No Se Nada

I missed this while I was on vacation. I posted this little innocuous piece about a rare storm over the Czech Republic. I gave a photo of the storm and this very short paragraph:

This crazy pic comes via EUMETSAT and I found out about it via J. Heming of the UK Met Office. It's a severe thunderstorm that developed a circulation and briefly developed an eye-like structure (generally only hurricane-size storms have true eye walls, AFAIK). Severe convective storms developing rotational circulation is not unheard of over land, but I think convection organizing to the point of eye-like development is pretty rare. Heming estimated the system at only 50-100 miles across.

Obviously nowhere did I mention or even imply climate change. If I was thinking climate change I could have added the post to one of my climate or climate change related categories, but I only placed it in my "Weather" category. Because that's what it is -- weather.

I can only surmise that Luboš Motl got my use of the word "rare" confused with "this proves the world is ending and humans are the cause of it" because he posted this piece on his blog. "Rare" is the only word in my post I can even guess might be taken as suggestive of the fish Motl is trolling for.

Finding that post gave me reason to peruse the rest of Luboš' site. Motl has apparently decided that Climate Science Nation is garbage. This includes anybody so stupid to believe that climate change might be anthropogenic in origin. To support his notion that climate science is all bullshit, Motl attacks numerous people on a scale ranging from mild to vicious. It's certainly his right to come to this conclusion, and even to attack people with which he disagrees, but Luboš seems to be so driven to dog on anybody connected to a view that climate change could be anthropogenic that he has to create tempests out of thin air. I guess he hasn't read this blog very closely.

Of course the irony here is that Motl fancies himself "the best theoretical physics blog[ger] that the search engine can offer you" and doesn't suffer fools well. "Fools" here is a container for all scientists (and sciences) that do not rise to his expectations for ... what? ... thoroughness? knowledge of statistics? It's hard to tell, but Motl makes a fool of himself by trying to turn a post in which I never even mention (or think about, really) climate change into a rant against me for "predict[ing] that the global warming judgement day [is] coming to the Czech Republic." Nice work, science boy. Does it matter that I got the picture off a list in which the majority of atmospheric science expert members seem to be much more on your side of the climate change "debate" than on the Al Gore side?

In light of this, let me give you a piece of advice, Luboš: Don't antagonize people you'd probably find common ground with if you did your homework.