Josh writes:
One of the phrases alarmists like to use is to “just look out of the window” to see Global Warming aka ‘Climate Change’ happening right now. Presumably when they have looked out of the window these past 18 years they have seen the pause in temperatures – which should ‘change everything’ but I am guessing this might just be a pipe dream. Oh well, here’s hoping.
I’ve never heard of Naomi Klein before. I need to look into what she has been up to a bit more closely.
Lucky we’ve got one of the warmest years on record, so I can finish painting the outside of my windows. In OCTOBER!!
I spent a lot of my summer replacing my main water line to my house due to it bursting from frost due to one of the coldest winters since my house was built in 1967.
You are painting the outside of your windows? Isn’t October actually springtime or some such in Australia where you live?
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Why would you paint your windows?
Whattsa matter? Too cold in August?
Still waiting for that El Nino ‘Super-dee-looper-dee-poofer Special de luxe a-la-NASA & Schimdt?
It is only a “pause” in relation to a given time frame. When do you start your window of measurement and where do you end it? If you start measuring from the MWP, isn’t this technically just part of a general cooling over the past millennium or so? Perhaps we’re just pausing before the next LIA, or even the next major ice advance. A lot of those attending this blog know we are due, if not past due, for major cooling.
Anything Groucho Marx ever said about anything was more intelligent than anything Naomi Klein has said, will say or can say. That’s not ad hominem, that’s fact.
LOL! True, dat.
Jonathan Kay: Naomi Klein’s Garden-of-Eden enviro-utopianism is Book of Genesis meets Das Kapital
http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2014/10/08/jonathan-kay-naomi-kleins-garden-of-eden-enviro-utopianism-is-book-of-genesis-meets-das-kapital/
Jonathan Kay is still very ignorant on the state of climate science:
He was on the CBC National news a few days ago participating in a Climate Panel discussion. The viewer learns that the reason for skepticism is only because we hate regulation. The 97% of all climate scientists meme was displayed. The halt in global warming since 1998 (their words) can demonstrably proven false.
So Jonathan Kay participated in a show full of lies, and he seems fine with it.
He also is the editor of the opinion section of the National Post.
That is the beauty of weather. It is ALWAYS changing. Why just a couple of months ago it hit 90 degrees. Now? We are struggling to hit 60. OMG! The new glacial has started!
My mathamatical formula says Naomi Klein=idiot, but this post is dumb. It provides no instance of NK having said anything about the so called pause. I’m on your side, but if you want to make sense, provide some quotes to support your (Josh’s) argument. With a nutter like Klein it shouldn’t be difficult, but do it anyway.
You say ‘Naomi Klein comprehends the pause?’ I think this poster is a good man..But don’t be evil. Don’t make statements and then hide behind question marks;.
We show stop allowing the kooks and rent seekers like Klein to set the terms of discussion.
One small way to pushback is to start calling their obsession “so-called”. As in, “so-called climate change”. “So-called global warming”. The only change Naomi is afraid of in her intellectual vacuum of a book is a lack of growth in her bank account. Her book is dissembling over wrought drivel. Whatever her motives may be, her actions are no different than that of a deliberate and practiced manipulator.
Yesterday we were fishing Lake Michigan and the Pleasant Prairie Power Plant had a small puffy white cloud, about the size of the plant site, hovering over it for two hours. It appeared to be caused by the cooling towers, the steam from the towers quickly evaporated and became invisible but when the vapor rose to altitude (maybe 2000 feet) it recondensed into a small puffy cloud that hovered in place.
That cloud was absolutely dwarfed by the same type of clouds at the same altitude that hovered over Lake Michigan and were caused by natural evaporation.
What I’m saying is try look at the big picture and not the small puffy man made cloud.
. . . . Naomi O & Naomi K . . . .
. . . . now there are two of them . . . . of them called Naomi who are bizarre unpersuadables having faith in the CAGW mythology.
John
Well, it’s obvious that Climate Changers are just more attuned to the planet than we Skeptic/Realists are. After all, they can feel global warming when they’re flying, and can see it just by looking out the window. Presumably, they can smell it and taste it as well. I envy them their capability.
Excuse me now while I go hug a tree. Maybe I too can acquire them. Hey, I can dream, can’t I?
So MzElectron sits at the bar, snuffling her beer in disarray. When Joe the bartender asks what’s wrong, she glances out the door and croaks, “Why can’t I be more positive?”