Concept and wording by Anthony, art and prose tweaking by Josh of CartoonsByJosh.com (be sure to visit his tip jar)
As sung to the tune of The Twelve Days of Christmas by EveryMann, Climate Scientist, with backup vocals by the SkS Singers
On the first day of Climategate, my true cause gave to me:
A Hockey stick from a Yamal tree.
On the second day of Climategate, my true cause gave to me:
Two lawsuits pending, and A Hockey stick from a Yamal tree.
On the third day of Climategate, my true cause gave to me:
Three Henchmen, Two lawsuits pending, and A Hockey stick from a Yamal tree.
On the fourth day of Climategate, my true cause gave to me:
Four cursing profs, Three Henchmen, Two lawsuits pending, and A Hockey stick from a Yamal tree.
On the fifth day of Climategate, my true cause gave to me:
Five oooold tree rings…, Four cursing profs, Three Henchmen, Two lawsuits pending, and A Hockey stick from a Yamal tree.
On the sixth day of Climategate, my true cause gave to me:
Six geeks explaining…Five oooold tree rings…, Four cursing profs, Three Henchmen, Two lawsuits pending, and A Hockey stick from a Yamal tree.
On the seventh day of Climategate, my true cause gave to me:
Seven trolls-a-trolling, Six geeks explaining…Five oooold tree rings…, Four cursing profs, Three Henchmen, Two lawsuits pending, and A Hockey stick from a Yamal tree.
On the eighth day of Climategate, my true cause gave to me:
Eight grants a-milking, Seven trolls-a-trolling, Six geeks explaining…Five oooold tree rings…, Four cursing profs, Three Henchmen, Two lawsuits pending, and A Hockey stick from a Yamal tree.
On the ninth day of Climategate, my true cause gave to me:
Nine models dancing, Eight grants a-milking, Seven trolls-a-trolling, Six geeks explaining…Five oooold tree rings…, Four cursing profs, Three Henchmen, Two lawsuits pending, and A Hockey stick from a Yamal tree.
On the tenth day of Climategate, my true cause gave to me:
Ten Lord O’ Moncktons, Nine models dancing, Eight grants a-milking, Seven trolls-a-trolling, Six geeks explaining…Five oooold tree rings…, Four cursing profs, Three Henchmen, Two lawsuits pending, and A Hockey stick from a Yamal tree.
On the Eleventh day of Climategate, my true cause gave to me:
Eleven Twits-a-tweeting, Ten Lord O’ Moncktons, Nine models dancing, Eight grants a-milking, Seven trolls-a-trolling, Six geeks explaining…Five oooold tree rings…, Four cursing profs, Three Henchmen, Two lawsuits pending, and A Hockey stick from a Yamal tree.
On the Twelfth day of Climategate, my true cause gave to me:
Twelve polar panics, Eleven Twits-a-tweeting, Ten Lord O’ Moncktons, Nine models dancing, Eight grants a-milking, Seven trolls-a-trolling, Six geeks explaining…Five oooold tree rings…, Four cursing profs, Three Henchmen, Two lawsuits pending,
……..and A Hockey stick from a Yamal tree.
Merry Christmas everyone! (no matter what side of the issue you live in) and Congratulations for surviving the Mayan Apocalypse!
Light posting for the next few days, WUWT will resume regularly scheduled programming on December 26th.
Merry Christmas to everyone. A bit of levity in a time that has seen its share of sadness. Hold those you love close, and may God bless everyone this holy season.
Arrghh I meant 16 years not a-warming
Hmmmn.
“13 years, now Gore’s richer”
“14 years, since El Nino record”
“15 years, all filled with Warnings”
“16 years, but no warming” ???
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Merry Christmas Everyone, this too funny for words.
I’m sure I won’t survive waiting for that apology from the History Channel.
Don’t we have fun? A Merry Christmas and a Happy and Prosperous New Year to all.
Absolutely brilliant!
PS I challenge you to prove that the world didn’t end and we’ve not been seamlessly rebooted as computer programs…
Merry Christmas!
Spot on, Gail.
