February 02, 2010

Oh, My: Another Key Global Warming Study Appears Faked
— Ace

The heat island effect: The fact that most weather stations have had cities (or towns, at least) grow up around them, so that what once used to be a patch of grass in the shade of trees is now most likely a paved-over heat-absorbing slab of asphalt with building and car exhaust blowing at it all day long.

Critics of claims of catastrophic warming have always pointed out this problem. The weather stations you are using, they say, are simply different than they were in the 1940s. Then, they were in fairly cool, natural places; now, they are largely in urbanized areas, with the heat of human and mechanical activity pumping them with artificial heat all the time.

Oh, don't sweat that, came the response. You see -- we have a study. Our study shows the heat-island effect is no big deal. Not at all! We can use those stations which were once wreathed in shady leaf and now sit upon baking black asphalt with only the most trivial of adjustments.

Yeah, well.

You know how these "studies" tend to be.

Surely the most worrying sign for the thuggish enforcers of "settled science" is that even the eco-lefties at the Guardian and the Independent, two of the most gung-ho warm-mongers on the planet, are beginning to entertain doubts. From the Independent:

Professor Jones and a colleague, Professor Wei-Chyung Wang of the State University of New York at Albany suggested in an influential 1990 paper in the journal Nature that the urban heat island effect was minimal – and cited as supporting evidence a long series of temperature measurements from Chinese weather stations, half in the countryside and half in cities, supplied by Professor Wei-Chyung. . . .

However, it has been reported that when climate sceptics asked for the precise locations of the 84 stations, Professor Jones at first declined to release the details. And when eventually he did release them, it was found that for the ones supposed to be in the countryside, there was no location given.

Oh, right. Very scientific. From the Guardian:

It also emerges that documents which Wang claimed would exonerate him and Jones did not exist. . . .

Wang said: "I have been exonerated by my university on all the charges. When we started on the paper we had all the station location details in order to identify our network, but we cannot find them any more."

Ah, yes. The old dog-ate-my-tree-rings excuse yet again.

And, as the link notes, this is almost more of a media scandal. Because they allowed these charlatans to claim whatever they liked, so long as it fit the narrative, and thereby encouraged and nurtured the greatest anti-scientific fraud in history.

Posted by: Ace at 01:22 PM | Comments (151)
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1 Climategate?  Maybe that one is best left to the cables.

Posted by: Charlie Gibson at February 02, 2010 01:23 PM (QKKT0)

2 Is John Murtha considered a "heat island?"

Posted by: conscious, but incoherent at February 02, 2010 01:26 PM (Vu6sl)

3 We have to eradicate the AGW brain virus!  Ever since it escaped from the laboratory, it's turned hundreds of millions of people into mindless zombies!

Posted by: stuiec at February 02, 2010 01:26 PM (GU29T)

4 Is John Murtha considered a "heat island?"

Posted by: conscious, but incoherent at February 02, 2010 05:26 PM (Vu6sl)

Perhaps, but only if he remains above room temperature.

Posted by: stuiec at February 02, 2010 01:27 PM (GU29T)

5
Everything really is crashing down on the leftie trash's head, isn't it?

Posted by: Dang Straights at February 02, 2010 01:27 PM (fx8sm)

6
Michael Crichton just called me from beyond the grave and said,

"Avenge me. AVENGE ME!"

Posted by: This is Red Dawn at February 02, 2010 01:27 PM (JY1gZ)

7 Apparently the AGW meme is a more reliable cause of autism than a MMR shot.

Posted by: stuiec at February 02, 2010 01:28 PM (GU29T)

8 AGW settled science, a.k.a. Lies, and the Lying Liars Who Lie Them...

Posted by: mrfixit at February 02, 2010 01:29 PM (Bsm1s)

9 People.  It's peer reviewed.

Posted by: Ed Begley, Jr. at February 02, 2010 01:29 PM (QKKT0)

10 Everything really is crashing down on the leftie trash's head, isn't it?

Posted by: Dang Straights at February 02, 2010 05:27 PM (fx8sm)

Did you have to drag LGF into this thread?

Posted by: stuiec at February 02, 2010 01:29 PM (GU29T)

11 There's a second aspect of "teh stupid" in all of the Urban Heat Island studies. The very definition of "urban" and "rural" that they use is completely insane.

If you go to surfacestations.org, you can see a very long list of stations with pictures. But even the bulk of the "small village" stations are still way too close to what there is of the village. And yet they get market "Rural."

The themometers that are honestly in the freaking wilderness (at ranger stations, trailheads, etc.) are much flatter than most of the other "rural" stations. And by adding crap stations into the mix, you're diluting the real data so much you can't ever get anything out but pure crap.

Posted by: Al at February 02, 2010 01:29 PM (0lyUI)

12 People.  It's peer reviewed.

Posted by: Ed Begley, Jr. at February 02, 2010 05:29 PM (QKKT0)

As in, reviewed by people who pee.

Posted by: stuiec at February 02, 2010 01:30 PM (GU29T)

13 ironic that as yet another climategate/MSM scandal exposed, MediaMatters is blasiing "conservative journalism" for being irresponsible.

Posted by: eddiebear at February 02, 2010 01:32 PM (wnU1W)

14 I'm beginning to think maybe those Aztec's who were sacrificing humans to weather gods and shit were probably more reality based than some of these climate scientists. 

I'm just saying...

