A WUWT reader from NCAR sends this but wishes to remain anonymous. I verified the IP address as coming from NCAR. Bold mine.
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Hi Mr. Watts,
I come to your website nearly every day. Working here at NCAR, we rarely ever get to hear the other side of the CAGW argument, so I greatly appreciate your balanced and very informational website. I’m a young scientist and am too afraid to speak out at work, because I fear repercussions. Anyway, I thought you might be interested in reading an announcement for a seminar coming up soon here at NCAR. It came in our “Staff Notes” that everybody here at NCAR receives every day in our inbox. Some of these folks are getting really bitter that they are losing ground in this all-important argument.
Speaker: Thomas E. Downing, CEO of the Global Climate Adaptation Partnership
Date: January 7, 2014
Time: 2:00pm
Place: FL 2 Room 3107
Title: Change-making in the Adaptation Landscape
Abstract:
Action on climate adaptation, a wicked problem, requires navigating a landscape that is only partly known, using wayfinding aids that are problematic at the best of times, in company with often recalcitrant partners. Beginning with this metaphor, Tom Downing traces recent thinking and emerging prospects for climate change adaptation. He draws upon a toolkit that spans theory of change to multi-attribute metrics. Case studies from Africa and Latin America illustrate key principals of practice.
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Here’s the actual announcement from NCAR:
http://www2.ucar.edu/for-staff/daily/calendar/2014-01-07/ral-seminar-series-change-making-adaptation-landscape
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Bob Tisdale says:
December 31, 2013 at 4:32 pm
I bet WUWT gets a lot of visitors from NCAR, ranging from vanity checks to real curiosity.
And occasional checks from Trenberth leaving no rock unturned in his never-ending quest for the Missing Heat.
Eric Worrall says:
December 31, 2013 at 3:10 pm
OMG Anthony it will take a NCAR security wonk about 5 minutes to trace this brave kid – the admission of viewing your site regularly, the use of department assets to contact you, and the content of his email, will be enough.
My day job is software development, so I know what I am talking about.
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A very minor problem, indeed… maybe NCAR has a break room with an array of PCs with which users can access the internet. There are a couple of other scenarios where he might be safe, but if not…
Dear young user at NCAR- keep us up to date on your fate, ok? You might want to contact our gracious host from a home machine and arrange a code/message with him so that future correspondence with you can be verified as authentically from you.. The meme about “Be afraid”- screw that. So what.
Leon Brozyna says: “When a religion, such as AGW, fails to attract adherents and remains well outside the mainstream of a culture’s mores, the few that hold onto the religion become bitter and closed off from society…”
And fantasize about killing children who disbelieve.
I am a former NCAR employee. I have never felt any pressure to conform and was even invited to give a seminar on a contrary subject.
Climatologist says:
December 31, 2013 at 5:44 pm
“I am a former NCAR employee. I have never felt any pressure to conform and was even invited to give a seminar on a contrary subject.”
Doubting the CO2AGW meme is not just some contrary subject; it is the foundation of the UN’s strategy towards a one world government since 1971. Any statist will summon a lynch mob for that.
I have devoted the rest of my life to unwinding the damage done by the globalists and the IPCC. And their useful idiots. I kinda hope the winds keep blowing the sea ice into the Akademic to give these inkblots a good taste of Antarctic medicine.
Wait a minute, now they’re getting really bitter? You mean that we’ve been treated to their normal demeanors?
Oh, that is so sad. They really need to wake up a get a real life. They’re sure gonna have frown lines and sour pusses in their declining (further declining anyway) years. Kid’s are going to afraid of walking past them when they’re wheeled out for some of that future warm air.
I suspect the folks at NCAR, NCDC, etc. are starting to worry. Let’s face it, some of the stuff that has been done is criminal. If the worm turns and they lose political backing, there are certain folks (many of them quite high in the pecking order) that could face prosecution. I can see why they might be closing ranks and not allowing any dissension.
Gunga Din says:
December 31, 2013 at 2:38 pm
“James from Arding says:
December 31, 2013 at 2:29 pm
Dear Young Scientist from NCAR – be afraid, be very afraid – they might catch you with the WUWT ip address in your web browser history!
How can it be that in the “land of the free” people are afraid to speak up for fear of losing their jobs?
Having just recently visited the US and stood in the room where Thomas Jefferson and his associates drew up the Declaration of Independence – I am very sad when I contemplate this state of affairs.
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Yes, it is sad.
PS “Gunga Din” is not my real name.”
I find it very amusing when websites require posters to have a “Facebook identity” or some such thing. (Does Facebook pay them to do that?) Do they not realize that they are prohibiting posts by some of the best informed people? We live in an age of Political Correctness With Teeth that demands discretion.
Heck, Gunga, I have been combing the phone books for your number.
The abstract sounds like an open invitation to play “Bullsh!t Bingo”.
Climate adaptation – that’s is like flying from British Columbia to Hawaii for a bit of RnR in the winter months.
Climate Change – Once there were glaciers in and around Yosemite Valley, we have been told, now these are gone. The rest is just noise.
oMan says: December 31, 2013 at 2:19 pm
“Principals” should be “principles” in the abstract for Downing’s talk.
