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Last updated on May 20th, 2017 at 07:18 am
A calm and rational warmenist offers his opinion.
UPDATE. Deep thoughts from our angry friend:
• “It’ll be a few years before it stops snowing.”
• “I’m actually 100% right.”
• “Let’s send the deniers to the moon!”
• “It’s VERY important to acknowledge human activity is the cause of this problem.”
• “Science doesn’t seem to mean much to some people.”
• “All the denial ‘arguments’ are bullshit.”
• “We’re facing catastrophe if we don’t change things.”
• “Logic isn’t a strong point with deniers.”
• “When faced with insanity and wilful ignorance, anger is the only sane response.”
• “Some people would still be denying it as their house sank.”
• “The science has conclusively proven that human activity is accelerating climate change to a catastrophic point.”
• “I prefer the term climate change to global warming.”
• “I picked a suburb far enough from the sea it will be waterfront property in my lifetime.”
• “The changes are already here.”
• “The trends are currently unmistakable.”
• “It’s quite possible to improve the situation if people will stop avoiding the truth.”
• “The scientists are the ones who get to define science.”
He sounds like one of the warmthers who get slapped around in climate forums.
Well, that was enlightening. At least I let the warmenistas offer their opinion before smacking them down.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2008 04 23 at 11:24 PM • permalink
I’ll stop raping Gaia when she stops wearing such short skirts. In the meantime, suck my nuts and turn your air-con up. You seem to be a little hot and bothered.
Love I.T.
P.S – I don’t recycle.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2008 04 23 at 11:24 PM • permalink
All he’s missing is his uniform. How unbelievably arrogant. I’d love to see him in a rational debate with some denying scientists. There was no substance there besides his drug fuelled emotion. I can imagine his band of ardent followers snickering in the background during the shoot.
What does he do for a living? Not much I reakon but it would be good to have a lead on him so we can continue to monitor his sad existence in decline.
At least he could have asked us to
STFU please.
Wow, what a well-rounded and well-reasoned argument. I truly believe that global warming is happening and will going the “Draft Gore” movement.
Wait…I thought it was “climate change” now?
/Actually, I heard today from somebody I considered real smart that “climate change” is the correct term. I must remind myself to never to dine with academics again…
Posted by Gabriel Angelos on 2008 04 23 at 11:51 PM • permalink
That pithy young man is 42 years old.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2008 04 23 at 11:55 PM • permalink
He’s just upset because Gargamel bombed the smurfs.
Believe it or not I am actually starting to feel sorry for the AGW Evangelists, from all walks of life like this clown, because of the embarrassment they will have to endure in about five years as this hysteria is debunked by actual evidence.
Of course there will never be a gotcha moment. Support will decline and in ten years it will be hard to find anybody who admits to being to ever having been a warmenista. It is the public faces like NASA’s Hansen and our Flummery who will refuse to concede, they will simply fade from memory.
The most difficult thing to comprehend is the scale of damage this will do to scientific institutions like NASA, The Royal Society, CSIRO and Scientific periodicals. It will take decades for them to recover their reputations.
Luckily as “deniers” any reputation we may have had has been trashed anyway so what have we got to lose.
Posted by Dean McAskil on 2008 04 24 at 12:29 AM • permalink
- #25
I believe it’s global warming in a bowl.#26One of these days, Alice. One of these days, POW, right in the kisser!
“When faced with insanity and willful ignorance, anger is the only sane response.”
Then why, after viewing that YouTube clip, am I not angry?
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2008 04 24 at 01:06 AM • permalink
“Why are my taxes being spent on providing this fool with a salary”
Probably because he is an artiste.
Posted by mr creosote on 2008 04 24 at 01:18 AM • permalink
Er, no. They won’t feel any embarassment.
They’ll move on to proclaiming that the new ice age was created on a Hollywood lot (like faked moon landings) and that global warming is still real. Warmers will evolve into truthers.
It’s a conspiracy I tell you! A conspiracy!
(Or is that a “conthpirathy”?)
Posted by mr creosote on 2008 04 24 at 01:21 AM • permalink
#31 – There should be a national register. You must choose sides now. Winner pays no more taxes and gets lifetime immunity from traffic infringements.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2008 04 24 at 01:22 AM • permalink
“Let’s send the deniers to the moon!”
How can we, when the moon landings were faked?
Posted by daddy dave on 2008 04 24 at 01:47 AM • permalink
In twenty years, we’ll still be here cluebatting apocalyptic lefties about their latest pants-shitting, and we’ll be reminding them of the great Global Warming hysteria. And they’ll (correctly) say that there was no scientific consensus on AGW, but this time, by God, there is no doubt at all that We’re All Gonna Die From [insert humanity-blaming rapture fantasy here].
I find this man’s gravitas quite persuasive and therefore have no further comment on global warming.
Posted by Margos Maid on 2008 04 24 at 01:58 AM • permalink
What the.. is thuccotash anyhow?
I’ve wondered that all my life!Succotash: red beans and corn (maize), plus whatever leftovers you can find in the fridge. It was very popular during the Great Depression (because there wasn’t anything cheaper to eat), which is why the phrase turned up in Looney Tunes cartoons.
