THE COUNT OF RIMINI'S PEACOCK IS NOT SURPRISED

WATTS  IS  DEEPLY SHOCKED WHEN IT SNOWS IN ROME
ITALIANS NOT SO MUCH, AS IN FELLINI'S  AMARACORD

AND THE LORD SAID UNTO SCOTT PRUIT GET YOUR APPLE PICKING HANDS OFF OF MY CREATION !

The first landmark on the road to Tulsa is The First Baptist Church of Broken Arrow, whose website proclaims it preaches “ the Gospel of  Jesus Christ in Broken Arrow, Tulsa, Oklahoma, North America  &  the Ends of the Earth.”

Senior pastor  Nick Garland recently attended a private reception in the Washington offices of  his First Parishoner -- he recruited  EPA Administrator  Scott Pruitt to his congregation when Pruitt was a law student, and their evangelical commitment has been unwavering. Before joining the bar, Pruitt  went to Romania on a First Baptist missionary trip, and as Attorney General of Oklahoma , returned to teach a church seminar on how to blend one’s faith into communication and current events.

Garland says Pruitt  long ago realized the Lord wanted him to do more  “than be a student of law.” and compared his protégé  "to an eagle:” one of the rare creations of God that delight in the storm,”   Dozens of evangelical leaders endorsed Pruitt’s 2016 EPA nomination in an open letter echoing the Dominionist rejection of “any ideology that sees human beings as a blight upon the planet and would harm human flourishing by restricting or preventing the rightful use and enjoyment of creation.”

Garland  recently told Mother Jones magazine does not believe humans are the main cause of climate change, and neither does Pruitt.

 “I would not agree that it’s a primary contributor to the global warming that we see,” 

Pruitt said in March 2017, and in October,  barring researchers with EPA grants from serving on the agency’s science advisory boards, he quoted the Book of Joshua: 

“Choose this day whom you’re going to serve.” 

The Lord, said Pruitt:

 “ created human beings in His own image, bearing responsibility to advance human flourishing through many forms of human activity, from agriculture and enterprise to technology and innovation,”

Voicing a view  antithetic to religious leaders,  including Pope Francis, who believe  environmental stewardship resides in conserving God’s creation, Pruit went on to say :

“Is true environmentalism ‘do not touch’? It’s like having a beautiful apple orchard that could feed the world, but the environmentalists put up a fence around the apple orchard and say, ‘Do not touch the apple orchard because it may spoil the apple orchard.’”

Ignoring a Biblical injunction not to pick apples--
What  could  possibly  go wrong ?

THE VICAR OF OZ

Fired  by  Viscount  Monckton's  'Vicar of Bray'  riff , 

Oklahoma's gift to the nation has gone on the air: 

In Oklahoma’s early days, an oil patch hack was thought a cur,

But I climatic truth reviled, and gained great preferment, sir!

If  science’s laws do not obtain, no science need you cite, sir,

All weather’s due to cosmic rays, I'm paid to say ‘tis right, sir!

Since  great  praise  of  CO2  can  further  my  promotion,

I'll ban science from my mind, and damn the warming notion

Here science’s laws do not obtain-no science can you cite, sir,

For through rains and hurricanes, I always bank my pay, sir!

Ronald Reagan’s treaty treating ozone with compassion  

Soon  gave way to  fat  Al  Gore’s Apocalyptic  passion,

As  temperatures in  Tulsa rose in most alarming fashion

But science’s laws there don’t obtain-my  bloggerel I'll cite, sir,

For though blistering drought may reign, my  paycheck's always right, sir.

Now  Pruitt’s  come  to  Washington 'tis warm in  February,

But pay the steaming swamp no mind, the White House says be merry.

Here where  science can’t prevail, we vicars drink fine sherry

And from our K Street pulpits bray Climate-what, me worry?

This much is sure, I shall endure, the vicar never pays, sir!

FANTASTIC CLIMATOLOGY : THE MEDIEVAL WARM PERIOD

Noted Dungeons & Dragons enthusiast Oakes Spalding may take a dim view of climate science:

Global Warming is a Pagan Lie, 

So Why is the Vicar of Christ Shoving it Down Our Throats?

