The “Hurricane Sandy is caused by global warming” Tabloid Climatology™ affliction gets out of control on MSNBC in a Chris Matthews interview with Dr. Michael Oppenheimer:
CHRIS MATTHEWS: Well Professor [Michael] Oppenheimer, back in the 60s, we calls such people pigs. Pigs. No, really. They don’t care about the planet, they don’t care about the destruction of war. All they want is what they got, their stuff, and they want more of it. Is that what we’re facing here, just greed? I’m not talking about the guy at the coal mind, that’s hard work. I’m talking about people who won’t listen to you, won’t listen to science because they want more stuff.
OPPENHEIMER: Listen, Chris, I’m not into name calling here. I think —
MATTHEWS: Well I am.
The hate is extraordinary. I wonder if Chris Matthews realizes that he just insulted a good portion of the USA populace that is skeptical about AGW?
And, with a salary of $5 million, I wonder how much “stuff” Chris Matthews has compared to the average viewer he foams to.
Watch the video at Real Clear Politics: Global Warming Deniers Are “Pigs”
He had probably just finished reading the “secret” Pentagon report that claims Britian will be a new Siberia by 2020, due to AGW.
The loss of life in this event is tragic….but anyone living within 20 MSL on the shore, of any ocean, is taking a calculated risk. The overhyped Frankenwhatever, with the hyperbole of….”this may cause UP TO SIX INCHES OF RAIN”, should be viewed as a non event. Tropical Storm Claudette dropped 42″ in 24 hours, Sept 1979 in Alvin, Texas. The constant “Wolf, Wolf, Wolf” by the alarmists does not aid the reaction to real danger when it inevidably arrives. Sixteen years of NON warming did not increase the tidal effect of the full Moon.
If you need some comic relief from this tragic news and some satire of current events then read “Penn Pied Piper Plays Laureate” at the Faux Science Slayer website.
When your opponent refuses reason….resort to ridicule.
Hi Jim Clarke.
You said you did “some in depth research into the threat of global warming”. So what research was this then? Was it published? Or did you look at a few newspaper articles? I only ask because the world’s leading scientists and all the world’s National Academies of Science of all the world’s industrialized countries disagree with you.
Given that the effects we are seeing now (Sandy? Arctic sea ice? Moscow heat wave? Midwest drought?) are caused by 0.8C warming, the implications of 4C warming are pretty catastrophic.
Matthews is again wrong. In the 60s, police were pigs. Not people who did not agree with the hippies. But I am not surprised. His revisionism is always a lie.
Chris Matthews: I’m not talking about the guy at the coal mind, that’s hard work.
Possible Hansen Syndrome, unnatural obsession with coal, affecting his perception and speech, causing irrational behavior?
Pigs are quite nice and intelligent animals, mr. Matthews could probably learn a thing or two from them.
Come on folks, it’s really simple. If something never happened before, then that’s proof that GW caused it. Got it?
I’ve never seen Chris Matthews so angry before. So, it must be that he’s just another pathetic victim of GW.
You pigs probably refused to believe in the impending Great Famines of the 1970s and Global Cooling, too. What’s wrong with you?
Climate alarmism is also media desperation in a declining market. They go hand in hand because they are both desperate.
Hurricane Chris: tempest in a teapot.
Chrissy must have killed a lot of his brain cells back in the 60’s from assorted drugs to not remember that the epithet “pigs” referred to the police.
But, if he insists upon using the 60’s as a metaphor, he, with his Alarmist Belief system is essentially representing “the establishment”, with the MSM, world governments, and most “scientific” organizations riding and/or driving that bandwagon. He represents the “Blue Meanies” out to search and destroy any and all opposition.
People say silly things when they’re angry.
Don’t knock them. Encourage them. They are some of the best recruiting sergeants we have.
Ahhhh the stuff of life is a home (or 2 LARGE homes). The hypocrisy of these Watermelons is quite amazing.
Let’s try the Warmist director James Cameron. What does he own?
How about the concerned green John Travolta?
What about our planet saviour Warmist George Monbiot of the Guardian?
I think Chris Matthews should start his insults in his own back yard. Peer into the heart of a Warmist and you will find a hypocrite.
