Some climate scientists we know sure are notoriously thin skinned, as an illustration of this, today I got blocked by Dr. Katherine Hayhoe on Twitter after making my one and only Twitter comment to her. See below.
Here’s the comment she made yesterday and my reply:
Source: http://twitter.com/KHayhoe/status/316645342537990144
I wrote what a lot of people were thinking about that comment of hers, and today when I refreshed the browser window I left open to see if she responded, I’m rewarded with this:
Tom Nelson apparently got the same treatment today:
By their deeds ye shall know them: “Gifted” evangelical climate hoax communicator Katharine Hayhoe blocks me from following her on Twitter
Hey Katharine: You can run, but you can’t hide.
Katharine Hayhoe (KHayhoe) on Twitter
[Message received when I tried to follow Katharine] You have been blocked from following this account at the request of the user.
ClimateBites – “A Climate For Change” Katharine Hayhoe
She’s also a gifted communicator, with a calm clear voice and a knack for stripping things down to the nub and saying it in language everybody can understand.
….
With her husband, a minister, Hayhoe co-authored a book for evangelical Christians. Climate for Change: Global Warming Facts for Faith-Based Decisions is a must read for anybody addressing this important community or looking for clear explanations in plain language. Particularly revealing is the beginning, where the authors bridge the cultural divide and address the stereotypes that block communication between evangelicals and the science community.
I guess turning the other cheek doesn’t fit for her: http://smmercury.com/2013/01/17/qa-katharine-hayhoe-on-the-trials-of-being-a-christian-climatologist/
Clearly her argument is that She must ignore the other person since she doesn’t have any legs to stand on.
I guess she blocked you because she couldn’t find 48 other true believers to help her take you on.
Twitter, is that a communication medium for twits only ?
I’ve never tweeted, or twitted, or whatever the appropriate lexicon is. I did send a fax once from a ship sailing to Antarctica. Although probably not as exciting as a real “official tweet”. I have managed to live a full productive life (so far) without these silly gadgets/games.
I do recognize a good old fashioned diode when I see one; “a device that only lets current (communication) flow in one direction”.
Frankly why waste your time, they will only hear/say what they believe, proof is only necessary for non-believers.
“We’re all going to die, in ten years, lest you repent and give up fossil fuels, the alternative is only 10 years and ANOTHER trillion dollars away…………………”
Cheers, Kevin.
Dr. Katherine Hayhoe is Director of the Fingers-in-my-ears-la-la-la-I’m-not-listening Department of the University of Patronisation at Hypocrisyville.
These people are beyond parody.
As an evangelical Christian I’m completely appalled by her (unchristian) arrogance.
What gets me is that they think climate change is a pro-AGW stance. It isn’t. Climate change is a skeptical position to counter the original proposal of unprecedented global warming. If they believe it’s climate change, then it’s natural and has happened before. Crisis averted.
Climate change was brought into the vernacular by George W. Bush. Not a big fan, but when he said it in a speech, liberals were furious at him trying to redefine the conversation. Now, the pro-AGW crowd are singing Bush’s tune. It’s quite ironic.
This is sad, so sad. Whatever happened to science? ….Lady in Red
The words toy, throw, and pram come to mind.
These people are all beyond childish; but at least they reveal over and over their reluctance to engage in meaningful debate.
49 to 1 odds? she sure doesn’t think much of the Climastrologists expertise does she?
I would recommend she read The First Book of Samuel – Chapter 17 (New International Version – NIV)
A better reply… “It takes only one Mr. Watts to defeat 49 climate alarmists.”
An evengelical christian who’s hubby is a minister? Well she’s not qualified to talk about climate. Just ask Dr. Michael Mann. I’d tweet the question to him but I don’t tweet. Perhaps Dr Spencer could tweet the question to him….
You could take what she’s saying to mean that it takes 49 AGW “believers” to equal 1 skeptic. Sounds about right to me.
Hayhoe is a weak individual, peer pressure science fiction is her bubble. I hope the rapid climate response team has organized a group hugging event.
They could combine it with one for Micky and Gav who are also a bit unloved at the moment. Hockey sticks for everyone. Yippee.
Katharine and Mikey Mann are two peas from the same pod.
Thin-skinned, overly sensitive, and totally divorced from real-world facts.
Growing increasingly irrelevant as the Earth does what it does, completely irrespective of the miniscule machinations of mankind.
Mother Nature is too big to flinch at human squiggles.
PM Thatcher started it, and President G W Bush re-titled it.
Where’s the next the next Conservative, someone to pronounce the benediction at interment?
I once queried Kathlene as to why she believed in CAGW. He response was to tell me to read the IPCC, instead of giving specifics.
Makes me think she has no facts, just belief.
Thanks
JK
“She’s also a gifted communicator…..”
Someone needs to remind them that communication is a two way process.
Anthony, you really need to understand the evil out there. This is not a “can’t we all get along” world”. There are folks out there that do not seek TRUTH. They seek corruption and perversion.
Your blog should not waste one electron on Hayhoe. She wants to be a “nothing”, so let her be.
It’s hard for normal folks to understand, but that is the world we live in.
You were wrong to block Anthony, Ms. Hayhoe.
By the way, have you looked at how scientists initially treated Einstein?–remember, he’s the one where the “experts” were against him perhaps 1,000 to 1, and yet he won the argument.
Odds are irrelevant; only truth matters. (One would think a Christian would understand…oh well).
Even after everything which has happened, they *still* think they can control the message.
I think her required ratio of 49 to 1 in favor of AGW in order to debate accurately estimates the ability and intellect of those who are proponents of AGW.
Who should we believe? Miz Hayhoe? Or Planet Earth — which is busy deconstructing Hayhoe’s AGW nonsciense?
Sorry, Hayhoe, but Planet Earth is the true Authority, not you. And the planet disagrees with the climate alarmist crowd.
“If I was wrong, it would have taken only one.”
Albert Einstein commenting on the document prepared by 100 German physicists trying to prove him wrong. Seems oh, so apropos, Dr Hayhoe…
Dr. Hayhoe was off by a factor of 100. One sceptic, Anthony, has refuted all 49,000 Alarmist climate scientists, so-called, and wannabees.