Josh writes:
Every other alarmist tweet these days seems to have the ‘D’ word in it – is there something happening soon that they are getting excited about?
Josh
Josh writes:
Every other alarmist tweet these days seems to have the ‘D’ word in it – is there something happening soon that they are getting excited about?
Josh
is it just me or did anyone else read that as ARS?
So, same old, same old.
Richard
He does cut to the heart of the debate.
Scottish Sceptic,
Should be ARF (Abort, Retry, Fail).
Scottish Sceptic says: September 13, 2013 at 11:46 am
is it just me or did anyone else read that as ARS?
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With or without an ‘e’?
Scottish Sceptic says:
“Is it just me or did anyone else read that as ARS?”
LOL, beat me to it.
Scottish Sceptic says:
September 13, 2013 at 11:46 am
is it just me or did anyone else read that as ARS?
After imagining a Scottish accent say ‘ARS’ I burst into a good laugh, eyes watered up!. 😉
This is off topic but since the topic is a Friday Funny maybe it’s ok to present it. It’s not funny but I found it quite exciting. To the astute readers of this blog it might be old news but I just found out about it.
Anyway, it appears NASA announced just yesterday that Voyager officially left the Solar System and has entered Interstellar Space. An explosion on the sun in March 2012 was recorded by Voyager in April 2013. Here’s the link:
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/voyager/voyager20130912.html#.UjNjPxK9LCR
Maybe it is appropriate. Humanity has sent a tiny token of its existence back to the Universe from whence we came. After all these billions of years. What a magnificent accomplishment. It does indeed make our starstruck, celebrity wannabe, taxpayer funded, climate warrior scientists look like the Friday Funnies they really all.
I am SO looking forward to AR5. If the IPCC fails to mention the possibility of cooling then they will have painted themselves into a corner from which there is no escape and when cooling does arrive as seems ever more likely then even the MSM will see that they look like the fools we all know they are.
J Martin:
No escape? Nah. They’ll adjust a graph or two and claim the computer model predicted exactly what would happen, With some error bars and uncertainty, of course.
The Climate Science Bible is to name calling as voodoo is to sticking pins in wax images of of skeptics.
Ooooo . . . this really could start to get hilarious on a Friday . . .
John
Don’t forget the IPCC has a great mountain of “could”, “may”,
“might” and “indicates” that they plan to hide behind when the going gets tough.
They can see THEIR future well enough.
JOSH is an international treasure. Wickedly insightful, witty, impish – – – and thoroughly delightful
Carry on!
In the UK we pronounce ass AR5E.
@David, UK – LOL – I usually substitute Arse for A-$-$ as the US censors key on the second, and miss the first. So you did not have to spell it AR5E. But it was amusing to read.
Are we still having Friday fun?
The IPCC centric exaggerators of AGW from fossil fuels call their skeptical critics Deniers.
Their skeptical critics could in fun call them the Denier Accusation Making Noobs . . . aka the DAMNed
John
AR5? A bit like IPHONE5.
Same as all the rest, but with a few cosmetic changes.
And still a waste of money!
Scottish Sceptic- Yep, read it as ARS (- the E) hehehe….
Maybe it could be recycled into something useful, say party hats for the next climate con(ference)?
Tom J says:
September 13, 2013 at 12:29 pm
“Maybe it is appropriate. Humanity has sent a tiny token of its existence back to the Universe from whence we came. After all these billions of years. What a magnificent accomplishment. It does indeed make our starstruck, celebrity wannabe, taxpayer funded, climate warrior scientists look like the Friday Funnies they really all.”
That was during the Golden Age of NASA; which has made way for cashing in on the CO2AGW scare (1.2 bn USD a year for NASA thanks to James Hansen and his successor G. Schmidt); and making Muslims feel good about scientific discoveries made by heathens they tolerated until Islamic clerics cracked down on them in the 12th century.
I wonder what nation will carry science into the future after the destruction of the US empire. Russia, China?
another funny:
13 Sept: WSJ: Google Jet Fleet Loses a Pentagon Fuel Perk
Questions Raised About Founders Use for Non-Government Flights
The agreement between the Google founders and the government, which started in 2007, ended Aug. 31 after officials at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration—which sponsored the arrangement—opted not to renew it, according to a Pentagon spokeswoman…
In explaining the unusual arrangement, NASA officials have pointed to a related agreement by the Google executives to perform scientific flights and other NASA-related transport. That mostly has involved flights by an Alpha jet, a small trainer bought by the Google executives and used by NASA to measure atmospheric greenhouse gases and ozone.
