tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post3670998592492619695..comments2024-03-25T05:30:23.847+11:00Comments on HotWhopper: The Ugly Side of Denialism: Anthony Watts' level of comprehension hits a new lowSouhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08818999735123752034noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-61391352122853257072014-06-16T20:55:49.314+10:002014-06-16T20:55:49.314+10:00To not leave a false impression. I nevertheless ha...To not leave a false impression. I nevertheless had a really great nerd time at the conference. I am not complaining. It was like a big Big Bang Theory festival.<br /><br />In case anyone is curious what conference it was: DUST2014. About everything you always have wanted to know about atmospheric dust, but never dared to ask.<br /><br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13880958127943576318noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-40952865082172582014-06-16T12:44:42.671+10:002014-06-16T12:44:42.671+10:00Huh? Boy, that's a stretch, even by Denialati ...Huh? Boy, that's a stretch, even by Denialati standards! Keep making enough pointless noise and you don't have to contemplate the deafeningly silent vacuum at the heart of your ideology, I guess...<br /><br />billnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-59230808027977680992014-06-16T10:36:57.980+10:002014-06-16T10:36:57.980+10:00What year do Copenhagen, Warsaw, and Paris become ...What year do Copenhagen, Warsaw, and Paris become a hot tropical joint in your predictions?numerobisnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-74974480276327364632014-06-16T09:48:04.438+10:002014-06-16T09:48:04.438+10:00Please could someone send me the packages for my e...Please could someone send me the packages for my expensive holidays and the addresses and keys for my multiple homes, which I supposedly have, with all the riches I can make from my soft money salary coming from government grants? Somehow I didn't get them.<br /><br />I did go to a conference to Southern Italy two weeks ago, though. I didn't even get to see any sights, however, since it took place in a secluded resort with lectures, poster sessions, and many conversations with other scientists all day, from the morning to the evening. And my own talk was on the second to the last day. The science deniers must be really envious of all that.<br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13880958127943576318noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-64903929744341653092014-06-16T09:20:36.208+10:002014-06-16T09:20:36.208+10:00President Eisenhower was still alive in 1965 when ...President Eisenhower was still alive in 1965 when President Lyndon Johnson told Congress: <em>"This generation has altered the composition of the atmosphere on a global scale through...a steady increase in carbon dioxide from the <a href="http://worldhistoryproject.org/1965/us-president-lyndon-johnsons-science-advisory-committee-issues-report-on-global-warming" rel="nofollow">burning of fossil fuels</a>.”</em>Dumb Scientisthttp://dumbscientist.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-6351912058939367392014-06-16T01:47:08.969+10:002014-06-16T01:47:08.969+10:00From that same speech,
"The prospect of domi...From that same speech,<br /><br />"The prospect of domination of the nation's scholars by Federal employment, project allocation, and the power of money is ever present and is gravely to be regarded.<br /><br />Yet, in holding scientific discovery in respect, as we should, we must always be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-63140088806021410582014-06-16T01:26:50.286+10:002014-06-16T01:26:50.286+10:00What the Denialati don't seem to appreciate is...What the Denialati don't seem to appreciate is that funding for climate research is not new money, it's money diverted from other scientific fields. This is the Age of Austerity, after all. If climate science is the rubbish they so often claim it is, the people best qualified to recognise the fact and most motivated to say so are other scientists. And yet we find that all the world's national science foundations and many more prestigious scientific institutions not only endorse AGW but feel bound to say so. Presumably because algore.Cugelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-23694002175042992232014-06-16T00:27:40.820+10:002014-06-16T00:27:40.820+10:00Fascinating. The letter, which only about 50 lines...Fascinating. The letter, which only about 50 lines long, is there for every WUWT reader to see, and yet hardly anybody (Watts in particular) seems to have bothered to read past the headline. Lars Karlssonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06158469980966810882noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-84568879343837132622014-06-15T20:51:15.303+10:002014-06-15T20:51:15.303+10:00That's my understanding as well. If so, I can&...That's my understanding as well. If so, I can't help but agree...billnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-78848372766466022242014-06-15T18:01:49.470+10:002014-06-15T18:01:49.470+10:00I've heard in the first draft Eisenhower calle...I've heard in the first draft Eisenhower called it the "Military-Industrial-Congressional complex". I think he decided that would be too inflammatory.riveratnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-18633660699760529092014-06-15T17:30:51.421+10:002014-06-15T17:30:51.421+10:00Watts is probably referring to President Eisenhowe...Watts is probably referring to President Eisenhower's famous speech on the dangers of the Military-Industrial Complex:<br />In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military–industrial complex.<br /><br />Apparently Watts thinks climate science research is in the same ball-park as defence spending! MWSnoreply@blogger.com