#150) Climate Balls: Who’s Got ‘Em? | The Benshi
Having whined earlier this year about what I called “The Nerd Loop” (the tendency of overly-cerebral communicators to try and fix their problems by being even more cerebral) it’s refreshing to hear some profanity and taunting coming from the climate community. Is it an instant cure that will suddenly right the capsized climate ship? Definitely not. But it’s good to know there are still some humans like Al Gore and Dave Roberts up in the pulpit.Marc Morano vs Sheryl Crow might also be fun.
The first big visceral spasm came from Al Gore who used such horrifically offensive terms as “bullshit” and “crap” in a speech in Aspen in reference to the climate skeptics. The immediate result was climate skeptic cheerleader Marc Morano doing backflips of joy on his website, Climate Depot, using it (once again) to paint a picture of Gore as madman. Whoopdee-do. Good that Gore showed some life. I’m becoming a bigger fan of his with each year that he keeps his nose to the grindstone of this issue (even if his nose is long gone).
Then Dave Roberts of The Grist opened up his own little fire fight by taking on CWM’s (Conservative White Males — though I prefer AGW’s – Angry Grayhaired Whitemen, as someone in Colorado told me is their version for the Anthropogenic Global Warming acronym), saying we need to, “kick their asses.” I have mixed feelings on this. I grew up in Kansas with absolutely the type of guys he’s talking about. When I think of the fathers of my junior high school friends I think they need something more than ass kicking. But still, I’m with Obama overall when it comes to the confrontation issue.
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Going to sail from Alaska,
through the Pole, and on to Svalbaard- gave up after
4 weeks. They got 600km (out of 3500km)
http://www.sebroubinet.eu/la-voie-du-pole_nouvelles.html
Also swarmed by polar bears enroute.
I am in the PSU wrestling room every afternoon at 3 pm during practice ( I help with the Nittany Lion Wrestling Club guys that are going for the Olympics as their volunteer strength coach). In any case its a 5 minute walk from the meteo dept to the room, like it was when I was in college and scooted from class to practice, and Dr. Mann is welcome anytime in our room.. even it was to just watch the team practice. And if he wants to work out, I hit the squat rack on Mondays and Fridays down there.. a non violent way to settle arguments, who falls over first on high rep squats ( bodyweight maxed out)
Actually such exertion probably raises the temperatures so it would contribute to global warming, so I wouldnt want to have yet another reason for the demise of the planet pinned on me
Got another suggestion. Dr Ryan Maue vs Dr Jeff Masters..get the Michigan school involved. I would pay to see that ( providing I could have a protein shake)
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