Josh notes that NASA’s Dr. James Hansen gets a medal in Edinburgh this week, and was flying sky-high, but was brought back down to earth by NASA astronauts that performed an unscheduled EVA into the rarefied atmosphere of “climate change”.
Apparently, being sky high, Dr. Hansen seems to be suffering from some hypoxia. Word has it he was babbling on about “one small step for Mann…”
Time to bring him back down.
Usual sycophantic interview with Hansen by the BBC:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-17675576
My preferred cartoon would be of an angry looking Hansen with his ‘tin medal’ (a military term for a worthless or unearned award) glaring at the spacesuited astronaut and saying “I got a medal for what I do. What have you got to show for what you did?” As the catastrophists live in a world where they are ‘heroes’ in their own minds and to each other they no doubt think that those who train for years then go to to Moon are on a doddle and not in their league. They are right, but not how they believe as they are lowly termites in a land of brave giants.
Joe Public says:
April 11, 2012 at 10:53 pm
Of course, astronauts are supremely qualified to comment on Climate Change.
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Harrison Schmitt grew up in nearby Silver City.[2] He received a B.S. degree in geology from the California Institute of Technology in 1957 and then spent a year for graduate studying geology at the University of Oslo in Norway.[2][3][4] He received a Ph.D. in geology from Harvard University in 1964, based on his geological field studies in Norway. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrison_Schmitt
Shhh! Don’t tell anyone it might ruin your attempt at sarcasm. Climate scientist, al gore, still finds it funny though.
As a Scotsman I have to say I am embarrassed by this country giving a medal to this guy. It should be noticed, to their credit, that the Universtiy of Edinburgh is not listed as supporting this jamboree. But the City of Edinburgh Council is listed, which tells you everything.
A few years ago it was decided that a new tramway system should be built in Edinburgh. The Council thought they could manage this major project themselves and appointed a Councillor to head the project team. He was a well qualified person who had only ever had one job – a social worker! (No kidding!)
The original plan was to build a network of lines and the total cost was estimated at £300 million ($465m). After several years of delays work is still going on and today the estimated cost is £800 – £1000 milion ($1240- $1550m). And that is only going give them one line, not a network. And not even a complete line as it will stop short of its original destination, which was the main justification in the first place.
This is the scandal in Scotland just now. The Council people had no project engineering expertise and they have no other scientific expertise. and this is the quality of the people who are giving out medals and spending taxpayers’ money for a lavish ceremony. As this story shows it was gullible people, whose only knowledge about climate comes from reading the newspapers and watching TV, who made the decision to nominate Hansen. The Government agency which also supports this jamboree has to go along with government policy – or they are fired!
I don’t see that as a great honour! Perhaps the Warmists do.
Joe Public says:
April 11, 2012 at 10:53 pm
Of course, astronauts are supremely qualified to comment on Climate Change.
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Argumentum ad verecundiam
Jeff says:
April 11, 2012 at 3:27 pm
Now that’s funny. The Robert Burns song “A Man’s a Man For A’ That” has become a standard duty tune common to a number of Highland Regiments. Here’s a description from the 10th Calgary Highlanders:
I would gladly pipe him in to a court martial!
Mann-kind, his kind hahahahha
The most damning NASA climate study of all:
http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/earth20110309.html
We learn that conservation of angular momentum knows to respond differently to “temperature changes that occur naturally and those caused by human activities”. Apparently physical laws got the memo.
Has he worked out how to peel the foil off the medal to get at the chocolate?
If he’s on the moon, shouldn’t his eyes be popping out of his sockets? I mean, that’s what happened to Arnold Schwarzenneger in Total Recall. Just sayin’
Who`s the guy in the NASA outfit – Geoffrey Boulton?
Shouldn’t that caption be “ah gut a mohdel!”?
I’ll probably incite a load of angry responses for what I’m about to say, but everyone should be allowed to give their opinion about a picture:
Am I the only one who finds Josh’s cartoons a bit….
….boring?
BTW
I’m about to board a plane for a foreign country, so you won’t hear from me again for at least 6 days – i’m not a ‘drive-by’ troll