It’s been a while since GorT went on a climate change rant so I figured I’d fire one up today. Maybe it’s because I was trolled on twitter with this Mother Jones graphic. Or because I offered up the following … Continue reading →
As previously discussed, empirical evidence is the strongest for the common person. When you combine that with the failure of scientific models – not factual data – to show causality, you tend to create skeptics and a general disbelief. While … Continue reading →
Evidence is a strong teacher. Children will hear their parents tell them to wear heavy coats when it is cold outside but argue and refuse, only to find out that the advice makes a lot of sense. Based on the … Continue reading →
Everyone’s favorite Nobel laureate economist Paul Krugman takes to the pages of the New York Times to announce the Left’s new position on global cooling global warming climate change. “Government has no choice but to regulate every sector of the … Continue reading →
Nothing is random, you know. Not even randomness: computers are pretty good at generating random numbers, but in fact, the computer uses rules to generate random numbers. Once you understand how that works, you can get pretty good at detecting … Continue reading →
The liberals’ team coach when debating GorT GorT has two items today where liberals are, in my opinion, attempting to change the focus and distract the country from some key points. The first is the ongoing narrative about global warmingclimate … Continue reading →
By now, our readers should know where GorT stands with regards to Global Climate Change – if not, go do some research. Ok, ready? Over the past few years skeptics of the anthropogenic climate change theories have raised the issue … Continue reading →
Well, the gun control arguments have been disarmed, and we can pretty well bet that gun control will never happen at this point. The US Senate won’t even entertain new legislation concerning firearms. Done. Dead. Finished. Also, forget about global … Continue reading →
I am not one with this crap, Herbert! I’m not really one to buy into conspiracy theories but I have to admit, I’m starting to really believe that the Big Environment folks have their hooks into the people developing educational … Continue reading →
Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell—probably the last of Obama’s secretaries not involved in something mind-bogglingly stupid—just got herself involved in something mind-bogglingly stupid. In a Department-wide address to Interior employees, she warned them that loyalty tests shall be given … Continue reading →
The average temperature on Earth may be changing up or down. We honestly don’t know. Some folks say it is going up a degree, and therefore floods and famine may occur. That’s actually possible. Other folks say it is going … Continue reading →
GorT has been busy over the last few weeks with some family stuff and has been remiss in posting about a number of topics. Thankfully, his fellow Gormogons are on point and tackled many of the issues that were on … Continue reading →
The friendly staff here at Gormogons.com (which you really should visit) would like to correct some items from previous posts. In a recent post dealing with liberalism, we indicated that Mr. Tuck Pointer, 42, of Deer Lick Falls was a … Continue reading →
Professor Mondo writes the shiny robot for the first time in order to correct GorT’s knowledge of children’s literary references: I realize that a busy time-traveling robot such as yourself has little opportunity to reflect on children’s literature, but … Continue reading →
GorT Sr sent along a reference to this chart – it’s worth a look given Czar’s post below. More here. GorTGorT is an eight-foot-tall robot from the 51ˢᵗ Century who routinely time-travels to steal expensive technology from the future and … Continue reading →
Remember about thirty-five years ago, when the Sequester was going to utterly destroy societies, completely annihilate Western thought, and thoroughly split infinitives? And it didn’t happen, and the President plunged in the polls? And then he made a series of … Continue reading →
Here is a really easy way to tick off a pro-AGW enthusiast: tell him that this winter is expected to be the coldest on record, or that we haven’t had nearly the amount of hurricanes predicted. You then get a … Continue reading →
NASA created a stir among the AGW crowd this week and a number of my AGW friends posted it all over Facebook. I assume you’ve seen it (see, it’s even made it into the techie sites) – the satellite images … Continue reading →
Oh, Dat Ho, it’s a twister!You call him derecho, lady. First of all, a big shout out to the service folks who, by trade, are required to work in this summer heat – the police, firemen, EMS, water, gas and … Continue reading →
To pull a thread from ‘Puter’s latest post, the spin about the “derecho” storm that hit parts of the east coast of the United States this past Friday night has spiraled and inflamed the climate change debate. The usual spin … Continue reading →
‘Puter keeps a mental list of things that piss him off, and periodically shares them with his close friends. By close friends, ‘Puter means “anyone standing within earshot when he encounters something that pisses him off.” Here are a few … Continue reading →
The great and wonderous Borepatch writes into the Czar (and jeez, we hope we had his permission to reprint this; ah well, not much we can do about it now) to say: Your outstanding post covered the subject of Dr. … Continue reading →
For the record, and right up front, the Czar is a significant proponent of evolutionary theory. For him, the evidence is overwhelming and consistent. But when Richard Leakey says that the debate will soon be over, the Czar rolls his … Continue reading →
As I started writing this I noticed that the Czar just penned a post on climate change so this one is timely and the two together are strong points to consider. As my middle school and early high school children … Continue reading →
