"I HEAR on the scientific grapevine that CSIRO’s biggest problem when providing formal advice to the federal Government on the matter of climate change is to say nothing that can be interpreted as giving aid and comfort to the army of irresponsible sceptics out there who are doubtful about the dreadful consequences of global warming.
One can only feel sorry for the Government. Where can it go these days to get unbiased advice on the issue of global warming? Its official sources are poisoned by the fear among many scientists that they may be labelled by their colleagues and by their institutions as climate-change sceptics.
Basically, the problem is that the research community has gone so far along the path of frightening the life out of the man in the street that to recant publicly even part of the story would massively damage the reputation and political clout of science in general. And so, like corpuscles in the blood, researchers all over the world now rush in overwhelming numbers to repel infection by any idea that threatens the carefully cultivated belief in climatic disaster.
Garth Paltridge
Emeritus Professor and Honorary Research Fellow,
Institute of Antarctic and Southern Ocean Studies,
University of Tasmania"
Republished from The Australian
Yes OK you can be a salesman - marketer - purveyor of fine crap - whatever. So there you are - off you go quietly now and try not to bump into anything on the way out. We'll call you if we need you....
Luke (AKA The Cook)
Having a stir in the kitchen?
What's an ecosceptic_ii - did "i" give it away and grow up.
Try pronunciation
ecosceptic_ii
Try addition
Ecosceptic_i, Ecosceptic_ii, - -
Sounds like you're singing that old chorus
"Shut the door, they're coming in the window
Shut the window, they're coming in the door"!
El Creepo, SJT: you wouldn't have anything you'd like to sell, move or flog perchance?
No theories, bridges? Anything?
Remember, no porkies.
zzzzzzzzzzzz .... boring.
I'm disappointed. I'd hoped that you would be able to come up with more original insults than that. Have a talk to Nelson if you're stuck. He seems to have enough for everyone.
You clowns should get out of your sheltered workshop some time and take note of how the real world functions. You might even learn that not everyone in marketing is a salesman.
"Welcome to Climate Scientology folks - when lost for an idea (and isn't that always), make something up."
My bad, you said you were from marketing, you are form marketing. Don't let me sully the advertisers with the stench of the salesmen.
A marketer. Errr yechy... I'm still trembling in revulsion. After that disclosure - well mate - it' simply "whatever". Whatever you you reckon.
Denialist Scum: M. Creepo and SJT might like to take some time out at this point and check their respective CV's.
Do you think, DS, these guys could come close to a SMH Timelines 3/6/2008 mention?
http://www.smh.com.au/news/obituaries/a-master-of-beautiful-design/2008/06/02/1212258735330.html
Unfortunately the accompanying print cartoon appears lost. There is a twin engine airplane coming straight at you: "When one engine fails on a twin engine airplane, you always have enough power to get you to the scene of the crash"
"Oh, that's right, you come from advertising."
Ahh -- 'Global Warming Science' in action.
Not in advertising. Never have been in advertising. Never will be in advertising. Never even mentioned the word.
But you, through complete ignorance and lack of imagination, have not only decided that I'm in advertising - now you appear to be setting out to 'prove' your case through the simple process of repetition.
Welcome to Climate Scientology folks - when lost for an idea (and isn't that always), make something up.
Hey Nelson,
Thanks for the best laugh in ages. Me & a couple of friends were having beers last night, and I read your post out -- the one where you dribble on about:
"Desert island with limited resources - "any marketers present". Bang ! There goes DS."
One of the guys pointed out what I had missed the first time around -- namely 3 key points which demonstrate how out of touch you AGW fruit loops really are:
1) Who in their right mind would let public servants onto a lifeboat in the first place? Unless it was a lifeboat already overloaded with public servants, in which case pull the trigger now.
2) If you made it to a desert island, who would keep a bunch of loonies whose only 'skill' is trying to 'prove' that it's getting warmer, when there are more important problems to solve (as always). You'd happily feed them to the sharks -- if they would eat them, that is.
3) But more importantly - who in their right mind would let a dribbling cretin who can't form complete sentences ever be in charge of a firearm? Any self-respecting marketeer who couldn't see that one coming would deserve to be shot.
But thanks for the laughs.
zzzzzzzzzzzzz boring.