From the Fahrenheit 451 department comes this indictment of California’s higher education’s “tolerance” for opposing views. When I first got the tip on this, I thought to myself “nobody can be this stupid to photograph themselves doing this” but, here they are, right from the San Jose State University Meteorology Department web page:
The caption from the SJSU website reads:
This week we received a deluge of free books from the Heartland Institute {this or this }. The book is entitled “The Mad, Mad, Made World of Climatism”. SHown above, Drs. Bridger and Clements test the flammability of the book.
Maybe they just can’t help themselves, note the pictures on the wall.
Here is a screencap of the website relevant section:
SJSU Meteorology page is here: http://www.sjsu.edu/meteorology/
Fully archived here:
http://www.webcitation.org/6GJvAbb2t
This is the link for book: The Mad Mad Mad World of Climatism
I think Drs. Bridger and Clements have proved the point of the book quite well.
if you wish to comment on their photo, here’s where:
Department of Meteorology
San Jose State University
One Washington Square
San Jose, CA 95192-0104
Voice: (408) 924-5200
FAX: (408) 924-5191
Email: meteorology@sjsu.edu
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UPDATE: 12:50PM PDT
The photo and caption has been removed – gone from the web page.
http://www.sjsu.edu/meteorology/
But it is permanently archived here: http://www.webcitation.org/6GJvAbb2t
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Frank K, Heartland sent me one for free. I assume they sent a few around.
Louis says:
May 2, 2013 at 11:57 am
Can there be any greater proof that the mad, mad, mad world of climate science is becoming even more insane and desperate? Well, maybe Al Gore’s recent speech might come close: “This is for real. It is not made up. The scientists are not in a conspiracy to lie to us,” Gore nearly shouted. (The Goracle doth protest too much, methinks.)
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Yeah, wasn’t it Al Gore who said “This is serial, man”
And something about a man-bear-pig.
Or was that a sex poodle?
I believe that’s what I recall.
YMMV
cn
Frank K. says:
May 2, 2013 at 12:24 pm
I think they were just demonstrating how peer review works in climate “science”…
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Good on ya!
MLCross says:
May 2, 2013 at 12:00 pm
“I’m sure they thought staging this photograph would be funny.
I’m sure they think a lot of things.”
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I’m sure they think a lot of things that are wrong.
Hope that helps.
Now I fully agree.
cn
I knew the US had had a long cold winter, but do they still have to burn books to keep warm?
It also suggest that San Jose State University lack smoke detectors in their buildings. Try burning a book in most modern offices and you’d either get a fire engine rolling up, or automatic sprinklers raining down.
jorgekafkazar says:
May 2, 2013 at 1:25 pm
Anthony Watts says: “The photo has been removed gone from the web page”
April has gone down the Memory Hole. No apologies. No investigation. No explanation. No excuses. Damn, I suppose they’ll cancel tonight’s torchlight parade, too!
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No, I believe it was a cross lighting parade, wasn’t it?
cn
Wamron says: “Lets see the faddishly bearded twat burn a koran.”
I will resist the temptation to Photoshop that into existence. It is tempting though.
dbstealy:
No. The US Constitution stands in the way of such an act, even if a law is passed.
Like any tyrant, I’m sure he does.
pottereaton:
No he’s not. He’s a believer just like any other that occasionally lifts his head out of the sand for the sake of appearance. The only “truth” people like Tom Curtis are interested in are the ones that can easily be obfuscated to mean whatever is necessary when challenged. Nuthead’s nonsensical spoutings were too easy to be shot down, so Tom had to get in a dig to make sure it looked like he was honest. Don’t be fooled – comments like his above are exactly what he is about.
Mark
Don says:
May 2, 2013 at 2:03 pm
Let’s hope that in posting this photo these pitiable “scientists” have lit their own brain-fart. If the university disciplines them (how likely is that?) the punishment should be to read the book and then debate the author in public.
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Hear, hear, now that would be true and honest justice.
cn
The world of climatism is indeed mad. And the evidence keeps mounting. Supermandia, blowing up kids, pal review, Lewendowsky, Gleick… and on it goes. You can’t make this stuff up. Now this. And have you read the reviews for the Mad Mad Mad World book on Amazon? A bunch of so-called scientists jump on there saying they haven’t bothered to actually read the book but other “scientists” agree that “climate science” is universally accepted so the book has to be total junk – don’t read it. They are figuratively burning a book they have never read. Of course these two idiots are literally (trying) to burn a book they most assuredly have never read. Anyway I’m sure enjoying the displays of ignorance and willful blindness that permeates the CAGW crowd. And that Tom Curtis. Isn’t he great? Such a great tradition in the CAGW community of demonstrating their stupidity by defending the indefensible. Very amusing. Keep trying Tom. I’ll wait up for you.
Hot under the collar says:
May 2, 2013 at 2:25 pm
Someone needs to inform them of the correct feedback format for rating books. The book burning Jackboot analogy went out of fashion in 1945.
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Isn’t the proper format two thumbs down if you really dislike the book?
cn
Ah, yes, those Bay Area people. Just because they may have been there a long time, doesn’t mean they are any smarter than a box of rocks. Once upon a time, it was a great place to be. Anyone remember Edelweiss Dairy? How about the Stanford Indians? Or orchards along El Camino between Palo Alto and Mtn. View, no buildings? The Dream was zoned beyond reach by people who got their piece and wanted to make sure nobody else could get theirs. Smug, arrogant, and amazingly empty.
Now the same people are destroying the rest of CA to make it a big park just for themselves. They’ve already started closing Yosemite – to keep out the masses of proles, leaving it for the elites. You can be certain, they want to get us out of all the ‘nice’ places, and eventually the whole State. I guess we can have Nevada instead. Or maybe worker hives?
