Josh writes:
There has been a considerable fuss about the feel-good 14th Edition of the Times Atlas of the World even in the Guardian, which did elicit an apology from the Times.
Subsequently James Delingpole wrote a delightful spoof which did not go down too well in the Maldives government.
Comment and cartoon at BishopHill too, of course.
Religion is never a funny thing – to the faithful.
Great Gorgonzola!
That’s your funniest one yet, Josh!
Delingpole is brilliant.
Good one !!!!!!!!
In the interest of humor, the opening words of this song seems to fit:
“We are the best there is. We are confident of the data we have used and of the cartography.”
Remove your blinders, spokeswoman. You got caught, plain and simple. All your authoritative consensusizing will get you nothing but ridicule. Even your data source says so, so back to the pulpit with you.
The Maldives should be careful. Cameron may decide that a Falklands/Maldives rerun is the the only thing which can save his government…
…the only thing causing hesitation is the assessment from MI6 that Maldives would probably win.
Forget taking a geography major.
“if a 15% loss in 10 years were true, it would mean that all of the key climate change models would have to be drastically redrawn.”
Oh, so the climate models are exactly right, huh? Science’s convenient little crystal ball, the unassailable tidbit of truth, the immutable smoking gun…(crumble,creak, groan….)
Atlas Shrugged?
nikki,
Good one.
Water, water, every where,
And all the ice did shrink;
Water, water, every where,
The Times cartography stinks
Mal-dives. could there be a pun here?
Wait a minute.
Where is Gilligan’s Island?
I know it was somewhere 40 years ago. Has it washed out too? Hopefully it will reappear on the next publication with all the newly rediscovered ones.
We are in need of some good maps as the one used by the ‘adventurers rowing to the pole’ could not even find the north pole with a compass. Has it been covered by rising sea levels? No wonder soo much of the population is lost and can’t seem to find their way..
Oh well. Any chance of finding a snark in there? Or a boojum? With that kind of map I would be severely disappointed if there wasn’t any of those creatures 🙂
The Bellman himself they all praised to the skies–
Such a carriage, such ease and such grace!
Such solemnity, too! One could see he was wise,
The moment one looked in his face!
He had bought a large map representing the sea,
Without the least vestige of land:
And the crew were much pleased when they found it to be
A map they could all understand.
“What’s the good of Mercator’s North Poles and Equators,
Tropics, Zones, and Meridian Lines?”
So the Bellman would cry: and the crew would reply
“They are merely conventional signs!
“Other maps are such shapes, with their islands and capes!
But we’ve got our brave Captain to thank:
(So the crew would protest) “that he’s bought us the best–
A perfect and absolute blank!”
See? 🙂
Piotr
Sorry, this is just too funny not to share:
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I see they did not mark out the top floor of the ivory tower on their map, tsk tsk.. I’m sure that would still be above water.
I take it that property values on the Maldives are plummeting and residents are fleeing.
Is it just me or is there a subliminal message in the map? I can see the word “ICE” in the paler shading.
It’s the Bermuda triangle of missing countries. Perhaps Trenberth’s “missing heat” is there too?
Falklands = Malvinas… not Maldives!
Didn’t somebody find a Greenland map on wikipedia that matches the new one in the Atlas?
We all know wiki is an unimpeachable source in these matters…………..the best there is??
A Lovell says: “We all know wiki is an unimpeachable source in these matters…………..the best there is??”
‘Wiki’ is not synonymous with Wikipedia, any more than Web is shorthand for Webster’s.
Thanks Josh. I knew the world was flat.
jorgekafkazar says:
September 23, 2011 at 12:33 pm
‘Wiki’ is not synonymous with Wikipedia, any more than Web is shorthand for Webster’s.
My apologies. The only reason I used ‘wiki’ instead of the full term was a matter of form, as I had already used ‘wikipedia’. I blame my English teacher!