by Ben (enjoys holiday) on Flickr
And speaking further on a subject of a uni-planetarian fraud called Anthropogenic Global Warming: let me provide few links describing the fascinating story unfolding right in front of our disbelieving eyes (if you haven’t seen it already):
to Michelle Malkin (see comment thread)
to Anthony Watts (photo of my new hero, Lord Monckton, provided) . Follow up here.
and finally, to the Science and Public Policy Institute’ site which is proud to have Viscount Monckton as their Chief Policy Adviser.
Here’s is who the dumb bureaucrats of Science are dealing with:
Lord Monckton, UK: — Christopher, Third Viscount Monckton of Brenchley, was Special Advisor to Margaret Thatcher as UK Prime Minister from 1982 to 1986, and gave policy advice on technical issues such as warship hydrodynamics (his work led to his appointment as the youngest Trustee of the Hales Trophy for the Blue Riband of the Atlantic), psephological modeling (predicting the result of the 1983 General Election to within one seat), embryological research, hydrogeology (leading to the award of major financial assistance to a Commonwealth country for the construction of a very successful hydroelectric scheme), public-service investment analysis (leading to savings of tens of billions of pounds), public welfare modeling (his model of the UK tax and benefit system was, at the time, more detailed than the Treasury’s economic model, and led to a major simplification of the housing benefit system), and epidemiological analysis. On leaving 10 Downing Street, he established a successful specialist consultancy company, giving technical advice to corporations and governments. His two articles in the Sunday Telegraph late in 2006 debunking the climate-change “consensus” received more hits to the newspaper’s website than any other in the paper’s history: the volume of hits caused the link to crash. His contribution to the IPCC’s Fourth Assessment Report in 2007 – the correction of a table inserted by IPCC bureaucrats that had overstated tenfold the observed contribution of the Greenland and West Antarctic ice sheets to sea-level rise – earned him the status of Nobel Peace Laureate. His Nobel prize pin, made of gold recovered from a physics experiment, was presented to him by the Emeritus Professor of Physics at the University of Rochester, New York, USA. He has lectured at university physics departments on the quantification of climate sensitivity, on which he is widely recognized as an expert, and his limpid analysis of the climate-feedback factor was published on the famous climate blog of Roger Pielke, Sr. His lecture to undergraduates at the Cambridge Union Society on climate change has been released by SPPI as Apocalypse? NO!, a full-length feature movie on high-definition DVD (available from www.greatswindle.com). Apocalypse? NO! been described by Professor Larry Gould of the University of Hartford, Connecticut, as the best film ever made on climate change.
Further down the thread at American Thinker a comment by Lord Monckton himself appears.
Oooooo I think I’m in love.
My deeply felt gratitude to Alan Sullivan for pointing to the story.
My favorite part of that video is the moment when the woman who’s exiting a taxi is asked why she didn’t use public transporation. As if on cue she responds, “this is public transportation.”
If only ignorance could be converted into carbon credits.
L is for Latte
Bureaucrash did something similar at an anti-globalization, anti-trade, anti-capitalism conclave held somewhere in SE Asia several years ago. I wish I could find the video link for that one.
What is that photo by Ben (enjoys holiday) at Flickr?
Dick: that’a the photographer’s moniker
Gerard – if “protests fueled by latte” were the only indication of creeping socialism, you and me could take it as a [admttedly, perverted] entertainment.
Unfortunately, they are now the majority in government, in every Personnel department of big corporations, they have the power to implement their stupid pseudo-science into actions – and tax the country to death.
Tax and regulate. Don’t forget all of those beleaguered refuseniks punished by various colossal government administrative agencies simply for denouncing and subverting the policies of their employer.
Off with their heads!
It’s amazing how elastic the Gaia devotees/warmed-over Trostkyites definition of “suppression” is. Somehow a lunatic who is invited to testify before Congress more frequently than the Commander of the Joint Chiefs, who is profiled more often in the mass media than Alex Rodriguez, is the victim of an unparalleled campaign of censorship, the likes of which we haven’t seen since the Wilson administration.
I don’t know if you listen to late-night talk radio, but being an inveterate insomniac I have the chance to listen to all sorts of colorful advertisements broadcast during the graveyard shift.
The Ad Council has an hysterical global warming warning that has to be more obnoxious than the most ridiculous pronouncement from the Office of National Drug Control Policy. They repeat it, ad nauseam, and have done so for as long as I can remember. NPR has devoted an entire year, yes YEAR, to ensure that its devoted listeners are thoroughly indoctrinated on this subject.
My father’s cousin lived in Roumania during the apex of the Ceausescu regime as he pursued his doctoral studies. Sometimes I actually wonder if this is what it must have been like for people living in Bucharest. You wonder when they’re going to just forgo this whole charade and jump to implanting chips in our brains.
