@bkparallax @IamDonCheadle the power to change climate lies in hands of every individual on the planet, not a single gov't–or technology!
— Prof. Katharine Hayhoe (@KHayhoe) August 29, 2013
With the way Hayhoe described that, I couldn’t help think of, and embellish, this famous opening segment. With apologies to, The Outer Limits.
There is nothing wrong with your planet. Do not attempt to adjust the temperature. We are controlling the climate. If we wish to make it warmer, we will bring up the climate sensitivity. If we wish to make it cooler, we will tune it to a whisper. We will control the Carbon Dioxide. We will control the solar insolation. We can roll the temperature, make it flutter. We can change the data to a soft blur or sharpen it to crystal clarity. For the next decade, sit quietly and we will control all data you see and hear. We repeat: there is nothing wrong with your planet. You are about to participate in a great adventure. You are about to experience the awe and mystery which reaches from the inner mind to – The Climate Limits.
h/t to Marc Morano
UPDATE: WUWT reader “Donkeyrock” submits this image.
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My local Volkswagen dealer has an old ad campaign poster that says The Power Is In Your Hands and it’s hanging in the restroom right above the urinal.
Mac the Knife on August 30, 2013 at 12:30 pm
I should have put the /sarc tag. I’m a chemist. I’m aware of the abundance of carbon ! 🙂
Anybody remember the old TV commercials with the lady saying, “It’s not nice to fool Mother Nature?” It’s still difficult to believe there are people who actually believe Ms. Nature can be altered to suit us. If a hundred people chose the “perfect” temperature, they would all be different, but they all would be in the tropical range.
Hayhoe reminds me of a bubble-headed high school freshman.
Katharine Hayhoe is right in one way and maybe that’s what she meant: most of us control our climate with a simple thermostat, heat in the winter, cool in the summer, in our homes, our cars, our offices. Who cares about the outdoors that we rarely visit anyway …….
Katharine Hayhoe is correct. For over 16 years man’s eeeeeevil co2 has continued to pollute the atmosphere – and mean global surface temperature has failed to rise. Let’s release MORE co2 – correlation is causation. Well that’s what I was told over the warming between 1980 to 1998.
Oh no! It’s falling apart. WE MUST ACT NOW!
H/t
http://hockeyschtick.blogspot.com/2013/08/us-eu-are-pressuring-ipcc-to-explain.html
David L. says:
August 30, 2013 at 1:46 pm
Mac the Knife on August 30, 2013 at 12:30 pm
I should have put the /sarc tag. I’m a chemist. I’m aware of the abundance of carbon ! 🙂
Ha! Good enough, David L!
I live in the Seattle WA area. You might not believe how often I hear true believers in this area utter words similar to ‘living the carbon free lifestyle’ by reducing our ‘carbon foot prints’ to zero. I personally control my carbon foot print very carefully…. by wiping my shoe soles off on the door mat before I enter the house. Works every time….
MtK
“It has to be fully explained in the summary.”
Oh, have no fear, the IPCC is here to the rescue. They will have a tasty smorgasboard of “explanations” for the slowdown/pause/hiatus, full of the usual coulds, possiblies, and maybes. It will be beautiful and finely crafted, almost a work of art. Then, after reaching a feverous pitch, will come the coup de gras; what bureaucritters and all manner of government teat-guzzling hacks are all waiting for with baited breath – the 95% ASSURANCE that man is responsible for the majority of the warming, and that the warming will recommence with gusto in the future, and that their funding, jobs and reputations are safe. Just makes ya feel warm and fuzzy all over, don’t it?
Yes, I meant “bated”.
Hard to believe that Texas Tech tolerates this kind of nutbaggery.
“Only YOU can control the climate.”
Well, O.K. I’ll do it. But only if get paid well for the job.
Hayhoe is a climate scientist.
From Hayhoe’s bio: ” Her work as a climate change evangelist has been featured in the PBS documentary series, The Secret Life of Scientists and in articles including True Believer that appeared in On Earth magazine in 2012 and Spreading the global warming gospel that appeared in the LA Times in 2011.”
Climate scientist or environmental advocate? This, in my opinion is what is wrong with climate science. Judith Curry she is not!
This has been the coldest, wettest summer I can remember in 15 years in NC. It’s probably due to all the commie neighbors and their Priuses. Guess I’ll start up all three cars in the driveway and let them idle for a while. That should warm things up.
The greenies and our pres have been telling wthey can control the climate, so why do you doubt them? GISS can control the climate, they simply adjust historical data.
Txomin says:
August 30, 2013 at 9:28 pm
You wrote: “Hayhoe is a climate scientist.”
That certainly inspires a lot of confidence!
Curses! How did she know about the climate control machine I’ve been hiding in my basement for years!
Minions! You need to be more careful!
Edohiguma says:
August 31, 2013 at 9:46 am
Hmmmn.
From John Moore’s Heroics For Beginners, quoting Robert Taylor’s Handbook of Practical Heroics, the condemned prisoner of an Evil Overlord has to either trick the Evil Overlord’s dim-witted minions or seduce the his Evil Assistant.
As an official minion not yet promoted to an evil assistant position, can I get seduced instead?
By the way, is the Climate Control Device powered by an Ancient Artifact Model 7, or the older but collectible Ancient Artifact Model 3? (After all, the Ancient Artifact Model 6 was just a chromed up version of the Model 5 for the tourist trade and yuppie market, it couldn’t be one of those models.)
“Not suspicious, just Canadian” Why is she suggesting that she is Canadian? We can’t stand the shame.
I can? Nifty. I think I’ll make it slightly warmer, so human civilization flourishes just like it has every other time that has happened.
The Impact of Fat? Sounds horrible. Would it be the coup de grace (fatal stab, to end suffering)?
The decaying gras will make their baited breath stink, so they’ll have to bate (hold) it? ;p
Well it’s not Friday but the post is still up. I almost fell out of my chair laughing at this one.
http://pjmedia.com/blog/epa-to-regulate-water-vapor-emissions/
Katharine I have come to save the day. Now you can control weather:
http://kids.earth.nasa.gov/archive/air_pressure/barometer.html
You should feel lots better now.