“NASA is always looking for innovative, public-private partnerships to help advance our mission and provide benefit to the American taxpayer,” a spokeswoman for NASA Ames said…
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323864604579069730686941454.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_MIDDLENexttoWhatsNewsForth
the good Bishop:
14 Sept: Australian: Andrew Montford: ‘Consensus’ on changing climate just PR campaign
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/opinion/consensus-on-changing-climate-just-pr-campaign/story-e6frg6zo-1226718828707
Josh wrote:
Maybe “they” would stop using the D-word if “we” stopped using the A-word. Let’s pretend just for a minute that we’re all grown-ups here shall we?
Mike Mellor:
re your post at September 13, 2013 at 4:15 pm
Josh was speaking to grown ups.
Having read your post, I wonder what gave you the impression he was talking to you.
Richard
Mike Mellor says:
September 13, 2013 at 4:15 pm
“Maybe “they” would stop using the D-word if “we” stopped using the A-word. Let’s pretend just for a minute that we’re all grown-ups here shall we?”
I’m perfectly happy with calling them prostitutes instead.
AR5 is definitely “Round File” material..
Josh nails it AGAIN!
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Mike Mellor,
As you suggested, I wholeheartedly agree to stop using the ‘A‘ word.
I, as a skeptic, will endeavor to stop using the word Anthropogenic. I will encourage my associates also.
Now, will you pass the word to the IPCC centric exaggerators of GW to try to stop with the d€ni€r name calling?
Deal?
John
taking a leaf (or colour) from the Aussie CAGW playbook:
New colour purple depicts worsening climate risks in UN draft report
OSLO, Sept 13 (Reuters) – Some parts of nature and human society are more vulnerable than expected to climate change, according to a draft of a U.N. report that adds a new purple colour to a key diagram to show worsening risks beyond the red used so far…
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/09/13/friday-funny-lets-get-ready-to-namecall/
January: Guardian: Australia adds new colour to temperature maps as heat soars
The temperature forecast for next Monday by Australia’s Bureau of Meteorology is so unprecedented – over 52C – that it has had to add a new colour to the top of its scale, a suitably incandescent purple…
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/damian-carrington-blog/2013/jan/08/australia-bush-fires-heatwave-temperature-scale
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DirkH,
If the GW alarmists are prostitutes it raises a paradoxical question. If they are the prostituters then who are the prostitutees? Not the skeptics. Are the prostituters only doing pseudo-scientific serving of each other?
Hmmmmm
John
Sorry, Mike, I just can’t see any of the alarmist crowd saying to their pals, “Look, guys, those den- er… I mean those good folk who don’t agree with us are playing fair. They’ve stopped using the A-word, so let’s cut them some slack, let’s not use the D-word anymore.”
Can you see that happening? Really? Can anybody? You don’t seem to realize they are playing for keeps. This is not a game with them. This is not a mistake. This is full-blown winner takes all, lots of loot and control over the masses. They Don’t Play Fair.
If they did, they wouldn’t be manipulating the data, manipulating the message and manipulating the people. They’d lay their cards on the table, talk openly about methods, data, evidence and science, instead of shutting out those who question, shutting down debate, hiding their work, denying the facts and shouting down all and any dissention.
Go tackle them about playing fair.
From over at Bishop Hill’s site:
What I want to know is will the thing be released in electronic format, and if so will the AR5E-Book be a free download.
Sep 13, 2013 at 8:35 PM | Unregistered Commenter Reg. Blank
@ Tom J
My thoughts, too. As John Grunsfeld, NASA’s associate administrator for science in Washington said, “Perhaps some future deep space explorers will catch up with Voyager, our first interstellar envoy, and reflect on how this intrepid spacecraft helped enable their journey.”
Inspirational words, indeed.
And when the going gets tough, the tough get groin injuries.
H/T to Garrett Morris.
Their johns would be the usual suspects, government officials. They’re the ones paying the prostitutes, after all.
Lots of name calling is going on at the high traffic BoingBoing blog today, a contemporary version of the Whole Earth Catalog:
http://bbs.boingboing.net/t/googles-lobbyists-go-big-on-climate-change-denial-raise-money-for-inhofe-competitive-enterprise-insitute/9709/24
This shouldn’t be funny, but how it’s becoming a tragedy is getting ridiculous.
The news is detailing the flooding in Boulder, Colorado, with breaking dams etc.
Boulder is where the National Snow and Ice Data Center is headquartered. As I mentioned earlier, an inquiry to nsidc.org got a splash page and:
The page title (top of the browser window) mentioned server maintenance.
