From July 13th 2013 in Houston. I was invited to give a presentation, and I adapted Dr. Matt Ridley’s excellent essay: A Lukewarmer’s Ten Tests and added supporting graphs and commentary along with my own work and findings. The video follows.
The video is 53 minutes long including Q&A.
I’m sure some people won’t like what I have to say, and/or will take issue with it. For those that will immediately pounce on the location, Houston, to suggest “big oil” was involved, I’ll provide full disclosure. There was mostly an aerospace interest due to Houston’s role in the space program, there was not a hint of the oil industry there.
I received airfare compensation, meals, and lodging, plus $250 for my three days of time (two of which were travel) for speaking. Compare that to what Al Gore gets.
I welcome suggestions readers might have for improvements to the presentation.
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“Doctors for Disaster Preparedness”? The organization title sounds like a spin off of “Doomsday Preppers”. Have they got a “reality” show yet?
What a great presentation! Thanks, Anthony. It’s a big plus to see you and hear you, as well as “just” read you. Please do more of this, I think it makes a big difference: not only in the quality of your rhetorical “punch” (which, already good, will improve with practice) but also in the overall reach and diversity of the presentations you can make. People today respond more to visual/personal pitches, less to literary/scholarly ones. Both are needed; and you have the “complete game;” so use it! Thanks.
I agree with Janice Moore comments re: your style. You’re a natural on-stage. Drop or trim the “Arbor Day” business; your credentials readily emerge as impeccable. What matters is your logic and integrity, not your love of seedling trees.
Just watched the whole video, Anthony. Good stuff! I’ll visit the tip jar.
Wow, you are smooth ‘n good at ‘splaining. What popped into my head was how unfortunate for us it is that you was not born in Waltonville, Arkansas. With a gift of gab like that, we could easily have had a Bubba Watts instead of…
oMan says:
August 20, 2013 at 4:28 pm
“I agree with Janice Moore comments re: your style. You’re a natural on-stage. Drop or trim the “Arbor Day” business; your credentials readily emerge as impeccable. What matters is your logic and integrity, not your love of seedling trees.”
Respectfully disagree with you and Janice. For those who are not as familiar with Anthony, it is good to show them how he walked the walk before he talked the talk.
Salvatore Del Prete says:
August 20, 2013 at 11:44 am
“I think the global warmers are much more united, then the global coolers.”
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The warmers may or may not be united, but it’s certain that own the microphones and payl the salaries (grants).
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Ross Carnsew says:
August 20, 2013 at 4:43 am
I think it’s close enough. I’m more interested in more than two words about
what the doctors were all meeting about (Disaster Preparedness) and how well
it fit in with Anthony’s talk.
I don’t know about you, but I associate Houston more with the space program
than I do with atrocities like Enron. Lyndon Johnson, NASA, and Houston
are indelibly linked in my mind ever since Cape
KennedyCanaveral started handing over CapCom and other duties to Houston seconds
after liftoff.
Hardly any reason to have oil there, we’re not expecting major shake-ups
in that arena for a while, right?
Why would big oil be there except for convincing businesses that they won’t
screwup again?
Full disclaimer – I think Anthony is giving me some 20% of his Big Oil income.
Or is it 40%? All the same in absolute terms….
“you was not born in Waltonville, Arkansas.”
Sorry, I sure mangled that sentence. Always in a rush, it took this long to get a bit of time to view the presentation.
You wadn’t not born in Arkiefornia, that’s it.
And WUWT is so good, ya sop it up with a biscuit!
Excellent presentation!
I too have a hearing loss. You should look into trying Lyric. No batteries to change. After an initial period of adjustment, the devices really do the job. Even the tinnitus has lessened. I no longer have a problem hearing when in problem environments such as you experienced during the Q & A.
That fella Essex is a very clever chap – could’ve been quite a heavy talk but I was actually able to follow the thread.
Thanks to everyone who commented and provided suggestions. Thanks especially for the kind words.
I’ll move this and other videos into a special section of the website soon.
This is a perfect video to send to believers, it sums it up with a reasonable amount of facts and data, and shows many of the absurdities, that might not be too apparent for most people.
Watts: I’ll move this and other videos into a special section of the website soon
I suggest a menu header “Watts’ Best“. It should lead to one or a few Index pages that Abstract eight to twelve WUWT posts that should be unforgetable, worth wide distribution, and have a long shelf life. How many individual posts do you have on WUWT? How can we regulars find the real gems in those thousands? How can newcomers find those gems quickly.
This video should be at the top of the Watts’ Best list. But there are many other posts that belong.
“Smoking Gun at Darwin Zero” is the post that hooked me.
Start a post for nominations to a Watts’ Best page and turn it into a crowd source effort. Page categories can form as the nominations come it. But it might be a good idea to tie them into the existing Tags.
Stephen Rasey says:
August 21, 2013 at 8:33 pm
Already been done, at least to my satisfaction. On my Guide to WUWT (see the right hand nav bar) at http://home.comcast.net/~ewerme/wuwt/index.html I have a section titled WUWT Classics. I haven’t added this yet, but it certainly will be.
The section is a bit heavy on articles I often reference, but I’m happy to consider suggestions.
Dear Tom (in Florida),
I did not (and do not want to) tell A-th-y to omit his Arbor Day efforts from his talk. I thought that part was GREAT, but, needed to be shortened a bit.
Hope you are enjoying August, down there. Stay safe.
Janice
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@ur momisugly Ric Werme,
Thank you SO MUCH, once again, for your excellent Guide to WUWT. It is very helpful and a generous support of the effort for Truth in Science going on here. Re: the videos, I don’t think the average visitor here will look in a “Guide” for video links. Thus, WUWT either needs a “VIDEO’S HERE!” type link in a prominent place or your Guide graphic needs to include “Videos and more” (or something like that).
I hope you don’t mind my making that suggestion.
Gratefully,
Janice
Janice Moore says:
August 22, 2013 at 10:04 pm
“Dear Tom (in Florida),
Hope you are enjoying August, down there. Stay safe.
Janice”
I always enjoy summer in Florida. Originally from New England, I am a devote believer in warmer is better and really do not like temperatures (water or air) less than 80 F. I actually think about moving farther south for the winter, perhaps to Key West.