A photo essay. What follows are a series of photos and comments that catalog my impressions of today.
As you may know, I’m attending the 2013 AGU Fall Meeting. After some hassle a couple of months ago, I was able to finally get a press pass:
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It took me three weeks, but I persevered.
First, my video gear case and tripod:
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During registration while waiting in line, some people recognized “WUWT” and I got a couple of dirty looks.
On my way to my first exhibit hall, I encountered this fellow:
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I suppose his method works just as well as some of the geoengineering ideas to stop climate change being floated here.
This was the first sign I saw walking into Moscone West:
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Sometimes climate scientist Richard Alley and an Open Mic at a Bar? I’d call that an Alley Ooops.
I assume he’ll be studying tipping points with James Hansen there? Maybe there will be dancing too.
Signs are big at this show, so is blogging apparently, though I’ve never heard of any of these.
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Apparently they need sign ups.
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My first session was the Ethics Workshop.
It addressed the lack of ethics in several hypothetical situations. But addressing the lack of people interested in ethical issues of science research might have been a better topic:
WUWT regular John Whitman was there and reports:
I was at this ethics session. The audience was divided into 4 groups. Each group was given Mickey Mouse (in my view) ethicaly hypothetical scenarios to evaluate and present to the other groups. My group had a plagiarism case.
Overall, it did give me the opportunity to see that the audience was not generally subjective in ethics.
If there is another ethics workshop like this one, I would decline attending on the basis that it did not deal with actual critique of ethic controversies in climate science.
Right after the ethics session, I ran into Kevin Trenberth in the hall, but he was too busy to talk, he ran off to the authors prep room to prep for his presentation. No chance for an interview.
Both Hansen and Trenberth are big this year:
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Trenberth gets an award for climate communications? Nobody can explain this and it is a travesty that we can’t.
I hear plain English works best for communicating science.
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This looks like a billboard that you’d see for ambulance chasing attorneys along the highway:
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Some people protest against fossil fuels with their electric fossil fuel powered laptops. Irony impaired I suppose.
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The thing that struck me most was the sheer size of this convention and the number of people attending…and almost everyone of them is doing it on the taxpayer’s dime.
Up next, the descent into poster normal science.
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And sorry Anthony ( this is where WordPress’ lack of edit shows up ) I didn’t mean to suggest any impropriety as I have no idea of the ownership / public land situation here. I just wanted to offer my observation to the issue as it was brought up.
Give ’em hell fella, even your presence must be ruffling feathers and personally I’m all for that.
The problem I always had with riding my bike to work was there was nowhere to shower when I got there. Believe me, you wouldn’t want to share an office with me if I rode 5 miles on a typical Georgia summer day. PU!
Just in time for the AGU conference, and further proof the Gore Effect is alive and well, the Antarctic just sets a new (unofficial) world record low temperature:
-135.8C…. Brrrrrr.
Read ’em and weep.
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/cold-dis-comfort-antarctica-set-record-1358
The money quote for me …
“Trenberth gets an award for climate communications? Nobody can explain this and it is a travesty that we can’t.”
(you may want to fix the “am” in the question).
Samurai,
The record temperature was reported as -135.8F which is -93.2C. Just being a pendant.
It should be called American Rentseekers Union.
Perhaps Anthony can teach them how to speak in proper English instead of metaphors for deception.
The correct scientific language is Carbon Dioxide as in Tax, Carbon Tax is something completely different than what they actually want.
Box of Rocks says:
December 9, 2013 at 6:49 pm
“Ride a bike all week then drive a car to go skiing for one day in the mountains west of Denver….”
Not much riding in Denver over the last week with temps below zero at night & highs in single digits & teens.
… on the other hand I did ride my bike one warm day in the spring from Denver to A-basin to go skiing :)) That’s Colorado living !
Anthony, love the humor ! Looking forward to more …
Mining for primes (for bitcoins)? Not everybody is into that in which case the ‘draw’ by most laptops will be on a par with yours (still an Intel-based CPU and chipset right?)
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Box of Rocks says: ” a bike all week then drive a car to go skiing for one day in the mountains west of Denver….”
Box of Rocks says: “bike all week then drive a car to go skiing for one day in the mountains west of Denver….”
I don’t get your problem. The whole point of biking routinely is to save gasoline, not give it up entirely.
When I was a student (in Oregon; the mts were east not west) we biked all week and rode up with friends to the mts to ski and back, on the weekend like you say.
Using three students biking 2 miles to school and back, thats 6 (days) x 2 (miles to school) x 2 (and back) x 3 (students) = 72 miles of city driving avoided.
The trip up the mountain was about 35 or 40 miles, so 70 or 80 miles total of highway driving.
So the students used half of the gas they would have had they been driving cars. And, in general, we didn’t go up to the mts every week anyway.
But we did use the car to get the beer and groceries…
It’s good you had your priorities in the proper order.
Repent!
Go down the list of what the global warming enthusiasts claim is going to happen in the near future.
