"In a democracy (‘rule by mob’), those who refuse to learn from history will be the majority and will dictate that everyone else suffer for their ignorance."
Today, while the weatherman seems to have once again missed the forecast high by nine degrees (about average, it seems) the forecast high is just about backasswards to the recorded high, in the direction of having been forecast too high this time, instead of the other way around.
No, it’s not a sign of an impending ice age. It’s just weather.
It’s a tough question. If you’re unfamiliar with the reference, take some time out. I’ll wait. Meanwhile, I’ll leave this here for interim consderation:
Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.–Napoleon Bonaparte (ascribed)
There is such a thing as human evil. I’ll allow no argument on that point, because any argument otherwise is simply either stupid* or evil. Period. So, accept as axiomatic that human evil exists. Is it then stupid or evil to look human evil in the face and see good? (I’ll allow a third option: insanity.)
Examples abound:
Idiots who defend Islam as a “religion of peace”. Stupidity or witting enabling of the evil hate cult of Islam?
People who assert that America is an unjust society, because we have people they class as poor? Evil or stupid? Consider this:
Ahhh, I’m tired of this already, and my BP is starting to climb… *sigh*
So, are those who are enablers of the hate cult of the Butcher of Medina evil or stupid (or both–likely, IMO)?
Are those who seem to be actively attempting to destroy our society via such activities as encouraging the kleptocratic “gimme” culture evil or stupid (or both–likely, IMO)?
And when do we stop ascribing destructive behaviors to stupidity alone and start calling it malice?
Yes, I aborted a bunch of stupid/evil material ranging from “pro-choice” (which is really, “Deny ANY choice to the unborn”), “Edumacation”, the Thugs Standing Around program of full employment for goons and petty tyrants, and “feddle gummint” tyrannical meddling in citizens’ lives while actively enabling outlaws to The Cult of Anthropogenic Climate Scare-ism and numerous points in between. One can select any issue dominated by the lies of the Mass MEdia Podpeople Hivemind, politicians *gag-spew* and Academia Nut Fruitcakes and plug it right into the “Stupid or Evil” matrix for consideration.
*I include in my use of “stupid” acts of witting, deliberate avoidance of facts. Witting, deliberate distortion of facts is evil–slander against truth.
Cold wave. Breakin’ out the long johns. *shiver* 😉
It’s Global Warming! (It’s called “Summer”.)
I can recall a super hot summer thirty-something years ago, complete with drought in some places and floods in others, that “warring” camps were using to either prognosticate an impending ice age or to debunk the climate scare-ist ice agers (all of whom, if still alive, are now global warmista scare-ists).
Neither would admit it was just… weather.
It’s called SUMMER, for those crybabies who can’t deal with the heat. Of course, it’d help if Weatherbuggy and others would get their forecasts closer. *heh*
Forecast for today said high of 97°F. Dam*ed lying Weatherbuggy. The current report from the high school’s weather station is slightly higher in temp…
Well, now that the actual temp is DOWN from 111°F, the heat index of 115°F seems OK, right? Right?
Oh, dear. Spoke a bit too soon. After burning myself on the table saw out on the deck, I decided to check again:
Again, if weather forecasts are this inaccurate from one day to the next, even IF the global warmistas’ Cult of Anthropogenic Global Climate Scare-ism models hadn’t already been shot full of holes, I’d still have no reason to place any confidence in them, now would I? At least not confidence enough to further wreck the global economy with their proposed “remedies” for “problems” they’ve not offered anything more than failed computer models to support..
Meanwhile, it’s hot. It’s called “Summer”. I remember it from last year about this time. *heh*
And speaking of heat and summer and all that jazz, as I have been, how can I neglect to link this (via Sister Nicole) and give a hearty and soul felt “AMEN! Preach on brother!”
