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Archive for November 2007
Stratospheric Stupidity
Posted by Clif on 11/27/07 at 9:22 am
Category: Wingnut Science, Climate Change
English wingnut Christopher Booker recently claimed that the “latest” satellite figures show that “temperatures [have] fallen since 1998, declining in 2007 to a 1983 level.” Cue oohs and aahs from the wingnutosphere. “Al Gore is a big fat liar,” they chant. A cry of “Game Over” rises from basements throughout the country. The usual suspects — The Whistler at Say Anything and, of course, Don Surber — can be found citing Booker’s statement and calling for Gore to return the Nobel Peace Prize.
Booker doesn’t provide a link or a clue as to where this “latest” data comes from. Well, of course, he doesn’t because it’s bogus. But with the assistance of Google — a computer novelty not apparently known to Surber or The Whistler — you can find that data and see for yourself what it says. And it doesn’t say what Booker says it does.
The satellite data do show a cooling trend as claimed by Booker but only in the lower stratosphere. And do you know where the lower stratosphere is? Well, depending upon where you are in the world, anywhere from about five to six miles over the surface of the earth. And in the lower troposphere, where we actually live, the satellite data show a warming trend. As do surface temperatures, which the satellites don’t measure.
If you’re curious about why surface temperatures and troposphere temperatures are increasing while stratosphere temperatures are decreasing, a fairly technical but comprehensive explanation can be found here.
So if Surber and friends want to declare that global warming is over, they will simply have to sit in lawn chairs, tie a bunch of helium balloons to them, float up to the stratosphere, and stay there.
UPDATE: WordPress pinged Surber’s blog with a link back to this post. Surber doesn’t like being made a fool of, although he must be quite used to it by now, so he disabled the link. That’s much easier, of course, than admitting that Booker’s figures, and Surber’s infatuation with them, are loony.
Maisie’s Home
Posted by Clif on 11/25/07 at 10:08 am Category: Dog Blogging
Maisie came home yesterday. She’s eight weeks old and a bundle of energy, mischief, affection and merriment. And did I say that she’s impossibly cute?
Another pic below the fold
A Dick and a Moran Too
Posted by Clif on 11/23/07 at 4:12 pm Category: Wingnuts, Wankers, Loathsome Republicans
Rick Moran, from Right Wingnut House, got all pissed at a post I wrote about him at Sadly, No! So he takes to the comments section there to call me a pedophile:
And the information gleaned from reading takes up valuable space in a limited vessel - space better used to store things like images of naked women or, in the case of the author of this piece, pictures of naked little boys.
Or at least tried to call me a pedophile. Rick is such a sloppy writer, of course, that you could also read his comment as a confession of his own choice of wanking material.
Rick’s comment not only reveals his struggles with the English language but also marks him as — surprise! surprise! — a bloviating lump of hypocrisy. Why, it was less than three months ago that Rick got his wattles in a wrinkle about Mike Rogers and had this to say:
To “out” a staffer just because Rogers hears rumors about him is beyond belief. What possible difference can it make to Rogers except by outing the aide, he can put another notch on his gun. One more victim of his one man pogrom against gay Republicans who won’t slavishly think as he does. This man is a blight on American politics and should be banished from public life forever.
But it’s okay for Moran to call me — falsely, of course — a pedophile?
Larry Elder’s Thanksgiving Thought: The Poor Should Just STFU About Not Having Health Care!
Posted by Clif on 11/22/07 at 11:07 am Category: Wingnuts, Town Hall Watch, Health Care
In the spirit of Thanksgiving — where we should be thankful for what we have and mindful of what other less fortunate people don’t have — Larry Elder is at Clown Hall castigating an alleged friend during a holiday dinner for worrying about poor people not having decent, or any, health care:
Just before the holidays, I had my annual dinner with longtime friends — all political liberals.
My friends’ son, now in college, asked me a health care question as I munched on a delicious dish of short ribs. “If you’re against government health care insurance, what should poor people do? What, just screw ‘em?” … [T]he harshness of the question surprised me.
The kid, of course, should really have been more tolerant of the fact that there are uninsured people and certainly shouldn’t pose any harsh questions about it to people who don’t really care that there are uninsured people.
So I said, “This is a somewhat complicated question, but the short answer is free enterprise.”
“Free enterprise?”
“The reason health care isn’t accessible to so many people is because of government interference.
I know, you’re thinking I made that up. No one could be that stupid, you are undoubtedly thinking. So follow the link and see for yourself. Then come back and we’ll see how Elder tries to justify that skull-crushing piece of idiocy.
For example, a medic in Iraq who attends to fallen soldiers — but is not an M.D. — could not return stateside and open a practice.
So you see if the government would let everybody be doctors, then everyone would have doctors! And they’d all work at Walgreen’s
Drug stores like Walgreens now have in-house, walk-in medical clinics so that people can get care for medical problems, the kind of treatment that most people need — noncomplicated, nonsurgical procedures. … Staffed by nurse practitioners who can examine patients, administer vaccines, and prescribe medications for minor illnesses, these clinics charge much less than a traditional doctor’s office visit.
Of course, you’re still SOL if you have, say, breast cancer.
Happy Thanksgiving — from Larry Elder’s home to yours.
And we also have another Thanksgiving treat for you over at Sadly, No!
Say It’s Not True and If It Is . . .
Posted by Clif on 11/17/07 at 10:50 am Category: Wankers, Immigration
Just effing shoot me. Lou Dobbs wants to run for President. It was bad enough when this insufferable buffoon moved into the 7:00 pm time slot, but now he wants to move into 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue as well? And who’s he going to name as his running mate? Glenn Beck?
The Buttars Principle
Posted by Clif on 11/16/07 at 3:05 am Category: Politics
Chris Buttars, our favorite homophobic wingnut from Utah, recently expressed his legislative philosophy in connection with a bill to forbid the Utah Pension Fund from investing in companies that do business in Iran:
“We get bound up here all the time on ‘we don’t understand this,’ ” Buttars said in response to a call by Sen. Carlene Walker, R-Cottonwood Heights, for a more complete analysis of the bill before the committee’s endorsement. “Well, there’s a lot of things we vote on that we don’t understand, but I would rather stand on the principle of ‘let’s go for it.’ “
A novel philosophy, perhaps, but a necessity I suppose for someone who probably understands hardly anything.
Distraction by Dog Blogging
Posted by Clif on 11/14/07 at 11:26 pm Category: Dog Blogging
Okay, I admit it. I haven’t been posting as much as I should here. So, look! Puppies!! Pay no attention to my slovenly posting habits!!!
That’s Maisie on the right. The black and tan cocker on the left is one of her litter mates. And that’s the breeder — not me — in the background. Maisie will be coming home with me on the Saturday after Thanksgiving and, boy, will you have to tolerate a bunch of dog blogging after that.
And it’s not like I haven’t been blogging at all. My post this weekend at Sadly, No! about James Hudnall got about 500 megazabillion comments. Of course, that had little to do with the comic brilliance of my post. Rather, all the other kids at S,N! appeared to be too drunk or hungover to post so my post stayed on top for two days and the commenters had nowhere else to go.
And if this bit of distraction doesn’t work, just go read my latest post about a Clown Hall clown over at S,N!
