On the anniversary of Climategate, RealClimate's Ray Pierrehumbert sings the CO2 blues, Chicago style

Do they have a name ? How about “The Faulty Al Gore Rhythms”.

PaulH says:
November 19, 2011 at 10:47 am
There’s 3 minutes of my life I’ll never get back. These guys should stick to their day jobs. (What ever it is they do…)
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That’s the problem Paul, they are no good at their day jobs either.
They’re climate scientists.

Oh dear. That was absolutely toe-curlingly excruciatingly bad. What is it with these warmists? Scott Mandia as Superman and now Pierre wotsisname as… well, as what exactly?

Groovier version….

Great….now you all see why the rest of us in Chicago consider the faculty of University of Chicago to be a bunch of nut-cases!
What a mixed-message they send….if they are so bloody worried about CAGW, why do they poke fun about it? Plus, they butchered my favorite ZZ Top song!!

Well Peter Humbug used to look somewhat refined even with his beard; but those Dean Edell dark glasses just don’t add a thing.
And you know what they say about accordians.
Beards on scientists just don’t sell, like they once used to; can’t comment about their effectiveness on non-scientists.

That’s about 53 seconds of time I wished I had back, at least Weird Al is entertaining with his POLKA, and I don’t mean Weird Al Gore.

R. Gates says:
November 19, 2011 at 12:15 pm
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…
Mon dieu, Gatsie, humour, and from you and not bad humour. Well done. Tu voit que tu peut avec d’effort.

The AGW baloney is perpetuating Obama’s — and GE’s, and Mann’s, and Jones’, and CRU’s, and Hansen’s, and GISS’ and (– ad infinitum)– war on carbon because they are profiting handsomely from the biggest phony-science hoax in history. By contrast, it makes Ponzi’s seem honest.
The U.S. should do a better job than did Cervantes’ Sancho Panza in attacking its windmills. — At least Panza’s windmills weren’t built at enormous taxpayer expense. U.S. taxpayer-subsidized windmills are being installed where the wind blows sometimes, but there are few local users and inadequate connections to the electric grid.
Maybe that’s why billions of dollars of taxpayer money have been wasted, yet only 1.1% of world electric power is supplied by the wind (only when it blows — but not too weakly and not too strongly)..

3809.txt is Johnathan Overpeck thanking Gabi Hegerl and Briffa for “coordination efforts” because he thinks “it is critical that we don’t give a vague or poorly coordinated view on that period [MWP].”
An exercise in getting the story straight, I suppose. We can’t have individual scientists out there saying what they really think or give the impression that they aren’t all in lockstep. I think it interesting that they think it so important to present a coordinated view. I not aware of too many topics where a group of people have “coordinated views” on things. I guess this is how “consensus” is maintained.

4899.txt is very interesting to me. It references Climate Audit but there is something in Jones’ tone here:

… I think you’ll likely to become more aware these people as AR5 advances. I was in Boulder last week and I spoke to Susan. We agreed that the only way IPCC can work is the collegiate way it did with AR4. These people know they are losing (or have lost) on the science. They are now going for the process. All you need to do is to make sure all in AR5 are aware of the process and that they adhere to it. We all did with AR4, but these people read much more into the IPCC procedures.

Make sure all on AR5 are aware of “the process” and that they adhere to it. Wonder how related “the process” is to “the cause”. There’s more interesting stuff in that one, too.