Posted by: Purple Avenger at February 02, 2010 01:32 PM (TsR9Q)

15 Not "heat irands."  "Heat irands."

Posted by: Professor Wei-Chyung Wang at February 02, 2010 01:32 PM (QKKT0)

16 I meant "blasting"

Posted by: eddiebear at February 02, 2010 01:32 PM (wnU1W)

17 And, as the link notes, this is almost more of a media scandal.

Science reporting in the mass media? Shirley you jest!~

Posted by: Lord Professor Throttlebottom at February 02, 2010 01:33 PM (/o58C)

18 NONTROVERSY!!!!

Besides, I have a poll to reference that all you Denialists are really bad crazy.

I put the poll results up on my universally respected blog, and the poll wasn't done by Rasmussen or some other bad crazy winger outfit.

The poll was SCIENTIFICALLY done by.... Daily Kos!

Posted by: Cahrsel Jhonsno at February 02, 2010 01:33 PM (sYxEE)

19 So are we officially at the point where nobody can claim that they don't know AGW is bullshit? Someone please let me know when the tipping is point is reached and we can stop calling the "Greenies" stupid and start calling them liars.

Posted by: lincolntf at February 02, 2010 01:33 PM (V2pCF)

20 "study" is now code for 'leftist bullshit'

Of course, if everyone knows the code, it ain't really code any more

Posted by: SantaRosaStan at February 02, 2010 01:34 PM (JrRME)

21

Wang said: "I have been exonerated by my university on all the charges. When we started on the paper we had all the station location details in order to identify our network, but we cannot find them any more."

The Dog Ate My Homework, Professional Scientific Researcher Version.

Posted by: Cicero at February 02, 2010 01:36 PM (QKKT0)

22

 I'm beginning to think maybe those Aztec's who were sacrificing humans to weather gods and shit were probably more reality based than some of these climate scientists. 

The Left has no virgins, so it has to be cash.

Posted by: Rodent Freikorps at February 02, 2010 01:36 PM (dQdrY)

23
"study" is now code for 'leftist bullshit'

We'd also accept propaganda.

Posted by: This is Alex Trebek at February 02, 2010 01:36 PM (JY1gZ)

24 14 I'm beginning to think maybe those Aztec's who were sacrificing humans to weather gods and shit were probably more reality based than some of these climate scientists. 

I'm just saying...
Posted by: Purple Avenger at February 02, 2010 05:32 PM

The Aztecs made great advances using SCIENCE. They also lived in Mexico, and you're hating on Mexicans so I'll ignore your snark as a racist rant.

The Aztecs also developed an awesome calendar. Know who else developed an awesome calendar? Me. Go buy one before they're sold out.

Posted by: Cahrsel Jhonsno at February 02, 2010 01:36 PM (sYxEE)

25

Glenn Beck is absolutely destroying Arianna Huffington right now.

...and by destroying her I don't mean that he is literally killing her.

 

Posted by: Ministry of Fiction at February 02, 2010 01:37 PM (R1BAD)

26
My prediction for the next leftie hoax that's gonna OMIGOD DESTROY US ALL!!!!1!!111!!! : invaders from Mars.  You heard it here first, folks.

Posted by: Dang Straights at February 02, 2010 01:37 PM (fx8sm)

27

"the greatest anti-scientific fraud in history"

Hmm. Piltdown Man for the #2, then?

 

Heh.

Posted by: Charles Dawson at February 02, 2010 01:37 PM (Yd2E/)

28 It's a Tree-Ring Circus over at IPCC!

Posted by: Guy Who Invents Catch-Phrases at February 02, 2010 01:38 PM (eDvXz)

29

"the greatest anti-scientific fraud in history"

Hmm. Piltdown Man for the #2, then?

So cold fusion was a success?

Posted by: Lord Professor Throttlebottom at February 02, 2010 01:39 PM (/o58C)

30 The New Scientific Method:

If you believe really really hard, and clap your hands loud enough for the fairies to hear, it will come true.

Posted by: mama winger at February 02, 2010 01:39 PM (Ue9UN)

31
28 It's a Tree-Ring Circus over at IPCC!

boo

Posted by: Dang Straights at February 02, 2010 01:39 PM (fx8sm)

32

Mr. Heat Miser, you magnificent bastard!  I watched your Christmas special!

Posted by: runningrn at February 02, 2010 01:39 PM (CfmlF)

33 25

Glenn Beck is absolutely destroying Arianna Huffington right now.


Listen to a recording of Arianna and Pebbles Flintstone and let me know if you can tell which is which

Posted by: kbdabear at February 02, 2010 01:40 PM (sYxEE)

34
If you like the fake science you have, you can keep it.

Posted by: This is Barack Obama at February 02, 2010 01:41 PM (JY1gZ)

35 All the liberal scams have as the bottom line handing over your money and your liberties to your betters. 

Posted by: mama winger at February 02, 2010 01:41 PM (Ue9UN)

36 Blah blah...more global warming data, faked, exaggerated, homogenized from no decernable trend to strong warming, lost, it almost sounds like a skipping record.

Is there any part of their argument which hasn't been compromised or refuted?

Oh that's right that .04% of the atmosphere gas CO2, is in fact a greenhouse gas. Just like Venus baby, just like Venus.

Posted by: MikeTheMoose at February 02, 2010 01:42 PM (0q2P7)

37 So cold fusion was a success?

Posted by: Lord Professor Throttlebottom at February 02, 2010 05:39

Cold fusion was an honest error.  Stanley Pons and the other guy made their data available to the world at large and it was disproved in the normal process of, yes, peer review.  Pons' big mistake was in failing to link cold fusion to some Lefty scheme to expand government control. 

