Oxford Professor: Aliens are Breeding with Humans Because of Climate Change

Guest essay by Eric Worrall

h/t Dr Willie Soon – An Oxford Professor has been busy promoting his view that aliens are breeding with humans to produce alien / human hybrids which have a better chance of surviving the coming climate catastrophe.

Oxford Professor Argues Invisible Aliens Are Interbreeding With Humans

26 April 2019 The News Team

The Oxford Student has learnt that Dr Young-hae Chi, Professor at Oxford’s Oriental Institute, believes in a strong correlation between climate change and alien abductions.

In 2012, Dr Chi gave a lecture at the the Ammach Conference, titled ‘Alien Abduction and the Environmental Crisis’ in which he outlined his theory concerning the presence of aliens on earth. 

Dr Chi began his lecture with the statement that “perhaps human civilisation is coming to an end”.  

In his fifty-five minute presentation he cited Dr David Jacobs, an ‘abduction researcher’ in the US, who argued that aliens’ primary purpose is to colonise the earth, by interbreeding with humans to produce a new hybrid species. Second generation ‘hybrids’ are, according to Jacobs, walking unobserved among us.

Dr Chi argued that “it is not only scientists and theologians, but also non-human species who appear to be greatly concerned about the survivability of the human species”.

He pointed out that the timing of aliens’ appearance coincides with the earth facing major problems, climate change and nuclear weapons in particular. 

He concludes that “it may be more or less assumed that the hybrid project is a response to this impending demise of human civilisation”.

Read more: https://www.oxfordstudent.com/2019/04/26/oxford-professors-theory-on-climate-change-and-alien-abduction/

The following is a video of Professor Chi’s 2012 lecture;

You might think in the absence of extraordinary evidence, Dr. Chi’s ideas are utterly preposterous, but evidence free assertions are not unusual in the climate science community.

Some climate scientists demand we accept their model projections without getting hung up about the simplistic version of scientific falsifiability we learned as children; they claim their climate expertise is all the evidence we need to accept their predictions.

Update (EW): Sharp eyed readers might have noticed my aliens vs global temperature graph shows the opposite of what Dr. Chi is asserting, but getting data upside down is OK in climate science.

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Quilter52
April 27, 2019 7:23 pm

I am sure there is a nice comfortable padded room out there somewhere. How is this loony allowed to keep his job when Oxford silences debate on anything uncomfortable for the precious princes and princesses currently attending there?

R Shearer
Reply to  Quilter52
April 27, 2019 8:49 pm

One scenario is that the aliens plan to cultivate very strong strains of marijuana throughout the planet. Dr. Chi was apparently able to sample that strain.

donb
Reply to  R Shearer
April 28, 2019 6:13 pm

Perhaps climate alarmists are the new strain of alien-human, created to specifically oppose climate change by what they do and advocate?

Alan
Reply to  Quilter52
April 27, 2019 8:55 pm

Ahh. But those precious princes and princesses are the alien hybrids he’s talking about.

Curious George
Reply to  Alan
April 28, 2019 7:27 am

No nobility. They took over the U.S. House of Representatives.

Rocketscientist
Reply to  Curious George
April 28, 2019 7:55 am

If that is the case, it appears the ‘hybrids’ have sacrificed intelligence to attain better genes to survive higher temperatures. Not what I would deem an advancement.
…But, perhaps the aliens are attempting to breed strong backs and weak minds necessary to work the dilithium mines.

ferd berple
Reply to  Rocketscientist
April 28, 2019 9:00 am

Don’t laugh. The US has laws on the books to deal with this problem:

8 U.S. Code § 1182. Inadmissible aliens

(a) Classes of aliens ineligible for visas or admission

Gums
Reply to  Curious George
April 28, 2019 10:26 am

Salute!

Well, Curious, where do you think Alex Occasionally Coherent , aka AOC, comes from?

Gums sends…

Reply to  Quilter52
April 27, 2019 9:18 pm

This sounds like all the other wild-and-crazy claims about catastrophic human-made global warming.

