STRANGE NEW RESPECT DAWNS FOR PROGRESSIVE SCIENCE COMMUNICATORS

  David Sweeney – National Public Radio Chief News Editor

  Michael Oreskes – NPR Senior Vice President and Editorial Director 

. Garrison Keillor – National Public Radio Icon

 Matt Lauer – NBC News Anchor

          Charlie Rose – CBS/PBS News Anchor

          Glenn Thrush – New York Times White House Correspondent

  Mark Halperin – Bloomberg/NBC News Commentator

  Lockhart Steele – Editorial Director Vox Media

  David Corn – MSNBC /Washington Bureau Chief for Mother Jones

  Leon Wiesletier   -  Literary Editor at the New Republic

  Hamilton Fish – Publisher New Republic

  Matt Taibbi – Rolling Stone

   Jann Wenner – Rolling Stone Owner

           Ian Prior – Senior Editor The Guardian

          Matt Sullivan – Guardian

          Andrew Rubin = Android Creator

WHITE HOUSE SCIENCE OFFICE TO BECOME CAJUN CABARET

THE  LOSS  OF 11 OSTP  NOMINEES  IN A TRAGIC  CADDYING ACCIDENT AT  THE 18TH  HOLE QUICKSAND  HAZARD  ON  THE  TRUMP  NATIONAL GOLF  COURSE HAS COMPELLED THE ADMINISTRATION TO EMBRACE  THIS WUWT ANALYSIS:

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WHAT COULD BE GREENER THAN A FLYING EEL THAT BURNS COD LIVER OIL ?

   Eel-aeroplane hybrid named Japan's best mascot

A half-aeroplane, half-eel creation has been named Japan's favourite mascot 

The city of Narita's Unari-kun polled a staggering 805,328 votes in the annual Yuru Chara Grand Prix to choose the country's top regional mascot, the Mainichi Daily News reports, 40,000 votes ahead of its nearest rival.

Unari-kun represents two things for which the city of Narita is famous - its airport, which serves as Tokyo's main international terminal, and unagi freshwater eels, a common ingredient in Japanese cuisine. 

The honour proved too much for Narita's deputy mayor Kenji Sekine, who was present at the event. "I'm close to tears," he said as he thanked the voting public.

By News from Elsewhere......as found by BBC Monitoring

IT DEPENDS ON THE COLOR OF YOUR IGLOO

WATTS  SIDEKICK COPS PLEA ON  2nd  LAW OF  THERMODYNAMICS

Eschenbach's belated ( it has taken more than a decade ) defection to the winning side in the thermodynamics wars may be related less to the Sky Dragon die off than advances in computer  graphics in undergraduate physics teaching  that have rendered the undeniable too obvious to deny: 


Unless you're a Watts fan who views the First Law as Fake News
and embaces Eschenbach's Law of Radiative Equilibrium:

" If there is a block of wood between you and a block of ice, if you remove the wood, you’ll get colder because you will be absorbing less radiation from the ice than you were from the wood. You no longer have the wood to shield you from the ice."

FOX TV LAUNCHES NEW CLIMATE & NATURE CHANNEL

CATCH  SEAN  HANNITY'S   FLAMING  YULE LOG  &  UNHAPPY  SALAMANDER  CHRISTMAS   SPECIAL  

CO2 SCIENCE RUNS OUT OF STEAM

After decades spent collecting millions from Peabody Energy, ALEC, Southwest Coal and  The Heartland Institute-- they compiled  the  ill-fated  NIPCC  report,  the money supporting  two generations of Idsos  Pere et Fils,  has evporated, leaving them to face into a painful transition  from  professional PR hacks to amateur  conspiracy theorists: 

At the  the scientifically disinterested  blog of what has been styled "the von Trapp family of climate denial."  Sherwood B. Idso writes " we never discuss our funding. Why? Because we believe that ideas about the way the world of nature operates should stand or fall on their own merits, irrespective of the source of support for the person or organization that produces them ... "

But what about they say when they run out of science:

Easy Call

Posted by Jeff Id on June 17, 2017

America is not allowed to elect a conservative president of any form.  The deep state, fourth branch of government has declared that they now have critical mass to enforce their will upon us independently from our elected officials.  Liberal feeders have infected every branch of government, media and education to the point where even without any evidence, a conservative president will be impeached.  

