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:
The idiot in the photo shouldn’t be wearing a lab coat.
He should be wearing a clown nose and rainbow wig.
Wow, the body language says it all. I would have loved to be a fly on the wall after they left.
Convert or die http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/501957/VIDEO-Yazidi-men-forced-to-convert-to-Islam-by-Islamic-State
Oops, that was for another religious cult.
The push for conversion of this politician was more peaceful, I have to admit.
But, I’m still waiting for the so far none climate debate to begin.
We don’t need more lectures, we want debate.
So,the Three Stooges have retired to Florida ?( : < ))
A few years ago my ex-wife was backing the car out of the driveway and ran over our cat. I’d told him several times that it was a dangerous place to curl up for a nap, but he listened to my advice no more than did my children.
In any event the cat ran away on sometimes two, sometimes three, legs howling. He came back a few hours later and was treated to an emergency trip to the veterinarian. After several hundred dollars in x-ray’s, mri and other tests, the vet advised that the cat was bruised from head to toe, had used up 8 of his 9 lives, but was otherwise fine, though he would be expected to limp a bit for a few days.
1. Anyone who has a cat knows darn well they have at LEAST 9 lives.
2. This FACT was confirmed by a veterinarian whose job it is to know these things.
3. I was however able to convince both the cat and the children that taking a nap in the driveway was dangerous. My expectation was that my track record would be extended to other areas of life and advice. Sadly, I was mistaken.
These guys really don’t realize how stupid (unscientific) they are.
It sure sounds like a revival bible study meeting. They quote their bible, the IPCC.
(BTW, not saying that evangelicals are stupid)
We here in Florida suggest the Mr. Steyer take his money and his opinions and fold them up so they have sharp edges, then stick them where the sun doesn’t shine. Fortunately Gov. Scott was a successful businessman, so he likely paid no attention.
As a lawyer I have dealt with a lot of PhD scientists. Not all of them have common sense. In some cases, they remind me of the adage “If the only tool you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.”
These guys only have one tool: Funding to promote CAGW.
Now, Gov. Scott, the other side of the story;
http://vimeopro.com/southhouse/theglobalwarmingwar
The password is; 4festival
It is fairly long, but some big names from the skeptical side. Worth watching.
It’s become easy to show that none of those climate scientists know what they’re talking about as regards the impact of human CO2 emissions on climate.
Selectively skeptical, apparently.
jim Steele says:
“Why would a climate scientists reading computer models need a white coat??? ”
Because it’s very dangerous around those models. You can be covered in a shower of toxic shit like you would not believe!
Yes I am tired of being insulted by the liberal loony left. And I am damn tired of k12 kids being insulted by right wingnuts.
I love the one scientist who kept bantering that this could be a business opportunity for Florida. Is that the same mindset (I had to use some word for it) that steered the US out of the recession in 2008. Let’s see, that was 6 years ago, wasn’t it?
I belive the bigger point here is the funding of this activity.
No really, how much did this cost Tom Steyer’s budget in the end?
I would think this a great opportunity for some investigative journalism to find out where his money is actually going. I think we would all be surpised.
I am hoping this cost him at least a couple million….
Where does that line start for this funding anyhow? I might have to convert for an obligatory contract period 🙂
Louis Hooffstetter
August 21, 2014 at 4:06 pm
says:
‘The idiot in the photo shouldn’t be wearing a lab coat.’
I know this will be embarrassing to the guy in the photo but I might as well divulge this. It’s not a lab coat. It’s really just his white shirt. His mother forgot to tuck it in on him before he left the house. She said she wouldn’t make that mistake again it’s just that he wouldn’t sit still while she was tying his shoes.
talk about CAGW craziness – remember when UHI was being denied!
21 Aug: Bloomberg: Tom Randall: If You Can’t Take the Heat, Get Off the Island
Sweaty subway brush-ups, the smell of garbage broth brewing in gutters, and most of all the heat — heat that radiates from everywhere and escapes to nowhere. That’s what New York typically feels like in August…
There’s a name for this particular municipal affront: urban heat islands. Asphalt and buildings absorb and radiate heat, and the lack of greenery means less shade and evaporative cooling. At its worst, New York can register 20 degrees Fahrenheit hotter than nearby rural areas (2.7 degrees hotter on average), according to a new report by nonprofit research group Climate Central.
