There's a sucker born every minute

Intent on reducing energy costs while also supporting renewable energy, Worcester County Sheriff Guy Glodis today announced the first step in the process to install wind turbines on the grounds of the Worcester County Jail and House of Correction in West Boylston.

“Now more than ever we need to think outside the box,” Glodis said in a press release. “By investing in clean, renewable wind energy, we’re saving the taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars while also planning for our long-term future.”

Environmental Capital - WSJ.com : Smart Grid Goes Mainstream With General Electric Super Bowl Ad

General Electric continued the drive to bring into the mainstream what until recently was just a wonky electricity-policy fetish—overhauling the way the country’s electricity transmission system works. GE’s ad featured the scarecrow from “The Wizard of Oz” scampering over electricity pylons singing “If I only had a brain.”
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In any event, even if smart grids popped into the nation’s consciousness Sunday night, they may not stay there. None of the advertising executives surveyed by the WSJ had anything to say about the GE ads, though one did offer advice for the next ad campaign: “A shot to the crotch is always a big winner.”

The Reference Frame: Hansen's colossal failures: Super El Niño predictions

He really doesn't have a clue about the climate. You know, in down-to-Earth empirical science such as the climate science, such statements can be evaluated objectively - by comparing the results of calculations with the mundane data obtained empirically or by other, more direct methods. These comparisons give us an unequivocal message: Hansen is just a magician, a shaman who is flooding climatology with unjustified and unjustifiable predictions that are, remarkably, much less successful even than random predictions would be.

Perhaps, this cargo cult scientist is not even trying to be accurate: he is just trying to be as catastrophic as possible and a "super El Niño" became a part of this story. He has probably lost all the ability to distinguish these two adjectives - "accurate" and "catastrophic". Why is it so difficult for so many people to understand that he is just a whacko analogous to Jehovah's Witnesses who predict a new, imminent coming of Christ?

In fact, even those guys are already saner and more cautious these days than he is. The "global warming" religion is the most irrational sect we can see in the present world. All the variations of the old-fashioned religions have become oases of caution and common sense in comparison.