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
I’m diggin’ it, diggin’ it. Hurrah!
Only crazed climate communist hippies have the belief system in place to claim gravity as mere theory. What was in that smoke I wonder? Haha Wink wink nudge nudge say no more. O_0
Too many comments to read them all.
It is a pretty poor effort.
The Keynes/Hayek vids (thanks temp) were super though. As in all things to do with the dismal science they are, of course, both right and both wrong. They were a joy to watch.
The reaction of my generation to the global warming scare has been cringeworthy.
This reminded me of stage acts that were performed during the traditional annual Student Reviews that were staged before sell-out audiences in theatres all over New Zealand as part of the local university’s traditional Capping Week (graduation)activities or ‘rags’ when I was a teenager; said Reviews were mostly bad-taste parodies designed to shock the ‘blue-stockings’ in any city or town. Most of the population treated the students with great tolerance and affection, apart from a few of the more extremely and intolerantly respectable elders. Just students ‘taking the piss’ really, they will grow up – eventually.
Of course when I was in college, the stupid things I did were only known by me and a small group of friends. With the internet and youtube of today, incredibly stupid things like this are able to been seen by many others and never go away.
C’mon. That was funny! Young people are all about irony today, they looked like they were having fun with it. If they thought it was cool and convincing people to believe the world is about to catch fire, then it’s funny in a pathetic way (i.e. laughing at them). But if they were just goofing and blowing off steam with good old fashioned irony, that was good (laughing with them).
Whatever professional disagreements there are, they have a point that they are actual scientists and went to school for a long time to study climate. The whole climate change/AGW/whatever it is today debate has been hijacked by non-scientists of all stripes. Politicians, media types, corporations trying to sell solutions, corporations trying to avoid having taxes raised, people who wish to convert others to their world view, etc. If the people who invested years of their precious life to studying climate in a formal capacity wish to point that out, they have earned that right. IMHO.
But of course I came down against the Consensus on the Richard Glover debate, one of the few who thought HE was being satirical.
And I also thought that Climategate was done by a professional intelligence service.
You know, the more I think about it, the more I’m convinced I post here because I don’t have enough real life friends.
Do any of you live in Japan….?
This posting makes me uncomfortable, but I’m putting it up anyway. Does it creep anyone else out?
Sorry.
Good bye now.
Ross Brisbane (May 12, 2011 at 1:08 am): “But by the neck of a goose you guys are sure hypocritical when caught in the act by the words of defamatory talk here. You would NEVER EVER get away with this in Australia or Canada or Britain for that matter. Bring it on and let the real scientists settle the score by dragging all of them to court – but sadly not in your country – land of free wanton speech and so much crock whilst the great warming continues…..I see an international court case a coming. Perhaps we will finally get justice for the rest of world.”
Gosh, Ross, you are one angry, frightened and desperate bloke, aren’t you. Lucky for us, you have as much influence on this issue as my neighhbour’s poodle, otherwise you’d be dangerous, instead of pathetically silly.
In any case, you have nicely summarized the Warmist strategy for us: When the corrup UN fails, when its chief scientists cook the books like two-bit hoods, when cheesey movies, ads and vids flop to the howls of derision; go after the enemy with restrictive speech legislation or “international” cangaroo courts.
Bring it on, I say too. Good reason to review our support for the dysfunctional UN, to repair our failing free speech rights, to engage in media warfare and to take a close and jaundiced-eye look at “international law” scam and its mounting abuses.
What? Climate “scientists” trying to be publicity hounds? Why that’s the most ridiculous thing I’ve ever heard! I mean, they’re in it for the
moneyscience…/sarc
Oh. Good. Lord.
Makes me want to never admit to being a scientist ever again.
Exactly what do these “climate
scientistsstudents” do that requires lab coats any how? Do their models leak acid? Do they tend to get tree rings on their clothes?severn says:
May 12, 2011 at 2:30 am
When people have no rational basis for their beliefs, they resort to being
offendedoffensive. There, fixed it for ya.Juvenile twits
There must be something lost in translation here. Are you suggesting that the posters at WUWT are just as “defamatory” as the rap video? The defaming that goes on here can be fairly juicy, I’ll admit, but most of it is directed at people who have been caught lying to the public while on the public dollar. What words of defaming are too harsh for public servants who steal from you while lying? Does holding the moral high ground mean issuing rulings on what is scientific truth from the ivory tower while calling those who question you “deniers” in reference to holocaust deniers?? Are those people who ask questions of the pampered and well-travelled monks on the government dole held to a higher standard than the monks themselves? Yes, I’m sure in the past I’ve posted some rather mean things here about various personalities in the climate “science” community, but when you make yourself a target by accepting public money and then failing in your charge, you deserve all the mud you get.
You’re only reinforcing my own appreciation for my country. The base freedom of speech in this country, carried now into the internet on principle, is what is saving mankind from economic-self-destruction in a keynesian-end-game. Without that freedom, no one would question for so long why the emperor is naked.
Your post reeks of no-argument whining while down 10 points with 0:02 on the clock.
Keith G says: “The whole climate change/AGW/whatever it is today debate has been hijacked by non-scientists of all stripes….If the people who invested years of their precious life to studying climate in a formal capacity wish to point that out, they have earned that right. IMHO.” (May 12, 2011 at 4:27 am)
Hi , Keith, as virtual homes go, this isn’t a bad one and it’s pretty close to the real thing; loud, contentious and messy. I thought I saw a couple of chaps here posting from Japan, so you might stick around and maybe add you location at the bottom of every post. Good luck with that.
