Kiwiblog contretemps re the hapless Jacqueline Rowarth (Nov. 15, 2016)
Morrissey
Jacqueline Rowarth is an embarrassment and a renegade—i.e., what she says is mostly nonsense, completely bizarre, beyond any reasonable bounds of scientific consensus, and an embarrassment. Of course, that’s why the government—the mischievous Steven Joyce, to be precise—appointed her: to disrupt and distract.
As we’ve seen with the enormous anger caused by her appointment, she enjoys the same level of esteem in the scientific community as Trofim Lysenko did in the Soviet Union in the 1930s—despised and ridiculed by scientists, but protected and promoted by a government with an anti-science agenda.
Sufferers of Jim Mora’s light chat show have experienced her laughable ineptness several times before, when she has been, absurdly, wheeled on as an “expert”. The very first time was perhaps her funniest…
Or maybe, just maybe hyperbole from a bunch of spoilt cunts just like you who don’t like someone saying what they haven’t approved.
As DPF has pointed out, she has support from within the scientific community, so sadly your wee rant means jack shit.
All_on_Red
‘So sadly your wee rant etc’
Sadly? No, fortunately.
Morrissey
She has no support from respected scientists. Maybe from the hapless Willem de Lange at Waikato, but that’s all.
Aficionados of hopelessness will recall Willem de Lange’s appearance on a televised “debate” about Global Warming on Prime Television in 2008. De Lange sat back, sad and inarticulate, and let Leighton Smith do 95 per cent of the talking.
hmmokrightitis
Unless and until you can show actual proof of that, its a baseless assertion. What you meant to say was:
“She has no support from me, a nameless faceless internet troll who resorts to made up shit to make my point, which, of course, is a completely unscientific method for proof, which is the exact same behaviour Ive just effectively called a scientist out for.”
As DPF has pointed out, she has support from within the scientific community, so sadly your wee rant means jack shit.
Unfortunately for the dairy industry lobbyist, the support she receives from within the ‘scientific community’ comes from a fellow soil scientist, dirty farmer lobbyest, who happens to be an anthroprogenic global warming denier.
Essentially, one dairy lobbyest crank is being supported by a dairy lobbyest crackpot.
Thud!
Gabby
Speaking of spoilt cunts, who wrecked yours? It’s practically east-west.
Huevon
Good lord…
Inandout
Ewww..the Standard..runs Ccleaner just in case of contamination of hard drive.
kowtow
Whaddaya mean ? Stalin’s gummint was based on the sound scientific basis of the Marxist materialistic dialectic , that’s why it was so successful……and the labour camps, and mass expulsions, and informers and show trials,and a massive secret police .
Lance
Morrissey has a link to ‘the standard’
A bit like email with a link to a virus loading URL
Don’t do it, you will experience brain damage, you have been warned
DifferentPerspective
Lol citing the execrable Standard as any kind of a reputable source is like citing an anus as a reputable source for disinfectant.
Don’t get me wrong I think JR is awful – clearly from her NZAS days she has a lot of loony leftie in her (just not enough for the totally loony greens).
peterwn
So presumably those who signed the petition will be willing to ‘Givealittle’ to pay the money the Employment Tribunal awards if the scientist is indeed sacked. For the left wing, it seems to be one rule for ‘ordinary’ employees and another rule for employees regarded as ‘troublemakers’ (including National Party supporters). Just like these health employees who breach their employment obligations and ‘leak’ to Annette King. If the other way round she would want them out pronto.
band4u
No wonder scientists who dont necessarily swallow the currency Green mantra dont want to stick their heads above the parapets.
Their views are not real science after all are they?.
This arrogant bullying is akin to pack rape and im sure is part of the backlash from ordinary folk against Clinton. We are tired of being told what to believe. This is good old United Nations Agenda 21 at work. Google it and you will begin to understand how some of this Green nonsense is creeping in at an escalating rate through Local Bodies. The Greens cant do it in the Ballot box, but they are changing our lifestyle with ongoing expensive compliance and more and more rules through local councils. It has jacked up land prices too but If you really want to see something really frightening ( which is designed to bankrupt our Farmers), Check out Waikato Regional Councils Healthy Rivers Plan. Compliance for farmers estimated at between $300 and $400,000 plus . Blanket banning of any farming on hillcountry and expensive requirements to get ‘permission’ to change current land use. Its bloody outrageous. These people must be stopped
greenjacket
band4U: “This arrogant bullying is akin to pack rape”
Really?
Sure the Greens show (yet again) their difficulty with science whenever it doesn’t suit their ideology – but I don’t think a Green fool putting out a silly petition (that has less than 300 signatures) is “akin to pack rape”.
trout
Before the perpetually outraged get their knickers in a knot it should be conceded that the appointment of prof. Rowarth to the EPA was at best clumsy, at worst machiavallien. This especially when water quality is a national issue. Prof. Rowarth is not only Professor of Agribusiness, but she is herself a farmer, responsible for her share of the effluent entering the Waikato, and a member of the Fonterra Board. She has proved to be a pollution denier if you like; insofar as she promotes the idea that commercial gain trumps clean water. The appointment by Nick smith is already coming to bite him in the arse; it is giving the Greens unnecessary leverage. As to the petition so what; it would be no different to raising a petition to remove Susan Devoy.
Morrissey
No, people like Dov Bing, Ron Smith, Norman Simms, Willem De Lange and Jacqueline Rowarth are why the University of Waikato has a low reputation….
Morrissey
hmmokrightitis
All_on_Red
Sadly? No, fortunately.
Morrissey
hmmokrightitis
Yoza
Gabby
Huevon
Inandout
kowtow
Lance
A bit like email with a link to a virus loading URL
DifferentPerspective
peterwn
band4u
Their views are not real science after all are they?.
This arrogant bullying is akin to pack rape and im sure is part of the backlash from ordinary folk against Clinton. We are tired of being told what to believe. This is good old United Nations Agenda 21 at work. Google it and you will begin to understand how some of this Green nonsense is creeping in at an escalating rate through Local Bodies. The Greens cant do it in the Ballot box, but they are changing our lifestyle with ongoing expensive compliance and more and more rules through local councils. It has jacked up land prices too but If you really want to see something really frightening ( which is designed to bankrupt our Farmers), Check out Waikato Regional Councils Healthy Rivers Plan. Compliance for farmers estimated at between $300 and $400,000 plus . Blanket banning of any farming on hillcountry and expensive requirements to get ‘permission’ to change current land use. Its bloody outrageous. These people must be stopped
greenjacket
Really?
Sure the Greens show (yet again) their difficulty with science whenever it doesn’t suit their ideology – but I don’t think a Green fool putting out a silly petition (that has less than 300 signatures) is “akin to pack rape”.
trout
Morrissey