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Being a broadcaster, one of my favorite TV shows ever was WKRP in Cincinnati. Readers may recall some of the highest forms of stereotypical comedy that came from the sales manager, Herb Tarleck, seen at right, who had the schtick of a used car salesman down pat.
So, when I saw this latest headline sales pitch from Joe Romm over at Climate Progress, with the key words “act now” and “super cheap” I couldn’t help but think of Joe Romm channeling Herb Tarleck.
Here’s the pitch (with my embellishment added):
Problem is, Joe is pushing a product few people seem interested in. The latest sales figures show a significant decline.
Pretty soon, Joe won’t even be able to give it away.
As Paul H notes in comments (with apologies to WKRP’s “Big Guy”):
“As God is my witness, I thought CAGW could fly.”
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The schlock stays while class leaves (John Coleman retires from TV).
So then. Who plays Les Nessman doing the Climate Report?
Which English town was flooded? In the 1830s, the town of Dunwich in Suffolk had been inundated by rising sea levels to the extent there were only about 40 inhabitants left. They still, had an MP however. It was known at the time as a Rotten Burrough. This clearly was an early example of man-made global warming aided by excessive horse farting! The latter being a worthy response to the above item.
Careful of trashing Herb Tarleck! He is almost single-handedly responsible for adding “No Problemo” into the American vernacular…
Burrough should, of course read ‘borough’.
Those buyers who bought in early to the act now on this limited time urgent ‘save the earth’ offer advertised in the ‘exaggerationist’ CAGW assessments of the IPCC now have some buyer’s remorse.
The early urgent buyer’s remorse is possibly worse than they might think.
/sarc on
Sorry, early urgent buyers of the IPCC CAGW promotional get no refunds and all guarantees are void except if you have the pen ultimately highest level of elite greenie status. (If you aren’t on the short list of drinking buddies with people like Holdren or Stern then you aren’t on the special greenie list for refunds and guarantees.)
The IPCC will not be responsible for any legal fees of any early urgent buyers resulting from people suing such buyers for: property confiscation / redistribution; developing nation fatal impoverishment; and developed nation energy poverty deaths.
But WAIT!!! There is good news too. See our next special very urgent limited time offer. That’s right; please look for the IPCC’s next recursive sensationalist promotion coming soon to formally respected science journals near you. Look for Global Cooling (redux & deja vu all over again)
{sorry Yogi}
/sarc off
Well, maybe not all of it is sarcasm.
John
Let it Flood, by J.R.
And when the night is cloudy,
There is still a Watt that shines on me,
Radiate on until tomorrow, let it flood.
I wake up to the sound of mumbo
Mother Jones comes to me
Speaking words of wisdom, let it flood.
Let it flood, let it flood.
(apologies to the animals, erm, crickets)
Cast out your nine’s
and bring out your dead
mighty J. R.’s
gone fracked in the Op-Ed.
The issue with Sandy in New York and Katrina in New Orleans were not that they were unexpectedly large. They were within the realm of climate events that were to be expected and should have been prepared for. The disasters experienced were caused by short term thinking and the refusal to take responsibility.
Much of CAGW alarm is pure hype and can be discounted. On the other hand, the refusal to make the necessary public investments to deal with completely expectable climatic events is unacceptable.
I was the Chief Engineer for WTAO around 1973. That show was so true to life it was scary.
I was struck by the screen-cap showing the ‘hybrid electric trains’ – which I take it refers to some fantastically modern facility that will allow trains to run in a more environmentally-friendly way.
Hmmm….In the 1960s we called them diesel-electrics. Delta or Deltic class, if (UK) memory serves.
As the used car salesman said:
“Let’s get one thing straight. I don’t want your money, I want your respect.”
…Being a broadcaster, one of my favorite TV shows ever was “WKRP in Cincinnati”. ..
Didn’t you ever get “Drop the Dead Donkey” over in USA-land? Or was that too English?
Herb!!!! LOL!
Planet’s got a fever … call Dr. Fever now! 😛
This is a limited time offer… (probably because the world hasn’t warmed in 17 years)
I appreciate the screen capture as you have done above. I always hate to have to go to a site and puff up the traffic count when someone mentions an alarmist site.
Among many, one of the WKRP episodes I remember is when the “big guy” (Gordon Jump) gave over-the phone instructions to a young girl while tornadoes were in the area. The story is based on the outbreak in early April of 1974, I think.
http://ww2.ohiohistory.org/etcetera/exhibits/swio/pages/content/1974_tornado.htm
A friend’s house disintegrated in that event.
But wait, there’s more!! Buy a carbon credit now and get one free!!
Is it around $60 a bottle and promoted on Dr Oz?
Yes it’s BOGO on Carbon Credits.
Don’t wait!
Get yours today.
cn
Act now……and you will receive a free set of steak knives.
So then. Who plays Les Nessman doing the Climate Report?
That’s my favorite one of the whole series.
It would appear that Joe Romm is suffering from end stage climate alarmism: A deterioration in cognitive skills.
Joe Romm also played a role in the Showtime series “Years of Living Dangerously.” I watched the first episode. Essentially it builds on a few actual facts, e.g., droughts in East Texas and Northern Syria, forest destruction in Sumatra, but repeatedly overstates, misstates and omits facts, For example, a quick look at GISSTemp data for small towns near Lubbock do not indicate any warming. Grain production around the world is going up, regardless of what the NASA “expert” tells Harrison Ford. What struck me was the close tracking of the movie script with the SPM WGII narrative. Coincidence?
It’s our 20th Annual Act Now Or We Will All Die Tomorrow Sale! Special Discounts for Mayans!
Harry Passfield says:
Agree the ref to ‘hybrid electric trains’ was confused. Re diesel-electrics: almost every “diesel” you ever see on a modern railway is actually a diesel-electric: the diesel engine generates power that drives electric motors on the locomotive’s axles. Alternatives such as diesel-hydraulic or diesel-mechanical have almost fallen into history due to their inefficiency or impracticality. I think you are remembering something called an “electro-diesel”, which was a standard electric loco with a diesel backup for when it had to run without the electric wires. They were rare (locos E6001-E6006 were AFAIK the only ones running in Britain in 1964). Deltic wasn’t one of them, it was a first-generation ordinary diesel-electric. But the “Westerns” were a prominent diesel-hydraulic.
I too was intrigued by the hybrid-train teaser, so I made the mistake of reading the story. As usual the lead was not only buried, it was the last line of penultimate graf:
“but trains are not always full, so the emissions per passenger can quickly rise. And most calculations don’t include the emission costs of actually constructing rail lines.”
Trains are never full, and any calculation that doesn’t include such “emission costs” have no application to the real world. In other words, another incredibly inefficient use of taxpayer dollars brought to you by CAGW hysteria.