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
Antonia says:
May 2, 2013 at 4:39 pm
“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.”
Or listen to him.
Peace Revolution episode 041: The Ultimate History Lesson with John Taylor Gatto (Hour 1 + Commentary and Analysis)
https://www.tragedyandhope.com/th-films/the-ultimate-history-lesson/commentary-and-analysis/
I am going to exercise restraint and refrain from shooting these fish in a barrel. After all they have already shot themselves.
A line in the sand.
Degeneracy and hostility to civilization on full display. Enemies of Humanity.
Anyone with any acquaintance with learning or considered thought, on seeing this, will need to make a decision about what they actually are. They might like to see it as an aberration, or explain it away as “a bit of fun”, but this has occurred at what claims to be a university, within a department that plainly sees itself as being at one with wider contemporary intellectual and social mores.
This is the Now of what “Climate Science” is; and the future of everything else if it prevails.
There is, I think, a major difference between this and 1933 in Germany as referred to by others above.
The instinct is the same. And it is a primaeval instinct to advance and prevail without regard to any level of destruction or meaning.
But it, and AGW itself, is occurring against a very different backdrop. Where in 1933 this was presented as part of a moral rejuvenation, which could not be separated from an economic promise of the same, the situation with AGW is exactly the opposite.
The peak compulsion attached to AGW, the moral imprecation and demand, happened in 2006/07. That has been on the wane, is nearing extinction, and cannot be revived.
In addition, it is clear to everyone that AGW far from being a promise of economic rejuvenation, is a very considerable cost that actually undermines basic viability.
As such, the debased mentality shown in this will find no resonance outside the small circles in which it dominates. I see this as clear evidence that the class of people who embody this are on the cusp of obliteration.
This should be spread as widely as possible. Show it to everyone. Demand to know where they stand. No equivocation.
“Can someone photoshop that book into a quran”
Oh dear.
Check this out.
http://blog.credoreference.com/2012/10/7744/
One hand not knowing what the other is doing sort of situation, I’m sure.
Totally on-topic (I fear):
http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2013/05/01/calif-sues-whole-foods-trader-joes-over-lead-found-in-ginger-plum-candies/
Spending money to regulate quantities of lead in candies, for which I would bet no statistically significant deleterious effects (at these levels) have ever been found, is better for California kids’ brains than spending it on educating them.
More paying useless people to dig ditches and fill them in.
As a father of two teenagers here though, I can tell you that the indoctrination isn’t as pervasive as they would like to think it is.
Australian here, but email sent asking for an explanation for this post by the university. Sadly I have sat with doctors and professors in my old university and heard them talk about population control, nuremberg like trails for people who support certain political parties and how if everyone would just agree with them, the world would be a better place.
I seldom read science magazines or journals anymore because of them.
Apologies to Burt Bacharach and Dionne Warwick….
Do you know the way to San Jose ?
I’ve been away so long; I’ve got some books I need to burn.
Do you know the way to San Jose ?
I’m going back to find a climate scam I need to turn.
(True) Science is a great big freeway.
Honest research and you can buy a car.
In a week, maybe two, they’ll make you a star.
Weeks turn into years, how quick they pass
And all the stars with no hockey sticks
Are parking cars and pumping gas
….
97% of arsonists are confirmed global warming believers, so nothing new here.
@ur momisugly papiertigre says:
May 2, 2013 at 5:26 pm
Somehow, the message has to got through to young people.
These “educators” don’t want you educated. They want you trained to service their requirements. They want you ignorant of possibility, and incapable of exercising an autonomous direction. The opposite of education.
After years of structured indoctrination across anything that touches human behaviour, and with the undeniable failure of these people in creating or maintaining a viable society now becoming vividly evident to young people, perhaps the young are now approaching a point where they have no choice but to call out them out.
Appalling and despicable! This is where “Godwin’s Law” must be suspended — the real problem with Godwin’s Law is that it should only be invoked for IRRELEVANT references to Nazis etc.
In this case the reference is highly relevant — few movements (even otherwise intolerant ones) in recent history have actually celebrated book burning of “politically incorrect” books.
Now we have the SJSU engaged in same. It matters not whether or not they actually burned the book in the photo — the photo shows a lit match being held to the book and the caption says “SHown above, Drs. Bridger and Clements test the flammability of the book.”
This amounts to a celebration and advocacy of book-burning, shouted out to the world on the WorldWideWeb.
