I’ve previously highlighted the accordion talents of RealClimate co-founder Dr. Ray Pierrehumbert. Now he’s formed a band with two guys named Abbot and Archer, singing the CO2 blues in a music video.
How appropriate though, given the politics employed by Ray and The Team, that they say “We are climate scientists, Chicago style”.
Mike Mann apparently wasn’t invited to the jam as the only musical instrument he can play is the percussive hockey stick. Watch the video below:
And they say skeptics are the crazy ones.
h/t to Tom Nelson and Andy Revkin
UPDATE: It is worth recalling what Dr. Ray Pierrehumbert recently wrote of skeptics:
McIntyre, McKittrick, and Watts are the Andrew Breitbarts of climate. Occasionally they may out something that is technically true, but it is always of minor consequence compared to the noise, and always a distraction from the truly important questions facing society. That’s why, big as the IPCC tent may be, I hope there will never be a place in it for any of these clowns.
Please, someone get this man a mirror.
Ufda
My first thought on Abbot and Archer was Abbot and Costello.
Still my favorite video is
not even musically interesting…and as for the lyrics, my dog can converse better…….
The music is horrible. They better cling to their gubment jobs.
That was just sad. They should get with the Minnesotans for Global Warming group.
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A song for those whose research resembles that done by the person praised in this song:
Thanks guys – Next!
I’d like to hear their version of The Hockey Stick Blues…
http://www.reverbnation.com/play_now/song_9363502
There’s 3 minutes of my life I’ll never get back. These guys should stick to their day jobs. (What ever it is they do…)
Their musical skills are highly correlated with their climate science skills.
OMG that’s out-and-out painful.
God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, Courage to change the things I can, And wisdom to know the difference……………………..
It’s far worse than we thought. Send for the men in white coats.
Bring on the Blues!
http://dailybail.com/home/song-green-energy-blues.html
If they don’t care about how embarassingly bad their music is (including demonstrating that in spades to the whole world across the internet), what makes one think they care about how bad their climate science is.
They should apologize to Ray Charles, and The Grateful Dead. The Denier video on the other hand may have a future.
get a grip…that was great..lighten up
While I can easily forget the display of disasters in the background of this video I may never be able to erase the epic display of disaster that I just witnessed in the foreground. I should have been warned that this video had the potential to cause irreversible damage to people with an ear for music. If you want to disband OWS idiots or extract intel out of terrorists, this video played repeatedly at high decibel levels would get the job done. 😉
soo sorry…I was commenting on the “I’am a denier” video..
Ouch. I’ve reported him to PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Accordions).
They should also appologise to the great Muddy Waters for their dumb reference to him. A disgrace.
They should have modeled it first!
These guys are terrible musicians, but they are better at music than they are as climate scientists.
Therefore, contrary to everyone else, I recommend they quit their day jobs (as scientists) and become full time musicians. They can lie all they want as musicians and will do much less harm. GK
Ok…..help me out here. When has the clmate been static and not changeing?
What is so alarming to these poor fellows that the clmate changes? It is almost as if they are denying climate change by asserting this is something new?
Looking at paleo data……..it seems the climate changed and quite a good thing that it has. Otherwise, there would still be a glacier covering most of North America.
And they claim they need a Phd to understand this? Or lack of understanding concerning this?
Can you imagine a clown like Pierrehumbert applying for a real job in the private sector? He’d be permanently unemployed. All he needs to complete the look is a shopping cart.
Olen ,
No , they really need to apologize to ZZ Top .
I would like to hear their song after 5 years from now.
PS…terrible music played.
three (un)tenor(bles)?
Now we know the hard-core climate scientist’s music
stinks just as much as their hypotheses.
This one is dedicated to julia…
It must be a nightmare for the engineer recording in an echo chamber, ……
Smokey says:
November 19, 2011 at 11:38 am
…………… Cardboard box, newspaper and begging bowl.
Maybe these guys have figured out that the great AGW Con Job is rapidly coming to an end and are getting ready to earn a living as buskers . . . at least they are qualified to do that.
I think I recently saw Ray on a street corner with his accordion and tin cup. I tossed in a dime and pulled up my collar to keep out a cold north wind that had just a hint of snow in it…
Would you take seriously his AGW teaching when he has 10 year growth of facial hair, all in readiness for forthcoming global cooling?