Global warming is a pagan lie. We're calling it "global warming" and not "climate change" because that's what it was originally called before they changed the name to make it less of a blatant contradiction to the facts. Global warming is false, of course. There wasn't much evidence for it to begin with and there is even less now. Indeed, there is currently much evidence against it.

I'm calling it a lie because much of the "evidence" for it has been fabricated or doctored in an intentional and deliberate mockery of the scientific method that would have made the creator of Piltdown man proud.

But why do I call it a pagan lie?

Well, to begin with, some of the assumptions underlying the overall ideology of global warming amount to earth worship...it's no coincidence that its biggest boosters are pro-contraception, pro-abortion, and anti-population...

This whole thing is evil. It drips it. 

It's not a silly encyclical, ghostwritten by a deranged loudmouthed archbishop who wrote  a kissing manual.  Nor is it  a meaningless toss-off, directed by  a former Archbishop,  narcissistically addicted to secular praise.

It will be an evil document."

But he is a published authority on the Fantastic Climatology               of The Medieval Warm Period:

According to the author : 

It's an almanac for the fantasy gamer. 

No more annoying die rolling or consulting an app or online program to generate a random or patternless result. With FANTASY WEATHER you can see all of it at a glance. Whether you're using Dungeons & Dragons 5e, an OSR retro-clone or any other current or past game or mechanic, this is the last word on weather for your roleplaying needs, 

Seven Years of Fantasy Weather includes four pages of introductory material featuring a glossary of weather event terms and effects and a (slightly altered) excerpt from the Wilderness travel rules section of Seven Voyages of Zylarthen. But the weather effects (in terms of movement and chances of getting lost) are built-in to the charts, and obviously the wilderness rules can be be used as is, mined for ideas or simply ignored.

Someone should write a book about this sort of thing- a  real  book ,  that  is ,  like  this  classic  fisking  of pseudoarchaeology cranks & poseurs by late Harvard  Peabody Museum Director Stephen Williams

RAINING FROGS REMAIN THE BEST CLIMATE COMMUNICATORS

Danny Bloom says:
23 Feb 2018 at 12:05 AM
A ‘cli-fi’ stage play ‘Extreme Whether’ written and directed by veteran playwright Karen Malpede is set for March 1-18 run in Manhattan. If you live anywhere near... make a beeline for the La MaMa theater to see this timely show...

Heralded as “brilliant” and “important” in performances in French and English in Paris several years ago...“Exteme Whether” — not ”weather” but ”whether” please note — is a fierce expose of politically motivated censorship and a look at the courage it takes to keep up the fight for truth against immensely powerful forces.

TWO  THUMBS  DOWN

It is, also, equally, a love story: of people for nature, a girl for a deformed frog, two  embattled  climate scientists  for  truth and one another, and an old man , "Uncle" ...
Theater Three Collaborative is a social justice internationally touring theater company.

‘Blade Runner 2049’ gives climate change a starring role with ‘global cooling’ meme

Danny Bloom 17 October 2017

When I lived in Tokyo in the 1990s,... Tokyo at night was and still is “Blade Runner” writ large.

The film was set in a near future of 2019. We are almost there.

Now comes the latest iteration of the “Blade Runner” meme in 2017 and it’s titled “Blade Runner 2049” since it takes place 30 years later — in 2049.

And this new movie is a cli-fi film, and it gives climate change a starring role.

 But there’s just one problem: while the movie talks about climate change, viewers will see that Los Angeles in 2049 is 30 degrees cooler than today’s temperatures and is also hit by strong sub-Arctic blasts of cold air. ”Global warming,” or ”global cooling”?

Leah Schade, a visionary ”eco-preacher” who is a Lutheran professor of preaching and worship at the Lexington Theological Seminary in Kentucky, recently wrote a very good article on the Patheos website about the new movie, which she headlined 

Blade Runner 2049: Cli-Fi at Its Best

Blade Runner 2049 imagines a futuristic 

world of  “global weirding” gone wild

Cli-fi, short for climate fiction, is a genre that narrates the present and future world through the lens of climate change. Cli-fi can help folks understand climate change more effectively than charts and numbers alone.  Because it’s the stories that help us imagine what lies ahead – and what is worth saving now.  As John Siciliano notes in the Washington Examiner, climate change gets a starring role in Blade Runner 2049.

