…goes to Jo Nova, who not only blogs, but does her own illustrations too.
This satirical road sign made me laugh, I hope it will do the same for you. Looks like it may be on Mars, or maybe out by Ayers Rock.
We’ve all seen road signs in the country that look like this. Read her piece:
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Charles Krauthammer just said on FOX that Obama increased EPA agency spending by about 35% for fiscal ’09 & ’10. One of the highest (non-defense) agency increase in history.
That’s one way to fund the eco freak global warming crowd…
A good demonstration of both our First and Second Amendment Rights — sorry for y’all that don’t have ’em.
Jeff Id: And You have poked far more holes into the IPCC than that.
Bulldust (16:27:31)
Yep – voted. Thanks for the tip-off.
The sign reminds me of a Climate Audit post by Steve McIntyre titled, “Casper Ammann, Texas Sharpshooter”
http://climateaudit.org/2008/08/08/caspar-ammann-texas-sharpshooter/
Speaking of satire, the movie “Downfall” has had Hitler’s bunker rage used many times by rather creative individuals with rather funny subtitles. Now comes “Glaciergate – Hitler’s Last Straw”. Rather funny and makes fun of Pachauri, IPCC, Gore, etc.
Darn, forget the link to “Glaciergate”
[snip, we don’t allow the Hitler parodies here. Some people are offended. ~ ctm]
At least the banks know which way the wind is blowing!
And Cap n Trade is blowin’ in the Wind
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/jan/24/carbon-emissions-green-copenhagen-banks
Robert of Ottawa (17:25:47) :
“Hey, just a thought:
Where is Kevin Rudd’s message of strong support for the unjustly assailed Nobel Prize Winner??????”
Rudd is running a mile from the issue. He left for Copenhagen vowing to reintroduce a ‘cap and trade’ system when parliament next sits in February. But it was noted by the Opposition that there is no mention of it on the recently released parliamentary schedule. He also has a deadline of this Friday to announce what Australia’s new 2020 target will be – a commitment from Copenhagen.
I didn’t realise Jo Nova was a fellow Perthite! I suspect she will be at the Lord Monckton presentation on Feb 8th… I must admit that I may be somewhat starstruck… question is, should I wear my 1/1 limited edition* Bulldust polo shirt?
* a young lad in a Denver mall spray painted it for me many years ago… it is a knickname from running (sorry, I meant drinking) with the Hash House Harriers in former years. But I digress…
PS> I have just received info that the Lord Monckton presentation is now in the (larger) Argyle Room in the Perth Parmelia Hilton with a max seating capacity of 500 with the excess going to the original Swan Room (seating of 250) with a live video feed. Methinks milord has attracted much interest in the premier mining state in the land.
This one caught my attention in summer 2008:
“We hypothesize that the established pre-1998 trend is the true forced warming signal, and that the climate system effectively overshot this signal in response to the 1997/98 El Niño. This overshoot is in the process of radiatively dissipating, and the climate will return to its earlier defined, greenhouse gas-forced warming signal. If this hypothesis is correct, the era of consistent record-breaking global mean temperatures will not resume until roughly 2020.”
(http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/07/14/real-climate-gives-reason-to-cheer/)
Now the very same people declare 2009 another record-breaking year?
Hey GISS, your forecast didn’t even survive 6 months or so!
How bad you guys are in forecasting.
Sorry, it was 2009 … I am already confused by this warming.
Daniel H (17:47:46) :
“I was arguing with a hippie chick today”
!!!!!!!! lol, Re-read the available pdf on how to handle hippie chicks 😉
One sign of tipping point in the debate downunder is in the coverage by Fairfax papers, especially the Melbourne Age – one champion of alarmism noted for its almost complete silence on Climategate.
Firstly, on monday we get a front page glaciergate story:
http://newsstore.theage.com.au/apps/viewDocument.ac?page=1&sy=age&kw=glaciers&pb=age&dt=selectRange&dr=week&so=relevance&sf=text&sf=headline&rc=10&rm=200&sp=nrm&clsPage=1&docID=AGE100125HO6KC6IQKCV
Secondly, we get an editorial telling climate scientists to stick to the facts:
http://newsstore.theage.com.au/apps/viewDocument.ac?page=1&sy=age&kw=glaciers&pb=age&dt=selectRange&dr=week&so=relevance&sf=text&sf=headline&rc=10&rm=200&sp=nrm&clsPage=1&docID=AGE100126CI6FA701TEE
Now we get an op-ed by a sceptic:
http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/politics/be-alert-but-wary-on-climate-claims-20100126-mw7z.html
STALE AIR.
