Hump Day Hilarity – looks like a tipping point to me

The stupid, it burns.

I read Spencer’s piece earlier today. He thinks the IPCC dial back is “momentous” and that reality is finally here for the Warmists at the IPCC. They had to deal with the elephant in the room i.e. failed temperature forecasts.

But now, with the IPCC unable to convincingly explain the recent stall in warming (some say a change to weak cooling), the fact that they are forced to actually recognize reality and make changes in their report — possibly reducing the lower bound for future warming, thus reducing the range of climate sensitivity — is quite momentous…….
We are now at the point in the age of global warming hysteria where the IPCC global warming theory has crashed into the hard reality of observations.

Yet last year Ivo De Boer, the UN climate chief during the 2009 Copenhagen talks, was quoted as saying: “That report is going to scare the wits out of everyone,” Forgive me if I’m underwhelmed.

whoever got the money won.
we’ll never catch back up to zero.
it’s gone down the vortex with a whoosh and a gurgle.
so no, pollyanna, there is no triumph in losing.

I can hear frank singing….And noow, the end is near………..problem-.how to remove tons of useless
Windmills and concrete.

When Ivo De Boer, the UN climate chief during the 2009 Copenhagen talks, said “That report is going to scare the wits out of everyone,” he didn’t properly say WHO was going to be scared: everyone whose career is based on climate-hysteria. When he said that, he served up the usual horse-apples for the politicians and their media-barge to spread before they had to address the actual IPCC report and accumulating volumes of contradictory data.

I glanced at the page and misread the headline “Hump Day Hilarity” as “Hump Day Hillary”.
The juxtaposition of Hump and Hillary made me shudder…

At least that’s The Muppet Show and not Sesame Street, which has turned to the “education” awaiting us in the Green Liberals’ re-education camps.
The economy sucks. Parents can’t afford to buy their kids even small things right when they want them.
So Cookie Monster is learning about a strange sort of delayed gratification. He could have one cookie now, but if he waits then he gets two cookies. I didn’t hear how long the wait would be. Perhaps until the parental units get their food stamps.
Gee, here in reality if you don’t eat a cookie then someone else thinks no one else wants it and eats it, you get no cookie. Seriously, have you ever found free donuts on the break room table, and thought you could grab one now but it’ll be better to come back later and get two?
Teach the kids economics. If you put one cookie in the bank at the going interest rate of 0.02% per year, will you earn another cookie before you get diabetes and can’t eat the cookies, or at all before you die?
Those kiddies will be so confused when they grow up, thinking they’ll get more if they wait. Their partner will tell them not now, wait until bedtime. They’ll find out that not only does it not mean they’ll be getting it twice, they likely blew their chance at getting it even once.
And even though they showed up ready to play, they won’t get a Participation Award.

From Mark and two Cats on September 18, 2013 at 1:13 pm:

The juxtaposition of Hump and Hillary made me shudder…

Have you ever seen the GEICO Insurance “Happier than a camel on Wednsday” commercial?
I don’t care if he is a camel. There are no offices anywhere in America where it’s permissible to badger female coworkers until they tell you “It’s hump day.” NONE.

Sorry, forgot to add the link.
http://www.diffen.com/difference/Hypothesis_vs_Theory

Yup, that about does it.

remember. Doh!!

D.J. Hawkins said on September 18, 2013 at 2:37 pm:

The header and intro caused my mind to conjure the following:
“Two climate modelers walked into a bar…”
Alas, that’s as far as I was able to go. Others will have to carry the banner onward.

