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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Its great publicity for the book and shows they are at the end of the line.
Kinda sad, SJSU had a great engineering department, and I believe a very good school
of journalism as well….
However, they were always leaning far left (surprising they didn’t fall off into the ocean…).
In the late 1970’s there were often demonstrations against the Shah of Iran, which made
it almost impossible to get any work done (or listen to lectures, or practice music, etc.).
I leaned out of a window of the music building and replied “down with the Shah,
sis-boom-bah” but they didn’t get the joke….weren’t listening, weren’t thinking either…
groupthink, groupspeak, group ignorance….
Ironically, those demonstrators were at SJSU courtesy of the shah, as out-of-state tuition
at that time was on the order of $5K a year…goodness knows what it is now….
To quote Salvor Hardin, “violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.”
(OK, Isaac Asimov, but it is a good point). Burning books is not only incompetent
and against the ideals of scholarship and learning, it is downright cowardly.
These two syncophatic charlatans are merely truthophobes (CO2-ophobes?)…
Better to light a candle than curse the dark (got that SJSU’lers, CANDLE, not BOOK!)…
Especially when the book has the truth and good research in it…
The connotations with the Brownshirts in Germany in 1935 have been forgotten – obviously
No Greenshirt is In uniform without their Hemp-Boots. I guess they find Flint and Steel a little to cumbersome and inconvenient though.
Why did they take the picture down – clearly they wanted to show off the level of their intellect, and their willingness to debate, with a picture. They succeeded, why hide their success?
I laughed out loud when I saw this… Heartland just sent me a copy of that book this week. I’m quite impressed with it.
I’d bet REAL money that neither of the people in that picture, nor any of their supporters, even looked inside it.
PS… donate to Heartland, get on their mailing list, get free stuff 🙂
OT but I will keep it short and simple.
Did I mention the BBC Pension scheme invests in big oil and tobacco? Never mind.
Mao’s Red Guards burning books behind their school, 1966
http://blogs.isb.bj.edu.cn/sarahl/files/2012/05/TP3-1.jpg
Do skeptics burn AGW propaganda books? No. They have the authors names printed on the covers. Burning those would be destroying evidence. Not going to happen. None shall escape!
What a sad demonstration of what academia has devolved into.
I just bought the book on amazon. Thanks for the link. Any book the climate mafia is burning is worth reading.
Letter sent; hope many many more do likewise.
P.S. don’t bitch about it on this web site as they won’t read it. Swamp them with complaints.
Jimbo says: May 2, 2013 at 2:53 pm
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”
“Mein Kampf” isn’t the greatest read I’ve come across. Seriously, Hitler needed an editor in the worst way..
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sunshinehours1 says: May 2, 2013 at 2:48 pm
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.
I would never think of comparing Fraulein Dr Bridger or Herr Dr Clements with Nazi’s.
Maybe you misunderstand. Maybe the heater was broken and since it has been so cold lately, they were just trying to stay warm. [end sarcasm]
Seeing this makes me want to read Fahrenheit 451 again.
As a San Jose State University alumni, graduating with a B.S. in civil engineering, and later receiving my P.E. certificate from the State of California, I was horrified to read of this total act of what amounts to fascist censorship from an academic institution
I have emailed my complaint to SJSU president Qayoumi at sjsupres@sjsu.edu
No no no … I know now. The leprechaun told them to burn things! (Simpsons reference)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHwnuQIPNF8
EXACTLY!!! On WUWT we always struggle with the issue of keeping local copies, archiving on the net etc., does this sound like a group that is afraid of the written word? No. Most of my comments come with quotes from the archives about what they said or have done and sometimes compare. Long live the Internet.
Better Read than Rid!
I read Goreham’s predecessor edition, Climatism!, and considered it excellent. I recommend it.
Here’s a thesis (or dissertation?) idea for a grad student: Survey a sample of university libraries–say all the ones whose names begin with an “S”–and report on the ratio of the climate contrarian books they contain to the number of consensus books. Since most of these libraries have online catalogs, it shouldn’t be hard to do.
Hmm. Maybe the ratio of leftist to rightist books on other topics could be sampled too.
This is the result of decades of mis-education. Education to develop moral character and the intellect has given way to schooling in PC attitudes. Most people don’t – can’t – think these days; they emote. In Australia there is a proposed national curriculum that mandates teaching all subjects through the prisms of indigenous affairs, environmental sustainabilty and something called Asia literacy. That’s not education; that’s brainwashing. Read what John Taylor Gatto has to say about true education: http://www.naturalchild.org/guest/john_gatto.html – it’s beautiful.
I was going to write to those SJSU morons but you guys have probably shamed them enough.
Jimbo says:
May 2, 2013 at 4:28 pm
Long live the Internet.
We do have a reason to be grateful to Al Gore.
They don’t look like very accomplished bookburners. The finger will be burnt before the paper, but, as Lawrence of Arabia says: “The trick is not minding thart it hurts.”
Don’t burn them, just put them in fiction.
It is coming apart at the seams.
One hand, doesn’t know what the other is doing.
Do you throw a life preserver, or not ?
The supply is still robust.
Interesting that they’re apparently proud of one of their own participating in —
November 14, 2012
Professor Eugene Cordero appeared this week on the Climate Reality Project’s “24 Hours of Reality: The Dirty Weather Report”! Eugene participated in panels 16, 17, and 20 of the 24-hour marathon discussion of global warming and its impacts.
Following the link to http://climaterealityproject.org/ and then to the linked sub page http://climaterealityproject.org/the-deniers/
We find
“Climate deniers are following the exact same playbook as the tobacco companies that once denied that smoking causes cancer. They’re doing all they can to make this confusing for us. But 97 percent of climate scientists understand that climate change is a reality. The scientists are not confused. And we shouldn’t be either.”
Guess the department is proud to be part of the 97%…