It fits right in with the CAGW hypo:
“Aliens, hockey sticks, warming-causes-cooling, wild-and-crazy weather, fire and brimstone coming down from the skies, rivers and seas boiling, forty years of darkness, earthquakes, volcanoes, the dead rising from the grave, human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together, mass hysteria…”

Zig Zag Wanderer
Reply to  ALLAN MACRAE
April 28, 2019 12:52 am

My thoughts exactly. It seems pretty much on target as per most CAGW claims.

R Shearer
Reply to  Zig Zag Wanderer
April 28, 2019 5:54 am

Reply to  R Shearer
April 29, 2019 7:10 am

Micheal Shermer believes in AGW, but can instruct you in proper use of the baloney detector to avoid believing weird things.

Reply to  ALLAN MACRAE
April 29, 2019 8:04 am

Maybe this will be another time the Simpsons correctly predicted the future:

https://youtu.be/B2KVORRKsxE?t=150

Sara
Reply to  Quilter52
April 28, 2019 3:00 am

“He pointed out that the timing of aliens’ appearance coincides with the earth facing major problems, climate change and nuclear weapons in particular. ” – article

How does this looney-tune keep his job? If they’re invisible, how does he know about them? Inquiring minds want to know.

Tom Abbott
Reply to  Sara
April 28, 2019 4:57 am

” If they’re invisible, how does he know about them?”

Maybe the hybrid aliens are only half invisible.

ferd berple
Reply to  Tom Abbott
April 28, 2019 9:07 am

CO2 and aliens are both invisible. Since CO2 exists, so must aliens.

old construction worker
Reply to  Sara
April 28, 2019 5:09 am

Here in the States: Freedom of Speech. Maybe this part of his plan to get fired sue the university or to sell books about space aliens.

Pop Piasa
Reply to  Sara
April 28, 2019 3:13 pm

“Oxford” professor with brains in shoes. 🧠➡ 👞🤭

old white guy
Reply to  Quilter52
April 28, 2019 4:47 am

Just think, we used to laugh at the national inquirer.

4 Eyes
Reply to  Quilter52
April 28, 2019 5:09 am

Oxford may not be what it used to be

Greg
Reply to  4 Eyes
April 28, 2019 12:11 pm

Oxford earned its rep. when it was full of toffs from the english arostocracy, not wing-nut Pacific rimmers. UK higher education has been whoring itself to the highest bidder for about 30 years. You do not see many english faces in a UK uni any more.

Reply to  Quilter52
April 28, 2019 11:37 am

Per
https://www.orinst.ox.ac.uk/article/our-staff
– the good Doctor appears to be a mere Instructor in Korean.
One of his research interests [click on his photo to get there] is –
“North Korean refugee problems and the role of NGOs”;
– this might, I suppose, include Aliens [Fat Boy Kim’s folk will struggle in the real world, and some NGOs seem to be full of anti-humans (WWF, Oxfam, etc., spring to mind)], if not actual space aliens . . . .

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Kenji
Reply to  Quilter52
April 28, 2019 1:21 pm

Proof that ANY stupid opinion gets a platform these days if it espouses the “horrors” of CAGW. Oxford!? Also … Proof that the GREAT country and cilization of Great Britain has been invaded and sacked. Invaded by aliens … but not the type referenced by Dr. Chi. Invaded and DESTROYED by lunatic leftists.

Edwin
Reply to  Quilter52
April 29, 2019 8:02 am

Hey we elect similar whackos to US Congress and I will bet to UK Parliament.

I am still trying to figure out where the world coming to an end as we know it in 12 years came from. That is as wild an assertion as invisible aliens breeding with Earth humans.

Pop Piasa
April 27, 2019 7:30 pm

Does this explain Greta Thunberg’s existence?

robert_g
Reply to  Pop Piasa
April 27, 2019 8:49 pm

Yes

Craig from Oz
Reply to  robert_g
April 28, 2019 1:15 am

You are a bad man, Robert! 😀

(okay, I laughed as well, but we already knew I am a bad person)

Steve B
Reply to  robert_g
April 28, 2019 4:38 am

Greta Thunberg looks like the kids from Village of the Damned.

