People send me stuff. Today I got one of the most ridiculous pieces of hate mail, ever, from some fool in Belgium who can’t seem to figure out that what he’s ranting about has already been claimed. On the WUWT contact page it says this, apparently he can’t/won’t read.
So, here is what he sends.
Great way to convince somebody of your position, huh?
100% proven? Apparently he hasn’t seen all the “science is settled” claims made about AGW. Dude, get with the program.
Such a moderate, respectful, convincing letter 🙂
some day it will be 197% proven. (Common Core)
I think that 197% would be over-stressing the conceptual understanding of the key idea (what everybody knows is true), and would necessarily represent an example of needing to return to proper organizing principles such as place value and the laws of arithmetic to structure that idea properly.
Then we would have to ask the student to justify, in a way that is appropriate to the student’s mathematical maturity, why this particular mathematical statement is true or where this mathematical rule comes from.
Just saying 🙂
Roy, yeah – it pays to be sure. 🙂
…give or take how you feel about it at the moment. 😎
“Common core”
Yeah, tried helping a couple of kids having trouble with algebra using the way I was taught in the ’60’s. They picked it up quickly but then said that the teachers wouldn’t let them do it that way as they had to do it by the their books. Just one of the complexities was that they really needed a math dictionary as a supplement. One would think that at this early stage, actually learning quick algebra methods and the uses to which it can be put would be more important than dull put-one-to-sleep definitions. However I guess the perfessors controlling D.C. know best.
I still find Tom Lehrer’s ‘New Math’ extremely funny.
Annie: Thanks!
In Belgium they have a whole range of quite nasty light beers. Perhaps that’s his problem
The question is, mister, what are you going to do when you discover nuance?
Most “skeptics” accept that the GHE is enhanced by GHG emissions (it’s pretty obvious). The questions are by how much, what the climatic response is, and what the ecological effects might be.
We’re faced with “people” claiming a 1% increase in GHE results in a 10% increase in temperature gain from the GHE. Not impossible, but we need some evidence in order to accept it as even possible let alone likely. None has been provided. Kinda like sasquatch.
We’re also told that the living world is unable to adapt to a three degree increase in average temperature when many biomes have daily and/or annual variation an order of magnitude greater. Again, not impossible, but some evidence would go a long way toward acceptance. None has been provided. Kinda like the lock ness monster.
ie: ‘Believe you heathen in our boogie man and pay your tithes or else!’
Ummmm… I think there might be a smidgen more evidence for Sasquatch, John ;o)
The problem with this type of comment is that you can’t tell if someone is trolling or just stupid…
It’s the troll undecidability theorem.
A variant of the Turing test, perhaps, to find out if you are talking to troll?
Pretty obvious in this case. The trolls have work to do!
One piece of evidence is, did he use his real name? If so, then, the % likelihood of “stupid” goes up significantly.
Anyone who is trolling is stupid by default.
Either way they are stupid.
Stupid is forgivable, the stupid just can’t help themselves.
The real disappointment with people making these sort of comments is some are actually intelligent, but ignorant. Ignorance is a choice that I cannot easily forgive.
I spent the weekend reading the first of Dorothy L. Sayers “Sir Peter Whimsey” mysteries — enjoying the wit, sparkling prose, subtle story, and cunning social commentary. Sadly, Ms. Sayers clearly wasted all those hours on honing her craft in the shadow of such writing as that of Mr. Broeckx. Georges Orwell and Will weep for self shame. Peggy Noonan wants to be him.
We are unworthy that he should share such a gift with us.
Ethically Civil? I think perhaps Wickedly Civil! LOL! 🙂
…when it is 100% proven that humans are causing Global Warming…
So he doesn’t think it’s ‘100% proven’ yet? Ask him what he thinks we need to do to get it up to 100%…
Interestingly enough, Mark begins the first sentence of his statement with no less than a string of 3 insults then concludes that first sentence with “But You need to stay respectful” (a kind of 4th insult)
Way to practice what you preach Mark…
Why yesterday?
