Update to the #AskDrMann Guffaw Fest

Thanks to all who took part in the #AskDrMann hilarity over at Teh Twit the other day. I went to thank Mark Steyn for using my tweet title for one of his posts, and found he'd crafted this succinct summation of the afternoon's events...

Hmmm, seems there's a...wait for it...consensus. Bwuhahahahahahaha.
Damn, I forgot to tell him about being added to Greg Laden's Climate Deniers List. Damn again, I still have to make my badge. Ah, a skeptic's work is never done.
Oh yeah, I forgot--Arrrgh and avast ye bilge rats, rape and pillage, and keel haul...something.
AND....Look who was, literally, Top O' Teh Twit:

 

Laughfest Of The Week at #AskDrMann

This is going on now at TehTwit....

Big H/T to Mark Steyn who had it in his sidebar.

UPDATE AWESOME!!!! Check out what happened mere moments ago...

Made it, ma! Top of the world!!!

For Steve Goddard

More From Colorado's permanent drought...

It's Currently -7

The wind chill is -20. Can't wait for the God/King's Thermageddon Speech tonight...

When You've Lost "60 Minutes"...

Leslie Stahl interviewed ex-DOA "scientist" Steven Koonin who considers himself blameless for approving "on the order of 30" of the $150-billion in Green Graft loans that either went straight into the pockets of a few well-connected "innovators" or straight down the shitter, producing nothing but FAIL.

Stahl: The government spent about $150 billion on these innovations. Taxpayer dollars. Money well spent?
Koonin: I think there are significant developments that have come out of that spending that impact our energy system now. (!!!!????!!!! No shit, Sherlock!) New technologies demonstrated. (You mean those "new" 18th century windmills?) I think it was good value for the money.(I'm sure Mark Knofler* would agree.)
Stahl: Well, Solyndra went through more than half a billion before it failed. Then I'm gonna give you a list of other failures: Abound Energy, Beacon Power, Fisker, V.P.G., Range Fuels, Ener1, A123, Ecotality. I'm exhausted.
Koonin: As I told you, the energy business is tough.

Pardon the fisking, but his utter obliviousness to this level of FAIL is unreal. Check out the rest of the transcript at the link, which also contains this QOTD, even though it's old:

"When government tries to pick losers and winners, it typically picks loser. Why? Because in a free market, consumers pick winners to leave the losers for the government." 

 *Cultural reference:

Icebound AGW Ecotard Mockfest

These are the two best I've seen, courtesy of WUWT and Tim Blair, respectively.

Even More Awesome Thermageddon FAIL: Icebreaker Sent To Rescue Icebound Ecotards Gets Stuck Too

It doesn't get any better than this.  Bwuhahahahahahahahahhhaha.

Elevated from the comments for #Awesome:
"Apparently there's a French icebreaker coming to rescue the Chinese icebreaker that was going to rescue the Russian icebreaker. I wonder how many icebreakers fit into the sea between the south pole and New Zealand?" -- critter.

Antarctic Melt So Bad, Ecotards Get Trapped In The Ice... In Summer!

Bwuhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaahahahahahahahaha!

Headline Awesome: "Get Rid Of The Green Crap"

Of course it's political expediency, but still, from the Greenest Government Ever to this...?

Too bad our Omniscient Overlords evince even more hubris, and thus less expediency. 

AGW Assclown Of The Week: Captain Carbon

Yes, AlGore hasn't made our list since he said it was millions of degrees just a few miles underground. But his latest 24 Hours of Insanity fest yielded this diamond of carbon reduction* among the routine rough of Ecotard excreta. Ten actions you can take to reduce your carbon footprint:

#9 -- "If online news is your preferred medium, choose an unplugged laptop or e-reader, rather than a plugged-in device for the majority of your browsing time."

Kevin Trenberth will now go hide at the bottom of the ocean with his missing heat.

*See what I did there?
H/T Tom Nelson

Awesome: Realtime Thermageddon FAIL

Check out this awesome from the Filthy Engineer. He found an interactive map of Unicorn-Fart Energy FAIL all across EUnuchstan, which the thieves running the Birdshredder Boondoggle have obligingly made available.
As you can see in the comments, one array of Carbon Crucifixes, Siglos in Spain, was at the time "producing" minus 100kW.
Bwuhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha.
Oh yeah guys, it's definitely a PR win. Keep it up.
Bwuhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha.

James Lovelock Genius: Global Warming Has Lowered The Climate Sensitivity To Global Warming

"The problem is that there's now all this junk going into the atmosphere from burning fuels so the sensitivity's no longer what it was."

Reached at his, now, 2nd-place spot in the Thermageddon Mongers Pantheon of Pathos, Kevin "The missing heat is hiding at the bottom of the ocean" Trenberth said: "It's a travesty."

H/T Tom Nelson

Obama's Model Economy Nationalizes The Sun

Yes, Spain, the nation that took Green Economic Collapse to unheard of heights--or depths--has outdone even itself. By "Royal Decree" it has nationalized the Sun--and will fine anyone collecting their own sunlight.
"If you get caught collecting photons of sunlight for your own use, you can be fined as much as 30 million euros...If you were thinking the best energy option was to buy some solar panels that were down 80% in price, you can forget about it."
Bwuhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha. So, how's the Spanish solar industry taking this?
"Of all the possible scenarios, this is the worst," said Jose Donoso, president of the Spanish Photovoltaic Union.
Bwuhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha.
Even better--it used to take 12 year to break even on a 2.4KW residential installation.* Now it will take 35 years.
Bwuhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha.

*Actually bullshit, because the panels don't last that long.

"Green Energy" Imbeciles Promote Dumbest Idea Yet: Flying Wind Turbines

I can just see these be-sandaled, pencil-necked, Thermageddon Gravy-Trainers musing by the pool-side bar at a tax payer-funded Global Warming junket, "Ya know, we need an even more wasteful way to kill more endangered birds."
Well the wait is over. Introducing the Flying Birdshredder!

Brilliant. The ones on the ground fly apart in high winds as it is. Yeah, lets put a bunch of potential scimitars up where the wind blows even harder. What could possibly go wrong?

And if you didn't think this idea was evil enough already, guess who just bought a company that thought up this FAIL.

Beavers Saving The Planet From Thermageddon

See?!? And you thought I was just fooling around. H/T Real Science

Warmers Pummeled In Senate, Hilarity Ensues

Check out these tweets from JunkScience, compiled by Tom Nelson.
You'll laugh like an endangered seal. Bwuhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha.

Send This To The God/King

Judging from his scientifically tone deaf speech Tuesday--and I do because using judgement is RACIST!!!--it is apparent that Obamandias needs to see this. Ah, he won't look--send it to the NYT. Nah, they'll just spike it. I know, send it to Weepy Bill--at least his head will explode. Ah fuck it, just post it everywhere, because it needs to be everywhere.

Yeah, I posted it before. But Thermageddon Monger FAIL of this magnitude needs to be pounded into some heads while they are still moderately aware of the ongoing FBI, NSA and EPA skullduggery.

ICYMI--Thermageddon Models Suck Grand Wazoo

But according to Der Obamaenfuhrer, he has the right to take your freedom to protect the planet.

From The Hockey Shtick:
The paper adds to hundreds of other peer-reviewed papers demonstrating the abject failure of climate models.

Chart from WUWT.

Hooray: CO2 hits 400PPM--Ecotard Heads Explode