10 Jan 1871 – IMAGINARY CHANGES OF CLIMATE. (Pall Mall Gazette.)
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Obviously there is a difference between imagining & being obsessed beyond rational thinking.
Interesting, how that naivety is born out in this 1871 example ; a prelude to Warmist thinking!
Long before government scientific institutions became corrupted by collective green madness and warmist groupthink, Australia’s Commonwealth Meteorological Office (now BoM) existed “as a corrective to scare mongering and shameless prophecy.”
https://climatism.wordpress.com/2014/02/12/shock-news-1923-meteorological-office-exists-as-a-corrective-to-scare-mongering/
Reblogged this on Climatism.
Reblogged this on Tallbloke's Talkshop and commented:
A trillion dollars or more of incentives really gets the imaginations of the climate crowd going.
Ancien régime, ancien idée fixe …
Bien sur.
Speaking of experts, This is a must see/read.
It explains how a ‘den1ers’ feel trying to talk to an irational waarmists.
This is how an engineer feels when he’s surrounded by idiots
A marvelous video fully expresses the contrast between an engineer’s rational mind and the others he sometimes must encounter at work for whom words are the wind that powers sales.
That link brings to mind a meeting at an environmental agency that I worked in back in the ’90s.
The meeting was to discuss the environmental impacts of a proposed new plant and the control technologies to be used.
During one part of the meeting, an industry representative (an engineer) was finishing up his presentation and said:
“And our wastewater treatment processes will bring the pH down to 7 before any water is released.”
(for anyone interested, the discussion was about scrubbing sulfur out of waste gas by running it through a caustic solution)
A very high agency official stood up, slammed her hands down on the desk and loudly pronounced:
“THAT’S NOT GOOD ENOUGH!!! If you can bring it down to 7 you can bring it down to ZERO!!”
Imagine the stunned faces in the room, eyes darting around, trying to not laugh and to find a way of letting this very powerful person know she sounded like an idiot.
The sad post script to this is that, nearly every time I try to tell this story, most people look at me with blank stares. People with college degrees working in technical fields. I hate having to explain a joke.
Especially if you are in a room full of high school science teachers….
In the Soviet Union the water treatment engineer would have been shot for sabotage.
It is a well known fact that during the heaviest battles of the Great Patriotic War—under heavy fire by the Wehrmacht — the politruks of Soviet artillery units ordered sine values spiking to 3 to reach the German positions.
I wonder what kind of elevation you need to get that value?
45 degrees?
?30°C.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T08sQki3p04
That is a 155mm light Howitzer. Each HE (High Explosive) shell they are firing weighs about 103 lbs. and has about 28.5 lbs. of TNT in it.
Notice the propellent bag being put in after the shell is rammed home. This is standard ammunition.
This M777 Light Howitzer can send one of these projectiles out to 18 1/2 miles with the standard ammunition being used. With rocket assisted GPS guided ammo it can go out to over 24 miles.
Anyway, you don’t want to be anywhere near where that stuff is coming down. Artillery is terrifying. American Cannon Cockers be they Army or Marine as shown, are past masters at TOT(Time on Target) where by various batteries from different locations fire at one target and time their firing so the shells arrive basically all at the same time. It is an awesome thing to witness.
For most people, this stuff is terrifying enough at the point of departure, rah.
I know a couple of guys who fired those. They say “Huh?” a lot.
Someone should have reminded the dolt that sea water is around pH 8.1 ! 🙂
Yes, but such things can turn out badly. She could get the idea her agency must spearhead a Great Leap Forward on sea water pH, too.
I doesn’t matter AndyG55. It is quite obvious that the CAGW crowd and those that believe in that religion are a quite superstitious crowd. Everything is caused by global warming they believe. Here is the latest one: http://wattsupwiththat.com/2015/08/24/as-predicted-alarmists-blame-global-warming-for-mystery-lights-in-the-sky/#comment-2014721
Thank you sir a very interesting clipping, it would seem that the more things change the more they stay the same. I’m thinking it was Mark Twain that said ‘ There are lies, damned lies and then there are politicians’ Usually more than half the population are sucked in by the propaganda but this BS has been too long in it’s forthcoming and the scare is fading. This is most likely due to long memories and common sense, Paris may be the final nail in the coffin, as the world refuses to warm as predicted, and with the sun in hiatus even some politicians will start to go Hmmmmm.
And let us not forget that President Obama, when he flew in to make his personal pitch for the Chicago Olympic bid, was brushed off by the Europeans. They were apparently quite unimpressed.
The BIG picture however is this: the powers that be want people to stop reading. The social justice warriors (SJW) are their shock troops. The low information voters (LIV) are their army. The Hugo awards within the science fiction genre was a battle that took place within a targeted battleground. The goal is to promote books that are poorly written, uninteresting, and boring. The SJWs however don’t care about those 3 aspects — they just want to promote their agenda.
Goal of the powers that be — an ignorant public that does not read and has the attention span of a gnat. Their current war has been going on for the past 100 years.
So far they are succeeding.
Sorry — wrong topic.
No kidding. The complex problems of SF are sad but not very relevant. And using the metaphors you choose on this is not helpful either.
Ah, but Hunter, Sci-Fi is very close to Cli-Fi.