Their true colors shine brightly:
This Earth Day, April 22, Earth Day Network and the March for Science are co-organizing a rally and teach-in on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. The day’s program will include speeches and trainings with scientists and civic organizers, musical performances, and a march through the streets of Washington, D.C. The crowd will gather at 8:00am, and the teach-in will begin at 09:00am.
Here’s a photo of AP’s science writer Seth Borenstein doing an interview with, er, Barney. I think. Pretty well sums up Seth’s outlook.
Godwin’s law was proven early, and this sign, pretty well sums up the insanity:
I seem to recall leftists went berserk when the Heartland institute put up a billboard with a similar meme, using the unabomber. But, apparently its OK when they do it.
Ummm….WTF?
More wackyiness:
Wow, just wow.
Seems that the Union of Concerned Scientists has a lot of hate. This is from their Twitter feed, but note they are too timid to put their organization name on any of the posters.
Losers.
Riiiight…you did it for science.
And here’s more….
I’m pretty sure that’s not 500 women:
Note the circle – looks like some of the communist worker signs of the 50’s
Umm, no.
So do environmental taxes.
Fantasy science heros:
Publicity seeking science activist Michael Mann team with Bill Nye the idiot guy:
The pussy hat is a nice touch:
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(NOTE: title was changed at 1:25PM PST to reflect the majority of the content here)
So far it looks like Woodstock, I’m sure there will be plenty of entertainingly silly memes and moments. Readers are invited to share what they find elsewhere.
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Shhhhhhh! Michael Mann is bloviating.
I know! That’s what he does best.
Michael Mann made an appearance to claim credit for his hockey-stick “analysis.” Denounced the “failed” attempts to refute it. Bill Nye made an appearance, too. The musical entertainment is also pathetic.
When does Moldylocks speak?
The Natural Climate Change Deniers and Junk Science supporters should all stop exhaling 2.3lbs of CO2 per person per day and drop dead, in order to reduce their Carbon footprint! LOL!
The “march for science” is mostly emotionalism subverting reason.
Their grasp of political theater exceeds their grip on reality, with 97% certainty.
Real “Science” makes correct predictions. Mann made cLIEmate change has yet to make any skillful predictions.
They predict that if they say the magic words “climate change” in their grant proposals, they’ll get funding. So far those predictions haven’t been falsified, but there’s hope they might be in future.
You have to remember that Feynman saw the same cargo cult behaviour in other realms of science and even science text books. He saw it in the risk management approach for the Challenger. The man spent most of life dealing with this BS.
In my teens as I was choosing my A-levels (Physics, Maths and Further Maths in the end) my mum asked some of the lecturers in Queens University (Belfast) what good books should I read about Physics. She worked in the catering department as a secretary so she got to know all kinds of people. The common answer was to get that book about Feynman that had just come out, Genius by James Gleick.
It’s funny how it wasn’t a text book or papers. It was a book about a good scientist and his approach. The thing that stayed with me was DISREGARD.
The Physics three volume set on Feynman’s physics lectures to a freshman class is also worth reading.
My dad bought the set, and showed me chapter 22, on Algebra. After reading that chapter , I was astonished at how easy he made elementary Algebra, up to the derivation of
Euler’s formula e^(i*pi) + 1 = 0.
I practically cried at the comparison between Feynman’s presentation and that of my high school second year algebra teacher, who made the easy difficult rather than making the difficult easy.
I also read Gleick’s book, and one item I came away with was Bethe’s ability to rapidly calculate in his head, In Los Alamos, the question of the cube root of 2.25 came up, and Bethe quickly gave the approximation “1.34” I wondered how he did that so fast. I figured that what a genius could calculate quickly, I could calculate slowly. I first thought of Newton’s approximation method using derivatives. I tried that in my head, and got bogged down. I then thought of Cauchy’s inequality theorem, realized that (a + delta)(a – delta) is always less than a^2, and got a better method than Bethe used. Multiply 3 numbers fairly close together to get 2.25, take the average, and round down. I saw 2.25 is the square of 1.5, so three numbers would be 1.5 * 1.5 * 1= 2.25 . The average of the three is (1.5 + 1.5+ 1)/3 = 1.33, which will be a little too high, so a good guess for the cube root is 1.32. The actual cube root, using my online calculator is 1.31037 + So the 1.32 I could calculate quickly in my head was a better approximation than that of the great Bethe.
I would have said 2.25^(1/3) = 1.5^(2/3) := 1 + (2/3)*0.5 = 1.33. But, your way worked better in this case.
Off Topic — sorry — but I’m curious about a sliver of news I’ve seen and wanted to know if anyone had first hand accounts. Yesterday, according to about 5 minor news sources, there were blackouts in NY, LA, and SF. Either this has somehow missed making even the local news networks or it was completely fabricated.
There was definitely a major blackout in SF in the financial district. Caused by a substation problem according to PGE.
There was a major power outage in SF, a less serious disruption in NYC and minor outages in and around LA.
http://www.businessinsider.com/hours-long-power-outage-hits-san-franciscos-financial-hub-leaving-thousands-in-the-dark-2017-4
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4433794/NYC-San-Francisco-dual-blackouts-mystery.html
http://travelwirenews.com/totally-surreal-blackouts-hit-la-new-york-and-san-francisco-63633/
I read a couple articles at SFGate, the blame was put on a catastrophic failure of a large circuit breaker. No big whoop. Except maybe that the outage was contained. That was the same cause behind the big northeast blackout in the 1960s.
The NY one had less coverage, apparently it just affected some subway signals and a temporary fix involving a generator got that going again fairly quickly.
Why do you think it warrants concern here?
April 2013 a rifle was used on a CA substation.
