There’s a riotously funny bit of inside “Climate Math” humor over at Climate Audit from Steve Mosher that is well worth your time. I’m reminded of this famous sketch, but with enough players to actually make a baseball team:
See the next video and link.
Fair warning, if you don’t understand inverted Tiljander sediment proxies, FTP folders labeled “censored”, Real Climate Censorship al la Gavin, or the mindset of Mann and Tamino, you might not get it.
Here’s the link:
http://climateaudit.org/2010/08/06/mosher-on-gavins-frustration
Though, since Climate Math is involved, perhaps this Abbot and Costello sketch is more appropriate:
The wramists have said 2+2=5 and to them the mathematics is then settled.
To try to get them to debate is futile.
( Doesn’t this so clearly show their minds. )
Axel @ur momisugly 3:12 PM.
Thank you for allowing me to do myself a favor.
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Now, now, New Math is so 1970’s. The latest thing is the New New Math. Teamwork, group activities, calculators and computers, novel creative algorithms, and the answer doesn’t have to be right so long as they were trying their best.
http://www.mathematicallycorrect.com/index.htm
All the inquiries have found that there was no wrong-doing because standard practice for climate scientists is to find that 2+2=5. It can’t be wrong if everybody who, ahem, counts, that is, those with the grants, gets the same answer.
Indirect costs say so.
The second Abbott and Costello clip reminds me of a Ma and Pa Kettle clip where 5×14=25.
Gav: take the blue pill and forget all about 2+2=4
Mc: take the red pill, look into the paleoclimatic rabbit hole and see how far down 2+2=4 takes you.
Tamino: I took both
Mosh: Tamino, we know
We have spent 90 trillion dollars on 2+2=5, so it must be true