Who’s Marc Rodrigues you ask? I’m not sure, but he sure does get ugly when I replied to “God” in a Tweet, pointing out what has been happening on the planet lately.
Wow. What an angry, bizarre, uncalled for response.
My tweet link was to my essay yesterday: http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/08/10/what-the-year-of-living-dangerously-at-nearly-400-ppm-of-co2-in-earths-atmosphere-looks-like/
Some people don’t handle reality outside of their belief system well I suppose.
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I’ve been retired for over ten years and have time to think about things. I notice that today people accept rules and regulations without demur which fifty years ago would have been considered “Flaming imposition!”. Even the desire to think is being eroded. “Information centres” of many varieties will advice how to resolve your problems. No sweat. This is why the ‘alarmists’ are so successful. My wife is forever asking “Why do we need to put extra insulation in our houses if it is getting warmer?” And I explain that winters will still be pretty cool and cloudy and there will be no energy to heat the house. Better to make them warm now while we still have the energy. If too many people start to die there may be repercussions.
Karma ran over his dogma. Of course he’s pissed. That was one of his most beloved dogmas.
God@twitter, on the other hand, does say some funny shit a lot of the time.
But, Marc, surely the universe is unfolding in the exact way your (insert favorite deity here) intended?
“Playing games with my children’s future.”
Children’s future? What children? Has Mr. Rodrigues not joined the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement yet? Is it already too late for him due to his own irresponsibility? Shame on him.
Man’s a bleedin’ dork ‘e is, guvnor. Doncha pay no ‘eed to ‘im. Marc wiv a c rather than a k; always sus. ‘e’s a skidmarc in the underpants o’ time, oi ses! ‘e’s no tweeter’ ‘e’s a twerp!
And asbestos is good for you as is drinking DDT 🙂
Love me some Coke Zero. What’s wrong with these people?
cRR Kampen says:
August 12, 2013 at 3:39 am
“And asbestos is good for you as is drinking DDT :)”
What’s wrong with YOU, cRR Kampen?
M. Nichopolis says:
August 11, 2013 at 8:25 pm
“And yet Mark Rodriguez, a person who is apparently capable of securing food, water, electricity, a mobile device, and all the other comforts in life, is apparently able to make his way through life driven by emotion, not by logic. (100 thousand years ago, the cro-magnons were defeated. Apparently they are making a comeback.)”
Hey what’s wrong with the Cro-Magnon? They’re the Ur Europeans. Maybe you thought of Neandertals?
kadaka (KD Knoebel) says:
August 11, 2013 at 7:41 pm
“I’ve long suspected the internet is somehow connected to parallel alternate universes, as I find people and concepts there that vary from completely different from what I’ve experienced before and will ever expect to find out here in my reality, to those that are very similar but somehow distorted or twisted in strange frightening ways.”
That parallel reality you speak of is the one propagated by the media.
Be assured that they know what they are doing. And they’re very, very afraid that everyone finds out.
I wonder if he is one of the Gorebots that visited the site last week (after the “mole” article). He seems to have the bleat down pat.
Mike H says: @ur momisugly August 11, 2013 at 1:09 pm
Agreed and I do not have any children. But I am still livid over the policies that will make all the kids I know ‘serfs’ to the parasitic Regulating Class.
Translated from New-York-ese, that means “Thank you for your well-written and thoughtful essay. I will certainly take note of your analysis.”
“angry, bizarre, uncalled for”
One out of three.
Geez. And I thought canning Coca Cola was the best way to sequester CO2.
That’s considered thoughtful discourse in many circles. They learn how to engage those who disagree with them at home and/or college. Hell, this guy probably is a teacher.
I’m glad I had swallowed my sip of hot coffee before I saw this. I would have burned the insides of my nostrils. Thanks for the laugh.
Well, gee whiz, Anthony! You and I both know that as “skeptics” we’re paid by Big Oil, which may also be Big Tobacco. I wish the Postal Service would get it’s ass in gear and start delivering those backlogged checks, though: the yet-to-decrease-due-to-the-“Affordable-Care-Act”-health-insurance premium is due,… and I sure could use a little cash for house maintenance, and children’s college tuition, too.
