My friend Kate in Saskatchewan is running a poll on what the next name might be. Here’s a screencap of the poll choices.
My own personal favorite in “Irritable Climate Syndrome”.
You can vote here.
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The name hardly matters anymore it will always translate to ” help me I’m stupid”.Its the coulda, shouda woulda syndrome. Nitwits R us in old speak.
kadaka (KD Knoebel) says:
September 19, 2010 at 5:29 pm
Mutual Anthropogenic Disruption (MAD)
Don’t you mean Meteorological Anthropogenic Disruption?
Everyone is missing the fact Holdren is sending a signal. In fact, I believe his is throwing in the towel on AGW. The definition of ‘disruption’ is:
1. To throw into confusion or disorder.
2. To interrupt or impede the progress, movement, or procedure of.
3. To break or burst; rupture.
Using definition 2, interrupt or impede means to halt the progress of some process. This then translates to ‘Climate Change Halt’. Holdren is saying climate change has stopped. The remaining definitions are less likely:
1. Global Climate Dementia.
3. Global Climate Hernia.
jorgekafkazar says:
September 19, 2010 at 4:28 pm
David Ball says: “Picked up a great new book on anti-gravity. Couldn’t put it down!
It’s full of levity.
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I found it to be light reading although it was hard to weigh the merits of its major premise.
A modest proposal:

Dr. James Hansen of NASA GISS has long wanted to accomplishing something that will ensure enduring fame for himself. I propose that a new term be introduced in his honor in the field of science, the Hansen Scheme. A Hansen scheme is a scientific fraud, perpetrated with governmental knowledge and assistance, that includes vigorous efforts to stifle attempts to expose said fraud, and is intended to enable said government to fleece and further restrict the lives of its citizens. Global warming is currently the most serious example of a Hansen Scheme, but not the only one now out there. Also, Hansen and Charles Ponzi belong in the same class of characters in our history.
REPLY: I don’t share this view. Never assume fraud or malice where simple incompetence will do. That said, have a look at this:
Above is a blink comparator showing the before and after of GISS adjustments to the surface temperature record, 10 years apart. – Anthony
From: Andrew W on September 19, 2010 at 6:23 pm
Nah. They already blame everything on Anthropogenic Global Warming. Mutual Anthropogenic Disruption (MAD) can cover ANYTHING they want to blame on humans.
Plus imagine the T-shirts!
“MAD = MAD” on the front,
“Mutual Anthropogenic Disruption = Mutual Assured Destruction” on the back.
It’s perfect! Add in a polar bear cub on an ice chunk, and watch those babies sell. Think of the WWF fundraisers!
1. Sick Climate Syndrome
2. Man-made Climate Disaster
82 responses so far, what a kindergarten performance over a non-issue. Humour? My almost one year old grandson does better.
REPLY: Well then send us a video of him saying “global climate disruption” and we’ll take you and your claim seriously. In the meantime, enjoy your bafflement. – Anthony
Slightly OT, but here in Japan on 27 October, The Asahi Glass Foudation is to award the Blue Planet Prize to Jim Hansen and Robert Watson. They will receive an award certificate, a trophy, and ca. $600,000 (50 million Yen) each:
http://www.af-info.or.jp/en/blueplanet/introduction.html
How about Climate Collapse, or (is there a rule of 3s before the onamatopedic (however it’s spelled) word can be used) Catastrophic Climate Collapse. If they’re right this time, we’d wind up with Complete Catastrophic Climate Collapse. Oh my!
…as a play on Hansen’s “Venus Syndrome,” how about the “Fund Us Syndrome”?
baffled24 says:
September 19, 2010 at 7:56 pm
“82 responses so far, what a kindergarten performance over a non-issue. Humour? My almost one year old grandson does better.”
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Yes, baffeld, it’s humor. There are many more definitions, but here are a couple. If you can’t see the humor in
Global coolingoops,Anthropological Global Warming, missed again,Climate changeerr, Climate disruption, then you’ve no humor at all! I don’t care what side of the fence you ride, this is laughable. Come on, you know this is funny.‘We don’t know what to call it, but we know its bad and we know it is people that are doing bad things. First, we called it global cooling, but then it started to warm. It really wasn’t the cooling that bothered us, but it was the people! But when the warming came, we called it global warming, because the people were making it hot. But then it quit getting hot and so we called it climate change, because the people were still screwing with our weather! Still, that wasn’t scary enough and more, if we left it in that context, it would be apparent that we didn’t know chit from shinola or our azz from a hole in the ground, so we called it Climate Disruption!
Humor: a comic, absurd, or incongruous quality causing amusement: the humor of a situation. Or, the faculty of perceiving what is amusing or comical: He is completely without humor.
If you can’t see the humor here, then the second observation of the word humor would apply to you.
How about Computer Aided Science Hoax, or CASH?
After “Global Climate Disruption”: next name “Keep Fear Alive”
I hope they stick with Global Climate Disruption.
Its catchy,
I’m warming to it.
Global Climax … it always happens when thing get real hot
The only trouble with the book on anti-gravity was it was a big let down when you finished it.
As for a new name a few spring to mind –
Weather.
More weather.
Different other weather.
Yet more weather.
Weather that is different.
Unexpected weather (as we were looking at something else)
Sorry for the above I have just come off a night shift!
I favor Slartibartfast.
It’s hard enough to pronounce that without your concluding lysp!
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>:p
Climate of mass destruction
James Sexton says:
September 19, 2010 at 9:08 pm
baffled24 says:
September 19, 2010 at 7:56 pm
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If you can’t see the humor here, then the second observation of the word humor would apply to you.
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Is there a third or fourth observation? The only thing that seems remotely funny is the fact that the comments are, supposedly, made by adults.
baffled24 says:
September 19, 2010 at 7:56 pm
82 responses so far, what a kindergarten performance over a non-issue. Humour? My almost one year old grandson does better.
REPLY: Well then send us a video of him saying “global climate disruption” and we’ll take you and your claim seriously. In the meantime, enjoy your bafflement. – Anthony
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I’ll see what I can do, at least it will be a response at my grandson’s level Yes I’ll enjoy my bafflement just as you may enjoy this topic’s wafflement. Now 95 responses, after 100 it’ll run out of steam, even humour has its limits.
Curiousgeorge,
I can see from your post that you are totally taken by your weather rock.
In Oz we gave up on them nearly a century ago in favour of the weather stick, it gives all the same details of the rock but with many enhanced features. At this point I have to say that I am not a weather stick expert, but do understand many of its salient features.
A carefully prepared stick of set length and diameter is available through our Met office, the preparation of the stick and its species a closely guarded secret. Set in the ground in a plumb position to the correct height this gives all the features of your rock,plus.
Rocks are used but only as permanent markers on the ground, thus a system of accurate time keeping for the observations. The winter and summer solstices can be predicted with accuracy. The fine calibration of this stick also gives wind speed by deflection and direction by observation of the fixed cardinal stones.
Please refer also to E.M. Smith The Chiefo for the correct procedure of the stick to ascertain the exact measure of the second and the definition of the yard the foot and many other extremely useful applications.
I fail to understand your preference for a rock in a modern world.
I’d vote for this one:
Neo says:
September 19, 2010 at 10:28 pm
Global Climax … it always happens when thing get real hot
With a slight addition:
Anthropogenic Global Climax…it’s not just for climatologists, and it can even happen (“localized”) in an igloo ;>)