Climate change is making the problem worse, cranking up the heat in cities even faster than in rural areas, according to the report…
Below are the top 10 most intense summer heat islands…
Click here for an interactive graphic showing detailed results for each city…
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-08-20/if-you-can-t-take-the-heat-get-off-the-island-.html
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)!
Also with other portions of the human anatomy.
This picture may put an end to doctors and scientists wearing white coats.
If I was in the white coat business, I’d lodge a protest.
more soylent green! says:
August 21, 2014 at 3:21 pm
RH says:
August 21, 2014 at 12:59 pm
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.
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.
more soylent green – Do you object to warmists claiming that sceptics do not believing in climate change? Do you think that claim is a straw man argument designed to make sceptics look stupid in an attempt to discredit their arguments so that sceptics will not to be taken seriously?
Claiming that young-Earth creationists don’t believe in plate tectonics is making the same type of wrong argument. The concept that continents move was proposed by a creationist (Antonio Snider) 63 years before Alfred Wegener made that proposal. Plate tectonics are a key component of the creationists’ explanation of world geology. It is the currently proposed cause and timing that creationists don’t accept.
Similarly, creationists believed in an instantaneous beginning for the universe long before the Big Bang theory was proposed to correct for scientific deficiencies of the steady state theory. It is the timing (billions of years versus thousands), the order of events, and the cause (Big Bang doesn’t have one) that young-Earth creationists don’t accept, not the fact of an instantaneous beginning.
By the way, the claim that heat hidden in the deep solves the “pause” problem, is the same type of argument as the claim inflation solves the horizon problem, dark matter solves the flatness problem, and the Oort cloud solves the comet problem, as none of those concepts have been shown to have any physical reality.
Now, back to the subject of the Earth’s climate.
SR
more soylent green! says:
August 21, 2014 at 3:21 pm
RH says:
August 21, 2014 at 12:59 pm
“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.”
“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.”
more soylent green – Do you object to warmists claiming that skeptics do not believing in climate change? Do you think that claim is a straw man argument designed to make skeptics look stupid in an attempt to discredit their arguments so that sceptics will not to be taken seriously?
Claiming that young-Earth creationists don’t believe in plate tectonics is making the same type of wrong argument. The concept that continents move was proposed by a creationist (Antonio Snider) 63 years before Alfred Wegener made that proposal. Plate tectonics are a key component of the creationists’ explanation of world geology. It is the currently proposed cause and timing that creationists don’t accept.
Similarly, creationists believed in an instantaneous beginning for the universe long before the Big Bang theory was proposed to correct for scientific deficiencies of the steady state theory. It is the timing (billions of years versus thousands), the order of events, and the cause (Big Bang doesn’t have one) that young-Earth creationists don’t accept, not the fact of an instantaneous beginning.
By the way, the claim that heat hidden in the deep solves the “pause” problem, is the same type of argument as the claim inflation solves the horizon problem, dark matter solves the flatness problem, and the Oort cloud solves the comet problem, as none of those concepts have been shown to have any physical reality.
Now, back to the subject of the Earth’s climate.
(This is a repeat, modified slightly in an attempt to get through moderation. If this goes through, please delete my prior attempt. If not, delete this post.)
SR
I’m not buying the part about the moon.
When the tourists leave I’m heading up there with a boatload of crackers
RH says:
August 21, 2014 at 12:59 pm
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.
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Yes, they are out there, in fact there are probably more of them than you think. They are generally referred to as young earth creationists. The 6K year figure supposedly comes from adding up the ages of the prophets of the old testament and the list of Jesus’ ancestors in the new testament.
Personally I think that they are reading way too much into things and that everyone who thinks they know how old the Earth is is full of it.
Moderators,
Obviously, I don’t understand what put my reply into moderation. Can you enlighten me?
SR
[There are many more comments dropping into the “moderation queue” the past few days than in columns past. Yours is but one of several hundred. .mod]
i think the “breaking bad ” reference could probably tell the real story . something just doesnt look right with the white jacket and glasses combo. if i were to take a wild guess i would say that guy is probably fresh out of prison , stemming from running a meth lab , covered in biker tattoos
and now somehow trying to go legit by claiming he’s a scientist knowledgeable on climate change . look at the beety eyes . the ill fitting jacket , and the borrowed faux prescription glasses . and that shifty smile . and anyone that can draw “breaking bad ‘ icons and characters as good as that , well im just sayin ..