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.
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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/
Tony Berry says:
March 28, 2013 at 7:33 am
“What’s new! The Christian church spent nearly 1000 years successfully controlling the message. It was only from the beginning of the age of Enlightenment that things started to change and scientific method began to challenge the orthodoxy. ”
William of Occam and Albertus Magnus were monks.
You don’t know history.
_Jim says: @ur momisugly March 28, 2013 at 10:04 am
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Funny; our ‘beasts’ are beasts. *
You should read your own posts before posting sometime, Gail.
But then again, moments like this would not exist! Thank you for the comic relief.
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_Jim your ignorance is showing again but thanks for taking the bait like I knew you would. You really are getting rather to be laughable in your predictability.
I am NOT a Christian BTW, but I do know that among some Christians NAIS (the US version of the UN/World Trade Organizations ‘traceability’ programs) is seen as the “Mark of the Beast” and this is a real concern.
Hayhoe claims to be a Christian and so her support of the same organization that is cramming this unwanted traceability program down the throats of American farmers especially the Amish has special significance to Christians.
To finish the above quote
In other words I just delivered the nastiest slap one can to a practicing Christian by saying she has voluntarily chosen to follow the Antichrist. This is why I suggested someone point out that she is supporting those who are implementing the mark of the beast, the UN, World Bank and the WTO.
forgot link Mark of the Beast (You would thin _Jim would be capable of a search before shooting himself in the foot.
The writings of Aristotle and Plato were the educational and scientific standard of knowledge during those 1,000 years. The Celestial Spheres model of the solar system and stars were Aristotle’s paradigm, and Plato was a totalitarian who believed that the lower classes simply should not have the things that the upper classes have. He believed that eugenics should be applied to the lower classes and the upper classes should not have any inequality of wealth between them, or they would not be united sufficiently to maintain the order. The goal of the state should be to maintain a perfect static society, which above all prevents change. Does this sound familiar?
“””””…..daveburton says:
March 27, 2013 at 10:53 pm
george e. smith says, “Tell us Mrs Hayhoe; how does your science side co-ordinate ancient proxies, with your evangelical Christian assertion that the earth is only 6,000 years old; or thereabouts ?”
George, you have some misconceptions about Evangelical Christians. AFAIK, most of us are not young-earthers. I certainly am not, and I know that Mrs. Hayhoe is not……”””””
Well Dave, I have NO conceptions about evangelical Christians, or any other group of people. I only form opinions of individuals. I’ll take your word for it, that most eCs are not young earthers.
The public utterances of young earthers, stand out from the lack of public utterances by most persons.
I’m sure Evangelical Christians are no alone in holding varying beliefs.
Nancy Pelosi for example is a very publicly declared Catholic, except she publicly adheres to essentially none of the Tenets of that somewhat strict religious group..
So I simply asked Mrs Hayhoe a question. She doesn’t need to feed my curiosity if she doesn’t care to.
I think you can say, that most persons do not believe what some persons believe.
Perhaps it would be interesting for non-Christians and non-Jews to know about an alternative view to the 6,000- year-old earth theory. The Gap Theory holds that between Gen 1:1 and Gen 1:2 there is a period of unknown duration. “[1] In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. [2] And the earth became without form and void, and darkness was on the face of the deep.”
This is meant to inform of the various views held by people who read Genesis. The important point is that the original text is available and people are free to interpret it as best they can. It is an analogue to preservation and availability of original data in science.
And Catastrophism is a very “big tent” as well – it is hardly a monolithic culture. Catastrophists can include most native people and their curious and amazing legends, Christians, Jews, and Velikovsky lovers.
HayWho???
I’m not sure ‘condescending’ or ‘smug’ were the right expressions: ‘insecure’ and ‘frightened’ seem somehow more apropos to me.
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No, honey, you write VERY comically sometimes in your high-velocity ‘hair-on-fire’ save-the-world posting style, and sometimes, as they say, the Golden (comedy) Egg gets laid … just making light of it.
Do you REALLY think all your posting (often from dubious sources) makes that much of a difference? Errors, unintentional departure from truth and dubious accuracy, sometimes due to gross misunderstanding of the subject matter (esp. in FINANCIAL matters) and all?
We are in a “slow march” back to the caves of the stone age, if anything Gail, as we are beset by “THE DECLINE OF REASON” and I note that when you cite works by the likes of hucksters e.g. G. Edward Griffin …
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Science is a harsh mistress!
_Jim says:
March 28, 2013 at 8:58 pm
You forgot to mention that I also quote the Federal Reserve, the US Congressional Committee on Banking and Currency, the testimony to the Canadian Committee on Banking and Commerce by the Governor of the Central Bank of Canada, and even (the much hated) Mises. Note that Friedrich Hayek was a disciple of Mises and also David Rockerfeller’s tutor at the London School of Economics. Rockefeller once stated in an interview that he considers himself a follower of the Austrian school of economics, as does Alan Greenspan.
So yeah I ‘cite the works of hucksters’ and know absolute nothing even though I generally use direct quotes, unlike certain others who rarely–if ever–even bother to post a link.
In science, measurement is important. How many feet are now in your mouth? Anyway, thanks for the compliments, even though you may not have intended them.
Oh and _Jim you might want to take some time out from snarking at me and read the news, such as the Cyprus depositor ‘Haircut’ and the fact that Canada Includes Depositor Haircut Bail-In Provision For Systemically Important Banks in 2013 Budget!
ECONOMIC ACTION PLAN 2013 and tabled in the House of Commons by Minster of Finance James Flaherty on March 21st
So Yeah I am a chicken little and all those in Cyprus who just got their money confiscated are illusions….
“””””…..March 28, 2013 at 4:40 pm
Perhaps it would be interesting for non-Christians and non-Jews to know about an alternative view to the 6,000- year-old earth theory. The Gap Theory holds that between Gen 1:1 and Gen 1:2 there is a period of unknown duration. “[1] In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. [2] And the earth became without form and void, and darkness was on the face of the deep.”
This is meant to inform of the various views held by people who read Genesis. …..””””””
And Zeke, my drawing a bow at a venture, on Mrs Hayhoe, and perhaps evangelical Chritians, was in jest, and I’m happy to apologise to her and any other e Cs, should they have found it offensive. I don’t really segregate various Christian sub groups, or align them in any order of merit, or preference. Perhaps each represents a phase or event of the human history, that resulted in fractionation, for whatever reason.
And the Judeo-Christian divide, that occurred 2,000 years ago, seems to also correspond with the old and New Testaments of the Bible, or Torah, if you prefer. By any accounting, that most widely published of all Literature, in any language, contains much to muse about, and perhaps chuckle occasionally.
For me personally, I consider religion to be the single greatest scourge, to ever inflict the human race. Witness the global turmoil, that threatens us all, because of these widely held and disparate beliefs systems.
However I live (freely) in a country, where the founding framers, had the good sense to declare that “Congess shall make NO LAW, respecting the establishment of religion; NOR PROHIBITING the free exercise thereof.” America’s foundation IS based on Judeo-Christian principles (not the same as those religious beliefs), and the code of conduct and ethics to which I hold myself is most certainly derived from that heritage. My principles give me NO licence to seek to circumvent others from practicing the traditions they are comfortable with. Would that (our) governments learn the meaning of the words “no law”, and also “free exercise”
Try a little Iron Butterfly on her and perhaps she will take you back.
“Oh, won’t you come with me
And take my hand
Oh, won’t you come with me
And walk this land
Please take my hand”
In a gadda da vida, honey
Don’t you know that I’m lovin’ you
In a gadda da vida, baby
Don’t you know that I’ll always be true