More fun and laughter here.
http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/if_only_we_could_all_live_with_camerons_less/
http://jerseynut.blogspot.com/2009/11/celebrity-climate-change-hypocrites.html
@Dodgy: Thanks, you are right on.
How come no one from the ’60’s’ thinks for themselves or questions authority anymore?
Monty said:
“… world’s leading scientists and all the world’s National Academies of Science of all the world’s industrialized countries disagree with you … Midwest drought?) are caused by 0.8C warming, the implications of 4C warming are pretty catastrophic.”
The variance among thermometers used to compute these statistics is greater than the 0.8C warming bias that you speak of. In the other words, “the signal is in the noise”.
In any case, all of these “leading scientists and national academies” (and the King’s horses too) have been unable to produce a single convincing argument that these increasing CO2 levels will inevitably lead to catastrophe. It’s my opinion that this is merely speculation aimed at alarming the masses to extract taxes for funding socialist utopian schemes.
I get that this was a damaging storm — I’m not in denial about that. But, take an identical storm and have it hit New Orleans or Miami and we are not talking about a “Superstorm”, “Perfect Storm”, “Frankensandy” or whatever ridiculous labels have been thrown on it — no, we are talking simply about Hurricane Sandy, a late season category 1 hurricane that may cause some travel disruptions and flooding with maybe a few voluntarly evacuation orders.
Seeing how much disruption and destruction it has apparently caused leads me to wonder if it was not purposefully hyped up to such levels to mask the fact that East coast states are woefully underprepared for a major hurricane event. I mean, if this much destruction and flooding was caused by a Category 1 hurricane, what will happen in the future with a category 3 inevitably hits the same area? What is Katrina had hit New York City? Would it have been worse than New Orleans?
Hmm… Back in the 60’s Al Capp introduced us to the group known as SWINE – Students Wildly Indignant about Nearly Everything. Perhaps Mr. Matthews has forgotten his roots…?
Brendan O Neill British Libertarian commentator.
Said Hurricane Sandy is “Ghia,s Roth “gas Guzzling American consumers ,CO2 Emissions etc etc
So Pat Robinson blaming Gays and Abortion Clinics offending Gods moral will sending Katrina to flatten New Orleans home of Bourbon, Sleazy laid back Jazz and Bordellos
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/brendanoneill2/100187191/jon-snow-did-america-bring-this-on-itself/
Someone start looking into Define Winds and Signs of Gods Anger IE Hurricanes and Tornadoes occurring in Red Indian Native American Mythology.
Check the medieval Royal Court Records in Spain and Portugal to see if the early Explorers and Conquistadors also got held up by extreme weather events
“A few weeks ago Mathhews declared that the only reason people would vote against Obama is racism”
Anyone who could say such an asinine thing should get out more and meet some real people. The man’s not worth the time of day, and it’s incredible that he’s paid to spout such nonsense.
Even quite a few African-Americans are capitalists, but maybe he doesn’t know any people of colour. The rich usually stick to their own kind, and their own ghettoes
Monty says:
October 31, 2012 at 6:46 am
Given that the effects we are seeing now (Sandy? Arctic sea ice? Moscow heat wave? Midwest drought?) are caused by 0.8C warming, the implications of 4C warming are pretty catastrophic.
Are you saying that none of these events happened when the world was 0.8°C cooler?
Now onto Chris Matthews – who simply want less stuff – not more.
Chris Matthews salary = $5 million
US average indexed wage = 42,979.61 (2011)
He is making $4,957,021 more ‘stuff’ than the average American or 113.5 times more. What did Matthews call those who simply wanted more? He should realise he is calling most Americans pigs for simply wanting more – just like him.
Something else is the Rotation of the Planets in the solar system causing more ferocious and frequent extreme weather events .
Or possibly moving from Agriculture based society to Industrial more mass migration into coastal cities.More people getting more affected.
Was Atlantic City getting hit by storms in the era of Steve Buscomi and Prohibition.
If I can add in here, Discovery science channel here in Canada being very AGW blamed Sandy on AGW. I do not watch the program near as much anymore because of their pro AGW agenda with the usual talking points. Quite sad really.
Methinks he smoked far too much or engaged in an over the top cocktail of mood enhances and thus destroyed any brain cells he may once have had back in the day. I can remember the 60s and any reference to pigs certainly meant the police.