NOAA put out its “state of the climate” report. It is interesting to note a few of the points that are buried in the report: The average Arctic sea ice extent during March 2012 was 3.4 percent below average, ranking … Continue reading →
We’ve debated various aspects of Anthropogenic Global Warming here for years. Largely the AGW models identify the increase CO2 contribution to the environment by industrialization and fossil fuels by humans as the primary factor in the change to global climate. … Continue reading →
Canada will become the first country to officially withdraw from the Kyoto protocol. Their Environment Minister, Peter Kent, announced the plans for the formal withdrawal on Monday: The Kyoto Protocol does not represent the path forward for Canada. It’s now … Continue reading →
There is a bit of a to-do happening across the pond with regards to climate change and the UK’s energy policies. In mid-November, the UK Secretary of State for Energy wrote a letter to Lord Lawson and Lord Turnbull regarding … Continue reading →
Subtitled: It is very likely that this report likely means very little for many with medium confidence. The UN’s IPCC began releasing an update recommending that countries prepare for “weird weather”. Seriously. They are “virtually certain” (which, apparently means a … Continue reading →
Some little time ago, a report came out that unquestionably proved Global Warming was a real thing, and that no reasonable person could remain a skeptic. Of course, a news reports claims that report is itself badly flawed, and that … Continue reading →
This is what happens to rock stars all the time. Be sure to read the comments. Smart fellows, all. Now that we have been found out, we will have to leak some nonsense out that refutes all of this. Stay … Continue reading →
Ah, the end of summer: baseball is winding down, kids are going back to school, and the media starts to ridicule conservatives for things they say. We all know how the game works: when Democrats say stupid things, it’s because … Continue reading →
CN rather expertly contributes the following: Most honorable Czar of Muscovy, who with a single effort of the pen of writing makes my most eloquent efforts seem but the ramblings of the unschooled child, it was my humble pleasure to … Continue reading →
The Czar thinks he speaks for a lot of conservatives when he says he would like to be convinced about Global Warming. After all, there is nothing more conservative than preserving what we have; if it turns out that the … Continue reading →
Your Mandarin read a very interesting article today by James Delingpole regarding the fact that there has been no global warming since 1998. Well if you are one of the millions of people around the globe that have moved 1,000 … Continue reading →
Brian Palmer in the NYT OpEd section pens an editorial today titled, “Fire Up the Grill, Not the Atmosphere“. His lead off: FOOD is responsible for 10 to 30 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions. By many estimates, cooking represents … Continue reading →
Your Mandarin is once again flabbergasted by the inability of people to understand what science can and cannot do as evidenced by the manslaughter charge leveled against a group of seismologists by Italian government officials. This criminal charge against Italy’s … Continue reading →
All part of life’s rich pageant. NOAA: We have data that corresponds to evidence of climate change. Lib Media Machine: Ah! You should listen to NOAA. They are scientists! They know this stuff. Now fund our green jobs. Global warming … Continue reading →
From the WSJ’s “Best of the Web” section on April 8th: “New Warning on Arctic Sea Ice Melt” reads a headline on the BBC website. Ho hum, another global-warming alarm, right? But it turns out it’s even less alarming than … Continue reading →
Gormogon operative BG writes in regarding the temperature of Dat Ho’s hovel in the lower levels of the castle: O Mandarin, My Mandarin – I note with interest your claim that “…your Mandarin likes to … keep the temperature in … Continue reading →
GorT has been a bit busy with the whole time traveling thing (summary notes on the most recent trip to the future are forthcoming) but here are a few random thoughts while I’ve locked onto our internet connection – this … Continue reading →
Yes, it’s me again with another “climate change” post. The National Weather Service reported today that 49 out of the 50 states (plus the District of Columbia) have snow on the ground. Currently, Florida is the only state without snow … Continue reading →
Care of small dead animals and Fox News: 1. Within a few years “children just aren’t going to know what snow is.” Snowfall will be “a very rare and exciting event.” Dr. David Viner, senior research scientist at the climatic … Continue reading →
The always entertaining Borepatch (and you really oughta read him daily) suggests the Czar should “turn his cold, dread eye towards, say, the Climate Science establishment.” Okay, sure. Now a lot of you are already rubbing your hands together gleefully, … Continue reading →
So look what the Volgi dug up in the basement. It’s from a 1954 issue of Collier’s magazine. Yep, before all the global cooling… wait, global warming… heck, now it’s cooling again… began. Do your Gormogons believe in man-made climate … Continue reading →
Dealing another blow to the Big Environment crowd, the Chicago Climate Exchange will shutdown next month. Citing issues with this administration being able to put any regulation requiring carbon trading. “The bulk of the users have said to us that … Continue reading →
Global-warming J’accuse?Read the whole thing. Seriously. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. gormogons.com
Continue reading →For a long time people were pointing the finger at “climate change” for the decline in the bee population. The decline is concerning as the ecosystem relies upon them for pollination. There were minor side targets such as cell phone … Continue reading →
