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:
![IMG_20131209_162335[1]](http://wattsupwiththat.files.wordpress.com/2013/12/img_20131209_1623351.jpg?quality=83)
It took me three weeks, but I persevered.
First, my video gear case and tripod:
![IMG_20131209_122932[1]](http://wattsupwiththat.files.wordpress.com/2013/12/img_20131209_1229321.jpg?quality=83)
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:
![IMG_20131209_122143[1]](http://wattsupwiththat.files.wordpress.com/2013/12/img_20131209_1221431.jpg?quality=83)
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:
![IMG_20131209_122342[1]](http://wattsupwiththat.files.wordpress.com/2013/12/img_20131209_1223421.jpg?quality=83)
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.
![IMG_20131209_122711[1]](http://wattsupwiththat.files.wordpress.com/2013/12/img_20131209_1227111.jpg?quality=83)
Apparently they need sign ups.
![IMG_20131209_130857[1]](http://wattsupwiththat.files.wordpress.com/2013/12/img_20131209_1308571.jpg?quality=83)
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:
![IMG_20131209_131005[1]](http://wattsupwiththat.files.wordpress.com/2013/12/img_20131209_1310051.jpg?quality=83)
![IMG_20131209_151710[1]](http://wattsupwiththat.files.wordpress.com/2013/12/img_20131209_1517101.jpg?quality=83)
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.
![IMG_20131209_131350[1]](http://wattsupwiththat.files.wordpress.com/2013/12/img_20131209_1313501.jpg?quality=83)
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.
![IMG_20131209_145107[1]](http://wattsupwiththat.files.wordpress.com/2013/12/img_20131209_1451071.jpg?quality=83)
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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Just re-read yours at 4:54pm, Mario. I misread the “owner of …site” part. Forgive me for telling you what you had already figured out. Heh, I was just about to correct my mistake about the time of your post (actually at 4:52pm), but, I’m leaving it in. Now, given that my family are BIG Chevy fans, where do you suppose that number came from, heh, heh.
@ur momisugly Anthony, first thanks for the preview looking forward to the rest of the week. I noticed your Press Card had a distinct “red” addition at the bottom of it, that might have added to the dirty looks , anyway and @ur momisugly Andre van Delft , me too, but I left in 1971.
Janice: 454 Chevy big block of course. By the end of my annoying re tries to post, I realized there was a reason behind your hyphons replacing letters on Anthony. At first for a split second I thought it was for the same reason people leave the “o” out of G-d… but then I thought – no – it for the M-d’s 🙂
Sorry for the nonsense… Thanks for looking out for me Janice.
PS – I am a an anomaly when it comes to race cars that I like “to drive on track”. Some people say, “I’m a Ford man” Or I’m and all wheel drive guy” Or – “I’m a front wheel drive guy” – or “BMW is the only car for me” When asked, my answer is always “I like the car I’m driving right now.” My friend’s 500plus hp awd EVO that I ran in one of the Global Time Attack series was my favorite car, then it was a 430 Ferrari Scuderia, then it was a Ferrari 458 Challenge car (that’s the factory race Z06’s, and late model vettes, and then the track prepped M3’s, or fully race prepped Integra, and right now I am missing my 390hp Miata with race suspension… But – now we can both agree, the last car I drove on track was the tube framed “2012” Camaro from Life’s Good Racing…
MODS – I am an air head tonight. I just did it again! Last time I promise.
@Louise
I know this may sound like I am stating the obvious, but you do know that you are permitted to speak your mind here at WUWT without fear of being banned/modded for it(within reason)?
Many of us here, scientist and layman alike, are not even allowed to discuss science at sites like SkS, Tamino, RC, ect, much less verbally attack them.
Next time you want to attack anyone here, you might want to consider thanking Anthony for allowing you to get any of your comments through.
ClimateForAll says:
December 10, 2013 at 9:21 pm
@Louise
+++++++++++
Bingo! Thank you for letting the troll know she should / could speak her mind. Please Louise, speak up. I learn more from reasoned debate then hearing what I agree with. Now your chance to set the record straight.
Heh, Mario — don’t feel bad. I have triggered that moderation “idiot light”, lol, waaay more than you have, I’m sure. Usually it was something like H1tl-er or l1ar. LOL, oh, yes, like observant Jews, I don’t spell out in full my patron saint, A-th-y. (smile — no, I’m not Catholic, just a plain ol’ boring WASP)
Yeah, I’ll bet that Miata was terrific on corners. The 4th gen and 5th gen ‘vettes do mighty fine, though, I think… . 😉
Well, your hail-fellow-well-met, welcoming, attitude toward all cars (good ones, that is) is part of your lovely personality which once again shone out above in your kindheartedness toward that vile little serpent, Louise (yup, that’s how I feel about her until she says she’s sorry — you’ll be in a much finer mansion in heaven than I, no doubt!).
You go, (and on the track GO!), Mario Lento!
Janice
Richard Alley was one of three or four bigshot AGU concurrent interviewees on NPR Tues. night. Not much exciting was said. The interviewer pushed Alley repeatedly to say what the worst case scenario was for a century or two ahead. (I suspect he’d heard Alley sounding off on these possibilities somewhere.) Alley responded that the tropics might get too hot for human habitation and that the Amazon rain forest, with a little nudge from a heat wave, might convert to a savannah.
The gold standard in climate science – 2007 IPCC AR4 – also deemed “the settled science” and “incontrovertible” has been rendered obsolete by Mother Nature.
Why?
AR4 was all about those rising temperature trends based on various rising CO2 emissions scenarios. There is no dispute about that.
The reality?
In a period of record CO2 emissions in the last 17 years, global average temperature remained flat. AR4 did not even dare consider this scenario of no warming, let alone the possibility of a global cooling scenario, despite rising CO2 emissions.
It means that Mother Nature has cast AR4 into the dustbin of scientific history … exposing the IPCC hypothesis for what it has always been – invalid.
Chip Javert introduces a couple of new concepts for me on December 9, 2013 at 5:37 pm
” … data-free belief.<
: commercial airline CO2 sucks, use private jets.
Re gas sucks ride a bike girl; one barrel of oil contains approx 2000 kWh or 2000 days worth of the energy a bicyclist on a generator bike could produce, in other words, 100 paper Dollars buys you 7 years worth of slave labor; not that bad a deal.
dmacleo says:
December 10, 2013 at 7:03 am
“Ralph Cramden says:
December 9, 2013 at 6:05 pm
Next time, don’t persevere. Your presence is not helpful.
[Reply: Actually, it was very helpful, “Ralph”. ~ mod.]
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if the science is settled why do you need help?”
If the science is settled why do they need a climate shindig at the AGU meeting?