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.
The icing on the cake is the support tweeted in reply by ‘Jeff’. Appearantly, spouting off obscenity-laced, spittle-flecked sentence fragments equates to “calling out” an opponent in the eye of a Leftie. How apropos.
Worry not, though, friends. As his cutesy “painted-hands-forming-a-globe” avatar hints at, he cares so very much about the world. To sample The Office, Jeff believes in a world of tolerance and respect, and if you don’t agree, you can get the hell out.
Fully 70% of Seattle is comprised of ‘Jeffs’. Every day, I dream that I’ve moved away.
That is the funniest aspect of this. The AGW defenders are so totally clueless they do not even realize that they are being mocked for their total lack of consistency and that they themselves are the ones who are ignoring the scientific evidence and beating the drums of hysteria based on synthetic data that is so flawed it is not just wrong but almost 180 degrees out. I have pointed out to some AGW defenders that the real data (actual measurements) are falling out the bottom of the model predicted range of warming to the point that even the high points of the real measured data no longer crosses the lowest bound of the models predictions.
They just shake their head and you can see a “does not compute error” scroll across their face then they jump on some other psudo fact and start beating the drum again as if nothing ever happened.
On Monday, CTV National News broadcast a weather is climate segment, showing various weather events around the country. A possible tornado, heavy rain, forest fires due to summer weather. One woman was interviewed who said essentially “this isn’t Oklahoma, we aren’t supposed to get tornados”.
David Philips (As a senior climatologist for Environment Canada, David Phillips is Canada’s weather guru.) said “This is the new climate”, implying that climate change is causing these weather events. “We aren’t getting new weather, we’re getting more extreme weather” he said.
The term “Global Warming” as been dropped from the leftists news media in Canada and “Climate Change” is declared and repeated often.
I still find it funny when Environment Canada put out a warning earlier this year warning Canadians that we were going to experience some pleasant weather. And it was pleasant. Is pleasant weather a result of global warming / climate change ?
This will backfire on Bill Weir anyway because like me people will look up the “I’m too hot” campaign and see that not only was the free ice cream stunt a disaster in Colorado but also that this Summer has been pretty cool all over the country, lowering public concern about global warming even more than it already is.
philincalifornia,
I have been fascinated for a long time with Festinger’s Seekers. Their belief in a shaman’s assertions is no different from many climate alarmists’ belief in assertions of runaway global warming. In both cases, it is a religion.
In 2003 Michael Crichton spoke in San Francisco. Here is a partial transcript:
I see no real difference between Mrs Keech’s Seekers, and many of the wild-eyed believers in the “carbon” scare. To me, that is very scary, because they have the government supporting their pseudo-science.
“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.”
Gin, I know everybody says that is the definition of ‘insanity’ but here is the actual definition or definitions, according to Merriam Webster anyway. http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/insanity
1: a deranged state of the mind usually occurring as a specific disorder (as schizophrenia)
2: such unsoundness of mind or lack of understanding as prevents one from having the mental capacity required by law to enter into a particular relationship, status, or transaction or as removes one from criminal or civil responsibility
3 a : extreme folly or unreasonableness
b : something utterly foolish or unreasonable
Another cold, rainy Algore day does not disprove AGW but it does prove that God has a sense of humor.
So what’s a ‘CNN’? Never seen it, and in light of the above, will never seek it out.
cue satire
fade in satire:
“Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get.” – Mark Twain
“You can’t have a cold and wet climate without cold and wet weather.” – anon (?)
Fox news could have phrased their tweet better, although if you break down the statement it’s technically not wrong. That day’s weather is part of the aggregation of weather that defines climate. So, viola! Some tiny fraction of the climate for that city was derived in part from that day’s weather. Therefore climate == weather.
See, the way that works in on par with the Kaya identity. Muhahaha! I have them now. I strike a blow for unscientific lay persons everywhere! Now someone fetch me my astrology chart. I need to know whether or not to buy a lottery ticket.
exit satire stage left:
Only denying the need for panic…Willie.
One sure way to know when you are winning the argument is when the other side uses profanity and insults in their rebuttals. Keep our discussion clean, point you finger at them and laugh. It drives them nuts..