..”you need to stay respectful”….
Bwahahahahahahahaha
Don’t be too hard, I’m pretty sure this letter came from a potty-mouthed, eight-year old!
No point in insulting eight-year-olds, Dave.
And potties have a vital function to perform.
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I like what Ian Plimer says, “If you want me to believe that our 4% is causing warming, you have to prove to me that the other 96% isn’t” (or something to that effect 🙂 )
nah i think i “know the guy” not sure but it looks like one of those Belgian believers that i did really dry off with this site and a lot of other facts…. oops
if he would have used his forum name then i can be sure but i will leave that open…
Yeah….
But Anthony is OUR awshole.
🙂
…And we ain’t sharing, so there ! na na na na ….
Mark actually spelled it “aswhole” which mostly works, except that Anthony is really whole instead of merely being as whole. And “awfully stupid” might work if we interpreted it as “doing an awful job of being stupid” (since that’s roughly equivalent to “doing a great job of being intelligent”). I can’t think of any way to butcher the definition of “an idiot” to make it fit, though. Sorry, Mark, I tried.
You could try `cretinous coprocephalic.’ That might fit.
This made me laugh, pleased you do not take offence too easily Anthony. He is obviously having a bad day, he has the problem, not you or this website.
Or… what are you going to do when they prove man does have an influence on climate and that influence has prevented us from heading into another ice age? Without the warming caused by man millions of people and animals would have died from the increase in extreme cold weather patterns… What if they prove that? That man’s influence is actually helping to stabilize an otherwise downward global temperature trend that leads us back into an ice age like they were saying would happen back in the 1970s? Since climate models essentially assume a stable climate without man’s influence, and those models predict a much higher rise in global temperature than is actually happening, we assume the climate model simulation of man’s effect is over stated. But maybe the climate model’s assumption of a stable climate without man is the problem. What if those models were to keep the same simulation of man’s warming effect and then were correlated to real measured data by adjusting the assumptions that determine the climate change without man’s influence? That would show a trend of a decreasing global temperature that is being nullified by man’s warming influence and resulting in the overwhelmingly stable climate we have now.
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Russell,
Were you commenting about this guy:
http://82.221.129.208/trumpmugger.jpg
(Click in image to embiggen)
dbstealey Yes or maybe we should keep Obama for 4 more years along with the same EPA.
Very unflattering picture of those tiny hands…. heh
Tiny hands = less likely to steal taxpayer loot! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@Russell,
Please. Anyone would be better than the Manchurian Candidate. Even Bernie Sanders (“My first act as President will be to direct the Agricultural Department to plant the trees that all the free sh!t grows on”.) ☺
WARNING, don’t continue reading unless you want to continue with the childish nature of this OT post:
… and in the photo, what tiny object is he holding in his tiny hands?
Globe’s increase in man-made C02 in the last 20 years: 30%
Globe’s increase in temperature in the last 20 years: 0%.
I rest my case.
Now, now…don’t lie, it was 0.0000000000000000000000021 %..plus or minus 1%
Here’s my full presentation from the recent conference in Vail. It starts with a truck driver getting arrested for smuggling… butter. Why?
Perhaps it has something to do with why the whole world started getting obese and diabetic in 1984. And why these epidemics keep getting worse all the time, with new records broken every year. http://www.dietdoctor.com/the-food-revolution-2016
We all know where True Believers will hide when their CAGW ideology withers and dies;
In Mommy’s basement.
They won’t be there for long unfortunately, only until they can latch on to the next global scare campaign.
Ya know it wasn’t but 50 years ago that we worried about the coming ice age. CAGW has had its turn in the tub. Maybe the true believers rally around the increased release of CO2 and the greening of the planet.
Stranger things ..
