I’ve previously highlighted the accordion talents of RealClimate co-founder Dr. Ray Pierrehumbert. Now he’s formed a band with two guys named Abbot and Archer, singing the CO2 blues in a music video.
How appropriate though, given the politics employed by Ray and The Team, that they say “We are climate scientists, Chicago style”.
Mike Mann apparently wasn’t invited to the jam as the only musical instrument he can play is the percussive hockey stick. Watch the video below:
And they say skeptics are the crazy ones.
h/t to Tom Nelson and Andy Revkin
UPDATE: It is worth recalling what Dr. Ray Pierrehumbert recently wrote of skeptics:
McIntyre, McKittrick, and Watts are the Andrew Breitbarts of climate. Occasionally they may out something that is technically true, but it is always of minor consequence compared to the noise, and always a distraction from the truly important questions facing society. That’s why, big as the IPCC tent may be, I hope there will never be a place in it for any of these clowns.
Please, someone get this man a mirror.
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Can you imagine a clown like Pierrehumbert applying for a real job in the private sector? He’d be permanently unemployed. All he needs to complete the look is a shopping cart.
Olen ,
No , they really need to apologize to ZZ Top .
I would like to hear their song after 5 years from now.
PS…terrible music played.
three (un)tenor(bles)?
Now we know the hard-core climate scientist’s music
stinks just as much as their hypotheses.
This one is dedicated to julia…
It must be a nightmare for the engineer recording in an echo chamber, ……
Smokey says:
November 19, 2011 at 11:38 am
…………… Cardboard box, newspaper and begging bowl.
Maybe these guys have figured out that the great AGW Con Job is rapidly coming to an end and are getting ready to earn a living as buskers . . . at least they are qualified to do that.
I think I recently saw Ray on a street corner with his accordion and tin cup. I tossed in a dime and pulled up my collar to keep out a cold north wind that had just a hint of snow in it…
Would you take seriously his AGW teaching when he has 10 year growth of facial hair, all in readiness for forthcoming global cooling?
As far as the musical number goes, it is an instant catalytic converter from a warmer to in ‘no doubt sceptic’.
Why isn’t James Hansen in the band ? He could be on the fiddle.
As an antidote try this http://stream.haverford.edu:8080/ramgen/~wsmith/dollars.rm
Take Away Your Billion Dollars
(published in Physics Today 1, (7) 1946)
(Hope it is the correct link my computer has no audio or video)
Lyrics written by Prof. Arthur Roberts (of the physics dept.) of the “State University of Iowa” and sung by faculty and students. More at: http://www.haverford.edu/physics/songs/roberts/roberts1947.htm
My favorite is The Cyclotronist’s Nightmare (or Eighty Millicuries by Half-Past Nine):
http://stream.haverford.edu:8080/ramgen/~wsmith/cyclo.rm
This was my feeble contribution to the musical climate-debate.
http://everestlancaster.wordpress.com/2011/01/22/lies-damned-lies-statistics-and-climate-forecasting-a-song/
Sorry, I do’t know to add the song directly to the comment.
Pierrehumbert reminds me of an old far-side cartoon with two panels: on the upper panel, a man arrives at the pearly gates and St. Peter says “Welcome to Heaven, here is your harp.” On the lower panel, a man arrives at the gates of Hades, and the Devil say “Welcome to Hades, here is your accordion.”
“Why isn’t James Hansen in the band ? He could be on the fiddle.”
He’s busy blowing his own trumpet.
You know the Warmists are getting very desperate if this is what they put up on the internet to counter Anthony…..
It is the second time I have been happy I am mostly tone deaf. The first: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtf2Q4yyuJ0
In the last post I should have put in this link. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8kiMCeudLg
Jim Barker
November 19, 2011 at 11:28 am
They should have modeled it first!
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They did …
Ray Pierrehumbert: “McIntyre, McKittrick, and Watts are the Andrew Breitbarts of climate. ”
Not a bad analogy. The IPCC would be ACORN, then.
As a musician I have to say that’s some of the most horrible playing I’ve ever heard in my life. My god…
The lyrics were clearly plagiarised from a book of Vogon poetry.
The music is worse.
These guys are pitiful.
I’d like to laugh at them but I can’t , that is just sick.
Okay, I’m calling it.
We won.
For the ‘record’, it’s a parody of a ZZ Top tune :
Jesus just left Chicago
Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jV5ioewi4pk
Pierrehumbert should not quit his day job.