While not as bad as the horrid 10:10 video exploding children, I have to wonder this about the actual scientists that participated in this farce: what were you thinking ?
Of course, it does seem some circles in climate science are all about bling, and cheerleaders, and labeling people with ugly insulting profanity these days. So maybe, this is simply “state of the art”. The phrase “Real Climate Scientists” is used…hmm.
Watch this video from Australia (warning – profanities)
The lyrics are available here at the website where they made the video.
h/t to Robert C. via email
Ummm . . . comparing climate science to gravity . . . Right.
Anytime you find someone trying to compare the certainty of their pet theory to gravity, you know they are trying to hitch a ride on the coat tails of real science.
To be sure, we don’t know everything about gravity, but we do know enough to calculate its effects out to many decimals, and millions of events all around us every single day confirm its validity. To compare climate science (which has no definitive calculable constant and which has yet to make any meaningful prediction) to gravity is just ludicrous.
Hungry Beast is written by a group of comedians and misguided youth who often put the joke back onto those participating. The lead producer is comedian Andrew Denton. I would describe it as being in a similar vein to Colbert Report. Dont take it too seriously. In this case the left wing bias of ABC shines brightly.
Fred from Canuckistan
That occurred to me too. There’s far too much tax money being spent on “higher education” which seems to be neither of those things.
One word: cringeworthy.
Which institutions offer a degree path to “Climate F***ing Scientist?”
I’m not surprised that some of this came out of the UNSW lysenko school of climate (no feedback) science.
Ross Brisbane says:
May 11, 2011 at 4:07 pm
You forgot the /sarc.
Bad propagande. This minable (trivial) and therefore really bad rap can’t sale bad science anyway. That shit (sorry) is ridiculous in square! Realy. Pore AGW…
Ok, here’s my contribution:
Yo, yo, yo!
Lysenko too was a scientist,
Today he’d be a climatologist.
Dude was peer reviewed by Comrade Stalin,
His science got settled in the Kremlin,
There were lots of speeches and plenty of graphs,
But now all that sh*t’s just good for laughs!
Where are the Minnesotans for Global Warming when you need em, eh?
One has to wonder how some of them obtained their degrees. Going by the names and qualifications I note some are not scientists and some come from second rate institutions. People have been known to buy degrees. An Australian Judge (Einfeld), who was jailed for perjury over a traffic infringement (claimed a deceased person was driving), bought a PhD in USA for $10,000. I heard an Australian government minister say that her party’s aim was to get every young person through to tertiary education. Lowering the standard is the only way that can be achieved. All ready there are university students that can not write a decent report and have atrocious spelling. Next it will be claimed that a person is literate if they can put an “X” somewhere on a form.
I may be old fashioned but when I went to university only 3% of the population qualified to enter university, only 1.5% completed a degree and a PhD was rare and highly respected.
Question: what’s the difference between a climate scientist and a gangsta?
According to Australia, nothing.
Peter Kovachev says:
May 11, 2011 at 3:58 pm
Hey, hey, hey, careful there! That was genuine slap-your-thighs, hold-your-ribs and gasp-for-breath kind of entertainment back in the day for a lot of us behind the Iron Curtain.
Sorry Pete, but it looks as though many want to take us back there.
That would take a lot of vodka.
Best,
Dave
Ross Brisbane says:
May 11, 2011 at 4:07 pm
“Great Rap Video. You deniers and your “corporations” of greed in your great USA….”
Whew! Talk about spew?! You really need to loosen up the tin foil hat, fella!
I’d rather be an honest scientist
and a fake science deniya
than a no degree fool
of a climate change liya….
Word!
D. King,
What’s even funnier than the Trololo dude is that with all those power outages (caused by capitalist saboteurs, of course) it was hard to cook a meal on the nifty new electric elements so, out came the old coal-burning stoves with flues sticking out of apartment windows. Coal was in short supply (the capitalists, again), but there was plenty of trash, tons of printed propaganda, all those free textbooks, loafs of subsidized bread, park benches, the neighbour’s fence, etc. The savings from cutting down on electricity went up in smoke as we burned half the darn country to fry our eggs.