Two climate modelers walk into a bar. They immediately spot a fabulously buxom blonde tottering along on very high heels.
“That looks very unstable.”
“Indeed, she’s very near a tipping point. We need to investigate, for the sake of humanity.”
“Agreed. Oh the humanity, if she falls head over heels with that short skirt.”
They approach her. “Excuse me, we’re quite experienced with models, and would like you to help us with some research. We were wondering if we helped you increase your atmospheric ethanol emissions, if that would lead to a warmer mutual climate.”
She looks them over with narrowed eyes. “Both of you? What were you planning?”
“Dear lady, it’ll be purely honorable. We are scientists! We need to investigate if you are near a tipping point that will lead to something unprecedented.”
She hit them with an incredulous glance. “Uh-huh. What’s next, you want to know what you’ll have to pay me?”
The modelers were shocked. “Oh no dear, you’ll be paying us!”
“WHAT?”
“You and everyone else here. That’s how it works with scientific research. Pay more later and we’ll let you see what we’ve done. Oh, and as scientists we like to record everything. Ask nicely and we’ll let you look at the raw stuff.”
====
Two battered climate modelers who had previously walked into a bar, woke up in a dumpster, awakened by the loud clanging racket as the garbage truck hooked on to empty it.
As the dumpster rose in the air, a fabulously buxom blonde on very high heels called out “Hey boys, go research this tipping point!”

pretty funny, given the worst in a thousand years mantra in the MSM:
13 Sept: Colorado State Uni: Colorado Climate Center compiling final data on the Great September Storm of 2013
“As is typical of Colorado storms, some parts of the state were hard hit and others were untouched. Still, this storm is ranking in the top ten extreme flooding events since Colorado statehood,” said Nolan Doesken, State Climatologist at CSU. “It isn’t yet as extreme or widespread as the June 1965 floods or as dramatic as the 1935 floods but it ranks right up there among some of the worst.”
Among the worst, according to Climate Center data, occurred in May 1904, October 1911, June 1921, May 1935, September 1938, May 1955, June 1965, May 1969, October 1970, July 1976, July 1981, and, of course, the Spring Creek Flood of July 1997 that ravaged Fort Collins and the CSU campus.
.”Every flood event in Colorado has its own unique characteristics,” said Doesken. “But the topography of the Colorado Front Range makes this area particularly vulnerable when the necessary meteorological conditions come together as they did this week.”…
http://www.news.colostate.edu/Release/6991
17 Sept: Time Mag: The Science Behind Colorado’s Thousand-Year Flood
http://science.time.com/2013/09/17/the-science-behind-colorados-thousand-year-flood/
Salon: Colorado flooding: Yes, it’s climate change http://www.salon.com/2013/09/18/colorado_flooding_yes_its_climate_change/

kadaka (KD Knoebel) says:
September 18, 2013 at 4:05 pm
Kadaka,
Ha! An entirely enjoyable parable!
MtK

I told you so!!! I told you all so. Over a year ago I predicted on the august pages of this blog that global warming would collapse. It has. I’m better at predicting then the IPCC. Not hard to do.
In his epic novel “The Big Gun”, C. F. Forester, of Horatio Hornblower fame, wrote of a ragtag band of Spanish gorillas who dragged a giant cannon half-way across Spain to the siege of Avila. It was later made into a wonderful movie starring Frank Sinatra, Sophia Loren, and Cary Grant. The cannon breeched the walls of Avila and the ragtag rebels sacked the city and slaughtered the French garrison. The book and the movie are nearly perfect analogies for the climate fight.
In real life a ragtag bunch of skeptics have dragged a giant cannon half-way across the earth. The cannon is called “Truth” We have it positioned to fire on the Berlin Wall of global warming. Unlike the novel and movie we do not need a British Navel Captain to sight the cannon. The giant wall of hypocrisy, hubris, greed, and just plain lying is so large even a neophyte gunner like me can hit it.
The wall will be breeched, indeed it is tumbling as we speak When it is down the ragtag skeptics will charge into the very citadel of global warming and sack and raze even their temples. Standing on the sidelines are the vast majority of the public. When they see the contents of those temples, the ill gotten gold and the false idols of CO2, they will join the skeptics and be enraged. Enraged, perhaps, to the point they will sack and pillage the real temples of global warming: East Anglica University, Penn State University, and Stanford University.

