On the cover of the Rolling Stone? Not quite, but I did get a single word in

Bart says: @ur momisugly September 12, 2013 at 1:12 pm
….. ….. ….. Some years from now, when the entire fiasco has met its timely demise, it will be included in the case file which discredits the doomsayers, and ensures we will never have to endure such a debasement of science again.
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Auto says: @ur momisugly September 12, 2013 at 2:17 pm
Bart, you are a good soul, but science will be debased in exactly the same way…
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…as it has been before.
As long as there is greed for Money, Power, and Fame and there are the mediocre suck-ups who ride on the coattails of the power grabbers you are always going to have fiascoes like this.
Or best hope is that Anthony is part of a long line of humans with honesty and integrity and passion who will counter these parasites and that they have the means to do so.

….In Russia during the Soviet era, “forbidden” works of literature and political criticism were produced and circulated through a system known as “samizdat.” Those who received a manuscript would do so with the implied promise that they would type out five carbon copies before passing it on. And why not use a copier or mimeograph machine? Simply because private ownership of these devices was illegal….
Today, in what we like to call “the Free World,” computers, printers and copiers are abundant. Instead of furtive painstaking hours at the typewriter, “underground” texts can be duplicated in disks and CDs a few seconds. Accordingly, Soviet-style control of ideas and information by the authorities is no longer possible. Most significantly, perhaps, the computer has given us, via the internet, an “American Samizdat.”
Of course, as anyone familiar with the internet is aware, ninety-plus percent of the pages therein offer pure, certifiable junk — porn sites, right-wing rants, commercial promotions, etc. Furthermore, much internet material is self-published, without editorial or publishers’ constraints. Still, to those who have searched and found a few choice web sites, the internet offers much of what remains of free, unconstrained, political and social commentary…..

Anthony’s WUWT is one of those “few choice web sites” of the “American Samizdat” and I am sure that makes people like Rolling Stone’s Jeff Goodell squirm.

….My friends in Russia report that during the Soviet era, most Russians came to regard Pravda as an acceptable solution to the chronic toilet paper shortage, but of little additional value. So they eagerly awaited receipt of each new Samizdat and secretly tuned into the Voice of America and the BBC. In short, the Russians developed very sensitive BS detectors. Alas, the time has come for the American public to do the same.

Let the media know that you are fully aware of their “mushroom tactics” (i.e., “keep ’em in the dark and feed them BS”). The news media put great value in their reputation and credibility. Tell them that they have squandered both with their rightward “spin” and their lies — and specify those lies…. Let them know that you are looking elsewhere for your information and, as in days of the Soviet “samizdat,” you are passing on important information you learn elsewhere to your friends and colleagues.
Самиздат Американский — The American Samizdat, the Best Political Opinion and Commentary From the Progressive Internet

(A rather delicious irony that WUWT is the best example)

When will we learn? These liberal’s are not not our friends, never have been never will be. They will never give you a fair shake, never!!!
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Don’t stop giving interviews like this Anthony. Every time they slime you, tell us about it.
The days of these malevolent green-slimeballs are numbered and by their own actions.
Give them the oxygen they need to continue re-gurgitating the same zealous venom.
It’s thanks to people like that who made me, and many others, sceptical of a ‘science’ that attracted such a motley band of nasties.

Grant says:
September 12, 2013 at 2:29 pm
“There is no periodical more biased than Rolling Stone. And they think they’re hipster rebels.”
Being biased and being a rebel is not a contradiction; see Obama’s Al Qaeda rebels in Syria or for a more distant example, the Jakobins with their guillotines in Paris.

