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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I am ashamed to have graduated from SJSU. I have watched in disgust over the years as it descended into the lefty hellhole it has become. The truly sad thing is that this degeneration is so common it isn’t considered remarkable at all.
“Is that really the message you want to send to students, prospective students, and the community at large?”
Yes. But, it is for the cause …
This can’t be what it looks like.
Burning books is so wrong… no-one could fall that low in a civilised society. Not again, surely?
This must be out of context.
““Even bad books are books and therefore sacred.” ― Günter Grass
For some reasons I’m thinking of Germans.
I have a feeling this picture will go down in history as the moment global-warming hysteria jumped the shark.
“Dort, wo man Bücher verbrennt, verbrennt man am Ende auch Menschen”
Heinrich Heine (1820)
I think they were just demonstrating how peer review works in climate “science”…
There was a long epoch in history when university professors fought strenuously against the burning of books.
Today, in California, university professors symbolically engage in and encourage the burning of books.
To anyone who actually lives in California (as I do) this should come as no surprise. The political climate here has marched steadily to the left over the last quarter-century, and has become ever more emotive and hysterical and authoritarian as it has done so.
It is not at all uncommon to hear affluent Californian urbanites, professionally employed and with university degrees, calmly proposing the forcible suppression of speech with which they happen to disagree. For the greater good, you understand. I suspect that many of these persons would contemplate the image above, and, rather than being horrified by the intellectual regression it depicts, would instead laugh and cheer its intent.
Doesn’t burning things cause global warming? Apparently they don’t think we have enough.
Doesn’t burning things cause global warming? Apparently they don’t think we have enough.
– Or is this another case of “you can’t do it – but we can do it.”
Snake Oil Baron says:
May 2, 2013 at 11:33 am
Hilarious! No doubt all the mirrors were removed long ago by administrators or concerned alumni.
Lighten up, everyone…..
I mean, it is not as if they will not be putting it into the Library once they have stopped clowning around……
Oh…..
Anthony writes:
“Maybe they just can’t help themselves, note the pictures on the wall.”
Photos from past book burnings?
The photo does not show them actually burning the book, it’s still intact on the photo. And personally I don’t believe they actually burned it, they do not seem to have appropriate tools ready. So my guess is they were rather just fooling around with something like “let’s check how much flame is in this one”. Sorry if anyone feels offended but Heartland is not a scientific institute.
But I still wonder if they would perform the same test (and publish it on their pages) if someone sent them a copy of An Inconvenient Truth by Al Gore.
Quite a carbon footprint they are leaving.
I took another look at the picture and can’t stop the chuckles. Remove the captions and with the forest fire photos on the wall and the expressions on those two characters, one would think one is peeping in on a private moment between two pyromaniacs. Pyro porn. Truly ghastly, but an enduring iconic pic.
They need to change the name of the department to Department of Meteorology and Climate Opinion.
They also need to lose any funding for scientific research, as their results will be automatically biased and hence, useless.
Reblogged this on saneromeo and commented:
It seems as if there is someone that stupid….
Lets see the faddishly bearded twat burn a koran.
Come on…I wanna see it.
Yeah, like eunuchs have no balls.
Someone please tell me that the good Profs at SJSU are having us all on…
anyone?
It doesn’t surprise me, although I do feel dismay. Dismay at their low political and intellectual standards. Is it through such people that the panic over carbon dioxide is sustained?
The photo is no longer on the web-site.
…Anyway…
Ive just sieved the other comments and I dont know which is worse, a NAZI burning a book or people too spineless to actually point out that a person who burns a book is, yes, a NAZI.
The Eco-fascists are clearl;y NAZIs as Ive been saying for ages, and this paints it boldly and unambiguously. . Those two defects are NAZIs. Just repeat it to yourself until you have the confidence to say it out loud. Then come back and show us how bold you can be.
(sigh)…
UPDATE:
The photo has been removed gone from the web page
http://www.sjsu.edu/meteorology/
Oh yes, the San Francisco Bay Area which includes San Jose is the belly of the beast. Many, many people here have been brainwashed by the liberal progressive doctrines preached in the universities. These poor people will have to live with this image for ever, a testament to the foolishness of mankind and how little wisdom can resided within the halls of higher learning.
A picture of the book “The mad, mad, mad world of climatism” being burned; the irony of the situation is absolutely stunning.