Reply to  Pop Piasa
April 28, 2019 1:22 am

Yep – she would agree…lol. ( or at least her mother would and pass it on to Greta…)

Sara
Reply to  Pop Piasa
April 28, 2019 4:27 am

More likely it explains her mother’s existence, since Greta is the offspring.

icisil
Reply to  Pop Piasa
April 28, 2019 5:24 am

She and the whole climate cult remind me of pod people in Invasion of the Body Snatchers

The film’s storyline concerns an extraterrestrial invasion that begins in the fictional California town of Santa Mira. Alien plant spores have fallen from space and grown into large seed pods, each one capable of reproducing a duplicate replacement copy of each human. As each pod reaches full development, it assimilates the physical characteristics, memories, and personalities of each sleeping person placed near it; these duplicates, however, are devoid of all human emotion.

The slang expression “pod people” that arose in late 20th century American culture references the emotionless duplicates seen in the film

Rocketscientist
Reply to  icisil
April 28, 2019 8:00 am

Which is why I refuse to eat Brussel sprouts. They are miniature “snatcher pods” (and they taste horrible regardless how you prepare them!) 🙂

Urederra
Reply to  Rocketscientist
April 28, 2019 9:09 am

They taste great cooked with fried bacon.

Pop Piasa
Reply to  Urederra
April 28, 2019 3:18 pm

What (besides insects) doesn’t taste good with fried bacon?

John Endicott
Reply to  Urederra
April 29, 2019 6:30 am

They taste great cooked with fried bacon

Know what tastes even better? Fried bacon without the Brussel sprouts.

Clyde Spencer
Reply to  Rocketscientist
April 28, 2019 9:57 am

Rocketscientist
Brussel sprouts are about on par with fiddlehead fern sprouts, once considered a delicacy in New England.

Yirgach
Reply to  Clyde Spencer
April 28, 2019 11:45 am

I take it you’ve never tried Connecticut River Shad roe?

Reply to  Rocketscientist
April 28, 2019 11:27 am

Brussels Sprouts are, simply, the Devil’s Vegetable: to Rocketscientist, myself, and any other supertaster.

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Reply to  auto
April 29, 2019 8:10 am

Supertaster here.
Can confirm Brussel Sprouts are more correctly classified as stinky garbage than as food.
Along with boiled spinach, overcooked broccoli, and any other foods with a lot of hydrogen sulfide.

Kurt
April 27, 2019 7:38 pm

I have to say that there is as much evidence for this as there is evidence that CO2 emissions will cause a net harmful increase in temperatures.

Sara
Reply to  Kurt
April 28, 2019 4:49 am

Yeah, but it does kind of explain why so many people have been converted to the Church of the Devastated Planet, doesn’t it?

Rocketscientist
Reply to  Kurt
April 28, 2019 8:01 am

…and it’s invisible too!

markl
April 27, 2019 7:40 pm

Just when you thought it couldn’t get any crazier.

Reply to  markl
April 27, 2019 8:12 pm

The movie, “They Live” by John Carpenter had aliens having sex with humans, and using mind manipulation to subjugate humanity, with elitists humans helping them in exhange for power.
Funny movie.
There is even a scene in the movie is the movie where an alien is doing it with a hooker on top.
Always thought Gov Jerry “Moonbeam” Brown was one of “them”.

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Loydo
Reply to  markl
April 27, 2019 9:12 pm

C’mon, that’s Willie Soon playing a prank. Actually Roy Spencer was the first to blame AGW on aliens: http://www.drroyspencer.com/2014/04/do-aliens-cause-global-warming-the-data-say-yes/

Although like AGW scepticism, UFO sightings has a high US correllation, so I guess that’s telling.

Reply to  Loydo
April 27, 2019 10:45 pm

Loydo,

The IYI-stupid academic moron, useful-idiot Paul Krugman said exactly that about aliens and climate change in 2012 in a NYTimes Op-Ed he wrote there.
Anthony re-posted it in 2012 here at WUWT.

See my comment below.
Dr Chi at Oxford U just followed Dr Krugman’s lead for his communist Chinese masters.
And sheeple will believe them.

PS: I’m posting this comment at 10:44pm PDT, but it will not show up on the thread until WP batch processes all comments from the last hour. Thus they will appear between xx:01 and xx:04 on the top of the hour. Then new comments will have to wait a full hour to show up on thread after ~xx:04.

n.n
April 27, 2019 7:41 pm

That would explain selective-child and recycled-child policies, which are self-evidently of extraterrestrial or transhuman origin.

