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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Least surprising picture ever.
Book burning? They are only skeptics.. I hear they own everything and all our problems stem from them.. Dirty skeptics are less than human you know.. I would go so far as to say they are genetically inferior.. We should measure their skulls and tattoo them with a smoke stack.. Send them off to reeducation camps.. You know the kind you never return from..
Sieg Green!
Godwins Law is officially dead. If they burn books and are proud of it, comparing them to Nazi’s is the right thing to do.
Oh, not at all, Gunga Din, many noticed the fire pics, starting with Anthony. I just found the lead photo hilarious, almost surreal. Dali-esque.
BTW, DougS, at 12:57 pm made an even better point:
A picture of the book “The mad, mad, mad world of climatism” being burned; the irony of the situation is absolutely stunning.
Would you pay many thousands of dollars to send your son or daughter to San Jose State University after seeing this photo? Seriously…
I hope it does immeasurable harm to the University if serious action is not taken quickly against these two morons.
I did a search of the San Jose State University Library catalog and below are a few titles. Do they agree with these books since they haven’t burned them???
“Mein Kampf / Adolf Hitler ; translated by Ralph Manheim. 694 p. ; Call Number(s): 943.085 Hitler”
“Race and race history : and other essays / by Alfred Rosenberg ; edited and introduced by Robert Pois.”
It’s San Jose man. If you don’t have papers to roll your stash in, put it in a book and light it up …C California dreamin’ … ah … take a deep breath. ;-P
… I’m sure they were just fooling around on their own time, not while being paid by the taxpayers of California.
…But think about it… Professors, in a University, .. Burning books??? The mere thought of academics burning books at all wrenches my gut.
No problem with book burning in Acadamia, but if they would have held a gun up to it then they would lose their jobs. Even a paper cut out of a gun would probably have gotten them suspended.
Many, many years ago my older sister asked me to watch her kids. They were at the crawling and just beginning to walk age. And, her voice dripping with delight, she told me, “If they start to choke, pick them up by the feet, upside down, and slap them on the back.” She then left me to experience 45 minutes of sheer terror. I was 18 years old. I envisioned myself spending a lifetime behind bars for manslaughter for failing to perform a medical procedure I had never performed in my life. Any moment the death of her children awaited me if I didn’t save them from choking. I was alone. Inexperienced. Doomed.
When she finally returned, and I explained this to her she…laughed. To this day she thinks it’s hilarious.
Because of that experience I endeavored to learn everything I could about childhood behavior. I would never suffer through that again. And one thing I learned was that between the ages of 6 and 8 children become thoroughly infatuated with fire. I smoked back then and they would relentlessly pester me for my lighter, light it, and stare at the winky, flickering flame with a look that could only be described as love. I initially worried (as I had back when I was eighteen) but soon discovered that they would shortly grow out of this. In fact, I observed that this was normal for all children and this fascination with fire would abate by the time they had matured past those ages.
So, my question is, “What make-up artist did they get for that picture to so convincingly make a pair of 8 year olds look like old adults?”
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 am skeptical that they do much if any thinking.
And another thing comes to mind. The two profs could’ve shown a pic of them tossing the book into a trash bin, or better still, one of those recycling things. Instead they exhibited themselves as dreaded CO2 and particulate matter spewing and somewhat demented looking book burners. And that got through a university online mag editorial team. Astounding, indeed.
If someone had some money and wanted to go after these guys easiest would be a getting a few billboards have the picture and then same captions such as,
“Ever wonder where evidence disproving global warming goes? Professors XXX blah blah and SJSU now”.
Or
“Come to SJSU where we don’t debate the facts, we simply show you ways to get rid of them”.
I’m sure someone who’s good at it could com up with some really nasty ones. Post them on some local billboards and let the WIN begin.
Just trying to burn away their own doubts..
I am embarrassed to have graduated from a university recently. Yet, I am not surprised.
PS 3-6 inches of snow expected in Kansas City and environs on May 2-3. Warming???
Would you pay many thousands of dollars to send your son or daughter to San Jose State University after seeing this photo? Seriously…
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Green attracts many students to the University.. How much money does green attract to the University? 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.. $$$
Manfred:
Thankyou for posting that excellent link in your post at May 2, 2013 at 2:04 pm.
I had not seen that item until I clicked your link. Thankyou.
Everybody reading this thread needs to read your link, so I copy it to here to assist that
http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/triumph/tr-bookburn.htm
Lest we forget.
Richard
You have completely misunderstood them, they are just cold and trying to get warm. They even have pictures of fires on the wall so they can pretend it’s warm.
Good Lord, what complete morons.
That’s the Meteorology department. If they really have to verify the paper is flammable, they should take the paper to the Chemistry department, where they have proper fume hoods!
Don’t these people know they shouldn’t play with stuff outside their expertise? What insanity is next, “climate scientists” who do their own statistics, like if they were in the Math department? Who knows what incompetent madness would result!
Well okay, Mann knows, but he won’t admit to it (yet) so it doesn’t count.
What is Jim Carey doing in the picture caption!? I see Dumb And Dumber. 🙂
Dan in California says:
May 2, 2013 at 1:12 pm
”Those people are not working meteorologists. They are indoctrinating tomorrows meteorologists.”
fixed it for ya!
Heartland could not have wished for better publicity. Now more people will want to know what they had to write about. Dumb and Dumbass.
It’s really funny that they would not recognize the fact that, were their lives to be saved by a modern fire suppression system, it would have been made possible in large part by fossil fuels, industrialization, electric power, mining, etc., etc.
Foolishly oblivious, or obliviously foolish?
People unfamiliar with California politics may find this picture unnerving, but rest assured it is the current policy paradigm. In California we ban everything that offends our superior knowledge. Our politicians boast that ‘California is leading the nation’ in all legislative action concerning the environment. So there you have it, its just another day at the office.
Of course, we also are progressive enough to backpedal when necessary. Hurt feelings are also banned in California, undoubtedly leading to the removal of said photo when the ignorant whiners complained. Its a tough line to re educate the public and keep them complacent but with our one party system of government its getting easier. Add a couple of sensitivity training classes for the staff and students at SJSU and everything will be just fine.
Can someone photoshop that book into a quran……………..