From the ‘I’m not a scientist but I play one in Vanity Fair” department comes this ridiculous tweet from writer Kurt Eichenwald.
Via Wikipedia: no mention of climate or weather skill:
Kurt Alexander Eichenwald (born June 28, 1961) is an American journalist who serves as a senior writer with Newsweek, a contributing editor with Vanity Fair and a New York Times bestselling author of four books, one of which, The Informant (2000), was made into a motion picture in 2009. He was formerly a writer and investigative reporter with The New York Times and later with Condé Nast‘s business magazine, Portfolio. Eichenwald had been employed by The New York Times since 1986 and primarily covered Wall Street and corporate topics such as insider trading, accounting scandals, and takeovers, but also wrote about a range of issues including terrorism, the Bill Clinton pardon controversy, Federal health care policy, and sexual predators on the Internet.
Of course, that makes him highly qualified (in Alt-climate world) to say things like this:
Rightfully, since he didn’t show any work, he’s being flamed in replies to that tweet.
Dr Ryan Maue was quick to weigh in:
https://twitter.com/RyanMaue/status/905097503963533312
UPDATE: Eichenwald’s ego explodes:
Then, oh never mind, blame it on Fox news!
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Was it the same “climate change equation” that predicted the 12-year hurricane drought? Oh wait, there wasn’t one. Never mind.
It just gets worse and worse. The tagline of this column is “fighting pseudoscience.” It’s like they think 1984 was an instruction manual.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevensalzberg/2017/09/05/houston-weve-got-a-problem-its-called-global-warming/#664f73681380
They DO think it’s a manual!
Yes, even college kids and high schoolers think 1984 is an instruction manual. They do not in any way understand it was a warning. Worse yet, 1984 has no solution presented, so it’s an instruction manual for a society that becomes eternal and cannot be changed, at least to the thinking of the younger generation and poorly educated.
Sheri: Hollywood has always amazed me in that regard – half-a-century they’ve been adapting and telling these sorts of cautionary tales, and now they’re enacting them.
Jeez! and its only Tuesday!
After a holiday. They need something big to catch your attention on a day like that!
Step up, shout ‘bullshit’, and be prepared to be attacked by those who call you a denier. Sigh. It was bullshit anyway, of course.
LOL! Eichenwald is deleting tweet and going ‘Full On John Podesta’ on twitter with rants!
https://mobile.twitter.com/kurteichenwald
IN THE DEMOCRATIC ECHO CHAMBER, INCONVENIENT TRUTHS ARE RECAST AS PUTIN PLOTS
https://www.google.com/amp/s/static.theintercept.com/amp/in-the-democratic-echo-chamber-inconvenient-truths-are-recast-as-putin-plots.html
MORE INSIDIOUS AND subtle, but even worse, was what Newsweek and its Clinton-adoring writer Kurt Eichenwald did last night. What happened — in reality, in the world of facts — was extremely trivial. One of the emails in the second installment of the WikiLeaks/Podesta archive — posted yesterday — was from Sidney Blumenthal to Podesta. The sole purpose of Blumenthal’s email was to show Podesta one of Eichenwald’s endless series of Clinton-exonerating articles, this one about Benghazi. So in the body of the email to Podesta, Blumenthal simply pasted the link and the full contents of the article. Although the purpose of Eichenwald’s article (like everything he says and does) was to defend Clinton
He seems to misunderstand DACA and healthcare as well.
OK, where will Irma make a landfall, and when?
Sorry , the magic formula only gives intensity and timing to 100% accuracy, I’m still working on track predictions. 😉
The climate change equation can only formulate things that happened already.
A simple linear extrapolation shows that Irma will not need to make landfall — by the end of the week, wind speeds will reach 300 mph, as the storm wall reaches inland simply by expanding. Within another week, wind speeds over 500 mph will scour Gaia’s enemies from North America, followed the week after by the rest of the Earth, which will eventually be torn apart by Irma’s planet-girdling >1200 mph winds sometime next month.
Just had to drive that SUV, huh?
