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Someone called “DM” emails:
Tim,
Stumbled across this item in the Journal of Geoclimatic Studies…new report pans man-made CO2 as the cause of global warming…bad news for Dr Karl? Only if msm actually reports it, I guess.
The report is bogus. As for “DM”, it could be - let’s take a wild guess - that he is popular internet celebrity Darryl Mason. Multi-identitied Darryl has tried this crap before.
UPDATE. A note from Alex Robson:
The hoax you reported was immediately identified by sceptics as being fake - that is, after all, why we are called sceptics.
There is a lot more to this story.
It was a deliberate attempt by warmenists to make the sceptics look foolish, but it backfired because the warmenists thought we were as gullible as they are.
Among the few who did fall for it, however briefly, was Reason’s Ronald Bailey - but, as he points out:
I have not been in the skeptics camp for some time.
UPDATE II. An interview with the hoaxer - one David Thorpe, apparently - who seems very pleased with himself, despite the scam’s minimal impact. Even warmenists are unimpressed:
Some observers are depressed that the hoax was revealed before more gullible denialists got taken in, which only a few did ... Better luck next time.
Don’t know if OZ has the Weather Channel, but the guy who founded it up here has this to say aboutr gerbil worming. I wonder what his more rabid presenters think of it.
http://icecap.us/index.php/go/joes-blog/comments_about_global_warming/
Posted by Gary from Jersey on 2007 11 09 at 06:48 PM • permalinkIt could stand for Danger Mouse, Dungeon Master, Dave Mustaine, Depeche Mode, Deutshce Mark, Doctor of Metaphysics, Death Metal or Dextromethorphan.
DM is also used as an abbreviation for Adamsite, a chemical agent used to disperse crowds.
I suspect Adamsite was deployed by Tim recently. How else could the most popular blog in the multiverse make such a poor showing in the blog awards?
Posted by eeniemeenie on 2007 11 09 at 07:49 PM • permalinkDon’t you just hate it when your ambush falls flat like that? I mean, there you are, along with the other savages, spears poised, bowstrings pulled back, readjusting your grip on your war club, and then old George lets out a thunderous fart, tipping off the expeditionary force, who promptly spread out, outflank you, and fire a murderous enfilade into your band of baffled braves, leaving you with a lot of explaining to do to the newly-minted widows and orphans upon your return to the village.
Parody is dead. Long live self-parody !
Posted by Harry Bergeron on 2007 11 09 at 08:17 PM • permalinkThe funny thing on that bacteria story was I saw it on a number of other blogs, pretty well every one of them included the line “If this story checks out” or were at least partially sceptical of the claims.
I didnt see one claim outright (Im sure there will be some somewhere though) that it was a definite factual report.
So even when AGW sceptics are presented with material which re-inforces our scepticism, we are still skeptical of it.
As opposed to honest Al Gores multiple errors which apparently “dont matter” because he must be right.Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2007 11 09 at 08:41 PM • permalinkDoc Martens?- It could be Natasha Spot Despoiler
Posted by eeniemeenie on 2007 11 09 at 09:46 PM • permalinkThat’s ok, Kate. Somebody once mistook Jimmy Carter for a president.
Dumb Mass’s stubborn stupidity makes him the Wile E. Coyote of the blogosphere. He fancies himself a Super Genius who will ensnare Tim’s Roadrunner, but he keeps getting hoisted by his own Acme-brand petards.
Hey, change it up a little, Dummy. Even the coyote tried rocket skates when the batwings didn’t work.
It wasn’t me!
The link at Number Watch isn’t working for me, but I assume he’s talking about the same thing.
Demoralized marxist; debauched mongrel; degenerate malefactor; dead meat; decayed mullet; decadent mumbler; decomposing midget; decrepit microbe; defective mind; declaiming miscreant; defeatist muckraker; dizzy myxobacterium; dildo mauler; doleful mutt; donkey molester; dodgy mollusc; doddery misanthrope; deviant moron; dipsomaniac; disgruntled mullah; dreadfully malodorous; diaphragm muncher; destitute mentally.
So what have we learned here? That one segment of the GW debate seem to believe the old saw “If its too good to be true some asshat is trying to get famous by suckering the rubes”.
Heh. I’ll leave it to y’all to determine which group the Nobel Peace Prize Committee belongs to. Some days its good to be alive.
The boss lands some good punches upside the Democratic head. Sure, sure, he “resigned” some time ago; but just because he’s off the official payroll doesn’t mean that he isn’t being taken care of. How? Let’s see . . .