I don’t consider Fox news to be an unbiased news outlet. Who can forget this little gem of factual news.
http://thedailyshow.cc.com/videos/mgspsw/war-on-christmas—s–t-s-getting-weird-edition
http://thedailyshow.cc.com/videos/ev6h6r/war-on-christmas—s–t-s-getting-weird-edition—black-santa
I don’t watch the news if I want fiction I’ll read a book.
It’s not climate until climate scientists say it’s climate. Lesser mortals are unable to discern, and have no right to express an opinion on the matter.
IOW, weather ain’t climate until the fat climate lady sings.
Where do they find these prissy, precious little dribbledicks?
elmer said on July 31, 2014 at 11:09 am:
I thought you were from Minnesota. Ah well, it takes a certain type of experience to know what it is.
Spend your miserable snowy icy winters driving nothing but something with a manual transmission, preferably a 4×4 P/U. Nothing more fun than trying to get moving uphill on a slippery slope while you coordinate clutch, brake, and gas with all three feet.
Then have just one tough week of terrible roads while driving a 4×4 with a competent automatic transmission.
Then you’ll know. Someone offers you use of a manual when the roads are bad, you’ll point at it and issue the correct identification, “F*ckstick!”
Re: 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, not buying the B/S. These inbred alarmists will participate in stagecraft to push their alarmist viewpoint, going as far as to cranking the heat up in a building to make it feel hot while they are pushing their diatribe, and yammer to no end anytime there is a storm about globular warming. Pointing out the hypocrisy and childish behavior is not stooping to their level of filth, it is just highlighting it so that it doesn’t pass unnoticed. It’s called accountability.
Anthony placing it here serves as a handy reference should anyone wish to sweep it under the rug as if it never happened.
Regarding anything from CNN (founded by a guy who said that the population of the earth had to reduce by some 86% back in the ’80s, ol’ Captain Courageous ‘isself, who was p.o.’d that he had to put up with so many trespassers…but when you own nearly one third of all the land west of the Pecos, I guess you should expect such things…):
The old saying says it best: No news is good news—so I stopped having anything to do with CNN over two decades ago.
A ragtag bunch who run an on-line rag that makes profit hyping created crises and other hoaxes. They have much to be embarrassed about (this latest childish outburst by one of theirs notwithstanding): The much derided National Enquirer’s reporters not only outed John Edwards’ affair (when CNN and the rest of the very-Left-Leaning Media stood behind him, expressing opinions as fact), they then caught him on camera with his mistress and child, again scooping CNN et al.
Bah.
CNN is to journalism as marxism is to Free Market Economics.
Ah yes, it seems Mr. Weir is experiencing a personal digital disaster. Reminds me of a course I once watched 😉
David Tolleris says:
July 31, 2014 at 11:18 am
“They do not see the difference between a cool day in July and climate…”
When you add up all of today’s weather everywhere, that is the atmospheric climate for today. A distinction between climate and weather would seem to depend on an arbitrary choice of a time scale. We may say the atmospheric climate means all places, and weather relates to a much smaller place. That is a difference of size scale, arguably also arbitrary.
if you don’t have a legitimate argument, then you resort to name calling. the TRUTH hurts, that is apparent in the wieners, er wiers response.
Mr. Weir is a tad testy. I wonder if his grandmothers know about his profanity problem?
Mark W wrote: “There was a poll a number of years ago that asked people if they believed that evolution based on random mutations alone was a proven fact.
Apparently 58% of conservatives answered no.”
If the poll question actually was over whether “evolution (is) based on random mutations alone”, then the correct answer IS no.
There is this little thing called natural selection, and without that essential quasi-deterministic component to SUPPLEMENT random variation, the millions of different intricate, highly perfected adaptations that make up the biosphere would not have evolved.
It wouldn’t surprise me in the slightest to discover that some preening liberal academic would try to show that conservatives are ignorant using a poll question which is itself fatally defective.
Hey folks, lighten up. A sportscaster moving up to CNN anchor isn’t like he was somebody with no accomplishments being elected President or something. After all :
“On May 25, 2011, he was an expert to the game show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire.”
How many of us could have that on our Wikipedia entry, huh? Yeah, really. (I wonder what the topic was.)
I trust the ice cream was prepared and kept frozen using renewable energy.
You are confusing a medical definition with an aphorism:
In modern usage an aphorism is generally understood to be a concise statement containing a subjective truth or observation cleverly and pithily written.
The common usage of the aphorism about insanity is because it quickly and humorously comments on irrational behavior.