Monday, October 20, 2014

Goddard Calls Pentagon Yo-Yos; Watts Pretends It Doesn't Exist

Climate change deniers can't quite manage to wrap their empty heads around the recent Pentagon report calling global warming an immediate security threat, among other things, so their reactions are as varied as they are comical and childish.

Steven Goddard decided to dive right in and challenge DoD claims based on legitimate, peer-reviewed research with extreme ignorance and his standard, ineffectual, scientific illiteracy.

"Now Yo-Yo’s at the Pentagon blame Syrian drought on CO2...Blaming the drought on an increase of 0.0001 mole fraction CO2, is every bit as ignorant as blaming Yo-Yo’s. Mankind has not progressed,"


Forget mankind not having progressed, Little Steven, because you may single-handedly prevent our species from ever progressing. For one thing, learn how to punctuate to at least some degree of proficiency, and when to capitalize, you nitwit. I'm not asking you to be an English scholar, just to hit the period key when you should every now and then instead of ending sentences with nothing at all or commas, and to stop giving generic toys more respect than you do the Department of Defense. This is simple shit you should have mastered before completing third grade, knucklehead. And, see, smallest of Tiny-Small Stevies (notice how I capitalized your new title?), the atmosphere taken as a whole is EXTREMELY MASSIVE, and CO2 is pretty damn efficient at absorbing and reemitting infrared radiation back down to Earth, so half-wit statements like "an increase of 0.0001 mole fraction CO2" fail to take into account that going from 0.028% to 0.04% of approximately 5×10^15 metric tons is an increase of about six hundred billion metric tons of a strong greenhouse gas. Starting to sink in yet, dumb dumb? Probably not, because I'm sure you're also too dense to understand the powerful effect of an even smaller concentration of ozone, but I'll mention it, anyway, for anyone else who, unlike you, has enough intelligence to appreciate that fractional changes in trace atmospheric gases can have major impacts on us and our civilization.

In other words, you're still a miserably confused idiot, you miserably confused idiot.

However, I will give you some credit for at least acknowledging that the DoD report exists. Your buddy, Anthony Watts, couldn't even muster that much courage. Instead, since its release, he and his lackeys have been desperate to find distractions of all kinds, any distraction at all really, to avoid the point.

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