FOR AN EXTRA $5,000, THE VISCOUNT WILL EXPLAIN HOW SHARKNADO CHEMTRAILS CAUSE GLOBAL WARMING

BRING YOUR OWN APPLE

BISHOP & POPE BLANCH AS QUEENSLAND LAWYER CANONIZES HIS OWN BLURB WRITER WHILE IMPEACHING 97% OF HER COLLAGUES

AFTER  TWO HOURS PENANCE WATCHING CONGRESSSMEN, BISHOP HILL'S FLOCK  UTTER SOME CONTRADICTORY  LENTEN PRAYERS AT  BOTH  THE  BISHOP'S HILL:

I would hope that my views on this subject were well known on BH however it is obvious that Mann was a far better communicator than the other panel members :(
I thought in particular that Judith came over as scatter brained and vague, I speak as I find as usual.

Mar 29, 2017 at 9:29 PM | Dung

The best line was Judith's last in her oral testimony. "Let's make climate science great again." Trumped everything else.
Happy Brexit day, Josh.

Mar 29, 2017 at 10:37 PM | Rud Istvan

AND ANTHONY WATTS' TABERNACLE: ristvan says March 29 2017 at 2:21 pm
 Watched the whole thing this afternoon...in my opinion the most important written testimony was Christy’s... & the most thoughtful was Curry’s.  She has been going deep into the philosphy and epistemology of science and the scientific method... that is why I was so honored to have Judith do a foreword to my last ebook. She wanted me to put words in her mouth as a thank you for many guest posts. i refused to do so. She wrote a beautiful foreword anyway. 
She is a climate science saint.

VIRULENT OUTBREAK OF SANITY STRIKES CAPITOL HILL

                             Hearing  convenes and  testimony starts   16   minutes in  :

111 VOLUMES OF REGULATIONS IS ROUGHLY 101 TOO MANY

TERRORISM  OR  BREXIT?

WHAT WILLIE SOON WAS TRYING TO SAY LAST FRIDAY.

                     BEING A VERY MILD PARAPHRASE OF WHAT THE MAN ACTULLY SAID:

 "If K-Street pays a garbage collector to force-feed Harvard-Smmithsonian   climate models nothing but garbage, nothing but garbage comes out in his Heartland pesentations.

But as  this Garbage   having passed through a very expensive  P-R machine, its  exalted garbagaciousness  may pass  a congressional committeees by unanimous consent,  engineers  turned  lobbyists like Willie Soon can go on imitiating bona fide climate scientists.

Which they are not."

A 2,357 YEAR GISH GALLOP IS A HELL OF A FLYING START

In a Heartland Climate Conference stemwinder almost as funny as Ἀλέξανδρος  Ψευδομάντis , Lucian's the-snake-has-all-the-lines original, MAGA-hatted  and  self-shirted Viscount Monckton, soi disant:

" psephologist, Hydrodynamics Advisor to the Prime Minister, "Chairman of the  Atlantic  Blue Riband Commission"" Editor of Britain's largest Catholic Newspaper", "Lede Writer" " Soduku Editor" of a London Daily," 

And real-life wholesale shirtmaker & Cricket Club President, declared hisviews on climate sensitivity & feedbacks superior to those of the IPCC because:

Starts  ~ 46.24 in  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_3S1JcFWUA

"I'm a classical architect by training, and I was given training in the mathematics of what are called the conic sections, and in particular this graph, the rectangular form of the hyperbola...  first used by Menaechmus of Alopeconnesus in Asia Minor (and you can see where that is) in 340 BC. "

GETTING TO FIRED: TRUMP SOOTHSAYER SHOWN DOOR AFTER SAYING SOOTH TO POWER

Heartland conferece keynote speaker  and wannabe Presidential Science Advisor  Dr. William Happer  of Princeton reported Yesterday on his brief visit to The Trump Tower:

"We need a King Canute. Maybe    we've got one"
But found the Donald  more preoccupied with  dismantling Obamacare and the EPA, than aquiring  a Presidential Science Advisory Office, installing  backup weather satellites, or equipping Palm Beach with state of the art tide gages:
 "I don't think its a very high priority."

             Dr. Happer made these remarks at the  Heartland Institute International  Climate Conference, in Washington, D.C.

MARCHONS, MES ENFANTS !

While the UCS,the AAAS  and the ACU have joined forces to spearhead the Scientists March On DC, but a geophysicist writes in The New York Times:

A Scientists’ March on Washington Is a

 Bad Idea

"Talk is growing about a March for Science on Washington, similar to the Women’s March the day after President Trump’s inauguration. It is a terrible idea.

Among scientists, understandably, there is growing fear that fact-based decision making is losing its seat at the policy-making table. There’s also overwhelming frustration with the politicization of science by climate change skeptics and others who see it as threatening to their interests or beliefs. 

But trying to recreate the pointedly political Women’s March will serve only to reinforce the narrative from skeptical conservatives that scientists are an interest group and politicize their data, research and findings for their own ends.
I am a coastal geologist. I direct a center where our mission is to conduct scientific research and then communicate that science to elected officials, regulators, even private entities and the public. There is no question that the proposed March for Science will make my job more difficult and increase polarization... 