Rolling Stones Magazine said the following about Led Zeppelin’s first three albums…
“their music is as ephemeral as Marvel comix, and as vivid as an old Technicolor cartoon. It doesn’t challenge anybody’s intelligence or sensibilities, relying instead on a pat visceral impact that will insure absolute stardom for many moons to come. Their albums refine the crude public tools of all dull white blues bands into something awesome in its very insensitive grossness, like a Cecil B. DeMille epic.”
“…alternates between prissy Robert Plant’s howled vocals fronting an acoustic guitar and driving choruses of the band running down a four-chord progression while John Bonham smashes his cymbals on every beat.” (John Mendelsohn, 3/15/69 Review)
“Jimmy Page, around whom the Zeppelin revolves, is, admittedly, an extraordinarily proficient blues guitarist and explorer of his instrument’s electronic capabilities. Unfortunately, he is also a very limited producer and a writer of weak, unimaginative songs.”
“Plant’s strained and unconvincing shouting (he may be as foppish as Rod Stewart, but he’s nowhere near so exciting, especially in the higher registers).”
“It would seem that, if they’re to help fill the void created by the demise of Cream, they will have to find a producer (and editor) and some material worthy of their collective attention.”
“A masterpiece of sarcasm.”
In later years they would try to air brush over their original assessments.Too late. The world’s biggest rock magazine proved they knew dick all about rock and roll. I presume their knowledge of climate issues is equally impressive.

Well for the folks concerned Miami is going to get wiped off the map by a hurricane, Miami has already been hit by a cat 5 Miami is still there. If you weren’t around in 92 then check out this wiki:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Andrew
I was there the day after and it was a mess, but they build things a bit stronger because of that storm, so I imagine that while another cat 5 hitting Miami would suck, but it would not end the city by any stretch of the imagination.
v/r,
David Riser

Goodell changed his text on the image. The image shows water vapour. I’m sure Goodell knows that water vapour is the main greenhouse gas. Oh the irony.

IPCC
Box 8.1: Upper-Tropospheric Humidity and Water Vapour Feedback
Water vapour is the most important greenhouse gas in the atmosphere. Tropospheric water vapour concentration diminishes rapidly with height, since it is ultimately limited by saturation-specific humidity, which strongly decreases as temperature decreases. Nevertheless, these relatively low upper-tropospheric concentrations contribute disproportionately to the ‘natural’ greenhouse effect, both because temperature contrast with the surface increases with height, and because lower down the atmosphere is nearly opaque at wavelengths of strong water vapour absorption.

It’s obvious why the caption photo was changed. Now the steam does not disappear before rising out of the frame. It could be smoke now, to the low-information reader, i.e. the typical Rolling Stoner.

Ahhhhhh, this explains it all!
Jeff Goodell

I was born and raised in Silicon Valley, where my family had lived for four generations. I’ve worked as a blackjack dealer, a glazier, a janitor, a bartender at a topless club, an editor at a Russian literary journal, and a technical writer at Apple. I have a BA in English from the University of California, Berkeley, and an MFA in Fiction Writing from Columbia University.
http://www.jeff-goodell.com/bio.html

Jeff, your article should be filed under fiction. You have no idea what you are talking about and are out of your depth. Next time think before you write utter crap. Sceptics know their stuff, you don’t.

Here is what us sceptics are up against. Don’t laugh.

Jeff Goodell
I began my career as a journalist covering crime and politics in New York City for 7 Days, a weekly magazine that won a National Magazine Award for General Excellence in 1990. Since 1996 I have been a Contributing Editor at Rolling Stone, where I have written about a wide variety of subjects, from hookers and politicians to climate scientists and internet billionaires.
http://www.jeff-goodell.com/bio.html

What a piece of shit.

Ric Werme says:
September 12, 2013 at 2:52 pm
Now the lead photo at http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/global-warming-is-very-real-20130912 is of a dirty glacier and melt stream, and the caption is Melting polar glaciers could raise sea levels by almost three feet by the end of the century.. Credit is to Henrik Egede Lassen/Alpha Film/Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme
Perhaps they should be wringing their hands over soot.
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Notice the proximity of the “hills” in the photo at the link ?
I wonder where all that “soot” came from ?
The comments to the “article” indicate that if anything, we may only “be at the end of the beginning”.