In case you don’t know the line above, lookup “Treasure of the Sierra Madre”. Here’s a YouTube clip of one of the most famous lines ever borrowed for parody use in movies.
I’ve always said that if you can’t laugh at yourself and situations, then what is the point of life? After the PNAS blacklist fiasco, I compared the episode to the East German Stasi and the lists of citizens they made to track personal associations. I also quipped: “Will we have to wear yellow badges to climate science conferences?”. That’s a reference to the Yellow badges imposed on the Jewish population of WWII, to separate them from the rest of the populace. It is a sad footnote of history but not unlike the PNAS paper’s attempt to separate skeptics from the rest of the scientific community.
Lucia decided I had invoked Godwins Law, and being the optimist, I suggested this yellow badge for skeptics, since our friends on the other side of the argument always seem to be such sourpusses:
That seems to be a hit, so much in fact that lot’s of people have designed variations. Lots of examples below. So, I’m going to have a contest. We’ll look, we’ll vote. Then I’ll get some made up. Just leave links to your badge images (Tinypic, Picassa, Imageshack, etc) in comments, then I’ll gather them up for a voting page. Keep it clean, be upbeat and funny. Words combined with images are OK too. Just keep some connection to the Yellow smiley badge obvious.
Here’s some examples by cartoonist Josh:
From Cartoons by Josh
Following a request by Anthony at WUWT and discusion at The Blackboard
about there being some climate skeptic yellow badges I thought an Anthony badge and a Lucia badge would be fun – see above.
And so no one feels left out below is a Warmista badge, and, because I couldn’t resist, a Monckton badge.
The third one started off as the Pielke clan badge as they collectively cover a lot of opinions but actually it could be all of us! And, yes, other groups use rainbow badges – so really useful for all kinds of marches you find yourself on 😉
And a thank you badge for Atomic Hairdryer.
Also one for another articulate poster, Raven
(and hoping he/she will get in touch so I can do an ‘inhabitants’ cartoon)
And Bishop Hill of course.
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Prepare for more whitewash, BBC Panorama tonight (28th)
Reporter Tom Heap looks at how e-mails from the University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit caused the climate change debate to turn nasty
http://news.bbc.co.uk/panorama/hi/default.stm
The Monckton smiley gets my vote too! I’ve wondered if he and the late great Marty
Feldman didn’t have a common ancestor….
CalMike says:
June 28, 2010 at 7:08 am
I’m not an artist, and don’t have the technical abilities to “draw” a sample. (And my son is still sleeping)
I thought the most obvious would be to use a broken (bent upwards) hockey stick as the smile on the “badge”.
Mike
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HMMMmmm, a thermometer nose, a hockey stick mouth, and the ear muffs
John of Kent said on June 28, 2010 at 6:46 am:
I thought that was an “English” badge, or does the hand have to be turned around for it to count? 😉
How about a small smiling sun on the corner and a finger pointing at it?
Count me in on the Monckton badge too. It’s different enough from a regular smiley face that it makes someone unfamiliar with this cause ask a question or two….
I suggested that one a few days ago on another thread here, and S. Weasel was kind enough to create it, here: http://sweasel.com/archives/6403
However, I’ve come to prefer another button-idea I had, a pair of upraised hands decisively breaking a hockey stick, in imitation of the logo of the War Resisters League, which broke a rifle. S. Weasel also created a button for that.
I’m now hoping that he’ll change (and enlarge) the lettering around the edge from its current “Consensus Resistance league” to the punning “Gore Resisters League,” which would also make clear to the average reader what consensus is being resisted.
Monckton!
All very nice but there’s really only one expression that puts the whole silliness of AGW and the PNAS list in its place:
Adopt a button with the irreverent visage of Alfred E. Neuman and the message, “What, me worry?”
I particularly like this one: http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/uncyclopedia/images/9/98/Teletubbies-sun.png
JB says:
June 28, 2010 at 7:08 am
The number of folks that will die, should the hardcore Eco agenda be adopted will dwarf anything the Germans did. In general, I see the point of stating that the use of the term Holocaust is belittling to the death camps survivors and the victims families. This is not one of those cases.
Come on! Blazing Saddles did it best! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lj056ao6GE
didn’t forrest gump invent the smiley face? p.s. ihatetexting!!!
Here is mine…
http://i48.tinypic.com/aucu3q.jpg
The mustache and eyebrows might be a bit too cultish–it’s still cool, though.
So far, I’d have to go with the flames–I mean, it’s Thermageddon after all.
