Josh seems to think that Sir Russell Muir went missing during the CRU Climategate email investigation. It was like he was never there…oh, wait.*
* For example, Muir Russell didn’t even bother attending the one interview (April 9) in which Jones and Briffa were supposed to be asked about paleoclimate.
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Deserving of wide circulation. Send it to the Heartland billboard. : > )
As I seem to recall all three whitewashes stated that the science would be examined by the other, in the end none of them did! It was sheer showmanship & perfunctory a display, a gross waste of taxpayers money, again!
Keith Briffa is the dullest speaker it has ever been my misfortune to listen to, while Phil Jones displays that air of smugness and arrogance which makes him impossible to look at without having to suppress a desire to slap him across the face.
On a human level at least I can fully sympathise with Muir Russell, faced with the prospect of spending a day in the company of those two gentlemen, making his excuses.
There’s no pea under *this* walnut shell, either!
Another meteorologist/physicist turncoat LOL
http://notrickszone.com/2012/05/09/the-belief-that-co2-can-regulate-climate-is-sheer-absurdity-says-prominent-german-meteorologist/
Excellent Josh! Thank you!
juanslayton says: “Send it to the Heartland billboard. : > ) ” yes!
Where’s Sir Liesalot?
Oh! Of course Sir Missalot didn’t speak with Sir Liesalot, did he?
My mistake
juanslayton says:
May 9, 2012 at 9:51 am
Deserving of wide circulation. Send it to the Heartland billboard. : > )
Excellent idea – far better to fight with humour than fall to the 10:10 type standards.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/8313672.stm
What happened to the heatwaves? It is not the weather that has gone mad in the UK it our political leaders.
Hm. Note the color of the blindfold.
Devilishly deep, is our Josh.
Josh,
I agree with other commenters here . . . send the cartoon to HI for use in one of their ads. The reason I suggest this is purely humanitarian . . . HI has not had much to laugh about in recent weeks.
John
Heh. Reminds me of Sgt Schultz in “Hogan’s Heroes”.
As for sending it to Heartland, the optimum solution is for Heartland to put Josh on retainer. Josh will benefit from the the income (wouldn’t we all?) and Heartland can benefit from Josh’s high quality wit and sniper-like target acquisition.
As a bonus for today…”Forecast the Facts” has (hopefully, unwittingly!) put a very nasty, completely unfounded rumor about the POTUS in a press release.
another cartoon gem from Josh!!
p.s. I’m not one to mind all the “babe” ads that Google seems to be serving up (some of them I even enjoy), but did I do something in particular to merit frequent “Find a Russian Wife” ads when I visit WUWT? Was commenting on the Yamal thread somehow an indication to the Google algorithm that I have a fervent interest in all matters Russian? And that includes internet-order brides?? lol
The truth was probably around 350 ppm in the rooms during the inquiries. Not enough to have any noticeable affect.
Here’s a forward-looking idea for a Josh cartoon. If there’s a downtrend in temperatures for the next two or three years, then a translucent hockey stick could be superimposed on a temperature chart with the blade pointing downwards and the shaft lying horizontal over the current hiatus. No caption would be needed.
Maybe the cartoon could be posted even now, with the caption, “What the future holds?” and the decline portion shown with dashed lines. It would be a good accompaniment to then next article predicting a major cooling trend.
Great Josh
Thank you..
I’ve had a nagging idea in my head for a while now and after reading an article at PhysicsWorld about how Computer Models are going to save the planet,the penny finally dropped. 😉
Here’s the Eureka moment below.
” At the heart of climate models and weather forecasts lie the Navier–Stokes equations, a set of differential equations that allows us to model the dynamics of the atmosphere as a continuous, compressible fluid. By transforming the equations into a rotating frame of reference in spherical coordinates (the Earth), we arrive at the basic equations of motion for a “parcel” of air in each of the east– west, north–south and vertical directions. Additional equations describe the thermodynamic properties of the atmosphere (see figure 2).
3 The causes of global warming
Unfortunately, there is no known analytical solution to the Navier–Stokes equations; indeed, finding one is among the greatest challenges in mathematics. Instead, the equations are solved numerically on a 3D lattice of grid points that covers the globe.”