It would be of interest if such attacks happened in multiple areas.
Such does not seem to be the case with those mentioned here.
So, the question is legitimate. The answer is no.
rifle attack Calif substation
It did make the NBC nightly news.
I read this morning that it could be space weather. Not sure if this is true?
Media coverage so far is nothing like the reality being seen in these images and speaches.
Zombie apocalypse.
http://assets.amuniversal.com/6d750e60ff590134897f005056a9545d
Agnes is a little girl with an enormous imagination. She lives in a trailer park with her grandmother. Her only friend is a little girl named Trout, who lives next door. Trout is a realist.
https://twitter.com/RennaW/status/855800301256937472
That’s why we know that climate science today is bad science.
What will all these idiots say when this thing collapses?
They will just dive into the next “great cause” and go on like this never happened.
I say that even good Presidents lie about “scince”!
bad presidents lie
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if you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor
read my lips, no new taxes
I did not have sex with that woman
except maybe for washington, who was one of the first presidents of the US, name a president that didn’t lie.
I’ve been reading up on presidential biographies lately. It’s astonishing how history textbooks can make fascinating history seem boring.
Most texts leave out the story of Washington;s first visit to the Senate to discuss a treaty with the creek nation. He occupied the presiding officer’s chair while Senate President John Adams sat at the desk assigned to the Senate’s secretary. Intimidated by Washington’s presence, senators found it difficult to concentrate on the treaty’s provisions as Adams read them aloud. After hearing the contents of several supporting documents, members decided they needed more time. An angry president spoke for the first time during the proceedings: “This defeats every purpose of my being here!” One source says that in a later private conversation with a member of his staff, Washington said, “I’ll be damned if I ever waste my time going there again.”, ,
Although he returned two days later to observe the treaty’s approval, he conducted all further treaty business with the Senate in writing.
As no precedent had been set, Adams thought he ought to keep Washington’s cabinet. He used to get in heated arguments when he would tear off his powdered wig, slam it on the floor, and swear at members of his cabinet.
Sign me up for the “March For Spelling”!
Me to !
Apparently she never heard of the settled science of stomach ulcers and how the lone “denier” was ridiculed and denied funding for the research that overturned the old model.
Obviously meant Climate Seance
Or as Griff puts it, client science.
When you see posters like this, references to a certain 1930’s German and kryptonite you know you are dealing with fools.
These are the same people who will defend Obama’s lies because it was necessary to get the legislation passed.
Well they did limit the speakers to a couple minutes each – the only positive thing I heard.
Last speaker: Christiana Figueres kind of wraps it up as to what this is all about.
Didn’t allow one skeptical scientist to speak. Same old same old…It figures…
“Didn’t allow one skeptical scientist to speak.”
Is that a call to violence?
D’oh. I read “Don’t allow one…” and thought it was said by Figures.
We should have never given these fools the right to vote
That’s what they say about us.
I wonder how many of these people make a living by studying climate change.
Judging by their two leaders, Mann and Nye, evidently none of them.
I find it interesting that GMU’s geology department organized a field trip for this morning…to Shenandoah Valley to look at geological formations and fossils. One professor sent multiple emails about the trip to her students, but never once made reference to the climate march in class or in emails. No clue about the rest.
The biology and college of science list servs were rather silent as well. There may have been a single email about a couple of environmentalist clubs organizing rides, but nothing within the last several days. Not exactly pushing the agenda.
Looks like some people at the university retain some sense…though this post will probably get the lot of them thrown into indoctrination camps.
Whoops. Neglected to say: I suppose some people are still capable of studying past and present climate without succumbing to groupthink and/or becoming zealots.
Some of you may be old enough to remember her 😉
I have a beef with her complaint!
I know who it is!
It is a young Hilary Clinton.
LMAO – she was better lookin back then, eh? Relatively speaking, of course.
Bread and circuses.
You mean bread and sciences.
You’ll also notice how these groups all align together with the communists, socialists, anarchists, terrorists, abortionists and feminists. Such a peaceful bunch, and all want our tax money because their ideas will not stand alone or pass the sniff test.
Eeewwww…….Sniff test. Id rather not sniff that lot thanks.
*Duckhomie 1128 am : I agree with most of your list but not the “abortionists”. While abortion might be messy, it is also defensible.
Ian M
Killing children is never defensible.
…Wow !! These people are simply insane !! They should not be allowed to walk the streets of America unaccompanied !!
Tragically, they were accompanied, by each other.
Nature loves CO2. So much so it sucked up 90% of it. Man to the rescue by burning fossil fuels. When that runs out, we can burn limestone which is where 90% of the CO2 has gone. Personally, I’d be in favor of building regulations that require the use of more concrete.
What we are seeing is the zealots of a new religion. Been happening for thousands of years.
“It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.” Voltaire
The marchers are fools.
Fox News interviewed William Happer a little while ago about the “March for Science” and Happer said CAGW was a religion not science. Leland Vittert, the Fox host seemed a little taken aback by Happer’s bluntness.
I think Happer – maybe it was another non-climate-zombie official, though – was on CNN (up against 3 doomers, of course) and the
boat anchor…anchor… hostbot cut him off in the middle of a response to one of the clowns’ absurdities. Also of course.The problem with democracy is that every idiot has an opinion. Me included. Let them have their hissy fit, and they will think they have accomplished something. Monday will be business as usual…The Dr. Man will be back to lying thru his teeth about climate science.
Simon says turn the science integrity issue on its ear.
Simon says attack the fact checkers of political climate science.
Simon says repeat next week on another political topic.
“I love science so much I take it up the butt ! ”
Classic. Must be about the most convincing argument for AGW I have ever heard.