Posted by: Cicero at February 02, 2010 01:42 PM (QKKT0)

38 Did you guys not hear my speech about how the evidence is "irrefutable"?

Posted by: This is Barack Obama again at February 02, 2010 01:42 PM (ZzjLj)

39 If you like your heat island effect, you can keep your heat island effect.

Posted by: Obama at February 02, 2010 01:42 PM (5I0Yr)

40
Remember Ariannus when she was on Politically Incorrect? She was dumb but usually came down on the right side of the issues.

Now she's George Soros.

Posted by: This is Timmy at February 02, 2010 01:43 PM (JY1gZ)

41 I wouldn't be surprised to learn that all of the thermometers used in AGW data sets are now housed in slow cookers to ensure that they're protected from the random fluctuations of weather and only give reliable climate data.

Posted by: stuiec at February 02, 2010 01:43 PM (GU29T)

42 But Obama is shit canning the space program to study global warming?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 02, 2010 01:44 PM (0GFWk)

43

Listen to a recording of Arianna and Pebbles Flintstone and let me know if you can tell which is which

Took me a minute to find it but it's uncanny


Posted by: Ministry of Fiction at February 02, 2010 01:44 PM (R1BAD)

44 Remember Ariannus when she was on Politically Incorrect? She was dumb but usually came down on the right side of the issues.

Now she's George Soros.

Posted by: This is Timmy at February 02, 2010 05:43 PM (JY1gZ)

Do you remember when she was married to a closet-gay Republican Congressman?  I wonder whether she drove him onto the other team.

(P.S. She's not George Soros, she's a wholly-owned subsidiary of George Soros.)

Posted by: stuiec at February 02, 2010 01:45 PM (GU29T)

45

28 It's a Tree-Ring Circus over at IPCC!

/golf clap

Posted by: Tinian at February 02, 2010 01:45 PM (7+pP9)

46 First the dog ate the tree ring data.

Then the dog ate the Chinese rural weather station data.

Now he's off to New Zealand to eat some of their data.


Can no one stop this ravenous beast!

Posted by: Russtovich at February 02, 2010 01:46 PM (ZXGQD)

47 25

Glenn Beck is absolutely destroying Arianna Huffington right now.

...and by destroying her I don't mean that he is literally killing her.

 

I wouldn't mind bending her over to give her a spanking.

Posted by: TC at February 02, 2010 01:46 PM (QXKjZ)

48 Imma hold my breathe until this is on the network news................

Posted by: Mr. Pink at February 02, 2010 01:47 PM (gfXkP)

49 Bicycle Johnson has no coherent reply to this other than "Rush Limbaugh links AGW denial to Creationism"

Yeh, I know I should ignore him and not give him the attention or site hits. But it's a hoot watching Charles pull the pins on the grenades and hold them in his hands


Posted by: kbdabear at February 02, 2010 01:47 PM (sYxEE)

50 Comedy Central needs a faux Bill Nye the Science Guy to do a "scienciness" show a la The Colbert Report.

Posted by: stuiec at February 02, 2010 01:48 PM (GU29T)

51 Huffington:  Clueless rick Greek chick immigrates here, writes a mediocre book on Picasso, puts out a lot, marries a rich Republican Congressman from Santa Barbara ( Huffington ), dumps him when he doesn't get to the Senate, turns Left and goes slow but surely batshit crazy on her goof-tard blog

and that's all there is.............

Posted by: SantaRosaStan at February 02, 2010 01:48 PM (JrRME)

52
Is her ex dead now?

Posted by: This is Timmy at February 02, 2010 01:48 PM (z37MR)

53

My prediction for the next leftie hoax that's gonna OMIGOD DESTROY US ALL!!!!1!!111!!! : invaders from Mars.  You heard it here first, folks.

Don't be a buffoon, there are no Martians.  Veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan are the biggest threat.


 

Posted by: Janet Napolitano at February 02, 2010 01:49 PM (sf1Eo)

54

I heard that one reason this is finally showing up in the UK papers is that the UK is this close to creating a carbon ration card and taxing people who use more than their ration.

Posted by: Topper Harley at February 02, 2010 01:49 PM (71j4q)

55 Imma hold my breathe until this is on the network news................

Posted by: Mr. Pink at February 02, 2010 05:47 PM (gfXkP)

Will your nic evolve over that period?  Mr. Pink, then Mr. Red, then Mr. Purple, then Mr. Blue, then Mr. Gray, then Mr. Green....

Posted by: stuiec at February 02, 2010 01:49 PM (GU29T)

56 This is starting to border on some great scientific oopses,

Heavy objects fall faster, Phlogiston, the atom is the smallest particle that exists, proteins not DNA carry the secrete to heredity, earth is the center of the solar system,

Like those kind of,
really guys, I thought you were smart?
sort of mistakes.

Posted by: MikeTheMoose at February 02, 2010 01:50 PM (0q2P7)

57 Ya'll may remember the Belleseils book "Arming America" that had all kinds of historical records indicating that early Americans hardly owned any firearms at all . Well , he couldn't seem to find his documentation when he was called on it , either .
Strange how that shit happens , ain't it ?
Why,, it's almost as though doctrinaire lefties are a bunch of lying shit stains .

Posted by: awkward davies at February 02, 2010 01:50 PM (wb68R)

58 44 Remember Ariannus when she was on Politically Incorrect

Remember when she was on Green Acres?

Posted by: kbdabear at February 02, 2010 01:51 PM (sYxEE)

59 Yes, media scandal. It was Oct 97 when WJ Clinton hosted the White House lawn luncheon meeting, for broadcast meteorologists only, that kicked off the Decade of The Global Warming. The 'scientists' were a side issue -- or so they thought then. One wonders what scientific field would long stand in the onslaught that was unleashed when the rump majority decided to Let Science Rule Us On TV. The genetics guys are still smarting from Eugenics.

