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By lex, on March 29th, 2010

Best to put it on hold for a while.

Because you’re stupid.

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March 29th, 2010 | Tags: , | Category: science

43 comments to Democracy

  • redc1c4
    March 29, 2010 at 8:55 pm

    of course i’m stupid: i had a GT score of 134, and signed up for the Infantry. %-)

  • Bill K.
    March 29, 2010 at 9:04 pm

    Yup, man who thinks we don’t respect dirt, thinks I’m stupid.

  • Mongo
    March 29, 2010 at 9:22 pm

    Mongo only pawn… in game of life.

  • Mike Myers
    March 29, 2010 at 9:45 pm

    Well the gentleman scientist must have blown off his rhetoric classes–rhetoric being the art of persuasion.

    “Hey Jerk, it’s a Gaia Thing. You’re Too Stupid to Understand” is not a winning argument.

  • MaxDamage
    March 29, 2010 at 11:11 pm

    Except we did not adopt a government of dictatorship during wartime, nor did we become socialists while engaged in war, nor did we pass emergency powers acts that called off elections. To state that we put democracy on hold is as much a lie as the climate change data he’s interpreting.

    Anybody in the UK who tells me we are at war with climate change, yet hasn’t experienced heatstroke and frostbite within four months of each other in the same year, can kiss my white Dust Bowl a$$.

    And shovel my walk. At least he’d be doing something useful.

    – Max

  • Skip
    March 29, 2010 at 11:46 pm

    Does that mean I can mow my 1/2 acre lawn with a 454cu mower runnin’ on nitro?
    Or do I need sheep an’ when they are through I have to shoot em’ with no-lead bullits.
    I need some help here.

    • MaxDamage
      March 30, 2010 at 7:39 am

      Based on my personal experience, if you intend to engage in any activities on said lawn, go for the lawnmower. Burning nitro will bring tears to your eyes, but sheep leave pollutants that last far longer and are more difficult to remove. Also, lawn mowers are not known for climbing upon the top of your car or devouring the flower garden when left alone, and will only rarely head-butt you in the family jewels.

      Yeah, I tried sheep as a wholesome, chemical-free no-hassle weed control device. Epic fail. But tasty.

      – Max

      • Justthisguy
        March 30, 2010 at 3:02 pm

        I like goats for that. Besides, they’re funny. I know a billy goat around here who is good company, as well as hilarious to look at. The horns, the beard, the skin tags, the huge balls, the crazy behavior…

        What’s not to love, and laugh at?

        This guy is a bottle-raised pet, and is allowed to swim in the pool.

  • Chippy
    March 30, 2010 at 1:09 am

    This is the same guy that says there is an awful moral climate in science, that computer models can’t predict climate, that climate scientists don’t have the physics right yet, and that says we’re naive to make 50 year predictions.

    So knowing that, we just just suspend democracy and jump down a giant green rat hole?

  • George V.
    March 30, 2010 at 4:12 am

    The comment about democracy being set aside in time of war… What I’ve read of history indicates that in WWII, Congress and Parliment were still functioning.

    George V.

  • BillT
    March 30, 2010 at 4:30 am

    Lovelock is what’s known in BritSpeak as a “super-bloody-cilious twit.”

    And The Guardian enjoys the same reputation for factual reporting that the Grey Lady and WaPo have — Brits have taken to calling it the “Gaurniad” because of the weird twists it imparts to the truth.

  • BillT
    March 30, 2010 at 4:31 am

    [note to self: next time, ignore the *boom!* and close the code]

  • Wilko
    March 30, 2010 at 6:55 am

    At times it appears that some in academia think too hard, overheat their brains, and blow a head gasket. Then it flat out stops working.

    I’m struggling with the democracy=global warming equation.

  • blackeagle603
    March 30, 2010 at 6:58 am

    It’s physics. I could explain it to you but I still wouldn’t understand it.

  • Spencer
    March 30, 2010 at 7:59 am

    I think he’s right about the inertia of humanity and the inability to stop it. The fact is we will not take GloWa or CliCha seriously until we feel directly threatened at the individual level which so far has not occured. That probably means crop failure, drought, and famine. Hurricanes, flooding, major snow storms really are only temporary situations and order tends to be restored in a short period of time. But wide scale starvation would change the game.

    • BillT
      March 30, 2010 at 8:30 am

      The fact is also that it’s a natural cycle and despite all the whinging from the watermelons, there’s not one blessed thing we can do to affect it.

      We can’t even make it rain on a drought-stricken acre in Manitoba, or stop a cloudburst over the Florida panhandle — and these idiots think we can control the weather on a damn’ *planet*…

  • Bill K.
    March 30, 2010 at 8:42 am

    Gee, and I was sooo trusting: While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease. What kind of fool am I?

  • Paul B.
    March 30, 2010 at 9:43 am

    But we’re clever enough to know a hoax when we see one!

  • Paul B.
    March 30, 2010 at 9:45 am

    Besides, I believe his Gaia theory is that the Earth takes care of itself, it doesn’t need our intervention.

  • Marianne Matthews
    March 30, 2010 at 10:18 am

    We could, of course, say to the AGW idiots that they could always stop breathing to do their share, since every mammal on earth produces CO2 every time he/she/it breathes out.

    This silly man is supposed to be a climatologist, fer gosh sakes. He apparently knows nothing about the science.

    Ahh, academia… a fortress for fools who can’t cut it in the real world…

    Marianne

  • Marianne Matthews
    March 30, 2010 at 12:15 pm

    BillT … You’re right, of course. Imagine — I’m still a wounded idealist, at my age, trying to adjust to the real world. But this particular gigantic scam truly annoys me.

    Marianne

  • Navig8r
    March 30, 2010 at 4:08 pm

    OK, some humans are stupid. But other humans are stupendously arrogant if they think that only THEY know with precision EXACTLY what temperature every spot on the earth is SUPPOSED to be.

    Who says that we aren’t supposed to grow corn in Greenland? It is called GREENland, is it not?

    • Quartermaster
      March 30, 2010 at 5:04 pm

      I once met the Golf Course Officer for Thule AFB, Greenland. He said his job was incredibly boring. He also said he had a hard time getting the Zamboni started on some mornings.

    • BillT
      March 31, 2010 at 1:06 am

      Yup — and a thousand years ago, parts of Greenland *were* green, at least along the southeastern coast. Viking settlers raised both food crops and cattle, and they *didn’t* import hay in the winter time.

      The Church of Anthropogeneric Gorebull Warming doesn’t like it when retreating glaciers uncover stone barns and Great Halls — and fjords with dressed stone landings — because, like, they’re all “This is the, y’know, like the *warmest* Teh Planet has been in, like, for*evah*, y’know.”

      • Justthisguy
        March 31, 2010 at 3:14 am

        This reminds me of a funny Viking story. When Leif and his boys had trouble with the Skraelings in Vinland, there was a desperate fight at one point, and the issue was in doubt until one of the Norsewomen doffed her shirt, slapped her titties with the flat of her sword, then charged the Injuns while screaming like a banshee. The Injuns were completely unnerved and fled in disorder.

        • BillT
          March 31, 2010 at 5:11 am

          As well they might.

          What would *you* do if a woman across the street doffed her blouse and then ran screaming at you while brandishing a sharp object?
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