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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Oops, looks like I mistyped my email address and my comment is stuck in moderation. At the risk of double-posting, I will try again:
“…I cannot believe this is coming from an American University…”
Based on this last straw of evidence I reluctantly conclude that California is a post-American state, having clearly seceded from the values our declining nation was founded upon. Sadly, my own state of Colorado is apparently succumbing to Mad CA Disease as well, having come under the influence of White House gases as well as vapors of more “doobieous” origin..
Anybody have a San Jose State Univ. flag I can borrow?
Note the line on the right,”The only good weather is bad weather.”
Good for a meteorologist, but also good for a climate alarmist.
milodonharlani, “Greenshirts”, thank you. We needed a pejorative label of our own.
Kasuha: “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.”
Actually, that title is very difficult to burn because it is all wet.
ug, I am ashamed I went to this school. Somehow I made it out alive and went to Texas. Shame on SJSU. No one takes them seriously though, anyway. Crappy school and everyone knows it.
I was not aware of the book and I think I will buy one now.
I don’t know, maybe I’m over reacting but this is definitely the most scary thing I’ve seen today, or this week. Perhaps I don’t get out enough. PhD’s burning books. Truth really is stranger than fiction.
IIRC, Bradbury lived in California. … Yep, but southern CA, not San Jose.
A couple Bradbury quotes and references while Googling:
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/b/ray_bradbury/index.html says
Instead he read everything he could get his hands on, by authors including Edgar Allan Poe, Jules Verne, H. G. Wells, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Thomas Wolfe and Ernest Hemingway. He paid homage to them in 1971 in the autobiographical essay “How Instead of Being Educated in College, I Was Graduated From Libraries.” (Late in life he took an active role in fund-raising efforts for public libraries in Southern California.)
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/life/books/story/2012-06-06/ray-bradbury-dies/55417888/1
It [Fahrenheit 451] was Bradbury’s only true science-fiction work, according to the author, who said all his other works should have been classified as fantasy. “It was a book based on real facts and also on my hatred for people who burn books,” he told The Associated Press in 2002.
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.
Removal of the photo from the web site denotes second thoughts, but its persistence on the www will remain a haunting indictment of the participating characters and institution in perpetuity.
Drs. Bridger and Clements appear to have nothing to lose or to gain – maybe one passed over, one at the end of their career?
As for the academic travesty of book burning, captured so well here:
http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/triumph/tr-bookburn.htm
It’ all been done before. These present day perpetrators, apparently knowing nothing of history, not only demonstrate their crassness but the reality of being doomed to repeat the mistakes of the past. This is what it must be to live in hell.
londo says:
May 2, 2013 at 1:59 pm
I don’t know, maybe I’m over reacting but this is definitely the most scary thing I’ve seen today, or this week. Perhaps I don’t get out enough. PhD’s burning books. Truth really is stranger than fiction.
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Not so sure… news came out today about some sheriff setting up a hotline for citizens to call in and report their neighbors who are thought to be anti- government and speaking of scary cop stories- have you seen the YouTube videos of SWAT- type troops invading houses in Watertown while searching for that bomber?
Notice the “… for Dummies” book on the shelf behind them. Looks like the publisher found the right audience.
With a good logical mind the truth comes from places including books, and for stolen power, they must destroy all truth, so books they now burn. Would have been more effective if they would have just set fire to their computers.
I propose a caption: “The stupid, they burn!”
@Jean Parisot,
You’re welcome. I’m still working on an appropriate symbol & salute for the contemporary SS thugs & mass murderers. Any ideas?
The Nazis had eugenics & racialism as their anti-scientific religions, just as the anti-human statists have CAGW.
I’m no longer going to scoff at those online university diplomas. Evidently there is a lower form of life.
Nothing weird here. The photo simply shows the arrogance of abusive people getting their way. As old as humanity.
Someone needs to inform them of the correct feedback format for rating books. The book burning Jackboot analogy went out of fashion in 1945.
George Satayana had it right then?
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😎 You beat me to it! I was going to make a comment on the background pictures also along the lines of them “stoking the fire” to keep their jobs but your comment was much better.
Too many funny comments to thank posters individually, so thanks, all.
If I were a conspiracy nut, I might suggest that Heartland hired these guys to deflect attention from their Unabomber PR disaster. They should know by now, though, that the mainstream media will never cover this. (Second thoughts: Does Stossel read WUWT?)
Have they learned nothing yet? All this book burning is not really a good idea. I wonder whether the San Jose State University Library has already burned copies of Mein Kampf (if they have/had any)?
These are the kinds of people we are dealing with here.
Sent the following to their email:-
Burning books is stooping pretty low for a science department.
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/05/02/san-jose-state-university-meteorology-decides-burning-books-they-dont-agree-with-is-better-than-reading-them/
Burning books is the sort of thing religious zealots normally do, to stop the faithful being contaminated by unsettling ideas.
Real scientists don’t have to burn books – they can falsify them.
Regards,
Eric
[snip – over the top – mod]
I’m pleasantly surprised that no one has mentioned Acts 19:19. In case it comes up, those people burned their own books. They didn’t raid libraries or homes to prevent others from reading what they now considered to be less than worthless.
I’m sure there is a skeptic or two here that has bought into and burned their own hockey stick.