Rich Davis
Reply to  n.n
April 28, 2019 5:41 am

It’s been said that when you stop believing in God, you will believe in anything.

MarkW
Reply to  Rich Davis
April 28, 2019 8:36 am

It seems that humans have a need to believe in something greater than themselves. Some people replace God with the State. Others replace God with space aliens.

Rick C PE
April 27, 2019 7:51 pm

Have had to check ‘The Onion’ quite often lately. This ones not theirs, so I must conclude that it was published 25 days late. It’s a pretty good spoof of typical cli-sci articles. 😄

April 27, 2019 7:57 pm

“but evidence free assertions are the norm in the climate science community.

Climate scientists frequently demand we accept their model projections without getting hung up about the simplistic version of scientific falsifiability “

Bingo!
As Eric Worrall identifies, unicorns are unicorns no matter whether they’re called ‘accelerating sea level rise’, ‘climate extremes’, etc. or ‘alien abductions’.

Rich Davis
Reply to  ATheoK
April 28, 2019 5:48 am

Your point being that unicorns are also invisible alien hybrids from early horse trials? We can only reasonably conclude that. I’m still searching for “further” evidence to back up my theory (n.b. Not a hypothesis but a theory).

noaaprogrammer
April 27, 2019 7:57 pm

Dr. Chi must be a Chinese government troll to bring more fear and nonsense into the gullible sheeple of western ‘civilization’.

R Shearer
Reply to  noaaprogrammer
April 27, 2019 8:24 pm

From South Korea?

Reply to  noaaprogrammer
April 28, 2019 3:45 am

He teaches Korean. he’s a Korean
https://www.orinst.ox.ac.uk/people/young-hae-chi

Tom Abbott
Reply to  steven mosher
April 28, 2019 5:09 am

He should stick to teaching the Korean language, after he proves himself mentally competent.

Rich Davis
Reply to  Tom Abbott
April 28, 2019 5:57 am

Obviously the fact that he speaks Korean, proves that mental competence is not a prerequisite of speaking Korean.

Has anyone considered the possibility that Dr. HC Young is himself an alien quatroon attempting to discredit legitimate ufology’s imminent bombshell disclosure of the secret hybridization scandal? Everyone put on your tinfoil hats stat!

Reply to  steven mosher
April 29, 2019 9:38 am

I wonder if he knows Sinanju?
Maybe Chiun sent him?

Tom in Florida
Reply to  noaaprogrammer
April 28, 2019 6:42 am

I don’t know, elongated skull, pointy chin, slanted eyes. Looks like a partial alien to me.

Robert
Reply to  noaaprogrammer
May 4, 2019 1:48 pm

Messing with our Chi? hahaha

Clyde Spencer
April 27, 2019 7:59 pm

The proper term for humans having sex with another species is bestiality — illegal in most states, even if the partner is invisible. Typically, hybrids among animals are infertile, assuming the embryo goes full-term. The aliens must have to work overtime to get fertile offspring.

noaaprogrammer
Reply to  Clyde Spencer
April 27, 2019 8:35 pm

Since I’ve never heard of a human female delivering an invisible baby, I assume that all inter-specie copulation involves a human male with an invisible alien female. How exactly does that happen?

Reply to  noaaprogrammer
April 28, 2019 2:30 am

“Since I’ve never heard of a human female delivering an invisible baby….

How would we know?

Sara
Reply to  noaaprogrammer
April 28, 2019 3:04 am

Munchhausen by proxy pregnancy syndrome.

ozspeaksup
Reply to  noaaprogrammer
April 28, 2019 4:25 am

phantom pregnancy;-)
maybe there really was a baby but it was invisible;-) roflmao!
how the hell these people get or keep a position like his?
and maybe yes the snowflakes ARE aliens, might explain how this hasnt triggered them into hysterics
though i read the us mil is supposedly making it easier…for reporting UFO encounters by their members. i was chuckling when i read it now…facepalm

old construction worker
Reply to  noaaprogrammer
April 28, 2019 5:16 am

“human male with an invisible alien female” It could be the other way around but I have only heard about one woman who was still a virgin giving berth. Maybe aliens are very selective. LOL

MarkW
Reply to  old construction worker
April 28, 2019 8:39 am

“giving berth”?
Did she dock as well?

