Via Sou sourced to NASA, who have named Gavin Schmidt as the new director of the Goddard Institute for Space Studies. Congratulations to him.
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* Right said Fred
* More congrats, from 2011.
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Even more amusing - but oddly, rather related - to the last tee hee is the news that the denialosphere is panicking over Google Truth (h/t
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On the heels of his previous piece, Bob Carter has got another opinion published in a Fairfax newspaper, this time in the Sun Herald.
Before laying into Hansen's latest, I feel a need to re-establish my taking-the-piss-out-of-the-wackos credentials. And here is a perfect opportunity:
OK, that selection process sure took long enough to come to the obvious conclusion.
Now I suppose I'll have to end my twitting fast for long enough to pop back on and offer my congratulations.
Actually Jules picktured Gavin just a few days ago, second shot down, no wait, *eighth* shot down, it was only the light reflecting off the smooth upper surfaces that confused me for a moment, I swear.
Link for that last:.
Excellent news.
So happy about this. But "sexy"? Depends on your POV.
If sexy is the same as wise, I'm with you. But I don't think the world it.
Susan, this article, which I think we'd have to characterize as a puff piece (not that I'm complaining), appeared in 2006 and caused Dave Roberts to comment that Gavin is "too sexy for his model." The phrase seems to have some staying power.
I'm just watching the music video, and I'm not sure who to ask, but is that Judith Curry following Gavin around with a camera?
The music video had hints of Putin – an influence?
However, RSF seem to have another dictator in mind now..
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/right-said-fred-p…
oh sigh, I'm too stupid on my pop culture. Thanks. Anyway, terrific news.
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Guess it would have been too controversial to appoint Kim Jong Un:
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2014/06/12/north-korean-leader-kim-complai…
Hat tip:
http://www.drroyspencer.com/2014/06/new-ipcc-head-kim-jung-un-to-punish…
Any chance we could get him to focus on punishing the producers of bad satellite-derived atmospheric temp data sets? If so I'm down with it.
It does appear that "the powers that be" do share the view that some (few in numbers) human beings are actually 'masters of the universe' and the Earth is actually like a teat, an endless source of all supplies masters of the universe could possibly want for whatever purposes they intend. For this tiny, hyper-influential, global hegemony the watchwords are NO LIMITS. That is to say,
no species limits http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1332674/
and no physical limitations http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1253687/