Someone at the White House must be reading us – now that the science is pointing at a possible future cooling in the next decade, they (yes, the infamous “they”) are renaming “Global Warming” to “Global Climate Disruption”. Yawn. This … Continue reading →
Yes, I’m diving back into the whole Climate Change/Global Warming/Global Cooling swirl. Specifically, while I agree the climate is changing (it’s changing all the time) I remain unconvinced that humans have had a significant impact on it. While in the … Continue reading →
They apparently took down Copenhagen singlehandedly (about which I’m not displeased); but as FotG David Frum notes: And not only wrecked the talks, but did so with a conscious display of disdain toward the West generally and President Obama personally. … Continue reading →
Carbie the Climate Clown, Emmett K. Bozo Distinguished Professor of Climate Pantomimology, University of East Anglia; EU Regional President, Union of Concerned Climate Scientists and Street Performers writes: These conclusions were not only endorsed by the scientific and clown communities, … Continue reading →
So the current hot trend in the climate debate is to rip people blogging about the subject, particularly those who are skeptical of AGW. Case in point, an unnamed author in the Economist’s blog section rips a post by Willis … Continue reading →
If you’re a numerate, computer-literate, Climategate obsessive (cough cough czar cough), you’ll way, way dig Iowahawk’s walk through the methodology of the Hadley CRU’s spreadsheet. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. gormogons.com
Continue reading →One of the unfortunate souls at the East Anglia Hadley CRU (motto: “No fact too inconvenient to bury”) tries to explain away the looming email scandal in today’s Times of London. See, we’re all morons in thinking that Phil Jones’ … Continue reading →
Subtitled: Baby, it’s cold in this computer. Sure, I’m titled this post as such partially because I am one by trade and if you’ve learned anything from reading our site, we’re right (the Mandarin and ‘Puter are watching you, so … Continue reading →
The beginning of this report from Ed Driscoll (you’ll see him over there on the Album Blogorum) is really good at documenting the periodic climate panics of the last century. (The edits are a little jarring, be warned)Though the Robert … Continue reading →
Without wading into the philosophical weeds, Karl Popper’s famous principle that a theory, hypothesis, or principle is metaphysical, not scientific if it is not, in some way, falsifiable (i.e., testable), seems to apply here. Whether it’s a Kuhnian paradigm or … Continue reading →
I’m going to cut through the chaff and get right to the core of the issue with the East Anglia / Hadley CRU emails: the corruption of the scientific process. I’m not sure where these “scientists”* were in grade school, … Continue reading →
You are aware of crushing recent information confirming global climate change data are missing, extrapolated from a sample of one, and the result of a spreadsheet glitch. But the global change fantasists remain convinced that the earth is melting so … Continue reading →
Otherwise subtitled: “Dammit, that hurts” Read here for details. Of course, I’m sure it’s anthropogenic. GorTGorT is an eight-foot-tall robot from the 51ˢᵗ Century who routinely time-travels to steal expensive technology from the future and return it to the past … Continue reading →
A week of surprises from the New York Times. First, there was the confession from the public editor that they screwed up the ACORN coverage because they acted like jackasses. Now, comes word that the New York Times is revealing … Continue reading →
AP is freaking out. The world’s oceans are the hottest they have ever been, ever, since 1880! And they state, as a matter of fact and record, that climate change has been raising the planet’s temperature steadily since 1997. The … Continue reading →
Regular Gormogons readers know that we tend to keep global warming and global cooling discussions at arm’s length, because most of the proponents of anthropogenic climate change (which covers warming or cooling) are shout-down liberals who call everyone else a … Continue reading →
Let the Czar point out how anti-science the Democratic Party is. Again. Michigan Senator Debbie Stabenow, who is a member of the Senate Energy Committee no less, says that she can feel global warming’s effects when she flies. “Global warming … Continue reading →
While your Mandarin and his son were watching a Phineas and Ferb marathon we were constantly being bombarded with commercials for Disney’s new environmental project called Friends for Change: Project Green. On the face of it, it is an effort … Continue reading →
In re our fabulous diplomacy trying to push carbon limits on India and getting summarily (and properly) rejected. Climate panic is an outgrowth of Western decadence. Pushing it on emerging powers is exactly what the Left means by cultural imperialism … Continue reading →
The Czar has been waiting for this. Back in March, he commented on Obama’s dubious promise that his administration would follow science, not politics. After all, it was the Evil Bush who suppressed science in order to further political objective, … Continue reading →
The Czar waits to see the spin on this. Specifically, he wonders when both sides of the climate change free-for-all will each claim conclusive evidence on a recent study. But let us back up a step. Climatologists have long known … Continue reading →
House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) is not ‘Puter’s favorite Congressman, although ‘Puter greatly admires Mr. Boehner’s fake tan and 3 pack-a-day habit. But Mr. Boehner gets it exactly right when he refers to Speaker Pelosi’s “climate change” bill ( … Continue reading →
Well, FoxNews.com is reporting that the House of Representatives has passed the Climate Change Bill by a vote of 217 to 205. The Democrats have demonized CO2 with the help of the useful idiots in the “environmental” movement to pass … Continue reading →