Posted by: comatus at February 02, 2010 01:53 PM (/VEEI)

60 Posted by: kbdabear I wonder what Bikey thinks now that all the "reading" he did to justify his belief in AGW has been shown to be completely useless and invalid. Poor suckbag put all his "science" eggs in the IPCC basket, and now he's got nothing left.

Posted by: lincolntf at February 02, 2010 01:53 PM (V2pCF)

61 I heard that one reason this is finally showing up in the UK papers is that the UK is this close to creating a carbon ration card and taxing people who use more than their ration.

The Top Gear lads have proclaimed AGW to be rubbish, and they have a much larger audience

Posted by: kbdabear at February 02, 2010 01:55 PM (sYxEE)

62 My prediction for the next leftie hoax that's gonna OMIGOD DESTROY US ALL!!!!1!!111!!! : invaders from Mars.  You heard it here first, folks.

LISTEN MAN. LIKE I SAID BEFORE Venus, man, JUST LIKE VENUS even if CO2 doesn't cause warming. It's all part of a Venetian plot to take over Earth by first adjusting the atmosphere. CUT CO2 NOW OR FACE THE CONSEQUENCES OF VENETIAN ENSLAVEMENT!!!

Just let your local govt officials spy on and direct every portion of your life.

Posted by: MikeTheMoose at February 02, 2010 01:56 PM (0q2P7)

63 Matt Damon. Maaaaaattttt Daaaammmooon.

Posted by: Matt Damon at February 02, 2010 01:57 PM (PWj+8)

64 Garbage in. Garbage out.

Posted by: Mike H at February 02, 2010 01:58 PM (PWj+8)

65

I sincerely hope, that all the morons realize that not everyone has the time to get "now for the rest of the story" from the center-right blogs (MSM - forget it!)

I'm sure you've all set up your first tier of email recipients.  The truly informed that know the MSM has a liberal agenda, AGW is a crock, etc.  You depend on them, to filter the info they pass onto the next level.

Next, I'm sure, you have your 2nd tier email recipients.  Not red meaters, but generally there, ie get it.  And you trust them to filter to their network.

And so it goes.  To fight the Left, and their head pat, lap dog, agenda driven propagandist/media, we need to inform the folks via email.  Recall, not everyone has the time, or is politically attuned, to what's "really" happening.

Spread the word.  America's citizens are decades away from learning the skills the former Soviet citizens, who were stuck with Pravda, acquired.  Sifting thru the shit & lies, to gain a kernel of truth.

Posted by: MDr VB1.0 CS1st at February 02, 2010 01:58 PM (ucq49)

66 I wonder what Bikey thinks now that all the "reading" he did to justify his belief in AGW has been shown to be completely useless and invalid.

He read it while he was on the toilet and he took a very satisfying dump. The science is settled and his colon is clear, and Kos took a poll. Chew on that, wingnuts!

Posted by: Algore Trout at February 02, 2010 01:59 PM (sYxEE)

67 So is it still ok to run a story about climate change hurting cute little animals? Maybe man doesn't cause it but can't we at least try to stop it? What is the harm in that?

Posted by: Lefty Logic at February 02, 2010 02:00 PM (gue+Q)

68 I guess I shouldn't be surprised, but where is the American media on all of this?  UK newspapers are publishing these articles revealing the fraud, but silence from their American counterparts?  Once again only Fox has reported on this scandal.  Wow, it's infuriating. 

Posted by: Dana White at February 02, 2010 02:00 PM (zgeXv)

Posted by: Mike H at February 02, 2010 02:00 PM (PWj+8)

70 I wonder what Bikey thinks now that all the "reading" he did to justify his belief in AGW has been shown to be completely useless and invalid.
Poor suckbag put all his "science" eggs in the IPCC basket, and now he's got nothing left.

Posted by: lincolntf at February 02, 2010 05:53 PM (V2pCF)

If I were him, I'd write to the educational institute that educated him about AGW and ask for my $9.95 back.  And my ten boxtops.  AND my matchbook cover.

Posted by: stuiec at February 02, 2010 02:00 PM (GU29T)

71 Bad news, the planet's getting warmer.

And Leon's getting LARGER

Posted by: Johnny Jacobs at February 02, 2010 02:01 PM (YRjsF)

72 I can't decide whether this news will be met with A) deafening silence or B) a chorus of "lalalala I can't hear you" accompanied by index fingers jammed in ears. I'm thinking the former; the MSM simply won't cover it.

Everybody Wei-Chyung tonight!

Posted by: jakeman at February 02, 2010 02:03 PM (k/h/i)

73 I guess I shouldn't be surprised, but where is the American media on all of this?  UK newspapers are publishing these articles revealing the fraud, but silence from their American counterparts?  Once again only Fox has reported on this scandal.  Wow, it's infuriating. 

Posted by: Dana White at February 02, 2010 06:00 PM (zgeXv)

You do remember the big "NBC Goes Green" event from a couple of years back, don't you?  The American media companies are completely invested in the AGW narrative, because turning their back on it now would be an admission that their news operations are completely biased and political.  Given how much Rupert Murdoch personally believes in AGW, it's a small miracle that he allows Fox News to report the truth on the subject.

Posted by: stuiec at February 02, 2010 02:03 PM (GU29T)

74 The study was fake, but accurate.

Posted by: Dan Rather at February 02, 2010 02:04 PM (wPZU5)

75 What, global warming is a fraud? 

Why, I happen to be staying in a hotel right this minute that features a prominent parking spot out front marked "Hybrid Vehicle Parking Only."

