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Credibility of climate change took a knock today

  • 20-12-2014 8:39pm
    #1
    Grab All Association
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    http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/news/get-used-to-violent-storms-warns-our-top-climate-expert-30851556.html

    When I seen the title I thought to myself it might be worth reading.

    Expected the expert to be from Trinity, UCD or UCC you know an actual real university that made into the TWUR until I seen
    Professor John Sweeney, a climatologist at NUI Maynooth,
    the article lost all credibility.

    We all know NUIM is a just a glorified clown college. "Top climate expert" :D

    Said it before and I'll say it again. NUIM degree is the international equivalent of a FETAC level 1 certificate in flower arrangement.

    Come to my workplace with NUIM on your CV and they will shred it.

    Before you ask I went to KTH.


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  • #2
    Dan_Solo
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    I got as far as "independent".


  • #3
    Annasopra
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    what the....fook is this about?

    OP just ranting about his academic snobbery? :rolleyes:

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



  • #4
    AboutaWeekAgo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 651 ✭✭✭AboutaWeekAgo


    Credibility of OP also took a knock it seems.


  • #5
    Nodin
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    Chris___ wrote: »
    http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/news/get-used-to-violent-storms-warns-our-top-climate-expert-30851556.html

    When I seen the title I thought to myself it might be worth reading.

    Expected the expert to be from Trinity, UCD or UCC you know an actual real university that made into the TWUR until I seen the article lost all credibility.

    We all know NUIM is a just a glorified clown college. "Top climate expert" :D

    Said it before and I'll say it again. NUIM degree is the international equivalent of a FETAC level 1 certificate in flower arrangement.

    Come to my workplace with NUIM on your CV and they will shred it.

    Before you ask I went to KTH.

    He didn't qualify at Maynooth
    He received a First Class Honours B.Sc. from the University of Glasgow in
    1974 and was a awarded a PhD also from Glasgow in 1980.


  • #6
    The Moldy Gowl
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19,889 ✭✭✭✭The Moldy Gowl


    What's kth


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  • #7
    SEPT 23 1989
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,028 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    says a man from Limerick


  • #8
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    I have no idea of the point of op.

    Their snobbery isn't even coherent.


  • #9
    braddun
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,221 ✭✭✭braddun


    where I live the weather is getting better,every year,less winters

    it will affect Australia,anartica etc ,look at Kilimanjaro less snow

    more people climbing mt Everest as its getting easier


  • #10
    Grab All Association
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,926 ✭✭✭Grab All Association


    Nodin wrote: »
    He didn't qualify at Maynooth

    Obviously he didn't. He would just be on Jobbridge or on the dole. If the guy wants to be taken seriously though he shouldn't mention NUIM


  • #11
    Annasopra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,156 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    Deleted User wrote: »
    I have no idea of the point of op.

    Their snobbery isn't even coherent.

    Something to do with he went to some Swedish college and looks down on everyone else

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



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  • #12
    paulbok
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    Gowlasauras Rex wrote: »
    What's kth

    Kick The Habit?


  • #13
    jas376
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41 ✭jas376


    'When I seen the title.....'

    That says it all about the OP's standard of education.

    Btw, Mr. Sweeney is a well respected expert in the field of meteorology.


  • #14
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Joeytheparrot wrote: »
    Something to do with he went to some Swedish college and looks down on everyone else

    I'm glad I'm not the only one googling kth on a Saturday night


  • #15
    NoMore MrNiceGuy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 157 ✭✭NoMore MrNiceGuy


    Maynooth is part of the NUI isn't it. So it's the same university as UCC, UCD etc.


  • #16
    [Deleted User]
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    NoMore MrNiceGuy wrote: »
    Maynooth is part of the NUI isn't it. So it's the same university as UCC, UCD etc.

    Yes and no


  • #17
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 50,630 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    So. Many. Acronyms.

    Pity "KTH" didn't teach you to use a full keyboard.


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