It was recently reported that journalism lost a lot of jobs this year, and again in July. After looking at this piece from the UK Telegraph, where the journalist couldn’t separate fantasy from reality, taking the word of a “scientist”, there’s no need to wonder why.
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As a poor to middling swimmer, I would welcome webbed feet. 🙂
Yes, Michael Phelps is a has been, and let’s not rule out the possibility of a dorsal fin.
With the current rate of sea lever rise we’ll have the time to evolve webbed feet by the time we need them.
Or even a complete fish’s tail.
Why wait for evolution? Buy yourself a pair of swimming fins for your feet. Better, faster, and cheaper (NASA slogan copyright), and available for YOU (not distant decedents) now.
spell check, please.
Save money. Step aside before the shoes get wet.
Not only webbed feet, but gills for breathing under water too, I am sure.
Gills and undoubtedly sonar like dolphins and whales! Most people in advanced countries already have the blubber necessary for insulation.
and a whole pile are as daft as the walrus that went over the cliffs too…similarities are there;-)
Patrick Duffy would be turning in his grave – if he were dead!
He went on from “Man from Atlantis” to being “Bobby Ewing”, not sure which role he was best in but he didn’t shoot JR.
He was dead for a year…for tax purposes.
Somebody’s been watching Waterworld. Or is he just what the military once euphemized as a “feather merchant”?
That was my first thought when I read the report. Who needs science. Today if you need a new theory just go watch the movies.
Or read comic books. Specifically, Uncle Scrooge 5, “Secrets of Atlantis”.
That’s not fair! Somebody quickly act against that climate change!
I want to evolve to grow wings and be able to fly without my hang glider. If we act NOW, that might be possible!
The article is from January of 2015.
So? News to me. Given “climate emergency” declarations today from AOC, it seemed apropos.
hi Anthony, so ask CTM to fish out(ha ha) the one i sent about optometrists doing their bit for agw;-))))
Sometimes a bit of retrospection is very apropos. I had a laugh, thank you.
I would say Mr. Watts isn’t a regular reader of a trashy UK publication.
and I wonder how many warmist midwives have been checking babies feet…in case;-) lol
4yrs and not a finny kid yet ..tsk tsk
Well, that’s what happened in the movie Waterworld.
If only, that would be awesome
Yes, but the problem is, Anthony, you are a journalist yourself with this lovely site and yet you restrict discussion of the work of the scientists Nikolov and Zeller.
Could you remove the plank from your own eye please.
That’s not true. It’s been debunked here many times as the curve fitting nonsense that it is.
Everybody’s been debunked, mate … everybody.
Are you badgering Anthony?
Wait? You are now the article police?
If you’re the police, then where are your Badgers?
Ya, we don’t need no stinkin’ badgers.
Perhaps the true inspiration of the article being discussed, Lysenko, would be more up your alley.
do you really believe he was serious!
I think you may be seeing hyperbole (an extreme exaggeration made for emphasis or humour).
Given the nonsense routinely being touted by so called serious climate scientists, how can you tell the difference?
Given the nonsense being pushed by your average serious “climate scientist”, how can you tell the difference?
“do you really believe he was serious!”
Really?? It’s in the “Science News” section. You’re really going to say it was meant as a joke? Zaphod must be so disappointed in you.
Zaphod’s just zis guy, you know?
In that simply wizard film LOCAL HERO there was a lovely girl, a diver, whose feet were very slightly and spookily webbed! Bring it on I say!
More CO2. More Gillyweed.
No problem.
That was a little gem of a movie. Remember the Texan oil-magnate played by Burt Lancaster?
Obviously to go with the webbed brains who concocted this nonsense…
The guy sounds like a quack.
The whole thing is a canard.
With a mallardorous air
It seems like you’re trying to drake this fellow’s reputation through the mud by implying that he’s a loon.
“Once serious scientists chasing grants earn mockery instead” should be the Lead Line to the story.
Matthew is just climbing on-board the climate funding Gravy Train, and Matthew gets his 15 minutes of infamy turned into mockery. I feel sorry for the graduate students he supervises. I really do.
Matthew probably is 15……….
