Last week was a bile-spewing record for a single thread on Phys.org, where I spelled out the whole Hockey Stick Team (& Tree House Club) narrative, methodically, throughout the week, and got back these reasoned replies:
“flawed cognitive process”
“caps-lock key stuck”
“inclined to suggest therapy”
“the trolls”
“underlying motivation”
“#DenierForHire”
“sheer level of the craziness”
“some sort of mental illness”
“the pills are in that bottle”
“chess playing pigeons”
“inclined to suggest therapy”
“spouting incoherence”
“mental illness”
“political motivation”
“frantic, desperate”
“pathetic mental disease”
“really losing it”
“delusional visions of grandeur”
“terribly shrill and desperate”
“fraud and worse”
“talking points”
“unshakeable faith”
“smarter than you have the capacity to imagine”
“Illuminati Conspiracy”
“Urinate”, not “Urinated”
“the Whore of Lucifer”
“AGW deniers”
“consumption != AIDS”
“you flatter me with terms like propagandist”
“delusional denialism”
“descent into madness”
“Pedophiliaville”
“fraudulent liar and a criminal”
“desperate, shrill keening sound”
“denialist bollocks”
“just another fraud”
“a fraud, a charlatan”
“definitely a tea partier”
“gish-galloping fraudster”
“criminal fraud”
“share a cell”
“typical denialist”
“petulant child”
“trying to perpetrate his fraud”
“college drop-out”
“drug addict”
“Your motivation”
“purveyor of lies and filth”
“denialist purveyor of smut”
“denialist bollocks”
“the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch”
“seas rising steadily, without end, due to our fault.!”
“sick tastes”
“brain damage”
“ring of fire” ADD”
“(re-hashed) miss-truths”
“denialist bigotry”
“beyond stupid”
“other choice nouns”
“blind admirers”
“guy at the hospital”
“Like every other Conservative”
“Nikkitard”
“anti-psychosis medication”
“TardieBoy”
“psychotic self delusion”
“Tinky Winky thrusts his wanton pelvis”
“Chromium poisoning”
“voices in your head”
“consensus science”
“rabbit-hole occupiers”
“What a maroon!”
“a UFO trailing ISON bandwagon”
“far better off in Prison”
“Not just stalking, pedoboy, hunting.”
“denialist scumbag”
“religious extremism”
“lack of education”
“deranged pervert”
“Charles Manson has a better understanding”
“What a moron”
Doo wah, Doo wah, Doo Wah dittie, talk about the boy from New Yawk City. It really must have been something to spark that much response, I’ll have to go read and enjoy.
When the name calling is in high gear you know they know that they have lost the argument and can’t beat you factually and are only left with childish name calling. Keep your skin thick and battle on Nik 🙂
I noticed the article was 2009, about the middle of the 5 year “ice free arctic” predictions. I also learned that they really meant ice-free north pole, not arctic. So, one physical spot on the ground could go ice free and the prediction would be correct, while the rest is covered by ice? Is that the geographic or magnetic north pole? Didn’t seem to have any shame in word parsing absolutely misleading statements. Has Romm gone back for another interview to cover the 2013 season?
What’s so unprecedented about an ice-free North Pole?
New York Times – May 18, 1926
Lincoln Ellsworth of the Amundsen-Ellsworth transpolar expedition told The Associated Press here today that he saw much open water at the North Pole when he and his sixteen companions passed over it last Tuesday night in the dirigible Norge.
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New York Times – 29 August 2000
“The fact of having no ice at the pole is not so stunning,” said Dr. Claire L. Parkinson, a climatologist at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. “But the report said the ship encountered an unusual amount of open water all the way up. That is reason for concern.”
New York Times – 29 August 2000 Correction: August 29, 2000, Tuesday A front-page article on Aug. 19 and a brief report on Aug. 20 in The Week in Review about the sighting of open water at the North Pole misstated the normal conditions of the sea ice there. A clear spot has probably opened at the pole before, scientists say, because about 10 percent of the Arctic Ocean is clear of ice in a typical summer. The reports also referred incompletely to the link between the open water and global warming. The lack of ice at the pole is not necessarily related to global warming.
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Common Dreams – 4 September 2000
Climate Change Has The World Skating On Thin Ice
by Lester R. Brown
“If any explorers had been hiking to the North Pole this summer, they would have had to swim the last few miles. The discovery of open water at the Pole by an ice-breaker cruise ship in mid August surprised many in the scientific community.”
