The Policy Lass

The previous post was getting me down what with all the negative Nellies, so luckily, I visited Climate Progress and got a great laugh at this 2007 cartoon:

I know some readers will be insulted, but I found it quite a good laugh and really, speaks to a lot of issues from the climate wars.

Hey, it’s Sunday. A day of rest and for some, prayers. Me? I’m a working mother so today I get to do cleaning and shopping and cooking and laundry and all the stuff I didn’t get done during the week.

à bientôt!

Over at Climate Audit, McIntyre has stopped his manic posting on the Muir Inquiry long enough to give notice that he was disinvited to the World Dendro Conference.

THE ONE

On December 8, 2009, I received one of my rare invitations to make a presentation to climate scientists – a keynote speech at the plenary session on June 16, 2010 of World Dendro 2010. At the time they had received almost 500 abstracts. It was proposed that I speak on a program chaired by Achim Bräuning, with presentations in sequence by ‘N.N’, Juha-Pekka Lunkka, me, Keith Briffa, Fidel Roig.

Two days ago, I was advised that due to receiving almost 500 abstracts, their biggest problem has been to find more time for presentations and ‘many good presentations are without time and place’, so they canceled the plenary session in which I was presenting and thus my presentation. (This and two other plenary sessions are still listed on the programme.)

They said that they were “sorry for this bad news” and expressed hope that time could be found for such discussion “in some future events” and thanked me for my “interest in WorldDendro2010 Conference”.

He sent a response to the notice, stating that “reading between the lines” some of the other presenters didn’t want to play in the same sandbox as him. Continue reading →…

Yesterday, I blogged about the game of telephone skeptics have been playing with a fabricated quote from Sir John Houghton. Apparently someone dug up an old interview from 1995 in which Sir Houghton talks about religion and his beliefs in God as proof that while he may not have actually said the words attributed to him, he said similar things or things that could be twisted into meaning almost something similar — if one plugs one’s ears and squints one’s eyes…

Not that I’m questioning the motives of these fine gentlemen, or their reading comprehension but seriously, they need to go back to play school and watch some Sesame Street.

Let’s play “One of these things is not like the other”

“Unless we announce disasters no one will listen”.

“If we want a good environmental policy in the future we’ll have to have a disaster. It’s like safety on public transport. The only way humans will act is if there’s been an accident.” [edited to add the rest of the quote in so that denialists the hard of reading comprehension won’t lie misunderstand]

The two are not the same. Continue reading →…