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FLANNERY WATCH
Between bookings in North Carolina and New Mexico, Tim Flannery drops in on Norfolk, Virginia:
Internationally known climatologist Tim Flannery will speak tonight on global warming and its effect on the planet at Old Dominion University’s Kaufman Mall.
The talk, part of the ODU President’s Lecture Series, starts at 7:30 p.m. on the lawn and is free, according to the university’s Web site. Bring a lawn chair or blanket. The lecture will be held in the Mills Godwin Jr. Life Sciences Building auditorium if it rains.
And it’ll be held on the roof of the Mills Godwin Jr. Life Sciences Building auditorium if the polar ice caps melt causing catastrophic flooding. (By the way, Flannery’s price sure has come down lately.)
Seems to me there may be a direct correlation between how alarmed Flannery is about climate change and changes to his speaking fee.
Coming soon: Crazy Tim Flannery and the We’re All Gonna Die Dancers at the Rooty Hill RSL, $12 adults, $8 concessions.
Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 10 17 at 08:00 AM • permalinkYou have to admire these heroic scientists - willing to risk temperatures of minus 50 degress to find out how long it will take for the ice to melt.
Let’s hope Santa’s taking swimming lessons!
Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 10 17 at 08:11 AM • permalink#8 Of course, for the unscientific of you - degress is a scientific term not unlike degrees.
Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 10 17 at 08:14 AM • permalinkIf you’re in North Carolina, skip Flannery and indulge yourself in the beaux arts. I hear that somebody will even be playing the role of Old Paco, who had the honor of arresting him.
Is paco going to be our man on the scene?
Posted by Mr. Bingley on 2007 10 17 at 08:29 AM • permalinkIs a Flannery Watch like that Doomsday clock that, during the Cold War, was always within seconds of going off?
Posted by Toiling Mass on 2007 10 17 at 08:29 AM • permalinkNorfolk, Virginia? How can that be? Flannery lives in Australia. How can he get from Australia completely around the world without adding copious amounts of greenhouse gasses to the atmosphere? And we just know he wouldn’t do that because it would be so fucking hypocritical and show him as a shallow flim flam man.
Posted by wronwright on 2007 10 17 at 08:43 AM • permalinkperhaps the oceans have risen so much wronwright that it’s now an easy kayak journey from Oz to Norfolk?
Posted by Mr. Bingley on 2007 10 17 at 08:46 AM • permalinkODU: Tim Flannery is on a mission. A mission from
GodGore.They should hold it in a cave. No microphone, no blankets (unless woven from their own recycled pubic hair, sort of a giant mirkin), and water carted from the nearest stream. If no stream then I’m afraid its urine drinking time….again.
No sense of irony is coming to a massive powered structure, to see a man not qualified in a particular field, giving his expert opinion on how flying will kill us all, who’s just jetted in.Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2007 10 17 at 08:58 AM • permalink#6 Margos, make it the Dandy RSL and I am so there.
Hell, I’ll go both nights!
Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2007 10 17 at 09:14 AM • permalinkJust for a something a bit different, why can’t we check out another Tim Flannery?
Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2007 10 17 at 09:22 AM • permalinkIn fact, if Flannery the paleontologist had been on the ball, he might have had a piece of this action.
From Wiki:
Professor Timothy Fridtjof Flannery (born 28 January 1956) is an Australian mammologist, palaeontologist and global warming activist.
Seems that even the crazies at Wikipedia know he’s no more a climate scientist than Tim Blair.
Posted by Some0Seppo on 2007 10 17 at 09:33 AM • permalinkWhere are the Dukes when you need them? Did Boss Hogg finally succeed in overwhelming our intrepid heroes?
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 10 17 at 09:46 AM • permalinkmammologist?
heck, i’ve studied breasts for many years and even i don’t make that claim.
Posted by Mr. Bingley on 2007 10 17 at 09:46 AM • permalinkHow can I apply to that fraternity? Is there a Rush Week?
Posted by wronwright on 2007 10 17 at 10:29 AM • permalinkI’m afraid I can’t do Norwegian, but with the aid of the Dialectizer, I was able to render the above notice in Swedish Chef:
Interneshunelly knoon cleemetulugist Teem Flunnery veell speek tuneeght oon glubel vermeeng und its iffffect oon zee plunet et Oold Dumeeniun Uneefersity’s Kooffmun Mell.
Zee telk, pert ooff zee OoDOo Preseedent’s Lectoore-a Sereees, sterts et 7:30 p.m. oon zee levn und is free-a, eccurdeeng tu zee uneefersity’s Veb seete-a. Breeng a levn cheur oor blunket. Um de hur de hur de hur. Zee lectoore-a veell be-a held in zee Meells Gudveen Jr. Hurty flurty schnipp schnipp! Leeffe-a Sceeences Booeelding oodeeturioom iff it reeens.
Headlines we’d like to see on tomorrow’s Norfolk newspaper:
Prominent Australian scientist eaten by polar bears at climate conference.Posted by Mystery Meat on 2007 10 17 at 10:52 AM • permalinkI live in Norfolk, and if i’d known dude was in town… i still wouldn’t have gone. But i did drive right past ODU in my dino-bone-guzzling autovoiture, en route to the girlfriend’s house for delicious bean-laden tacos. This, of course, led to a great deal of further carbon emissions later in the evening.