As to your contentions above, the climate issue wasn’t “high-jacked” by non-scientists; if you look at its history, you’ll see that the idea of CAGW grew and was promoted mainly by non-scientists, namely government bureacrats, enviro activists, the left, special commercial interests and, of course, the ever-rapatious UN. Billions in funding and lucrative research grants created the new field of climatology which began with pre-determined assumptions before the data was even properly looked at. That should worry anyone who claims to promote science.
This never was, and is not now, a battle between science and non-science, as some Warmists pretend. Rather, it’s a fight between an establishment which claims exclusive rights to a new discipline and others from related disciplines which, as is the scientific norm, engage in critiques. Climatology, though, has set itself up …with help of special interests…as an untouchable discipline, one above all others, and as a consequence of its perceived special status, feels free to routinely violate the ideals and norms of science. Unchallenged power invariably corrupts.
The music video you think of as somewhat cute, actually serves as an in-a-nutshell illustration of the bad science practiced by the Warmist camp; unproven claims, crude appeals to authority, foul bullying and cartoonish demonization of the opposition. There is nothing novel about it; tyranical regimes the world over have been churning out such “cute” propaganda aimed at youth for as long as there have been tyrannical regimes.
By and large, the skeptic community is not fighting science itself, but bad science, or pseudo-science. By now we should know that scientists and their institutions are not immune from errors, political pressure and corruption or, even, as history has shown so many times, criminal and horrifying acts of savagery. Remember eugenics, racial anthropology, Nazi medical researchers and Lysenkoism.
As you will witness in the months and years to come, the Warmist camp is feeling the heat not from global temperatures, but from its own rapidly declining ability to control the message and to command the huge resources it became quite accustomed to. It will apply cuteness or nastiness as the situation calls for. Unable to prove its case in a fair and open scientific forum, Warmism –like other messianic movements before it– defaults to fear-mongering, insults, endless repetitions, obscurantism, begging for intervention, special appeals, threats, and crude propagandizing. As such things usually work themselves out, there will be lot of noise and even some danger before the inevitable crash. Then, we’ll all move on, hopefully having learned some important lessons.
Do climate scientists really wear those sexy white lab coats?
Every good religion needs a hymn to sing. Besides every good thing I learned in this life of mine, has come from a song in my youth. If I may quote Guns N’ Roses, “Every rose has it’s thorn. Just like every night has it’s dawn. Just like every Carbon leaves a sad, black stain.”
The Australian blogger Professor Bunyip has a post on these fools that tells you a little more about a few of them, including a climegate email that says it all about how the climate crooks look out for each other..
“Insane Clown Posse”
http://bunyipitude.blogspot.com/
I really wonder if these people imagine they are advancing their cause. IMO, they aren’t.
OUCH.
390 XXXTRA LARGE THAT’S WHAT I’M TALKIN’ ABOUT!
Let’s call them the Insane Cloud Posse.
Johno says:
May 12, 2011 at 8:46 am
“Insane Clown Posse”
http://bunyipitude.blogspot.com/
Excellent link.
I agree with Jeremy…OUCH.
From the link:
“…And pity, too, about those pesky Climategate emails, because one particular sequence of correspondence provides a glimpse of the world in which another academic rapper, Victoria University’s Prof. Roger N. Jones (the little bald fellow below and at 1:05 in the video), does business.
Dear Mike,
….. I should perhaps explain my delicate position in all this. As a retired CSIRO person I have somewhat more independence than before, and perhaps a reduced sense of vested interest in CSIRO, but I am still closely in touch and supportive of what CAR is doing. Also, I have a son who is now a leading staff member of WWF in Australia and who is naturally well informed on climate change issues. Moreover, Michael Rae, who is their local climate change staffer, is a member of the CSIRO sector advisory committee (along with some industry people as well) and well known to me. So I anticipated questions from WWF Australia, and from the media later when the scenarios are released, regarding the scenarios. I did not want to be in the position of feeling the need to seriously question in public their presentation or interpretation. You have allayed my fears on that score, so that is great.”
Hello…oooo, we can see you!
Let’s not be too critical. After all, this song must have been peer reviewed before release, right?
I just wonder what the carbon footprint was to film the video. Lot’s of 100+ watt bulbs, burning globes, speaker racks. Looks like they are willing to do whatever it takes to get their precious hockey stick.
Send your kid to college nowadays, and have them graduate an uncivilized barbarian. The long march through the institutions is complete and and the brainwashing is in full swing. Look at the live f@cksaw demo at Northwestern. The universities need a huge housecleaning, or we can kiss western civilization goodbye.
You have to chuckle at those kilowatts wasted on stage lighting ‘n’ stuff for the “show”. As with Al Gore and beachside mansions, the talk and the walk just don’t quite match.
So I’m a 23-year old edgy, gay, Gen Y guy, and I felt really embarrassed for them. Seriously, that was the lamest thing I’ve seen this year, and I’ve seen The Green Hornet. Like, seriously, “yo”? Who says that any more?
Oh, and what was with that tragic, old loser Prof. Roger N Jones doing? Like anybody wants to see some balding troll glaring ominously at them through the camera. Here’s a tip, Gen Y is about everything pretty, attractive, new and branded – this video hit none of those targets.
Who exactly did they model their rapping on, Will Smith and Vanilla Ice?