AT LAST! THE SEQUEL TO FIRE, NEANDERTHAL PRIVILEGE AND THE STRUGGLE FOR PALEOCLIMATE JUSTICE

SOON AFTER HER

CLIMATE BLURB DEBUT 

SHOLA MOS SHOGBAMIMU

DEFENDED  VOGUE CLIMATE EDITOR 

MEGHAN MARKLE'S NEPHEW 

ON GOOD MORNING BRITAIN: 

… We don't need a misshapen fabricated perspective of a caricature of an 8yr old to satirise Royal Family.

HBO #ThePrince parody of Prince George is wrong #GMB pic.twitter.com/dyoHxi1EGa

— Dr Shola Mos-Shogbamimu (@SholaMos1) July 30, 2021

By an odd coincidence, so did Jonathan Sacerdoti of the climate change-unfriendly London Spectator :

HBO’s The Prince should leave George alone

Last year Netflix refused to add a disclaimer to the beginning of every episode of The Crown, warning viewers that it is part fiction. HBO Max’s new cartoon The Prince, however, had no choice: the series has been sitting on the shelf so long that it was out of date before it was even broadcast, so every episode bears a warning that ‘this isn’t really the royal family. It’s like, a parody, or whatever. And certain recent events will not be reflected in this programme.’

The streaming service’s new cartoon comedy (if one can call it that) is based around an imagined child’s-eye-view of life in the palace. The protagonist is eight-year-old Prince George. He is depicted as a camp, vain, bitchy, social-media obsessed American adult who has somehow been transplanted into the body of a child-prince. It isn’t clear why. He is mean to his staff and to the other children in his school, and aspires to star in an American reality TV show. This unlikeable character does not seem to be based on the real third in line to the British throne, but probably on the show’s creator who also provides his voice, Gary Janetti.

The main problem with The Prince is that it isn’t very funny. Of course, that’s a matter of taste, but there’s no shortage of tedious celebrity cat-fighting on television these days – it’s not clear why channelling it through the mouth of an eight-year-old child should make it any funnier.

The main problem with The Prince is that it isn’t very funny

The running joke about Prince Philip is that he’s very old and close to death; he’s variously shown as dribbling, mumbling and eating liquidised food. Joking about someone who is so old they’re nearly dead isn’t particularly sophisticated to start with, but becomes even more tasteless and unamusing less than four months after their actual death. Prince Louis (currently three years old) is shown as a cockney, weight lifting thug (hilarious!). Camilla is mute and Prince Charles a pathetic man-child.

TOSS ANOTHER T. REX ON THE BARBIE, PETER, JESUS IS BRINGING A PALAEOCLIMATOGIST TO THE LAST SUPPER

IF JESUS' PET DINOSAUR ENJOYED

 THE ROMAN WARMING PERIOD   

AND OCEAN ACIDIFICATION DIDN'T KILL THE AMMONITES IN THE SEA OF GALILEE

WHY PUT

 HEAT ON GOOGLE ?

TERRORS, ERRORS AND PLAGUES : WHO WON THE BET?

Rees's Argument

Biotechnology is plainly advancing rapidly, and by 2020 there will be thousands-even millions-of people with the capability to cause a catastrophic biological disaster. 

My concern is not only organized terrorist groups, but individual weirdos with the mindset of the people who now design computer viruses. Even if all nations impose effective regulations on potentially dangerous technologies, the chance of an active enforcement seems to me as small as in the case of the drug laws. 

By "bioerror", I mean something which has the same effect as a terror attack, but rises from inadvertance rather than evil intent.

Pinker's Argument

1. Cognitive biases inflate the subjective odds of disaster: If a scenario is imaginable, it seems probable. 

2. Moral market forces:  Pessimists are seen as serious and responsible, optimists as complacent and naive.

 Because of 1 & 2, most doomsday predictions are false (thermonuclear war between the US and USSR, Y2K disaster, the population bomb, resource wars, weekly 9/11-scale terrorist attacks, etc.). 

3. Bayesian base rate: If an extreme and specific category of event has never before happened, the odds are stacked against it. The only successful past cases of bioterror are the Rajneeshee cult (751 cases, 0 deaths) and the Anthrax mailing (5 deaths). The Soviet-era anthrax bioweapon leak killed another 66. 

4. Pool of potential perpetrators: The number of people eager for senseless destruction is small (otherwise we'd have daily bombings, mass shootings, sabotage, etc. in every city, rather than sporadic headline-worthy ones). 

