Comments on: TSR: Juno 17 – 24

By: lawnguylander

lawnguylander — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 11:09:12 +0000

In what sense did this zany retro idea fail? This is some funny shit right here. In fact just the other day when I was reading my Harper’s Weekly email I remembered this post and was wondering why this didn’t become a weekly thing. It reminds me of a funnier version of that.

By: Sadly, No! » A Good Idea

Sadly, No! » A Good Idea — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 06:58:28 +0000

[...] the Addington/Steele coffeehouse joint of the early 1700s. The crux of the idea is that, since all of my zany retro ideas end up failing, I might as well trim down the project [...]

By: noen

noen — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 16:22:54 +0000

The “sunspots are responsible for global warming/cooling” meme and it’s variations has been completely debunked. Hinderaker was wrong even by 1992 standards. The studies he was most likely referring to (I’m guessing, too bad they aren’t online) were not merely bad, they were laughably bad and contained simple errors of arithmetic.

By: boil

boil — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 08:40:12 +0000

I always knew Roger D. Hodge was a nom de plume.

By: Grambo

Grambo — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 21:18:59 +0000

How droll, I feel so vetted.

By: Gentlewoman

Gentlewoman — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 19:25:40 +0000

Hinderaker is quite proud of “The Global Warming Hoax” (1992). It is not available online.

Oh, gods, J! I am still laughing.

What a pity that this valuable work is not available online! If only there were some technology that could make it possible–you know, like a scanner or a camera or a copier or a keyboard or something.

I suppose we’ll just have to wait for the technology to catch up to the important insights that Hinderaker no doubt divulged in this paper. Which is, unfortunately, not available online.

By: J—

J— — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 17:47:00 +0000

But mikey, the article was vetted by Bob Balling. Bob Balling!

By: mikey

mikey — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 17:22:42 +0000

Hmm. All that assrocket stuff above seems premised on the theory that the state of climate science has not changed at all since the 1970s. No way that scientists, equipped with 21st century supercomputers, better data modelling software, better remote sensing equipment, a much greater understanding of the way the oceans work and thirty plus years more raw data might have gone to show that some of the things we believed to be true in the ’70s, or even fifteen years ago in 1992 were not accurate. No way our understanding of the dynamics of greenhouse gas emissions and their effect upon climate (umm, wingnuts? That’s CLIMATE, not WEATHER, which is what you see when you look out your window) might allow us to draw more accurate conclusions about the near- and mid-term future global climate?

Idiots…

mikey

By: J—

J— — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 17:12:49 +0000

Hinderaker, 9/5/2002:

A select few Power Line readers may remember that quite a few years ago, the Trunk and I authored a piece titled "The Global Warming Hoax"--one of our first efforts. We may have to dust it off and update it.

Hinderaker, 4/6/2003:

One of the first articles that the Trunk and I published, in 1992, was called "The Global Warming Hoax." Alas, it is not available anywhere on the web. If there were enough demand, maybe we could put it up on a web page of our own and link to it.

Hinderaker, 8/2/2003:

One of the first major magazine pieces that the Trunk and I wrote was called "The Global Warming Hoax." It appeared, as I recall, in 1992 and is not available anywhere on the web. I don't recall what led us to start studying the issue, but we were astonished to find that a theory that commanded such universal political allegiance, even then, had so little scientific support.

Hinderaker, 7/19/2004:

It stands to reason, of course, that fluctuations in energy emitted by the sun would account, wholly or in part, for temperature variations on earth. In fact, the Trunk and I made this point twelve years ago in one of the first papers we ever published (regrettably, not available on the web), titled "The Global Warming Hoax." I haven't updated the research, but at that time, the correlation between temperature variations on earth and solar emissions, as measured by sunspot activity, was astonishingly close.

Hinderaker, 5/24/2006:

When Scott and I began our writing career in 1992, one of our first articles was "The Global Warming Hoax." Regrettably, it is not available anywhere online. Bob Balling vetted the article before we published it, and pronounced it scientifically sound.

Hinderaker, 2/27/2007:

One of the early articles that Scott and I wrote was called, with characteristic understatement, "The Global Warming Hoax." It appeared in the Minnesota Journal of Law and Politics [now Minnesota Law and Politics] in late 1992. One of the things we wrote about was the global cooling scare of the 1970s; we quoted articles from Time and Newsweek about fears that we humans were about to cause another ice age.

Hinderaker is quite proud of "The Global Warming Hoax" (1992). It is not available online.

By: MrWonderful

MrWonderful — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 15:37:01 +0000

Fishbone–

Depends on what you mean by “peer,” no? Sadly, yes!

By: Fishbone McGonigle

Fishbone McGonigle — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 14:53:57 +0000

John Hinderaker, addressing the threat of global cooling, revealed that he and colleague Scott Johnson wrote a “1992 paper on global warming.”

[double-take] Waitaminute – what? Surely it wasn’t peer-reviewed, right?

Right?

By: Doc Washboard

Doc Washboard — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 14:07:54 +0000

Holy shite, if Gore announced, I'd be pounding the pavement for him the next day. Who for running mate? I'd like Bruce Babbitt, just for the environment's sake, but that's a real dream. Also: when will the shrieking harpy stop with the child abuse? She always has her kids sitting around while she cranks up the hate; sometimes the kids even participate! Won't someone please call CPS?

By: AkaDad

AkaDad — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 12:48:34 +0000

Has anyone ever considered that donkeys might actually want their asses tapped?

By: merlallen

merlallen — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 11:11:20 +0000

Isn’t Misha the chickenhawk coward that invites people to fist fight him but only at his own house? I offered to meet him half way and he said I was a coward for not coming to his house.

By: Doug Watts

Doug Watts — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 06:44:34 +0000

I will be sending you tons and tons and tons of money.

This is just a check to see if you read ur comments.

heh.

By: cokane

cokane — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 06:15:41 +0000

ur Powder Line link is broken

http://powerlineblog.com/archives/018001.php

this is the global cooling article

By: a different brad

a different brad — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 06:07:50 +0000

Actually, that Pam vid has one really great highlight. Go to about 4:10 or so, and wait for her impression of socialists and communists.
I’d snark, but…. just watch.

By: Sporkey

Sporkey — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 04:33:17 +0000

Was that “a Muslim did something bad” link supposed to go to Late German Fascists? Because I got redirected to that crappy “You are an idiot!” flash animation….

Probably, but when I went there to guess which post it could have been, I really, really couldn’t tell. Doesn’t he have a life or something? A job to go to? Puppies to kick?

By: robert green

robert green — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 04:32:02 +0000

sooth! what a fine piece of writing upon which i shall myself opine. where, perhaps, i have overstepped the bounds of civility when leaving a bon mot elsewhere on this most genteel of websites, here i become as one with my clean and cuss-free self. bless your hearts, sadlynoites, every one!

By: J—

J— — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 04:21:04 +0000

It looks like the CNET News link may have changed. Try this one.