From the you have to see this to believe it department. Dr. Ryan Maue brings attention to this ridiculous photo op outside the Florida Governor Rick Scott‘s office by an activist outfit called NextGenClimate.
https://twitter.com/RyanMaue/status/502532521410584577
Here is a magnified view of the picture, you can click it to magnify even more and read some of the words on it.
According to the “about” page, this outfit is another beneficiary of billionaire Tom Steyer’s money to sway climate opinion. With the sort of idiotic talking points seen above, if I was Steyer, I’d ask for my money back.
My reply:
@RyanMaue @NextGenClimate @FLGovScott They rounded up much touted (and debunked) 97% consensus to 98% on that chalkboard! LOL! Desperate.
— Watts Up With That (@wattsupwiththat) August 21, 2014
This whole buffoonish display is over this meeting a couple of day ago:
I like the sciency-looking white coat too – nice touch
I like the look of pride on the guy’s face. Suggests he’d delighted w/ the progress of his book learnin’.
Tomorrow? Goesintas.
I have never met anyone who thinks the earth is only 6,000 years old. They probably exist, but to equate something that stupid with everyone who is skeptical of the global warming doomsday scenario is beyond reprehensible.
Lobbyists selling more ways to spend other people’s money and line their own pockets.
I hope that Steyer spends hundres of million on cons just like this.
It is not uncommon for the wealthy to confuse their net worth with their intellect. This is just a particularly entertaining example.
Does that white coat have extra long sleeves that can be tied in the back?
Bad news for cats.
They are full of hot air. They concentrate on reducing CO2, which should be the least of our worries, since we are going to a colder climate anyway, and CO2 is our frend in maintaining the ecological balance.
http://lenbilen.com/2014/02/22/co2-the-life-giving-gas-not-carbon-pollution-a-limerick-and-explanation/
Now solar hot water heaters is another matters. They are common in Israel at a very modest cost, and they save money for the customers. The Florida climate is ideal for solar heaters for hot water, not only for the swimming pool.
Unfortunately, the ignorance of today’s K12 grads probably don’t know the earth is round, or what the moon is made of, and what a percentage of anything is. Furthermore, the “scientist” in the picture must be one of the useful idiots. Doesn’t look like anyone is to worried about the climate changing in Florida.
Population Growth for Florida:
1910 753,000 42.27%
1920 968,000 28.61%
1930 1,468,000 51.67%
1940 1,897,000 29.25%
1950 2,771,000 46.09%
1960 4,952,000 78.69%
1970 6,789,000 37.11%
1980 9,746,000 43.56%
1990 12,938,000 32.75%
2000 15,982,000 23.53%
2010 19,252,000 20.46%
cats have more than one live! as many as cats!
seawater is rising? sure? heve you heard of tides?
earth is not round…at best grossly…
On that green board I see the words “The Earth is Round”. I used to think it was flat until I discovered it’s actually oblate spheroid, and not round. Smart arses.
Tom Steyer is the California billionaire Obama funder determined to block (dirty, foreign, Canadian oil) via Keystone XL. He made a pile of money from Alberta tar sands and has investments in American owned pipeline competitor for Keystone, Kinder Morgan.
Having just spent more than $250,000 of his own walking around money to buy the rural Whatcom County elections, (usually a $25,000 affair) governors will not be a problem.
“98% of scientists agree”, full stop.
Well then, that settles it. They agree! Reminds me of The Onion newspaper article entitled, “73% of Housewives Agree”.
Of course, we also have the obligatory condescending tone, the requisite mantra that climate change is REAL!!!!!, and a paltry attempt to be hip and “with it” by referencing popular culture.
Well, that and a complete lack of any scientific evidence.
Love the sea level graph; really technical, but understandable.
A real scientist does not wear a lab coat out of the lab; violates PPE guidelines
— a real scientist
Just a bit O/T, but that pic of Gov Rick Scott – are all US politicians now trying to emulate the guru Obama in his cocked-leg sitting position? It plays havoc with the knee(s)!
The good news is that Gov. Scott, while polite, doesn’t appear to have been effected by the climate alarmism they were peddling, based on local (Tampa Bay) media reports.
Does anybody else think that the guy in the lab coat looks like Drew Carey just before he says something satirically funny with a straight face?
Doesn’t that guy in the white lab coat looks strikingly a lot like Curly of the 3 Stooges?
I think he picked up that “lab coat” at a local butcher shop. Of course it could be a painter’s smock, considering the high degree of artwork involved in his presentation.
/snark
I live in Florida. Our local liberal paper ran an op-ed today that now that Gov. Scott has been “educated”, hopefully he’ll see the light and close the coal power plants in the state. The “skeptics are stupid” ploy remains in play.
Didn’t a study just come out and show that the more educated you are in math and science, the less likely you are to believe in the hoax?
lenbilen says:
August 21, 2014 at 1:11 pm
“The Florida climate is ideal for solar heaters for hot water…”
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Indeed they have been using solar hot water heaters for generations in Florida. When I was a child in Miami, in the early 1940’s, we had a solar hot water heater. The hot water tank was at the peak of the roof, disguised as a chimney, so there was natural circulation of the water through the heater portion. My mother said there was still ample hot water at 7am.
@ur momisugly Ringo
Yes, the local paper seemed genuinely disappointed that the Governor did not seem to grasp the immediacy of the situation.
Translation: Scott is smarter than they thought.
A lab coat is the (would-be) emperor’s new clothing.
It’s common in Britain.
RH says: August 21, 2014 at 12:59 pm
“I have never met anyone who thinks the earth is only 6,000 years old.”
First, I do know some who do believe that. Now you might call that ignorant, but they are not killing women and children by increasing food prices, preventing the use of DDT and limiting energy production in the third world. And they are among the people who backed GW in his program to relieve AIDS and reduce Malaria in Africa.
Their particular foible is an amusing artifact, where the Eco-loons are responsible for more deaths than Adolph Hitler.
Regards,
Steamboat Jack (Jon Jewett’s evil twin)