A new cartoon from Josh below on the BBC “28 Gate” scandal.
Speaking of 28Gate, the finder of the “secret” document that BBC hired six lawyers to keep away from the public, Maurizio Morabito (omnologos) will be live on WUWT-TV to talk about the issue and the find, at 3:30PM PST/6:30 EST today. Tune in!
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George Monbiot’s second apology:
This is Mr Monbiot’s statement in full.
“I have helped to malign an innocent view of the climate and the mechanisms that regulate it. I have done a few stupid things in my life, but nothing as stupid as this. The tweets I sent which hinted – as I assumed to be the case – that the climate was warming were so idiotic that, looking back on them today, I cannot believe that I wrote them.
But I did, and they are unforgiveable. I helped to stoke an atmosphere of febrile innuendo around a stable climate and I am desperately sorry for the harm I have done to the reputation of science. I have set out, throughout my adult life, to try to do good; instead I have now played a part in inflicting a terrible hurt upon the reputation of science. I apologise abjectly and unreservedly to all scientists worthy of that title.
What follows is in no sense an attempt to excuse the tweets I wrote, but simply to try to explain them.
I knew that polar bears had been treated appallingly, and I believed that the terrible things done to them had been compounded by a denial of recognition and a denial of the recourse to public sympathy. When I saw a report on polar bears on Newsnight I was very upset. I trusted this account unquestioningly. I was horrified by what was said, and by the fact that the population census of polar bears appeared to have been kept secret for so long.
I felt a powerful compulsion to do what I have done throughout my career: to help any mammal that looks cuddly and will generate public sympathy for our new religion. But in this case I did so without any of the care I usually take when assessing and reporting an issue. I allowed myself to be carried away by a sense of moral outrage. As a result, far from addressing an awful injustice, I contributed to one, by destroying businesses in the West, making millions unemployed and plunging millions of mainly elderly people into fuel poverty. I have acted in an unprofessional, thoughtless and cruel manner, and I am sorry beyond words.”
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GroupieThink.
(Thanks for the laugh, Josh. Then my mind turned morbid on what these people have destroyed.)
Love your stuff Josh. You forgot “Let them eat cake” though.
Wills and Kate, really enjoyed watching your wedding. Thanks for letting us share.
But I think I should warn you that, despite what Daddy says, a polemic is not an irishman in drag doing an exotic dance!
Use a dictionary to find out what it really means (Yes it’s a big word but easy to say if you just think of Dick, Shaun and your little brother Henry’s nickname)
Not that nickname Wills! The polite one.
The author of a famous polemic on the future of telecommunications was Alexander Graham Bellinski. He was the first telephone Pole.
[Reply: You are banned for life. — mod.]
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Some times I’m gullible. For a moment I took
Silver Ralph says:
November 15, 2012 at 1:35 p
George Monbiot’s second apology:
seriously, and started to ask for a link.
CK
Beware of numbers thrown out by both sides of the debate.
According to the government department (ONS)
“There were an estimated 25,700 excess winter deaths in England and Wales in 2010/11, virtually unchanged from the previous winter”
http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/subnational-health2/excess-winter-mortality-in-england-and-wales/2010-11–provisional–and-2009-10–final-/stb-ewm-2010-11.html
I am not sure how this breaks up and what proportion is due to not affording to heat their homes. However, it does indicate how cold will affect us if the temperature significantly falls over this and the next decade.
They even went to court, spending what by common estimates is well into hundreds of thousand pounds of license payer’s money, and secured a favourable decision from a panel of so-called independent judges, one of whom seems to think that habitually referring to climate realists as deniers, didn’t somehow disqualify them from acting impartially.
http://thepointman.wordpress.com/2012/11/16/some-direct-questions-for-the-bbc-that-itll-never-answer/
Pointman
Kurt in Switzerland says:
“Great stuff. Hopefully the Telegraph or the Mail will run it on the front page.”
That might take a while. The Mail has just devoted over 7 (print edition) pages to the Leveson Enquiry, and an expose of Common Purpose, the cancerous organisation which has woven its tentacles through the Beeb and every aspect of UK government.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2233717/How-Lefts-old-boy-network-helps-appoint-mandarins.html
About time too…
Always admire the use of hairstyles in your cartoons Josh. This time you’ve exceled yourself.
Will S says:
November 15, 2012 at 7:50 am
Any semblance of a serious opposition effort by WUWT seems to have vanished almost completely, leaving cartoons and polemics as the rearguard
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One debates an intellectual equal, one laughs at a fool. We are laughing.
Well you gotta admit we’ve made some progress with these lefties since the fall of the Wall. They’re now conducting their Show Trials in private. The only worry as usual is their numbers-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trial_of_the_Twenty-One
Right – I think I see a t-shirt opportunity here, maybe slightly edited down.
I would buy it, and wear it, so the world can see the message whenever I take my dog for a walk…
Nik isnt there some nonsense about loosing an argument when you invoke Hitler ? Why not use Stalin ? his methods are more like the AGW crowd and he killed far more people as well!
Chris;
You lose an argument when you spell it “loose”, too. ;p Goose!