I think a tip jar is a good idea. But I see nothing in this contrived imbroglio that justifies Dr. Curry lawyering up.
The letter is all about politics. Any over response would make that pin headed congressman’s day as keeping his letter in the news..
ya gotta fight this hard
please let us help
have a few scientist friends, I trying to get them to pay attention
it’s a threat to all
Justin Wonder,
Thank you. I misunderstood, obviously. This sort of thing is usually employed by the person who cannot pound the facts, or the law, and is too dumb to find a table on which to pound.
If I understand correctly, I could respond to a red-baiter by pointing out that 50% of lawmakers are below the average intelligence of their group, and invite the red-baiter to provide proof that he was at least as smart as a boxful of hair. Or suggest he indulged in metrosexual practices as a young man.
My null hypothesis about politicians is that if their lips are moving they are either lying, drunkenly slobbering, or in the grip of uncontrollable drooling.
Luckily, some of them act in ways that cause me to change my mind, so no harm is done.
Live well and prosper,
Mike Flynn.
Rud;
“Illegitimi non carborundum (please, this actually a metaphoical joke).
The ‘official’ Harvard translation is:
Don’t let the bastards grind you down.”
I first heard this from a long departed uncle (many decades ago) that participated in the D-Day invasion (on the victor’s side) and slogged his way all though Europe, the Battle of the Bulge, got wounded, patched back up and sent back in to end up in Germany at the end of the war. He was never anywhere near Harvard and I suspect the Harvard folks stole that saying from the GI’s. If anybody was subject to “grinding down” it was guys like that who where in “for the duration”. Heck after getting shot and almost killed they simply patched you back up and if you still had all your limbs (and most of your wits) they sent you back in again, “until it was finished”.
I can spell it, I was trying a bit of self deprecating humor, it breaks up serious conversations and lessens the stress.
Thanks, KevinK
Matthew Marler, look up how that lapse rate feedback to surface warming works. Essentially it is the effect of the additional latent heat on the lapse rate.
Even Saul Alinski, author of Rules for Radicals, knew better:
“I’ve never joined any organization—not even the ones I’ve organized myself. I prize my own independence too much. And philosophically, I could never accept any rigid dogma or ideology, whether it’s Christianity or Marxism. One of the most important things in life is what Judge Learned Hand described as ‘that ever-gnawing inner doubt as to whether you’re right.’ If you don’t have that, if you think you’ve got an inside track to absolute truth, you become doctrinaire, humorless and intellectually constipated. The greatest crimes in history have been perpetrated by such religious and political and racial fanatics, from the persecutions of the Inquisition on down to Communist purges and Nazi genocide.” – Saul Alinsky
Dr. Curry, just remember, you have tenure, John Holdren does not (hopefully)……
As an engineer my “tenure” only lasts as long as I continue to solve problems that folks are willing to pay to have solved, I find that exciting, if my solutions don’t work I’m “outta here”. So far, (35 years) I’m still here, and the problems just keep rolling in.
Dr. Curry. I have been following the AGW debate for over seven years. Because I am a staunch skeptic, my exposure has mostly been with WUWT and Joanne Nova’s blog. On occasion (this being one such occasion) I have logged onto your blog. From what I’ve heard and read, your impartiality and objectivity regarding global warming are legendary. That the climate alarmists would attempt to intimidate someone of your qualifications and reputation tells me much more about “climate alarmists” than anything I would learn about you from a disclosure of your funding. Specifically, the leaders of the “climate alarmist cabal” are political opportunists with as much reverence for “science” as I have for pedophiles.
Hang in there. Some of the previous commenters have suggested that your blog provide readers of your blog a way to send you money. I would make use of such a feature.
Finally, FWIW in any correspondence you have with Congressman Grijalva be succinct but polite. As my father used to say, it doesn’t pay to get in a pissing contest with a skunk.
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Sorry, belongs here:
http://judithcurry.com/2015/02/25/conflicts-of-interest-in-climate-science/#comment-678658
He’s another leftist goon, like the Communist-in-Chief. But he, like his boss, isn’t harmless.
Does FOMBS show up a lot at ATTBS?
Obama, Hillary, and other Demowits are striking while the iron is hot. They see a chance to have Dimowit control of the US for the next 50 years. They are pounding on their “enemies” and sucking up to their friends. This push centers around the tsunami of immigration that is being orchestrated, against existing laws BTW, by the Dimowits. Unfortunately, they will probably prevail and what we’ve seen in the last eight years will become de rigueur. I’m sad for the US. It was a great country while it lasted.
This was linked above.
It can be seen that scientists generally are not at all comfortable with Grijalva’s letters. They can see this kind of thing has been cutting both ways and won’t want to encourage it whichever way it goes. Yes, Grijalva seems to have been spooked by the Soon affair, but this was an overreaction. They quote Joanne Carney of the AAAS, Eric Steig and Michael Mann as not being for this type of thing despite being on the consensus side. So far I haven’t seen any scientists or politicians in favor of Grijalva’s letters.
This is for a troll that made fun of me for not liking public transportation due to the spread of disease.
From the article:
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A person sick with measles rode BART from Millbrae to San Francisco last Friday, exposing about 1,500 other riders to the virus and prompting the second campaign in a month to alert commuters that they may be at risk of infection.
In the most recent case, the individual got on a Richmond-bound train at the Millbrae Station at about 4:30 p.m. and got off at the Civic Center Station about 5 p.m., San Mateo County public health officials said Thursday.
That line is an isolated ride on a reverse commute, BART spokeswoman Alicia Trost said in a media briefing. The exposure to other riders, she said, is nothing like that of the earlier incident, in which a man rode BART from the East Bay to San Francisco during peak commute hours three days in a row. In that case, about 25,000 people may have been on those trains each day, Trost said.
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California is in the middle of the largest outbreak of measles since the disease was declared eliminated in the United States in 2000. So far this year, 126 cases of measles have been reported in California, at least 17 of them in the Bay Area, according to state public health numbers released Wednesday.
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http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/A-Peninsula-BART-rider-with-measles-may-have-6103759.php
Agree 100% but GOP filled with cowards and Obama enablers. They act like they lost the 2014 elections even though they won.
FOMD’s style is one of preaching, and that would be like preaching to the converted. I think he views being here as his mission to the darker areas in need of enlightenment.
I know at least one of the most prominent climate scientists promoting catastrophic global warming runs a consulting business on the side that provides downscaled climate projections to engineering firms. The engineering firms would like to see as many big climate change infrastructure upgrade projects come their way as possible. Why is this not a conflict of interest? I know this because I encountered this numerous times when interviewing at these firms. They wanted a BIG NAME to provide them the ammunition they needed to get big projects, not someone like myself who is worried more about doing good work and being right. This whole mess made me leave Atmospheric Science for a more honest field, finance.
> I have a question for you.
Just one?
I left many at AT’s, e.g.:
https://andthentheresphysics.wordpress.com/2015/02/18/climate-dialogue/#comment-49463
The “but Schneider” shows at least that Swood’s either a very talented rookie, or less new than presumed earlier.
In fact it is somewhat ironic that a congressman on a committee worries about undue influence from industry on the testimony he hears when his colleagues on the committee are also receiving such influence due to the Citizens United ruling. Lengthy general piece on Citizens United here. It was supposed not to give the “appearance of corruption” but 5 years later, most would agree it does.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/02/26/citizens-united-congress_n_6723540.html
Circle the wagons Rud!
