Comments on: Like being savaged by a dead sheep… http://hot-topic.co.nz/like-being-savaged-by-a-dead-sheep/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=like-being-savaged-by-a-dead-sheep Global warming and the future of New Zealand Sat, 11 Feb 2012 09:26:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Steve Bloom http://hot-topic.co.nz/like-being-savaged-by-a-dead-sheep/comment-page-1/#comment-5460 Steve Bloom Wed, 06 May 2009 05:07:01 +0000 http://hot-topic.co.nz/like-being-savaged-by-a-dead-sheep/#comment-5460 So, R2, you *still* haven't done your homework. Lucky for you Gareth has a policy of tolerating content-free trolling, as Ayrdale's continued presence also demonstrates. Not so lucky for the rest of us. Ayrdale, NZ and Oz are precisely where they always were, waiting to fall into line once the U.S. and China cut a deal. Re Wishart, I can't imagine why he thinks that mush-mouthed Monckton impression is appealing to anyone. It looks to be an attempt to distract from his failure to make even one valid point about Gareth's criticisms. Gareth, probably you know this but likely the reference to Akasofu (an emeritus expert on aurorae) talking about alleged Greenland cooling refers to the Chylek paper attempting to stretch three limited station records in the southwest (not all even in the Arctic) to imply something about the whole island. Re Siberian cooling (likely based on some of the fine "scientific" work at Climate Audit), doubtless that would explain the rapidly expanding permafrost melt lakes. So, R2, you *still* haven’t done your homework. Lucky for you Gareth has a policy of tolerating content-free trolling, as Ayrdale’s continued presence also demonstrates. Not so lucky for the rest of us.

Ayrdale, NZ and Oz are precisely where they always were, waiting to fall into line once the U.S. and China cut a deal.

Re Wishart, I can’t imagine why he thinks that mush-mouthed Monckton impression is appealing to anyone. It looks to be an attempt to distract from his failure to make even one valid point about Gareth’s criticisms.

Gareth, probably you know this but likely the reference to Akasofu (an emeritus expert on aurorae) talking about alleged Greenland cooling refers to the Chylek paper attempting to stretch three limited station records in the southwest (not all even in the Arctic) to imply something about the whole island. Re Siberian cooling (likely based on some of the fine “scientific” work at Climate Audit), doubtless that would explain the rapidly expanding permafrost melt lakes.

]]> By: Bryan Walker http://hot-topic.co.nz/like-being-savaged-by-a-dead-sheep/comment-page-1/#comment-5455 Bryan Walker Tue, 05 May 2009 20:38:26 +0000 http://hot-topic.co.nz/like-being-savaged-by-a-dead-sheep/#comment-5455 Quasimodo? Well, I do have an elderly stoop I'm told, and I am deaf, though not from the sound of bells - much more prosaically from factory noise in my youth. For the record, I have reviewed a number of climate change books for the Waikato Times over recent years, and my review of Hot Topic was done before I had any knowledge of who Gareth was. Reporting on what I read is my chief contribution to trying to draw attention to the seriousness of global warming, and about all I have to offer as a long-retired English teacher. I have, incidentally, read Wishart's book. Al Gore a latter-day Goebbels? James Hansen a ringleader in deception? The UN bureaucracy set on world domination, a goal brought closer by the advent of Helen Clark, “climate change priestess and globalisation powerhouse”? Wishart may not believe in global warming, but he certainly inhabits a fevered world. Quasimodo? Well, I do have an elderly stoop I’m told, and I am deaf, though not from the sound of bells – much more prosaically from factory noise in my youth. For the record, I have reviewed a number of climate change books for the Waikato Times over recent years, and my review of Hot Topic was done before I had any knowledge of who Gareth was. Reporting on what I read is my chief contribution to trying to draw attention to the seriousness of global warming, and about all I have to offer as a long-retired English teacher. I have, incidentally, read Wishart’s book. Al Gore a latter-day Goebbels? James Hansen a ringleader in deception? The UN bureaucracy set on world domination, a goal brought closer by the advent of Helen Clark, “climate change priestess and globalisation powerhouse”? Wishart may not believe in global warming, but he certainly inhabits a fevered world.

]]> By: Tim http://hot-topic.co.nz/like-being-savaged-by-a-dead-sheep/comment-page-1/#comment-5453 Tim Tue, 05 May 2009 10:12:19 +0000 http://hot-topic.co.nz/like-being-savaged-by-a-dead-sheep/#comment-5453 His response was comical, desperate and sad in about even measure. His response was comical, desperate and sad in about even measure.

