Jerry Coyne passes on a report about just how many Muslims worldwide are opposed to justice, tolerance and an open society. Continue reading
Tag Archives: Global
Global: It’s not ‘Islamophobic’…
…to mistrust people who want to kill you. Continue reading
Global: Your guide to conspiracy theories
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But don’t let Them catch you consulting it!
Global: 58 failed predictions!
What follows are dozens of predictions for warmer winters made not long ago during the 2000s, many by leading scientists. Continue reading
Global: I am sceptic, hear me roar…
Watts Up With That has won both the Science Category and ‘Weblog of the Year’ in the annual Bloggies Awards. Several other AGW sceptic sites have also won their respective categories.
Global: If it helps people, we’re against it!
Efforts like the one being led by Bill Gates and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg have reduced the number of children paralyzed by the polio virus from 350,000 in 1998 to fewer than 225 cases in 2012. Continue reading
Global: Not your father’s ‘Playboy’
Al Qaeda publishes a weekly magazine. And guess what? They want lots of people dead. Continue reading
Global: “We’ll all freeze! — Boil! — Freeze!”
A compilation of sources for the scary 70s trope of ‘Global Cooling’. It all looks very familiar somehow…
Global: “Fear! Fear! We need more fear!”
A new survey by Globescan of 22,812 people in 22 countries, including Britain and the US makes depressing reading for Big Green, fear of CO2 is at a 20 year low, and this is despite billions of dollars being wasted on junk science projects with a preordained political result, and all gilded with never ending fear stories about impending environmental holocaust. Continue reading
Global: “We won’t know if global warming is real until after I retire” — Pachauri
With a healthy superannuation plan, of course.
THE UN’s climate change chief, Rajendra Pachauri, has acknowledged a 17-year pause in global temperature rises, confirmed recently by Britain’s Met Office, but said it would need to last “30 to 40 years at least” to break the long-term global warming trend.
Dr Pachauri, the chairman of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, said that open discussion about controversial science and politically incorrect views was an essential part of tackling climate change.
Global: Welcome to the sausage factory!
How AGW alarmist ‘statistics’ are manufactured: Continue reading
UK: Hymn Zero
Q: As an intelligent twenty-first century Westerner, it has been drawn to your attention that there is no evidence anywhere for the existence of God. Do you:
a) Become an atheist?
b) Turn a bug into a feature, and proudly assert the fundamental significance of an evidence-free — in fact, existence-free — deity? Continue reading
Global: “We are taking chemotherapy for a cold.”
Matt Ridley says he believes in global warming, and he’s rational. That alone is worth the price of admission.
I have written about climate change and energy policy for more than 25 years. I have come to the conclusion that current energy and climate policy is probably more dangerous, both economically and ecologically, than climate change itself. This is not the same as arguing that climate has not changed or that mankind is not partly responsible. That the climate has changed because of man-made carbon dioxide I fully accept. What I do not accept is that the change is or will be damaging, or that current policy would prevent it.
For the benefit of supporters of climate change policy who feel frustrated by the reluctance of people like me to accept their assurances, here is what they would need to do to change my mind.
Global: Song of Unfalsifiability
I’ve written a paper; it’s ten pages long.
Although the conclusions I’ve come to are strong –
For freezing conditions be on the alert! –
To be published I have to assert:
It doesn’t disprove global warming!
No, it doesn’t disprove global warming!
Whatever you find, put that thought from your mind;
You can’t contradict global warming!
There’ll be snowstorms in Mali and hail in Ibiza,
The Nile will be frozen from Aswan to Giza.
My data’s been checked and there’s just one concern –
The reviewers insist I must learn:
It doesn’t disprove global warming!
No, it doesn’t disprove global warming!
I’ll make publication with one reservation,
I mustn’t deny global warming!
I’ve studied the climate back into the past,
Through numerous changes, some slow and some fast,
I’ve seen carbon dioxide and temperature swing,
I’d report it except for one thing:
I daren’t contradict global warming!
No, you can’t contradict global warming!
When you’re graphing a trend, be sure to append:
‘It doesn’t disprove global warming!’
A colleague of mine’s a statistical star,
She says climate models are well below par.
