You know of the “Gore effect“, Wikiepedia describes it as “…an informal and satirical term which alleges a causal relationship between unseasonable cold weather phenomena and global warming activism”, so it was appropriate to apply to the situation where the Gore’s Climate Reality Project group tried a political ploys that looked stupid: “I’m Too Hot” trucks and offers of free ice cream to this week’s Environmental Protection Agency hearings on power-plant emissions…when it was 58 degrees and raining. Obviously, CNN’s Bill Weir doesn’t understand satire, much less how to be a professional journalist.
From Mediaite:
It’s safe to say CNN anchor Bill Weir is not a fan of climate change deniers.
On Thursday, the Twitter account for Fox Nation, a blog run by Fox News, tweeted a link to a post headlined, “Climate Doesn’t Cooperate With Al Gore’s Group’s Visit to Denver EPA Hearings.”
The story, aggregated from the Washington Times, relates to a Denver visit by former Vice President Al Gore‘s “Climate Reality Project” for EPA hearings on power plant emissions.
The group showed up to hand out ice cream even though it was 58 degrees.
Weir retweeted the link, with his own comment: “Weather is not climate, you willfully ignorant fucksticks.”
[ Twitter: https://twitter.com/BillWeirCNN/status/494670062092296192 ]
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One wonders why he didn’t say same the same thing about Gore and his ice-cream trucks to treat the “I’m too hot” weather that never materialized. Oh, yeah, bias.
This is probably the best reason ever to tune out CNN, when they hire emotional children like this instead of journalistic professionals, it’s pretty much pointless to watch any longer.
After what I experienced recently, I’m beginning to think that most climate alarmists are nothing more than emotional children disguising themselves as professionals.
UPDATE: I posted this short message, twice. It was deleted both times, but the second time I saved a screen cap. Apparently Bill Weir has an ego that is easily bruised, or there’s somebody at CNN running interference.
You can look here as see that it is now missing.
[ Twitter: https://twitter.com/BillWeirCNN/status/494670062092296192 ]
Class act, guys. No bias there at CNN.
CNN 627,000
MSNBC 726,000
Kinda say says it all, doesn’t it?
Have to agree with Paul about how explicit one needs to be to make a valid point. I would like to be able to refer my students to WUWT without risking blowback from some irate parent who doesn’t like her elementary student exposed to R-rated content.
Per:
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=twit
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twit :
The kind of person that makes a retarded chimp look smart. They often can be found leaving definitions for their own name or the names of their friends on urbandictionary.com
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twit :
A moron with absolutely no sense.
See also Paris Hilton
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Twit :
According to Oxford Student’s Dictionary: a foolish person
You twit
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Twit :
a pregnant goldfish
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I threw in that last one for the trivia buffs 🙂
Sorry David Tolleris…. BSNBC wasn’t able to comment. They were busy slamming the Jews and reflecting on the crazy Tea Party and bible thumpers……. Have a bowl of Progressive Soup and Chill…………….
“After what I experienced recently, I’m beginning to think that most climate alarmists are nothing more than emotional children disguising themselves as professionals.”
Agreed Anthony. I came to a similar conclusion a few years ago and nowadays refer to it as “arrested puberty”. When arrested puberty becomes permanent you get juvenile delinquents. This pretty much explains everything. And not just what we are seeing about climate change, it infects everything.
Paul says:
July 31, 2014 at 11:23 am
Hi Paul,
Part of the problem is that all too much of this kind of bad behavior has been ignored and in doing so there is a silent consent to it. What needs to be done is that the bad behavior be highlighted and denounced as unacceptable thereby creating the opportunity for learning and growth. I agree that some people won’t learn because they do not wish to but by putting the lesson in the spotlight others may learn about what is acceptable behavior.
my 2 cents,
Joe
Show of hands – how many of us would be fired for making that kind of obscene and politically charged comment using their professional credentials (@BillWeirCNN)?
And journalists are supposed to strive to be unbiased.