]]> By: Gareth http://hot-topic.co.nz/like-being-savaged-by-a-dead-sheep/comment-page-1/#comment-5451 Gareth Tue, 05 May 2009 08:41:29 +0000 http://hot-topic.co.nz/like-being-savaged-by-a-dead-sheep/#comment-5451 Sadly, Ayrdale, you may be right about Air Con being widely read, but a setback for what? Wingnut credibility? Even my friendly local PaperPlus has taken to stacking Hot Topic next to Air Con so that consumers have a fair choice between fact and fiction. And before you go for the cheap jibe, Air Con's the fictive article... Sadly, Ayrdale, you may be right about Air Con being widely read, but a setback for what? Wingnut credibility? Even my friendly local PaperPlus has taken to stacking Hot Topic next to Air Con so that consumers have a fair choice between fact and fiction. And before you go for the cheap jibe, Air Con’s the fictive article…

]]> By: Gareth http://hot-topic.co.nz/like-being-savaged-by-a-dead-sheep/comment-page-1/#comment-5450 Gareth Tue, 05 May 2009 08:38:46 +0000 http://hot-topic.co.nz/like-being-savaged-by-a-dead-sheep/#comment-5450 You could try reading the <a href="http://hot-topic.co.nz/somethin’-stupid/" rel="nofollow">review</a>, perhaps? You could try reading the review, perhaps?

]]> By: mikh http://hot-topic.co.nz/like-being-savaged-by-a-dead-sheep/comment-page-1/#comment-5449 mikh Tue, 05 May 2009 08:29:53 +0000 http://hot-topic.co.nz/like-being-savaged-by-a-dead-sheep/#comment-5449 I predict AirCon will be another setback, and thanks to the success of Investigate will get quite widely read. The issue of today is Kevin Rudd's postponement (read cancellation) of Australia's ETS. Where to for NZ now ? I predict AirCon will be another setback, and thanks to the success of Investigate will get quite widely read.

The issue of today is Kevin Rudd’s postponement (read cancellation) of Australia’s ETS.

Where to for NZ now ?

]]> By: R2D2 http://hot-topic.co.nz/like-being-savaged-by-a-dead-sheep/comment-page-1/#comment-5448 R2D2 Tue, 05 May 2009 08:26:35 +0000 http://hot-topic.co.nz/like-being-savaged-by-a-dead-sheep/#comment-5448 "Funnily enough".. "I went to some lengths to deal with each of the “icons” he tries to debunk in his book" Haha that is funny, can you send me a link to these because I haven't seen them on your website. “Funnily enough”..

“I went to some lengths to deal with each of the “icons” he tries to debunk in his book”

Haha that is funny, can you send me a link to these because I haven’t seen them on your website.

]]> By: Gareth http://hot-topic.co.nz/like-being-savaged-by-a-dead-sheep/comment-page-1/#comment-5447 Gareth Tue, 05 May 2009 08:24:01 +0000 http://hot-topic.co.nz/like-being-savaged-by-a-dead-sheep/#comment-5447 Funnily enough, R2, that’s exactly what he doesn’t do. I went to some lengths to deal with each of the “icons” he tries to debunk in his book, but his riposte doesn’t begin to look at those. Instead he resorts to name calling and inaccurate speculation about my degree, writing career and so on. If he wants to play in the gutter, he can stay there on his own. Funnily enough, R2, that’s exactly what he doesn’t do. I went to some lengths to deal with each of the “icons” he tries to debunk in his book, but his riposte doesn’t begin to look at those. Instead he resorts to name calling and inaccurate speculation about my degree, writing career and so on. If he wants to play in the gutter, he can stay there on his own.

]]> By: R2D2 http://hot-topic.co.nz/like-being-savaged-by-a-dead-sheep/comment-page-1/#comment-5445 R2D2 Tue, 05 May 2009 08:08:02 +0000 http://hot-topic.co.nz/like-being-savaged-by-a-dead-sheep/#comment-5445 He pulls your review apart one piece at a time until there is nothing left, not sure your why you are advertising your ineptitude on your own website by providing links to his article. Appears to me that you have no sensible answer for his book or for his article. Well just keep calling him quoting him out of context and calling him names I guess :-) He pulls your review apart one piece at a time until there is nothing left, not sure your why you are advertising your ineptitude on your own website by providing links to his article. Appears to me that you have no sensible answer for his book or for his article.

Well just keep calling him quoting him out of context and calling him names I guess :-)

]]> By: StephenR http://hot-topic.co.nz/like-being-savaged-by-a-dead-sheep/comment-page-1/#comment-5440 StephenR Tue, 05 May 2009 03:25:44 +0000 http://hot-topic.co.nz/like-being-savaged-by-a-dead-sheep/#comment-5440 Roughly what Danyl <a href="http://dimpost.wordpress.com/2009/05/04/a-hazy-shade-of-wishart/#" rel="nofollow">said</a> at comment 19... Roughly what Danyl said at comment 19…

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