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How many Guardian journalists does it take to screw in a light bulb?
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Really, just one if the lightbulb is one of those Eco friendly twisty thingies and it wants to be screwed.
It’s true. Warming will cause mass extinction and cooling will increase biodiversity.
That’s why there is so much biodiversity in Antarctica and why there are so few species in the Amazon or the Great Barrier Reef.
I hear you my friend. And here is the evidence.
Here is some more disaster.
More calamity. I don’t know how much more of this trace rise of carbon dioxide and heat we can stand. The end is nigh.
A poisonous mercury filled light bulb or a noble gas filled one? The Greens forced a ban on the non hazardous benign globes and advocated the toxic globes. Betcha Guardian journos are too chicken to change a mercury filled globe.
The article talks at length about a six-year-old paper by Peter Mayhew. Not the Chewbacca actor, the other one.
That article is interesting. It is here:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2562410/
It is amazing how many different ways that the author had to smooth, detrend, adjust, rescale, spline, and add or drop components of the data before he was finally able to get something that sort of demonstrated what he wanted … even though the effects were sometimes neutral, sometimes reversed, and sometimes lagged by ten million years before producing the effect he wanted to see.
The notion that an “icehouse” is a rich abode of new life and a tropical “greenhouse” is a dying environment losing biodiversity is a curious one. I’ll bet that tinkering with his “robust” assumptions would produce wildly different graphs — though these are not at all compelling as they are.
===|==============/ Keith DeHavelle
Never worry my friend. Co2 is the Earth’s friend and is a friend to biodiversity. No need for any panic.
It’s a good time of year for skeptics to thank their lucky stars for NYC, as the mealy mouthed white guilt intellectuals of the Upper West Side are further eclipsed by Fox News six blocks from Times Square on the Avenue of the Americas, now exposing 2.5M people at a time to direct skeptical attacks on the Greenpeace mothership, competently informed by this blog and Morano’s daily distillation of it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLN5_NBawoo
Greg Gutfeld here drags the Drug War too onto the chopping block of junk science skepticism, echoing good old Bill Buckley who featured Tim Leary himself on Firing Line, as Buckley became one of the biggest critics of it, more so than the Puritanical grandpas of Sarah “Fruit Fly Research In Paris, France” Palin’s Tea Party.
Dear NikFromNYC,
That dig at Sarah Palin surprised me. I don’t know if you are aware of the specific research she was talking about — it was a study funded by the US government on olive tree pests in France, identified as wasteful government spending. She was not talking about chromosome research. This funding was apparently something of a sop to a California olive business, but I do not know the details.
As to “Puritanical” … I’d take Palin as a role model for women over Miley Cyrus, I think. And Palin as a role model for politicians as well. Her actual career in Alaska, before the engines of media destruction focused on her, was quite impressive.
The Puritans had a rather different approach; I’ve not heard Palin or anyone associated with the Tea Party recommend it. But perhaps you had something specific in mind there.
The video was interesting … through the “Drug War” got only a bare mention. The Greenpeace commercial was astoundingly atrocious. Ludicrous, even.
===|==============/ Keith DeHavelle
Obsession with Sarah Palin is a fascinating phenomenon. I know, living as I do among the obsessed where discussions of unrelated subjects habitually end with a variation on a classical ancient theme:
“Ceterum censeo Palinem esse delendam.”
I certainly hope I stand corrected about Palin’s outlook, and indeed I was unaware of the details of the study involved.
Welcome back Nik, lovely to see you again my friend. 😉
Heh. One of the left’s bright bulbs at work.
How many Presidents does it take to screw a lightbulb factory worker?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8Ilk1Tlfj8
Sarah slim and smmmmokin hot
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/12/19/article-2526198-1A338CE000000578-5_634x433.jpg
Incandescent bulbs still being made in the USA. Not associated in any way with the company or the owner.
http://www.newcandescent.com/store/customer/
Apparently “rough service” as well as colored bulbs (including GE’s Reveal) are exempted.
Hrm, given that there are 3600 seconds per hour, I think that makes it (by Peer Reviewed Global Warming Maths™) a 2^3600 against that he’ll survive any given hour. It’s only a matter of time!
It takes no Guardian journalists to put in a light build as they voluntarily banned all electric lights in an effort to be the dumbest rocks on the planet.
These guys are doing the same as the Arctic Joule did for Mainstream Windpower.
Except they’ve only raised $490 so far for “research”.
http://www.spiritofmawson.com/#
Chris Turney is tweeting while they are stuck:
“Unfortunately Snow Dragon can’t get through. It’s standing by & waiting on another vessel to help. Everyone well. #spiritofmawson”