Here is a picture I took on Sunday looking from the Quemazon burn region across the Rio Grande Valley to the deep snow on the southern Sangre de Cristo Mountains, where I used to be a wilderness ranger.
Here are the snow stats for nearby Chama, New Mexico. As usual, Tamino is completely FOS.
CHAMA, NEW MEXICO – Climate Summary
Here are the stats for nearby Eagles Nest, New Mexico
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Do you know where to get snow depth info going back before the climate began? (seriously)… I’m curious what snow records from NM say going back to the 30’s. Google search didn’t turn up much.
http://www.wrcc.dri.edu/summary/Climsmnm.html
Tamino (Grant Foster) permits no dissent. Here are some examples of his censorship.
I know of no Climate Movement (warmist) blogs which are not censored to prevent even polite dissent. Peter Sinclair’s “Climate Crocks” used to be the lone exception, but he’s now banned me for incivility, because I called a deceptive AP article “deceptive.”
Does anyone know of any exceptions? Are there any climate activist blogs at all which aren’t censored to stifle skeptics’ opinions?
Not only that, but he has deleted entire threads that put him in a bad light. One such thread he insulted the authors of a paper. Unfortunately for Tamino, the author showed up and pinned Tamino’s ears back. That thread is long gone.
Yes, that’s what Tamino does. Tamino calls his blog “Tamino’s Open Mind,” but his mind is not open enough to allow dissenting opinions to be expressed. Have you noticed the unanimity of opinion there? That’s because all comments are moderated, and comments that don’t comfortably confirm his opinions are simply deleted.
For instance, in this March, 2011 article he trashed a paper (and its authors) that reported a study of tide gauge records which found no acceleration in rate of sea level rise in response to increasing anthropogenic CO2 emissions:
http://tamino.wordpress.com/2011/03/31/so-what/
Tamino claimed that the authors erred, and that the rate of sea level rise has actually increased. He was wrong, and I posted the following rebuttal as a comment on his blog, explaining his error. Instead of responding, he just deleted it.
I posted it again, and that time he deleted all but one sentence, and replied with insults. Here’s what I wrote. The bold-face sentence is the only thing that he didn’t delete:
Steve’s now happily calling out Tamino, so at the risk of repeating myself….
“Steve Goddard” (You tell me) doesn’t care for dissent either. Here are some examples of his censorship:
http://econnexus.org/how-to-upset-a-global-warming-sceptic/
No censorship over there, of polite comments at least.
Complete bullshit. Tamino took a shot at me and won’t let me post a response.
If you don’t understand the difference between that and spam, then you are even stupider than I thought. Which appears to be the case.
You are about to become spam too.
You people are so disgusting, it is mind-boggling.
“Steve Goddard” (You tell me) doesn’t care for dissent either. Here are some examples of his censorship:
http://econnexus.org/how-to-upset-a-global-warming-sceptic/
No censorship over there, of polite comments at least.
Multiple comments saying the same thing (almost word for word). That is spam. Call in the Queen – off with the spambot!
You will no doubt have noted that the first three are timed at 10:58, 11:07 and 15:39 on March 16th. They did not become visible here until long after my fourth comment at 17:23.
Some people might describe that as censorship.
Yours? Since they all appeared, you were not censored. Since you penned them all, you can only be talking about yourself.
Here’s a clue for free – if you want instant results, but instant oatmeal. if you want comments that appear like magic, start your own blog.
Last I checked, even the best of us still require a few hours of sleep a day.
Jerk.
A person with an IQ over 40 would call it automatic WordPress moderation. I am so sick of your paranoid bullshit.
There seems to have been some perturbation in the Force!
“Steve Goddard” (You tell me) doesn’t care for dissent either. Here are some examples of his censorship:
http://econnexus.org/how-to-upset-a-global-warming-sceptic/
There’s no censorship over there, of polite comments at least.
Third time lucky?
“Steve Goddard” (You tell me) doesn’t care for dissent either. Here are some examples of his censorship:
http://econnexus.org/how-to-upset-a-global-warming-sceptic/
There’s no censorship over there, of polite comments at least.
Not only stupid, but consistently deceptively stupid. You’re a wonder.
In what way deceptive Brian?
If you are trying to stir things up around here, you should be told that nobody really wants to take the time to respond. You are just not worth it. Life is too short.
Why do warmist postings always have the character of an alien bombardment?
That is the rub. If global warming were true, dissent on their blogs could easily be corrected with facts that correct their AGW arguments. But since global warming is bullshit, and dissent on their blogs usually proves it, they have no choice but to censor. The reverse is not true…when an AGW believer shows up on a skeptics blog, his comments are not removed, they are subject to severe ridicule because they are wrong.
edit: That is the rub. If global warming were true, dissent on their blogs could easily be corrected with facts that *strengthen* their AGW arguments. But……
It is so much fun to trounce the new graduates of Al Gore’s ‘Climate Reality’ training seminars. They could not argue their way out of a paper bag even if they had a sharp knife handed to them.
