And how many degrees in climatology does George “Punk Ass” Will have?

Oh, that’s right. None.

And that’s exactly how much credence I give his “analyses” of global climate change.

Although he is not a climate scientist, I think Will should take some of his own advice since he has a habit of journalistic malfeasance:
Some climate scientists George Will compound(s) their his delusions of intellectual adequacy with (a) messiah complexes.

George Will has always been dishonest. I remember back in the ’70s he wrote a column claiming that the Equal Rights Amendment would prevent having separate rest rooms for men and women, which was well know to be false. He’s always been a liar.

The Twelve Days of Christmas 2009 by Carol Ann Duffy

A seasonal verse by the new British poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy, commissioned exclusively for Radio Times.

1
ON THE FIRST DAY OF CHRISTMAS,
a buzzard on a branch.

In Afghanistan,
no partridge, pear tree;
but my true love sent to me
a card from home.
I sat alone,
crouched in yellow dust,
and traced the grins of my kids
with my thumb.
Somewhere down the line,
for another father, husband,
brother, son, a bullet
with his name on.

2
TWO TURTLE DOVES,
that Shakespeare loved –
turr turr, turr turr –
endangered now
by herbicide,
the chopping down
of where they hide –
turr turr, turr turr –
hawthorn thickets,
hedgerows, woodland.
Summer’s music
fainter, farther…
the spreading drought
of the Sahara.

3
THREE FRENCH HENS –
un, deux, trois –
do not know
that French they are.

Three Welsh lambs –
un, dau, tri –
do not know
that Welsh they baa.

Newborn babies –
one, two, three –
only know
you human be.

Only know
you human be.

4
THE GRENADA DOVE IS CALLING.

more…

[modnote: to respect the author's copyright, post a bit here and link back to the source, thank you.]

Of course, George Will and the other deniers never do respond to the question “What if you’re wrong and global warming IS real and the threat it has been portrayed to be?”

I guess the idea that he and the rest of the deniers could be wrong is beyond his comprehension.

“… the gigantic and fabulously lucrative industry of combating global warming.”

That just might be the phoniest line in the whole article. The only people who are going to be making big money (and they haven’t yet) are the over-the-counter derivatives traders who are going to create all kinds of new fictions to make money out of the cap-and-trade system which, as conceived, is going to be a giveaway to industry and Wall Street.

Green industry hasn’t been “fabulously lucrative.” If it were, it wouldn’t be starving for venture capital as it is now. And, compared to the traditional energy suppliers that have been fighting any changes in their industries, they’re Lilliputians in a land of Gullivers.

Will is downright mendacious, and extravagantly so, but, hey, these are just, his opinions, right? He writes an “opinion” column.

Yeah, right.

Sorry, the copyright respect for Carol Ann Duffy is completely true…just really wanted Americans see this poem, especially Stanza 9 and btw screw George Will. What an intellectual imposter…parroting the wacko fringe while Stephanopolous cuts off anyone who disagrees with him.

Here is the link for the complete poem:
http://www.radiotimes.com/content/features/carol-ann-duffy-the-twelve-days-of-christmas/

George Will is a lying asshole.

And in other news, the sun rose this morning.

The “some” there ought to be “none.” There’s no evidence that any of this happened. The “peer review” stuff was not about suppressing brave truth-telling, but about suppressing clearly bad science. There is no evidence that data or facts were ever suppressed or massaged in order to mislead, either — which is more than could be said for, you know, George Will.

Yep and amen. Just once, JUST ONCE, I wish they’d have the intellectual honesty to discuss the possibility of EACH side being wrong. Because in my mind, if 90% of the world’s scientists are wrong, and we take action unnecessarily, we’ve what? wasted resources, caused a little economic hardship maybe. If they’re wrong and we do nothing? Well, hope you got plenty of room on that ark of yours asshole.

God damned it’s such an easy call in my mind. Don’t even understand the debate.

Dear Mr. flat earther George:

It’s really tiresome to hear bloviating, self appointed experts like you pop your mouth off about things you know nothing about. So rather than have you act like an expert, let me direct you to this link where you can have a conversation with some actual ones:

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/12/04-8

And in conclusion, George, remember this quote by Wendell Berry:

`Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.”

Some climate scientists compound their delusions of intellectual adequacy with messiah complexes.

