“Wow, that’s a lot of water – major rainfall in SoCal“. Anthony Watts tells us that December 14-21, 2010 was a wet week in California. So all concerns about Lake Powell drying out because of Global Warming can be discarded.
Rain! Global Drying will never happen now!
“Obama caves on promise, Internet to be regulated by FCC“. Anthony Watts is now a telecommunications expert! The FCC (Federal Communications Commission) is enacting weak “Net Neutrality” regulations for internet access that protect service providers but don’t protect consumers.
The immediate question that comes to Anthony’s mind is this:
With this newfound power, how long before it mutates beyond original scope, and websites that are critical of the government begin to be shut down, or simply IP throttled out of meaningful existence?
I would imaging [sic] that site [sic] like this one would be a target, since we don’t report what the government line on climate change is.
Well of course you’d think that if you’re a self-important conspiracy theorist with a hatred of gubmint.
The FCC Net Neutrality regulations are a heavily flawed political compromise. But what else is new? Presumably Anthony’s outrage dovetails neatly with the Republican position. Hmmm… Let Big Businesses charge whatever they want! Don’t do anything because we can’t predict what the future! We can’t trust governments! Sounds familiar, doesn’t it?
“You know it’s bad California when green companies move out of Berkeley“. More copy and paste from Anthony Watts, with his deep analysis neatly contained in the title. Apparently a wind turbine manufacturer is moving from California to Missouri. Thus disproving Global Warming.
Well don’t that beat all. Is this a sign that all those granola-eating So Cal lefties are about to get their just desserts?
“Polar bears no longer on ‘thin ice’: researchers say polar bears could face brighter future“. Hah, says Anthony Watts, Polar Bears are happy! The US Forest Service says so in a paper in Nature! (pay-walled) This means that there’s no Global Warming!
This is classic Anthony Watts misrepresentation. It’s funny how so much of what Anthony touts as evidence that refutes the predicted impacts of Global Warming is in fact the opposite. Here’s the first “key finding” of the paper (italics mine):
The results of modeling regional polar bear populations indicate a potentially brighter future for the species if global greenhouse gas concentrations can be kept under control at levels less than those expected under current conditions.
“Total Lunar Eclipse on the Solstice – way cool“. Anthony Watts copies and pastes a spaceweather.com news item about the December 21st 2010 lunar eclipse. Is the secret world government testing a doomsday device? Anthony is quiet on the subject.
“Sea Ice News #32 – Southern Comfort“. Anthony Watts tries to explain why he’s been avoiding the topic of Arctic Sea Ice. Apparently because the precipitous drop in Arctic Sea Ice, which Anthony is careful not to display until the end of his post, isn’t nearly as interesting as the statistically insignificant rise in Antarctic Sea Ice. Even though Arctic conditions are primarily affected temperature and Antarctic conditions are primarily affected by ocean currents.
Cue bold-faced muttering about “healthy skepticism”, hidden data (oops! it was there all along) and wounded references to nasty scientists making accusations of breathtaking denialist ignorance. Oh, and apparently Tamino’s takedown amuses Anthony.
“Climategate–the Made Up Story, or Mr. Assange, WUWT?“ Anthony Watts’ associates express their annoyance that Julian Assange of Wikileaks is claiming to have been the first publisher of the stolen Climategate e-mail excerpts. It was them, damn it! They are the hipster heroes!
“Charles the Moderator” says the e-mails were on Wikileaks because he uploaded them. Economist Ross McKitrick makes the nuanced statement that Assange et. al. are “nothing but fakes and cretins.”
Perhaps “Charles” was afraid of legal complications, but I thought it was all public property…
Ah the good old days, when the denialists momentarily had a new way to convince themselves that they’d uncovered the vast decades-long conspiracy to use climate data to install a communist world government!
“Australia’s white summer, Monbiot’s red fury“. Watt a surprise, Anthony Watts drawing our attention to a freak weather event in Australia. This must surely prove that there’s no Global Warming! Anthony also stretches his mental capacity to compare the size of Australia to America and to Europe. Anthony is mad that environmental reporter George Monbiot consulted “the kids at the Climate Rapid Response Team“, aka professional climate scientists, to understand this Australian weather. How dare he!
Don’t you know that if you cherry-pick a small enough smoothing radius you can make big holes appear in the global temperature data maps? I’m surprised that Anthony doesn’t try to claim that all smoothing is false and present a temperature data map with 99.9% “no data”.
Changing your color scheme to assign ‘bluer’ colors to warm temperatures also helps make things look ‘cooler’. Presumably Anthony thinks that every year those corrupt mainstream climatologists have been slightly changing their color schemes to look make the same temperatures look ‘redder’.
Hmmm... Dr. Spencer's map is pretty red. He must be in on the plot now too.
Anthony has to come up with something to distract from the fact that 2010 has proven the hottest year in the instrument record even with only a moderate El Niño influence. (Note: who cares about one year? That’s a denialist distraction. It’s the long-term trend that matters.)
Further more, we learn that the weather stations in remote Greenland communities are clearly affected by the urban heat island effect. Anthony’s speculation proves it! (Maybe this particular rant was a bit of nostalgia for the old days when Anthony regularly tried to get away with this UHI b.s.)
Department of Homeland Security goes off the deep end – now plans to battle “climate change” in addition to terrorists. You see, for Anthony Watts “security” is just about looking for bombs and patting people down. And scowling at Muslims. It’s definitely not about ensuring safety. Because for example sea-level rise, which isn’t happening, has no implication for places like New Orleans.
The far-ranging Anthony just happened across a right-wing news website, which is “like the National Public Radio and the Public Broadcasting System” except funded by conservative think tanks, and he encountered the worrying news that the Department of Homeland Security is studying how Global Warming will impact their services. Wow, that’s truly ominous.
Is the Department of Homeland Security’s FEMA division (that’s “Federal Emergency Management Agency” by the way) preparing the ground for a religious war of “climatic jihad”, which of course means oppressive government action? Anthony says yes and reminds us that snow has fallen, which proves that there is no Global warming.
“Quick, somebody slap a carbon tax on this new planet“. Oh, I see what you did there, Anthony. You used a completely un-related NASA astronomy news report to make fun of carbon taxes! That is so clever! It’s like you’ve jumped all the way to Class Clown with a rank of Grade Six!
Is your headline the only thought you had? Apparently yes.
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