Well, not that many have insomnia…oh, wait – maybe it’s the evil “brainwashed in his sleep” program! An innocent leaves his radio on, on low volume, to ease himself getting asleep – he gets up in the morning a total AGW-cause- devotee!
It’s all very depressing, actually
Well, you know what they say.
“If life hands you lemons…”
Maybe we can replicate the stunning success of Hooters when it was ordered to hire non-womyn wait staff in order to comply with federal sex discrimination diktats.
Perhaps the withering ridicule and scathing satirical jibes will restore some semblance of their ever-decreasing sanity and force them to back down.
Carbon Footprint
Afraid, at this point satirical jibes will do little practical good; they have the means to just ignore the common sense and continue with their mandatory regulation.
No, I mean what is the photo of? It looks like a flour sifter turned on edge.
We’ve had tax-and-spend regimes before. They’re almost always followed by tax-cut regimes, and dismantling ones, like the demise of most federal welfare programs in the 1990s via Clinton. FWIW, I doubt the AGW bureacracy will ever take firm hold in Washington. This “stuff,” to put it politely, is beloved by the media and the political and social elites, but, thankfully, they don’t often (or, at least, not for very long) dictate how the rest of us vote. It’s the little, incremental taxes and programs and laws that come and stay, and stay, and stay. But, then, we thought that about welfare in the 1970s and 1980s and look what happened to it.
As I understand it, the demise of the welfare programs was not via Clinton, but via Republican Congress at the time of Clinton admin.
The Green regulation, unfortunately, is getting written into laws pretty quickly. I see it in my professional field: escalating. Only about a year ago LEED certification for new government buildings was optional; now more and more counties (and even some states) make it mandatory. That means, within the same budget given, the quality of materials will go down as the cost goes up. I’m sure there are other consequences.
Photo: on the photographer’s page I linked above I believe he has descriptions/captions written @ every photograph, including the one in question.
This is outrageous.
The Day After
One activity allows visitors to investigate raising the sea levels on a dynamic scale model of Lower Manhattan to graphically illustrate the flooding that would be caused by the melting of ice sheets and warming of oceans.
Was this exhibition commissioned by the Weinstein brothers, or Robert Zemeckis?
I realized that science has been conscripted into the agenda of political socialists, but this is truly disturbing. Visiting The Museum of Natural History and Hayden Planetarium was one of my favorite activities as a child. Now they’re turning it into a huge propaganda mill to promote a predetermined, misleading, pseudo-scientific political agenda.
See what I mean? It’s not mere fringe “latte protests” anymore: the cancer spread into mainstream.
to #10:
I tried to leave a comment on your post (with link to mine), couldn’t sign in with Typepad system: they say my forgotten password was sent, but I never get the message. Boy, even commenting at Livejournal is easier.
The reason I didn’t include information about the photo in my post was …this post wasn’t about the picture. Not about buildings, or mountains, or weird shapes, or photography. I found it on Flickr while searching for “weather station”, for illustrative purposes only.
I wouldn’t insult the intelligence of my readers by suggesting to them use of search engines and keywords if they got interested in particular information.
Sorry you had trouble with Typepad, Etat. Some of my friends have likewise found it impossible to get registered. LiveJournal, at least, didn’t turn me away. But my spam comments were just too much work to delete, so I had to go to that system, the one offered by Movable Type.
As for the photo, of course you didn’t have to identify it. I didn’t mean to suggest that you should. You did supply the link to Flickr where I could find it on my own, which I did. Thanks for that. Quite a picture. I never saw anything like it. I suppose it’s just architecture for beauty rather than some specific purpose for the weather station. I Googled it to try and find out when it was built and some details, but, after fifteen minutes of searching, I came up dry. I’ll try again some time.
Yes, the picture is quite nicely done.
Most of the building’s charm comes from the surrounding mountainscape, I think. Did you notice above the industrial-metal building there is an old one, possibly built of some sort of stone, or even bricks (but bricks wouldn’t make sense in the mountain country, would they?).
Maybe the shape is dictated by the equipment inside, maybe – by the budget limitations (it’s easier and cheaper to bring pre-fabricated section of industrial quality than pay for labor on the mountaintop).
In any case – impressive job, for sure.
Maybe I will invent some other moniker and register with Typepad anew.
Took a while, but I finally have decided that it’s shaped the way it is to deflect snow, rather than have it pile up on top of it. But it must also be for storing something. There seems to be a little door down there in the righthand corner. See you finally got into Typepad. That’s good.
You might be right:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/c-s-n/88695084/
There is almost no snow on the roof of the expanded section, and the old one is covered.
That’s cool. I missed that one.