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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How about a Chevy Volt with a tiny coal powered plant as its tail pipe? Me, I can’t draw a straight line.
What I wonder, given this blossoming cartoon popularity, and just how appropriate it is to the AGW camp, I see something wonderful on the horizon….
IF the IPCC will include the most recent stunning scientific paper exploring ETI coming to earth to cure us of our CO2 sins…..and IF we can get the U.N. to release an illustrated AR5…..
Imagine…. an illustrated Statement For Policy Makers, cartoons by Josh!!!
Bruce Cobb says: “Ideologues…actually thought that the “no pressure” ad was funny.”
The frightening thing is that of the dozen or two participants in that ad, not one said, “Hey, guys, this is just plain sick!”
I clicked on the propaganda alongside the cartoons: Union of Concerned Scientists wanting to hang on to their jobs at the expense of the rest of us.
So scientists, as defined as someone foolish enough to have paid this group, are showing that they are more serious than the average person by creating cartoons? It strikes me as exactly the wrong way to go about it.
I think #10 could be re-labeled as … Team Response to FOI requrests
Add
http://fenbeagleblog.wordpress.com/
to your “Cartoons of Climate Interest” list
☺Time for a cartoon dump…
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Sad how members of UCS view the world and their place in it. Two main themes of the various entries are (1) things getting worse, and (2) feare of controlling commercial interests.
A potent mix of ignorance and defensiveness. The “Union of Hapless Victims” would seem more appropriate. But that’s not going to grow the membership – commercial interests win again eh!
Perhaps the funniest thing I found about the original number 8, is the graph in the corner that shows temps raising from -0.75 C in 2008 to +0.75 in what would appear to be 2013.
So that’s where that missing warming ended up!
I know its a cartoon, but you’d think one being run by the “union of concerned scientists” would take the facts a little more seriously.
Thanks posting Anthony! Hope Josh is listening.
For ‘Concerned’, read ‘Activist’ perhaps.
No. 10 has to be the winner, they just don’t realise why.
Pfft, just put up a frame with a egg shell white canvas and one minute tiny little single red dot in the lower left corner and et voila: The Complete Dataset of CAGW Statistics.
Pfft #2, how about an Al Mann dressed in helly Hansen directing the green communist’s tanks to run over everybody ala Chinese tactics?
I love that UCS, in URL and section notation, has designated this contest “Science Idol.” Magnificently evokes the warnings about “false gods” and “graven images.”
#10 is truly a masterwork of scientific thought. The boulder is being restrained, albeit temporarily, it’s not moving. So just let it down slowly and it’ll rest at the bottom of the hill. Look carefully at the bottom of the cartoon, “Progress” isn’t a level path, it’s inclined upwards on the visible part. If the boulder overshoots the base of the hill without too much speed, it’ll tend to roll backwards to there anyway. “Science Truth #10” is a science FAIL.
To Smokey at 2:14, cartoons
#11 is closer than we think, only what will be taxed is not the air we breathe in, but the CO2 we exhale.
The UCS state:
Twelve talented artists have created editorial cartoons that poke fun at the not-so-humorous issue of political interference in science. This year, they focused on how special interests can manipulate, distort, and suppress the science used to make policy and undermine the public’s understanding of scientific issues—often leading to disastrous consequences for our health, safety and environment. (my emphasis).
Why is it alright for ‘science’ to interfere with politics but not vice versa?
Are you throwing down a challenge mr Watts?
Scientific integrity=oxymoron?
#1 needs little (big?) AlGore Carbon Credit tags attached to each of the saplings.
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/263/noncreation.gif
And from our unbiased friends at the BBC more silliness dressed as ‘science’
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-14576664
take note of rubbish like this.
“They die,” said Dr Thomas. Take the polar bear, it does most of its hunting off the ice, and that ice is melting – this July was the lowest ever recorded Arctic ice cover – it has nowhere to go.
regards from sunny hot Thailand. warmth is actually good.
#8 makes me think of many climatologists today.
1. Ex math geek
2. sitting in front of computer,
3. generating catastrophic projections with their models
4. calling it science.
5. No windows to look outside at reality
I must say I liked their cartoon No.1. It isn’t often that you see a crocodile living in a jungle, nor a rhinoceros and a bird of paradise (let alone monkeys and elephants) living in the same jungle as a lemur. Obviously their geography (among other things) is a little confused.
And we won’t comment on who generated the demand for “biofuel” diesel, will we.
contest please. CO2NAN THE CONTRARIAN MEETS MOONBAT OF PLANET GRAUN is already on the drawingboard
“Why is it alright for ‘science’ to interfere with politics but not vice versa?”
Great question Mr Trigge. There are people in academia who want the political system to dance according to their latest theories. But they take great offence if the system asks them to justify their ideas or consider the consequences.
When they denounce you as a “denier” you know they have no better answer.