Due to the cutbacks in funding for climate science, a new climate model has been introduced to help politicians justify unnecessary laws that regulate carbon dioxide emissions…
Introducing…
Price: $10 Million U.S. – (I only need to sell one to a gullible politician somewhere around the globe.)
[Satire Off]
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UPDATE: This post was prompted by a number of comments around the blogosphere in response to my post Lewandowsky and Oreskes Are Co-Authors of a Paper about ENSO, Climate Models and Sea Surface Temperature Trends (Go Figure!).
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I almost choked on my soda!
They have two color Etch-a-Sketches? Cool, I gotta get one of them. 🙂
The knobs in climate science are not on the devices…
The skittery black line is obviously due to the beginner’s difficulty to make the sketch. Soon, though, with practice, the operator will follow one or other of the smooth paths shown.
Climate change is a function of the skill-level of the model operator!
Above Bob Tisdale’s ebook Who turned on the Heat? is mentioned. May I propose a title for a book in accordance with empiri: Who or What turned Bob Tisdale away from Theories of Science?
I actually compared parametrisation to etch a sketch in my lectures years ago!
Bob, I’m sending you the bill for a new keyboard…gov’t rates that should be an extra $2k to tack on to that price tag. (I should know better than to drink coffee around my computer…probably should have called in a haz-mat to clean off the monitor, oh well.)
Are the redline labels not reversed…from the financial benefits recoverable point of view I mean?
It’d be funnier if it wasn’t true – they genuinely – and openly – want to ignore empirical measurements to suit the models:
https://theconversation.com/climate-models-can-show-observations-to-be-wrong-25233
This week they’re claiming that the record Antarctic sea ice must be wrong.
You probably should do a Fahrenheit version for the U.S. !!
Phil Jones could probably work this one though.
(PS Shouldn’t it be “pesky” not “pesty”?)
Does it predicts the end of a “pause” as successfully as four best official models?
Reaching for my checkbook even as we speak.
Sorry, I need a manual for this model. How does the CO2 knob control both worst and best case? Why do climate scientists always have to make everything so complicated?
norah4you says: “Above Bob Tisdale’s ebook Who turned on the Heat? is mentioned. May I propose a title for a book in accordance with empiri: Who or What turned Bob Tisdale away from Theories of Science?”
norah4you, as you well know, I present data (empirical evidence) to support my understandings of ENSO, etc. So your suggested title is nonsense.
Have a good day, [snip].
$10 million? The real ones have cost more like $10 Billion.
The knobs in climate science are not on the devices…
PiperPaul wins the internet today
Using the word “poiricaians” in the first sentence of an article that’s titled “… with knobs” is unfortunate.
Price: $10 Million U.S. – (I only need to sell one to a gullible politician somewhere around the globe.)
If memory serves, the last politician who pursued the “etch a sketch” strategy lost a major election in the United States. So the well is poisoned. All is not lost though, just shelve it until it has faded from the collective memory retention of the American electorate and then trot it out again…..oh wait….
OK, you’re good to go already. Never mind.
Darn,Bob. You’re only asking 10 million? Have check book in hand,will travel. And as an aside M Courtney…I think you meant (pschyopath)…errrr…politician
When I saw the title of your post, I was thinking of wholly different kinds of knobs.
Great. How about an E-Z Bake Climate Oven version? Instead of a light bulb for the “heat” source there would be CO2. Such fun!
John: The 2016 prototype comes with a cup holder.
Sorry Bob, this is not going to work.
Not without the secret pairwise algorithm which enables you to match the data with your model output.
Bob,
I don’t get this post. I was pretty sure that toy was what they were using since the late 80s. Are you saying this is an improved version? (like Windows 8.1 I guess)
🙂
What a great idea! This will save lots of time and money and give us the same results.