There is zero evidence that Trump has done anything wrong, yet we are surrounded by openly visible liberal crimes that go un-prosecuted.  Comey leaking to get a fake prosecutor, Hillary selling the US for personal gain,  Obama fast and furious, Hillary’s dead ambassador to Lybia and the lies to cover it, instead we have fake prosecution recommended by deputy ag Rosenstein for Trump firing Comey, the very act that Rosenstein recommended in a public letter.  

Now we have a fake ‘public’ trial by partisan judges where every witness admitted that there is no evidence of wrongdoing.   A trial which hasn’t ended because now the prosecuting liberals have switched from the proven false ‘Russia stole the election’ charges to different FAKE charges of obstruction of justice.  Obstructing the investigation of the proven fake Russia stole the election charge by the way.

How does one obstruct justice regarding the non-investigation of a fake crime?

Only in America methinks.

Trump could order the investigation of something he was guilty of, stopped,  without being guilty of obstruction by the way, because he’s actually the boss.  He’s completely allowed to do that...13 LIBERAL lawyers. Hillary and Democrat donors, Investigating a president without even a potential crime.  YES they will make something up.  We don’t know what but LAWYERS lie for a living.  They twist fact into innuendo as a matter of duty.  

It seems Trump has little choice.  In his place, I would fire them all right now with the statement that it is in our country’s best interest that these idiots move on.  Muller, Rosenstein, and about 2500 other Obama swampmongers would leave right at this exact moment if I had the ability.   Trump gets the same result either way, prosecution, innuendo and nonsense.  Chuck them to the curb with extreme prejudice...

Flameout!

Posted by Jeff Id on June 6, 2017

[I’m self snipping this post – not because I disagree with it but because I can’t do anything about fake news so I might as well ignore it.]  I will say though, that I’m still pissed about it.

DEEP IN THE HEART OF TEXAS, WHERE THE WIND COMES WHISTLING OFF THE PLAINS

 WAS IT AN 'UTTERLY NATURAL REFLEX RESPONSE  TO  WARMING'
or did God, the Vikings, and Sound Science conspire to  force the Right Honorable, but  thermodynamically challenged, Chairman of the  House Energy  and  Commerce Committee
 to take off his clothes to Tweet a selfie?

         OR  MAYBE  THE WIND TURBINES  MADE HIM DO IT :

I HAVE A BAD FEELING ABOUT THIS

Two elongated  reddish objects of  > 100 meter Radius & >10 To 1 Axis Ratio  
The upper is  described  in the current issue of Nature:

Letter | Accelerated Article Preview
The lower was sunk  by the British Navy in the Denmark Strait 

A brief visit from a red and extremely elongated interstellar asteroid

WUWTs take on it matches the eccenticity of its hyperbolic orbit-

'Light-curve observations indicate that the object has an extreme oblong shape, with a 10:1 axis ratio and a mean radius of 102±4 m,'

'Since its discovery ‘Oumuamua has faded from view. The object’s rapidly increasing distance from the Earth and Sun now makes it too faint to be studied by even the largest telescopes.

“Needless to say, we dropped everything so we could quickly point the Gemini telescopes at this object immediately after its discovery,” said Gemini Director Laura Ferrarese who coordinated the Gemini South observations for Meech’s group.

“What we found was a rapidly rotating object, at least the size of a football field, that changed in brightness quite dramatically,” according to Meech. “This change in brightness hints that ‘Oumuamua could be more than 10 times longer than it is wide – something which has never been seen in our own Solar System,” according to Meech.

‘Oumuamua shares similarities with small objects in the outer Solar System, especially the distant worlds of the Kuiper Belt – a region of rocky, frigid worlds far beyond Neptune. “While study of ‘Oumuamua’s colors shows that this body shares characteristics with both Kuiper Belt objects and organic-rich comets and trojan asteroids,” says Meech, “its orbital path says it comes from far beyond.”

PLIMER JUMPS THE SHARK OVER THE VOLCANO UNDER THE GLACIER AGAIN

BETTER TOSS ANOTHER GEOLOGIST ON THE BARBIE, MATE, 

THE FIRST ONE DID A RAINBOW YAWN

Having  blown its frozen top in 1362,  and again in 1727, ice-covered Öræfajökull,  Iceland's largest active volcano, is rumbling once again. Media Watch notes that the last unpronounceable Icelandic volcano to spew ash and ground  planes all over northern Europe also turned the thoughts of  antipodean talk radio to the climate wars :

Talking to Australia's Coal Coast on 2BC Sydney, Jason Morrison said: ... this morning I'm driving to work and flicking around on the radio and I hear someone say, 'Isn't it amazing how much carbon pollution is going to be saved from getting into the atmosphere because all those planes won't be flying because the volcano's erupting... They're kidding aren't they? So I thought I'd try to get you some facts.— Radio 2GB, The Jason Morrison Drive Show, 19th April, 2010