It’s just a question of where Irma happens to be. Winds on Venus gust at 250 mph and 740 K, but Neptune’s winds blow nearly supersonic at 1300 mph and 55 K. The cooling sulphuric clouds on Venus slow Irma down. /sarc
Bang on the SW tip of Florida, Sunday morning.
It will be very very bad.
Then it will rip up the east coast before wandering off into the Atlantic.
The public will be told it’s all about climate change, and enough will believe it to make Trumps position almost untenable.
It will set science back a generation.
Science has already been set back a generation, as has education in general. Perhaps more than one lost generation.
Like with the British Royal Family, some suggest it might now be a good idea to skip a generation.
The stupid, it burns. I’m ok with stupid and even ignorant. What really burns me it the willful and blatant lies. This smuck is not stupid or ignorant. He’s part of the problem that needs to be addressed with lampposts and hemp. Give it time folks. Give it time.
So where is the evidence of his prediction? Did he make it public or just write on the back of an envelop yesterday and bring it out ?
Timing “100%” ? OK let’s see it .
Maybe he would like to share his magic “climate equation” for public inspection. He certainly need to given credit for all this hard work !
On any given day there exists some prophet of doom strutting around with a sign predicting some impending catastrophe, and eventually one will be correct, but this is no rationale for the correctness or prognostication abilities.
How often in the past has this buffoon been incorrect? One correct guess out of many is not a sign of reliable guessing.
“One would expect that a soothsayer would not be able to look another soothsayer in the face without laughing.”
…. and I have invented a way to turn shit into gold. It works 100% of the time when there is a major storm brewing.
Sorry, Greg. He beat you to it!
I read that he used the Clausius-Clapeyron equation to predict the hurricane. Is this possible?
Kurt probably thinks Clausius-Clapeyron was a Roman emperor or a venerial disease.
Or a Roman Emperor witha venereal disease?
Clausius The Clap
Dickus Maximus?
did you mean Coles Maximus ?
That would be David Appell. Kurt is a good writer.
This creep looks like a psychopath. A cold menacing stare like he’s about to pull someone’s fingernails out very slowly and enjoy every minute of it.
Oddly enough, if you can track down the thread on Twitter where he brings up tentacle p0rn (while talking to his ‘adult son’, lol) you will be amused for hours reading the massive amount of flames sent his way.
He just needs a little more self inflation to look exactly like Michael Mann!
@Kurt Eichenwald ✔ @kurteichenwald
Can you please give us the names of the remaining storms, their intensity and timing, for 2017?
Cliff
Yes, just using the old National Enquirer model: print 1,000 predictions, trumpet the one you got kinda right.
In this case, at least the National Enquirer actually printed their predictions.
This drip apparently is trying to take credit for predicting something without actually showing that he did.
BTW, DON’T search for his name and “tentacle”…I warned you.
National Enquirer? Pfft ….. the best rag on the newsstands was the Weekly World News, by far. Whilst the National Enquirer wasted valuable money on unnecessary things like coloured ink, the WWN instead devoted its ink budget towards getting the scoop on the really important news of the day, like Bat Boy and killer snails in Texas. Quality reporting if ever there was such a thing!
Tentacle Porn!?! WTF!?!?!
I should have heeded your warning.
I made the mistake of looking up his name and tentacle. Looks like my first comment got lost in moderation… I should have heeded your warning. I think I’m scarred for life.
Whenever someone yells, “don’t look”, half the people will automatically look.
He is a NYT “journalistic scientist” who may claim Nobel Laureate status at any time. Stay tuned.
Maybe he can borrow Micky M. prize for a while?
I was pretty impressed with Ryan Maue, too.
He’s a hurricane scientist . . if there is such a thing.
Ooops, I should retract that because it reads a little snarky.
Apparently Ryan Maue is one.
RYAN IS ONE OF THE BEST
Wow, think of all the lives he could save. He has a moral obligation to share his amazing gift. If he doesn’t, I’m sure alarmists will be outraged. (Extreme sarc)
So this guy is…
And he writes this?