Back to the topic…. How can so many dumb people be put in charge? It only happens if you are trying to wreck the place deliberately, or you are delusional.
Jay says:
May 2, 2013 at 3:17 pm
…………………. How many careers and reputations depend on climate doom?
They are teaching courses with students expecting to walk into careers based on climate doom..
So its not surprising they are willing to go to extreme lengths to protect this mann made industry..
Born, sustained and defended in our Universities.. $$$
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omg
I’d never thought of that.
I fear you are too correct.
cn
My email to SJU:
Thank you for the picture of San Jose Professors Dr. Clements and Dr. Bridger threatening to burn the book “The Mad, Mad, Mad World of Climatism”.
Any book that is important enough to be burned by The Establishment, even in jest, is probably required reading. I will be purchasing a copy myself.
I’m hoping that this picture is enough to get this added to the American Library Association’s “Banned and Challenged Books” list, where the importance of the book will be highlighted.
Again, thanks for the reference.
RDCII
A Scott, the criticism is only proper and just if it distinguishes between fact (two people posted a joke picture of a “book burning”) and fantasy (two people actually burnt some books because they disagreed with their contents). The former is merely idiotic and no more invites comparisons to Nazis than it does comparisons to Hume, who famously wrote:
“If we take into our hand any volume; of divinity or school metaphysics, for instance; let us ask, Does it contain any abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number? No. Does it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matter of fact and existence? No. Consign it then to the flames: For it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion.”
Indeed, comparisons with the Nazis are severely over blown in that the Nazis did not burn just their own copies of the books, but all copies of the book they could find. Nor were the Nazis alone in spirit in that regard in WWII, with the allied occupation also listing and destroying millions of books in Germany in 1949. I see no comparisons of Bridger and Clements with Eisenhower above, but that comparison is at least as apt as any comparison with Hitler.
Unless you are determined to put the worst possible face on the actions of Bridger and Clements, they are correctly criticized for showing graphically, and an in inflammatory way that they consider the Heartland Institute books worthless as science. But no, Watts falls over himself to make an accusation of actual book burning (of which there is no evidence); and his commentors quickly trot out the Nazi comparisons which Watts is delighted to host.
An appropriate caption for this picture:
Climate Scientists at Work.
Really, that’s all that is needed, and it’s not even incorrect. They published this on a University website; they used university resources. This “speech” was delivered not as private citizens, but as representatives of the University on a University website. The University itself confirms this by removing the picture..
Climate Scientists at Work.
I think Steve should add the picture to his Amazon page as an example of what’s been said for quite some time.
They have no boundaries. From dropping live looking polar bears from the sky to eliminating deniers at the push of a button. They have select editors, hidden contrary views, refused to debate. Now they’re demonstrating they are willing to burn books rather than allow the information to be offered in their library even in the adult section with pornography.
Any questions? Read the book.
And they’re madder than we thought.
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cn
What is it with climate scientists and silly goatees?
(I’m talking about the bloke in the picture, not the grandma)
@Tom curtis
H’mm
A flame put to the book and a caption about ‘testing its flammability’.
Of course it’s not a book burning, Tom. Just a couple of kids playing with matches…….
Apart from the fact that the one on the left is Professor Alison Bridger, Chair of the Department of Meteorology and Climate Science, and the one on the right is Craig Clements, Assistant Professor.
http://www.met.sjsu.edu/~clements/
http://www.met.sjsu.edu/~bridger/whoami.htm
Judging by her CV, Bridger must be approaching 60 y.o. and Clements in his mid to late 30s.
One might have hoped that such ‘distinguished academics’ (I use the term advisedly) had grown out of pranks that ten year olds might get up to.
Or do they both have rampant pyromania..and this is their normal coffee break amusement?
This Tom Curtis guy really is puffed up about himself isn’t he? Isn’t he the one over at SkS that wrote he wanted to rip Anthony’s throat out and do vile unspeakable things to his body? Pot, kettle and all that.
I think he’s just as puffed up with self importance as the wannabe Fahrenheit 451 professors
“Thank you for sharing your concerns. The Department of Meteorology and Climate Science has removed the material in question from its website, and regrets what was clearly an ill-conceived attempt at satire. Please be assured the university does not condone book burning for any reason. “
An American university is reduced to assuring us they don’t condone book burning…that’s how low our institutions of higher learner have fallen.
Here’s the last time the Warmists tried to put on a sense of humour.
The face of human evil is always banal and oh so sincere.
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@Tom Curtis
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Please explain the ‘joke’. You seem to be the only one who understands it. Where is the humour? At which point should I ROFLMAO? Where is the ‘satire’?
And if it’s so bloody funny, why did the ‘university’ see fit to remove it?
Tom Curtis:
Do you believe Book Burning is a subject that professionals should joke about? It’s not really about whether they burned the book or not, but about their message that burning the book is even an appropriate thought. Are you defending the burning of this book, even in jest, as an appropriate expression for university professors and professional Climate Scientists? You really owe us an answer on this, since you’ve made a fuss.
More importantly, “hypocrisy” is a very double-edged sword.
Does SkS have a blog policy that allows deletion or snipping of emails? Then complaining about Watts having a posting policy is hypocritical.
Do you, personally, use the “D” word? If so, complaining that posters here use the “Na” word is hypocritical squared.
Remove the Sequoia from thine own eye first, dude. Until then, your complaints only serve to highlight your own hypocrisy.
Do you say a joke, Tom Curtis? You need to clean up your sense of humor. These are the people who call us “deniers”. Do also think that is funny?