Then, go read about the seven bowls of God’s wrath, in Revelation, Ch 16
Diseases from sun exposure, the death of all se life, unbearable heat, rivers drying up, etc.
I trust the author who jotted this down via divine revelation 2,000 years ago versus the God Complex scientists – they are so unoriginal when trying to make up their own apocalypse.
Truthseeker: The record temperature was reported as -135.8F which is -93.2C. Just being a pendant.
Hang in there, Truthseeker. : > )
REPLY: This woman was sitting in a commons area in the basement of Moscone south with a bunch of other people using laptops. This is a public place, no permission needed. Besides, she’s flaunting, she WANTS to be noticed. Besides, she’s already being photographed by the camera in the background.- Anthony
Anthony: I pride myself in being “near Sherlok” when it comes to misc. observations. Thus I went back to see what you meant. THE LOCAL SURVEILANCE CAMERA ALMOST JUMPED OUT AND BIT ME the second time I looked at the Photo. A lesson in “directed observation” (i.e., the directions were to look at the gal and the posting on the PC, DANG I fell for it, and SAW but did not “precieve” the totality of the image. OK, I pledge, in the future…I will be more observant. GOOD CATCH ON YOUR PART! Primo…
Anthony, why don’t you ask Hansen to share a platform calling for more research into next generation nuclear power? You never know – he might accept. That would set the cat among the pigeons!
http://grist.org/news/more-nukes-james-hansen-leads-call-for-safer-nuclear-power-to-save-climate/
Anthony, why don’t you ask Hansen to share a platform with you calling for more regulatory support for the adoption of passive safe nuclear power? It seems to be a big deal to him these days – he might accept. If he does, that will set the cat among the pigeons! 🙂
http://grist.org/news/more-nukes-james-hansen-leads-call-for-safer-nuclear-power-to-save-climate/
In my college days I used the ski lodge to stay out of the cold weather. The undergrads thought that skiing was sexy. After the third hot toddy, I thought their skiing was funny!
Who knew that a blog would replace a proper use for a high intensity spotlight.
Or burning torches, pitchforks and angry peasants.
Now that is eco-friendly.
Thank you for your courage and great reporting.
Donation to follow.
Go Anthony: I look forward to your findings oh great one…!
Ask many people one question.
If there is no warming for years to come when should the global warming theory be terminated?
As long as you are in San Francisco, you might as well walk or ride over to Ghirardelli Square near Fisherman’s Warf and “sequester” some carbon (H8N4C7O2 + C8H11N) fresh from the bubbling chocolate fountain. (^_^)
Pippen Kool says:
December 9, 2013 at 6:27 pm
+++++++++++
As is typical you missed the point. The girl said gas sucks, but then she can not live without it. If gas sucks so badly why not just plug her laptop into her bike and pedal to keep it charged? She’s not using wood chips or natural wood to keep warm unless she’s breaking the law (spare the air day again today prevents that). Why not get the hell out of the developed country which gave her the freedom to loathe the wonders of what have been afforded to her by that miraculous fossil based resource. Do you get it now?
The commute from Broomfield to Downtown Denver is roughly 45 min.
On my bike through Westminster and Arvada it take me 1hr 15 and I have a shower at work.
I take the long way to get the extra miles plus going down hill is fun.
Going home and uphill, well that is another story.
I would not burn any less gas on the weeks I rode a few days to work. I merely moved my miles around.
Personally I find the people like her and a lot of the folks in Boulder to be intellectual frauds.
Look at me – I ride my bike. Just don’t watch blow my savings in gas on other stuff.
Just look at 36 going into Boulder on a given day.
Too many cars because the Boulder has too many jobs. (Gotta luv the tax money though…)
Chris4692 says:
December 9, 2013 at 7:29 pm
But we did use the car to get the beer
It’s good you had your priorities in the proper order.
Ha – I use my pick up truck to get the ingredients to make beer.
At $35.00/ 5gallons and the beer taste better why drive to get beer?
At least Pippen can enjoy beer. Maybe we all just need to sit around, split a case and hash all this fussin’ and a-feudin’ out once and for all, slappin’ each other on the back and all. And just as an observation, Mr. Kool, I had to laugh when I heard you were in Oregon for school (Eugene, I assume?), the very state I ran screaming from at 18. Just goes to prove that it takes all kinds. 🙂
As for Ralph, you taking the time to come on here to grace us with your open-mindedness and scientific curiosity, thank you. You exactly have shown how desperately you want us out and how much just might be hiding around the door. May you wake up with a throbbing hangover and have a vulgar word written across your wrinkly, surely-aging, Pachauri-olied hippie brow.
Box of Rocks:
“It’s good you had your priorities in the proper order.
Ha – I use my pick up truck to get the ingredients to make beer.”
Wow, me too. Have some IPA carbonating right now should be ready for Xmas. I may give up some of my fossil carbon but I’m all for that made with yeast.