Comments on: Please, MSNBC, can we stop now?

By: BBD

BBD — Sun, 02 Jul 2017 19:49:01 +0000

Sigh. It gets warmer. Wildfires increase.

But just ignore the facts and keep on trollin’.

By: Wow

Wow — Sun, 02 Jul 2017 19:48:42 +0000

No problem, batshit. Providing the evidence you want is easy.

By: Betula

Betula — Sun, 02 Jul 2017 19:44:04 +0000

Wow, thanks for providing that “peer reviewed “evidence that proves the wildfires in Knysna were due to AGW….it was very helpful.

By: BBD

BBD — Sun, 02 Jul 2017 19:02:56 +0000

Re the temperature squirrel, if we update to the present, it’s probably >0.9C with about 0.6C since 1970.

Diversionary nonsense, as per.

By: BBD

BBD — Sun, 02 Jul 2017 18:59:21 +0000

Betula

As surface temperatures rise, there will be a greater likelihood of wildfires. Many other factors are also involved, but AGW is increasingly one of them. This is so utterly uncontroversial and obvious as to be scarcely worth mentioning.

By: Wow

Wow — Sun, 02 Jul 2017 18:57:41 +0000

No, I completely showed up your claim about it being 0.8C over 140 years is errant bollocks, batshit. My “threefold issue” is with you lying again, retard.

By: Betula

Betula — Sun, 02 Jul 2017 17:06:37 +0000

Wow, you conveniently left out the IPCC part that stated “over the period 1880 to 2012”, so you will have to take up your “three fold” issue with them….

Anyway, at least now I can expect you to present some “peer reviewed “evidence that wildfires in Knysna are due to AGW.

Thanks.

By: Wow

Wow — Sun, 02 Jul 2017 15:51:02 +0000

” show a warming of 0.85 [0.65 to 1.06] °C3″

So not 0.8 after all.

Moreover, it’s 0.88C over the past 52 years (the 1951-1980 baseline) as of now, an decadal rate three times your claim, batshit.

So, you have it entirely wrong. By a factor of near enough three fold.

And you wonder why nobody believes you, batshit?

Sad.

By: Betula

Betula — Sun, 02 Jul 2017 13:48:04 +0000

“engage in uncivil, uncivilized, unempathetic, divisive behavior, saying things that unabashedly make other feel pain and discomfort, without ever advancing a sound, useful, productive position”

Stop you whining and leave Wow alone!!

By: SteveP

SteveP — Sun, 02 Jul 2017 12:52:33 +0000

Neither Bret Stephens nor Hugh Hewitt have yet to show evidence of understanding much of anything about Science. And yet they weigh in on climate change, a topic which has its roots in science. Science deals with everything, and everything affects everybody, so everybody seems to feel that they can weigh in on scientific topics.And they do. How unlike Medicine or Law, professions which have managed to successfully mark off their lucrative turf with professional associations and laws. As a result, we now have a culture in which pontificating on law or medicine without the appropriate credentials can be illegal in many cases. Scientists, on the other hand, are watching helplessly as the TrumPruitt nightmare dismantles lifesaving scientific rules based on scientific principles.

There is some sort of cultural phenomenon going on which involves an increasing tendency of media hosts and politicians to engage in uncivil, uncivilized, unempathetic, divisive behavior, saying things that unabashedly make other feel pain and discomfort, without ever advancing a sound, useful, productive position, without ever advancing a goal that both sides can work towards…….. and these are things that Stephens and Hewitt excel at.

MSNBC is probably largely funded by advertisements for fossil fuel powered cars. Who knows what pressure their advertisers have put on MSNBC to make them accept fossil fuel apologists Stephens and Hewitt into their lineup?