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Warmenologist Michael Molitor - he’s robust! - is profiled in the SMH (no link available):

• I don’t like talking about ... politics. I get deeply emotional about the lack of a meaningful political response to climate change.

• What I don’t find amusing is ... people who distort the science of climate change to persuade other people not to take action.

• If I were a car I’d be ... a 350Kw hydrogen fuel cell sportscar.

• Friends say I am ... overcharged with energy and enthusiasm.

Thinks rather a lot of himself, doesn’t he? Further self-worshipping profiles here.

Posted by Tim B. on 08/18/2007 at 11:28 AM

  1. I don’t like talking about ... politics. I get deeply emotional about the lack of a meaningful political response to climate change.

    What, he flaps his hands and cries?

    Posted by RebeccaH on 2007 08 18 at 12:06 PM • permalink

  2. If this guy puts his trust in “a meaningful political response” to change any problem, he’s nuts. And why waste time getting “deeply emotional” about it? My attitude is simpler: if someone perceives that society is facing a problem, and they feel strongly about it, there’s nothing stopping them from taking some sort of concrete action against it. (i.e., not punditing, but actual physical effort of some type.)

    But I guess he’s too busy getting interviewed to do anything about global warming himself.

    Posted by Dr Alice on 2007 08 18 at 12:40 PM • permalink

  3. Hee, I just scrolled down to the “Naked Glue People” post. For the record, supergluing your hands to a building is not what I had in mind.

    Posted by Dr Alice on 2007 08 18 at 12:42 PM • permalink

  4. Was standing naked on a glacier, Dr. Alice?

    Posted by MikeTheLibrarian on 2007 08 18 at 12:59 PM • permalink

  5. 350kW is equivalent to 470hp…wouldn’t that energy be better spent pumping water in Africa or something?

    Posted by Jeffersonian on 2007 08 18 at 01:00 PM • permalink

  6. Overcharged? Has he been using the wrong size batteries in his vibrator?

    Posted by andycanuck on 2007 08 18 at 01:03 PM • permalink

  7. “If I were a car I’d be ... a 350Kw hydrogen fuel cell sportscar”


    Has this man never heard of the Tesla?

    Posted by MikeTheLibrarian on 2007 08 18 at 01:12 PM • permalink

  8. Michael Molitor Ponders the
    Eighth Wonder of the World

    In rapture, upon bended knee,
    The human race seems to agree.
    Their mouths gape in awe,
    Spellbound by the raw,
    Immense moral grandeur of me.

    Posted by lyle on 2007 08 18 at 02:03 PM • permalink

  9. #8: Typically wonderful, Lyle!

    Reminds me of a genuinely funny vanity license plate I saw the other day: “ILOVEME”.

    Posted by paco on 2007 08 18 at 02:08 PM • permalink

  10. • Friends say I am ... overcharged with energy and enthusiasm

    Instead of him plugging into the grid, how about the grid plugging into him?  Maybe we could eliminate a coal plant or two.

    Posted by Mystery Meat on 2007 08 18 at 02:13 PM • permalink

  11. I do think quite a lot of myself.  It’s one of the reasons I’m so awesome. - M. Molitor

    Posted by blogagog on 2007 08 18 at 02:29 PM • permalink

  12. Michael Molitor, As Soul

    I’m up to my neck in my role
    As perfect, complete – as the whole
    Embodiment of
    Requited self-love, 
    Not as mere Man, but as Soul.

    Posted by lyle on 2007 08 18 at 03:17 PM • permalink

  13. Hydrogen fuelled cars have got to be the greatest example of idiotic NIMBY’ism I’ve ever heard of.

    Posted by duncanm on 2007 08 18 at 03:19 PM • permalink

  14. You know, emissions from those hydrogen cars and their fueling stations are only going to aggravate the dihydrogen oxide problem…

    Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 08 18 at 03:47 PM • permalink

  15. I remember reading in Popular Mechanics someone had calculated how many nukes would have to be built in he USA to replace oil imports with hydrogen powered cars.  I recollect the number was 2000.
    Imagine the head implodeyness that would result in that plan getting onto the drawing board.

    Posted by entropy on 2007 08 18 at 06:34 PM • permalink

  16. of course I meant ‘replace oil imports with hydrogen to power cars”, not ‘replace oil imports with hydrogen powered cars’.

    Posted by entropy on 2007 08 18 at 06:36 PM • permalink

  17. The solution is already undergoing development: HHO gas

    And then there’s the Water fueled lawnmower

    Cheers

    Posted by J.M. Heinrichs on 2007 08 18 at 06:43 PM • permalink

  18. #4

    Well I was thinking about joining the Polar Bear Club. Especially in this heat (it’s nearly ninety in L.A. today).

    Posted by Dr Alice on 2007 08 18 at 07:18 PM • permalink

  19. “If I were a car I’d be ... a 350Kw hydrogen fuel cell sportscar

    According to Lefty psycho-babble, that’s compensation for a small ... footprint

    Posted by egg_ on 2007 08 18 at 07:38 PM • permalink

  20. Simpe logic:

    Climate change is a religion

    Gods distinguish religion from ideology

    I, Michael Molitor, am god. Cower at my mightiness, mere mortals.

    Others have followed this same path. Tim Flannery f’instance.

    Posted by Contrail on 2007 08 19 at 03:44 AM • permalink

  21. Contrail, I was trying to come up with a simple algorithm the other day and came up with:
    Emotional stake in public statement = time since statement made X number of people who heard you X embarrassment of public retraction
    Power = degree of alignment between allocation of other people’s resources with your personal preferences
    Emotion + power X < (approx) 1000 people = cult
    Emotion + Power X > 1000 people = religion

    More than a thousand people have been banging about CC, for too long, insisting that we reallocate our resources according to their preferences, and the emotional stake is now too great for any evidence to force a retraction.
    It’s a religion.

    Posted by ooh honey honey on 2007 08 19 at 07:09 AM • permalink

  22. I just thought that I would see his smug and raise.  Try this one for size.

    ““For the Weather Channel, I’m CLIMATE EXPERT Dr. Heidi Cullen.”

    Posted by yojimbo on 2007 08 19 at 06:30 PM • permalink

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