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2008 04 24 at 02:18 AM • permalink
(Lima beans are also used in succotash, but I couldn’t stand them when I was a kid.)
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2008 04 24 at 02:19 AM • permalink
“I agree; try finding anyone today who will admit to believing in the Y2K scare.”
I was one of them. I was younger but there is no doubt I was suckered but good on that one. This is the sort of thing that turns people into arch sceptics. So for that I thank them.
Of course it helped to reinforce my belief in the Y2K at the time that if I didn’t act as if I believed in the Y2K thing I would have been sacked. We are at that place now with AGW.
Posted by Dean McAskil on 2008 04 24 at 02:22 AM • permalink
All sing along now:
If you’re angry and you know it,
Post on tube
(clap, clap)Notwithstanding you’re just ranting
like a boob
(clap, clap)If you’re righteous and you’re just,
come feel free to suck my nuts
so if you’re angry and you know it
just fuck off
(clap clap)Posted by anonymous guest on 2008 04 24 at 02:23 AM • permalink
it seemed “quite placid and not keen on going anywhere’‘.
Be careful my Kiwi firends, it is not dead, just resting. It can sense your fear.
It will not die until sunset and only then if a mob stand around it for a while poking at it with sticks and stuff and then hang it on a fence till sunset.
After sunset, when it is truly dead, you can take it to the pub and chase girsl around with it and make them squeal.
First came the possums, then the snakes..
- The only decent Y2K story I heard (apart from me having to stand on a mound in the Atlas Mountains with a satellite phone at ridiulous hours of the morning to be told that nothing had happened – repeatedly)was that apparently evey Italian prisoner received a letter saying that as they had been in prison for 1,000 years, they were now eligible for parole.
Can’t verify it, but like a “plastic turkey”, it speaks to a wider truth.
If this had a laugh track it would be Aunty’s top rating comedy program.
Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2008 04 24 at 03:21 AM • permalink
#14 – I would like to out myself as a retard. He is not 42, but in fact was making a reference to Hitchikers Guide. As I had actual friends in high school, I wasn’t aware of this reference.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2008 04 24 at 04:23 AM • permalink
Kaboom, I was wondering about that myself. It’s so close to being a parody… still, the bile he’s spewing seems quite genuine.
Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2008 04 24 at 05:05 AM • permalink
My local giveaway fishwrap newspaper has a story about some guys who put items on youtube and make very healthy sums of money from the accompanying google ads.
I would say our chum is just doing what he has to do to make the requisite number of hits.
Posted by Margos Maid on 2008 04 24 at 06:15 AM • permalink
60 – What else has he tackled? Slow drivers who sit in the fast lane? Little old ladies who fumble for their change at the checkout?
Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2008 04 24 at 06:56 AM • permalink
That was quite unsavory. Perhaps something to cleanse the pallette?
Ahhhh. Charlton Heston on climate change.
Just the mental sorbet to erace that lima bean.
Posted by papertiger on 2008 04 24 at 07:05 AM • permalink
The internet is a great invention, but a big drawback is that it literally gives ignorant dickheads like Swampboy their 15 minutes of fame.
Here’s a nice denialist rant from the guy From Boston (language warning).
The best thing about YouTube is that it makes the Internet a virtual podium for expressing a wide spectrum of viewpoints.
The worst thing about YouTube is that it makes the Internet a virtual Hyde Park Corner for every cult leader, crackpot, loon and foulmouthed clown in the world.
Posted by JJM Ballantyne on 2008 04 24 at 07:30 AM • permalink
Who was the sponger crying crocodile tears? I’m incurably nosy, I just gotta ask.
Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2008 04 24 at 08:09 AM • permalink
- I’ll take one guess.
John Travolta’s hand-wringing when Heath Ledger died?Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2008 04 24 at 08:10 AM • permalink
SHIVER OF WORRY IN WINE COUNTRY
The worst spring cold snap in more than 30 years is threatening to wreak havoc on the wine industry as three recent days of frost have killed grapevine buds up and down the crucial North Coast vineyard region.
The best thing about this is that long after we’ve all forgotten about climate change and moved on the next Existential Crisis of the Decade, we’ll always have this priceless video of some guy making an absolute tit of himself.
Posted by WingDynasty on 2008 04 24 at 05:54 PM • permalink
“Let’s send the deniers to the moon!”
o/~ Flyyyy me to the moon, where the gravity is low/ I’ll build a mass driver and fling rocks on your head o/~
Posted by Patrick Chester on 2008 04 24 at 07:31 PM • permalink
We need to get Swampboy and The Guy From Boston on the stage together to debate global warming.
Point/counterpoint style.
“Swampie, you ignorant misguided f***…”
Posted by papertiger on 2008 04 25 at 03:36 AM • permalink
“Let’s send the deniers to the moon!”
An excellent opportunity to colonize space, mine the sky, and leave the Gaiaists to quickly revert to grunts and rocks. I claim Pallas.
Posted by hkcapitalist on 2008 04 25 at 07:15 PM • permalink
Shut the f up. OK goodbye.