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.
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John Whitman says:
Snickers
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kim2ooo,
Or rather . . . . . snicker-snack!
John
richardscourtney says:
May 12, 2012 at 6:22 am
Lucy Skywalker:
Thankyou for your advice to me at May 12, 2012 at 5:19 am that says;
“You need to install CA Assistant”
Hmmm. I tried that but it did not work.
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I also thank all who have offered help. If one of my comments has bold or italics in it, then I figured it out.
Richard, the instruction page for CA mentions Firefox in the system requirements. It doesn’t mention Internet Explorer, which is what I use. Perhaps it doesn’t work with your browser either?
Great billboard. I might suggest curving the text upward to illustrate the effect. ( or downward when the text is right side up)
Lucy Skywalker says:
May 12, 2012 at 5:43 am
Myrrh
If you want to hear the Three Witches / Weird Sisters on Yamal, I got inspired
“Ask us no questions and we’ll tell you no lies” – that sums them up!
Lucy and Gunga Din:
As is well known, you are a better man (and woman) than me, but I installed Firefox as instructed and I am using it to send this. But I still don’t have the ability to use italic, bold, etc..
It seems a pity that WUWT cannot provide the facility because it exists on Jo Nova’s blog.
Anyway, I thank you for your attempts to help me with this. Perhaps it doesn’t work because grumpy old men like me are not adequately competent at using others’ – and modern – software.
Richard
Climate Change.
The Debate is NOT Over.
Not Even Close.
http://www.heartland.org
Wanted to put a pic of a broken hockey stick in.
Richard Courtney et al
There is a TEST tab at the top right of WUWT home page. Using this page will help you practice with italics and bolds and the like.
The proffered billboard and web posters were very clever and some hilarious. The snipped offerings added to the intrigue.
@Jessie
Thank you
John Whitman says:
May 12, 2012 at 8:58 am
I thought that poem was about Star Wars 🙂
I looked it up…Mr Carroll seems to have had a bunch of people wondering.
Alice says: ‘Somehow it seems to fill my head with ideas—only I don’t exactly know what they are! However, somebody killed something: that’s clear, at any rate”.
Thank you!
While I don’t think solar effects are the cause of the measured warming, a billboard with a picture of the sun and the caption,’ The source of global warming’, would be effective.
It’s simple and easy to comprehend. The problem with many of the suggestions above is they would be lost on many if not most people.
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.
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Photoshop Patchy into a red-and-black Devil’s costume, add a pitchfork and an evil grin, and top it off with the caption, “Things will get warmer for you, ha-ha-ha!” His mephistopholean beard makes it perfect. Too bad Hansen lacks one, because that’s his recent message too.
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Heat waves rising (wiggly vertical lines) over a globe and forming themselves into a question mark, indicating doubt about warming.
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A picture of Hansen or Gore with a red slash line across them, the slash being a downward pointing hockey stick..
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A horizontal hockey stick slashed through with a standard red “NO” line.
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A pair of upraised shackled hands snapping a hockey stick (with its blade upturned at the right) in half. It is based on the well-known (to warmists) logo of the War Resisters League, in which the hands are snapping a rifle. It would be witty and annoying to warmists. The legend around the rim would read, “Gore Resisters league.”
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a Stevenson screen graphic: The eyes should be the sort of X’s that are conventionally used to indicate befuddlement or drunkenness, and the mouth should be down-turned to indicate an unhappy face. Or a green “Mr. Yuck” face.
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A cartoon of a quack doctor’s office. Mr. Globe is standing by while a wacky, weird-beard doc squints at a thermometer under a microscope (implying a nearly undetectable change from normal) with his thumb on the bulb, saying, “You have a fever.” On the wall is an ad for an ice pack with a price tag of $1 trillion.
DR says:
May 11, 2012 at 6:35 pm
Greate quiz DR. I scored 75%.
And in the process realised the unibomber was more sane than Al Gore. Thanks for that.
Revision from my post a couple of comments upthread:
A cartoon of a quack doctor’s office. Mr. Globe is standing by while a wacky, weird-beard doc squints at a thermometer under a magnifying glass that is focusing the rays from an intense worklight onto the thermometer, saying, “You have a fever.” On the shelf (or Mr. Globe’s head) is an ice pack with a price tag of $1 trillion.
Alec Rawls (two solar pix), maybe alcheson’s “jobs lost”, maybe the corn one; Bill Tuttle’s “not just for skeptics anymore”, John Whiteman’s NASA, John A’s Mencken, some of Lucy’s bumper stickers — are a) short enough to read in a couple of seconds, and b) not so inside-baseball that they might mean something to those not “following” the issue on the Web.
Visitors and commenters here seem to have little idea just how little most people know about the grotty details of the Warmist deceptions, etc.
Richard and Gunga Din;
the “CA Assistant” is a FIREFOX tool — and depends on having the Greasemonkey add-on installed to execute the script.
As for the HTML tags, use <i> </i> for italics, <b> </b> for bold.
Gunga Din: to display the carets the way I just did, there are HTML codes: & lt ; for < , without the spaces, etc. (To see it in action, since you have CA Assistant, click the < symbol to see it appear in your text).
To clarify, that sequence is ampersand-lt-semicolon, as a single string, and ampersand-gt-semicolon for > , etc.
@ur momisugly kim2000 Do you realise that a search for “kim” puts you in the middle of Wikimedia?
PS: That quack-doc-with-thermometer cartoon I just suggested should be drawn in a “Far Side” style.
Self-referencial: “This electronic billboard will no longer operate when the climate alarmists have abolished electricity”.
Allan MacRae says:
May 11, 2012 at 10:48 pm
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I knew all these guys. Some days, I even miss (most of) them. 🙂
Have you tried adjusting your windage? 😉
Hi Anthony,
I’ve tried to make one:
http://img705.imageshack.us/img705/3430/billboard2s.jpg
Kind regards,
Scarface
Scarface says:
May 13, 2012 at 1:05 am
I like that one and hopefully most people would get it and check it out.
Geoff Sherrington says:
May 12, 2012 at 9:53 pm
@ur momisugly kim2000 Do you realise that a search for “kim” puts you in the middle of Wikimedia?
How far is that from Trenton?