A slender, bespectacled fellow - somehow suggestive of a tax attorney from the American Midwest - stands before the throne of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylonia
Wronwright: “No, sirree, you can’t find mead like this, anymore, your majesty. And at six gold ingots the cask, it’s a bargain.”
Nebuchadnezzar: “Six gold ingots?!? For a volume purchase? That’s full retail!”
Wronwright: “But your majesty, this isn’t just any mead. Here, try a glass.” (Pours out a cupful, hands to royal food taster, who sips and rolls his eyes with pleasure; the king grabs it out of his hand, swallows, and sighs in ecstasy).
Nebuchadnezzar: “Ahhhh! Ok, five gold ingots per cask.”
Wronwright (shakes head sadly): “No, I’m afraid I really have to get six.”
Nebuchadnezzar (angrily): “Dog! You have tried my patience too high, this time. Guards! Seize him!”
Wronwright (standing calmly in place, coolly eyes the king as the guards close in): “I have to get six gold ingots, your majesty, because the sixth ingot is . . . Karl Rove’s tribute.” (The guards halt abruptly, and emit a collective gasp, looking uncertainly at their monarch; the color drains from Nebuchadnezzar’s face).
Nebuchadnezzar: “R-Rove? Heh, heh. Well, that’s different, of course. I’ll take sixty casks. Royal treasurer! Pay the man.”
An hour later, Wronwright is overseeing the loading of the gold ingots into the Tardis; his assistant, MarkL, watches him
MarkL: Wronright, you look awful nervous. Something bothering you?
Wronwright (Constantly glancing over his shoulder in the direction of the palace): “Yeah. Listen. That cask Nebuchadnezzar drank out of was a ringer. The other fifty-nine contain Bus Station Chardonnay.”
MarkL: “Bus Station Chardonay?!? The stuff made by Paco Distilleries? Wron, bums use sterno to dilute Bus Station. What’s the motto? ‘Real Men Don’t Need a Stomach Lining’”.
Wronwright: “I know, I know. But I had to cut down on raw materials costs in order to cover higher overhead – that would be your and my new company Ferraris - plus maintain sufficient margin to take care of Karl’s gravy. Ok. That’s the last of the gold” ( From the direction of the palace comes the sound of many thundering hooves). Uh oh. Sounds like the Household Cavalry. Dang! That royal lush must have tapped a second cask. Fire up the Tardis, Mark, and let’s get the hell outta Dodge!”
Limbaugh was briefly taken in by this hoax during his show yesterday. Listeners alerted him and he corrected his mistake long before the end of the program. Actually, I thought he put in too many mea culpas, but no leftard ever admits they’ve been taken in.
Contrast Limbaugh with the TNR Beauchamp fiasco: No comparison. (T)he (N)ut (R)oots is still in denial months later.
LOL Paco. Really though, you should consider the possibility of making repeat sales by not cheating the customers. Now you can never sell to Old Neb again. A minor error in calibration of the Tardis and you’ll find yourself back with one of your ex-customers, while thinking you are in a space-time continuum where they’ve never seen you before. Then you’ll have the opportunity to find out how much truth there is in the Story of Daniel. We do not have so many trained operatives that we can afford to lose them for frivolous reasons.
Posted by Michael Lonie on 2007 11 10 at 01:07 AM • permalinkPaco industries has been busy infiltrating the unis of Australia I see.
I present the next big bandwagon after global warming has bitten the dust.
Peak Minerals!!!!Im off to corner the lead market, after all given that every american is a gun nut with 27 guns each I figure bullets will run out soon.
Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2007 11 10 at 01:35 AM • permalink“Peak Minerals” now?
Ohferchrissakes. Bjorn Lomborg already debunked that nonesense… 6 years ago.
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2007 11 10 at 01:49 AM • permalink*nonsense* rather.
Is it just me, or is the AGW cult beginning to resemble the Scientologists, especially in their dealings with skeptics and critics?
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2007 11 10 at 01:51 AM • permalink#39 kae,
Yeah, it is a bit of an oxymoron. Heh.
If you tried to explain to them why it’s so, they just stare at you like you’re from Mars.
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2007 11 10 at 02:05 AM • permalinkO/T but why are these F*ckwits using remembrance day as their “day of action?”
FFS they even have a football team tying in sporting injuries to AGW, I kid you not.