Needless to say, my V-8 conventionally propelled vehicle occupies that spot.  I dare them to tow me.

Posted by: Winston Smith at February 02, 2010 02:05 PM (pHoDr)

76 I said Move Along People!

Posted by: Lefty Media at February 02, 2010 02:05 PM (DIYmd)

77

Listen to a recording of Arianna and Pebbles Flintstone and let me know if you can tell which is which

Pebbles mixed with Zsa Zsa Gabor.

Posted by: Curmudgeon at February 02, 2010 02:05 PM (ujg0T)

78 This Climategate news stuff is warming my cockles, or is it my cackles? De nada.

Posted by: Gnubreed at February 02, 2010 02:05 PM (PvbOJ)

79 If I were him, I'd write to the educational institute that educated him about AGW and ask for my $9.95 back.  And my ten boxtops.  AND my matchbook cover.

Since Mr Johnson didn't donate any money to us, we are not obligated to give him jack shit.

Posted by: Wikipedia management at February 02, 2010 02:06 PM (sYxEE)

80 I've despised the Weather Channel since NBC bought it.  That fat idiot Al Roker, all their "It Could Happen Tomorrow!!!111!1" specials, all the global warming crap.  I just go to Accuweather.com now and don't have to put up with having their agenda shoved down my throat.

Posted by: Jane D'oh! at February 02, 2010 02:07 PM (UOM48)

81 62 MikeTheMoose

VENETIAN ENSLAVEMENT

Venetian? It's the return of the House of Medici! International bankers-- it all fits in, I tells ya!

(hides under bed)


Posted by: Golem14 at February 02, 2010 02:07 PM (2X8VA)

82 78 This Climategate news stuff is warming my cockles, or is it my cackles? De nada.

Posted by: Gnubreed at February 02, 2010 06:05 PM (PvbOJ)

If your name was Hillary it would be "cankles"

Posted by: conscious, but incoherent at February 02, 2010 02:07 PM (Vu6sl)

83

the UK is this close to creating a carbon ration card and taxing people who use more than their ration.

The chocolate carbon ration has been raised to 66 grams. Repeat: The chocolate carbon ration has been raised to 66 grams.

Posted by: ministry of truth at February 02, 2010 02:08 PM (2qU2d)

84 NASA faked the moon landings

Posted by: Noah at February 02, 2010 02:08 PM (mhD2v)

85 80

But you'll miss all the cool video of the weather chicks paddling kayaks in puddles!

Posted by: Winston Smith at February 02, 2010 02:09 PM (pHoDr)

86 guys, guys, guys. So big deal. Just take the way-overstated high temps, and average them with the accurate wilderness temps. And you'll see, it's still warming. SCIENCE!

Posted by: Adrian at February 02, 2010 02:10 PM (HqFA1)

87 CUT CO2 NOW OR FACE THE CONSEQUENCES OF VENETIAN ENSLAVEMENT!!!

And I for one welcome our new Venetian overlords

Posted by: Chris Matthews at February 02, 2010 02:11 PM (sYxEE)

88

Remember Ariannus when she was on Politically Incorrect
Remember when she was on Green Acres?

And she looked so cute in Mr Ziffel's house.

Posted by: andycanuck at February 02, 2010 02:11 PM (2qU2d)

89

Bwhahaha!  Sorry to be O/T but from Jake Tapper:

"White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel apologized to the head of the Special Olympics today after the Wall Street Journal reported the fiery Chicagoan privately called a group of liberal activists "f---ing retarded."

 

Posted by: runningrn at February 02, 2010 02:12 PM (CfmlF)

90 #85  Heh.  Actually, watching Fat Al get blown over in a hurricane is pretty cool.  I also love when some weather idiot is standing in the wind nearly being knocked off their feet and you see a huge metal sign fly a foot or two past their head.

Posted by: Jane D'oh! at February 02, 2010 02:12 PM (UOM48)

91 Did any of you guys hear the moron who called in to Rush today to say that human respiration doesn't exchange carbon dioxide for oxygen? That "there's, like, oxygen and carbon dioxide in the air, and we breathe it all in, and we use up the oxygen, so the carbon dioxide doesn't get used up and we just exhale it, but it was there before, we're not adding to the level."

OMFG. But then a non-retarded person called in like five minutes later to correct it. I felt kinda bad that Rush couldn't call him on it, but whatevs.

Posted by: Adrian at February 02, 2010 02:13 PM (HqFA1)

92 90 #85  Heh.  Actually, watching Fat Al get blown over in a hurricane is pretty cool.

Remember when Geraldo got "knocked down" by a breeze barely strong enough to blow some gum wrappers around?

Posted by: kbdabear at February 02, 2010 02:14 PM (sYxEE)

93

"The themometers that are honestly in the freaking wilderness (at ranger stations, trailheads, etc.) are much flatter than most of the other "rural" stations. And by adding crap stations into the mix, you're diluting the real data so much you can't ever get anything out but pure crap."

Not just pure crap, but pure crap with tenth-of-a degree precision.

Sweet.


 

Posted by: effinayright at February 02, 2010 02:14 PM (lQRmV)

94

Huffington is the sleazy slut version of Zsa Zsa Gabor only uglier.

True story.

Posted by: gus at February 02, 2010 02:15 PM (Vqruj)

95 I've despised the Weather Channel since NBC bought it.

The changing tone of the ads for the Al Roker Abortion(tm) has been hilarious.  First it was "Here's the Al Roker Abortion!", then it was "Don't forget, we have the Al Roker Abortion", then it was "Doesn't an abortion with Al Roker make sense?" and now it's "Forget Al Roker, here's Stephanie Abrams dressing kinda slutty!".