Blade Runner 2049 is cli-fi at its best.

Not only is the film a cinematic masterpiece, it imagines a future shaped by the effects of climate change and explores what it means to be human in an inhumane time.  The original Blade Runner was itself prescient about climate change.  The movie rendered a Los Angeles landscape saturated with rain (a warmer atmosphere absorbs more moisture) and devoid of any animals except those that are genetically-engineered (due to loss of habitat and toxic environments leading to species extinctions).

Blade Runner 2049 continues the saga.  According to the film’s website, the planet 30 years later is affected by dramatic shifts in weather and climate.  Huge sea walls are built between Los Angeles and the Pacific Ocean to protect the city from rising sea levels.  The desertification of Las Vegas is stark and total (at least at first glance).  And the only greenery is seen in a holographic bubble of a scientist’s laboratory.  But, oddly, snow squalls swirl unexpectedly in LA.  How can this be? 

Blade Runner 2049 is premised on an environmental twist.

According to the movie’s timeline, a nuclear detonation explodes in 2022 over the West Coast which obliterates electronic data and shuts down cities for weeks.  Data and financial records are obliterated, and communications are severed, leading to chaos and mass hunger.  Presumably, this also leads to a kind of nuclear winter, and ensuing sub-arctic blasts that periodically turn LA’s rain into snow.

A MAJOR IRONY MALFUNCTION

A  BREITBART  PANEL  ON  SOCIAL MEDIA  CENSORSHIP 

WAS  CANCELLED  AFTER  A  PANELIST  WAS

BARRED FROM SPEAKING.

BREITBART  BEGAN SUPPRESSING SCIENTIFIC  REPLIES 

TO ITS CLIMATE DENIAL CAMPAIGN FIVE YEARS AGO.

MAYBE THEY SHOULD JUST THROW THEM ON THE BARBIE

NATURE  NEWS  22 FEBRUARY 2018

Doubts raised over Australia’s plan to release herpes to wipe out carp

Warm water may render the virus ineffective against the invasive fish, say researchers.

An Australian plan to kill invasive carp by releasing a virus into waterways has come under fire from researchers who argue that the tactic will not eradicate enough fish... The proposal is to infect carp with a strain of herpes called CyHV-3, which has caused mass fish deaths in the United States and Japan.

Many researchers have previously warned of possible far-reaching consequences of the plan, including rivers  clogged with decaying fish corpses and further disruption to native ecosystems. Now, six researchers argue in a letter published in Science1 on 22 February that the virus is unlikely to be effective.

Carp carnage

The common carp was first introduced to Australia from Europe in the nineteenth century, but the biggest disruptions to ecosystems happened after a particularly hardy strain escaped from a fish farm in the early 1960s. With a single fish capable of producing more than one million eggs in a breeding cycle, carp now make up an estimated 80–90% of the fish biomass in parts of the Murray–Darling Basin, the breadbasket region of southeast Australia...

In 2016, the Australian government... tested the effects of the virus on animals including 13 native fish species, as well as chickens, mice, frogs and turtles, and concluded that it is safe for them. The virus is only known to affect the common carp and ornamental koi, in which the expected mortality rate is over 70%.

However, the Science letter says...   that the disease develops only when water temperatures are between 16 ºC and 28 ºC. Populations of carp that survive the initial viral epidemic in hot or cold spots would be able to replenish the population quickly, say the authors.

RELAX, HE STOPPED 41 BOOKS SHORT OF THE APOCALYPSE

In a sermon to  interview with the  Christian Broadcasting Network published yesterday,  EPA  Administrator  Scott Pruitt said his faith inspired him to be like the nation's founding fathers-- before entering politics, he prayed for insight into God's plan for him and found an answer  in The Book of Isaiah:

"Specifically, in the latter part of Chapter 1, where God says to Israel,  

'I will restore your leaders as in the days of old, your judges as at the beginning.'  

There was just a desire that welled up in me to say, 'I want to be like those leaders that we had at our founding at the inception of our country...

The biblical worldview with respect to these issues is that we have a responsibility to manage and cultivate, harvest the natural resources that we've been blessed with to truly bless our fellow mankind,...

Truly and clearly, the climate changes,... For someone to say that someone's a skeptic or climate denier about the climate changing, that's just nonsensical. 