As far as the musical number goes, it is an instant catalytic converter from a warmer to in ‘no doubt sceptic’.
Why isn’t James Hansen in the band ? He could be on the fiddle.
As an antidote try this http://stream.haverford.edu:8080/ramgen/~wsmith/dollars.rm
Take Away Your Billion Dollars
(published in Physics Today 1, (7) 1946)
(Hope it is the correct link my computer has no audio or video)
Lyrics written by Prof. Arthur Roberts (of the physics dept.) of the “State University of Iowa” and sung by faculty and students. More at: http://www.haverford.edu/physics/songs/roberts/roberts1947.htm
My favorite is The Cyclotronist’s Nightmare (or Eighty Millicuries by Half-Past Nine):
http://stream.haverford.edu:8080/ramgen/~wsmith/cyclo.rm
This was my feeble contribution to the musical climate-debate.
http://everestlancaster.wordpress.com/2011/01/22/lies-damned-lies-statistics-and-climate-forecasting-a-song/
Sorry, I do’t know to add the song directly to the comment.
Pierrehumbert reminds me of an old far-side cartoon with two panels: on the upper panel, a man arrives at the pearly gates and St. Peter says “Welcome to Heaven, here is your harp.” On the lower panel, a man arrives at the gates of Hades, and the Devil say “Welcome to Hades, here is your accordion.”
“Why isn’t James Hansen in the band ? He could be on the fiddle.”
He’s busy blowing his own trumpet.
You know the Warmists are getting very desperate if this is what they put up on the internet to counter Anthony…..
It is the second time I have been happy I am mostly tone deaf. The first: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtf2Q4yyuJ0
In the last post I should have put in this link. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8kiMCeudLg
Jim Barker
November 19, 2011 at 11:28 am
They should have modeled it first!
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They did …
Ray Pierrehumbert: “McIntyre, McKittrick, and Watts are the Andrew Breitbarts of climate. ”
Not a bad analogy. The IPCC would be ACORN, then.
As a musician I have to say that’s some of the most horrible playing I’ve ever heard in my life. My god…
The lyrics were clearly plagiarised from a book of Vogon poetry.
The music is worse.
These guys are pitiful.
I’d like to laugh at them but I can’t , that is just sick.
Okay, I’m calling it.
We won.
For the ‘record’, it’s a parody of a ZZ Top tune :
Jesus just left Chicago
Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jV5ioewi4pk
Pierrehumbert should not quit his day job.
They’ll never make it as a ZZ Top tribute band.
That’s why, big as the IPCC tent may be, I hope there will never be a place in it for any of these clowns.>>>
I couldn’t agree more. When the tent finally collapses, I wouldn’t want any of the good guys getting smothered.
@ Jesse says:
November 19, 2011 at 1:52 pm:
“They’ll never make it as a ZZ Top tribute band.”
Now, if they wore lederhosen, they could get a gig at Oktoberfest as a tribute band.
The more you drink, the better they sound!
Well, one thing for sure is true: he’s better at the accordion than at climate science.
I realize they were talking about something completely different, but look at the following phrase:
“but it is always of minor consequence compared to the noise”
They could have been describing CO2 as per the earlier quote on a different post:
“According to a preliminary report released by the IPCC, there will be no detectable influence of mankind’s influence on the Earth’s weather systems for at least thirty years, and possibly not until the end of this century.”
Definition of a gentleman: someone who can play the accordion – but doesn’t.
Can we have a REAL anniversary celebration of Climategate please?
….please!
I think RayPierre is the one at RealClimate who let slip the obvious, that climate models are tuned to reach a desired sensitivity.
http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2011/11/keystone-xl-game-over/
Relevant music jkes:
PERFECT PITCH: When a thrown banjo hits an accordion.
PROVEN FACT: Bagpipes make great kindling for an accordion fire!
A quiz: Does the building from which Woody Allen dangles in this clip remind you of anything climate related? Start at 2:20…
“Send in the clowns….
Don’t bother, They’re here!”
Barbara Streisand
OMG.
That was HORRIBLE.
They shouldn’t even be allowed to keep their day jobs, it was THAT bad.
