Now that Dr. Rajenda Pachauri has blown all his (and the IPCC’s) credibility with denouncing complaints about the flawed glaciers melt date as “voodoo science”, the pundits, both serious and silly, are getting to work. On the serious side we have Geoffry Lean, the father of environmental reporting (40 years) in the UK calling for Pachauri’s resignation.
On the silly side, Pachauri may be selling insurance soon. With Mr Pachauri’s penchant for hyperbole and sensationalism, I could easily see him selling catastrophic health insurance as a natural career path at this point. Good luck sir.
From “I hate the media” Pachauri may be the new mascot for Geico Insurance, screencap below.
For our readers outside the USA, this video video below might help you understand why most American readers are ROTFL about right now. We’ve been saturation bombed in the USA with these commercials over the last several years.
Geico now has a new mascot, with a British (or maybe Australian, I can’t tell) accent no less:
While the science is far more important than the satire, Pachauri is now becoming a serious public relations liability to the IPCC, as the Telegraph’s Geoffrey Lean points out.
h/t to Joe
“maz2 (14:10:45) :
Choo-Choo interviewed: AGW designed/built by a committee of “over 4,000 people”.
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[Pachauri]: “I’ll tell you why. That is because mention of disappearance by 2035 is something that IPCC, as a style, never promotes. All our future projections are exactly what they are supposed to be — projections. We provide a range. We provide a scenario. We never say something will happen by so and so date.”
Exact verbiage from IPCC AR4 at
http://www.ipcc.ch/publications_and_data/ar4/wg2/en/ch10s10-6-2.html
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“Glaciers in the Himalaya are receding faster than in any other part of the world (see Table 10.9) and, if the present rate continues, the likelihood of them disappearing by the year 2035 and perhaps sooner is very high if the Earth keeps warming at the current rate. Its total area will likely shrink from the present 500,000 to 100,000 km2 by the year 2035 (WWF, 2005).”
REPLY: I carried the Climatgate video right after the CRU emails were made public, it was also satire and had visual “ad homs” if you will. Not a lot of complaints about that one and it depicted Dr. Michael Mann, Al Gore, and Dr. Phil Jones in similar situations. Like I said in an earlier comment, I’ll be happy to pull this entry if Dr. Pachauri will apologize for using the term “deniers”. – A
I guess my point is that I’m not exactly Brad Pitt, myself. I would hope that people would base their evaluation of my opinions on their merits, or lack thereof, rather than on how I look. The skeptical (denialist in some quarters) point of view is better represented by the usual fact-based articles on this site and this just hits me as being kind of sleazy. Just my opinion, but this rates with objecting to Obama’s policies based on his complexion.
nice videos
The gekko is a Cockney. But please, let’s not lower ourselves to schoolboy humour about people’s appearances. It detracts from the seriousness of what’s going on here and makes us look like playground bullies.
Paul Coppin (12:48:28) :
…leading to a degree of linguistic isolation, pretty much making a resident of Shenandoah almost unintelligible to the rest of the US… LOL!
What are you talking about? Shenanadoah pops up in the local TV news often and their residents are very much intelligible (excluding a few non-native speakers). Sure some “regional” words may get used, like a “berm” being the edge of a road, but that’s across the state. There’s no communication issue with that.
People seem to make too much of a fuss about these things. When I think of the times ABC and PBS have provided “English subtitles” for someone whom some may have trouble fully understanding but are understandable to me, yet other times the viewers are expected to understand people with thick foreign accents or noticeable speech impediments without such aids, possibly because the speakers may be “offended” by the idea that their speech may be hard to follow… Ugh.
Great Work! Science should be scientific – not politically scientific…
– 10% of my profits are donated to truly conservative causes and candidates.
My various commercial policies also refer to acts of God. I suspect that clause must be re written to “acts of deniers”
@ur momisugly Dan C. (12:24:38) :
Dan C. (14:32:48) :
IMO, in your backhanded way you have called us, low-brow’s, hicks, denialist, sleazy and racist.
we must be winning!!