In the world of English speaking people you are correct. However, in the world of AGW climate science there are thousands of principals but no principles.
. . . Lee says . . (at 7:03 pm) ( . .and ref to Dr. Spencer at 4:24 pm . .)
AAAHHH, Lee, you beat me to it. “Bulls – – t Bingo” is EXACTLY what I thought of when I saw that paragraph. And when seeing Dr. Spencer’s comment about ‘too many buzzwords’ to take seriously, I knew I had to comment . . .
BINGO ! ! ! !
The seminar was about the large solar influence, and that you ignored at your peril.
Here is a link to a picture of the Australian Cardinal of the Church of AGW http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/nsw/its-a-case-of-tim-foolery-as-flannerys-predictions-of-dry-dams-go-unfulfilled/story-e6freuzi-1226297567261
ldd says:
December 31, 2013 at 3:07 p
We are truly living in an Orwellian world and that’s what I find more alarming that the so called CAGW claims.”
I think you nailed it. Our government is no longer in touch with reality. The new reality is whatever government says it is. So 2+2 =5 because government says so. Sadly the voters of this country don’t have the mental horsepower to tell the difference.
Janice Moore says:
December 31, 2013 at 3:13 pm
Janice,
Bless You, Sweet Pea! I needed that historical perspective…. and the the upbeat ELO tour of aero and astrospace history! That made my heart beat quick with pride! I work in aerospace and have previously worked on several launch-to-orbit programs as well as missiles, fighters, and commercial aircraft. I’m also a shame!ess airport ‘hangar bum’ and am building an experimental airplane in my basement. (If you ask me how I’m going to get it out of there, I’ll tell you I’m going to float it out on the boat that I finished down there last year!)
Thank You for reminding me what we worked so hard for, sweet Janice! I raise an old Irish toast to you (and all of the WUWT crew), on this New Years Eve:
May we be 10 minutes in heaven before the devil finds us gone!
(….Ulp, ulp, ulp… aaaahhhhhhhh……};>) )
Happy New Years!
MtK
Since when does adaptation require guidance by use of abstract handbooks of puffery written by insulated academics who only yesterday were sagely agreeing we needed to avoid catastrophe by a suitable die-back, most economically achieved by starvation and mass hypothermia?
Brian H says:
December 31, 2013 at 9:15 pm
Brian H,
+25 years of engineering experience has taught me this:
The volume and extent of high falutin’ frippery in an abstract is inversely proportional to the reality based science embedded in the proposed experiment or presentation thereof.
Stated alternately, “If you can’t beat ’em with brains and brilliant engineering, baffle ’em with bullshit.
Forty years ago I was a programmer for Drs. Stan Barnes at NOAA and Doug Lilly at NCAR for Project SESAME (Severe Environmental Storms and Mesoscale Experiment) in Boulder, Colorado. I remember talking with them about long term trends in the climate, wondering if we were heading into colder climate. It was the early 1970s when some were claiming an imminent ice age. Barnes and Lilly both doubted the hype at that time, and said that scientists aren’t able to predict long term trends (order of decades) any better than short term trends (order of weeks). I presume they are both retired now, and that their younger replacements at NOAA and NCAR are not so open minded and skeptical about group think.
After reading the abstract do you really think anyone will turn up?
Dear Mac the Knight in Shining Armor (I just can’t bear to call you, O Noble Defender of Truth, by the name from that horrid song),
THANK YOU. It is a rare occasion that anyone (watches?) says anything at all — at least they don’t yell at me about them, either — about the videos I post (except poor old John for whom they all seem to auto-play and drive him crazy). Hurrah! I’m glad that someone was as encouraged by that as I was (yeah, I like my own stuff, heh, heh). You work (just a guess, but, good probability … one clue is they are ALWAYS “reorganizing” people out of and into jobs — great for the blood pressure, huh?) for the finest company in the world (imo)! My great-uncle and grandpa worked there, too. Your fine sense of humor, e.g., “the game’s afoot, Watson,” heh, heh, has stood you in good stead, no doubt.
“Sweet pea,” aw go on, Mackie (blush). Really? Thanks (sheepish grin). Here’s to a wonderful 2014 — and the maiden voyage of your new plane! *Clink!* #(:))
Yet another woman you’ve charmed with your smiling Irish eyes,
Janice
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!
M Courtney says:
December 31, 2013 at 4:22 pm
Please stop urging sceptics to out themselves.
Independence of thought will not be encouraged by a few public executions.
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Who is doing the urging? I don’t see a lot of that. But people finding the courage of their convictions – that is what it takes to bring down a tyranny.
Happy new year to everyone.
As time goes by the BS Won’t fly. Happy New Year and I predict more expedition exhibitions of folly.. Mark my word the exhibitions of folly are on an exponetial rise.
“When a political doctrine, like UNFCCC fails to attract adherents and remains well outside the mainstream of a culture’s mores, the few that hold onto the political doctrine become bitter and closed off from society while the more realistic and better grounded of that belief system look to slowly split from the Gro and Al Gore’s political established UNFCCC doctrine.”
Fixed?