Morrison, who's deeply sceptical about human-induced global warming, as for some facts from facts from Queensland mining geologist  Professor Ian Plimer, who's even more deeply sceptical.:

Prof. Ian Plimer: ... we humans only put out about three per cent of the annual emissions of carbon dioxide. The rest comes from all sorts of other things, including volcanoes.— Radio 2GB, The Jason Morrison Drive Show, 19th April, 2010

But volcanogist  expert Dr Fred Jourdan of Curtin University objected:

... it has been shown by the US Geological Survey that current emissions from volcanoes are being dwarfed by human emissions to a ratio of 1/130...— Response from Fred Jourdan (Prof. of Applied Geology, Curtin University of Technology), 28th April, 2010

The numbers talk- run them  and you'll find human greenhouse emissions run a hundred and thirty times greater in a given year than all the volcanoes on earth

But never  one to be upstaged  by a jumbo jet, Professor Plimer,  who is Australia's preeminent Creationist- basher,  went  on deliver a sermon of his own:

Prof. Ian Plimer: The very fact that we see this great plume of particles going into the atmosphere is telling us there's a huge amount of greenhouse gas being released from this volcano, unpronounceable volcano.— Radio 2GB, The Jason Morrison Drive Show, 19th April, 2010

At which Jason Morrison  harrumphed so much for all those warmists who think puny humans can have an effect on the world's climate:

Jason Morrison: ... and I just, I wonder what this does to all their theories?

Prof. Ian Plimer: It completely stuffs them, we know that.— Radio 2GB, The Jason Morrison Drive Show, 19th April, 2010

Which inspired another Australian talking head to  chat up Plimer and opine:

Keva Gocher: The volcanic eruption would eclipse any carbon emissions released by man. Now that was one of the intriguing statements I recall geologist Ian Plimer making at his Monaro climate change conference organised last year by the local group Monaro farming systems.— ABC Radio Rural Report, South East NSW, 21st April, 2010

Prof. Ian Plimer: ... the human emission is very, very small. One single big volcano can actually completely change the whole carbon dioxide budget. We have to look at this in perspective.— ABC Radio Rural Report, South East NSW, 21st April, 2010

Really?  Dr Jourdan proceeded to do some actual research, and concluded:

The eruption in Iceland emitted a fairly small amount of CO2. In fact most recent estimates show that the flights that were grounded by the eruption would have emitted about twice as much CO2 as the volcano itself.— Response from Fred Jourdan (Prof. of Applied Geology, Curtin University of Technology), 30th April, 2010

At the time of Dr. Jourdan's writing, April, 2010:

from: http://gizmodo.com/5519809/eyjafjallajokull-daily-co2-output-utterly-dwarfed-by-european-aviation-industry

"European aviation industry's daily CO2 output completely dominates poor Eyjafjallajökull with a daily tally of 344,109 tons of CO2 per day. Compared to the volcano's 15,000 tons."

It rurns out  in the end that  at the height of the   Eyjafjallajökull  eruption,  the volcano puffed out  a scant 150,000 tonnes a day of  CO2--  Less  than half the emission of the  air  transport it grounded .

It also led to some television fireworks:

CLIMATE ART SETS NEW AUCTION RECORD

BIG COAL'S  BID  TO GIVE  THE  WHITE  HOUSE  THIS LOUCHE  LEONARDO
HAS BEEN GAZUMPED BY  THE OPENING OF
 A BRANCH OF THE LOUVRE ON THE LEFT BANK OF THE PERSIAN GULF

THE  MORE  THAN  SLIGHTLY  REPAINTED  OLD MASTER IS ALREADY
ON ITS WAY 

ARE POLAR BEAR WRAPPING AND BATTERIES INCLUDED ?

Opportunity to Advertise on an Iceberg

ST. JOHN'S,  NEWFOUNDLAND / ACCESSWIRE / November 16, 2017 /... 

You've  heard  the expression "it's only the tip of the iceberg;" be the first to own this expression ...

[ Agency 80 Inc. ] a Titanic  Expedition  Logistics Specialist ... can...wrap  or  stage an  advertisement on a real, North Atlantic  Iceberg  with  a  corporate logo  or message.

Every year, thousands of Icebergs float from Greenland Fjords and eventually pass the Newfoundland and Labrador coastline. Size and timing will be monitored to select the best berg for exposure and impact. 