 What I learned was that ...Rather than marching on Washington and in other locations around the country, I suggest that my fellow scientists march into local civic groups, churches, schools, county fairs and, privately, into the offices of elected officials. Make contact with that part of America that doesn’t know any scientists. Put a face on the debate. Help them understand what we do, and how we do it. Give them your email, or better yet, your phone number. 

Al Gore, bless his heart (as we say in the South), was well intentioned when he made “An Inconvenient Truth” in 2006. But he did us no favors. So many of the conservative Southerners whom I speak to about climate change see it as a partisan issue largely because of that high-profile salvo fired by the former vice president... 

Believe me, I understand the desire to impart to everyone how important science is to every sector of our economy, the health of our planet and the future of our families. But I don’t see how a march accomplishes any of that. If tens of thousands of us show up, it will simply increase the size of the echo chamber."

Robert S. Young is a professor of coastal geology and the director of the program for the study of developed shorelines at Western Carolina University.

DON'T FORGET THE TREMENDOUS OPPORTUNITY FOR SAVINGS IN TRAFFICKING IN PIECES OF DEAD SCIENCE

The New York Times,  reports that President Trump's Director of Management and the Budget,  former Congressman Mike  Mulvaney  took "a hard line on spending during President Obama’s term, vowing not to raise the nation’s debt limit and embracing the term 'Shutdown Caucus' because of his willingness to shut the government down instead."^[25]

Mulvaney cited its funding of Planned Parenthood  when he voted against a government-funding resolution, which would have prevented a government shutdown,.^[27] Explaining his vote, Mulvaney said, "This is not about women's health. It’s about trafficking in pieces of dead children."^[27]

The Director's  characterization of  such scientific investments as GoreSat, "as a waste of your money." naturally  opens the door to their sale as Government surplus, so perhaps the former next President should bid on  his namesake, with a view to donating it to fellow enthusiasts at The Planetry Society, which might continue its operation on an amateur basis. It should be well within Al's P-R budget, as I can rememeber when Titan IIc rocket engines surplus to Cold War ICBM needs, were a drug on the market  at .2% of their government cost- I donated one to Boston's Museum of Contemporary art.

HAS STEYN BEEN DRINKING CHATEAUNEUF du JONES AGAIN ?

SOME COMMENTERS JUST CANT HOLD THEIR FERMENTED CROWBERRY  JUICE:     Like this one :

CAPE WIND GETS OFF TO ROARING STOP

A RHODE ISLAND  RADIO STATION REPORTS:

A ten story  wind turbine at Salty Brine State Beach in Narragansett collapsed during Tuesday's nor'easter

With winds reaching more than 50 miles an hour in Narragansett, the 100-foot lattice tower buckled over from the dangerous gusts.

Pictures from the scene showed the turbine's tower folded over on itself and the turbine's blades sitting in the snow.

The wind turbine in Galilee generates enough electricity to power the beach's new bathhouse. It was remodeled in 2010, with the project costing nearly $2,000,000 .

Adresssing the fallen turbine,  Gov. Gina Raimondo Tuesday  said it'll be a priority repair for the state once the storm passes.

"Nobody has been hurt,” said Raimondo. “It's a wind turbine that's owned by the state, owned by DEM. And when the storm's over, we'll get it fixed."

YOU GO TO WAR WITH THE CABINET YOU'VE GOT They just don't make ClimateBalls the way they used to.

JUMPING THE SHARKNADO : WILL GEOSTORM RAIN CHEESE ON THE 2018 OSCARS ?

"Something to really look forward to. It will come out in October. Maybe we can dedicate a session ad CEC17 to it!

Alan Robock, Distinguished Professor 

Department of Environmental Sciences Rutgers University

Editor, Reviews of Geophysics"          

Disaster Thriller Geostorm 

Will Have the Most Terrifying

 Climate Change Ever

From  Gizmodo: " Forget the car-sized hail.  It  looks  like it  might actually  start raining cheese  in the climate-controlled near-future of Geostorm. 

Set during a time when a network of satellites help stave off extinction-level natural disasters, Geostorm shows what happens when that technology malfunctions.  

It’s going to be a disaster flick centered on mankind enduring the worst weather ever, all because we were foolish enough to think we could play Thor. 

Geostorm will star Gerard Butler and Ed Harris and is directed by Dean Devlin, the writer/producer behind Independence Day. It’s due out in October.
We're Doomed."

APPARENTLY,  SO IS THE MOVIE:

Geostorm  is a remake of 

DAS ARCHE NOAH PRINZIP  (THE NOAH'S ARK PRINCIPLE)

which began life as  master of disaster  Roland Emmerich's  Doctoral Thesis. After watching Star Wars, the  University of Television and Film Munich student debuted his  final thesis at the 34th Berlin International Film Festival in 1984.
Re-released on DVD in 2002, it won 2 1/2  Rotten Tomatoes. 

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In 1983 when this film was shot, the imaginary, far-distant future was set in 1997, when the evil manipulation of a laboratory in space was planned with the idea of controlling the climate of the area around Saudi Arabia.

