on 06-11-2013 09:45 AM
In January of this year, the state of Texas unleashed Tea Party looney bird Ted Cruz to wreak havoc on the nation, and believe it or not, there may be someone worse than he is who could end up as the other senator from Texas a year from now.
David Barton is an evangelical Christian minister who believes that separation of state and church is a “myth”, evolution should not be taught in school, the government should regulate gay sex, schools turn kids gay, the bible opposes the minimum wage, and that people should legally be able to own bazookas, tanks and fighter planes. He has been urged to challenge incumbent senator John Cornyn by Glenn Beck and is, of course, a Tea Party darling.
Barton, in a discussion with snake oil salesman televangelist Kenneth Copeland, comes to the conclusion that abortion is behind global warming and the accompanying crazy weather patterns. They come up with this brilliant explanation by this head-scratching sequence of events…
First, God got mad at us for voting in pro-choice politicians.
Then, with God **bleep** off and wanting to unleash his anger on us, He “opened the door to the curse,” which led to a barrage of floods, tornadoes, murder and pedophilia.
And unlike in the old days when our ancestors would get together and pray for repentance when bad weather struck them, now we just call it global warming and don’t kneel down and pray every time a strong wind gust or blast of thunder is unleashed on us.
on 08-11-2013 01:08 PM
SRBA: "Who did you quote MM?
What are their credentials in Climatology.?..... "
The Centre for Australian Weather and Climate Research
A partnership between CSIRO and the Bureau of Meteorology
nɥºɾ
on 08-11-2013 01:11 PM
Who did you quote, and what are their credentials in Climatology?
on 08-11-2013 01:39 PM
on 08-11-2013 02:28 PM
SRBA: "Who did you quote, and what are their credentials in Climatology?"
Again SRBA you display your lack of knowledge concerning the Scientific Method. I am not quoting a research paper directly, but purely a technical report covering the history and methodology of : Techniques involved in developing the Australian Climate Observations Reference Network – Surface Air Temperature, Or more simply, how/where the BOM/CSIRO measure Australia-wide surface temperature, nothing else. It is just a technical description of one aspect of the BOM's activities.
The author: Dr. Blair Trewin is a senior climatologist with the National Climate Centre, a section of the Bureau of Meteorology, and is a member of the international Expert Team on Climate Change Detection and Indices, which is co-sponsored by the World Meteorological Organization. He is also editor of the Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Journal.
nɥºɾ
08-11-2013 02:45 PM - edited 08-11-2013 02:45 PM
Technical?.....giggle.....
Blair Trewin...BOM...
Bachelor of Science and worked with BOM for 15years.....
Maybe that's why BOM is an embarrassment, and in such a sad state. (BOM is the lapdog of the IPCC).
Not even close to the credentials of Dr Roy Spencer.......
Who else do you quote to support your Alarmist views MM?.......
on 08-11-2013 02:46 PM
Poor Alarmists......
on 08-11-2013 03:17 PM
on 08-11-2013 10:53 PM
SRBA: "Blair Trewin...BOM...Bachelor of Science and worked with BOM for 15years....."
SRBA your abilty to research is matched by your understanding of the Scientific Method, abysmal.
"University of Melbourne, Ph.D, 2001 Trewin, B. C. Extreme temperature events in Australia. PhD thesis, School of Earth Sciences, The University of Melbourne.
Type PhD thesis
Language eng
Notes © 2001 Dr. Blair C. Trewin."
Again SRBA I will point out that my reference to the world renowned/respected BOM & CSIRO, was to the methodology/equipment/history applied by the BOM Australian continental weather recording/reporting stations/sites, and described within the report:
Techniques involved in developing the Australian Climate Observations Reference Network – Surface Air Temperature.
It is not a peer reviewed research paper/project dependant on the credentials of the author, it is simply a plain technical report, that you should be able to understand, well maybe!
SWF: "You're talking to a brick wall,John."
I know SWF, but sometimes one can make a mark on a wall regardless of its thickness.
nɥºɾ
on 09-11-2013 07:14 AM
My comments are accurate and true regarding Blair MM.
That is what Australia has at BOM.
Hardly the education and training of Dr Roy Spencer.
on 09-11-2013 08:01 AM
@**meep** wrote:
@spotweldersfriend wrote:
Cooling down. That's so funny :-D.Hobart 42c and Sydney 46c last summer.:-)Europe is cooling down
"..This March has been the coldest in over 50 years across much of the UK and Europe, and the bitterest ever recorded in places
like Sheffield. From Kiev, Moscow and Berlin in the east of Europe to Dublin, Edinburgh and Copenhagen, temperatures for the
fourth or fifth week running have barely risen above freezing and an Arctic wind has made it seem even chillier. In Germany they
are calling it the "100-year winter". In Bonn, people were said today to be desperate to get out..."
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/mar/28/how-government-end-long-winter
"..After a long, cold winter and a spring that has shown temperatures of up to 6ºC below average there are talks that this summer
could be as cold as the fabled summer of 1816: The Year Without a Summer. ..
"..but the historians may look back on 2013 and refer to it as a year without a spring. This spring has been the coldest in over 50
years across much of the UK and Europe..
Spain braces for 'coldest summer in 200 years'
.."French weather channel Meteo has forecast that this summer will be the worst on record in Western Europe since 1816 – known by meteorological experts as “the year without summer”...
"..France’s main weather channel has announced that there is a 70 percent chance of this summer being cold and wet
across Spain, France, Portugal, Germany and Austria..
Indeed Meep.