@OldWeirdHarold
The rabbi then said: “They should have become doctors… real ones, with stethoscopes.”

There are some twisted senses of humor here.
Very funny.
Love this blog.

Two climate modelers walk into a bar …they run up a 2.5 billion dollar
Tab and charge it on their government credit card. Of course they stiff
The fab blond waitress…(rumor is her name is Gail.) They were never
Seen again…

Point of story…TIP

some good cracks…especially kadaka…ridicule is the most effective weapon

Difficult to see, always in motion the future is.

Guy walks into a bar with a climate scientist. Bartenders says; “where’d you get him?”
Guys says;” Soho, there’s hundred’s of ’em!!”
http://www.google.ca/imgres?imgurl=http://www.jonathanstephens.com/newyork-large/Toms-Restaurant-Seinfeld.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.jonathanstephens.com/newyorkphoto.html&h=600&w=800&sz=117&tbnid=_U3GPOOWP-XmAM:&tbnh=92&tbnw=122&zoom=1&usg=__lnee45gRYlyi-kQz8vsZr9P3jaY=&docid=9JRfc9RXGmFk0M&sa=X&ei=RoE6UqboFsqjiAKB1oGABw&ved=0CDoQ9QEwAw&dur=2226

Photo credit in my last post goes to http://www.jonathanstephens.com/newyorkphoto.html
Anthony and mods, fell free to snip. Never offended by your good judgement.

Two climate scientists walk into a bar. One says to the Barman ‘A larger and a . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . pint of beer please’. Barman says ‘Why the big pause?’

What’s a climate scientist’s favourite Christmas Carol?
… I’m dreaming of a green Christmas.

John Kerry and a Climate Modeller walk into a Bar. Bartender says to Kerry “Why the Long Face?”
Getting no reply, the bartender looks at a very cheerful Climate Modeller who says “My Model projects that my friend here will be fabulously wealthy in five years, and that we’re about to get pleasantly tipsy now”
Bartender says, “You missed Last Call”.

Two climate modelers walk into a bar;
‘I predicted they had stools’ says one
The bar did indeed have stools.
‘Well done, spot on prediction’ says the other, who then says,
‘I predicted that they would serve beer’
The bartender was just pouring a pint.
‘Jolly good prediction that,’ and the climate modeler adds ‘but I also predicted we would have a place to sit’.
And the two sit.
‘Another excellent prediction,’ said the second, and nods at the sticky floor ‘I predicted that’
Not to be outdone, the first points to the bowl of peanuts, ‘I predicted that’
This goes on for some time, with the local patrons and staff dutifully impressed by their powers of prediction, one waitress however, remains unconvinced, and approaches the two in the middle of a particularly heated exchange of predictions.
‘Gentleman, I couldn’t help but notice your excellent skills of deduction’ she says.
Startled from the intense focus required to predict things properly, they both mumble
‘Thank you’, while shiftily looking about. ‘We are scientists after all, this is what we do’ says the first one.
The second one quickly adds, ‘I should correct you, we do not deduce, we predict. It’s all very complicated and you could never understand it properly. It’s math.’
‘You can’t argue with math’ they both accidentally say in unison, before looking at each other awkwardly.
‘Yes indeed’ says the waitress, ‘and I wouldn’t dare argue with two such excellent predict-icators such as yourselves. I was wondering if you might give a demonstration, by predicting what I will pull out of my purse?’
‘Certainly’ the two modeler again say in unison. The first one begins by stating boldly, ‘I predict she will pull out her hand’.
The waitress simply glares at him. ‘Fine. What else might I pull out for you?’
The second modeler suddenly looks intrigued, ‘You said it’s for me?’ he asks.
Furrowing her brow in confusion, the waitress simply agrees that it is.
‘Well then it’s obviously your phone number, which you have written out for me.’
The waitress becomes incensed, and slaps the second climate modeler, sending him sprawling onto the ground.
The first one leans over his friend on the floor
‘See? I predicted that.’