You Don’t Need a Weatherman (why is John Coleman still trying to prove it’s all a scam?)

2/16/09

[Libloather]

Link only - You Don’t Need a Weatherman

[Libloather]

Maybe it's time for a Global Warming Channel. There would be updated pictures of the devastation as well as 'consensus' scientists attempting to prove their point. Don't forget - Algore said, "The debate is over." It's time they put their money where their mouths are. And it would be for the ULTIMATE cause - saving the planet.

[steelyourfaith]

 

Beam me to Planet Gore !

[magslinger]

Maybe it's time for a Global Warming Channel.

There already is one. Watch The Weather Channel and see what I mean.

[netmilsmom]

>>To get some sort of definitive explanation, I talked to Kerry Emmanuel, who is a professor of Atmospheric Science at M.I.T. He agrees with Al Gore that the debate is over .....“The models are even difficult for the professionals to understand.” So the problem, as Emmanuel presents it, is that scientists often expect the general public to accept conclusion “as an article of faith” because the explanation can be so intricate and difficult to communicate. “Therein lies a problem,” says Emmanuel. “You have to take my word for that.”<<

Here it is, plain and simple. You are too stupid to understand.

[WayneS]

Yup.

[hoosier hick]

To get some sort of definitive explanation, I talked to Kerry Emmanuel, who is a professor of Atmospheric Science at M.I.T. He agrees with Al Gore that the debate is over (although he does think the movie has some “scientific flaws”). .... he says, “The models are even difficult for the professionals to understand.” So the problem, as Emmanuel presents it, is that scientists often expect the general public to accept conclusion “as an article of faith” because the explanation can be so intricate and difficult to communicate. “Therein lies a problem,” says Emmanuel. “You have to take my word for that.”

When I was in college, a friend gave some really sound advice: when someone says "it's too complicated, you wouldn't understand" they either do not understand it, or are hiding something. Truly brilliant/intelligent people can explain complicated material in words that anyone can understand. Accept no substitute.

I have never found an exception to this assessment...

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[The Great RJ]

If you simply listen to the global weather reports in the last 6 months with snow in the Middle East for the first time in hundreds of years, the canals freezing over in Holland, blizzards in the UK and record cold weather all over the US it is hard to accept that the earth is warming to a point of no return.

[magslinger]

What do we want?

GLOBAL WARMING!

When do we want it?

NOW!

It really has frozen over. Click on Magslinger and scroll all the way down to see what I mean.

[Kimmers]

Maybe they could hire this guy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UIgTUwIJt4

[HoosierHawk]

It’s a cold day in Hell all right. But it’s a bit cooler here in NWI.

[ETL]

"You Don’t Need a Weatherman"

For anyone not familiar with this expression, here is where it comes from...

"Those who later formed the Weatherman organization produced a paper at the Students for a Democratic Society Convention in Chicago in June of 1969. With a nod to Bob Dylan, the sponsors titled their epistle: 'You Don’t Need A Weatherman to Know Which Way the Wind Is Blowing.'"
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=26243

"Dubbing itself the Weathermen, this new organization took its name from a line in Bob Dylan’s 'Subterranean Homesick Blues'—'you don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows'—and within months had set off bombs at the National Guard headquarters and set in motion plans to bomb targets across the country"
http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/weatherunderground/film.html

"Johnny's in the basement
Mixing up the medicine
I'm on the pavement
Thinking about the government"

"Maggie comes fleet foot
Face full of black soot
Talkin' that the heat put
Plants in the bed but
The phone's tapped anyway
Maggie says that many say
They must bust in early May"

...

Look out kid
Don't matter what you did
Walk on your tip toes
Don't try "No Doz"
Better stay away from those
That carry around a fire hose

Keep a clean nose
Watch the plain clothes
You don't need a weather man
To know which way the wind blows"

http://www.bobdylan.com/#/songs/subterranean-homesick-blues

[expatpat]

As a PhD physicist, I can tell you that you are exactly right.