The company will attach the advertising... wrap or otherwise safely over the gigantic berg. For those who are less familiar with the size and magnitude of this offering, the company could safely compare the size of the iceberg to that which sunk the Titanic in 1912.

Company officials ensure that this is a very safe and  environmentally  friendly  procedure  and will  not harm the marine environment... A stunt and safety team will execute the event and any materials used will be removed promptly, ensuring the environment is returned back to its original state.

This  thrilling  venture,  which  could  make the record books, is to be sold  to  the  highest  bidder with  starting bids  at  $500,000  US  plus production costs, with an event date for early 2018... The ideas could include... sending a strong message about global warming or even a marriage proposal.

Due to the magnitude of this event, serious inquiries can be made to our facilitator, via our website: www.icebergwrap.com. Our facilitator, Allison Crawford, of Agency 80 Inc., will contact those selected for consideration.

WHY SOME GOOD MEN PERSIST IN LOVING COAL

AUDITING THE AFGHAN HOCKEYSTICK

       GAS  OF  LIFE   TURNS  TALIBAN   GREEN  WITH  ENVY

HOLY LIEBIG !
Just think what  The Gas of Life  could do with some glyphosate 
& non-catastrophic anthropogenic global warming thrown in!  

Where would  The Opiod Crisis  be without it?

When will the EPA nominate Peabody Coal for the

Presidential Medal of CO2 Science ?

WHO KNEW THEY HAD HOCKEY STICKS IN AFGHANISTAN ?

BREXIT, PURSUED BY BEARS OF LITTLE BRAIN

    FURTHER  EVIDENCE  OF  THE INTELLECTUAL RIGOR  OF  THE  CLIMATE  WARS

Delingpole: All Hail Trump

Yay! Be proud, America and relish your splendid isolation! You are, officially, the only nation ...which hasn’t signed up to the Paris Climate Accord...

America, Land of the Free – the last bastion of common sense, the final redoubt of Western Civilization in a world all but overwhelmed by the green lunacy of the Climate Industrial Complex...

It doesn’t matter that President Trump pulled the U.S. out of the Paris Climate Accord, these quislings are now claiming: individual U.S. cities and states can go ahead and decarbonize their economies, for all the world as if it were that crooked uranium saleswoman sitting in the Oval Office instead of the Donald...Green bloviators like ex-Mayor Bloomberg, Governor Moonbeam and the rest are, in other words, just a bunch of virtue-signalling charlatans...

 TWENTY GOOD REASONS

Not to worry about polar bears: an update 

Susan J. Crockford

DID TRUMP EVER ACTUALLY SEE THIS GRIFTER'S PITCH?

  HEARTLAND  INSTITUTE  'SCIENCE  DIRECTOR'  

"I  WILL  SAY  CARBON DIOXIDE  HAS  NO  IMPACT  ON THE  TEMPERATURE  OF  THE PLANET... NONE.
PRESIDENT  TRUMP HAS CALLED GLOBAL WARMING  A  HOAX 

WHAT HE  WANTED WAS  THE  TECHNICAL  SUPPORT   FOR  HIS  POSITION  THAT   IT   IS  A  HOAX...
 WE  HAVE  NOTHING  TO  DO WITH   CLIMATE.
THE  ARROGANCE OF  BELIEVING  THAT  WE  HAVE  
AN  IMPACT ON THE  CLIMATE  OF  THIS PLANET  IS  ABSURD."

NOT  LIKELY  IF   THE  SECRET SERVICE   KNEW  THAT   IN  1991 JAY  LEHR  PhD. WAS  CONVICTED  AND  SENT  TO  FEDERAL  PRISON  FOR  DEFRAUDING  THE  EPA  OF  $ 101,000

WUWT: ZOMBIE COSMIC RAYS FROM UNDEAD DEATH STAR

WATTS UP WITH THAT ASTROLOGY  SHOCK  HORROR: 

CRANKS  EXHUME  COLD  SUN  THEORY  FROM  SEMANTIC  POTTERS  FIELD  

Astronomers find a ‘Zombie’ star that lived and died – twice

Anthony Watts / 6 hours ago 

Star exploded, survived, and exploded again more than 50 years later

Pasadena, CA

It’s the celestial equivalent of a horror movie villain–a star that wouldn’t stay dead

An international team of astronomers including Carnegie’s Nick Konidaris and Benjamin Shappee discovered a star that exploded multiple times over a period of 50 years. 

The finding, published by Nature, completely confounds existing knowledge of a star’s end of life,