There’s been a lot of spoof/satire images poked at the Heartland Billboard. For example these being run by Michael Tobis, who desperately needs traffic: http://planet3.org/2012/05/04/the-correct-response-to-heartlands-disgusting-billboards/
…here’s the kind of billboard I would have run.
I welcome reader submissions, just post them to an image drop like tinypic or imageshack and leave the URL in comments, and I’ll add appropriate candidates to the main thread. Be careful of the site rules, and don’t assume I’ll carry every one.
Think like Josh and keep it clean and on-topic.
For those who have no idea what this means, read this.
h/t to WUWT reader TerryMN for the idea.
UPDATE 1: Steve McIntyre offers his submission in comments, not quite a billboard, but we’ll take it for sheer hilarity value.
awesome, guys. what fun!
There is an essential difference between MT’s post and Josh’s (I’m presuming that Josh did the artwork here) and it is typical of most of Josh’s work. The Heartland thing got some coverage in major papers, in particular the LA Times so some people outside of the blogging cognoscenti are likely to be aware of it. The references in the images in the P3 post use recognizable figures or equally silly equivalencies to poke fun at the billboard. Josh’s take is so obscure as to be worthless and not funny. Just like his cartoons.
” Josh’s take is so obscure as to be worthless and not funny. Just like his cartoons.”
Josh is a lot more worthwhile than any Norway rat.
http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z36/AlecRawls/Environment%20and%20climate/BillboardSolarUV.jpg
The bold claim in this billboard:
is documented by my expose of omitted variable fraud in the First Order Draft of AR5. I hereby give Heartland (and anybody else) permission to put this up, and urge them do so. Only $200 bucks a day on that digital billboard overlooking the Eisenhower Expressway? I might put it up for one day myself!
A fool that cannot laugh at himself is a serious fool.
Yamal!
Moderators: Just wanted to get Steve’s video to load for those who haven’t updated lately.
HI should have made the billboard with both the Unabomber and Al Gore on it, then include a few questions from this quiz.
http://www.crm114.com/algore/quiz.html
Or any number of scientists saying outlandish things; there’s no shortage of that.
Ah, Smokey, you fail to realize that I represent one of the few species that will survive when the whole extinction spasm — whether caused by climate change or habitat destruction — is over. Some of my friends in the genus Blattella will be around to join me! Just sayin’
They did say these were electronic billboards, right? They cycle from one billboard to the next?
If so, get two in a row, both with that picture of Mann with the tree ring. On the first one to the left, the Hockey Stick. The caption, “with this one tree ring”. The second would have the tree photoshopped out of the Mann picture. To the left the chart without Yamal 06. The caption, “without that one tree ring”.
I don’t know how to make and post them myself. Anyone who wants to do it, feel free!
@rat
Josh not funny?
Your sense of humor must be Tiljandered.
Ratboy,
The discussion isn’t about survival. It’s about a vermin. A coprophagic pest.
The single Yamal tree.. with the legend:
“One tree to rule them all, and in the climate science bind them.”
There, fixed it for you.
kim2ooo says:
May 11, 2012 at 5:18 pm
You are so bad…
(On my previous idea, the charts would be on my other left 😎
Another idea. Al Gore on the LEFT. To the RIGHT, “Since ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ global temperature has risen (fill in how much).
‘Since ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ Al Gore’s bank account has risen (fill in how many millions its been. $200 Million?)
Rattus Norvegicus says:
May 11, 2012 at 6:39 pm
Ah, Smokey, you fail to realize that I represent one of the few species that will survive when the whole extinction spasm….
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NAH, You are wrong the real survivor is the Cockroach. Cockroaches have thrived for 320 million years So Rattus Norvegicus is just a piker.
The ancestors of Rattus norvegicus and R. rattus diverged from each other about 2 million years ago (Verneau et al. 1998)
Rattus Norvegicus says:
May 11, 2012 at 6:39 pm
Ah, Smokey, you fail to realize that I represent one of the few species that will survive when the whole extinction spasm — whether caused by climate change or habitat destruction — is over. Some of my friends in the genus Blattella will be around to join me! Just sayin’
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You do know what happened to Willard, right?
AndyG55 (from down-under)
Replace “bind” by “blind”
[snip – I’m sorry, wrong use of symbols, this would be used in the same way against us as the original. I appreciate the effort though – Anthony]
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No problem. What about this variation?
http://i47.tinypic.com/bedsp.jpg
This is the average temperature of the USA ….
http://i49.tinypic.com/smr49d.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/DddKJ.jpg
What is it with warmists who think they are rats? Or rabbits?
Not funny. Nobody among the general population gives a rat’s behind about what “Tiljander” could be.
My biggest hope is that a 30 to 60 second ad could be done that graphically brings home the two main AGW debunking points that 1) current temps and the current climate is in no way unusual (show that the h stick has been DEBUNKED!), and 2) that CO2 has not been shown to be a cause of warming (excerpt the gist of this ~three minute video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WK_WyvfcJyg). There is NO empirical evidence in fact that CO2 causes climate scale warming, all there is is just an ambiguous arguable theoretical model.
This ad would be the mainstay of a campaign that could be self-perpetuating through contributions (conservatives, now fired up by the AGW issue, would be willing to give big $ to an effective anti-AGW campaign). Several secondary ads would “hit and run” on subsidiary issues, like the credibility and deceptions of the fear-mongering Chicken Littles, or how all the warmists’ predictions of doom have failed. ALL. This campaign could break public opinion in our favor. And public opinion can be the only judge of what is considered the “correct” science, so we would have won.
But I like the billboard idea, but even better: banner ads for the web (cheap cheap!, and potentially very effective with just a simple visual). Run banner ads that take on the two key debunking points. Show the fabricated hockey stick in an extremely cost-effective banner ad. There’s nothing wrong with the climate! Show the key CO2 deception of the ipcc (as repeated by algor in the youtube I reference). Also: ALL their models & predictions have failed, sounding like broken records, Sea Level honesty (go to the beach!), quotes of the warmists, the warmists’ war on energy and industrial civilization, and much more.
The banner ads would link to a page that gives full, rebuttal resistant support for the claims, and has a request for a donation (make sure you make the point to potential donors that a few dollars will go a long long way with thousands of banner ad impressions, and in small print request a donation on the banner ad itself). Donations could allow these banner ads to run at saturation levels, and gain a dominant position in the public’s eye! So… go for it! Bypass the liberal MSM, and go directly to the public.