The following links to a Monbiot supporter site where liberals gather to bone-up on talking points in favor of AGW, etc. Among their ideas are these: economic progress is not possible, land ownership is bad, and AGW has not been disproven. Enjoy.
http://groups.google.com/group/monbiot-discuss?lnk=srg&hl=en
Bulldust (16:21:26) :
Could not agree more.
Even the hand of surrender armistice is offered with snide excuses on the political economic black mail they tried to present as science.
A whole generation of post grad scientists have learned all you need to do to get a grant.
Lie.
Invent / Create an emergency and make a brand new mousetrap bandage thingy.
Here’s my take: http://whatcatastrophe.com/drupal/image/view/54/_original
The Holey Edifice of the IPCC. Crumbling in it’s own inflexible, apocalyptic, fantasy world.
Yes, Anthony, you guessed the image siting spot on.
Mars, thanks to NASA.
The only photo of a carbon free world I could find.
Cheers!
Jo
Sign of things to come.
I don’t know if someone has mentioned this somewhere already, but a little birdy has told me the IPCC is ‘in discussion’ at the moment about:
greater transparency (availability of raw data)
inclusion of more representative (less alarmist) science
inclusion of uncertainty parameters
removal of Rajendra Pachauri (‘mistakes’ and personal profit-taking)
significant restructuring of the IPCC to a neutral (non-political) science body
However there is also a rival stream which wants:
inclusion of more activists – called “community participation”
inclusion of social science i.e. planning for the current alarmism
inclusion of an aid function (which requires funding from the developed world)
The person says that after talking to people involved, they are begrudgingly looking into including the less alarmist side of the debate, mainly for political (read PR) reasons….
But the IPCC delivers science! not politics?….how come they are arguing about being less political?…..how come there is a rival stream within the IPCC that wants to be MORE political?
Meanwhile:-
In an email exchange with WDM yesterday that has been reported in the Guardian and BBC, the Department for International Development (DfID) admitted that the £1.5 billion pledged by Gordon Brown in Copenhagen would all be siphoned from the existing aid budget meant for anti-poverty programmes, like health, education and public water provision in the developing world.
http://www.wdm.org.uk/climate-cash-coming-aid-budget
(apologies for quoting from a thergageddonist site)
Proverbs 26:11
As a dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool returneth to his folly.
This is the real obcenity of this vicious scientific AGW scam.
Joanne: I hate to criticize the owner of a site I visit regularly, but;
The only photo of a carbon free world I could find.
sorry to be pedantic, but with a Mars atmospheric pressure of 0.6 kPa, and 95% CO2; earths 101.3 kPa pressure, and 385 ppm CO2;
Mars has about 14 times more CO2 per unit volume than earth’s atmosphere, not including some minor gas Z factor compressibility.
Joanne,
I expect what with the empty shotgun shells laying about, we can now say there are signs of carbon on Mars. And the church of IPCC is shaken to its foundations.
TomTurner in SF (21:18:34)
Yeah, it’s a barrel of Monkeys over there, or more likely Missing Links.
Monbiot’s site reports that the New Economics Foundation says, “Growth isn’t Possible”
But why are they wasting time and precious resources over there only ruminating the obvious? They of all people should know that since wealth can’t be created, economic growth is impossible, and that’s all there is to it. So why won’t they just act responsibly? Please?
Martin Brumby (22:44:19) :
Meanwhile:-
In an email exchange with WDM yesterday that has been reported in the Guardian and BBC, the Department for International Development (DfID) admitted that the £1.5 billion pledged by Gordon Brown in Copenhagen would all be siphoned from the existing aid budget meant for anti-poverty programmes, like health, education and public water provision in the developing world.
Gordon’s got plenty of past form on this, reannouncement after reannouncement of the same pot of money covering all the worlds ills. It ends up mostly being spent on more ticklists and target setting and monitoring.