Saturday, November 11, 2006

BOLTMANIA

Andrew Bolt yesterday posted the following at his blog:
NASA’s monthly temperature measurements of the troposphere (the atmosphere up to 8km from the surface) confirm it: The world’s temperatures are cooler than they were in 1998 - and have flatlined for the past five years.

In the stratosphere above, of course, the problem is global cooling.
Two graphs accompany the text.

Economist John Quiggin responds with a downright weird attack on Bolt, ultimately calling for his firing. Along the way Quiggin: accuses Bolt of sympathizing with... drumroll... creationsts; deletes comments; and demands retractions.

Proof of the weirdness of Quiggin's post is provided in a link from Tim Lambert:
John Quiggin catches Andrew Bolt pointing to stratospheric cooling as evidence against global warming.
Read what Bolt wrote (at top) and you'll see that Lambert's not even close. But hey, considering Lambert thinks Tuvaluans are up to their necks in the rising waters of the Pacific, such mistakes are not unexpected.

Quiggin and Lambert, the greatest comedy team since Martin and Lewis.
Update: Speaking of Bolt infatuation.

6 Comments:

Anonymous TimT said...

Amateur climatologist criticises amateur climatologist for being amateur climatologist. His main argument: global warming causes global cooling.

7:08 AM  
Anonymous Annabelle. N. Smith said...

I remember when Gerry Jackson (http://www.brookesnews.com/) wiped the floor with Quiggins so-called economics. Therefore our calls for Quiggin to resign are entirely reasonable.

2:23 PM  
Anonymous chrisl said...

Comrade Q basically accused Bolta of believing in Intelligent design.When he was informed that AB was an atheist it threw him so he kept throwing up more and more bizarre links. He had dug a hole for himself and should have stopped digging.

7:06 PM  
Anonymous Annabelle. N. Smith said...

Quiggin wanted Bolt fired.

Whos engaging in a witch hunt here, Nexus6?

8:27 AM  
Anonymous Nexus 6 said...

JQ says "Either way, he ought not to have a job with any responsible media organisation."

ANS says "Quiggin wanted Bolt fired."

Funnily enough, I see no call for firing or sacking in JQ's statement.

Why am I not surprised?

9:28 AM  
Anonymous chrisl said...

So nexus Do you think Bolta believes in intelligent design as comrade Q claimed

1:10 PM  

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