane.
Schmidt took his time to criticize the Watts paper – and do so indirectly through a sycophant. That is interesting by itself. But as I see the value of the study it is this: if adjustments are made only for large-scale environmental reasons, for urbanization as noted by satellite observations of nighttime lighting, then local problems as heat vents upwind of the station will never be identified.
The real crime here is professional, not legal. It comes from both laziness and arrogance, that with computers, satellites and Phd-statistical knowledge, we do not need to walk down the corner and look to see if the thermometer is in a parking lot or by a nuclear plant cooling tower. All our knowledge comes a priori, by the application of math and logic. A posteriori knowledge is for undergrads and blue-collar workers.
Asimov in his Foundation Trilogy (not the Fourth!) had a society on the ropes when scientists merely studied the results of other scientists, saying there was no need to check for themselves because the previous researchers were diligent and smart. I fear we are at that place already.
20-Click Smokey. Sweet, pal! Made my Sunday. Jest hope Hansen (see Mr Lynn (August 4, 2012 at 12:14 pm) Hansen is back at it!) does not click on #3. Whole new horizon for him when he realises that extra hour of sunlight per day mandated by governments summer times can explain it all…
Mass grave in London reveals how volcano caused global catastrophe
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/aug/05/medieval-volcano-disaster-london-graves
You do not have to be a scientist to match a CRU certification from a nearby temperature station to the list Anthony Watts posted and the photographs that prove the mostly inadequate conditions for proper siting. Apparently, however, you do have to be a scientist (of something, not necessarily climatology or meteorology) to “homogenize” or “adjust” raw data into somehow being several degrees higher than it is supposed to be.
If any warming is going on, it is part of a natural climate cycle we do not yet fully understand. Hansen’s latest crap report calling for a carbon tax obviously is just an effort to continually enrich the AGW “scientists” who have no qualms about changing data to fit their best interests. The most they can do when somebody exposes them is to accuse that person of being a rank amateur, yet some amateurs made the greatest discoveries in science. Recent college flunk-out Albert Einstein came up with the theory of relativity. Sir Isaac Newton discovered gravity because of an apple falling on his head. Also on the subject, a college slacker named Mark Zuckerberg dropped out of college to work on this project named Facebook which now is worth tens of billions of dollars. Bill Gates didn’t graduate college, he was too busy working on this microcomputer operating system named MS-DOS and Windows afterward. The bottom line is that if you are a true innovator and pioneer of your field, you do not need to be given the exact same education as everybody else because you learn faster and process information better. College is actually dull to most geniuses and therefore does little to encourage them to do well, but academics do not understand this. Also their climate models have been found to utilize a one-dimensional Earth rather than a three-dimensional spherical planet which we actually live in that shows the smoking gun: The missing hotspot in the troposphere. Only under a one-dimensional model can such a huge mistake exist! Pretty abysmal, really, that these people are considered trustworthy.
@ur momisugly smokey – I was there for number five of your off topic photos. The guy definitely fell repeatedly and was lucky he didn’t kill himself falling repeatedly off that curb…that’s my story and I’m sticking to it! (The nice Marines kept trying to help him but they just weren’t too successful at keeping him from falling.)
For those that maybe bored throw some comments this way
http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2012/08/04/climate-change-real-scientist.html?cmp=rss
http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2012/08/04/climate-change-real-scientist.html
The CBC says its real again.
One of the best documentaries I’ve ever seen: “Touching the Void”. It’s about two mountain climbers that went to Peru to climb a mountain face that had never been climbed before…….. things go just a little wrong.
full 1 hr. 42 min. movie:
Mr. Watts why don’t you have a thread, and have everyone submit a list, of the things that simply can not be happening in the realtime world around us, and there be CO2/MannMayde Globul Warming?
For instance just off the top of my head, here’s a few:
Why hasn’t the entire infrared astronomy field ever trotted out all the photos of the sky, 100, 50, 25, 10 years ago, -and today? Obviously if magic gas is a real force of nature, there must by definition be more infrared in the atmosphere.
Why hasn’t the optical astronomy field, with their fastidious, patient, once-in-a-lifetime career shot and generally serious, purposeful nerd population,
simply trotted out the photographs of the sky, with ever rising STAR TWINKLE:: the effect of the stars wavering when heat convects upward, caused by ever warmer air in the blanket around us?
Why hasn’t one word come from the entire military structure of the free world as temperature gradient averages out to the tropopause and beyond cause slight, nevertheless mathematically recorded bias increase, in the thermally reactive components of high performance flight/instrumentation-only flight craft electronics? Tsk tsk tsk,..
Thanks