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:
According to Tom Steyer, none of us peons are sophisticated enough to understand…
Tom Steyer’s quote:
http://hotair.com/archives/2014/08/16/billionaire-climate-activist-wants-to-educate-all-of-you-stupid-unsophisticated-hicks/
The missed a colon …
98% of scientists agree: There is more to chemistry than Breaking Bad.
There. Fixed that for ya …
NextGenClimate is funded by the philanthropist and hedge fund billionaire Tom Steyer. So I did a little checking. He is founder of the global investment firm called Farallon Capital Management, LLC based in California. At this point I’m interested in what this outfit invests in. I looked alphabetically at the holding and this is from just the first 2 pages.
Ashland Inc.
This outfit produces fracturing fluids, drilling fluids, etc for the BIG OIL industry. According to research from the University of Massachusetts (“Toxic 100“), Ashland are the 43rd TOP POLLUTER in the United States in 2013.
Cleco Power LLC is an electricity producer in Louisiana. On their about us page they say “We use multiple generating sources and multiple fuels to serve our customers.” They operate 5 power generating plants.
I also see EP ENERGY CORP and other companies on page 2 but I have no time to check, things to do. The Grantham Institute UK is also funded by a hedge fund manager. He too invests is very BIG OIL companies and likes to fight climate change and the causes of climate change. Peace and out.
Lower right hand corner:
Bromine?
Barium?
Whaaaa…?
rogerknights says:
August 21, 2014 at 2:04 pm
Harry Passfield says:
August 21, 2014 at 1:34 pm
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)!
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It’s common in Britain.
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Essentially de riguer in the US.
The irony here is the BBC article where “scientists” are finally having to acknowledge the fact that “global” temperatures have not risen since 1998 and may not for another decade (if at all). No worries- they will blame humans somehow- global warming/ cooling – whatever.
Jimbo says:
August 21, 2014 at 2:18 pm
http://freebeacon.com/issues/tom-steyer-remains-invested-in-fossil-fuels-despite-divestment-pledge/
Steyer rates about a 0.80 on the Gore Hypocrisy Scale.
pimf: de rigueur
Oh,
Breaking Bad–Br/Ba.
Profound stuff, that.
The Chalk Board is missing a few Caveats:
The Earth is round(ish) (Oblate with a Tidal Bulge)
Seawater is Salty & Rising (and has risen over 120′ since the end of the last Ice Age)
Climate Change is Real (the climate is never Stagnant and therefore is ever changing)
98% (formerly 97% then 97.4%) of Scientists agree (according to 79 of over 11000 published papers surveyed)
The 97% (or sometimes 98%) claim is the one that every alarmist cites, every time. They apparently feel is a compelling argument to prove their claim of climate catastrophe. It is also a claim that has been debunked probably more than any other CAGW claim.
Does anyone have a link to a list of the better debunkings of the 97%/98% claims? Links to articles in journals and magazines would probably be best.
Thanks.
is it just me or does he guy at the chalkboard looks a little bit like Lew with a shave?
Is anyone else damn tired of being insulted by these losers?
If we are going to be picky:
The earth isn’t round it’s an oblate spheroid with tidal variations.
It doesn’t just spin it wobbles as well
We only have definitive physical samples from a small portion of the moons surface
More salty oceans, not convinced….http://www.pages-igbp.org/download/docs/newsletter/2008-1/Special_Section/Science_Highlights/Schmidt_2008-1(23-25).pdf
Climate change is real, well yes it’s in the nature of climate to continually change. Do you understand it well enough to make valid predictions?
98% of what discipline of scientists agree on what precisely?
You don’t know that about the cats….
At least the Governor didn’t look overly impressed.
Cheers
Roger
http://www.thedemiseofchristchurch.com
White coats are only worn in the lab where chemicals are being splattered about. Why would a climate scientists reading computer models need a white coat??? The only reasonable answer is for the same reason advertisers dress up a talking heads in a white coat. They are evoking stereotypes so they can increase their revenues by pushing toothpaste or other sundries they want you to buy!
old engineer:
I was born in Florida, just after the last ice age. For the first 14 years of my life, we continued to visit my grandparents in Clearwater. One of the remarkable things was the gradual disappearance of solar water heaters there, as electricity, gas, and that nuclear thingy proved, well, predictable. Today, solar can’t touch the increased demand since, well, my last tepid shower.
FYI this same liberal pressure group is running ads on behalf of Scott’s opponent saying Scott is in league with polluters. Scott shot back, noting that his opponent, former Gov. Crist, uses a campaign plane actually paid for by polluters. So this group has no credibility.
And its attempt at chalkboard ridicule is pathetic.
Harry Passfield says:
August 21, 2014 at 1:34 pm
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)!
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Could it be they are Cockney?
Sorry, couldn’t resist.
Relative to solar water heaters in Florida, I had one on my Florida swimming pool, and it was a nearly total bust. Got the water too hot in the Summer, so we had to turn it off by June, but would not get the water hot enough to swim in the cooler months. Cost the previous owner over $5000 and produced nothing of value. But I got a lot of street credit because I was green.
The Earth is round and more than6000 years old? Well, I never … !
I have. They don’t believe in plate tectonics, naturally, nor evolution, nor the Big Bang and while I’ve only met a few, they unfortunately all were skeptics.
But I’ve only met a few.
Didn’t Tom Steyer say skeptics aren’t really sophisticated? This shows what they think of their target audience — dufus’ who believe they are smarter than everyone else.
Rick Scott survived verbal torture!
Thanks for the cartoon, Dr. Maue.