5. Murphy's Law….

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Detailed Terms

Casualties will be defined by WHO, CDC, or BPHS, whoever has the highest numbers. Casualties should ideally include "victims requiring hospitalization" and not include indirect deaths caused by the pathogen, although ultimately Long Now will rely on the criteria set by the above organizations for determining casualties to adjudicate this bet.

TRY HARDER NOT TO THINK ABOUT IT

 Daniel P. Carlisle, Pamela M. Feetham, Malcolm J. Wright, Damon A.H. Teagle

 First Published July 7, 2021 https://doi.org/10.1177/09636625211029438 

Abstract 

Researchers disagree on the extent that brief survey methods accurately reflect citizens’ opinions of unfamiliar scientific concepts. 

We examine whether encouraging participants to engage in more reflective thinking affects their perceptions of emerging climate technologies. Drawing on dual-process theories of reasoning, we apply experimental manipulations to encourage fast, intuitive thinking or slow, reflective thinking when responding to an online survey. Similarities in concept evaluation time between the Control and the Intuitive treatment groups indicates that citizens default to fast intuitive judgements to form opinions. 

However, despite a successful manipulation check, the reflective treatment group did not show any substantively different results. Therefore, encouraging additional thinking is unlikely to shift public perceptions. 

Post hoc analysis suggests participants with stronger views may nonetheless take more time to consider their response, without prompting. These findings support the validity of surveys as a method for eliciting stable and meaningful public perceptions of emerging technologies.

IS CLIMATE LOCKDOWN A THING, LIKE CLIMATE LOCKJAW?

 ELSEWHERE IN THE FOX NON SEQUITUR PANDEMIC NEWS:  

Mark Steyn: 
Who cares if Hong Kong becomes a prison state.
If Biden focuses on China, there isn’t going to be a Hong Kong because it’ll be fried or submerged or whatever. 
So even if China does take over the planet. It’ll only be for 72 hours or so.

Marc Morano: 
That’s right. And even as we go to the solar and wind mandates and electric car batteries, cobalt, Chinese own factories in Africa are being run by these Chinese companies with major human rights abuses. Allegations of underage laborers…

Mark Steyn: 
You know, I’m glad you reminded me of Africa, because I’m basically a 19th-century imperialist … and none of these left activists... has a word to say about China’s Neo-colonialism in the service of polluting the planet.

Marc Morano: 
They say nothing.  Biden is employing OPEC to increase oil production, he’s shutting us down, so... the whole renewable energy thing is going to give China, complete mining monopoly on all these rare earth metals.

VISIONARY REBRANDING OF FACEBOOK AS 'LOVECRAFT' CALMS NETWORK CENSORSHIP FEARS

   ARE THE MASTERS OF THE METAVERSE RELATED?

Mark Zuckerberg has laid out his vision to transform Facebook from a social media network into a “metaverse company” in the next five years.

A metaverse is an online world where people can game, work and communicate in a virtual environment, often using VR headsets. The Facebook CEO described it as 

“an embodied internet where instead of just viewing content - you are in it”.

He told The Verge people shouldn't live through

“small, glowing rectangles”… That’s not really how people are made to interact…

In the future... you’ll be able to sit as a hologram on my couch… I think that is really powerful.”

Behavioural data

… Verity McIntosh, a VR expert at the University of the West of England, told the BBC.

"... It's a direct route to my subconscious and that is gold to a data capitalist.

It seems unlikely that Facebook will have an interest in changing a business model that has served them so well to prioritise user privacy or to give users any meaningful say in how their behavioural data in the 'metaverse' will be used."

 

 

A BRIEF HISTORY OF WHY OREGON IS BURNING

 

THE ORIGINS OF CLIMATEBALL IN THE DISCOURSE OF CALVIN, HOBBES, AND CALVIN & HOBBES

Calvin & Hobbes take dominion over the Sector of Uncertainty in The Lap of Leviathan 

ClimateBall, as played today descends from Calvin's Doctrine of Preterition, and the principle of Dominion outlined in Hobbes' Leviathan, as rendered into modern English in a comic strip that mis-spells the game 'CalvinBall'.

As it is not governed by a fixed doctrine laid down by the Climate Consistory, ClimateBall players invent rules ex tempore, assuring no game is like another, as rules cannot be used twice, the cardinal rule that rules cannot be used twice excepted. 

Besides disinformation,  tautology, non-sequiturs & solicitation of idiocy, the game may involve hockey sticks, mallets, public relations firms, iterated climate model intercomparisons and AI audio and video editing  equipment.