Their predictions are wrong and their errors are high,
But she’s not going to publish — here’s why:
It doesn’t disprove global warming!
Because nothing disproves global warming!
If you don’t make that clear you’ll be out on your ear!
No, you can’t contradict global warming!
Now scientists all over are making a splash,
We appear on the news and we’re raking in cash.
But our new-found importance would vanish away
If we had the courage to say:
“The facts contradict global warming,
We’ve already disproved global warming!”
To maintain a high profile, just bury the ‘No’ file,
And don’t contradict global warming!
So all you young scientists, take heed of my tale,
For fear that your grant applications should fail,
Your results go unpublished, your tenure denied.
At some point you’ll have to decide:
That you won’t contradict global warming!
No, your work can’t disprove global warming!
Don’t engage in debate, just dogmatically state,
That it doesn’t disprove global warming!
Global: The Global Warming Ramp
What the heck, here’s another one.
Bob Dylan wrote the music.
http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/browse/ZR.HTM: ’Ramp’ is British slang for a swindle, especially one involving exorbitant prices.
They’re showing pictures of the city
In twenty-forty-three,
With water lapping rooftops
Where chimneys used to be.
Now the fishing will be excellent,
But the tennis will be damp.
That is, if you believe the
Global warming ramp.
They’re writing lots of articles
To show how it will hurt.
You’ll have to leave your jacket off
And wear a short-sleeved shirt.
Your money will be worthless;
You’ll live just like a tramp.
That is, if you believe the
Global warming ramp.
There’ll be storms on every weekend,
And hurricanes all day.
The solar panels you put up
The wind will blow away.
Your house will burn to ashes,
You’ll have to set up camp.
That is, if you believe the
Global warming ramp.
Your country will be crawling
With climate refugees.
They’ll have peculiar customs,
And probably spread disease.
They’ll pour across the borders
Without a passport stamp.
That is, if you believe the
Global warming ramp.
With all this hateful consequence,
It’s some relief to learn
There is no actual evidence
We’re really going to burn.
It’s all a fairy story
Like Aladdin and his lamp.
No reason to believe in
The Global Warming ramp.
Global: OK, warmists, you can all go home…
You failed.
Sunday 18 January 2009
Barack Obama has only four years to save the world. That is the stark assessment of Nasa scientist and leading climate expert Jim Hansen who last week warned only urgent action by the new president could halt the devastating climate change that now threatens Earth. Crucially, that action will have to be taken within Obama’s first administration, he added.
Since we’re now officially doomed, do you think you could shut up and let us die in peace?
Global: Ballad of a Sore Loser
To the tune of The Battle Hymn of the Republic by Julia Ward Howe
Dedicated to Satoshi Kanazawa and all his jealous colleagues.
Mine eyes have seen the rise of Richard Dawkins to a place
Where he’s regarded as a hero and a credit to his race.
I’ve seen students wearing t-shirts with a picture of his face,
His fame is rolling on!
Richard Dawkins, how I hate you!
How I love to denigrate you!
Just don’t ask me to debate you!
Your fame keeps rolling on!
Now, I have been an atheist since nineteen-eighty-three
But I kept it quiet so nobody would think the worse of me.
Dawkins shouts it from the rooftops — and they show it on TV!
His fame keeps rolling on!
Richard Dawkins, I abhor you!
But somehow I can’t ignore you!
Soon my hit rate will outscore you,
When someone reads my blog!
His arguments are simple and his writing style is tight,
He’s shown a lot of doubting theists how to see the light,
And the most annoying thing is that the bastard’s always right!
His fame keeps rolling on!
Richard Dawkins, how I loathe you!
And the books that feed and clothe you.
I’d join the theists who oppothe you,
If I didn’t hate them too!
If only I had spoken out before the Dawkins lark,
Then I would be the atheist who’d really made his mark,
I’d be married to a TV star and featured on South Park,
My fame would roll along!
Richard Dawkins, I despise you!
Why on earth should that surprise you?
You’re brave, articulate and wise — you
‘re everything I’m not!
Global: It’s All Over Now, Warmist Wal
(Bob Dylan helped a little with the music)
You must leave now, don’t take any more, you’ve had enough.
In fact, before you go, we’d better check your stuff.
Are you surprised we feel the way we feel,
When you make ‘heroes’ out of men who steal?
But the lies they’ve told are going to take their toll.
It’s all over now, Warmist Wal.
Your Climate Summit Conferences are shrinking fast,
The snow and ice are back — you said they’d never last.
The sceptic scientists you refused to meet,
Are finding other reasons for the heat.
Your policies are losing every poll.
And it’s all over now, Warmist Wal.
Al Gore has got his payoff and abandoned you.
It’s time for some Supreme Court writs to land on you.
Your models are completely out of whack
Since stable global temperatures came back.
Pick up the dice and try another roll…
It’s all over now, Warmist Wal.
The Tropospheric Hotspot never showed for you.
You can’t even trust the programmers who code for you.
Your acid seas distraction quickly failed,
You’re two-faced, but your tests are not two-tailed.
Your lobbyists are queuing for the dole,
And it’s all over now, Warmist Wal.
We’ll be much better off when we’re bereft of you.
But now a small shrill rump is all that’s left of you.
Reduced to pointing at each passing storm,
And screaming: “That just happened ‘cos it’s warm!”
Give back the Nobel, crawl into your hole.
For it’s all over now, Warmist Wal.
Global: The Accommodationist’s Anthem
To the tune of ‘Don’t Let’s Be Beastly to the Germans‘ by Noel Coward
Don’t let’s be beastly to the theists,
Don’t let’s be rude about their faith.
Though they believe in Providence,
Without a shred of evidence
We know their hearts are in the rightish plaith.
Don’t be insulting towards Islam,
Don’t treat the Moslem with disdain.
Insist that he’s terrific,
And astonishingly pacific,
Or else he’ll bomb your house, or car, or plane.
No, we won’t be beastly to the theists
As long as it might result in personal pain.
Don’t let’s be callous to the Christians,
Don’t snicker at the stories that they tell,
Though their customary behaviour
Is nothing like that of their Saviour,
And they’re perfectly sure it’s you who’s going to Hell.
Don’t be contemptuous of Buddhists,
Don’t criticise the Eightfold Path.
Though the sound of one hand clapping
Is a rather feeble flapping,
Whatever you do, don’t listen to it and laugh.
That’s why we won’t be beastly to the theists,
Because there are far too many of them by half.
Don’t let’s be horrible to the Hindu,
For the Hindu is a person just like you.
Unless, let it be stated,
He’s been reincarnated
And come back as an animal in the zoo.
Don’t scoff at Seventh-Day Adventists,
Don’t sneer at Scientology.
If a Mormon can make President,
It’s prudent to be hesitant
In pointing out it’s plainly idiocy.
So three cheers for Xenu and Moroni!
Whatever the hell it is they’re s’posed to be.
No, we won’t be beastly to the theists,
From us the theists nothing have to fear.
We’re a ragtag little band,
Our ideas are second-hand,
And we lead the atheist movement from the rear.
So we won’t be beastly to the theists,
‘Cos they’re so pathetically grateful that we’re here!
Global: Accommodationist Bingo
Next time some infuriating prat writes about how ‘militant’ ‘fundamentalist’ atheists are spoiling it for everyone else, chill out, relax and get the Bingo markers ready:
And a nice quote from gshelley: It’s as though there is some unwritten rule that if you are going to criticise Dawkin’s stance on religion, you aren’t allowed to actually know what it is.
Global: 2012 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog.
Here’s an excerpt:
4,329 films were submitted to the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. This blog had 16,000 views in 2012. If each view were a film, this blog would power 4 Film Festivals
Global: Places not to be an atheist in
The report tracks, among other things, which countries have laws explicitly targeting atheists. There are not many, but the states that forbid non-religiousness – typically as part of “anti-blasphemy” legislation – include seven nations where atheism is punishable by death. All seven establish Islam as the state religion. Though that list includes some dictatorships, the country that appears to most frequently condemn atheists to death for their beliefs is actually a democracy, if a frail one: Pakistan. Others include Saudi Arabia, Iran, Afghanistan, Sudan, the West African state of Mauritania, and the Maldives, an island nation in the Indian Ocean. These countries are colored red on the above map.
