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Back to the “slow and dim witted horse”.
Steve, spinning like a gadfly, with slightly arched eyebrows.
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Racehorse
The Auditor, addressing Nick Stokes by his nickname.
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real climate scientists” do not hesitate in excluding data ex post because it goes the “wrong” way
The Auditor, ex post.
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It is taking all my will power not to make an obvious comment at this point.
Steve, in a post entitled The Marcott-Shakun Dating Service which ends with Are you an ocean core that is tired of your current date?
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I sort of like Texas Sharpshooters.
Steve, envisioning more urban cowboys than rodeo, to the joy of his readership.
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mini wingman
Steve, referring to Naomi Oreskes.
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I like the Forrest Gump image.
Steve, reminiscing his interaction with Andrew Weaver.
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Perhaps Overpeck feels that the term “getting rid of” is a little too Tony Soprano-ish for the “Director of the Institute for the Study of Planet Earth”, whereas the term “dealing a mortal blow” has the right sort of Arthurian cadence for Overpeck, who would rather be cast as Sir Launcelot than Tony Soprano.
Steve, perhaps with just a vocabulary thing.
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Lots of times, it seems that authors are trying to shoehorn mundane (but useful) practical results into “novelty” criteria – serving neither especially well.
Steve, shoehorning the word shoehorn in climate blogland.