That is a complete fabrication Gail… everyone knows NOT to give sharp objects to ‘challenged’ people.
Is Tamino tax exempt as yet? Most religious groups are.
Hard to say. His “donations” go to “Peaseblossom’s Closet”, and are earmarked for “Mistletoe”.
“Science is more than a body of knowledge, it’s a way of thinking. A way of skeptically interrogating the universe with a fine understanding of human fallibility. If we are not able to ask skeptical questions, to interrogate those that tell us that something is true, to be skeptical of those in authority, then we’re up for grabs for the next charlatan, political or religious who comes ambling along.”
– Carl Sagan
Source: Interview with Charlie Rose
In other words, if we aren’t skeptical we could fall for any number of scams and hoaxes — such as the doomsday that was supposed to happen in December 2012. There were a lot of mainly young people that were worried about the wild claims of global disasters. The hoax even spawned a Hollywood blockbuster, much like the AGW hoax spawned ‘The Day After Tomorrow’.
In 2012, I wrote this paragraph in case it helped with the problem :-
“Would you believe me if I made a wild claim that a huge, very deep hole five miles across is going to appear in the South Island of New Zealand on May 30 next year? Would it make any difference to you if I said that the May 30 date is when the ancient Martian calendar ends one cycle and starts another? …. Since I haven’t said how or why that is possible I hope you won’t just assume that I am correct. Most people need some proof, or evidence, that backs up these wild claims. Otherwise, I could say something like: “I’ve found a new species of apple tree that has the apples falling upwards!” and everybody would believe me without question.”
The take-home-lesson is: *Just saying it doesn’t make it true*, especially if the doomsayer is likely to make a profit out of the doom saying.
“No government has the right to decide on the truth of scientific principles, nor to prescribe in any way the character of the questions investigated. Neither may a government determine the aesthetic values of artistic creations, nor limit the forms of literary or artistic expression. Nor should it pronounce on the validity of economic, historic, religious or philosophical doctrines. Instead it has a duty to its citizens to maintain their freedom, to let those citizens contribute to the further adventure and the development of the human race.”
– Richard Feynman
I have spent many years hiking in the Jemez mountains including the Quemazon trail. Some winters I have hiked to McCauley warm springs on New Years day. Other winters depends on the local weather. Most of the Quemazon trail is on a SOUTH slope and especially at that altitude melts or even sublimates rapidly in direct sunshine. By March the snow should be gone on south facing slopes in the Jemez mountains. Mr. Tamino obviously does not know what he is talking about.
Rainfall and snowfall in New Mexico was at a historic high in the late 20th century, a time corresponding to the peak of a natural warm cycle between glacial periods. Since about 2000 the sun has been showing a reduced activity similar to the Maunder Minimum, and we should expect NM snow pack to be similar to the 18th or 19th centuries.
Steve – Are you the very same @SteveSGoddard who engaged in this conversation on Twitter yesterday?
https://twitter.com/SteveSGoddard/status/445214252853231616
If so please explain why WordPress automattically put my first three posts in your moderation queue but not my (remarkably similar!) fourth. Please also explain why you ignored my heads up and didn’t bother checking that queue until half a day later.
let’s interpret for the spambot
#1 – Twitter=Wordpress – Yep! They look identical!
#2 – Blog operators exist with no sleep or outside activities. Must be true!
But wait! On #2, you just provided proof that the blog author is not on his blog 24×7 (he finds time to tweet).
So you contradict yourself with your own proof! You scream censorship when not one of your posts (yet) have been censored! Here is some help for the spambot:
censor
cen·sor
[sen-ser] Show IPA
verb (used with object)
to delete (a word or passage of text) in one’s capacity as a censor.
From: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/censor?s=t
(Yes, I skipped the noun definitions since you used the word as a verb. You do know the difference between a noun and a verb, do you not?)
No deletions, no censoring. Moderation =/= Censoring. get it? Good! Stop spamming.
That is on Twitter, you dumbshit.
This is WordPress. I have no idea why WordPress does what they do. I check WordPress comments once or twice a day, Are you actually stupid enough to think that I am sitting there intercepting your comments 24×7?
If you keep this up, you are going to be on spam here too.
A lot of stuff on this site I don’t agree with, but Tamino’s site is one of the most laughable out there. He is smart, but thinks he is much smarter than he is. There’s probably nothing worse than that type of blogger. I always chuckle when he accuses people of cherry picking too, since he might be the poster child on the internet for cherry picking.