This is part of the long sought improvement in communication?
I think it would be more convincing if the cheerleaders were wearing less clothes like in a real rap video and in a CO2-apocalypse warming world.
Climate f… scientists should know that.
If I was a reputable climate scientist I would be appalled by wearing the label of “believer.” The “denier” versus “believer” language, plus imagery of the priest wearing a huge white cross and standing in a church and lyrics, “a climate scientist! Yo! PREACH!” paint them as evangelical zealots. The expletives and reference to fellatio highlight their level of professional and academic excellence.
They use lots of logical fallacies, take one for example:
“The Green house effect is just a theory sucker (Alan Jones)
Yeah so is gravity float away muther f**cker”
Well gravity has actual evidence and experiments that can be tested. There is NO valid comparison between gravity and the CO2 Climate Doomsday claims. Gravity can easily be tested, while the Catastrophic AGW hypothesis can’t be. Thus the logical fallacy in attempting to compare them and getting people to “believe” that CAGW is real just because gravity is real. It’s an anti-scientific argument that violates the principles of science and that attempts to do away with the requirements of climate scientists from following the scientific method. Clearly the video shows that these people who made it do NOT comprehend the scientific method and the right, no the necessity, of their pet hypothesis to be challenged by those who wish to do so. The lyrics of their video rap song clearly show them attempting to be exempt from the requirements of the scientific method. Major FAIL on their part, they wouldn’t pass a grade ten high school science class on the philosophy of science and the scientific method as a result.
Please provide experiments that can confirm the alleged GHG hypothesis? What? Silence… I’ve asked a Professor Emeritus of Physics at a major US university for any experiments that could be done to confirm this and all I got was: silence. No evidence provided… just assertions. Look even if it’s is real asserting it isn’t enough in science, you must actually PROVE it with experiments that can be independently verified. I still am waiting for any experiments that can be done to validate the GHG hypothesis and quantify it’s effects in the real atmosphere.
”Nullis in verba. Take no one’s word for it.” – Motto of the Royal Society
“Science is empirical. Knowing the answer means nothing. Testing your knowledge means everything./b>” – Lawrence Krauss
I challenge every alleged climate scientist in the above video to take the Climate Science Challenge and prove to me that your CO2 Climate Doomsday Claims are valid and not just the fearful prognostications of your CO2 doomsday cult making use of digital entrails and simulated crystal balls peering into impossible to happen modeled futures.
Prove that you’re not just modern day Nostradamuses:
I challenge everyone who believes the world is in danger from “climate change” to take The Pro AGW Hypothesis Challenge: Present a clearly written statement of your alleged alarmist AGW hypotheses along with all the alleged scientific claims made and any hard evidence that supports those claims, provide all data to support your claims (all raw data and all manipulated data including the reasons for the manipulations), plus mention all means to verify preferably by experiment the claims, and all means by which they would be refuted. Show your work or the work of others in full detail.
http://pathstoknowledge.net/2010/10/18/investigating-the-climate-of-doom/
Simply debased. Talk about racing (all alone, with no competition) to the bottom.
This thing is just another internal memo within Warmism Co. to get rid of real thinkers from their insular little non-profit corporate cult that was established by tobacco farmer Al Gore. It’s high production value is sure indication that b-list PR firms and hip video production “consultants” were consulted. That real scientists were willing to do this is sure indication of a climate science bubble bursting. This is their shark jump. Cool!
As an Aussie and a poor taxpayer who helps fund this zealots, I do apologise. But you need to understand that the ABC has done all it can to make the BBC look balanced when it comes to this topic.
The good thing is that they really jumped the shark with that piece of crap and no one will ever do it again.
I think they found their “qualifications” at the bottom of a weatbix packet. More open mouth, change foot type thing going on there.
If these people are actually working as ‘scientists,’ more evidence that ANYBODY can get a degree in some fields these days if they just go with the flow. Seriously pathetic.