Drs. Bridger and Clements should be TERMINATED immediately, regardless of whether they have tenure or other academic protections — this is a fundamental form of academic and professional misconduct which must not be tolerated at any civilized university.
btw, tenure is not supposed to be any bar to termination for fundamental, egregious misconduct. It would be most “interesting” to see whether the AAUP (American Assoc. of University Professors) would violate its own professed intellectual standards to defend the jobs of book-burning professors.
I’m an SJSU grad, grad again…and then again….
I actually took a meteorology course back in the late 1990’s. Decent course. Decent professor. Even held onto the textbook. My son likes to pick it up once in awhile – read it – even use it to identify clouds.
…then I see this…
*sigh*
=8-(
This is what these imbecile professors are invoking:
1933 book burning, German Students Assn
Drs. Bridger and Clements may be so ignorant and so devoid of historical understanding that this could come as a surprise to them, but to people with a decent education the very idea of book burnings is an abomination. I despise any so-called “professors” who think that burning books they oppose is any appropriate way to approach academic, scientific, and public life.
This is trivialization of intolerance by these academics, media and proselytes. Ecototalitarians… and the same people would pontificate on how Germans in the 1930s could have not seen, could have fallen for a rising intolerant ideology. Well, trivialization of intolerant behaviours.
Hansen and co, all the ideologists of the movement will have an historical responsibility should green violence break out.
I emailed Dorothy Poole, SJSU President’s Chief of Staff, and she replied,
“Thank you for sharing your concerns. The Department of Meteorology and Climate Science has removed the material in question from its website, and regrets what was clearly an ill-conceived attempt at satire. Please be assured the university does not condone book burning for any reason. “
The irony of these eco-fascists and their lame histrionics never fails to amaze me. They cannot learn from either history nor their own failures.
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This page and comments is an interesting exercise in evidence free conclusions, and hypocrisy.
Evidence free because the photo is obviously not a book burning. A closed book with a match held to the spine will no more catch light than will a log in the same situation. Even books thrown into a fire are likely to only burn around the fringes of the page due to lack of oxygen near the spine, so that to burn a book you need either a bonfire or to tear the book up and burn it, effectively leaf by leaf. But Watts and his regular commentors are so keen to vilify that all that passes over their heads. Instead of criticizing the silliness of what is obviously a joke photo, they assume actual book burnings occurred.
Hypocrisy because whats bans the use of the “D” word on this site because of his false claim that it makes an invidious comparison between so-called “skeptics” and those who deny the deeds fo Nazis. Yet he is happy to host without any issue a large number of accusations that people are Nazis or equivalent to Nazis. Apparently Nazi comparisons only offend Watts when they are directed at him and his allies, even though he finds them so offensive (in that case) that he is offended even when they don’t exist.
[Reply: I knew there would be an apologist for these book burners. Surprised it took this long. — mod.]
THEY wrap themselves in the actions and trappings of the Nazis, and any one to points that out is berated as stepping in Godwins Law.
To be really effective the University Meteorology Department should team up with the 10:10 No Pressure campaign.
Bob Shapiro says:
May 2, 2013 at 6:05 pm
I emailed Dorothy Poole, SJSU President’s Chief of Staff, and she replied,
“Thank you for sharing your concerns. The Department of Meteorology and Climate Science has removed the material in question from its website, and regrets what was clearly an ill-conceived attempt at satire. Please be assured the university does not condone book burning for any reason. “
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Satire??? LOL. These two clowns and the Dorothy Poole obviously need to attend ‘Satire’ Classes so they can first understand what satire is then maybe they can try their hand at it. Left wing greens wouldn’t know satire if they banged their heads against it.
Stunning!
The photograph should have been captioned:
“Dr. Bridger (or is it Clements?) just before their fingers got burned!”
Photo caption:
Climate scare over. Another warmist professor endorses the burning of fossil fuel
The web page was updated and the picture with caption removed?
Precisely the thing somebody does to cover up their previous misdemeanours. The misdemeanours that are perpetrated as training for greater crimes.
Fortunately, it’s archived at http://www.webcitation.org/6GJvAbb2t. Link to it often.
Remember the method as explained by former ECB chief Jean-Claude Juncker on how it’s managed to erode European society:
Unlike sane people, they seem incapable of judging what is appropriate without “testing”. They are incapable of having a conversation in which they present their ideas and to process the criticism that ensues. They have to put these things into action.
We must not let this sort of thing get swept under the carpet.
Embarrassing idiots. Obviously renegades, hence the swift disappearance of the page. I trust the university sanctions them thoroughly for their juvenile actions.
No smoking in the library!