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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Anyone notice the pictures of flaming lands in the background of the picture where she’s flaming a book in the foreground? Have we found the arsonists?
If they don’t read them, how do they know burning is better than reading them? Scary.
@philjourdan – so I guessed right when I saw no more comments from you after your early remark on the Lewandowsky thread. I was very grateful, though, when you stepped in here. My “online temperament” is quite different from my real emotional makeup. Fortunately it doesn’t happen every day that someone I think I know would do what Richard did but “moderate” is not how I would describe my reaction should it happen face to face.
Thank you.
Ahh, so “The Department of Meteorology and Climate Science” regrets the action and “the university” does not condone, but it was Prof. Bridger herself that posed in the picture.
I wonder if she regrets and does not condone…
Maybe it’s just that “mistakes were made”.
I really think there should be some consequences for these professors. Well, something more than the everlasting shame that they have heaped upon themselves, the Department of Meteorology and Climate Science, and the university. I’m thinking a public debate between the two arson prone professors and Lord Monckton and Prof Lindzen would be in order. The question being “Resolved: It is better to burn a book than to entertain any competing notions about climate science.” And our would be arsonists must defend the resolution. That would be a fitting punishment.
Let them burn books ! The more the better !! This only shows how desperate they are. Reasonable people recognize desperation.
Congrats on your FOX News mention. Cudos. That’s one for the ‘win’ column.
The San Jose incident was a silly attempt at satire and it doesn’t make the arguments of Watts or his ilk any more credible. And lost in the noise are more antics of the Heartland Institute which again is using its considerable financial resources to insert obfuscation into what is essentially a scientific argument that it doesn’t have the expertise to refute. Like many “think tanks”, Heartland runs a dubious game in which a position in which it is deeply invested politically is the starting point for generating pseudo-intellectual arguments that support that position while ignoring evidence or arguments to the contrary.
REPLY: My and readers credibility isn’t the issue, since we aren’t the ones stupid enough to photgraph ourselves this way. Your point is moot.
Why not ask them how many Greenpeace, WWF, and other NGO books favorable to “the cause” they have decided to keep there at SJSU? I’ll bet they have more than a couple available on faculty shelves and in the library. Like with the IPCC using those NGO’s for references in AR4, this tendency is nothing more than scientific tribalism. – Anthony
echoing Barbee, the story just got picked up by Fox News: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/05/08/photograph-california-professors-ready-to-burn-climate-change-book-removed-from/?test=latestnews
Congrats Anthony for breaking the story.
Paul Avery attacks the victim and the messenger, and brushes off the offenders as only “silly” and the discussion of it as “noise”. Well, that’s “climate science”®
The fellow in the picture claims this was an “attempt at satire.” It’s nice that he claims to regret it, but I think this really is the inner authoritarian in the average leftist professor coming out.
http://www.mu-warrior.blogspot.com/2013/05/liberal-book-burners-literally.html