Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach
Well, I’m at the International Conference on Climate Change in Chicago, where I’m one of the speakers. Since I’m a cartoonist, rather than liveblogging the conferenceI figured I’d livetoon it instead … these are my summaries of the main points that each scientist made in their presentation:
“Boats out looking for the oil slick report that it’s mostly clear water between distant occurrences of oil. What ever happened to common sense?”
Sounds a lot like what happened with the Icelandic volcano. Airports shut down based on the theory that maybe there was a possibility that engines could be damaged. The system is skewed in favor of such over-reacting too cautiously. No one ever gets fired for shutting down unnecessarily, but if you fail to DO SOMETHING and Something Bad happens, it’s your fault.
These cartoons need to be reproduced and sold…. postcards, a box of writing cards, posters… dunno. But the collection would be a wonderful remembrance of the affair for attendees — and those who did not make it…
To raise funds for …?
….Anthony’s tip jar? dunno. ….Lady in Red
PS: You could do a new set each year, so they become a series.
Willis Eschenbach says:
May 17, 2010 at 5:43 pm
Lots of interesting folks, it is a privilege to be here. For me, I feel like a starry-eyed kid at a rock star convention, I’ve gotten to meet a lot of folks who are my scientific heroes.
Me too – I reminded myself several times on the way to not act like some fool starry-eyed kid, and I think think I’ve done a good job of not hanging on to anyone. (It helps that there are so many people to hang onto.) I’m 59, so just being able to shake hands with the only geologist who has walked on the Moon is a remarkable privilege. Bill Gray too – I’ve read his hurricane predictions (and flops) for wow, something like 20 years, the next one is due I think on June 4, I’ve learned a huge amount from them. My first web page (click above) after deciding to become active in this sorry field was inspired in part by a Bob Carter talk I saw on the web, it was nice to be able to thank him in person. And Lord Monckton, E.M. Smith, and Anthony, but I haven’t found Willis yet.
Well done, Willis! I think Anthony owes you a nice steak dinner from Gene & Georgetti’s!
Just for the record, the UN has a new climate change chief replacing Mr. de Boer.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science_and_environment/10119753.stm
Al Gore’s AGW: It’s not funny.
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“Cold, rainy weather coming to Bay Area”
“Expect a quarter-inch of rain throughout the day as late-season showers and cold weather hit the Bay Area. Temperatures will drop to the mid-50s, said Ryan Wallbrun, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service.
By Tuesday, rain is expected to let up and it will be dry but cold till Wednesday, when another storm front is predicted to move through the Bay Area. Rain is expected in the North Bay, with possible showers to the south, Wallbrun said.
Thursday and Friday will be “quite cool” for this time of the year, with temperatures in the 50s and high, strong winds, he said.”
http://www.sfexaminer.com/local/Cold-rainy-weather-coming-to-Bay-Area-93909879.html
How about “showed that the NWS and USHCN and NOAA and CRU and GHCN were basically… FOS”
Meantime, when you’ve finished cheering, take a look at the Met Office’s latest computer modelling clanger:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1279221/The-ash-cloud-Inaccurate-Met-Office-forecast-causes-airport-chaos-50-000.html
Wahoo! try taking a turn in the pfun seat RC and others. Oops, some stiff egos can’t take even the mildest of critisisms, real or just perceived.
If these are “most-wanted” playing cards for the enemy, you have too many face cards.
Nice.
Willis, thanks for sharing your talents yet again. Wish I could be there too. I’d be starry-eyed if I had a chance to meet you and the other anti-hysteria heroes.
Does anyone have video of the talks that already happened? The PJTV link only has live stream.
Nevermind, found some myself:
McIntyre at ICCC2010 on youtube
Lindzen at ICCC2010 on videomeli
Wow! you guys are really, really nerdy… you should keep this kind of posts to a nerd-only mailing list. You’re scaring off the regular folks.
Is Sharp suggesting going after sardines with a harpoon gun? I think there are problems with that. Or is he hunting refugee populations with it? There are different problems with that.
Willis Eschenbach says:
Mike McMillan says: “Using your proxy evidence and applying principal component analysis, I find for PC 1 that everyone but Gary Sharp wore ties . . . ”
Yeah, Gary wore a great orange patterned shirt.
I think there’s a sobering lesson here for all of us.
We have long excoriated Dr Mann for using PCA on the Graybill tree-ring data to make the Medieval Warm Period and the Little Ice Age disappear in his “Hockey Stick” graph.
Yet here we have seen demonstrated that with conscious intent and no collusion between Willis and me, PCA may tease an orange shirt from a black and white line sketch.
Despite the ice-entombed Viking farms of Greenland, Brueghel’s frozen landscapes of temperate Holland, and megabytes of embarrassing emails, how can we continue to doubt Dr Mann and his methods?
I shall email an apology immediately.
Thanks Willis.
It gives us a feeling for the fun you are all having.
BTW are you sure you are not a reincarnation of da Vinci 🙂
A real renaissance man.
Renaissance man indeed. Is there anything Willis can’t do? Lucia tells us he also plays the piano rather well.
Great cartoons. Looking forward to more of them.
I found these cards somewhat alienating and not at all endearing. I wouldn’t expect to recruit any new followers through these tactics, nor take away any marketable points.
Sen. Harrison Schmidt, “Constitutional Restraints on Regulation Related to Climate and Energy” video, here!
http://www.globalwarmingheartland.org/
Kind of quiet out there for the mainstream meeja coverage!
That’s alright, they didn’t say a word about the leaked emails for weeks, either. 🙂
John Hooper says:
May 18, 2010 at 12:55 am
“I found these cards somewhat alienating and not at all endearing. I wouldn’t expect to recruit any new followers through these tactics, nor take away any marketable points.”
And we have a WINNER for first alarmist attempting a lame FUD post.
John Hooper says: May 18, 2010 at 12:55 am
I found these cards somewhat alienating and not at all endearing. I wouldn’t expect to recruit any new followers through these tactics, nor take away any marketable points.
The success of WUWT in confronting alarmist AGW propaganda is unrelated to fluffy photo ops and psuedoscience journalism. It is essentially an award winning Science blog. If people can’t discern that, they are probably incapable of comprehending the discussion and are doubtless programmed to reject the science refuting CAGW.
re: John Hooper says:
May 18, 2010 at 12:55 am
I found these cards somewhat alienating and not at all endearing. I wouldn’t expect to recruit any new followers through these tactics, nor take away any marketable points.
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I don’t know, I think they’d make great t-shirts. Nicely done Willis!
John Hooper says:
May 18, 2010 at 12:55 am
John, you seem to have missed the point. I do this for fun, and the people that I draw the cartoons of seem to enjoy them greatly. I’m not doing it to “market” anything, I leave marketing to the AGW supporters. And I’m not trying to “recruit new followers”, either people agree with my science or disagree with it, I don’t care if they “follow”.
I do it for that oddest of human reactions to this crazy, amazing, mysterious universe … laughter. We’re in the midst of a revolution in climate science, and in my view, any revolution that you can’t laugh at is not worth revolving.
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@Willis Eschenbach
‘any revolution that you can’t laugh at’
is a kin to religion, if not religion itself.
In religion you are only allowed to laugh at hinduism, buddhism, and proper christianity. In politics you can laugh at pretty much everything except socialism and its extreme derivatives.
In science you can laugh at everything except apparently sociology and climatology.