Talk about dazed, confused and exhausted.
Just over a week into the new year, and the reptiles are all over the shop, and the pond with them.
One minute Milo is the best of 2017, and the next minute the reptiles are regurgitating hate speech about poor Milo from The Times ...
And it wasn't much better in NSW, battered by torrential storms and blackouts and heat and weather events, and trains not running on time, and chaos and despair, and so naturally insouciance from the government ...
Par for the course?
The pond blames South Australia and all this new fangled renewable energy. Whenever in doubt blame a croweater, boil crow and stone, throw away stone and eat the crow ...
Well it worked in the past, but strangely the reptiles have been silent on all the blackouts bedevilling NSW. Suddenly it's just the work of the NSW hot season, and as natural as icecream.
Fortunately the Terrorists, aware of a new mood in the land, brought the keenest sense of climate science to their reporting ...
Actually, if a Terrorist reader, you expect more bikini bang for your buck.
Speaking of the Terror, they reached a new low this day, a bar so low that even the pond can't limbo under it ...
Yep, that'd be that Gorka, a man booted from the White House, a man with a suspect degree, a man so on the nose that even certain cable channels have cocked a snoot at him for his routine peddling of lies and bullshit, a man with far right, neo-Nazi connections and extreme views ...
The pond refuses to go there, it being a rough equivalent of wading through a sewer, but others have done the trip and come back with strange tales...
Well now he has the ear of the Sydney Terrorists as well, proving that the cultural cringe and neo-fascist tendencies of the Terrorists are alive and well, and with the rest of that RS story here ...
And you don't have to look far for other stories ... like the one about that PhD from Corvinus University ... or Foreign Policy giving the fraud a good going over here ...
Some might think that Gorka's arrival in the Terror is just part of a silly season shortage - intellectual blackouts just go with the weather - but it's actually a natural fit, a fraudulent paper running a fake news man blathering on about fake news ...
As for the weather, the deep north reptiles were also in a lather, as if they'd failed to understand Ridders' message in the lizard Oz ...
So what is it?
Are we frying or chilling out?
Luckily Lloydie was on hand to sort it out.
Usually the pond wouldn't bother to go there ...
Anyone talking about the weather gods should be sent back to ancient times to cast the runes and decipher the entrails ...
But these were desperate days and Lloydie might be the only one to sort it out, given as he is to gnomic utterances down there with Peter Sellers in Being There ... like, "there be hot days and there be cold days, and sometimes there'll be in between days, and only the weather gods know which days will be which ..."
Difficult to maintain perspective?
Well one thing's certain. Lloydie is a serious climate scientist, not like the Terrorists, with their bikinis and their Gorkas ...
Lloydie certainly won't seize this moment to run a couple of shots of frozen lizards and fried bats, of the cheap sensationalist kind ...
Just kidding ...
Okay, okay, the pond routinely gets things wrong. Of course Lloydie was going to run shots of a frozen iguana and fried flying foxes, and reassure everyone that everything is perfectly normal ...
But surely Lloydie will now take the stick to Ridders ... since concerns about a gradually warming world don't precisely coincide with a new ice age ...
Just kidding.
That's it? That's Lloydie's contribution to climate science? That's Lloydie's response to the loons in his midst?
A few meaningless words, and a link to Ridders, and a shot of shovelling snow, and talk of bats and sharks, and another ice age on the way, perhaps in many thousands of years' time, as if the pond won't be around to collect on the bet?
Well the sharks for one face a more immediate peril. Look who hovered just below Lloydie.
Maestro, a little Jaws music if you will ...
Yep it's shark-killer Pawle. He's back, with another of his 'kill all the creepy crawly things' diatribes ...
Is it any wonder that sometimes after dipping into reptile la la land, the pond reels back and reaches for a Pope, the only sure, scientifically proven antidote, with more papal relief to be had here ...
Hi DP,
ReplyDeleteAs usual, Lloydie manages to waffle on about meteorology and geology and end up saying nothing. Just what the last two lines of his asinine article are supposed to mean is beyond comprehension.