(One small cavil about The Church of The Blessed Evaporator: w/o AC, Congress wouldn’t meet so often and make so much trouble, and “feddle gummint bureaucraps” wouldn’t have all those nice, air conditioned offices from which to work their deeds of iniquity. Sad that such a boon to humanity can be perverted so… *sigh*)
*yawn* Old, old news in new clothing. The subject line? “AP flunks science”. So? What else is new? Don Surber quotes the Associated Press:
NEW YORK (AP) — The extreme heat that’s been roasting the eastern U.S. is only expected to get worse, and residents are bracing themselves for temperatures near and above boiling point. [emphasis added]
Wow! That’s some heat wave! Temps near or above 212°F? 100°F would be boiling point for such highly flammable chemicals as acetaldehyde, but “boiling point” in normal parlance refers to the boiling point of water at standard pressure, 212°F.
But what can you expect from one of the chief Mass MEdia Podpeople Hivemind mouthpieces of The Cult of Anthropogenic Global Climate Scare-ism? Ordinary knowledge of common science? Nah. Never. Ain’t a-gonna happen on the AP’s watch!
Dumbasses.
Just think about it for a few seconds. The comparative size, accuracy and reliability of the data sets used by Climate Scare-sim Cultists is minuscule, wildly inaccurate and unreliable (using their data setsd, their models have yet to be able to “post-dict” ANY climate and have proven wildly off in predictions to date, even with data cheating and outright lies to make their case) compared to your garden variety weather forecasters’ data sets. And yet, who really has found weather forecasters’ predictions to be all that close to what comes to pass?
Quite apart from the asininity of determining a global temperature in tenth of a degree (Celsius) increments, the variability of recording/reporting stations has never been dealt with in any rational or convincing way by cultists from the Cult of Anthropogenic Global Climate Scare-ism.
Let me take just one data point as an example. We have two relatively credible temperature reporting stations located within roughly 1,000 feet of each other, here in the lil burg where America’s Third World County Central is located. Early this morning, one reporting station reported a low temp of 79oF (just a smidge over 26oC). The other reported 84oF (nearly 29oC).
Now, you go figure how many radical differences like that are not resolved in favor of the lower number by cultists from the Cult of Anthropogenic Global Climate Scare-ism, ‘K?
There are many, many examples of “scientific consensus” being flat out wrong, from the scholastics who derided Galileo and compelled the Catholic church to place him in house arrest (as much to protect him from the Academia Nut Fruitcakes of the 17th Century as anything else… plus ça change and all that, I suppose… ) to the much trumpeted “consensus” about Anthropogenic Whatever-They’re-Calling-It-Today. Here’s Jacob Bronowski mentioning yet another “scientific consensus” in a snippet from his 1973 presentation, “The Ascent of Man”–
Of course, Bronowski was exaggerating a wee tad. After all, J.J. Thomson was working diligently at that time to prove the existence and properties of electrons, which he called “corpuscles”, and others were exploring and debating the existence and properties of atoms, but in general what Bronowski asserts is as true of the “scientific community” of the very early 1900s in regards to consensus on the existence of the atom as “scientific consensus” today regarding Anthropogenic Whatever-They’re-Calling-It-Today: the accepted dogma of those with the power of position, money and the public’s ear is just as anti-scientific today as the assertions from ignorance of the anti-atomic dogmatists of the early 1900s. And the real scientists are working today, just as out of the limelight as Thomson and his colleagues were in 1900.
But, of course, then Thomson was awarded a Nobel for his work in 1907 and the tide began to turn…
“Scientific consensus” has as often been wrong as right over the centuries, and we’d do well to learn the lesson that theory must bend to fact, and not the other way around as those who embrace the Cult of Anthropogenic Whatever-They’re-Calling-It-Today would have it with their always wrong (at least so far) computer models that “prove”–with faked data as often as not, it seems–the sky is falling (though no one has been hit by a chunk of sky yet, despite their predictions).
“Margaret Sanger” (played by a concerned citizen, SS) explains that “No planned or wanted trees were injured during the filming of this very important message.”
(Of course, having watched the thing, you already knew that, hmmm? ;-))
In related news, Charles Manson gave his first interview in 20 years… to talk about anthropogenic global warming. He’s one of the saner voices in the cult.