I bet teh girls really love that beard.
Seriously, is that a beard or a did a cloud of sulfate aerosols attach itself to his face?
“Please, someone get this man a mirror”
Wouldn’t do any good. Undoubtebly it would shatter before it could bounce any photons from that
cometary haloface back to its source.I have to admit, my ears perked up at the line “You might not see it in person, but climate’s changing just the same!”
About a year ago, I had a conversation with a friend, a very convinced CAGW believer — and when I say “c”, I really mean “catastrophic.” He is convinced that it is too late already to save the word. I asked him, “If we are really, really already in a state of catastrophe, don’t you think there would be at least ONE thing that we could go outside and SEE that would be evidence of this massive life destroying change? I mean, if someone told me that the oceans were in the process of drowning whole nations, shouldn’t I be able to go to the beach and at least notice some difference there?” It was odd, at least to me. He stuck to his beliefs. He was certain that the world was already in the process of being made uninhabitable, and yet he admitted that he could name nothing that he or I could point to as visible evidence of global destruction.
This CAGW belief is as unverifiable — and as irrational, in my opinion — as any religious cult’s certainty of imminent doomsday.
Al Gore Blues (Hendrix style)
Reminds me of a bumper sticker that I have seen from time to time:
“Use an accordian, go to jail.
Its the law.”
Against my better judgement, after having read all the comments first, I began listening to it.
OMFG THAT’S AWFUL
I shut it off after maybe 20 seconds. I love blues. That sound you hear now is Austin’s own Stevie Ray Vaughn spinning in his grave.
Wow. I thought Judith Curry and Richard Muller were proof positive that the RC PR machine was going weird. “You can call me Ray” Pierrehumbert shows some serious desperation.
Yeugh. Quel dirge. Rather poignantly, this reminds me an album promo’d on the back of the sleeve of another LP in my collection, and called:
“Accordion Bellicosity”.
I make no bones about having wanted a copy ever since I saw the title, just to have a disc called that. (Who’d need to listen to it? – Sadly, never seen, never heard.) :o)
“McIntyre, McKittrick, and Watts are the Andrew Breitbarts of climate. ” I think that Andrew Breitbart is fantastic. You should wear this as a badge of honor.
I have recently been advised to step outside, to take a chance, but I don’t think I am ready for a warmist video just quite yet. 😉
These guys have a long way to go to even get close to Elmer and the gang at Minnesotans for Global Warming. “Hide the Decline” was the greatest spoof song I ever heard.
Sad. Very sad.
I like the blues. I am offended that this can be even vaguely interpreted as blues. On the plus side, they are seriously showing their desperation now!
The IPCC tent, Anthony? Long may you stay outside pissing in.
Do they have a name ? How about “The Faulty Al Gore Rhythms”.
They found the only good use for CAGW computer animations – they make fantastic colorful music video backgrounds. (At 2:25 e.g.)
I’ll wait for the book to come out.
“Please, someone get this man a mirror.”
Have we set any boundaries in the denigration of other people? … or is their boundary also ours?
PaulH says:
November 19, 2011 at 10:47 am
There’s 3 minutes of my life I’ll never get back. These guys should stick to their day jobs. (What ever it is they do…)
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That’s the problem Paul, they are no good at their day jobs either.
They’re climate scientists.
Archer, Abbot, Pierrehumbert; what are you doing?
Oh dear. That was absolutely toe-curlingly excruciatingly bad. What is it with these warmists? Scott Mandia as Superman and now Pierre wotsisname as… well, as what exactly?
DesertYote says: November 19, 2011 at 1:14 pm
Jim BarkerNovember 19, 2011 at 11:28 am
They should have modeled it first!
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They did …
Took a bit of hunting, but silent ( in voice) is always an improvement on PierreHumbert’s lyrics & lack of razor.
And at the very least the instructions of how the below was achieved are provided, step by step.
Can always be replicated. 🙂
NOTE 0.58-1.119
BLACK BOTTOM DANCE
Groovier version….
Steph says:
November 19, 2011 at 10:35 am
Dr. Richard Alley is a little odd too.
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“Ring Of Fire” ? Day after consequences of fiery hot ‘mother-in-law’ curry.
