Heh. Everybody gets equal treatment in this parody of the state of climate change. When you step back and look at it all, it is pretty funny. -A
New Study Suggests News Climate Is Warming
A new study suggests that the IPCC is losing 10% of it’s credibility mass every month, and could have completely disappeared by Christmas.
“It’s shrinking faster that we thought” said Anthony Watts the renowned skeptical blogger, who led a small team of dedicated bloggers, analysing over 10,000 news articles and blogs on the Internet. “Not one of them contained the phrase ‘The IPCC is innocent'”, explained Mr. Watts, “Not even their unofficial web-site RealClimate.org“
Intrepid Spoof reporters sought comments worldwide. Dr. Rajendra K. Pachauri, the eminent Himalayan glacier expert, was interviewed as he emerged from his hairdresser’s salon in downtown Delhi. “It’s a travesty!” he exclaimed, “I have newspaper cuttings and a 1988 photograph to prove it”.
Dr. Pachauri posed for photographs before he continued. “There was just one small error” he explained. “They wrote their reports in English. If they’d used Sanskrit, none of this would have happened”.
Dr. Pachauri spoke briefly to other reporters before posing for more photographs, and was then whisked off in his motorcade to a special meeting of the Railway Engineers Society of India, where he’s to be given a lifetime service award.
AGW skeptic Viscount Monckton of Brenchley commented “It doesn’t surprise me – if you’re striving for a New World Order you can expect a few minor scandals, though they’ve had a lot of major goofs. There’s probably a world lecture tour in this for me – privately, I’m laughing my socks off”.
This reporter sought out climate expert Dr. James Hansen in his office, surrounded by computer screens, charts and bottles of Tipp-ex and Liquid Paper.
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Funny! This is right up our alley!
Rob Hanson of the Chrislip Journal
Making America laugh politely since August 20th
Funny. Off topic, have you been watching the ice in the Arctic? Seems to be growing past it’s usual seasonal climax.
“The Inconvenient Warm Period” deserves nomination for quote of the week.
How could they reach James Hansen? He is such a busy body supervising all the temps he hired that were unemployed after ACORN shut down. It takes a lot of dilligent helpers to respond to all the FOIA requests. Quickly and cheerfully.
Outstanding !!!!!
I agree – it is funny and a credit to its author.
I am a bit worried, though, that there’s probably plenty of people out there in the wide, wide world who will believe (selected) bits of it!!
OT but have you seen the news from France with the President scrapping the country’s proposed carbon tax proposals?
Charlie
Witty. A breath of fresh air we all need.
The quality of stories at The Spoof can be very uneven, but this one is savagely funny. Politically subversive irreverence at its best, IMO. Looks like it was penned by someone who pays close attention to WUWT. I gave it a well-deserved 5-star rating.
(I don’t advise anyone to read it with a mouth full of food, however).
And the headline in “Related Stories” about Pamela Anderson is a scream.
Well done. Compare that to the weak attempt by Wotts. On second thought, don’t bother; it’s not even in the same ballpark.
Alice’s Restaurant Anyone?-
“We walked in, sat down, Obie came in with the twenty seven eight-by-ten
color glossy pictures with circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one, sat down. Man came in said, “All rise.” We all stood up,and Obie stood up with the twenty seven eight-by-ten color glossy pictures, and the judge walked in sat down with a seeing eye dog, and he sat down, we sat down. Obie looked at the seeing eye dog, and then at the twenty seven eight-by-ten color glossy pictures with circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one, and looked at the seeing eye dog. And then at twenty seven eight-by-ten color glossy pictures with circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one and began to cry, ’cause Obie came to the realization that it was a typical case of American blind justice, and there wasn’t nothing he could do about it, and the judge wasn’t going to look at the twenty seven eight-by-ten color glossy pictures with the circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each.”
Finally, a global warming discussion at my comfort level.
