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Tuesday, 29 January 2013

Typical of the Breed

I am assured this is for real. Courtesy of those competent fund managers at Artemis:

“Last year was a big one for me. I had my gastric band fitted, and took the opportunity to reassess my life. I read works by the great thinkers – Plato, Aristotle, Hegel, Lenin, Malcolm X, Bono, Will Hutton, Hitler – and revised fundamentally my whole philosophy. This year I will be voting LibDem in the local elections.”
– A member of the ‘online community’, 23 January 2013.

7 comments:

Thud said...: The band should have been fitted tightly at the neck, problem solved for us all.; 29 January 2013 at 19:26
Sen. C.R.O'Blene said...: Boring day Iders?

Shurely not thinking he/she'll learn from Bono!; 29 January 2013 at 21:41
Electro-Kevin said...: Soon they'll be able to turn around in their own skin - rather like Nick Clegg can.; 29 January 2013 at 22:43
X box said...: Bono and Hitler were LibDems? Gerroff!; 31 January 2013 at 03:56
lilith said...: They really are repulsive. Our local MP doesn't reply to us now he is in Cabinet and when he does, he sneers.; 31 January 2013 at 11:01
idle said...: Your local MP is in the government, but not the Cabinet, lil.

I doubt the bearded optician will make the oval table.; 31 January 2013 at 22:36
Anonymous said...: Wow that was unusual. I just wrote an really long comment but after
I clicked submit my comment didn't appear. Grrrr... well I'm
not writing all that over again. Anyhow, just wanted to say excellent blog!

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Stated briefly, I will simply try to clarify what the debate over climate change is really about. It most certainly is not about whether climate is changing: it always is. It is not about whether CO2 is increasing: it clearly is. It is not about whether the increase in CO2, by itself, will lead to some warming: it should. The debate is simply over the matter of how much warming the increase in CO2 can lead to, and the connection of such warming to the innumerable claimed catastrophes. The evidence is that the increase in CO2 will lead to very little warming, and that the connection of this minimal warming (or even significant warming) to the purported catastrophes is also minimal. The arguments on which the catastrophic claims are made are extremely weak – and commonly acknowledged as such. They are sometimes overtly dishonest.

Prof Richard Lindzen, Alfred P. Sloan professor of meteorology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Atmospheric Brainbox of the World

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Typical of the Breed

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