The photo below originally appeared in the NYT showing Air Force One returning from Copenhagen.
It of course, screams for a caption. I’m sure our readers can provide one.
Here’s the original caption and story from the NYT.
Major Snowstorm Hits Atlantic Coast
A major winter storm was moving up the Atlantic Coast on Friday night, with forecasters expecting accumulations of one to two feet of snow in some areas. President Obama returned early Saturday from climate talks in Copenhagen, landing at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland in the midst of the storm.
I’ll fill in the balloon with the best caption
-Rotten snow
-Rotten science
-Rotten weekend
“Unprecedented…but meaningful!”
http://zi.fi/shots/president_snow_copenhagen.jpg
“Now is the winter of our discontent. Oh bummer!”
i’m starting to get the idea i should stay out of copenhagen.
“get connolley on the phone. there’s some spinning to be done”
Lawrence Solomon: Wikipedia’s climate doctor
One person in the nine-member Realclimate.org team — U.K. scientist and Green Party activist William Connolley — would take on particularly crucial duties.
Connolley took control of all things climate in the most used information source the world has ever known – Wikipedia. Starting in February 2003, just when opposition to the claims of the band members were beginning to gel, Connolley set to work on the Wikipedia site. He rewrote Wikipedia’s articles on global warming, on the greenhouse effect, on the instrumental temperature record, on the urban heat island, on climate models, on global cooling. On Feb. 14, he began to erase the Little Ice Age; on Aug.11, the Medieval Warm Period. In October, he turned his attention to the hockey stick graph. He rewrote articles on the politics of global warming and on the scientists who were skeptical of the band. Richard Lindzen and Fred Singer, two of the world’s most distinguished climate scientists, were among his early targets, followed by others that the band especially hated, such as Willie Soon and Sallie Baliunas of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, authorities on the Medieval Warm Period.
All told, Connolley created or rewrote 5,428 unique Wikipedia articles. His control over Wikipedia was greater still, however, through the role he obtained at Wikipedia as a website administrator, which allowed him to act with virtual impunity. When Connolley didn’t like the subject of a certain article, he removed it — more than 500 articles of various descriptions disappeared at his hand. When he disapproved of the arguments that others were making, he often had them barred — over 2,000 Wikipedia contributors who ran afoul of him found themselves blocked from making further contributions. Acolytes whose writing conformed to Connolley’s global warming views, in contrast, were rewarded with Wikipedia’s blessings. In these ways, Connolley turned Wikipedia into the missionary wing of the global warming movement
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fpcomment/archive/2009/12/18/lawrence-solomon-wikipedia-s-climate-doctor.aspx
Mr. Precedent, it’s unpresidented — worse than we thought.
“And you guys thought I couldn’t top the snow job I gave in Copenhagen…”
Here are my favorites. (I’m partial to brevity.) I’ve put asterisks on my top picks.
Not a problem, I’m good at shoveling.
“Shovel ready?”
*Time to keep my promise. Order 600,000 shovels and get those people working.
“I ‘hope’ this weather will ‘change’….”
“Don’t worry Mr. President, it’s rotten snow.”
Get Hansen on the phone! “Hey bro, wazup. Listen, we have a little problem here. Can you come up with a trick to hide the gawddamnsnow? Good.”
Damn I’m good — sea level’s probably falling, too.
*Mission Accomplished!
“I suck! Inhofe for President.”
Well done Mr President; a washout and a whiteout!
*WATTSUPWITHTHAT !!!!
*“Try looking out the other window.”
“Step away from the windows… nothing to see here…”
Looks like we just landed in the Twilight Zone…
Hell actually froze over this time.
*I leave Biden in charge for ONE day…….
Where’s Al, I’ll skin him
Bring me the Head of Global Warming.
Run that past me one more time, Al baby – cooling is really warming?
*“Hi, Dr. Mann, this is Barry. I expect an explanation.”
OH goody daddy we’re going to have a white Christmas… Shut up kid, I don’t want to hear it.
“It’s worse than we thought!”
“Negative feedback has kicked in, Mr President.”
*“Ticker tape parade greets President after European climate victory”
Welcome home to the land of the FREE – ZING Mr President!
“The day after Copenhagen.”
What’s our Plan B?
“Are we in Kansas yet, Toto?”
*“Sir, we may have overdone it with the carbon offsets.”
“Welcome to Loring AFB Maine Mr. President. As part of our Executive Sustainability Project we’ll be taking the bus from here to DC.”
You generate hundreds of tons, and what do you get?
Another day colder and deeper in debt.
♫ Let it snow let it snow let it snow ♫
“Oh H-E-double hockey sticks!”
“Can’t anything go right?”
“Figures.”
“It’s a CRUel world”
“Stewardess… make mine a double”
*“Phew, good job I used the phrase “climate change”; otherwise I would have looked a right boob.”
Oh, the weather outside is frightful,
And the skeptics are so delightful,
And since we’ve nothing to show,
Throw some dough, go find Joe, I’ll lay low!
And I kinda like these submissions of mine:
“Where’s a blind eye when you need one?”
“Who’s the humorist at HAARP?”
“Good thing we left early (arrived no later) or everyone would be laughing.”
“Out of the frying pan and into the soup!”
*“Get outta here with that parka!”
“I bring snow in our time”
Stephen Shorland (11:51:53) :
PRICELESS!!!
I like the rotten snow as well!
Summers go get me 10Giga Tons of CO2, I’m freezing my balls off here.
I live in the north west of England (and yes, it is currently -5degC and covered in snow) but over the past 30 years I have regularly travelled to the US. One of my memories is from about 1993, I missed my connection back to the UK because the taxi driver taking me from La Guardia to JFK gave me a tour of Long Island to boost his fare, and I was sat in my hotel room fuming with anger watching some talk show on the TV. On which a popular female singer of the day said “I cry myself to sleep every night knowing my young son will never see snow in New York”. It made me smile then, it makes me smile even more now. (You will recall that in the early 90’s there were a few years of low winter precipition across the northern hemisphere)
Mr. President, is driving a snowplow a green job?
To be clear, this unprecedented result is from adding too much value to the homogenized data.
Obviously, this is not the climate model that I thought I knew.
I am deeply humbled.
Rahm, call Al and tell him we’ll take 10,000 more credits.
” I want the PR effort ramped up. I want the most vocal skeptics destroyed, Immanuel. You hear me? Destroyed. Start with the academics and make sure no one who doubts me gets any sort of Federal grants. If they already got Federal bucks, audit them. I want the IRS on this ASAP. And make sure any blogs that go against the consensus are investigated. We need Cap and Trade. We need Healthcare. We are just months from taking over the entire economy and every business will bow to us. There will be payback.”
That’s it. I can’t stand this s***! I’m moving. Where’s my birth certificate?
Hmmm, this isn’t the change I was hoping for. -B O
This means that I’ll have to play golf with the orange golf balls.
Hey pilot! Get us outa this artic wasteland. To the South of France!
“Barrack, you either get that car right at the end of the ramp or build steppingstones with all those copies of your global warming agreement. These sneakers cost $540 bucks an I am not getting them wet.”
“Blow, blow, thou winter wind,
Thou art not so unkind,
As man’s ingratitude;”.
Shakespeare – As You Like It
“It’s that wicked witch of The West at work.”
BobUK (12:27:35) :
“More bad news, Sir. They just found your birth certificate … in Nairobi.”
ROTFL. Totally politically incorrect, but this one had even my husband laughing heartily! Pity it would connect WUWT with the birthers.