I get hate mail like this from time to time and I’m pretty certain I know who this one is from to Dr. Roy Spencer as it fits the speech and punctuation pattern of some emails I have received. This one is completely unhinged, but it is worth reviewing just so you can see how a true global warming zealot behaves. It’s the sort of ugly and hateful thinking that gets promoted daily by people like Miriam O’Brien aka “Sou” and the “Hotwhopper” madding crowd whose website exists solely for the purpose of denigration.
I’m with Dr. Spencer and the Washington Post on this. The “climate emergency” promoted by Paul Beckwith is “utter nonsense”, and is the worst “science” of the year
More on the Global Climate Emergency: Email from a “Fan”
July 1st, 2016 by Roy W. Spencer, Ph. D.
I get some hate email from time to time. Actually, not very much. I guess I’m still cruising under the radar.
In response to my post yesterday criticizing Paul Beckwith’s postabout the allegedly unprecedented crossing of the equator by jet stream winds (a post which, after much criticism, he has since modified), I received a heartfelt email (reproduced below) asking me to, ummm, back off on my criticism.
This email I received yesterday is rather disturbing because I fear it reveals the low caliber of scientific knowledge that exists out there. Too many people are too easily fooled by pseudo-scientific ramblings which can go viral and cross the globe in a matter of hours. This cuts both ways in the global warming debate, as frequent readers of my blog know I have banned people on my side of the argument for pushing too hard on what I consider to be bad science (e.g. the claim that there is no such thing as the “greenhouse effect”).
Even Jason Samenow from the Capital Weather Gang posted agreement with me that there is nothing unusual about winds at the jet stream level moving back and forth across the equator. Jason also quotes other PhD-level atmospheric scientists in that article.
So, I’m just going to leave this here…I was tempted to answer many of the points made below, but I think it will be more enjoyable for regulars here to take a shot at it.
What A way to treat a fellow scientist. Who the f**k cares if its man made or not! Paul is getting the word out there to people…what are you doing? I don’t see you doing anything except having a web site that no one even knows about…I’ve never heard of you. Paul Beckwith puts a lot of hard work and time into trying to raise the issue…You however are a disgrace to global scientists! Or do you not agree this is an emergency? This one video finally caught some attention and you have to f**k it up…Idiot! We NEED for this to be news so maybe, just maybe something will be done! This video has gone viral…let it be! You have made up lies about him and tried to discredit him…why would you do that??? Many people have moved to the southern hemisphere to get away from the radiation…because this was NOT supposed to happen. You need to take down what you said from your web site! What is happening is dangerous and people need to know…too many people already do not believe GW is real…they need to prepare! They need to know! Jesus Dude…What’s wrong with you? And let’s not throw stones about Donations…You have your own Donation button!!!! Fix it Please…
And….discuss!
It sounds like the rants we get here on so-called comedy panels late at night.
Incidently, the guy lives in the Western hemisphere. Here in the Eastern one people move to the north for the better life.
This is actually pretty mild. My Linux on the Mainframe series for Linuxworld many years ago drew nearly 3,000 pieces of hate mail including death threats and one, on a major corporate CIO’s personal letterhead, delivered to my home by fed ex. All of them, of course, were devoid of technical argument and all of the opinions expressed by them in support of IBM have since been disproven – but I have yet to see a single apology.
There is a real proclivity, when faced with a perceived problem that you don’t really understand, and don’t have any real means of dealing with, to do ‘something’ – any random act that may or may not even be related to the perceived issue at hand – to ‘raise awareness’. It feeds the need to be proactive. Often these little side-tangents become whole new issues all by themselves – symbols, even of the primary headline-issue.
Watching patterns repeat is scary, sometimes.
https://search.yahoo.com/search;_ylt=AwrSbp3ZsnpXEWQAmOJXNyoA;_ylc=X1MDMjc2NjY3OQRfcgMyBGZyA3lmcC10LXMEZ3ByaWQDYmNPVzhpNTdUVktnMmk3SUJSTmxDQQRuX3JzbHQDMARuX3N1Z2cDMARvcmlnaW4Dc2VhcmNoLnlhaG9vLmNvbQRwb3MDMARwcXN0cgMEcHFzdHJsAwRxc3RybAMyOQRxdWVyeQNhbGR1cyUyMHNub3clMjBkbyUyMHNvbWV0aGluZwR0X3N0bXADMTQ2NzY1OTQ3OA–?p=aldus+snow+do+something&fr2=sb-top-search&fr=yfp-t-s&fp=1
(Sigh) In just a few short years, this person will of voting age. Rather frightening…
I went home to Ireland recently and met a mate that had been in Canada for the past 4 years, he had a meltdown when I disagreed with him on “global warming”, refused to discuss any facts “I cant confirm what you say so I am not discussing it” he kept saying, refused to discuss it yet got so mad that I disagreed.
This is the measure of the average warmunist, clueless and almost religious about the subject, and aggressive towards any challenge to said theology. I was shocked a grown man was that stupid.
If you are going to blow a gasket, make sure it is someone else’s.
“Many people have moved to the southern hemisphere to get away from the radiation”
Say what??????
I was shaking my head over that one too. Of course, one must remember, an emotional rant doesn’t have to make sense.
Maybe we haven’t done enough nuclear tests in the Pacific islands.
Re: MarkW July 5, 2016 at 7:13 am:
“Many people have moved to the southern hemisphere
See this post (NATURALLY RADIOACTIVE SAND ON THE BEACH):
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2016/07/02/saturday-silliness-warmist-blows-a-gasket/comment-page-1/#comment-2251401
I kinda liked it.
Anyone who terminates more than a few sentences with exclamation marks in a single paragraph and punctuates their comments with unnecessary bile is, likely, an emotive, ignorant, unhinged, hyperventilating arm-flapper who should be studiously ignored. People who understand an issue, who grasp facts clearly and in a manner whereby each point is given an appropriate weight in their discussion, have no need of performing this infantile type of “pounding on the floor, screaming and crying” rant.