Maybe the “separated at birth” running joke is an American thing? I view it as harmless fun.
http://www.faniq.com/blog.php?id=20037&page=2
Some fine magazines and newspapers carry political cartoons, the use thereof having been thoroughly discussed. I believe this post fits the concept so try this – search with the following terms
ethics OR justification OR purpose “political cartoons”
Using Google, this just gave 136,000 results. Read about one percent of these and then return with a well reasoned summary and support of your contention that this post is inappropriate – if you still feel so.
My, My, that Gecko is cute! the accent is what we in England call “mockney”, the same one used by Dick Van Dyke in Mary Poppins, almost Cockney.
On the issue of Professor Pachauri, I hope he hangs on as long as possible.
The man is the best thing that could happen to the IPCC and the whole alarmist brigade, the more noise he makes the more ridiculous they look.
Three cheers for professor Pachauri, I say.
It’s so easy even a caveman could do it, but Pachauri can’t — he can’t say “I lied”, or “I’m sorry”, or “I don’t understand science”, or even “I have a low carbon footprint”.
Gary Hladik (10:23:42) :
Rajendra “voodoo science” Pachauri is hoist on his own canard.
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He did what? With a duck? This is going to be News of the World material before we know it.
Perhaps the word you were looking for is petard? 😉
Dan C. et al: Chill out. It’s not as if he can’t afford a hair stylist. A case can be made that Lord Monckton looks like the Gecko, but at least he is well groomed.
Jez Booker (09:54:36) :
& East London! NOT Victoria docks way like where East Enders is supposed to be, more New Cross, Sarf of the river!
DaveE.
tallbloke (10:10:52) :
I always knew there was something fundamentally wrong with the Universe! 😉
DaveE.
Is that some sort of neo-skunk thing going on with his beard?
Halfwise (10:58:24) : “As to the politics of climate science and the necessity of satire, we should just mock the so-called science. That, my friend, is one target-rich environment.”
We have a politician/businessman masquerading as a scientist and making “scientific” pronouncements that are in fact nothing more than propaganda. He defends his snake oil with vicious slurs and then cries foul when his lies are exposed and ridiculed. Some old saying about pots and kettles comes to mind here…somebody help me out?
Ad-hominem has been the most successful tactic of the AGW Gang-Green advance!
Where’s the problem?
DaveE.
I always thought the gecko voice was Aussie, but apparently I was wrong
http://theinspirationroom.com/daily/2006/geico-gecko-voiced-by-jake-wood/
Paddy (11:44:30) :
“The UN is the most corrupt, dysfunctional NGO on Earth. We will be better off if its is disbanded ASAP.”
I hear that Dubai wants them.
http://creepingsharia.wordpress.com/2010/01/23/dubai-the-fatwa-experts-ready-to-host-un-headquarters/
Let them have ’em, I say. And good riddance.
But, then again….
@ur momisugly Halfwise,
If this mockery had been presented as an earnest attempt to invalidate an argument in a debate, it would have been ad hominem, but that really isn’t what’s happening here.
Firstly, there was the disclaimer “…on the silly side…”, then, there’s the fact that there isn’t a debate; denizens of this blog have clamoured for a debate, but there has been nothing but disdainful dismissal from the people on the other side. Any headway that has been made has not come from reasoned argument, but from a (very, very) happy coincidence of fortune and perseverance.
There are very worthwhile dollops of debate that do happen here; Joel Shore and Nick Stokes step gamely into the ring, and Leif, Bob Tisdale, Tallbloke and Stephen Wilde… Willis… okay, I should never have started with names, but the blog is not solely engaged in debate.
If you find this post a little tacky, then I agree, but it’s also pretty funny, and I actually like both the caveman’s and Pauchari’s eccentric appearance.
( I prefer the caveman’s attitude towards BS).
Bulldust (16:31:02) :
Gary Hladik (10:23:42) :
Rajendra “voodoo science” Pachauri is hoist on his own canard.
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He did what? With a duck? This is going to be News of the World material before we know it.
Perhaps the word you were looking for is petard? 😉
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Sorry, Bulldust, but Gary was wittier than you appreciated!
Gecko = Bill Kristol of Fox News. The picture even has his seat position.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/aboutus/bio_kristol.asp
Alan S: You should hear the names and bad words my husband calls out when people who try to mimic his accent. The American southeast has a proud drawl, yawl. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is not one of his favorite movies. Of course I tease him and remind him that we won.