Josh of Cartoons By Josh writes:
Kevin Anderson’s post at Bishop Hill intrigued me.
He came up with 4 simple theoretical ‘legs’ upon which to launch his clear view that
Anthropogenic Global Warming was serious and needed immediate attention.
A year ago I would have agreed (hey, lots of us did, ‘cos ‘they’ said it was all true!)
A year on and the picture does not look so clear: subterfuge, lost data, no data,
no warming, false predicitions, misinformation, fudged inqiries, bad science, no science.
It may look clear to Kev, but for the ordinary chap like me it all looks more shoogly than ever.
This cartoon is an attempt to show that – no doubt with huge scientific inaccuracies and
misrepresentations. So take aim, fire and give me your best shot.
I am happy to change this cartoon to make it better!
LOL on that table
I like the cheeping little bird on the top the most.
Sums it up well.
H/T
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Good one.
(Four legs does sound like the four pillars rebuttal of alarmists, from two decades ago.)
The table would be more representative if it were an Escher type optical illusion — looks good at first glance but includes some impossible conditions to make it appear to work.
I second (third?) the notion of an Escher table, with its intimations of normality to begin with, the dawning of the fact that it is just an illusion, leading to impossibility on closer inspection, an endless cycle of apparent progress leading nowhere.
A metaphor for the AGW movement if there ever was one.
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/409464/how_to_draw_m_c_eschers_impossible_cube/
Isn’t the Internet wonderful?
Where is the polar bear? Maybe a painting on the wall?
Excellent Rex Murphy in the National Post:
“But hey, if you’re going to do Armageddon — do it in Cancun. The apocalypse at the all-you-can-eat buffet. Parasailing to Armageddon.
Does not one of the great minds decoding next century’s weather see the brain-splitting contradiction of holding a conference warning of the imminent threat of global warming in a venue that mainly exists because people fly there to get warmer? That’s right, people spend money to fly to Cancun mainly because it’s warmer there than where they live. In essence, Cancun is what the global warming crowd are, otherwise, warning us about.”
Read the rest:
http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/columnists/last+global+warming+conference+ever/3927517/story.html#ixzz17IEH0v4x
How about an inscription around the table’s edge: “Four legs, good, two legs bad.”
Following from my last, if the “greenhouse effect” leg was propped up on the IPCC
report, you’d have a table with two good legs and two poor legs – a second meaning
to the phrase.
Where’s the Deathwatch Denier Beetle or the Cyclical Woodworm?
May I suggest an adjustment to the Green House effect leg. It looks too solid and flat on the ground.
Possibly a thrice folded paper under it, like my coffee table, to keep it steady. Better yet, the thrice folded paper could have what appears to be MBH98 written on it.
Ahhh yes, how about some crumbs under the table from those biscuits, and some rats feeding on them. One rat has a bald head and a goatee, the other is quite obese and has a nobel medal around it’s neck etc. 🙂
a jones says:
December 5, 2010 at 3:27 pm
Surely you mean the HOMOGENISED milk.
The way it worked for me regarding this Table analogy is that I immediately saw one “telltale” sign of AGW science not being real science. I still gave it a chance, but it only got worse. Bottom line, there wasn’t any Table to begin with.
Baa Humbug says:
December 5, 2010 at 7:16 pm
Quite so: completely slipped my mind since I don’t use the stuff myself.
Kindest Regards
Josh – you’ve received a pile of really really good ideas up above.
Now run with the best of them and do what you do so well!!!
Lookin’ forward…!
SM-
I agree as well (The Canadian term -“drop the gloves” applies now)
Knock them the f@ur momisugly#$ out, Josh!
dwright.
The Greenhouse Effect leg should be on fire.
Good job Josh!!
I’d like to second the suggestion from a jones says: December 5, 2010 at 3:27 pm, with minor addition, make it a LARGE carton of TAXPAYER funded milk…
and add a for sale tag off one edge of the table, flapping in the breeze, with a $ 10 Trillion or something like that on it, representing how the whole table is too often up for sale, and the cost to everyone is massive…
Any way you could add a very faint ghostly looking large polar bear balanced delicately on the table with four tiny little feet (so they’ll fit on the table, and look all the more ridiculous and precarious beneath the big fat blimpy bear body), and plastered across its side words something along the lines of “model, assumption, supposition, could, might, maybe, possibly, in the future” to represent how incredibly often both some of the research and most of the AGW MSM articles seems to have vastly more guesswork and supposition than real evidence to them? Maybe even make either his snout or tail be more substantial/solid looking, and tag it with “real data.”
I’d also make the “natural variation” book take up most of that leg… or have a stack of books there taking up most of the leg, with each spine labeled things like sun, ocean cycles, clouds, water vapor, dust, aerosols, volcanism, etc.
Heck tho Josh, its funny just as it is too. Thanks for the chuckle!
That should be a 3 – legged table. The CO2 level increase and Fossil Fuel CO2 should be combined into one.
Then take away one leg – The Significance of CO2 and Water Vapour and the table doesnt have a leg to stand on.
Me and a Scottish mate finished off a bottle of Highland Park and caused irrepairable damage to an 18YO Glenlivet last night. We were both decidedly shoogly at close of play. The Highland Park was quite sharp. The 18YO Glenlivet as smooth as silk.
Aussies need 150 odd to make England bat again tomorrow. Heavy showers forecast all day.
Josh.
Can you draw an AGW table with no legs to stand on? Because that’s all they have.
Josh identified the problem areas exactly. Well, maybe one should have added a big one: Convection. Climate models are notoriously bad at modelling convection systems. Oh, and cloud formation.
Josh, great cartoon. I think you could add a long tablecloth being lifted by an inquisitive child to reveal the ‘props’. Maybe another urchin could be under there trying to pull out one of the books.
By the way, fantastic quality t-shirts! Thanks again for the prompt delivery.
There could be a hinge dividing the table top going under the cup. Wouldn’t this be unstable enough to be a tipping point?
Poor old Josh – I can visualise him scratching his head wondering how to incorporate some of the hilarious (and appropriate) suggestions above…
My two-pennyworth – what about a (picture of a) stationary wind turbine in there somewhere..? You know – cold weather – high electricity demand – no wind – wind turbines useless – which we all knew (why the hell do they think we gave up sailing vessels, except for fun..??)…