I can’t improve on the description offered by Steve McIntyre on the most recent taxpayer funded %&#@^*! from NOAA: their sponsorship of the display Pillars of Climate at the recent American Meteorological Society’s Applied Climatology and Climate Change Adaptation conference in Asheville.
But I second Steve’s call for a Parthenon where mere mortals can pay homage to the demigods of the atmosphere. Here, in this fortress of turpitude, they can ponder the role of clouds:
Behold, the bust of Mann (modeled of course):
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I didn’t know the Ancient Greeks played hockey.
From CA:
This wording clearly shows this to be part of the “spin” campaign that The Team and IPCC have mounted, to make it all about HOW you tell the public and pols, not WHAT you tell them.
Shame on them.
I’m sure climate science is as sublime as astronomy is in this quote fromThe Clouds by Aristophanes.
STREPSIADES …But why do they look so fixedly
on the ground?
DISCIPLE They are seeking for what is below the ground.
STREPSIADES Ah! they’re looking for onions. Do not give yourselves
so much trouble; I know where there are some, fine big ones. But what
are those fellows doing, bent all double?
DISCIPLE They are sounding the abysses of Tartarus.
STREPSIADES And what are their arses looking at in the heavens?
DISCIPLE They are studying astronomy on their own account. But come
in so that the master may not find us here.
http://classics.mit.edu/Aristophanes/clouds.html
Very nice, Dagfinn!
WUWT appears to be heading down a spiral of personal attacks. These should be dialed back and instead just speak to the science or lack thereof, rather than putting up silly pictures of people you (and often I) disagree with. Poking fun at these people may be gratifying in the short run, but it hardly encourages real debate about problems with their theories or statements, instead this reads more like an elementary school yard…(not to say that other blogs, etc., aren’t doing similar – but the bar should be higher here)
WUWT needs to be behave seriously to be taken as a rational alternative.
In any event I greatly appreciate your efforts and information collected (the temperature probe siting problems is a great example of good research on a shoestring) and find many articles of great interest.
Thank you.
lol, Anthony, I had the same reaction…..
Jeez, and they want to raise the debt ceiling? This stuff, we just gotta have!!!! Just can’t figure out why the public seems so angry these days. Stupid, @ur momisugly^#@ur momisugly# imbecilic ….#$%@ur momisugly#@ur momisugly# moronic…q4@ur momisugly#%@ur momisugly!^@ur momisugly 100% Organic country!?!?!?!? What the heck does that mean and why does anyone think it could possibly be a good thing?
I just want to know how much that piece of idiocy cost us taxpayers.
Jealousy perhaps.
JR;
Some targets are just irresistible.
According to the 1990 documentary “Greenhouse Conspiracy”, the Parthenon of CAGW consists of four pillars: Records, Causation, Models and Physics. Take any of these out and the roof will cave in.
Approx. 4 mins 15 secs into this vid:
The important thing in all this is that it provides further evidence that the climatists, not only do no understand the climate, but they also do not understand why their support in the general public is rapidly slipping away, in country after country.
Some see it as a need for better communication, of making the message even more simple as per NOAA. Others see it a need for social psychologists to analysis why they mistakenly think that the public are deluded.
The cold hard facts seem to escape their understanding.
It’s just that the public increasingly do understand why the climate is always changing.
I agree.
We shouldn’t be giggling at or about Mike Mann until after his e-mails
are released following the Prince County court’s review this August.
Later in the year we can have another good giggle when the Virginia Attorney
General turns loose the Mike Mann data and code his investigation turned up
… and someone has laid an data/code specific FOI request on him for copies.
It was a great idea to have each honoree get their own pillar. That way it’s
easy to pull Mike’s from the exhibition for “aesthetic” reasons later this year.
“Pillocks of Climate” , more like!
Our American cousins may need to look this up.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=pillock
Jack Savage beat me to it, damn his eyes! 😀
Mann is damaged goods. He’s ‘armless.
Fascinating word. I wonder at its origins. Combination of “pill” and “bullocks”?
Very on-point, in any case. The American version would be much blunter. “Climate Pricks”.
James Sexton says (July 31, 2011 at 12:20 am): “Jeez, and they want to raise the debt ceiling?”
Heh. That was my first thought on reading this article. Anybody who thinks the government can spend our money better than we can hasn’t seen this!
John Robertson, what those people told us was debunked every time. And they don’t stop telling the same humbug over and over again and pretend special pleading. They are like the Astrologers, Homeopaths, Diviners etc. It is impossible for rational people to react always meekly since more and more bizarre ad hoc elements are added to their outpourings to explain experimental failures or logical inconsistencies.
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Me, I remain unconvinced that Alan Sokal had anything to do with this sickly knockoff!
If those are the best Pillars of Climate they have, it’s no wonder that climate science is falling down. Without solid foundations, even the most expensive and intricate structure will soon fail.
Unlike the warmista blogs, at least WUWT has a sense of humour. Maybe the others are too wrapped up in their doomsday scenarios?
3 or 4 buckets of pigeon droppings needed on that bust of MM.
I didn’t see Anthony personally attack anyone. Are you saying that these high profile PUBLIC figures (celebrity Scientists) are above reproach, criticism and even name calling? In the USA where there is free speech (at least for now) and a First Amendment that protects it? How do you feel about cartoons and political ads? Or perhaps you simply are pushing Queensbury rules for us and Alinsky rules for them? There is room for both sarcasm and serious Science.
How is WUWT or any other free speech blog in a competition to be an ‘alternative’? You mean WUWT should perhaps replace the Scientific institutions, receive the grants instead, publish papers, expound theories, propose policy, develop models, give lectures, etc?
Dagfinn says: July 30, 2011 at 11:43 pm …
Aristophanes. Right. Good one, but a sign of a misspent youth.
The status is the wrong way up.