Pull Up A Chair And Relax For A Bit

[Gray-Wolf]

Seasons greetings to us all!!! (god bless us ,everyone!.....as Tiny Tim would say)

[pottyprof]

I hope everyone has a good start to 2013 and may the rest of the year just get better and better.

[BornFromTheVoid]

How it feels posting in the climate area recently...

 

[Gray-Wolf]

Some flowers , when dying, put on a final bloom in the hope of reproducing.

 

I think , in the light of the past few years of climate extremes and the arrival of the types of data the denialist's said they needed in the noughties, that the 'Faux Sceptiks' are having their swansong? They know that every climate extreme has a growing connection to the changes ongoing and that the connection only grows stronger as the planet responds to our forcings. 

 

Be it extreme Arctic/Greenland melt or extreme heat/drought/rain across the n.Hemisphere this summer more and more folk are crossing the 'experience' threshold that has them connect AGW and the extremes they are living through. We saw the reaction across the Eastern seaboard post Sandy last Autumn and , with wildfire season now on us (just had a doozy on the Moor to my East) more questions will soon be asked about 'Why' things are so bad.

 

The folk who fed them 'hope' that bad things were not coming will find themselves increasingly on the back foot as they try to reassure folk that they are still correct and AGW is all a scam.

 

The sad thing is that this is bringing a spate of 'Drive By' postings from folk who then cry 'foul' when either firm evidence showing that their assertion is incorrect arrives or folk ask them for 'data/evidence' Sadly I suspect that this 'sour grapes' does not end with a 'You can see why nobody posts in here....' rant but also a pm to management? All of this makes it ever more difficult to keep the Lurkers up to speed on climate developments?

 

BFTV put up some stats on traffic through the C&E section. Anyone in doubt of just how many 'Lurkers' we help should re-read those stats!

Edited May 8, 2013 by Gray-Wolf

[Tamara]

How it feels posting in the climate area recently...

 

sceptic logic.jpg

As a postscript, this identifies completely with the essence of my post just now in the other thread as well

[BornFromTheVoid]

As a postscript, this identifies completely with the essence of my post just now in the other thread as well

 

Is your post a joke then?

[BornFromTheVoid]

Graham's hierarchy of disagreement

Edited May 22, 2013 by BornFromTheVoid

[Timini Cricket]

The BBC IPlayer has a treat for Archaeology Buffs here:

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/collections/p018818x/archaeology-at-the-bbc

 

Featuring the oh-so BBC presentation and style of early TV, with characters such as Sir Mortimer Wheeler, and a young Magnus Magnusson. Of course the programmes are historical features in themselves, with live recordings, BBC English plummy dialogue, 4:3 ratio, black and white, and 405 lines, but none the less still enjoyable IMHO.

 

I particularly enjoyed the following from 1954:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p01819j0/Buried_Treasure_The_Peat_Bog_Murder_Mystery/

- not least for the Bronze Age cooking spot and a fashion show featuring a rather embarrassed young model trying to hide her long legs in a very short Norse number that would not be reprised until the mid nineteen sixties!

 

But there are 24 to choose from altogether...

[BornFromTheVoid]

A pretty cool picture from the xkcd folk.

 

[Gray-Wolf]

Don't you just hate having to rebuild your operating system when it needs a net connection to install most all of your stuff ( inc. the WIFI!!!)........between a failing body and a failing system those misleader's might get what they wish for.......but then dying is the last thing me or my system is set to do!!!! 

Edited August 31, 2013 by Gray-Wolf