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NOAA Faqs – found 18 November 2013
10. Is it true that the North Pole is now water?
Recently there have been newspaper articles describing the existence of open water at the North Pole. This situation is infrequent but has been known to occur as the ice is shifted around by winds. In itself, this observation is not meaningful.
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Navsource.org
[89] U.S. and British sailors explore the Arctic ice cap while conducting the first U.S./British coordinated surfacing at the North Pole. The ships are, left to right: the nuclear-powered attack submarine Sea Devil (SSN-664), the fleet submarine HMS Superb (S-109) , and the nuclear-powered attack submarine Billfish (SSN-676), 18 May 1987.
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Edmonton Journal – 29 May 1928
Reported Open Water Near the North Pole
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Ottawa Citizen – Apr 3, 1969 North Pole is the goal
…While the Pole itself doesn’t move, the ice above it does – sometimes there is open water at the site and hitting the exact loca-tion is no easy chore….
WUWT made Serreze stop breathing, and the CO2 build-up ruined his remaining mental abilities.
Last week was a bile-spewing record for a single thread on Phys.org, where I spelled out the whole Hockey Stick Team (& Tree House Club) narrative, methodically, throughout the week, and got back these reasoned replies:
“flawed cognitive process”
“caps-lock key stuck”
“inclined to suggest therapy”
“the trolls”
“underlying motivation”
“#DenierForHire”
“sheer level of the craziness”
“some sort of mental illness”
“the pills are in that bottle”
“chess playing pigeons”
“inclined to suggest therapy”
“spouting incoherence”
“mental illness”
“political motivation”
“frantic, desperate”
“pathetic mental disease”
“really losing it”
“delusional visions of grandeur”
“terribly shrill and desperate”
“fraud and worse”
“talking points”
“unshakeable faith”
“smarter than you have the capacity to imagine”
“Illuminati Conspiracy”
“Urinate”, not “Urinated”
“the Whore of Lucifer”
“AGW deniers”
“consumption != AIDS”
“you flatter me with terms like propagandist”
“delusional denialism”
“descent into madness”
“Pedophiliaville”
“fraudulent liar and a criminal”
“desperate, shrill keening sound”
“denialist bollocks”
“just another fraud”
“a fraud, a charlatan”
“definitely a tea partier”
“gish-galloping fraudster”
“criminal fraud”
“share a cell”
“typical denialist”
“petulant child”
“trying to perpetrate his fraud”
“college drop-out”
“drug addict”
“Your motivation”
“purveyor of lies and filth”
“denialist purveyor of smut”
“denialist bollocks”
“the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch”
“seas rising steadily, without end, due to our fault.!”
“sick tastes”
“brain damage”
“ring of fire” ADD”
“(re-hashed) miss-truths”
“denialist bigotry”
“beyond stupid”
“other choice nouns”
“blind admirers”
“guy at the hospital”
“Like every other Conservative”
“Nikkitard”
“anti-psychosis medication”
“TardieBoy”
“psychotic self delusion”
“Tinky Winky thrusts his wanton pelvis”
“Chromium poisoning”
“voices in your head”
“consensus science”
“rabbit-hole occupiers”
“What a maroon!”
“a UFO trailing ISON bandwagon”
“far better off in Prison”
“Not just stalking, pedoboy, hunting.”
“denialist scumbag”
“religious extremism”
“lack of education”
“deranged pervert”
“Charles Manson has a better understanding”
“What a moron”
Doo wah, Doo wah, Doo Wah dittie, talk about the boy from New Yawk City. It really must have been something to spark that much response, I’ll have to go read and enjoy.
When the name calling is in high gear you know they know that they have lost the argument and can’t beat you factually and are only left with childish name calling. Keep your skin thick and battle on Nik 🙂
I noticed the article was 2009, about the middle of the 5 year “ice free arctic” predictions. I also learned that they really meant ice-free north pole, not arctic. So, one physical spot on the ground could go ice free and the prediction would be correct, while the rest is covered by ice? Is that the geographic or magnetic north pole? Didn’t seem to have any shame in word parsing absolutely misleading statements. Has Romm gone back for another interview to cover the 2013 season?
What’s so unprecedented about an ice-free North Pole?