Breaking Bad Weather Cooking

http://www.theguardian.com/cartoons/martinrowson/0,7371,1562914,00.html

Well, someone better start cooking up some “extreme” weather…hurricanes are down, tornadoes are down, the arctic ice looks pretty meh (while antarctic ice is going gangbusters), nothing really abnormal on the weather front…

There is no such thing as extreme weather…………

Modern behaviors are quite interesting, to say the least. We will continue to be able to laugh at the fools but, let’s be thankful for that. For it is true indeed that many people such as us would have been burned at the stake by those freaks and, I suppose, I would have been hung from a pole at a crossroads with my gizzards hanging out and crows pecking out my eyes for calling one of the leading buffoons Travesty Trenberth.
Of course, our progeny would, at a later date, have beheaded them and their progeny.
I wonder what the modern equivalent is going to look like ?? I’m anticipating enjoying it – as a dish served cold, albeit without the axe.
In other news – this made me laugh:
“U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said he had instructed U.N. disarmament chief Angela Kane in Damascus “to register a strong complaint” with both the Syrian government and opposition representatives for the convoy attack.”
Go Moony go, kick some ass, form a committee and make a list of their bad manners. “Nobel Peace Prize Winners go to War” coming soon to a TV screen near you.

Burn the evil witches or burn down the evil industrialists. The similarities are not coincidental! GK

And let’s not forget the 16th century practice of selling of “indulgences” by the church. Then the wealthy could absolve their sins by paying huge sums of money to the church. Today, the indulgences are paid for carbon credits, absolving the evil carbon emmiters of their sins.
The parallels of todays CAGW with Little Ice Age religion are many.

We have always felt the need to blame someone for bad weather. Even when it was colder.

Abstract
Bohringer – pp 335-351 – 1999
Climatic Change and Witch-Hunting: The Impact of the Little Ice Age on Mentalities
…During the late 14th and 15th centuries the traditional conception of witchcraft was transformed into the idea of a great conspiracy of witches, to explain “unnatural” climatic phenomena……Scapegoat reactions may be observed by the early 1560s…..extended witch-hunts took place at the various peaks of the Little Ice Age because a part of society held the witches directly responsibile for the high frequency of climatic anomalies and the impacts thereof……
doi:10.1007/978-94-015-9259-8_13
Abstract
Christian Pfister et. al. – 1999
Climatic Variability in Sixteenth-Century Europe and its Social Dimension: A Synthesis
…Peasant communities which were suffering large collective damage from the effects of climatic change pressed authorities for the organization of witch-hunts. Seemingly most witches were burnt as scapegoats of climatic change.
doi:10.1023/A:1005585931899
Abstract
Christian Pfister – 2012
Climatic Extremes, Recurrent Crises and Witch Hunts
Strategies of European Societies in Coping with Exogenous Shocks in the Late Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries
Finally, by confirming the thesis advanced by Wolfgang Behringer relating extensive witch hunts during that period to climatic change and recurrent subsistence crises, this article makes a plea for bridging the gap separating studies of climate from those of culture.
doi: 10.1177/097194580701000202

Seems everything cycles, especially human nature.
By that standard we seem more akin to France just before the first revolt.
Are the kleptocrats ready to play their part as the French nobles?

Russell Cook (@ur momisuglyquestionAGW) says: @ur momisugly August 27, 2013 at 9:15 am
…..As I’ve said, there are only two kinds of people in this issue, skeptics of AGW, and those who would become skeptics if they watched and read skeptic material with an open mind.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
You forgot the other two types.
1. Those paid to keep their minds closed and mouths shut.
2. Those who don’t care as long as CAGW advances their hidden agenda. (Agenda 21)
Unfortunately there is big money behind these second two types. Forbes has a good article on why Making Serfs Of The Masses

…If I counted, I would see that the sum total of the surplus created by serfs like me was taken by the state, spent and then a chunk more was borrowed and spent, too.
This is why serfs revolted occasionally, though a cursory glance at the record shows that it didn’t end up well for them. That’s what repression is about, after all, a transfer of resources from the repressed to the repressing. Repression is always backed up by strident and copious “reasoning.” There is never a shortage of justification for taking your freedom….

Now what was that John Robertson said about ” Are the kleptocrats ready to play their part as the French nobles?”

@Ric Werme (August 27, 5:09 am) says
It’s nice to see Dr. Baliunas again, I thought she had been burned at the stake.
Hmm, (youtube) says this is a 2008 talk, so perhaps she has.
Agree it’s nice to see her again, but I heard a couple of years ago that seven years’ viewing goes up on Youtube every day. (and that was then.) I think she’s keeping up pretty well.