JB says:
June 28, 2010 at 7:08 am
I wonder if survivors of the Holocaust appreciate and understand the comparison between what they suffered through and what this PNAS paper has caused the “UE” group to suffer through, or I wonder if they feel you are belittling what they went through by making these comparisons….
This is a valid concern. The obvious response is that the first allegation that raises that comparison does not come from the skeptics but from the warmists by insisting on the “denier” label. But does a light hearted response in kind reflect insensitivity to the true holocaust sufferers? I wonder if Germans, en masse, had all insisted on wearing yellow badges, with or without smiley faces, if the holocaust might have been prevented. Such an action would have been a powerful statement to the effect that “we refuse to be labeled”. The pernicious nature of lists of the kind in question is not a slight or insignificant thing. It deserves a response. It’s not really enough to criticize this response without offering a better one. If not yellow smiley faced badges, what?????
Buttons are great. They are declarations of the button wearer’s views or attitude. To get that across, effectively, a button must be simple and easy easy to understand.
Effective buttons are great communication tools, but, ideally, they will initiate a transaction in the communication process that leads to a more extensive information transfer.
If the button is simple and easy to understand, it will attract attention. If a button does that, it will be a great conversation opener. A graphic and a few words of text around it will work best for that.
The graphic will catch the eye. The text will cause the eye to linger and the owner to lean forward, trying to read what it says. And thereby you have a never-ending stream of new individuals, plus anyone near enough to listen in, at check-out counters, on the bus or subway, at work, coffee-shops and so on, people that are potential listeners eager and ready to listen to you explain what your button is all about.
If anyone were to wear a smiley-face button without anything else on it, few people would ask him anything about it; most likely those would be just a few of his friends whom he sees everyday and who might find it odd and out of character that he wears a smiley-face button. Anyone else he meets face-to-face won’t spend a second glance. The smiley-face button is so familiar to virtually all people that they will not even consciously notice it when they see it.
Will a bit of text around the edge on a smiley-face button be a better attention getter? Most definitely, such as: “CLIMATE SKEPTICS are OPTIMISTS” and on the bottom edge, “I love CO2”.
That could be improved a bit as an attention getter if the “smiley” face were to be made an obvious variation from the familiar one, similar but so different that peoples’ eyes would sort of stumble over the difference and make them look more closely. I am not enough of an artist to be able to achieve that. I believe that it was about 65 years ago that my parents told me not to worry about that, because it would only take a little bit of skill to become a critic. That is true, and far more critics than artists make a comfortable living, while artists will often not be worth anything at all until after they are dead.
The original smiley is Leif’s avatar for the SC24.com message board!
http://www.solarcycle24.com/avatar/smile.jpg
This smiley below seems good. Sunglasses and a grin, we skeptics fear no runaway global warming. We just enjoy the warmth while it lasts.
http://rlv.zcache.com/smiley_with_sun_glasses_sticker-p217492683684843646qjcl_400.jpg
The smiley below could be the alarmist smiley, as they always seem to have the same look when faced with tough questions.
http://icons2.iconarchive.com/icons/deleket/scrap/256/Smiley-Angry-icon.png
If I could do art, I’d work in a hockey stick somewhere. Could the smile be hockey stick shaped?
I like the original. I like the thought of wearing the badge on the London Underground. If I saw someone else wearing it I could give them a matching jolly smile and thumbs up sign.
Oops! Should read all posts first. Anyway, I agree with CalMike.
Steven….” Do they really think that Polar Bears care or are affected in any way if they drive a hybrid? How dense can people get?”
You meant that as a rhetorical question,right? If not, I can’t think of any element right now denser than lead, but then these CAGW cultists would have to have something in their heads to start with, for it to be dense(besides trying to scam naive people out of their money)
For anyone thinking that making comparisons to the Holocast belittles it, consider “Shindler’s List”. The NAZIs were very FOND of making LISTS of people, and acting on those lists…This is where it STARTS.. Please note the “no fly” list, with it’s many errors.
“JB:
I wonder if survivors of the Holocaust appreciate and understand the comparison between what they suffered through and what this PNAS paper has caused the “UE” group to suffer through, or I wonder if they feel you are belittling what they went through by making these comparisons….”
Gosh, you’re right. Perhaps all yellow badges should be banned from now on. Otherwise, well we might as well be denying the holocaust. /sarcasm
BTW, I always thought you lot across the pond called them “buttons”.
Maybe you should use a smiley face with a zipper instead of a mouth. This would reflect the fact that the warmers would like nothing better than for all of us to shut up and act like lemmings.