John Endicott
Reply to  noaaprogrammer
April 29, 2019 6:42 am

Since I’ve never heard of a human female delivering an invisible baby

surely being a half-invisible alien means it would only be half-invisible, so maybe semi-transparent.

MarkW
Reply to  John Endicott
April 29, 2019 8:26 am

Maybe it’s a right half, left half kind of deal?

Robert
Reply to  noaaprogrammer
May 4, 2019 1:52 pm

There is a very famous example of unidentified aliens having sex/baby with humans. It allegedly happened exactly 2019 years ago.

John F. Hultquist
Reply to  Clyde Spencer
April 27, 2019 8:56 pm

Clyde,
You need to try writing fiction, science fiction, and fantasy.
Wikipedia: “The term suspension of disbelief or willing suspension of disbelief has been defined as a willingness to suspend one’s critical faculties and believe something surreal; sacrifice of realism and logic for the sake of enjoyment. ”

Each genre, in the order given above, requires “suspension” in different levels.
I like all of these sorts of stories. However, regarding this post, I have the most trouble suspending my disbelief in climate change.

Clyde Spencer
Reply to  John F. Hultquist
April 27, 2019 9:20 pm

John F. Hultquist
I have written science fiction — with a little more serious content than invisible aliens. Actually, this topic probably fits better under fantasy.

Just when you thought they couldn’t get any crazier, something like this comes along!

Paul of Alexandria
Reply to  Clyde Spencer
April 28, 2019 10:18 pm

You know, this could make a pretty good story: real aliens and the professor actually isn’t crazy. The hard part is figuring out why aliens with interstellar travel would either care or bother!

MarkW
Reply to  Paul of Alexandria
April 29, 2019 8:27 am

Because we taste good?

Robert
Reply to  Paul of Alexandria
May 4, 2019 1:55 pm

Because human are so sexy!

Reply to  Clyde Spencer
April 27, 2019 9:14 pm

Anthony,

Unless you’ve got every posted comment set to “moderation”, WP back-end operators are F-n you by putting a hold on all comments of article threads, then releasing them all at once. Then holding again.

icisil
Reply to  Clyde Spencer
April 28, 2019 4:19 am

“The proper term for humans having sex with another species is bestiality — illegal in most states, even if the partner is invisible”

I thought having sex with aliens was the most advanced dating up.

John Endicott
Reply to  icisil
April 29, 2019 7:29 am

depends on the alien

Miles
Reply to  Clyde Spencer
April 28, 2019 5:53 am

Larry Niven’s Rishathra defines “sexual practice outside one’s own species but within the intelligent hominoids”

Paul of Alexandria
Reply to  Miles
April 28, 2019 10:20 pm

Of course, there all of the intelligent hominids are related.

April 27, 2019 8:02 pm

I needed something to entertain! Nothing on TV you know….

ozspeaksup
Reply to  Mike
April 28, 2019 4:32 am

theres maybe THE worst B movie with aliens impregnating humans from about early 80s?
called Inseminoids..I remember laughing so much I kept having to halt the video to go to the loo, and my face muscles ached badly.

Tom Abbott
Reply to  Mike
April 28, 2019 5:15 am

Trump was giving a live speech on Fox News Channel last night. That was entertaining!

David
April 27, 2019 8:05 pm

Someone needs to check with the aliens for confirmation.

April 27, 2019 8:06 pm

I note: Oxford.
==================

But I have long said that my Invisible Space Alien-GW hypothesis just as valid as that crap out today’s pseudo-science climate science community. That is that “invisible space aliens” are using their technology to warm the Earth, only to make it appear as though CO2 were the cause of warming.

My hypothesis is exactly as credible as the hypothesis behind the CMIP3/5/6 models, as long as you invert the Null hypothesis it is credible, like Trenberth and others have tried to do. Inverting the null hypothesis puts the burden of proof on the skeptical. (When supposed “credible” scientists actually say that, like Trenberth did, you know they are fakers.)

I claim we can’t detect those space aliens because they are invisible and clever with their advanced technology that appears as magic to us. Prove me wrong. I could even probably go to Roswell NM and interview a select group of people and get a 97% consensus on that.