Great….now you all see why the rest of us in Chicago consider the faculty of University of Chicago to be a bunch of nut-cases!
What a mixed-message they send….if they are so bloody worried about CAGW, why do they poke fun about it? Plus, they butchered my favorite ZZ Top song!!
@ Steve 3:42 “Yeugh. Quel dirge. Rather poignantly, this reminds me an album promo’d on the back of the sleeve of another LP in my collection, and called:
“Accordion Bellicosity”.
I make no bones about having wanted a copy ever since I saw the title, just to have a disc called that. (Who’d need to listen to it? – Sadly, never seen, never heard.) :o)”
Steve, go to Amazon, Charles Magnante’s not one but two disc vinyl recordings:
http://www.amazon.com/Accordion-Bellicosity-Records-Charles-Magnante/dp/B0040H05JA
Rumor has it that it is best played using your Bose noise cancelling headset without plugging the headset in.
Well Peter Humbug used to look somewhat refined even with his beard; but those Dean Edell dark glasses just don’t add a thing.
And you know what they say about accordians.
Beards on scientists just don’t sell, like they once used to; can’t comment about their effectiveness on non-scientists.
@ Ray 11:50pm … Er, I’m not sure whether I should say “thanks for that link” or “aaargh, I thought I’d escaped” … though something tells me your playing advice is about right. :o)
(Afternote: Mercifully, Amazon is showing “Currently unavailable. We don’t know when or if this item will be back in stock” right now. I may yet escape!)
That’s about 53 seconds of time I wished I had back, at least Weird Al is entertaining with his POLKA, and I don’t mean Weird Al Gore.
Dave Springer says:
November 19, 2011 at 3:06 pm
I bet teh girls really love that beard.
Seriously, is that a beard or a did a cloud of sulfate aerosols attach itself to his face?
Neither, Dave, He eating a cat 🙂
R. Gates says:
November 19, 2011 at 12:15 pm
I think I recently saw Ray on a street corner with his accordion and tin cup. I tossed in a dime and pulled up my collar to keep out a cold north wind that had just a hint of snow in it…
Mon dieu, Gatsie, humour, and from you and not bad humour. Well done. Tu voit que tu peut avec d’effort.
where do i go to get 20 min back?
how can we as a people be so gullible to believe these knuckle heads?
The AGW baloney is perpetuating Obama’s — and GE’s, and Mann’s, and Jones’, and CRU’s, and Hansen’s, and GISS’ and (– ad infinitum)– war on carbon because they are profiting handsomely from the biggest phony-science hoax in history. By contrast, it makes Ponzi’s seem honest.
The U.S. should do a better job than did Cervantes’ Sancho Panza in attacking its windmills. — At least Panza’s windmills weren’t built at enormous taxpayer expense. U.S. taxpayer-subsidized windmills are being installed where the wind blows sometimes, but there are few local users and inadequate connections to the electric grid.
Maybe that’s why billions of dollars of taxpayer money have been wasted, yet only 1.1% of world electric power is supplied by the wind (only when it blows — but not too weakly and not too strongly)..
This guy is a believer.
3809.txt is Johnathan Overpeck thanking Gabi Hegerl and Briffa for “coordination efforts” because he thinks “it is critical that we don’t give a vague or poorly coordinated view on that period [MWP].”
An exercise in getting the story straight, I suppose. We can’t have individual scientists out there saying what they really think or give the impression that they aren’t all in lockstep. I think it interesting that they think it so important to present a coordinated view. I not aware of too many topics where a group of people have “coordinated views” on things. I guess this is how “consensus” is maintained.
Oh, this had to hurt. 2553.txt a rejection letter from Nature with reviewer comments:
It just gets worse from there. Paper was Nature manuscript 2004-09-24002B
Review of “Observed and model-simulated temperature trends at the surface and in the troposphere” by K. Y. Vinnikov, N. C. Grody, A. Robock, R. J. Stouffer, P. D. Jones and M. D. Goldberg.
4899.txt is very interesting to me. It references Climate Audit but there is something in Jones’ tone here:
Make sure all on AR5 are aware of “the process” and that they adhere to it. Wonder how related “the process” is to “the cause”. There’s more interesting stuff in that one, too.
Lardy luva; what planet does Jones live on? Does he actually believe that?