Key Features of ClimateBall include

• Zones/Sectors of Consensus and Denial, each with a self-appointed Consistory of the Elect, which  in the Sector opposite is referred to as , the Conspiracy of the Preterite

• The "Opposite Pole" 

An emblem deployed when a player finds the data have the wrong polemic sign, like anomalous cooling, which electively reverses the sign of the anomaly by eliding it with its opposite. Players must disclose this but as it is the Opposite Pole. non-declaration counts as disclosure.

• The "Very Sorry Song" 

Modeling games are such a bore!

Too many rules,

And ways to keep score!

ClimateBall scoring is better by far!

It's never the same, it's always bizarre!

You don't need a team or a referee!

We can’t lose if we all agree!

•     The smiting of vexatious journal editors and TV 

anchors with Badminton shuttlecocks and hockey sticks 

• The "Uncertainty Sector" 

This sector cannot be seen, and whoever blunders into it must cover their eyes and wander about until bonked by the ClimateBall.

• "Vortex spots" 

ClimateBallers stepping into No Spin Zone events  in the Heartland must spin around until they fall down

• The "Boomerang Zone" 

If a player incurs a misrepresentation penalty while adressing an Australian climate philosopher named  Clive or Bruce in the boomerang zone, the penalty is suffered by the player who called them on it

• The resolution of theological disputes by the Intercomparing the Prognostics of Fearsome Engines  

• Decrees , Manifestos, T-shirts, and Petitions for  Mass Marches for, and against, ClimateBall Science & Governance

• Free use of  Congress of Parties e-car chargers and hobby-horse watering troughs, and access to The Secret Base, whose location is known only to  Bill Moyers, Nation , Guardian , and Grist subscribers,  Columbia School of  Journaism grads, Knight program & NPR alumni, ae, and Otherly Suffixed members of the Vogue and Vanity Fair editorial collectives

• The ability of players to move in slow motion and speak in tongues on Fox TV and Capitol Hill

• Player access to The Perimeter of Wisdom, located inside the Zone of Candor, which is off limits, and accesible only through the Uncertainty Zone.

• One party Associations for the Advancement of Bipartisanship in ClimateBall

• Wearing of masked political priorities in public places

• Small cliques waving large signs in the forlorn hope of being arrested on camera

If you wish to learn more about RealClimateBall®, please contribute generously to Mnestheus @Paypal.com

CAMEL FIGHT REFEREE SOUGHT FOR FOX CLIMATE DEBATE

Tucker Carlson has accused Democratic Congressman Eric Swawell, whose girlfriend Fang Fang was rumbled as a PRC intelligence operative and fled back to China in 2015. of bizarre PR stunts besides the Persian Gulf last year, on a junket paid for by Arab businessmen.  

Swalwell is an outspoken advocate of climate research,  but it is unclear if Fox will invite an  expose' of Swalwell by Monckton of Arabia, or ask the congressman to roast Monckton for crashing a climate conference in Doha :

PURE EVIL STOCKS FALL AS CLUBS BAN BREITBART HACK

BoJo’s ‘No Vaccine, No Clubbing’
Rule Is Pure Evil

JAMES DELINGPOLE

Britain’s creepily-titled Vaccines Minister, Nadhim Zahawi, has announced that from September only double-jabbed adults will be allowed into nightclubs.

This… is an announcement of the purest evil. And no irony was spared when this was spoonfed to us by Zahawi and the Prime Minister on so-called “freedom day”.

See, youngsters, what a vista of opportunities will open to you, you’ll be able to get off your tits on drugs, dance all night, and pair off at dawn for meaningless sex with strangers just as you did in the good old days!

Never in my life have I hated any government quite so much as I loathe this despicable, bullying, mendacious, devious, dishonest, corrupt, fascistic regime.

HEAT WAVE SHATTERS CHERRY PICKING RECORD ON EVE OF CLIMATEBALL OLYMPICS

First came news of the earliest  spring cherry blossoms in a thousand years of Japanese temple record keeping.

Now the most sacred institution of Climateball, activists & inactivists accusing each other of temperature record cherry-picking, faces an existential threat.

Word has arrived from Italy of an unsubtle  harbinger of the hottest year on record : The largest cherry ever picked:

It's 4.29 centimeters in diameter, and weighs 33.15 grams

GATES MAY THINK HE'S GOD, BUT THIS EXPERIMENT IS THE LOVE CHILD OF NUCLEAR WINTER AND WINDOWS '95

 LEADING  EPISCOPAL PUBLIC INTELLECTUAL DAMNS 

EXPERIMENTAL CLIMATOLOGY AS

THEOLOGICALLY UNSOUND

All therefore that is necessary to control public opinion is to gain possession of some organ loud and lofty enough ...to excite a panic in the public mind... and the rabble (whether in the ranks of literature or war) will throw away their arms, and surrender at discretion to any bully or impostor who, for a consideration, shall choose to try the experiment upon them!

