Comments | gamoonbat: Rush is wrong!

gamoonbat

Rush is wrong!

Jan 21, 2007 06:40

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antarcticlust January 21 2007, 16:34:51 UTC

Thanks for the heads-up about this. I'm currently seething with rage over the comments, but once I settle down I'll write about this on theclimateblog.

Heidi Cullen gamoonbat January 21 2007, 18:10:52 UTC

It will be too bad if this winds up dividing rather than uniting meteorologists and climatologists. Not only do broadcast meteorologists need a background in climatology. Earth scientists who study climate change need to know how the forecast models work that were the basis for global circulation models.

If only this would all blow back in the face of idiots like Rush Limbaugh and James Inhofe and all those "institutes" funded by Exxon-Mobil!

Re: Heidi Cullen antarcticlust January 21 2007, 18:23:33 UTC

It's so true. What was really powerful and astounding to me was the frequency of hateful, really awful commentors trying to either a) spin this as a political issue, when it's a scientific one at heart, and b)tossing around a lot of really ignorant "facts" (like the person who said "if it's warmer now than in the last 400 years, what made it warmer then?!" - which has nothing to do with actual temperatures, but the degree of error in climate proxies).

Re: Heidi Cullen gamoonbat January 21 2007, 18:42:05 UTC

There are some flaky science buffs floating around causing just as much trouble as the dittoheads. I was just reading some of last night's flame war on James Spann's blog and caught some real zingers from this guy -

http://cosmic.lifeform.org/

jdquintette January 21 2007, 18:39:26 UTC

What's interesting to me about this is the way the spin is mutating. Prior to Katrina, you never heard neo-cons speak of 'environmentalism' with anything but contempt. Now there are cadres of neo-conservative, born-again tree-huggers bloviating about how rebuilding New Orleans goes against "mother nature" and how "man was not meant to live in a coastal city below sea-level" (never mind that New Orleans is neither 'coastal' nor entirely 'below sea-level ( ... )

Nature Boys gamoonbat January 21 2007, 18:48:15 UTC

Indeed. I was checking out Marc Morano's U.S. Senate Committee... blog yesterday and the banner pic was a riverbank scene complete with barefoot hippy chick. Today it is the San Francisco Bay Bridge, which I suppose is his plea to Barbara Boxer not to shut him down.

artricia January 21 2007, 21:05:25 UTC

Thanks for this.