Today we have excellent joviality from Josh, plus some commercial video commentary on those poor souls in San Francisco that are about to deal with their first significant snow in quite a long time, which some will undoubtedly view as a “snowpocalypse”. Enjoy!
Sir Paul Nurse is the subject, more on the reason behind this cartoon here.
The SUV haters will love this one:
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Please dump this in moderation:
‘quite’ not ‘quit’
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I saw a cute cartoon that offers a good summary on how AGW Scientists must do their work. 😉
http://d.yimg.com/a/p/umedia/20110225/largeimage.14caf2cbfcca5af005f60d114c353959.gif
Facts don’t make cartoons funny. People who ignore the facts make the cartoons funny.
Ferdinand Englebeen should comment on this one.
ABC reported this morning that the massive arctic outflow that has chilled the west coast will reach as far south as LA by Sunday . . . just in time to chill down all the Hollywood prima donnas as they go from the Prius to walk Oscar’s red carpet.
I am praying for snow.
This should be presented to all politicians in the UK and US, an easy to follow and perfect representation of the reality that even thick politicians can follow.
Take away the vast amount of confusing fog of overly complex deliberately confusing contradictory and computer models of the CAGW alarmists and the barest most simple dynamics of the supposed problem with CO2 become crystal clear to all. I look forward to Pauls ideas on earthquakes and how CAGW is to blame, if it makes as much sense as his CO2 fantasies it should make for hilarious reading.
Paul Nurse the alarmist true believer in charge of the Royal Society unable to even work out the correct ratios of atmospheric gases, their relative warming effects? Perhaps he was elected to because of his mindless obedience to the CAGW theology and because he is politically reliable but clearly he is no asset to the alarmist cult if he makes an idiot of himself when he opens his mouth, on second thoughts…hooooray for Paul…you go girl..shoot from the hip…dont think just shout it all out!
I have to say, the “Never Neutral” commercial series has been very funny so far.
The Charger one that makes a vague Matrix reference (the movie, not the Toyota) still gets a chuckle out of me.
So, when Paul obtained his PhD, did that make him Doctor Nurse?
(sorry, it’s been a long week)
For those concerned about his day job, Sir Paul is the president of the Royal Society of Phrenologists.
Totally irrelevant but the voiceover in the ad sounds like Michael Hall from Dexter.
Not so irrelevant: I’ve over 1 million driving miles on snow and ice. I also grew up in hilly country. I’ve only encountered a handful of situation where 4WD would have come in handy. Driving on snow and ice just needs a little common sense. The main thing is to avoid spinning the wheels. This is easier with a manual transmission. Start in fourth gear if that’s what it takes. That’s not the only technique of course but its the main one. Saw a woman get stuck on a 1% grade road once in Chicago of all places. She kept on spinning the wheels instead of easing out.
That ad is close to reality where I live though.
Royal Society of Phrenologists. Say didn’t they have their own journal back in the 1800s?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phrenology (subject to sales tax in State of Michigan).
The Dodge commercial shows the thinking of people in the south, where 2 inches shut down central NC for a week in mid January.
Or as my wife says, “Someone threw an ice cube onto the street! WE’RE DOOMED!”
Good point Dav (DAV says: February 25, 2011 at 11:59 am).
I’m a firm believer in winter tires myself – never had a 4WD in Norway or here in Canada, but the extra set of wheels with winter tires on is a must. Of course, you have to have them on the car before the snow falls……
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Pete Olson was meaning that his comment informing you about a spelling correction can be deleted and need not be published at all.
I feel a little sorry for Nurse.
Rarely can a scientist have achieved such a peak of emminence – knighthood, Presidency of the Royal Society, Nobel Prize etc. – only to be almost immediately made to look a complete idiot.
I can only imagine that the euphoria of success and celebrity made him lose his better judgement in this case, to throw himself into such a contentious debate so far removed from his own area of expertise.
And do so without carrying out some elementary research; and then not to preview the result prior to broadcast, to ensure he had his facts right.
I’ll bet he’s never published a learned paper in this slipshod manner.
Is the “Never Neutral” a bit of a dog whistle* (as we call it in Australia) referrence to carbon neutrality?
* A term used predominantly in politics… saying one thing, but intending a second message to the true believers: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog-whistle_politics
Amusing but:
AWD can do more harm than good if the driver doesn’t know how to use it properly- don’t lift in a skid, you will spin etc.
I used to live in Banff, AB and after a snowstorm the Trans-Canada highway ditches would be littered with SUVs while I would blast through in my Shelby Daytona (fwd and turbo’ed to near critical mass) front splitter 4″ of the ground made a great snowplow…
mikemUK says:
February 25, 2011 at 1:34 pm
I’ll bet he’s never published a learned paper in this slipshod manner.
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One would hope not, but after the scores of published papers I’ve read, I can tell you there is no guarantee.
4WD is a bit like a spare tire or some money in the bank. I’ve never regretted having it when I didn’t need it – the regret kicks in when it’s the other way ’round. Bravo if you’ve never found yourself in that situation and can reasonably expect that you never will.
The one thing that fools with 4wd never seem to figure out is that it doesn’t do a thing to help you stop.
(yes, I have paid my dues on ice and snow. )
One of the objections that I often get when I present the argument that Josh used in his cartoon is that CO2 contributes much more to warming than some of the other gases… what I’m wondering is what is the alleged warming contribution by each GHG based upon it’s volume (rather than it’s percentage of the total GHG in the atmosphere)? Also which papers attempt or assert that they substantiate such claims?
Driving in the snow ….
People who need 4WD only in the winter are missing the funnest part!
We just got another BIG shot of snow here in western New Hampshire (about 8″ – 10″). I have snow canyons around my house up to my shoulder now. I don’t EVEN want to think about mud season…