The agonies of a weekend reptile festival programmer part three ...
With the war on China done and dusted, who should be next on the program?
What's worse, unlike a regular festival, Saturday night is dead for bloggers of the pond and Donald kind. People are off doing other things. Already some festival goers have had their appetites sated just by sampling the bromancer and "Ned".
But somebody has to be flung in to fill up the slot, so why not Killer Creighton, who when not being an expert on viruses, is also a pretty mean climate scientist?
Sure it's a rehash, but experience tells the pond that while you might start with King Kong, soon enough you'll end up with King Kong v. Godzilla ...
Now before we begin the screening, we should note that the splash contained a lie. Not unusual for Killer, but still ...
The man in question wasn't Barack Obama's chief scientist. He was an undersecretary for science in the US Department of Energy during Obama's first term in a two year stint, with his expertise in theoretical physics. He was a chief scientist at BP, which suggests a lot. Recently he's become a reptile favourite, at the WSJ, Fox, and the usual blog suspects.
Obama had a number of actual secretaries of science/energy, but our man wasn't one of them ... and so to the yarn ...
Why is it always "hysteria" with Killer? There's also frequent talk by him of virus hysteria, yet the pond routinely notices that whenever there's talk of masks, the Killer dissolves into an hysterical, quivering, blubbery jelly ...
And before the opening credits were over, the pond already knew the story and the outcome, and decided it needed to spice things up by doing a little scissors cutting and fish smell pasting.
So the pond headed over to DeSmog, which had plenty of goodies on our man ...
Now rather than pick over the bones offered up by Killer, the pond thought it should continue with the DeSmog story ...
Well that's all pretty compelling, and best of all the pond can just munch popcorn and chew its way through the Killer show ...
Okay, there's enough lies, misrepresentations and distortions in there to keep festival goers going, but it's time to head back to DeSmog ... to discover this lad, this reptile pet, has form ...
Now anyone wanting the original links, etc, perforce must head off to the DeSmog original, and give them a click for being so kind, while the pond heads back to the dissembling Killer ...
Why are the coal-loving reptiles so twisted and obfuscated? Well their story has had to change many times over the years ... but never mind that, here's a last DeSmog sampling ...
Well the pond can't stand down, at least until it has finished the last Killer Creighton gobbet ...
And if he just happens to be another loon pandering to the climate science denying reptiles, a fucked planet, and a chance to live out post-apocalyptic fantasies, will be a small consolation for those seeking amusement ... though it's always handy to have a little Mad Max in a festival of reptiles ...
And now, as in all festivals, a few cartoons, which hint at one of the bigger problems with Killer and the reptiles.
You can't handle the truth, runs one movie line, and indeed, the reptiles do have exceeding difficulty with it ...
You can't handle the science might fit equally well, but then a man with a special interest in tax and financial policy is exceptionally well equipped to blather on about climate science ... at least in a reptile festival dedicated to the sublimely silly ...
Very well done, DP, especially in respect of the DeSmog contributions. Of course, as should be bleedin' bloody obvious, scientists actually speak a language that is incomprehensibly alien to the likes of the Creightons, Koonins, Lomborgs and Ridds of this world. Like, for instance agreeing that climate has changed even more in the past, but never at the fast rate that humanity is driving it.
ReplyDeleteBut that point will never get through to, or be acknowledged by, the reptiles' favourite denialists. Just another case of ignorant whooshies.
GB - with tip-off from My Source, I hoped to see this - one cannot call it an ‘effort’ - this recycling of words from our friendly ‘Killer’, appear in Dorothy’s blog sequence.
ReplyDeleteThanks to a link which I will credit to you I already had responses to Steven Koonin’s attempt to score invites to appear on the dubious ‘news’ sites, coming particularly from Andrew Lacis, who has been pointing out where Koonin has been disregarding the very tenets of the physics that he claims to have studied, for about a decade.
Lacis particularly takes issue with Koonin’s almost throwaway comments that changes in ground temperature of planet Earth of the order of 1-2% are small, so likely to be insignificant. Lacis offers the analogy of Koonin’s human body - where a sustained difference in temperature of 2% would see him dead.
But this does not trouble the ‘Killer’. As he has shown with his disinclination to run basic equations of epidemiology to demonstrate to himself that changes of a couple of percentage points in the characteristics of viruses can multiply their capacity to infect, spread, and - er- kill (and he adds a sentence in this weekend’s set of words to try to conflate his benign interpretation of Covid-19 with Koonin’s relaxed classification of numbers in climate physics) - ‘Killer’ will happily accept disregard of basic physics if it suits his message.
Now, are the reptiles capable of co-ordinating a message? Is it just coincidence that this contributor tells us that neither of a particularly nasty virus, nor the steady disruption of the characteristics of this planet that make it habitable, need justify any alarm - coincidence? when others on the Flagship see it as their duty to tell us to prepare for Warre, with a specific foe, using all the traditional methods of killing, and that right soon.
Perhaps the time to get more concerned will be when Rupert follows his father’s example, and starts to nominate which generals should be given what commands in this inevitable conflict. Probably he will have more success than the pater, because he has a government now much more in thrall to him.
I haven't anywhere seen a reference to any notable 'theoretical physics' attributed to Koonin. Mind, I haven't done a rigorous search, but you'd reckon somebody, somewhere in the great reptile empire might have looked him up. But I certainly wouldn't expect any sensible, or in any way perceptive, analysis from the Killer.
DeleteHe does remind me of that old saying that "a good liar needs a very good memory" and I don't think the Killer has one. Therefore, he has to adopt the base reptile technique of maintaining a very limited repertoire of themes, memes and tropes on which to base his pathetic stock of lie scenarios. And Killer's stock is very thin, hence similarities between his expostulations.
But alarm ? No, alarm is reserved for really important things, like the Snow White kiss. Which was, you will recall, delivered to the sleeping maiden without her clear consent ! Ooh, a kind of rape ! No wonder the 'lefties' are working a 'cancel culture' on that particular 'faerie tale' (can't call it 'fairy' because that would insult gays).