We see that throughout history. "

AND A MIGHTY GOBBLING WAS HEARD IN THE LAND

From the Heartland  February 21, 2018

He’s  Right!  Scott  Pruitt  Hits Ball

Out of the Park on Climate Change

Joseph L. Bast  (think@heartland.org)

Not only can he take the heat but he can explain it.

On February 6, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt was interviewed on KSNV-TV.

What he said about climate change produced the usual 
cat  calls  and  hisses  from liberal environmentalists & their stable of paid pseudo-scientists but the  rest of us recognized it as being a  solid-gold presentation.

Pruitt began by acknowledging Earth’s climate is constantly changing and that “we contribute to it.” But measuring the human impact, he said, is very difficult, and whether it constitutes an “existential threat” or a possible benefit to humanity is still unknown.

Surveys and petitions show most scientists and the general public agree with Pruitt, not environmental activists. 

Elections show most voters in the United States agree with Pruitt, too. His summary of the situation is absolutely correct.

Liberal pundits — most of whom never took a science course in their life (or, like Al Gore, flunked the one course they did take) — dismiss anyone who dissents from their forecasts of environmental catastrophes as ignorant “climate change deniers.” 

They have it exactly backwards: Climate change skeptics understand the science far better than the alarmists. It’s why they are skeptical.

“We know that humans have most flourished during times of… warming trends,” Pruitt also said, adding, “I think there’s assumptions made that because the climate is warming, that that necessarily is a bad thing.”

Again, this is absolutely correct. Historically, warmer periods have been accompanied by higher crop yields and rates of population growth, rising prosperity, and even less conflict and fewer wars. 

Cold periods or periods with falling temperatures, in contrast, are often accompanied by extreme weather, crop failures, starvation, and armed conflicts.

Environmentalists either know “warmer is better” and seek to hide this inconvenient truth from the public, or the only research they’ve done is reading the fundraising letters of silly alarmist groups such as Greenpeace and Union of Concerned Scientists. They need to get up to speed on this issue before they claim moral and intellectual superiority over climate change “deniers.”

FOR $4,000, JOE WILL LOVE YOU TOO!

 Administrator Pruitt then hit a whopping home run when he asked, “Do we really know what the ideal surface temperature should be in the year 2100 in the year 2018?” 

The obvious answer is “of course not.”...

This answer blows away all the groundless speculation about the “social cost of carbon” and what ought to be done today to affect the weather a century from now.

Pruitt’s interview demonstrates he is the best EPA administrator the agency has ever had, and arguably the best cabinet pick  President  Donald  Trump  has made.

Keep it up, Mr. Pruitt! We love you, man!

Joseph Bast (think@heartland.org) 

ALL THE CLIMATE NEWS THAT'S FIT TO TWEET

There is a cooling, and there's a heating. I mean, look, it used to not be climate change, it used to be global warming. That wasn't working too well 
because it was getting too cold all over the place.

A RISING SWAMP LIFTS ALL DOLTS

Greenwire  reports:
Trump energy adviser's White House run went up in smoke

Unless George David Banks, who resigned  last  week  after  being denied  security  clearance  over marijuana use in 2013,  moves on to another Trump administration post at the Department of Energy, or the Department of the Interior, he may beat a happy retreat to the fever swamps of K Street. 

"Going back  to be  a  full-time  swamp  creature ”
 he said, “ is certainly an attractive option."...

The administration, Banks said, 'is mulling positions for him at the Interior or Energy department. It's not clear yet what's available"

He said he plans to rejoin the American Council for Capital Formation (ACCF) next month and has taken a seat on the advisory board for ClearPath, the conservative clean energy advocacy group... and the "clean coal" initiative he had been leading.

" It was  Energy  Secretary  Perry's  idea, the "clean coal" initiative.  He announced it  in  Africa.  The idea has been accepted by the administration, and what's to be decided is the shape and form of  its implementation. It's going to be "clean fossil." It's  not  just  a  clean  coal coalition."

Asked "How do you blow off steam?" Banks replied:

It's not pot.

I love flea markets. It's really going to flea markets and collecting stuff I'm really into. Vintage baseball cards, coins, "Star Wars" toys. But I definitely spend a lot of time over the next months getting healthy again..."