This is an appropriate introductory image to this new series.
Our friend Josh at cartoonsbyjosh.com has decided to launch a news series of cartoons dealing with some of the more absurd issues that have surfaced recently related to Climategate, the whitewash investigations, and other general climatic malaise.
Here’s #1, Josh writes:
I am starting a new series called ‘Fantasy Climate’ where anything goes really. This first one is Phil and Steve meeting at the pub. It didn’t happen, but it should have.
The cartoon is satire, Muir-Russell not asking questions of either Jones or McIntyre is fact.
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Great work as always Josh !!!
And the next one is Michael Mann holding a thermometer upside down yelling: “I told you it was getting warmer”..
If I am ever investigated I want only defense witnesses at my “investigation”!
I also want someone I have worked with for 18 years on the jury.
“after the panel was empowered.”
“De Plan, de Plan!” as opposed to “De plane De Plane!”
AP: Homeland Security probed FOIA requesters, delayed data based on politics
http://hotair.com/archives/2010/07/22/ap-homeland-security-probed-foia-requesters-delayed-data-based-on-politics
Mmmm, the smell of corruption in the morning…
So, Watts, Goddard, Pielke. Feel violated…?
(you should!)
I know that pub. I once met a mann there about a hockey stick.
Real life is becoming a cartoon we now have nuclear power causing global warming http://bellaciao.org/en/spip.php?article20030
Fat squirels caused by global warming http://www.aolnews.com/article/squirrels-are-getting-fatter-now-too-thanks-to-global-warming/19563787
and 1/3 of US counties facing water shortage because of global warming
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/greenhouse/post/2010/07/global-warming-raises-water-shortage-risks-in-one-third-of-us-counties/1
The Southeast more vulnerable to global warming
http://www.tennessean.com/article/20100722/NEWS01/7220331/Southeast-may-be-vulnerable-to-worst-of-global-warming-s-effects
Worse smog from global warming
http://www.ocregister.com/news/ozone-258829-study-california.html
and more malmots
http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2010/0721/Another-consequence-of-global-warming-more-marmots
and those are just what I found today on Google News. It has really gotten nuttty out there.
What J.”Trains” Hansen used to sing to Mr.Jones:
Me and Mr. Jones, we got a thing going on,
We both know that it’s wrong
But it’s much too strong to let it cool down now.
We meet ev’ry day at the same cafe,
Six-thirty I know she’ll be there,
Holding hands, making all kinds of plans
While the jukebox plays our favorite song.
Me and Mr., Mr. Jones, Mr. Jones, Mr. Jones,
Mr. Jones got a thing going on,
We both know that it’s wrong,
But it’s much too strong to let it cool down now.
We gotta be extra careful that we don’t build our hopes too high
And now he sings:
They say that breaking up is hard to do
Now I know, I know that it’s true
Don’t say that this is the end
Instead of breaking up I wish that we were making up again
All it needs is background music from “Spike” Jones Hawaii War Chant
♫♫♫So,as the sun pulls away from the shore and our ship sinks slowly into the west♫♫♫
Josh,
I dedicate this to the 3 musketeers of CAGW:
http://www.absolutelyrics.com/lyrics/view/bee_gees/i_started_a_joke/
NOTE: or is it n musketeers, where n is a very large number? I forget : )
John
Yes, I think ‘fact’ should be in the title somewhere. I was tempted to call it ‘Real Climate’ but I might just get into trouble.
Go Josh! And as a follower of his Comic Curmudgeon, I can’t say how happy I am to not only learn that he’s in the sceptic camp, but that he’s on this very site.
Hey, Josh. Maybe you could have a new line of products. Instead of “What would Margo do?” you could have “What would Mann do?”
You are being unkind. If they got their science right, I wouldn’t have bothered with the climate topic, but now I got something to do in my spare time.
My thanks and gratitude go to Jones, Mann and ‘AGW brotherhood’.
Real life is becoming a cartoon we now have nuclear power causing global warming http://bellaciao.org/en/spip.php?article20030
??????????
Has this idiot forgotten the friction (heat) generated by the mechanical motion of the wind turbine? He mentioned it when he talked about working out but conveniently forgets about it when he mentions wind power? And this guy is a MD? I know science courses are required to become a doctor. How did this guy pass?
realclimategate – josh? 😉
Myron Mesecke says:
July 22, 2010 at 11:57 am
Real life is becoming a cartoon
How is it the topological distribution of this life change on earth?
“(Josh’s) cartoon is fiction”– climate hysterics would like to believe that, but in their well-appointed Alternate Reality it has the ring of truth.
Vuk etc. says:
July 22, 2010 at 11:35 am
You are being unkind. If they got their science right, I wouldn’t have bothered with the climate topic, but now I got something to do in my spare time.
My thanks and gratitude go to Jones, Mann and ‘AGW brotherhood’.
But now THEY KNOW WHERE YOU LIVE !!”
Do you remember “someone is knocking my door…..”?
Remember the ice age scare, that apparently was not part of popular culture, and did not happen!
The Clash: London Calling – December 1979
CHORUS
The ice age is coming, the sun’s zooming in
Meltdown expected, the wheat is growing thin
Engines stop running, but I have no fear
Cause London is drowning and I, live by the river
http://www.cbsnews.com/2300-500202_162-10004208.html?tag=contentMain%3bcontentBody
Yacht owners file insurance claim when their yacht was crushed under a jumping whale.
Cause: Global Warming. (Ocean’s are just to hot for the poor creatures)
Real ale is supposed to be served at cellar temperature which is cooler than room temp but not cold. Remember this if you’re drinking Gruddlington’s old peculiar with bits of twig in it.
Barry Woods says:
July 22, 2010 at 12:56 pm
Now that forecast will be fulfilled. Enjoy it!
The Sun in the emergency room:
http://www.vukcevic.talktalk.net/PF.gif
Enneagram says: July 22, 2010 at 12:46 pm
Do you remember “someone is knocking my door…..”?
You are showing your age. Of course I do.
See it again. It’s cosmic man!
http://www.answerbag.com/q_view/410727
Re: Nuclear power causing global warming.
The writer is a fool, but his argument is qualitatively correct—to a point. The waste heat from exothermic power generation is expelled to the environment and becomes part of the overall thermal “economy.” (Actually, it is probably fair to say that most of the power generated goes into the environment, because a large part of the power utilized is also dissipated by friction, turbulence, etc.) This is also a “problem” for coal, oil, and gas-fired powerplants, even though he pushes them off the stage. The crux of this contention, however, is the fact that the total amount of power production is peanuts compared to natural insolation and is therefore “in the noise,” a fact he does not evaluate by calculation. In any case, the slight increase in outbound radiation needed to keep the planet in thermal balance may be a trifle for natural systems to accommodate.
This is not to say that it can never become a problem. Krafft Ehrike, the late colleague of the late Wernher Von Braun, proposed in his book “The Extraterrestrial Imperative,” that the growing heat release of a continually advancing world economy may require us to put our powerplants in orbit so the heat can be radiated into space (not into the biosphere) and the power beamed down to the surface. That is quite a ways away, but it illustrates that interesting things can result from massive economic growth.
As to the friction from the wind turbine? It was only power that was previously in the wind, but now the wind has less power due to the extraction from the turbine. No net increase in temperature, but in fact a reduction, due to the conversion of wind kinetic power into electrical power.