“The Raiders are keen to see that kids have the opportunity to play sport. Longer droughts, hotter summers and less rain are leading to soil compacting. Compacted soil means more impact injuries, which is bad for sport, and bad for our kids.”
And who sponsors this apart from government departments?
A company selling carbon credits.Im predicting Australia wide snow, upgraded to Blizzards if Al drops in for a visit.
Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2007 11 10 at 02:07 AM • permalink#33—Limbaugh was briefly taken in by this hoax during his show yesterday. Listeners alerted him and he corrected his mistake long before the end of the program.
I think he corrected it directly after the commercial break following that segment. He then suspended himself for one show as punishment for being a dupe. Rush doesn’t like to be wrong.
Posted by Kyda Sylvester on 2007 11 10 at 02:40 AM • permalink#43 apparently we have an almost inexhaustable supply of rutile just waiting to be dug out from Krudd’s ear canals.
in the unlikely event those wells should run dry I’m assured he has plenty of other orifices waiting to be mined.
No child will go without rutile in a Kruddy Australia!
Posted by eeniemeenie on 2007 11 10 at 02:56 AM • permalinkOMG, you’re going to run out of brown coal in 557 years. Then what will you heat your caves with during the perpetual Australian winter, global warming having proved to have been a slight miscalculation compounded exponentially by the measures taken to combat it and all other resources depleted long before? Huh??
When do you suppose they’ll start burning denialists at the stake?
Posted by Kyda Sylvester on 2007 11 10 at 03:00 AM • permalink#47
Bullshit eenie.#43 apparently we have an almost inexhaustable supply of rutile just waiting to be dug out from Krudd’s ear canals.
That’d be crud in his ears, wouldn’t it? Not rutile at all, and certainly not valauable.
#48 Kyda
What, get away! We won’t care about something as silly as that. We’ll all be dead from lack of sporting venues due to Global Warming Compaction of Soil.
Yeah, that’s it!
41 - I don’t doubt that it was a cynical choice tfm. Nov 11 being a day of public gatherings - much like Palm Sunday, no? - they will count any group of three or more standing within coo-ee of the WAW march and include them in the final total of those who cared enough about Gaia to turn out…
Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2007 11 10 at 04:55 AM • permalink#31
No time for chit-chat. Very busy. very, very busy.
Polishing Ferrari sportscars.
Nothing else to do seeing as I cannot sit down right now. Damned guards got an arrow off just as the Tardis door was closing. Wron was uncommonly pleased about pulling it out and pouring Lysol into the wound.
Still… Ferrari. Of course, Wrons is a model with a few more optional extras, but who cares? And the Dark Lord was mighty pleased with his tribute, too.
MarkL
Minionmeister to the VRWC#41, frollicking, have you seen the flyer for the Canberra Walk Against Warming?
Not only does the little girl seem appropriately attired for a global warming march (ie, raincoat), note the aim is to
“tell the government to keep global warming below the 2 degrees C necessary for the planet to support human life”.
A rise in temps of 2 degrees will destroy all human life on earth??? Holy crap!! I’m building my survival shelter before summer hits!
Posted by Art Vandelay on 2007 11 10 at 07:37 AM • permalink52.
Looking at the lady whos put her name down as organiser on that particular march into googlr yeilded some gems.Someones building themselves a little empire out of Goreons?
Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2007 11 10 at 08:13 AM • permalinkI’m also amused to note the frequency the Canberra ABC broadcasts on is 666.
That just confirms all I ever needed to know about the place.Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2007 11 10 at 08:15 AM • permalinkpaco, please tell everyone that did not happen! No one will trust my casks of
Fostersmead now.(wronwright wrings hands repeatedly)
MarkL! Stop rubbing your arse and finish counting the gold ingots. Every ingot must be accounted for. Every one. And make sure the force fields are activated. I don’t trust TRJS and his motley crew of RWDB’s. They’re thieves and rogues, to the last man. And a few women too. Bad, all of them.
Posted by wronwright on 2007 11 10 at 08:48 AM • permalinkWell, at least the GW cultists are now admitting to fabricating evidence. That’s worth something.
Posted by Steve Skubinna on 2007 11 10 at 01:20 PM • permalinkWhew, for a second I thought it was Dr. David Thorpe.
Posted by Jim Treacher on 2007 11 10 at 01:23 PM • permalink
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Very true Tim. I think Darryl is just pissed that he didn’t win those blog awards and is taking it out on you.