If so, your Chicken Little bit is screwed…
“Everything we thought we knew about X-ray images of the Sun is now out of date,” says Leon Golub from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts, US. “We’ve seen many new and unexpected things. For that reason alone, the mission is already a success.”
Dazzling new images reveal the ‘impossible’ on the Sun – New Scientist Space
“Almost every day, we look at the data and we say – what the heck was that?” says Golub, a member of the XRT science team.
Remember, these guys are the “experts” on the single-biggest planetary climatological influence in the entire bloody solar system.
Another surprise sighting is that of giant magnetic field loops crashing down onto the Sun’s surface as if they were collapsing from exhaustion, a finding that Golub describes as “impossible”. Previously, scientists thought they should emerge from the Sun and continue blowing out into space.
Can it be clearer, Goracle? They have discovered everything they believed concerning their study of the Sun was wrong.
So stop trying to make out that a sofa-sitting, sideline riding “scientist” like yourself knows jack shit about how Earth’s climate works, when the people actually doing research in the field–as opposed to presenting Powerpoint slides to the rubes, as you do–have just had their world turned upside down.
UPDATE: THE MOUTHS OF BABES
isn’t it peculiar
that you’d take this AMAZING discovery
as gospel
is it so hard to imagine
we might have had a president
without brain dysfunction
who wasn’t a dry drunk
and an unrepentant cokehead
who’s actually worked consistenty
on an issue since the seventies
and might actually be knowledgeable
it’s not the end of the world
to change a lightbulb
and save on your electric bill, to boot
how hard is it
to buy a vehicle, one class smaller
and actually contribute to the solution
while, again, SAVING money on gas
which is what conservatives used to know how to do
save
if i understood the mentality
behind slitting our own throats
to make some fat arab rich
and how it helps this country
i might be able to understand
how otherwise sensible people
have taken leave of their senses
hash, why would I doubt that these scientists who, when presented with irrefutable empirical evidence, admitted they were entirely wrong about their previously held hypothetical assumptions?
“Working on an issue,” a la Goracle, has abso-fucking-lutely nothing to do with committing the time, energy, and open-minded inquiry required in performing scientific research.
The Goracle has declared climate science to be a done deal; every bit of available evidence has been collected, collated, run through the biggest, baddest computer models every devised, and has declared “the planet has a fever!”
One problem; one so bloody obvious even a well read layman like myself can see when it comes to Goracle’s “fever!” hyperbole: to determine if anything, any living organism, is running a “fever,” you are required to be able to prove there is an accepted, irrefutable BASELINE temperature.
That is impossible to do in relation to good old Mother Gaia. Her body gets the chills; sometimes hot flashes, but never stays a static 98.6 like a human body. And there is irrefutable science that can prove it.
If you are ready to accept Goracle alleged “consensus science,” and his assertion the United States is to blame… ONLY the United States, mind you, since the overwhelming majority of the Kyoto signees are ignoring that worthless piece of paper, and in his testimony was cavalier enough to say we need to upend our economy in the dubious belief that China and India will halt their own economic growth and stop churning out coal-powered power plants because of the “example” we will be setting….
If you believe his crap, then tell me the denomination of your church, hash, because far, far more people riding this planet are in “consensus” about the existence of God, as proscribed by an organized faith (Allah, Jesus, Yaweh, Buddha, whatever), than there are who believe that homo sapiens–in little more than one hundred years of industrial evolution–are on the brink of lighting the old girl on fire.
i have no crystal ball
all i’m saying is
if we all take the worst-case scenario
change a few lightbulbs
and use a little gas
and save ourselves money in the process
who is hurt by that?
also
aren’t we commanded
by divine ordinance
to be stewards of the earth
i actually don’t know the science
and agree that the science may be flawed
but i am a believer in project haarp
scalar weather wars and nicola tesla
i believe our weather is being manipulated
whose rationale sounds kookier
gore’s, or mine
the weather is flat-out fucked up
for the last couple of years now
and The One Above is not amused
Good Stuff Thursday
Time again to feature select posts from some of my favorite bloggers…
Fine, but that ain’t what the Goracle was preaching up on Capitol Hill. He was declaiming that the US needed to freeze its CO2 output level immediately. That means no more cars than already are on the road; no new manufacturing unless a similar (output-wise) facility is taken offline; no new babies unless they equal the number of dead bodies produced concurrently.
No new coal powered energy production; whose electrcal output powers Goracle’s earlier creation, the Interwebs… but when asked about building nuke plants instead, the Goracle clammed right the fuck up, because that would make his green-tinged moonbat acolytes angry.
And the Goracle can kiss my Black Irish ass when he claims this is all about the “morality” of his message when the cocksucker is partnered up in an outfit that just happens to sell those
carbon offsetsindulgences he and fell rich bitches and bastards buy as their absolution instead of cutting their own energy consumption.I like incandescent light.
And I like my car just the way it is.
Thankyouverymuch
The debate about human gullibility is over. Great post!
i’m not gullible
and many of tc’s points
like nuclear power and the offsets
are quite valid
but then you get morons
who are sucking up way more
than their fair share
of what belongs to everyone
and it’s clear
that the liberals are now
the new true conservatives
it’s all about common sense
“fair share” means … what?
What you can afford? I’ve gotten in screaming matches with my oil provider because I told him he didn’t know shit about massagin’ the oil commodity trading ring… where I worked for damn near a decade; the dude was paying ridiculous numbers;
What you can be charged, based on some yutzo’s spreadsheet? PLEEEEZE. I can make that spreadsheet dance a jig.
What you can be penalized for if you, lacking enough dough to buy dispensation, to abrogate your level of penalty is … exactly how much?
As much as the Goracle can squeeze blood from your stones.
owwwww, cut that shit out, al
seriously, gore could be elected president
again, that is
*ducks and runs for cover*