The seven countries where the state can execute you for being atheist
Global: Stand up and be counted!
Now sit down so that you can reach the keyboard.
Global: 50 reasons to boycott the Catholic Church
Adam Lee has done the research, so you don’t have to.
“Just give back the plate, Kate.
Sock the man in the frock, Jock.
Walk out of the church, Lurch!
And set yourself free…”
– apologies to Paul Simon.
Global: What statisticians really think about global warming
Most of the [IPCC] papers fall lamentably short of the minimum standards that could reasonably be expected in the publications of a scientific body’
VALE Ian Castles (1935-2010), former Australian Statistician, and once upon a time my CEO.
Global: Religion 101 — when in doubt, make shit up
The next IPCC report will be based upon the updates to the SRES. Great, that’s fine. But note how they’re updating the SRES. They’re not starting with the economics. Ooooooh no, that would be far too sensible. What they’ve actually done is made up some emissions levels.
No, really, they have. They’ve simply plucked numbers from nowhere to give emissions levels. It’s in the future that they’re going to go back and work out the economics of how those emissions are produced.
Which is, of course, entirely insane.
Now, of course, it’s possible that I’ve got this completely wrong. If so please do tell me. But if I haven’t, if I’m actually correct, then the entire IPCC process becomes an entire heap of steaming donkey’s bollocks.
They have, quite literally, just made up the numbers that the whole thing’s based upon.
Global: We don’t know if global warming did it…
…but we’re going to blame it anyway.
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says one of the lessons from Superstorm Sandy is the need for global action to deal with future climate shocks…
He told the U.N. General Assembly on Friday that it is difficult to attribute any single storm to climate change, but the world already knows that “extreme weather due to climate change is the new normal.”
An appropriate quote from a commentator on Watts Up With That:
Ian W says:
November 10, 2012 at 1:45 am
He is a politician following a ‘fundamental principle’
“But the most brilliant propagandist technique will yield no success unless one fundamental principle is borne in mind constantly and with unflagging attention. It must confine itself to a few points and repeat them over and over. Here, as so often in this world, persistence is the first and most important requirement for success. “
Mein Kampf Volume 1 – Chapter 6
Global: He wants to make your flesh creep!
Meet the UN’s new Climate Commissioner!
Coming soon to a schlockfest near you — the UN’s last-ditch attempt to scare the pants off increasingly sceptical Western taxpayers.
THE next United Nations climate report will ”scare the wits out of everyone” and should provide the impetus needed for the world to finally sign an agreement to tackle global warming, the former head of the UN negotiations said.
Yvo de Boer, the UN climate chief during the 2009 Copenhagen climate change talks, said his conversations with scientists working on the next report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change suggested the findings would be shocking.
‘Well, Joe,’ said the trembling old lady. ‘I’m sure I have been a good mistress to you, Joe. You have invariably been treated very kindly. You have never had too much to do; and you have always had enough to eat.’
This last was an appeal to the fat boy’s most sensitive feelings. He seemed touched, as he replied emphatically– ’I knows I has.’
‘Then what can you want to do now?’ said the old lady, gaining courage.
‘I wants to make your flesh creep,’ replied the boy.
Charles Dickens — Pickwick Papers Chapter 8
Global: Just sayin’…
…again.
H/T to Jerry Coyne at Why Evolution is True.
Global: Credulous, let’s get credulous!
It’s International Believe Weird Shit Day!
…today, we pledge to agree with what everyone else believes and says, just for one day. We are not allowed to dissent, ‘offend’ or question. Also, to be fair, we ask everyone else to agree with everything that we believe and say. So let’s see how that works out.
Just for today, I agree with the following twenty five beliefs:
I agree with the Greek poet Hesiod that the world began when Gaia emerged out of Chaos, and gave birth to Uranus, who made her pregnant to give birth to the Titans, after which Gaia convinced her son Conus to castrate his father and become King of the Titans.
I agree with the Bible that the creator of the universe came to planet Earth, circling one of a hundred billion stars in one of a hundred billion galaxies, so that he could impregnate a virgin in order to give birth to himself, then be tortured and die and dictate a book about it…..
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