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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They’ll never make it as a ZZ Top tribute band.
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.>>>
I couldn’t agree more. When the tent finally collapses, I wouldn’t want any of the good guys getting smothered.
@ur momisugly Jesse says:
November 19, 2011 at 1:52 pm:
“They’ll never make it as a ZZ Top tribute band.”
Now, if they wore lederhosen, they could get a gig at Oktoberfest as a tribute band.
The more you drink, the better they sound!
Well, one thing for sure is true: he’s better at the accordion than at climate science.
I realize they were talking about something completely different, but look at the following phrase:
“but it is always of minor consequence compared to the noise”
They could have been describing CO2 as per the earlier quote on a different post:
“According to a preliminary report released by the IPCC, there will be no detectable influence of mankind’s influence on the Earth’s weather systems for at least thirty years, and possibly not until the end of this century.”
Definition of a gentleman: someone who can play the accordion – but doesn’t.
Can we have a REAL anniversary celebration of Climategate please?
….please!
I think RayPierre is the one at RealClimate who let slip the obvious, that climate models are tuned to reach a desired sensitivity.
http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2011/11/keystone-xl-game-over/
Relevant music jkes:
PERFECT PITCH: When a thrown banjo hits an accordion.
PROVEN FACT: Bagpipes make great kindling for an accordion fire!
A quiz: Does the building from which Woody Allen dangles in this clip remind you of anything climate related? Start at 2:20…
“Send in the clowns….
Don’t bother, They’re here!”
Barbara Streisand
OMG.
That was HORRIBLE.
They shouldn’t even be allowed to keep their day jobs, it was THAT bad.
I bet teh girls really love that beard.
Seriously, is that a beard or a did a cloud of sulfate aerosols attach itself to his face?
“Please, someone get this man a mirror”
Wouldn’t do any good. Undoubtebly it would shatter before it could bounce any photons from that
cometary haloface back to its source.I have to admit, my ears perked up at the line “You might not see it in person, but climate’s changing just the same!”
About a year ago, I had a conversation with a friend, a very convinced CAGW believer — and when I say “c”, I really mean “catastrophic.” He is convinced that it is too late already to save the word. I asked him, “If we are really, really already in a state of catastrophe, don’t you think there would be at least ONE thing that we could go outside and SEE that would be evidence of this massive life destroying change? I mean, if someone told me that the oceans were in the process of drowning whole nations, shouldn’t I be able to go to the beach and at least notice some difference there?” It was odd, at least to me. He stuck to his beliefs. He was certain that the world was already in the process of being made uninhabitable, and yet he admitted that he could name nothing that he or I could point to as visible evidence of global destruction.
This CAGW belief is as unverifiable — and as irrational, in my opinion — as any religious cult’s certainty of imminent doomsday.
Al Gore Blues (Hendrix style)
Reminds me of a bumper sticker that I have seen from time to time:
“Use an accordian, go to jail.
Its the law.”
Against my better judgement, after having read all the comments first, I began listening to it.
OMFG THAT’S AWFUL
I shut it off after maybe 20 seconds. I love blues. That sound you hear now is Austin’s own Stevie Ray Vaughn spinning in his grave.
Wow. I thought Judith Curry and Richard Muller were proof positive that the RC PR machine was going weird. “You can call me Ray” Pierrehumbert shows some serious desperation.
Yeugh. Quel dirge. Rather poignantly, this reminds me an album promo’d on the back of the sleeve of another LP in my collection, and called:
“Accordion Bellicosity”.
I make no bones about having wanted a copy ever since I saw the title, just to have a disc called that. (Who’d need to listen to it? – Sadly, never seen, never heard.) :o)
“McIntyre, McKittrick, and Watts are the Andrew Breitbarts of climate. ” I think that Andrew Breitbart is fantastic. You should wear this as a badge of honor.
I have recently been advised to step outside, to take a chance, but I don’t think I am ready for a warmist video just quite yet. 😉
These guys have a long way to go to even get close to Elmer and the gang at Minnesotans for Global Warming. “Hide the Decline” was the greatest spoof song I ever heard.
Sad. Very sad.
I like the blues. I am offended that this can be even vaguely interpreted as blues. On the plus side, they are seriously showing their desperation now!
The IPCC tent, Anthony? Long may you stay outside pissing in.