Tom Abbott
Reply to  Joel O'Bryan
April 28, 2019 5:24 am

“I could even probably go to Roswell NM and interview a select group of people and get a 97% consensus on that.”

Yes, and that 97 percent consensus would be worth just about as much as the much-ballyhooed 97 percent CAGW consensus. And both results would have been gathered the same way, by cherry-picking which participants to include to get the answer desired.

R Shearer
Reply to  Joel O'Bryan
April 28, 2019 5:31 am

I propose that these aliens are progressive and the majority are trans and addicted to opioids.

Clyde Spencer
Reply to  R Shearer
April 28, 2019 9:52 am

R Sherer
Well, these hypothetical invisible aliens are obviously trans-parents. 🙂

R Shearer
Reply to  Clyde Spencer
April 28, 2019 12:47 pm

I wish I’d though to that. 🙂

commieBob
April 27, 2019 8:06 pm

OK … I have just thought of a project … a cuckoo clock with a tiny Oxford don instead of a bird.

Annie
Reply to  commieBob
April 27, 2019 9:17 pm

Thank you for an excellent laugh today! I’ll never again see a cuckoo clock without mentally substituting a nutty Oxford don for the cuckoo!

Gary
April 27, 2019 8:08 pm

Alert Mulder and Scully.

April 27, 2019 8:08 pm

April Fool’s Day in the Chinese calendar?

H.R.
April 27, 2019 8:19 pm

It’s worse than we thought!

April 27, 2019 8:22 pm

WordPress is once again throttling (shadow banning to delay their posting) comments here Anthony.

April 27, 2019 8:34 pm

I have no doubt that Dr Chi is one of those who “Believes in Science.”

(PS: comment submitted at 08:34 pm PDT.
I will refresh regularly to see when it appears).

Reply to  Joel O'Bryan
April 27, 2019 9:03 pm

Comment finally appeared at 9:01pm.

Clyde Spencer
Reply to  Joel O'Bryan
April 28, 2019 10:05 am

Joel
Some of my comments show up immediately. Most go into moderation immediately, and show up about 20 minutes later.

Clyde Spencer
Reply to  Joel O'Bryan
April 28, 2019 10:12 am

Joel
You must be getting VIP treatment. You know exactly when to expect your comment to appear. Mine are unpredictable!

nash
April 27, 2019 8:45 pm

I knew it! Whoopi Goldberg is an offspring

Joe Wagner
Reply to  nash
April 28, 2019 11:31 am

I’d put money on her being the Alien.

Bruce Robertson
April 27, 2019 8:47 pm

UFOs and aliens will be the next global crisis after global warming is totally repudiated. It will be the human existential crisis that demands global governance, western taxation, and a transition to socialistic economy. Lots of money will spread around to the “proper” parties to combat the threat, analogous to knights of old protecting the kingdom from dragons.

April 27, 2019 8:57 pm

Using Safari browser now, with logged-in my log-in credentials for my WP account set as cookies to take me to WUWT as a followed WP site.
Nothing in this comment should send it to moderation.
Using this post to see how WP-backend controls are currently delaying comments from posting to Anthony’s WUWT site and posting this comment with that same WP account credentials.

Clyde Spencer’s post at 7:59 pm is last comment showing.
This post being “post comment” at 8:57pm PDT.

Reply to  Joel O'Bryan
April 27, 2019 9:04 pm

This comment finally appeared at 9:02pm along with all the others backed-up in the WP queue.

Reply to  Joel O'Bryan
April 27, 2019 9:29 pm

This comment and all earlier comments finally showed up at 9:02pm. (w/ regular refresh)

Alan
April 27, 2019 9:08 pm

Shouldn’t that be, Oxford’s Asian Institute? I thought the word “Oriental”, was politically incorrect because it’s racist? Or maybe Oxford didn’t get that memo. Maybe the Brits don’t care.

Javert Chip
April 27, 2019 9:15 pm

Thanks, Joel. Good job.

Reply to  Javert Chip
April 27, 2019 11:54 pm

Javert,
All comments and replies from the previous 60 minutes on this thread are currently are NOT showing up until a “batch process” posting at ~ xx:01 after the hour.

That is no one can see your 9:15pm comment until 10:01pm when it appears on this thread.
This is greatly limiting a conversation of thread. The Left and the WordPress IT goons obviously hate Anthony’s WUWT and they hate the 1st Amendment of Free Speech.

