MORRISSEY: Nostradamus! At last we meet! Love your work! Some great predictions! Move aside girls, I’m just going to have a few words with the great man!
[NOSTRADAMUS waves aside the over-familiar blathering and gets straight down to business….]
NOSTRADAMUS: Morrissey, last night I asked: “Who is this Morrissey weirdo (who currently has a grand total of 27 comments to his name) and why does he write “dramatic dialogues” (his description) between himself and other Kiwiblog commentators instead of responding to them directly?”
MORRISSEY: Yes, I read it, and I intended to reply last night, but I ended up getting distracted, and…well, you know how it goes, I’m sure. Sorry about that, my all-knowing, all-seeing, cryptic friend.
[Seeing that NOSTRADAMUS is not impressed by any of this, MORRISSEY BREEN stops talking]
NOSTRADAMUS: I see from your 1.20pm comment that you also like to write “dramatic dialogues” based on TV interviews that you’ve seen.
MORRISSEY: Well, yes, I guess I do. Is that…. wrong?
NOSTRADAMUS: Your dramatic dialogues – which are either intentionally fictional—
MORRISSEY: Oh please!
NOSTRADAMUS: —or the product of strange voices in your head – include highlights such as “JAMIE “LOCK UP HIS SISTERS” WHYTE”. I imagine this sort of juvenile humour goes down well at The Standard—
MORRISSEY: Well, it does and it doesn’t. Some people hate me there, others adore me. Shakespeare and G.B. Shaw had the same problem. And Chekhov.
NOSTRADAMUS: [sternly] But, frankly, you might want to spend your time on more productive activities.
MORRISSEY: [bowing head in shame] Yes. Yes, you’re right. I’ll try to curb my behaviour in future.
NOSTRADAMUS: [brightening up suddenly] Or just chill out – it’s nearly Christmas after all!
MORRISSEY: Great! Mine’s a Pimms. Where’s my batman Brendan? Oh, I might have guessed….
SGA
Is Morrissey the Standard’s version of Reid? Just curious.
stephieboy
Manolo, could you try some alternative blogs and sites other than your more usual Hilary and Obama hating BS Fox, NYP, Washington Times National Review etc
DJP6-25
Andrei 4:22 pm. Thanks for that.
Inandout
Morrissey is an out of work school teacher, who often speaks (like dearest Helen) in the 3rd person.
Maggy Wassilieff
Not really personal or filthy
To suggest that I was any way involved with a married man (Salinger was an adult Ph.D candidate) when I was at Vic. is a filthy lie. Numerous people in the Scientific community & wellington know who I am. They know I was at Varsity at the same time as Salinger.. I have children, other family members and they don’t need to see shit like this. But here it is out on a public blog again.
Longknives
Quoting that great Philosopher Jim Mora is really going to make a huge impact on us Morrissey!
Morrissey
KevinH at 5:44 pm wrote the following bizarre statement….
“….the US has lost it’s mantle of the World’s policeman and protector…”
The world’s policeman? Surely that would require at least a notional commitment to the rule of law?
The US is the worlds protector? Tell that to someone from South America, or Indo-China, or Indonesia, or Gaza, or the Occupied West Bank, or Yemen, or Iraq, or Syria….
Morrissey
I wasn’t quoting Mora approvingly, Longknives.
mikenmild
To be fair, Morrissey, he did say that this had only happened under Obama. Obviously, under earlier presidents, the US had followed a much more moral foreign policy entirely geared to the benefit of the world’s poor and under-trodden.
You do understand the difference between a question and a statement of fact dont you Maggy dear ? Obviously not … Your double standard where it is OK for you to slander the worlds scientific community with proven outright lies but you get offended when you own competency is questioned are most amusing to behold.
Griff, you fishing with bait (age and failed relationship with real science/doctorate scientist) that suggests anyone opposed to climate change AGW science is to be diagnosed as irrational and emotional?
SPC
Maggy Wassilieff, responding to be being baited only encourages people to keep fishing that way.
Nookin
Griff If you really feel people should listen to/read you , then you really do need to discard your crappy way of dealing with people with opposing views.
Leading Climate Scientists Welcome Judge’s Decision on Temperatures
A group of leading New Zealand climate scientists (listed below) welcomed Justice Geoffrey Venning’s ruling to throw out the claim by the New Zealand Climate Science Education Trust (CSET, a small group of climate change “sceptics”) that NIWA had acted fraudulently in putting together its ‘7-station’ temperature series.
Spokesperson for the group, Associate Professor James Renwick of Victoria University said he was pleased that the court had respected and reaffirmed the credibility of the scientific process. It was a strong message to those wanting to challenge widely-agreed scientific findings to do so honestly and openly in scientific forums.
Dr Renwick went on to say “Scientific analysis and discussion is carried out through the peer-reviewed literature. The basic science of climate change (global warming) has been established for well over a century, and almost all scientists active in climate research agree that human activity is causing the climate to change. For a small group of scientists to appeal to a court of law to find otherwise is bizarre.”
New Zealand temperatures have warmed by about 1°C in the last 100 years, associated with loss of glacier ice in the Southern Alps, reduced frost occurrence, and other changes. Globally, evidence of climate change includes sea-level rise, melting glaciers, and rapidly diminishing arctic sea ice.
The court case has helped raise the profile of the claimants. Much more importantly, the case represents a massive waste of New Zealand tax payer’s funds. In defending the claim, NIWA has spent a huge amount (estimated at well over $100,000) and has diverted a number of its scientists away from their research. The country can ill afford to waste such an amount. “This misguided action of a small group adds confusion to a simple issue – the world is warming and future generations of New Zealanders will have to deal with the consequences” Dr Renwick said.
This release was jointly prepared by, and is endorsed by:
Associate Professor James Renwick, School of Geography, Environment and Earth Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington Professor Jim Salinger, currently visiting Stanford University Professor Martin Manning, Climate Change Research Institute, Victoria University of Wellington Professor Peter Barrett, Antarctic Research Centre, Victoria University of Wellington Professor (Emeritus) Blair Fitzharris, University of Otago Professor Keith Hunter, Pro-Vice Chancellor Science, University of Otago
Morrissey
SGA
stephieboy
DJP6-25
Inandout
Maggy Wassilieff
Numerous people in the Scientific community & wellington know who I am. They know I was at Varsity at the same time as Salinger..
I have children, other family members and they don’t need to see shit like this.
But here it is out on a public blog again.
Longknives
Morrissey
Morrissey
mikenmild
Griff
Obviously not …
Your double standard where it is OK for you to slander the worlds scientific community with proven outright lies but you get offended when you own competency is questioned are most amusing to behold.
SPC
Morrissey
SPC
SPC
Nookin
If you really feel people should listen to/read you , then you really do need to discard your crappy way of dealing with people with opposing views.
Griff
Professor Jim Salinger, currently visiting Stanford University
Professor Martin Manning, Climate Change Research Institute, Victoria University of Wellington
Professor Peter Barrett, Antarctic Research Centre, Victoria University of Wellington
Professor (Emeritus) Blair Fitzharris, University of Otago
Professor Keith Hunter, Pro-Vice Chancellor Science, University of Otago