Maybe someone stole his identity.
Well, sounds like it.
You can see how the jetstream pushes in the eastern US.
http://tropic.ssec.wisc.edu/real-time/mtpw2/product.php?color_type=tpw_nrl_colors&prod=conus×pan=24hrs&anim=html5
Is there any chance that jet stream will push Irma northward and out over the Atlantic?
[Yes, there is a chance that will occur. But disaster sells newspapers, TV time, and web-counted clicks on web sites. Also, “gloom and disaster-doomed” scenarios do encourage some people to prepare for potential disasters. Several models – but not all! – predict paths that stay east of FL. .mod]
I really have no idea what Irma is going to do but I’ll wing it and say that looking at nullschool it appears most likely that it will pound Jamaica and Cuba and then run aground in Central america. At least I have the cojones to post my prediction before it happens! You folks are my witnesses!
It seems to me that rather south.
Hurricane IRMA
As of 18:00 UTC Sep 05, 2017:
Location: 16.9°N 59.2°W
Maximum Winds: 160 kt Gusts: N/A
Minimum Central Pressure: 926 mb
Environmental Pressure: 1010 mb
He is 100% correct that when you apply the climate equation of H=Harvey I= Irma, then Irma would be the next tropical storm/hurricane.
I predict the next after Irma is Kurt.
This is what happens when climate scientists make brazenly unsupported statements of climate doom. It pushes science further into the post normal where heartfelt opinions are valid and where the butcher, the baker, the candlestickmaker… are welcome to participate. They do stick, come what may, to the CO2 heating formula that was handed down on a clay tablet by acolytes of Maurice Strong. Notice that no mainstream CliSci or fawning fake news outlets are calling bull to this. Heck, even the florist or the seamstress is qualified to call BS on such stupidity.
Maybe that’s Eichenwald’s point. He just left the sarc tag off his tweet.
So what is his prediction for Hurricane Betsy?
The U.S. has got to get control of the use of marijuana. It has reached epidemic proportions.
Pot makes sperm swim around in circles, not hurricanes.
clockwise or anti clockwise or does it depend on the hemisphere?
maybe it depends on the hemisphere on which the variety is cultivated
I also made prediction, according to the prevailing ‘scientific consensus’ it was only 97% accurate.
/sarc
Satellite loops of Irma can be seen here:
http://www.eldoradocountyweather.com/satellite/goes/tropical-atlantic/tropical-west-atlantic-vis.html
Wow! I hadn’t seen this before, Anthony, but you have scored with the appellation “Alt-Climate world”! What a great counter to the term “denier”!
‘Ctrl-Climate’ world? (otherwise known as Ctrl-C)
Shift happens.
A meta-joke.
Hmmm…this could be an idea for Josh.
The Climate Seancetist Keyboard.
It would not have a “Pause” key.
The “Num Lock” key would be replaced by the “Num Adjust” key.
The ‘Delete” key would be extra large for dealing with FOAI request.
Of course, every key would be a “Hot Key”
IE “Shift+G” would move the goalpost.
(The “Esc” key would be a “No Esc” key and a slider which would self-adjust to be nearer or farther depending where the “Shift-G” sit the goalpost for dthe next “tipping point”.)
And “C+O+2” would melt the computer’s Gaia-board.
Thank You, Dr. Maue!
That was not a ‘shot across the bow’.
It was straight through the boiler room!
Eichenwald is a dweeb with a litany of a-hole journalistic accomplishments…a real jerk.
12 years ago I predicted that some know-nothing boob that writes for one or more rags that are popular on the Upper West Side would make an assertion so offensive to the nature of human knowledge that it was beyond ridicule …
I’m 100% right
I’m impressed ! Truly a prophet 🙂
I assume that by “Midwest” he means the US Midwest.
That means he must have rubbed his crystal balls counter-clockwise rather than clockwise as Mann “et al” seem to be doing.
(SORRY! Sorry! Sorry. sorry. 😎
Predicting that sort of thing could keep you really busy!