/JO/
Joel O’Bryan, PhD
USAF, Major (retired)

Tom Abbott
Reply to  Joel O'Bryan
April 28, 2019 5:41 am

Joel, my comments seem to be posting normally, i.e., they show up within about 15 minutes. I posted a comment about 20 minutes ago, and it has shown up. I posted several others within the last five or ten minutes. I’ll see how long it takes for them to show up.

And sometimes my posts appear immediately, and sometimes they appear immediately but say the post is in moderation.

I don’t know what is going on but I would suspect it is quirky software.

At one point WUWT upgraded the comment software, and it was a very good enhancement, but for unknown reasons (at least by me) the software started causing problems with the website operations and was removed for that reason. The current comment software is even worse than the software used before the upgrade. Before the upgrade, one could post a link as a picture right in the post, but the current version won’t let us do that, all that shows up is the link, not the picture. This is not the fault of the problematic upgrade, it is the fault of the downgrade.

It would sure be nice to be able to post pictures again. It was done before with the default software, so why isn’t it back if the software was reverted to it after the upgrade blew up? Apparently the software wasn’t reverted to the same software used before the upgrade. Or the picture posting feature has been disabled.

I’m posting this at 7:41am my time. Let’s see how long it takes to show up.

Tom Abbott
Reply to  Tom Abbott
April 28, 2019 6:12 am

I refreshed at 7:58 am and this post was not there. I refreshed at 8:05am and it is now visible.

Reply to  Tom Abbott
April 28, 2019 7:53 am

exactly.
Comments are not posting until 1 minute after each hour.
This comment will not appear until 8:02 PDT.

MarkW
Reply to  Joel O'Bryan
April 29, 2019 8:37 am

Sometimes my posts show up immediately, sometimes in a few seconds/minutes. Sometimes not for awhile. I’ve never tried to time them to figure out exactly how long. They just hadn’t showed up by the time I finish reading all the comments.
I’ve never figured out a pattern as to which it will be today.

April 27, 2019 9:27 pm

Eric Worrall,

Dr Chi is just following Krugman’s advice from 2012.
You need to go back and review this 2012 post by Anthony here at WUWT to see how this has now played out.

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/05/27/quote-of-the-week-bonus-krugman-insanity-edition/

Paul Krugman’s quote from the New York Times, 2012:

” PAUL KRUGMAN, NEW YORK TIMES: This is hard to get people to do, much better, obviously, to build bridges and roads and healthcare clinics and schools. But my proposed, I actually have a serious proposal which is that we have to get a bunch of scientists to tell us that we’re facing a threatened alien invasion, and in order to be prepared for that alien invasion we have to do things like build high-speed rail. And the, once we’ve recovered, we can say, “Look, there were no aliens.”

But look, I mean, whatever it takes because right now we need somebody to spend, and that somebody has to be the U.S. government.”

Life is stranger than Sci_Fi in the Left’s Climate Change Fantasies. And some of them are self-fulling prophecies.

Bill Powers
Reply to  Joel O'Bryan
April 28, 2019 4:47 am

The scariest part of the excerpt is that Krugman is serious and exposing a leftist tactic used exactly as Mencken observed when H.L. explained the whole aim of practical politics. The level of alarm raised is a barometer of how effectively the Government is dumbing down succeeding generations.

I take that back the scariest part of the excerpt is that anyone actually cares what Paul Krugman has to say outside of his vary narrow area of expertise on International Trade. Whenever the guy speaks he is driving a political agenda motivated by socialist centralized government control which always translates to nonsense.

RockyRoad
April 27, 2019 9:33 pm

I wish they’d tell us what the “coming climate disaster” is so we can respond with appropriate horror and regret! Otherwise,it might slip past us in the night and we miss it completely!

Mardler
Reply to  RockyRoad
April 28, 2019 3:19 am

It’s here already and called climate breakdown.

I know it’s hard to believe but a 15yo schoolgirl said so therefore it must be true.

Tom Abbott
Reply to  RockyRoad
April 28, 2019 6:00 am

“I wish they’d tell us what the “coming climate disaster” is so we can respond with appropriate horror and regret!”

What if they gave a climate disaster and nobody came?

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