Former IPCC lead author Raymond T. Pierrehumbert has a real zinger this time. You have to read this one to believe it. From an interview in Slate magazine via Tom Nelson:
Mitt Romney coal jobs: Romney talks about jobs, but the coal industry is dying.
By now we know that Paul Ryan has more or less declared himself to be a full-blown climate change denialist. But what are we to make of Mitt Romney?
Perhaps we should call him a Climate Clown, since he seems to think global climate catastrophes are a laughing matter.
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Last time I checked, America was part of the globe, so if the globe warms, America warms with it, and every ton of carbon dioxide America adds to the atmosphere adds to the collective warming we all suffer. [Hey Raymond: Where I live, the average year-round temperature is 45 F. If the average temperature rises to 47 F, why would that make me “suffer”?]
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Whatever you call Romney, it’s clear he has a coal complex as big as the Powder River Basin. He just can’t stop trumpeting his love affair with Satan’s Rock. ”
…As expanded natural gas supplies continue to cut into domestic demand for U.S. coal, the next big fight will be over vastly expanded coal exports to Asia, and it will make the fight over the Keystone XL pipeline look like a minor skirmish. I know who I want on my side in that fight, and it is not the coal industry’s dream candidate.
Satan’s Rock, really?
Funny that Ray should bring up the image of climate clown. We have a few.
Ray Pierrehumbert playing accordion at the liquidus. Source: http://geosci.uchicago.edu/people/faculty.shtml
How appropriate though, given the politics employed by Ray and The Team, that they say “We are climate scientists, Chicago style”.
It is worth recalling what Dr. Ray Pierrehumbert wrote of skeptics:
McIntyre, McKittrick, and Watts are the Andrew Breitbarts of climate. Occasionally they may out something that is technically true, but it is always of minor consequence compared to the noise, and always a distraction from the truly important questions facing society. That’s why, big as the IPCC tent may be, I hope there will never be a place in it for any of these clowns.
Josh sees it this way:
Please, please, someone get Dr. Pierrehumbert a mirror.
PaulH says:
October 23, 2012 at 9:48 am Didn’t Hansen (or Suzuki?) call oil “Satan’s Excrement”?
“Despilfarramos el petróleo para acrecentar los ingresos fiscales… y ahora… estamos hundiéndonos en el excremento del diablo.” Juan Pablo Pérez Alfonzo, 1976
My translation:
We manage the oil (exploitation) badly in order to increase revenue….and now…we are sunk in the devil’s excrement.
Juan Pablo Pérez Alfonzo was one of the founders of OPEC, but he saw the potential of the oil bonanza in Venezuela as a double edged sword. Looking at Venezuela today, you have to say he was right.
Evidently, Shaving causes Global Warming.
“McIntyre, McKittrick, and Watts are the Andrew Breitbarts of climate. ”
Breitbart was primarily a political figure. This tells me that Pierrehumbert sees “climate” as a political instrument, not a scientific one.
@Jimmy Haigh says: October 23, 2012 at 7:39 am
Well you can’t really play rock music (wasn’t it too called Satan;s music in the early days?) on an accordion can you?
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Cajun rocks like crazy 🙂
David Ball says:
October 23, 2012 at 9:26 am
Cubic Zirconium?
Sorry, couldn’t resist it. 😉
DaveE.
I see. Ray has a goofy beard and a sense of humor. I see your point. That settles it absolutely. We can burn all the coal we want to forever! Thanks for the cogent rebuttal.
REPLY: The rebuttal was for calling us “clowns” (his word) while clearly acting like one himself, along with his “Satan’s Rock” ridiculousness. It all speaks to his own self awareness and cognizance. Some reading comprehension/humor comprehension issues with MT me thinks. – A
…and that glass on the table appears to be wine, which, if so, during its fermentation phase produced that dreaded GAS [which must not be named].
Quite a few people told LBJ that he was expanding the university and colleges systems way too fast. Ray is perfect proof of that.
How soon they forget. Coal enabled the buildout of this country west and its cheap electricity
has enabled high standards of living, easy living and God knows what else over the past 100 years. Try and imagine what progress would have been like over those 100 years without coal or oil. Outside of trees, what else was there?
Don’t screw with him, he’s got talent. In the photo, he’s playing the keyboard with his right hand, and in the video with his left.
Dr. Ray Pierrehumbert is certainly part of the Insane Clown Posse and also plays Satan’s (musical?) instrument.
Hahahaha! Reading the post then scrolling down to that picture – talk about a belly laugh! Nice one Josh!
Thanks to Michael Tobis (above) for demonstrating the flawed thought processes which are at the core of the Warmist position.
Michael, we’re NOT saying that because Pierrehumbert is nutty as squirrel poo, that makes it alright to go on burning coal forever.
We’re ARE saying that because it’s alright to go on burning coal forever that makes Pierrehumbert nutty as squirrel poo.
See? There is a difference.
CodeTech says:
October 23, 2012 at 8:43 am
‘…allow me to introduce you to one “Weird Al Yankovich”… Accordion meets Rock. I’ll wait.’
Hmmm… i don’t think rock would have caught on if they hadn’t invented electric guitars though. You can’t look cool playing an accordion.
David A. Evans says:
October 23, 2012 at 11:56 am
Great response, but please don’t tell the missus !!!
Somewhere under all that is a bald pate and a goatee.
I don’t think he meant Satan’s Rock. That is probably a typo. I think he meant Santa’s Rock. You know, the one I threaten my kids with every December. 🙂
Michael Tobis says:
October 23, 2012 at 12:18 pm
I see. Ray has a goofy beard and a sense of humor. I see your point. That settles it absolutely. We can burn all the coal we want to forever! Thanks for the cogent rebuttal.
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Aside from the fact that coal is a finite resource and may be exhausted in say +500 years or so why can’t we burn coal all we want?
Something tells me that Ray Pierrehumbert’s ridiculous statement won’t be lampooned by Jon Stewart and company.
Thanks jeremeyp99 for the Marc Savoy tune, to cleanse the palate from the taste of that goddawful Pierrehumbert video. Apparently Pierrehumbert’s scientific skills are on a par with his musical ones.
/Mr Lynn
ROTLF. “Satan’s Rock”
Not a surprising remark from a true believer and a Clownate Scientist.
Love the portrait by Josh and the Far Side cartoon.
It’s true that the coal industry is dying. However, it is not a natural death, it is being murdered in slow motion.
“Jesus just left Chicago, and he’s bound for New Orleans……”
Watch out for the aerosols. Bill C. advises it’s best not to inhale…….
Is The Satan Rock a sequel to The Satan Bug (1965)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059678/
ferd berple says:
October 23, 2012 at 8:09 am
Accordions were invented to tune bagpipes.
I thought it was the reverse!
Re “Satan’s Excrement”;
the usual translation is “Devil’s Excrement”. Google that for lots interesting hits.
Edit: “for lotsa interesting hits.”