As to the lecture, you can bet much was made of the fact that last Tuesday here was tied for the hottest October 9th on record. You can also bet that no mention at all was made of the fact that said record was originally set almost 70 years ago. The local paper was pretty levelheaded about the whole thing, with lots of talk from experts about cycles and natural warming trends and whatnot. In today’s paper i could find no mention of Flannery at all, but there was an article about the best places to go to look at changing leaves.
#8.
there was a story in the NYT a few years ago about a cruise ship that went to the North Pole so people could look at ice. Got there, no ice. NYT said is was GW. Scientists among others sad BS, happens all the time. Then the ice came back.
Posted by Gary from Jersey on 2007 10 17 at 11:52 AM • permalinkBring a lawn chair or blanket. Why? In case you fall asleep mid-lecture?
Flannery (Fridtjof? how the heck do you pronounce that) must be the go-to guy when you can’t afford Goreacle’s exorbitant fees. Must be cold there in Gore’s shadow…
#12—The Doomsday Clock:
IT IS 5 MINUTES TO MIDNIGHT
2007 — The world stands at the brink of a second nuclear age. The United States and Russia remain ready to stage a nuclear attack within minutes, North Korea conducts a nuclear test, and many in the international community worry that Iran plans to acquire the Bomb. Climate change also presents a dire challenge to humanity. Damage to ecosystems is already taking place; flooding, destructive storms, increased drought, and polar ice melt are causing loss of life and property. linkPosted by Kyda Sylvester on 2007 10 17 at 01:12 PM • permalinkSpeaking of AGW Horror Scenarios, this was reported on the radio this AM. Apparently the ocean is turning acid from the CO2 in it and it’s going to kill the earth’s corals.
Surprise, surprise!God save us from these fools.
#40
Oops, this is the link for the acid oceans and the corals dying.So, what happened in prehistoric times when the oceans became more acidic after the climate warmed due to the activities of the sun? Obviously the corals died and became extinct.
*snort*
A gynaecologist called Ron Paul is running for US president and he knows nix about foreign affairs, or much else ... scary!
Norfolk, VA is the largest naval port in the world. When I was there I saw TWO nuclear carriers and half a dozen nuke subs in a just few minutes.
At least Flummery should feel safe there.I was scanning the RSS feeds quickly, and thought the opening quote read, “Irrationally known climatologist Tim Flannery…”
Somehow I thought it appropriate to share with the group.
Posted by chunkstyle on 2007 10 17 at 07:31 PM • permalinkOK Here’s the deal:
I am an unknown electronics engineer in Canada. Fly me down to Sydney, pay my air fair, hotel and bar bill(s) and I will magically become your very own climate expert and talk at the event that you have conned a few hundred people to pay a few hundred bucks to view. Seems like a good deal round.
BTW I bet I can talk more authoritively and knowledgeably on “global warming” than most.
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2007 10 17 at 09:20 PM • permalink#2 Penguin, I thought you had soakd your blankets in syphillus to kill the Amerindians.
[Author’s note: Syphillus was an Amerindian disease taken to Europe]
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2007 10 17 at 09:23 PM • permalink#5 I’m choking and spluttering. If I die, it’s egg’s fault,.
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2007 10 17 at 09:25 PM • permalink#6 Loveit. Coming soon: Crazy Tim Flannery and the “Oh no! We-are-all-going-to-die-while-waving-hands-in-the-air-and-running-around-circles-and-all-gonna-die” singers.
I can hear the operetta:
Falsetto: “Oh no, we’re all gonna die” played to the background of rhymic bass repetition: “Kumbayar, Jimmy Carter, kumbayar”.
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2007 10 17 at 09:32 PM • permalink#46, You have seen too much. You must be elliminated.
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2007 10 17 at 09:36 PM • permalink#1-54 To all who care about the details:
I live in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Every 6 months, the temperature varies between minus 30 Centigrade to plus 35 Centigrde.
So, do I care about a shift of 0.6 Centigrade in 100 years? I think not.
And I am not being flippant, these temp changes are real.
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2007 10 17 at 09:41 PM • permalink#22 - Nilk, the Tim Flannery I met in San Diego was a Padres coach…& a singer in his off time. When I first saw that name here, I had to check & make sure he hadn’t gone insane.
#55 - Wimpy, I lived in southern Alberta (Conquerville) for 3 years. Also north central Montana (Havre), north eastern Montana (Scobey), & one winter in Minneapolis, Minnesota. After I got married, our first duty station was Brunswick, Maine. That temperature range happened every damn year in every one of those places. Such experience probably contributed to the fact that when AlGore started his pontificating, I threw the bullshit flag. Nearly everyone with a brain who’s lived in flyover country knows the glubel vermenists are just after control & our money.
I have a keychain from the Rooty Hill RSL somewhere that a guy named Bill Mays sent me. Sweet ol man, lovely wife, too, we’ve lost contact over the past couple years.
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How can I bring a blanket? I threw them all away because of the warming!