These people start as angry young men and fail to learn anything from life. They often expect others to bow to their 10, 20, 30 years of knowledge and experience but the reality is that both the knowledge and experience they have is usually just one years worth the is now 10, 20 or 30 years old.
The idiot from CNN had a song written about his lack of emotional stability. It is by Billy Joel.
“There’s a place in the world for the angry young man
With his working class ties and his radical plans
He refuses to bend, he refuses to crawl,
He’s always at home with his back to the wall.
And he’s proud of his scars and the battles he’s lost,
He struggles and bleeds as he hangs on the cross-
And he likes to be known as the angry young man.
Give a moment or two to the angry young man,
With his foot in his mouth and his heart in his hand.
He’s been stabbed in the back, he’s been misunderstood,
It’s a comfort to know his intentions are good.
He sits in a room with a lock on the door,
With his maps and his medals laid out on the floor
And he likes to be known as the angry young man.
I believe I’ve passed the age of consciousness & righteous rage
I found that just surviving was a noble fight.
I once believed in causes too, I had my pointless point of view,
Life went on no matter who was wrong or right, ohhhhh
And there’s always a place for the angry young man,
With his fist in the air and his head in the sand.
And he’s never been able to learn from mistakes,
He can’t understand why his heart always breaks.
His honor is pure and his courage as well,
He’s fair and he’s true and he’s boring as hell!
And he’ll go to the grave as an angry old man.
Whoa, and there’s always a place for the angry young man
With his working class ties and his radical plans
He refuses to bend, he refuses to crawl,
He’s always at home with his back to the wall.
And he’s proud of his scars and the battles he’s lost,
He struggles and bleeds ‘til he hangs on the cross
And he likes to be known as the angry young man.”
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“Head in the sand”, “never been able to learn from mistakes”, “boring as hell”
Yep!
I am sorry to have to break this to you, but CNN is not a news network, it is a state run propaganda channel. White-house, Pentagon and other government agencies use CNN to get their PR/info/disinfo out to the public. Come on, I live in sweden and understand this!
If I didn’t know better, then I would say that the ‘Gore effect’ is increasing in magnitude. Thus we are all doomed to spend the rest of our days shivering in our cold homes with the stains of the wet melted ice cream bars still fresh on our clothing, while we wait for the food supply to slowly run out
Begs the question — Is there such a thing as an enlightened f*ckstick?
There was a day not too long ago that use of language of that type from a person working at and identifying with an American company would, at the very least, lead to a long discussion with HR. There are some things you hate to see change.
David Tolleris,
Where can I find someone making the comment that one cold day proves AGW is wrong?
You’re no better than Weir.
You both leaped with the alarmist’s straw man nonsense that mendaciously morphs every mention of a cold day by skeptics into an assertion never made.
Worse yet you then ginned up some motivation to attach to what was never claimed.
Hypocrisy is the elephant in the room because alarmists have been attributing every weather event as evidence of climate change.
Skeptics, in pointing out some cold Gore day oythjr any other observation, are simply mocking the alarmist loons. They are NOT literally asserting, implying, suggesting or concluding that it is “proof” of anything.
Now why don’t you go apply your Weirology to something real.
I don’t think I made my point very well earlier.
The Warmists believe that the Global average temperature right now is the Climate. They also believe that temperatures correlate very closely over the entire globe, so that if it is a little warmer here today it is a little warmer everywhere. That is the foundation of their whole theory.
In other words they believe weather is climate. Skeptics though are not allowed to make that claim.
The analogy is exactly like Blacks claiming that they can’t be racists, only whites can be racists.
Speaking of turning ugly, I see that 2 of the recent pings which seem to lead to a break in my wireless connection have come from Colorado State University. I wonder who might be pinging me from there, 128.9.168.98 and 129.82.138.44.
Beginning to wonder if the famed “Hockey Stick” has anything to do with Weirs “F@ur momisugly#kstick” , so much for unvarnished unbiased truth in journalism….. Glad you have a healthy sense of humor Anthony, ” look down” ba ha ha ha ha……
Gin@joltmail.net says:
July 31, 2014 at 11:11 am
“Definition of insanity: Doing (or claiming?) the same thing over and over, expecting a different result.”
Doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results, that’s stupidity. Insanity is holding two opposing ideas in your head at the same time, believing in both at the same time. Like “Global Warming causes warming. Global Warming causes cooling.” or “Global Warming causes flooding. Global Warming causes drought.”
John Slayton: I’m sure I’d be concerned about parents’ objections to language seen by their kids on WUWT. It might be a good opportunity to teach both that intentions are more important than the choice of words used to communicate them, and that the use of socially acceptable vocabulary to injure others is as unacceptable as the words they don’t want their kids repeating in loud voices while waiting in a supermarket checkout line. Similar language is ubiquitous, and I know many parents’ concerns are based more on their fear that others will assume the kid learned the terminology from Mom or Dad than on the kid’s familiarity with the words.
Never have so many pompous know-it-alls had such acute cognitive dissonance thrust upon them by the scientific facts. I can actually understand their anger at now having to somehow avoid becoming laughing stocks in public.
From Wikipedia (I think this is OK. I don’t think Connolly’s got to it yet):
“An early version of cognitive dissonance theory appeared in Leon Festinger’s 1956 book, When Prophecy Fails. This book gives an account of the deepening of cult members’ faith following the failure of a cult’s prophecy that a UFO landing was imminent. The believers met at a pre-determined place and time, believing they alone would survive the Earth’s destruction. The appointed time came and passed without incident. They faced acute cognitive dissonance: had they been the victim of a hoax? Had they donated their worldly possessions in vain? Most members chose to believe something less dissonant to resolve reality not meeting their expectations: they believed that the aliens had given Earth a second chance, and the group was now empowered to spread the word that earth-spoiling must stop. The group dramatically increased their proselytism despite the failed prophecy”
Björn from Sweden says:
July 31, 2014 at 12:46 pm
I am sorry to have to break this to you, but CNN is not a news network, it is a state run propaganda channel. White-house, Pentagon and other government agencies use CNN to get their PR/info/disinfo out to the public. Come on, I live in sweden and understand this!
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But ONLY if the Government is control by leftists… it’s a mostly a DNC news channel.
Reblogged this on Public Secrets and commented:
My goodness, but these climate cultists are sensitive types. I guess that’s what happens when all the empirical evidence turns against your preferred truth.
Paul says:
July 31, 2014 at 11:23 am
“Anthony,
With all due respect, I don’t think it’s very professional to re-post this kind of stuff. Please just ignore it. Otherwise you risk sinking to junior high levels yourself.”
Sorry Paul. If you haven’t noticed, we are in the middle of an all out assault on our freedoms and liberties by extreme left, wing progressives, who are using climate change for political purposes. Now is not the time to play nice – they certainly aren’t!
Also, for those here who opine that “weather is not climate” – do you want links to all of the online articles from CAGW extremists (like Al Gore) conflating weather with climate change??? Can you say Katrina?
…it’s almost like they want to be stupid
reminds me of the time a nephew said his first cuss word
David Tolleris sorry once the warmest jumped on ever extreme but not usual weather event has ‘proof’ of AGW , because reality failed to play its part in the cause , they give any up chance of pulling the weather is not climate trick.
Oddly the 30 year claim, is no more scientifically valid than 29 or 31 years is just a nice round number which by lucky chance gives them many years it which to claim ‘if not now it will in the future ‘ and is the length most them will have serious careers in the area . They my be no good at science but no one can bet them when its comes to ‘luck’
goldminor said on July 31, 2014 at 12:58 pm:
Did “whois” in terminal for first one, got among other things:
It’s part of a 128.9.x.x block assigned to “USC/Information Sciences Institute”.
Pasting the other one into the address reveals it is also of a similar block, but assigned to CSU (CSUNET).
http://whois.arin.net/rest/nets;q=129.82.138.44?showDetails=true&showARIN=false&ext=netref2
I’d try the CSU Tech contact info at the second link, I would think they’d be receptive to keeping their systems from aggravating the townies.