Mike Mann thinks this is cool.
In case you don’t know, SUNY’s Professor Scott Mandia is the guy running Mike Mann’s legal defense fund.
My only question is, why does he need hip wader boots?
From Scott Mandia’s blog he captions this photo: The Caped Climate Crusader: Battling the evil forces of global warming deniers. “Faster than global T rise, more powerful than a stranded polar bear, able to leap over rising seas in a single bound.”
If he can leap over rising seas, why the hip waders? Must be for wading through something deep, but what could it be?
I’m sure our readers can help correct this caption.
h/t to Tom Nelson.
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I debated with this nincompoop on the Financial Post blog regards Donna’s book. Full of arm waving and smoke blowing, he could not answer my one question: Please cite just one of the “many scientific errors” you allege Donna made in her book. He ranted from authority about the consensus, but could not answer that one question.
TheGoodLocust suggests- “…he is Coproman!”
Excellent! I was also thinking along the lines of Catastrophic Anthropogenic Climate Change and a sidekick to Ted Turner’s Captain Planet that was brilliantly lampooned on Robot Chicken-
ITS CAPTAIN CACC!
Just looks to me like he’s two blades short of a windmill.
Captain Cameltoe
We’ve had super serial for some time, now I’d like to introduce his sidekick………
super cereal, very high in fiber.
Super power : Guaranteed to aide a movement
Weakness: Will do anything for money
In this photo we see our hero in a black-op training program designed by Trenberth code named :
Find the puck/heat. He’s donned in Muller’s newest gear, Sneakin’ Boots. In a previous interview Muller claimed that these boots allow one to sneak softly and carry a big stick.
Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear – if they actually think this is cool, then the situation is even worse than we thought.
I mean, just look at this guy – he couldn’t beat his way out of a brown paper bag, or even knock the skin off a rice pudding, let alone leap across a rising sea in a single bound.
Perhaps it’s a lame attempt to detoxify their notorious reputations, by being seen as fun guys who can have a laugh like the rest of ’em.
FAIL.
Today on Sesame Street we introduce the letter C…
A Cunningly Contrived Costume of Completely Comic Convenience to Contrary Climate and Carbon Concerned Citizens….
Mike, I had a similar experience. I’d never heard of Scott Mandia when I posted a (probably overly sarcastic) comment on Grist, I think. It was about the sensationalistic language they used in an article about ice melt on Greenland. He replied with a post quoting both James Hansen and the IPCC at great length. I pointed out he was merely arguing from authority, authorities I do not respect at that, and tried to engage him in a conversation about data, analysis, and validation of models.
His subsequent posts were equally devoid of any sort of analytical thinking. There was a lot of “why do you think you are right and all the experts are wrong”, “are you a scientist like me, or just a layman”, etc. My replies were generally two-part. First I’d catalog all the propaganda techniques he’d used in his latest message (that may work with his students, but not with me), then try to turn the subject to data and analysis. I finally concluded that an actual intelligent conversation was not possible and gave up.
He’s a mighty climate warrior, indeed!!
processed cheese
Dreadnought says:
“I mean, just look at this guy – he couldn’t beat his way out of a brown paper bag, or even knock the skin off a rice pudding, let alone leap across a rising sea in a single bound.”
Plus, he forgot his codpiece.
“My name is ScottMandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!”
— with acute and everlasting apologies to Shelley
Maybe that’s because, as the olde cockney joke punchline goes: “…there ain’t no f’in(g) cod.”
Smokey says:
October 31, 2011 at 3:25 pm
“WTF?? When I put these boots on this morning they were transparent!”
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What’s that other old profession that wear transparent acrylic high heels?
ROTFLMAO
Steven Hill says:
October 31, 2011 at 3:41 pm
Faster than another Government grant
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Faster than a (CAGW) scientist chasing a government grant!
There Steven fixed it for you 🙂
Rob MW says:
October 31, 2011 at 6:16 pm
Anthony,
You have to be an Ozzie to understand this one:
“…………faster than a Pink Bat can burn a house down…………..”
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Faster than a seagull after a hot chip.
Faster than Juliar Gillard chasing your taxes.
He bought a superman suit, put a big C over the S, is wearing hip rubber boots, carrying a hockey stick, and claims he’s like a Climate Crusader…
Sometimes, in life, you just have to look, laugh a bit, shake your head, and walk away hoping that the world never hears what’s really going through your head…
Superheros have feelings too you know! Well, according to all the films these days that are all mushy and cool for girls, superheros are not mushy and cool, stop destroying my healthy childhood.
The whole point of a superhero is getting the once over by the weak effen lunatic asylum media.
Superheros are tough and kick ass, If your the bad guy, dressing up like the good guy is only gonna get you your butt kicked, There should be a law under with penalty of mandatory ass kicking for idiots who distort our views of what a superhero is.
BTW… are stains an issue? Fake superheros usually wash their capes after a hard days work but this one screams Monica lewinsky to me.
I’m rather surprised no ne else has yet observed the obvious appropriateness of the costume for a deserved descent into the Rings of Hell as described in Dante’s Inferno. It is very difficult to distinguish between the most appropriate destinations among those rings of Hell. The hockey stick is useful for many of the hazards encountered during the journey to the lowest rings of of Dante’s Hell, from the wasps and hornets stinging those consumed by self-interest along the shores of the river Acheron to the human excrement drowning the flatterers in the second bolgia of the Eighth Circle, but the hockey stick is perhaps not so useful with respect to the diseases afflicting the falsifiers and frauds of the tenth bolgia of the Eitghth Circle of Hell. The costume is perhaps also over ambitious with respect to the hip waders, because the second bolgia is too deep for them to prove effective. As usual, these ambitous, covetous, profligate, and would be Halloween caped crusaders are all too ill prepared for and contemptuous of the cold beating of Satan’s wings freezing the treacherous in the Nonth Circle of Hell.
I wondered what this guy looked like. And sure enough – he’s exactly as I imagined him to be.
Why did the crusader redress as a superman? A crusader looks like this:
http://www.crusader-stronghold.ic.cz/
and if it is a woman, she looks like this:
http://crusader.parba.cz/obrazky/borecka-crusader-fingon.jpg
Note that her arms show that she fights against COd2, the evil version of oxygen that also contains the main element threatening life on Earth, namely carbon. 😉
Here’s the link. The comments are tasty. http://www.amazon.com/review/R3PSJDU0FZNTN2/ref=cm_cr_pr_cmt?ie=UTF8&ASIN=B005UEVB8Q&nodeID=&tag=&linkCode=#wasThisHelpful
BEST picture of Captain CAGW, ever.
He just got back from a fishing trip.
He was working as a recruiter for the US Marines,
‘Till congress sent him sashaying to promote their schemes.
What was he to do? Where was he to go? He had to move his fanny…
So over the citizens’ incomes he declared a seize.
He had retirement to pay for, health care and cheese.
He had style! He had flair! He said please.
That’s how he became the Nanny!
Who would have guessed the offense we’ve described,
Was just exactly what subverters prescribed?
Now Chavez finds him beguiling (watch Fox T.V.!).
His minions are actually mocking (a spending spree!).
He wants to look in your arse, perform a non-census medical exam!
The flashy stud from D.C., the Nanny named Sam!
To the tune of the theme song for The Nanny, a tv show.
Why is he wearing oil products for protection?
Since when did Superman wear a thong?
(Yes, I know he has in a few unlicensed/unofficial movies)
He’s wearing a wedding ring, why didn’t she stop him?