Also, the no-budget disaster reenactments on their disaster shows are often entertaining in completely unintentional ways.

Posted by: Ian S. at February 02, 2010 02:15 PM (p05LM)

96 CUT CO2 NOW OR FACE THE CONSEQUENCES OF VENETIAN ENSLAVEMENT!!!

Those prosciutto-eating gondola jockeys will never take me alive.

Posted by: Cicero at February 02, 2010 02:15 PM (QKKT0)

97 I'm bored senseless with the whole global warming issue.  I've been borderline pneumonia for a few days now, it's colder than normal here, and I'd actually welcome a little warming.

Posted by: Jane D'oh! at February 02, 2010 02:15 PM (UOM48)

98

The chocolate carbon ration has been raised to 66 44 grams. Repeat: The chocolate carbon ration has been raised to 66 44 grams.

Posted by: ministry of truth at February 02, 2010 02:18 PM (2qU2d)

99

Yes, but did you know that..........

 

SOYLENT GREEN IS PEOPLE!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: gus at February 02, 2010 02:18 PM (Vqruj)

100 "Since I done drank the mercury in my thermometer I ain't thinkin' too good"

Posted by: Prof Phil "Cletus" Jones at February 02, 2010 02:19 PM (lQRmV)

101 Airy Anus.

Posted by: MDr VB1.0 CS1st at February 02, 2010 02:21 PM (ucq49)

102

As I understand it, their latest argument is that the "heat island effect" must be accounted for because it IS a warmer section of the country and must be worked into the averages.

The problems is how they work it into the averages.  In additon, they lose sight of the the purpose of the tracking of the temperatures in the first place.That purpose was to correlate increased temperatures to increases in CO2, not increases in concrete.

As more and more of these revelations come out I have come to the conclusion that NONE of the AGW studies have any scientific validy. They have ALL been adulterated to the point of fraud.

That, however, will not stop the politicians.

Posted by: Vic at February 02, 2010 02:22 PM (QrA9E)

103 Terrible, but old news. Doug Keenan figured out the Chinese UHI data that the hockey team was basing a ton of assumptions on was completely bogus back in 2007. http://goo.gl/vhJu

Posted by: CTD at February 02, 2010 02:23 PM (RurGt)

104

"White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel apologized to the head of the Special Olympics today after the Wall Street Journal reported the fiery Chicagoan privately called a group of liberal activists "f---ing retarded."

 

Posted by: runningrn at February 02, 2010 06:12 PM (CfmlF)

Maybe Obama can invite some of the execs of the disability charities to join him and Rahm at a bowling summit at the White House.

Posted by: stuiec at February 02, 2010 02:24 PM (GU29T)

105 Well, at least Fat Al Gore got a Nobel and an Oscar out of the "science".  So there's that. 

Posted by: Jane D'oh! at February 02, 2010 02:25 PM (UOM48)

106 VENETIAN ENSLAVEMENT

Venetian? It's the return of the House of Medici! International bankers-- it all fits in, I tells ya!

(hides under bed)


Posted by: Golem14 at February 02, 2010 06:07 PM (2X8VA)

I knew the AGW thing was all just a doge.

Posted by: stuiec at February 02, 2010 02:25 PM (GU29T)

107 But you'll miss all the cool video of the weather chicks paddling kayaks in puddles!


Wake me when they're paddling kayaks in pudding.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 02, 2010 02:33 PM (I/MqP)

108 I knew the AGW thing was all just a doge.


Heh. Well done.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 02, 2010 02:34 PM (I/MqP)

109 Who cares what causes global warming. It is dangerous and we should try to stop it. Pass C&T now!

Posted by: Lefty Logic at February 02, 2010 02:37 PM (gue+Q)

110 I knew the AGW thing was all just a doge.

That doge won't hunt

Posted by: LBJ at February 02, 2010 02:37 PM (CKW49)

111 Science!

Posted by: Thomas Dolby at February 02, 2010 02:38 PM (I/MqP)

112 I knew the AGW thing was all just a doge.

That doge won't hunt

Posted by: LBJ at February 02, 2010 06:37 PM (CKW49)

Every Doge has his Dei.

Posted by: Bill D. Cat's joint at February 02, 2010 02:39 PM (GU29T)

113

Oh no!!! Not the VAPORS again!!!

Posted by: Nancy Pelosi at February 02, 2010 02:39 PM (LSW06)

114

Maybe Obama can invite some of the execs of the disability charities to join him and Rahm at a bowling summit at the White House.

 

They'll have to have the obligatory beer.  They could also do a fundraiser for gubamint spending, "Bowling For Dollars."  My money's on the Special Olympians.


Posted by: runningrn at February 02, 2010 02:39 PM (CfmlF)

115 Science!

Posted by: Thomas Dolby at February 02, 2010 06:38 PM (I/MqP)

That must be what happened: the Chinese charwoman tidied up, and they can't find anything.

Posted by: stuiec at February 02, 2010 02:40 PM (GU29T)

116 jane are you feeling any better?

Posted by: runningrn at February 02, 2010 02:40 PM (CfmlF)

117

Every Doge has his Dei.

Ha! That was good.

Posted by: Daisy at February 02, 2010 02:41 PM (T0ga9)

118 See, I started with a hypothesis that global warming is terrible.  Then I found some data somebody else came up with and if it didn't fit the hypothesis I tossed it out and just made shit up.  Then I used a totally fucked up computer model that churns out hockey sticks from random numbers and lied when people said I don't know what I'm talking about.  All my work might be bullshit, but I'm right!  The science is settled.  Ask Obama.