George Will accusing others of harboring delusions of intellectual adequacy is a hoot.

Oh, this is just more projection. Just replace “climate scientists” with Presidents or Vice Presidents and voila! There you have a good description of the Bush years.

Some climate scientists compound their delusions of intellectual adequacy with messiah complexes. They seem to suppose themselves a small clerisy entrusted with the most urgent truth ever discovered. On it, and hence on them, the planet’s fate depends. So some of them consider it virtuous to embroider facts, exaggerate certitudes, suppress inconvenient data, and manipulate the peer-review process to suppress scholarly dissent and, above all, to declare that the debate is over.

George Will
“The world is too good for America”
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/will100202.asp

Bonior’s contribution from Baghdad was to charge that “a horrendous, barbaric, horrific” number of cases of childhood leukemia and lymphomas have been caused by “uranium that has been part of our weapons system that was dropped here during the last war.” These weapons “are coated with uranium that atomize and cause these serious health problems.”

This familiar accusation, which struck Bonior as new, concerns the use of depleted uranium as a heavy metal (also used in the armor plating of U.S. tanks) to increase the armor-penetrating ability of anti-tank munitions. The radiation involved is much less than that occurring naturally in the Iraqi soil where tank battles occurred in 1991. At least a dozen U.S., U.N. and European studies, including one involving U.S. soldiers who still have depleted uranium in their bodies resulting from “friendly fire” accidents, show no grounds for believing in the health effects Baghdad and Bonior claim.

What we have here is evidence of George will lying to cover up war crimes. I’d call that part of a conspiracy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOdoabbLBcE

Let’s not get too exercised about George Will, a relic content-generator from a less fragmented era of publishing. He has few fans, surviving in print and tv largely on his comedy value. The poor man is clueless when it comes to chemistry or geophysics.

The poor man is clueless when it comes to chemistry or geophysics.

Suggested fix. Why waste words?

Good point.

Wow, am I ever glad that the “Climategate” scandal has totally debunked this theory that climate change is a catastrophe in the making. I was starting to get worried. I think we should fire up a few thousand coal-driven power plants to celebrate…

Electing Palin-Beck in 2012 will get us on the right course…

Very economical. I like that.

He’s not clueless at all. He’s an extention of the dangerous idealogues that have permeated our airwaves since the late 90′s.

Yep
This is keeping Media Matters busy as hell.

The emails are discussing how hard it is to explain away the short term warming that climate change opponents were making so much of. The guy was wishing he didn’t have to deal with it.

It makes me think of how hard it must have been for early star gazers to explain ‘away’ the discrepancy in elliptical orbits in the heavens when the course of a planet would slow down, stop, and reverse (now known and accounted for as Kepler’s Laws – Retrograde Motion).

He hasn’t changed since he joined David Brinkley on the original This Week.

I am so late to the day…but delighted and amused to see what great copy can be generated by Mr. Will….as otherwise and usually he is simply very dull

Hi SD….enjoyed your cat-day. I do not seem to have any new stories. That may be because I am so adoringly obedient.you know?

You’re both still getting used to each other. Lots of time for stories. heh heh heh

Clearly that is why we spend alot of time sleeping together….Amazing isn’t it?

The Rep/Dem jousting is a feature of the Investor class’s warfare against the rest of the people.

If you guys let yourself be herded into defensive huddles every time THEY trot out one of their servants to play the proper part be it “Conservative” of “Progressive”, you will always wind up being played. Follow the money, if you don’t believe it.

All this George Will vs. Albert Gore ‘brougha-ha’ will get us Cap and Trade, – just watch!!

Book Salon a couple of flights upstairs with James Hoggan’s Climate Cover-Up: The Crusade to Deny Global Warming hosted by Tim Lambert

“— a few bad apples, as it were —”

Must have been the same few that tarnished our rep at Abu Ghraib. Damn that Lynndie England and Charles Graner! George Will’s calcified brain would better serve science by [Edited by Moderator. No violent references. Thank You] . Oh la la, too harsh…perhaps he could simply will it to the public for later research. Pun intended.

Here George, I fixed this for you:

Some climate scientists Neocon bloviators compound their delusions of intellectual adequacy with messiah complexes.

I stand corrected. You are right.