Maybe most of the Belgians don’t speak/write perfect English (which one? American, British, Scotish, Irish, Austrlian Canadian, etc.), like French fries (why French and not Belgian, by the way?), chocolate, waffels….and beer. But some are not as idiot as this one. Can you imagine all the efforts needed to “neutralize” such an idiot? And there are many like him around….also in the media and the political world. Some Belgians think, act and fight as you do against the AGW dogma and the stupidity of windfarms…in French, Flemish (actually a Dutch dialect spoken by the majority of Belgians) German, often also in Italian and Spanish….and finally in English. I am one of them, but living in the South of France waiting for climate change that could improve the awfull weather prevailing most of the time in Belgium. And you? in which language(s) are you communicating? How many blogs do you follow and how many posts a day do you send for fighting AGW? Anyway, I love this club, will continue to come on this website… and ask you in advance to forgive my spelling and gramatical mistakes, and also at times my quite esoteric language (a question of translation of my thoughs).
Henri, you did not do that badly with English. If you had not pointed out that you are not a native speaker, the few spelling errors would be not that noticable. (That’s why most word processing programs have spell check).
Hi, Henri Masson,
Glad you are here. Most of us here know only one language well enough to try to comment in it. You deserve our admiration and respect for your fine writing in a non-native language. I like this club, too! 🙂 Sure, there are a few jerks in it (and to some, I am one of them, lololol), but, there are in any club. Just ignore them and you’ll have a great time learning and, often, laughing and enjoying some fine camaraderie.
Keep on commenting — and don’t give your mistakes a second thought. The WUWTers whose opinion matters won’t.
Your American Ally for Truth!
Janice
#(:))
“translation of my thoughs” = priceless (I’m not being critical; I like it.)
How about those Belgian Chocolate covered Belgian Waffles…Can’t forget them YUM YUM YUM
Good point, Henri. Next time someone tries to ridicule your (or anyone else’s) “imperfect” English, ask them to proceed in French, Dutch or German. Cela devrait leur clouer le bec. Je zal ze naar adem zien happen. 😉
Oh dear, Belgian photocopy engineer has too long a lunch break….
Just got off the phone with a friend in Kenya, he asked me to review a project he is working on. In order to get funding he has to use renewable energy. Project is not feasible using renewables. Basically the environmentalist shut off the flow of capital for this project. The people in the area of the project, their lives will not improve ever without capital and cheap, reliable energy. Anyone who denies them this is committing genocide of a people and should be prosecuted for humanitarian crimes.
Mark will have added to the misery of these people while he lives in a comfy socialist country.
jjs, your comment is one of the most powerful I have ever seen on WUWT, so I am repeating it with emphasis:
he should be looking to china for funding, they won’t hold him to ransom-
http://www.out-law.com/en/articles/2015/july/china-steps-up-africa-investments-role-with-launch-of-trust-fund-and-think-tank/
Well the Greenies aren’t going to like this (where’s Obama when they need him):
“USA uses TPP-like trade-court to kill massive Indian solar project”
http://boingboing.net/2016/03/13/usa-uses-tpp-like-trade-court.html
The Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission was on track to deliver deploy 20,000 MW of grid connected solar power by 2022 (“more than the current solar capacity of the world’s top five solar-producing countries combined”) but because India specified that the solar panels for it were to be domestically sourced, the USA sued it in WTO trade court and killed it.
Good one BFL.
That fits very well with the notion that the stupidity of the day (whether Ozone, DDT, or the climate war) has really nothing to do with health or global warming or using clean energy, but is designed merely to serve UN global politics.
“In order to get funding he has to use renewable energy. Project is not feasible using renewables.”
Submit the project with “renewable” energy, take the money, build the project with “non-renewable” power, photoshop windmills into project documentation. Win awards, get lots more funding, repeat. Everybody’s happy.
For the humor-impaired: 🙂 🙂
Oh creativity time. You could have the fuel source shipped as wood pellets from SE USA.
If it’s good for England it must be good for Africa !!!
http://www.pfpi.net/new-report-seeks-securities-and-exchange-commission-investigation-of-misleading-climate-claims-by-biomass-industry-giant
I judge people’s intelligence by whether or not they can see through the AGW scam. Bottom of the class for this one.
I sure his classroom must have a basement.