That sound’s familiar to me,in fact nearly ALL the AGW nonsense seems to be straight out of Isaac Asimov’s “Foundation Trilogy” . If you’ve read it then you should see what i’m getting at.
Harry Sheldon,Sheldon Equations and PsychoHistory. Josh could have some FUN with this.
Why has Keith Briffa been so silent?
itturnsoutreadingscifiwasnotatotalwasteoftimeafterall says: @May 9, 2012 at 3:14 pm
I’ve had a nagging idea in my head for a while now and after reading an article at PhysicsWorld about how Computer Models are going to save the planet,the penny finally dropped….
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Those of us with a science background and a library full of Science Fiction will get a real chuckle out of it, Unfortunately the rest of the USA has never even heard of Asimov much less made it past the first couple pages. (I had the rare treat of seeing Asimov and Hal Clement aka Harry Stubbs roast a friend during his fiftyith birthday celebration.)
About all the PhysicsWorld crap regarding the Navier–Stokes equations, at 3:14 PM on 9 May itturnsoutreadingscifiwasnotatotalwasteoftimeafterall writes:
Oh, it’s even funnier than you think. In autobiographical materials regarding his education, Asimov himself admitted that because he’d started out with the intention to become a physician, he’d taken an undergraduate major in Zoology before deciding that he simply couldn’t stomach the animal labs, especially the requirement that he capture a feral cat and kill it by smothering it with chloroform for dissection.
He did it, but he admitted that even to the late day of his writing, he still had nightmares about it.
So he decided to switch his major to another scientific discipline. But not Physics. Asimov informed that the moment he hit integral calculus, he bounced. He couldn’t handle complex equations, and thus he wound up – very much by default – in Chemistry, going on to take his doctorate in that field.
But don’t you get it? The writer who attributed to his Hari Seldon character a quasi-magical ability to predict future history using complex mathematical models was quite effectively illiterate in mathematics.
Dr. Asimov simply assumed that because he consorted with self-assured doubledomes making use of such arcane incantations, and he himself had a faculty for translating their bafflegab into language the lay reader could understand, that such constructs could someday genuinely yield puissant reliable prescriptions for purposeful human action centuries and even millenia henceforth.
The joke’s on anybody – especially those who use the expression “sci-fi” instead of SF – who took that crap seriously.
But Tucci, are you fun at a party? Anyway, I enjoyed Asimov’s stuff ( as well as many,many others). I don’t see anybody here who is “taking that crap seriously”. Sometimes, it is just entertainment.
At 9:10 PM on 9 May, David Ball cavils at my observation that the concept behind Asimov’s fictional plot device in “psychohistory” and the Seldon Equations propelling his Foundation stories was crap – and invidious crap, at that – whining:
No, I’m not “fun at a party” (much as Dr. Asimov had been on those occasions during which I was at parties with him), but I don’t commonly roll that way. Never tried to, either, though I’d always gotten along well enough with him and most other Dirty Old Pros.
In the process, I’ve discovered that there are speculative fiction writers who do damage to intellectual integrity and their readers’ abilities to reason with validity by way of the “entertainment” they produce – witness Ben Bova‘s exploitation of the glorious “Man-Made Global Warming” scare in his novels over the past decade or so. See his desperately weaseling editorializing in The Naples [Florida] News here and here and here to keep the local mundanes freaked out and vulnerable.
Mr. Bova has tremendous pecuniary incentive to “keep up the skeer” about this bloody bogosity because it’s been the propelling MacGuffin in his most recent “science” fiction, including all the stuff he had in the publishing pipeline when Climategate exposed his beloved terror-mongers for the lying snake-oil peddlers they are.
He’s been goddam lucky that I haven’t been able to drop in on the parties at SF conventions where he’s been attending, as had been my wont before my first grandchildren began to arrive.
I should think, however, that I’d be all kinds of “fun” at those parties were Mr. Bova to surface within the sound of my voice.
David Ball says:
May 9, 2012 at 9:10 pm
But Tucci, are you fun at a party? Anyway, I enjoyed Asimov’s stuff ( as well as many,many others). I don’t see anybody here who is “taking that crap seriously”. Sometimes, it is just entertainment.
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I always liked Harold Shea.
If it was not for Issac Asimov I would have known nothing about mathematics when I was younger , I did not learn anything about mathematics at school only when I read a book by him after I left school did I understand it.