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!
Common use of the word shoogly in Scotland.
“your jaiket’s on a shoogly nail”. This means that your job or position is not secure. In the workplace (from the days before locker rooms) you would hang your jacket on a conveniently placed nail.
Josh I read Kevin Anderson’s diatribe that inspired you (he describes at length his hairshirt lifestyle choices, then the “four pillars of AGW”). One thing stuck in my throat: his saying
On investigating the paper he has just released free (good!) to the world, the only reference to the science basics on which his whole superstition is erected, is
Always, always, always.
Always, scientists slide over the evidence and proof for the very basics. Too shameful to suggest they haven’t investigated the basics more carefully and considered dissenting opinions before force-forming “consensus”.
So what I’d like to see here is Josh’s page set up as a web page where the little hand appears with mouse-over each issue, with clicks to a proper science article for each issue. Heck, Josh, I could set up the html framework for you if you want this. So could others here probably. But then we need the articles…
… which is in the line of my own passionate concern to build up a proper sceptics’ consensus statement about each of those pesky ideas the warmists slide over “because we all know… it’s obvious… long-agreed by serious scientists” etc.
One leg – maybe a broken hockey stick. A certain balding team-member could be there holding the broken ends together, wearing a tee-shirt with “Tiljander” printed upside down on it.
Another leg – a carving of a certain Indian gentleman and a lady in locked in a Kama Sutra pose. It could be slightly on fire – i.e. smouldering.
Another leg idea – A certain ex-VP as colossus, holding up his corner on top of which a polar bear balances on an ice-cube.
Another – one leg a bone, one of the team holding back a slavering dog called “FOI”.
The table is plainly going to fall over very soon. Pity about the house of cards on top of it. Different cards could have appropriate things written on them.
But if you don’t go for any of this, your cartoon is already fine.
One of the legs could be made of 2-3 broken hockey sticks, lashed together
Underneath the table, tucked up where the viewer can just barely see it, should be Trenberth’s unrealized heat.
A thermometer restng in the saucer next to the cup of tea, where most people would have a teaspoon?
Many thanks for the many many great suggestions, and, yes David, I am scratching my head thinking of how to fit them all in… I have a plan tho.
Wonderful cartoon and many great comments. Giggling is back in fashion.
Eight legs and some glue oozing from the joints and even some bent nails might represent the precautionary principle
I hope that all these brilliant cartoons are being archived together with any prior sketches (unpublished) etc. That is the proper scientific way.
Thermometers (as above) always stir up, never down
Ha ha
There could be an opened flat pack in the corner marked
‘Design by Peer Review and IPCC endorsed ‘.
Can I have a piece of upside down proxy cake to go with my tea please?
The “table” is a riot!
However, the “three-legged stool” of CAGW ain’t funny at all:
Leg 1 – Zero carbon emissions;
Leg 2 – Veganism (to avoid methane emissions);
Leg 3 – Population controls; and,
Seat – Global governance.
That “stool” is arguably the ugliest, most expensive piece of “furniture” ever conceived by man. It is also a “stool” which cannot be picked up by its clean end.
An ominous crack opening up in the ground between the table legs; one side labelled ‘Theory’, the other, ‘Observation’…
wonderful imagery Josh. nightmarism flat-pack effort.
suffering from golf withdrawal symptoms here in Carnoustie – 2 weeks off now.
2010 – hottest
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“the joint hottest year on record”
Our evangelic warmists show,
All this mana that is falling
Is just imaginary snow;
Were we to become believers
In the great global warming meme,
We could adjust the mercury
To any number we could dream.
Josh,
Great cartoon.
Maybe you can have different ‘models’ of tables?
Maybe you can have skeptical beavers chewing through a table legs?
Maybe in the background you can have a used table salesman (Gavin S., Revkin, Gore)?
John
How about Kool-aid instead of tea? You also might want to add some extra legs lying around the table – questionable temperature measurements, UHI, land-use changes, etc. – that should be supporting the table, but are ignored.
John Whitman @ur momisugly December 6, 2010 at 5:49 am
Perhaps a longer table, with Algore at the center and six “apostles” to either side; sort of “The Last Supper” of CAGW. (Dodge lightning bolts here!)
Perhaps the table could be covered with tamales, enchiladas, refritos, etc. Timely!
The table’s legs should be labelled
1. unprecedented
2. man-made
3. global
4. warming
and the tabletop should be labelled “global warming is bad for people” –
if any one of these five components fails, no table.
You could go for baroque and draw it as a poster-sized blueprint (with footnotes, modifications, replacement parts, etc.)– it would be a way of fitting all the suggestions in and would be a statement in its own right.
Like this, http://library.thinkquest.org/11114/pictures/greek3.gif, but the muses are Hansen, Gore, Mann, Patchy.
I have a personal preference for the scene in the Wizard of Oz where the cute little dog pulls back the curtain to reveal the deception. With that in mind, the table’s legs should be clearly labeled with good things: truth, honesty, science, ethics. But then the cloud/fog/veil is lifted to show that all of these are missing/broken/haywired and the table is in fact being held up by a bunch of demons/monkeys/politicians/activists.
Green House Effect Leg could be sprouting, growing longer and tippling the table over, nothing like a little CO2 to stimulate plant growth.
Perhaps an improvement could be a Stevenson birdcage on the table next to a fireplace with a roaring fire for ambience.
It’s cold outside and we all know where that little wind up blighter should be and another fine opportunity to also get some useful data.
Cheers from the coolest and wettest Spring and Summer so far in recorded history.
Lat25S
Like this, http://library.thinkquest.org/11114/pictures/greek3.gif, but the muses are Hansen, Gore, Mann, Patchy.
That should be for the Temple of (AGW) Doom cartoon.
I think those legs need support from a “Pal review”, maybe circular?
Have two Watermelons with hands and legs and little faces off to one side admiring their handywork – first one says “Nice work Al”, the other responds ” Thanks Karl”.
Might need to put a tiny hammer and sickle on the Karl Watermelon.