People send me things. The story a couple of days ago about Union of Concerned Scientists (Be a concerned scientist – valid credit card required) has prompted some interest in their cartoon contest.
Hi Anthony,
Seems the UCS are having a cartoon contest. The 12 entries are shown at the following website:
http://www.ucsusa.org/scientific_integrity/science_idol/2011-science-idol-contestants.html
I have attached MY version of entry number 8. Feel free to use it.
cheers
Marc Hendrickx
And here it is:
The only thing missing is the hotline red phone to the “Climate Rapid Response Team”.
Do we have enough cartoonists and artists in the WUWT audience to counter with our own cartoon contest?
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I like #9, but it should have the scientist saying that it’s just barely more likely than random chance, and the other guy should be saying that scientists say it’s highly likely.
The level of activism by UCS reaches a new low…
That should be Climate Rapid Alarm People.
Nice job on number eight!
Yea, what utter kaka those original cartoons are, they do deserve parody treatment.
A contest would be fun, but “..We don’t need any stinking consensus!” … We’ve got Josh!
..And I can’t imagine what he could come up with faced with a global warming caused alien invasion, and the discovery that they take credit cards…
Visions of Al Gore in his coal-powered jet chair flying to meet them, or the image of the Team sitting in front of the tube watching Buckaroo Banzai to formulate their next plan to thwart the invasion….and in the panel next to it the aliens watching an intercepted broadcast of Buckaroo Banzai to see where the attempted invasion of the other aliens went wrong….
Yea, what utter kaka those original cartoons are, they do deserve parody treatment.
see the following amended image……. Union of Conned Scientists Entry,
where do we send them?
Is it just me or are #2,#6 and #10 ambiguous, and could apply to the way the warmists attack proper science?
Always nice to see a reference to Heidi de Klien.
UCS is so utterly sick and dishonest that it is hard to stomach their asininity.
I’m sure Josh can (& possibly will) produce something suitable!
I’d have a go at #6 – just replace Denier with Alarmist and you’re done.
embedded image of cartoon
didn’t show up in my last post……
Here is a link ……..
http://i.imgur.com/DPVBO.jpg
The “Hendrickxised” No.8 beats all of the originals hands down. OTOH, some of the originals do give an unsettling glimpse of the head spaces apparently resulting from their “concern”; No.10, for instance, appears to be a self-portrait for AGWers. Weird.
At the risk of rebuke, I would consider myself to be a ‘concerned scientist’.
I am concerned about the degradation of scientific integrity, the overall politicization of the sciences, the flagrant ignorance of the scientific method, in part by the “man on the street” (who has, at least, SOME excuse), but mostly by the “scientific community” (which has ABSOLUTELY NO EXCUSE WHATSOEVER!!!). I am concerned (and appalled) by the unbridled proliferation of blatant junk science as the real thing, and the increasing sophistication of the charlatans who practice their pseudo-pop-science-du-jour.
But mostly, I am concerned about what happens once we have slayed the CAGW-sky-monster-people (sorry, couldn’t resist a dig at J. Cameron). What will they come with next, to terrorize humanity, once their house of cards has collapsed under its own weight?
Or, have they already initiated their new hob-goblin scare?
“Prepare to die, Earth scum!”
#3 is what it’s all about, if the public and politician aren’t frightened the funding gravy train will end and there isn’t a big market for people who’s only skill is making up scary stories.
#2 fits quite well with the aliens are going to kill us if we don’t look after the planet theme. The guy would certainly fit the ideal look of one of the crackpots working on that report in a comic sense.
When I first saw them (I am on the UCS mailing list because I did one of their petitions, completely re-wording everything so as to say exactly the opposite) one thing that struck me was the lack of humor in them. Ideologues are humorless and it’s hard to say why. They actually thought that the “no pressure” ad was funny. It isn’t just that we sit on opposite sides of the CAGW eco-greenie fence, either. Entry #8 was a good one to parody, because it at least shows some imagination.
So, good cartoons have to start with a good idea, but the execution has to be well-crafted as well.
Josh’s cartoons are great, and should serve as a model. They get the message accross without bopping you on the head with it.
The fact that these very much apply to the AGW faithful , passes them by of course . As those deep in any religion are always unable to understand just becasue a action is taken in that religions’ name does not make a bad action good.
I found them all quite sick making. They are not funny! No6 gets my vote as the sickest.
Heh, I’m concerned for these scientists.
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Waiting for Josh’s illustrated analysis.
Richard111 says:
August 20, 2011 at 11:31 am
I agree. I did not see one original submission that even came close to being slightly humorous. In fact they made my stomach turn.
The Hendrickx revision of #8, however, hit the nail on the head. It seems nearly all of them could simply be re-labeled with antonyms to more closely reflect reality.
What a shock to see “Denier” and “Deny” labels on the originals as well. Nothing like the old “Denier” tag to make something really funny, eh? /sarc
Well done, Marc.
As for the Union of Concerned Scientists website, all I can say is, WOW.
It is worse than I thought.