#1 Wouldn’t just about every planet with active volcanism or even previous volcanism have tectonic plates?
#2 I’m no big pop drinker, but I missed the surgeon general’s warning about cola.
@Gail Combs –
The Evans article is compelling – and disturbing. Thanks for the link.
I’m not at all sure that we have averted the bureaucratic/kleptocratic takeover of our economy and society – there’s a long way to go to dispossess the alarmists and their neofascist allies in the media and the government. But as the article says, the internet and the public’s increasing recognition that AGW is a scam offers some hope.
I’ve long believed that government functionaries and anyone else feeding a the government trough – i.e., the regulatory class Evans refers to – (1) should not be allowed to vote, (2) should be under draconian controls over their behavior, with their every communication monitored and available to citizens, (3) be under penalty of perjury for any untruth or half-truth they utter, orally, electronically or in writing. There should be no such thing as “sovereign immunity,” no shields against prosecution for unconstitutional or otherwise illegal acts by functionaries, and functionaries should be personally fully financially liable for harm which it is demonstrable that they personally have caused. It should be possible to charge functionaries with fraud for taking money under false pretenses, including collecting tax monies and using them for other than the designated purpose. (as was done, for instance, with the funds raised by California’s Prop 30, where monies earmarked for higher education by the voters were used instead by Gov. Medfly-Receivership to add a redundant new layer of bureaucrats in the Medi-Cal system).
And as I’ve said before, the battle will not be entirely won until the regulatory class and its hangers-on are removed entirely from government, the science academies and journals, and the educational system, from preschool to graduate school..
If these things had been done before the AGW scare got so far out of control, it might have been stopped dead in its tracks. Now we’re in it for the loing haul. The alarmies will still be screaming “global warming” even when the next glaciation begins.
“So, Mr. Rodrigues, you’re willing to keep poor people in other parts of the world in jeopardy today in an attempt to potentially save our future generations some inconvenience?”
That’s the Left in a nutshell, John West.
Show me the evidence Marc.
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Marc Rodrigues @mprodrig
.@GovChristie Yet climate change has nooooothing to do with increase in extreme weather… nothing to see here, move on…
https://twitter.com/mprodrig/status/339202807196438528
Ha, ha. Here is the one I meant to ask Marc for the evidence.
https://twitter.com/mprodrig/status/336603974432071680
Justa Joe says:
August 12, 2013 at 10:12 am
#1 Wouldn’t just about every planet with active volcanism or even previous volcanism have tectonic plates?
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Depends upon your definition of plate tectonics. Ours are thought owing to the impact that created the moon, lofting a majority of the then-crust into orbit, so that we have thin oceanic & thicker continental crust, with seafloor spreading from volcanism. But Venus & Mars may have different forms of crustal plate movement.
Here was the consensus at the turn of the 21st century:
http://www.spacedaily.com/news/life-01×1.html
But now:
http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/earthscienceandengineering/research/iarc/theplanets/platetectonicsonvenus
http://www.space.com/17087-mars-surface-marsquakes-plate-tectonics.html
Mars may also have suffered a comparable impact:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/space/10191977/Massive-impact-may-have-caused-Mars-to-lose-its-atmosphere.html
Rodrigues is a clear example of a certain mindset that is prepared to believe any sort of evidence-free alarmist nonsense on virtually any topic based purely on the public profile of those shouting the loudest.
These are the people who took pitchforks to the Montgolfiers’ balloon.
These are the Jenny McCarthy Science crowd. Any evidence this guy’s ever been an anti-vaccine type? Don’t have time to research it myself but I wouldn’t be surprised.
@M. Nichopolis –
Yeah, Cro-Magnon is too advanced for these people. I’d venture a philomycid (i.e., a slug – the Greek derivation of this name means “slime lover”) as a better moniker for them (sorry, philomycid, for thus insulting you).
The dilemma we still face is how to get past the praetorian guards of the media and impress upon der Fuehrer and his fellow kleptocrats that (1) AGW is crap and (2) we aren’t going to let you do it to us.