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The SMH’s Peter Hartcher and Marian Wilkinson bestow a grand title upon fact-dodging global warming guiltsob Sir Nicholas Stern:
The world’s leading economist on climate change ...
Now we must begin our search for:
• The world’s leading phrenologist on tidal currents
• The world’s leading cellist on mineral futures
• The world’s leading aerodynamicist on oyster breeding
• The world’s leading herpetologist on plastic surgery
• The world’s leading ethnomusicologist on gravity
• The world’s leading geologist on carpal tunnel syndrome
And, of course:
• The world’s leading climatologist on economics
Hmmmm.
I want to be the world’s leading reverse-phrenologist.
A phrenologist reads a person’s personality by reading the bumps on the person’s head.
I want to change the person’s personality by **putting** bumps on the person’s head.
...
Mr. Al Gore, we’re ready to help you ...
Posted by memomachine on 2007 04 01 at 01:15 PM • permalinkThis is indeed a topic close to my heart.
As a lifelong professional flooder of rainforests, I hear so much crap from people who have no knowledge and no right to comment.
Check out how many sociologists there are amongst the ecofascists.
Oh, Mary, our planet’s a wonderful place
But the organization’s a fucking disgrace
The ignorant fuckwits rant and they rave and they shout
They talk about stuff they know fuck all about
But, I’ll tell you Mary, they might as well be
Shovelling shit on the Isle of Capri
Posted by Jack from Montreal on 2007 04 01 at 01:18 PM • permalinkDon’t forget, the world’s leading politician on climatology.
Posted by Bruce Rheinstein on 2007 04 01 at 01:30 PM • permalinkIs “world’s leading pseudo-science profiteer on film-making and world peace” taken?
Posted by Kyda Sylvester on 2007 04 01 at 01:35 PM • permalinkHow about the world’s leading herpetologist on social issues?
ciz someone’s got to do the squeezing…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 04 01 at 01:42 PM • permalinkThe world’s leading Oscar committee member on good, tasteful filmmaking?
Posted by Tungsten Monk on 2007 04 01 at 01:53 PM • permalinkHow about Tennessee’s leading electricity hog and non-compliant zinc mine owner on how you and I need to cob back our unsustainable consumption?
Posted by Vanguard of the Commentariat on 2007 04 01 at 03:38 PM • permalinkDon’t forget the original cross-field “expert”:
The world’s leading English lit. prof. on the Israeli/Palestinian conflict: Edward Said.
Posted by SoCalJustice on 2007 04 01 at 05:30 PM • permalinkThe world’s leading computer virus programmer on the spread of infectious diseases due to climate change?
Posted by ElectronPower on 2007 04 01 at 06:14 PM • permalinkWorld’s leading journalist on anything.
Posted by Harry Bergeron on 2007 04 01 at 06:28 PM • permalinkStern was an inspired choice by Blair. Economists are famous for very temporary conclusions strongly made, and later spinning opposite results as really predicted by them.
The long range economic predictions he’s offering are simply a Category Mistake.
Add in all the unknown technology changes and advances in the next 50 years..It mixes with true science like oil with water.
From a previous thread:
The carbon tax scenario has elevated economists like Stern as the vanguard to bring Gaia into ‘balance’ via the balance sheets, using punitive economic measures: all power to the economists - in league with Lefties, who’d have thunk?
Economists triumph where Science has ‘failed’ ... Nick Stern and the Crimson Permanent Assurance ahoy! [c/- Monty Python]
#29
The Permanent Assurance Crimson Offsets scheme. [c/- triticale]The world’s leading politician on internet invention.
Posted by deadparrot on 2007 04 01 at 07:16 PM • permalinkSlightly O/T, but as we are discussing Gorebal Warmening…
Tsunami warning issued 30 minutes ago for Queensland coast.
Prudence would dictate leaving low-lying areas on the Queensland coast.
Now back to your regular programme….
Does that mean I can get the local weatherman to do my accounting next year?
Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2007 04 01 at 07:54 PM • permalinkPhatty Phil: the worlds leading onanist on everything
Posted by eeniemeenie on 2007 04 01 at 07:56 PM • permalinkThe world’s leading pacifist on the relion of peace
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2007 04 01 at 08:12 PM • permalinkOT and don’t blink or you’ll miss it. The SMH is actually describing offenders for once…
I went to a lecture the other day billed as featuring the world’s leading dolphin trainer on quantum mechanics. Turns out that he was actually the world’s third leading sea lion trainer on Newtonian mechanics. Dang, did I feel ripped off.
Posted by Blue State Sil on 2007 04 01 at 11:05 PM • permalinkThe world’s leading collection of dictators on world peace and human rights.
Oops.
Don’t be so hard, Rebecca.
The Left is trying hard to understand them and revise its assessments to see the good in dictatorship.
Saddam, Mugabe, and many Arab leaders keep control well, and so does China.
People hanker for the old USSR too.Democracy is soooo last century
The world’s leading hand puppeteer on nuclear technology.
Someone should really tell Steve McIntyre, Ian Castles, David Henderson, or William Nordhaus, all of whom have shown the gaping holes in Stern’s work. Stern is a fucking public servant. He’s not the leading economist on anything. It is a complete disgrace as an economist to do a cost benefit analysis and not even say what discount rate you are using.
As a finance PhD, shit like that really pisses me off. The whole analysis depends on the assumption that you can only earn 2% on your money each year. Never mind that the stock market has earned 8% on average for the last 100 years. If Stern is so sure of that, then perhaps he’d be willing to offer me a loan at 2%, and in 2 years I’ll use the profits I’ve made to hire people to follow him around throwing goat faeces at him. Moron.
From the dissection of the Stern report it seems he is just as talented when it comes to climatology as he is when it comes to economics. An all-round intellect.
The amazing thing about Stern is how Rudd is besotted by him. Not many people would be willing to sacrifice their own country just to impress some minor foreign bureaucrat. It certainly contradicts Labor’s policy to rid Australia of British influence.
The world’s leading porn star on the history of the Catholic Church.
Posted by Jack Lacton on 2007 04 02 at 03:20 AM • permalinkTurnbull was devastating to Nanny’s Franny on RN Breakfast this morning:
• Labor’s emissions targets are akin to New Year’s resolutions: remote and unrealistic
• Rudd’s knowledge of Chinese history: ‘let 100 flowers bloom’ lead to Mao’s purges of 500,000 intellectuals
[2nd hour of audio file, @11 min in.]
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