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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“Maybe this superhero outfit will help me find a girlfriend!”
Hmm methinks looking like that may get you a friend but it won’t be a girl !!!
Ed Fix says:
October 31, 2011 at 8:04 pm
Mike, I had a similar experience…..“are you a scientist like me, or just a layman”.
He has a Masters, is obviously gunning for a cushy career path, trying to impress his hero, Mike Mann. He’ll prolly have a coupla papers in AR5 before he gets his PhD. Which won’t improve his disconnection from logical argument, but it may improve his career in the short term.
I see Michael Mann as the Hulk. The green colour would go down well with the environmental groups and i could see him saying ‘Don’t make me angry, you wouldn’t like me when I’m angry coz I’ll get my lawyers onto you’.
‘Holy hockey sticks’!!
Duperhero
Clothes make the mandia.
Can you imagine the reaction if a sceptic had published a picture of himself like this?
By now we would have had at least three, instantly pal reviewed and acclaimed, published papers by professors of “the psychology of climate change” – explaining how deranged, psychotic, planet-hating, middle aged white males were projecting dangerously violent images of themselves as all-powerful revenge figures.
Personally, I think he’s had the outfit hanging in the back of the closet for a while ……….” Honey, can we errrr….. do the Superman thing again tonight”………… “Weeell….alright – but for God’s sake forget the smelly fishing boots this time!”
Archetypal costume of the ‘Useful Idiot’. Hey, Scott, get a fur coat; you’re going to need it.
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Climate Crusader Costume – for when the party shop has run out of Gimp Suits.
Man, the chicks are ginna dig these boots!
SUNY needs to have their accreditation removed.
Thank you all:-) I have had some great laughs at the very witty comments,
and as an aussie I lost it on this one…well said!
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…………..”
http://www.theage.com.au/business/pink-bats-firm-hits-the-wall-20110715-1hh77.html?from=age_sb
would
“don’t ask, Don’t tell’
be a good idea here/
Anthony, now you’ve got them mocking themselves. Such power you have.
Holy sh*t, Batman! I didn’t read carefully. I thought this guy was spoofing the AGW’ers. Now I see he’s one of them! Here’s the rest of them: http://radioactiveliberty.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/Global-Warming-Super-Heros-Lies-Hoax-Fraud-Political-humor.jpg
Considering what Mandia is wearing and the object he has in his hands, with all the ramifications of that object, the guileless expression on his face is priceless; he could be just as easily looking up from his bbq. From this picture alone, if I was in the market for a lawyer, this man would be my last choice.
SuperDuperMan
I was going to change the lyrics, but even the lyrics seem apt to me:
I-P-C-C with no apologies to the Village People
Young man, there’s no need to feel down.
I said, young man, pick yourself off the ground.
I said, young man, ’cause you’re in a new town
There’s no need to be unhappy.
Young man, there’s a place you can go.
I said, young man, when you’re short on your dough.
You can stay there, and I’m sure you will find
Many ways to have a good time.
It’s fun to stay at the i-p-c-c.
It’s fun to stay at the i-p-c-c.
They have everything for you men to enjoy,
You can hang out with all the boys …
It’s fun to stay at the i-p-c-c.
It’s fun to stay at the i-p-c-c.
You can get yourself clean, you can have a good meal,
You can do what about you feel …
Young man, are you listening to me?
I said, young man, what do you want to be?
I said, young man, you can make real your dreams.
But you got to know this one thing!
No man does it all by himself.
I said, young man, put your pride on the shelf,
And just go there, to the i-p-c-c.
I’m sure they can help you today.
It’s fun to stay at the i-p-c-c.
It’s fun to stay at the i-p-c-c.
They have everything for you men to enjoy,
You can hang out with all the boys …
It’s fun to stay at the i-p-c-c.
It’s fun to stay at the i-p-c-c.
You can get yourself clean, you can have a good meal,
You can do what about you feel …
Young man, I was once in your shoes.
I said, I was down and out with the blues.
I felt no man cared if I were alive.
I felt the whole world was so tight …
That’s when someone came up to me,
And said, young man, take a walk up the street.
There’s a place there called the i-p-c-c.
They can start you back on your way.
It’s fun to stay at the i-p-c-c.
It’s fun to stay at the i-p-c-c.
They have everything for you men to enjoy,
You can hang out with all the boys …
i-p-c-c … you’ll find it at the i-p-c-c.
Young man, young man, there’s no need to feel down.
Young man, young man, get yourself off the ground.
i-p-c-c … you’ll find it at the i-p-c-c.
Young man, young man, there’s no need to feel down.
Young man, young man, get yourself off the ground.
i-p-c-c … just go to the i-p-c-c.
Young man, young man, are you listening to me?
Young man, young man, what do you wanna be?
Is that a Hockey Stick your packing or are you just pleased to see me?
I’m surprised no one has commented directly about that particular pictured hockey stick. In an interesting experiment in creative graphing, it’s laid out with 10 year increments, equally spaced following the trend line (?). The line is blue and straight from the handle end to 1930, red from 1950 and a steep curve up to 2010 on the blade tip, while 1930 to 1950 is a slightly-curving purple-ish (red and blue overlapped?), which may have been done to indicate modest warming, or is a messed-up indicator of when the mishandled temperature record was spliced onto the mangled temperature reconstructions.
With the decadal marks projected down to the x-axis handle, we can see the manipulation of the scale, compressing the end to make the warming trend appear far more alarming.
It is worse than we thought. These people can’t even do a simple Halloween costume without giving in to the temptation to “accentuate the presentation” and make it look worse than it is. Well, worse than what they think it is, this planet and reality tends to think otherwise.
😉
Caleb says:
October 31, 2011 at 5:36 pm
Darth Wader
Thread winner!
If that’s it, the battle’s over.
The ‘C’ is for Capitulation. Or maybe “Cryin’ in my beer.”
/Mr Lynn
SuperDuperMan
The Umpirer’s New Clothes
The judge has also posted a photo on his web page…
http://www.motifake.com/image/demotivational-poster/small/1108/stupidity-stupid-man-superhero-fail-demotivational-posters-1314285377.jpg
“Climate Hippie”?
Look, up in the sky!
It’s a bird!
It’s a plane!
IT”S A POTATO!
Not bird, nor plane, nor even spud, it’s just little ‘ol me, Undercrud.