Posted by: Michael Mann, Climate Scientologist at February 02, 2010 02:41 PM (vTmeT)

119 113 I knew the AGW thing was all just a doge.

That doge won't hunt

Posted by: LBJ at February 02, 2010 06:37 PM (CKW49)

Every Doge has his Dei.

Opus, my mistake

Posted by: LBJ at February 02, 2010 02:42 PM (CKW49)

120

Maybe Obama can invite some of the execs of the disability charities to join him and Rahm at a bowling summit at the White House.

 

They'll have to have the obligatory beer.  They could also do a fundraiser for gubamint spending, "Bowling For Dollars."  My money's on the Special Olympians.


Posted by: runningrn at February 02, 2010 06:39 PM (CfmlF)

Perhaps it will be like the movie Dave: Obama slips on the bowling alley and bumps his head, and while he's in a coma, one of the Special Olympians stands in for him.  (Or has that already happened?  How could we tell?)

Posted by: stuiec at February 02, 2010 02:42 PM (GU29T)

121 Wait a minute, "retarded" is an INSULT?  Be right back, I gotta go see Rahm about something he says to me all the time

Posted by: Joe the Biden at February 02, 2010 02:45 PM (sYxEE)

122 Or has that already happened?  How could we tell?


Watch the ears. You'd have to be a retard to be seen in public with those things.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 02, 2010 02:46 PM (I/MqP)

123 I'm happy as a doge with two dicks!

Posted by: Casanova at February 02, 2010 02:46 PM (pHoDr)

124 Aria Anus.  An asshole so large, the world's greatest/largest opera house, couldn't give greater justice, to an aria.

Posted by: MDr VB1.0 CS1st at February 02, 2010 02:47 PM (ucq49)

125

Posted by: Michael Mann, Climate Scientologist at February 02, 2010 06:41 PM (vTmeT)

I daresay that this chap is spot on!

Good show!

Posted by: Lord Kensington Knickersniffer, Head of Regents, East Anglia U. at February 02, 2010 02:47 PM (LSW06)

126 119 See, I started with a hypothesis that global warming is terrible.  Then I found some data somebody else came up with and if it didn't fit the hypothesis I tossed it out and just made shit up.  Then I used a totally fucked up computer model that churns out hockey sticks from random numbers and lied when people said I don't know what I'm talking about.  All my work might be bullshit, but I'm right! 
I spent thirty years putting this shit together, don't forget that. The science is settled.


Posted by: Mckey Mann at February 02, 2010 02:47 PM (CKW49)

127 Remember when the UN's Iraqi Oil-for-Food racket was considered modern history's greatest scandal? That's Tiddlywinks to the Three-Dimensional Chess that is the UN's IPCC Cap & Trade fraud. Progressive's, Marxists, and Legacy Media (BIRM) hardest hit.

Posted by: Hasbro at February 02, 2010 02:49 PM (swuwV)

128 Adrian @ 91, talk show host Neal Boortz once said he was constantly amazed by the stupidity of people.  This caller has apparently provided the proof.  Seriously, I am surprised that some people have enough neurons firing to support automatic respiration.

The big difference between Michael Creighton and the IPCC panel is that Creighton was honest about writing fiction.  Climate of Fear was a great book, BTW.

Posted by: GreenGasEmissions at February 02, 2010 02:50 PM (jpf1B)

129 Bring on the pudding and we'll play doge balls

Posted by: Mickey Mann at February 02, 2010 02:52 PM (CKW49)

130

Memo:

The disappearance trope has grown old. We need something to appear as the result  of global warming  AGW, something really nasty and more sinister than a slowly rising sea level, which ultimately makes something disappear anyhow. I recently came across an article in a farmers magazine about how higher temperatures have caused fire ants to move into the Tennessee Valley, but that fucking place just got slammed with about a foot of snow. But you get the idea.

----M

Re the above:

You can bet your Brit ass something has appeared, reappeared to be precise, as the result of AGW. It is my erection. You can read about it or actually see it if you happen to be a dark-skinned nubile who inhabits the subcontinent.

Your point is taken, though. Some undergrads reminded me recently about the correlation between bong hits and alien sightings. We don't need Spielberg aliens but mean, nasty bastards like the ones who took Travis Walton in the last reel of Fire in the Sky. The hot undergrad I nailed claimed there were fewer aliens now that AGW has Mother Gaia in its grip but we could just flip that theory. On the other hand, to use your insect example, cockroaches live in all weather extremes and would fit an appearance theory regardless of the temp. And if this freaking cold keeps up we can continue to claim it too is the result of AGW and will draw polar bears south into Harvard Commons. We are talking about real flesh eating bears now, not the cute cuddly Coke commercial ones drowning and all. I can hear your mind clicking: same thing as the alien approach but more plausible.

I'll scour some term papers I graded a few years back for more ideas.

 

----R

Memo update:

Along the same lines, the lost excuse also needs to be replaced.

----M

Sahib, I planted a spy story just the other day to explain how those emails got out. You know, the ones that went public after we got drunk and sent them to websites rather than the newspaper and television reporters who are in on this goof. What do spies do? Well, one thing spies do well is steal vital information. You get the point.

Lighten up. They really ran with the spy email hack crap and laughed as much as I did. You Brits are way too tight-assed. In fact, an impotent version of you will be a character in my next bodice ripper.

