Mythbusting - FLOP15 “Takes Note” of Copenhagen Accord

The cat's out of the bag now.
I should really start off by coming clean - I have an admission to make. I am a recent and very reluctant apostate to the faith of "Global Warmism", because I now know that what the Warmists say - that Global Warming is happening, and that it is anthropogenic (man-made) - is a lie.

The leaked Climategate emails and documents from those selfsame Warmists expose AGW (Anthropogenic Global Warming) as a lie.

At least one person that was included in some of the correspondence, Steve McIntyre of the website Climate Audit, verified the authenticity of at least some of the messages. McIntyre is reported to have said, “Every email that I’ve examined so far looks genuine. There are a few emails of mine that are 100% genuine. It is really quite breathtaking.”

How did I become an apostate?

"How can she slap?" - something unpleasant on Indian TV

There is an mp4 of this vid clip which you can download from here and in the event that the YouTube clip (below) becomes unavailable.

He's just slapped her, hard.

It is taken from an Indian TV game show (see picture right) that went badly wrong. The vid clip seems to have gone viral - there are several "response" vids and remixes of it on the Internet. I don't think the remixes are very good, but they might be amusing to some.


What went wrong is described below.

Professional suicide by a climatologist - "Wot an assh#le"

Professor Andrew Watson
from East Anglia University.
Uses argumentum ad hominem

Witness this vid clip example here of professional suicide on BBC TV's Newsnight on the 4th December 2009. With the simple phrase "Wot an assh#le", a professor Andrew Watson (pictured right, as he uttered the words), in one fell swoop:

• brought his own professional reputation into disrepute;
• brought the reputation of his academic institution into disrepute;
• destroyed his credibility and any presumption of his objectivity - by uttering an ad hominem which ironically in retrospect may have been more aptly describing himself rather than the person he was name-calling;
• risked bringing the already seriously tattered UN IPCC policy on "global warming" (of which he is a proponent) into further disrepute.
  

This was a fascinating piece of TV, and it looked like professional suicide.

Political Correctness gone mad - a Limey's rant

(My friend Robert, in the UK sent me this excellent rant email. That's the Robertson's jam Golly on the right, by the way.)
Am I right in thinking that PAKI is short for Pakistani? Just an abbreviation?

Prince Harry calls a mate "Our little Paki friend" and is forced to apologise two years later. This guy was a mate of his for heavens sake!

Am I right in thinking that "Brit" is short for British? Should the Sun newspaper be forced to apologise every time it prints the word Brit or The Brits are Coming? Is the word Brit offensive?

Is "Scot" offensive? "The Scots are coming". Another Sun Newspaper Football Clash Headline classic.

What about Ozzie? Kiwi? Pommie? Limey? Where or when will this lunacy end? The Cornish call all holiday makers "Grockles". Is there anything wrong with that?

If a Pakistani called you "His Brit friend" would you feel offended? Would you demand an apology on national TV ? Of course not.

Reference is made to the "Paki Shop" in one episode of Only Fools and Horses (now overdubbed for UK Gold broadcasting with the offending word taken out). (The episode when they build a nuclear fall-out shelter).

Should Sir David Jason now apologise? Should the writer John Sullivan apologise? Should the BBC apologise?

What about the Fuzzywuzzies (in "Dads Army") ?
What about "You stupid Kraut"? (in Fawlty Towers) ?

Both are still being broadcast regularly with no overdub.

The supreme idiots are at it again trying to stir up racial hatred. It's just madness surely?

I'm happy being a BRIT, BRITISH, ENGLISH, POMMIE BASTARD, LIMEY or whatever. I don't care a fig.
I only care when I'm called a racist.

There's something rotten in the barrel. To all those guilty of this stupid nonsense in government, local politics or anywhere else we all say "GROW UP THE LOT OF YOU".

If you agree, pass this on.

If not then you still have the democratic right to delete it (well for the time being, anyway).