This comic comes from garyvarvel.com and the Indianapolis Star and sums up the reaction many had to IPCC AR5.
The Frankenstein monster is an apt depiction, since IPCC AR5 was stitched together from a variety of cherry picked parts.
h/t to Bob Fergusson.
AR5 was released just in time… for Halloween… oohhhhh!
Perfect! ROTF
Given the number of peer reviewed papers left out – http://notrickszone.com/2013/10/11/gross-scientific-negligence-ipcc-ignored-huge-body-of-peer-reviewed-literature-showing-suns-clear-impact/
Stitched is an apt description.
Great cartoon. Reminds me of 2007 when everybody was talking about Global Warming. I watched The Weather Channel before I went to work in the morning and they’d give the record highs and lows for my area. My impression was that there weren’t as many recent record highs for my little spot on the globe as the hype implied. I got a list of the record highs and lows for my area. Lo and Behold! Most of the record highs were set before 1950 and most of the record lows were set after 1950. In 2007. The records have changed (and been changed) since then but I do know a steaming pile of BS is nothing to base your life on.
(Apologizes to those honest and ethical climate scientist who have been lumped into the “97%” who are just trying to figure out what is really going on.)
philjourdan: “Given the number of peer reviewed papers left out – …”
Cheers: http://www.plosbiology.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pbio.1001675
” If we control for this bias, we find that the correlation between assessor scores and between assessor score and the number of citations is weak, suggesting that scientists have little ability to judge either the intrinsic merit of a paper or its likely impact. We also show that the number of citations a paper receives is an extremely error-prone measure of scientific merit. “
Great picture of Al Gore busting through the front door.
Better, in my mind, would be a “land shark” at the door.
As described originally on Saturday Night Live, modified slightly to not insult real land sharks:
“….. the AGW Shark is considered the cleverest of all sharks. Unlike the Great White shark, which tends to inhabit the waters and harbors of recreational beach areas, the AGW Shark may strike at any place, any time. It is capable of disguising its characteristics, and generally preys on naive, easily decieved minds.”
@JohnWho – I have never laughed harder than when SNL ran that series for the first time! Land Shark. It was in response to the Jaws hysteria, but still one of their all time best skits.
Candygram
Well, ahhhh, hmmmm . . . in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein the creator was morally responsible not the monster he created.
So who created the IPCC? Well, many will say the UN, who created the UN? Many will say . . . you get the gist . . .
Seek the premises going back ~250+ years for the moral responsibility for the creation of the Frankenstein of CAGW climate ‘science’.
John
Given the last couple of decades it would have been more appropriate if Frankenwarming’s monster was ankle high.
When Al Franken drinks beer does he use a FrankenStein?
Mother Nature runs on Chaos Theory. Sun spots, solar flares, time of year, temperature of the ocean currents, volcanoes – like the one off Iceland that in a few weeks dumped more stuff into the atmosphere than all the trucks and automobiles ever built.
Climate change “science” has found lying to be an art form, – maybe a science in itself. The Democrats are very good at it with the help of the Bloviator-in-chief and his Muslim Brotherhood buddies.
More toxic chemicals were dumped into the air in a few weeks by the Iceland volcano than all the cars and trucks ever built.
Thanks for the humor. It is apt and I could use more of it.
John Whitman says:
October 11, 2013 at 2:04 pm
“So who created the IPCC? Well, many will say the UN, who created the UN? Many will say . . . you get the gist . . .”
The UN was created by the CFR as a successor to the failed League Of Nations. The CFR was created by Milner as one of the round table groups. Milner was executing Cecil Rhodes’ 7th will. Cecil Rhodes was financed by the Rothschilds.
When you promise people warmer winters and they get colder winters they stop listening. They also start laughing.
When you promise people an ice-free Arctic on a specific date and there isn’t, they start laughing.
If you can’t keep your promises then you lose credibility. Sceptics not required for loss of credibility. Hoist self petard.
That’s a very clever cartoon.
It can be read as pointing out that Global Warming is false, or it can be read as pointing out that ignoring Global Warming can be dangerous. Gets applause from both sides.
I want that cartoonist on my marketing team – unless the President gets him first…
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Didn’t she write that during “The Year Without a Summer”?
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
AR5 might be more like Milton, the Frankenstein cartoon character who got too many drops of tenderness when he was being constructed. The song went like this:
“…6 drops of sinister sauce, 1 drop of tenderness, whoops too much!….I’m Milton, your brand new son”
I can’t see the strings. Frankenstein’s monster should have strings attached because, although they have spent a fortune stitching him together, they have failed to bring him to life.
Shame, I had envisaged a frankenmouse using a small bull horn in a sequined lab coat casting a small shadow, followed by a couple more frankenmice decked out in pinstripes and a tux whispering into the ears of the lab coated frankencreature to hype it up.
Shame is because I’ve slimed the mice of the world with that thought.
Maybe if they’re franken people like creatures made out of green clay?
It’s still a good joke without my mental imagery meddling.
No need to apologize. In fact, I think it’s a bad idea. Whilst it is possible that their are honest researchers out there, most have been drawn to this area of study (and continue to be drawn) because it’s funded. Not through any fundamental interest. Yank the funding. All of it. Now. No more grants. No more satellites. No more Argo, GISS, HadCrut – none of it.
In time, people with a genuine interest in the study will return. Huge government funding or not. By then, perhaps, they may have learned a lesson about crying “Wolf!” too often.
It will never happen. But I can dream.
Dave Kamakaris says:
I kinda thought it was john kerry.
Frankenstein as an analogy for global warming is apt, since they are both fictional.
DirkH says:
October 11, 2013 at 3:25 pm
John Whitman says:
October 11, 2013 at 2:04 pm
“So who created the IPCC? Well, many will say the UN, who created the UN? Many will say . . . you get the gist . . .”
The UN was created by the CFR as a successor to the failed League Of Nations. The CFR was created by Milner as one of the round table groups. Milner was executing Cecil Rhodes’ 7th will. Cecil Rhodes was financed by the Rothschilds.
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All of the elite groupings never envisioned the Internet. If we can keep the web, maybe we can beat all of the “world leaders”.
geran says:
October 11, 2013 at 6:32 pm
“All of the elite groupings never envisioned the Internet. If we can keep the web, maybe we can beat all of the “world leaders”.”
Hope springs eternal. Anarchism; the most easily subverted movement itself (their current incarnation in Europe, the Black Bloc, actually being the street thugs of the EU commission; or 3 decades back, the Brigada Rosso, subverted by Gladio).
Better read Sun Tzu.
That’s what happens when you install the wrong “brain”
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