----R

Posted by: awed at February 02, 2010 02:52 PM (d5KAO)

131 Why didn't you come to me like a fucking man and tell me the fucking retards don't like being called names?

Posted by: Rahm E. at February 02, 2010 02:52 PM (V2pCF)

132 I knew all I needed to about Airhead Huffingglue when she said on some talk show (I can't remember which) that it was OK for her to travel by private jet because it was going that way anyway, but the rest of you droogs had better hoof it FOR THE ENVIRONMENT!!!!!

Posted by: GreenGasEmissions at February 02, 2010 02:53 PM (jpf1B)

133 Ministry of Fiction@25,

I saw what Beck did there and what you did here, and I must say, "Heh."

Posted by: AnonymousDrivel at February 02, 2010 02:56 PM (swuwV)

134 "...the greatest anti-scientific fraud in history" Actually, I think it's more than that. It's the greatest fraud in history of any kind. The billions wasted, the number of people involved... I can't think of anything that compares to it.

Posted by: wallydog at February 02, 2010 02:57 PM (Yx/54)

135 Wang..... at least his name is an appropriate description of his intelligence.

Posted by: Last Conservative In Brooklyn at February 02, 2010 03:44 PM (7uAeI)

136 Sent as a comment to another site... now I'm just getting cranky... I live in Las Vegas, and I remember in high school, it snowed for the first time in 38 years. It was only a half inch, and didn’t stick. Gone in about three hours, but… They had to let school out, there were kids that had never seen snow. It has been steadily getting colder, until in the winter 2008-9 it snowed for an entire 4 days… The first time in my memory, ever. I have pictures… This winter, it just layed down snow in Texas!! Winter ice has overrun the Copenhagen summit, and snowed-in the upper and lower hemispheres. England doesn’t own a snowplow. The satellite pictures were truly epic. It’s definitely getting colder or they wouldn’t have had to ‘hide the decline’ There are more cold planets than warm ones, and the majority of the universe, is cold, not hot. You can look into the sky at night and see how far you have to look to see the next heat source. The only three sources of heat we have are the sun, the core, and man-made. The reason man or anything lives on earth right now, is because the moon has been slowly stripping the atmospheric soup from the planet. This is known as a reducing atmosphere. Very rare as planets go. I think the atmosphere is just about right, and we should start thinking about doing something about that pesky moon, before the only thing we have to eat, are liberals. Not that I mind, but we need a lot more efficient methods of trapping them. Comment by Docjohn52 – February 2, 2010 @ 7:36 pm

Posted by: docjohn52 at February 02, 2010 03:50 PM (+Z5RN)

137

I think the atmosphere is just about right, and we should start thinking about doing something about that pesky moon, before the only thing we have to eat, are liberals.

Not that I mind, but we need a lot more efficient methods of trapping them. ~Docjohn52

I say we use leg hold traps baited with lattes, or alternately, you could string marlin fishing line at neck level across bicycle paths.

but remember:  You are what you eat.

Posted by: Speller at February 02, 2010 04:09 PM (o0R2E)

138

@129  Climate of Fear was a great book, BTW.

...it was 'State of Fear' and yeah, pretty good book...

Posted by: CanaDave at February 02, 2010 04:18 PM (7KEhN)

139 For more faked studies by a fake Ph.D. used by the CA Air Resource Board Nazis, see the johnandkenshow.com.

Posted by: PJ at February 02, 2010 04:21 PM (pizFh)

140 D'oh!!!!
I stand corrected.  Thanks CanaDave.

Posted by: GreenGasEmissions at February 02, 2010 04:21 PM (jpf1B)

141 42 But Obama is shit canning the space program to study global warming?

Obama is subverting the space program to study global warming

Posted by: Purple Avenger at February 02, 2010 04:21 PM (A/O4w)

142 Don't blame the Wang.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at February 02, 2010 04:24 PM (PQY7w)

143 Everyone's seen this, from the Daily Mash, right? TREES WILL NOT BECOME UNSTOPPABLE KILLING MACHINES, ADMIT CLIMATE SCIENTISTS. Check out the picture caption.

Posted by: David Gillies at February 02, 2010 04:34 PM (g4zXx)

144 It's almost if global warming climate change was just made up for political purposes and personal gain.

Posted by: TheQuietMan at February 02, 2010 04:37 PM (OfkS7)

145 The science is settled shitty.

Posted by: Dirk Diggler at February 02, 2010 05:14 PM (rkc0d)

146

@142 Cheers

Posted by: CanaDave at February 02, 2010 05:15 PM (7KEhN)

147 Somebody should ask Algore where that island is that he says got submerged by global warming.  I mean, after all, he is the most authentic person on global warming, so he can set all this stuff to rights by revealing the location of the sunken island.  But now that I think about it, since it's sunk, I guess we will have to take his word on it, since we won't be able to find it.

Posted by: timothyJ at February 02, 2010 06:04 PM (IKKIf)

148 Science can be replicated.  What these wingbats are producing, with their conveniently lost data, are one-of-a-kind, artistic statements that can't even be challenged let alone replicated.

Posted by: Chas at February 02, 2010 06:09 PM (yjDfo)

149

This is just another example of the pure arogance of these people--  "We will make the data say what we want to prove our point!"

The whole AGW arguement is arrogance--  Mankind has very little power over the earth-- what man creates, Mother Nature -- or God-- can destroy (or restore) in seconds or minutes...

http://tinyurl.com/yf2zczf

 

Posted by: Matt at February 02, 2010 07:07 PM (QBsVk)

150 Thank heavens for all those peer reviewed scientific journals supporting anthrogenic global warming. Imagine if this alleged phenomenon was concocted and manufactured by bureaucrats, marxists and academics?

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