Now is the time of the year to give thanks… and I’m thankful we have Anthony and Josh.
Merry Christmas gents!
OK, fine. So Santa has to fly 39,000 mph to get to all of the houses on time over Christmas Eve. But why would Rudolph’s nose be redder than any of the other reindeer?
So every time Rudolph now stops
All of the other reindeer …
Have to stop quick or get brown-nosed ….
@ur momisugly Grey Lensman,
That was fabulous, rolling on the floor laughing my _ off! Bet we could all pitch in a little and get a doomsday bunker at a bargain price in 2013 sometime.
Thanks Anthony and Josh. Have a Merry Christmas everyone.
Season’s Best to the WUWT gang and the Hockey Stick team. God bless us every one.
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Merry Christmas!!!
Goode ’nuff said @ur momisugly December 21, 2012 at 4:36 pm
Yes, I thought of Bob Phelan also. Sadly missed. Nevertheless, Happy Christmas/Hannukah/Festival-of-your-choice [delete whichever is inapplicable] everyone. May your god go with you…
Thanks Anthony and team for this fine site. A merry Christmas and a happy New Year to you all, and to those of us who just read, appreciate and comment.
Merry Christmas everyone.
Wrap up, keep warm and enjoy.
……… and I hope the warmists’ seasonal wishes are fulfilled – by their boilers breaking down and giving them that warm inner glow of satisfaction that can only really be had from a Carbon Free Chrsitmas
Also perhaps –
Ding dong! merrily on high, the warmist tills are ringing:
Ding dong! verily the sky Is riv’n with atoms pinging….!
Thanks for all the hard work. Have a good one –
Tim
Seasons greetings everyone!
Anthony, thank you for keeping the flame of common sense burning.
Thanks for the laugh,Anthony and Josh. Best wishes for a Merry Christmas and a very Happy New Year. Oh yeah. Global warming hit here today in Edmonton,AB. Only got down to -36C with the wind chill.(does wind chill count?) But no snow for two days now.Guess we won’t see any more this winter!
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to everyone – And I mean EVERYONE! – from Michael / Mogamboguru from Germany.
Mankind has survived lions and ice ages for two million years, has made the Toba-bottleneck, two hot world wars and a nuclear cold war – and now even the (wrongly anticipated) end of the world as predicted by the Mayans (Only that they didn’t predict the End of the world, yet only anticipated the end of the 13th and the beginning of the 14th 400-year-cycle of the Mayan multi-milennia calendar; so much for the proper reporting of the mass media!).
With respect to the above, I think that chances for mankind surviving a fluctuation of approx 0,5 degrees Centigrade above and below this beautiful world’s atmosphere’s averal global temperature of 14 degrees Centigrade (or was that 15…?) are resoundingly EXCELLENT!
In this light, again:
MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR!
Harold Camping Rapture = fail
End of World Mayan Calendar = fail
CAGW = fail?
Merry Xmas.
Brilliant: my season’s cheerfulness is, unfortunately, a boring answer to the demarcation issue between the scientists who genuinely believe in back radiation therefore the ‘consensus’, and those who do not!
It concerns whether two bodies in radiative equilibrium continue to transmit real energy to each other, thus cancelling out the heat losses, or whether the equilibrium stops such energy transfer and only net radiative flux can do thermodynamic work.
The proof of the latter is very simple. A pyrometer measures the correct temperature independently of parallel forced convective heat transfer when you measure the latter by an embedded thermocouple. It does so because it measures the vibrationally-activated fraction of the available surface states that can transfer internal kinetic energy to adsorbed gas molecules or to the electromagnetic continuum.
Thus there is no radiative energy transfer from either body to the other at thermal equilibrium. The proof of the physics is via Poynting’s Theorem. Radiative energy transfer is by the net flux only, the vector sum of all the Poynting Vectors, which is zero when thermodynamic temperatures are the same. QED and a Happy New Year which will show substantial cooling shown by what’s happening in the Arctic and in Russia………;o)
Don’t forget to get Josh’ brilliant calendar for 2013.
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all.
Thank you for your tremendous efforts all year long. You are by far the best teacher I have ever had.