Thursday, May 09, 2013

Two Professors Rekindle Their Love of Book Burning | The SPPI Blog
San Jose State received the anti-alarmist book from the Heartland Institute, one of 100,000 copies distributed by the conservative organization. After receiving initial hate-filled responses from academia, Heartland’s Jim Lakely jokingly wondered if professors would “burn the book to keep warm in this record cold spring, which might be a sign of the coming global cooling.”

Lakely quickly discovered that it’s tough to lampoon people who exceed even the craziest exaggerations
THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: San Jose State disappears photo of dogmatic climate 'science' professors burning book on climate realism
Are they trying to burn the image now that it has gone viral on the internet? From the Wikipedia entry on book burning: "Book burning is usually carried out in public, and is generally motivated by moral, religious, or political objections to the material."
Revkin.net
"As an environmental mantra, ‘leave no trace,’ is a bit pathetic. It assumes that we can extract ourselves from our ecosystem — and that we are only capable of negative impact. Can’t we interact with our environment in a way that has a positive effect?"
— Natalie Jeremijenko
It’s Existential | Planet3.0
Just another climate rant. “It’s like watching space Nazis launch asteroids at us and the mainstream media talks exasperatedly about ‘those space Nazi people’ who are so quaintly concerned that we are all going to be vaporized in a giant fiery cataclysm while our top political leaders argue about who is more pro-asteroid.”
Canadian Scientists’ Letter to Minister of Natural Resources | Planet3.0
A group of 12 prominent Canadian climate scientists called out the federal Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver on his support for the expansion of oil infrastructure in a letter released today.  

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