(except for the reference to Tipp-ex)
This really brightened my day. I also loved the IMWP. Is the Dulles Airport temprature sensors at the engine test site? I heard it was in the new furnace room, which put there when they did the latest expansion.
Steve Goddard (10:20:52) :
“The Inconvenient Warm Period” deserves nomination for quote of the week.
I don’t know. “Little Ice Age Redaction” is pretty good.
From the article:
” Dr. Phil Jones, of the now infamous Climatic Research Unit of the University of East Anglia, who played a major role in the meltdown, said “I’d comment, but why should I when all you want to do is publish what I say?”
Too funny!
Sorry about the shameless self-promotion, but this spoof is strangely similar to a post I did about a year ago:
“Computer model shows public belief in man-made global warming disappearing by 2020”
http://algorelied.com/?p=1332
Just had to share.
🙂
–“What did the Vikings know? They couldn’t even write, let alone submit an article to a mainstream journal. I’ve just proved that the last decade was the warmest since NOAA’s flood, and that the Arctic saw record temperatures, using interpolated gridded data based on minimal evidence. I’m currently working on LIAR – that’s Little Ice Age Redaction, and I’ll show you my work in progress” Hansen said, knocking over a bottle of correcting fluid as he reached for a large chart. —
I thought it was a spoof?
Sinclair users doth protest making sport of the ZX-80. I built a ZX-81 from a kit and worked damn well, (anyone remember the ‘Vu-Calc’ spreadsheet?). Even the Ohio Scientific ‘Super Board II’ I had before the ZX-81 could have handled the simplistic ‘modeling’ that the IPCC hangs its hat on, (heck it even had 4K of RAM!).
UR right peterhodges – what spoof?
Another fun Spoof;
http://www.thespoof.com/news/spoof.cfm?headline=s5i71498
The Australian weather monitoring pictures on surfacestations.org converted 6 people in my office and my girlfriend into dyed-in-the-wool deniers in a matter of minutes!
“is this a spoof site?”. “it’s like a conspiracy”.”but surely they aren’t basing their results on sites like these”.”how can they get away with this?” were just a few of the choicer quotes.
Re: Mike M (11:44:29) :
Sinclair users doth protest making sport of the ZX-80. I built a ZX-81 from a kit and worked damn well, (anyone remember the ‘Vu-Calc’ spreadsheet?)
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I remember those days. Waking up xmas morning to find my 16K RAM pack and wondering what I’d do with all that memory! Experience of that got me my first contract reverse engineering and documenting Z80 controllers in a steelworks. Also taught me to write tight code, so saved money on hardware in future years.
Thing about climate models though is you programme them with what you know, and then they confirm your belief for you.
Thanks, I needed a good laugh today! 😀
Paul
Comedy gold – thanks for posting this. As I tell my employees and coworkers, sometimes you have to laugh or cry about things – I choose to smile 🙂
Cheers!
Brutally funny. Who knew those pawns of Big Oil had a sense of humor?
The material here is boundless. Something contrasting the dire predictions of imminent polar bear extinction versus their all time high populations offers lots to work with – in a Monty Python ‘dead parrot’ skit kind of way.
Or perhaps something comparing IPCC peer review to a pack of Pavlovian dogs, or even better, Pavlovian sheep.
And although this wild and crazy TV evangelist is barely known outside of Canada, there’s got to be some humor in this:
February 10, 2008: “What I would challenge you to do is to put a lot of effort into trying to see whether there’s a legal way of throwing our so-called leaders into jail because what they’re doing is a criminal act,” said Dr. Suzuki, a former board member of the Canadian Civil Liberties Association. “It’s an intergenerational crime in the face of all the knowledge and science from over 20 years.”
Yes, the “Canadian Civil Liberties Association.” Liberty for all who think correctly.
Oh Come on!
I did one of these first at AlteredNews.Com! Birds are shrinking due to Global Warming!
This is not fair!!!! I want my due!!!!