You’ve heard of the Holocene, and the Anthropocene…
The ‘Anthropocene‘ is a term widely used since its coining by Paul Crutzen and Eugene Stoermer in 2000 to denote the present time interval, in which many geologically significant conditions and processes are profoundly altered by human activities.
Well, hold onto your hats, er data.. Josh writes: Thanks to Robert B who thought up a great name for the era of climate science we are currently enduring…
– The Adjustocene, where no one will ever know what the temperature is.
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very good
Excellent!
Agreed.
Love it, had me laughing out loud.
Thanks Josh.
+1
Love it!
……….Oh and Robert B of course.
Is there a “the” missing?
No
See Viner, 2000 http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/01/04/the-dr-david-viner-moment-weve-all-been-waiting-for-a-new-snow-record/
I concur 😉
Quite right. It has more impact – not knowing what temperature is – than not knowing what the, temperature is.
Yes, but the “bs” between the “o” and the “c” is! Oh wait, they put that in their papers.
How about “The” Pedanticene? Not a slight on garymount, but commenters on this site nitpick A LOT.
That’s because we’re detail-oriented.
How ironical of you to say so….nitpicker.
The Adjustocene, where no one will ever know what the temperature is
No one knows the temperature, but everyone knows the solution:
1. Greater austerity
2. Lower standard of living
3. Higher taxes
4. Restricted liberty
(After all, it is your fault!)
No, not the temperature. He said our children wouldn’t know what snow is. Not the snow. See the parallel?
Hi Josh and Anthony,
I still haven’t gotten my calendar . What’s up with that?
Well if you are in the UK/EU is a Josh issue, in the US, me. A little help so we can help you?
Anthony,
I’m in the US, so it’s your bailiwick. You have my email so please contact me when you know what’s going on.
I just got mine yesterday (Friday in CT)
This may be funniest ever!
Excellent, for sure, but as good as Josh’s Climate Contrl Knob Machine.
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/09/03/the-tuesday-tittering-the-big-knobs-of-climate-control/
John
I have that as one of my desktop backgrounds.
And I always smile when I see it!
Auto
Hands down, one of the best ever.
Warmin’ yer future
Typical Aussie understatement. I’d make it Cookin’ yer future
Yes, the mann-ufactured obscene adjustocene.
Hi – I like that.
Oooh, that’s good!
Needs a capital M
The Anthropocene will be visible in sediments : it’s the level where you find plastic.
So will our descendants be able to extract plastic just as Canadians are extracting crude from tar sands?
How are they going to be able to do that if they’re living in mud huts?
The Adjustocene will be identifiable by the existence of sedimentary layers of windmill foundations and pockets of rare earth minerals melted onto their upper surfaces.
Crispin, can you imagine? They’ll re-assemble them in museums and call them Triaerocirculasaurus!
Surely that would be plastocene 😉
@ur momisugly François January 30, 2016 at 6:26 am
Isn’t that an explosive?
Well the Anthropocene does have its finer nuances like the Plasticene period where undergrads come into play to really fine tune the models.
Nawwwww. All the global warming “in the pipeline” will melt that plastic right back down to crude so our descendants can suck it right back out to fuel their hovercrafts 🙂
The Schmidtmann brothers?
I chuckled.
nd mc
An extra m & t ?
Auto
LOL hahahahahahahahahhahaha
very good one made my day!
Good job!
Just one quibble: Shouldn’t the car be horsedrawn? 🙂
Lol, that will happen just a few miles up the road, just past those windmills on the horizon…
Won’t that be neat? And for those who cannot afford a horse, the next best thing will be …. a Fred Flintstone Mobile!
“Yabba, dabba, DOOOOOOOO!”
(youtube)
I sure am looking forward to that.
(and, Hi, Tom — GET OUT TO THAT RACETRACK THIS YEAR!! 🙂 )
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Thank you, Josh, for another fun, well-designed, cartoon with a powerful point!
Datanevercene.
+1
That’s my complaint – the trend to hide raw data lest the unwashed masses “mis”interpret it.
And THAT is freaking hilarious right there Rob Dawg…had to say it outloud…and THEN I choked!
Very good. Thanks. Great for a laugh.
“The Adjustocene, where no one will ever know what the temperature is.”
Or perhaps:
The Adjustocene, where no one will ever know what the temperature is … or was. But we know exactly what it will be 100 years from now because we will make adjustments to make it happen.
Read it again. Not “‘the temperature”.
“Adjustocene” … superb !
😎
All we need to about temperature is that it’s wrong!
(Yes, that can be taken two ways.)
http://realclimatescience.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/2015-12-18-12-36-03.png
That is pretty bad. In fact it is Justobscene.
When you ask for the data it sometimes is the Neverseen.
Good ones Caleb,
Our current geological epoch, only 11,500 years old since the end of the last Ice Age, is called the Holocene.
I suggest the last few decades of false temperature data “adjustments”, widely touted by global warming fraudsters, should be called the AssHolocene
.
Good! I definitely am going to steal that!
Thanks, Josh. I had a laugh!
We get the message, but it is no joke, the whole world is being deceived.
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2016/01/30/saturday-satire-welcome-to-the-new-era-of-climate/#comment-2133105
Brilliant as always Josh
Hope this isn’t hijacking the thread but had to post it somewhere. It should be required viewing for all climate types.
Climate science has a lot in common with the old Soviet Union:
“In the Soviet Union, the future is certain. It is just the past that keeps changing.”
The “Adjustoscene”: Where everybody adjusts the climate to her/his own fantasy.
I’m printing it with a really dirty carbon printer and adding to my Calendar for February. 😀
Yeah!