His agenda of course is to downplay the current, real issue of global warming and prompt us to instead worry about a “geological” ice age that may come in “many thousands” of years. Sort of - "Let's all cool down folks, nothing to see here!"
More than thirty years ago meteorologists predicted global warming would cause extreme changes in not just maximum but also minimum temperatures. The increased heat in the atmosphere acts to shift global prevailing winds and ocean currents out of their normal patterns. Some localities will actually get colder as others warm up but the average global temperature will keep increasing.
Of course, Lloydie probably knows all this, but he also knows who is paying him to write pseudo-science.
The northern USA and parts of Europe are experiencing the breakdown of the Arctic polar vortex which has basically become an annual event nowadays.
Delete[ Polar vortex https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polar_vortex ]
But the last two sentences of Lloydy's Lies are quite clear: he just wants to be able to con the ignorant that "natural variation" can still account for everything and 'climate change' is just a suspect 'hypothesis' beloved of Watermelons. Which is, of course, the whole theme of Ritters' Rubbish. Glug, glug, down goes the snake oil and Kool Aid.
Cheers GB,
DeleteI was referring to the last two sentences of the final gobbet - if you can decode that for me I would be amazed!
By the way, thanks for your link to the OSS site. John Reisman is brilliant - a big suit with a pale blue tie and a big brain to boot!
Ah, ok, you mean the two lines:
Delete"When it does come, maybe in many thousands of years' time, some things will remain the same.
It's just the bats, the sharks and humans who really will have reason to complain about the weather."
And maybe the frogs, iguanas and alligators. Amongst many others. But think about it: homo sapiens sapiens has been around for about 300,000 years according to recent estimates - enough time to have experienced three 100,000 year cycles. But then so have basically all the mammals and just about every other lifeform that we know. So maybe many things would remain the same.
Otherwise, yair, good point. Those sentences kinda seem like they should mean something but it's a bit hidden. Hmmm. Maybe just some kind of crazy notion in Lloydy's head somewhere. I'll have a try at decoding them, but like you nothing obvious gels.
Glad you got value from the OSS link.
Amazingly, if there was no anthropogenic climate change, Ridders would be just about right: Planet Terra is supposedly about half way through a 20,000 year 'warm period' after an 80,000 year ice age, and is very slowly cooling down for the next ice age beginning in about 10,000 years. He even got the Milankovich cycle about right. No wonder Lloydie has to play the loyal minion.
ReplyDelete[ Global Warming Natural Cycle
http://ossfoundation.us/projects/environment/global-warming/natural-cycle ]
But of course there is anthropogenic climate change, so they're both spouting their usual brand of self-satisfied total nonsense. New Year, Same Idiocy. Hallelujah !
GB, during the current Interglacial, the background rate of cooling from the "Holocene Climate Optimum" has been about 0.2 degrees C per thousand years, or -0.002 degrees per decade. OTOH, anthropogenic warming has accelerated to a current rate of about +0.2 degrees per decade. Given the persistence of GHGs in the atmosphere, we have already done enough to avoid the next Glacial ("ice age", if you will) entirely, regardless of changes to solar forcings from Ridley's overhyped Solar Minimum and to orbital forcings in the Milankovitch cycle.
DeleteAs an aside, the temperature gradient between the tropics and the arctic used to keep the polar jetstream fairly tightly constrained which kept very cold weather in uninteresting places like Siberia and the Northwest Territories. As the arctic has warmed faster than the rest of the globe, the temperature gradient has weakened, allowing the jetstream to wander further north and south. We don't hear much about a northern wander causing winter "heatwaves" in high latitudes, except when it screws up the winter olympics, but they happen. But a southern wander, coupled with a blocking weather system in the Atlantic, and suddenly its Snowmaggedon! Yes, Lloydie, warming can cause cold weather - it's local -v- global and weather -v- climate, you muppet.