Sunday, September 21, 2014

WUWT quote of the day from Paul C. "Chip" Knappenberger


Seen today. Chip Knappenberger (half of the Pat'n Chip denier duo of the Cato Institute) is quoted in a copy and paste at WUWT:

...there are a lot more cases of non-extreme weather than there are of extreme weather.

Duh!

Ain't that obvious? Nuts for brains!

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11 comments:

  1. PGSeptember 21, 2014 at 8:46 PM

    Chip for brains.

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  2. MillicentSeptember 21, 2014 at 9:06 PM

    I have a suggestion for the next academic study of deniers: to evaluate how the apparent IQ of WUWT contributors is dwindling with time.

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  3. DavidRSeptember 21, 2014 at 11:04 PM

    I wonder if Chip buys home insurance. There are a lot more cases of houses not burning down than there are of houses burning down. Lot's more houses don't get burgled than get burgled.

    Waste of money.

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    1. CatmandoSeptember 22, 2014 at 12:12 AM

      And in other news, most bears use forests for bodily functions, most Popes are Catholics, most deniers haven't got a clue.

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  4. Kevin O'NeillSeptember 21, 2014 at 11:42 PM

    CK's observation doesn't even merit a comment - so I'll ask an off-topic question instead: Has anyone seen a collection of the numerous 'hockey sticks' generated by phenological studies?

    I don't mean the subsequent temperature reconstructions to MBH98, but things like the arctic sea ice extent/volume and northern hemisphere lake ice on/off dates. I think it would be instructive and a nice handy reference to have these graphs all telling the same story in one place.

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    1. palindromSeptember 21, 2014 at 11:59 PM

      For a moment I read your comment as saying "phrenological" for "phenological". Took a moment to figure out that you hadn't gone off your rocker!

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    2. Kevin O'NeillSeptember 22, 2014 at 12:57 AM

      There's also phenomenology - and for deniers that may be appropriate; they obviously have their own reality.

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    3. AnonymousSeptember 22, 2014 at 10:40 PM

      There's skullduggery afoot!

      Err sorry...

      R the anon

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  5. BBDSeptember 22, 2014 at 4:04 AM

    Kevin O'Neill

    I've a notion that I've seen just such a collection of figures, but it was several years ago and of course I can't remember where, nor can I find it now.

    Jim Milks provides a good collection of references <a href="http://environmentalforest.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/enough-hockey-sticks-for-team.html>here</a> which will facilitate preparing a gallery of figures. Right now, this is the best I can do although it probably isn't really what you wanted.

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    1. BBDSeptember 22, 2014 at 4:35 AM

      Misthreaded *and* a borked link. The usual quality post from BBD.

      :-)

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  6. ...and Then There's PhysicsSeptember 22, 2014 at 5:40 AM

    Further evidence that the actual pseudo-skeptic strategy is to say things so ridiculous, that noone can bother refuting what is said, and so they can claim to be unrefuted and, therefore, right.

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