Josh of Cartoons By Josh writes:
Kevin Anderson’s post at Bishop Hill intrigued me.
He came up with 4 simple theoretical ‘legs’ upon which to launch his clear view that
Anthropogenic Global Warming was serious and needed immediate attention.
A year ago I would have agreed (hey, lots of us did, ‘cos ‘they’ said it was all true!)
A year on and the picture does not look so clear: subterfuge, lost data, no data,
no warming, false predicitions, misinformation, fudged inqiries, bad science, no science.
It may look clear to Kev, but for the ordinary chap like me it all looks more shoogly than ever.
This cartoon is an attempt to show that – no doubt with huge scientific inaccuracies and
misrepresentations. So take aim, fire and give me your best shot.
I am happy to change this cartoon to make it better!
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Need to work “tipping point” in there somehow…
Speaking as a fairly competent semi-pro woodworker, I can say without a doubt that is a very poorly designed table – both structurally and aesthetically. The legs are very poorly attached to the top, and would likely fold up under the strain of that bird walking on the top. Aesthetically, the whole thing looks like it was hacked out using a dull stone ax by a drunk Neanderthal. Nice cartoon tho. 🙂
Shoogly…..
I did check out the link to the urban dictionary.
I wondered what sort of images would come up with a shoogly search.
This is what I found…..hmmm, connected to global warming?
http://good-times.webshots.com/photo/1157540063056991601RooVDN
But where is the government funded milk? so essential to a nice cup of consensus tea.
Kindest Regards
I once built a table that looks just like that one in your cartoon Josh.
Take away the water vapour and you’ll quickly have your “tipping point”!
Heh, made my day, Josh!
Profit motive:
An elephant should be standing on the table.
Shoogly. Thats up there with Mashie Niblick. Gotta love the Scots.
The only change I can suggest is to steal the leg graphics from the impossible table where the artist has created an optical illusion and the legs dont go where they seem to, perhaps with some water running uphill to show the scientific foundation!
Instead of research “biscuits” how about “pound cake” to provide a link to funding. (I assume brits have pound cake, at least it sounds British to me.)
Love the thick water vapour book.
Some suggestions for improvement:
The greenhouse effect leg should be a hockey stick.
The CO2 increase leg should get thinner at the top, reflecting the logarithmic change.
Proportionally, the water vapor ‘book’ should be much thicker than the CO2 section of the leg.
The natural variation leg should be very non-linear.
Very fun! Thanks!
MattN says:
December 5, 2010 at 2:55 pm
Need to work “tipping point” in there somehow…
Heat “Piggy Bank” missing too…..and, last but not least, a Inquisition Friar proclaiming: “It is not the Sun!” 🙂
You might put a 500 lb Gorilla on the table with the label “Decline” around its neck.
Also, a book entitled FOI requests but open at blank pages.
I’m an American. Could you define “shoogly”?
(my American browser flags it as a misspelled word)
Thanks
REPLY: Do people not see links here? Click on the word. – Anthony
This cartoon needs to be peer reviewed. Perhaps Charlie Brown as AGW proponents and Lucy holding a football representing legitimate science? Or 3 Stoogies Larry poking Gore in the eye and smacking Mann and Jones on the back of their heads?
I suggest that the bark should be left on the greenhouse effect leg since the greenhouse metaphor is a little rough – to say nothing of robustly overworn.
I also suggest that the greenhouse effect leg be narrower than the rest. Even though the effect is real we don’t really know that it amounts to something that will move the climate.
Maybe a tablecloth to “hide the decline”?
Or perhaps a rubbish bin in the corner containing a book titled FOI Requests
Chris Edwards says:
December 5, 2010 at 4:07 pm
The only change I can suggest is to steal the leg graphics from the impossible table where the artist has created an optical illusion and the legs dont go where they seem to, perhaps with some water running uphill to show the scientific foundation!
Beat me to it Chris. Escher table.
Love the table
I suggest the world needs to see the trough [or is that troff?] from which the pundits feed. Perhaps called the Suzuki trench?
Great cartoon. Vicious imagery. Followed by giggles
Ross
And, you can buy it — for only three trillion dollars (initial estimate subject to change)!
The table top should reveal the wood grain tree rings.
Where is the adjustable scale thermometer?
It needs a Revell plastic kit climate model ( in 1/24 scale of course).
Where is the extra rotten Sea Ice?
Curiousgeorge says:
Aesthetically, the whole thing looks like it was hacked out using a dull stone ax by a drunk Neanderthal. Nice cartoon tho. 🙂
As a representative of Drunk Neanderthals I resent that remark! Many of us do rather nice work. And the Stone Axe is a fine tool, too. In fact, you moderns have recently rediscovered the advantages and are now making surgical scalpels out of stone chips.
http://chiefio.wordpress.com/2010/05/06/my-inner-neanderthal/
Please, we already have those AGW types saying we started it all with chopping down the forests, but we were just trying to stay warm during that damned Ice Age… but when the next one comes, just you watch. Our short legged rotund bodied, hairy chested type will be back in fashion, by golly…