The entire domain was parked. Why? Where were the mirror sites? Are the servers located only in Boulder, subject to local disruptions? Where are the off-site backups?
Still the same, but now I’ve found another quirk.
For unknown reasons except possibly pissing off the NSA, Google wants to use a secure connection (https) lately. To check the site just now, I edited the URL, accidentally tried https://www.nsidc.org/
Instead of defaulting to normal connection, I got a “This Connection is Untrusted” warning. What? “Technical Details” says invalid security certificate. And that the certificate is good for a boatload of subdomains at various sites, including seventeen NSIDC subdomains, which inludes nsidc-dot-org.
But somehow they had left out http://www.nsidc-dot-org, THE most common address when punching in the URL direct but as secure.
What happened? Dr. Walt Meier leaves NSIDC and suddenly the clowns have taken over?
You know, if I was a paranoid sort, I’d think “never let a good crisis go to waste”. About when NSIDC has to admit the Arctic sea ice has not evaporated into summer nothingness as predicted, that perhaps the “death spiral” is a spring that has bounced… Suddenly all their official records and all recognized backups may be at risk of destruction, so they won’t have to admit anything?
Father Jack on the forthcoming IPCC report:
http://youtu.be/mzgT-fg01vY
Huh. Last comment hit moderation, go figure.
But what WordPress did is funny.
I know it likes to convert mentions of web site names into full-blown links, so I carefully spaced out a group-dot-org.
Which WordPress made an URL anyway.
Looks like the trigger was www-dot-group but with an actual dot.
Ah WordPress, so confident you know what a comment writer wants better than the writer does…
Actually, the current (unofficial) continuation of the Whole Earth Catalog is the Cool Tools site, curated by Kevin Kelly, a former chief editor of WEC. I think it’s even better than the original WEC in some ways.
http://kk.org/cooltools/
(I stopped visiting BoingBoing several years ago, when I detected its slant on AGW. I had been a daily visitor.)
Darn, I forgot to outdent the last two paragraphs.
deklein says: September 13, 2013 at 6:56 pm
Father Jack on the forthcoming IPCC report:
That’s not All Gore by any chance is it, If I recall he claims Irish descent, but then he claims humans are responsible for climate change as well.
I still prefer the term “cult”. Religions for the most part can’t be dis-proven, cults can.
Even if they don’t admit it themselves.
Denial of the Alarum.
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Mike Mellor wrote:
“Maybe “they” would stop using the D-word if “we” stopped using the A-word. Let’s pretend just for a minute that we’re all grown-ups here shall we?”
Having been brought up in Yorkshire where they “say what they think and think what they bloody well say” and now living in “Cockney Land” where an equally forthright political incorrectness rules the day, I don’t think I will be stopping using the “A-word”.
In these areas of the UK, if we think someone is an “Arse” we tell them to their face. ; )
kadaka (KD Knoebel) says:
September 13, 2013 at 6:56 pm
“The entire domain was parked. Why? Where were the mirror sites? Are the servers located only in Boulder, subject to local disruptions? Where are the off-site backups?”
The NSA is changing infrastructure lately. There was a global Google outage; an Amazon outage; several incidents where the NASDAQ went dark in the past weeks. Maybe they’re virtualizing entire sites so that they can switch you over to a Matrix style pretend internet any moment; a kind of “Being John
MalkovichCook” alternate universe.Who still cares for botnets when the American Empire itself is corrupted from the top.
GREAT CARTOON (as usual), JOSH!
Loved Guy-on-the-Left’s hair! LOL, Dana N. obviously forgot to bring a second helmet — again.
On the other hand, could D.N.’s mo-ped go fast enough?….. Hm.
Could be…. Mikey Mann just ran by GOTL in the hallway, racing toward his office to make some last minute changes. WHOOSH!
Josh, you have no idea how close to the money you are! Check this out: http://climaterealityproject.org/
“Put the heat on DENIAL!” Yeah, baby, that’s the ticket!
Climate Deniers, you have been warned….I’m cereal.
Galileo had a difficult time too. Stick with it Anthony and good luck.
Dear Mike – whenever I have tried to have a science-based discussion with an AGW follower, and without using any ad hominum words, regardless of the letter of the alphabet, they resort to using the “D” word. I have asked a newspaper columnist what science he based his beliefs on, seriously asking as I may have missed something and without calling him anything, his answer quickely descended into using the “D” word in describing me. My response to him did not contain the “A” word. Play fair? With who?
Which came first? Like trying to make warmth→CO2 causation run backwards, your suggestion is risible.