 With this new twist on climate-control, Western forces could invade that country literally under cover. But if the climate alteration were to happen, it would cause flooding to rival the biblical deluge, and so the plan must be stopped at all costs. The commander in charge of the space lab refuses to follow through with the project, causing Houston ground control to send up another two astronauts to take over the military objective. The space lab then becomes the scene of a battle between the forces of good and evil that will determine if a second Noah is going to be needed on earth. 

Neophyte director Roland Emmerich in this diploma film for the Munich film and Television School might have spent more time on the storyline, tying up several loose ends and filling in where needed to add a bit more suspense and excitement to the telling.

 ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi

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• Rating: 
  NR
• Genre: 
  Art House & International, Science Fiction & Fantasy
• Directed By: 
  Roland Emmerich
• In Theaters: 
  Feb 22, 1984  Wide
• On DVD: 
  Nov 19, 2002
• Runtime: 
  100 minutes

REPUBLICAN CONGRESSMAN PROPOSES BILL TO ROLL BACK NIXON

Great is the power of parsimony.

Representative Matt Gaetz  of  Florida  proposes to undo  the 88,000 specific and 154,000 general rules the  EPA has thus far published in the  Federal Register by passing a Bill precisely ten words long :

115th CONGRESS 1st Session   H. R. 861
To terminate the Environmental Protection Agency.

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
February 3, 2017
Mr. Gaetz (for himself, Mr. Massie, Mr. Palazzo, and Mr. Loudermilk) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Agriculture, Transportation and Infrastructure, and Science, Space, and Technology, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned
A BILL
To terminate the Environmental Protection Agency.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. TERMINATION OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY.

The Environmental Protection Agency 

shall terminate on December 31, 2018.

Introduced in House (02/03/2017)

Sponsor:	Rep. Gaetz, Matt [R-FL-1] (Introduced 02/03/2017)
Committees:	House - Energy and Commerce; Agriculture; Transportation and Infrastructure; Science, Space, and Technology
Latest Action:	02/10/2017 Referred to the Subcommittee on Environment.

The Ambassadeur's New Gloves

Eli Rabbett says:

"We will march for what we love, the thrill of discovery, the joy of understanding, and the benefits for all."

That pretty much limits the march to the Spring outing route Theodore Roosevelt imposed on Washington guests he thought in need of vigorous exercise.

Arriving at a designated spot in Rocky Creeek Park, they were exhorted to proceed two miles in a dead sraight line , climbing up, over, and across every obstacle, boulder and fallen tree to  the Potomac, where a Secret Service boat would collect   their clothes  so they could would swim to the islet in midstream where a picnic lunch awaited them.

This appealed to the persidential sense of humor,  for while hisold  friends knew they should wear their stoutest clothing, new invitees often  appeared in formal gear.

Such was the case  when the new  French ambassador appeared, but he gamely followed TR across the rocky terrane , loosing his silk top hat and splitting his frogged coat an the process of getting to the river bank, where he found the Presedent and the rest of the party in the process of stripping naked to swim the river.

The ambassador , being the doyen of the Washington diplomatic corps, naturally followed his host's example, but as he prepared to enter the water , TR noticed the otherwise naked Frenchman,  still had his gloves on.

" Monsieur Ambassadeur, " TR said with surprise,  I see  you are still wearing violet kidd gloves!"

" But of course, Monsieur President!

 What if we should meet the ladies ?"

WHO NEEDS CLIMATE SCIENCE-? HE'S GOT EXPERTS ON TWERKING, VIRTUE SIGNALLING & GRAND THEFT AUTO

The  Amazing  Delingpole Who Is Always Right,  because Breitbart instantly removes  comments questioning his infallibility, tells his readers President Trump faces a terrible dilemma : Should he:

Trainspotters take note this isn't  really Deingpole wearing
 his hunting cap: it's  his  brother Dick's computer game fake tank helmet- and pipe to boot!

a) follow the example of his predecessors — the Bushes, Clinton, and Obama — and take the dumb, cowardly, economically damaging, scientifically illiterate and totally wrong decision?or 

b) stay true to his campaign promises and do the right thing by America, by honest science, and by the whole world? 

Personally, I would have thought it was a no-brainer.  But not, apparently. The New York Times is urging President Trump to ignore the facts and the evidence, and instead listen to the siren voices of his daughter Ivanka, his Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and the various assorted members of the Climate Industrial Complex who...  want him to keep the U.S. stuck in the disastrous and ill-advised United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).  

At least George H.W. Bush, who nodded through the deal at the 1992 Rio Earth Summit, had the excuse that he was going with the flow of the popular mood and acting in accordance with the known science of the time.  

But that was 25 years ago, ... and no one had ever heard of twerking, virtue-signalling, Grand Theft Auto, Breaking Bad, the Second Gulf War, Islamic State or Amy Schumer’s comedy vagina —...since when...One of the big things that has changed... is that anyone who has done any background reading on the subject now knows that it is based on a pack of lies, junk science and barely concealed left-wing political activism. 

The distinguished physicist Dr. Richard Lindzen recently set out the case well in an open letter to the president, signed by more than 300 eminent scientists and other qualified individuals: