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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Someone named “Prince of Powerpoint” designed a raised eyebrow smiley that looks quite good . Permission would be needed of course.
Super climate fragile lipstik expee ala docious
ok, not a smiley face but “I love real science” with heart and Stevenson screen.
Reminds me, I did a whole series of bumper stickers ages ago – stickers you can (or should be able to) get actual stickers made up and sent to you.
Carbon Dioxide: June 28, 2010 at 4:14 pm
Whats this amigo got against badgers?
Well, a badger’s a mustelid, and this contest started last week at another mustelid’s site:
http://sweasel.com/archives/6403
Some fun stuff! And, of course, Anthony’s original post started her off on the idea.
here’s my contribution:
http://img541.imageshack.us/i/hockeywink.jpg/
Chris says:
June 29, 2010 at 12:46 am (Edit)
… it is utterly foolish to compare….
Agreed, but some fools did, so here’s the response. Lighthearted and trouble free.
George E. Smith says:
June 28, 2010 at 10:53 am
So does anybody actually remember the story of “The Treasure of the Sierra Madre.” ?
Your recollection of the storyline might be this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mackenna's_Gold
It’s embarrassing to own up to this, but I actually paid money to see this terrible movie. My only defense: I was young.
Ray says: {June 28, 2010 at 8:54 am}
“Here is mine…
http://i48.tinypic.com/aucu3q.jpg
Ray, just add the slanted line, you know, the international sign for “No”.
That would be a winner!!!
Can somebody make a new badge for Anthony on Tour in Australia?
One with the eyes propped open by matchsticks?
(I failed finger-painting in pre-school.)
The audience warmed to Anthony in Perth this evening. Lots of slides and informative charts. A clear message. We have to look after our instruments if we expext to be able to make any sense of the measurements that they provide.
It’s a shame that he had to fly and not fully enjoy our hospitality in the West for a few more days. Only a couple more presentations and Anthony gets a well-deserved “rest”.
“Chris:
When your babies are being tossed alive into furnaces, when your parents, wives, and children are tortured and killed before your eyes, when your brethren are placed on cattle cars and sent to the mass graves, the gas chambers, and the crematoria, then you may properly equate your badge to one of the ones forced on the Jews.”
Oh grow up. Blimey. If you don’t like what’s going on here then just leave. Not complicated. And trying to play the what-you-are-doing-is-an-awful-insult-to-all-those-dead-babies card is just plain pathetic. Take your high horse somewhere else.
Well, badges may help. I don’t think they will do any harm so wear a Monckton badge if you have to. What will count is your writing or emailing your senator, representative, member of parliament. We have to change the mind of the governing class. That’s where it really counts. We have got to tell these people that there are more votes in skeptics than in the cult religion of AGW. Do it or we are sunk. They pass the laws, they make the tax. Change their minds or we are all in deep sh*t.
Might as well make the skeptically raised eyebrow a HS:
http://www.econ.ohio-state.edu/jhm/AGW/HSsmileySkeptic.jpg.
(Though someone more ambitious than I might try to make it broken!)
RE mikelorrey 6/28 8:38PM,
How did you imbed an image in a comment here? The usual HTML tag (img src = ..) doesn’t seem to work on WUWT, even though it does on CA.
Let me try inline again:
I love the Moncton badge, but only because it captures his image beautifully. However, I don’t think it appropriate to have him as “our” style icon.
How about, instead of a smiley sun, a smiley frozen sphere? And the hockey stick mouth and sunglasses (to protect against the albedo effect) and a few drips of water, to depict irony re melting ice caps.
Stevenson Screen Smiley
http://www.flickr.com/photos/39632727@N08/4726354928/
Inconvenient Proof version
http://www.flickr.com/photos/39632727@N08/4746071491/
stevengoddard says:
June 28, 2010 at 6:14 am
When people believe that survival depends on their belief system, they do all kinds of amazing things. Like blow up airplanes and trains, throw people into volcanoes, etc.
AGW extremism is no less superstitious than Islamic extremism or any other primitive belief system. Do they really think that Polar Bears care or are affected in any way if they drive a hybrid? How dense can people get?
Steve,
I always agree with you and I think you’re highly intelligent and right on target…
However as to the denseness issue? You’re behind the times dude. 🙂
You have heard that the National PETA Director has said that he thinks we should allow canibalism in the United States and possibly globally because it would relieve the animals and plants from our negative effects on the planet.
He and others in PETA strongly believe that if we started eating each other we’d relieve the planet of so many humans and provide food for the needy nations.
Gail. Do you mean do some artwork for the various ideas on this thread that have not been art worked yet? If so yes sure, anyone just email me from my site and I will see what I can do.
Hu,
It works for me, but I’m special like that, 😉 . I don’t have posting privileges at CA like you do, but I do here.
A Dead Polar Bear lying on its back with it legs in the air as if in a state of Rigor mortis.
Chris says:
June 29, 2010 at 12:46 am
I for one am GLAD to see somebody rightfully comparing the publication of this paper in PNAS to the treatment of the Jewish people in Nazi Germany….
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To Chris and others. No one is trying to trivialize the horrors of the treatment of the Jewish people in Nazi Germany. The idea is to prevent a repeat of those horrors on a world wide scale.
” Propaganda within Nazi Germany was taken to a new and frequently perverse level. Hitler was very aware of the value of good propaganda and he appointed Joseph Goebbels as head of propaganda. As Minister of Enlightenment, Goebbels had two main tasks:
to ensure nobody in Germany could read or see anything that was hostile or damaging to the Nazi Party.
to ensure that the views of the Nazis were put across in the most persuasive manner possible. “
Those pushing CAGW seem to have taken a page from Goebbels book on the use of propaganda. Without the internet the only information available would have been from the likes of Hansen, Schmidt and Gavin. All we would have heard was: “the Science is settled” “there is a consensus” “the sky is falling” “we must act now” To me it is appalling that this propaganda is still fed to school children throughout the world. Already the economic damage done to Greece, Spain, Germany, and the UK can be seen.
Agreed the CAGW propaganda has not gone far enough yet to have caused the number of deaths that were seen in Germany, however if there is a world wide cap on carbon dioxide added to the Clinton’s 25 X 25 Resolution (biofuel) there WILL result in the starvation of millions.
It has already caused the deaths of many children by starvation.
” Malnutrition contributes to between 3.5 and 5 million annual deaths of children under 5 years of age. Meanwhile, in 2009, 107 million tons of grain were turned into fuel for American cars. This was enough to feed 330 million people for one year at average world consumption levels. In 2009 we reached a new record of more than 1 billion people who are undernourished.
The man we can thank for this is none other than Barack Hussein Obama. It was Obama who voted in favor of subsidies for ethanol fuel. Make no mistake, Obama is aware of what he has caused. In 2008 he said that “there’s no doubt that biofuels may be contributing” to falling food supplies and rising prices….”
So yes the holocaust was horrible but this time the plans are to encompass the whole world. As far as I am concerned that yellow badge not only is a taunt to the establishment it also represents the deaths of all those children starved to death thanks to biofuel.
“In Germany, they first came for the gypsies, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a gypsy. Then they came for the Bolsheviks, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Bolshevik. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics. I didn’t speak up then because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me, and there was no one left to speak up.” – Martin Niemoller, A Lutheran Pastor arrested by the Gestapo in 1937
At least we are speaking out.
Grumpy Old Man says:
June 29, 2010 at 10:01 am
Well, badges may help. I don’t think they will do any harm so wear a Monckton badge if you have to. What will count is your writing or emailing your senator, representative, member of parliament. We have to change the mind of the governing class. That’s where it really counts. We have got to tell these people that there are more votes in skeptics than in the cult religion of AGW. Do it or we are sunk. They pass the laws, they make the tax. Change their minds or we are all in deep sh*t.
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We also have to connect with the “neutrals” and convince them to write to their representatives. That is where the yellow badge and bumper stickers come in. Hopefully they are Ice breakers.
http://www.bitwisegifts.com/Merchant2/pow/2007-01-28.jpg
that’s very funny Ulric – I like that one a lot!!!
I updated the glasses to fit within the smiley… in case someone really wanted to make a button. I used to re-fit old buttons with new images.
updated:
http://www.packerpalace.com/blog/images/smile-skeptic.jpg
http://www.packerpalace.com/blog/images/smile-skeptic-3.jpg
another polar bear theme:
http://www.packerpalace.com/blog/images/smile-skeptic-2.jpg
Mann theme with smiley skeptic eyebrows:
http://www.packerpalace.com/blog/images/smile-skeptic-4.jpg
It’s hard to relay a complex message with a simple design… about the only way that works is a slow build-up into massive usage through extended time (word of mouth) or many people sporting the same colorful button (in this specific case) at a large open event with media coverage.
So, I’m the only one watching Sharon Tate on the trampoline after the stinking badges? Sorry , what was this post about again, WOW!
Brent in Calgary