 

--William Hazlitt   

On Public Opinion  1828

DEPLORABLE DRAFTSMAN DEPLOYS DERISIBLE DOODLE

  Another addled assemblage of alliterative asininity by Global Warming Policy Foundation court jester Josh, whose artwork has since  been upstaged by the foundations' founder:

CLIMATE POLICY: A PRESIDENTIAL PRIMER

 While President Obama's science advisor, John Holdren , has lucidly explained why President Biden's climate policy should continue down Obama's path  I fear our Chief Executive may be no better equiped than President Reagan to fathom  the depth of the arguments facing him.

Environmental Insights · Assessing the Biden Administration's Climate Policy: A Conversation with John Holdren

TOTALLY ADEQUATE DO IT YOURSELF SWAMP BUCKET WINS SEATTLE DARWIN AWARD NOMINATION

  July 8th 2021:

 Climate. Justice. Solutions  

SHOWS AIR CONDITIONING-AVERSE RESIDENTS OF AMERICA'S 7th WETTEST CITY 

HOW TO INCREASE HUMIDITY AND MISERY

 AT MODEST ENERGY COST WITH JUST  

2 FEET OF CLOTH, 3 FEET OF FOAM, 4 FEET 

OF HOSE, A 5 GALLON BUCKET, A 6 INCH FAN, 

A PUMP, A DRILL, A CLAMP, A KNIFE & A THUMBTACK 

Air  conditioning  heats  the  climate.  So  how  can  I  keep  cool?

Dear Umbra,

It is yet again a billion degrees outside this summer and I don’t know how to reconcile the fact that the fossil-fueled electricity used to power my air conditioner is contributing to these extreme heat waves. And now, to top it all off, we’re also being told in my city to conserve energy because the grid is under too much stress! I’m at a loss for how to keep my cool.

— Hanging Out, Torridly

Dear HOT,

You are living out one of the most acute conundrums of climate change... when the heat is uncomfortable but not necessarily life-threatening, there are lower-tech, less grid-impacting ways to cool down than air conditioning...

IF YOU'RE IN A CITY WITH 73% AVERAGE HUMIDITY THINK TWICE BEFORE TURNING ON A SWAMP COOLER  HUMIDIFIER IN 100 DEGREE HEAT:

HE'S A RAMBLING WRECK FROM GEORGIA TECH, AND A HECK OF A PLANETEER

Is Judith Curry ready for prime time ?

Whether it's Climate Desk central casting, or just Georgia film tax breaks,  Prime Video's wannabe Independence Day blockbuster, The Tomorrow War features:

"A department chair at Georgia Tech with a PhD in Earth and Atmospheric Science" 

PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY FINALLY GETS A GOOD FIGHT SONG:

Only three actors flung into the film's dystopic future come back alive, and one, "Charlie", played by Sam Richardson, has fictional credentials perfectly matching those of outspoken climate skeptic Judith Curry, former chair of the atmospheric science department at Georgia Tech. 

The NYTimes thinks The Tomorrow War offered Richardson  a considerable challenge:  his role in " Veep had demanded plenty of verbal dexterity, but facing off against an armada of space beasts would require an entirely different skill set." 

Asked at film's end how he survived the Climate Wars of the future, the artful Climateball dodger replies: "I hid.",  one of many evasive skills Curry has on occasion demonstrated on Capitol Hill:

Charlie is kept too busy dispatching bug-eyed aliens to complain about Uncertainty Monsters plaguing climate models as Curry does, but she should not fear this back handed homage. It's a bad film, that owes more  of its DNA to Waterworld, Them and Starship Troopers than Jurassic Park.  Richardson brings the ponderous plot to closure by dating  a  maguffin,  a claw taken from a dead alien that contains particles of earthly volcanic ash.  The future is in peril because monsters that crashed into a glacier a milennium ago have been thawed by postmodern global warming. 

The moral ? Captain Planet fans at Climate Desk have every right to give marching orders to the screenwriters of the present, for only the past can save the future from itself,

THE YEAR THE FIREWORKS DIED?

 JAPANESE FIREWORKS FESTIVALS HAVE BEEN CALLED OFF ON ACCOUNT OF COVID, BUT AMERICA HAS ANOTHER PROBLEM THIS FOURTH OF JULY: A KINDLING  WESTERN DROUGHT:

THE TIMING COULD NOT BE WORSE :

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