From the “Kos kids will be Kos kids” department. Willis points me to this Daily Kos article which is hilarious, because obviously the anonymous coward that wrote it somebody who calls themselves “ClimateDenierRoundup” hasn’t got a clue about how real science works, and thinks the angry old hermit in Mt. Beauty, Australia (Sou/Hotwhopper aka Miriam O’Brien) has already “debunked” what we are going to present. Here is a screencap of the article.
As I wrote to Willis when he notified me of the story:
Strange that this person bemoans lack of degrees, yet takes the word of an angry old hermit that has no training or experience at all in meteorology or climate.I suspect the “ClimateDenierRoundUp” is just another one of Miriam’s fake handles.
What “ClimateDenierRoundup” doesn’t seem to understand, is that anyone who passes the AGU selection committee criteria for sessions can present a paper, talk, or poster about science. They don’t ask for credentials, they are only interested in the arguments being made, how they are presented, and if they have merit. This means that anonymous cowards and angry old hermits can even send a paper in for consideration. Oh, wait, they’d have to use their names, and that is the one firm requirement AGU has for submissions.
Obviously, that’s why you don’t see these rant-o-matic types that shoot from the shadows presenting at science conferences. But, the ranting against us playing by the rules reminds me of what Dr. [Roger] Pielke Jr. said about his treatment at the hands of the paid political slimeballs over at Think Progress:
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Re … against Willis and me … 11/4/2016:
Politically correct public education –– unfettered by standards for skills; science abandoned in favor of environmental endoctrination, e.g., Before the Flood, An Inconvenient Truth; English just an alternative patois for minorities, but now guilt-ridden; vocational skills swapped for unearned self-esteem. Consequently, today, in everyday English, the odds favor the wrong pronoun in conjunctions, i.e., and or or.
Sometimes Willis and I is correct and sometimes Willis and me is, regardless of which actor is named first. Nor does it matter whether it’s something for us going somewhere or something for us to go somewhere, and of course it’s never for we going or for we to go. The preposition for demands its subject. We’re almost back to diagramming sentences.
The rule that needs stating, the one that disappeared from public schools, is simply this: test whether I or me fits. The public seems to have an instinct for getting that right more often than not. So, for x and I and against x and I are as wrong as for I and against I. My coffee mug is always wrong, too, guaranteed. On the side it says HIM OR I.
Environmentalism is a belief system. Students need to be taught, among other things, that science includes no belief systems. And that science, like most jobs in a technological society, rewards command of unambiguous natural language and its embedded logic.
Funny how you have to “hustle funds from readers” when you are supposed to be funded by Big Oil.
My donation funds came out of my gas money, but I live in the Baja, so I don’t know if you can call Pemex “Big Oil”…
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-09-02/pemex-slow-to-lure-oil-majors-to-giant-gulf-field-on-risk-fears
Off topic, but I love your artwork on your site. Very cool!
Thanks @ur momisugly Pop Piasa most of the responses I get on my web site are from Web Designers wanting to re-design my website. I have had some positive feedback. My main focus here though is “Global Warming, – Climate Change”.
Let’s hope that even if it is Hillary, that she will be more open to the views of “skeptics”…
JPP
Me, I’m just glad they’re going. Mayhaps with enough to enjoy a nice meal of an evening.
Did you say “Hillary-ous Rants”? Sou-wee! they both smell the same!