I can’t believe they actually published this
So the check out isle tabloids outlasted Kmart.
More likely that we will evolve a weaker sense of smell to offset the stench of climate emerency bull$h!t
re: “Humans could evolve webbed feet”
Those are called “Dolphins” (or it it porpoises?)
There are no words…..
The Stupid, It Burns!
You mean someone watched Waterworld and actually took it seriously?
It quacks.
So, his research was watching “WaterWorld” staring Nick Cage? He must have a rich fantasy life and would be more successful as a novelist.
Kevin Costner, not Nick Cage, although if he is living a fantasy life as you suggest then it could be Cage.
I kind of want to watch your version of Water World.
Didn’t it happen in Doggerland?
Saw a TV program recently regarding Mermaids evolving from Terrestrial Humans that moved to the water.
This and other great science fiction
OK then.
If sea levels rise to the maximum possible, it won’t actually be that much, maybe 180 feet. The thing is that we have a huge amount of unpopulated land. We currently huddle together on a lot of arable land. If we move off that to unproductive land we will more than make up for any land we lose to inundation.
Thing two: By the time the seas rise 180 feet, the world population will be decreasing at an alarming rate because we aren’t breeding fast enough to replace ourselves.
Thing three: The next glaciation is coming and all this crap will be moot.
commieBob
I really wish global warming/climate change would effing hurry up. I wan’t all the beachside condo’s flooded, I want more hurricanes (people might start building to survive them) I want more heat to melt the poles and free up billions of acres of land for agriculture; I want it all………bring it on!
And if I survive long enough to evolve web feet I’ll be several thousand years old.
Is there nothing climate change can’t accomplish?!
The reason the press are dying is nothing to do with the cut-n-paste mentality that pervades much of the press. Instead, the cut-n-paste mentality is a consequence of the slow death of journalism, which was destroyed when the internet took away much of its advertising revenue.
To put it in perspective, 50 years ago, if you wanted to sell a house, a car or even a cricket bat, you had to take out an expensive advert in a paper. If you wanted to hire someone for a job, to advertise a business – you had no choice but to put an advert in a paper. And as a result, if you were looking for a house, a car, a job, you had little choice but to buy a newspaper. The result was that advertising revenue for papers was absolutely phenomenal.
Then we had the printing (linotype) revolution, that suddenly enabled a whole raft of new magazines like autotrader (which funded the Guardian). Then we had the internet which enabled all these advertising sites to go online. Both these revolutions (as well as the onward rise of TV) took away the funding from newspapers with the result they could no longer afford to do real journalism and instead resorted to low cost copy-n-pasting of other people’s press releases.
The result, as well as the susceptibility of the press to non-science campaigns like the climate cult, has been a massive cut in jobs so that even on my own small street there are two former journalists.
In some areas (local papers) there has been reform with many local papers shutting down, or becoming geographically syndicated papers with a lot syndicated geographical wide content and much less local. But as yet, with the exception of a few papers like the Independent which have turned into glorified blogs, whilst the larger national papers have cut back, they still survive at least in name. So, as yet we have not seen the fundamental reform of the sector that is long overdue.
So, yes, I do see these latest jobs losses as part of a continuing and ongoing haemorrhage jobs as they haemorrhage readers to places like this which cater for more niche interests. However, no, the move to copy-n-paste was not the cause, but the consequence of these historic changes.
I have friends who were at the top of the newspaper business.
The loss of advertising revenue is absolutely true, as you say.
But the death of the papers is from left content. You don’t have to cut-and-paste junk; you can cut-and-paste interesting, factual information.
In the southeast, McClatchy has bought up most everything. As the businesses got weak, McClatchy jumped in. They may be more efficient, but they continue to bleed. Because of content.
Content, content, content. People don’t want what they are selling.
Or could it be the internet has allowed common people to educate and fact check similar claims that would not have been available 25 years ago. I am sure copy and paste journalism has been around for hundreds of years. When news arrived on horseback, no one traveled hundreds of miles to do investigative journalism. Today everyone can be a journalist just with a cell phone or GoPro, even in a war zone. No more “sanitized” news for the masses.