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.
Mencken said that in nine cases out of ten, there is no truth to be discovered, only error to be exposed.
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C’mon Ray, that Billy Gibbons thing is soooo 80’s…
Winter Hawk says:
October 23, 2012 at 1:32 pm
“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.”
Very observant. I noticed that also, but had to read all the entries to find yours.
You scooped me. Congrats
You play the accordion….you go to jail……it’s the law. From a bumper sticker many years ago in North Dakota. I’m al for it in this case.
First picture above: “Ray Pierrehumbert playing accordion at the liquidus.”
Is that camel toe?
Ray reminds me of an old New Yorker magazine cartoon where Satan is handing out accordions to a line of people waiting to enter hell.
No it’s Santa’s Rock.
And if you are very very good, your national and state energy supplies for industries and home use will not be destroyed by worthless, intermittent, subsidized wind turbines. But if you are very very bad, you can have coal – but the price of it will be extremely high because of worthless, intermittent, subsidized wind turbines.
Well Peter Humbug should spend more time playing with his playstation and less on the squeezebox; his playstation models haven’t been doing so well lately.
“””””……Brian H says:
October 23, 2012 at 11:50 pm
ferd berple says:
October 23, 2012 at 8:09 am
Accordions were invented to tune bagpipes……”””””
Well actually accordians are just big mouth organs that you squeeze just like a bagpipe. And good luck on tuning a bagpipe; the holes are all in the rong places.
I did manage to detune my electronic church organ enough once, to simulate the bagpipes, and yes it also scared the s*** out of the neighbors too.
One of my best memories, is of the look on my teenage son’s face, when I placed him 6 feet away from the lead piper in an assemblage of one thousand massed Pipers, at a local Highland games shindig, when they closed the festivities by playing “Amazing Grace” (yes all thousand of them).
He ain’t never forgot that neither !
Shevva says:
October 23, 2012 at 9:08 am
Most climate scientists have an Ego problem, this clown has a simple god complex.
Look familiar?
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